Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-12
NHWFANE.
Mrs. Paris Rawson returned last week.
Next place of meeting for the w. G. T.

Mrs Paris Rawson returned last week.
Next place of meeting for the w. G. T..
U. is at the parsonage.
In observance of the week of prayer
meetings were held on four evenings in
the vestry
Frank willard of Willamsvlle is the eX-
pected new iailer and landlord of the
County hotel
Mrs. Eleanor White of Baltimore is the
guest Of her sister, Mrs. Burke, at the
Newfane House
The last quarters average attendance at
the Congregational Sunday school was ga ;
yearly average, go.
The annual meeting of the Windham
County Savings bank corporators will take
place next Tuesday at the bank rooms.
Landlord Davis will serve the annual din
ner at the County House.
j. II. Walbridge, from Caledonia county,
has been in town writing up Newfane in
connection with Townshend and Putney.
He expects TO publish an illustrated pam
phlet history in February.
Liveryman Higgins of Brattleboro drove
a merry party of II young women from
Brattleboro to the Windham County hotel
Monday evening, when a chickenpie sup
per was served, and the sleighriders other
wise enjoyed themselves.
The town has settled with Leslie STRAIT
ton for injuries received in driving over a
bridge that was under repairs In South
Newfane in the fall by paying him 1928.
The bill of Charles Tyler for damage TO
his butchers team which was driven by
Mr.. Stratton was $40, making sum
total of S66j.
Mrs. H. S. Caswel's many friends will
regret to learn that she has been obliged
to submit to a surgical operation for cata-
ract on both eyes Her oculst, who is
an eminent specialist in New York city,
assures her that she will be able to use her
eyes soon Her present expectation is to
take up Vermont engagements in Febru-
airy.
And still the wonder grows that the
Newfane House was saved from burning
last week Monday morning. About 80
men worked towards two hours. The fire
did not break through the roof, but worked
behind ceilings. Mr.. Angler OF Brattle-
boro, the owner, is said to have settled
with the insurance companies for about
$500.
A former resident Of this place with a
good memory, who was in town last month,
said concerning the cane seat arm chair in
the Congregational ve,try that originally
there was pair belonging to the pulpit
set and when the church was built in 1899
these chairs were furnished by Kidder &
Burditt, cabinet makers, who bought them
elsewhere, and that the firm also made the
sofa, which is still in existence, and COM
Portable relic in the prayer room.
Considering that ginseng hunting has
been a source of income TO some in this
vicinity, and that effort has been made TO
cultivate the root here, 1t may be of interest
10 give a few details from the Boston
Transcript concerning diggers Of ginseng in
Tennessee where the plant is indigenous in
certain sections. Efforts TO cultivate it
there have not been successful. Demand
for the root Is constant, and the price high.
The unique man with hoe as he is called
in the barrens Of Tennessee, lives in a log
cabin, and has been known to set fire 10
the woods in order TO get at the hidden
plant. II has been mystery as TO what
the Celestials have made of the root
perhaps II substitute for opium. Later
authorities claim ii is used as a medicine
for nearly all the ills to which the Celestial
is heir. The United States is now dividing
honors with the Chinese Empire In CON
sumption of ginseng. 1t is made into
medicine here and considered one of the
greatest remedies of the day, being recon-
mended for gastric disorders. Great sums
have been expended in its cultivation, hut
success has not been fattering. One
young man in this place gathered in the
fall 20 pounds of ginseng at about 81 per
Mound