St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-09-15
Common last Thursday evening.

Common last Thursday evening.
Mrs. A l.. Wilson of Burke is car
| ing for Mrs. Ernest Partridge whose
husband died recently from heart
failure very suddenly.
Mrs. Albert Spaulding who did not
gain as well as she hoped from an OPP
Grafton last fall, was obliged to I'M
dergo another serious operation at
her home here last week and her con-
dition is now hopeful
Homer Ruggles, Sherburne Camp
bell, Gerald Ladd and Malcolm Mac
Donald spent few days camping in
the Ruggles cottage at Bean pond
just before school began.
The Merry Makers, a club of young
people in the Universalist church en-
poyed a jolly corn roast Saturday
evening at the home of Bernice
Hunter
Mrs. Walter Wetherbee of Mont
pelier was a guest of her nephew,
George Pierce, last week.
Quite a number went from here
last Wednesday to attend the con-
vention of the D. of r. at Island
Pond, among them Mr.. and Mrs. Scott
Mcdowell, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Cook,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Blake, Mrs.
Martin Laid, Mrs. F. J. Wiley, Mrs.
Spaulding, Mrs. Flanders and others.
On account of the severe storm
which was much worse there even
than here, most of them remained
until the next day.
Mis- Bernice King went to West
Burke Thursday and stayed until
Monday with her sister, Miss Geneive
King.
Mrs. Kate Goss of Greensboro Wis
tied her niece, Mrs. F. H. Davis, last
week.
Karl Davis returned Wednesday
to the opening of Norwich University.
Harold Ahern and Harold Whipple
leave for Middlebury and Raymond
Campbell for Dartmouth the last of
this week.
The ladies of the Universalist
church served an excellent supper
Friday night to several tables of
hungry guests.
Mrs. w. S. LETTERS has returned
from Boston and is now at Bright
look hospital in st. Johnsbury for
rest and treatment.
Miss Flora Barber returns to
Lyndon Institute this fall to take
the teachers training course.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Bigelow have
returned from a visit to her brother,
Harry House, and family in Indiana
Harbor, a suburb of Chicago.
Miss Beth Switzer of Sutton is
working at Charles Leusey's.
E. w. Brown has bought the Man
son Whipple farm in Sutton.
DR.. and Mrs. d. R. Brown spent
two days at Lancaster, N. H., last
week where the doctor was one of
the judges of the racing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Royal Lewis of Con-
cord were visitors in town last week.
Mr. and Mrs. "A. F. christopher
took a motor trip to Sherbrooke fair
last week.
Mrs. Anna Spencer Frost and
daughter, Agnes, are at the Pleasant
View House and Miss Agnes is tax
ing some special studies at Lyndon
Institute.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Gleason held an
informal reception two nights of last
week in honor of the triennia1 bloom
ing of night blooming cereus, a rare
and most beautiful plant.
Mrs. Charles Richardson and
daughter, Ellen, from Sturgis, KY,
were guests last week at M. A.
Heath's. They went from here to
Boston on their return trip, and the
younger lady will enter Wellesley
College.
Mrs. Josephine Carr, who has been
spending her vacation with her
mother and sister at H. L. Parker's,
returned Saturday to Providence, r.
where she has charge of a school for
defective children.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graves for
merly of this place, now living in
were in town last
week.
Mrs. H. M. Smith has been enjoy
ing a visit from her father and |
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. MinOtt |
Of Montpelier and an aunt from
PIainfield.
The Mothers Circle held their
meeting last Thursday |
evening at the home of Mrs. Fred M.
Campbell the hostesses being Mrs. |
Campbell and Mrs. w. A. Bemis.
About 25 were present and an excel
lent program was enjoyed. A paper
was read by Mrs. G. F. Ferguson on
Teaching Truth to the Adolescent,
which contained much of interest and |
value to all parents. Mrs. John Nash
and Mrs. Erton Shorey read selec-
lions of interest on the subject. A
pleasant social hour closed the meet
ing, during which delicious refresh
nents of ice cream and cake were
served.
Miss Orpha Farmer, who has been
spending her vacation in town, has
to her work as a teacher of
he deaf children in a school in Hart
lord, Conn.
Mrs Daniel Murray visited last
week at G.. H. Pillsbury's in Groton.
Mrs. E. J. Blodgett was sick sew
eral days of last week.
Mrs. Henry Dexter and children,
Helen, Hollis and Harriet, who have
been spending the summer in this
were Joined recently by Mr..
Dexter and all returned Saturday to
heir home in Lowell, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hale were in
4unenburg last week on motor trip.
Mr.. Hale's brother, Bernard, who has
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