St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-02-24

turned from Boston where she hal
been spending several months will
her brother, Ben Goldsmith.
M. N. Petty, the freight agent here
who has been i'll at his home at the
Brightlook Hospital for treatment
last week, his illness having beer
pronounced typhoid fever.
Jesse Spencer has been i'll for g
few days with a return of his for
mer trouble.
George Shorey went to Montpelier
last week to attend a reunion of the
Legislators of the fall of 1912, al
which time he represented the town
of Lyndon.
Joseph M Atwood of Randolph
state inspector of weights and meas
ures, made a short trip to town last
week from Orleans where he and Mrs
Atwood are now stopping. He will
return here in short time and they
will make their headquarters at the
Pleasant View House while testing
the weights" in this vicinity.
The Lyndon Driving Club held
their Washington's Birthday matinee
Monday afternoon. This was fol
lowed by a fine banquet at the Pleas
ant View House and after dinner
| speeches making a very pleasant af-
fair for those interested in the
equine world.
The annual Washington ball of the
| Village improvement Society took
place Tuesday evening, Feb. %, and
was great success in every way. A
fuller account of the festivity will be
given next week.
Dan Stern has gone to New York
to spend about a fortnight with his
family there.
Mr.. and Mrs G.. M. Campbell and
w. l. Powers are planning long and
delightful trip for this spring. They
plan to leave here March 3 in the
night and go south by rail. They
will call on Mr. Vail at Jekyll Island
visit other points of interest and GO
to Daytona, Florida, where the Sis
bys are staying. Mr.. Powers and
Mr.. Campbell will then turn their
faces westward and go to California,
| stopping at the Grand Canyon OF
Arizona and other places, visiting the
exposition and the state generally.
DR.. and Mrs. f. H. Davis also plan
to take a California trip, starting in
March for an absence of ten or
twelve weeks. Mr.. and Mrs. M. A.
Heath, who are in the Isle of Pines,
write gloming letters of enjoyment
of the country. We felicitate so
many of our townspeople as are for
tunate enough to enjoy "Seing
America First
Miss May Campbell has been as
sisting in the Randolph Center High
School during the illness of one of
the teachers.
The Village Improvement Society
has recently made a purchase of an
additional number of dishes, COM
prising different sizes of plates, cups,
saucers and some odd pieces, also
plain silver knives, forks and spoons,
all of which are greatly needed in
their frequent entertainments. The
pattern is very neat and simple one,
on both dishes and silver. With the
new rooms and cupboards, they have
ftted up in Music Hall basement,
there is now good place to
keep these belongings, and the So
ciety now feel well equipped to feed
about $50 people without the neces-
sity of borrowing or renting dishes.
The ladies of the Universalist So
ciety entertained large crowd Fri
day afternoon at one of their de-
Hcious suppers.
Mrs. Albert Rugg1es has been
sufferer from quinsy sore for the
past week or more but is now i'm
proving.
Mrs. L. S. Howe entertained the
members of the Helping Hands, a.
sewing club of girls from the Uni
Versalist church, very pleasantly Sat-
urday afternoon. They met in the
afternoon to sew and remained for
supper.
The ladies of the Methodist church
had a successful chowder supper
Thursday.
The members of the Girls Indus
trial Glass were invited by Mrs
Vail to Speedwell Farms Saturday
evening and enjoyed a most delight
full social time. The formation of
this class and it's successful growth
has been one of the Union Clubs
greatest successes.
Mrs. H. E. Ross of Hardwick, a
former resident here, was visitor
in town last week.
The first meeting of the art circle
for the year will be held next Tues
day, March 2, with Mrs. T. N. Vail
Annual reports of both the town
and village officers are now issued /
and warnings are out for the meet
ings, the time set being as usual, the |
first Tuesday and Wednesday in |
March. No special excitement is |
shown over either event. The viii /
lage has been to an unusual amount 4
Of expense the past year for the per-
work done on the streets, for
the repairs to Music Hall and the re-
of the electric light plant,
all three most needed improvements.
Work on the buildings at the new
electric plant Is progressing fast now
hat the weather In warming and the
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