Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-04-25
TOWNSHEND.

Miss Leitsinger is a visitor at Mrs.
Eliza Thayers.
Don Boutelle has taken DR.. Parker's
land to carry on.
The Grange will meet at DR.. Os-
goods Friday, May 2.
Miss Edith Sanders has a position in
a store in Keene, N. II.
Mrs. Ambrose is seriously i'll. Mrs.
Fayette Cooke is on the sick list.
Mrs. w. s. Holland will be away
Monday and Tuesday of next week.
Miss Ethel Harris of Saxtons River
has been visitor at D. w. buttons.
Mrs. Margaret Watson is in Wards
boro nursing in the family of G. d.
White.
Messrs Doolittle and Brown of
Mortified, Mass, have been in town
recently looking after some lumber in
terests.
Russell Blood has gone to Bellows
Falls to work on the house that Mrs.
William ingalls, is building for their
future home.
Fred Kimball of Westminster has
been in town. He attended the auc-
ton of Lewis Higgins in Brattleboro
Saturday and bought horse.
We see in the Boston Herald of Mon
day an extract of a sermon by Rev.
Morton Plummer on Christian Science,
showing it to be unscientific and I'M
scriptural. Mr.. Plummer is pastor of
the Broadway Baptist church, Cam
bridgeport Mass 1t is not long since
Mr. Plummer labored here as an evan
gelist, and his meetings we're much
enjoyed.
Benjamin Derry, 70, died the 18th,
after severe illness. He was sol
der in the civil war, kind husband
and neighbor, and much sympathy is
felt for the widow in her affiiction.
The funeral was held Sunday in the
Baptist church at l o'clock p. m, Rev.
E. A. Royal officiating. There was a
large attendance The floral offerings
were many The old soldiers showed
their respect by attending the funeral
in body
The odd supper given by the odd
young men of the Baptist church, with
the odd bill of fare and odd price
came off Tuesday evening in the YES
try. Everything pertaining to the sup
per was indeed as odd as the four odds
could make it. The odd young men
found others could be odd as well as
themselves. Some Of the seminary
students paid their admission fee in
pennies, searching all their pockets
and taking out one penny at a time.
Others discarded the bill of fare where
each was numbered and called in plain
English for just what they wanted, to
the displeasure of the walters, and
were told to call by numbers and were
told in return that numbers could not
be eaten. The bill of fare was most
remarkable with the queer names that
gave one little idea what they repre-
scented. The young men walters were
in uniform with their white aprons and
caps. There was a large attendance
and all enjoyed an evening of rare fun
and merriment. And we are sure much
credit is due the young men who
originated the affair and carried it out
so successfully.
Mrs. Charles Austin went last week
to the postgraduate hospital in New
York city, where she took her child,
two years old, for consultation with
the doctors for trouble that caused
the child to be unable to use its limbs
to walk. 1t was thought before going
she was told by the doctors there that
this was not the case, but that the
trouble was at the base of the brain,
and there was no help for it. Much
sympathy Is felt in the community for
the parents and child, who is bright
and winning. Mrs. Austin was ac-
companied by Mrs. c. H. Willard. as
DR.. Rice was prevented from going at
the time set. 1t is at this hospital
that Fred Meacham has a position as
business manager and where he is
held in high esteem by the faculty
who have raised his salary several
times, which was remunerative one
to begin with. Besides these duties
he edits a medical paper. Mr.
Meacham is a graduate of Brown Uni
versity and was well known here, and
during his fathers pastorate in town
he spent his college vacations at home,
and his many friends here are inter
ested in his prosperity.