St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-11
PERSONAL MENTION.


mother in Chelsea, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hardy have
been in Boston the past week.
Miss S. T. Baird is in market the
present week after new goods.
Col. A. c. Brown of Montpelier
was in town Monday on business.
Edwin Renfrew of Lisbon has been
visiting old friends in town the past
week
Mrs Alice F. Stevens of Peacham
has been visiting friends in town the
past week.
Frank H. Brooks and Walter H.
Hastings started on a horseback ride
to Sherbrooke Monday morning.
Charles S. Hastings is in Portland
attending a meeting of the directors
of the Feed Water Heater company.
Frank B. Lewis of Whitefield, for
merly clerk in Randall's drug store,
paid his old friends visit early in the
week
M. J. Hovey, clerk at the Citizens
bank, expects to start for Kearney,
| Nebraska, some time this month
where he will continue in banking.
The many friends of Rev. George
w. Kelly of Barton will be pleased
to learn that the Congregational
church have hired him for another
year.
Miss Florence Wellfoot is visiting
at her home in this place. She is a
student in the Perkins institute for
the blind and her eyesight is gradual
ly improving.
About so of the friends of Mr. and
Mrs. John Wellfoot gave them a sur
prise party last week Monday and
left china tea set and other gifts as
tokens of friendship.
George H. Guernsey, the newly-ap-
pointed superintendent of the Mont
pelier government building is the
| architect of two churches here, the
Free Baptist and the new Catholic
church.
Christian p Andersen of this place
is one of the speakers at the COM
mencement of the Chandler scientific
school at Hanover next June. The
subject of his thesis is, "The relation
of the United States government to
the telegraph"
J. p. Taylor has moved to Barre
to engage in the granite business.
By this move the town loses a genial
citizen, the Presbyterian church its
Sunday school superintendent and
leading member, and the Y. M. c. A.
one of its most faithful workers.
About 60 friends of Mr. and Mrs.
c. d. Waite surprised them on Tues
day evening, their twenty-ffth we'd
ding anniversary. In behalf of the
friends Elder John Ward presented
them with an elegant silver tea ser
vice, accompanying the gift with APP
propriate remarks.
According to the Waltham, Mass,
Tribune our old friend and resident,
Hon. Erskine Warden, has been in
strumental i'll bringing to that city
the new state school for the feeble
minded. A quarter of a million dol
lars will be expended in the buildings
the first of which will be erected this
spring.
Gen. H. K. Ide sent the Caledonian
office some very fragrant orange
blossoms this week from his grove
at Pomona. The orange crop in
Florida this year has been the best in
quality and quantity ever known
and Gen. Ide's grove yielded 800 box
es. Next year he expects his yield
will be much larger. He will return
to st. JohnSbury next month.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wetherbee
have returned from a years sojourn
in Southern California. He says the
mining craze was a big sell from the
start and would never have created
such a sensation had work been
plenty in the cities. He was delight
ed with the country until the boom
dropped out and everybody was out
of work. He will remain here for the
present.
Rev. Thomas Dixon resigned as
pastor of the Dudley street Baptist
church in Boston last Sunday where
c. l.. Page has recently gone from
this place to become the pastors as
sistant. The latter's large circle of
friends will be glad to learn of Mr.
Pages success as may be Judged from
the fact that in Mr. DixOn's letter of
resignation he says that his assist
ant is proving himself a master work
man.
H. B. Davis closes his engagement
at the Caledonian office this week
and removes to Lyndonville where
he has bought a job printing office
II is like losing a part of the Gale
donian to have Mr. Davis leave, he
having been connected with this of
fee for most of the time for the past
thirty years. He is in every way a
Straightforward reliable man, and
would be an acquisition to any town
He goes to a live, progressive place,
and all connected with the Caledo-
nian wish him abundant success
LARGE SALE OF TIMER LANDS