Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-10-05

H. L. Pierce went to Gardner, Mass,
Monday on business.
AT. Boomer has been ill the past week,
but he is now improving.
Mrs. Justin II. Wheeler went last Fri
day to Healdville to spend two weeks visit
ing.
Charles Booth spent last week with his
sister and other friends in Springfield,
Mass.
Mrs. Chester Monroe of West Hill has
gone to Englewood n. j., to spend the
winter.
Prof. John E. Russell has returned to
Williams college, leaving his family at Mrs.
Bakers while longer.
The Woman's Relief corps will hold a
sewing meeting with Mrs. L. P. Bailey
next Friday afternoon.
Miss Amy Mitchell, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. E. F. Mitchell, is attending the
High school in Beverley, Mass.
Miss Bertha Estey and Miss S. E. White
returned Saturday from Miss Estey's sum-
mer hotel at Sugar Hill, White Mountains.
Mrs. ]. V. Shaw went Wednesday to
Newton Centre, Mass, and from there she
will 60 to Boston to visit relatives. She
will be away about two weeks.
Mrs. G. G. Sabin and daughter Mary,
who have been visiting at the home of
Mrs. Sabin's brother, E. G. Parker, re-
turned to their home in Portland, Me-,
Monday.
Harry Thompson will sell by auction on
Thursday, Oct. Is, the live stock and farm
produce on the well-known Puffer farm.
The sale includes several good cows, young
stock, hay and corn.
Miss Florence Henderson of Boston,
who was guest at A. NJ. Corser's last
week, returned home Monday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Corser and Miss Henderson picked a
quart of raspberries Saturday.
Mrs. II. A. Robertson, who started for
Cleburne, Texas, a week ago last Friday,
arrived there the following Tuesday. Mr.
Robertson went to Texas some time age
to engage in buying and selling cotton.
Representative F. L. Houghton went tC
Montpelier Tuesday night to attend the
state legislature. Charles W. Wolcett Of
Dedham, Mass, will conduct Mr.. Hough
toms business until the close of the ses
sion.
Charles Robertson of Bellows Falls has
presented to Golden Rule lodge of Masonl
handsome framed crayon portrait of hiI
father, the late John Robertson of Bel.
lows Falls, who was formerly a member oil
the lodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will johnson returned
Saturday from their wedding trip. They
will begin housekeeping little later in the
tenement recently occupied by B. M
Switzer in the G.. L. Pierce house near the
Stowell factory.
Percy Warwick has moved from the up
stairs tenement in Mrs. S. NJ. Davis
house to Mrs. Samuel Knights house
Charles Simonds will move from Miss E
M. Walkup's house to the tenement vacat.
ed by Mr.. Warwick.
Alphonso G. Cobb of Putney Falls wen
Wednesday to Brockton, Mass, to attend
the fair. Mr.. Cobb was one of the build
ers of the race track at the Brockton fai
grounds. He will also visit the Mechan
les fair in Boston.
The ladies' society connected with thu
Baptist church met in the chapel Wednes
day afternoon. The annual election o
officers was postponed until the first weel
in November. Preparations are being
made for fair to be held in the town hal
Wednesday afternoon and evening, Oct 81
Robert r. Shelley, who has been EN-
ployed in Springfield, Mass, has given VI
his position Jnere 10 enJef the insurance
business with his brother, j. W. Shelley
The latter gave up his contract with tn,
Equitable Life Assurance society last Jun,
and has since had the general agency TO
Windham and Windsor counties, for tn,
Provident Savings Life Assurance society
of New York, which has $107, 900, 900 o
insurance in force and is the fifth larges
company in this country. Robert Shelle.
q will begin soliciting in Brattleboro mex
week.
A petition, signed by Representativ
Frederick l.. HoughtOn and others, wa
telegraphed to the assistant superintendent
of the Boston & Maine railroad Monda,
asking that the first afternoon passenge
train north be allowed to stop at the Put
ney station at the flag signal after the neV
schedule goes into effect next Monday
This train is called the White Mountain
train, and it never stops at this station un
til after the fall schedule goes into effect
and then only at the flag signal. Unde
the new arrangement 1t was not proposes
to allow 1t to stop under any conditions
The assistant superintendent replied tina
he would do all in his power to have tn
train stop.
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