Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-02-20
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Mrs. p. y. Knapp is at w. n. Chase's.
One of the daughters of \. r. Edwards
is i'll with. typhoid fever.
Rev Z. II. Bartlett will. supply the
Congregational pulpit Sunday.
Mrs. 2. A. Davis is taking the place
of Mrs. Carpenter for a week in the
care OF Mrs. Alvin White
The scene of the narrow gauge accident
near the Rand crossing was visited by
many until the storm of Monday. w.
=. Games took several Photographic
views of the wreck.
At the meeting of the ladies' society
last week with Mrs. Davidson the usual
program of work was pleasantly varied
by the serving of refreshments on the
part of the hostess.
The role Of the Christian Endeavor
society in home missions will be the
topic of next Wednesdays Homeland
circle meeting at Mrs. CIRCUITS. The &C.
casion will also be a missionary tea.
Mr.. and Mrs. w C. Ballou, accom-
panied by DR.. Cole, took their daughter,
Fray, to a hospital in Boston Wednes-
day for consultation over an obscure
trouble from which the child has suf-
fcrcd several months.
George II. Dexter, lifelong resi-
dent of Franconia, y. H., and vicinity,
who died on Sunday. was a brother of
left a widow. three daughters and a
son, and is survived by brother and
six sisters.
At the noon hour Wednesday there
was a quiet wedding at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Melvin Wood. when their
daughter, Mabel Della Wood, lately of
Manchester, n. IL, was united in mar
| riage to Leon f. Parsons of Brattleboro
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
| f. II. Bartlett
The oldest voter on the license ques-
| ton and who voted no" at the
| town meeting Feb was S. G. Brown.
| His Goth birthday anniversary will be
| election day March 3 and he hopes to be
| able to declare the same sentiment again
| for the town Mr.. Brown has been
| fully up to date this winter in his wood
pile record besides looking after poultry
and enjoying reading.
The union school, taught in the No.
4 school house by Mrs. e. A. Kenyon.
| closed the winter term last week.
! Twenty-one different pupils were in at
tendance during the year with an aver
| age attendance of 10. The pupils mani
tested a commendable degree of interest
in their work. Those perfect in at
tendance during the year: Erwin Chase,
Charlie and Rubie Rice. =, Carlos Lowe
was perfect in attendance the last term
until kept at home the last day by sick
ness.
The body of Mrs. Fannie A. Baker
of Putney was brought to the family
| burial lot here on Monday by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. John Russell, and the latter
| daughters of Wiliamstown. Mass, ac-
compancd by Miss Baker, a niece and
ramesake of Mrs. Baker, Rev. Mr.
! Hayward Mr. Stowell and Mr.
Knight of Putney. The bearers from
this place We're Messrs. Pierce, Pratt
| Johnson and Stiles. A few old friends
here gathered to show their respect for
the deceased and sympathy for the fam
! lily. Mrs. Bakers birthplace was or
| Newfane hill, from whence she went
at about the age of twenty to teach
in Ohio. She was of a studious
and intellectual nature and a natura
teacher, beginning the work in
a private house on the old hill She
had resolution and dignity of character
and altogether is well remembered here
for her qualities of mind which make
a tribute to her memory from this place
natural and a token of appreciation fol
the interest which she had always fell
i'm her native town.