St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-11

Great Advertising Parade for Chau-
tauqua-Mr. Vail Entertained
Telephone and Telegraph


An attractive parade of 80 auto
mobiles, all decorated with Chau
tauqua flags and banners made a triI
to St. Johnsbury and return las
Thursday afternoon for the purpose
of advertising the coming Chautau-
qua week, which begins today. The
past week has been devoted to sell
ing tickets in this and surrounding
towns, the members of the commit
tees striving hard to see which will
make the greatest success. The
| Congregational Church bell was toll
ed as returns came in, showing the
amount of hust1ing that was done
by the ticket sellers during the cam
paign.
Mr.. Vail entertained a large party
of telegraph and telephone officials at
Speedwell Farms over Sunday and
most of the party took a motor trip
to his fish pond at Groton.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Waterman,
Miss Mary Towne, Mr.. and Mrs.
Grover Foster, Mr.. and Mrs. L. f.
Huntley were among the local people
who spent Sunday at Willoughby
lake.
DR.. f. E. Dwinell has sold his
drug business which he has carried
on for 80 years to F. G. Landry,
Genge Asselin and Joseph Legendre
of ST. Johnsbury. The last named
will take charge Of the store which
will continue to be known as the
Dwinell Pharmacy. Mr.. Dwinell's
plans are uncertain.
A. Gerry Boldgett is now at work
for Joshua Bemis, driving his Cadil-
lac car and caring for it.
Prof. G. A Jameson has bought
an automobile which will be of use
to him in his work as school super
visor. He expects to move to West
Burke in September, as that is a
more central location for his district
People here very much regret to
have the Jamiesons leave both the
town and the school. His. successor
in the graded school has not yet been
elected.
The Rev. and Mrs. James Hutch
inson are spending the month of Au-
gust at the Maine beaches, going by
motor.
J. F. Jock has bought the Shurt
left place on the East Burke road
which he has been occupying for the
past year.
Mrs. Carrie CWeeks) Severance,
who is in very poor health, is staying
at present with Mrs. L. NJ. Patton on
South street, the nurse, who is car
ing for her. Mrs. Patton has but
just returned from Bangor, Me-,
where she has been assisting in the
advent of a new conner in the family
of her son, Harry Patton, former
resident here.
Miss Genevieve King of Evansville
comes this week to spend short
time with her aunt, Mrs. W. l..
Guild. Her father, William King, has
recently died, the home is sold and
the family plans are undecided.
Mr. and Mrs. Benton R. Lyster
and three children of Whitefeld, N.
H., were visitors in town last week,
coming by automobile.
Several from here attended the
German whist party given at the
Lyndon Tea Shoppe last Thursday
evening. The first prize, a bottle of
maple syrup, was won by Miss Stan
ton; the BOBBY, bag of peanuts, by
Mrs. Charles Hale.
Mrs. Milo Shattuck and Marion
have returned from Bury, P. O.,
where Mrs. Shattuck has been as
sisting in the care of her father, who
is very i'll. Howard Shattuck will re-
main for a longer time.
Mrs. E. J. Blodgett, with Miss
Ruth Blodgett and Miss Velma Darl-
ing, spent part of last week at the
Bungalow Inn at Lake Morey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erton A. Shorey and
son have returned from a pleasant
automobile trip of two weeks, during
which they visited Portland and the
Maine beaches and motored along
the New England coast, southwark,
taking in glimpses of many of the
delightful summer resorts in this
section, and returning via. the Con-
necticut valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Dodge and
motored to Ely last week
and called on Mr.. Dodge's sister, then |
to Lake Morey where DIR. Fred and
Miss Addie Dodge have taken cot
tage for the month of August.
Mrs Joseph S. Schofeld has gone
to visit friends in Ogdensburg, N. Y,
for a vacation of two weeks. Her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Locke,
will stay with their other daughter, |
Mrs. B. F. Eaton, during her absence.
Miss Rosabel Allen of Elizabeth, |
N. j., who is stopping with Mrs. H.
L. Parker, spent last week with DR..
and Mrs. Richard Wilder in their
camp at Forest Lake, between Little
ton and Whitefeld, N. H.
Miss Irene Stimson left the first |
Of the week for a months vacation, /
most of which she will spend with /
her brother at Winthrop Beach and |
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. F. Ferguson have
been camping in the Powers cottage
at Willoughby Lake for a week with
their son, DR.. George Ferguson and /
wife who are here from Toronto, o. |
On Saturday the family all went to
the Twin Mountain House to visit the
other brother, Phil, who is there for
the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Hutchinson and
Miss Bess moved last week from
rooms in Mrs. John Cleary's house
to the house on Main street formerly
the home of the late Mrs. Sumner s.
Thompson.
Mrs. w. L. Guild has begun max
ing quite extensive repairs and altera-
tions on her house, Harold Towne