Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-05-20

Reuben Page went to snelburne Falls
Monday to spend a few days
Rev. Mr.. Baker of Cambridgeport Wis
tied Rev. +. l.. Metcalf Tuesday
Louis Gorham is assisting the station
agent i'm Mt. Tom for a few weeks.
Mrs. f. L. Pierce has been confined to
her bed this week with illness resembling
grip.
$. A. Peck of Springfield. this state.
visited relatives in Putney the last of
last week.
NJ G. Williams returned Monday from
a business and pleasure trip in Rutland
and Mt. Holly.
There will be a dance in the town hall
tonight. Miss Florence Stiggins OF Brat
tleboro will play the piano.
Miss Helen Robertson went Wednesday
to Boston for visit of 10 days or more
with Rev. Charles Conklin and family.
\. w. Barry has leased the John Hitch
cock house and will occupy it soon Miss
Nellie Murphy will retain a room for her
own use.
Rev. and Mrs. L. p. Tucker of Sugar
Loaf, n. Y, will come to Putney next
week to visit Mrs. fuckers mother Mrs
Ellen Patterson.
Eight or 10 Putney people attended the
concert by the Choral Union in Brattle-
boro Tuesday evening. and some were
present Wednesday evening.
+. T. Robertson and Henry Crawford
went to Windsor Tuesday, having been
drawn as jurymen for the May term of
the United States court before Judge
Wheeler
The frame for the second story on the
Crosby building has been put up this
week by the owner, Charles Farnum. as
sisted by +. O. Pierce Riley Amidon
~, NC tor Iaa oil nd
Among those who attended the annual
meeting of the grand bodies of odd Eel
lows in Bellows Falls this week were Eu-
gene Robbins T. +. Patterson. w. H.
Dickinson. f. w. Huntley, Ezra F. Pierce
and Eugene Tatro.
The pre- Memorial exercises by the
public schools will be held in the town
han Friday afternoon, May %, begin
ming at o'clock. All the schools will
unite to make an interesting program
Not only the soldiers but all parents and
citizens are expected to be present.
Eleven members of the Putney Audubon
society drove to Brattleboro Saturday
morning to climb Wantastiquet mountain
with members of the Brattleboro and
Greenfield societies. They reached Brat
tlchoro about II o'clock and at once start
ed up the mountain When about two
thirds the way up the dinner was served.
some of the others went to the pinnacle,
where a fine view was obtained Of the
surrounding country, the day being bright
and clear. \ variety of birds We're heard
and observed. among those heard being
the hermit thrush.
The attorneys for the Boston & Maine
Railroad company and for George Leach
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Whitman met in
East Putney Monday and decided on the
amount of damages the railroad company
should pay for condemned land owned by
Mr. Leach and Mr.. and Mrs Whitman.
The amount has not been made public.
The railroad company is building a new
line double track, which will take the
whole of Mr.. Leach's farm and a strip
120 feet wide and about a mile long
through three farms owned by Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitman, making a cut 20 feet deep
the entire distance. Young q Young of
Newport are counsel for the railroad
company, and C. C. Fits of Brattleboro
is counsel for Mr.. Leach and Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitman.
The Waldron, Roach e. Taylor company,
who gave theatrical performances in the
town hall two evenings last week dis
banded Friday, being financially embar-
raised. They appeared to be on their
'uppers" when they struck town, and so
Landlord C. S. Willard made an arrange
ment with them whereby he should sell
tickets until he had received enough to
cover his bill. Mr.. Willard took all the
receipts of the first night, but the amount
was not enought to pay the troupe's board
bill, to say nothing of the rent of the
hall. On the second night Mr., Willard
was i'll and not able to sell tickets, so the
receipts that night went for hall rent.
ON Friday Mr.. Willard attached four
trunks belonging to the company. TWO
of the company raised money enough to
pay their bill and their trunks We're re-
leased, but the others are in the hands
of Constable H. w Cobb The troupe
left Saturday, some going to Boston and
others to New York.
FoRSAIE Good variety of excellent seed corn