Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-14
NEW FAME.

The local society of Christian Endeavor
was represented at the convention in So
Wardsboro by an attendance of IL from its
membership of %. This being a larger
proportion than any other society furnished
the banner was awarded to Newfane.
A reunion of the Davidson family, which
takes place i'm New Hampshire this week,
claims the attendance of Mr.. and Mrs NJ.
Davidson. Mr. Davidson's place in the
bank is meanwhile taken by f. A. Dewitt.
Mrs. Dewitt, after a week at Lake
Pleasant goes to the seashore.
The w. G. r. L. will meet next Wednes-
day with Mrs. Morse The annual meeting
will be deferred till the return of its pres
dent, Miss Mortified, who expected to sail
from Liverpool on the Servia August IL.
A portion of Mr. Underwood's mill has
been sent to Jamaica, i'm charge of Fred
Underwood, for temporary job of saving.
While Mrs. Green is enjoying a little
change i'm Hinsdale, her place at the station
is filled by Mrs. Annie Sherman of Will
Evansville.
s. b. Higgins brings home entertaining
accounts of the soldiers meeting at Detroit.
Miss Chamberlain is stopping with her
sister, Mrs. Lyman, this week.
Clifford Pratt. clerk in a Putney store is
spending a few days at his fathers.
The New Yorker who speaks of yer
mont's vast inland seas" will be glad to
hear that the seashore flora is spreading
inland. NJ. A. Howe, interested in botani-
cal collections, has over 400 specimens
from Vermont soil. One of them. belong
ing to the rush family, on being sent to
Harvard college, was found to be a variety
that hitherto has not been discovered far
from the sea. Mr.. Howe is engaged to
continue teaching in the BrattlebOro High
school. His classmate, A. j. Grout, is
collecting botanical specimens for the Yer
mont agricultural station, and in September
will take charge of Burr IL Burton semin-
AIRY of Manchester.
\ generous variety of ferns, transported
to New York by June guest, is reported
to be fourishing in that city.
Ernest Tuthill, with his wife, has gone
to Waterbury to assume the duties of SUI
pervisor in the new asylum.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Higgins 20 to Maine
this week.
Work on the store building will be sus-
pended while 4. T. Edwards and team ac-
company Fuller battery to Bennington.
Miss NJ Seaton returns refreshed from
Intervale, among the White Mountains.
A party of 20 young folks enjoyed a straw
ride to Townshend Tuesday evening, and
others, contented to jog along in the more
prosaic way of single carriages with modern
springs, swclled the number from Newfan,
in attendance at neighboring festivities to
about 30.
Miss Carrie Cook of Natick. Mass, is
expected at Mrs. Newtons.
\ commendable example Of the force OF
industry and good habits is shown in re-
pairs on Mr.. Best'S house, which when he
bought il a few years ago was in "A gene
ally rundown condition.
Russell G. Bates, whose father, Rev
/ Chandler Bates. preached on Newfane hill
I 80 years ago. and who die recently in Par
ma Centre, y. Y, was born in this tow
/ in 1877. \ Rochester paper, cOntainn!
obituary notice, commendS his life aS busy
( useful and honorable, AMI states that h,
left a wife AMI daughter. His brother
DR.. l.. y. Bates, stationed in the navy a
Mare Island, Cal, is the only survivin!
member of his father family.
There will be a religious service in tn,
schoolhouse in district No. 8, next Sunda!
at =. NJ, conducted by Rev. c. II. Smith
The Worcester House is having a sue
cessful season of summer trade. Follow
ing is partial list of the July and Angus
boarders from abroad: Mrs. f. NJ. Lee
Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. n. +. Wheeler Mis-
Hattie Wheeler, Miss Olive Butler, Mr.
and Mrs. G. b. Butler, Frank Butler
f. b. Wheeler, Miss \. c. Turnbull, Mr.
and Mrs. F. &. Howe Walter and Bah,
Howe and nurse, j. F. Howe, Geo. NJ
Howe, Miss Gertrude b. Strong, Spring
field; Miss Marie Wilhelmy, Hartford
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. +. Griffin, Miss Mar,
f. Griffin, Harry Griffin, Orange; justin
ID. White, Newark, n. j.; Mr.. and Mrs
II. NJ. Morse, Mrs. DIR. f. Strawn, Phila
delphia; Mrs. r. X. Freelow, Mrs. c
Mason, Miss L. j. Sanford, Fall River