St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-05-03
Personal MENTION.


Rev. w. r. Laird and family left
town this morning for their new home
in Newcastle, Penn.
III. p. Simpson of Sheffield is engag
ed as clerk in G.. A. Whitcher's store
in Music hall building.
George Paine is employed by the
Connecticut River lumber company as
bookkeeper at McIndoes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert BabcOck have
returned from Florida where they have
been spending the winter.
Rev. w. r. Laird and Rev. S. j..
Grove represented st. Johnsbury at
the meeting of the Vermont Presby-
terry at Craftsbury Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
E. N. Randall goes to Boston and
New York this week on business
trip. The advertising columns of the
Caledonian will tell the rest of the sto-
ry soon.
Rev. t. P. Frost started on Monday
for New York where he will be for
four weeks in attendance on the ses
sions of the Methodist general confer
ence as delegate from this state.
Miss May Ross will teach at Barnet
next term Miss Addie Ide in the
Hastings district and Miss Eva Stew
ems in the Spaulding district and Miss
Abbie B. Frazier of Albany teaches at
Summerville.
Thomas Nevins, a former academy
student, wheeled his way larger part
of the distance from Montreal to this
place the past week, making in one
of the days As miles. He found the
roads pretty fair between Montreal
and Newport, much better than south
of Newport.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern,-whO is
pleasantly remembered by many in
this place, where she spent summer
in sketching few years since-has a
collection of II landscape paintings at
the art gallery of Williams & Everett,
20 BOylston street, Boston, which are
attracting a good deal of attention,
and the Boston press are lavish in
their praise of some of these works,
especially the painting entitled "Lions
digging a grave for ST. Paul, the first
hermit" Unfortunately for any of our
readers who may desire to see these
paintings, the exhibition closed on
Saturday.
Arthur F. Stone, who has been on
the Fall River Evening News the past
year, has returned home and will enter
the CaledOnian office. The News re-
ferred to his departure in this pleasant
manner: "Our relations with Mr.. Stone
have been of the pleasantest nature
and we part with him with regret.
Coming to this city a complete stran-
ger, he has made many friends by his
uniform courtesy and fair treatment
Possessing no mean literary ability he
has also shown a disposition to work
hard and diligently for his employers
interests. In his new field of labor he
will be surrounded and assisted by
many personal friends, and we bespeaE
for him that success which we feel his
abilities and pure character would
command in whatever field he might
be called upon to enter"
Counter Electrical Currents.
The electric light scheme has moi
materialized to any great extent dur
ing the week. w. A. Stiles, manager
of the ThomsonHoustOn system, wal
in town Tuesday and then received the
first intelligence that pretty much al
the original signers to the stock of th'
company had withdrawn their names
Mr.. Stiles and those who acted will
him claim that their only purpose il
subscribing for additional stock was tt
complete the organization of the com
pany on the originally proposed basis
that they did not hold but SO, 500 of th'
stock and thus could not control it
and that they expected to leave the Sc
lection of the plant to a committee a.
originally proposed. The Thomson
Houston folks are ready at any time
they say, to put their system in com
petition with that of the local or an!
other company on trial, sure that their
will prove the best and most ecOnOmi
cal. So many of the subscription
have been withdrawn, land some init
mate that a number of the men VIII,
crossed off their names were very gla'
of an opportunity to do SOY that it i
doubtful if the electric system will b
brought into use here right away, al
though the Thomson Houston folk
talk as if they would risk putting i
their system, anyway, if sure of til
support of the business men and tn
village. The probability is that an ex
hibition light will be put up here be
fore many days.
Prohibition Conference.
The prohibition conference and put
lie meeting comes tomorrow afternoo
and evening. All prohibitionists an
those interested in the third part
movement in Caledonia and Esse
counties are invited to meet in Goo
Templars' hall at 2 p. m. In the ever
ing a public meeting will be held j
Music hall at 7.45, which will be az
dressed by the state organizer, Geore
w. Penniman of Massachusetts,, goo
, speaker. Everybody is cordially il
, | Yited to be present and a good NEE