Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-02-09
PERSONAL.

Frank Ellis of Baldwinville, Mass. /,
visiting his father, F. n. Ellis.
Misses Nellie Brown and Ida Coleman
spent Sunday in Springfield, Mass
Miss Mamie O'Neil returned "Wednesday
after visit Of few days in Holyoke.
Mrs. Edward Coleman returned TO KeeDe
Wednesday after visiting at G. c. Smiths
Miss Harriet Dunklee returned Sa,ur.
day after stay of four months in New
York.
c. p. Bliss of Fitchburg, Mass, came
Tuesday for visit with his brother, IN.
Bliss.
Adonis Dion was in Greenfield over Sun
day, driving there Saturday and returning
Monday.
Frank Eastman, who has been employed
in the freight Office, will leave for Mont
vile, Conn, tomorrow where he has sim.
liar position.
Joseph Russell of Wakefield, Mass, en-.
tered the employ OF the S. A. Smith com.
pany this week.
Miss Aimee Bliss returned WEDNESDAY
after visit of three weeks with relatives
in South Royalton.
Mrs. John A. Lindsey went to Gill
Mass, Wednesday to spend week with
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Z. Thayer.
Mrs. Geo. Whiteman has moved from
South Main street to Birge street. Mrs.
Jane Elwell has taken a tenement al rs
Elliot street.
Miss Sadie Turner, who went to Rutland
last week to demonstrate the Swift SOAP
has been home this week on account Of
the illness of her sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Carey observe
their 18th wedding anniversary today with
a family gathering and dinner. James F.
Carey of Newport is here for the occasion.
Fred Schiller, cook at the Brooks House,
spent Sunday in Greenfield. Mr.. Schiller
went from that town with company L Of
the % Massachusetts regiment and served
through the Santiago campaign.
Mr.. and Mrs. LAWN, Mrs Pratt, Glenn.
ente Bologna and Lucien Howe will
give in Greenfield Feb. 20, the concert
which they brought out so successfully in
Brattleooro recently, including an act from
Miss Ella Stebbins was in Leyerett,
Mass, Saturday to attend the funeral Of
her uncle, Moses Field, father of the late
Lieut.. Charles II. Field of company L,
Greenfield, who was killed in the battle Of
Ell Caney.
DR.. Fred c. Crosby is now in Northamp-
ton, Mass, where he will have the posi-
ton OF superintendent of the Northamp-
Ton and Amherst electric railroad of which
ms father, (. G. Crosby, is one of the
principal promoters.
The Greenfield Recorder has the follow
ing about a former Brattleboro boy:
ERNEST r. Horton trimmar for the alar-
trlc light company, had a narrow escape
WINE al work trimming street lights dur
ing the storm Monday. The pins on one
of the poles which he was climbing were
very slippery, and as he was nearing the
top of the pole his foot slipped. and in his
endeavor to save himself he swung around
~ sucn way as to bring his mouth in
contact with one of the pins. breaking of
one OF his teeth next to the gum"
The Boston Journal of Monday under
its heading Eminent Clergymen" had a
two-column half-tone portrait of Rev.
francis W. Sprague, pastor of All Souls
OhlVerSalist church in East Boston, for
merry OF Brattleboro. The following is
sKen nom a notice of Mr.. Sprague and
ms church, which accompanied the por-
lralt; AS pnlpit speaker, he has the
natural advantage of a deep, smooth, quiet
voice and quiet manner. He is rather
closely confined to his manuscript and
reads rather than speaks. His words are
weil'chosen and his sentences are carefully
thought out, so that his sermon has lit
erafy naVor. His church is built in odd
Iasnlon, with octagonal roof, set on square
walls, making overhead hooks which add
s'e"'iy 10 lts acoustic properties"