Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-05-29

y. NJ. Corser went Monday to Boston
on a business trip of two days.
Mrs. Percy Warwick went to Haverhill,
y H., Tuesday for a weeks visit
Fred Taft of Worcester, Mass. spent
Sunday at the home of his father. II. L.
Taft
Mrs. W. a. Bosworth visited at her
former home in Winchendon, Mass, this
week.
Mrs. W. s. Adams returned Tuesday
from visit with her mother in Marlboro
y. II.
The public library will be closed to-
morrow afternoon. but will be open from
$50 to 7.3o.
The Audubon society will meet next
Monday evening at 80 o'clock with Mrs
w. :. Adams.
Mrs. Chester Monroe of Englewood. y
j.. has come to her farm on West Hill to
spend the summer.
y. J. Aver has bought wire-wheel
peanut rooster. which is a decided i'm
provement over his old rooster.
DR. II. B. Esmond has moved from A.
w. J. Wilknss house TO the Oliver
Houghton house on Klmball Hill
The May day festival under the auspi-
ces OF the Baptist church viii be held
in the town hall next Friday evening.
Miss Kinney, whose school will close
summer and give private instruction to
pupils desiring H.
Rev. l.. r. Perkins, Of the Baptist
church gave stereopticon lecture at a
Masonic meeting in Windsor Locks
Conn. Wednesday evening.
The ladies of the Methodist church will
serve ice cream and cake tomorrow after
noon and evening, continuing their Me
mortal day custom in this respect.
Warren Stevens, formerly of this town,
visited here briefly Wednesday. He has
bought summer hotel in Bethlehem,
y H. and will take possession at once
The Stowell factory was shut down
Monday night for few days on account
of a break in the engine. The broken
part was taken to Bellows Falls TO be
repaired
Insurance agents adjusted the loss on
| Capt. Robertsons paper mill at S65O0
which was $500 less than the face OF the
| insurance policies The outlook for put
! ting up a new mill is not promising.
The townspeople appreciate the work
| of the Woman's Relief corps, through its
patriotic committee, in putting in new
! flag poles and furnishing flags for the
public schools, flag floats over every
| schoolhouse in the town.
Miss Blanche Johnson of Shelburne
Falls, Mass, has succeeded Miss Maud
NJ Munger as stenographer for the
Stowell Manufacturing company. Miss
Munger will continue in the same work
in bank in Woodstock.
| 4 petition has been circulated and has
| received over 100 signatures, asking for
| the removal of the post-otfice to the town
hall building. There is every reason to
| expect that the change in location Will
| be made. The seectmen believe that il
/ is time to make the town hall building
self supporting and that the income from
the post-oliice would go a long way to-
| ward bringing about such condition
| They have decided to equip the building
with steam heating apparatus
The sale OF the +. L. Pierce property
by W. 5. Adams, trustee, took place Sat
urday, A ". j. Wilkins acting as auc-
tioneer. BY order of court the property
covered by mortgages to the James
Crawford estate was not sold. This in
cluded the property in this village and in
Brookline, \ large part of the real es-
tate and the stock, tools and other per
sonal property was bought by Allen NJ
Pierce of Boston, f. l.. Pierce's brother.
His purchases included the Goodell lot
in Westminster, the Bear Hill lot, the
mill in Putney Falls, the house formerly
occupied by Mr. Pierce in Putney Falls
and the Bennett place, including two
houses, pasture and tillage land, also in
Putney Falls. The Bennett place after
wards was sold to Dana S. Angler OF
Brattleboro, who will occupy it later
The Johnson place on West Hill was
bought by George II. Phillips, who after
wards sold il to II. l.. Bailey 1t com
prises about l20 acres of pasture and til
lage land.