The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-24
NEWPORT LOCALS

fridays paper. Ihe result was UnaC
the two food sales sold out in short
order, with many disappointed ones
because they could not find anything
to buy, and the st. Marks did the
same splendid business as on other
days. Keep it up.
Marshall and Roy Hardy and Harris
Hamilton spent Saturday in Sher-
brooke.
Mrs. AL. Skinner visited her son,
Arthur Hardy, at Highwater, Que,
the latter part of last week.
Top Sergeant William Bond, who
has seen ten months service in
France, has received his discharge
and arrived in Newport Saturday
morning.
The 9Th grade of the East school,
Miss Campbell, teacher, visited the
plant of the National Wrapping Com
pany, Thursday afternoon.
| Mrs. Benware of Clyde street, has
been confined to the house by illness.
Mr.. King of Hill street is slowly
recovering from a long hard illness.
| Albert Gagne of West Main street
j died Friday afternoon, March Fl of
influenza and heart disease. He leaves
| a wife and two children.
Charlie Hill of Glen Road has re-
turned home from service.
E. M. Hunt and B. H. Smith re-
turned from their trip to Boston Sat
urday morning.
Miss Leota Cobleigh went to Bos-
ton Friday night to visit her sister,
Laura, who is at Mount Ida Semin-
airy. I
Harry Jenne, Sam Davis and Mer-
ton LaFountain arrived home from
! Middlebury College Saturday morn
| ing, for the Easter vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Lawson az
rived home from their trip to Boston
Saturday morning.
Paul Hannett of Mortified rails
visited his sisters, Dorcas Judkins and
Mrs. Lynn Carr, the latter part OF
last week.
A. T. Rogers was at home over
Sunday. :.
A. B. Cobleigh was in Montpelier
! last week to attend meeting OF the
District Highway Commissioners,
where MI. Cobleigh received the ap-
!! pointment of District Highway COM
missioner for one year.
The meeting of the Orleans County
Road Commissioners will be held at
| T,,ocIoxr 1ll.I1
The lady employees of the b. f.
Moore & Co. Clothing Mfgs., had the
spring sugar fever last week, and new
sugar they must have, but where 1t
was coming from no one knew, but
after holding a consultation meeting,
it was the unanimous decision that
Selah Daley was the only man on the
lob that could ferret out a sugar
bush that was large enough to
sweeten up this bunch of girls. Selah
spent nearly all of the week trying
to locate such place and on Satur-
day reported that he was ready te
conduct the party to one of those
sugar places, whereby he had made
final arrangements to fill his part OF
the contract. In making these al
rangements the two important fea
lures that he kept in mind were quail
ity and quantity; the matter OF The
distance they were to travel never
was once considered. They started out
following the c. P. railroad and never
worried about the danger of walking
on the track as the crowd that wen
would stop any train; we don't mea1
by looks, but by size. After going
two and one-half miles they arrived
at the sugar camp of Eugene Dwyer':
on the Arthur Geer farm, where they
found both quality and quantity, ant
the small price that they paid for thu
sugar eaten was money well spent
for they were a sweet looking buncl
when the started homeward. Nov
every one knows the feeling one ha
after eating from one to two pounds
of hot maple sugar and this part.
was no exception, and to walk tW'
and one-half miles home seemed
long way, but they went at it, and ar
rived back in Newport without on
falling out by the wayside, and fin
time was reported.
Evening Star Lodge, No. 81, I. Q
o. F., will confer the initiatory de
gree at their regular meeting, Tues
day evening.
Searles and Co of our city ar
taking large space in this paper, ad
vertising their Sonora talking ma
chimes. They realize the splendid OPP
portunity of bringing this machin
before the public, by advertising il
this paper that is being placed in s.
many homes in our city. Watch TO
their ads which will appear often
Does it pay for our churches t
advertise in the papers? Years pas
they tried to avoid having sales o
the same day so that they could hav
good sale. Last week three of GU
churches arranged to have foo
sales on Saturday. The Methodist an
Congregational had food sales, Will
the st. Marks have been conducting
Tea Room for several Saturday:
Each church bought space in thi
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