Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04
Bert Pierce is at home.

property.
Mrs. DR.. Rice is recovering from her
recent Illness.
Miss Matte Crane has recently
visited at home.
Fred Davis and wife have been visi-
tors at Grin Daviss.
John Rock was in town over Sun
day at Charlie Halls.
Mrs. Mary Phillips is visiting her
son. Wright, in Millers Falls.
Fred Derry at present writing is
very feeble and losing strength.
Mrs Charlotte Dewitt spent Sunday
in town at Mrs Sarah Wilson's.
Leland e. Gray Seminary building
has received new coat of paint.
Mrs. Thayer and Grace visited sew
eral days last week in Brattleboro.
Romance Jennison is working
through haying for John Whitcomb.
Earl Underwood and wife of Gard
ner, Mass, are visiting their parents.
Mrs. Martin Sparks visited her niece
Mrs. Harry Adams, last week in Brat
tleboro.
Z. n. Magoon, Of Stratton visited his
daughter, Clara, at Miss Fletchers,
Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence is spend
ing some time with her sister, Mrs.
Sanderson.
Mrs. Kenyon and Earl Davis have
closed their schools in Newfane and
are at home.
Prof. Edgecomb left Monday morn
ing to attend the teachers convention
at Burlington.
Frank Holden, who has worked
some time for ]. H. Ware, is at work
for Julian Taft.
Royal Sanderson reports the rain
fall during the month Of June to have
been q inches.
We are glad to welcome DR.. Parker
and wife of Fitchburg. IL for but tenn
porary stay among us.
John Howard and family of Maiden,
Mass. have taken rooms for the sea
son at Harrison Eddy's.
Mrs. John Holbrook of Boston, who
has graduated as a trained nurse, is
visiting at II. Holbrooks.
Royal Sanderson is closing the hay
ing on the farm of Mrs. Elzada Clay
ton. near the Grafton line.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Franklin at
tended the funeral of Mrs. Osmore
Clark at Wardsboro Saturday.
Miss Lakin, student in Colby Uni
versity, Waterville, Maine, is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. f. b. Batchelder.
Mrs. Martha Tyler of Brattleboro
was the guest last week Of Miss
Fletcher and Mrs. L. B. Batchelder.
w. H. Miles went last week to Hart.
ford Conn, to attend the funeral of
his brother-in-law, Webster Thomas.
DR.. Osgood expects to attend the
meeting of the state board of health
to be held in Burlington July 7-10.
DR.. Hamlin, dean of the Tougaloo
University, Mississippi, is in town for
the summer. He will occupy the Ho-
bart house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Watkins of Cambridge,
n. Y, and Mrs. and Mrs. Roundy of
Rockingham, We're recent guests at
B. B. Brighams.
All come to the basket picnic on the
park the 4th. Should the weather be
unfavorable the exercises and dinner
will be in the town hall.
The friends here of Rev. l.. B. Curtis
of Grafton. Mass, are gratified to
know that he is recovering from an
operation for appendicitis.
Leon Bills was badly injured last
week while numbering, and his brother,
Irwin Bills, and wife, from London
derry, are here caring for him.
Mrs, Rumrill of Springfield, Vt, is
visiting her sister. Mrs. Margaret Wat
son, and Miss Gladys Convey of the
same town is visiting at Martin
Perry's.
Miss Bessie Hardy gave a fine re-
port Sunday evening at the Christian
Endeavor meeting of the convention
at Putney, which added much to the
interest of the meeting.
Madam Edgecomb left Friday morn.
ing of last week for Maine, where she
will remain until Prof. Edgecomb is
well settled in his new home at Derby,
when she will return to them.
ARA Benson, at the request of the
grandchildren of the late Judge VIM
r. Shafter, has the past week placed
upon his monument in lakewood ceme-
terry the names of all his children.
Eta Cobb will go to Saxtons River
W MoIh LOT MIS-. HuSneS. HOllle Will
son will go to Brookline to work for
Fred Cutler Harry Sparks has gone
to Fred Watson's to work through hay
ing.
Major A. B. Valentine of Benning-
ton, with party of friends who were
taking a carriage drive through this
part of Vermont, was at the Towns
bend Inn on Saturday and called
briefly on acquaintances in town. Mr..
valentine is one of the prominent bust
ness men of Bennington.
Our village schools closed on Friday
with picnic in the Thayer grove.
Refreshments were served and pleas
ant time was enjoyed. The teachers,
Miss Eva Austin and Miss Annie
Cooke, have spared no pains to make
the schools what they should be and
therefore they have been success.
Scholars in primary school without
absent marks are Bessie Bailey, Mil
dred Hardy, Mildred Phillips, Ruth
Reed, Laura Ware, Charlie Mccoy,
Park Osgood Ray Shine and Raymond
Styles. Those having no absent mark
in the grammar school during the
term were: Alice Dale, Ethel Sparks,