Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-07-29
THE PUTNEY COLUMN

Mrs. Phillips of Chicago is guest of
Mrs Henry c. Warren.
d. NJ. Frost finished work for NJ G.
Williams Wednesday, He will begin
work for the Stowe company
Carl Sawyer son of Mayor Sawyer of
Fitchburg Mass, is spending a few weeks
with his aunt, Mrs Eugene Holt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Stockwell of Rock
ingham are guests of Mr. and Mrs. II. p.
Farr. Mrs Stockwe and Mrs. Farr are
sisters.
The Stowell companys saw MILL erect
ed on the site of the f. L. Pierce mill,
was started Monday, c. w Adams run
ming the big saw.
\. w. j. wilkins has bought the Wal
ter c. Crawford place. The house has
been leased to A. a. Wing, who will
move there about Aug. l.
Miss Caroline Keyes of Putney and
Miss Mary Il. Cabot of Brattleboro went
Monday to Sugar Loaf Inn, in the White
Mountains, to be guests of Miss Estey
for a week.
Harry Patterson. who has charge of the
pick gang for Farnum & Gilflan on the
Boston Maine railroad job had one
finger badly damned in the steam shovel
Tuesday morning.
The annual reunion of the Windham
County Veterans association will be held
in Putney Wednesday, Aug. 10. a spec
lbl lltll Will run from loIdllltDDlO, ana
dinner will be served under a big tent.
Further announcement of the arrange
ments Will be made next week.
George r. Aplin has been notified by
w. NJ. Wares attorneys to remove wa
ter pipe which he laid in Mr.. Wares
trench few years ago. 1t is understood
that when Mr.. Ware dug the trench to
lay pipe for himself Mr.. Aplin was given
the privilege of laying one also, provided
he would fill the trench, which was done.
Ben Hanford of New York city, Social
list candidate for vice president of the
United States on the ticket with Eugene
V. Debs, will speak in the town hall next
Wednesday evening under the auspices
of the Quincy Socialist club. lie is one
of the best speakers in his party. He
will tell what the Socialist party stands
for, and at the close of the address will
answer any questions that may be asked
Adm F. Dinsmore, %, who was drown
ed in the Connecticut river about four
miles south of Springfield, this state,
Sunday, was a cousin of Mrs. f. L. Rob-
ertson. Dinsmore and another young
man went out in canoe to rescue some
young women who had drfted into deep
water on some logs, and their canoe was
capsized. Dinsmores companion was res
cued in an unconscious condition and the
girls We're saved
Farnum & Gilfllan the contractors
who are laying the roadbed across the
Whitney and Whitman farms for the
Boston e Maine Railroad company, are
at work now making a cut and fill near
the Parker place They have one steam
shovel and from 35 to 40 men at work,
and are moving from 600 to 500 yards
of earth daily. 1t will take them at
least until cold weather to complete the
job. The double track will not be eX-
tended from East Putney to Putney until
next year.
Dana B. Clough had the small bone in
his right leg broken just below the knee
Tuesday forenoon while at work at the
Stowell company's new saw mill. He had
rolled a log on the carriage and logged
it, but just as Mr.. Adams started the car
riage Mr. Clough noticed that the dog
was wrong and stepped forward to change
it. AS he did so his leg was caught be-
tween one of the timbers in the roll-way
and one of the projecting pieces of iron
in the bed of the carriage.
Any person who loves birds ought to
sit for a while on the back piazza at Mrs.
Warren Wizards house to see the hum
ming birds feed on melted sugar which
is supplied for them. The little feathered
beauties come from the woods west of the
house regularly every day after their
arrival in the spring and remain from
morning to night throughout the sum
mer. At first, several years ago, there
were but two, but now the number has
increased to y, most of them being
young birds. and they are very tame.
The feeding places consist of conical YES
sells of metal, made in imitation of some
flower, fastened at the top pieces of wire
foot or more in length. The wires rep
resent the stems of flowers. There are
several of these receptacles on the piaz-
and in the flower garden near by. The
brides will take a sip of the syrup and
then fly to the trees in the yard, return
ing in a moment for another sip all but
one of them remaining poised in the air
while feeding. This one is a male parent
bird, and he almost always alights on the
edge of the receptacle and surveys the
surroundings, affording IAN excellent
view of his beautifully tinted plumage.