Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-20
BRATTLEBoRo PERSONAL.

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Lawyer Hale X. Darling was at his
| home in Chelsea Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred A. Flagg of Troy,
| N. Y, were visitors in town over Sun
day.
Robert Burnham Of Florence, Mass,
| came Saturday to visit a short time at
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Arrow and daugh-
! ter, Mercedes, recently visited several
days in Proctor.
Edgar Welch of Whitinsville. Mass,
| spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs Ad-
die Welch of II Elliot street.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Hawley went to
| Washington this week to attend the
| Worlds Sunday school convention.
Mrs. E. e. Perry returned home We'd
| nesday after being at the Memorial hos
pital several days for surgical treatment
Mrs. w. D. ellison went to Keene
! last week, and her sister, Mrs Josie
! Green. returned with her to remain in
! definitely.
John Helyar, an instructor in the Uni
| versity Of Vermont, returned Sunday to
Burlington after spending few days at
! his home.
Lawyer James X. Batchelder of Ar
! lington, who announced last week his can
didacy for the governorship, was in Brat
tleboro Saturday.
| Mrs w. S. McKenney and daughter,
Lucy, of Greenfield are at the home of
| Mrs. McKenney's father George A.
! Hines, for an extended visit.
Mrs. Josephine Webster of Orange
! burg, S. c., cousin Of Harry p. Webster,
has received the appointment to a fellow
ship in general history in Smith college.
Johanna Brosnahan went to Rutland
| Tuesday to attend the funeral of Rev.
EFafh har rf11 rr~loa haR Rrcf ufC
of St. Mchael's Roman Catholic church
! in this town
Norman Knight Of Ansonia, Conn, has
been in town this week to have arrange
ments made for placing headstones on
the graves of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
oscar Knight.
Mrs. D. E. Trout returned today from
| Rockport, Mass, where she had been
visiting her parents three weeks. She was
accompanied by her grandmother, Mrs
Maria Tufts.
Miss Margaret R. Piper of Fftchburg
and Miss Louise Hyde Of Marietta, o.,
both in the graduate department Of Smith
college, spent Sunday with Miss Piper's
brother, H. l.. Piper.
Fred H. Harris was at home from
| Dartmouth college the latter part of the
week. He drove his fathers automobile
to Hanover Sunday, accompanied by his
|
William Schuster is now singing with
the Aborn Grand Opera company at
| Ford theatre in Washington. His as
sgnments include the King in Aida"
Dancairo in "Caremen," Fernando in IN
| Trovatore."
F. H. Moultrup, after living about a
year in New Britain, Conn, has returned
to Brattleboro and is now living at 65
Elliot street. He will work at his trade
as carpenter with local builders during
the present season.
Mr.. and Mrs John F. Anderson, who
were at the Brooks House over Sunday,
left Monday on fishing trip to Canada.
Mrs. E. c. Thorn, who had been the guest
of Mrs. Anderson in Philadelphia, came
to Brattleboro with the Andersons.
Mrs. George F. Barber went Tuesday
to Worcester and from there on an
automobile trip with her cousin Mrs.
Hamilton Whitned, to Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, to visit Miss Margaret Barber and
Mrs. Whitheds daughter, who are stu
dents in Nassar college.
The second annual meeting of the Con-
necticut Valley alumni association Of
Bates college was held Friday evening in
the home of DR.. w. n. Thompson of
Hartford, Conn. There are about 100
alumni of the college in the valley, and
so of them attended Dr. Thompson was
elected president of the association to
succeed G. A. Stuart, formerly of New
Britain, Conn, who had moved to Maine.
P. F. Mccarthy, secretary of the
Quarry Workers International union,
was found unconscious Friday night in
his office in the Scampini building in
Barre. 1t was evident that he had been
stricken while writing a letter on a
typewriter Physicians who were sum
moned said Mr.. NJ ,Carthy was uffering
from a shock. Mccarthy formerly lived
in West Dummerston and his wife was
Miss Mary E. Hopkins of this town.
DR.. ]. W. Gregg is in Burlington this
week attending medical lectures. The
University of the Vermont college of med
icine has prepared a special program OF
post graduate work for the physicians OF
the state who wish to attend these lee
lures. The object is to provide a course
of instruction on some OF the more i'm
portant subjects Of the recent advances
in medicine. 1t is the intention of the
faculty to provide a special course for the
physicians Of the state each year, which
will keep physicians up to date in their
practice.
Lawyer Wallace N. Batchelder of Beth
ell formerly OF this town, has received a
message requesting him to meet his for
mer colonel, eX-President Theodore
Roosevelt, in New York city June 16, up
on the latter's return from his African
hunting trip and his European tour. The
message says: You are not only request
ed, but you are expected to be there .
Mr.. Batchelder, who studied law in the
Waterman & Martin Office and was presi-
dent Of the young mems Republican club
served in troop X, 1st United States Vol
unteer cavalry, Roosevelt's Rough Riders
in 1898, and was the only member of tha,
regiment from Vermont. He was ap.
/ pointed first lieutenant Of United State:
volunteers by President Mckinley Aug
II, 1899, and was assigned to the 46th in.
fantry, going through the campaign II
the Philippines. He distinguished him
, self in several enga gements, particularly
The charge was led by Company of the
} I'd battalion Of the 46th regiment, and HI
led the first platoon OF the company.
William Toomey reached home las
week after an interesting experience as
soldier in the 9th United States Cavalry
= covering two enlistments and a period o.
nearly four years. He was in the Philip
} pines 26 months, being stationed a largI
! part of the time on the island of Jolo
one of the southernmost of the group
: only a few degrees north of the equator
5 He was also stationed on the island o.
> Mindannao and took part in the campaign
against the fanatical Moros in which
large number of natives were killed anC
the United States troops sustained som,
losses. He received an honorable dis
charge recently at Fort Des Moines, Iowa
! While in the Philippines he met Waite
| | RrasOr of this town uho is carving IN