Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-11-27
PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 81 1903.
TOWNSHEND.

Miss Lindsey is teaching in the Bruce !
district.
Mrs. Waterman is boarding with Mrs !
Jane Derry.
Miss Bessie Hardy spent Sunday with |
Ruby Stcbbins,
Both churches have taken the first steps
toward Christmas.
Mrs. Bert Morse visited her sister, Mrs
Fred Smith, last week
Merrill I1odgkins of Wells River spent
Sunday at r. ID. Philipss.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Royal Sandcrson.
A. +. Hyde of Southboro Mass is Wis
iting his uncle Il. II. Fcssenden.
Mrs. Walter oaks of Athens visited
Mrs. T.. II. Batchelder last week.
Clark Aldrich of Westmoreland. N. H.,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. VIII Sparks.
Mrs. Carrie Smith Of Springfield, Mass.
is visiting her aunt. Mrs. Fred willard.
william Aldrch of Londonderry visited
his brother Russell Aldrich. last week.
The Dorcas Guild will have a sale at
the academy hail Wednesday evening,
Dec. 3
Frank Jackson Potter Of New York city
was visitor last week at DR.. a. d.
Nash's.
The next Grange meeting will not he
Of officers.
Mrs Inez Blodgett has returned from
Cambridgeport. where she has been car
ing for the sick.
Miss Jennie Bemis. 'o5. will teach in
Westminster this winter, and Albert Kim
ball o. in Bondvlle,
Mr.. Strack has bought the stage route
from Jacksonville to Charlemont. His
home will be in Jacksonville.
Miss Abby Follett is home from Weston.
where she has been teaching this fall, and
her sister, Mrs. Walter Austin, returned
with her.
The White auction took place last week
| on Tuesday, and Mr.. and Mrs. White will
return to Athol, where they lived before
coming to this place.
Miss Eta Hobart is spending her va
cation from her school this fan In Gull
ford at home with her sister, Amelia. who
mas recently come from Boston.
The Hadassah league will serve a
! chicken-pie supper in the church vestry
Dec. II. a memory table will contain
articles for sale given by absent friends
! Guy Austin, VINO went to Boston n few
! months ago to learn the BARRIERS trade
! has learned the work and Mr. Hall has
made him good an offer to stay with
! him this winter that he has decided to
I remain in town.
The Dorcas Guild will hold a sale of
| fancy and useful articles at Seminary
! hail Wednesday evening. Dec 9 There
will also be a lunch table. The Daugh-
! ters Of Darcas plan to hold a sale in
! connection with the Dorcas Guild.
/ Mrs Mary S Morgan gave a very in
| teresting account OF her trip abroad to
| the W. c. 4. T.. worlds convention in
/ Geneva Switzerland in June, from notes
that she took during her absence. The
/ White Ribbon quartet Of this place sang
one selection.
Miss Alice NJ. Lane Of Limerick. Ne
! has been engaged 20 teach at the sem
/ mary during the winter term. Miss Lane
/ brings TO her work successful experience
| as a teacher and good qualifications. hav-
/ ing studied abroad to perfect herself in
! her work. sac taught under Principal
/ Hawthorne in his former place of work.
The Baptist Woman's Foreign and
! Home Missionary society held an inter
! esting meeting in the vcstry of the
! church on Thursday afternoon. The sub
/ iect was Mormonism. Each one present
read from leaflets assigned by the com
/ mittoe on programs. Mrs Reed and Mrs
| Blood The programs for each meeting
are furnished by the society in Boston
and are Instructive as well as interesting
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union met with Mrs Kenyon Saturday
| I'll itlNll ne 'IelltnblIE system or
| state control Of the liquor fiic was the
| topic taken up. The presence of Mrs.
! c. T.. Davidson. state W. G. r L. secre-
tary, and Of Mrs. Mary $. Morgan.
county secretary and superintendent of
the state press department. added great
interest to the meeting.
Emory Jones began work the 10th Of
September with his threshing machine
| and finished work the past week. While
| going through Grafton woods with this
machine and the boy who has assisted
! MIN, he met a deer in the road and while
. he was thinking IT would turn and go
/ tie other. way II began TO climb up the
| bank and afterward came round to the
| back of his wagon. After he had gone a
! little distance he met "a young bear. which
/ he thinks was after the deer and this &C
/ counted for the actions Of the deer. Mr.
Jones mad no rifle with him.
y very successful term of the seminary
! closed last Friday. In the evening the
! senior class presented the play. Placer
Cold" with the cast of characters as
I published last week. To mention one per-
| son who took part more than the others
would be an injustice. as all the parts
were well delivered and reflected great
/ credit upon Mrs. Greenleaf. the elocution
! teacher, VINO had the play in charge. Mr.
! Sprague. as Nathan Bardwel was very
| realistic and Gypsy was a source of en-
! ioyment. Mike and Joe added to the
| lighter side. Music was furnished by the
! seminary orchestra.
| Principal Hawthorne has arranged for n
! course of lectures to be given here this
winter. The following is the list of speak
| ers and the dates: Dec. II. Prof. Annah
! May Soule, Mt Holyoke College, 1.-THE
Industrial Revolution; Dec IS Rev.
| Bradley Gilman, Springfield. Mass, AN
| Authors Readings; Jan. 15 Miss
! Helena r. Goesmann Amherst. Mass
! Homes in Foreign Iands''. Ian Row
! W. w. Ranney, Hartford, Conn. subject
! to be arranged. As there is considerable
| expense connected with this course, and
| ii is desired to make the course free ii
| is hoped that all will be thinking Sc
riously of how to aid the good cause.