St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-25

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this place on Monday 30 Portland
bound cars, bearing veterans from as
far west as California. The numbers
of visitors exceeds all anticipatiOns and
POrtland's capacity for entertaining
them is severely taxed. At Tuesday
procession it is estimated that $4,000
men in line. were requiring about three
hours to pass a given point.
PERSONAL.
AT the farewell banquet given Amer
lean Minister Morton at the COntinen-
tai hotel, Paris, Mr.. Robert A. Turner,
formerly of this town, was one of the
two hundred guests who sat down at
dinner. The account Of the affair, in
Guiding the speeches and diagram of
the hall and tables, occupied six col
umns in the Paris Morning News of
May Is.
b. f. Stevens, Esq, of London, son
of VermOnt's noted antiquarian, the
late Henry Stevens, Esq, of Barnet,
sends The CaledOnian copies of the
London Times containing most eulO-
CYSTIC notices of VermOnt's distinguish
ed son now at the court of st. James,
the Hon. E. j. Phelps.
Prof. G.. c. Rounds and wife of the
normal school at Plymouth, n. H., for
merly of Pennington, Me-, were in
town at the closing exercises of the
academy.
Prof. Albert ID. Frost of Pittsburg-
formerly of ST. JOhnsbury re-
signed his position on the high school
faculty to accept il position i'll the
Western university. The Pittsburg
papers, which are noted for their face
tiousness, remark that Mr.. Frost made
many "warm" friends while i'll the
high school.
Gen. VIM. w. Circuit is to give an adj
dress the Fourth at Marshfield.
Miss Angie NJ. Burns, teacher in
the union school in this place for sew
eral years past, spends her vacation at
NY
Among the prize winners at Dart
mouth college this year were the fol-
lowing st. Johnsbury boys: III. p.
Andersen took the first prize for math
ematics, $40; and Arthur Fairbanks
the first in Greek, $40.
IL Cin,nnAo aIitnr of tho Man
chester Journal, has been removed as
postmaster at Manchester, and G. f.
Orvis appointed in his place. Mr.. 81
monds was editor of the st. Johnsbury
Times when it was first started.
o. E. Ryther, who graduated at the
academy last year, and is now a stu
dent in Brown university, Providence,
r. l., was in town Tuesday, on his
way to his home in Newport, where he
will spend his vacation. His brother,
II. F. Ryther of Newport, formerly OF
this place, accompanied him.
Rev. Alexander Macdonald of Ard
ZACH, Scotland, was in town Tuesday
on his way to visit friends in Green's
bOro. He inquired out and called up
on his friend, Donald Mcleod, of this
place.
Willis Clark, the well known Boston
tenor, is summering ut Newport. We
hope his voice may be heard in St
Johnsbury before the season is over.
Mrs. A. w. Porter and daughter JO-
sephine of Boston are expected in
! town next week. We understand Mrs
| Porter is to give vocal lessons to pu-
pills in this place in addition to hei
teaching at the 'summer home" of the
n. E. conservatory at Lyndon Centre
Royal Cummings of White River
Junction was in town this week. Mr.
Cummings prints local paper-The
| Valley Sun-in connection with his jolt
printing business there.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Savage and Mrs. Samuel
T. Brooks are visiting friends i'll Can
ada.