St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-06-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

| ents In Mlddlebury.
Mrs. Charles Sias of Chelsea, Mass.
is visiting friends in town.
George May was in town yesterday
greeting friends.
Mrs. j. L. Perkins is holding tenn
perance institute in st. Adams this
| week.
Miss Lizzie DelanO of Hardwick,
formerly of this place, is visiting
| friends in town.
Judge Jonathan Ross was present at
the dedication of the Webster menu-
ment at Concord, N. H., last week.
III. d. Williams, clerk in L. b. At
woods store, is off for "A vacation in
his old home at West Randolph.
Prof. Albert Frost of Pittsburg,
Penn, was called to st. Johnsbury by
the illness of his mother last week.
Geo. E. Miner and sister, Mrs. Hill,
have gone to Island Pond and other
places in Essex county for a short
stay.
DIR. E. S. Tracy, who has been in
Boston for the past two months in
charge of his brothers. dental rooms,
has returned home.
Miss Daisy Balch goes to the Tip
Top house on Mt. Washington, where
she will be engaged through the sum-
mer.
w. c. Warner started for Montpe-
lier on his wheel Monday and will take
an extended bicycle trip through that
section of the state.
Mrs. III. B. Wise, who has kept a
boarding house in this place of late,
has gone to the MemphremagOg house
as cook.
E. D. Graham, engaged in Fairbanks
foundry, goes to Colebrook, N. H.,
next week to take charge of his uncle's
foundry there.
Miss Nettie Pearl, who graduated at
the Clarke institution for deaf mutes
last week, is spending the summer
with Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hastings.
Frank E. Alden of Peoria, ILL.,, and
Lyman Stoughton of East Windsor
Hill, Conn.,, both of the class of '84,
took in the academy commencement.
Miss Hattie G.. Parsons, one of the
teachers in the academy the past year,
has gone to her home in Northampton,
Mass. and Miss Persis d. Hewitt to
her hame in POmfrat
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Dakin of
Natick, Mass, parents of F. A. Dakin
of the academy, have been visiting
their son in this place and will return
home by way of the White mountains.
Fred Ross returned from West Point
last week. The number of applica-
tons for positions was very large, the
examinations extremely severe and he
with many others failed to pass sue
cessfully.
Henry Alden of the Monarch car
company, formerly of the Passumpsic
railroad and later of Leve & Alden,
was in town Friday. The "MOnarch"
gradually making Roadway.
Christian Peter Andersen of st.
JOhnsbury was one of the competitors
for the Rollins prize for speaking at
Dartmouth college, his subject being
"The Storming of Stony Point"
j. H. Taylor, who recently opened
the dry goods store in Wakefeld's
block on the avenue, is closing out his
business and intends going to Los
Angeles, California, in search of
health.
Geo. w. Kyburg and D. F. Bangs of
the academy graduating class, left for
their Michigan homes yesterday. Ky
burg, Bangs and E. d. Raymond took
their examinations for Amherst this
week.
George r. Clark and wife of Boston
are stopping at E. F. Browns. Mr..
Clark is the popular bassO of the Rug
giles street church and it is hoped the
citizens of st. JOhnsbury may have an
opportunity of listening to him again.
Miss l.. l.. Bartlett, who has taught a
very successful private school in this
place for a few years past, is engaged
in the public schools for the coming
year and will teach one of the Maple
street schools.
John L. Reyes, clerk in the First
national bank, has been offered the
position of book keeper in large mer-
camille house in Chicago and has gone
to look over the situation. Meanwhile
John C. Ross takes Mr.. Reyes place in
the bank.
VIM. Hearne, formerly florist of Gov.
Fairbanks, but for the past year or
two in OskalOOsa, Iowa, has accepted
the position as manager of large flo
raj establishment in Washington, d.
c., devoted to the growth of cut flow
ers for market.
Davis Graham of Colebrook, N. HI.
aged 81, William Graham of Ludlow
aged sc and John Graham of Ackworth,
N. H., aged "a, three brothers, are Wis
iting VIM. Graham of this place, son
of the first named. These three
brothers are hale and hearty and a
good ways from being sold men" as
yet.
Mrs. A. w. Baxter and daughter
Hattie, who have been in Boston the
| mast winter arrived in town this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Ayers of Plainfeld, N
j., accompanied them. Mrs. Baxter