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


Miss Henrietta Carpenter is teaching at
the four corners in Marlboro.
The Loyal Temperance Legion will
meet on Saturday afternoon at Miss Ben
edict's.
D. S. Ballou was called to Florida,
Mass, this week by the death of his
mother.
M. o. Howe left Thursday for New
York to spend few days with his son,
DR.. NJ A. Howe.
Mrs Wales Willard of Jamaica was
guest of her sister, Mrs. Howard Burke,
at the Newfane House.
a temperance concert will furnish the
program for the Sunday evening service
in charge of the young people.
Mrs. r. Wood is the night nurse of
Mrs. b. C. Cushing, who is in a rapidly
failing condition at present writing
Charles Rice. carpenter of Brattle-
boro and formerly of this place, recently
spent several days working in his line at
the Newfane House.
Samuel Stevens, another veteran of
the civil war, passed away on Wednesday
morning at the age of about 70, after a
winter of extreme feebleness.
Miss Gussie Grout of Brattleboro has
spent the week here. Miss Edith Barrett,
of the same place also has been employed
and local dressmakers have been busy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Downs returned to
Newton on Monday for a few days. Mrs.
Downs will return on Friday to continue
the care of her step-mother. Mrs Raw
son.
Orchard Post will conduct the exer-
cises of Memorial Day here on May 30th.
with an address by Rev. Il. a. Royal of
Townshend and a suitable program in
general.
mr. No I,on A of hi nj
versIty will deliver on Saturday the sec
ond lecture of the spring course at the
Museum of Botanical Gardens, New
York, on PLANT Life of the Sea-"
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union presented an Easter gift of ten
books to the Congregational Sunday
school, which are ready to be given out
after the annual account of books is
taken.
Mrs. w. II. Goodnow's record for i'm
provement since her severe surgical OPP
Grafton on April l. has continued to be
good Her room at the hospital in Bos-
ton is spoken of as turned into a regular
flower bower by the many remember
ances of her friends in Cambridge, where
she lives when not in the pleasant old
home here.
Schools began this week with the fol-
lowing teachers in charge. Miss Charlotte
A. Hunt. district No. l, Brookside; Earl
Davis of Townshend, No. 2, Newfane
Mrs. S. G. Brown. No. 3; Mrs. f. a. Ken
yon, the union school in No. 4; c. +.
Brown. No. 5. the Parish. A graduate
from Johnson Normal school is secured
for Wiliamsville school; Miss Luella VIII
liams. No. S. South Newfane.
Mrs. Dencea Ballou, IS, who died Sat
urday at the home of her daughter. Mrs.
NJ. w. Blanchard, in Florida, Mass. was
the mother of David S. Ballou of this
town. William NJ. Ballou of Wilmington,
Henry J. Ballou of North Adams, Mrs.
Robert Wells of Rome, Mass, and Mrs.
Blanchard. Mrs. Ballou was a native of
Halifax, and was married at an early age
to Captain Whiting, veteran of the war
of 1872. He died a few years later, and
her second husband was Martin NJ. Bal
lou. who died in North Adams in 1886.
There is one son by the first husband DR..
Danforth Whiting of Boston. Mrs. Bal
lou had lived in several places. but for
about 30 years was a resident of Monroe.
Mass