Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-05
THE PUTNEY COLUMN,


TO his bed with illness.
Mrs. j. G. Bolster returned SATURDAY.
much improved in health.
Rev. A. c. Fuller attended the mid-year
examination of preachers at Montpelier
this week.
Mrs. Elbridge Houghton is visiting her
daughters, Mrs. Noonan of Newton, Mass.
and Mrs Edward Ward of Westboro, Mass,
c. L. Davenport has given up the posi-
ton as barber which he recently obtained
in Winchendon, Mass, and has returned
home.
F. l.. Pierce has received another order
for chair stock from London firm which
will probably become one of his permanent
customers.
Miss E. M. Wallace of birmingham.
Mass, matron of the birmingham Home
for the Aged, spent Sunday at the home of
c. d. Knight.
The Stowell Manufacturing company.
on account of an unusually large rush of
orders, is running on II hours time and
will continue to do so until after the holt
days.
S. o. Parker, who has been sexton of
the Congregational church for several
years, has resigned that position. MD,
b. Switzer has been engaged as sexton for
the ensuing year.
Halloween was observed on Saturday
evening by the young people of the Con-
gregational church with numerous games
appropriate to the occasion. The number
present was not as large as had been an
ticipated.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Powers spent Friday
and Saturday in Putney, says the Athens
correspondent of the Bellows Falls Times.
Mr., Powers is earring apples from there to
Montpelier. He will car from Bellows
Falls next week.
The auction sale of $50 to 175 cattle on
the tarm of w. NJ. Ware on the Putney
meadows last Friday was attended by a
large crowd. The cattle brought a fair
price and the auction, which was one OF
the largest ever held hereabouts, lasted un.
til into the evening.
Postmaster L. P. Bailey as a member Of
Col. W. FL. Greenwood post, has this
week received the commission of aide-de
camp with the rank of Colonel on the stat
of Erastus w. Jewett, department com.
mander of the Grand Army of the Republic
for the department of Vermont.
AS reported last week Merchant A. NJ
Corser received on Tuesday carload Of
potatoes, or 440 bushels. They were al
engaged and most of them delivered befor,
the end of the week and now Mr.. Corse
is considering whether he better order an
other carload. He says he could easily
dispose of half carload but he is in doub
as to his ability to dispose of the othe
half.
Charles Carpenter of Proctorsvlle gave
an entertainment in the town hall, as ad
vertised, with the Edison proiectoscop
Monday evening. The evening bein,
stormy only about 100 attended but all en-
joyed the program. The chief criticism
was that the views, which were throw
upon screen, wavered so as to make then
appear indistinct.
A. NJ. Corser has equipped his stor
with a boiler for steam heat, the work O
putting in the boiler being done by Charlie
Crosby, the plumber. The boiler will b
used for heating the entire building-th
living rooms as well as the store Beside
keeping the cellar warm enough to proven
freezing the boiler will allow the stor
stove to be done away with thus atfordin
more room, of which Mr.. Corser is great
in need.
The Bellows Falls Times of Wednesda
said: "Hiram Gotta of Cambridgeport wa
brought to G. II. Robb's Office last Wed
nesday by B. NJ. Walker on a complain
charging him with cruelty to animals las
August when he beat his horse. TIL
hearing was before G.. H. Williams, G.
Robb prosecuting and II. d. Baker {
Cambridgeport defending. Gotta pleade
guilty and was sentenced to 80 days
Rutland Gotta was one of the fellow
arrested last week charged with complct
in the Willard Smith COW case.
There have been no developments TIL
week to reward the efforts of those VIII
have attempted to discover the person
who stole Willard Smiths COW and butcl
cred her in the woods, and the case is al
parently resting. Wouldn't it have been
good plan to have investigated the stOT
told to Mr.. Smith by man who saw hiI
searching for his COW on the morning whe
she was first missed, which was to the e
feet that he didn't think the COW came
the direction of his house, for his son, VIII
was out hunting until 3 o'clock in ii
morning, would have seen her and wou
have spoken about having seen her; bl
You might ask him if you go over thi
way; he is down by the barn cutting u
meat?" Friends of Mr. Smith circulate
a subscription paper last week which WI
largely signed with the result that M
Smiths loss has been made good by ne
COW.