St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10
AT the Vile.
wedding Anniversary.

es The social event of the week was tn
y reception given, Friday evening, by Nj
IS and Mrs. Clarence B. Dodge, in honor {
y the 25th anniversary of their marriage
e The reception was held in the Cd
q Fellows Hall. thus affording room TO
&c more than 400 people who responded t
't the invitations The guests, as the.
!; entered, were asked to leave their auto
q graphs in guest book, which will be t.
= the Dodges delightful souvenir of tn
e occasion. The ushers were Mrs. H. c
E Wilson, Mrs. H. W. Lyster, Mrs. J. S
u Schofield and Mrs. H. J. Hubbard, ant
the guests were heartily welcomed, al
they entered, by Mr.. and Mrs. Dodge
: their only child, Ralph Dodge, and Mr.
j Dodges two sisters. Mrs. Arthur Wilcox
: of Post Mills and Miss Addie Dodge o
Hyde Park, Mass. After greetings ano
: congratulations the guests listened to {
fine musical program. This included
t selections by Aubin's orchestra; duet:
: for two pianos by Mrs. Henry Brown
Mrs. Charles E. Norris, Mrs. E. G.
French and Miss Alice Campbell; duet
by Mrs. French and Mrs H. M. Smith
violin selections by Miss Elizabeth Peck
| v,
pianist, and Leon Curtice, cellist very
charming quartet by four little girls
from the graded school, Ona Roundy,
Verna Zero, Ruth Eastman and Lucy
Carr; cello solo by Mr.. Curtice.
Miss Christabel Brown gave two fine
readings, "Mandalay' and an imta-
tion Of Society Belle" The whole
program was delightfully."- carried out
and showed high degree of musical
talent. At its close, cake and Ice cream
were served, the Institute boys and
girls acting as walters general in
tormality then prevailed and the guests
employed themselves in card playing and
talking, while manv took the oppor-
tunity to inspect the many beautiful
tokens with which their friends had re-
nembered them. Beautiful silver, cut
! glass and table linen, and several ar.
ticles OF furniture were sent by friends in
town and away. Among the glitterlng
array of silver and cut glass, was noted
tour-year-old loaf of bread, which has
had long and eventful history. Many
lovely evening dresses were seen on the
occasion, which was one of unusual
festivity and joy. All dispersed with the
wish that Mr.. and Mrs. Dodge might
live to celebrate their golden wedding
under like pleasant associations.
The Hadley Moving Pictures will ap-
pear in Music Hall, Feb IS.
Quite number from here attended the
concert at Lyndon, Thursday evening
given by the North church choir and
spoke very highly of the entertainment.
About SIS was contributed to the In
stitute repair fund from H. l.. Parkers
special anniversary sale,
Will Cleary has been very poorly. hav-
ing had several bad hemorrhages from
the lungs, but is better
Byron G. Morrison has been laid nm
tor a few weeks with blood poison in his
hand but his general healthis now some
what improved
Elmer Darling has given several
luncheon and dinner parties the past
week at his beautiful residence. Burke.
lynn Hall.
Lincoln's birthday will be observed at
the graded school, Thursday, with ap-
propriate exercises.
The Lyndon Union Club held its regu-
lar meeting in Cables hall, Thursday
afternoon. The days program was in
charge of the Mothers Circle, under the
leadership of Mrs. F. A. Wilcox. Mrs.
Wilcox spoke very eloquently and touch
ingly on the subject of 1.-THE Home"
She was followed by Mrs. Trull, who
gave an excellent paper on THE Moth
er's Influence in the Community" Mrs.
Goodwin then read a suggestive article
on Mature and the Child" Music was
furnished by the Music Circle, there be-
ing a vocal chorus, duet for piano and
organ, by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Norris
and a vocal solo by Mrs Cowles.
Cocoa and sandwiches were served after
the program by the entertainment COM
mittee for the day. The date of the next
which is the Domestic Science
meeting,is changed from Feb 8to Tues
day evening, Feb. 16. Miss Marion D.
Patterson OF st. Johnsbury is to give a
lecture and demonstration,
The Music circle meets with Mrs. A. A.
Barber this afternoon at O'Clock.
At the basket ball game last week
Tuesday evening the home team defeated
the Bradfords 81 to "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore N. Vail were
in Boston last week.
Kew. E. 6. French preached a special
Lincoln memorial sermon at the Congre.
gatlonal church Sunday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse Aubn have
returned from their wedding trip and are
keeping house in his brothers house on
East street.
Plans are now being made for the
annual Washington ball of the Village
society. 1t is expected the
ball will take place on Monday evening,
FEB. ~, and that the required costumes
will be oldfashioned costumes of some
kind. The ball was omitted last year,
but it is hoped that this year it will be a
grand success
MIR. and Mrs. Edwin Hutchinson OF
Somerville, Mass, who have been STOP
ping in town, at Webbs Hotel, for the
past two weeks, have gone to St. Johns
bury, where they will remain for time.
Charles Lane is going on the road and
MS place in Eastman's store is taken by !
Harry Blake of Island Pond.
Mrs. Charles Lee, with her son Jasper
nave been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Ernest Martin, at Newport.
Every Woman will Be Interested.
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