Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-02
NEWFANE.

II. j. Batchelder IS taxing an outlhs
in Peru.
Several boarders are expected on Sat
urday at the County hotel.
The womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet on Wednesday at p. m
with Mrs. Goodnow.
Principal Carlton Howe returned to Nc
Indoes Academy this week, stopping at
Dartmouth for a day.
Miss Eta Lynde returned to Dunn
merston Wednesday after n fortnight
spent at her aunt's, Mrs. Fish's.
Lawyer Taylor of Jersey City is expect
ed to spend next week with his daughter,
Mrs. Danforth, at the parsonage.
Mrs. c. p. Dewitt has Joined friends in
a trip to Chesterfield, n. H., and Lake
Pleasant, Mass, for several days.
Mrs. Sarah Covey of Brattleboro was
q guest over Sunday at ]. Eddy's She
called upon various friends Saturday.
Mrs. Eldred of Andover. Mrs. Harris
and Mrs. Brown of Brattleboro were
guests at w. p. Eames's on Wednesday.
The next regular meeting of Orchard
Woman's Relief corps will be held at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs G. w. Par
sons, on Saturday, Aug. TO- The post will
meet at the same time and place.
The work of establishing a steam en-
CINE at f. A. Wellman's mill will begin
next Monday. Mr.. Wellman and work.
men have been hauling "a tons of brick
from the railroad station for this pur-
pose.
Rev r. f. Danforth plans to spend
part of his vacation at the summer home
of his father, Rev. DIR. Danforth, on
Squirrel Island, Me, and will be absent
on the second and third Sundays of this
month.
Mrs F. A. Knapp writes to friends OF
safe arrival in Seattle, four days from
Greenfield, Mass. She reports gain in
weight on the trip, and finds life on the
Pacific coast delightful. Her three SONS
are in Alaska.
Some lovers of music are turning in
mind towards the attractions of grand
concert by the Bostonia company to be
given in Townshend on Aug. II, of old
Home Week expecting to be entertained
by exceptional harpist and impersonating
talent. Tickets will be on sale at the
Newfane House Thursday. 1t is a good
thing to celebrate Old Home Week.
The annual open air meeting will be
held at Bencasson, Newfane Hill, on Sun
day, Aug 4. at p. m. Addresses will be
made by Rev. and Mrs. l.. p. Broad of
Kansas. Rev. r. f. Danforth of New
fame and Miss Alice l.. White of Ala
bama, principal of the Montgomery In
stitution for colored girls. Miss White
will also sing Southern religious melo-
| dies. Johnson brothers, the popular Yer
| mont vocalists. will furnish music for the
occasion. with piano accompaniment. All
are invited.
VIM. b. Balou is expected by his pa
| rents in about a week Starting from
| Rampant City on June 10. he was blocked
| by ice in Boring sea for two weeks, but
otherwise had a pleasant voyage, finding
| the old Pacific as calm as a mill pond
THE mix-up at the mouth of the river
was quite an experience" he wrote
fourteen river steamers with about as
many hundred passengers cursing, gam
| bling, fighting, and living on short ra'
| tions. Dawson had just closed out gam
| bling and sporting houses, and the whole
push of them were floating down tC
| Nome" Shortly before leaving Alaska
| Mr.. Ballou had the pleasure of taking ou
the leading nugget of gold weighing eigh
| ounces and three pennyweight
After the wise warning given by the
| WilliamsVille correspondent in regard tC
| the remaining copies of our town history
| 1T can hardly be expected that the towr
| authorities would let them slip into thu
| hands of specializing book buyers. 1t Il
| a valuable book and there are probably
| natives of the town who should be Sc
curing it at the original price, as noted
| in Williamsville column last week. DIR
Prime, In his delightful book along New
| England Roads mentioned the histor,
of Newfane as possessing unusual inter
| est, and quotes from its pages. DR.
| Prime once strayed into our village GENE
terry while stopping here on one of hi
| carriage drives, and his book repeats
some of the epitaphs there found.
The annual Sunday afternoon meeting
| at Bencasson on Newfane Hill is expected
| to be an occasion of much interest. Hun
| dreds of people have gathered there TO
| these services, and thus far good weathe
| has prevailed at the time, and the pc
| culiar inspiration of a distant circle o
| mountains with the beauty of intervening
| layers of hills has been a never-to -be-for
gotten element in the worship of thi
| out door service. The meeting was in
stituted by Mrs. II. S. Caswell formerl.
national secretary of the woman's de
partment, Congregational home missions
who is now the wife of Secretary Broa'
of the Kansas Home Missionary society
Together they continue in the missiOnar,
work in that state. For the second tim
Mr.. Broad is lending a hand in the Ben
casson open air services of Sunday after
| noon.