Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09
THE PUTNEY COLUMN.


Robert Fem went Saturday to Wor.
cester to visit relatives.
Mrs. L. A. Fiske of Rockville, Conn.
spent Sunday with Miss E. M. Walkup
j. w. Shelley went Tuesday to Bur.
lington for a business trip of two
weeks.
Mrs. Lorinda Tibbetts of Templeton.
Mass, is visiting her sister, DIR. Laura
NJ. PlantZ.
Ninety-five money orders were is
sued at the Putney post office in July,
amounting to $671.50.
Parker Fuller and family have re-
turned from Stoddard, N. H., where
they spent week fishing.
Mrs. Oliver Houghton, who is dress
making in Greenfield, is spending sew
eral weeks at her home here.
Mrs. Jerome Robbins and son of
West Somerville, Mass, are visiting
Mrs. Robbinss sister, Mrs. Gardner
Kathan.
Rev. E. A. Seagrave will preach in
the Baptist church Sunday morning
and in Pierce's hall in Putney Falls
at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. George Dittlefield and two chill
dren of Pleasant Dale, Me-. came Tues
day to visit Mrs. Littlefeld's sister,
Mrs. Thomas Heenan.
Harold and Ida Lewis of Walling-
ford, Conn, children of Elmer Lewis,
are spending several weeks with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. L.
Pierce.
Will Wilbur has bought w. G.
Stevens's place, near the railroad sta
ton, of o. L. Perham of Bellows Falls,
and is moving his goods there from
East Putney.
Mr.. Holton, missionary from India,
whose station was near DR.. Harriet E.
Parker of this town, gave free illus
trated lecture in the Methodist church
Tuesday evening.
George H. Phillips has sold the
wood lot on the Clark Roberts place
to G. w. Adams. Mr.. Adams will
move his steam mill there from the
town farm and cut off the timber.
The residents of the Wheat neigh
borhood held a picnic at DR.. Wheat's
Saturday. There was a large attend
ance and the time was spent pleas
antly with games and refreshments.
Mrs. NJ. d. Whitman is spending
three weeks at Lake Pleasant. On
aux. ~ sic Will ~ W NkuCCh SlIy
park, Burlington, to do platform work
for DR.. E. A. Smith at the Spiritualist
convention.
John Dunn, who has been living in
the w. G. Stevens house, will go to
Leominster, Mass, where he will have
a position as foreman of section of
a railroad, position similar to the
one he held here until recently.
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to draw a large quantity of lumber
from the John Works and Fred Cob
leigh lots to the railroad station, where
he will load it into cars. The lumber
was cut for the Diamond Match COM
pany.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parker of Hart
ford, Conn, and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Parker of Worcester, Mass, are spend
ing their vacation with Mr.. and Mrs.
E. G. Parker in East Putney and with
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Robertson in this
village.
Leon Houghton, Samuel Pember,
Wayland Aver, H. L. Bailey, E. L.
Holt, Miss Jennie Maynard, Miss Ellen
Marcy, Henry Maley, John Maley Har-
Ian Whitney, George Whitney, John
Nichols, and Roy Nichols were among
those who went to Sunapee lake on
the excursion last Sunday.
The members of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps are invited to Brattleboro
next Friday to attend the annual
meeting of the Windham County Vet
GRAMS association. The members Of
Golden Rule chapter are invited to
Join Bingham chapter of Brattleboro
at a picnic in Central park, Vernon,
next Tuesday.
The goth Century club will meet
next Monday evening with Miss Lucy
Whitney. The club will take up the
reading of SCOTS Lady of the Lake"
All members are requested to carry
quotations from SCOTS writings. The
last meeting of the club was an open
air meeting on the rocks back of the
Wilbur place on the Brattleboro road.
Judge Fred Parker, mayor of Su-
perior, Wis, came Friday to spend
few days with his father, George P.
Parker of East Putney, and other re-
latives, and to renew old associations.
He stopped at Buffalo on the way and
spent two days at the Pan-Amer1can
exposition. He started for Superior
Tuesday, going via the Great Lakes
from Buffalo. Judge Parker is now In
his second year as mayor OF the clty'
and at it's close thinks he Will retire
from politics.
News has been received of the
death. July 10, of Oscar F. Wheeler in
Spokane, Wash. Mr.. Wheeler was
father of Justin H. Wheeler of Rut-
land, formerly of Putney. He was
born in Mt. Holly in 1925 and mad
been a resident of that town most OF
the time until he went west in Feb
ruary, 1900. A wife, one son and two
sisters survive, the wife living In East
Wallingford. the son in Rutland ana
the sisters in Washington, where MI
Wheeler was at the time of his death
The following is from the Keene'
N. H., Sentinel of Tuesday: Rev
Forest D. Brown of Perkinsville, VI
and Miss Matte Laura Clough, daugn,
ter of Mrs. Lucia L. Clough OF III
Elm street, were married TUESDAY
morning at the brides home by Rev
John E. Smith. The ceremony was a
simple one and took place in the pres
ence of immediate relatives or trlenas
of the contracting parties only Mr
Brown is the pastor of the Methodisl
church at Perkinsville, and Miss
Clough, whose mother and brotnel
recently moved to Keene, has been a
teacher in Saxtons River, Vt. The
bride and groom left later in the day