St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-03-22


with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Little at st. Johnsbury.
Mrs. Fred Ayers and children, Thel-
ma and James. of St. Johnsbury. visit
ed in town last week.
Mrs. Howard Sherrer and children
have been spending two weeks with
friends in Richford.
Miss Ruth Chapman has gone to
Burlington to visit Miss Grace Cush-
man, a former teacher at the institute,
for 10 days.
Miss Marion Walter of West Burke
has been visiting in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hovey have
been visiting in St. Johnsbury Center.
Remember the special town meet
ing Saturday Mar. rs. in Music hall,
to elect a lister in place of Charles
Thompson. who has resigned.
Miss May Campbell has been taking
an enforced vacation from her school
in Orleans on account of an attack of
the mumps. Her school was closed
for two weeks on account of the pre-
Valence of this disease.
Mrs. L. d. Hackett recently spent
few days in Newport.
John Blake has moved to the Cen
ter into the tenement lately vacated
by Hazekiah Davis.
l. w. Gray has been reappointed
chief of police with p. R. Aldrich and
w. K Cleary officers.
c. L. Stuart is spending some time
in Boston and New York.
John Mcnamara injured his hand
last week in a very peculiar manner.
A barrel of oil fell from a sled passing
the Shorey grain store, where he
worked and he went out to assist the
driver in putting it back. While doing
this the horse started and the barrel
rolled out again and fell on his hand,
badly bruising it.
The Rev. Clarence A. Simmons will
close his pastorate at the Bemis Me-
mortal church on the Sunday before
Easter, going from here to Barnard
to assume the charge of a church
there. The Rev. G.. l.. Fortier. state
superintendent of Universalist church
es, will officiate on Easter Sunday.
G.. II. Cushman is to move his fam
lily to Barre, where he will make his
headquarters.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Heath have re-
turned from a two months visit to
Florida. They have bought some
land there and expect to locate in that
state eventually.
Charles d. O'Brien, travelling store
keeper for the Boston and Maine, with
headquarters here, is now in Mexico,
where his family was left, and is en-
deavoring to get some news from
them. He has not been heard from
for some time. and some anxiety is
felt concerning his whereabouts.
The annual meeting of the Lyndon
Driving club will be held in Mr.. Oar
hngs Office on Friday evening, March
gath.
The following appointments of town
officers have been made by the board
of selectmen: Surveyors of wood and
lumber, II. o. Allen, Lyndonville,
George E. Wiley, Lyndon Center, John
l.. Campion, Lyndon; weigher of coal,
Chas w. Thompson; pound keepers,
George a. Whipple, Ezra Sanger;
fence viewers, selectmen.
Howard Wetherbee and Ed Cornell
were in Wheelock last Wednesday eve
ming and furnished music for prom
enade and dance given by the Village
improvement society.
Fred Placey of Sheffield has moved
here to work in the railroad shops.
Mrs. Fannie Giff1n visited at her
daughter Mrs. S. A. JONES' in Shelf
field, last week.
The Rev. Fred Wilcock of Lyndon
spone at the Methodist church Sunday
eV ming on some of the great convic-
tions provoked by the present Euro
pean war
Frank Leach, Harry Stahler and L.
f. Farrar attended the Boston auto
mobile show.
Mrs. w. \. Heath has been visiting
her mother in Grafton, N. H.
Theodore N. Vail is taking trip of
several weeks to Guatemala.
John Cable is repairing his tenement
house on Charles street, putting in
new bath room and making other
changes.
Mrs. George Gifin and Ruth are at
home from Waterbury, Conn, where
they spent the spring vacation with
Mr.. Gifin.
Mrs. Leon H. Curtice has been
spending a week in Newport, called
there by the illness of her mother, who |
is now better
Walter Cleary of Newport has been
spending a few days with his mother, |
Mrs. John Cleary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Corless have |
bought farm in Waterbury and will
move there soon, much to the regret !
Of all. Mrs. Corliss has been a very
successful teacher of the school in the |
Pudding hill district for several years. !
Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Bigelow have |
been spending a few days in Boston, |
New York and other cities en- route
Miss Louise Greenwood has gone to
hospital where she will |
take a nurses training course.
Theodore ~ Vail was a guest of the |
National Geographic society at a ban
quet they gave in Washington. d. c.,
Mar. Z, to commemorate the accom-
Dlishment of trans-oceanic wireless
and ocean-to- ocean tele-
phone line.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Locke of st.
Iohnsbury were visitors in town the
irst of the week.
Sherburne Campbell entertained a
Few friends at cards Saturday evening
IN the occasion of his 18th birthday,
and a very pleasant time was enjoyed.
He was presented with a pair of gold
,uff links.
Frank Bull is boarding at J. L.
Natchie's while he attends school.
Mr.. and Mrs. David John and Mr..