Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-01-31
PUTNEY,

F. L, Pierce was in Greenfield and other
places on business Monday.
Rev. Mr.. Laycock of Dartmouth college
spent Sunday with II. l.. Pierce.
Ira Davenport has returned from Bethel
and will remain here for the winter.
blacksmith Kennedy has finished work
for G. Is. Willard and returned to his home.
The monthly covenant meeting of the
Baptist society will be held in the Baptist
church tomorrow.
deputy meeting of the Eastern Star
chapter will occur in Masonic hall next
Wednesday evening.
A half-dozen or more Chinese pheasants
have been placed upon the Overman pre-
serve across the river.
The High school will enjoy a sleighrde
to Saxtons River tonight where feastng
and dancing will be INDUCED in.
Pearl l. Blanchard has taken several cold
baths while harvesting ice for A. M. Cor
ser, but without injurious effects.
George Howard will be the engineer in
F. L. Pierce's mill which will be erected
in Westminster before many months. t1sta
The Young Peoples society of the Con-
gregational church will have calico So
cial in the vestry next Friday night, to
which all are cordially invited.
The hash supper and social in the Con-
gregatiOnal vestry Tuesday evening was,
as usual, well attended, which means de-
cided success financially and socially.
The singing school will be changed from
Wednesday evening to Friday evening.
School children who cannot come in the
evening may come Friday afternoons at
4:30.
Friends and neighbors to the number of
about 40 gave Mr., and Mrs. Ezra Pierce
surprise party last Tuesday evening. A
very pleasant evening was spent with
games and music.
L. P. Bailey appeared with his new stage
sleigh Monday morning. 1t is closed and
has the inscription "Putney village" on the
sides. Mr.. Bailey is VERY dignified in its
possession and justly so.
Mrs. Flora P. Shelley, Mrs. L. p. Bailey,
Miss Anna Blanchard, NJ. H. Pember, and
others whose names are not at hand, will
attend the annual Grand Army encamp-
ment in Rutland Feb. 10.
Mrs. George Wing, who is at A. A.
' Wings, leaves soon to join her husband
in Woodstock, which viii be the next
headquarters for the Wrought Iron Range
company for which he is a salesman.
The annual meeting of the Congrega-
tional church and society, which was to
have.been held Jan. I, is adjourned to Feb.
at 2 o'clock p. NJ, when it is hoped that
every one interested in the society will be
present.
George r. Guy of minstrel fame came
from West Virginia, where the troop is
now playing, to Springfield, Mass, to bury
his mother last week, and was in town a
short time for a visit with his mother-n-
law, Mrs. Charles Kilburn.
The chorus choir of the Congregational
church will meet for a rehearsal with Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Gilbert tomorrow even
ing at I 80. Next Sunday the choir will
sing "Seek we the Lord" by Dr. j. V. Rob-
erts for an anthem, and "Love divine" by
j. c. Macy for an offertory.
A birthday party will be given in the
Congregational church Wednesday even
ing, Feb. II. further particulars of which
will be announced later. A supper will be
served in the vestry, and an attractive pro-
gram rendered in the church auditorium.
The occasion will no doubt equal the church
rally of year ago.
What is going to become of our young
men may well engross the minds of our
townspeople. Such sights as were to be
seen on our principal streets Sunday are
deplorable in the extreme and suggest
that radical change of government should
be enforced somewhere, if not for personal
good then for the welfare of the own.
Rev. F. NJ. Wiswall of Marlboro, n. H.,
who preached in the Congregational church
last Sunday, will occupy that pulpit again
next Sunday. Mr.. Wiswall does not come
at his own solicitation but was recommend
ed by an outsider. He is a young man,
unmarried, and will no doubt give entire
satisfaction, as he is exceptionally pleasant
to meet in his daily walk,
Miss Clara Cushman, New England Sec
rotary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist church, and for
eight years missionary in China, spoke
to a large and interested audience Sunday
evening in the Methodist church. Her
lecture related principally to the customs
and needs of the Chinese people and her
work among them. 1t was instructive and
enlightening to marked degree.
Among Landlord McNulty's guests this
week are: W. A. Gibson, South Ryegate
A. G. johnson, Troy, N. Y; Isadore Mil
Ter, New York city; 1. B. Frost, Boston /;
W. S. Smeallie, Amsterdam, n. Y; G. A.
Prouty, Burlington; George E. Foster,
Windsor; G. S. Beardow, New York; j.
F. Bromley, Pawlet; Dwight Loomis,
Springfield; w. A. Wilson, Hadley, Mass.
j. P. Moranville, Rutland; L. S. Hough-
ton, Boston, and Fl. L. Brown, Greenfield
Mass.
F. D. Kendall has lost eight fat hogs
within a month, valued at something like
500. They were taken i'll one day and
died the next, manifesting symptoms OF
poisoning, though of course it is not GER
tain that that was the trouble. A grave
opened for the ninth hog, but he has evad
ed it thus far. If poison is the cause Of
thetrouble some one is guilty of bastard
ly crime which renders its perpetrator more
worthy than this ninth hog of the place
which was prepared for him.
The music in the air which was looked
for Saturday afternoon did not reach oul
ears A. A. Langley was taking advan
tage of the first shedding to move his up
right piano from his house here, occupied
by A. F. Boomer, to his "Cay'' farm, and
had it loaded upon the sled with horses
attached, when Dorr Coughs horse, which
was loose, pranced up by and infused
Langleys horses with desire to do like
wise. They ran out of the yard, up Kim
ball hill, out by Putney Hannum's anC
down the crossroad as far as Kendall
slaughter house before they were stopped
and all was right side up.
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