Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-21

Mrs. Minnie 4. Pierce went to West
field, Mass, Saturday to visit for week.
Misses Bessie and Nellie Wright are
guests of their grandfather, Sterne o. Par.
ker.
Fred Smith and family of Dover, n. H.,
we're guests at A. j. Ayers from Friday to
Monday.
|" , factory of the Stowell Manufacture
ing company is now running with its full
force of men.
NJ, G. Williams has received large
quantity of seed and table potatoes from
Mount Holly.
Mrs. Mary (Rock) Van Arnam of Ath-
oil, Mass, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. G. L. Pierce.
George A. Littlefield has sold his farm
near the depot, known as the W. G.. Stew
ems farm, to o. L. Perham of Bellows
Falls.
Tabor Coombs is expected in Putney
May 2. The overseer of the poor will
probably escort him from his present home
20 Putney.
Dana Clough is repairing the tenement
N the upper par of his house preparatory
70 having it occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. F.
j. Martin.
All the schools opened Monday with
about the usual number of pupils. There
is an average of % students in the three
schools in the village.
Mrs. Laura Eager went to Mechanics
vile the first of the week to visit her son
Will who was recently badly hurt by be.
ing kicked by horse.
j. D. Willard will sell his household
furniture and farming tools at the Corser
farm at 10 A. NJ, April 30. W. G. Ste
vens will be the auctioneer.
Miss Lizzie Arnold expects to go to Bos-
ton tomorrow. She will return next week
with her mother, and they will begin
housekeeping in this village.
W. A. Cole was in Brattleboro the first
of this week as one of the appraisers of
the paper mill property of the late Fletcher
Carruthers of Bellows Falls.
Mrs. j. H. Bennett went to Springfield.
Mass, Tuesday to visit with her daughter
while Mr.. Bennett is attending the Meth
odist conference at Newport.
Mrs. Norman Cobb, jr., of Putney Falls
is caring for her daughter, Mrs. j. H.
Wheeler of Mount Holly, who has been
seriously i'll but is improving,
The listers will meet in the selectmen's
room at 2 o'clock p. NJ, on May 2 to hear
all persons who may feel aggrieved at the
appraisal of property made by them.
A. w. j. Wilkins will erect in May
$500 Quincy granite monument in Vernon
in memory of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward A. Tyler, who were drowned in the
Connecticut. riser.
Mrs. Farley of Farley, Mass, came to
Putney the first of this week to assist her
daughter, Mrs. Olive j. Stowell, in pack
ing up her household goods preparatory to
moving to Farley.
: Chester Taft very pleasantly entertain
ed number of his friends at his home
Saturday evening. Warm sugar on snow
was served to the guests and the remain
der of the evening was enjoyably spent in
playing games.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren G. Stevens are
expected home the 10th from Jacksonville
Fla, where Mr.. Stevens has been employ
ed in the St. James hotel. They will 60
to Wells Beach, Maine, early in May to
spend the summer in hotel.
A. II. Overman of Chicopee, Mass, who
has summer home in Westmoreland, Just
across the river from Putney, is making
preparations to occupy it this summer. He
will bring with him horsleess carriage
manufactured at his bicycle works in Chic
opee.
1t is reported on good authority that the
fiuorite mines on the farm of Willard Bill
in Westmoreland, which was recently sold
to New York syndicate, have been found
to be valuable far beyond expectation. The
mines will be worked extensively the COM
ing summer
The stockholders of the Stowell Manu-
featuring company met in the company's
"a. l,wv eNl.w
E. S. Munger, W. G. Crawford and G.. T.
Aplin were elected directors, and the d.
rectors elected E. S. Munger president,
and W. c. Crawford clerk and treasurer.
The report of the listers show the num-
Der of poll taxes to be 279. The number
of head of live stock and their appraisal is
as follows: 374 horses, $199.70; 967 cows,
S237.26; 562 other neat stock, $S2.27;
731 sheep, $254750; 1914 swine, $1237; Is
oxen, $3.50 The total taxable value of
personal property is STA, 799 as compared
with $10S,3S last year.
A. w. j. Wilkins is making extensive
improvements in his two houses on Kim
ball Hill, which he recently bought of the
Kimball estate. All the tenements will be
papered and plinted and otherwise re-
repaired, and the houses will be painted
vi IHb OuJSluos Inc DOuy VI Ju6 houses
will be painted light green, the trim
mings will be white and the blinds will be
painted dark bottle green.
The following is from the Barre Even
ing Telegram of last Friday: "Bush and
Aver, the last years battery of the God
dard base ball team, returned last night
and are to be on the diamond for business
this spring. They will both go into train
ing at once and as soon as the campus,
which is now covered with ice, becomes
dry the whole number of candidates will
be put into preliminary practice"
G. W. Olds of Boston was in Putney
Tuesday to place an attachment upon some
machineryin the factory of the Stowell
Manufacturing company. Mr.. Odds claim
ed that he had finished work for the COM
pany who placed the machinery in the
factory, and that part of his salary was
still due. He was advised by members of
the Stowell company to attach the ma
chinery in order to save himself from loss.
The attachment was not made, however.
A misunderstanding between f. L.
Pierce and Will Wood was settled by ar
bitration Saturday. Mr.. Wood drew a
quantity of timber for Mr.. Pierce during
the winter expecting to receive for it SO
cord. Mr.. Pierce understood that he was
to pay IS cord. The difference amount