Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-11

district has on hand and OF buying
several hundred feet of hose. The
carrying out of this sentiment is OPP
tional with the prudential committee.
Miss Alice Farr will go to Keene,
n. H., next week to attend school.
Stephen Van Arnam of Orange
Mass, was a recent guest at G. L.
Pierce's.
Hugh Crawfo1u : bought a plot
of 20 acres of land of ID. B. Clough.
He will get out timber soon to be
used in the erection of a tobacco barn
next spring.
w. D. Waite visited Charles Fuller
in the -Massa chusetts General hos
pital while in Boston. Mr.. Fuller has
been operated upon for appendi-
citis and is doing well.
]. w. Shelley has given up his gen.
eral agency for the Provident Mutual
Life Insurance company and has been
reappointed special agent for Wind
ham county by the Equitable Life AS
surance society.
M. G. Williams has placed upon his
shelves some souvenir pieces of china
which were made for him in Austria
through New York importers. They
are decorated, plain and in 'colors,
with pictures of the Methodist, Bap-
fist and Congregational churches,
Friends of Lewis V. Clough, who
formerly lived in this town and is now
in South Acton, Mass, have learned
of the loss of his house by fire last
Sunday while he and Mrs. Clough
were in Athol to attend the funeral OF
Mrs. Clough's sister.
Miss Maud Lott of Kinsman, Ohio
was a guest of Miss Maud Sawyer fol
several days preceding last Tuesday
She and Miss Sawyer returned Tues
day to Mortified, Mass, where they
are roommates attending the Moody
school. Miss Elizabeth Braley also
returned to Mortified Tuesday.
The Congregational Sunday schoo
held it's annual meeting last Sunday
After the reading of the reports thesC
officers were elected: Superintendent
Frederick r. Pember; assistant super
intendent, Miss Grace Prouty; sec
rotary, Miss Freeda Pember; treas
urer, Robert Fem.
Baptist church-The pastor will
preach at 1915 a. m, on "The New
Environment; Sunday school at l
m; B. Y. p. U. meeting at $50 p. m
Topic, youthful Conservation" EC
Giles. xii l. Rev. Mr.. Bennett of tn
Methodist church will preach tn
Union sermon at 7.90 p. M.
A committee was appointed at tn
Baptist church last Sunday to real
range and recatalogue the Sunda
school library. The committee col
sists of Fred Hannum, Rev. ID.
Pierce. e. O. Gassett, Mrs. Hanna
Gale and Mrs. George Fifeld.
number of new books will probabl
be bought.
Fred Hannum has sold his mil
business to John Whitney. Mr.. Viii
ney has taken possession and is no
the only milk-man in the village. TIL
demand for milk in this part of tn
town is hardly sufficient to make tn
business profitable for two, and M
Hannum had the other farm woI
that demanded his attention.
There's no lock on the chicke
coop door, is the title of song whiC
Milo Whitney has sung since Satu
day night. Up to that time Mr.. VIII
ney had four fat hens in shed net
the Robertson paper mill. Sim
then Mr. Whitney has missed the
customary greeting in the mornin
He would be greatly obliged if the pc
\ son who took them would either I
turn them or go to get the roost.
4 The ladies' aid society of the Meth
4 dist church will hold its annual ia
in the town hall Feb. and 6. Tue
day and Wednesday. On Tuesd
evening a concert will be given
Miss Florence Goodhue of WestmiI
ter West, soprano, Miss Helen re
ertson, contralto, w. A. Gilbert
Brattleboro, tenor, Robert r. Shell
of Bellows Falls, basso, and Mi
Izetta Stewart of Brattleboro,
companist.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery assoc
ton held it's annual meeting Mond
evening in lower Masonic hall. The