Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-12-12
eRATTLEBoRo PERSONAL.

Miss Maud Carlton spent several days
in Rutland this week.
s. 3. Emerson has been visiting in Mil |
ford, N. H., this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. 2. Dickinson went
Monday to New York city.
DR.. c. G. Wheeler went Wednesday
to White River Junction on business.
Arthur B. Clapp returned last week
Thursday from his months western trip.
Miss Ella Ranney attended the wedding
of her sister in Westminster West Tues
day.
DR.. w. p. Devine of Rutland visited
his parents on Vernon street over Sun
day.
Miss Agnes Calvin has a position in
Mann's dry-goods store during the holl-
days.
l.. ID. Taylor was In Springfield and
Hartford on business the first of the
week.
II. =. Wellman went Monday to Spring
field, Mass, on business trip of five
days.
DR.. c. r. Anderson went Tuesday to
Boston to attend the funeral of II. o.
Aldrich.
Mr. and Mrs. c. f. GRAHAM went
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. s. Wheeler of Mont
pelier are guests of their son, DR.. C.
G. Wheeler.
Col. c. A. Miles will speak on "Fores-
try before the Unitarian club In Wal
pole tonight.
Mrs Fred l. Swift is substituting for
Miss Leach in the central school in
Mortified. Mass.
Harry Bruce of Worcester came home
Tuesday on account of the serious ILL
ness of his mother.
Capt. b. X. Allen returned yesterday
to his home In Newport after q months
visit at w. II. Corsers.
Miss Blanche Shipman has been con-
fined to the house this week, having had
an operation on her throat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest G.. Brown of
Amherst visited relatives and friends in
Brattleboro over Sunday.
Mrs. A. r. Gregg and daughter Miss
Jessie Gregg. left Saturday for three
weeks visit in Providence and Boston.
Arthur Trip, foreman in the street
railroad company's car barn, has been
seriously i'll threatened with pneumonia.
Harry II. Conland went to Montpelier
with his father. Representative James
Conland. Monday. returning Tuesday
night.
Mrs. Carl S. Hopkins and son, Warner.
went Tuesday for extended visit in
New York city. Before returning they
will visit in Hartford, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. F. Connors and Miss
Alice Colt went Wednesday to Newton
Vile, Mass, called there by the death
of Mrs. Harriet Dickerman Ransom.
H. F. c. Todt received visit Wednes-
day from his cousin, Walter II. Kroger,
of Phillipsburg, Montana. The two had
not met since their childhood days in
Germany.
Alfred S. Thompson is now making
good recovery from the severe injury
to his knee and the shock to the sys-
TEN which resulted. He has been at the
store since Tuesday.
Charles c. Howard. formerly of Brat
tleboro and Dummerston, was stricken
with paralysis this week at the home of
his son. Arthur Howard, in Bridgeport
Connecticut.
Lawyer c. C. Fits has been in Bos-
ton this week, going there from Mont
pelier after appearing before the COM
| mittee on corporations at hearing on
the question of a charter for the pro-
posed Connecticut river dam.
Dr. CHARLES Il. clark, who has been
| engaged in hospital practice in Detroit
| came yesterday to remain at the home
of his father, DR.. c. S. Clark. in West
Brattleboro. until next summer when
he will go to Turkey as medical mission
ary
Mr. and Mrs. IL. S. Josselyn. formerly
of Brattleboro, have moved this week
to Burlington. Mrs. Josselyn has the
| agency for the Furber shoe In Chitten-
IL
and Mr.. Josselyn will assist her in the
work.
Evan Goodale, who returned last week
from Boston where he was Ill six weeks
with typhoid fever, is in Greene's drug
store during the absence of Perley Bah
bitt. He win return Dec. 30 to his stu
| dies in the Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy.
Reginald Il. Carpenter of Portsmouth
N. H.. died Monday night from pneu-
monia at Annapolis Md, where he was
a member of the class of '04 of the naval
academy. He was q relative of George
C. Averill president of the Vermont Ma
| tional bank, and a son of the late Rear
Admiral c. C. Carpenter.
Arthur ]. Holden, who came within
ten votes of being elected Democratic
mayor of Keene, N. H., Tuesday, is a
former Windham boy and a graduate of
the academy in West Brattleboro and of
| the law school in Morgantown, w. Va.
| F. D. Stowe of Brattleboro was formerly
his partner in law practice In Keene.
| Miss Eliza A. Holbrook, nearly 90
years old and feeble, was rescued by
| Boston fremen Thursday night from the
| third floor of a burning building at l
| Myrtle street in that city. When the
| firemen reached her room she was
| standing calmly at the window. almost
| overcome by smoke, but waiting with
cool courage that many younger ones
| failed to show. Miss Holbrook is a
cousin of ex-Gox. Holbrook of Brattle-
boro>
In the party who left Brattleboro Tues
| day morning to attend the annual meet
| ing of the Vermont State Grange in Nor
risville were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Roel,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Sargent, Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. Spaulding, of Brattleboro,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. +. Woodland of Land
grove, Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Pier of Raw
sonville, L. o. Wilbur and e. s. Gar
field of Londonderry l.. e. Jaquith OF
| Guilford and e. 8. Cook of Halifax
| Others from the southern part of the
county went on the night train.
The marriage of Lawyer James Fisk
Hooker and Miss Anna Maud Essex will
| take place in ST. Michaers Episcopal
church Tuesday, Dec. 30. Rev. e. T..
Mathison officiating. The wedding will
| be quiet on account of the recent death
of Mr.. Hooker's father, Col. George w.
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