Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-07-08
TOWN SHEND.
Statement for the Base Bali Team.

After reading the reports which ap-
peared in the papers Of the ball game at
Iownshend July 4, we feel it our duty to
correct such reports as give the winning
team no credit at ALL The game. instead
OF being sided as represented by the
reporter, was very even game, and at no
time were the Townshend BOYS out-plaved
in any respect, but played good ball in
every case
We are also credited with being strength
ened with Clayton from Tufts college.
We wish to say that this is Clayton's sec
ond season with the Townshend team.
ana that he is a regular signed player with
this team.
We hope to get a return game with the
same team in the near future.
The features of the game were the bat
ting by Sparks, and the work of CLAYTON
at second base for Townshend, and the
work Of Cox and Sanders for Brattleboro.
Mrs. Sarah Wilson has been on the sick
list
Mrs. O'Brien of Boston has come to her
summer home.
Earl Underwood of Gardner, Mass, is
at his mothers.
Miss Alice Davidson of Chicago is visit
ing at DR.. Osgood's.
Henry Howard of New York CITY has
visited at his brothers.
Joel Day went to Springfield, Mass, on
business trip last week.
Mrs. Charles Willard and Miss Leila
Bishop have new wheels.
/ Mrs. William ingalls, visited her mother
| in Bellows Falls last week
Mrs. Charlie Hall. who was seriously i'll,
IS better at present writing.
/ o. f. Coombs and Mrs. May Holland
were on the sick list last week
Eugene and Harry Cudworth spent the
Fourth at South Londonderry
Seven new members were added to the
| Congregational church Sunday.
Albert Shackford and wife of Rutland
called upon relatives in town last week.
Paul Mann of Hinsdale has been in
town taking orders for crayon portraits.
Guy Dutton was home over Sunday and
the Fourth from Putney, where he is at
work.
Mrs. Eliza Thompson of Greenfield.
Mass, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Walter
Cudworth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Howard of Or
range, Mass, are visiting her mother, Mrs.
Thompson.
Earl Knapp of Bellows Falls is visiting
his grandmother, Mrs. Olive Thayer at
Simpsonvile.
NJ. f. Chase, teacher of vocal music in
the public schools of Maiden, Mass, is
at John Howard's.
DR.. and Mrs. SWEET, after an extended
visit West, have returned and taken rooms
At Harrison Eddys.
Edwin Fessenden has resigned his Office
as town treasurer and Edwin L. Hastings
has been appointed in his place
Irving Watson, who lives about f7e
miles from The villa IA his garden
early one morning last week a fine large
deer.
Miss Ellen Ware, for many years teach
er in the public schools of Springfield,
Mass, is spending her vacation at her
home here.
Miss Minnie Berry of Philadelphia, and
her niece, Mrs. Estelle johnson of Hol-
yoke, Mass, were in town recently calling
upon relatives.
Mrs. Ellis and her daughter. Mrs. Dan
lels, and two children, of Beaufort, S. c.,
have taken rooms at Mrs. Sarah Wilson'S
for the summer.
The steam mill has shut down for a
month and the employees are improving the
time in helping the farmers secure their
large crop of hay.
The 90 class social passed off very pleas
antly and was much enjoyed by the Young
people. There was a good number pres
ent, and the sum realized was satisfactory.
The blood in the veins of the Old SOL
diers is greatly stirred at the war news.
and they express the wish that they might
be with the new recruits, fighting for their
country.
Those in school district No 5 having no
absent marks during the term were Mabel
and Gerald Albee, Clara, Adonis and Alon-
70 Bovey and Olive Pierce. Miss Hattie
Winslow, teacher.
Anna Twtchell has returned from Ches-
tertied lake, where she has been at the
Pine Grove Spring Hotel and goes this
week to Bernardston, Mass, to work in
the New England Hotel.
Those of the young people who have
been teaching in the surrounding towns
are spending their well-earned vacations at
their homes, and so far as the writer
knows, they have taught successful schools.
The Baptist ladies aid society will serve
Ice cream AT Inelr rooms every Wednesday
evening for a month, and will hold con
cert week after next at Academy hall. The
evening will be given in next weeks items.
Eugene Pierce, president of the county
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor, was in town last Tuesday to con-
fer with the county secretary, and to ar
range for the program for the convention
which is TO be held at Dummerston Au-
gust "a.
The Christian Endeavor society has Or
ganized for the next six months with these
officers: President, Mrs. Henry Cobb:
vice president, j., S. Cummings; secretary
and treasurer, William n. Gage: CORE
spending secretary, Cora Mann. There is
also full list of committees.
The thermometer registered 100 and
more, according to locality, in the shade
last Sunday, and we could realize a little
OF what the soldiers at Santiago had to en-
dure. II was certainly warm enough to
make us want to live in this life so that
we should not go to a warmer place here
after.
The "Glorious Fourth" was ushered in
by the ringing of bells and the firing of
cannon. There was martial music by the
drum corps, with the fire-crackers thrown
in. Then in the afternoon was the ball
game on Reeds meadow and a concert in