Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-09-23
wILIIAMSVILLE.

Merchant c. f. Park is in Boston buy
ing goods this week.
Mrs. w. II. Mum has returned to her
Holyoke, Mass home.
Mrs. +. c. Gotta and children have been
visiting relttives at Bellows Falls.
c. d. Lazele spent few days with
friends at Lynn, Mass, the past week.
c. G.. Staples of the Vermont national
bank is shooting Williamsville squirrels
and visiting relatives.
Charles A. Thorn of Lynn, Mass, who
has been visiting relatives for a few weeks,
returned home saturday.
Usual preaching service by the pastor of
the Tniversalst church Sunday morning
Young Peoples Christian Union service
in the evening. Subject: Fruits of the
Spirit"
Don't forget the meeting at Village hall
Friday evening, which will be addressed
by Hon. Mason l.. Stone, state superin-
tendent of education, on "Vermont's Edu-
cational Advantages"
The new officers of Excelsior Division,
Sons of Temperance, are as follows: w.
p, Rev. A. A. Estabrook; w. A., Mrs. G..
X Stedman: II. S, Ellie Prouty; A. r.
S.. Dana Stedman; f. s., Mrs. d. A. Ball;
treasurer, Mrs A. A. Estabrook; chaplain,
Rev. d. A. Ball; Con, w. f. Wheeler;
assistant Con, Edith Day: |. S., Mrs.
Fred Houghton o. s., Hastings Williams.
Among visitors here the past week have
been Mrs William Halliday, former res
ident of this vicinity, with her daughters,
Mrs. William Spaulding and Mrs. Joseph
Ahling, all now OF Hoytville, Mich, at d.
+. Fisher's Mrs. Charlotte Morse of Brat
tlebOro at Ephraim Morse's aid G. +. Per-
RVS: Miss Alice Whitney of Putney at
w. E. Wheeler's; John Newton of the
Soldiers Home, Washington, d. c., at
Mrs. j. A. Young's; Isaac Eddy of Yer
non at j. W. Shipman's, and William King
of New Haven, Conn.
The service at the Methodist church
next Sunday morning will be given an old
time cast. 1t will open with fifteen
minute praise service. There will be no
choir. and no such new tangled thing as
an organ is to be used. Old hymns and
tunes will be sung. The hymns are to be
"lined," and some one will pitch and
carry the tune, the congregation joining in
the singing. The men are requested to
sit on one side of the church and the
women on the other. The ushers will
take the collection by passing the hat.
The subj ,ct for the morning discourse is
cold Time Methodism.' All are cordial
ly invited and elderly people have a special
invitation.
Quite chapter of accidents this week.
f. z. Wheeler and son and j. 5. Stratton,
while driving near the village, had similar
accidents by the breaking of wagon shafts,
and narrowly escaped runaways. &. +.
Tyler's meat cart, driven by l.. +. STRAIT
ton, collapsed on the railroad track at
Rand's crossing, serious results being avoid
ed only by a narrow margin. Saturday
afternoon, while Walter Fletcher was
butchering, he miscalculated the resisting
power of the carcass and drove the knife
through into his foot, intlcting an ugly
wound. On Monday afternoon d. c..
Snow, while stepping over skid at the
steam mill, caught his foot, and throwing
out his left hand to avoid fall, brought it
in contact with running saw, cutting off
the little finger and badly cutting the four
others. DR.. Z. Z. White dressed the
wound, having to take % stitches in the
operation.
There now seems but little doubt
that it was the horse owned by Frank f.
Willard of this place that was driven away
in John Taft's buggy from West Dunn
merston last week Tuesday night. NJ.
Willard had turned out the horse less than
a week before in large pasture some three
or four miles away, on road seldom
travelled. man was seen by two or three
persons to pass on this road toward the
pasture Tuesday afternoon, and in the
early evening half dozen persons saw a
man coming back on the same road, and
passing down through this village leading a
horse. A most thorough search of the
pasture for two days has failed to reveal
any trace of the animal. The horse was
perhaps the best one in this vicinity with
which to make hasty trip to parts I'M
known, and was highly valued by the
owner. Everything indicates that the
theft was committed by person familiar
with the conditions.