Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
NEWFANB.

Mr. and Mrs. II. c. Warren started on
Monday for their homeward carriage drive
to Boston.
Sunday services will be held at Union
hall after the 18th, during the church re-
pairing season.
The Phoenix correspondent has taken
cabin passage to ascertain if the pleasure
and romance of life on the hilltop have
been exaggerated.
Arthur Howe wheeled the homewaId
route from Vermont university last week,
coming to Windsor, 113 miles, in one day.
The twin Howes came by prosaic steam
on Monday.
The omission of a word in last week 5
item, concerning the death of j. D..
Pierce's grandchild in Putney, made the
item incorrect. Only one of the twin
babies died.
All pew-owners are requested TO remove
the carpeting, foot-rests, etc, from their
pews as soon as possible,as the work of re-
moving the old pews and making ready
for the new ones will be begun next week
Postmaster Grout did not receive his
commission in season to remove the post
office last week, but it is expected that to-
days mail will be arranged in due order at
the new location in Edwards Il CIRCUITS
Come ye, who love the old church as it is.
and all who want TO see improvements in
it and take your parting look next Sunday,
at the straight and narrow pews. Work
of regeneration will begin in the following
week.
Miss Rilla Norton has been spending
several weeks at Cliff Seat, Ticonderoga.
the summer home of Rev. and Mrs. Joseph
Cook. Miss Norton reads to the distin-
guished lecturer and theologian, who is a
victim of nervous prostration.
Pastor Norton's son, j. H. Norton, prin-
cipal of one of the Chicago high schools,
has just sailed, with his wife, for Europe.
Chicago people speak of his appointment
to the state board of education as putting
the right man in the right place
Newfane girls at the Kearsage House,
North Conway, y. H., report scant So
journing of guests there last week until
the meeting of Daughters of the Revou-
ton brought an influx, moved by patriotic
fervor and the attractions of Woman's
clubs, to say nothing of mountain delights.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Benson, Miss Ben
son, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Y. Chase and their
boarder are spending a week or more at
Bencasson Cabin on Newfane hilltop.
The cabin has fresh odor of the spruce
logs of which it is built. 1t is twenty feet
square, withla four-sided roof which gives
a room high in the centre and seven feet
in height by the windows. Sliding doors,
forming the partitions, enables the three
rooms to be thrown into one when desired.
Chinks between logs are stopped with
mortar, while the space at the top, under
the caves, is left open. Aboriginees might
not have called it "transom' but all the
same it serves the purpose of ventilation
when stiff breezes call for closing of the
windows. Reports from the party indicate
great enjoyment of the situation While
we Of the wales wilted in Monday and Tues
days extreme sultrlness with mercury from
So to 100, they of the hilltop counted
mercury at S47 with breeze that kept the
flag at flying colors. Somebody asked if
it is a type of Indian cabin, 1t is a Yer
mont cabin with modern improvements,
and will afford pleasure to many people
though it is private enterprise. If visitors
find the cabin closed they will be welcomed
by the roomy piazza whereon are comforta-
BILE seats. Mr.. Pierce is convinced by twist
ing of his magic wand, the witch hazel
branch, that water is to be found close by
the cabin, and probably the next effort will
be for refreshment of man and beast in some
clear spring. As for shade trees, who
wants such an interference with the grand
outlook, which inspired the cabin builders?
store.