The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-02
Vermonters Keep
Visiting Washington
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the Daughters, it may be men
toned that the Hon. John Bar
rett, native of Grafton, VT, and
former Director of the Pan Amer
can Union, one of the councillors
of the ID. A. r., after attending
some of the earlier exercises, left
Washington tor Los Angeles to
receive the degree of Doctor OF
Laws conferred upon him by the
University of Southern California
in recognition of his Pan Ameri-
can services. On the trip he was
the guest of the St. Louis Cham
Der of Commerce, and the Wom-
ems Pan American Round Table,
of Ell Paso, Texas. In Los Ange-
les he was welcomed by the Won
ems Club and by the Chamber OF
Commerce. 1t was his intention to
proceed from Los Angeles to San
Francisco, and subsequently to
Portland and Seattle.
One of the pleasant features of
the Vermont Daughters stay in
Washington was the entertain
ment afforded them by Mrs. Earle
+. Green, wife of Captain Green
of the U. S. A. Sanitary Corps,
at present stationed at Walter
Reed hospital in the outskirts of
the city. Capt. Green is a former
SWanton, VI, man, and is broth
er Of l.. II. Green of Montpelier
Mrs. Green is native of Mont
peller. She entertained the Yer
mont delegates and provided auto
rides for them about the city and
to Arlington.
After the Daughters came the
delegates of the Vermont branch
of the League of Women Voters.
They were met by members of
the Congressional delegation and
escorted about the Capitol, the
personally conducted tour includ-
ing pointing out to them most Of
the distinguished members of
both branches of Congress from
the vantage afforded by the Sen
ate and House galleries. Miss
Carrie Ormsbee of Brandon, Mrs.
W. H. Jeffrey of Montpelier, Miss
Shirley FAIR of Brandon, and
Mrs. Freeman Hamilton, of Brat
tleboro were the representatives
of the Green Mountain women vo-
terS thus entertained.
Returning Florida Soiourners
who have called upon friends on
Capital Hill include quartet of
well known Nermonters. George
Q. Gridley of Windsor, inventor
of the Gridley lathe, and an Off
cial of the Acme Machine Com
pany, Windsor; Col. H. Z. Parker,
of Bradford, who has a winter
home in Miami; Jerome f. Hale
of Wells River, far famed as the
owner of Hale's Tavern and as
one of the heavy weights of the
New England Fat Mems Club;
and Charles Parker, of the Capt.
tai City Press, Montpelier, con-
stituted this group of visitors.
They put up at one of the hotels
near the Capitol and had a good
time seeing Washington. With
these Vermonters was Bert Gas
kill, a banker of Nashua, N. H.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. u. Gay of Cav
endiSh, and Mrs. Frances Gould
also of CavendiSh and a former
Washingtonian, stopped over on
their way north from Tangerine,
Fla, as is their custom, on re-
turning from u winter in the
south. The Gays then proceeded
to their home in Vermont, and
Mrs. Gould went to Cape Cod for
n short visit pending the return
home of her daughter, Margaret,
who is attending Oberlin College.
Vermont State Bank Commits
sioner George B. Carpenter made
a short stop in Washington on
his way to "a banking convention
in Atlanta, Ga.
+. b. Jacques, general agent
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, st. Johnsbury, spent
two weeks in st. Petersburg, Fla,
and called at the Capitol on his
way home.
Or. John NJ. Thomas, former
head of Middlebury College. and
now president of Pennsylvania
State College, delivered an adj
dress recently before the PennSyl-
vania State society. in which he
state aid for deserving
students and the extension of the
public school system through the