Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-30
PERSONAL.

j. w. Rhodes has moved from 80 Elliot to 95
Estey street.
Warren NJ Howe of Greenfield Mass was In
town Tuesday.
Miss Minnie Winchester returned from Athol,
Mass, Tuesday.
j. o. Smith has moved into tenement over F.
E. Noung's store.
f. J. Neal is to lease the hotel at Chesterfield
Centre of A. T. Cobb.
Miss Kate Flannery of Richmond is visiting
Miss Kate Calvin.
Mrs. Ellen Schuster goes to West Gardner TODAY
for a weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Gregg returned to Brattle-
boro last evening.
Mrs. a. l. Miller is in stockbridge, Mass, for
visit with relatives.
Will and Warren Miller visited in the north part
of the state this week.
Mrs. Alice CLARK Risbey returned to her New
York home Friday.
ID. S. Angler of Richardson's market is laid off
this week by illness.
NJ. L. johnson of Robbins & Cowless hardware
store is on vacation.
M. b. johnson of Cleveland, o., was at the
Brooks House Tuesday
Mrs. Arson Williams is in Northampton visiting
her daughter, Mrs f. Tidd.
Miss Helen Chandler went to Boston yesterday
for visit of two weeks.
Mrs Anna Lillis Marsh of Springfield, Mass
has been visiting her mother.
Mrs. Sarah Goodnow, the dressmaker, has
moved to II Washington street.
Mrs. E. NJ Smith is visiting her cou sin, Mrs
Oscar Clark, at Pulaski N. Y.
Miss Alice Saman and Miss Myrtle I,ndey are
spending few days in Boston.
e. E. Perry has sold his valuable driving horse
to a resident of Palmer, Mass
E. b. Bailey. Burlington insurance agent has
been in town for few days
L. F. Pettee of New York, owner of the Pettee
stock farm, was in town Sunday.
Henry n. Rawson returned Wednesday after a
three weeks visit in Alstead, n. II.
Mrs F. H. Harris left Tuesday for a visit of
two weeks in Boston and Fitchburg.
Gustave Bamberg of Gardner, Mass, a former
resident, has been in town this week.
Capt and Mrs. F. D. Weld and daughter have
returned after visit in Cornish, N. II.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wilder returned Wednes.
day from visit in Watsfeld this state.
Mrs D. P. Cobb went to Boston yesterday
morning for a week visit with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Humphrey of Proctor have
been guests at E. II. Putnam's this week.
George Harrington has moved from 10 Cedar
street to A. Starkey's house on Myrtle street.
DIR. G. F. Barber DIR. Beals of Keene and Chas.
Harris killed IA partridges one day this week.
H. X. Chamberlain has returned after visit
with his son, j. H. Chamberlain, at Indianapolis.
Jerome Corbett went to New York yesterday
to meet Mrs. Corbett, who has been there some
time.
Don A. Miller has returned from Detroit, where
he attended the national convention of cigar
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Davis of Thompsonville.
Conn, visited Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Lindsey
Tuesday.
Rev and Mrs. E. A. Slack of Brookine, Mass
q few days.
Mabel Partridge, who is attending Prouty's
business college at Athol, Mass, was at home
over Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs o. P. Shepardson went to Wind
sor Wednesday to visit Mrs. Hatch, Mrs. Shep
ardson's sister.
Mrs Persis Eames has moved from the Cheney
house on Chase street to D. G. Baileys house on
the same street.
Silas w Richardson is unable to attend to his
duties at the town liquor agency this week on ac-
count of Illness
T. j. Doolin, manager of the South Framing
ham, Mass, telephone exchange, has been in
town a few days.
Col. H. E. Taylor is in Montpelier this week to
attend a reunion of the officers society and to
transact other business.
E. H. Van Doom has so far recovered from his
recent slight shock of paralysis that he was able
to ride out Wednesday.
Mrs. d. P. Webster attended the wedding Of
Ellen Frances Holton and Howard @. Rogers in
New York city last week
Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Childs gave a Welsh rare
bit party Wednesday evening, the occasion being
their 18th wedding anniversary.
