Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06
PERSONAL.

very critical condition.
Rev. p. j. Long Of Proctor is visiting
his mother, Mrs. Daniel Long.
Susie and Lena Batchelder have been
visiting with relatives In Chester.
Miss Gertrude Aldrich of Rutland has
been visiting Mrs l.. d. Greene
G.. D. Noyes and son spent the first of
the week in Springfield and Hartford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Baker returned
Wednesday from their wedding journey.
Miss Beard of Chester returned TO her
home Thursday after a visit at K. Wales's.
William Holton and family of Atho are
spending the week at II. G. Winchester's.
Miss Teneriffe Temple and her brother
of Pennington, N. j., are visiting in town.
S. T. Davenport and w. w. Davenport
of Greenfield were in Brattleboro Friday.
Mrs. Frances Benis went yesterday to
Old Orchard, Me-, to spend the summer
Edward Fletcher came home Monday
from Stoneham, Mass. His mother will
remain there two weeks longer.
A despatch from w. II. Childs, who has
been in Paris, announced that be would
start for home Wednesday of this week,
Alfred Thompson, John Ryder, Miss
Florence Howe and Miss Marcia Parker
spent the Fourth at Mt. Holyoke, Mass.
Clarence Stowe of Memphis, Tenn, and
his mother, Mrs. Oscar Stowe of New
York, are visiting relatives in Brattleboro.
Miss Katie Fitzgerald and niece, Kitty
Flynn of Worcester, Mass, came Saturday
to visit relatives. They will return Mon
day.
Miss Eliza Hyde will return from Wash
ington this week for the regular summer
vacation. She will board with Mrs. j. E.
Lawrence.
Miss Mary Moran and niece, Miss Mary
Kaine, went yesterday to Ulster, Pa, for
a stay of several weeks with their cousin,
Miss Nora Brosnan.
Oscar Z. Halberg and Esther A. Mys-
from of Orange were married Monday
evening, and they have been spending
their honeymoon in Brattleboro.
A. o. Johnson, superintendent of the
electric light station in Keene the past two
or three years, will return to Brattleboro to
work at the local electric light station.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hawley of Hope
dale, Mass, and Mrs. Hawley's sister.
Mrs Ayres of Watertown, n. Y, are ex-
pected in Brattleboro next week for a visit
with relatives.
F. II. Estabrook, manager of the Ben
nington branch of Temple Brothers Gran
lite business, was a guest of his father, L.
EstaOrOOk, superintendent of Morningside
cemetery, over Sunday.
Mrs. Esterbrook and Miss Edith Ester
brook went Tuesday to New Ipswich,
y. II. Mrs. Esterbrook will remain there
during the summer with Mrs. Marsh, but
her daughter will return in two or three
weeks to go to the lake with the Fletcher
family.
Miss Rosamond Taylor will return to-
day TO her home in Brooklyn after spend
ing 10 days with Mrs. Fanny c. Rice. A
garden party was given in West Brattle-
boro Wednesday afternoon by Miss Laura
Dunklee in honor of Miss Taylor, and
Miss Taylor entertained the guests with
several readings.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Willis of Meriden,
Conn, are at Sunset lake for vacation of
two weeks. James White and Fred Bemis
of Meriden have been their guests there
few days. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pettee of
the same city are dividing their time be-
tween the lake and George Harris's in
West Brattleboro.
Nj. and Mrs. j. A. Taylor, Mrs. Laura
Houghton and Miss Mabel Houghton
Joined the Brooks party to Old Orchard,
Maine, which also included Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Robb, DR.. and Mrs. George Mrs.
Edward Arms, Miss Carolyn Arms. Mrs.
Caroline Towns and Miss Gertrude King
of Bellows Falls.
DR.. Webster went Tuesday to Block
Island. Mrs. Webster, Judge and Mrs.
f. l.. Waterman, Mrs. Annie Greene, Mrs.
II. h. Brown and daughter Ruth, Mrs.
DIN Farr of West Chesterfield and Miss
Hattie Ruggles of Worcester went to
Springfield Sunday and from there to Block
Island Monday.
A. o. Caswell, who was employed in J.
G. Ullery's office in the summer of '9S,
has declined the principalship of Sander
son academy at Ashfeld, Mass, to which
he was elected recently. Mr.. Caswell has
been principal of the Haydenvile High
school the past year, and this year will be
principal of Williamsburg High school.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Childs and daugh-
ter Ruth, Mrs. Margaret Gatty, Mrs. P. A.
Fullerton of Chester and Miss Jouet of
Roselle, n, j., went Tuesday to Chill
crest" the Childs cottage on Ames Hill,
to spend the summer. Miss Mollie Childs
and two friends of Brooklyn will join them
tomorrow, and others will come later from
Boston. The cottage has been retitted
and partly refurnished and the stables
have been remodeled.
A. NJ. Wright, manager of the John
Church Piano company of New York, &C
companied by his wife and young son,
spent Sunday with relatives in Brattleboro.
On Monday Mr.. Wright went to Grafton
to visit his father and mother. He re-
turns to New York today by way of the
company's factory in Boston, and tomor-
row he and his family will sail for Rotter-
dam on a vacation outing of about six
weeks. They will spend some time at the
Paris exposition.
Nelson W. Kimball of Dubuque, Ia,
son of the late Gen. P. T. Kimball of New
fame, was in Brattleboro yesterday on his
way to his old home in Newfane. He
spent the day visiting old friends with
whom he associated in his younger DAYS,
among them Alonzo Starkey, Col. Has
kins and others, relating incidents which
had nearly passed ont of their memory.
For the past 20 years Mr.. Kimball has had
charge of the Dubuque city water works,
and during that time he has not visited
his old home town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Camden Smith have been
occupying Melvin Smiths cottage at Spot
ford lake several days. Charles Spencer
and familu ora spapdino tvpO ,yaaIys