St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-02-04
PERSONAL MENTION.

l. AltOOINAL LIN OANs
Hon Henry Ballard Of Burlington
paid this office a pleasant call last
week
Miss Winifred Rowell goes to Bos-
tor this week to resume her art
studies.
Hon. H. c. Bates has been engaged
to deliver the Memorial day address
at Lyndonville.
Rev. Mr.. Chadsey of Cowansville,
Canada, preached at the Advent
church the past two Sundays.
Hon. H. c. Ide and Harry Blod-
gett attended the funeral of Ex-Con-
gresham Ray at Lancaster last Sun
day.
John Stuart, the well-known flag
man, is seriously ill.-James E.
Taylor has been quite sick the past
week.
Miss Maude Sprague, daughter of
Postmaster Sprague, has returned
to St. Johnsbury after an absence of
eight weeks.
Rev. c. M. Lamson has a very
readable article on the Worcester
churches in the New England Maga
zine for February. The article is
profusely illustrated.
Herbert E. Ryder, who has been
assisting Rev. A. McGeorge in state
| 60, cnraro1 hS
will preach at the Railroad street
Baptist church on Sunday.
Rev. DR.. ]. Orimel Peck of New
York paid flying visit to his sister,
Mrs. J. L. Perkins, last week. Healso
visited his native town of Barre dur
ing his trip to Vermont.
Rev. DIR. L. o Brastow of New
Haven, Conn, formerly pastor of the
South church and now professor of
homilectics in the Yale Divinity
school. was in town on Tuesday.
Miss Pringle, assistant principal Of
the Union schools, has been i'll and is
not able to return to her work. Miss
Nellie Harvey of Peacham has been
engaged in that position for the re-
mainder of the school year.
Elisha May was guest of the
Coos and Grafton county bar asso-
| citation at their annual meeting at
Plymouth, N. H., on Friday evening
and responded to one of the toasts
IL ~
George H. Hale, former st. Johns
bury boy who has been residing in
Chicopee, Mass, since his gradua ton
from Amherst college last June, has
been engaged as temporary secretary
for the Northampton Y. M. c. A.
Mr. Hale enters Andover Theological
seminary next fall.
Capt. E. F. Griswold starts on an
other foreign tour on February 20.
He will sail for Havre and spend the
spring in France and the summer in
Switzerland. He will spend the fall
in England. 1t is one of Capt. Girls
wold's fond hopes to end up this trip
with long sea voyage to India and
Australia, returning home in season
to visit the Worlds Fair in the sum-
mer of 1898.
Hon. H. c. Bates celebrated his
10th birthday Saturday and the legal
fraternity of the town took occasion
to give him a very pleasant surprise.
Mrs. Bates had been notified before
hand and an excellent dinner was
served. Before the party broke up
Mr.. Bates was presented with fine
set of Dickens, which was a most ac-
ceptable testimo onial of friendship to
"Our Mutual Friend.'
Judge H. R. Starts administra ton
of the duties of his important office
at the term of court recently closed
here-which was his first term in
Caledonia county-made for him
many friends among the legal fra
ternity of this section of the state,
and all others who had business in
the court room. Pleasant in manner,
ready in his perception of points
involved, and clear in his statements,
he presides most acceptabIy.