Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-03-29
MES MINISTER.

j. F. Ward is carrying on the WI
lard sugar orchard owned by G.. n.
Banks.
Rodney Phippen of Gardner Mass,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. John l..
Collins.
NJ. c. Weeks will assist Albert NJ.
Kendell, the marker gardener, the com
ing season.
Austin Richardson spent Sunday
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. c.
Richardson.
b. r. Phelps was in Boston recently
on brief business trip, as was also
Chas. Chase.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bond of Bur
lington visited at II. f. Bonds Friday
and Saturday.
Mrs. W. E. Aver of Windsor has
been the guest for two weeks of Mrs.
G.. II. ~ alker.
Mrs. Julia Lyman of Haverhill,
Mass, is with her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. p, f. Barnard.
Miss Cora FISHER is spending a por-
ton of her vacation in New York with
her sister, Mrs. Asa b. Davis.
George II. Allbee and family are
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they will have the upper tenement.
Winifred Ward and family will move
this spring to Westminster West,
where they will occupy the Miller
farm.
GOV. Stckney has appointed Judge
Kellogg justice of the peace, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Henry
c. Lane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry f. Bond attend
ed the funeral of Mr. Bond S mother
Mrs. Mary E. Morse last week Thurs
day at Guilford.
Mrs. Martha Peck has taken Miss
Minnie smiths home for year and
will move as soon as she RECEIVERS
from her illness.
The school directors have appointed
Miss Mary Cutting of Westminster
West for superintendent of schools for
the ensuing years
Miss Maud Underwood returned last
week from Bradford \. H., where she
has spent several months with her
brother DR.. David Underwood.
Rollo Metcalf has rented his farm
land to his brother Harry, for a year
and the latter has leased half of Mrs.
Ellen Wards house for residence.
J. NJ. Davidson has been chosen list
er by the selectmen in place of Joseph
Underwood. who has resigned the
office to which he was elected at town
meeting.
Labor at the Brown d Doolittle's
mill on Rocky hill has been suspended
until another fall MIR. and Mrs Doc
little have returned to their home in
Mortified. Mass.
Geo. A. Reed, formerly a popular
baggage master of the Boston & Maine
railroad, who died in Denver, Colo,
the 18th inst, was a brother of Mrs.
Henry Wood OF this town.
Miss Belle Ranney VIII teach the
coming term in the grammar depart
ment in district No. S, and Miss Minnie
Fem will succeed Miss Richardson
who resigned in the primary grade.
The post office department at Wash
ington will soon send an inspector
here to investigate the feasibility Of
establishing the proposed rural deliv-
cry route which will cover some
twenty odu miles.
George b. Hall, who has been trav-
cling all winter through the west IN
the interests of Messrs. Baxter BROTH
ers, returned Saturday and will re-
main for a short time before starting
upon another trip.
Charles L. Bishop of Lynn, Mass,
will assume the position OF superin.
tendent of kurn Hattin Home in April.
James T. Maynard, the present etli-
Cient superintendent resigned some
time ago. but Will remain until April.
George c. Wright has already made
over 800 pounds of maple sugar OF
first quality. Mr.. Wright tapped his
orchard somewhat earlier than other
sugar makers. Those who are quail
fed to predict say that the season VIII
be an extremely short one this year.
The last gathering of the Fortnight.
ly club was held with Mrs. George II.
Walker on Tuesday evening. The at
tendance was small, owing to the in
clement weather. After the literary eX-
ercises were over, refreshments were
served and a genuine old-fashioned
sugaring OFF was enjoyed.
Some sections of Main street are
almost impossible each spring for
pedestrians, owing to the large amount
of surface water. We hope that the
day is not far distant when the town
will feel that it can afford to put in
some system of drainage. Last sea
son School street was greatly improV-
ed in this way.
At the church meeting called last
Monday evening to discuss plans for
building a chapel the follow ing com
mttee was elected to take charge of
the work: Rev. G. II. DeBeyoise, H. c.
Richardson, Joseph Underwood, Henry
Willard and Mrs. stephen NJ. Nutting,
president of the ladies' aid society.
The cost of the building will not eX-
coed $500, and work will begin soon
upon the structure
News has been received here of the
death of Bessie Higgins at a hospital
in Rutland wher she had undergone
two operations for a disease of the
hip, from which she had suffered for
several years, being obliged to use
crutches since the injury to her hip,
which resulted from being run down
by a bicyclist. The little girl, wEo
was an inmate of the Harriet Good
rich Home for sometime, will be liind-
ly remembered by many.
Matter of Necessity.
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