Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-02-05
THE PUTNEY COLUMN,

DR.. G. S Foster went to vergennes Sat
urday, returning Monday.
Mrs. Arthur Welcome is visiting her sis
ter-in-lIw, Mrs. j. F. Washburne.
j. b. Gorhlm had one shoulder dislocat-
cd by a fall in his COW barn Thursday.
Davis and Ashworth have moved into
the Joseph Jeffrey house in Putney Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Brainard return.
ed Friday and are boarding at IL. A,
Brainard's.
Rev. f. NJ. Wiswall has been rcGngaged
as pastor of the Congregational church for
smother year.
G.. NJ. Blake has been appointed post
master at WestmOreand, Y. H., to sue
coed G. d. Britton, resigned.
Miss Caroline Reyes went to Brattleboro
Wednesday to spend the remainder of the
winter with Mrs. Royal Tyler.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G.. bort of Keene, N.
h, visited at y. Cobb, jr's, Sunday Mrs.
Cobb returned TO Keene with them.
The board of civil authority will meet at
the selectmen's room in the town hall al l
o'clock next Wednesday for the abatement
of taxes.
The town auditors will meet in the Sc
lectmen's room Feb. 10. All bills due or
against the town should be settled before
that date.
In an advertisement in another column
Tinsmith Crosby calls attention to a special
sale of syrup and sugai cans and pals at
prices which it will be hard to equal.
A goodly attendance is assured the play,
@,Female Masonry" by members of the
Golden Rule chapter tonight. A farce,
's'A Soul above Skittles," follows the play.
A. j. Aver has taken an agency for the
Acme steam laundry of White River juno
ton. The laundry basket will be sent
Wednesday noon and will return on Satur-
day.
s. o. Parker was tipped out of his
sleigh while driving out of his yard Friday
and his left shoulder was dislocated. The
.dislocation was reduced by Drs. Foster and
Munger
Miss Abbie Goodell is in town for two
weeks stay at DR.. Fosters and at William
Robertson's. Mrs. Foster goes to Boston
to-morrow for visit of two weeks with
her sister, Mrs. H. E. Warren.
Harold Temple, brother of Wnslow
Temple, who is employed by Adams Blood,
and Miss Belle NJ. Latham of Hopkinton,
Mass, we're married by Rev. E. F. Mitch
ell Monday evening at the parsonage.
An old-fashioned dance, consisting most
l1y Of contra figures, will be given in the
town hall next Friday night, and an old
fashioned supper will be served, the pro-
cee1s to be applied to the piano fund.
Eugene Chase and son of Bethel have
leased H. P. Farr's farm in East Putney
and will occupy it about March l. Mr..
Farr is to move to this village and will oc-
>cupy the house on the Brattleboro road
which he bought recently of F. o. Pierce.
Mr.. Chase has been keeping a hotel in
Bethel. He is brother of p. E. Chase of
the Mechanicsville toy works.
Principal B. A. Rowe of the central
school has postponed his closing exercises
to Saturday evening, Feb. 13. They will
be given in the town hall, the proceeds to
be used for providing a large flag for the
school building. A play, 1.-THE Veneered
Savage" will be followed by farce, my
Turn Next" the parts to be taken by the
students. Compositions upon the progress
of the present term of school have been
written this week and from these Mr..
Rowe will select and read a few. Mr..
Rowe will return to Dartmouth college
Tuesday or Wednesday to finish the last
year in his course.
Four of A. A. Langey's herd of ten
cows were killed Monday by DR.. j. S. Dut'
ton of Brattleboro. They were affected
with tuberculosis. Mr.. Langley traded a
horse with Mr.. Clough last summer for a
COW which afterwards developed symptoms
OF the disease. DR.. DuttOn was consulted
and applied the tuberculin test which
showed the animal to be badly affected
The matter was referred to the state board
who requested that the whole herd be test
ed. The test was accordingly made last
week with the result that four animals APP
praised at $50 each were condemned. OF
these four only one WAS apparently in com
paratively good health and none of them
would have passed physical examination
Arrangements for the concert next We'd
nesday evening for the benefit of the Meth
odist church have been completed by Rev
Mr.. Norton, and it promises to be one Of
the best ever given here by any of the
churches. Rev. Andrew Gilies of White
River Junction, formerly elocutionist Of
the Wesleyan university glee club, will give
variety to the program by several reclta
lions. II. E. Harmed of Bondville, for
merly of the Wesleyan mandolin club, anC
Mr. GiIles will give mandolin and guitar
selections, A. r. Parker will play the cor
net and there will be several solos, anC
numbers by ladies' and a male quartet
the members being Miss Emma Gregg o
Brattleboro, Mrs. II. L. Pierce, Miss Hell
en- Robertson, Miss Abbie f. Goodell, r
r. Shelley, A. r. Parker, w. T. Morton
and C. A. Tefft. The concert will tax
place in the town hall