Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

ago by Alroy Snow.
Mrs. johnson of Wardsboro is in town
teaching Miss Cora Mason the Taylor sys-
tenn of dressmaking
Mrs. Clara Follett is i'll. Miss. Susan
Ross Is on the sick list. V. II. Gray has
not been as well recently.
K. II. Fessenden has recently returned
from Boston, where he has been for the
removal OF a cataract from one eye.
The Mason family were called to South
Newfane Friday to attend the funeral of
their step mother, Mrs. Sarah Mason.
The Covey.auction was held on Wednes-
day. 1t was well attended and everything
was sold that was for sale on the place.
Ruth Reed entertained last Wednesday
afternoon % of her young friends very de-
lightfully on the sixth anniversary of her
birthday.
Will Davis of Jamaica has moved on to
his fathers farm and into the same house,
which has been made convenient for two
families.
The Baptist ladies' aid society will serve
their annual chicken pie supper New Years
evening. All are cordially invited to come
and partake.
Rev. NJ. F. Hardy, Mr.. Curtis and others
from here attended the conference at New
fame last week and give a good report of
the meetings.
There will be cantata at the Congrega-
tional church in celebration of Christmas
in the evening and there will be Christ
mas exercises Sunday morning.
Rachel Twitchell is back again at Mar
tin Sparks's after being called home for
several weeks on account of the illness of
her grandson in Saxtons River.
The Changers held their annual oyster
supper at Grange hall last Friday evening
With the exception of one family all the
Changers and their families were present.
Eugene Wetherbee injured his hand
quite badly while using a chisel, which
broke, sending piece of the steel into the
flesh. The wound had to be cut open and
the steel pulled out by a doctor.
Committees were appointed at the Bap-
fist church Sunday to take the Christmas
exercises in charge and also to take charge
of the supper for the Sunday school, and
committee was appointed to trim the
room.
A sad accident happened last week to
Mrs. Albee, the mother of Mrs. George
Albee, who fell and broke her hip aud one
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years 1t seems wonderful that she should
survive having the bones reset. She is
now doing as well as a much younger per-
son might be expected to do. Chloroform
was administered.
The Congregational ladies' aid society
held their annual meeting last week and
elected the same officers for the coming
that have served the past year: President,
n ~ T.ft
Carrie Randall, Mrs. Annie Batchelder,
Mrs. DR.. Osgood; committee on work,
Mrs. Abbie Derry, Mrs. Stella franklin;
secretary and treasurer, Miss Susan Ross.
Sixteen attendants from our churches
were at the interdenominational confer
ence at Newfane last week, IL from the
Congregational church and four from the
Baptist. The meetings we're full of inter-
est to all, setting forth the needs of the
county and ways of meeting those needs,
and marked by spirit of earnest desire
and conservation for better results in all
our church life.
Very interesting letters have been re-
ceived from Miss Anna Twithcell, who is
spending the winter in California. She
| gives very pleasing account of her jour
ney there and the different places she
passed through. In Arizona she saw the
Indians who came to the station to sell
their wares and she saw also their adobe
huts. She speaks of the vast prairies and
the immense grape vineyards she passed
through in Ohio, and also the fine farms in
Missouri. Kansas, she said, reminded
her more of Vermont than any Of the
other states. Pasadena, where she is
spending the winter, she describes as a
most beautiful place with its fine residences
and its lovely flowers, roses and Towering
vines growing in great profusion and lux
uriance, and the scenery there as some
thing beyond description.
Mrs. Eliza A. Swan, widow of Henry
B. Swan, died suddenly from heart disease
at her home in Winchester, N. H., last
Monday. She complained of severe pains
In her side, and asked her daughter, Dora,
to prepare a remedy, but before this could
be done she sank to the floor and was dead
when her daughter reached her. Mrs.
Swans maiden name was Eliza Howard,
and she was born in this town 70 years
ago. She was married to Mr.. Swan Dec.
u, 1949, and since that time had lived in
Winchester. She united with the Baptist
church here at an early age, and was a
sincere Christian. Mr.. Swan died four
years ago. Mrs. Swan is survived by
four children-Fred II. of Orange, Mass,
Miss Dora of Winchester, Mrs. Jennie
Sherman of Taunton, Mass, and DR..
William Swan of Colorado Springs. She
also leaves one sister, Mrs. Tuthill of New
fame.