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Newspaper
The Evening Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1920
Page
4
In the April 10 1920 issue an editorial mocks Fuller gubernatorial platform as a raft with no dry plank. An ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a laxative alternative to calomel stating they purport to improve liver and digestion with fewer side effects.
Lawyer Guy W. Hill returned home from Orleans county court Friday. Mrs. T. J. Porter, released from St. Johnsbury hospital after five weeks, returned home as the family quarantined for scarlet fever. Lambert Ward of Island Pond spent Sunday with his family. The Moran couple left for Hartford Conn and Springfield Mass on a week’s visit. Mrs. Elen Carpenter visited Tunbridge, staying with sister Tan. Frances Leach, visiting here, returned to Springfield VI Monday. The North Church Missionary Round Table will meet with Ralph Howes at 6 Winter Street Monday evening.
The Pythian Sisters plan a regular meeting in the new Pythian Judge room Monday evening with postmeeting refreshments. Firefighters Dowse and Shastany joined the Central station. Shastany will present the chemical. A chimney fire at 47 Portland Street at 6 45 Monday morning required chemicals to extinguish. St Johnsbury Laundry delivered a brand new automobile purchased from C H Goss. Guerney traveled to Montreal for his son Armand’s wedding. Helen Patterson Williams has created elaborate illuminations and a poem by Edwin Markham. The Round Table meets tonight with Mrs Ralph Howes. Edward Marcoux has retired to Washington DC to work in the US Treasury. Cray Till Whist club guests enjoyed a mapic meal at A F P Lawrence’s. Sap is running well. a sizeable crop is anticipated. Tickets are on sale for the May 7 Telephone Ball at the Johnsbury Armory with an orchestra. Beginning Saturday, St Johnsbury banks close at 1 30 pm on Saturdays and evening hours shift to Monday nights. Mrs Martha K Dean, 26 Pleasant Street, observed her 61st birthday with cards and a visit from brother Dwight Knapp. A M Chan Dodoo, 26 Pleasant Street, is at Brightlock Hospital for throat surgery. Grace Hazard Conkling of Smith College will teach English at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf program next summer. City Mission services on Tuesdays will resume tomorrow night with a parish supper for Grace Methodist on Thursday evening in the church dining rooms. The supper is free and aims for large attendance.
The annual supper and meeting of the Second Universalist Parish will be held in the Assembly room of the Church of the Messiah on Tuesday evening April 1. Supper at 6.00, business at 7.00. All friends and supporters invited.
A Burlington petition circulates to place Henry Ford on the Democratic presidential ticket in Vermont. Signatures are needed to meet the required voter count so the mime can be printed on ballots in the presidential primary.
A boy named Billy Foss led to the discovery that his true name is Wheeler. Wheeler, a former convict, was living and working in Morrisville with E G Foss and later faced a five to ten year sentence that was suspended to probation. Deputy Sheriff Kelley and St Johnsbury police aided in locating the family while the child received care and potential adoption offers from several families and a doctor.
The Vermont Board of Registration of Nurses holds a semi annual registration meeting at the State House Montpelier Vermont on Thursday May one and Friday May 24 1920. For address blanks apply to Miss Mary G Kane Secretary Board of Registration Montpelier Vermont.
Mrs Azel Vigneault of Manchester New Hampshire reports dramatic health gains from Tanlac after two bottles. She describes improved appetite digestion sleep nerves and energy and notes family members also benefit. Tanlac sold at Landry's Drug Store St Johnsbury Vermont.
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