The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-16
HEARDDURINC The DAY
News and Comments of the Town
and County Briefly Told for
CALIFORNIAN Family

and Sunday with relatives in Barre. t
Miss Fanny Parkhurst has re- !
turned from Camp Winneshewauka
where she has spent the summer.
Prof. James Richardson and wife
Of Hanover, N. H., are guests of
Miss Helen Stevens.
Miss Dora Sevigny is in Bridge
port, Conn, visiting her sister, Mrs.
Rose Fourine.
Miss Marjorie Wiggin of Boston
was the guest Of Mrs. Horace Camp
last week
Miss Maude Follensby leaves Mon
day for New York City to study in
Columbia college this winter.
Mrs. Abbie Mccarthy has been a
visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Thomas in Lunenburg.
Miss Madeline Randall is in Boston
to fill an engagement in readings
and dances for the Woman's Club Of
Marblehead.
Mrs. Harold Baldwin and little son
Elmer Of St. Adams are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Colby and other
friends in st. Johnsbury and Mon
roe, N. H.
Following up Sergeant Farnam's
recent appeal for help for the Ser
bians the local Red Cross have az
ranged to have Saturday as a Serbian
tag day.
Those who attended Lyman Howe'5
Pictures Saturday enjoyed an evening
OF much pleasure as the pictures
we're Of the highest class ever seen
here.
Mr. and Mrs. e. E. Donaghy of
Canada and Private Osborne Wara
Of Camp Devens were called here byj
the death Of their father, Chester L.
Ward.
Dr.. and Mrs. B. E. Doyle and
daughters, Vera and Madeline, and
Mrs. FL. L. Doyle, left Monday morn
ing for a motor trip to Rutherford,
n. j., to be gone until October l.
Letters advertised for week ending
Sept. IA, 1913. Ladies, Mrs. Geo. r.
Howard, Mrs Williams Parsons
Gentlemen, E. J. Gathercole, Wen
dell P. Gage, A. L. Mulligan, Geo. n
Ray, Wilfred Trembley.
Mrs. Ida Grace and Charles Bart
lett were in Burlington Friday to see
L. Arthur Bartlett, who left for
Camp Grant, Illinois, Friday night to
enter an officers training school. Mr..
Bartlett was one Of three TO be cho-
sen from his company at the q. ".
M. to enter this school.
During the dinner last Friday
night at the convocation of ministers
il Middlebury, Rev. C. II. Merrill was
presented with purse of $50 and
cake adorned with 80 candles in
honor of his 80 years service as sec
rotary Of the Vermont Domestic Mis-
sionary society The presentation
was made by Rev. S. G. Barnes, who
will be remembered as former pas
tor of the South church, and came
as complete surprise to Mr.. Merrill.
The committee which was ap-
pointed on July 2 to reorganize the
work in the Y. NJ. G. A. building and
to nominate officers and directors to
be voted Oh at a meeting early in
September have called a meeting of
( all interested in the Y. M. C. A.
and City Mission work at the Y. NJ.
c. A. building Wednesday, Sept
ember 18th, at eight o'clock. Every
person interested is earnestly reques-
ted to be present at this meeting
! Sept. 18th, at 800 o'clock.
The Methodist church was well
filled Sunday evening at the special
/ war service and the speaker was
Frank H. Brooks, the Federal Food
Administrator. Mr. Brooks was at
his best and gave a forceful and stir
| ring appeal for all to help win the
war by conserving food. Homer C.
: Wilson of Lyndonville sang war
songs and greatly assisted in the sue
cess of well-conceived and we'll exc
cuted program. 1
For the first time in this city a
new moral drama "The Unmarried
Mothers" will open a two days en-
gagement at the Colonial theatre,
starting next Friday with matinees
daily for ladies only at which the truth
will be told in lecture delivered on
unmarried mothers. No one under
sixteen years of age will be admitted
"The Unmarried Mothers" is a prob
lem play and deals with one of the
most important questions of the day
and that is what is to become of war
babies. Prices, matinees -25 and SO
cents. Nights 35, SO andE5 cents.
Miss Bertha Wesselhofh Swift of
Boston, assisted by her Niece, Miss
Anne Gulick, at the piano and Miss
Marjorie Cramton with the violin
will give a concert for the benefit of
the Red Cross at Undercliffe Tuesday,
Sept. 90, at s o'clock. Tickets at so
cents will be on sale at the Red Cross
meeting Tuesday. It is hoped that
many will take advantage of the OPP
portunity to hear what will surely be !
rich musical treat.
Chester L. Ward died at Brightlook |
hospital Sunday afternoon. He was
81 years old and was born in Wheel |