Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-15
THE PUTNEY COLUMN,

Il 4. Blanchard was i'll at Burlington
several days last week.
NIB SSi'zr finished moving into Mrs.
Alice Smiths house Monday.
Miss f. NJ. Walkup has been in Boston
tbi, week selecting new goods.
C. W. Kmball has been confined to his
bolse several days with illness.
Frank Buxton will work for NJ V.
sleeper for the next eight months.
The infant caild of Mr.. and Mrs Birch
is seriously i'll with lung trouble.
Mrs. Jay J tckson has returned from
Keane, Y. H., where she spent the winter.
VIII II. Smith will move into Mrs. JOYS
house recently vacated by Joseph Sleeper.
Albert Patterson of Norwich University
came home Tuesday afternoon for a vaca-
ton
Postmaster L. p. Bailey has been
housed again this week with his lame
knee.
Union services were held in the Baptist
church last Friday. There was a good at
tendance.
f. f. Blood has been in the northern
part of the state this week buying horses
for his sale stable.
Prof. John E. Russell returned to Will
Jamestown Saturday after spending a few
days at Mrs. Bakers.
Mrs. j. A. Starbird of Mt. Holly, for
merly of this town, visited old friends here
from Saturday to Monday.
Rev. Aubrey G. Gilmore of the Bangor
Theological seminary will preach in the
Congregational church next Sunday.
Miss Gertrude ingalls, has returned from
visit with her brother in New Jersey.
She will teach school in Dummerston.
II. G. Black has rented his house to
Joseph Sleeper. Mr.. Sleeper will board
the men whom Mr.. Black hires to carry
on the farm this summer.
The case of the state against John lib
belts for furnishing liquor to minors was
ordered not to be brought forward at the
recent term of the county court.
The Easter concerts at the Baptist and
Congregational churches last Sunday are
said to have surpassed in excellence all
previous attempts in either church.
The village improvement society will
meet in the seectmen's room in the town
hall at I 80 o'clock next Tuesday evening.
1t is hoped that all members and any 9TH
ers who are interested in identifying the
village will be present
lNtNs " D. Ildlllo VI OOlCutobcl ldS ut
clined the call extended to him by the Con-
gregational church of this place. He gives
as his reason the desire of the people of
Colchester, both inside and outside of the
church, to have him remain.
The selectmen have forbidden ball play
ing on any of the streets in town and they
have prohibited the riding of bicycles on
the sidewalks of the village. An order to
this effect has been posted in the post office.
The order holds good until the next March
meeting.
Miss Josephine Steele, who died at Chi
chester, N. H., March 80, as announced
in The Phoenix last week, formerly taught
school in district No. l in this town
Through her efforts free reading room
was established in the town hall in the
room now occupied by the public library
George Phillips was able to be about or
crutches for the first time Saturday. He
is still unable to touch his foot to the
floor but his leg has improved since a week
ago. 1t is thought that the large bone in
his leg was slightly slivered where his horse
stepped upon it.
Mrs. II. w. Cobb met with slight &C
cident while returning from the village
Putney Falls Monday. While go
down the hill by NJ. V. Sleeper's the horse
stumbled and fell, turning half around
and Mrs. Cobb was thrown out on to tn
horse. No damage was done beyond the
breaking of one thill.
The we'll worn statement that there is NJ
gravel bed in Putney seems to have beef
dsproved by the finding of an excellen
bed on the Tibbetts farm. A quantity o
the gravel has been put in the road NJ
Kimball hill and it constitutes one of tn
HAT iO1nrOUanante that haUa rppppflV hnpI
made on the highway.
A branch millinery store is to be opene,
here next Monday by Mrs. G. II. Smith O
Brattleboro. Mrs. Smith has engaged tn
front upstairs room in the Langley hous
and she will put Mrs. B. L. ingalls, in charg
of it. She expects to be present herself OF
Thursdays to do not only millinery wor
but hair dressing facial massage, etc. Sh
will carry full line of millinery and hal
goods.
John Patton was released from Newfan
Jail Monday by Judge Worden of Halifax
Bail was fixed at 500 for his appearance
before the grand jury next September
when he will plead to the charge of breal
ing and entering the house of E. M. Wi
son and of the larceny of several article
therefrom. Patton's bondsmen are Era'
tus f. Benedict, Henry A. Kilburn an
Frank A. Dewitt of Newfane.
f. f. Blood, as will be seen by an az
yertisement elsewhere, has received ca
load of northern horses at his stable hel
to be disposed of at private sale. The
consist of matched pairs, single driver
and work horses, varying in weight frol
1000 to 400 pounds. Special attention
called to pair of thoroughbred Morga
drivers, standing 10 hands high and weigl
ing 1000 pounds.
The town listers have nearly complete
the work of taking inventories and a
though the footings cannot be foretold a
curately they believe the personal lists wi
slightly exceed in amount the lists of la
year. The amount of real estate will NJ
vary much from last year. The lists
real estate were not affected to any gre
extent by the Kelley failure, except in
few instances, because of the fact tn
many holders of mortgages on Kelley LOAF
failed to include their mortgages in the
list of taxable property.