Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-10-14

they grow less so each dav
There is little of actual news to be told
and little more than is said above There
are but two or three people in this village
who object to the enterprise, the feeling
being almost unanimously expressed that it
would greatly benefit both this place and
Saxtons River. The stock has been taken
more generously at Saxtons River than at
Bellows Falls, according TO the number
who would naturally be expected to take it.
Mr.. Holton still says he is 10 stay here
until the cars are running and talks very
enthusiastically as to work this fall
Albert Derby will take business trip to
Boston next week.
A new dwelling is being built by f. a.
Lamb on the Rockingham road near his
residence.
Mrs. John Blake, who has been i'll mum
Der of months at her home on the New
Terrace died Tuesday morning
Miss Ella Hickey of Southvile Mass,
who has been visiting her friend, Miss Jo-
sic Derby, ON School street the past few
months returned to her home last Friday.
Mrs Edgar Guild received a cablegram
Sunday announcing the death of her moth
er at her old home in Bath, England The
mother was sister -in-law to Wallace White
of our village
Leon F Ball of Watervlle, P ~, has
taken the place left vacant 10y Miss Newell
in the office Of the Vermont Farm Machine
g, company, having begun hi, duties there
Monday
Mrs Barbara Dcohttie Is again running
her hotel across the river, known as the
Walpole House 1t has been run some
years by Stephen J. Tyrell whose lease
has recently expired.
Among the attorneys from here who at
tended the meeting of the Vermont Bar
association at Montpelier this week were
II. D. Ryder, c. H. Robb, L. NJ Read, l..
H. Allbee and George a. Weston.
An emplove of the grain and feed store
of +. NJ. Wilson x Co. named George
Tasker, received serious injury Tuesday
10y the breaking of one of his ankles 1t
was caused by the falling of barrel of
flour upon it while he was moving it.
Ex-State Senator \. F. Durkee Of Shell
don, and his wife spent Sunday with their
son, Moreton A Durkee, on their way 10
| New York city. They were in Montpelier
last week attending the opening of the
sessions of the Legislature
George A. Brace has sold his book bind
ing business to his uncle l. c. Brace, who
took charge of the office last week George
| left Saturday with his wife for their new
home in Middlebury, where he is employed
in the Office Of the Middlebury Register.
| Miss Myrtle Newell, who has for some
| years acted as confidential clerk and ste
nographer in the office Of the Vermont
/ Farm Machine company, completed her la.
Dors there this week and went Yesterday
| to Taunton, Mass, where she has a posi-
| ton stenographer IN the state asylum
/ for the insane.
| The services at the Episcopal church last
/ Sunday were in charge of Lay Reader
/ Joshua II. Webb, and next Sunday it is
expected Rev. VIM. J. Harris, D. D., of
| Nashua will supply the desk Mr.. San
! ford is absent in attendance upon the tri
| ennia church meeting Of the country as a
| delegate from Vermont, and will be abse MT
| some Sundays
| Henry c. johnson and daughter Annie
returned Monday after having been absent
! nearly all summer, and will occupy their
/ tenement at the north end of Atkinson
street during the winter. Mr. johnson has
! spent the summer with his parents at Man
chester, n. H., while Miss Annie has spent
the summer vita Mr.. and Mrs Swain at
! Sunapee Lake, but has been visiting a few
weeks lately in Manchester and Boston.
Last Friday evening a very pleasant
birthday dinner party was given at the
! Commercial House by Mr. and Mrs. B. A.
Putney in honor of the anniversary of their
son, James H. Putney of Chicago, who has
been spending few weeks vacation here
among their old friends. The party was
a very enjoyable one and the dinner served
in the style of which Mr.. Pollard is Justly
proud,
A servant girl employed by Mrs. NJ. L.
Bowers, named Margaret Morris, died at
Mrs. Bowers's Saturday afternoon. She
had been i'll but a few days, the cause of
death being heart trouble. Miss Morris
had been in Mrs. Bowers's family the most
of the time for the past 10 or - years, both
In Chicago and here, and was a valued as
sistant to her during each of Mrs. Bowers's
deep Affections. She was native of Can
ada, and the funeral was from st Peters's
church of North Walpole Tuesday morning
Arrangements have been made here
with Mrs. w. F. Mixer of Bratteboro, the
| dramatic reader to give an entertainment
! in the opera house next Tuesday evening
as a benefit for the Kurn Hattin girls
home of Westminster. The arrangements
include other talent and will be of an inter.
esting character. Those patronizing it
may be assured they are assisting a noble
and deserving enterprise. Each of these
homes at Westminster are very close to
the hearts of our citizens as they are so
well known here by the good work they
are doing.