Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-04-06

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are nome for the spring vacation.
Mrs. Harry W. Cobb, who has been criti-
cally Ill with pneumonia, has made good
progress toward recovery this week, and
sue Is now considered out of danger.
A. >. Aver has put in four lines of bicy.
cles for his seasons trade. They are the
Columbia and Hartford, Stormer and PEN
nant, the Iva johnson and the Monarch.
There will be Easter services in the
Methodist church next Sunday. The SER
vices on Easter Sunday will be omitted on
account of the conference in Bellows Falls.
The Odd Fellows and their families held
a sugar supper and sociabe in Masonic
hall Wednesday evening" The Baptist
church also had sugar supper on the
same evening.
The Northheld, Mass, correspondence
in the Springfield Union says: "Mrs.
James T. Cummings and daughter, Ber-
nice, are visiting Mrs. Cummings parents
in Putney, Vt"
Harry Houghton started to move to
Hinsdale, N. H., last week, but on the
Brattleboro road his load of goods tipped
over and his right hand was injured so
that he returned for few days. Several
stitches were required in dressing the
wound.
E. Fl. Bragg, who is employed by the W.
A. Cole Paper company, and Miss Myrtle
Jondro, who has been employed in the
family of Warren Willard, we're married
March 20 by Rev. K. F. Mitchell They
are living in the Priest house near p. s.
Hannum's.
Rev. G. Glen Atkins, who has recently
been called from Greenfield, Mass, to Bur
lington, has been engaged to deliver the
Memorial day address in Putney this year.
Rev. Mr.. Atkins delivered the Memorial
| address here a few years ago, and he was
received with much enthusiasm.
The Westminster West correspondence
in the Bellows Falls Times last week con-
tanned the following: 1.-THE engagement is
announced of Miss Abbie Goodell, for
merly of this place, and Mr.. Farrant Of
Newport" Miss Goodell has many sin
cere friends in Putney who will be inter
ested in this announcement.
The call will be issued tomorrow for {
Republican caucus to be held in the towT
hall April IA at Z 80 p. NJ, to elect three
delegates to the Republican state conven
ton in Burlington April is and to cleo
three delegates to the Republican conven
ton of the second congressional district Il
be held in Montpelier April II.
The Putney Library association has re
ceived a check for $500 bequeathed to it b.
the late G. W. Kimball. Mr.. Kimbal
willed his Knights of Honor insurance tC
Mrs. James b. Hale of Newbury with tn,
provision that it should be distributed L
certain organizations, among which wa
the Putney Library association.
Mrs. E. W. King, daughter and son, o
Havana, Cuba, will spend the summer
Fl. B. Powell's. Mrs. King, whose hus
band is in the commissary department un
der Gen. HUMPHREY, has come to educat
her children. The daughter will atten
the Central school and the son the schoc
in district No. 2. The daughter will try I
} enter Vermont Academy in the fall.
Myron Ward writes to The Phoenix ths
he held first mortgage of $1,000 on Ian
of Arne Olson of Minnesota, the loan b.
ing made by Austin +. Kelley. In Ma
before the failure of the Kelleys Aust
Kelley, without calling for release or
any way notifying said Ward that Olso
would pay, collected the amount due an
used the same for his own purpose, an
Austin Kelley induced another man to az
vance money on same land without any r.
lease having been made of the mortgage
Ward. After the failure of Kelley II
case was put in the hands of attorney
2 who brought suit and have obtained
I Judgment in favor of Myron Ward, su
: tanning the first mortgage, which had m
,, been released.