Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

Miss Helen Barnard is very i'll at present.
c. ID. Spencer experienced severe at
tack of erysipelas last week.
II. w. Stearns and son of Brooklyn have
recently been in town.
The state board of agriculture will hold
a meeting at Wilmington Feb. II.
Quite number of persons have recently
joined the Good Templars lodge,
Mrs. DR.. Titus has returned from an eX-
tended visit to friends in Boston.
Owing to illness, Rev. E. w. Pierce did
not 90 to Maine as announced last week,
The quarterly union temperance concert
was held at the Baptist church last Sunday.
Miss Edith Phelps is spending her vaca-
ton in town with her mother Mrs. Hicks.
Rev. j. ID. Skinner was unable to con-
duct services last Sunday on account OF
illness.
c. A. Lamb who has been housed for
so many weeks, is able to be out once
more.
Railroad meeting to consider the matter
of grade crossings JAN Il. The public is
interested.
Rev. Mr. Mckenzie attended the funeral
of a child of Mr.. Hill in West Dover on
Wednesday.
c. NJ. Russell has given his illustrated
entertainment every evening this week At
different places up the West River valley.
Mr. Frank Titus of Brooklyn reached
town on Wednesday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Bills, which was held on Thursday.
The lecture, which was to have occurred
in the Methodist church Wednesday even
ing, is postponed until further notice.
Electrician Clary has put a telephone
into the office of DIR. Rice this week This
makes six instruments now in operation in
the village.
This community was again saddened
Yesterday by the death of Eleazer Gorham
a citizen long held in universal esteem. y
sketch of his life appears elsewhere in thi,
paper.
Sickness and death are the prevailing
topics of interest at present. So many are
i'll that it is impossible to name them all
f. Gorham and Mrs. judith Smith are
among those who are extremely i'll.
The quarterly concert of the w. c. 7
L. was held at the Baptist church last sun
day morning. The exercises consisted o
recitations and music with scriptural read
ing and exegesis of the Sunday school lessor
by Rev. Mr.. Mckenzie.
A choice program will be presented a
the next meeting of the Literary and Sci
entfic union on Jan. 6. There will b.
Rotations by Mrs. Henry E. Mann, Edit
j. Boyd and others, with vocal and nstru
mental selections, etc. All are invited.
Christmas exercises were held at tn
Congregational church on Thursday even
ing and at the Methodist and Universalis
churches on Friday evening. The eXel
cises at each church were appropriate an
interesting, but owing to the extremely TN
favorable weather and the unusual numbe
of cases of illness, the attendance was nc
large.
Mrs Winchester and her daughters Lott
and Clara were called to Wardsboro o
Monday by the sickness of Mrs. Wakefield
Mrs. Winchester's mother. Her death OF
CURED on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Walk
field had been a resident of Wilmington IL
short time, and had been in Wardsbol
for some months caring for an invalid brotl
err whose death occurred a few hours b.
fore her own. Although her residenC
here had been so brief many of our peop
had made her acquaintance and had lear
ed not only to respect, but to love her fl
her many sterling qualities of mind al
heart.
AS we enter upon the new year CLAM