Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-08

There is a demand for more tenements
W. b. Park has some fine looking spring
lambs
There are now four prisoners in the
county jail
George Goodenough is recovering from
pneumonia.
A county examination of teachers was
held here Thursday.
+. A. Wellman's business is marked by
the placing of a new saw in his mill
Earl Davis. son of the County House
proprietor, has returned to Chester High
school,
Fred Rice returned Saturday from a
months stay in Boston, after spending the
winter in Illinois.
Mrs. Moore is boarding with Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Il. Underwood while her new
house is building.
Frank V. Lang is employed as station
agent at Melrose Highlands on the Boston
d Maine railroad.
Mrs. c. 7. Dewitt is in Bratteboro,
with intention Of going to Saratoga for a
few weeks sojourn.
II. A. Carpenter has sold his Hezekiah
Hoyt place to /. L. Miller who has OF
late occupied the Eddy farm.
II. L. Sargent is building a nice hen
house and +. II. Sargent will take an in
terest in the fancy fowl business.
Mr.. and Mrs Wales Willard. who lived
| in Mrs Moore's house during the fall and
winter, have returned TO Jamaica
Two children named Wilson from Bel
lows Falls, guests with their mother al c..
! W. Parsons $, have been i'll with tonsilitis.
Miss Mary Halliday is engaged to teach
in district No. and Charles +. Brown in
No. :. The latter's school will commence
on April Is.
Among expected returns next week are
Mrs : Fish from Nergennes and Mrs. Il
NJ. Hescock from Boston. During the
month Mrs. S. Morse will come home from
her winter stay in Cambridge
Miss Gertrude Wright was surprised by
80 young friends Saturday evening on her
| 10Th birthday anniversary. Games. music
and refreshments were mingled with the
/ social pleasures of the occasion.
About 30 friends Of Walter Eager gath
| cred at his home last week Friday after
noon in honor of his birthday anniversary.
Stories were related, the piano was brought
| into service and refreshments were served.
Mrs y. NJ. Batchelder is spending a
week or more IN Providence with her son
| Gilber., who is at Brown university.
En- rouie she gave day to her brother,
John Burnham, a medical student at New
Haven.
Brchard post has changed its time Of
meeting 10 the second Saturday in each
month at O'Clock, alternately at Towns
bend and Newfane. There will be a meet
ing at Townshend April @ at T.. NJ. Rally
on the cOlors
Work has begun in preparation for the
new house to be built Tor Mrs Frank
Moore. L. ?. Wheeler and son of Williams
vile have the contract for carpenter work
Plan of the house gives promise of an at
tractiye home which will be an ornament
to the place.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. D. Newton OF Worces-
ter Mass, have packed their household
goods for transportation to their farm on
Newfane Hill, bought a few years ago of
c. NJ. Goodenough, and they hope TO be
located there by May /.
County Examiner Ryder of Bellows Falls
sent H. p. Conway, a law student in his
office, as his substitute to superintend the
examination of teachers here Thursday
and Friday. Nineteen applicants were
present during the first forenoon. Towns
bend, Dover Jamaica, Wardsboro, Graf
| ton, Brookline, StrattOn and Newfane
being represented. There were i ques-
tons on each topic.