Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-31
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Miss Helen Hall of Winchester is at II.
p Ranney's.
Miss Lora Wilcox who spent the winter
in Florida, is with her friends here for a
few days.
A friend of Theodore Siekmau, Mr..
Roth of Brooklyn, is with him at w. G.
Harlows.
The ladies aid society met last week
with Mrs. G.. w. Chandler with full at
tendance.
Word has come of the marriage of Miss
Abbie Goodell to Mr.. Farrant, florist, of
Newport, They are expected by relatives
here by the last of the week.
Rev. G. H. DeBevoise preached here
last Sunday in exchange. The audience
was hardly up to the average, owing
doubtless to the extreme heat of the day
and no notice had been given of the ex
change.
The city visitors are about to leave us
for the most part as is always the case
with the coming of September. Mrs. Kline
and children left for Baltimore Tuesday,
Mr.. Montgomery and Hazel for Boston
| Thursday, Mrs. Seckman for Brooklyn, Mrs.
True for Epping, and others at the close of
the week for their homes or their employ
ment.
One of the furnaces Of the church has
been found so much out of repair that J.
II. Clark, the agent of the society, after
due consultation, has deemed it best to re-
place it by new one. A. l.. Harlow is
circulating a subscription paper to secure
funds TO meet the expense. There has
been good response so far and the prospect
is that new furnace of the best style will
soon be put in.
A number Of the older citizens of the
village turned out one day last week and
put the sidewalk from the church to the
store in better condition than it has ever
been. This and the street lamps make it
much pleasanter about the village espe-
cially in the evening w. G. Harlow has
removed his front yard fence and will
grade and sod his yard in time, making a
nice lawn of it.
1t is to be feared that the voters of this
part of the town will take it for granted
that the coming election will 90 all right
and too many of them will not be at the
trouble Of leaving their work and travel
ing six to eight miles TO vote There is no
contest for representative and nothing has
been done to stir people up. 1t is of more
Importance to do this in the remoter dis
tricts than in the centres, since it is so
much more of an effort to vote Our town
committee does not seem to have considered
this, and it is very likely that our vote will
fall short quite largely. One of the two
political meetings in Westminster ought to
have been on this side of the hill
The old folks concert given Wednesday
evening by the young people, was arranged
and prepared in a hurry, but it passed off
very much to the satisfaction of the large
audience gathered TO hear it, Several Of
the songs sung in the olden time were rem
dered with enthusiasm, together with solo
and duet pieces, and farce read by Miss
c. Belle Ranney and acted by Walter and
Miss Clara Buxton. Miss Helen May APP
peared in two pieces, How Grandmother
Danced the Minuet," and my Brothers
Letter, which were received with great APP
plause. Miss Nellie G. Cutting was orgrn-
list, +. W. Goodhue conductor, Misses
Florence Goodhue, May Goodhue and Alb
bic Wellman solosts and others in the
songs we're j. p. Ranney, F. r. Chapman,
W. f. Buxton, j. R Goodell, II. W. Good
hue, Mrs Frances Chapman, Misses Bar
bara Schwenk, May Goodell, Stella Goodell
and Maude Goodell a handsome sum was
realized as a nest egg toward the purchase
q piano for the town hall.