Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-25
About 70 volumes have been added to
the Rockingham free library.

About 70 volumes have been added to
the Rockingham free library
Miss Eleanor Carruthers is housed with
an attack of acute laryngitis.
The subject of Rev. Albert lIammatt 5
sermon, at the UniVersalist church next
Sunday morning, will be "Fiding our
Place"
The ladies union of the Congregational
church have decided to put off their
apron sale from Feb. IL to Feb. 20, as 50
many other attractions come into the
week of the 18th.
The next free lecture in the course be-
fore the Young Mems club, Will be de-
iiyered on W2shingf9ns Of 9iEthday Ess
His subject will be "Cupid's Mistakes
There was a large attendance last even
ing at the calico social given by the Uni
Versalist young people, and much merit
ment was evinced at the unique get ups
of some of the attendants. jolly good
time was had.
Rev. John H. Reid will preach at the
morning upon The Young Man Jesus
Loved In the evening he will give a
short address on China. The Sunday
school will also give a concert.
Moses Miller has leased the Herbert
Croix and J. j, Sullivan, who have
the Bellows Falls Lumber company. The
company, beside running the mill, Will
do a general lumber business contract
ing and building.
Grip and colds which are first and
second cousins, are very prevalent here as
elsewhere. In some households so many
are sick with ii there are hardly well ones
enough to care for them. Though there
are some sever cases, the larger number
are lighter than in former years when the
epidemic has ragged here.
A. team owned by Thomas Walsh, who
lives on the Rockingham road, while
drawing a load of stone on the river for
one of the piers that is being repaired
last Friday, broke through the ice. The
entire team, including the driver and a
son of Walsh, went down, The driver
and one horse We're saved and the other
horse was drowned.
Mr. and Mrs. e. G.. Osgood and daugh-
ter leave next Tuesday for Brookline
Mass, where they will visit the family of
C. w. Osgood Mrs, Osgood and Elizabeth
spending three or four weeks. Mr.. Os-
good will go to Portland, Me, to attend
the twentieth anniversary o fthe Organi-
cation of Christian Endeavor. They will
be accompanied by Miss Mary Spafford
who will remain until the return of the
family in May.
The choral union will hold a rummage
sale next week, beginning Monday morn
ing and closing Saturday evening in the
rooms formerly used for a reading room
in Towns hotel. The matter is in the
hands of the following general commit
tee: Mrs. George II. Gorham, Mrs. Il. L.
Walker, Mrs. S. M. Folsom, Mrs. Charles
Rich, Mrs. Fred Perry and Mr.. Farmer
Mrs. +. l.. Walker is chairman of the
committee, having charge of soliciting
articles for the sale, and word can bt
left with her for the collection of things
The union have a small debt which they
are DESTROYS of cancelltng, and it Is hoped
that the sale will be so successful that
some really fine soloists may be obtained
for the concerts to be given later. The
success of the choral union is matter
that all are interested in, and so every
one must be interested in this sale. The
rummage sale recently held by the ladies
of the Congregational church brought 1885
and as wider and greater interest was
shown in it in the closing days than al
the beginning the opinion of those en-
gagged in the first sale is that this one