Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-24
PERSONAL.


| - NuJ L = hOWe Is Spenulng rev days III
| Keene.
S. w. Kirkland of Boston spent Sunday
at home.
James II. johnson has been in Rutland
this week.
r. S. Childs will 60 to Baltimore early
next week.
Mrs. Lizzie Ross is visiting in Water
bury, Conn.
Mrs H. F. Brooks gives a whist party
this evening.
Mrs. A. d. Wyatt returned from New
York this week.
Mrs. Leonard A. Dewitt is visiting in
in ChicOpee, Mass.
John II. Day spent two or three days
his week at Florence, Mass.
James Hooker was here from Yale to
spend Washington's birthday.
Miss Minnie Flagg has gone to Boston
to take position as stenographer.
Oscar Benson came here from New
York Monday to spend few days.
Fred Flagg, the insurance agent of Troy,
N. Y, has been in town this week.
Miss Hattie Mather of Wellesley, Mass,
| spent Sunday in town with relatives.
w. G. Carpenter is away on a business
trip through the New England states.
Mrs. G. L. Brigham of Claremont, N. H.,
has been in town briefly with friends.
G. H. Robb of Florence, Mass, has
greeted his friends in town this week.
Arthur Harding and Sanford Daniels are
spending week at their homes in st. AL
bans.
Miss Carrie Bliss of Boston has been the
guest of Mrs. Elijah Wales during the
week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Davenport went to
Philadelphia Thursday for visit of some
length.
The members of the Trump club were
entertained last evening by Misses Sarah and
Alice Clark.
Mrs. D. Z. Ranney and little daughter
and Mrs Liscom of Boston are at the
Brooks House.
James Austin has gone to Springfield,
Mass, and will enter the jewelry store of
F. A. Hubbard
Mrs. L. NJ. Steen went Saturday to Ben
nington, and will go from there to her
home in the West.
Miss Minnie Cameron, who has been at
Mrs. j. p. Elmer's, returned yesterday to
her home in Keene.
Miss Prentiss of the Brooks House was
called to South Ashburnham, Mass, Mon
day, by the sudden death of her mother.
c. G.. Tyler goes to Boston today to attend
the expressmens annual dinner at the
Parker House, given by Mr.. B. p. Cheney.
Mrs. Park, who has been visiting her
sister, Miss Chandler, returned Monday to
Boston. Miss Jessie Gregg accompanied
her.
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Taylor went to Man
chester, this state, Tuesday, where they
will remain for time with Mrs. Taylor
father.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. n. Nealy, who went to
Rutland several months ago, returned last
night and will resume work at the Brattle-
boro Retreat.
VIM. II. Spear, a former Brattleboro
newspaper man, is now the advance agent
and secretary of Thomas c. Murphy, the
temperance advocate.
Henry Guellow of Clarence Carpenter s
Brooks House barber shop left Tuesday
for North Conway, n. H., where he will
undergo treatment at the Kelley institute.
Will Schuster sang in the opera LA
Basoche'' with the Duff opera company at
Springfield Tuesday evening. The com
pany begins its New York engagement
next week.
DR.. j. NJ. Comegys of st. Adams stop
ped here this week on his way home from
a trip to Delaware, where he was called by
the death of his brother, the chief justice
of that state.
Charles H. Thompson left Tuesday for
Florida, accompanied by his mother. They
will make the trip by easy stages, their
destination being Jacksonville, where they
expect to remain about month.
John Barrows, teller in the national
bank of North America at Boston, was in
town this week, arranging for the erection
of buildings on the small farm which he
bought in Marlboro last summer.
Oscar Smith gave a card party of three
tables Tuesday evening in commemoratior
of his 59th birthday anniversary. Music
and refreshments furnished enjoyment
during the evening, in addition to cards.
Rev. Gerald Stanley Lee has received &
call to the Park church at West Spring
field, Mass, but has not given his decision
The young people are particularly anxious
to get him to West Springfield, and will dc
all in their power to induce him to accept
The girls of the overall factory last Fri
day evening called at the room of Mis-!
Nav Corbett, who was boOkkeeper for the
concern, and as an indication of their es
TEEN and their regret at her severing he
connection with the establishment pre-
scented her with ha ndsOme ring.
The death of John A. Platts of Fitz
william, N. H., father of Lieut.. F. G
Platts of Bratt lebOro, was recorded in Tn
Phoenix last week. The cause of dealt
was acute meningitis, brought on by fal
on the ice the 10th inst. Mr.. Platts serv
ed in Company X, of the 9th New Hamp
shire regiment, enlisting as private ant
being mustered out as first lieutenant.
The following is from the social column
of the Washington Star of the 18th; MI
and Mrs. Robert Gordon Hardie arrived il
Washington yesterday morning and will b
the guests for some weeks of Senator an
Mrs. Cullom, Mrs, Hardie's father an
mother. Mr.. Hardie has been called to tn
capital to paint the portraits of the secre
tary of the treasury, Mr.. Foster, and Sen
ator Proctor of Verm ont.
DEATH OF s. D. WINSLOW.
G u WinsloW for many years a promi