The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-03
Outbreak of War Finds Sew
eral BrattlebOreans
Abroad
NO ANXIETY AS
TO THEIR SAFETY
Believed They viii BE Able to Cope
With Situation Some in Great
Britain, Others in the Involved Ma
tions on the Continent.

The outbreak of war in Europe finds
several Brattleboro persons in different
parts of that continent just what
the situation is with respect to them
is not known here, but the lack of def
mite information is not causing much
anxiety, as it is believed they will be
able to cope with whatever exigencies
arise
Letters received from Miss Marion
NJ Rice of this town, who went
abroad in May IN company with Mrs.
W. H. Jennings, Mrs. A. f. Pierce,
Mrs. Florence B. Carpenter, Miss Mary
Z. Buffum and Miss Y. w. Buffum Of
Winchester, y. H., stated that they
expected TO arrive in Vienna July 2S
for a stay of five days, previous to 90
ing by way of Prague and Berlin to
Hamburg, Germany, whence they in
tened to sail for this country Aug. IS,
on the steamship Patrica of the Ham
burg American line. There is no
likelihood, however, that they will be
able to leave any continental port,
and it is not improbable that they
will have difficulty in getting out of
Austria provided they went to that
country as they intended.
Mrs. J. H. Soliday of Dedham,
Mass, daughter of Mrs. NJ. S. Jones
OF this town, went abroad with a par
ty of tourists July 4 and is now in
Paris.
Miss Ethel l.. Osgood, daughter Of
Rev. and Mrs. E. Q. 5. Osgood of
High street, and Miss Elizazeth ;
White, daughter of Mrs. Jennie NJ
White, Of Putney road, a school teach
er in Plainfield, \. J.. are in or near
Bristol, England, if they followed the
itinerary which they planned They
left Boston june 16 and have been in
Ireland and Scotland They did not
plan to visit continental Europe 1t
was their intention to sail from Liver
| pool Aug. % on the White Star liner.
Arabic
Miss Edith NJ. Esterbrook, daughter
| Of Mrs. o. d. Esterbrook of High
street, left here early in June to meet
a friend in England and travel in the
British Isles and on the continent
| They have visited in England, Scot
| land, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and
| are now supposed TO be in Sweden 1t
was their intention to 90 to Russia
and Germany, returning home the last
| of September.
John G. Pellet. the contractor. left
| two weeks ago TO attend an Esperanto
congress in Paris and to visit other
| places, but just where he is now Is
not known.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Garrity and
daughter, Josephine, and Michael Curry
are in Ireland and plan to return late
this month or early in September Al
party of - Swedish residents sailed in
June for their homeland and planned
to be gone until the latter part of Sep
tember.
David S. Carey, ticket agent, has re-
ceived notice from the North German
Lloyd steamship line that all sailings
are cancelled; from the Cunard line to
make no more bookings, and from the
American line TO make no bookings ex-
cept to British ports.
Mrs. Ellen Simonds and daughter
| kittie, of Columbus, O.. who visited
Mrs. Simonds : sister, Mrs Augusta
Vinton, early this summer, are chaper-
oning a party of boarding school girls
from Columbus in Europe. They were
supposed TO be in Florence. Italy, YES
terday Mrs. Charlotte Kidder, of New
York, the pianiste, daughter of Mrs
Sarah NJ. Kidder of Brattleboro, is in
Vienna for treatment of finger by a
specialist. David Willar of New York
formerly of this town, is in Paris
Miss Nellie l.. Archer, Miss Elizabeth
A. Young and Jessie L. Patchen OF
New York, who spend the summers al
Quiturkare, on Ames hill, were in ST
IBERIA at the time of writing letter:
which arrived here last week.
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