Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-13


Mrs. Lucius Wheelock of Brightwood,
Mass, has been visiting in Harmonyville.
Frank Blood and family of Springfield
are visiting at his fathers, A. A. Blood's.
Grace, Harold and Clara Bailey are Wis.
iting their grandmother in South Newfane.
The Baptist ladies' aid society met in
the church parlors on Wednesday after
noon. Supper was served.
Arthur Boutele is visiting the Maynards
at the Kurn Hattin Home at Westmin-
ster.
Willie Dutton, who has been very i'll the
past two weeks, is a little better at this
writing
The Congregational ladies' aid society
met on Wednesday with Mrs. Florence Hol-
land.
Raymund Brown of Boston is spending
the third summer of his school vacation at
j, H. Wares.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor Of Gard
ner, Mass, were visitors last week at Mrs.
Sarah Underwood's.
Mrs Eliza Thayer has closed her house
and she with Grace have gone to relatives
in East Jamaica for short stay.
Emma Walch has returned from Boston,
where she has been for a visit, and has re-
sumed her work at f. b. Batchelders.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Golden of Merilen, Conn,
who have been in town boarding at A. A.
Mason's, have returned to their home.
Mrs Kenyon will spend her vacation
with her mother and her son. Her mother
lives in Greenwich, r. l., and her son in
Canada.
The base ball team of this place went to
Wardsboro the 4th to play with the team
there The game stood at the finish y to
: in favor Of Townshend.
The Baptist ladies' aid society will serve
ice cream next Wednesday evening on the
church lawn II pleasant, and if not, they
will serve it in the church parlors.
The friends here of A. H. ingalls, of
Southampton, Mass, are sorry to learn of
the injury received from a horse that has
laid him aside from work three weeks.
The rain we have had the past week
was gratefully received, as the previous
showers had passed all around us and il
was much dryer here than in other locali-
ties.
John Howard, supervisor of penman-
ship in the public schools Of Maiden, Mass,
has recently been in town and is spending
his summers vacation in travelling for
Thomas X. Shewell & Co., Boston.
We learn that Mrs. Plumb and daughter
May, former residents Of this place, and Of
late of Providence, Il. 1. have recently sailed
for Europe. Both mother and daughter
are graduates of Mt. Holyoke seminary.
l.. b. Hapgood and wife of Easton,
Pa, visited this week at Hon. Ira X
Batchelder's. They were on their way TO
Peru where they will spend the summer,
as has been their custom from year to year.
Mrs. Bruce OF New York city visited at
A. A. Blood's last week; also Miss Wells,
a former teacher, with Mrs Grace Blood
Landman in New York. Miss Wells will
go to Sopporo, japan, as a missionary in
August.
Ola Norcross of Wnchendon. Mass, who
with her mother has recently visited at
Mr.. Croser's, gave delightful entertain
ment to her young friends last week on
Thursday afternoon. With music and re-
freshments the afternoon passed most pleas
antly.
Rev. L. B Curtis, on his way back from
Hamilton, Y. Y, where he spent a part of
his vacation days attending the commence
ment of Colgate university, preached at
Strong Place Baptist church, Brooklyn, on
the Path ult., for his college mate, Rev. F.
P. Stoddard, the pastor.
Considerable effort has been made this
spring and a special committee of the En-
deavor society appointed to make and care
for flower beds on our park, which is so
devoid of such ornament, but where are
those bright spots which promised to i'm.
prove the place so much?
60. hoorI 40 -.
ing in to our new hotel, and with reasona-
BILE prices we see no reason why 1t should
not be we'll filled with summer boarders.
We learn that all who have tried the cui-
sine speak in high praise of it; also of all
the appointments of the hotel; and the
evening of the banquet the veranda was
much enjoyed by the guests.
The Fortnightly club will meet next
week on Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
Cnstead of 3 o'clock as formerly with
Miss Harriet Fletcher. The following pro-
gram has been prepared:
Subject THE Mountain Whites"
Paper, Mrs Follett
Reading, A Daughter of the Revolution,
Mrs Taft
Homespun, Mrs Holland
English Ballads In our Southern Highlands.
Mrs. Willard
A Persian student from Colgate Univer-
sity, Hamilton, N, Y, gave a very inter-
esting talk of the manners and customs of
his people at the Baptist church morning
and evening last Sunday. When he com
pletes his college course he will be able to
speak nine languages. He can speak four
now. His hearers were much interested
and instructed. He was at Mortified at
tending the conference of young men.
Both churches worshipped together in the
evening.