Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-21
NEWFANE.

NEWFANE.
]. NJ. Miller has been in Springfield,
| Mass, a week or two.
Mrs. Winnie Chaplin and son of
Chicopee, Mass, are at H. A. Carpen-
ter's.
George Wilson of North Sanbornton,
N. H., formerly of Bellows Falls, is at
his grandfather's, G. w. Parsons.
Miss Frances Richmond of New
York is with Mrs. Gertrude Benedict
| and daughter at the E. G. Benedict
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. B. Stedman of
| Springfield, Mass. sepnt a few hours
| in this place on Monday. Mrs. Sted-
man formerly lived here for about
three years as Miss Francelia Brown.
Mrs. Carpenter is in temporary com
mand of the recent young arrival at
Mr. and Mrs. f. A. DeWitt's, who tip
ped the scales at II pounds, and whose
middle name is supposed to be Birch
ard. after the paternal grandfather's
! family.
Mrs. G.. E. Davidson, state secretary
of the w. c. T. u, returned on Mon
! day for a few days stay at her home,
and attendance at the county conven-
! ton in Townshend, after which she
may resume organizing work in the
| state union.
Mrs. Phebe A. Knapp received a
| telegram on Monday asking her to
go to Seattle to take charge of her
sons children there while the mother
! joins the children's father in Alaska.
Mrs. Knapp expects to start on her
trip across the continent on Thursday
of this week. She has three sons, the
Messrs. Sampson, on that side of the
country.
Frank Vale of Washington, son of
the late DR.. Vale of Springfield. Mass.
was a guest at the County hotel over
Sunday. Mr.. Vale is employed in the
National post Office department and
has recently visited the Philippines.
He paid a brief visit to his native
town of Marlboro in this county In
his youth he was familiar with this
place by various trips to the home of
his aunt, the iate Mrs. Simon Phillips.
Mr. and Mrs. Amasa Grout attended
the funeral of Mrs. Bishop in Wards
boro on Sunday. Mrs. Bishop was
stricken with paralysis while tempo
rarily residing here with Mrs. Harry
Pratt a few years ago. The devotion
of her daughters, Miss Nettie Bishop
and Mrs. Pratt, to her was marked and
there was noted an unusually close
and tender relation between mother
and daughters. The latter have the
sympathy of many in the places where
they have abided.
In the first part of the week the
five "Howe boys" were at home TO-
gether. On Wednesday Arthur re-
turned to his electrical work in Chel-
! sea, and on Thursday, the goth, DR..
, Marshall Howe and his brother. Cliff
/ ton, started for Boston to sail for
, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and ada
cent isles intent on botanical eXplo-
ration for Columbia university. So
vivid is Longfellows classic Evangc-
line in its description of Arcade, the
home of the happy" that one can but
follow the little botanical party as they
touch at Grand Pre- and the other
places where still stands the forest
primeval and pleasantly CLEANS in the
soft, sweet air, the Basin of Minas,
where the ships with their wavering
shadows are riding at anchor" The
/ Newfane boys will search among "the
murmuring pines and hemlocks beard
/ ed with moss and in garments green
and in the deep-voiced neighboring
! ocean," and will bring home speci-
! mems to advance a practical study,
! but nevertheless, as Longfellow babe,
! they will list to the old tradition still
sung by the pines of the forest of
I Arcade, the home of the happy"
! d. S. Ballou has been spending the
week in Wilmington.
! Mrs. Howard Burke is expected to re-
| turn from her winter in Baltimore this
week.
Mrs. Sophia Lowe has been in a criu-
cal condition for weeks with a chronic
illness.
| Rev. f. NJ. Wiswall, who closed his
summer term of school in Halifx last
week, is at Mrs. loves
/ w. N Chase has been obliged to con-
/ fine himself mostly to an easy chair and
in locomotion to the use of crutches for
a week owing to an inhamed foot.
Engineer Gates and his fireman on the
mixed train are taking their vacation.
! Ally Shattuck, fireman on the mail train,
is substitute for Mr.. Gates and Jesse
Harvey acts as fireman.
The w. c. T. U. is represented at the
/ convention in Townshend by Mrs. David
/ son, Miss Richmond Mrs. Parsons, Mrs.
Dewitt, Mrs. Goodnow, Mrs, p. A.
Davis, Mrs. Batcheder, Mrs. and Miss
Benedict who went by train, and prob
ably by others who took a carriage
drive.
! Children's day was observed this mont.i
with an excellent program, which, al
though II had 25 numbers, was brought
to a close in an hour from the opening
occasional The church decorations were
simple but very effective, wholly in green
and white. In answer to the question
/ when did Children's day commence?"
a little one recited lines saying 1t was
when Christ took little children and
blessed them. The attendance was about
175.