St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-20

the brick floor sustaining severa
bruises about the head and hands
He is recuperating at his home in
Portland.
Martin Carr and Frank Lynch oil
Summerville, started for Boston the
14th and will return Wednesday OF
this week.
Gordon Wright of st. Johnsbury
and Miss Mabel Alexander of Rut-
land were united in marriage Tues
day, the 18th, by the Rev. #. S. Toll
man at Mr.. Wright's home on
Concord avenue where they will re-
side for a short period.
Fabian Reed visited friends in
Orleans last week Tuesday.
Charles Wallace went to Barre
Tuesday to work at the carpenter
business for about a month.
Herbert Woods visited in Lyndon
vile over Sunday.
Gordon Goss' new residence on
Portland street is completed and
now ready for occupancy. Mr.. and
Mrs. Goss will remove to their new
home the first of this week.
George S. Hickey who has been
employed as plumber for the G. H.
Goss Co., Ior the past 10 years, has
closed his services there and accept
ed a position with the True and
Blanchard Co., of Newport as fore
man of their heating and plumbing
department.
Frank G. Sherburne and wife
were in Lancaster last week visiting.
L. d. Goss of Cannon City, Col,
who has not been east for several
years, is a guest of his brother, G.
H. GOss.
John Mcdonald, the well known
orator in town and village gather
ings was 70 years old last Saturday.
Although he retains his faculties to
a remarkable degree he says that his
fighting days are over and he shall
enjoy life the best he can during the
remainder of his days.
Miss Lillian Switser of Laconia,
N. H., spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl NJ Morris on her way to
Enosburg Falls to visit friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amasa Hudson spent
Sunday in North Concord.
Mrs. Raymond A. Pearl has been
spending a few days at her former
home in Woodsville. Mr.. Pearl
spent Sunday there.
Miss Ina Clark is spending two
weeks in Springfield and Worcester,
Mass.
Mrs. Harvey A. Carrick of Maple
wood, Mass, is visiting at F. F.
Carrick's.
Lieut.. Leigh Moves, U. S. N, spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Noyes. Lieut.. Noyes who
is on Admiral Wards staff on the
Florida, has spent the winter in
Cuba but goes soon to Rockland,
Me-, where the Florida will be given
a speed trial.
Miss Beatrice Potts, who is stu
dent at Mt. HOlyoke came yesterday
to spend her vacation with er par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred r. Potts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ranney Greene Eos
ter of New Hartford, CT, are guests
of Miss Gertrude S. Menut for a few
days.
An item in the Boston dailies of
Thursday described the heroic work
of Mrs. Anna Batchelder Palmateer
of 107 Hancock street, Auburndale,
in saving her two daughters from
burning to death. She was putting
the two, Rachel and Mary, aged
five and four, to bed when one of
them tipped over a screen which up
set a lighted lamp upon the bed. In
an instant the bed was in flames and
part of the blazing oil was spilled on
RachePs body. Mrs. Palmateer
snatched a blanket and smothered
the flames before either child was
seriously burned.
Edward Higgins of Arlington,
Mass, is visiting his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Higgins. On
he expects to start for
GOvan, Saskatchewan, where he will
be interested with another man in
developing land for wheat.
News has been received here of
the birth at Everett, Mass, on March
IA, of a daughter, Stella Miller, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cattanach.
Mrs. J. M. Forbes and Mrs. A. E.
Marshall were called Thursday to
Lime Ridge, P. O., by the death of
their niece, Mrs. c. H. Mann.
Frank d. Thompson of Barton
was a business visitor in town Tues
day.
Miss Jeane P. Moore of McIndoes
was the guest of Mrs. Ella S. Truax
yesterday.
Mrs. Eliza J. Ranney celebrates
her Gath birthday tomorrow. She !
will observe it quietly, as she has
not been very well lately.
Harry w. Randall was a business
visitor in White River Junction !
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Thayer were
called to Fitchburg, Mass, Friday
afternoon by the illness and death of
Mr.. Thayer's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Tongas of
R. l., visited at the |
home of Mr.. and Mrs. r. x. Lanctot |
the first of the week on their way
to Vancouver.
Mr.. and Mrs. John It. Batchelder
returned home yesterday after |
spending several days in New York |
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