St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-11-19
Personal MENTION.

PERSONAL MENTION.
C. C. Bingham is spending the week
in Boston.
Miss Jennie P. May is spending two
weeks with friends at Plymouth, N. H.
NJ. T. Utley takes the place of j. B.
Soper as .janitor at the Methodist
church.
Geo. w. Spencer aud James Richie
of Fairbanks store, are both in Boston
this week.
George r. Clark has sold out his
agency of the Boston Record in this
place to Joseph ID. Carpenter. Clark
goes as clerk into w. H. McGaffey's
store at Lyndon.
Perley f. and George E. Hazen were
called to Hartford the past week by
the serious illness of their father. At
last accounts Mr.. Hazen was much
more comfortable.
Bertha |. Burroughs, daughter of
Mrs. w. G.. Lewis, returned from New
England conservatory of music, BOs-
| lOI3 w has
been since the first of September.
Elmer E. Piper, who has been COM
position on the Boston Post until the
nOn-union men were fired out of the
office, has taken his old place on the
Lowell Mail. Mr.. Piper formerly
worked in this office.
C.. II. Locke is to clerk at II. C.. Flet-
cher's.-A. i. Taft sung at the Univer-
salist church last Sunday and may sing
there permanently. Willis d. Flint
has gone to Minneapolis and may make
it his permanent home.
Charles S. COnant took his old place
in the South choir last Sunday. Mr..
COnant is to teach vocal classes in
Haverhill, PiermOnt, Bradford, etc,
this winter. He contemplates fixing
up his Greensboro place for summer
boarders another season.
A. l.. Hardy of the st. Johnsbury
academy is to preside over the annual
meeting of the state teachers assOcia-
ton to be held at Burlington in Janu
airy. 1t is expected that Rev. Edward
Everett Hale will give an address be-
fore the association.
F. F. Fletcher and family got away
from their st. Johnsbury home on
Monday. They go direct to Mime
apOlis where Col. Fletcher is to enter
the hardware business. They leave
many friends in st. JOhnsbury who
wish them success and happiness.
=, Miss Helen Graves expects to spend
the winter with friends in Boston.
Her mother, Mrs. Sylvanus Graves,
who has gone to Paris to visit her eld-
err daughter, Mrs. Robert A. Turner,
reached the other side of the ocean in
safety after a rather rough passage.
, Rev. Thomas SpoOner of Farming
, ton, n. H., delivered an address ut the
/ late anniversaries of the Freewill Bap-
, lists ut Providence, r. L., on "HOme
highly spoken of by the Morning StaI
: newspaper. Mr.. SpOoner is a son OF
, the late Thomas SpoOner of this place
Mrs. G.. G. Benedict and daughter OF
Burlington spend the winter at St
Augustine, Florida, for the benefit OF
the daughters health which has been
delicate now for many months. The
many friends of the family will hope
for speedy aud permanent recovery
The widow Susan Houston died a
S Newbury last Friday and her remains
/: were brought to this place and buried
Z beside those of her husband, the late
}. Joshua Houston, who died here som,
s % years ago. They formerly lived OF
: Charles street, opposite the NORTH
+ church, and Mr.. Houston was baggage
n master on the Passumpsic road.
Charles Packard and Byron Morri
son go to California within n week o
. two. Mr.. Packard takes his famil,
4 and will remain for six months or
n year and may make it his permanent
home. Mrs. Morrison does not go witt
her husband but will live with he
+ parents at Lyndonville. Both Messrs
: Packard and Morrison go to Los An
+ geles county, where Mrs. Packard
h brother, Ira Brown, is living.
d Editor j. E. Harris of the Burlingto
Clipper was in town Saturday. TIL
Clipper under Mr.. Harris's manage
ment has increased in circulation an,
is a marvel of advertising patronage
!, there being no less than 81 columns O
- advertising in the last number, nearl
l. all of which is from local business mel
!, We do not believe there is another pa
49, per in New England, printed in a tow
of less than 10000 inhabitants that ca
. show 30 long columns of local adver
Using the first week in November.
Z. A. Silsby went to Bellows Fall,
his former home, few days ago t
sing in an entertainment given there
y and the Times of that thriving tow
. makes this pleasant mention of him
"Mr. Z. A. Silsby sang at the Congre
gatiOnal church last Sunday, and hi
. many friends here will congratulate
him upon the progress he has mad
," since he left. His voice has a wild
range and is smooth and flexible, an
his singing on Saturday evening at til
COuthOui entertainment and on SUI
. day were greatly enjoyed"
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur E. WOrthen