Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-30
Wild strawberries are plentiful.

Martin Kane has gone to Boston.
ROMEO Thayer has been seriously i'll.
Frank Underwood is bell boy at the
Brooks House.
Mrs. Peitee of Keene, n H., has been
visiting in town.
Dana Brigham of Southboro, Mass, is
visiting at Eliot Wetherbee's.
Carrie Allen of Jamaica has been called
home by the illness of her mother.
Two deer were seen feeding one day last
week in Adelbert Mason's pasture.
Rev. Mr.. Furness of Wardsboro occupied
the Congregational pulpit last Sunday
Alice Eddy, a trained nurse from Bos-
ton, is at her fathers, Harrison Eddys.
MI. and Mrs. Albert Mason and daugh-
ter of Gardner, Mass, are visiting rea-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Boutelle of New
York city have been visiting at George
Boutelle's.
Haley Brigham of Somervile, Mass,
visited the past week at his brothers, Bella
Brigham's.
Mrs. Seneca Howe and daughter, Ene,
| from the Medical school in Boston have
been in town recently.
The Hadassah league sold some very
nice ice cream on the Baptist church
grounds Monday evening.
/ Samuel Ewings met with an accident
by falling through the scutte in the barn
and brCising himself badly.
Wilbur Cushman and family, who are
! spending the summer at Jamaica, have
visited the past week at Julian Taft's.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Bishop have returned
| from North Adams, Mass, and several
other places which they visited en- route.
Miss Frances Phillips, student at
| Mortified, is in town. Otis Phillips of
| Orange, Mass, has been in town the past
week.
Some of the Boutele family and friends
from New York city have been camping
out up in Stratton, and also fishing up in
that region.
Work has begun this week in clearing
away the site for the new hotel by those
who subscribed TO pay their subscription
in this way.
Henry Dutton of Yale university is
spending his vacation in town. Arthur
Folett, another Yale student, is at his
fathers, j. o, Follett's.
Sherman Willard of Brattleboro and
will Willard of Burlington are in town,
called here by the serious illness of their
father, Deacon Charles Willard.
There will be communion service at the
Baptist church next Sunday. This will be
the first service of the kind that has been
held since Rev. Mr.. Meacham left.
At the Baptist Sunday school last Sun
day an interesting program was arranged,
different members of the school taking
part. A poem was read by Miss Grace
Thayer.
Merrill Phillips of Cedarville, Ohio, has
been here on visit to his mother, Mrs.
Reuben Phillips. His daughter came
with him and will remain with her grand
mother.
Prof. Edgecomb and wife left Monday
morning for their home in Maine to spend
their vacation. Miss Mamie Ware accom-
panied them as far as Boston, where she has
gone for visit.
Mrs. Fannie Benson, who died in Brat
tleboro last week, was formerly a student
in the seminary, and was well known here.
Much sympathy is felt for the family in
their bereavement, also for the parents in
the loss of an only daughter.
While other places near here were ia
vored with showers last Saturday night
and Sunday only few little sprinkles
were bestowed upon us. Everything in
the vegetable life is suffering for rain. The
hill farms are not so badly in need of rain.
Mr.. Jordan and two grandchildren, who
have lived on one of our back farms, have
returned to Boston. He claimed he could
not get a livelihood off it. Mrs. Jordan
died suddenly last fall from apoplexy.
Since that time Mr.. Jordan has been living
on the place with two grandchildren.
A very sudden death occurred at the
Currier farm last week on Friday morning.
1t seems Mr. Reynolds of Londonderry had
gone on to the place to clear it OF lumber
and was to have 10 men to assist him in
the undertaking. At o'clock in the
morning when Mrs. Reynolds rose to get
breakfast her husband was apparently well.
A short time after when she went to call
him to breakfast he was dead He had
worked the day previous as usual. 1t is
thought his death was due to heart trouble.
The funeral was at Londonderry.