The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-05
HEARD DURING THEDAY
News and Comments of the Town
and County Briefly Told for
CALIFORNIAN Family

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from the New Y ork markets.
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence B. Allen of
Portsmouth, have been the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Wilfore.
Ms. B. C. Webb of Newport, was
business visitor in town Wednes-
day.
Henry C. Thoresen has just return
ed from few days business trip to-
Y ork Beach, Me.
Miss Dorothy Scribner went Mon
day to Lowell, Mass, to enter the
Lowell Business College.
j. J. Perowne of the Portsmouth
Navy Yard was home few days
this week.
Miss Maude Brown has returned
from vacation spent at the Maine
beaches.
John Davie, and son, Charles, who
were visitors at Mrs. Helen Allison's
over Sunday, returned to Concord,
N. H., Monday.
Mrs Roy Eaton of Swanton is
visiting friends in town. Mr.. and
Mrs. Eaton have recently moved to
that place from Burlington.
A son, Robert Clark Ingersoll, was
born Saturday at the Frost Sanator-;,
ium to Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Inger-
soil Of Central street.
Miss Ethel Perowne left Wednes-
day for Washington, d. c., where she
will enter the office of the chief of
the coast artillery as stenographer.
Mrs. J. S. Weeks and Hattie Reed
of Weeks 6 Reed, milliners, have re-
turned from Boston millinery mark
cts. Edith Brown, trimmer, is now
in New York for the opening there.
AT the annual meeting of the Uni
versalist convention Of Vermont and
the Province of Quebec, at Barre,
recently, George C. Fetch was elected
vice-president.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Spaulding left
Thursday for Portsmouth and Con-
cord, N. H., on an auto trip. Mr..
and Mrs. John Montgomery will &C
company them as far as Tilton, N. H.
Tracy C. Boswell, a former st.
Johnsbury resident, who is now in
the freight traffic Office of the B. &
NJ. at Troy, N. Y, spent Labor day
with his sister, Mrs. Edmund P.
Hamilton.
Mrs. Emile P. Eastman, who has
been spending the summer with rel
atives in Danville, is the guest Of
Miss Martha J. Hall. Mrs. Eastman
expects to return to Wellesley
Mass, Friday, where she is matron
of one of the Wellesley College
houses.
Edward J. McGinnis, who came
here from Barre early in the summer
to work at the scale factory and
manage the Fairbanks ball team, has
been called in the draft and was one
of the IS boys who left Montpe-
lier for Camp Devens Wednesday.
Philip T. H. Pierson of Bennington
and Charles E. Tuxbury OF Windsor
were here a short time Thursday
morning. Both were returning to
their respective homes from Montpe-
lier where they had been attending
a meeting Of the State board of
charities and probation Of which they
are members.
All the tickets have been sold tC
the Commercial Club banquet at the
Avenue House tonight which is 6
complimentary affair to T. c. Brooks
of the Fairbanks scale company. The
supper will be served at 7.30, instead
of $50 as first announced, and be-
sides Mr.. Brooks, Judge Wendell P
Stafford will deliver his new address
"a Look Ahead"
Rev. Charles E. Purdy, Mrs. Pur-
: dy, their daughter Frances and son
l James, called on their COUSINS, Mr..
/ and Mrs. T. P. Farrell, Tuesday af-
ternoon. DR.. Purdy is rector of st.
Thomas Episcopal church, Bath, N.
Y. They have spent a month on an
auto trip through Canada and New
England and are on their way home
A limited amount of sugar for
canning and preserving can now be
secured by applying to the local food
administrator Applications must
be made by the head of the house
1 hold or institution: Any who have
! already had an allowance will not be
permitted to secure more and should
not apply. Your grocer is not per
mitted to sell without a certificate
/ presented by the purchaser, and
/ such certificate can only be obtained
by personal application.
Manager Merrill of the New Eng
land Telephone company has re-
ceived from the postmaster-gener
a statement relative to the change
in installation of telephones, which
is known as readiness to serve, in
which, when telephone is installed
the party pays SIS year on rental
of 81 a month, SO year on rental
of from 81 to 81 a month, and Sic
Il year on a rental above 81 month
Changes in telephones in a house
will be made at actual cost.
Turf fans from St. Johnsbury hav,
been attending the grand circui
races the past week. D. D. Bean, Ar
! thur E. Smith, Harry NJ. Day, &C
companied by E. J. White and F