Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-08-05
NEWFANE.

An Ice cream SAFE VIII De llelu tlllS
evening at the church rooms.
Misses Mary and Fanny Woodburn,
summer guests, returned today to Bethel,
Conn.
Miss Catherine Ward of Lowell Mass,
a niece of Rev. l.. Il. Broad, Is a guest at
Bencasson
Miss Alice Randall of Athol who was a
recent guest of her aunt, Mrs. Townsend,
has returned home.
Miss Katherine Chamberlain of Phia-
delphia, Pa, is spending a week with her
cousin, Amasa Grout
Miss May Higgins, daughter of Leon
ard Higgins of Taunton is with her aunt,
Mrs. Fred Underwood.
Arthur Harvey managed to walk home
from Newfane hill recently after having
received severe cut on his foot which
housed him several days.
Newfane Grange has accepted the in
vitation of West River Grange to attend
their annual picnic Wednesday, Aug. 10,
in the park at Townshcnd.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Batchelder will
spend next week among old friends i'm
Peru and will attend the Batchelder-
Swift wedding ceremonies on Wednes-
day.
Lumber has been delivered for repairs
on 4. r. Edwards's store building occu-
pied by Postmaster and Merchant Grout
H. j. Batchelder plans to have the west
front of his store in better condition.
Mrs. c. p. Dewitt is enjoying few
weeks among the heights of Peru, 1000
feet above the sea, with delightful drives
both on our side and i'm the Manchester
region of the Green mountain range
Rev and Mrs. G. w. Lawrence arrived
Monday at their cottage. They are plan
nlus to go 20 California next month on
account of Mr.. Lawrence's throat trou-
BILE
At the last meeting of the Y p. S. c.
+. the following officers were chosen to
serve six months. President, Arthur Rad
way; vice president Lena Dewitt; secre-
taiY, Eta Batcheldcr; treasurer William
r. Bruce, jr
Mrs. ana Miss Hayden of Boston are
guests of Mrs. Gooduow and Mrs. Pratt
at Elmhall. Miss Hayden will be remem-
bercd as the sweet singer of Mount YER
non church. who sometimes has favored
the local congregation.
The next meeting of Newfane Grange
will be held Wednesday, Aug 10. Each
member is requested to narrate a current
event at that time. At the close Of the
last meeting, which was childrens night,
refreshments were served.
Miss Sarge, Miss White ana Miss Her
endeen and Mr. Perry of Rest cottage
and Bcncasson are in attendance at the
New Yorker and a fine pianist. is organ
list for the Moody meetings, as she was
last summer
TO Rev. T. D. Davies Of the Congrega-
tional church has occurred the pleasant
idea of holding a summer sojourner"
service Sunday morning, Aug. :. Re-
membrance of the occasion by floral dec
Grafton is suggested. and it goes without
saying that there will be a large and in
tCTcStCd attendance.
Misses Ellen and Edna Marcy. grand
daughters of MIR. and Mrs d. : Ballou.
arrived on their vacation here Wednesday.
They will join the campers at Sunset
lake next week with a party from both
villages, chaperoucd by Mrs Ernest Mar
cy. The Misses Marcy are teachers re-
spocuveIy in Dumwerston and Chester
field.
Saturday evenings wreckng to car
wheels below West Dummerstou brought
the first serious delay to passenger trains
since last winter, ana developed various
inherent faculties OF travellers to cXtri-
cate themselves from what they feared
to be an an nights dilemma, some walk
ing part or all the nine miles to Newfane
and some securing teams en- route or
telophouiug ahead for them. But all the
same the little train came in ar "a good
pace, just ahead Of the horses at 1890.
The demand for the sale of ice cream
ana cake lillouEu li4t not weather Is per-
sistant enough, but some difficulty is cN-
perienced in managing a weekly sale.
It could he done, however, and with
Ne serious need for raising funds for
! a certain increasing local debt something
should be done. \ little inquiry viii bring
out circumstances which ought to set all
the Well-WisherS Of the community to
helpful and generous response. Ii there
can be arranged another ice cream sale
next week. look for its announcement
| by the bulletin at the past Office and in
other places
From Montevideo. Mimi. Games the an
nounCement Of the engagement of Gil
| bert y. Bltchelder and Miss Florence :
| l'ream, the marriage to take place in
about month. Mr. Batchcldcr now is
at the home of his parents in Fitchburg,
Mass lie graduated from the Brattle-
/ boro high school and Brown university.
and now is chemist at Hawaii, for
| which island he expects to sail from san
! Francisco with his bride about Sept 20
Both MI Hatcholder and Miss Fream
! formerly We're of this place. Miss Fream
graduated last year from Wclles college.
| Aurora. y. Y.
| Cashier Newton and family Of NIcrid.n.
| Conn, have rooms for the month AT the
/ Newfauo House. Mrs. Newtous three
| sisters, Mrs. Prescott MIS- Harding and
| Mrs. Foote, with their husbands at times
] ana olucl members OF the family, are at
! the County hotel Judge - =. Hubbard
| of Walliusford, Conn, who, with his fam
! lily, is at Brattleboro for two weeks, is
| likely To visit Connecticut friends here
| and DE taken to Newfane heights. CASH
! Ter Newton and family circulate to and
! fro both i'm Winiamsvile and Newfane
| with catching enthusiasm as there is a
general air of enjoyment about the COM
! mon.
That was a very pleasant and practi-
! cal act performed by a little colony of
| summer friends on Newfane hill who
| recognized a suffering cause as presented
| by local advertising bill in the collect
| ion of sum of money among themselves.
| but the best thing possible about it was
! the accompaniment of these words:
| THANK you for the opportunity" Some
of these affairs are not merely begging
schemes, for at the foundation of them
is an honorable need to which many
should spare their thoughts, services and
money as generously as possible. and
first, last and generally most times, en-
couraging words.
In the death of Mrs. Keziah Park. wild
ow of Elihu Park, Wednesday evening at
| the age of % years, this part of Newfane
| lost its oldest resident. She was the
| daughter of Judge Benjamin Ormsbee,
whose wife was Miss Black of Putney.
| Judge Ormsbee was a man of much hon
or, liberality and keenness of mind He
kept public houses in other towns than
! Newfane, and at one time was assistant
| tnrslE Of