Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-02

and Mrs Bella Brigham, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. c. Taft, Mrs. Susan d. Willard, Miss
Harriet A. Fletcher.
w. S. Hollands store is much improved
by painting.
Mrs. Metcalf has recently visited in
Cambridgeport
Miss Maud Twitchell Is visiting at Mr.
Martin Sparks's.
Mrs. Alice Goodell Of Springfield, Mass.
spent Sunday in town.
Will Sage has gone to Windham to
work in Mr.. Whites mill.
Mrs Henry Bailey went to South New
fame on a visit Saturday.
Miss Addie Twitchell has returned from
a weeks visit in Windham.
John Ware went to Connecticut Tues
day with large drove of cows.
Mrs. George Aldrich and son of West
moreland are visitors in town this week.
The executive committee for Old Home
Week met with Miss Fletcher Monday
evening.
Ellsworth Thayer and niece Miss I'm
derwood, visited at Mrs. Eliza Thayer's
Monday.
Mrs. Mabel Farnsworth has returned
home after being some weeks in Rutland
at work.
Mrs. Lucius Carpenter of Seymour. Ind,
has been in town the past week calling
upon friends.
The rain here Monday was most ac-
ceptable, as the gardens and all vegeta-
ton needed it very much.
Misses Faith and Glenn Thayer of Bel
lows Falls have been spending some time
with their aunt, Mrs. Jason Thayer.
Clinton Franklin has been obliged to
leave his work at Putney and come home,
on account OF being badly poisoned with
ivy.
The Baptist ladies' aid society will hold
their meeting on Wednesday afternoon
of next week, when supper will be served
as usual.
Robert LOOMS and family. who have
been visiting at Mrs. Clarissa Wares.
have returned to their home in Spring
field. Mass.
Mrs Dry ODER has returned home from
Grafton, where she has been some
months assisting in the family of Mar
shall Wright.
Benjamin Derry. who has been under
the doctors care many weeks, was able
to ride down to the village for the first
time Monday.
Miss Pickett who has been with her
sister, Mrs. Edgecomb. since December,
will return to her home in Maine the
coming week.
News has been cabled to Charles Gray
of the safe voyage across the water OF
Mrs Broughton and family, and they are
now in Boulogne, France.
Mrs. Daniel Sherwin, her son, Harry,
and granddaughter. May, of Jamaica,
and Mrs. Daniel Lyon of Kentucky, were
guests at Mrs. Sages last week.
Bessie Dutton entertained a few Of her
young friends last Friday afternoon. Ice
cream and cake were served, and with
games a delightful time was enjoyed.
DR.. Conland was in town last week to
| consult with DR.. Rice in regard to the
case of Mrs. Sanderson. who crushed
her hip bone by fall and now lies criti-
cally Ill.
Deacon Jonas Allen took dinner by
| invitation on his seth birthday anniver-
| sary with Mrs. w. ID. Dutton. she cele-
brating her birthday anniversary at the
same time
Miss Abbott. a former teacher at Le-
| land & Gray Seminary. will be united i'm
marriage with Newton d. Brown, Boston.
| Tuesday, Aug. %, at her home in North
| Paris, Maine.
Prof. Hamlin preached at the Congre-
| gational church Sunday. Mr.. Hardy was
called to the west Village to oficiate at
the funeral of Norman Wood. There
were union services.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Landman of Pitts
field Maine, are spending their vacation
| at Old Orchard and will not come here
as expected, to visit Mrs Landmarks pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Blood
Cards have been received announcing
the marriage of Miss Euphemia E. Howe,
NJ. D., to Ebert p, Turton of Roseville,
n. j. Congratulations and kind wishes
of friends here are extended to Mr.. and
Mrs. Turton.
News has recently been received of the
| death of Mrs. Martha Gray Wemple of
Mansfield Louisiana. She leaves two
sons, who are business men in that place.
| Mrs. Wemple went South many years ago
as a teacher and there married a lawyer
of note and has since lived there.
We see in the New York World that
| Secretary of Agriculture Wilson thinks
the occasion of the long period OF
| droughts over a large area of country is
the ruthless stripping of our forests, and
until there is a change in this respect
not only the products of the West, but
all parts of the country will suffer.
We would like to know the reason for
the scarcity of ice cream this hot sum-
mer when the want of it has been felt
so much. Seasons before 1t has been on
sale regularly by the two churches. II
| some person would have furnished II
often we think he would have been well
patronized and we wish some one would
| furnish 1t the rest of the season.
The death of Willis Dutton from con-
sumption took place on Monday at the
| home of his parents, where he has been
for a year and half in failing health
Mr.. Dutton was young man of excel
lent habits. Besides his parents he leaves
a wife, three brothers and sister to
mourn his loss. His age was % years
Much sympathy is felt for all the family
in their afniction.
Many replies have been received to
invitations to Old Home Week. and one
| of them is from Tudor Jencks, who writes
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