St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
Concord
A Birthday Party and q Wedding
Some More Common Occur
T.ences and Personals

at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Alison
Currier, Friday evening, to give a
surprise party to Misses Alice and
Hazel Currier in honor of the 18th
birthday of Miss Hazel. Refresh
ments of maple sugar on snow, dough-
nuts and cake were served and the
evening passed very pleasantly with
games and music. Miss Currier was
| the recipient of several gifts.
Micah Baker and Miss Mary Hale
were united in marriage by the Rev.
E. E. Grant of East St. Johnsbury at
the home of the brides uncle, E. E.
Hale in Lower Waterford, Wednes-
fday evening, March II. About 100
| friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Baker met
at their home Saturday evening to
extend congratulations and good
wishes. The happy couple were pre-
sented with over $40 in money and
other gifts, including china and linen.
| E. d. Lee has sold his residence
on Main street to Mrs. Luette Lew
| is, who will take possession about
May 1.
Mrs. Elmer Wadleigh of ST. Johns
bury recently visited her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Harvey.
Mrs. r. j. Bennett and daughters,
Helen and Edith, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Bennett in St.
Johnsbury the past week.
| Mrs Joseph Devins of East Rye
/ gate has been a recent guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Erwin Willis.
| Elmer SortweIl has been spending
a week with his aunt, Mrs. Frank
Wood, in st. Johnsbury.
/ Rev. J. S. Smith spent part of the
past week with friends in Green's
boro.
Mrs. Annie Parker was called to
Kirby the last of the week to care
J for Mrs. Reed Wentworth, who is Ill
with pneumonia.
Miss Louise Chapman visited Mr..
and Mrs. HALEY Morton in st. Johns
bury the last of the week.
Carl Warren and Fred Woods
traded farms the past week and Mr..
Warren has moved to the Woods
farm recently occupied by H. G. Blod-
gett.
The April committee in the Univer-
salist Society, Mrs. William Lindsay,
Mrs. w. E. Houston, Mrs. F. 1. Rus
sell, Mrs. F. A. Cutting, Mrs. Allen
Smith and Mrs. Clinton Burlock will
serve a new sugar supper at the
church vestry Wednesday evening,
april z.
Among those who have been in st.
Johnsbury the past week are Andrew
Morgan, Mrs. Frank Carpenter and
son Stacy, E. A. Gray, H. E. Currier,
: Mrs. F. A. Brewer, Mrs. Emmett Hill,
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Burt, d. H. Nor
ton, F. A. Lewis, Mrs. George Hast
] ings and daughters, Marion and Mil
dred, Mrs. Walter Chaplin and Lyle
| Spaulding Mrs. C. A. Crowell and
/ A. J. Lyon.
| Mrs. Arthur Warren of Kirby spent
several days the past week at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Williams, helping to care for
! her mother, who has been i'll with
erysipelas in her face.
Miss Flossie Boutain recently en-
tertained her sister, Mrs. George
Dane, of st. Johnsbury.
Miss Lyle Spaulding of Royalston
Corner has been spending a week with
her aunt, Mrs. Walter Chaplin
Mrs. James Frye of st. Johnsbury
is visiting at David Frye's.
Charles Ryder, who has been
spending three month at F. J. Bedell's
returned Thursday to his home in
Boston.
Miss Freda Russell of East St.
Johnsbury has been a recent guest OF
Octavia Smith.
| Miss Marion Morton has finished
working at Freeman Hutchinson's.
Mrs. Cassins McGregor and guest,
Miss Lottie Hill of East st. Johns
bury, spent a few days the past week
at the home of Dan Smith in East
Concord
The Concord Academy benefit held
at the Town Hall Wednesday evening,
was well attended and an excellent
program under the direction of the
teacher, Miss Munsell given by the
pupils was much enjoyed.
The regular meeting of the Wide
Awake Club was held Friday eve
ming, March IL. Topic OF debate,
Resolved, That the Pine Tree Is of
More value Than the Maple" 1t was
decided in the Affirmative. The next
meeting will be held Friday evening,
March &c, at the home of Bert B. Bur-
bank, topic of debate, Resolved, That
! Washington Did More For His Coun-
| try Than Lincoln.
Miss Edith Rutledge, who works
at Greensboro, is spending two weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Abner
Rutledge.
Porter B. Belden of Montreal, who
is visiting his brother, Alvah Belden,
has purchased Rev. George Smith s
farm.
| Robert Stuart has gone 10 CANADA
| to work.
| A crowd of young people drove to
Waterford Friday night to attend the
play ''When a Mans Single" given by
the young people of that town.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cobleigh and
Charles Caswell were in St. Johns
bury Tuesday to attend the funeral of
Clarence M. Richardson, which was
held at the TJniversaIiSt church Mr..
Richardson died at Ashohakan, N. Y,
March IL.
Fred Pike went to Barton Tuesday
to work in the granite sheds.
Stanton Bonnet moved the last of
the week to Mrs. E. H. BaZin's house
on High street. Ernest Smith and
family from Barton have moved to
Mr.. Bonnett's farm.
Mrs. Emma Quimby visited rela
tives in Whitefield, N. H., last Mon
day.