St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-06-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

for the week.
Miss Fl. G.. Peabody of this place has
gone to Lawrence, Kansas, to spend
the summer with relatives.
General Secretary G. l.. Page return
ed from his vacation Friday and can
be found at his desk in the Y. M. G.. A.
building as usual.
E. c. Potter is attending the cOnven-
ton of master mechanics at Thousand
Islands this week where he is exhibit
ing the feed water heaters.
DIR. III. L. Newell leaves here tomor-
row for BrOOkfield and purposes start
ing in about week for Chicago to be
absent a month, returning about
Aug. L. .. ...r
Miss Eva S. Burke gives up her po-
sition in F. o. Clark's store on the
avenue at the close of the present
month. Her place will be taken by
Miss Alice Smith.
John M. Thurston of Nebraska, tenn
porary chairman of the national con-
vention at Chicago, is attorney for the
Union Pacific railroad and a cousin of
Mrs. A. E. Rankin of this place. -
Mrs. Walter Ingram of this place
sailed for Scotland last Saturday in the
Cunard steamship Pavonia from Bos-
ton. She visits her native country in
company with friends from Massachu-
setts.
Miss Margaret Hazen from Wellesley
college, Miss Mary Rankin from Boston
and Misses Isabel Perkins and Lucy
Fairbanks from Smith college, are
among the st. Johnsbury girls who are
home for the vacation season.
The presentations for the junior
year at Dartmouth have been voted by
the class of 80, w. T. Abbott of ST.
Johnsbury receiving hatchet, an ar
ticle supposed to suggest some charac-
teristic of the one receiving it.
Miss Mary C. Todd, principal of the
Union schools, is visiting friends in
Connecticut, and will attend the grad
uating exercises of Morgan school,
where she used to teach. July 6 Miss
Todd goes West for an extend ded vaca-
tiOn tour.
Charles Bliss, graduate of ST.
JOhnsbury- academy, graduates at Am
herst college today. His brother,
Sylvester, also of the academy, but
now holding good position in the
Metropolitan railway of New York, is
in town this week.
Prof. George A. Gates of Iowa col
lege, Grinnell, Iowa, a st. Johnsbury
boy, delivered baccalaureate sermon
both able and helpful before the grad
uating class at Iowa college last Sun
day from the text, at doth not yet ap-
pear what we shall be-"
Conductor S. w. Parkhurst, the old
est conductor in service on the Lake
road, is running on the White Noun
tain division from Fabyan's to the
base of Mt. Washington. His place on
the express train is taken by William
Winters of the White Mountain divis-
ion.
Arthur r. Turner, a st. Johnsbury
academy graduate in 80, will take his
degree at Amherst college next week
and then go to Paris where his parents
reside. Mr.. Turner would have grad
uated at Amherst in '84 had he not left
just before graduation for two years
business engagement in the PHILIPPINE
Islands.
Franklin A. Dakin, wife and daugh-
ter, go to their old home at Natick,
Mass, at the close of school, for brief
stay. Mr.. Dakin will attend the COM
mencement exercises at Harvard, his
alma mater, next week and will be
present at the reunion of his class, and
second triennial class dinner at the
the Brunswick in Boston. He was a
graduate of the class of '62.
Miss Persis d. Hewitt, teacher of al
zebra in the academy, will spend the
vacation season abroad. Miss Hewitt
sails on the steamer City of Chester OF
the Inman line on Saturday for Liver
pool and will make the tour of Eng
land, Scotland, France and Germany,
ETC., returning early in Septemb Der. She
will be one of a private party of 25 or
so, some of them teacher friends and
acquaintances.
Rev. T. P. Frost delivered the annu-
al sermon before the graduating class
of the Vt. Methodist Seminary at
Montpelier Sunday. The audience
present taxed the full seating capacity
of Trinity church, says the Argus, and
Mr.. Frost's sermon was admirable in
its style, strong and elevated in its
sentiment, and delivered in his usual
fervid manner. The sermon was spec
tally adapted to the young.
Miss Abby F. Mitchell, for seven
years a successful teacher of history
and English literature in the st. Johns
bury academy, closes her connection
with this institution the present week
She goes to Abbott academy, Andover
Mass, where she accepts similar po
sition. Miss Mitchell has been thor
oughly identified with the work ant
success of st. JOhnsbury academy il
recent years. and receives a well de
served compliment in thus being call
ed to Abbott academy from which sh,
was graduated.
Among those who are in town to at
tend commencement exercises ar,