Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-22
Miss Belle HAYWARD is Ill.

MISS Belle hayward Is Ill.
Helena Nichols is working for Mrs.
Tracy Leonard.
Miss Lena Convey is working at E. F.
Coxson's on Highland street.
The Needlecraft will meet this, Friday,
afternoon, with Mrs. w. Il. Bartlett.
Guy Thayer has entered the employ of
the Central New Hampshire Power COM
pany.
George and Leslie Ormsbee of Millers
Falls are visiting their grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jillson.
Mrs. c. F. Clark of Halifax, who Wis
tied her daughter, Mrs. II. II. Barber,
a week, returned home Saturday.
l.. j. Knight is making arrangements
to build a barn near his residence on
Melrose street as soon the ground is
settled.
william B. Houghtons family, who
spent the winter in Springfield, Mass,
returned to their Ames hill home We'd
nesday.
The dance at Academy hall Wednes-
day evening was patronized by about 20
couples Leitsinger's orchestra furnish
ed music.
Mrs. E. NJ. Goodenough has been i'll
week, but is improving. Her mother,
Mrs. F. H. Hobson, of Bellows Falls
visited her the first of the week.
Monday to visit her grandmother, Mrs.
A. c. Clisbee who remains very i'll,
although comfortable at this writing.
Tracy II. Leonard, who has been an
invalid and confined to his home for
nearly two years, passed away in his
home on Williams street Tuesday after
noon.
Arthur Bailey and Clarence Bailey of
Springfield have been staying with
N1ar
Bailey returned home Saturday and Ar
thur Bailey Wednesday.
Irving Thayer had the misfortune to
lose a valuable horse the first of the
week The horse slipped in some way
Saturday, the injury brinng on a spinal
trouble from which it died.
The measuring social which was to
have been held Friday evening by the
young people of the Congregational
church, was postponed indefinitely on
account of the heavy rain storm.
E. NJ Whitney and family have
moved from the farm known as the
Dustin place to 80 Prospect street. Mr..
Whitney has two work teams and ex-
poets to follow the occupation of gen.
eral teaming.
Mrs. Edward S. Clark, who was with
Mrs. w. E. Minis in Warren, Mass,
several weeks. has been a guest of DR..
here Thursday en- route for her home
in Detroit, Mich.
Miss Bethia Hubbard of Centerbrook,
Conn, who is a teacher in Derby acad-
envy, was a guest over Sunday of Miss
Helen Prentiss. They both left Monday
for Derby, where they will take up their
school work again.
The Cosy Corner club was enter
tanned at a covered dish party Saturday
In, ha IF Mrc
Martin. The decora tons were in keep
ing with st. Patrick's day. An elaborate
dinner was served and a guessing contest
was enjoyed
The sugar supper served by the men
of the First Congregational church in
| the chapel last evening met with much
| success. In spite of the snow which
| had fallen all day the patronage was
large and the receipts amounted to a
| good sum.
The women's association met Thurs
| day afternoon with Mrs. C, r. Prentiss
| for sewing meeting. The work for
| Kurn Hattin was nearly completed. 1t
| is requested that all those who have
| taken work home to finish leave it as
soon as convenient at Mrs L. II. Stel-
mans.
Leon Mixer, Miss Ellen Miner and Mr..
and Mrs. Mack were in Putney Satur-
| day evening to assist E. L. Parker in
installing the officers of Kimball Hill
| colony of Pilgrim Fathers. Other mem
bers of Fort Dummer colony accom-
| panied the installing officers as visitors.
Kimball Hill colony served a very at
tractive banquet at the close of the in
| stallation.
Miss f. Eliza Sessions, representative
of the Kurn Hattin Homes, gave very
interesting talk Sunday morning in the
Congregational church. She told of the
homes, the work, how they are main
tanned and of the IS boys who are cared
for. She spoke in particular of some OF
the boys who had made the greatest i'm
| provement and of the possibilities oper
to all the boys and of the really paren'
tai care that is given them by Super
intendent McQueeny and his worthy
wife, the matron. Miss Sessions made
a very earnest plea for greater interes
to be taken by the churches and peo
pie of Vermont in these homes where
more than half the boys are from town!
in this state.