St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-01-08
north of the cemetery to Mr.. Parker
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Price $500.
Henry Mitchell has sold and decided his
place at the village to The Grange Mer-
camille Association, which is incorporated
under the laws of Vermont with CAPT
tai of $4,000. This association proposes
to carry on a general mercantile business
and to deal in real estate and do a
general business all around. 1t is
expected that the Grange will rent the
hall and have two tenements and store
in the building, and good barn for use
or to rent with the tenement. Mr..
Mitchell does not expect to give posses
sion OF the tenement where he lives and
the barn until the first of June. Price
$500 for the whole property.
Herbert Burnham returned to Middle
bury College, Monday, after being at
home through the holiday vacation.
The next Grange meeting is to be held
Saturday evening, at which time the in
coming officers are to be installed. Elk
Governor Bell has been invited to be the
installing officer and it is hoped that he
may be present. An oyster supper will
be served This meeting is for members
only.
Harry May is having. a large singing
school class here, some coming from
quite a distance The school is held
every Friday evening.
There was a large gathering at the
Aid Society Hall Thursday evening,
more than $50 being present.
The funeral service of Mrs. Lydia Ann
Berry Durkee were largely attended at
the Union House last week Tuesday, the
service being by a Seventh Day Advent
preacher, assisted by Rev. Franklin
Blake, and the burial was at the cemetery
i'll that neighborhood beside her father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Berry.
The funeral service tor A. E. Butter
field was held at the home where he com
mtted suicide by shooting, last Wednes-
day, the service being conducted by Rev.
Mr.. Blake, and burial was at the Sutton
cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Greena from St. Adams
have come to live with her step-father,
Freeman Hyde, through the winter.
The winter terms of school have closed
at the South Ridge North Ridge, Bundy
School, North District, and the Forbes
school, which leaves the village and
Whipple school, which have three weeks
more.
The Grange have their masquerade
promenade and dance at the hall,
Thursday evening.
The Week of Prayer is to be observed
by the church here nearly every evening
this week, if there is sufficient interest in
the services to sustain them,
1t has been decided not to invite Rev
E. P. Moulton, evangelist, to hold a
series of meetings with the church here
this month, but it is hoped that some of
the neighboring pastors may be asked
to give assistance in some special services
sometime in the future.
Mrs. Betsey Gordon wife of the late. 7.
B. Gordon, is very feeble, confined to her
bed, and being in her S7th year her re-
covery is considered very doubtful Her
home is with Albert Clark on her old
farm.
A Baby with Nine Grandparents.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Paris of Lebanon, N. H., will be
interested to hear of the arrival of a
daughter, Arlene Capitola, lat their home,
Saturday, December rs.
Ordinarily birth notices have little
interest, but the advent of this little girl
is of unusual importance from the num-
Der Of grandparents made happy by her
birth. She represents the fifth gener-
alton.
On the maternal SIDE are her grand
father and grandmother, Mr., and Mrs.
Horace S. Chaplain of Concord, N. H.,
aged respectively AZ and AZ.
Mrs. Chaplains parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Allen, live at Newport, N. H.,
and are respectively 70 and 81, thus fur
nishing two great-grandparents. Mrs.
Aliens father, Ezra + Sibley also of
Newport, n. H., is great-great-grand-
father, aged 90.
Mr. Chaplain's father, Alpheus F.
Chaplain of Wilmot Flat, N H., - years
of age, supplies another great-grand-
father.
On the paternal side grandmother
Mrs. Nellie {. Paris, is living in Con
cord, aged 40. Her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dyer II. Morton, are both living in
the same town and are both u years
old. They give another pair of great
grandparents.
Another matter of peculiar interest in
the history of these remarkable families
is their wedding anniversaries. On July
10, 1908, Ezra T. Sibley and wife cele-
brated the 65th anniversary of their
marriage, and Mrs. Sbley lived until the
10th of August in the following wear,
Samuel Allen and wife celebrated their
golden wedding on Nov 2, 1906.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dyer H. Morton cele-
brated their 50th marriage anniversary
on the 14th OF last month.
If heredity insures long life, Miss
Arlene surely will have a chance to dance
at her centennial birthday.