St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-09-27
PERSONAL MENTION.


for few weeks.
Mrs. Walter P. Smith is spending
two weeks in Boston and vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fletcher of Min
neapolis are in town visiting friends.
Rev. Henry E. Jewett and wife re-
turn to their California home next
week.
Miss Anna S. Morse, former Acade-
my teacher, has been visiting at Judge
ROss's.
Miss Abby P. Brown is visiting in
Gloucester and other places in Massa-
chusetts.
Mrs. D. P. Celley and her son Charles
are visiting friends in Boston and in
Connecticut.
Mrs. Flora Kinney Templeton, wife
of DR.. Percy Templeton of Craftsbury,
is visiting in this place, her old home.
Mrs. A. E. Hough, the wife of Mr..
Hongh who is SO well known here as a
| piano tuner, is very low at Lebanon.
Pliny j. Cowles, who closes his en-
gagement in the post Office this week,
goes to Newport, N. H., to work for a
few weeks in bank.
| F. A. BOttOme returned to the college
of Physicians and Surgeons in New
York yesterday to take his senior
course in medical lectures.
| E. E. Chalmers, who has been read
| q -,
to Decatur, Alabama, next month to
engage in the practice of law.
Senator-elect HI. c. Bates, who was
elected president of the senate pro tenn
in 1886, is mentioned for the same pos
itiOn in the legislature of 1888.
Mrs. Walter Ingram of this place,
who has been in England and Scotland
this summer, returned ON the Pavonia,
which reached Boston On Sunday.
Winthrop Blodgett goes to Findley,
Ohio, next week with view to engag-
ing in a new factory that is being built
there and of making Findley his home.
Bishop Bissell's many friends in this
community were grieved to learn of
his serious illness last week, but will
be pleased to know that he is now al
most restored to his usual health.
E. A. Bayley, now in the loan busi-
ness at Madison, Dakota, paid visit
to his old friends last week. Mr.. Bag
ley was in the class of '91 at the acad-
emy and formerly lived in Newbury.
Rev. Henry Fairbanks and wife and
Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Howard attend the
annual meeting of the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
in Cleveland next week.
st. JOhnsbury was represented at
the annual meeting of Scottish Rite
Masons in Boston last week by Rev.
F. S. Fisher, F. F. Fletcher and Albro
F Nichols. Mr.. Nichols received the
33rd and last degree at this meeting.
G. E. Harrington is one of the St.
Johnsbury boys of whom we notice
frequent mention. He was a member
of Co. c., Eighth Vermont, and con
tributes very pretty poem in prose,
recalling the days now gone, in the
Elmira, N. Y. Telegram of the 10th.
Mrs. r. II. Stevens, who left for
Sioux City, Iowa, on Friday, received
considerable assistance toward meet
ing the expenses of the journey from
her late husbands shop mates at the
scale works and from the Chamberlin
relief corps, for which she felt very
grateful.
Miss Lill B. Judd of this place, a
graduate of the johnson Normal school
in June last, has position as teacher
in the graded schools at Bellows Falls.
A. o. Baker spent last week in Bos.
ton and at his old home in Ashland
n. II.
Robert N. Fairbanks, the second sol
of Prof. Henry Fairbanks and gradu
ate of Dartmouth '88, leaves for Chica
go tomorrow, where he will enter bust
ness in the scale house of Fairbanks
Morse & Co. It seems fitting that
grandson of the inventor of platform
scales should continue in and perpetu
ate the business.
FL. G. Boynton, who went West TIVE
years ago where he has held the posi-
tion of secretary in the E. l.. Squire
Loaning company at Omaha, has re
turned to st. Johnsbury and will make
this his home. He will represent th'
above company in the negotiation o
Western mortgage loans in the NeV
England states.
A recent report of the affairs at Rol
Inns college, Winter Park, Florida
speaks in the following high terms o
one of our old St. Johnsbury boys
"The skill and pains taking of the jan
itor, William Ingram, is seen in tn
improvements and other conditions O
the grounds. Nothing out of plac
seems to escape his watchful eye, or t.
go unnoticed."
Hon. Frank Little of Kalamazoo
Michigan, a worthy representative O
Vermont in the West, has been nomi
mated as the democratic candidate fO
representative from the first district O
that state in which he resides. Th
) Kalamazoo Gazette says with undoubt
. ed truth, that if "the voters had sens
L enough to send such men as Mr.. Littl
to the legislature our statute book
would not be filled with so many foe
1 laws"
w. j. Connell, Esq, of Omaha, wa