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

There is some probability of getting
steam heat into the County House this
winter.
D. S. Ballou is in North Adams and
Wilmington this week, and William e.
Ballou is in Boston.
w. p, Eames is out after two weeks
confinement with tonsilitis. aggravated
by quinsy sore throat.
Brchard post and the Womans Relief
corps will have a joint installation cere-
mony Saturday afternoon at Union hall.
Mrs. c. Z. Dewitt and Mrs. Phoebe
Knapp have taken furnished rooms for
housekeeping in Southern Pines, y. C.
1t is expected that the creamery will
get an ice plough and fill it's ice house
as soon as West river has ice of suf-
ficient thickness.
Landlord lifts and his assistant are in
Wilmington filling the ice house of the
Raponda hotel, Of which Mr. lifts is
proprietor, leaving Noble Pratt in charge
of the Newfane House.
The creamery auditors, P. II. Rutter
and Arthur Warren, were engaged this
week in the examination of the varied
and voluminous accounts in the desk of
the secretary and treasurer, l.. II. Higgins.
The CIRCUITS have been drawing clear
ice from the so-called Kenny pond now
owned by DIR. Abel Grout, but the ice is
The convenient Wellman pond has not
been available this winter for ice bust
ness
As the effect of Sundays clearing
weather was practically that of a storm
with cold and a deep. feathery snow
tossing onward and upward it made the
fourth consecutive Sunday of depleted
church congregations on account of the
elements
E'a 90 hn hoe 4 f,a
New York, enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner
on the room formerly occupied by Eliza
beth Cady Stanton as library in the house
in Tenatly, n. j., the home of Banker
William p. Eager, which is undergoing
thorough repairs. .
Dinner to be served at Union hall on
Saturday, Jan. 16, will be worthy of
assistance and patronage aside from at
tendance of the stockholders from several
towns represented in the creamery be-
cause II is desirable to keep up an in
terest in the hall which is so useful to
the whole community.
Installation of the following officers
will be held by Newfane Grange at Union
hall Wednesday evening: Master, w. r
Bruce, jr. overseer, Arthur Railway; lee
turer Mrs Lena Dewitt; chaplain, Mrs
F. A. Railway; steward, Wilson Winches-
ter; assistant steward, Claude Maher:
lady assistant steward. Miss Ida Maher;
gate Keeper, Carl Maher; Ceres Pomona
and Flora, Misses Mary Brown, Ethel
Hall and Mrs. Arthur Farnham; organist.
Miss Lila Winchester Refreshments will
be served on the pleasant occasion.
The January Vermont Missionary con-
tains a column in regard to the life of
Deacon Henry Hall of Bennington. a
son of eX-Gov. Hiand Hall, prominent
in his town and we'll known elsewhere.
Mr.. Hall came to this place when he
was Is years old. and worked in the
Austin Birchard store three years. declin-
ing an interest offered him by Mr.. Bir-
chard on account of wishing to enlarge
his horizon by further education He re-
tanned his pleasant remembrance of the
family and place by occasional visits.
the last of which was about three wears
ago. when he was towards so years of
age.
Local mercury was 25 degrees below zero
and upwards Tuesday, with lean bv
the mill pond and on the hill street
village antipodes, into the thirties, and
they do say, a dip down to 40 at the old
Simon Phillips place, not to be outdone
by the train report from Londonderry
While not unprecedented to have so long
a spell of zero weather, it is dashing To
the belief that the hard month from
early Thanksgiving week would be follow
ed by thaw. But we brace up to it as
pedestrians with the thought that the
prolonged ice-bound region is broken,
hence our friends i'm the South who read |
The Phoenix may think of our consola-
tions