St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-12-20
Personal MENTION.

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iness trip to New York and Philadel-
phia.
George H. Hale of Amherst college
and Charles d. Hazen of Dartmouth
are home through the holidays.
Misses Lucy Fairbanks, Margaret F..
Newell and Isabel Perkins are back
from Smith college. Northampton, dur
| ing the Christmas vacation.
! Thomas X. Harris has returned from
three weeks visit to his daughter
(Mrs. w. o. CaswelD at Hartford, Ct,
and his brother at Auburndale, Mass.
Mrs. Betsey Rowland Brown, who
died at East Providence the 18th, was
born in st. Johnsbury in 1893. She
was the grandmother of Miss Julia A.
Brown and aunt of Mrs. Ellen Flint,
both of this place.
A Deadwood, Dakota, newspaper,
has a notice of William Mcneil, form
erly of this place, but now doing ac-
tive Christian work at Central city in
that far off territory. Mr.. Mcneil is
father of Mrs. ID. A. Morrison, and many
readers will remember him.
Frederick G.. Fleetwood of Norris
vile, who is remembered by many as a
former st. Johnsbury boy, is a member
of the Harvard college gIee club and
starts with the club on a western trip
next Saturday. The club make the
trip in about a week singing in New
York, Philadelphia, st. Lonis, Cincin-
natl and Chicago.
l.. G.. Woodbury., the well-knOwn
truckman, and Ed Farnsworth, the
central office telephone clerk, are both
out again after brief illness. Mrs.
A. NJ. Daniels has pneumonia, and
Mrs. Phineas DanfOrth of Green street
was threatened with serious illness
Tuesday, but was better yesterday.
Mrs. S. NJ. Spear, the aged mother in
law of Elder Sandford, lies at the point
of death at his home on Railroad street.
E. III. WalcOtt of the CaledOnian was
suddenly called to WinchendOn, Mass,
Friday night by the serious illness of
Mrs. WalcOtt's father, DR.. Ira Russell,
who died of pneumonia yesterday. By
reason of this event Mr. Walcott can
not well return to st. JOhnsbury at
present and it is doubtful if he returns
at all for any permanent stop. In this
decision he somewhat anticipates a
step he was contemplating before very
long. The loss of Mr.. Walcott to this
office is very great, but not greater
than to the readers of the CaledOnian
with whom he has talked the past
three years very familiarly and very
frankly. His many rare and valuable
qualifications for newspaper work
ability, coupled with tact, honesty and
fearlessness-his happy, almost jovial
disposition, make him marked ia
vOrite with all with whom he comes in
contact. He has filled a somewhat diff
+ ficult position here most acceptably
both to associates and readers. Nor is
it alone in the newspaper field that lie
will he missed, but in the church, in
social circles of which he is the life, in
the Y. NJ. C.. A, and in fact in every
good place and every good work.
A Well-Merited Testimonial.
''To Mrs. Sarah Dea, in remembrance
of her faithful care of little children
Such is the inscription upon IA gold
watch which together with gold
chain was recently presented to Mrs
Dea by several of her friends to whom
she has rendered valuable and efficient
service. AS a nurse Mrs. Dea has
made many warm friends, some o.
whom are glad in this way to express
to her their regard and appreciation
The watch was gratefully received anC
will he highly priced by the recipient.
A Good Showing After all.
An item is going the rounds of tn,
state press that the Boston & Maine
lost $75 900 out of their lease of the