Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-21
TOWNSEND,
Annual Meeting or The Dorcns Guild.

was held with Mrs. OIrison FOllett last
Friday. Those who attended from the vii
lage went up in one team and Fred
Lawrence drove. After the company ar
rived they found that Mrs. Follett had ar
renged to have the meeting held in the
| beautiful grove near by on the farm known
as the Woods place Hammocks were
hung and cosy seats made. The following
officers were chosen for the coming year:
President, Mrs. J. G. Taft; vice president,
Mrs Helen willard; secretary and treas
urer, Mrs. Minnie Rand; directors, Mrs.
Folett, Mrs. White and Mrs. Lowe. New
members were taken into the society and
plans made for the future. Ice cream and
cake were served, and the afternoon was
much enjoyed by all.
Mamie Ware has returned from her visit
to Boston.
J.O'Brien of Boston is at his summer
home here.
Romance Thayer has been very i'll again
the past week.
Eff. De Normandie of Boston is visiting
at John Towards.
A. A. Blood and Fred Chamberlin we're
in town over Sunday.
Miss Emily v. Harris is visiting her
niece, Mrs. j. II. Ware.
Rev. C. L. Curtis took business trip to
Windsor, Conn, last week.
Mrs. Kenyon left Friday morning to Wis
| IL her mother in Greenwich, r. l.
John Cobb has bought all the standing
grass on Edwin Fessenden's farm.
The rain last Sunday was very welcome
as the drought was becoming serious.
l.,
sence of many weeks visiting friends.
The Bailey children have returned from
their visit of several weeks at South New
fame.
Mr.. Jencks, who was one of the owners
of the Currier farm, has been in town re,
Gently.
Mrs. G. II. Strammer and two sons of
Plattsburg, n. y, are visiting at Mrs.
Sarah Wilson'S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Day have returned
from their carriage drive to Claremont, n.
H., and Woodstock, this state.
The BroughtoDs, who have been visit
ing at Charles Gray's, have returned to
their home in Bloomfield, n. j.
Mrs. Margaret Watson has recently visit
ed her sister in Springfield, this state. She
also visited relatives in Bradford.
Mrs. Sophia Parker and daughter aud
| little Miss Marion Rose Of Fitchburg,
Mass, are visiting at DR.. Parker's.
Mrs. Allen Osgood and son and Mrs.
LOOMS of Springfield, Mass, are visiting
their sister, Mrs. Nelson Winslow.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Brigham, who have
been spending several weeks in town, left
Wednesday for their home in Southboro.
Rev. NJ. f. Hardy has returned from his
vacation in Nelson, n. II. There were
services Sunday at the Congregational
church.
Clarence Woodland, J. II. Wares hired
man, was thrown from the moving ma
chine last Tuesday and his arm was badly
injured.
The class of 1900 held delightful social
at Academy hall Wednesday evening. Cake
and ice cream were sold to raise funds for
the class.
j. L. Howard and Z. F. De NorDandie
caught 100 trout in Stratton Monday, as
fine a string of trout as has been seen in
town this year.
Over so and perhaps 1t would be safe to
say 70 people from here attended the pres
entation of Uncle Toms Cabin at New
fame Monday evening.
We are requested by the building COM
mittee of the prospective hotel to call at
| tention TO the advertisement in another
column for bids for construction.
Much sympathy is felt for Edwin Fes-
sender, who is suffering so much trouble
with his eyes since the cataract was re-
moved, as he hoped to be permanently
better.
Chief Justice Walbridge A. Field of the
supreme court of Massachusetts, whose re-
cent death at his home in Boston we no
! tice, was once a student here at Leland and
Gray seminary.
We notice the death of Rev. John Wood,
who was once pastor of the Congregation
al church here. His age was 90 years, and
for a number of years he had been a resi-
dent of Fitchburg, Mass.
Mr.. Mosher, agent for the Glen Broth
ers' nursery, Rochester, N. Y, il canvass
ing in town, and from our own experience
would say he does better than many agents
by customers; he replaces whatever does
not live.
There was an old fashioned quilting at
! Mrs. G. II. Wizards last week on Wednes-
| day afternoon in honor of Mrs. Tannerhill
and two daughters from Englewood, N. j.,
who were visiting her. Each guest was
asked to come dressed in the style of so
years ago. The hour was o'clock, and
the tea corresponded to the costume of the
guests. We don't know who would have
taken the prize had prizes been given. A
delightful afternoon was spent
We learn the bolt of lightning that
struck the buildings on the Currier farm
was seen to descend as far away as Brat
tleboro, and Immediately the flames as
cended. But there was one workman on
the premises, perhaps more, but this one
says no shock was felt The effect was
very different from the bolt that descended
near Walter Eddy's when the inmates of
the house were stunned. But we know
that lightning doesn't always play the same
pranks.
G. w. Meacham of Chicago is spending
his vacation with his parents, Rev. and
Mrs G. d. r. Meacham of Passumpsic
Mr.. Meacham was formerly an assistant of
Rev. Mr.. Rust in chapel car work on the
coast, but for some time past has been
travelling for the western department of
the Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Co. A .
b. Meacham, of the Post Graduate medi-
cal school, New York city, is also spending
his vacation with his parents at home.
The Lyndonville Journal contained the
following in its Passumpsic correspondence
last week: 1.-The beautiful service of bap-