St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-09-20
ST. JoHNsBURY CENTER.
A Harvest Service Next Sunday-Vfl-
lage and Personal Gossip.


| edith Mclaughlin, Correspondent
The morning service of the First
Congregational church next Sunday
will take the form of harvest ser
vice. The choir will furnish special
music and the church will be appro-
priately decorated.
! Mr.. and Mrs. James Lockwood and
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Stevens of Bridge
port, Conn, came by autos Saturday
night to visit Mr.. Lockwood's mother,
Mrs. Addie Page. Sunday they and
Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Farnham and
family took an auto trip to Willough-
| by, bringing Mr.. Lockwood's daugh-
ter. Doris home with them.
Green Mountain Grange, No. 1,
held its regular meeting Saturday
evening, with a good attendance.
Visitors present were Mrs. E. H Hal
lett and Elsie Hallett and Charles
Butler of Wide Awake Grange, No.
Sc. Two candidates were elected to
membership and a special meeting
called for Sept. 80. The following
program was rendered after which a
social hour was enjoyed by all: Song,
Grange; reading, Smile Along the
Way" Mary Olcott; discussion, do
the Farmers Take the Interest In
Election That They ShouId?'' speak
ers, G. L. Hall and w. J. Henderson;
reading, Smiling" Edith McLaugh-
lin; piano solo, Florence Goss; dis
cussion, rs An Old Time Parlor Es-
sential In a Modern Homer" speak
ers, Stella Allen and Mrs. w G. Goss;
recitation, The Critic" Walter Gal
lagher; piano solo, Dorothy Farm
ham; discussion, Should the Price of
| Farm Produce Be Based on An Eight
Hour Day?" speakers, E. A. Gray and
Homer Shattuck; reading, 1.-The
Road by Howard Goss; reading,
WILDLY Woman and Wildly Man,
Mrs, c. I. Hall: song by the Grange
Eugene Joyce has not been as well
for the past week and is now confin-
ed to his bed.
Miss Muriel Day of Rochester, N.
Y, will speak at the Methodist
church Sunday afternoon, Sept. "a, in
the interests of home missions.
The Ladies' Aid of the Congrega-
tional church will meet Thursday af-
ternoon in the church vestry.
Mrs. Stella Stuart of Lisbon, N. H,
spent part of last week as the guest
of Mrs. Will Astle and Mrs A H
| Olcott.
Miss Lura Farnham underwent an
operation for adenoids and tonsils at
| her home last Friday.
Miss Ella Mclaughlin spent the
weekend with her brother. B. A
| Mclaughlin and family.
| Mr.. and Mrs A. L. Chaffee and
daughter, Thelma, visited friends at
Island Pond and West Burke last
week.
John Stevens of Walden and
| brother, Willis of Manchester, N H.
called on their sister, Miss Ellen
| Granger last week.
Miss Edith Pease of Lyndonville
spent Sunday with her cousin, Miss
Madaline Chaffee.
Mrs. w. E. Harvey and infant
daughter, Thelma Ruth, are staying
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. E. johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bennett have
been spending a few days with friends
in Laconia, N. H.
The Ladies' Sewing Circle of the
Universalist church will meet with
Mrs. Eliza Allen Friday afternoon.
Edgar and Annie Munson of Low
ell, Mass, who have been the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. David Carruthers,
returned home last Saturday.
Miss Hubbell, who teaches the pri-
mary room, is boarding at the home
of Mrs. Oliver Hall, Miss Eta Fol-
som with Mrs. E. G. Larned and Mrs.
Stearns is boarding with Mrs. Will
Astle
Mrs. E. G. Learned visited friends
in Haverhin part of last week.
Mrs. Moody of St. Johnsbury
visited at Clinton Tay1or's last week.
The Misses Mabel and Ethel Gray
enjoyed an auto trip through the
mountains last week, going with A.
L. Lawrence and two grandchildren
and Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Shattuck.
When Leo Eastman was returning
from st. Johnsbury last Monday aft
ernoon with load of grain and gro
ceries for B. A. Farnham, the horse
became frightened opposite H. c.
Powers house and threw Mr.. East
man from the wagon and broke the
tugs. The horse was soon freed from
the load and turned and ran toward
ST. Johnsbury. Mr.. Farnham and
Eastman took an auto and started in
pursuit and found the horse in the
river just above David Knowlton's S.
He had become entangled in the har-
ness and was unable to swim. being
nearly exhausted. The animal was
cut up somewhat, but Mr.. Eastman
was uninjured.
Ebert Gallagher has gone to
Windsor, where he expects to work
until he enters Goddard Seminary,
which he expects will be in abou,
three weeks.
n. c. Weeks and daughter OF
Brockton, Mass, spent the first of the
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Stone.
Miss Martha Hill is in Morrisville
this week on business.
Mrs. Augusta Phelps, who has been
visiting friends here for the past few
weeks, returned to her work in Mont
pelier Wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Morrill, Mr..
and Mrs B. A. Farnham, Mr.. and
Mrs. Willis Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Evans, Miss Bertha Salmon
Mr.. and Mrs. Olin Sargent and Mr.
and Mrs. G. n. Whitney attended the
State Fair on Wednesday, making the
trip by automobile. Will Roberts
also attended, going by train.
E. o. Mongeon was called to Gov
entry the first of the week by the Sc
riOus illness of his brother Austin