Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-19
BRATTLEeoRo PERSONAL.

Mrs. S. J. Jones has gone to Bethel for
an indefinite visit with her parents.
Miss Katherine Calvin is in New York
studying the fall styles in millinery.
Henry Lindsey of Nashua, N. H., has
returned home after a weeks visit at +.
H. Daviss
| Harry Wales, who is with his father in
West Lebanon, n. H., was in Brattleboro
yesterday.
Mrs. NJ. II. Tyler and daughter will
| return to Brattleboro today after five
weeks absence.
Miss Helen Crosby went to Boston Wed
| nesday to resume her studies in the Con-
| servatory of Music.
Myron Davis went yesterday to Siam
| ford, Conn to resume his duties as teach
| er in Belts Academy.
Charles A. Harris and L. +. Adams re-
turned Wednesday from a three weeks
| trip through western states.
Miss Katherine Calvin has been engaged
| by Mrs ID. l.. Herrick during the fall
and winter season of millinery.
| George Herrick has gone with his team
| to Cambridge, n. Y, where he has a con-
| tract for several months work.
Mrs Susan Collins. who has been at A.
r. Harriss several weeks, vent Wednes-
day TO New London and Noank, Conn.
Prof Patton. who is visiting his parents
on Green street will return to his duties
in Hartford Theological Seminary next
| week.
Admiral and Mrs Philip Hlchborn of
| Washington, d. c., who have been guests
| at the Brooks House, went yesterday to
| Boston.
| b. F. Sheldon and daughter. Miss Mabel
| Sheldon, of Red Wing. Mimi, have been
| guests at f. S. Knights and L. W. Haw
ley's this week.
Mrs. Grace Cabot Holbrook and chill
| dren, who spent the summer here and
at spofford lake. went to Brookline,
| Mass, Wednesday.
Mrs. Sadie Houghton 10y of Springfield.
| Mass, and her sister. Miss Nan Hough-
| ton, returned to their homes Friday after
a weeks visit in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Currier will re-
| turn to Boston today. having spent two
weeks with Mr.. Curriers' parents. Mr..
and Mrs. a. j. Currier..
| William II. Haywood of the Brattle-
| boro overall company, has been seriously
| III result of being thrown from his
| carriage few weeks ago, but Is improv
| ing
Mrs. Anna A. Arms OF Burlington will
| come to Brattleboro Monday to attend the
| reunion of company b. 18th Vermont regi-
| ment. She will be the guest of Mrs.
| Bangs while here.
| Miss Laura j. Stearns and Miss Marion
! Noyes returned Wednesday to their work
as teachers in the Pennsylvania Institu-
| ton for Deaf and Dumb at Mt. Airy,
suburb of Philadelphia.
Rev. f. A, Slack and family of Brook
| line, Mass. who have been spending the
| summer at Hyannisport will come to
| Brattleboro today to spend several weeks
| at their home on Western avenue.
Col. c. S. Forbes of ST. Adams was in
| town Tuesday gathering material for an
| illustrated article on President Roosevelt
in Vermont" which will appear in the
October number of The Vermonter.
DIR. and Mrs. C. NJ. Freeman MARY Will
| kins), arrived at the Brooks House We'd
nesday afternoon on their way from the
| White Mountains to their home in
| Metuchen, n. j, They left for Metuchen
yesterday morning.
Cards have been received announcing
that Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Stevens will
be at home after Oct. Is at 2454 Tracey
avenue, Kansas City. Mo. Mr. Stevens
was formerly bookkeeper for Crosby &
Co., later manager of the Vermont Live
| Stock company.
Lieut. and Mrs. Wallace n. Batchelder
and son. j. Thompson, and his nurse,
went TO Springfield this state. last week
| for visit a the home of Lieut. Batchel-
der's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund A.
| Batchelder. Lieut.. Batchelder returned
| Monday morning His family will remain
about two weeks.
Leland Carlton. who went to the Uni
versity of Vermont at Burlington this
week. is announced by the Free Press as
one of the candidates for quarter back
on the varsity foot ball team Carl
ton was quarter. back and captain of the
High school team last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles T Hawley, and
child of Gardner. Mass, came to Brat
tleboro Saturday night from York Beach.
Maine. Mr.. Hawley returned to Gardner
Monday but Mrs. Hawley and child will
remain with her parents Mr.. and Mrs. H.
| p. Freeman, the rest OF this month
Miss Mary Isabella Starr, who spent
| part of the summer with her uncle G.
H. Clapp, and family at Spofford Lake, re-
turned the first of the week to her home
in Springfield, Mass. after being at the
| Clapp residence two weeks. She will go
today to enter the graduating class in
Vassar College.
George w Stewart manager of the
Boston festival orchestra. we'll known in
Brattleboro former summer resi-
dent, has been appointed manager of the
bureau of music for the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition His duties will be to
and other musical features of the st.
Louis exposition and TO arrange the pro-
grams to be given during the expo
sition period.
A mistake in putting up medicine near
ly cost the life of the baby daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Mann. Mrs.
Mann went to Leominster, Mass. two
weeks ago accompanied by her mother
and by the baby. She took with her
some medicine obtained in Brattleboro,
including vial labelled tincture of rhu-
barb. When an attempt was made to
give the baby dose from the bottle
marked rhubarb she screamed violently,
and the mother and grandmother saw
at once that something was wrong. A
doctor was summoned at once, but before
he arrived vomiting had been induced
through emetics. An examination by
the doctor showed that the bottle con-
tanned iodine The babys mouth was
burned, but she swallowed none of the
liquid and will fully recover The mis-
take in putting up the medicine cannot
be explained.
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