St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-08-23
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mrs. s. T. Brooks is at Kennebunl
beach, Me.


beach, Me.
Mrs. David Boynton is visiting
friends in Woodstock.
James Richie, Jr., is i'm Boston this
week on a business trip.
Mrs. A. j. Corriveau is spending the
week with her parents at West Con-
cord.
Mrs. William III. Stoddard of North
ampton, Mass, is the guest of Mrs. DR.
III. G.. Newell .
Mrs. C. L. Goodell and daughter
Laura of st. Louis are the guests OF
Mrs. C. Nj. Stone.
Mrs. E. A. Spalding of Cambridge
port, Mass, is visiting at HI. B. Davis,
her brother.
G. F. Robinson of Lowell, Mass, is
visiting at his fathers on Railroad
street.
Frank III. Preston, son of w. HI.
Preston, is now located in a hotel in
San Gabriel, Cal.
Will G. McCrae, commenced work
for L. D. Hazen at his mill at Miles
Pond last week.
Edgar w. Poore, a brother of Mrs.
c. L. Page, of Manchester, N. H., has
been here during the week.
Mrs. M. w. Howard has removed to
Worcester, Mass, where her son Irwin
will attend Mr.. Fuller's school.
Mrs. Susan Mitchell from Bridge
port, Ct, is stopping with her cousin,
Mrs. B. B. Spaulding.
j. w. Barnes and Mrs. Gay of Winch
endon, Mass, have been the guests of
]. FL. Humphrey the past week.
Uriah Elliott and wife are enjoying
carriage drive among the White
mountains and visiting friends by the
way.
Miss Louise L. Bartlett, one of ST
Johnsbury's efficient teachers, has re-
signed her position as teacher in the
village schools.
Mrs. Alonzo Bemis of Winsted, Ct.,
the first landlady of the Willough by
Lake house, is in town visiting her
sister and son.
Gen. A. P. Blunt and daughter of
Manchester, N. H., called upon old
friends early in the week on their way
home from Danville.
E. F. Brown and Amasa Hastings
with the pastor, Rev. E. A. Hoyt, rep
resent the Universalist church at the
state convention at Barre.
w. P. Stafford is announced as one of
the orators at the great prohibition
rally in Burlington September l when
Gen. Fisk is coming to Vermont.
Jerry Buck, formerly of st. Johns
bury but now employed in the Boston
& Maine Office in Boston, has been vis-
iting friends in town the past week.
Rev. VIM. S. Palmer, D. D., we'll
known in this vicinity, is supplying
the pulpit of the Congregational
church at Wells River for few weeks.
Dea. o. M. Wentworth of Boston is
visiting friends in town, the guest of
his brother-in-law, w. w. Sprague.
He leaves tomorrow for the Mountains.
Mrs. Jefferson Chase and daughter
Eva from Portland, Me-, formerly of
West Concord, have been visiting
her brOther-in- law, Horace Under
wood, the past week.
Prof. Walter r. Bridgman, recently
instructor of Greek at Yale college,
was here early in the week before
leaving for his new field at Miami uni
versity, at Oxford, Ohio.
Miss Persis d. Hewitt of the acad O.
my sails from Liverpool on the steam
er City of New York of the Inman line
Sept. 5, and will be here the second
week of the academy term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perley F. Hazen and
Charles FL. Horton started for Malone
N. Y. Monday. There they meet
friends and go into the Adirondack
for fortnight's camping out.
Mrs. Shubael Briggs, of Orange
Mass, is spending the summer with
her relatives in Spaulding neighbor-
hood, where she was reared and bOrr
nearly three-fOurths of century ago.
William c., son of Judge j. G. How
ey, accompanied by wife and child
arrived at his fathers last Friday, OIL
his vacation trip. He is an express
messenger on a Western railroad, will
residence at Benton Harbor, Mich.
The Misses Leitch who went from
Ryegate to Ceylon in 1879 under tn,
auspices of the Womans Board of Mis-
sions reached Boston last week. They
raised nearly $4,000 for Jaffna col
lege, Ceylon, by the lectures in Grea
Britain the past year two years.
Mrs. Henry Olcott returned from
South Pasadena, Cal, Tuesday of las
week, fully satisfied that Vermont i
good enough. Mrs. Olcott went ou
with Mr.. Olcott last December; he re
naming for the present in the emplo,
of Chas. Packard, late of this place.
"Uncle" Chauncey Spaulding, in hi
eighty-fourth year, who has been
cripple for nearly so years from rheu
matism, is yet able to be about, and t
peruse the Caledonian without spec
tacles. He has taken the Caledonia
since its first issue and has them all o
file and well preserved, except a vol
ume or two which he has sold.
Col. Fayette Fletcher, who was 8
seriously i'll at his home in Minneapo
lis that his life was despaired of, is 8