Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-09-07
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w. II. Miles Is spending his vacation at
home.
Frank Brown of Boston is visiting at j.
II. Wares.
Luther Ewings has returned to his home
in Hoosck.
Hon. Orion Barber and sister were in
town recently.
Walter Eddy's boarders have returned to
their home in Boston.
Theodore Rand has sold out his business
to Mr.. Willis of Jamaica.
Miss Edith Sanders is at work in Halls
restaurant at Brattleboro.
Mrs Ed. Wetherbee of Worcester Mass,
is visiting at Eliot Wetherbee's.
Mrs. Kenyon has returned after several
weeks visit in Greenwich, r. l.
Mr.. Stebbns's boarders have returned
to their home in Brooklyn, n. Y.
Mrs. Henry Stra;ton spent last week
with her mother, Mrs. II. Winslow.
Frances Phillips, a student at North
| field, is spending her vacation here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Randall are visiting
their son Herbert in Belchertown, Mass.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid society met in
their rooms on Wednesday. Supper was
served.
Prof. and Mrs Call and Miss Amy Per
| ry are welcomed back to their work in our
! public school.
Mrs G. II. Willard has gone TO Hoosick
| to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs.
| Charles Cheney.
Mrs Margaret Watson has returned
from Baxter Cushing's where she has been
! for few weeks.
Mrs. Eliza Broughton and family and
Miss Lewis Of Bloomfield n. j., are visit
ing at Charles Crays.
The seminary has opened with an un.
! usually large number Of scholars and we
| learn more are expected.
T. G. Rand is confined at home by an
| injury, and thus detained from making
| his usual trips to Brattleboro
Haynes Sanders and corps Of men have
| begun work on John Whtcomb's new barn
| to replace the two recently burned.
Mrs. Frankin's new house is being
much improved with paint and blinds.
Everett Phillips is doing the work.
Thomas Frenyear of Buffalo, y. Y, the
son of former pastor of the Baptist
church here, visited recently in town.
Mrs. Lizzie Barber is in Vernon caring
/ for her daughter, Mrs. win Franklin, who
| is confined to her bed with rheumatism
Royal Sanders reports that during the
month of July 3-s inches Of rain fell, and
| during the month of August 3 4 inches.
Miss Ellen Ware has returned to her
| school duties in Springfield, Mass. after
| spending her vacation Of several weeks
/ with her mother
Mrs Button and son of Gainesville, Fla,
are at the Townshend Inn. They have
! just returned from Europe where they wit
messed the Passion play.
| The recent visit of Mrs. MAYNARD Of thu
| kurn Hattin home was much enjoyed by
| those who heard her at the union service
at the Congregational church.
/ Mr.. Brown, agent for Greene Brothers
! Publishing house, is at work here and in
adjoining towns in the interests of that
house, introducing new school books.
Mrs. Maynard of the Kurn Hattin home.
Westminster, visited at Mrs. Eliza Thay-
er's over Sunday and spoke in the Congre-
gational church Of the work Of the home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams and son Stanley
of Meriden, Conn, have been recent guests
at Townshend Inn. Mr.. Williams is the
superintendent of the state institution for
boys at Merden.
Col. Alvin Franklin represents the town
at Montpelier this fall r. II. Willard was
the Dillingham; candidate and the vote was
a close one in favor of Col. Franklin, who
is a Grout man.
On account Of the illness OF several
prominent members of the Choral Union
the concert to be given in Grafton has
been indefinitely postponed. Grafton
friends kindly take notice.
Guy Colburn came from Nashua. H
on his wheel to this place, a distance of
100 miles, in one day, starting from his
home at o'clock in the morning and
reaching here at o'clock in the evening.
seemingly little tired He stopped in Keene
to dine, Young Colburn is a lad in his
teens He will enter Brown university
this fall.
Mrs. o. Brien has returned to Boston af-
ter spending some time with her mother,
Mrs. Susan Lawrence and she has gone
into business for herself at No. Temple
| place, dressmaking. Mrs. O'Brien has
been employed for some time in Springer
| Brothers establishment in Boston, where
she has had fine opportunity to become
| skilled in her business.
! Those teaching in town are Prof. and
| Mrs Call and Miss Perry in the village:
| Annie Cooke in district No 3; Hortense
Switzer in the Carr district; Miss Palmer
| in West village; Miss Ellie Fisher in her
| district. Those going out Of town are
/ Mrs. Kenyon, to NeNfane; Misses Eta
and Bertha Gage, to Athens: Addie
Twitchell, to Grafton. Blanche Brigham
returns to GageviBe.
Friends of Prof. c. C, Boynton Of Los
Angeles, Calf, formerly principal of lie.
land and Gray seminary, have received an
nouncement cards of the marriage of his
! daughter Mary to DIR. Barton ID lzer. Miss
| Boynton was college graduate and for
some time since her graduation she has
been teacher of Latin and Greek in a
| girls college in California. Their home is
to be in Los. Angeles.
WEST TOWNSHBND.