Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-04-18
TOWNSHEND.
Junior Class In Elocution.

the direction OF Miss Moor, gave
very pleasing entertainment at Sem
mary hall Friday evening. The stage
was prettily trimmed with evergreen.
The program opened with a piano
solo by Miss Hardy, followed by
these rotations: Aunt Melssy on
Boys-Bessie Dutton; The Swan Song
Helen Adams; Mice at Play-Edith
Grout; The Minuet-Hazel Taft; Mrs
McWilliams and the Lightning-Alice
Dale; Miltiades Peterkin Paul-Flos
sic ODER; Dimple and Dumpling-lna
Grout. The closing numbers were a
violin duet by the Misses Garfield and
a drill, THE Changing of the Seasons"
by the class.
Fred Hescock is recovering from the
measles.
VIM. Gale is taking orders for farm
implements
Clarence Twitchell visited last week
at NJ. Sparkss.
Fred Cutler and family spent Sun
day at VIII. Miles's.
Miss Ellen Smith has gone to the
County House, Newfane to work.
Mrs. Mary Brooks and daughter of
Orange, Mass, are visitors in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker were recent
visitors at Judson Derry's in Harmony
Vile.
Miss Eta Hobart is home from
Guilford, where she taught the past
winter.
Miss Florence Fits has been a
visitor at her aunt's. Mrs. Sarah I'm
derwoods.
The meeting of the Woman's Re
lief Corps was held April ~, with Mrs.
w. II. Miles.
Miss Wilson of Meriden. Conn,
visited her aunt, Mrs. Asa Green
wood last week.
Ralph Martin is home after spend
ing several weeks in his uncle's store
in Willamsville.
Rev. E. A. Royal will give the me-
mortal address, before the Birchard
post at Newfane May 80.
Will Franklin will remain in Hart
ford, Conn. for the summer where
his mother and brother are.
Miss Smith from Connecticut has
come to help care for Hiram Porter,
who is seriously i'll with heart trouble.
E. l.. Hastings, administrator, has
sold the Nancy d. Spaulding place to
Mrs. Lois Sage, who will take i'm
mediate possession.
Miss Mabel Martin returned home
last week from the Conservatory of
Music in Boston where she has been
number of months studying.
Gum & Co. have sold for Silas F. Ed
wards of Grafton his farm in Towns
bend known as the Lot Barber farm,
to Amherst w. Noble of Middlebury.
VT.
Mrs. Sarah f. Underwood has sold
her barn and lot at the forks of the
road near Mrs. Mary n. Mynsbridge's
home. known as the Bishop place to
Charles A. Stephens.
An odd supper with an odd price
and odd bill of fare will be given by
the odd young men of the Baptist
church in the vestry one week from
Tuesday evening, April %.
Mrs. Truesdale has returned to
Zoar, Mass. after a short stay in
town with her son. who is a student
at the Seminary. The family will
move here in few weeks.
If the women could vote for gov
ernor we are sure their votes would
count for the one who had come out
openly and squarely for prohibition as
Fletcher Proctor has. for it seems to
the writer that is the great question
in this campaign.
We think ii should be decided soon
by the town authorities who has the
right of way on the sidewalk. the
pedestrian or the bicyclist After one
woman lost her life by a bicyclist on
the sidewalk and men have been
knocked down and injured we should
! think it time TO call a halt.
At the Baptist Sunday school Sun
| day there was distribution of badges
for the different grades of attendance.
Mildred Phillips received the di-
ploma badge for four years constant
attendance, and every one of Mrs
Phillips's class of boys received a
badge for constant attendance through
the quarter.
The death of Miss Amy Perry OF
| Wardsboro brought sadness to many
| hearts here where she had done faith.
/ full service both as a teacher for sew.
eral terms in our village schools and
as student in the seminary. She
was much respected and beloved in
/ the community and much sympathy
is felt for her parents in their afflic-
| ton.
Birchard post held it's regular meet.
ing at Masonic hall April II. After
the routine of business, committees
were appointed for Memorial Day, as
follows; Committee on music, Com.
rades Pratt, Wright, Ballou; com.
mittee on entertainment, Comrades
Hilburn, Parsons, Pratt, Bliss and II
A. Carpenter and wife. The place of
| the Sunday services preceding Me-
mortal Day will be announced later.
| These exercises are in charge of Com
mander w. H. Miles
Mrs. A. A Stebbins and Mrs. John
II. Thompson of Fitchburg, Mass,
have been visiting at Dr. Nash's. Mrs.
Stebbins is the home department sec
rotary of the Massachusetts, Sunday
School association. For three years
she has given her entire time to the
work and has been very successful.
She has national reputation as the
organizer of the messenger service of
the home department and more than
600 boys in Massachusetts know her as
Mother Stebbins." She will present
the work at the international Sunday
school convention in June at Den
yer, Colo. Both Mrs. Stebbins and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Thompson, look
forward to seeing Townshend in it's
summer dress. and again enjoying the
hOSDitalitV Of their pOOd friandc nr