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

case. one stand spread, fancy picture
frame.
Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, two quilts
Miss Rosa Gilbert, fancy sofa pillow
satin photograph holder, very pretty
mounted doiley, illustrative panel.
Mrs. IL. Il. Gallup, fancy table spread,
bed quilt.
Hila Haynes, four beautiful tatted col
lars.
Mrs F. e. Barnard. handkerchief hold
Miss Georgia Medbury. handmade
handkerchief, tidy, cushion, doiley.
Mrs w. S. Allen, sofa top pillow,
child's dress worn by Mrs. Allen when
she was a girl.
Mrs. Henry d. Allen, silk quilt, pieced
by Mrs. Harvey Copeland when she was
80 years of age, flower bed quilt, fancy
sofa pillow.
Edith Phillips, crocheted sofa pillow
top drawn-in rug.
Mrs. r. ]. Phillips biscuit sofa pillow.
Mrs. Walter S. Grimes, ribbon pillow,
pop corn pillow, Battenberg centre piece,
brush broom holder, pin cushion, fancy
work box, dust bag. work table, Blood
geranium, six varieties canned fruit, crab
apple jelly.
Mrs. George II. Streeter made fine
dispaay of antique articles, coverlet 80
years old, chair $50 years old, spinning
wheel 100 years old, two old pictures reel,
years old, handmade knife. deer-horn
handle, shaving cup 100 years old, old
fashioned tea set, old fashioned lantern,
old fashioned jug 10 years old, decorated
old fashioned chair, Indian bead boat.
Mrs. f. II. Niles, embroidered maple
leaf sofa pillow.
Mrs. Albert Faulkner wild grapes, Gull
tivated grapes, newspaper printed in 1900,
drawn rug
Mrs. F. s. Bellows, crazy work slumber
robe. two sofa pillow covers, diamond
bed quilt
Mary Bellows bureau scarf handker-
chief.
Francis r. Smith, drawn rug, hand
woven bed spread 100 years old.
AS a fitting finale to the occasion the
following literary program was presented:
Selection by the Grange choir, recitation
by Henry S. White, essay by Mrs
Blanche Gillette. recitation by Leon Chase
of Nottingham, music by E E. Gallup
and his little daughter Lillian, musical
selection by Mabel Medbury, Eva Griffin,
Mary Bellows and Minnie Thurber, song
by Helen Streeter. remarks by w. S.
Allen. district deputy.
Leonard A. Brown, town representa-
tive, left for Montpelier on Monday.
Rev. ]. A. Mitchell has returned from
his vacation at Lynn, Mass, and Rev.
Clark Chandler and Nathan A. Green
have bought the Corkins mill and will
continue the grain business with in
creased facilities.
Invitations have been issued to the
wedding Of Miss Edith May Bell and
Henry Dix Castle at the Congregational
church on the 18th.
o. +. Butterfed and ]. II. Kidder were
at Readsboro on Tuesday to sell the prop
erty belonging to the Bullock Manufac-
turing company. The real estate and
machinery were bid off by the Benning-
ton County bank, which institution held
a mortgage on the plant
The body of Henry A. Tobey was
buried from his late home on Thursday OF
last week. Rev. Mr.. Woodman officiated.
Mr.. Tobey was a soldier in Company II,
Sth Vermont Volunteers. He contracted
rheumatism in the army and for many
years has been almost totally helpless.
He drew a pension OF 372 per month. The
burial was at Nottingham.
The village meeting. held at the town
hall on Friday evening. Sept. go was well
attended and II was voted almost unan-
imously to put in the system of water
works and to issue bonds in the amount
of $4,000 to supply funds for payment
of the expense J. II. Kidder was elected
commissioner for three years, Elmer f.
Wheeler for two years and Roy ].
Courtemanche for one year. The COM
sale OF the bonds, includes j. II. Goulding,
Eli II. Porter and Charles II. Parmelee.
Work has been begun on the reservoir
near the barn owned by Charles w. Bis
sell and workmen are employed on the
ditch. II the weather remains favorable,
we hope to see things in working order
before snow comes.