St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-08-01
DANVILLE.
DR.. Iibbey Ordered to Fort Benjamin
Harrison for Duty-Local News.

Harrison for Duty-LOcal News.
Mrs. c.. w. Bartlett, Correspondent
DR. Charles E. Libbey of this town
has accepted commission as first
lieutenant in a medical reserve corps
and has received orders to report at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind, on
August 10. The townspeople not
only regret his going as the loss of a
physician but he will be greatly miss
ed in the various orders of which he
is a member, where he has always
been willing to perform his share, as
we'll as in the social affairs in town
during the Is years he has resided
here.
Martin Mcdonald and family visited
Fort Ethan Allen Sunday.-Gene
Gouchee and Albert Danforth were at
home from Fort Ethan Allen on a
furlough for over Sunday.-H. B..
Morrill, has finished working for c.. S.
Dole and is clerking in N. D: Dole's
store.-Samuel Rodgers and family
and Miss Iva Kittredge motored to
Fort Ethan Allen Sunday, where they
spent the day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Rodgers son, Earl.-George G. Morse
has been ill the past week.-Rev. b.
G. French was called to Canada last
week by the illness of his mother
George Fisher is clerking for c. s.
Dole-Miss Marion Brown and Miss
Edith Bartlett spent Thursday at Joes
Pond.-The following gifts to the
Danville. Branch of American Red
Cross have been received the past
week: Peter Wesson, $65; Asa Wes-
son, $65. The branch now has 2S7
members-Byron Num- and family,
Miss May Num- and Miss Olive Cox
of Hardwiek were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs Wallace Num- Sunday.-Misses
Martha Sargent and Marie Gordon
have returned from Burlington where
they have been attending summer
school.-Mr. and Mrs. Alva Shute have
moved from Clarence Hatch's tene-
ment to F. A. Cranes house.-Oscar
Stratton was ill the first of the week.
At the next regular meeting Of the
grange Aug. 7, there is to be social
hour at the close of the meeting in
honor of DR.. Libbey.-Mrs. Stanley
Henderson and two children of St.
Johnsbury visited her parents, Mr..
and Mrs Walter Peck, over Sunday
C. w. Bartlett and Miss Grace Bart
lett attended the funeral of their
uncle, George Gle, at West Danville
Sunday.-Mr. and Mrs. John Finley
of st. Johnsbury spent Sunday with
his sister, Mrs A. M. Steele, and hus-
band.-R. H. Vance and family spent
Sunday with his son, George, at Fort
Ethan Allen.-Miss Geneva Smith has
returned from Cabot, where she has
been spending a few weeks with reia-
tives.-Mrs. C. A. Adams and daugh-
ter, Miss Charlotte, visited friends in
town Friday.-Charles F. Brown of
Detroit, Mich, is visiting his mother,
Mrs. George B. NJ. Hoyt. He expects
to remain in Danville until he re-
ceives orders to join his unit in De-
troit preparatory to sailing for France.
Mr. Brown is enlisted as private in
the U. S. reserve army and is to be
assistant to the chaplain in the De-
troit College of Medicine and Surgery
base hospital, No. So, which is the
largest base hospital ever organized in
the United States army. There are to
be 1000 beds and the organization
consists of 35 physicians. 100 trained
nurses and 200 enlisted men. The
chaplain has charge of all recreation
work in connection with the hospital