Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
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F. Il. Sergeant returned Wednesday
from brief visit in Athol.
The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs.
Morse next Wednesday at 8 O'Clock.
Mrs. D. A. A. Benson and daughter, Miss
Benson, are spending several days inBoston.
Mrs. and Miss Fish go to Vergennes to-
day to spend two weeks with Lawyer +. l..
Fish.
Oscar Butterfed Of Ann Arbor, Mich,
spent Wednesday with his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Z. NJ. Butter6eld.
Minnesota messages from b. c. Eager
report some severe westher, rather close in
the nip of zero for October.
w. W. Fish and daughter, Miss Grace,
of Athol, are expected at Mr.. Sargeants
this evening to spend two days.
Z. j. Samson, son Of Mrs. Knapp, is To-
Gated in railroad work at Walla Walla,
Washington, in the great wheat region.
Mrs. Goodnow has returned from Cam
bridge bringing dash of Boston east wind
which threatens TO unsettle our remarkably
prolonged spell Of fine weather.
Charles Higgins has returned to Augusta,
Me-, much improved by Vermont air and
rest in the huskiness of voice brought on
in the practice of his musical profession.
Probably never before have the district
schools in the village, and numbers and
with the adjoining district in Brookline,
been in charge of young men, instead of
young women during the same fall term.
Miss M. b. Phillips, one of Chicagos
high school teachers for Is years, expert
enced yearnings as in other years for a
summer vacation in Newfane, but was
consoled by the profit and fascination of a
three-months' course at the University of
Chicago, which was pursued in part by
personal attendance, and will be finished
by correspondence during the year.
S. G. Brown, jr., in shingling the David
son house, drew from the roof two nails
having their own little history. One of
them Is the original hand wrought nail,
very likely made in early times on the hill
by Marshal Newton at his forge, for DR..
Olds's house on historic heights, and the
other is one Of the first cut nails with a
short round grasp under the head which
was fiattened by trip-hammer.
The ladies' aid society during the past
year has made minor repairs in the church
vestry, and rejuvenated the auditorium to
the extent of repapering, painting, kalso-
mining, new pews and hard pine floor, at
a total expense of about $500, with present
debt Of Sal The new furnace cost $l60,
which amount was mostly raised through
Mrs. Caswell's efforts at a Sunday evening
meeting. And now some good friend, name
not yet publicly knownsto q Ct rtainty, rises
to pay the stating bill. Sum total for
repairs about 5000.
1t is pleasing TO chronicle that there are
young women who can scale difficult
mountain tops and return with ardor and
strength ready for another feat by foot on
the following day. Miss Martha Chase,
recently of Oberlin college, and her cousin,
Miss Matte Sabin of Andover, this state,
reached the well-known lone birch tree on
Putney mountain at high noon Wednesday
and returned all the way as they went, in
dependent of any of the ordinary pamper-
ing modes Of locomotion common for such
trips. They declare that the view from
Putney heights surpasses in extent and
grandeur that of Newfane hill; but these
girls had no ancestry on the latter hill
Good climbers as they are, they are natives
of Ohio's level stretches.