Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
PERSONAL.

state fair at Burlington last week.
pleasant German was given by Mrs.
.. a. Marshall and Miss Alice Shea, at the
home of the former on Tuesday evening,
to the members of the dramatic club.
w. ii. Alexander will celebrate his seth
birthday next Monday. lie has been
steadily gaining in strength for some time
and is now seen daily upon the streets
Miss Margaret Miller gave a corn roast
Tuesday evening to a party of some 20
young people. After the corn roast, games
and refreshments were enjoyed indoors.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. p. Nash are visiting in
town. They will return to Jericho, having
closed the summer hotel off the Maine
coast, of which Mr. Nash was manager.
Mrs. Fred Smith, who has been at S. A.
Smiths in Guilford for two months, re-
turned to Camden, y. j., last week Thurs
day with her sister, Miss Abbie Winkler.
Miss Helen NJ. Warren has gone to
Palmer. Mass, where she has large class
in music. She will also resume her posi-
ton as organist in the Methodist church at
that place.
Oscar Drury, who has been having two
weeks vacation, will not return to Emer-
son Il Sons store, having obtained a posi-
ton with Meekins Il Packard of Spring
field, Mass.
Miss Sherman, who has been employed
in various capacities at the asylum for nine
years, left on Saturday to begin work as
the matron of the Moody schools at North
field, Mass.
Adiutant James \. Lillis. head clerk in
the clothing store of David b. Twigg at
Rutland, gave up that position last week
to enter the clothing store of Bardy ~
Wilson of the same place
Miss Kate Allen. a Jamaica girl, who
has worked for II. f. c. Toedt, left on
Tuesday for a town in the northwestern
part of Michigan, on Lake Superior, where
she is to teach In government Indian
school.
j. F. Estey was taken suddenly i'll yester-
day on the street. He was taken into II.
+. Bonds office and physician called,
and later was removed to his home on
Green street. No serious results are eX-
pected.
f. c. Crosby and l.. F. Adams have
been to Boston this week on business con-
nected with the adjusting of the loss caused
by the fire which destroyed so much grain
at Ogdensburg, n. Y, but no settlement
was reached.
The Springfield Reporter states that 5.
{. Johnson, formerly clerk in the Brat
tleboro post office. has taken a homestead
claim OF 100 acres of heavily timbered
land about ten miles from New Whatcom,
Washington.
H. NJ. Houghton had narrow escape
from bad accident at the Carpenter organ
works this morning. He was caught in
one of the large belts, but instead of be-
coming entangled was thrown, and the on
" injuries he sustained were about the
face.
Mrs. +. L. Wood, who has been spend
ing the summer at her fathers, j. f. Hub
bard's, returned to her home in Camden,
y. j., on Wednesday, accompanied by
Mrs. Joseph Cragin of the same city, who
has been visiting in Putney and Brattle-
bOro.
From the Hnsdale Record: "The nju-
ry to Miss Alma Gibson was more serious
than a spraned wrist. Her right arm was
broken. The injured member was set by
DIR. Gray, and Miss Gibson, who is now
staying with her sister in Brattleboro, is
doing we'll
The Washington county court is now in
session. One of the cases which will at
tract attention and furnish the court with
considerable work is that of Olive b. Stout
VS.. Choate O. Howard, formerly represen-
tative in the legislature from Townshend.
1t is an action of marriage breach of prom
Use.
This personal item is from the Bridge
port, Conn.,, Daily Standard of Tuesday:
''The many friends of Mr.. ID. w. Miller
of Brattleboro, VT, who has been visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Calvin Beach of East
Bridgeport, will regret to learn that he is
confined to the house with severe attack
of nervous prostration.
j. Z. d. Jones is winning quite a repu-
tation as a tennis player. Last week men
ton was made of the Winslow champion
ship tournament, in which he was the win
ner at Worcester, Mass, and this week in
the CromptOn invitation tournament in the
same city, in which some crack players
contested, he took first prize.
Julius Mason has returned to Dartmouth
college and Allyn Crosby enters upon his
first years study there. Fred Crosby will
attend the Dartmouth medical college later
in the year. VIII Smith and other boys in
this section have gone back to Colgate
university at Hamilton, n. Y. Burr
Smith returns to Amherst next week.
Clarence Miller has gone to AndOyer acad-
envy.
f. S. Baldwin, pitcher for the Brattle
bOrOs last year. umpired the South Royal
stOn U. V. NJ. games at Burlington and
the Free Press pronounces him the best
umpire seen in that city for many day.
As previously mentioned in The Phoenix
he is to pursue historical and economic
studies this year at Boston University, at
which he has received the appointment to
a fellowship of $500. He will afterwards
study year in Europe, probably in Berlin.
w. Starr Cutting who has been with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. NJ. Cutting,
since the close of his work as instructor at
the Chautauqua summer school, left last
Saturday with his wife and child
| for Richmond, Ind, where he will have
the professorship of German and French
in Earlham college for the coming year.
| Next year, at the opening of the new Chi
cago university, which has been so liberal
" endowed by John ID. ROckerfellow, the
| standard oil magnate, Mr., Cutting will have
| a professorship in that institution.
CHURCH AND SOCIETY.
Services in st. Michaers Episcopal
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