St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-10-04

CALEDONIA street were very pleasant
ly surprised on Saturday evening,
| Sept. %, when upon returning to
their home sthey found rs of their
friends and neighbors waiting to
help them celebrate their 38th. we'd
ding anniversary. A very happy
evening was spent playing progress
sive whist and refreshments of ice
cream, cake, waters and coffee
were served. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkie
received many beautiful gifts in
Guiding several pieces of linen and
the best wishes of their friends for
many years more of health and hap
pinesS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shirley Brigham
spent the first of the week in Lon
donderry.
Miss jeanette Parks has been
spending a few days in Littleton,
N. H.
Mrs. F. E. Humphrey and Miss
Alice Fitzpatrick of East Burke are
assisting at Leach & Waterman's.
Miss Madeline Randall has re-
turned to Boston where she will
take post graduate course at the
Emerson School of Oratory.
Miss Anne V. Peck, who went
nursing at the City Hospital, was
given a surprise party at her home
last Friday evening. The affair was
arranged by her sister, Miss Joseph
inc Peck. A dozen young ladies
we're present and the evening was
very Pleasantly spent with five
hundred. Delicious refreshments
of salad, sandwiches, and coffee
were served in the dining room,
which was very tastefully decorated,
Appropriate to the occasion A big
''red cross" extended across the
table, and a doll in nurses costume
was placed in the centre of the
table on top of pile of gifts, given
to Miss Peck by the guests present
Merle Howard is spending the
week at his home in Craftsbury and
at Greensboro.
/ Miss Maude Menut is spending
two weeks at Boston and Newbury
port.
Miss Louise Turgeon goes this
week to Boston where she will speLd
ten days.
Judge and Mrs. Wendell P. Stat
ford and son, Edward, who have
been spending the summer here,
went to their home in Washington,
D. c., Friday. Edward Stafford ex-
poets to study law this year at the
George Washington University in
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bean of
Springfield, Mass, are visiting rela-
tives in town. go
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Stanley and
son, and Mr.. and Mrs. William Car
ney spent Saturday and Sunday at
Whitefield and the White Noun
tains, making the trip by automo-
bile. Mr.. Stanley went Monday to
McIndoes where he has leased the
automobile repair shop of j. H.
Stuart
Fred and Joseph Moore return
ed the first of the week from Bret
ton Woods where they have been
employed during the summer. Fred
Moore goes. soon to continue his
studies at the Baltimore Medical
| college and Joe Moore enters Colby
college, Waterville, Me.
Mrs. Berton Staples returned last
week from Cleveland, where she has
been spending the past month. Mr..
Staples is expected next week.
Mrs c. w. Morse of Wildwood,
N. H., is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Harry l.. Bruce.
Mrs. Charles A Sias of Newport
returned to her home Monday, after
spending a week with Mrs. B. A.
Johnson.
Mrs. Augusta Pearl, who has been
spending the past few years at Col
orado Springs, came here last week,
4 where she viii spend the winter
with her son, W. D. Pearl.
Mrs. Minerva Rice has returned
from the White Mountains where
she has been spending the summer
+ Mrs. Belle Fisher went Thursday
to Lakeport, NH. Her daughter,
Josephine, will spend the winter
here with Mrs. C. A. Blodgett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Cowles spent
Sunday with relatives in Irasburg.
George Newell tiHdgfwens an op-
seration for appendicitis at the hos.
pital last week.