Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-30
Grand Army and Relief Corps Election.

Harris was the marshal of the evening.
Grand Army and Relief Corps Elections
Col. W. H. Greenwood Grand Army
1os. and Col. W. H. Greenwood Relief
corps held their annual election of officers
Tuesday. The post elected these officers:
Commander, II. H. Brainerd; senior vice
commander. A. Crosby; junior vice com
mander, A. D. Kerr; adjutant, NJ. II. Penn
Der. quartermaster, G. +. Brown; surgeon.
N D. Whitman; chaplain, A. P. Ranney:
officer Of the day, L. P. Bailey; officer of
the guard, NJ. Y. Sleeper: quartermaster
sergeant, John L. Willard; sergeant major,
Z. Z. Headle; sentinel, Dennis Richards
color bearer, j. P. Whitney; representa-
tive, AID. Kerr; alternate, A. C. Cobb.
The Relief corps elected the following:
President, NJ. Ella Sawyer; senior vice
president Mary Fem; junior vice presi-
dent Wealtha j. Brainard; treasurer,
Frances NJ. Bailey; chaplain, Annah L.
Gale conductress, Kittie G. Everleth:
guard, Addie NJ. Roberts.
Dr.. E. S. Munger has been i'll with the
grip this week.
George H. Phillips has built a new sta
bic at the barn on the Corser farm.
The Stowell Manufacturing company
expects to start its factory next Monday,
after taking the annual inventory.
The Congregational church and the cor
poration will hold their annual meetings
in the church vestry next Tuesday.
Rev. and Mrs. j. II. Bennett went to
Springfield, Mass, the first of the week to
spend the week with their daughters.
The first number of Rev. c. J. Harris's
church paper has appeared. 1t is called
The Parish Visitor" and is a six.page
octave monthly.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Treadway returned
Saturday from a visit of three weeks in
Shelter Island, n. Y. They may return
to Shelter Island to spend the summer.
Fred Smith, who recently sold his team
ing business to Ezra F. Pierce, went to
Amherst, Mass, Wednesday to spend a
while with his mother, Mrs. S. A. Smith.
George Tibbetts recently returned from
Springfield, Mass, where he has been at
work in the United States armory. He
expects to return to Springfield next
spring.
Harry W. Cobb of Putney Falls return
ed TO work in Pierce's mill in this village
Tuesday for the first time since he was
kicked in the stomach by horse severa
weeks ago.
The annual meeting of Mount Pleasant
Cemetery association will be held at the
house of W. A. Cole at 7:30 o'clock next
Monday evening, when an election of otfi
GERS will take place.
Presiding Elder W. r. Davenport viii
preach in the Methodist church next Sun
day, when the quarterly conference will b.
held. There will also be services in tina
church in the evening.
a New Years ball and concert will b
held in the town hall this evening. Weed
ems orchestra of Bellows Falls will give
concert from 7:30 to $50 o'clock. Al
oyster supper will be served in the lowe
Masonic hall.
Eugene Matthews, who has been EN-
ployed in the store of NJ. G.. Williams TO
the past three years, finished work Their
last Saturday night. He left Tuesday 10
Tarbellville, where he expects to buy on
store and run it for himself.
The Putney Creamery association de
clared its annual dividend of six per cen
last Saturday. The past year has bee
the most profitable in the existence Of tn
association. 1t paid its patrons 10 cents
net, per pound for butter for the month
November.
The Congregational Sunday school wi
be reorganized next Sunday, and me-
board of officers will be elected. 1t is IN
portant that all the members be present
This election will be the first since ID
school voted to have its annual meetln
come in January
4 xpTOsana lanp containing about wv
quarts of oil fell in VIM. Robertson
paper mill Wednesday night and wa
broken. The oil caught fire and Durne
the floor and other material. The damag
was TO the extent of 500. The loss
covered by insurance through the agehc
OF A. W. Childs & Co. of Brattleooro'
Miss Rose F. Howard, daughter OF Nj
and Mrs. George II. Howard, and henl
Arthur Lowell, son of Henry Lowell, wei
married at the home of Rev. L. +. MlIci
ell Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Howar1
brother and sister-in-law OF the OIiu'
stood up with them. Mr.. and Mrs. Lo'
ell will begin housekeeping at the nom
Of Mr.. LovelPs father.
Putney people will have another opp
tunity to hear Rev. j. j. Lewis Iec. J
Jan. IL. Rev. Mr.. Lewis, who lectures ~
uIley rev mOHJnS dSOS uS A.
dissolving views at every lecture anu -,
are of very high order. He WIN le Doii
under the auspices of the Woman'S hea
corps on Through the CANADIAN HooA''
the Worlds True Wonderland"
The residents of the Bailey nelghS4;T al
hood ate their ninth annual ChrisImASS VI
ner at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. y. 70
Bailey Saturday. Fifty-three persons g ss
present of whom the Oldest was o. y nee
and the youngest two months ol ei,o 90 co
ing the feast there was pie-eatlhs 90
test between two men. The winner p - pa
to have devoured eight pieces. onS si' 90
acquainted with the neighDorhooN
guess who the contestants were -.
Rev. James L. Sason, one OF Tue d I'D
clergymen in the Troy conference, ui'
bis home at Round Lake Saturuay e ain
had been member of the conferences fro fro
1885, when he Joined it by transit He W,
the New Hampshire conference; - n n5n ",
formerly pastor of the MethO "nHs s seryi
of Putney. He was in continuous , Ies' =
until 1900 ha was placed Ou ehN =