Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-22
NnwFANE.
The Homeland circle

The Homeland circle will meet on Wed
nesday at a place to be specified in the
Sunday notice. Attention was aroused in
the last meeting by an illustrated book
let on Indian Endeavorers and their meet
ing places in cooking, mission, industrial
and normal schools and hospitals in Dako-
Ia and Nebraska. Also the last annual re-
port of the department of the interior by
the commissioner Of Indians was on hand.
1t is bulky volume with large map
showing where all the various Indian in
tere Is are located and is of much interest
to study AS Is well known New York is
the nearest state having Indian tribes.
Pennsylvania has now reservation and
contract schools. OF the southern states
North Carolina has Indian schools near
ils en- 1essee border
Among Thanksgiving sentiments ex-
pressed at the November meeting of the
circle was one concerning the taking of
three children from depressing circum-
stances In this community TO be trained
through their minority. Two of them,
sisters, are located In one family, and the
third, two years old, of another family,
has been adopted by one of the Homeland
circle members.
Earl Davis went to Boston on Thursday
to find work it is said.
Mrs. II. A. Carpenter is in Chicopee
Falls with her daughter, Mrs. Chaplin.
Mrs. Reuben Hobrook of Franklin,
Mass, spent Wednesday with her sister,
Mrs. w. T. Bruce.
Eugene Howe has moved to the F. o.
Mortified farm in Brookline, which he will
occupy as a tenant.
Miss Stella Micott returned last week TO
Springfield, Mass, where she is engaged in
professional nursing. .1s5
Mrs. p. Ward of Westminster will be
the guest Of her sister, Mrs. Arthur Farm
ham, on Christmsa day. - : -
} Exercises in connection with the Sunday
school Christmas tree will be held at Union
hall on Monday evening.
George Batchelder has arrived from Dale,
near Beaufort, S. c., and will be with his
father in the Batchelder store.
The w. C. 7. u. met on Wednesday
with Mrs. Gushing. The next meeting
will be on Jan. 3, at the parsonage.
H. A. Carpenter is teaching school in
Marlboro in the district adjoining that in
which his daughter, Henrietta, teaches.
David Davis's daughter Loenia, who is
suffering from acute mania, at the Brattle-
boro Retreat, is yet in critical condition.
The condition of Bert Morse, after op.
Grafton from appendicitis, is said to be such
that he is likely to be about the house
soon. His nurse, Miss Hall, returned to
Brattleboro on Wednesday.
w. T. Bruce, whose serious illness from
a stroke of paralysis was noted in The
Phoenix Of Dec. /, is slowly improving.
His powers of articulation appear to be
making slight but regular progress.
n. johnson, the aged uncle OF Mrs.
Kenny, who spent several months with
her this year, recently received a severe and
Gripping injury in Wardsboro, where he
lives with his nephew, Mr.. Kidder.
Blessings on the progenitor OF that rail-
ing adjoining the bridge en- route TO the
depot. 1t has been an escape from proba-
bic danger that more people than one have
not walked into shallow brook on some
dark evening.
The accommodating narrow gauge train
stopped in the open field by the old Caleb
Taft place Thursday 10 take on some
young men who had been surveying for
the locating OF dam between Williams
vile and Dummerst0h.
Much sympathy has been felt for Fred
II. Sargent, whose left hand has been dan
gerously painful for about a month from
the small beginning of a boil, which de-
velOped into frog felon. A council Of
physicians was held nearly two weeks ago
over proposed amputation. 1t was decided
that for some reasons 1t was not then ad-
visable to have such operation although
two or three fingers appeared to be dead.
II is hoped now that his condition is
slightly improving and that a considerable
part of the hand will be saved.