Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-09-08
TOWNSHEND.



The books for the Townshend Public
library have come and will be ready for
distribution Monday, Sept. IL. Through
the kindness of DR.. and Mrs. Osgood the
books have been placed in their parlor.
The following rules will govern the use of
the books:
books must be returned in two weeks.
ga fine Of FIVE cents will be imposed for ia IL.
ure to return the book at the expiration of the
two weeks and an additional fine OF FIVE cents
for each succeeding library day
3-All persons taking books from the library
will be held responsible for their loss or damage.
Am citizens of the town over ID years of age
are entitled to draw books from the library.
5-No books can be taken from the library ex-
cept upon library days and within the hours
stated.
Library days; Monday, $50 P NJ to $50 P. NJ;
Friday, P NJ. TO 1880 p. NJ.
George Hardy is i'll with typhoid fever.
Mr.. jerks of Boston has been in town
on business.
The rain fall during the month of Au-
gust was two inches.
The Misses Holmes have returned to
their home in Saratoga.
Mr.. Williams has recently visited his
sister, Mrs. Aston Cushing
Mrs. Leslie Lowe is gaining slowly in
health after her long illness.
Mrs. George Lawrence is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. William Perry.
Arthur Follett and Henry Dutton have
returned to their studies at Yale.
Mrs, Wheeler and child are visiting at
her mothers, Mrs. Underwood's.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howard of Win
chendon, Mass, have returned home.
S. NJ. Blodgett and his two children of
Weston have visited at Fred Watson's
Rexford Benson and daughter have been
visiting at his fathers, ARA Benson's.
Mrs. Curtis Shattuck ofSyracuse, N. Y,
is visiting her niece, Mrs. Fred Willard.
Cora Winslow has returned to Worces-
ter, Mass, after visit at her home here.
W. S. Hollands clerk, Bert Allen, is
back again in the store after his vacation.
Mrs. Lottie May Brainsrd of Passaic,
N. j., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. II. Wins
low.
Mrs. Laura Chase of Worcester, Mass,
is visiting at her brothers., Henry witch
ellis.
Ellen Ware has returned to Springfield,
Mass, after spending her vacation at her
home.
Miss Clara Pratt of Maiden, Mass, has
been visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
l. Pratt.
Mrs. Ephraim Fuller has returned from
her visit to her brother, James Bemis, in
Michigan.
Miss Eta Morse, formerly a teacher in
Kimball Union academy, has recently Wis
tied Mrs. Chas. Willard.
R. M. Palmer, president of the mining
and stock exchange at Seattle, Wash, is a
guest of 81. T. and c. Holland Evans.
Charles Stebbins's II boarders have left
for their homes in New York city after
enjoying the country air in this place for a
number of weeks.
The seminary has opened very favorably
as to numbers, and with so excellent a
corps of teachers we are sure the term will
be profitable one.
Miss Abbott of Paris, Maine, assistant
teacher in the seminary, came Tuesday
evening. She was met at the station by
her former pupils and given a cordial well
come.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Taft have gone to
Saratoga. They will take in the floral
fete, which begins the 18th and lasts three
days and will be the finest this year it has
ever been.
John Bartlett was surprised on his
birthday anniversary by a little gathering
at his home, few of the neighbors and
friends coming in and enjoying a social
time during the evening.
Misses Addie and Carrie Shattuck, after
spending many weeks with their aunt
Mrs. F. Holland, in town, left here for Put
ney where they spent week and are now
at their home in Brattleboro.
M. Il. Smith of Andover, Mass, has
been canvassing the town for the Life o.
Dewey" Mr. Smith enters Harvard col
lege this fall. During his stay here ht
boarded with Mrs. 81. Winslow.
The reporter for this column would hav'
been glad to have noticed in last week.
issue of The Phoenix the Dorcas Guild so
cial and the grange picnic and would have
taken it very kindey if someone had giver
information of them.
Homer King died at his home on thu
Prentiss Carr farm the 9TH from drops!
and heart trouble. The funeral was helC
at the church Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock, Rev. G. l.. Curtis officiating. Mr.
King was about p years old.
Rev. G. W. Fennell of Meriden, Conn.
who is visiting his classmate, Rev. G. l.
Curtis, preached in the Baptist pulpit las
Sunday and gave us an excellent and abl
discourse from Heb. XI., 1: snow faith i
the substance of things hoped for, the evi
dence of things not SEEM" His illustra
tions were fine and the sermon was mucl
enjoyed by all who were privileged to hea
him.
Schools in town have begun, the vii
lage school with Prof. Call and wife a
teachers and Miss Amy Perry in the inter
mediate department. Blanche Brigham
teaches at West Townshend. Bertha Gag
in the Streeter district, Beulah Potter il
the north district. Those going out o
town TO teach are Mrs. Kenyon to New
fame village, Edith Sanders to Wardsbor
city, Bessie Hardy to Wardsboro.
Royal Sanderson gives us a little NOR
of the early history of the John Sandersol
farm at the west village, his birth place
1t was first occupied in 1775 by DR.. job
Hazelton and grandson of Col. John Haz
elton. The first house was built of log
and stood east of the road leading to Wind
ham and near the land of r. l.. Lawrence
After few years he moved to anothe
log house a short distance above the oil
one and from this place he moved into
framed house erected about 1884 west @
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