Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-05-08
PERSONAL.
L. F. Adams is in New York.

Jonn " BAKER spent part of last
week in New York.
w. H. Henley and family are spending
few days in Boston.
Mrs. w. G. Carpenter returned from
Boston Monday night.
Miss Nellie Perry, now of Dedham,
Mass, is visiting here.
Mrs. Mary L. Hadley has been quite i'll
for the past two weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Briggs of Clare
mont, N. H., are at DR.. Gales.
Myron Davis is one of the local editors
of the Vermont Academy Life.
Mrs. Shattuck and Mrs. Bliss returned
from New York Monday night.
John Fessenden will begin work next
Monday in F. X. Barrows's store.
Clinton Lord has returned to town and
taken up his abode at SO Elliot street.
Mrs. F. E. Bemis returned Tuesday after
stay of eight months in Oakland, Calf.
Edgar A. Stoddard, at Freeman Scott's
store, has invested in fine new horse and
carriage.
Ralph Chamberlain, who has leased the
Vernon house in Vernon, moved there
yesterday.
Charles Cheney of Hoosick Falls, n. Y,
was called here this week by the death of
his mother.
Andrew Ferriter is still disabled from
the effects of being thrown from a horse
last Saturday.
w. F. Richardson's condition is much
improved, and he has been about the streets
again this week.
II. II. Crosby has rented E. D. Whit
neys Green street house, recently vacated
by V. o. Jones.
A. L. Harris has been elected secretary
of the Baptist Sunday school in place of
w. B. Smith, resigned.
Several Brattleboro people were sum-
moned to Rutland this week as witnesses
in the Joy divorce case.
Arthur Wyatt, Job Long, Clayton
Daniels and Ed. Henkel received their new
Stearns wheels Wednesday.
Frank Taft was in New York early in
the week to attend the opening of the ma
tional electrical exhibition.
The graduating class of the Mortified
seminary were in town Tuesday to have
their class pictures taken by Wyatt.
Eddie Cooney, one of the Brooks House
bell boys, has gone to Rutland and is sue
ceeded by Frank Lanan of that city.
F. H. Dickinson has been here for few
days. Mrs. Dickinson has been quite ill
in New York, but is now recovering.
Rev. and Mrs. George Tyler and family
of Hartford, Conn, visited briefly with
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Tyler, Thursday.
Mrs. L. A. Howe has moved from West
Brattleboro into a tenement in one of G.
II. Ryder's South Main street houses.
Miss Marion Cutler has resigned her
position at C. L. Howe & Sons and left
Monday, to teach school in Bondville.
j. H. Lexington of South Deerfeld,
Mass, was in town Wednesday to attend
the funeral of the late Isaac cleveland.
F. J. Holman, president of the Vermont
Loan & Trust company, will come from
Spokane next month for short stay here.
Miss Hattie A. cleveland returned to
South Deerield, Mass, yesterday after
spending few days with relatives in town.
F. G. Rogers, superintendent of the
George E. Lyons granite quarry, has con-
nected his residence with the telephone ex-
change.
John Middleton is delegate from the
Baptist Christian Endeavor society to the
convention to be held in Hinsdale, n. H.,
next Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Holton returned to
their home in Athol, Mass, Wednesday
after a weeks visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Fl.
G. Winchester.
E. Wales goes to Boston to attend the
May festival tomorrow. This is an eXhi'
bition of dances which is brought out each
year by Mrs. W. S. Butler.
John Henkel, who has been living in
Springfield, Mass, several months, has
returned to Brattleboro and is again EN-
ployed at the Estey Organ factory.
T. j. Heaphy went to Windsor last
s.l.N -, : Inn ;VfA Of
who are endeavoring to secure Sunday
afternoon train through to New York.
Ranney Knight, formerly in the Yer
mont Loan and Trust Company's office
recently of Waterbury, Conn, leaves fol
Baltimore, Md, next week where he will
be employed by his father.
Merton Robbins has been elected bust
ness manager of the University Cynic, the
leading paper of the University of Yer
mont. He is also assistant business man
ager of the Ariel, the '9S class paper.
Walter Collins Piper, a former Brattle
boro boy who is now employed in Jordan
Marsh & Co.'s crockery department a
Boston, was married at Baltimore, Md.
last Saturday to Florence, daughter o
Virginius Gaddess of that city.
The Vermont Wheel club voted in on
resident and two nonresident member
Tuesday evening" and the ranks are nov
full w. S. Pratt was elected first lieuten
ant in place of H. l.. Elmer, who has gon'
to Rockland, Mass, and f. B. Putnam
succeeds Pratt as second lieutenant.
The last pupils musicale of the season
was given at Miss Mary Burnhams schoo
in New York April 20. Several prominen
artists assisted. One of the leading
musical papers says: "Miss Burnhar
played with exquisite tone and feeling
her just appreciation of the spirit of tn
work overcoming all idea of mechanism
Over Sunday guests at the Brook
House: G. G. Babcock, Portland, Me,
Frank F. Trip, Boston; David Mackenzie
New London; Ed. B. Owen, Stockbrdge
Mass. Charles C. Smith, New York; W
B. Higgins, New York; II. G. Chapel, W
A. Milne, Thomas L. Berry, S. L. ElbeI
field, Boston; l.. H. Rhoades, Providence
r. l., and E. w. Stowell Auburn, N. Y.
The Springfield Union contains the TO
lowing in its Holyoke correspondence con
corning a man well-known in Brattleboro
~. X. Morrill,, who has retired from tn
drug business, will soon open an office a
an expert chemist. Mr.. Morrill, has bee
in the drug business for a number of year
and is also practical chemist. Mr.. MOI
ril will make a specially of doing wor
for the paper mills. In the past it ha