Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-07
THE PUTNEY COLUMN,
Fred Taft was home over the Fourth.

ingham.
Flora and Arthur Sanders were at home
over the Fourth.
Miss Grace Prouty has secured posi-
ton in Mortified for the season.
Miss Maud Miler's little sister of Lud-
low, Mass, visited her this week.
Fred Pember came home from Burling-
ton Monday for his summer vacation.
Miss Catherine Leahy of Boston spent a
week at Mr.. Miller's at the hotel recently.
Miss Juna Fifeld and Miss Mason made
a brief visit at Miss Fifield's home this
week.
Three Brattleboro High school class
mates of Carl Knight spent the Fourth
with him.
Clifford l.. Booth went Wednesday to
Pigeon Cove to work in hotel during the
summer.
Will Cummings and Fred Skinner of
Holyoke, Mass, are stopping at A. NJ.
Corser's.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. S. Persons went to
Weston Monday to spend the Fourth with
relatives.
James Houghton and son of Claremont,
N. H., visited Mr.. Houghton's mother the
last OF the week.
Mrs. Ariel Crosby visited last week at
her old home i'm Waltham and with her
sister in Lynn, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. o. Dodge returned the
first of the week from a visit in Spring
field and Perkinsville
George Howard and son Addison went
to Saxonville, Mass, Sunday on their
wheels to visit relatives
Miss Kittie Whitney went to Headville
Monday for few days visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Justin H. Wheeler.
Rev. P. F. Barnard preached very &C
ceptably at the Congregational church Sun
day in the absence of the pastor.
Rev. j. H. Bennett of the Methodist
church will exchange pulpits July 16
with Rev. W. E. Lang of Athens.
Rev. j. II. Bennett spoke last Sunday
on the evils which threaten our nation at
the present time, taking for his text Acts
XVIII, 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smith and daughter
of Dover, N. H., came Saturday for a
short visit at Mrs. Smiths fathers, K.
Sanderson's.
Miss Katherine Booth and Miss Lou
Sanderson went Saturday to Hawthorne
Inn, Gloucester, Mass. to work through
the summer.
Earl Fuller was badly bitten by some
dogs which were fighting at G. Cory's,
where he was haying, and which he at
tempted to separate.
Mr. and Mrs. j. V. Shaw went Monday
to Winchendon to spend the Fourth with
relatives of Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Shaw re-
naming through the week.
Mrs. NJ. d. Whitman has been to
Springfield, this state, canvassing for a
book upon the life of Admiral Dewey.
She has had good success.
Carl Knight, who graduated from the
Brattleboro High school last month, has
passed the entrance examinations to the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
G. L. Davenport, j. w. Shelley and W.
E. Aver played at Westminster Monday
night. Mr. Davenport played with the
Hinsdale band at Chesterfield the evening
of the Fourth.
Miss Maud Munger graduated from
Childs's business college last week. She
has a position as typewriter and stenog-
rapher in the Office of the Stowell Manu-
featuring company.
Fred Kohl and Miss Fanny Steele are
spending their vacation from the Waltham
watch factory at Mr.. Crosbys. Mr.. Koh
returned there for the Fourth to act a:
pace maker on five-seated wheel at BIZ
cycle race.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fayette Baker of Spring
field, this state, stopped at Charles Bailey
over the Fourth on their way home from
Arlington. The neighborhood picnic
usually held on July was at Charles
Bailey's this year. Between 80 and 81
took dinner, which gave Mr.. and Mrs
Baker a fine chance to visit their old neigh
bors.
The wooden bridge near the old "castie'
on the road to the cemetery in Putney
Falls is greatly in need of repair. 1t is
barely more than a nuisance in its present
condition, and it would not be tolerated
for day in Putney village. A few dol
lars expended in repairs now might pre-
vent serious accident and might be thu
means of large saving to the town.
The Putney base ball team defeated thu
Bellows Falls team twice Tuesday on the
local field. The scores were large, and il
both games the local boys outclassed thu
visitors in both batting and fielding. TIT
games were interesting, however, on thu
whole. Sam Underwood was in the boz
for the home team in the morning, ant
Allis Houghton in the afternoon. VIII
Sanders caught both games for Putney.
Independence day was celebrated IL
Putney Falls in a pleasant way, but nee
essarily on a small SCALE The hour o
midnight was scarcely past when the oil
anvil, which has taken prominent par
in the Fourth of July celebrations in Put
ney Falls for the past so years, belche'
forth with deafeningreportf from charg
of giant powder which had been contine
in a hole in the anvil by hard wood plu
driven in with a sledge hammer. Charg
after charge was thus exploded through
out the day and evening, and there wa
the usual din made by caps and fire
crackers in the hands of the small boys
In the afternoon there was a picnic by tn
Cobb families at the home of Mr.. and Mr.
Harry W. Cobb. Refreshments of ic
cream and cake were served.
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