Brattleboro friends called on DR.. and Mrs. G. A:
Gray at Hinsdale Saturday 10 remind them OF
their 25th wedding anniversary.
Ernest G. Pratt has moved his mother from the
old Church house on Frost street to Mrs. s. NJ.
Streeter's house on Grove street.
Hollis Streeter, the well-known shoemaker, has
bought the Elijah Amidon farm at West Chester
field and is moving there this week.
William E. Wood Of Portland Me-, general pas
senger agent OF the Maine Central railroad, was
in town Wednesday and Thursday.
Rev. H. D. Maxwell came to Brattleboro last
Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Lucian
Elmer. He is now In New Brunswick.
Mr. and Mrs. L. ]. Wurth and son of Newark
N. j., are spending a few weeks with Mrs
Wurth mother, Mrs. H. E. Franklin.
f. A. starkey, who has recently spent several
days in New York, reports his father-n-law, Ii
p Smith, as much improved in health
Uncle William Richardson has been able to en-
Joy the outdoor air this week. He rode down
street and out past his meat market Tuesday.
o. NJ. Tinkham of Pomfret was in town yester-
day on business connected with Gen. Nelson A
Mlles's new book of personal Recollections."
Mrs. Carrie Perry who has spent the summer
at Dover, has been at Hiland Haskns's. She left
today for Boston, where she will spend the win
ter.
John Anderson has resigned his position al
pastry cook at the Brooks House and has gone Il
Boston. He is succeeded by woman from Rut
land.
O. H. Butterfeld, who returned to Ann Arbor
Mich, a few weeks ago, returned last week on &C
count of the death of his sister, Mrs. Luciar
Elmer.
DR.. Burdick of Sioux Falls. South Dakota
formerly Of Guilford, has been In town this week
DIR. Burdick is fervent sverite, but predicts
triumph for Mckinley.
Miss Mary Salisbury invited party of elderly
ladies to take tea" yesterday afternoon will
Miss Susan Salisbury, who celebrated her 9is
birthday anniversary recently.
Mr. and Mrs G. NJ Taylor have returned from
Grafton, and next week they will start for Wash
ington, but will spend ten days or two weeks il
visiting at different places en- route.
Walter c. Piper, who has been employed IL
Jordan Marsh's at Boston, has gone to PhIladel
phia TO take a poeition IN the crockery depart
inent of the great Wanamaker store.
Mrs G. F. Thompson gave a dinner party Mon
day in honor of the 91st anniversary of Mis-
Susan Salisbury. Only ladies were present. Tn
event was on the 49th wedding anniversary
Mrs. Francis Goodhue, who was one of the guests
Letters have been received from Mr. and Mrs Z
r. Pratt since their arrival in Paris. They had
very rough passage TO Havre. After spending
week or two in Paris they will go to Nice, wher
Mrs. Pratt will begin her winters engage
ment
These were at the Brooks House over Sunday
Mrs e. ]. Carter, Hartford, Conn; George
and F. G. Hall. Lowell, Mass; j. w. Highly, 30.
ton; Hugh f. McGinnis, New York; L. II
Rhoades, Providence, r. l.; George G. Babcocl
Portland, Me-; James McCroker, Portland Ore.
The 18th annual report of the state board {
agriculture, just issued, contains a poem write
by Rev. A. j. Hough of Brattleboro that was rea
at the celebration, by the Brooklyn society {
Vermonters, of the Tooth anniversary Of the az
mission of Vermont to the Union.
George E. Brewer Of Springfield Mass hs
been in town this week. He is the special ageI
of the Sun fire insurance ONCE of London and
chairman of the Windham county committee
the New England fire insurance exchange. H
mission here was TO establish rates recently mao
by the exchange.
g. B. Emerson has been this week in Milfor
NJ H. Mrs. Emerson has returned from e.
tended visit In Massachusetts, and New HAM
shire. Their little grandson who, several weel
ago, while on a visit here, fell aud suffered 81
we're fracture of the leg, has been carried TO b
home in Milford