Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-11-29
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
ToWNsHEND.

ToWNSHEND.
John Rock has been a visitor at
Charlie Halls.
Harlan Winslow is spending a few
days in Boston
Lucius Taft of Keene visited last
week at Mrs. II. Winslow's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Tuthill were in
town last week calling upon friends.
Will Sparks and family have gone
to Westmoreland to spend the week.
Liberty Bailey and wife have re-
turned to their home in South Haven,
Mich.
The coal that has supplied the vii
lage has come in carloads from the
mines.
The Dorcas Guild will meet at the
Congregational chapel next Thursday
afternoon, Dec. 8.
Mrs. Clement Gibson of Fitchburg,
Mass, visited last week at her uncle's,
George Houghton's.
ARA Benson and wife have returned
from their trip to Gardner and other
| places in Massachusetts.
Mrs. j. L. Byard of Westboro, Mass
anu MIS-. HAL were NlSlJOTS at inc
Evans Brothers last week.
Miss Eta Hobart is home from her
school in Guilford, where she taught
the past summer and autumn.
Last Sunday here the weather was
| exceedingly stormy and disagreeable
and would have disgraced mid-winter.
There were union services at the
| Congregational church Sunday, and a
| temperance concert Sunday evening
at the Baptist church.
Walter Mooney. an employee of p.
| Fleming, was in town last week to put
| in a soapstone reservoir for running
water for Miss Fletcher.
Messrs. Beebee, Stiles and Will
Franklin are to work for Julian Taft
this winter getting out lumber on the
| farm bought of Fred Livermore.
The body of Prof Call was taken to
Pittsfeld, Me-, his former home, for
burial accompanied by the wife and
mother, who, expect to make their
home there.
Will Franklin has moved his goods
from Vernon to this place and on ac-
count of the feeble state of his wife's
health they will live with her mother,
| MIS-. Lizzie BARBER.
Charlie Holland Evans has received
notice that at the nineteenth congress
of the American Ornithologists' union,
| held in New York city Nov. lila, he
was elected a member.
B. B. Brigham is moving from his
| farm to the home he has bought in the
village formerly occupied by the
| THOMPSON family. who have moved
to White Plains, n. Y.
f. II. Fessenden returned from Bos-
| ton last week where he has been for
an operation on one of his eyes. His
nephew. A. F. Hyde of Southboro,
Mass, accompanied him home.
Rev. f. A. Royal will be here this
week with his family Some repairs
have been made on the parsonage
and the water pipes looked after, so
the water is coming as it should.
Mrs. William ingalls, is building a
house in Bellows Falls on the farm
that has been occupied by her family
as a homestead for many years.
When the electric road was built to
Saxtons River it went through this
farm.
Herbert II. Franklin has bought the
farm of Horace Gale. administrator of
the Valerma Gray estate, and will
occupy it as a homestead. There are
some good farms in town that can be
| classed among the abandoned ones
that we wish might be occupied by
those who would make good citizens,
The fall term of the Seminary
closed last week on Friday instead of
this week on Wednesday, as it would
have done, but for the scare in re
gard to the one case of diphtheria
among us, and while we think some
may be unduly frightened we are sure
1t is better to be on the safe side
feeling there cannot be too much pre-
caution taken to prevent the spread
ing of the disease, for if diphtheria
is not a malignant disease why arr
the laws to be observed the same a;
are required in scarlet fever and small
poX not only during sickness but af
ter death? We are very sure this dis
ease should be classed in the same
category as the two last named. fol
the highest medical authority gives Il
as most malignant and contagious
and in all our large cities great pre-
caution is taken in every way posi-
BILE. We feel it would be more sensl
BILE to be afraid after so severe case
for if we were to say we had no fea1
we think an old familiar adage would
be applicable to us, but we will hope
to be spared any further ravages from
the disease.