Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-11-16

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where lie the dead.
Miss A. L. Kenny is In Brattleboro for
the present.
Noble Pratt has shipped his fourth car
load of apples.
The village school will probably not re-
open till Monday, Dec. 10.
Mrs. E. j. Ward is visiting her brother,
Mr.. Sheridan, of Hoosick, N. Y.
The W. G. T. U. will meet with Miss
Newton on Wednesday at o'clock.
NJ r. Pratt, assisted by Earl Davis, Is
finishing jobs of painting In Londonderry.
G.. K. Davis is assisting Mr.. Hapgood of
Peru in the latter's numbering business,
collecting bills, making sales, etc.
Several from this place expect to start
for Washington on the day after Thanks
giving to remain week or 10 days in that
city.
Attendance at the supper given by the
ladies aid society last week Thursday even
ing was fairly good in spite of unfavorable
weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ransom Rand left thei =
summer home here on Wednesday and
will spend the winter with their daughter
in Orange, Mass, as usual.
w. II. Goodnow spent Sunday here, and
on Monday accompanied his wife and her
mother to North Cambridge, Mass, where
Mrs. Morse spends her winters.
That music hath charms Is exemplifed
by the graphophone in Mr.. Batchelder's
store, which has stepped into the place
formerly occupied by the telephone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldrd OF Andover we're
recent guests at d. A. Benson's. On a
former occasion Mrs. EIdrid brought sever
al Angora kittens, which sold for $40 per
pair.
Rev. F. NJ. Wlswall will supply the Con-
gregational church as usual on the two re-
naming Sundays of this month, but ex-
poets TO be absent on the first Sunday in
December.
Ella Pierce finished the fall term Of
the village school without marks against
her name, which makes the seventh con-
secutive year OF her attendance at school
without an absent or tardy mark.
Hon. W. l.. Butnap Of Burlington lately
visited his cousin, Mrs. w. T. Bruce, and
Mr.. Bruce's cousin, Miss Bartlett, and her
niece, Mrs. Borden, of Newton and West
Bend, Iowa, are with the Bruces this
week.
Newfane sent a delegation to share In
the political celebration on Monday even
ing at BrAttleboro, aud others took advant-
age Of the convenient special train to
spend an evening of four hours with
friends in the same town.
. Mrs. Edford Bennett, formerly Of this
place, underwent y serious surgical OPERA
ton at the hospital in Hanover, y. H., a
few weeks ago and she was so successfully
treated as to be able 10 return to her home
in Swanzey this week.
: Mr.. and Mrs. William Hescock, who
moved from this town 10 Dummerston
Hill, were recently given a welcome "a
: their new home by the social assembling
of neighbOrs and fIiends, who extended Ia
them the right hand Of fellowship.
Next week and the following week item:
will be in order concerning plans fol
Thanksgiving, departing and expected
guests, etc. Old friends who read The
: Phenix "where rolls the Oregon" anC
other distant streams will turn toward the
home news.
Naturally Mrs Micott was somewhat sur
prised to read OF her having a lobster cac
tus containing half a hundred blossoms
The thrifty plant, however, which so revel
ed in bloom, cultivated by the neares
neighbor, Mrs. II. Z. Howe, has been
pleasure TO the entire community In dis
lrict No. 3.
Rev. H. A. Gurfet, secretary OF tn,
State Ant-Saloon league, is expected Il
give an address here Sunday evening Mr.
Gurfet was for some years principal of thu
Troy Conference academy in Poultney.
will be remembered that Rev. Mr. Morrow
of the same state society gave an able Ad
dress here two years ago.
The thunder of last week was remark
sble for its number Of hours duration
through one night and several hours Of tn
following night. As measured by Mis-
Tuthill, the rainfall In the time was fiv
inches, Miss Richmond's measure bein
the same. 1t would be a Mathematics
tussle to calculate whatever ALLOWANCE
should be made for slight slope in tn
height of the pals. These figures for in
termittant showers of the time include
will doubtless equal the usual Novembe
record.
The little account of the notable old elI
in South Newfane given in this colum
last month resulted in some going froI
this place TO see tree which Is larger thR
the Washington elm of Cambridge, it
branches occupying 100 feet from side I
side. Visitors were impressed with tn
great size of the main branches OuI
spreading so near the ground, only abou
four feet from the earth. When Presiden
Hayes was governor of Ohio he visited hi
Berchard relatives here, some Of whOI
drove to Wilmington with him. On tn
way Gov. Hayes was so impressed wit
the size of the elm mentioned that
measured the spread of its branches an
thought it must be the monarch of tn
country In breadth of shade.
The county jail now contains three prli
oners, two of whom are short-term me
for drunkenness. One of the latter wa
returned in two days after expiration {
his first sentence, for the same Offence
lie is now retained for disclosure as t
where he obtained liquor. II the bill
= send such men TO the state workhous
passesit will doubtless be better all around
for the men themselves and for the state
as a prevention against idleness. Unde
y the present law which fills our count
Of jails more particularly with the short-terI
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