Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-03-23
WILLIAMsVILLE.

A. NJ. Mortified has been quite i'll with
grip the past week.
Miss Brown of South Wardsboro, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Bert Wright.
Epworth league subject next Sunday
evening, The Glory of Obedience"
Mr.. and Mrs. Prentice Carr of Westmin-
ster are visiting at Luke j. Morse's.
Misses Louise and Florence Mortified
are home from Mortified seminary for the
spring vacation.
DR.. White reports several scattering
cases of grip. We are hoping, however, to
escape general visitation.
Charles II. Dickinson of Wallingford,
Conn, has been visitor at ID. d. Dickin-
sons the past week.
No maple sugar has been made here yet,
although several of our farmers have brok-
en- roads through their sugar lots and scat
tered their buckets.
1t is understood that the Newfane school
board have organized by the election of
DR.. p. p. White as chairman and Mrs. G.
K. Davidson as secretary.
Following the Young People Christian
union meeting next Sunday evening Rev.
d. A. Ball will give an address on Mira
Giles treated from scientific standpoint"
Lucian Stedman and Jesse Harvey, both
Newfane boys, took the railway postal eX-
animation at St. Johnsbury Monday, with
the view of entering the railway mail ser
vice.
Edgar c. Allen of Brookline, Mass,
came up Tuesday to visit his mother, Mrs.
Abbie p Allen, who has been quite fee
BILE during the past fall and winter, but is
now slowly improving.
The maple sugar eat at the Methodist
vestry last Friday evening was very well
attended. The preliminary exercises con.
sisted of Rotations and readings, several
selections by the Stromzee band and the
Grasshopper cantata.
The members of the Junior Epworth
league gave surprise party TO Mrs. Fred g..
Houghton at the church vestry Saturday
evening and presented her with sum Of
money. Mrs. Houghton was largely in
strumental in organizing the junior league
and until her removal 10 Brattleboro this
week, has performed very faithful service
as its superintendent.
The appointment Of Frank l.. Fish, now
| of Vergennes, as bank examiner of Yer
mont, is Of course very gratifying to every
resident of his native town of Newfane.
| We who knew Mr.. Fish as a boy and
| young man have not been surprised, as we
| have noted his steady and substantial ad.
vance in positions of honor and trust. We
are expecting TO share in further and larg
er honors evidently in store for him.
The Dennis A. Dickinson farm of 32G
acres, near this village, has been bargained
! to Charles w. Freyenhazen Of Cedarhurst
Long Island, who buys the place for .
home, planning to move his family herC
early in April. Mr.. Dickinson will max,
his home with his daughter, Mrs. p. p
White, in the village and will move the
town clerks Office into convenient room!
which are being fitted up in DR.. White
! house.
Rev. F. Z. Marble of Brattleboro ap
peared in our lecture course Wednesda!
evening and gave very instructive anC
interesting address on the subject of "Mor
monism." The statistics given by tn
speaker relative to the recent gain of Nor
monism in numerical strength in sever
al states, exceeding the gain of several o
the large religious denominations com
bined, came as a surprise to most of tn
audience. DR.. Marble evidently consider
this questions one of the most menacin
that confionts cur future as a nation. II
would first have our people become thor
oughly informed in regard TO the sub
ject, this information 10 be followed up b
active agitation, and by the thorough SUP
port of all missionary and other enter
prises now working to counteract the ev
in its strongholds.