Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-01-03
WESTMINSTER WEST.

Hon. Homer Goodhue, after a week or
more of improvement, during which he Wis
tied Brattleboro, is again confined to the
house, and probably will not be able to at
tend to any public duties at present.
Mrs. Loren Goodhue has been seriously
i'll for a week past She took severe
cold, which resulted in an attack of con-
gestion of the lungs. At present she is re-
ported to be convalescent Mrs. S. A.
Shattuck has been nurse and housekeeper
there.
Miss Carrie Wellman was one of the
students who came home for the Christmas
vacation. She had hard cold at the time,
and after few days seemed to take more,
which has brought on pneumonia. She is
now quite i'll and is attended daily by DR..
Pettengill
The annual grange supper came off on
Wednesday evening. A large company
was on hand, and everything passed off
very agreeably. Under the direction of A.
d. Kerr, the master, a number of readings,
recitations and songs were given, followed
by the masters address, and then the
company sat down to tables bountifnlly
supplied. When the members departed to
their homes it was felt that the new year
was well begun.
Miss Eta Miller, one of the lady evan
gelists with us last winter, is with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. p. Ranney for a few days this
week. Her many friends here are very
glad to greet her again. She is now EN-
ployed in Connecticut together with Miss
Billings. They are enjoying a short vaca-
ton after several months labor there.
They have been employed in two small
villages in the town of Lebanon, and have
been successful there. On their return
next week, they are to work in the main
villages of Lebanon, where Rev. DIR. W..
S. Palmer is minister, who was formerly
for number of years at Wells River in
this state. Miss Miller is looking well,
and says she enjoys her work much, but
still considers herself to belong to Yer
mont. 1t is probable when the work is
done in Lebanon that Misses Miller and
Billings will return to this state,
The recent wind storms have been severe
in this locality, although no very serious
damage resulted. A. F. Wilcox's old saw
mill was completely demolished. 1t had
not been run for several years. Mr.. Wilcox
had talked of repairing it and putting it
to use. There is not so much now as the
semblance of a saw mill in the place, where
once four or five found busy employment.
A large branch of the immense elm in
front of d. c. Gorham's was wrenched off,
destroying a considerable portion of the
beauty and symmetry of the tree, the
largest and handsomest in the vicinity.
Now that the destruction has begun, it
will probably not be many years before
this landmark will have vanished. 1t has
not been so vigorous since it was struck by
lightning two years ago. Several of the
valuable naples in j. II. Clark's sugar lot
were uprooted. Reuben Miller's ice pond
was washed out, caused by the uprooting
of large hemlock tree against which one
of the base timbers rested. The falling of
the tree occasioned the giving way Of the
dam, and now Mr.. Miller will have to look
elsewhere for ice. 1t was formed of excel
lent fitness before the thaw, but there was
lack of snow upon which to draw it to the
ice house.