Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-03
THE VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, AUG1

of William Smart, formerly of this town,
was brought here for burial in Mount
Pleasant cemetery.
Miss Grace Prouty and Miss Maud Saw
yer went to Mortified, Mass, Tuesday,
accompanied by Miss Macdonald, who has
been visiting Miss Prouty. They will re-
main through the conferences
The check list to be used at the Septem-
Der election has been posted. The board
of civil authority will meet to revise the
list at l O'Clock on the afternoons of Aug.
10 and Sept. 1, in the town clerks office.
Mrs Nelson w. Newcomb and Youngest
daughter of East Putney are spending two
weeks in Bolton, Mass, visiting Mrs New
combs sister They went to Bolton by
team.
Mrs. M. d. Whitman went Friday to
lake Pleasant where she has rented a cot
tage for a month. She will be Joined later
by Mrs. H. G. Evereth of this village and
Miss Flora Smith of Brattleboro.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Warren were called
to Boston Tuesday by a telegram announc-
ing the death, Monday afternoon, of Mr..
Warren's sister, Mrs. Jennie Warren Har-
rts. Further announcement of Mrs. Har-
ris's death will be found in another col
umn in this paper.
Henry Crawford and F. L. Heughton
are the men most prominently mentioned
for representative from Putney in the next
legislature. Both are we'll equipped with
knowledge of business affairs and both
have the executive ability which would
make them capable representatives.
f. A. Harrison of London, England, a
representative of the firm of commission
merchants fer whom F. l.. Pierce manu-
features large quantities of chair stock,
has been guest of II. L. Pierce this week.
Mr. Harrison is in this country visiting the
various firms with whom he has CONNER
cial relations.
Mrs. Roger Chase and two sons of st.
Paul, Mimi, who have been spending the
summer with Mrs. Chase's aunt, Mrs.
Dana Clough, will go to Burlington today
for visit, after which they will return to
st. Paul and will pack their goods and
move to Tacoma, Wash, where Mr.. Chase
is engaged in the practice of osteOpathy
Mrs Chase was formerly Miss Minnie
Dunn of this town.
The Boston ~ Maine railroad company
has decided to raise three of its bridges be-
tween Putney and East Putney two feet.
The bridges are located: One below d, S.
eIsOlS uOuSt, one near the lOuSb OF
George Leach and one opposite the Kit
tredge Parker farm. They have already
been raised once. At the first mentioned
bridge at least one man has been killed by
its coming in contact with his head as he
stood erect on the top of freight car.
While all other parts of the town were
sweltering in the heat one day last week a
wind of cyclonic proportions swept up the
river road. At John Whitney's, on the
old Parker farm, load of hay was blown
over and about three-quarters of cord of
wood was blown from the locust trees
about the house. At George Leach's a
small building was blown down. Four
trees were blown down on the Vermont
side of Britton's ferry and three trees on
the New Hampshire side. One tree near
Mr.. Brtton's house was broken off a con-
siderable distance from the ground and the
top crashed down through the roof of a
shed. Two boats in the river were blown
out upon the bank, one of them being
overturned, and five out of bunch of six
telephone wires across the river were brok-
en- down.