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

Our village school begins next Monday.
Charles Packard has moved into Mrs.
Marion WinchesteI's tenement.
Frank willard OF South Deerfield, Mass. !,
is visiting Williamsville friends.
George C. Cooley was recent visitor
with North Adams, Mass, friends.
Misses Nellie and Florence Dickinson
are attending the West Brattleboro acad-
envy.
Rodney Wheeler of Worcester, Mass, is
spending his spring vacation at George X.
Wheeler's.
Two of our young ladies, Misses Grace
Timson and Mabel Perry, are working in
Brattleboro millinery stores.
George T. Manchester very pleasantly
entertained his Sunday school class at the
Methodist vestry last Friday evening.
AKRON White gave a party to about 20 Of
his mates Wednesday afternoon, the occa-
sion being his ninth birthday.
Most of our sugar makers have gathered
their buckets. The season has been long
one, but the product, although of good
quality, is less than one-h half of the usual
amount.
Rev. John n. Shipman, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Athol, Mass, Wis.,
tied his mother, Mrs. j. w. Shipman, this
week. Mrs. Shipman has been quite i'll,
but is now improving.
Bert Codding went to Marlboro Depot,
n. H., last week to visit his brother, VIM.
II. Codding, who recently lost four fingers
of his right hand and received other inju-
ries by coming in contact with bench saw.
AS George Houghton was drawing a
load of lumber TO Willamsville station
Tuesday morning his truck slued off the
road near the water trough, and went
down the bank some 80 feet into the brook,
dragging the four horses after it. Fortu-
nately driver and horses were not serious
ly injured
Rev. A. A. Esterbrook is attending the
Vermont conference at Newport, conse-
quently there will be no preaching at the
Methodist church next Sunday. Sunday
school at IL :45 and Epworth league seGv-
ices in the evening. Subject, How Christ
Makes Use of Common Lives. The Man
with the Pitcher"
Rev. d. A. Ball will have for a subject
next Sunday morning The Grounds of
Universal Solution The discourse will
be sequel to that of last Sunday on 1.-The
L uTpOst tuu ROVER Vi Tue GOSpel. Az
the Young Peoples Christian union meet
ing in the evening the subject will be
Faith Working by Law"
The timely discovery of fire in Leslie
Stratton's woodshed Monday evening
doubtless prevented what might have been
a very serious blow to our village. The
chimney had burned out few days pre-
viously and it seems that the fire continued
to work in the SCOT at the bottom and final
ly found a defective place in the chimney
through which it got into the wood and
chips in the shed. A fire on the south
side of Main street is something that our
village people don't like to think about and
hope not to experience in the present con-
dition of our fire department.
S. T. Davenport of West Brattleboro
has sold the Welcome Allen farm in the
Parish district to Herbert Pierce, who has
been his tenant for the past two years.
With the farm OF some $50 acres Mr..
Pierce also has nine cows, about a dozen
head of young cattle and the farming
tools, all for a consideration of little less
! than $500 1t is understood that Mr.
Davenport has found farming in NewfanC
fairly profitable and only closes out hi:
holdings here because there is less bother
in cutting off coupons and drawing divi
dends than in attending to the multiplied
details of farming so far away from home
! Success to the new proprietor.