St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-11-27
LYndOnYilIe
Body of Henry Gilman Who Was
Shot Brought Home--Masonic
District Meeting

dea.- Of Henry Gilman Of Lyndon
who was accidentally shot while
deer-hunting in Guildhall. His body
was brought home Friday by Under
taker G. B. Dodge. Mr.. Gilman leaves
a wife and two children, besides
other relatives in this vicinity.
The masons held their district
meeting with the lodge here on
4 thursday evening last. The local
lodge furnished a chicken pie sup
per to which nearly 200 sat down.
A very successful meeting was en-
ioyed.
The knights of Pythias have a
dance in their hall in Ide's block
this Wednesday evening.
Mrs. w. L. Guild has gone to
Massachusetts to spend few weeks
with friends and relatives. She
will first spend few days with Mrs.
w. H. Ford at Springfield, Mass,
after which she will visit a niece,
Mrs, Edwin Parker, in Woburn and
nephews in Concord and Brook
line.
The Village Improvement society
will have a Thanksgiving ball in
Music hall this "wednesday even
ing. Refreshments will be served
IN the nall.
Thanksgiving week brings most of
the coIege students home for re-
cess, among them Lincoln Wilson and
Gilbert Campbell from Dartmouth,
Robert Wilson, Paul and Maurice
Cheney, Clayton Fisher from Nor
witch University, THETA Powers from
Smith, Alice Campbell, Ruth Butler
and Evelyn Cheney from Boston.
T1I~I
Pond burned last week Thursday. 1t
had been occupied by him but few
hours before, and probably caught
from the stove.
Mrs. Robert French of ST. Johns
bury visited Mrs. Ann Baldwin last
week.
Ernest Du Fresno came from New
York, the first of the week, and &C
companied his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Mcclellan and daughter, Miss LORNA
Du Fresno to Maidstone, where they
will eat their Thanksgiving turkey
at Sheridan Aliens, with Mrs. Du
Fresno. They will return to Lyn-
donville about Dec. 1, after which
they will begin their journey home
to Manila, stopping a few days in
Boston and a few weeks in Seattle
en- route.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Parker enter
tain the Silsby and Green families
from Littleton, N. H., for Thanks
giving, Mr.. Parker's sisters, with
husbands and children.
Work on Depot street has ceased
for the season. The sewer job is
completed, but the street work is
only partially done.
The pupils in Miss Ethel Dunbar's
room, the sixth ard seventh
grades, give a little Thanksgiving
play this week "wednesday after
noon taken from st. Nicholas, and
entitled 1.-THE First Thanksgiving
Day"
All the schools are given the
Friday after Thanksgiving, so that
teachers and scholars will all have a
few days recess.
Representative Cook is at home
from Montpelier for the, week, dur
ing the legislative Thanksgiving re-
cess. He is much interested in a
bill before the house granting town
and municipal suffrage to women.
and is having petitions circulated
largely to secure the names of those
framing the bill.
Miss Elizabeth Hills will eat her
Thanksgiving turkey with relatives
in Lowell, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Hutchinson
were in Stanstead last week few
days as their daughter, Mrs. Irvine,
has not been well. On her return,
Mrs. Hutchinson was called to An
dover, Mass, her former home, by
the death of a relative.
Miss Della Demerritt is at her
home in Massawippi, P. O.. where
her mother is in quite feeble health
and needs her constant care.
The dates of Miss Cushman's Do
,mestic Science lectures at Lyndon
Institute have been changed so that
they will come as follows: Dec. IL,
Cheese and cheese dishes; Jan. 8,
meats; Jan. %, Biscuits and break
fast cakes; Feb. 5, Yeast and bread.
The preparation and giving of these
lectures means a great deal of work
for Miss Cushman, so it is thought
better not to have them every week.
T. N. Vail, who during the past
week has been in a hospital in New
York where he underwent minor
surgical operation is convalescing
ana expects TO be able to return to
business within a few days.
Mrs. Charles LeWsey who has
been in very poor health for a num-
Der of months, has gone to Bright
look hospital for an operation which
it is hoped will relieve her from
pain.
Mrs. M. j. Robinson of West Der
by was in town last week called here
by the death of her oldest brother,
Loren Randall, at MS home in
| Wheelock.
The Congregational Ladies Aid
society met with Mrs. A. A. Cheney
| Thursday afternoon, and the
| Woman's Home Missionary society
with Mrs. J. J. Hutchinson, Friday
afternoon.
The regular meeting of the Lyn-
don Union club was held Thursday
evening in the Grand Army hall,
Cables hall being engaged for that
evening Owing to the resignation of
Mrs. M. E. Daniels, the recording
secretary, Mrs. Fanny Cheney Smith
was elected recording secretary in