Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-03
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Clinton Franklin spent Sunday in town.
Jessie Kimball of Westminster is visit
ing in town.
Mrs. Haigh and son are visitors at Hen
ry Bailey's.
Mrs Ellis of Beaufort, 5. c., is visiting
at Mrs. Dale's.
Mrs. Ella Donaldson has recently visited
relatives in town.
Holland Gage has been on the sick list,
but is now improving.
Miss Flora Bemis and George Walker
spent Sunday at j. B. Derry's.
DR.. Rice is putting the addition Of
another room to his new house
Mrs. Elijah Wales is recent visitor in
town at Mrs Achsah Fraukln's.
Mrs. Fred Willard has been housed for
week with qulnsy sore throat.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Pratt Of Proctors-
vile are visitors at Horace Gales.
NJ IS Ina Grout and brother Leo have
recently visited at Charlie Austin's.
The Hadassah league served ice cream
on the church lawn Tuesday evening
Mrs. Hannah Hastings Of Springfield,
Mass, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ann Carr.
The Dorcas guild met last week with
Miss Grace Morse at the Baptist parson-
age.
Miss May and Annie Yinton Of Buck
land, Conn, are bOarders at John Bart
let's.
John Brigham Of Duluth, Mimi, is Wis
ting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Bella Brig
ham.
Mr.. Robertson and family of Hinsdale,
y. H., have been boarders at the Towns
bend Inn.
The Dorcas guild will serve ice-cream
and sherbet on the lawn "Wednesday even
ing, Aug
Miss Florence Batchelder OF Fltchburg,
Mass, is spending a few days with Miss
Alice Derry.
Marshall Martin and family attended
the Willard-Park wedding at Williams
willie last week
The hay crop is light. On some farms
it is estimated the crop will be only about
one-half as much as last year.
Harlan Boynton retires from the clerk
ship in w. S. Hollands store and Harry
Adams of Windham takes his place.
Miss Addie Shattuck and Mrs. Will
Smith of Springfield, Mass, came Tuesday
to visit their aunt, Mrs. Fred Willard.
Mr.. Prouty of Grafton is cutting the
grass on the Currier place, one of our
abandoned farms, and George Winslow is
haying on the Day place, another of our
abandoned farms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Landman left for
their home in Pittsfeld, Maine, after a
visit here of some weeks. They will visit
DR.. Ebert Landman on their way. He
I lives in Danville, n. II.
Fred Kimball and Frank Eddy are in
town looking after the hay on Mr.. Kim
balls farm which he sold last spring when
he moved to Westminster, as the person
who bought it does not take possession I'M
Til this fall.
A court of inquiry was held last week
on Friday, the object being TO ascertain
the origin of the fire which burned John
Whitcomb's barns. No satisfactory clue
was reached so far as the writer's knowl-
edge goes.
The Fortnightly club held very inter
| esting meeting with Miss Myra Hobart on
Tuesday afternoon. The readings from"The
Workers" byWalter Wyckoff, were of much
interest. Several new members have been
added to the club.
Mr.. Palmeree. cattle buyer from Men
den, Conn, has recently been here at j.
II. Wares. He went away with a large
drove of cows Monday morning. He fire.
| qlently comes here and has bought hun
dreds of cows of Mr.. Ware.
A movement is on foot for a grand Re
publican rally the middle of this month
and arrangements are being made to bring
some noted speakers here at that time.
Saturday evening at o'clock the Repub-
licans of this place are requested TO meet
at the Townshend Inn for the purpose of
forming club, choosing committees and
making all necessary arrangements.
The Dorcas guild held its semi-annual
meeting with Miss Grace Morse at the
Baptist parsonage last week, 10 members
and three visitors being present. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
Mrs. q. II Willard; vice president, Mrs,
o. W. Follett; secretary and treasurer,
Miss Grace Morse; directors, Mrs. j. G.
Taft, Mrs. f. L. Lowe and Mrs. c. H,
Cutler. The afternoon was pleasantly
spent on the balcony, tea being served
there. The occasion proved both profia-
BILE and enjoyable.
Haynes Sanders has taken the contract
for building new barn on the farm of
John WhitcOmb to replace the ones burned
so recently. One of the barns that was
consumed had been built but a few years.
Mr.. Sanders has been building a barn for
Albert Austin in Brookline, which is soon
TO be completed, and then he will begin at
once the construction of the Whitcomb
barn, which is to be completed by the first
of October. In the meantime this sea-
sons hay will be stored in an unoccupied
house on the premises of Mr.. Whitcomb.
The lumber is already being drawn for IL.