Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-06-24
Wilmington.

-Haystack
And Ray Pond parties
Are all the rage these days
-Hurrah for the Wilmington and Brattle-
boro Telephone.
Our village has 80 widows and wild
overs.
The drug store has been frightened with
coat of paint.
C. A. Lamb has employed William Canedy
to drive his six horse team and he will soon
remove to this place.
John Rudd has gone from town for new
coach and horses for the stage line which he
will begin to run July LIST.
We may have our annual town fair the
coming fall, as some of our farmers do not
like the mo fair" vote of the Agricultural
Society.
Fishing this year is dull sport as rule,
but Rev. A. B. Truax and Horace Ais of
Brattleboro made an exception on Tuesday
with a catch of 40 fine trout.
An idea of the unusual mortality of the
season can be obtained from the fact that
Mr. Rose, our undertaken, has furnished more
caskets and collins since January first; than
he did during all of last year.
j. H. Dix, though nearly so years old
climbed to the summit of Haystack with a
party of young people on Monday, and came
home as fresh as any of them.
Rev o. Smith attended the funeral of
Joseph Reed on Tuesday Mr.. Reed was for
some time the oldest person in town, having
attained the advanced age of 81 years. He
was an honest Christian man and much re-
spected in the community.
Mrs. Hiram Haskell, who departed this
life on Wednesday, was lady in whose life
the Christian graces attained an unusual per-
fiction. Her four daughters, Mrs. L. NJ.
Harris of this town, Mrs. F. Barber of New
York City, Mrs. o. Swift of Amherst, Mass,
and Mrs. o. F. Knowlton of Milford, Mass,
were all with her at the time of her death.
In the death of Mrs. Eliel Crosby the
town loses another aged and respected
lady. She was buried from the Universalist
church ON Saturday, Rev. Mr.. Barber official
ing.
The sad lead poisoning case OF II. @.
Winchester was brought TO a close by his
death in the Brattleboro asylum on Sunday,
whittier be had been carried TO be treated for
temporary insanity caused by softening of the
brain. His funeral sermon was preached on
Wednesday by Rev. j. Hamilton ut the resi-
dence of his father.
There is the usual amount of sickness in
town. w. c. Riddell is laid up with rheuma-
tism Alonzo Titus is very low with paralytic
buOCh, mTs. OOWhSA ~ NOAJ oAeA1 "AAAS
several others are in quite poor health.
Among others who have been visiting or
boarding in town the past week we have no.
tioed o. NJ. Lawton and wife, George White
and family, e. II. Fox and w. X. Black of
New York city, Miss Julia Bartlett of Brook
Ign, Il. II. Riddell and wife of Boston, Mrs.
A. j. Rice of Ann Arbor, Mich, Billings
Stanley and family Of Kansas and Miss Mona
Hunt of Brattleboro.
Rev. G. s. Sherman of Guilford preach
ed at the Baptist church last Sunday on eI-
change with the pastor. At the Methodist
church Rev. Mr.. Hamilton preached very
entertaining sermon TO the children. At the
Universalist church Rev. Mr. Barber preach
ed a sermon on the end of the world, which
he had promised to give in case the astronom-
ical crash predicted did not previously occur.
The new pastor not having arrived, there
was no preaching service in the Congregation
al church.
At the recent session of the Grand Lodge,
+. A. NJ, at Burlington, O. M. Russell,
Worthy Master of Social Lodge No. 80, was
appointed Dist. Dept Grand Master for the
Sth district, which comprises the II lodges In
Windham county.
Rufus G. Bowker has just returned from
Grand Isle county with a, herd of COWS which
he purchased there.
As Walter Bellows and his mother OF
Hartwellville, were driving near the residence
OF Ed. Canedy on Wednesday, the carriage
was overturned and Mrs. Bellows sustained
severe injuries
Mrs. Cotton Mather is very low.
N. NJ Haskell's auction sale commenced
on Thursday and will be continued until all.
the goods are sold.
DIR. Hoon has employed Lyman o. Morris
to drive him, and will be at his service to an
swer calls night and day.
Increase Whitney cut his leg severely,
lniuring the bone, while chopping ut Wood
ford The wound is now almost healed under
the treatment of DIR. Hoon.
William Sutton cut his hand in fright
tul manner, Tuesday of last week, on cir
eular saw, in Bonds mill at Searsburg. DIR,
Hoon, who was called, found it necessary to
amputate the index finger and resect the
large joint of the middle finger. The patient
was kept under the influence of an anlesthetic
Tor two hours.
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