Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
PERSONAL.

Springfield, Mass, this week.
f. f. Brooks returned Wednesday after
several days spent in Boston.
Seth Meecham will move next week
from to , Chestnut street.
Mrs l.. W. Hawley returned Yesterday
after spending several days in Taftsville.
Miss Carrie Barber has Just returned
from weeks vacation in Springfield,
Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Brown of New
York city spent several days at the Brooks
House this week.
Mrs. Lima Hubbard went yesterday to
Camden. n j., for visit of week with
Mrs. E. L. Wood.
DR.. j. L. Rathbone will move in April
from Clark street to the Reed house on
South Main street.
Mrs. w. p. Jones and Miss Alice Jones
were in Northampton, Mass, Saturday to
visit Miss Amy Jones.
H. E. Harris has finished work for J. o,
Smith. Fred Ellis has taken his place as
driver of one of the coupes.
Miss Flora Sanders has returned from
Amherst, Mass, where she has been at
work for a number of weeks.
Patrick Mcguire and son Patrick have
returned from Bellows Falls where they
set some boilers in the paper mills.
w. p. Eager, the New York banker and
broker, formerly local telegraph operator,
has visited in town this week.
c. F. Thomas and bride arrived in
Brattleboro from st. Adams Wednesday.
They will live in Milestone block.
Mrs. c. A. Greene is in New York for
millinery study until after Easter, when
she will return to Mrs. S. S. Hunts.
Mrs. A. A. Stearns goes tomorrow to
Cornwall, this state, to visit her sister,
Mrs. Phoebe Britton, who is seriously i'll.
Miss Marie Nickerson came yesterday to
act as trimmer for Mrs. G.. H. Smith. Miss
Lila Cray will act as saleswoman for Mrs.
Smith.
Miss Louise Williams of Brown unvers-
ity and Mrs. Arthur Tidd of Northampton,
Mass, are visiting their mother, Mrs. A.
l. Williams.
F. B. Howe has moved into James Aus
tins house on South Main street. Lotin
and Walter Newcomb have rented rooms
in Horton place.
Mrs. S. w. Edgett and Miss Donnell re-
turned Wednesday night from New York
city, where they have been doing their
spring shopping.
Fred Cressy has been at Chester this
week to establish an agency and to do
special work for the Travellers Insurance
company of Hartford.
Fred Heustis returned Saturday from
New Haven, Conn, where he went soon
after the burning of S. A. Smith IL Co.
factory, to work in rattan shop.
Frank Reed has been i'll several days
with inflammation of the bowels, but is now
recovering. Chas. Hodgman is seriously
i'll. f. b. Richardson is again suffering
from severe illness.
Miss Mary Averill, teacher in the High
school at Springfield, Mass, gave talk
before the history club of Mt. Holyoke
seminary Monday on the teaching of his
tory in the secondary school.
Frank Howard, former Jamaica boy,
who has just returned to this country after
several months service in Porto Rico with
Company b of the 47th New York regi-
ment, has been in town this week
Austin Russell, formerly clerk in the
post office, but for several wears I'm the
crockery department of Jordan. Marsh a.
Co. of Boston, has been spending a few
days at the home of his father in Guilford.
DR.. j. l.. Rathbone went, Friday, to
Montreal for visit at his old home. He
will go to St. Adams and Burlington on
business and will be away two weeks. DR..
Burke is carrying on Dr. Rathbone's bust
ness.
Durham Brothers force is short five
clerks this week, f. c. ellison and w. F.
Dunlevy being on the road, o. ID. Stowell
and w. F. Minor i'll with the mumps and
Clifton Durham at his home in North
Paris, Me.
+. j. Devine, who is travelling through
the West as advance agent for German
Brothers, writes that he met Harry Burrell.
formerly first base for the Brattleboro bali
team, at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Burrell is
a teacher OF penmanship in business col
lege He plays ball on a semi-professional
team during the summer
c. B. CrOwell was called to Hackensack
\. D., last week by the critical illness of
his wife, who has been at her home there
for number of months. Mrs. Crowell
recently underwent an operation in New
Y ork city and since then she has been in
poor health. A letter was received from
Mr.. Crowell this week in which he stated
that Mrs. Crowell was in a critical condi-
ton.