Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-23
NEWFANE.
Neal BOWS Doth Birthday.

A company of 30 gathered in Union
hall Tuesday evening in honor of the Goth
birthday of Gen. Neal Dow, whom so
many have hailed this week as ''the Grand
Old Man of Maine" Mrs. G. E. David
son, state secretary of the W. c. 7. u,
presided. Rev. NJ. H. Hardy read Scrip
ture selection and offered prayer. J. NJ.
Kidder and a chorus of II rendered the
music Rev. Mr.. Hardy, Lawyer Fits,
Treasurer Davidson, and Mr.. Downs made
short addresses, and sketches were read
concerning Neal Dow as public man, as
a soldier, his home life, his library, his
physical endurance, ETC., by Misses Fish,
Miller, Kenny and Croker, Mr.. Miller and
Gilbert Batchelder. The Rotations were
defamation by Fred Whitaker, selec-
tioa from one of BOWS speeches by Fred
Pechin, and a "Song for the New Revolu-
ton" recited in unison by Gertie Croker
and Amy Miller. A collection for the
Worlds w. c. T. U. followed, and the
meeting, though rather late in beginning,
closed at quarter of nine. Mrs. Housh's
poem, elsewhere printed, was read
Mrs. Dewitt is at St. Augustine, Fla,
for few weeks.
VIM. Cunningham is the new janitor of
Union hall.
Miss A. T.. Kenny will return to Will
mington this week.
Mrs. Sarah Convey has been in town to
make arrangements to sell her farm.
Mrs. Chase and Frank Lang arrived
home from Brookfeld, Conn, last even
ing.
The name of Miss DENIS Titus, lately
daaaacad baar Uivar 10 in, 10
papers.
Mrs. Fred Underwood has gone to
Taunton, Mass, to visit her brother, Leon
ard Higgins.
Miss Susie Underwood played with the
Higgins orchestra for the lady MINISTRIES at
Londonderry.
VIM. Cunningham is on the Loyal Tenn
perance legion program for a solo Satur-
day evening at Mr.. Davidson's.
Clifford Pratt is the new clerk at n. NJ.
Batchelders. Fred Weston, former clerk,
is attending Leland and Gray seminary at
Townshend.
Miss Kirkland, known by her evangel-
istic work with Miss Billings, has so far
recovered from her lung trouble as to visit
her brother in the state of Washington
and engage in similar work there.
In lieu of the early strollers reporting
Vermont arbutus in March it must suffice
to mention a sight at buttercups and al
mond flowers from California, which were
sent to Brookline by Mrs. Potwine's sister.
Fred Weston's Adams arithmetic, pub
lished in 1905 and used in Halifax by his
great-grandfather Richard Hall, though
interesting to examined is modern compared
with DR., WestOn's medical work by A ris-
totle, published in London in I'LL.
Let Miss Mary wilkins, the popular nov
elist, deal masterfully with her New Eng
land originator of sorrel pies in "Pem-
broke" but we can tell her that S. B. Hig-
gins found much better ''pie timber" and
just as cheap, among the grass under his
apple tree in March. The apples had kept
fairly under the snow, and were actually
made into relishable pies.
A letter from Mrs. Jessie Edminster
Brainerd of Petaluma, Calf, mentions
meeting at the Midwinter Fair two natives
of this town, Helen Smith and Henry K
Field also Albert Hubbard, formerly of
Townshend. On Vermont day they all
partook of maple sugar on snow brought
from the Sierras by the carload.
A daughter born in Worcester, on the
18th, to Marshall and Annie Newton, is
the fifth generation living, and all are in
the maternal line. If they live it is prob
able that these representatives of FIVE gen.
erations will be photographed in Newfane
the coming summer. The grandmother is
Mrs. c. NJ. Goodenough, the great-grand-
mother Mrs. w. X. Hildreth, and the
at-great-grandmothe Mrs. John Wheel