Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-19
THE PUTNEY COLUMN,


Frmyman Webber is building an addition
,oh, lotilla at Z. E. Knights shin ward
Chandler Puifer has been confined to bis
hou,t a part Of this week because of llnoss
Mr.. Gleason has left Mr.. Cheney's and
has moved back to Jamaica where he hos
h1u.u, farm.
Mis-, Corinne Bemis, formerly teacher
in district No. ,, visited in town from
Thursday to Monday.
There will be a maple sugar supper and
social at the Methodist parsonage next
Wednesday evening.
4 church meeting will be held SUNDAY
90 consider the question of providing mn.
sic for the co ming year.
Mrs. William johnson returned Satur.
lay from few days visit with her sister
Nr, Ely, in Springfield, Mass.
i f. Powers has moved into the John
Phillips house near the depot instead of
George Phillips's house, although the lat
Ter was the one first engaged.
Roy Bailey, who went to Hartford. c.
last week to take position in a CLOTHING
store. is boarding with Henry Parker. son
of F.. c. Parker of East Putney.
1 former
Is clerk in the store of G. l.. Pierce, called
on old friends in town the last of last week.
It is his first visit here in II years.
The ladies' of the Congregational society
will hold a griddlecake supper in the YES
try next Friday evening from & to o'clock.
Genuine new maple syrup will be furnish
ed All are invited.
G.. II. Wyman, who has carried on George
Fuller's farm in East Putney for the past
year where Q. b. Newcomb formerly lived
has gone to Barre Plains, Mass. Austin
smith has leased the farm for year.
William A. Cole states that the outlook
for the manufacture of paper is encourage
ing. He recently increased the working
hours of his mill to the old schedule and
expects to continue permanently on that
basis.
Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Drury of Weston,
who have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. d. S.
Persons in East Putney, started home
Monday They visit first in Bellows Falls,
then in Troy, n. Y, reaching Weston dur
ing next week.
F. L. Pierce received an order from
firm in London, Eng, Tuesday, for a supply
of chair stock. The order will be filled at
once and there is a prospect that the firm
will send further orders which it will be
profitable to handle.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wyman of Keene,
y. H., returned to d. S. Frost's in East
Puney Saturday, after weeks outing
at Chester and other places with Mr.. Frosts
team. Mr. Wyman has returned to Keene
but Mrs. Wyman will remain with Mrs.
Frost for a few days.
A dandeion blossom is a rare thing at
this season of the year but the correspon-
dent was presented one this week by Mrs
Henry j. Smith. The blossom stole its
right to exist, however, and was found
hidden among the lower foliage of one of
Mrs. Smiths window plants.
The annual masquerade ball in the town
hall Friday night was not largely attended
because of the unfavorable weather. only
about 80 couples being present. The at
tendance at the supper by the Relief corps
was correspondingly small. The proceeds
of the dance will reduce the debt on the
piano about S15.
While Norman Whitney was delivering
a load of wood Monday the runner on one
side of his sled cut through the snow, let
ting that side of the load down so that Mr.
Whitney was thrown off and a part of the
wood fell upon him. Two of his ribs were
broken near the back bone. Mr.. Whit
neys son was with him and assisted him
on to the sled and drove home
Miss White, Miss Pervish and Miss
Estey, the progressive New York women
who are trying their luck at farming on
West Hill, have added an incubator to their
list of modern farm conveniences and are
i'm hat I'm xrfh 1pUrpn
Of success although they have had no pre-
yious experience in that line The eggs
are furnished by Warren G. Stevens.
An incident narrowly approaching an
accident happened at the depot Tuesday
afternoon. AS Stage Driver Z. Z. Blood
unhitched his horses, having met the 2
o'clock train, they started before he could
get hold of the reins and ran around the
scales house and back to the platform
which runs alongside the track. The
train was just pulling out and as one
horse stepped between the platform and
the track its head was but few inches
from the train.
John Whitney has closed out his grain
business which he opened in the old skat-
lng rink short time ago, and has gone 10
Nalpole, n. H., to take charge OF the grain
and coal department in connection with r.
A. Spaulding's store. Mr.. Spaulding was
formerly station agent in Walpole, but has
bought store in the village which taxes
him away from his coal and grain business
at the depot, and necessitates an extra
hand for that department.
Fred |. Lane of Westminster, admins
traitor of the estate of the late lvah N
Farr of that place, will sell at auction
April 6, among other tracts of land, the
well known Keyes or Winslow farm of 5O
acres in East Putney which is owned by
the Farr estate. The farm is now occu
pied by Norman Whitney, who, as an
nounced last week, will carry on the Kit
redge Parker twin farms recently bought
by II. P. FAIR. c. p. ellison of Brattle
0oro will be the auctioneer at the coming
sale
There is a possibility that summer
school for the teachers of Windham county
will be held here for two weeks in August
or September. State Superintendent Ma
son 5, Stone and County Examiner H. ~
Ryder have granted the privilege OF mold
ING such a school here provided the towns
people will interest themselves in the mat
Ter sufficiently to provide for the 20 OF
more teachers. The residents OF the VII
Iage will soon be given an opportunity u
decide the matter and there would seem t'
De but one way for decision.
Several families have been victimlzeI
lhls week by two buncoers, whose game
although old, seems always to meet VIII
more or less success. For one dollar the.
agreed to enlarge, in water colors, 10 III
SIZE, whatever photographs one might de
sire. OF this amount so cents was collect