Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-01-08
TOWNSHEND.

Miss Mary Ware spent New Years at
home.
The Grange will meet Friday evening,
Jan. IS.
The sleighing couldn't be better than at
present.
Mrs. Fred Willard was on the sick list
last week.
We are sorry to hear of water pipes
frozen up
Miss Myra Hobart is home from Bel
lows Falls.
Miss Florence Sanders is home from
Chester, i'll.
Martin Perry is at work for Fred Wat
son chopping.
Mrs Della Knapp recently visited in
SaXtons River.
town last week.
Mrs. Grace Boutelle is visiting at
George Bouteles.
Mr.. and Mrs Clinton Franklin were
recent visitors i'm town
Miss Cora Barnes of Westminster has
| been a visitor in town.
Mr.. and Mrs Weaver were recent Wis
itors at Edgar Allbee's.
Miss Alice Franklin is home at her
fathers, Henry Franklin's.
Miss Lindsey was in town last week
| from her school in Putney.
Miss Bertha Phillips is in Boston visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Prince.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence recently Wis
tied her sister, Mrs. Sarah Sanderson.
Mr.. Sanderson reports the rainfall dur
| ing the month of December IA inch,
snow l 12 feet
Mrs. Annette Townsend and Robert
Lincoln were visitors at Harry Frank
| Inns in Harmonyville.
Haynes Sanders has sold his black oxen
to Charles Noyes of Brattleboro to go on
his farm at Colrain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Marsh entertained
Saturday, a few of their friends very
| pleasantly at an afternoon tea.
Miss Smith, one of the teachers in the
| seminary, boards at Mrs. Dale's, in the
absence of Mr.. Baker and wife.
The week of prayer is being observed
| this week with union meetings evenings
A ministers conference was held all day
on Tuesday.
Holly Wilson and Harry Cobb returned
to the Albany Business College Saturday
morning. after spending their holiday va
| cation at home.
The Baptist ladies' aid society will
hold one of its regular meetings next
week on Thursday. The usual supper
will be omitted.
When Almon Wheelock was here from
! Syracuse for the holidays he climbed to
the top of Peaked mountain. and on the
top was a deer, a fine large buck.
The harvesting of ice from the Jennson
pond began last week. and many ice
| houses have been filled with ice of
better quality and thickness than usual
We think every old soldier would be
greatly interested to read Travelling out
| of Libby Prison" hy Lieut.. James NJ.
! Wells in the January number of Nc
Clure's magazine.
We have learned since giving the de-
grees of cold that the 80 degrees below
zero at Harmonyville has never been
known there before by any one of the
old inhabitants.
We wish we could find some one to
agree with us that the world never looked
so beautiful or the snow so white as it
did last Sunday morning after the storm
OF the night before
S. f. Macdonald returned to Providence,
r. l., Monday lie will again fill his for
mer position as foreman of the thmble
department at Waite Thresher company,
manufacturing jewelers..
We have had it very cold. but not so
cold as in other nearby towns. Monday
morning it was Is degrees below zero;
Tuesday noon the thermometer went down
to 2S and 20 below. Sunday and Monday
were very cold days.
1t is with sadness we received the news
of the death of Mrs. Hattie Brown, who
after spending the summer here, recently
went from us to her home in Denver,
Colo. where she died last Saturday, Jan.
>. Much sympathy is felt for the hus-
band and friends in their great bereave-
ment.
Those who braved the elements Sunday
morning to attend church heard an ex-
cellent New Years sermon by the pastor.
Rev. +. a. Royal, from Psalms 1l6 u, 10,
and 1ith verses: What shall l render
unto the Lord for all of his benefits" etc.
There We're union services. Rev. G.. II
Baker returned this week on Thursday
from New York city.