Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-10-07
TOWNSHEND.

Miss Ella Smith is working at VIII
Sparkss.
Harry Cobb has gone to Keene to work
in n store
Farmers are busy harvesting their large
crop of apples
Guy Dutton is at work for j. c. Taft in
his livery stable.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brigham have returned
from Duluth, MINI.
The Dorcas guild met Thursday after
noon with Mrs Beebe.
Miss Myra Hobart is spending some
weeks in Brattleboro.
Miss Amelia Hobart is at home from
Boston for short stay.
Mrs Dutton left Monday morning for
her home in Gainesville, Fla.
Joseph Bean has moved from Turkey
mountain to the Shattuck farm.
Oscar Wilkinson of Peru has recently
visited his daughter, Mrs. Fred Randall.
Henry Franklin, who has been i'll some
time, has been much worse the past
| week
The ladies' Home club will meet next
| week on Wednesday at Mrs. Mary Phil
| ips's
Mr.. Royal Sanderson reports the rain
| fall during September to have been Az
| inches.
|
| squashes on his farm, some Weighing over
| rs pounds
C. H. Evans has gone to Sioux Falls,
| South Dakota, to accept a good bust
ness position.
Perley Dutton has gone to the Mount
Hermon school, Gill; Mass, to take a
course of study.
Mr.. Hogdon. who is employed in the
post office in Boston, has been home for
a short vacation.
Mrs. Lizzie Barber has returned home
after a long absence in Brattleboro and
| Springfield, Mass.
Our representative, f. II. Willard, and
| Senator j. II. Ware left Monday morn
| ing for Montpelier
Mrs. Florence Ford and daughter have
| recently left for Beaufort, S. c., where
| Mr.. Ford is in a store.
Mr.. Micott has taken the grammar
school in this village to finish out He
boards at Edgar Allbees.
Orion Smith. who graduated from the
| seminary last spring. is teaching this fall
the only school in Brookline.
Birchard post, No. Go. will meet at
Masonic hall Saturday, Oct 8, at p. m
| "A full attendance is requested.
Mrs. Harry Franklin invited in a party
OF friends TO enjoy Miss Mabel Stoddard's
| playing and singing one evening last
week.
Mr.. Clough and mother Of London
| derry, on their return from the Valley
| Fair in their automobile. visited at Ros-
| coe Marshs.
The Hadassah league held a pleasant
social at the Baptist parsonage Friday
evening. Games were enjoyed and light
| refreshments were served
During the heavy gale of last week a
| large part OF maple tree in front of
Fayette Cooks house blew down, and
the rest is being cut down.
Harrison Chamberlain has thoroughly
| repaired his tenement house inside, be-
| tween this village and Harmonyville
Everett Phillips did the work
Miss Perham has been In town with
her eXquisitely beautiful needle and lace
work She opened rooms at Charles Carl
tons for their exhibit and boarded there
In the absence OF Rev. C. II. Baker
| there were union services at the Baptist
church Sunday. Rev. L. A. Royal gave
very interesting account OF the Baptist
state convention which he attended, held
at Newport.
Mr.. Brooks was badly injured by fall
ing from an apple tree. He remained
unconscious for some time. On account
| OF this Clifford Brooks and family have
come from New Hampshire to remain
| for the present
party OF people at the Townshend
Inn are at work in the interests Of
| Montgomery Ward & Co. of Chicago
| They are canvassing the town for the
enlarging OF photographs. circulating
| their advertisements OF goods. etc
Mrs. Thayer and daughters on the
| Batchelder farm have picked the past
| season 100 quarts Of strawberries. 100
quarts OF raspberries and 500 quarts OF
| blackberries Gall wild fruit, making 700
quarts In all. Has anyone done better?
Israel Kenton. a successful business
man OF Philadelphia, Penn, and a for
| mer student in the seminary, has been in
| town the past week. II is many years
since Mr.. Kenton was here at school,
| We are always glad to welcome the old
scholars when they return.
| The seminary is in a prosperous con-
| dition. Changes and additions have been
made in the courses to better adapt
| them to the needs Of those fitting for COL
| iege as well as those who at a small ex-
pense wish good. practical education.
| New students are here this term The
| new teachers are doing faithful work and
| II they have the cooperation OF the pu-
pills successful work will be done
Horace Fletcher OF FL Paso, Texas. Wis
tied his aunt. Miss II. Fletcher. last week.
Mr.. Fletcher, after receiving in his ma
| tive city. Kalamazoo Mich, advantages
the schools offered him there and re-
| celVing prizes for scholarship finished
his studies at the Polytechnic institute
| in Worcester. Mass, and for the past
ten years has practiced his profession
as civil engineer laying out railroads in
Arizona, Mexico and Texas
]. II. Ware had a wild cow that he had
| been unable to catch. At last hearing
that Daniel Van Valkenburg of Wards
boro was an experienced cowboy he sent
| Tor hin. Van Valkenburg came into the
pasture on horseback with a lasso. Az
ter Wild chase over lodges, stone walls
and through woods he came near enough
| to throw his lasso, which caught the COW
by the horns. With skill he led her
| TO the barn uniniured. Mr.. Ware thinks
| he will employ a cowboy everytime he
has wild creature running at large.