St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-05-20
PERSONAL MENTION.

Marcus j. Hovey returned to Den
yer, Colorado, Monday.
Arthur Taplin is spending a couple
Of weeks in Portland.
Ezra c. Brooks is engaged as clerk
in A. G.. Harvey's clothing store.
A. E. Rankin, Esq, is visiting his
brother, Rev. DR.. Rankin, at Orange
N. j.
Mrs. Edward A. Walker is spending
little time with friends at Cambridge
Mass.
w. III. Herrick is at Montpelier to-
day in attendance upon the funeral OF
cousin.
d. A. Haskell of the Travellers in
surance company is here adjusting fire
losses.
George E. Hazen will soon remove
to Hartford to live with and care for
his widowed mother.
Jay Benton, of the last class in st.
JOhnsbury academy, is in town for a
day or two.
Ex-Gov. Horace Fairbanks is called
to Burlington to-day to a meeting of
the trustees of the University of Ver-
mont.
E. A. Silsby sings at Bellows Fall 8
to might in benefit concert in which
Mr.. and Mrs. Briggs of Montpelier take
part.
Mrs. S. Masten was called suddenly
last week to Smith Mills, P. O., on ac-
count of the severe illness of her
mother.
President Emmons Raymond of the
Passumpsic road has been re- elected
one of the directors of the Mt. Wash
ington railway.
A. G.. Tolman has finally decided to
go to Newport where he has accepted
the position of clerk in the Memphre-
magOg house.
Charles, son of A. H. Mcleod, went
to Flint, Michigan, Tuesday. He goes
into large bakery there with the pur-
pOSC vi ICdi nh IilC ouSiuCSS'
Mrs. c. L. GOodell presents the val
liable library of the late Rev. DR..
Goodell of st. Louis to Drury college
an institution which lay very near his
heart during his lifetime.
w. HI. Nelson and wife, who have
spent the last three months in Florida,
were due in New York last night and
may reach home this week. Mr.. Nell
sons health is much improved.
A. A. Hadley, teacher of instrument
al music at the Methodist seminary at
played the North church
organ last Sunday, and evinced a skill
and taste in the work which greatly
gratified his listeners.
/. G. HarrOun, for many years the
blacksmith on the avenue, but now of
Barre, is afflicted in the death of his
son, R. S. Harroun. He was a young
man of "a Mr.. Harroun's oldest son
was killed in the war.
Stephen j. Hastings of Waterford
has been appointed by Gov. Pingree
delegate to the Farmers National
Congress to be held at St. Paul Aug.
25. This is good appointment and
one that we trust Mr.. Hastings will be
able to fill.
Henry w. Blanchard of the acade my
class of '84 was in town this week.
He 10 ono of tho man, harS Of tho n,odi
cal class at Burlington that is "out on
a strike" because of the trouble with
the professor of surgery. He declares
that the cause of the students is just
one.
Franklin A. Dakin went down to
Massachusetts Thursday and returned
Monday accompanied by Mrs. Dakin
and the little Miss Dakin, and are set
tied in the south part of South hall.
Mr.. Dakin's mother from Natick, Mass,
is making them a short visit.
Fred R. Ross, the successful candi-
date for the West Point cadetship, ex-
poets to leave here in about month
and to accept the position. A final ex-
animation, similar in many respects to
the one already taken, will be made at
West Point before he is finally accept
ed, but there seems little doubt of his
becoming a full-fedged cadet.
III. B. Hubert, son of Rev. DR.. G.. B.
Hubert, has been nominated by Com
missioner Eaton of the National Bu-
reau of Education, as one of commits
sion of three men to introduce the En-
glish language and American methods
of teaching at the request of the CO.
rean government. During their two
years. residence i'm COrea they will be
paid by the COrean government. The
engagement is one of the results of the
Corean embassy to this country few
years ago. The other two members of
the commission are George w. Gill
more of New York and D. A. Bunker
of Ohio.
A Pathetic Appeal.
The managers of the st. JOhnsbury
Home Opera company have figured up
deficiency of 800 in the cash ac-
counts of the Pirates of Penzance. The
shareholders received the following
4.