Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-06-05
VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY. JUNE 5,
NEWFANE.


Mrs. IL. S. kmny's.
Banker w. T. Eager Of New York was
here two days this week.
Mrs. f. \. Dewitt will spend a few
days In Chester next week.
Mrs. If. j. Batchelder is improving
after m illness of several weeks.
Rev. Mr.. Davis of Wolcott, this state,
will preach at the congregational church .
Sunday.
Robert Lincoln. who has been employed |
by the 5. y. Smith company in Brattle-
boro is at home this week
Miss r. Richmond and Miss Benedict |
came from New York Monday to spend /
the summer at the Benedict place
Mrs Sarah Fish expects to go Monday /
to Nergenues for a stay of several weeks /
in the family of her son. f. l.. Fish
Mrs A. w. Pratt of North Cambridge, |
Mass, has joined her mother. Mrs. |
Goodnow, and son, Robert, at Elmhall /
Tor seN eral weeks.
Miss Florence Sawyer Fream, daughter
OF MIR. ana Mrs. Paris Fream of Monte (
video, Mimi. Ohe latter was Miss Achsa
Root of this place. is member of this
years graduating class from Wells Col /
lcgc, Aurora y Y.
Mr.. ana Mrs G. w. Parsons. Mrs =. \. /
Davis Mrs c. S Wilson. Mrs c. T.
Davidson, Miss +. Richmond and Miss
Benedict and Mrs. Underwood drove to
Wilmington on Thursday to attend the
county W. c. +. L. convention.
Commencement exercises of the Essex
Junction High and graded schools under
Principal Carlton II. Howe will take place
June 5-l2. The address of Wednesday
evening will be How to Get There" 10y
Rev. \ j. Hough of Groton, formerly
pastor of the Methodist church in Brat
tleboro. Rev. Evan Thomas of Essex
1ffusttpn of H.. a
gregduonal convention. will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon.
Rcy. and Mrs. L. =. Broad sailed on the
Seminole from Jacksonville, Fla.
after spending several days at St. Angus
tine and other places. and they were due
at the national annual home missionary
meeting in Providence. Il. L., June Pa, and
on the Sunday following in Plymouth.
Mass. the old home of Mrs. Caswell-
Broad, soon after which date they will
turn their faces toward Bencasson on
Newfane hill, their summer home.
Principal Carlton d. Howe Of the Essex
Junction High school was appointed by
the local church delegate to the 10Sth
annual meeting of the Vermont Con-
gregatunal convention to be held in Bur
lngton June gil. Pastors from this
county having numbers on the program
are Rev. Mr. Keneston of West Brattle-
boro on the Sunday school, Rev. Hayward
O! quincy Win a review OF paper on
" sin and salvation Rev. Mr.. Miles of
Brattleboro ON The Forward Movement
in Vermont
y recent number of the somerville.
Mass. journal gave an interesting ac-
count of the Heptorean clubs annual
luncheon at the Hotel Somerset in Boston.
in which Mrs Beulah A Hanscom is
spoken of as the popular president Mrs
Hansc,m is "a daughter of the late Cyrus
gr11- I..fef
of Mrs. +. NJ. Dexter, a summer resident
of South Newfane. Mrs. Harrison AL
drich, another summer resident in town
and daughter of the late Benjamin
Morse. gave an original poem on " our
club which was of very spicy nature
Mrs. Aldrich also gave the toast Grand
mothers China" y pretty toast on the
program was the toast our grand
mothers-there is nothing that lends a
greater charm to the home than an aged
person. loving and loved"
The long building" so called. has n
, history. 1t was built by Anthony Jones
in early Fayetteville days, and was then
one tenement longer than at present the
late :. +. Whitney having sawed off the
east end. which was too near the hotel
pig pen. Sometimes five separate tenants
occupied the building, which represented
from time to time the trades of shoe
maker. carpenter. wheelwright tailor,
/ harness and trunk maker. printer.
2 mantua maker besides the law and
? medicine. 1t is still owned by the Whit
neys, who have moved to the Stebbius
t place bought by L. II. Whitney The
building spot would form desirable adj
. iunct to the hotel property and might
, : well be converted with " the long build
, ing " into an enterprising hotel to which
some prosperous Newfane man with bust
p ness instincts could give his name, and
/ come here summers to see that it paid
him suitable dividends. 1t is a practical
BILE affair to consider-indeed more than
one prominent United States official has
whispered something of the ka~l into
ears ready to near Of such project
. Treasurer F. \. Dewitt took his share
: in the enjoyment Of electric power, he
ginning Saturday last (while waiting for
the same kind Of power to develop mere
it is pres umed1 Having business Ia
transact in Springfield he took the steam
cars to Greenfield, then the trolley
, through the delightful region of Deer
u field, NORTHAMPTON and Mt Tom, tC
Springfield, and on by the way of Palmt1
u and by the beautiful elms of Longmeadow
u to Hartford, where he spent the night
u and then next morning went on through
y New Britain, Berlin and other Connecti-
l cut towns to Wallingford. the end of the
,; route. At Berlin was a transfer to sta
- ton called Lazy Lane in print. anC
{ lazy indeed it seemed, said the traveller
: At Wallingford Mr.. Dewitt, in dining al
: the Marlboro House met Charles NJ. New
y ton and j. n Platt old friends from thi,
" place, and later called upon the family
> of William Henry Newton. From Wal
II lingford to New Haven is the only break
in the electric line which prevents gonl
from Greenfield to New York. but fran,
= chise has been granted for building q
= portion of the necessary link
s y quiet wedding ushered i'm June / wa.
= that of Miss Ahbie Lucy Kenny ano
d Ward Howe Eager. The bride is daugh
ter of Mrs. II. s. Kenny and will h,
much missed here a promoter of live
lY interests among the young people
The bridegroom is a son of Mrs. c. II
Eager, and has been associated with hi.
- brother, w +. Eager, banker and broker
e of New York, about two years. Onl!
the Immediate families and a few OF hel