Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-18
NEWEANE.

II. j.
week
Mr.. and Mrs. Benson are at Ben
casson this week.
Mrs j. W. Hosford of Greenfield re-
Gently visited her aunt, Mrs. Moore.
Mrs Katherine Chamberlain of Phila-
delpha is guest of her cousin, Mrs.
A. Grout.
Mrs. c. p. Dewitt left on Thursday to
accompany friends from elsewhere to
some sea shore resort.
Mr.. and Mrs William johnson of Port
land, Maine. spent a day last week with
the formers. brother, G. b. Johmon.
Mr.. Wood a bank teller in Meriden,
Conn, has joined his family at the
Newfane House for two weeks vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Newton of Con-
nectlcut are at the Newton homestead.
Mr.. Newton will go from here Monday
to Boston.
Misses Lizzie and Laura Hildreth of
IIinsdale spent Sunday at the home OF
their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. War
rem IIildreth.
Mr. and Mrs c. +. +. Davis of Potter
Place and Miss Mary Baker of Franklin
| ~ H.. were recently guests of their
uncle, w. c. Bliss.
Young people from this place will join
the camping party at Sunset lake the
| last of July, according to their custom
Il
| for several years past.
Among those who have returned re-
Gently are Mrs. w. c. Ballou from her
| fathers, and Miss Abbie Kenney from
a week at the sea shore.
c. w. Stebbins's daughter. Mrs. l. o. p.
Smith of Brattleboro, has been spending
more time here of late on account of
| her fathers increasing Illness.
John b. Williams of New York a
graduate of the city High school, who
is engaged in banking business there,
| is spending his vacation with his aunt,
| Mrs. Ward.
The Offering next Sunday at the Con-
gregational church will be for the Con-
gregational Sunday school and Publish
ers society, whose extensive and efficient
work is well known.
Deacon Whitaker is able to be out
| after several days confinement on ac-
| count of an injury received from the
| falling of a piece of rock while he was
| repairing stone work.
Mrs Joel Page of Groton. Mass.
daughter of the late Mrs l.. c. Cushing
| is spending n fortnight at the Gushing
| place. and is arranging the contents OF
the house for distribution to the family
Besides the regular choir singing last
| Sunday morning. the congregation was
| favored with music by a quartet consist
ing of Mrs. Blanche Pratt, Miss Ruby
| Howe. G. l.. Hescock and w. 7. Bruce
jr.
Among the guests on Newfane hill
| summit this month have been Levi Dem
ing of Mddletown. Conn; also w. y
Newton Of Springfield spent Sunday witt
| his brother. X. u. Newton, at the Ben
casson settlement
Leon f. Grout third son Of Deacon j
| Grout graduated at the University o
Vermont in June with the degree OF
Bachelor of Science. He expects u
enter soon upon some lire Of scientific
work, and in the meantime. for the sum
mer. is cultivating his muscle In employ
ment on c. l.. HescOcks farm Mr.
Grout is the second son in the family
to take a course at the university
WHATEVER else may be said Of c. f
Thompson's candidacy for senator al
the county convention last week, 1t may
certainly be understood that it was al
emphatic protest against the scheme To-
removal Of the county shire to Brattle
boro. and had there been more time e
consider. there would undoubtedly have
been "A larger protest than the p votes
| Ii was n matter which did not receive
attention from the delegates until IN
eleventh hour
Mr.. and Mrs. Beusch of New York citl
and members of their family ARE sum
mering at the Beusch farm in distric
| NO. I, WDeTe iit'Tludl IptuNNh' a ''i "
the family. has been engaged since las
summer in building an ingeniously mad
log house. which has upstairs rooms. ans
Is much larger than the ordinary 'loi
cabin" The farm is a slightly place
and preparations have been made 70
the family's vacation engagement there
The young man mentioned has spent tn
whole year here, much of the time oil
the farm.
\. j. Grout. Phi. D.. botanical instruc
tor in the boys High school in Brooklyn
the largest school of its kind in Create
New York. is at his old home. Deacon
CIRCUITS. with his wife and child for tn
> summer. DR.. Grout is also curator 70
a museum of Brooklyn, for which he vii
make some vacation collections, and h
will be engaged in rewriting his worl
on MOSES, the original edition of whicl
is nearly exhausted. Mr.. Grout is tn
, author of an interesting article, wei
, illustrated. on marine plants. in tn
| July Harper's Magazine.