Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-21

Mrs. H. C. Parker was in Westminster
with relatives from Friday until Monday.
A. l.. Howard and two sons, Benja-
min and Frank, are in Jamaica this
week.
Misses Briggs and Follett of Boston
came Thursday to their summer home
on West hill.
Mrs. Daniel Patterson and daughter,
Rhona, of Brattleboro, came Wednes-
day to e. E. Patterson's.
Miss Lizzie S. Houghton went today to
Fftchburg to attend the wedding of her
cousin, Miss Hazel Lowe.
B. F. Howard will move his family
into the Perry house, which Mrs. Per-
ry has vacated this week.
George Douglas, who bought the farm
of Howard Brothers, has moved his
family here from Springfield.
Mrs. Mary Perry will sell at auction
Saturday afternoon the personal prop
erty of the late Zenas Perry.
The play which was to have been
given by the Grange Saturday evening
has been indefinitely postponed.
Rev. and Mrs. j. E. Berry attended
the graduation exercises of the Brattle-
boro high school Tuesday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. II. S. McHale, Lucy and
Reginald McHale of Brooklne visited
at the Baptist parsonage Thursday.
Miss Perham of Cambrdgeport will
be at M. e. Robbins's next Wednes-
day and Thursday with her embroid-
cries.
Miss Isabelle Attleberry of New York
came Thursday to be a guest a week
of Miss Edna Burnett at the Larkand-
rest farm.
Mrs. A. ]. Aver and little daughter
Helen Elizabeth, were with Mrs Ayers
sister, Mrs. Susan Greenwood, in South
Charlestown, n. H., over Sunday.
Mrs Blanche Wright and daughter of
Northampton are with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs A. L. Howard, and are Wis
iting her brothers and sisters in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Pond and son,
Chester, of Ithaca, N Y, are guests of
Mr. Ponds brother at the Pond farm
on the East Putney river road. Mr.
Pond is a professor in Cornell university.
The ladies' society of the Baptist
church will tender a reception to Rev.
and Mrs. Berry next Tuesday evening
from to 10 o'clock, to which the pub
lie in general are cordially invited.
The ladies' aid society of the Congre-
gational church have invited the ladies'
OF the other churches and the ladies'
Of East Putney to meet with them in
the Congregational church next Satur-
day afternoon from 8 to o'clock.
Mrs. Charles Matthews left Tuesday
afternoon for St. Louis as delegate
from Massachusetts her former home,
to the American Womans league in
convention there. Mrs. Matthews ex-
poets to be absent a week or ten days.
The public schools in town close to-
day with the exception OF those in East
Putney in districts and s, which did
not begin as early by a week on ac-
count of the bad travelling in the
spring.
Mrs. Zenas Perry and daughter, Mrs.
Clark of Millers Falls, are at the Per-
ry homested picking up their house.
hold goods and getting ready for the
auction. Mrs. Perry will return to Mil
lers Falls with her daughter and make
her home there.
The entertainment given by the
schools Monday evening for the bene-
fit of the fund for pensonlng OF the
retired teachers OF Vermont was par
ticularly interesting. The program was
varied with song. dance and Rotations.
also a short play. The teachers were
able to contribute their full share and
a little extra to the fund.