Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-28

week at o CLOCK.
Mrs. Whitney has recently visited
in town.
George Houghton visited in Orange,
Mass. last week.
Mrs. Nash has returned to her home
in Worcester. Mass.
Hollie Wilson is working for Fred
Cutler of Brookline.
Mrs. Arthur Rand has gone to Bos-
ton to visit her mother.
Mrs. Adelbort Gray has returned to
her home in Albany. y. Y.
John Howard of Maiden. Mass, has
been in town the past week.
Albert Mason wife and daughter of
Gardner, Mass, are visitors at A. A.
Mason's.
The Hadassah league will meet this
week at Mrs. Rollie Phill.ps's Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Lena Franklin and daughter,
Elva, are visiting her mother, Mrs.
Lizzie Barber.
The Dorcas Guild will serve ice
cream on the common Saturday at
the usual time.
Charles Aldrich and wife of West
moreland. n. H.. visited at viii
Sparks's last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Arlington of
Ludlow, VT. are visitors this week
at Deacon Folletts.
Daniel and Charles Batchelder of
Londonderry visited their brother,
Judge Ira H. Batchelder. last week.
Mrs. Smith and son and Mr.. and
Mrs. Highly of Springfield. Mass. have
been recent guests at Mrs. Sarah Will
sons.
Mrs. Addie Green's house in Har-
monyville is undergoing changes and
repairs. Fred Randall has them in
charge.
Park Davis and wife of Sioux City.
Iowa, came Monday on account of the
illness of V. H. Gray, Mrs. Davis's
brother.
Miss Nina Landman, former grad
uate of the seminary here, graduated
this week from Bates College, Lewis
ton. Me.
James Maynard, recently of the
Kurn-Hattin Home. has been a visitor
al George Boutelles and Mrs Eliza
Thayer's.
Mrs. B. Kenyon and daughter of
Brockville, Canada, are here on &C
count of the serious illness of her
father, Mr.. Case.
VIII Gage, who came home to be
here graduating week, has returned
to his duties in Fitchburg, Mass. His
brother, Frank, accompanied him.
Mr.. Truesdell of Zoar, Mass. who
has spent some time in town riding
round and looking over farms, has
bought what is Familiarity known as
the Col. Twitchell farm, recently oc-
cupied by the Sage family.
Elvira Cook, who was sent to the
Brattleboro Retreat many years ago.
and more recently to the Waterbury
asylum, has now returned where she
started from, being sent there on ac-
count of the overcrowded state of the
institution.
The meetings of the w. c. T. U. con-
vention were interesting and much en-
joyed by all. Mrs. Helen Rice, the
principle speaker, was much liked.
She is very forcible and interesting.
Miss Goldthwaite also spoke good
words for the cause of temperance.
John Robinson, cashier of the bank
at Jamaica, with his cousin, Hamline
f. Robinson, from Marysville, Mis-
souri,, We're here looking up the town
records, being anxious to locate the
boundaries of their grandfather's farm,
situated near the extreme northern
part of this town.
Elijah Case died the 25th at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. John Dale,
at the age of SO years, after a short
illness. Mr.. Case was formerly
Universalist minister of good ability
and occupied important pastorates.
He was kind hearted and thoughtful of
the poor and will be much missed by
all. The funeral took place Thurs
day afternoon at 8 o'clock, Rev. NJ. F.
Hardy officiating.
o. F. Coombs dug new potatoes from
his garden of fine quality the 18th of
this month, as the writer can testify.
There was a good deal said awhile ago
about the hens that laid the most eggs,
each one beating the record of the one
before, so that by the time they all
got round the first egg story wasn't
anywhere. So we would ask if there
is anyone who can beat Mr.. Coombs
in raising early potatoes?
Mrs. Dale has improved the out