St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-09-16
PERSONAL MENTION.

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week, called there on business by hi
-four house.
j. P. Eddy of Malone, N. Y, was il
town visiting at M. Fl. Eddy's, rela
tive, this week.
Luther S. Jewett takes the place o
Ellis w. Moore in the Passumpsi'
savings bank.
James S. Horton of Montreal, son o
w. H. Horton of this place, is visiting
family friends here.
Judge William Shaw of Burlington
called on his cousin, George S. Shaw
of this place the present week.
Mrs. Mary Pomeroy of Ogdensburg
N. Y, and Mrs. Miner, are visiting
their cousin, Mrs. Giles Montgomery.
Albert Heyer returns to the deaf and
dumb asylum in Hartford, Conn, this
week, to continue his studies there.
Mrs. G.. w. Hurlbutt has removed
from the French Morrill, house, to the
r. w. Laird house, 10 Railroad street.
George E. Eaton of the Troy Times
has been spending a short vacation at
his old home in Danville and vicinity.
Nelson M. Finel returned last week
to the hospital in New York, where he
is under treatment for curvature of the
spine.
Charles Meyers of Attleboro, Mass,
who has been taking pedestrian tour
about the White Mountains, is spend
ing a week i'm town.
Mrs. Schneider, for many years a
beloved missionary of the American
board in Constantinople, is stopping
for few days at Ex-Gov. Fairbanks.
Miss Annie GOrham, artist, who has
been spending the summer at Jeffer-
son, is spending short time with her
parents in this place before returning
to Boston.
G. P. Jennison, for some time the
efficient night clerk at the St. Johns
bury house, has gone to Swanton
where he is engaged in the grocery
business.
Mrs. j. L. Perkins, president of the
state organization and Mrs. w. P.
Smith are representing st. JOhnsbury
at the state w. G. Il. U. meetings in
Mortified this week.
F. A. Bottome left st. Johnsbury
Tuesday for New York where he will
continue the study of medicine in the
college of physicians and surgeons.
Mr.. BOttOme is graduate of the acad-
envy class of '85.
Burt N. Bridgman, graduate of ST..
JOhnsbury academy, goes to the uni
versity of the city of New York this
week where he will pursue three
years. course in medicine and then fe-
turn to Natal, South Africa, as mis-
siOnary physician.
Perley G. Abbott, for the past three
years an employee in the Caledonian
Office, goes this week to the Argus of
fee, Montpelier. Mr.. Abbott is a faith
full and careful workman. While our
interests incline us to retain him in
this Office, our generosity is such
that we cannot withhold him
from an Office where missionary work
seems to be so much needed.
Owen III. Gates, son of Rev. M. A.
Gates of Barton Landing, left on Tues
day to enter Union theological semi
nary, New York, to fit himself for the
ministry. Since Mr.. Gates return from
Germany he has spent a year at Han
over as a PRESIDENT graduate" The
numerous friends of Mr.. Gates and
his fathers family will be gratifed to
learn that he proposes as his life work
one of so much prospective usefulness
and one also to which he seems pecu-
liarly fitted by training and education.
Business Improvement.
Miller & Ryan have closed the most
successful carriage making season they
have had for 10 years, having sold $50
carriages, over 200 of these having
been made this summer. They have
now started in on sleighs and will
make at least IS. Without sleigh on
hand it is doubtful if this number will
supply the demand. Mr.. Miller re-
ports a steady improvement in bust
ness for the last three or four years.
ats my idea," he says, "that people
have got to talking about hard times
and think they must keep it up" and
that's the whole thing in a nutshell
It's high time the grumblers were rele-
gated to the rear.
Struck by Train and Badly Injured
Mrs. Amos Belknap was struck by
the Fairbanks village train Friday
knocked down, her head badly cut
above and below one eye, and her arm
and shoulder severely bruised. 1t il
thought the injuries will not prove
permanent, although she may lose one
eye. Mrs. Belknap was batting hel
COW near her house, just above the dry
bridge between the Passumpsic road
and Fairbanks village, and when the
local freight train backed up to the
scale shops she undertook to cross the
track in front of the moving train, wal
struck by the corner of freight ca
with the aforementioned result. Lik,
many person heretofore she who'll,
miscaleulated the time required t.
cross a railroad track in front of an on
coming train.
Clean Thoughts, Clean Ways.
The prevalence of profanity and ba,