Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-18
NEWFANE,

G. S. Wilcox is making repairs on his
house in district No. 3.
The county Jail still maintains an un-
usual length of time without any inmates.
Attendance at the Congregational Sun
day school reached high tide mark of SO on
Sunday.
Mr.. Parry and two daughters of Meriden,
Conn, are guests at the Newfane House
for the week.
N. M. Batchelder of Fitchburg spent a
day or two this week in the interests of his
business here.
The village school has secured a new
flag by getting orders for soap and the
scholars expect to have it raised before the
school exercises of Memorial day:
W. H. Fisher, lately of New Jersey, is
spending his vacation at Mrs. Loves, ex-
pecting to enter upon his work in a sum
mer hotel at Loon lake, Adirondacks, about
June l.
Service Sunday morning was conducted
by Rev. Mr.. Wiswall and in the evening
by Rev. Mary E. Norton. Mr.. Norton
spoke briefly at the latter service and sang
by request two solos.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union elected as delegates to the county
convention in Grafton this week, Mrs. M.
Z. Merton, Mrs. G. W. Parsons, Miss Ben
edict, Mrs. G. L. Hescock and Mrs. Fanny
Gage.
Birchard post, G. A. r., will hold Memo
rial service in Townshend at the Congrega-
tioDal church on Sunday, the 9th. The post
and Relief corps are requested to meet at
Masonic hall at 10 A. NJ, TO attend service
in body.
Memorial day exercises will be held in
Newfane on the 30th. Rev. Mr.. Titcomb
of Massachusetts, will give the address and
| otherwise the program is expected to be
interesting. Orchard post and Relief corps
with the invited schools are requested to
meet at Union hall to attend the exercises
at l0:30 A. N. Citizens are invited to con-
tribute food for the public dinner at noon,
and contributions of flowers will be well
| come.
AS Felix Micott was about to enter his
house on Wednesday, he saw a man run
ming from the railroad track two miles be-
low the village. Two other men having a
team near by were in pursuit and called
vigorously to Mr.. Micolt, Catch him, ~
reiterating the call several times, and the
man who was secured proved to be an es-
capped lunatlc, said to be fire bug from
the Brattleboro Retreat. The pursuers
were doctor and attendant from the Re-
| treat.
A former Newfane woman writes con-
corning her cousin, who is instructor in the
wood working department of Leland Stan
| ford university, California, that he says
his department has grown more than any
/ other in the college. OF his 175 pupils 100
\ are young ladies, He is much pleased that
the latter take so much interest and show
so much ability in their work. Three
years ago he had only three of them in his
class. Mrs. Stanford had congratulated
him heartily on building up so large and
| popular class in this department.
Rev. and Mrs. Merton having sold some
OF their household goods, have shipped the
remainder to Oberlin, Ohio, and expect to
leave here on Friday. Mr.. Norton is due
to give an address before the alumni of
! Oberin college on the 9th. He gradual
ed at that institution in the fifties. Mr..
and Mrs. Norton propose to make their
home for the present in Oberln, where
they both have friends. They carry with
them the best wishes of their late parish
toner's and regret that Mr. Norton's health
compels him to resign from anything more
than occasional preaching.
| Inc BODY OF Mrs. Mary j. Ober, widow
of the late Rev. Benjamin ODER, pastor of
the Congregational church here from 1868
to IS, was recently committed from the
vault in Brattleboro, in which town she
died last winter, to the Dummerston Gem
etery, where her parents, Judge Marshall
and Sophia Miller, were buried years ago.
The family was an old and respected one
in this town. There are yet surviving a sis
ter of Mrs. Ober, Mrs. Maria Huntington
of Hornellsville, n. Y, widow of a Meth
odst minister, a brother, S. p. Miller of
this place, and a half-sister, Mrs. Eliza
Dix, oldest of the family, who lived many
years in Dummerston and now resides with
her daughter Mrs. Helen Everest Ather-
ton of Dubuque, Iowa. Mrs. Ober' S
brothers Morris and Frederick were SOL
diers in the civil war, and the late Henry
Miller of this town was a brother. An
other sister, a summer resident for years in
Bernardston, Mass, was the widow of Rev.
John Griswold, pastor of Newfane Con
gregatonal church from 1884 to 80,
preceding Rev. l.. COburn, first pastor of
the new church. Mr.. Grswold preached
in what was known as Union church, SUI
perseding the old Newfane Hill church
building and now known as Union hall.