Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-07-05
GRAFTON.

oliver Lawrence was in Claremont,
N. H., Sunday.
Elmer Grover Is at home from his
work in Lebanon, N. H.
Miss Nellie Buffum of Cambrijgeport,
is staying at ]. l.. Growers.
Mrs. F. y. Daniels and Mrs. Gilmore
are again at their home here.
Miss Abbe Palmer is visiting in the
| home of her brother, F. A. Palmer.
VIII Hakey and two women from
Townshend were at A. r. Tuttle's Sun
day.
Mrs. Francis of Westminster, who was
staying with Mrs. Mum, has returned
home.
Mrs Ida Turner Grant of Pittsfeld,
Pa, is spending a few weeks with her
parents.
Mrs. Clara Treadwell and Miss Hazel
have returned from months stay in
Boston.
Several from here attended the Gam
mell-walker wedding in Saxtons River
last week
Ernest Reynolds of Northampton,
Mass, was at w. E. L. Walkers the
first of the week.
N. r. Davis A. Holden, j. w. Eddy
and f. A. Palmer attended the conven-
ton in Newfane Tuesday.
Mrs. Harriet Haskell and son, Harold,
who spent the winter In Cambridge,
Mass, returned last week.
Mrs. Ella Fairbank accompanied her
niece, who had been visiting her, to
Greenwich, N. H., Tuesday.
Mrs. w. NJ. Colburn was in Chester
Friday and called on her cousin, Mrs.
Marshall, who is seriously ill.,
Mr.. and Mrs. George o. Lamphear of
Dorchester, Mass, were guests at Erwin
Green's from Monday to Wednesday.
Mrs. Albert futile, who had been Wis
iting in Brattleboro, returned Monday.
Mrs. Bragg and two children came with
her.
Friends of Edith Haskell Trip were
sorry to hear of her death. She spent
| summer here few years ago and won
many friends.
Rev. I. N. Compton and his Sunday
| school class and few invited friends
took a tramp across Kidder hill to
| Athens pond Tuesday.
| The ladies' missionary society of the
| Congregational church met with Mrs.
| II. H. Burlingame Friday afternoon. The
| subject discussed was "Unmet needs of
| home missions
| for a few weeks vacation from his
work in Michigan. viii Watrous, who
| has spent the last five years in Mich
| igan, is home for short stay.
Mrs. Susan B. Mum quietly passed
| her Goth birthday anniversary July l in
| her home. Her sight is good and all
| her faculties are retained to a remark
/ able degree. Her memory of things of
| long ago Is wonderful, while all recent
| happenings are fresh in her mind. She
| Is in excellent health and takes great
| interest in all that is going on. Her chief
| pleasures are in seeing her friends and
reading. daughter and granddaughter
| Mrs. Treadwel and Hazel, are living
with her.
The Eastman school closed Friday
with an entertainment in the evening
| by the children, which consisted of mu
| sic, rectations and dialogues. After the
| children's part Sabin Hakey entertained
| the audience with his Kaleidoscope Ian
| tern. Popcorn and candy were sold and
I the children feel well paid for their
work. The proceeds will go toward a
school library. Children perfect in at
| tendance were Oscar Ebert, Esther and
Alma Anderson, Oscar and Emily john
son. Raymond Hakey had one tardy
| mark and Alden Turner was absent one
| day. Emily Johnson has not missed
| day in school for three years. Miss
| MauIe Greenwood has taught in this
| school a year and the district deeply
| regrets that she will not return for an
| other year.
The children of the grammar school
without absent marks during the term
were Henry Grover Charles Compton,
Hazel Compton, Lillian Prouty, Ala
Prouty, Bernice Eddy, Raymond Eddy
and Edith Holden; those in the primary
department, Kenneth Compton, Clarence
Eddy, Howard Eddy, Paul Cove, Lynda
Prouty, Harriet Leonard, Beatrice
| Prouty. Cary Palmer, Walter Stowell,
Fred Perkins, Doris Eddy; in the Valley
school, Della Lawrence. Helen Lawrence,
| Ethel futile, Bert Lawrence, Edwin
| Lawrence, Charles Moultrop. Willard
Moultrop, Arthur Wright; in the Walk
er school, Gladys Prouty, Elsie Snton,
| Phamie Sinton, Rose Stebbns, Elsie
Stebbins, Floyd Prouty, Frank Stebbins.
| Theodore Thomas and Ernest Thomas
in Houghtonville, Marjorie Gallup; in the
Pettengill school, Mildred Parker, Cora
| Parker. Sylvia Parker, Gilbert Dompier,
| and Avery Park.