St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-06-14
PERSONAL MENTION.
E. Gilbert of Newport is clerking

town.
Mr.. and Mrs. HI. G. Bates will make
their home for the present at the Acad-
emy boarding house.
George r. Clark of Boston, Mass, a
member of the Ruggles street quar-
tette, is visiting friends in town.
Rev. T. P. Frost delivers the annual
sermon at the commencement of the
seminary at Montpelier, next Sunday.
Rev. r. w. Harlow, a Methodist
minister who was formerly settled here
and is now in the West, delivered the
Memorial day address at Muscotah,
Kansas.
DR.. H. L. Newell will represent the
South church society OF Christian En-
deavor at the national convention of
Christian Endeavor societies in Chica-
go, July So.
Alfred R. Brooks arrived from Tope-
ka, and is spending the week at his old
home before assuming his new position
at Worcester.
Miss Louise l.. Bartlett, teacher in
the graded school, has gone to her mo-
theirs home at Hartford, Ct, for the
summer vacation.
Ernest Blodgett closes his connec-
ton with his fathers insurance agency
and goes to Manchester, N. H., where
he will be connected with Lanes in
surance agency.
L. G.. Lockwood. who spent the
winter in Florida, Georgia and Ten
nessee, returned home last week in
improved health. He talks of locating
in Boston.
Harry F. Bailey, member of the
academy class of '83, who is now en-
gagged in a bank at Lancaster, N. H.,
was married Wednesday, June 6, to
Cora E. Richardson at the home of the
bride in Lancaster.
Hon. II. G. Ide, delegate from the
second district to the national republi-
can convention at Chicago which meets
next Tuesday, expects to leave here to-
morrow. The Vermont delegation
meet Monday and discuss the situation.
j. II. Denning, son of Jerry Denning
and formerly of st. Johnsbury, is in
town for few days with his bride.
Mr.. Denning, who was married on
Tuesday at Brattleboro, is conductor
on the Northern New London railroad
in Connecticut.
Herbert S. Carpenter and Robert N.
Fairbanks, two st. JOhnsbury boys,
and G.. S. Blakely, another academy
student, graduate at Dartmouth at the
commencement, June 24-28. Mr.. Car
penter gives the prophecies in the
class-day exercises.
DR.. Il. III. Hoskins of Newport, SO
we'll and favorably known to all the
many intelligent farmer readers OF
this state, is writing series of articles
on "The black side of farming" for the
Rural New Yorker. The story is styled
an autobiography and is exceedingly
interesting.
Henry l.. Tilton, Esq, of Littleton
was in town yesterday. He was on his
annual June pilgrimage to the Dan
vile hills where he was born and which
he left when boy of IL years. Mr.
Tilton now spends his winters il
Washington Territory, where he hai
large business interests.
Conductor Walter Wilcomb, says
the Swanton Courier, who was so ter
ribly injured in the railroad acciden
near Hardwick a year ago last May
threw away his crutches last Sunday
and came down street with a cane
Only youth, pluck and a very strong
constitution brought Mr.. Wilcoml
through.
Miss Sarah L. Arnold, for some year
principal of the st. Johnsbury higl
school, but of late teacher at Saratoga
has been elected supervisor of primary
schools at Minneapolis at good salary
The Saratogian in noticing her resig
nation says: "Miss Arnold is widel,
known as one of the foremost teacher
and educational writer's in the country
Her removal to Minneapolis will be
serious loss to our schools"
George H. Hastings of Boston wa
here over Sunday remaining until yes
terday, which was the 55th marriag
anniversary of his parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Hubbard Hastings. Last Sunda,
was also the 10Th birthday anniversar.
of Hubbard Hastings and found hin
quite as well as he has been of late
George H. and Charles S., the latter O
this place, are the only survivin
children of the family.
Summer Visitors.
Those interested in the recent
published articles on birds will fin
another bird piece on the third pag
giving the dates of the arrival of the lit
tie songsters this year. There has bee
an unusual number of song birds i
New England this spring. A Ne,
York taxidermist accounts for the fac
to Sun reporter in this way: Th
long delay in the approach of sprin
kept all the birds South. Not onl
was it too cold here, and were the bios
SONS that held the insects they fee
upon tardy in opening, but a mort
wind prevailed, and these little bird
are not able to fight their way agains
the wind. Then the wind shifted I
the south, and brought the Who'll
group of belated warblers on It's stead