St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-07-19
PERSONAL MENTION.


Charles Celley has gone to Canaan,
N. H., for brief stay.
Mrs. NJ. G. Houghton of Boston is
visiting Mrs. Walter P. Smith.
Lyndon Arnold of st. Johnsbury has
been granted an increase of pension.
Miss Mabel Goodwin is local CORES
pOndent of the Brattleboro Reformer.
Mrs. Thompson of Stoneham, Mass,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. o. Baker.
j. c. Taylor of Derry, N. H., was
here over Sunday visiting his relatives.
Mrs. O. C. Hatch and infant child of
Littleton are visiting at DIR. j. R. Nell
sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. G. Bates are enjoy
ing a summer vacation drive i'm North
ern N. III.
w. A. Little has rented and moved
into Mrs. George Shaw's house on Mt.
Pleasant street.
Mrs. j. I'll. Thompson and son Frank
have gone to Quebec, where they will
remain until school begins.
Mrs. j. A. Hadley will spend the
coming five or six weeks with friends
in Washington county.
Mrs. G. III. Merrill's father and moth
er from Washington, D. c., have been
visiting her in this place.
Miss May Daley of Lynn, Mass, is
spending her summer vacation with
her parents in town.
Rev. G.. j. Bishop, pastor of one of
the leading Methodist churches in To-
ronto, was in town over Sunday.
Orris Farrer, special pension agent,
has been appointed supreme deputy for
Vermont of the Knights of PytIias.
Mrs. Levi A. Sylvester has written
family friends in St. Johnsbury that
she is located at Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut.
Wheeler Thomas, sewing machine
agent, is sick at Rutland and has tele-
graphed for his wife who has gone to
him.
Mrs. II. E. Byron of this place and
her mother, Mrs. Hoyt of Cabot, have
gone to Harpswell, Maine, for the
summer.
Hans P. Andersen and Arthur Fair
banks, with other college classmates,
are on walking tour through the
White Mountains.
ii. P. Simpson, who has been en-
ployed ia Whitcher's Music hall store,
has gone to Twombly's store in Lyn-
donville where he is clerking.
DR.. George F. Cheney has returned
from a city and sea shore trip of a
week or so. Mrs. Cheney remains at
Kittery, Maine, for number of weeks.
George l.. Leonard of Bellows Falls,
an old academy student, and Frank E.
Crosier of West Springfield, Mass,
have been visiting friends in town the
past week.
Robert N. Fairbanks returned Mon
day from Mr.. Moody's summer Bible
school at Northfield, Mass, and will
join his family at Prout's Neck the
last of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. M. Stone, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Gilbert Spencer and Mr.. and
Mrs. r. NJ. Chandler of st. Johnsbury
Joined the excursion of the Vermont
press association to Saratoga this week.
A. l.. Hardy of the st. JOhnsbury
academy was chosen one of the vice
presidents of the American Institute of
Instruction, at the annual meeting of
the institute at Newport, R. L., last
week.
Arthur P, son of A. w. Simpson,
who went to Seattle some months ago,
has returned. the climate not agreeing
with him. He will spend the summer
in South Danville and later hopes to
find employment here.
"Capt." James Crates, at one time
identified with the local salvation ar
my, has been visiting friends in town
the past week. He goes to Quebec to
day and from thence to London, En-
gland, on home tour.
Charles Conant has secured the pO-
sitiOn of teacher of vocal music in the
public schools of Concord, N. H., and
begins his labors there Sept. L. He is
also engaged as tenor singer in the
choir of the South Congregational
church of that city.
Rev. G. HI. BottOme, assistant rector
of Grace church New York, and Rev.
w. e. Spencer, assistant rector of st.
Paul's church, New York, are the
guests of F. A. BOttome. Rev. Mr.,
Bottome read the service at st. An
drew's Sunday evening.
Jason Hinman, an academy gradu-
ate in '8I now studying law in New
York city, is visiting in town. Mr.
Hinman is secretary of the New York
reform club which has for it's objects
the reduction of the tariff, the reform
of the civil service, and other needed
reforms.
Rev. j. A. BOissonnault, pastor OF
the Catholic church, has been settled
over this parish IA years and during
that time has been absent but single
Sunday, an enforced absence caused
by sickness. For the past three years
he has been present at every morning
service. A very good record.
Miss Laura Watson of Bridgewater
Mass, has been secured to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation O
Miss Mitchell, for seven years a mos