Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-09


ter. Mrs. b. NJ. Switzer.
Mrs. Hattie j. Ellis has been guest at
VI. d. Whitman's for a week.
Rev. E. Mitchell began holding preach
ing services in East Putney June l.
Mrs. Martin Whitman has taken the
general agency for "With Dewey at Ma
Mia"
Mrs. A. G.. Holman and mother Of New
York city are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
r. Fem.
Henry Warren and friend of Charles
town, Mass, are guests of DR.. and Mrs.
Geo. S. Foster.
Rev. c. j. Harris will leave Tuesday for
a two-weeks' visit in northern Vermont
and New York.
James Crawford is building a store
house on his lower meadow, where he will
store his tools used in tobacco raising.
Mrs. J. s. Richmond and Mrs. Augusta
Whitney of Windsor spent Sunday with
Mrs. Richmond's daughter, Mrs. E. S.
Munger
Charles Kilburn has gone to Spofford,
y. H., to work. The house which he
vacated is now occupied by its owner,
Henry Kilburn.
Merchant NJ. G.. Williams has added to
his store equipment "World" cash reg
ister. 1t has nickel case, and is de
tailed self-adder.
Carl Bracket, who has been seriously
i'll with appendicitis, is improving, and it
is thought that he will recover without
having to undergo an operation.
Mrs. Shaw, daughter of the late Prof
Aggasiz of Boston, returned to Boston
Monday after spending two weeks or more
as the guest of Miss Isobel Briggs.
Frederick L. Houghton is spending the
week in Buffalo, n. Y, where he went
Saturday to attend the annual meeting of
the Holstein- Freisan association of Amer
lea.
Will ingalls, of Rutherford N. j., came
to Putney to attend the funeral of his
grandmother, Mrs. Hazen Aver, which
was held Sunday. He returned to New
Jersey Monday.
A. j. Aver, Henry Warren, W. S.
Adams and G. B. Willard, members of the
Putney Gun club, will attend the shoot OF
the Interstate Trap Shooting association at
Bellows Falls next Wednesday and Thurs
day.
James Jenna has finished work on the
G.. p. Parker farm and has moved into the
house with Irving Ketchum. He will
work for C. w. Adams. Mr.. and Mrs
Clark Derby will carry on the Parker
farm.
Some of the subscribers to the fire de-
nartment fund are enquiring as TO whether
the frost has gotten out of the ground
If so. they think it a seasonable time tc
begin the work of putting in the hydranl
system.
NH. Pember and son Samuel returned
Monday from a visit in Rutland and with
Mr.. Pember's brother, Emmett Pember
in Granville, Y. Y. The latter recent,
had one leg broken by having it caugh
between some logs.
C.B. Willard caught 80 trout last weel
weighing over four pounds. On Saturda!
Charles Nichols of East Putney and Franz
Mallory caught five pike in the Connectl
cut river. which weighed from four to sil
pounds each. Mr.. Nichols caught earle
in the week four pike weighing Is pounds
Mrs. Ira Davenport went to Barre Tues
day afternoon to attend the meeting OF Tn
grand chapter, Order OF Eastern star, a
proxy for Mrs. F. L. Pierce. Mrs. DIV
j. Stowell, grand chaplain, went tror
Brattleboro. Mrs. Stowell has postpone
her western trip on account OF the Hines
of relatives.
Miss Bertha Estey and Miss S. +
White have gone to Sugar Hill, n. ii
where Miss Estey has opened her hott
for summer boarders, the Miramont'
The hotel is situated in one of the mos
picturesque spots in Sugar Hill, with
unbroken view of the Presidential an
Franconia mountains.
The funeral of Mrs. Fidelia Hitchcocl
who died in Claremont, n. H., last weel
was held in the Congregational church
o'clock Saturday afternoon. Rev. ii.
Goodhue of Westminster West ofhclate'
The burial was in the cemetery on u
Westminster West road, where the Dod
of Mrs. Hitchcock's husband, Schuyl'
Hitchcock, was buried.
Next Sunday will be observed as Chi
dren's day at the Congregational churc
In the morning the pastor will give an
Illustrated address entitled "The Ship
Character" building before the audien
a three-masted ship about six feet Ion
In the evening at o'clock there will be
children's concert, with interesting exc
cises by the Sunday school. The public
invited to these services.
The Christian Endeavor society OF u
Congregational church reorganized Tue
day evening at the parsonage. The follo'
ing officers were elected: President, He
ry eushman; vice president, Robert Fen
secretary, Alice Farr; treasurer, al
Houghton; corresponding secretary Mel
Clark. The chairmen OF the commute
are: Prayer meeting, May Scott lookoi
Minnie Whitney; social, Reginald rowe
music, Herbert Huntley.
The Humane Christian Culture d
been so cordially received that the edit
will be very much larger this month. 81
eral half-tone cuts will be published WI
articles by some of the leading w0rke
There will be sermon by Rev. mr.
good of Brattleboro. About one-third
the entire edition has been ordered by
Washington, D. c., society. The MAJ
zine will be published on the Goth OF ga
month.