Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
THE PUTNEY COLUMN.

Dr. G.. ID. Wheat and mother went
Tuesday to Wilmington to spend a
week.
Chauncey Brainerd has begun work
for Mrs. c. G. Monroe, succeeding Wal
ter Kent.
Mrs. Henry Goold of Chester Depot
visited her father, John Underwood,
Saturday.
Mrs. Laforest Darling and daughter.
Grace, of Keel are visiting Mrsj
Sarah Johnson.
Mrs. H. L. Pierce visited her sister,
Mrs. r. c. Winchester, in Holyoke,
Mass, Saturday.
Reginald Powell has gone to Bellows
Falls, where he has a positin in the
John T. Moore paper mill.
The Baptist society has been repair
ing painting and making other i'm
provements in the parsonage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Riley Knight of Wor-
cester, Mass, formerly of Putney, are
visiting Mrs. Mary Gates, a former
neighbor.
Mrs. Ward of Westboro, Mass, and
her sister of Newton, Mass, are visit
ing their mother, Mrs. Elbridge
Houghton.
The members of the Woman's Re
lief corps are invited to spend the af-
ternoon of Thursday, Sept, 5, with
Mrs. Dana B. Clough.
Mrs. Kinney of Tewksbury, Mass,
and Mrs. Foster of Bellows Falls were
visitors the last of last week with
their brother, Ira Davenport.
Mrs. George Stowell and Rev. and
Mrs. j. II. Bennett returned Saturday
from Claremont, where they attended
the Methodist camp meetings.
Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D. D., dean of
Tougaloo University, Miss, will
preach at the Congregational church
next Sunday in the absence of the pas
tor.
NJ. G. Williams went Saturday to
Claremont, ~ H., and on Monday he
and his family went to Springfield,
this state, to spend a week with his
brother, Emmett Williams
Examinations for entrance to the
Central school will be given by the
town superintendent of schools, Miss
Sawyer, in the Central school room at
o'clock a. m, Friday, Sept 6.
Roy w. Bailey, with Gemmell,
Durham company of Hartford, Conn,
came Friday to spend a vacation of
two weeks with his parents, Post
master and Mrs. L. p Bailey.
Miss M. Georgia Roberts will go
soon to New York, where she will have
a position in rescue school for girls.
She will have a sewing class and will
teach music and elementary branches.
The school is located on 18th street.
Miss Edith Stowell of Tufts College
of II
and Tuesday. She will teach the COM
ing term in the High school in North
Dartmouth, Mass. Her mother, Mrs.
Olive Stowell, is now in Rome, N. Y.
The goth Century club held corn
roast Monday evening on the rocks
in the river near the railroad station.
About 25 persons were present, includ-
ing several invited guests. A ride up
and down the river in the ferry boat
was a pleasant feature of the occasion.
Edward Brooks has moved to Put
ney from Bernardston, Mass. into one
of the tenements owned by his broth
err, c. w. Brooks. He began work
Monday as engineer for the Stowell
Manufacturing company, succeeding
George Dodge, who has returned to
Bradford.
Mass, and her cousin. Miss Frances
Babbitt, of Bellows Falls, were recent
visitors in town. Miss Cough is
daughter of Henry Cough, formerly
a paper manufacturer in Putney, who
lived in the house where w. A. Cole
now lives.
Mrs. NJ. d. Whitman returned Sat
urday from Queen City park, Burling
ton, where she spent two Wee do
ing platform work for DR.. E. A. smith
at the annual summer camp meeting.
During her absence she visited the
Adirondack mountains, Fort Ethan AL
len and other points of interest.
While the exact nature of the dis
ease with which the children of Prof
John E. Russell were recently i'll prob
ably will never be established evil
dence accumulates which tends To
show that it was not small poX. Since
the disease entirely disappeared and
the house was released from quaran-
tine DR.. Munger vaccinated five mem
bers of the household, including the
two children who were i'll. In three
instances the virus took effect. one of
the children being affected. This very
strongly indicates, but does not alb
solutely prove, that the disease was
not small poX.
The work of remodelling the depot is
practically complete and the station
agent has moved his Office and tele-
graph instruments back to their per-
manent quarters. The interior of the
station has been entirely rearranged,
the walls and ceilings being sheathed
up and stained in natural wood. New
plumbing has been put in, and in place
of the old stove is a furnace in the Gel
lar dug for the purpose. The agents
office has been fitted with a bay win
dow, from which the perspective is
beautiful. The station has been sup
piled with running water. Not the
least improvement is the new plat
form, which is several feet wider than
the old one, the station having been
moved back to allow this to be put in.
Altogether the station is as we'll APP
pointed as any on the line Of the rail-
road in a community of this size
One fool, hwo rocked the boat and
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