Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-01
PERSONAL.

Last Saturday evening Mrs f. A. Hubbard gave
a progressive heart party to several Of her lady
friends who found Mrs. Hubbard a charming
hostess. After time with the cards all were in
vited to the dining room, where sweets to the
sweet were served, the favors being silver lace
pins and pansies The first prize, a silver heart
was taken by Mrs. G. s. Pratt, the second, a tiny
silver heart by Mrs S. o. Miner.
f. p. Barnes is out after an illness Of two weeks.
Mrs. Josie Smith of The PhpniX staff has been
suffering from eryspelas for week past Mrs.
II. L. b. Larkin has been threatened with pnetI-
monia.-Rufus Houghton has been very seriously
III with erysipeaS - Moses Howe is quite I'LL Miss
Mary Fitzgerald is dangerously ill.-Sidneys Farr
is housed with a severe bilious attack Mrs VIM.
Gould is seriously siCk.-Thomas Harmon is i'll
with pneumonia
Karl karoly," the Paris correspondent of the
Boston journal, in recent letter on Boston
girls and other Americans in Paris IS mentions the
appearance at a recent musicale, given by Mr.
Frank Holman, an American painter of Mrs. r.
r. Pratt and Mrs Marguerite Holmes, who de.
lighted the guests by their finished singing. -
Elsewhere in his letter this correspondent says
than Mrs. Pratt has a magnificent contraltO
voice and fine presence. She is learning such
roles as Fides in the Prophet and Amneris in
Aida. 4 voice like hers is much needed at the
Grand Opera here, and she will undoubtedly make
success when she appears in grand opera in
Paris She has already sung several times at Mr.
Holman Black s."
The following is from the Springfield Republi-
can correspondence: IF. G. Ryan, former book
keeper for the Brattleboro sewing machine com
pany, who moved with his family about six years
l
BrOOkhurst in orange and lemon culture, having
30 acres set with the former and seven with the
latter fruit, which are now in good bearing. The
grove is surrounded by a cypress hedge over
80 feet high. The orchard is of various varie
ties. the oldest trees being but eleven years old
from the seed and but half grown. 1t is said to be
the finest grove on the Pacific coast. The crop of
oranges alone brought SS0OO last year, while the
| lemons netted $500 There is also walnut
orchard of % acres ON the premises
j. c. Frazer has moved from HerriCk a Boy
dens building, Elliot street, to the tenement over
! G.. b. KirwHn's store; Ernest Williams from
| Bellows Falls to 50 Elliot; l.. j. Pratt from OF
| Elliot to - Birge; Martin johnson from 60 Elliot
| to West Brattleburo; VI. Neaw from Myrtle tC
/ Church street; II G Allen from lis to 80 Elliot
! Mrs. ID. II. Cooley from % Elliot to the Bliss
/ House; DR. Miller from Hooker block to the house
! which he recently bought ON High street; 4. ID
Sweet to the farm which his fatherin-aw recently
| bought in Guilford; Mrs. Stearns from Elliot
| street to the house ON Organ street which she
! bought of Julius rmson; James Cain from Cedar
/ to 60 Elliot street; q. d. Stuwell from Western
! avenue to the Carlton house Canal street
| Albert FeSsenden and family are to move next
| week from East Dover to Il house on Forest
| square; II. G. Wright from the Lynch house 81
! Elliot street to the water cure building; {. ii
| Evans is to move from Frost street to Mrs. H. \
Strong 5 house Maple street in Esteyville; a A
! Whitman from School street to Putney. Mr.. anC
| Mrs. Geo. Pratt are to remove from COXs block
| to the tenement vacated by Mr. Frazer in llprriCk
/ 4 Boydens building. + p. Foster removes from
/ ~ Western avenue to the corner of Elliot ano
/ School streets. and l.. W. Adams from Crosby
| Hook to IL Myrtle street