St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-01-07
AT THE WILLIE.

"a - - 1870
THE Committee of Fifteen" are alive
to the importance of getting organized
to work against the liquor law to be
voted on February 8. Arthur F. Stone,
the Caledonia county member of the
Committee of Fifteen, has issued a call
for a meeting to be held at st. Johns
bury, Pvthian Hall, next Wednesday
afternoon. The call urges the attend
ance of all in favor of no vote. We
hope this town will be represented at
this meeting. Let us organize here at
home, using our best efforts to get every
no voter to the polls. Caledonia county
is alive.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Meth
odist church will meet with Miss Nellie
Pierce Thursday afternoon for the pur
pose OF electing new officers.
The Womans Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist church met with
Mrs. ]. NJ. Cass last Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. Ira Bemis who has been spending
several months with her daughter, Mrs
W. Z. Ranger, in Montpelier has return
ed to the home OF Mrs. A. D. Paige.
&C. Norris is in Burlington on a bust
ness trip
A very interesting New Years service
was held in connection with the Christian
Eudeayor meeting in the Congregational
church, Sunday evening. The meeting
was led by Mrs Julia Davis. Poems
were read by Mrs. Lila Dow and Mrs
Z. c. Finney. Mss Rose Smith and
Miss Grace Finnly sang duet.
The Little Cleaners Mission Band have
received holiday greetings from Miss E.
l.. Hovev OF Rapier, India, where they
have sent missionary boxes for several
years.
Harry Silsby is i'll with quinsy sores
and has been confined to the bed for the
past week
Albert Reautegard, clerk for w. J.
4 Blodgett, has been i'll with tonsilts
d Miss Hattie Drown and brother Sheri-
q dan, Of Greenfield, Mass, are visiting
q friends here.
Mrs. E. O. Leonard has been stopping
4 for several days with her husband at
Webbs Hotel.
Mrs. Robert Pettigrew, who has been
very i'll with typhoid fever, is visiting her
sister, Mrs Julia Hutchins.
Professor O. D. Mathewson OF Barre
was in town last week.
Miss Hattie Carpenter, who has been
spending several weeks with relatives
here has returned to St. Johnsbury.
Highland Parker is i'll with chicken
pox.
Joseph Lavely of Haverhill, Mass, and
Miss Hattie Goodwin OF Sutton were
married at the home of the brides sister
Mrs, Walter Quimby, Dec. 81.
Congressman S. w. Mccall Of Winches.
ter, Mass, visited his mother, Mrs
Thompson, and his sister, Mrs. {. F..
Stuart, last week.
Myrtle Chapman is home from Boston
TOR few days.
Anew whist club has been organized
by the ladies. They meet once III two
weeks, holding their meetings first in the
afternoon and next in the evening, when
the r husbands are invited to participate
in the game.
E. M. Campbell will have a carload of
coal this week, which will he sold at
$3.50 delivered. He will sell it only in
hali.ttn lots.
Miss Mary Stevens of Rock Island, P.
g., has been visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. ]. Hovey.
Mrs. T. N. Wallis coachman, Dennis
MaIoney, was married, New Years Eve,
+p A,cc ( n,,,1lor Of pnStnn Mrs
Male ney was formerly the laundress at
Mrs, Walls.
Rebekah Lodge, Juniper Branch No 9,
installed the following officers at Odd
Fellows hall Monday evening, District
Deputy Mrs. Maggie Wiley, presiding
N. G., Mrs. Cora Bradshaw; V. g., Mrs.
Mary ? Wheeler; P. G., Mrs. Flora Pow,
ers; chaplain, Mrs Ella c. Finney; X Sec
Emma Butler; F. Sec, Mrs. Lucinda Viii
marth: treas Mrs Ethel Spencer; war
den, Mrs. Jennie Crafts; conductor, Mrs.
Nina Lynn; R. S. N. g., Mrs. Minnie
Brown; l.. S. N. g.. Mrs. Hattie Harris;
K, S. Y. G., Mrs. Elva Dodge; l.. S, Y. g.,
Mrs. Edna Chapman. A fine banquet
was served after the installation
The Episcopal ladies of st. Peters
Guild wi hold a social at Mrs. Joseph
Webster's this evening.
Osmond Creasar was married New
Years Eve to Miss Lulu Dickinson o.
East Barnet. They are now visiting az
the home Of their sister, Mrs. Annie
Sbonyo.
The annual meeting of the Congrega
tional church will be held this evening
after the prayer meeting.
The Ladies Aid of the Congregations,
church will meet with Mrs. &. B. Dodge
Thursday afternoon.
Miss Rose Smith, teacher of the sixth
and seventh grades took her school on q
sleigh ride to St. Johnsbury Saturday
to visit the Museum.
The next entertainment in the lecture
course comes Monday evening. The
Mendelssohn Quartet, with Miss Mar
guerite Smith, impersonator, and Mis-:
Helen Faye, soprano, will be the attrac
d ton.
u Miss Edith M. Nichols, supervisor o
drawing in the St. Johnsbury schools