Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16
THE PUTNEY COLUMN

Mrs Edwin Headle is visiting in Cut
tingsville this week.
f. l.. Houghton started Tuesday on a
business trip to Syracuse, n. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Headle were in Bel
lows Falls to attend the funeral of a rel
alive
Mrs Il. S. Munger of Windsor has been
a guest of MIR. and Mrs. A. A. Langley
this week.
The reading room has been repaired
this week. Beginning next week it will
be open every evening
Miss Eta willard of Cambridge. Mass.
returned home Saturday after visiting her
uncle. Warren Willard.
Mrs. McNalty. step-daughter of Mrs
Laura NJ. Plantz, went Monday to Bridge
port, Conn, to visit her sister.
Mrs George NJ. Treadway of Shelter
Island, n. y, is visiting her son and WIFE
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Treadway.
Dwight Willard and Horace Roberts at
tended the reunion of the Fourth Yer
mont Regiment in Bellows Falls Tues
day.
Miss Nettie Pierce went Saturday to
Springfield, Mass, on account of illness
in the family of her brother, Engineer e.
c. Pierce.
The Audubon society will meet with
Mrs. w. S. Adams Monday evening. A
large attendance is desired as officers
will be elected
II. c. Warren has the contract for put
ting in keystone fencing on the newly
made road to the depot and is doing a
first-class job.
The churches are holding union SER
vices Sunday evenings for the present.
Next Sundays service will be in the
Methodist church.
Mrs Ellen Patterson. who is 20 years
old today, will entertain a number of
visitors from away this afternoon, in
GLIDING her children members of their
families, and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Young came Sat
urday from Schenectady. N. Y, to oc-
cupy the Stearns Clough place, which
they recently bought. Mrs. Clough and
Raleigh will go soon to Minneapolis to
live.
The new floor in the town hall building
has been planed, scraped and polished
this week. and is now in fine condition.
There is talk of opening the newly re-
paired building with a firemans ball or
some entertainment.
II. p. Farr will sell so head of cattle
100 sheep and four horses by auction next
Friday at l O'Clock at the brick house
stables in East Putney. on the farm for
merly occupied by him. c. p. ellison will
be the auctioneer.
witnesses in the suit of r. c. Bacon, adj
ministrator, against the Pennsylvania
Casualty company, which was tried il
the United States court in Rutland last
week and the first of this week.
The exterior work on Capt Robertson
paper mill is nearly completed. The brick
work is nearly all done and the roof is
on. Some of the smaller pieces of ma
chinery have arrived. The larger piece:
will come during the next two weeks.
The first annual harvest festival of the
Congrega tional church will be held mex
Friday evening. There will be {
harvest supper and a sale of contrib
uted vegetables, fruit, etc. Contribution:
are solicited. They will be sold by auc
ton after the supper.
A series of four addresses will be de
livered in the Congregational church, be
ginning next Sunday morning, on the gen
eral theme: Some things the people o
Putney should know about. The top
les will be: Schools Churches,
Homes" and Community"
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Everleth went t.
Bechertown, Mass, Monday to atten'
the fair and to visit Mrs. Everleth'
brother, Robert Little, formerly bar
Der in this town. George Danyeau o
Brattleboro has been running Mr.. Ever
leths shop during his absence.
Frank Clark has exchanged the Pow
ell bay horse this week for a horse owne'
by a Mr.. Whtcomb of Fitchburg, Mass
Liveryman Blood has sold his bay horse
Charlie, to Mr.. Wright of Ashley, Mass
Hugh Crawford has sold a pair of lgh
driving horses and a single driver to
doctor in Fitchburg. a. w. j. Wilkin
has sold his trotter, Wait-andSee, to g
to Fitchburg.
The question has been asked of c. w
Adams this week as to whether the Stow
ell company intend to move their fac
tory farther down the brook to accommo
date the location of their new boiler. Thi
is but one of the pointed questions whic
have been propounded in a good nature
way as the result of little misfortun
that attended the location of a lotto
boiler recently bought by the company
All day Friday was spent getting the boil
er from the truck on which it was draw
from the railroad to the spot selected 70
power house. On Saturday, when tn
boiler was nearly in position. somethin
gave way, the boiler started, the two
inch plank used as a block was not SUI
fcient to stop it, and over and over
went down an easy incline several rod
until it struck large tree and was stoI
ped Mr.. Adams who had charge of tn
work. couldn't see anything funny in tn
situation, but naturally he had to stan
the jests of those who could. The tire
was all that saved the boiler from goin
into a brook and probably over dan
The boiler was not damaged.