Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-05-10
THE PUTNEY COLUMN.

Tho road scraper was put into ser
,icc ON the spring road-b building
tuesday,
Iobn purand has returned to Put
.oy to work for Miss S. e. White and
Miss Bertha Estey
Postmaster Bailey has received and
hos placed on sale the new Pan Ameri-
can exposition postage stamps.
Miss NJ. Blanche Sparhawk of Ran
doph came Monday for a visit with
her brother, Rev. w. r. Sparhawk.
The ladies' society of the Congrega-
tonal church are filling a missionary
barrc for the Mountain Whites in
Tennessee.
charles w. Wolcott, who has been
the guest of f. l.. Houghton some
Hmc left Tuesday for his home in
Dcdham, Mass.
Wayland Aver went to Windsor
Tuesday, and he and his brother, viii,
attended the Dartmouth Brown base
ball same in Hanover.
W. ). Adams expects to leave for
Bnalo, n. Y, next week on a bust
ness trip. He will also attend the
Pan American exposition.
Mrs. Jane Roberts and her daughter.
NJ. Georgia Roberts. returned from
syracuse. n. Y, Thursday. They
will remain here for the present.
Mrs. James Crawford, who has been
critically i'll about two weeks, is
slightly better and her physician
thinks she will recover if no new com
plications develop.
Sheriff A. w. j. Wilkins is building
piazza across the front of the main
part of his house, formerly the Puffer
place. Charles Brown is doing the
carpenter work.
David Lailuer and family of Albany.
this state, has moved into the tene-
ment in G. l.. Pierces house recently
vacated by Frank Fifield Mr.. Lafluer
is employed in F. L. Pierce's mill.
The graduating exercises which
were to have been held by the junior
Christian Endeavor society in the Con-
gregational church last Sunday, were
postponed pending the organization
OF another department in the society.
c. w. Adams has moved his steam
mill from the pasture near c. H. Con
verses to the town farm. A force of
men was employed on the town farm
large part of the past winter cutting
and piling logs to be sawed out this
spring.
The workmen at the railroad sta
ton have confined their work this
week principally to the underpinning
and cellar. The cellar will be "a
feet by 20 feet and will contain a fur
mace, which will do away with the
stoves in the office and waiting room.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Pierce have
moved from East Putney into the
Kendrick dwelling house and are
boarding the workmen employed by
W. +. Pierce in clearing off several
wood lots which Mr.. Pierce has
bought. They are now at work on
the Levi Houghton place. The work
on the several lots will last five or six
months.
The German Medicine company of
Cincinnati, o., has been giving enter
tainments in the town hall each eve
ming this week. The company CON
sists of a family of five persons and
the entertainments are of the vaude-
vile variety and are followed by the
sale of medicines. They have had
fair sized audiences and have given
satisfaction.
The great fire in Jacksonville, Fla,
last week is of local interest from the
fact that one of the buildings burned
was last year the home of Mrs. Belle
Longer Miller, sister of Mrs. Annie
Knight. Rev. and Mrs. Miller moved
from Jacksonville last year on ac-
count of Mr.. Miller's health. The
church where Mr.. Miller formerly
preached was also burned.
H. p Farr received some severe
bruises about his head while running
a seeder on his farm in East Putney
Saturday. He was riding the ma
chine on a side hill when the machine
ran against an irregularity in the
ground Mr.. Farr was thrown off
in front of the machine and one wheel
ran over his head. His injuries were
not sufficient to disable him.
branch telephone line has been
put in this week from A. NJ. Corser's
store TO East Putney and return, con-
Meeting with the main line at the
store. The connections with the
main line at d. NJ. Frost's and w. NJ.
Wares have been taken out and con-
nectiOns with the new line put in.
The houses of George T. Aplin, w. E.
Pierce and c. H. Converse have also
been connected with the new line. A
gang of u linemen have had head
quarters at the Kendrick House this
week while engaged in running a new
copper wire from Greenfield, Mass,