Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-08-07

Miss Stone of Connecticut has been a
guest of the Perrys at Bencassqn.
Miss Mary J.. Plat of Waltham. Mass,
is spending a vacation with relatives
here.
Orchard post and the Woman's Relief
corps will meet at II. \. Carpenters on
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Harriet Broad is expected at Ben
casson about the middle of August by
Rev. and Mrs. Broad.
Mrs Achsa Roote Fream of Montevideo
Mimi, now in northampton and Connec-
ucut has postponed her visit here until
next week.
Miss Ada Edwards of Bellows Falls.
and recently of Newport y. H.. Miss
Clune and Miss Clark of Brattleboro are
boarding at G. w. Parsons's.
Station Agent Ballou, \. H. Farnham
and former mail agent Franklin of the
narrow gauge have been enjoying fish
ing trips during this weeks rainy days.
Miss Sage and her guests at Rest Cot
tage, Mr.. and Mrs. Engram of Rutland,
are attending the Mortified meetings
Another guest. Mr.. Denning of Middle
town Conn, is about to go to Florida to
live.
The rainy days kept J. n. Plat of Wal
lingford. Conn. from taking trolley rides
through various towns to Greenfield, but
he arrived by steam Wednesday evening
en- route to Cottage City, Mass, to visit
his sister. Mrs T.. r. Smith,
Mrs Emma Newton Moore of North
boro. Mass. is visiting relatives and old
friends this week. She will go from here
to meet her brother, Marshall Newton.
of FELTON,, Del, at the home of his sis
ter. Mrs. Marietta Gerow, of Cambridge,
n. Y.
Misses Mary and RoXanna Gage of
Fitchburg High school, and formerly of
this place, spent day recently AZ G.. w.
ParsOnss Misses Mabel and Eta Gage
are employed respectively in a Lynn,
Mass, shirt factory and a Maine wooden
mill, where they inspect garments and
cloth.
Arthur O. Howe. a graduate of Vermont
University. who has for several years
had charge of electric plants, left on
Tuesday to take similar position in
Whiting, Ind, two miles from the city
limits of Chicago, place OF quick growth
to 5000 inhabitants and apparently des-
tined to absorb some larger enterprise of
that great city of the West which pushes
out in all directions.
Mrs Eugene Randall of Springfield,
this state. is one of the several guests
lately at F. j. Mcotts Mrs. Randall is
real daughter of the Revolution, the
only actual daughter of that war in
Claremont chapter. and said to be the
| youngest in the country. Her father S
name was Hasham and at the age of II
he carried food and water to soldiers at
| the battle of Bunker Hill, and continued
| his services in other ways. He became
a successful town clock manufactures.
! Botanical Instructor Clifton d. Howe
/ of Chicago University arrived last week
| at the family home. He will continue
| his work in Vermont, as employed by
| the national bureau of forestry, which
seeks to carry out the progressive scien-
| titic aspect of numbering by helping botf
| the lumbermen and the economies of the
whole country. There is said to be a
widespread misunderstanding of the bu-
reau's aims. These aims assume thai
! the forests can be protected and at the
same time owners and investors can be
taught how to secure what is called a
" sustained yield " for an indefinite term
of years. Otherwise the supply must il
| time be practically exhausted, as the ole
growth of pine is already in this state.