St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-05-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

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Barre spent the Sabbath in town.
Charles III. Sage of Denver, formerly
of this place, is in town for couple OF
days.
S. E. Harvey of Nebraska, nephew
of A. Clark Harvey, is, with his wife,
visiting in town.
Samuel N. Brown of Boston, vice
president of the Fairbanks scale COM
pany, was in town the past week.
Richard Eastman of Brooklyn was in
town this week, called here by the
death of his aunt, Mrs. o. w. Baker.
Mrs. D. A. Clifford has moved from
the Caledonian building and is board
ing with Mrs. Hill at the South end of
Main street.
F.N. Kneeland, cashier of the First
National bank at Northampton, Mass,
paid brief visit to this town and
Greensboro last week.
Charles Mendell, a Boston electri-
clan, is engaged by the Standard
Electric light company on special work.
He will be here month or more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Morrill, of East
Haverhill, former residents of this
town, have the past week visited his
brother, Charles E. Morrill, of this
place.
John o. Hale has gone to Concord,
N. H., where he has accepted posi-
ton as travelling salesman for j. G.
Norris & Co., bakers and confectiOn-
ers.
John N. Allen has accepted the posi-
tion of purser on the steamer Maquam,
running between Burlington and Platts-
burgh on Lake Champlain and begins
his labors June 1.
Prof. Isaac Bridgman, who has spent
the winter at McIndOes Falls, has re-
moved to Northampton, Mass, where
he will open private school for fitting
young men for college.
George M. Williams, formerly of ST.
Johnsbury but now of Tallapoosa,
Georgia, has engaged in business at
Tallapoosa as a real estate and stock
broker, as will be seen by his adver-
tisement in this issue.
F. A. Bottome, who has been attend
ing lectures at the New York college OF
physicians and surgeons the past win
ter, has returned to st. JOhnsbury fol
the summer where he will continue his
studies.
DIR. Herbert J. Hartman and wife OF
Revere, Mass, are spending a couple
of weeks in this town and Peacham
DR.. Hartman is one of the Caledonia
county boys whose success in life is
watched with much qualification.
Edward E. Higgins has closed his
connection with the Standard Electric
light company to engage in the busi-
ness of electrical engineer and con-
tractor, representing the Sprague Ell
ectric and Motor company. He will
probably be located at Rochester, N. Y
Rev. Henry E. Jewett, for nearly ten
years principal of Hopkins academy at
Oakland, California, has resigned his
position because of impaired health
He is now living on a small fruit farm
which he owns at Vacaville. st. Johns
bury is Mr.. Jewett's native town and
he may revisit it with Mrs. Jewett be-
fore the summer is past.
Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, pastor OF
the Asylum Hill Congregational church
of Hartford, Conn, and who has often
occupied St. Johnsbury pulpits during
the summer season, coming down from
his summer sojourn at WillOughby
lake, will receive $4,000 from his peo
pie on the occasion of his 50th birth.
day anniversary next week.
The church over which Rev. George
H. Ide, a former st. Johnsbury boy, ii
pastor in Milwaukee, dedicated a new
and cOmmodiOus church edifice on the
18th, the land and building costing
$73, 900 and the society being free from
debt. The seating capacity of th'
Grand Avenue church, for this is thu
name by which it is known, is 14OO
Rev. Mr.. Ide's many friends here
abouts will be pleased to know of thi
added evidence of his success in hi
western home.