St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-06-28
PERSONAL MENTION.

Rev. and Mrs. B. M. TillOtson Of
Woodstock are visiting friends in town.
Mrs. Betsey Young of Landau, N. H.,
was in town last week visiting friends.
George L. Bradley of Minneapolis is
in town today receiving the warm well
come of friends.
Fl. C. Bates, ESQ.,, will deliver an
Grafton at Derby, July 4th, at the cell
ebration there.
A. r. Lucas has been seriously i'll for
the past week and fears are entertain
ed for his recovery.
Mrs. S. d. Stone (Katie Hawkins) of
South birmingham, Mass, is visiting
family friends in town.
Miss Emma Chamberlin a former
resident of st. Johnsbury, but now of
Massachusetts is in town for the sum-
mer.
Mr.. and Mrs. t. C. Keyes of New
bury are on a carriage drive through
this section, reaching this place last
evening.
Geo. M. Williams is home from Tai
lapoosa, Ga, for few days. He pur-
poses taking his family South in the
fall.
Miss Lucy and William A. Woods,
former academy graduates of Bath, N.
H., were in attendance upon the grad
uating exercises last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glazier of Lisbon, N.
H., were in attendance on the academy
exercises, their daughter, Hattie being
a member of the graduating class.
w. G. StOughton, academy class of
80. enters Harvard this fall. He has
secured a 5000 scholarship; few are
more deserving such assistance.
Jay Benton of Guildhall, graduate
of the academy and Dartmouth college,
sailed yesterday for trip through En-
land, France, Germany and Switzer-
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. M. Howe of Melette,
Dakota, are visiting friends East. Mr..
Howe is brother of r. c. M. Howe of
this place and has other relatives in
Cabot.
Rev. E. A. HOyt was at the annual
gathering of the Northern Vermont
Universalist association at Huntington
last week and delivered one of the ser
mons before the convention.
Mrs. j. r. SOmerville with her daugh-
ter and Miss Annie SomerviIle have
gone to their former home, Inverness,
p. O., for the summer. 1t is hoped
that Mrs. Somerville will return in i'm
proved health.
Col. Truman Fletcher and DR.. H. S.
Browne started for Minneapolis yester-
day, called there by the very serious
illness of Col. Fayette Fletcher, whose
condition for the past week has given
rise to the gravest apprehensions.
Charles D. Hazen of St. Johnsbury
and of the Dartmouth class of 'S9 has
taken the second Atherton Greek prize
at Dartmouth for scholarship during
the first three years of the course, a
high and we'll merited compliment.
Rev. G. M. Lamson, who delivered
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cock society of inquiry at Amherst col
lege last Sunday, took for his theme
"Duty." He argued for better educa-
tiOn, a better home and better politics
Mr.. Lamson has been elected one of the
trustees of Amherst college.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simeon Belknap, who
went to California last October, return
ed to st. JOhnsbury on Friday. Though
they found National city as pleasant as
any of the California cities, they prefer
New England to the Pacific slope and
will, it is hoped, make their home in St
JohDsbury.
Mrs. Jonathan Ross, whose home was
in indianapolis before she came to st
Johnsbury, was comparatively neal
neighbOr of Gen. Harrison's, the re.
publican candidate for the presidency
She says that he is held in high esteem
by his fellow citizens and that in al
her residence there she never hearC
aught against him.
A. E. Rogers, Clarence Wood and G.
E. Stevens of the graduating class of
'00 purpose entering Dartmouth col
lege in the fall Philip Ide and J M
Norton talk of going to Dartmouth
w. j. Aldrich, who has been thinking
of going to Dartmouth, now talks o
going to Yale; Aldrich spends th'
summer at his home in Dover, Kansas
Rev. Henry E. Jewett and wifi,
reached st. Johnsbury Saturday even
ing. For the past eight or ten year
Mr.. Jewett has been principal of TIN
e Hopkins academy, Oakland, Califor
9 MIA, but has resigned his position OIL
q account of impaired health. Mr.. an,
, Mrs. Jewett will spend some tw,
months in the East, and their principa
q stop will be in this, Mr.. Jewett's nativ,
q town. Mr.. Jewett has been a residen
Z of California for nearly twenty years.
! Rev. DR.. Samuel Graves of the Allan
ia, Georgia, university, and Horace K
| Flint, Esq, of Philadelphia, are visit
+ ing together this week st. Johnsbur
, their native town. Their fathers farm
f joined when they were boys together
$ and they are taking solid satisfactiO
g in reviving the scenes of so years age
Mr.. Flint has not been here before fo
a 81 years. Both these gentlemen hav
been occasional correspondents of tn
+ Caledonian and their initials will b