St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-06-11
PERSONALS.

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her recovery is quite doubtful.
DR.. and Mrs. J. D, Folsom left last
week for Portland on an extended trip.
Judge J. G. Hovey is very low, and at
this writing his condition is very critical.
James Lytle of the Hartford, Conn,
Theological seminary is visiting friends
in town.
Ernest Hamilton and Miss Blanche
Bagley returned Saturday from the Bos-
ton university.
Miss Josephine Simpson left Tuesday
for Burlington, where she will spend a
weeks vacation.
Mrs. Elroy A.. Clayton of the GALE
DOMAIN office is taking a vacation at her
home IN Ludlow.
Mrs. Cyrus Sargent, who has been
very sick for few weeks past, is now
slowly improving.
Mrs. George Bonette left Monday for
Winchendon, Springfield and Hartford
on visit for several months.
Mrs. l.. F. Babbitt and little son of
Northampton, Mass, have been the
guests of Mrs. Wendell P. Stafford during
the week.
Mrs. M. A. Henkell Of Winter Park,
Fla, has arrived here to spend the sum-
mer with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John o. Hale.
Edward G. Humphrey and family of
Somerville, Mass. are visiting friends
and receiving cordial greetings from old
acquaintance.
Prof. F. A. Dakin of Haverford college,
former teacher at the Academy, will
spend the summer abroad travelling in
France and Germany.
DR.. Philip S. Ide has opened an office in
Newport and entered upon the practice
of medicine in that town. His St. Johns
bury friends wish him success.
George Poor, who has been employed
in the CALIFORNIAN Office through the
spring, left Tuesday to work in the job
department of the Montpelier Watchman
office.
Miss Flora M. Terrill, teacher of Ger
man and English at St. Johnsbury Acad-
emy, sails July % for Europe, and will
spend the coming year studying in Ger
many.
Harry G. Hibbard of Kansas City,
Mo-, is spending the summer at his old
home in West C:,.icord, and has been
warmly greeted by his old friends in St.
Johnsbury.
Mrs. Crawford Ranney and daughter,
Edith, left Tuesday to attend the COM
mencement exercises at Wellesley college,
and they will also spend few days at
Brown university.
Miss Margaret Gorham is at Lakeport,
N. H., for two weeks vacation. Her
place as organist at the North church was
taken last Sunday by Walter Sumner of
Dartmouth college.
DR.. ]. A. Thompson, physician and sur
geon, has opened an Office in the Gauthier
house above the Pythian building. DR..
Thompson is graduate of McGill Medi-
cal college at Montreal.
Lawyers w. P. Stafford and R. w.
Simonds attended the Orange county
court at Chelsea this week, and H. c.
Bates and H. B. Howe were at the United
States circuit court in Montpelier.
Harry Dwight, an Academy graduate
who is now in the junior class at Amherst
college, will spend the summer with his
father who is missionary of the
American Board at Constantinople.
News has been received of the death in
Langdon, N. H., June 4, of Charles G.
Marshall, aged 63 years. He was
brother of c. H. and ]. A. Marshall
OF this place and former employe at the
scale works.
Hugh Benton graduated last week
from the Boston University Law school,
and with his wife and daughter are visit
ing at Rev. c. F. Morse's. Willard
Shattuck, Academy '93, also graduated
from this law school last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crosby Of Mime
apolis were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank H. Brooks the first of the week.
Mrs. Crosby will be remembered as the
daughter of Col. and Mrs. Albert w.
Hastings, former residents of st. Johns
bury.
Rev. c. H. Merrill and Prof. Henry
Fairbanks are attending the annual con-
vention of the Congregational churches
of Vermont at Middlebury. Among
those who attended the annual meeting
of the Woman's Home Missionary Union
at the same place were Mrs. Rebecca P.
Fairbanks, Mrs. Robert Mackinnon, Mrs.
{. F. 0. Tinker, Mrs. W. P. Smith, Mrs.
p. F. Hazen and Mrs. Henry Fairbanks.
St. Johnsbury's Valuation. = The
listers have completed their work in get
ting the valuation of the town and the
following comparisons will be ofnterest:
1897 1896
Real Estate $2S05.790 $2,761 $50
Personal Est, 934,127 959,016
Polls, 1855, $4,000 1912, 3624oo
Total, $4,091,917 $4,oS3. .346
Notwithstanding the loss of 55 polls
and the shrinkage in personal property