St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-07
state Personals.

Col. c. II. Joyce and family of Rut- |
land have returned to Washington.
Geo. d. Griswold of Cambridge is
the principal of the Richford academy. !
Editor Wilson of the Bristol Herald /.
recently caught ninety-three trout in |
one day.
principal of the North Adams Mass |
high school.
Mrs. Philip c. Tucker of Vergennes
is eighty-One years of age, and reads !
without the aid of glasses.
Rev. w. F. Smith, pastor of the
South ROyalton Congregational church,
has resigned and will go to Illinois.
Rev. NJ. NJ. Mills of West Haven is
about to remove to Sand Lake. n. Y,
as pastor of the Baptist church there
Hon. John w. Stewart of Middlebury,
it is expected, will deliver the address
at the coming fair ut Howard park,
Burlington.
NJ. S. Stone, graduate of the Yer
mont university, is the principal and
Miss Annie Brooks the assistant, of the
Williston academy.
Miss A. NJ. Guernsey of Rutland was
one of the speakers, on Friday, at the
cOnvOcatiOn of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance union at
Martha's Vineyard.
Rev. Alva Z. Carpenter, who has
been called to the rectorship of the
Middlebury Episcopal church and has
accepted the call, and commenced his
passionate on Sunday.
Gov. Barstow has appointed Pro-
fessOr c. ii. DuttOn, principal of the
Troy conference academy, one of the
delegates to represent Vermont at the
Louisville educational meeting.
Harvey Lincoln, who died at Chelsea
on Wednesday of last week held several
town offices, and was in 1856 town rep
resentative. During twenty-siX years
previously to 1857 he kept the only
hardware store in town.
Rev. 5. l.. b. Speare, pastor of the
Congregational church mt Middlebury,
who has been spending his annual
vacation with his wife and daughter ut
Newport, has returned home refreshed
and invigorated by his four weeks of
sea air and sea breezes.
S. S. Thompson of Lyndonvillc has
been elected one of the directors of the
Somerset Railroad company. The
road extends from Oakland to North
Arson, Me, a distance of twenty eight
miles, and has been leased to the
Maine Central Railway company.
Hon. Farley Starr, the president of
the Peoples National bank at Brattle-
boro, was stricken with apopleXy at
the Union depot at North Adams,
Mass, Tuesday evening of last week,
while en- route for Saratoga. He fell
on the brick pavement and was badly
hurt.
Jacob Dewey, who died at Yer
gennes, Aug. %, was in his eighty first
year. He was born and brought up in
Middlebury and lived nearly all his life
there. For number of years Mr.
Dewey was deputy sheriff of the
county, and for twenty-five years was
constable and collector in Middlebury,
declining to serve i'll those capacities
any longer.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock, +.
H. Garfield of Burlington and Hon.
Justin S. Morrill, were among the party
of three hundred that left New York
on Thursday evening for the northwest,
where they are to participate i'll the
ceremonies attending the opening of
the Northern Pacific railroad, as guests
of the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany, which bears the entire expenses
of the whole party.
Rev. Joseph Barber died at Alstead,
n. H., Aug. p, in the eighty third year
of his age. He was educated a physi-
clan, graduating at the medical college
in Pittstield, Mass, in 1896. At the
age of thirty he commenced preaching
the doctrine of Universalism and oc-
cupied different pulpits in New York,
Vermont, Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, for forty-five years, when
the infirmities of age compelled him
to retire to private life. He was for
schools, and represented the town of
Swanzey two years in the New Hamp-
shire Legislature.
Hon. Alden Leland died at IIOlliston,
Mass, Aug. 30, of typhoid dysentery.
He was born in Chester, Nov. 30, 1907,
and received his education at Chester
and at Monson, Mass, academies. lie
early learned the trade of ShOemaking,
and commenced to manufacture in
1881, and had been in active business
over fifty years. He had held every
Office of note within the gift of the
town and had served as moderator
thirty times. He represented the town
four times in the Legislature, was
member of the constitutional cOnven-
ton i'll 1853, was state orator and
member of the governors council.