Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-17
HINsDALE. N. H.

MISS Lena Nj, LlSCOm is IN HUDSON, n,
H., for a two weeks visit.
Mrs. Maria A. Spooner is visiting friends
and relatives in Ashby, Mass.
o. G. Robertson has gone on a fishing
trip to Willoughby lake in northern Yer
mont.
o. A. Kimball and family are now at
their farm on the Brattleboro road for the
summer.
Mrs. H. B. Tucker and two daughters of
South Lancaster Mass, are visiting at A.
W. Mead's.
Miss Ellen G. Walker is at home from
Boston, where she has been attending a
business college.
George L. Robertson has entered in the
bicycle races to be held in Rutland (Vt)
next week Wednesday.
Mrs. Walter o. Stebbins is spending the
week with her parents, DR.. and Mrs. Geo.
W. Pierce in Winchester.
Geo. A. Holland went to Chicopee Falls,
Mass, yesterday to assist in the American
Express office for a week or two.
F. S. Leonard rode up from Springfield,
Mass, on his wheel last Sunday, return
ing the same day, covering 120 miles.
Miss Laura Smith returned Wednesday
to her home in Clinton, Mass, after a Wis
it of several days with her brother, G. S.
Smith.
Mrs. Cynthia Ross and son, Walter
Ross of Brooklyn, n. Y, were guests at
j. r. and w. D. Holman's during the
past week.
DR.. and Mrs, G. NJ. Foskett and their
niece, Miss Freeman of Worcester, Mass,
uiettah Of ~ A UJnllon Hfc onA n / Ri0h-
ards's during the past week.
Eugene M. Keyes, district great sachem
Geo. D. Wheelock, great senior sycamore,
and Frank E. Joy, chief of records of
Keene, raised the following chiefs of
Squakheag tribe of Red Men at a special
meeting on Tuesday evening of this week ::
S. A. Esten, sachem; o. G. Robertson,
prophet; A. W. Mead, senior sycamore;
E. l. Latham, junior sycamore.
Miss Annie F. Curran, daughter of Mrs.
Charles Ellis, and Archie Stockwell of
Brattleboro, were married at the parochial
residence Tuesday evening of last week by
Rev. Father Wilde. They left for a short
wedding trip and on their return will live
at the Brattleboro House in Brattleboro.
Miss Curran has worked in millinery stores
in Brattleboro for several seasons.
People driving over the Chesterfield
road after dark have heard strange noises
in the vicinity of Bean hill. 1t was
thought to be some wild animal wild
cat, lynx or something of the kind. A
party of hunters armed with shot guns and
rifles went to where the noises had been
heard on Tuesday evening, but came home
without any game and without hearing
any noise.
During the past few weeks there have
been all sorts of pets at the Eames &
Towne grist mill on the AshuelOt road,
consisting of ferret, black snake, wood
chuck, etc. The black snake was kept in
box with glass cover, and one night
Mr.. Towne placed the box on desk near
| the ferret's pen and when he came in next
| morning the snake was not in its box. He
found the snake, minus its head, in the
| ferret's pen, with indications of severe
| battle.
Misses Mamie White and Margaret Ftz-
| gerald were driving down Main street dur
| ing the hard shower Wednesday afternoon,
and in turning the corner near II. w.
| Thayer's .house the carriage was upset,
throwing out both young ladies, who fort
unately escaped with slight bruises. The
| horse then started on a run around the
church, through H. f. Hunters yard to
Main street, dragging the carriage on it:
side. The horse fell when opposite Kinds:
boarding house and was captured. The
top to the carriage was torn of and the
shafts broken, while the horse was unin
| jured.