Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
PERSONAL.


Keene.
S. w. Kirkland of Boston was at home
over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles A. Harris are in
Boston for a few days.
w. S. McKenney of North Adams spent
Sunday with his family.
al w. Childs has been in Boston this
week on a business trip
Miss Alice Hessian returned Saturday
from North Adams, Mass.
Harry Webster went to Boston yester-
day for a visit of a few days.
Mrs. Harriet Dearborn is visiting her
mother, Mrs White, in Concord n. II.
Miss Rosamond Brownell of Fitchburg,
Mass, is the guest of Miss Nina Dutton.
Mrs. II. d. Carroll of Springfield, Mass,
has been at her Centreville home for few
days
Col George W. Hooker has been en-
gagged as Memorial day orator at Athol,
Mass.
Mrs. Il. L. Anterior of Turner's Falls
spent Sunday as the guest of Mrs. w. F.
Howe
Mrs. F. G.. Morgan of Mortified Farms,
Mass, has been the guest of Mrs. f. II.
Smith.
Miss Carrie Shattuck returns this week
from Shelburne, Mass, where she has been
teaching.
Games Fisk Hooker of the Yale senior
class has been at home few days because
OF illness.
Miss Elizabeth Shea attended the Wash
ington ball at Springfield, Mass, Tuesday
evening.
Mrs. Eta Sherwin aud Mrs. Lima Hub
bard gave a concert Wednesday evening at
Shelburne, Mass.
Lieut.. G.. H. Burns has recently spent a
few days in Boston with his sister, Mrs.
b. P. Walker, who is i'll.
H. NJ. Wood has been at st. Adams and
other Vermont towns this week in the in
terest of the Heating cycles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles j. Root and daugh-
ter, Miss Daisy Root, of Springfield, Mass,
are visiting relatives in town.
Mrs. w. H. Bolander and Mrs. Chas. F.
Risbey of New York are expected in town
early next week for short visit.
Mrs. Ellis Worden has returned from the
Mary Fletcher hospital at Burlington, her
condition being much improved.
DR.. and Mrs. S. E. Lawton spent Sun
day with Mrs. Lawton's parents. Capt.
and Mrs. Upton, in Roxbury, Mass.
Herbert L. Clark and family have moved
TO South Vernon. Mr.. Clark has been
Employed there as car inspector for some
time.
Louis Edwards was called home to Hart.
ford, Conn, Wednesday afternoon by tele-
gram announcing the serious illness of his
mother.
Charles II. Thompson and Lewis Gregg
returned from the Bermudas Saturday
They report a rough passage both going
( and coming
Edward Cleveland of Jacksonville, Fla.
spent Sunday with his brother Isaac
cleveland, while on his way home after a
trip to Portland, Me.
Arthur Staples returned Saturday from
Albany, n. Y, having completed the bust
ness course and received his diploma from
the Albany business college.
d. Stolte, jr., is one of the members of
the basket ball team of the Springfield
Mass, training school, which won game
at Holyoke Saturday, q to l.
* DR.. Edwin Davis of Quincy Mass
came to Brattleboro Friday, and his wife
who had been the guest of Mrs. f. r. Dur
gin and Mrs. j. c. Dewitt, returned will
him this week
Rev. A. j. Hough has been in Georgia
this week, where he preached the dedica
tory sermon for a new Methodist church
and in the evening delivered his "Country
Parson" for the benefit of the church.
The engagement of DR.. W. Thursto1
Patch of Ashburnham, Mass, and Miss
Lillian Kelley of Roxbury, Mass, is an
orlx ciot
ant physician at the Brattleboro Retreat
S. W. Kimball, clerk of the villag,
school district, is taking an enumeration
of the children of school age in this dis
trict. Ernest Waterman, clerk in the tow
district, is performing a similar service
there.
Mrs. Fred T. Hopkinson returned last
week from Bennington after staying three
weeks with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
ba Buss. She remained there longer thai
she first intended on account of the Hines!
of her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lang gave a carr
party to a number of their relatives an,
friends from Guilford and this town. Re
freshments were served after delightful
evening had been sent, the party breakin!
4 up at late hour
The Retreat family missed the benevo
lent face of Hon. Homer Goodhue, chair
man of the state board of supervisors o
the insane, who was detained by Hines
while the other members were here for tn,
monthly visit this week.
Manager John d. Stevens of the Yer
mont Live Stock company, who has spen
the winter in the East with relatives, lef
last week for New Mexico, where he will
buy young cattle before going to the com
pany's ranch in South Dakota.
j. c. Chandler has moved from the Cha
house on Washington street into his neN
house on Central street. He will open hi
grocery store in a short time. The Mise
Clay now occupy the upper tenement o
their house, and the rooms which the
have vacated will be occupied by F. w
Clark, who will move from Canal street.
One of the pleasant social events of tn
winter was the whist party given by Mr.;
G. o. Robbins and Mrs. George Eels at tn
Brooks House Friday evening. Thrice
tables were filled, the following being tn
winners of the prizes: Mrs. Kate Pratt
Mrs. G. H. Ryder, Mrs. Charles Chase an
Mrs. Laura Houghton; Major Busl
Frank Pratt, w. II. Bracket and II.
Lawrence. Refreshments were served.
Mary H VIII.ins NJ "A Coolr