Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-09-13
NEWEANE.

Miss Ada Farquar of Wilmington Is a
guest at Mr.. Farnhams.
The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs
A Grout at p. m. on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Underwood took
a trip to the seashore this week for sew
eral days outing.
Miss Sadie Underwood and VIII Har-
vey are in attendance at Leland &
Gray Seminary, Townshend
Miss Helen Brennan of Cambridge
Mass, a student of the university annex
Radcliffe, is teaching the village school,
the fall term of which opened on Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Elizabeth Osgood visited her
granddaughter, Mrs. j. NJ. Kenney en-
route TO Brookline on her return from
month at her grandsons, Herman Os-
goods, in Derry, N. H.
Not only Noble r. Pratt expresses graf
itude to the neighbors and all who rallied
Sunday afternoon to save the Pratt home
from ravages of fire, but the community
felt cause for thanksgiving as the dam
ger of the fires extension seemed i'm
minent for a time.
Guests this week on Bencasson grounds
are two brothers from Springfield, Mass,
of r. d. Newton, who is one of the oc-
cupants of Rest cottage. One of the
brothers is accompanied by his wife, and
joy life tenting on the heights.
G. X. Davis and grandson, George
Batchelder, were guests at the Davis
Wheeler wedding in Wardsboro on Tues
day. The groom is grandson of Mr..
and Mrs. Davis, and his parental home,
which he left for business in New York
city, is in Mamaroneck, n. Y.
Mrs. Jessie Edminster Brainerd of
Petulama, Calf, accompanied by friends,
OF e.I
from the California Woman's Relief corps
to the Grand Army meeting in Cleveland.
Mrs. Brainerd may be expected in Octo-
Der to visit old friends in this section of
the county where her father, the late DR..
Edminster, and her mother, the late Mrs
Mary Shafter Edminster, We're well
known for many years. Mrs. Brainerd
is a cousin of Gen. Shafter, of so much
note in our war with Spain.
Mrs. w. G. Bliss, who died during the
night of the 10TH had been in i'll health
more or less for some years. and recently
suffered from typhoid dysentery. Her
husband is a veteran of the civil war;
also a previous husband was a soldier,
and she reared a large family of children
of whom the youngest Miss Maude Bliss
was the only child living here during the
last years of Mrs. Bliss, the others being
scattered in various places in this coun-
~ and elsewhere. Mrs. Bliss has had
great grandchildren for several years
although not 20 years of age. Her death
Is sad blow to her family, and much
sympathy is felt for them.
On Sunday afternoon about 2 o'clock
the community was startled to hear the
church bell ringing an alarm of fire. 1t
was Immediately evident that Noble r
Pratts house was in much danger, fire
having broken out on the roof of the long
ell containing the kitchen. either by
sparks or some defect in the chimney
A neighbor who first saw the flame no.
titled Mr.. Pratt, who, with his young
son, was alone in the house. Mrs. Pratt
quickly reached home from another part
of the village and men rushed to the
work of fighting the fire. 1t was favora-
Die that the time was Sunday and the
hour when almost everybody was at home
ana enough men near at hand to do eff
tectiNe work. II was considered that had
there not been fire eXtinguishers quickly
available, the flames would have master
ed the situation, the roof being of shin
gles' and water not plenty close by the
scene The house is a landmark in the
village on the corner of Main street and
the cross road TO West street pleasant
home bought and occupied by the late
Mrs. Mary Pratt and her family for
many years, and well known as a board
ing place in court time and on other oc-
casons. II was formerly occupied by
the late Dr. Edminster and by his widow
before her removal to Townshend and
California. Judge Roberts occupied the
place al the time of his death here
There was enough wind at the time of
the alarm to make an extremely anxious
few moments while the fate Of the Pratt
place seemed to hang in the balance.