Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-24
NEW FAME.

"Imogene" will be presented at Union
hall this evening, the oath.
Mrs. Fred Randall and daughter Mar
guerite returned to CharlestowD, Mass,
last week.
been assisting in the care of her grand
father, Mr.. Rawson.
Mrs. Lucy Cushing is at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Page, in Groton, Mass,
where she will spend several weeks.
The gramophone entertainment at Union
hall Saturday evening left few dollars in
the treasury of the ladies' aid society,
whose debt for church repairs is reduced to
somewhat less tSan $40.
Mrs. Dewitt writes from Lake Helen,
Florida, of the freeze that took possession
of that section. There were two days of
severe weather, with mercury less than 20
degrees above zero.
Last Sunday Pastor Norton in the Sun
day school bespoke an interest in attend
ance upon the union gathering at South
Newfane on March in the interest of the
Sunday schools in town.
1t is seldom that in February the air has
been so full of bird songs. Blue jays are
fat and saucy in their glee, the chickadee
is CHEEKY, the woodpecker seems to peck at
some live thing in the trees and the crow
has evidently come TO stay.
The hawk with lovely gray plumage
which was shot by Arthur White in dis
trict No. : was found marauding on the
premises WITH hen closely held in its
talons. 1t belongs to the species known
as goshawk, of which there are several
varieties. This nests farther north, as far
as Ontario, and is said to come this way
only in winter.
DR.. Roberts was hastily summoned on
Monday to a French Canadian boy of six
years who was considerably cut and bruised
by the falling of tree. The lads father
is wood chopper living on the Morgan
place near the Wardsboro line. Though
only the outer branches struck the boy il
was thought that but for the bed of snow
into which he sank he would have been
killed.
C.. NJ. Newton, former Newfane boy
and now of Middletown, Conn, who is
spending the winter in Orlando, Fla, on
account of his health, has been enthusiast
tic over prospects of the pineapple culture.
According to accounts of experts in the
business the pineries are protected by tenn
poraTy shelters and by fires. An article in
Sundays Tribune claims little damage for
the region about Orlando.
Much sympathy is expressed for Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Skinner, whose son Herman
died this week at his home in South Lon
donderry, after brief illness The moth
er, who was summoned to her dying sons
bedside, had been in Brooklyn during the
winter. The father reached South Lon
donderry from here last Sunday, a day be-
fore his sons death. Only last fall the
friends were summoned to the young mans
wedding.
The account of the 50th anniversary of
the first railroad train coming into Brattle-
boro being read to Mrs. Park she recalled
personal recollections of the affair. Then
living in Brattleboro she took her sons,
Charles and Otis, to witness the event
She thinks there is yet in her home ball
ticket of the occasion, but that 1t is hidden
in some book or paper in which she placed
it, and which she cannot recall. The
tickets sold for S. each.
There is certainly variety in the follow
ing list of periodicals to be found on the
reading table of Moore free library: he
Forum, Century, Harper's Magazine, Scrib-
ner's, Review of Reviews, st. Nicholas,
Ladies' Home journal, Library Journal,
Literary News, McClure's. Weeklies:
Harper's Weekly, Pathfinder, Country
Gentleman, Scientific American, Outlook,
and the Daily New York Tribune. Papers
which are donated are: New York Times,
Phoenix, Performer, Household, Union
Signal, Advance, Southern Churchman,
Youths Companion, Alliance, Ladies'
World, Temperance Cause, Vermont Home
Guards, Sabbath Reading and Sheltering
Arms,