Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-07
HINSDALE, N. H.


w. O. Amidon has sold his insurance
business to f. w. Cotton.
Mrs. Metcalf of Athol has class
of pupils in music in Ilinsdale
C. H. Temple came home from Tufts
College to attend the Masonic ball.
w. N. Pike badly sprained an ankle
while working in the woods Friday.
Mr.. Kmball of Boston has been
guest at the home Of Edward Stebbins
recently.
Mrs. Henry Griffin of Keene was
guest at G. S. Goddard's a few days
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Drinkwine en-
terained Miss Bartlett of Keene a part
of last week.
Mr. and Mrs Leon Drinkwine at
tended the funeral of Mr.. Drinkwine's
sister, in Worcester, Mass, Sunday.
w F. Robertson is spending few
days vacation from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology at his home
here
W. II. Lyman started on several
weeks trip through the state of Maine
Monday, after spending Sunday with
his family here.
Edgar Burroughs and wife entertain.
ed the whist club one evening recently.
1t was pleasant occasion for six ia
bles of lovers of the game,
j. II. Wetherbee was chosen vice
president of the New Hampshire Lii
censed Embalmers' association at the
meeting in Concord last week.
Miss Whites school was made hap
by by a sleighride to Mortified We'd
nesday. The children were conveyed
by Liveryman Smith in his big barge.
Rain. sleet, snow and hail accom-
panied by thunder was the rather UNI
usual combination of February
weather Hinsdale people experienced
Sunday.
John Coy, who has been employed in
the Halle & Frost mill some time, has
given up his job to return to Wales,
Mass, where he resided before coming
to Hinsdale.
The ladies of the Woman's Relief
/ corps at their regular meeting Tues
| day. voted to accept the invitation of
the Brattleboro corps. to visit them on
| the evening of Feb. 81.
A convenient device, which has re-
Gently been added to w. H. Barretts
meat market, is an overhead track by
which meat is carried direct from the
wagon to the inside of the refrigera-
| tor.
The firemen have placed the sum
realized from their recent ball in the
relief fund, which now amounts to
500 This money can only be used for
the benefit of a member of the depart
ment injured while on duty.
At the meeting of the missionary So
ciety which was held at the Congre-
gational parsonage last week it was
voted to send a barrel of clothing to a
mission in South Dakota. The study
of Via Christi, an introduction. to the
study of missions, has been taken up
by the ladies'.
+. |. Latham has closed his engage
ment with a Newton Mass, under
taker. and has accepted position in
a large undertaking and furniture es-
Establishment in Waltham. Mr.. Latham
has had his household goods shipped
to Hinsdale and does not expect to go
to housekeeping during the winter.
There still remain $50 deposit
books on the Hinsdale savings
bank, which have not been handed in
to the assignee, Mrs. G. a. Robertson
for the collection of dividends due on
them, and there is only about a
months time before the funds in her
hands will be turned over to the state
treasurer.
Uncle Josh Spruceby is booked to
appear at the town hall next Tuesday
evening, Feb. II. The company has
just closed a weeks engagement at
Worcester and also at Concord. The
organization carries two bands, orches
ira and a carload of scenery. Sale OF
seats opens at Joness Pharmacy al
Z o'clock tonight.
During the year 1901 there were
II alarms of fire in Hinsdale, five gen
eral and II still alarms. The greatest
loss by any one fire was about 500,
000 by the burning of the Halle &
Frost storehouse, near the railroad sta
ton. and the next largest was between
$500 and $500, by brush fire which
started on G. S. Smiths land.
The Nature club met with Mrs. F. II
Jones last week, and discussed the ow
family. During the evening a branch
of the state Audubon society was form
ed with Mrs. Oliver Hale, Walter
X. Hildreth and Miss Emma WellmaI
as officers. The next meeting of the
club will be on Tuesday evening o.
next week with r. II. Metcalf
At meeting in the hotel parlol
Monday evening, about 25 were pres
ent to talk up the matter of giving ;
minstrel show soon after Lent, thu
proceeds to apply on the piano fund
for the new town hall. 1t was decided
to give the entertainment and com
mittee comprised of the following gen
tlemen was appointed to make al
necessary arrangements DR.. B. +
Worthing, A. W. Mead, j. e. Mann
Thomas Mullen, G. A. Holland, F. A
Buckley, and H. B. Wilder.
The concert and ball given unde
the auspices of Golden Rule lodge, Nc
II, f. and A. NJ, at the town hall Fri
day evening, was one of the pleasant
est social functions of the season. Tn
concert by Letsingers orchestra o
ten pieces was a delightful musica
treat. The orchestra also furnishe
music for the dance which followed
The grand march, in which 65 coupl
participated, was led by F. w. Coto
and Miss Jessie M. Bardwell. Cor
trary to the usual custom the old-fast
Toned square and contra dances wer
literally interspersed with the NOR
modern round dances, thus affordin
enjoyment to the older as well as tn
young people. Eighty-seven ticket
were sold for the dance, and the ba
| cOny was we'll filed with those VIII