Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-28
WILLIAMSVILLB.

F.E. Willard of Brattleboro is stating
our village schoolhouse.
Geo. G. Cooley and daughter, Maud, are
visiting at North Adams, Mass.
Mrs. E. C. Gotta has been visiting Bel
lows Falls friends the past week.
Rev. James Tufts of Monson, Mass, is
a visitor at j. A. Young's.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Willard attended
the Miller family reunion at Vernon Tues
day.
Rev. Mr.. Estabrook has been attending
the Claremont junction camp meeting the
past week.
Will not the stay-at-home Republicans
next Tuesday be casting an indirect vote
for the 53-cent dollar?
A good sized audience gathered at the
Methodist church Monday evening to listen
to the lecture of Frank Moss on "OuI fight
with vice and crime in New York"
Rev. Mr.. Fairbanks, former pastor,
preached at the Methodist church last Sun
day. There will be no services at the
church next Sunday on account of the
grove meeting at Sunset lake.
Ned, the 15-years-old dog of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Crowningshield, was run over
and instantly killed by the mixed train at
Williamsville station last Monday morn
ing. He had been almost a daily visitor
at the station for the past year, where by
his good nature he was universal favor
tie with all who knew him.
The school in this village will begin
Sept. !, with Mrs. E. A. Kenyon as teach
er. All the other schools in the south
part of Newfane will begin next Monday
with teachers as follows: South Newfane,
Luella Williams; Parish, Mrs. A. A.
Bailey; BroOkside, Mary Halliday: Adams
hill, Winnie Sherman.
Among our visitors of the past week
have been w. H. Thorn of the Lynn,
Mass, police force, and his mother, Mrs
Jennie Jones, at G. d. LazelPs; G. H
Dickinson of Wallingford, Conn, at d. d.
Dickinson's; Mrs. Holland Plimpton and
Mrs. F. H. Brown of Greenfield, Mass, al
j. w. Shipman's Mrs. W. S. Benson and
daughter of BrocktOn, Mass, at Minnie
Moore's; Mrs. F. II. Strong of Bellows
Falls at E. C. Cota's.
There are 295 names on the NewfanC
| check list as revised at the last meeting OF
the board of civil authority. With gooC
weather next Tuesday we venture the pre-
diction that about 200 votes will be cas-
for the Republican candidate for governor
40 for the Democratic, and 10 for the Pro
hibition and Peoples, leaving 45 stay-at
homes. The vote at the corresponding
election four years ago stood: Republican
1877, Democratic 80, Prohibition 3. Tit
election will be held at Schoolhouse hal
in this village.
Not all of the missionary work of thi
campaign is being done by the speaker
and documents sent out from party head
quarters. A few days ago a man passed
through our village selling harness black
ing. Upon being asked how he stood OF
the leading question of the day he replied
in substance as follows: "Four years age
l was a loom fixer in a Dover, N. H.
wooden mill. l was getting 1925 da.
and had every prospect of steady job
John e. Russell of Massachusetts, came Il
Dover to address the workingmen on tn
issues of the campaign. Among othe
things he promised us that if CLEVELAND
should be elected we would have shorte
hours of labor. Then Senator Frye O
Maine came along and told us that if Cleve
land was elected the grass would be grow
ing around our factory doors before tn
close of his administration. We voted tn
free trade ticket but it didn't take us
a great while to find out that both speak
ers had told us things that were true
Shorter hours came to us with vengeanc
for we soon had no work at all. The gras