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Newspaper
The Weekly Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1919
Page
4
A fragmentary satirical reminiscence on spring shopping and civic life. It rails at furniture stores and high costs while musing on Mexico, suffragists, graft, and the town’s weather. Names and dates are sparse, with scattered phrases about postages, pianos, and coal.
A Boston News Bureau piece cites former Senator Bailey of Texas and George D. Herron to argue the Democratic Party risks embracing socialism under Wilson. It claims Herron, a Swiss expatriate, urges radical communism and portrays Wilson as sympathetic to working class aims, urging scrutiny of the President’s views and appointments.
Secretary Jervey discusses probationer relief and child welfare in Vermont. He cites costs and savings from reform, urges education for public good, notes hospital care for dependent children, and thanks lawmakers and towns for support of child welfare amendments.
Local items recount visits by Walter Phuitter and Phil Smith with relatives in Maine and Monroe Plains. Planning for next winter school, committee meetings on Teetuve coe, and a proposed revival by Rev. Guiew of Menthore. Barnet purchases a new loom, and Max Lang visited relatives. Mr. Gr ae a candidate touted for attendance. Elizabeth Blair and Hall Merifield family visited Miss Bell I Morparn's.
Mrs Annie Willey returns home after a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Hany Bassett in Corinth. Marry Tekenynd Karl Webster arrives in New York from overseas. Mrs Nick ons goes to meet her husband. Mrs Ray Pierce and child of St Johnsbury visit their grandparents Chas Smith and wife. Mrs Arthur Austin and children spend several weeks with her parents in Natick Massachusetts. Mrs Harold McNamara conducts business in St Johnsbury. Intervale Chapter OEB S holds convocation. Fred Witt elected Worthy Matron and other officers named. Mr and Mrs Clayton Kip of St Johnsbury visit for several days. Everett Tripp called to Camp for his son Chester who has just fallen from overseas. Stevens hospital stay for sewer work. covered ax project to proceed. Nurse Parlin is ill. Mrs E L Renoy cares for her. Mrs Charles Harris visits grandparents in Massachusetts. E E Mathers buys building lot on School Street to build a modern house this summer. Bert Scott to do the work. Willoughby river fishermen report good catches. Aden Phillips, taxidermist, catches a steelhead trout weighing 4% pounds.
Mrs Blanche Smith attended a Hardwick dance Saturday. A crowd gathered at the hall Saturday evening. Mrs Will Chury visited her father Saturday. Helen Smith visited Ralph Smith in Greensboro Sunday. Mary G Burroughs and daughter Virgle and Inez Grant visited Mrs Belville Thursday and enjoyed new sugar. Roy King visited Lee Goches Sunday. Mr and Mrs Joseph Lambert of Johnson visited her parents, Mr and Mrs Charles Winchester. M J Grant and wife visited Roy Kings Wednesday. Miss Rhoda Smith of Burlington spent last week with her mother, Mrs Raymond Blodgett. Lee Gochic cut his right foot badly Thursday. Mrs Mary G Burroughs spent Thursday with Mrs Julia Day. Norman King and wife visited Harvey Way and Roy Kings Wednesday. Miss Virgle Burroughs spent Thursday with Rosie O’Hearne. Mrs Alviia Ransom returned from an extended visit in Morrisville and Hardwick and is staying at Frank Burroughs.
A lively travelogue extols Vermont's Green Mountains and valley scenery, praising unspoiled landscapes, quaint villages, and meandering rivers. It playfully notes border quirks near Canada, quirky local humor, and a jab about political sentiment and Christmas cigars, finishing with a cheeky political aside.
Dr and Mrs G H Ashley announce the engagement of daughter Dorothy Ashley to Ralph H Ross of St Johnsbury Wednesday April at home to friends from 4 to 6. The event featured dogwood blossoms and peonies with music, gift bouquets, and a floral motif of entwined hearts. Mrs Rows of Atholbury attended the celebration as guest of honor.
North Danville notes include visitors G Wardwig and Mrs Col Clifford from Boston visiting son Velite Benjamin at Mes Char lese Sanbarn's funeral at 2 pm Wednesday for Charge Bandy of St JohnAlmy Hor.1.1. dotingen af this place. sympathy to Dowlly family. Will McDowell family mourns grandson George Bundy with St Johnbury travel for funeral.
Obituary notes the death of Mrs Louis Beauregard at home in Arlington after tuberculosis illness. She spent months at Pittsford Sanitarium with influenza contributing to decline. She was 23 in December 1918 and daughter of Napoleon and Emma Dumas. Survived by husband, daughter Lorraine, father, foster parents, and a half brother Emile. Funeral at Notre Dame church with multiple priests and musical tributes. mourners included relatives from Lowell, Manchester, and Newport.
L L Bennett of Danville writes about rising taxes and failing roads, urging culvert repairs and ditch openings funded by Vermont wood road money. He criticizes slow repairs, advocates equalizing roads, and warns town officers against neglecting water courses while urging prudent spending to fix rural infrastructure.
A garbled notice urges readers to lampoon enemies through “Life’s Dreary Path.” It mocks domestic disputes and excessive smoking as causes of men’s woes, mentioning wives and the phrase Mrs Hohenzollern in a jumbled, noncoherent sample.
Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company seeks applicants for steady full time work with good pay. pleasant shop conditions, board and room at company hotel for girls, recreation and club facilities provided, insurance and medical attention offered. Applicants must have good moral character and references. Apply at the Employment Department. Leacon Palis, Conn.
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