Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-01-09
THE PUTNEY COLUMN.

Several tobacco buyers have been i'm
town this week No sales are reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray of Vergennes are
spending the winter with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. c. e. Hayward.
Miss Bertha Estey sailed Saturday
from Boston on the Dominion line steam
ship Commonwealth" for Europe.
The Woman's Relief corps will have a
rehearsal Saturday night. An urgent
request to be present is extended to
each member.
Mrs. Clark and son returned Saturday
to their home in Champlain n. Y, af-
ter visiting Mrs. Clarks sster-in-law.
Mrs. II. =. Farr.
c. w. Brooks is able to be out after
having been confined to his house six
weeks with rheumatism. Mrs. Brooks
has been i'll this week.
Several members of the Masonic frater-
nifty attended the meeting of Fort Dunn
mer Royal Arch chapter in Brattlcboru
yesterday afternoon and evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Sherman willard at
tended the installation of the officers
Of Bingham chapter, Order of Eastern
Star. i'm Brattleboro Tuesday evening.
Rev. f. r. Perkins will give an illus
trated lecture in the Baptist church sun
day evening. giving the second part of the
lecture which he began several weeks
ago.
- Department Commander Iathorn and
Mrs. Hathorn of Ludlow are expected to
be present at the installation of Green
wood post and the Womans Relief corps
next Tuesday evening.
The Grand Army post and Womans
Relief corps will hold "A joint installa-
ton of officers next Tuesday evening
\ meeting of the Woman's Relief corps
will be held in the afternoon.
L. p. Bailey, w. II. Dickinson. E. w.
Huntley. II. j. Smith. Ezra f. Pierce
and +. j. Martin attended the installa-
ton of officers of Wantastiquet lodge
of odd Fellows in Bratteboro Monday
night.
Overseer W. A. Cole went Saturday to
Burlington with Mrs. Patrick Dunn and
four children, whom he placed in the
Roman Catholic home in that city Dunn
left home month or more ago and has
not been heard from since then
The board of civil authority will meet
in the selectmen's room in the town hall
building Saturday, Jan. Il, and Saturday,
Jan. 81 from > to o'clock p. m, to re-
wise the check list to be used at the ref
erendum vote on the liquor law Feb. 3.
The annual meeting of the fire district
was set for last Monday night. but on
account of a large number of other meet
ings the attendance was not sufficiently
large to do business. The meeting was
postponed to next Monday evening at :
o'clock, in the lower town hall.
A O. Palmer of Burlington has been
in town recently with the object of or
ganizing a camp of Modern Woodmen of
America. Several candidates have been
examined. Mr.. Palmer will come to
Putney again soon in the interest of
the organization.
The Masons of Golden Rule lodge were
treated at their regular meeting Wednes-
day evening to an illustrated lecture on
Ancient Craft Masonry" by Rev. +. r.
Perkins 1t was entirely new and was
pronounced the best lecture Of its kind
ever given here.
The acetylene gas plant which mas
been installed in the Robertson paper
mill by w. n. Dunklee of Vernon was
started Monday night. The lights are
working satisfactorily and are great
improvement over the old method of
lighting the mill
a special meeting of the Audubon
society will be held at the home of Mrs.
II. J.. Pierce Jan. p, to take the place
of the regular meeting that should
have been held Monday of this week. a
large attendance is hoped for. Papers
on the different birds will be read.
The annual meeting of Mount Pleas
ant Cemetery association was held in
Masonic lower hall Monday evening,
when these officers were elected; Presi-
dent, w. y. Cole; clerk and treasurer,
w. d. Waite; trustees, Albert Abbott,
G. \. Lttleheld. f. d. Kendall, F. o.
Pierce Dana Clough, John Clark and
George T. Aplin
DR.. George S. Foster attended a meet
ing and banquet of the Bellows Falls
and SaXtons- River medical association
in Bellows Falls Monday night. While
in Chester Monday the doctor was
thrown out of a sleigh in which he was
riding with another physician and had
two fingers diSlOcated and his lace ana
one leg bruised.
The Congregational church and socie-
ty elected these officers Tuesday after
noon: Clerk and treasurer, Mrs. Annie
b. II. Harris; prudential committee,
Charles L. Prouty, George T. Aplin and
Levi j. Houghton; music committee,
Mrs H 2. Farr, Mrs. w. S. Adams
r. Pember; soliciting committee, Geo
r. Braley, George T. Aplin and Miss
Freeda Pember; clerk of the church.
Rev. C. E. Hayward.
The state railroad commissioners ac-
cepted the new highway at East Put
ney at their recent visit and promised
to send to the selectmen an order max
ing the road a legal highway in place
of the old road. The road Is being used
although the commissioners order has
not been received. The Boston &
Maine Railroad company will pay the
town $l4UO 10 ueITdy the eApSiiSSS vi
building the road made necessary by
the double railroad track, and the select
men hope to bring the cost close to that
figure.
d. M Frost the longtime station
agent and postmaster in East Putney
whose resignation was announced III
this column some time ago, left the
employ of the government and the Bos-
ton a. Maine railroad company Jan. /
He is succeeded as station agent by Ed
ward l.. Uric, who has been employed
by the railroad company in Oxford, n
H., and is acting as postmaster pend
ing an application for appointment as
such. Mr.. Uric has a wife and two
children. Mr.. and Mrs. Frost are
boarding for the present with Mrs
Frosts brother, Ezra T.. Pierce, in this
village. Mr.. Frost will enjoy a Well
earned vacation before beginning q
years engagement in NJ. G. Williams
store
Important changes in the fire district
have been made by the board of select
men. The district has been extended
on the south so as to include the houses
of II. p. Farr, W. S. Adams, Oliver
Houghton, Albert Abbott w. D. Waite
Warren Willard, F. o. Pierce, Charles
D. Knight Bert NJ. Reed, Kate Heffron
Demanster Wheeler and the Pullen house
adding material amount to the granc
list of the district, on which a specia
tax is levied. This extension was made
with the understanding that the pipe
and hydrant system would also be eX
tended so as to afford protection to al
the property in the district, and was