St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-06-23
ST. JOHNSBURY
Local News

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Local News
Miss Helen Ross has returned home
from Wellesley college for the sum-
mer. She has just completed her jun
ior year most successfully, and will
graduate next June.
The marriage OF Ray w. Howard
of Picrmont and Miss Nita Palmer
OF Wilder will take place at the
Congregational church in Wilder
Wednesday afternoon 1T three
o'clock. Mr.. Howard is a former res
| ident of st. JoEnSbulv and Miss
Palmer is sister of 3. A. and Cecil
f. Palmer.
! Tie st. Jchnsbuiy Woman's Club
will hold its annual lawn party
~ ursday afternoon, July 13t, on the
Club House grounds on Cherry
f, street. The music committee is plan
min" an attractive literary ana music
program. The social committee will
serve refreshments. The executive
committee meeting will be held at 2
! p. H., in the Club House.
Mr.. and Mrs.. C. H. Chaplin of
West Medford, MI. and Mis-. S. M.
Ciapin of Woodsville, Mr.. and Mrs.
f. Brickett of Lowell, Mass, were
g. ests of Mr.. and MIS-. ID. C. Horn-
CT over the week end.
RECENT DEATHS
REGINALD w. COWLING
Reginald W. Cowling, who died at
Plymouth, N. H., Sunday evening,
June 20, was born in St. JohnSbuly,
July "a, 1902, being the oldest son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. George C. CowlinG.
He was educated at our public
| schools and st. Johnsbury Academy,
graduating from the latter inStitu-
| ton in the class of 1919. While in
the Academy he was manager of the
! track team and Won the second prize
/ in the Bayley public speaking con-
test.
He entered the class OF 1928 at
the University Of Vermont in Bur-
ln"ton and had just completed the
fro shman year. He was an excellent
sci olar and out of a class of several
! hundred won the mathematics prize
carly in the year.
Mr.. Cowlng went down to Ply
mouth last week to make a short visit
| with friends and was taken sick al
most as soon as he reached there
with pneumonia which resulted in his
decth late Sunday evening. Both his
father and mother reached him be-
fore the end came and the Plymouth
people were untiring in their helpful
eflCrts. The remains reached St.
Jt hnsbury Monday evening and the
funeral will be held at Mr.. Cowling's
home Wednesday afternoon at two
O'Clock, conducted by his pastor, Rev.
George A. Martin.
Besides his parents the young
man leaves one brother, Paul Ed
ward. and three sisters. Marion Es-
ther, Eleanor and Dorothy Elizabeth.
Reginald Cowling was active in
church work, devoted to his home
and one who was exceedingly popu-
lar with all who knew him. The
family have the sympathy of wide
circle of friends in their great loss.
Golden Rule Lodge, No. 5, A. F.
e. A. NJ, Q. Il. will have it's annual
excursion and basket picnic at Owls
Head Mountain, Thursday, June "a.
The work of the Master Mason's de-
gree in the natural lodge room will
take place. The steamer will leave
Newport at Q 4. m. All master ma
sens and their friends arc invited.
Orders have been received at the
local U. S. army recruiting station
that all high school graduates may
be accepted for the air service for
ore Or three periods.
George Fl. Wakefield, who has been
i'll for several weeks at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Emma Babbidge,
passed away June 18th. The funeral
is Saturday afternoon at 200. Inter-
ment at Lyndon Center cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter A. Pierce and
daughter of Boston, are spending the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Harry.
The many friends of Reginald W.
Cowling, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
G. Cowlng are very sorry to know
that he is i'll with pneumonia at the
h1mc of Mrs. Beatrice Potts Stanley
o. Plymouth, N. H. He is a student
at U. V. NJ, Burlington, and went
with Sherburnc Potts to Plymouth
for few days vacation before re-
turning to the University for the fl
nj! examinations. MI. and Mrs.
Cowling are with him.
MI. and Mrs. John S. B. Davie of
Concord, N. H., are spending the
weekend with his mother, Mrs.
Jeanette Davie and sister, Mrs. Fred
Allison. Mr.. Davic was former St.
Je knsbury resident, and now has
charge of the labor department Of
New Hampshire.
Theodore Hawkins has been camp
Ing with group of Boy Scouts at
Bean Pond.
Lena, the youngest daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Leslie of
Pt rt!and street was found I'M
conscious this morning in the yard
at her home. The young lady, who
is three years, had been playing
on the piazza about 10 feet above the
spot, and evidently fell from the rail
ing, although no one witnessed the
accident. The doctor could find no
bl Oxen bones, so she seems to be
quite a successful flyer"
Harry w. Impey of Boston is
his mother, Mrs. Mary A.