St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-13
At the Vile.

trimmed in light colors made an attrac-
tive appearance. Appetizing food was on
sale, homemade candy, aprons of all
varieties, and the rest of the space was
devoted to various fancy articles of
which there was a large variety. There
was good attendance, and the society
cleared about SIS.
Mrs. N. F. Nye Of Auburndale, Mass,
is the guest of Mrs. H. 3. Folsom for
few weeks.
H. l.. Parker has just returned from
where he has been to purchase holiday
goods.
Clarke B. Hutchinson and family move
this week into Mrs. Ellen MacFarland's
house on Broad street, into the tene-
ment vacated by Tracy Phillips.
Mrs. D. R. Brown was the hostess of
the Christmas club, Wednesday, and
most delightful afternoon was spent by
the ladies. The refreshments were most
unique and charming DR.. Browns
mother, from New Hampshire, is at
present stopping with him.
The Shakespeare club met Thursday
with Mrs. Charles Darling and finished
the reading of Shakespeare's Henry
Fourth" The club meets tomorrow
with Mrs. Theodore N. Vail, and begins
the Tanning of the Shrew." The Lyn-
don Woman's club was entertained
Thursday by Mrs. w. l. Powers, the
subject of the program being early
American Painters"
Me- "A E;n.zo,, ~. -at,~rad f~a,,,
East Hardwick, where she has been
visiting relatives for few weeks.
The Congregational Ladies Aid society
had their annual chicken pie supper in
the vestry Thursday afternoon, with
good attendance. They cleared about
$25. \
The Lyndon club are to hold "cpen
house" this winter for their wives and
other ladies, on the first Thursday even
the opening event, and the general
interest was shown by large attend
ance. Darling's hall was engaged, and
Mrs. Brooks orchestra furnished music
for dancing, while the club rooms were
thrown open for those interested in
cards, billiards and Others games. The
evening was voted a great success, and
the next one is anticipated with pleasure.
The Young Ladies Whist club met
with Mrs. Robert Burns Tuesday even
ing. This organization has been some
what depleted by marriage during the
past season, three gifts members, Misses
Charlotte Kinney, Nora Thompson, and
Adele Watson, being among the brides
of the year.
The classes at the gymnasium were
resumed Monday the 18th, after being
closed short time for putting in fur
mace and other repairs. The classes are
now scheduled as follows; Boys, Mon
days and Thursdays at p. m: youths.
Tuesdays and Fridays at Z p. m; men,
Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7.30 p.
M; girls, Mondays and Fridays at Ais
p. m.
Mrs. W. l. Powers has been appointed
chairman of the State Educational
committee of the Vermont Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Ernest B. Chase has finished work at
st. Johnsbury and has position as
bookkeeper for the John B. Varick Co.,
hardware dealers, at Manchester, n. H.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Vail and Miss
Katharine Vail have returned from
three weeks trip through the west ex-
tending as far as Colorado Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. D. Martin are moving
into Norman MacDonald's house.
The presidents of the three Women's
Clubs, the officers of the Lyndon Civic
Federation and the members of the four
Federation Committees, viz: Educative,
Library, Forestry and Domestic Science,
are requested to meet for the discussion
of business at the home of Mrs. A. L.
Finney Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The Book Club held their semi-annual
auction Monday evening at the home of
Mrs. c. B. Dodge.
The president and vice-president of the
Village Improvement society, Mrs. w. |.
Powers and Mrs. H. Z. Folsom, with
Rev. MIR. Drake, have invited all those
who worked so hard to make the recent
bazaar success and will entertain them
in Darling's hall this evening. A pleas.
ant time is anticipated.
The announcement that scarlet fever
is in town sounds ominous to every par
ent, who has learned to dread this dan
gerous malady. Mr.. and Mrs, Walter
Quimby>are quarantined at their home
on Charles street, caring for their four
children, who are all sufferers from this
disease. The children are reported to
have the disease in mild form.
George Shorey is having a new chimney
built in his grist MIL and feed store and
will also have I'M coal furnace. He
finds it almost ,im9 POSSIBLE to buy dry
wood this winter al any price.
Little Edith Lewsey celebrated her
fifth birthday, Saturday, with a party,
to which about 81 of her playmates
were invited. A fine time was spent
playing games and enjoying the birth
day collation..
The first lecture in the entertainment
course was given Friday evening by DR..
Thomas E. Green. He has appeared
here once before, and was listened to
with great interest. His subject was
Civic Bacteriology" and he discussed,
in delicate, yet penetrating manner,
the various microbes" which infect our
civic body and injure its health. The
audience was profoundly interested and
applause was frequent, but the effect of
the lecture was to make them think
seriously. The next lecture is on Satur-
day evening an illustrated lecture on
the building of the Panama Canal by
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