Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-25
PERSONAL.

Boston.
Sidney Morris is home after a visit to
Boston.
Gen. and Mrs. J. j. Estey left yesterday
for Atlanta, Ga.
ID. Mackenzie of New London, Ct, is at
the Brooks House.
Charles Clark has returned after visit
to Glens Falls. n. Y.
Will Collins of the Springfield Repub
lican staff was in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B.. Lamson have been
been in Boston briefly this week.
Mrs. Frances Hardie has been seriously
i'll with an attack of Indigestion.
Fred w. Carpenter has returned from a
short visit in Worcester, Mass.
Joseph Kimball of Chelsea, Mass, has
been visiting his brother, S. w. Kimball.
Levant Henry Loveioy of Cambridge,
N. Y, spent Sunday at the Brooks House.
Ralph Pettee resumed his school work
this week after a severe illness of typhoid
fever
Harry Currier who has been confined to
the house by a severe throat trouble, is out
again.
Major Houghton has position in the
dress goods department at G. f. Hoyey's,
Boston.
Mrs. Charles Durham has issued invita-
tions to an TAT home for ladies the after
noon of the GOTH
Mr.. and Mrs. Romano Campbell from
Foxboro, Mass, have been guests this week
of Mrs c. W. Stewart.
Mrs. DIR. w. S. Severance of Greenfield,
has been the guest of her cousin, Mrs. S.
B. Houghton, the past week.
II. O. Coolidge has returned from Hart
ford, Conn, where he has been employed
on the electric railroad for a short time.
Mrs. w. H. Bond went to Brooklyn, n.
Y, Wednesday, accompanying Miss Swan
ton of that city, who has been her guest
G. L. Howe, the veteran photographer,
has been i'll since Jan. 6. He seems to be
failing and his condition is considered crit
ical.
Miss Jennie Morse has gone to Airing
ton, Mass, where she will spend the re-
mainder of the winter with the Stevens
family.
Mrs. o. H. Stetson came Tuesday from
Greenfield, Mass, to spend the rest of the
winter with her daughter, Mrs. w. P.
JONES'
Allyn Crosby was thrown 30 feet from
traverse while cOasting at Hanover, n. H.,
Wednesday, and badly bruised, but no bones
were broken.
The Washington dispatches announce
reissues of pensions to Lorenzo Frizzell of
Brattleboro and Walter Z. Jaquith CT
Townshend.
The Rainy Day club held a meeting at
f. f. Young's Tuesday evening and voted
to have sleighride the 31st to Landlord
Reeds in Vernon.
Mr.. Wang, a Norwegian student at Mt
Hermon, was the guest over Sunday of
Rev. Geo. Peterson, the pastor of the
Swedish Lutheran church.
Mrs. 5. NJ. Chatfield returned Wednes-
day from a stay of two months in Boston,
followed by two weeks visit to her mother
and brother in Brandon.
DR.. w. T. Patch, formerly assistant
physician at the Brattleboro Retreat, was in
town Wednesday. He is now engaged in
general practice at Ashburnham Mass.
Principal and Mrs. j. d. Horne of Law
renee, Mass, come tomorrow to spend a
week in Brattleboro. They will be the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Durham.
John Tones returned from a weeks
visit in Boston Saturday. T. j. Powers of
New London, Ct, had charge of the
Postal telegraph office during his absence.
The local drug proprietors and clerks
are sending in their applications for regis
tration by the state board of pharmacy, as
provided for by recent act of the legisla-
ture.
Offers have been made to Mary Howe
LAWN to maxi her debut in grand opera in
Paris, taking the role of Ophelia in Ham
let 1t is not known whether she will &C
cept.
Miss May Coleman celebrated her 14th
birthday very pleasantly Tuesday evening,
IA of her young friends being invited in to
aid in the proper observance of the occa-
sion.
Miss Webster gave an informal whist
party of four tables to her young women
friends Saturday afternoon. The prizes
were won by Mrs. G. o. Robbins and Mrs.
F. r. Durgin.
Mrs. Gerry Messer entertained COM
pany of ladies at whist Wednesday after
noon, seven tables being occupied. The
prizes were won by Miss Hattie Webster
and Mrs. c. NJ. c. Richardson.
Mrs. G. E. Glidden has returned from
New York. Her mother, Mrs. Shea, is re-
covering from an attack of grip and the
general prostration which followed the
death of her husband and son.
George Clapp, Fred Leitsinger and Frank
Leonard have been engaged to assist the
American band of Claremont in its annual
concert Feb. 6. G. L. Brigham is leader
of this band and j. c. Timson drum major
Sidney Barrett, who has been in town
this week, is now engaged in introducing
a steam coil boiler for heating electric cars.
He has an order for furnishing 100 at
Hartford, Conn. This appliance is one
which has a large field and one on which Mr..
Barrett expects to realize handsomely. Mr.
Barrett, who learned the jewelers. trade of
G. A. Trip and afterward had stores in
Springfield and Holyoke, was here several
times two years ago in the interest of the
proposed electric railroad.
George A. Spafford, formerly of Ches-
terrified, has called upon friends in Brattle-
bCro and vicinity this week, having driven
from Ludlow, his present home. The Lud-
low Tribune of a recent date has this item
which will interest the friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. Spatford: "Mrs. Geo. A. Spafford
has in her possession several interesting
curiosities in the form of old currency
bills. There are two $50 bills bearing the
date of 1878, and are redeemable in Span
ish milled dollars, or the value thereof in
gold or silver, according to a resolution
passed by Congress at Philadelphia, Sep
TENDER 26, ITS A $40 bill bears the
same date and SO the date of 1915. The
$50 bills were found among the papers OF