Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-07
NEWFANE.

MIS-. Lyman OF burlington is with
her sister, Mrs. w. &. Ballou for several
days.
Miss Eta Morse, preceptress at Kimball
Union academy, Meriden, n. H., is spend
ing Easter vacation here.
Mr.. Fairbanks is doing as well as could
| be expected in the healing succeeding am
putation of his foot.
w. II. Newton and family of Wallng-
ford, Conn, paid brief visit to the home
stead on Thursday.
G.. w. Parsons has bought of Fred Ford
the small place just north of Mr.. Parsonss'
occupied by the Steven family.
Mrs. Foster Whitaker went to Worces
ter on Thursday to spend part of the
spring with her daughter Mrs. lay.
Miss Alice Cheney, a graduate of Mt.
! Holyoke, who spent last summer and fall
here, is engaged to teach in Rochester
academy, Wisconsin.
Mrs. Phoebe Davis slipped on the snow
| just outside her home at Mr.. Parsons's on
Monday and both bones of her right arm
were broken below the elbow.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. A. Dewitt propose to
start on Western trip on Monday. Treas
urer Dewitt will have banking interests
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of Mrs. De Wits father in Illinois.
Rev. Mr.. Morrow, president of the Anti
Saloon league, gave an interesting and
practical address last Thursday evening on
the work of the league and importance of
sustaining its lawabidng plans in the in
terests of temperance and good citizenship.
Many old friends of Mr. and Mrs Paris
Fream of Montevido, Mimi, gave them a
| leo lxy hi
March % TO observe the 18th anniversary
of their marriage. There followed an
evening of delightful social intercourse
and an appropriate presentation exercise.
Two new books have just been present
ed to the Moore free library by the authors,
"Service in the Kings Guards" by Rev
Smith Norton, and "Fanny's Autobogra-
ply" by Rev. Mary +. Drake Norton.
They are both stories of missionary life on
the frontiers as experienced by the au-
thors.
1.-The man from Connecticut" who has
great love for his native town and its in
! terests, was worried this week at observ-
ing the forcing process to which some lines
of highway trees are being subjected. He
noted two and sometimes three buckets
set at the same maple tree. He said that
our fathers planted these trees at great la
Dor and now in their full growth they
should be treasured by the public; that it
is a wrong to overwork them Governors
! in their proclamatiOns urge the planting of
trees by roadsides and they might well add
reminders to take care of those which the
forefathers started.
G. w. Roberts of Butte, Montana, ex-
saloon keeper and evangelist, who has been
speaking through this county, will give his
"stirring temperance addresses in the
church at Newfane next Sunday morning
and evening. Mr.. Roberts speaks from
his own experience as saloon keeper and
gambler, "while he also stands as a wit
ness of the grace of God to save from SIM"
Subject in the morning, 1.-The Prodigal
Son." as illustrated by life on the western
frontier. In the evening he will give his
famous lecture, "From Bar-room to Pull
pit" which is said to be Every thrilling
and interesting" All come.
The Evening Times of Kingston, Canada,
in its issue of March IS, records the death
of Mrs, Elizabeth Scott Twitchell, so, which
occurred the previous day at the home of
her son, Capt NJ. H. Twitchell, and adds
''She was of Scotch descent, her ancestors
being among the early settlers of New
England and participants in the revolution
airy war In her family were ten, of whom
Mrs. Twtchell was the last survivor. She
was the mother of five children, two sons
and three daughters. Her youngest son
was assassinated in the Southern states,
and her daughters died shortly after their
husbands fell as did their brother, by the
assassn's hand. The surviving son is the
well-known and highly esteemed American
consul of this city, with whom the deceased
spent the last years of her life. That a
woman should survive the death of her
husband during the civil wal, and the tragic
deaths of her children soon after. not only
attests her energy and endurance, but the
help which comes from the upper world"