Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-03-02
T0WNSHEND.
John Rock is at V. II. Gray's.

| JOnn hOCk is al V, ii, Gray s,
Willis button of Boston is in town.
Mr. and Mrs. j. S. Cummings spent
Sunday in town.
Eflie Fisher of the 90 class visited some
days in town last week
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Blood have returned
from their trip to Springfield.
Mrs. Margaret Watson has returned
after being away caring for the sick.
Arthur Bemus, so well known here, was
married recently at Iron Mountain, Mich.
A daughter born to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Bailey Feb. % weighed only three pounds.
Virgie and Alberta Edison spent last
week with their grandmother, Mrs. VIM.
Ingalls,.
The churches have held an extra union
meeting beside the usual Thursday even
ing prayer meetings.
Many families who were put to great in
convenience for the want of water are
blessed with an abundance since the re-
cent thaws.
Fred Willard, who has been agent for
three years for the Union Insurance com
pany, has recently taken the agency for
| the Vermont Mutual company.
The weather the first of the week was
the most severe of the winter Tuesday
| morning the thermometer stood any where
from 10 TO 20 degrees below zero, according
to locality.
Miss May Adams of the 1900 class gave
class party at her home in Wndham last
Saturday evening. A delightful evening
was spent. The teachers and others from
this place attended.
Eluip Dprappe v.In ,,..yt ., tIo NJ.
chusetts General hospital for treatment,
has had an operation performed and is in
fair way to recover. He had been III a
long time before going
Blanche Brigham is completing the les
sons in vertical writing she began in the
fall to the seminary students, as some
wished to teach the art the coming season
and did not feel they had a thorough
knowledge Of it.
Mrs. Annie Batchelder has been quite
Ill with grip, also Arthur Rand and Mrs
Harrington, Mrs. NJ. F. Hardy's mother.
Charles Cutler has been under the doctors
care. c. II. Evans has been seriously i'll
with throat trouble.
Miss Abbott, the assistant teacher in the
seminary, invited her Sunday school class
of boys to her boarding place at Prof. Edge
combs last Saturday afternoon and enter
tanned them in the most delightful man
ner. Games were played and refreshments
were served.
The annual meeting of the Baptist la
dies aid society will take place next week
on Tuesday, at which time a warm dinner
will be served, and as this society has a
good record for serving good fare for a
small amount of money they will hope for
a good patronage on town meeting day.
The cantata, under the auspices of the
Dorcas Guild, came off last Friday evening
and was very novel affair. The parts
were well taken and the costumes were
elaborate. There were pantomimes and at
the close social. The financial results
were pleasing TO those who had put time
and labor into il.
We learn that Mrs. Pratt of Orange.
Mass, has leased the hotel in this place,
and she will have the assistance OF her
nephew, Mr.. Card, who has been used for
a number Of years to hotel work and who
has good understanding Of all its details.
We sincerely hope they will prove the right
people in the right place.
The Fortnightly club held on Tuesday
was attended by the usual number. but il
detracted much from Che interest of the
meeting that several who had parts were
not present to take them The constitu-
ton says that those who are not able to iii
the parts given them must find a substitute
TO ill the part assigned them on the pro-
gram We hope in the future that this
clause of the constitution will be faithfully
carried out.