Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-11-10
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
TOWNS HEND.

Henry Bailey is slightly improved.
Mrs. Walter Gage was i'll last week.
Mrs. Q. L. Curtis has a class in paint
ing.
Sherman Willard and wife spent Sunday
in town.
VIM. Ingalls, and wife spent Sunday in
Bellows Falls.
Anna Twitchell is home from Pratt's
hotel in Vernon.
Mrs. Abby Willard is visiting her son,
Sherman Willard.
Mrs. NJ. F. Hardy has recently visited
relatives in Worcester.
Martin Perry was home over Sunday
from Claremont, N. H.
Pension Agent Shapeigh of Rutland
has been in town this week.
W. H. Miles and wife are with their
daughter, Mrs. Edith Cutler.
The Congregational aid society met with
Mrs. Bishop on Wednesday afternoon.
Bertha Phillips has recently gone to
Wardsboro to work in the Underwood no.
tel
There will be Sunday school board and
teachers meeting at the Baptist parsonage
Saturday evening at 1880 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Eddy have return
ed from a visit at White River Junction,
where they have been several weeks.
There is a writing class in the seminary
in which the vertical system is being
taught Miss Blanche Brigham is the
teacher.
Royal Sanderson reports the following
amount of rain during the past Two
months Rain fell in September, 80 inches;
in October, % inches, making a total for
the two months of @ inches.
Miss Era Austin entertained the senior
class in the seminary, of which she is a
member, at her home in Harmonyville last
week. Games were played, refreshments
were served and pleasant time enjoyed.
Prof. Edgecomb and wife with Miss Alb
bolt, the assistant teacher, and Miss Amy
Perry, Bessie Hardy, Eta and Bertha
Gage, Mrs. Kenyon, Annie Cooke and
Clara Harris, attended the convention of
teachers at Brattleboro last week.
Fred Kimbalrs family have moved to
Westminster, where they are occupying
their recent purchase, the Leach farm.
| We are sorry to lose them and the loss of
their children in district No. 8 is one that
will not be easily made up, as have no
children to lose from any of our school
districts. This district is the same as the
one spoken of in the sketch of the life of
Hollis Nichols in last weeks issue of The
Phoenix, which once numbered 1O3 schol-
ars. Now it does not reach into the teens.
The Dorcas guild held an old-fashioned
pairing bee with Mrs. Charlie Willard on
Monday evening. The apple, after being
properly cured. is to be sent to mission
airy school among the Indians. And 1t was
through Mrs. Caswell this good deed was
done, as a call had come to her from this
school for dried fruits. We think the Dor
cas- guild in the Congregational society and
the Hadassah league in the Baptist society
are most helpful auxiiaries to each of the
churches in this place and it is pleasure
to the writer to speak kind and apprecia'
tive word of both these societies of young
people.
A Sunday school concert was held il
the Baptist church Sunday evening, the
subject being "The Bible in Poetry ant
Song.' Passages of Scripture were giveI
out to different ones to read. There were
select readings by Mrs. G. L. Curtis, Mis-
Grace Thayer, Miss Amy Perry, Miss II
A. Fletcher, and remarks by the pastor
The singing by the choir was excellent ant
the solos by Frank Chase, Grace Baile'
and RAYMOND Slate were well rendered
The little folk, Bernie Phillips, Bessi
Dutton and BERTHE ODER, who spoke, di(
we'll. Mrs. Kenyon had the concert il
charge and the program she arranged wa
, well carried out. The superintendent, K
J L. Tasting, had the concert in charge tina
evening.
The writer had the experience of risin
at an early hour last week to take the NOR
than early morning train to Brattleboro
and while that is bad enough now it is go
. ing TO be much worse as the colder weathe
comes on, and it does seem as thoug
: there should be protest from every sta
= ton on the narrow-gauge route, from eV
: ery man, woman and child. The mel
chants are much Inconvenience ON &C
5 count of the delay of freight. If this stat
of things continues it may not be improb
able that an electric road will be opene
t to us from Saxtons River, as it has bee
mentioned by the wise ones as an enter
: prise that may be carried out in the nea
e future and the tide of travel turned to tn
e north. Let us hope at least that theI
G NAV be some way out of this miseraol
e state of things that now exists.