St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-08-16
PERSONAL MENTION.
Silas Mastin and family are at Ken

John d. Miller is i'm Boston this week
on business trip.
Horace 1. Woods and daughter Lucy
go to Old Orchard today.
Mrs. o. V. Hooker and son Carl are
at Queen City park, Burlington.
Harrison Taplin and son Roy start
for Chelsea beach, Mass, today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Thompson en-
joy their vacation at Old Orchard.
Rev. Edward T. Fairbanks is enjoy
ing short vacation in Massachusetts.
Rev. F. E. Dawson attends the Chris
tian workers gathering at Old Orchard.
Fred A. Wright and Miss L. Lock
hart of Boston are the guests of w. S.
Streeter.
A. L. Bailey has been spending the
past week with his family at Pigeon
Cove, Mass.
Arthur z. Turner of Boston, eldest
son of Robert A. Turner of Paris, is
visiting relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Tyler, Mrs. A.
B. Noyes and Miss Mary E. Stone start
Friday for Kennebunk beach.
Mrs. Thomas Bishop of Brooklyn, N.
Y, daughter of Horace Carpenter, is
visiting family friends in town.
Kinsman r. Davis of Salem, Nebras-
ka, is visiting friends in this vicinity
and other parts of the state.
Miss Eliza A. George of the Caledo-
nian Office is spending the vacation
season at her home in Bradford.
Miss Helen Lincoln of Northampton,
Mass, is visiting friends in town, the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Stone.
Ira L. Spencer who died on the I'd
inst, was insured in the Equitable
company of New York for $1,000.
Walter Wood, now a student at the
college of physicians and surgeons in
New York, is spending his vacation at
home.
Mrs. Albee, sister of the late A. E.
Rankin, of Cambridge, Mass, and her
son are the guests of Mrs. A. E. Rankin.
They go to Waterville this week.
Simeon E. Belknap expects to locate
at Minneapolis with his brother, Aus
tin L. Belknap, who is member of the
firm of COrser & Co., large real estate
dealers.
Edward M. Ide and family of Wash
ington, D. c., have been visiting
friends in town the past week, the
guests of his daughter, Mrs. George
Alvord.
Miss Edna Stuart, for a number of
years a successful teacher in the Union
school building, has resigned her posi-
tion here to take charge of the graded
schools at Newbury.
E. D. Harlow is circulating a petit
tion that has been largely signed ask
ing Postmaster Bowman to appoint
him one of the delivery clerks when
the free delivery system shall be adopt
ed.
Miss Fanny Story of Gloucester,
Mass, who has been the guest of Miss
Abby Brown for some weeks, favored
a number of her friends with an organ
recital at the North church Thursday
afternoon that was very much enjoyed.
Charles A. and w. j. Willard, sons
of A. j. Willard of this place, have
been visiting friends in town the past
week. The former is member of the
law firm of Gilfllan, Belden & Willard
of Minneapolis and the latter is in a
railroad Office in Boston.
Rev. S. j. Grove of the Presby terian
church takes his vacation in Septem-
Der, going to his home in New Brigh-
ton, Penn. He will preach as usual
during the remaining Sundays in Au-
gust, and the pulpit will probably be
supplied after that during his absence.
G. F. Gibbs, St. Johnsbury's florist,
is in Boston this week visiting green
houses in that vicinity and posting up.
From thence he goes to New York to
attend the fourth annual meeting of
the Society of American Florists held
at Cooper's institute next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Brainerd and
Mrs. Clara Brainerd moved to Mont
pelier last week. The Argus states
that Mr.. Brainerd has bought the ele-
CANT Queen Anne cottage in that place
of E. R. Meader, corner ST. Paul and
Liberty streets for $4,000.
Rev. G. III. Merrill, secretary of the
Vermont missionary society, has secur-
ed the services of A. l.. Parson as an
evangelist to labor among the Congre-
gational churches of the state depen-
dent upon the missionary society. This
is in accordance with recommenda-
ton of the last general convention at
Barre.
Aaron Farnham, a former citizen of
st. JOhnsbury now of Cambridge,
Mass, writes that he was one of the
workers, singers and voters for Rarri-
son in 1910, and is as heartily desiring
the success of Harrison in 1888. He is
one of an 1910 Harrison club being or
ganized in Cambridge that will soon
number 100.
Carl Jewell, a former st. Johnsbury
boy who has been for some years in
Jacksonville, Florida, has accepted a
position as head mail man on the St.
Louis Republic. Mr.. Jewell was in the
recent railroad accident near Atlanta
and lost all his baggage but was not
hurt. Mrs. Carl Jewell is visiting her
husbands friends in Barton. 89J -
Mrs. S. T. Brooks and her son