Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-05-12
dwin Harris is not as well.

Yeranda Tor Mrs. Ballou.
w. II. Miles has been on the sick list
with erysipelas in his face.
Haynes Sanders is working at his trade
as a carpenter in Newfane.
Mabelle Allbee, who teaches in Wind
ham, spent Sunday at home.
Fayette Cooke is working for Mr. Carl
ton, the northern stage driver
George Bryant has been sent for on
account of his fathers Illness.
Mr.. Bryant, Mrs. Fred Reeds father,
is seriously Ill at Mr.. Reeds.
George Shine of Harmonyville has been
on the sick list from hemorrhage.
Leonard Frazier, who works for ]. c.
Taft boards at Fred Lawrence's.
]. II. Ware has had his number of
cows increased by so the past week.
Cora Mason has returned from Bellows
Falls, where she has been three weeks.
Thomas Crane has received an increase
of pension, which now amounts to $4.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cox of Maiden, Mass,
visited their nephew. Ira Pratt, last week.
Mrs. NJ. Randall has many gloxinlas
in bloom, one of which has 80 buds and
blossoms.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence of Hough-
tonville is visiting her sister, Mrs. Royal
Sanderson.
Mrs. Agnes Mccoy obtained a bill from
her husband, VIM. Mccoy, at the last
term of court.
Mr.. and Mrs Oliver Coane of Charlie
mont, Mass, were in town last week.
They visited at ARA Bensons.
Miss Grout, the milliner, went to Brat
tleboro Monday, then to West Towns
bend, and returned Tuesday morning.
Bertha Phillips and Eta Marsh, who
were at the County House in Newfane
during court time, have returned home
w. II. Holland was in West Dover last
week to appraise the goods of V. L.
Adams. who mas sold his store to Harry
Parsons.
Mr.. Knapp who peddles for the Cres-
cent Tea company. is thinking of buying
out Irwin Chase's route from here to
Brattleboro.
Carrie Mason and Mary Ware. stem
ographers at the Vermont Farm Machine
company's office, spent Sunday at their
homes here.
Mrs. Herbert Livermore and son and
friend of Athol are visiting their rela-
tives. Mrs. Susan Lawrence and Mrs.
Edwin Persons.
Rev. George Nichols OF Wardsboro Wis
tied last week at r. Davis's and attended
the Thursday evening prayer meeting at
the Baptist church.
IL birds will build nests in the rural
delivery boxes We are sure they would
appreciate bird houses, which would be
ornamental and useful.
Rev. Mr.. Metcalf. the new Methodist
minister who came to Athens recently
attended the covenant meeting at the
Baptist church last Saturday.
Arthur Greenwood is a new hand at
the Willard mill. The new dynamo has
come. 1t has four times the power of
the old one and weighs 500 pounds.
Rev. Mr. Hamlin and family OF Ten
nessee, who have spent several summers
here, are DESTROYS of coming this season
If they can find a suitable tenement.
Mr.. Aldrich of Windham will move
soon into Joseph Cummings house. after
some repairs have been made inside. Mr.
Aldrich is employed at the Park mill.
Rev. Mr.. Webster OF Armour, South
Dakota, has come to town and will oc-
cupy the Elliott Morse place which has
been made ready with paint and paper.
George Hardy. son of Rev. NJ. F. Har-
dy, former pastor of the Congregation
al church here, is singing first tenor in
the glee club at Middlebury college,
where he is a student.
The books have come for the town IL
brary for which the town furnishes SOS
each year. We are much in need OF a
library building, and a town hall as well.
The two might be combined.
The Congregational Sunday school held
It's duuudl reorganization last sunday. OF
the primary class Evelyn Turner and
Merle Randall received the silver medals
for being present the most Sundays.
Mrs. Kenyon and Mrs F. L. Osgood
attended the w. {. T. u. convention held
In Brattleboro last week. Mrs Kenyon
went from there to attend the Windsor
county convention at Windsor and to or
ganize Loyal Temperance Legion.
Frank Gray is taking views on the
narrow guage for the officials OF the road
as II is soon to become a thing OF the
past. Some of us have some of its fea-
lures so indelibly inscribed upon our
memories as to need no reminders in the
future.
At the annual meeting of the Congre-
gational Sunday school the following Of
ficers were chosen: Superintendent, Fred
Randall; assistant superintendent Mrs
Baker; secretary, Mrs. Gregg; treas
urer' Alice Derry; librarian, Florence
Follett.
Miss Anna Twitchell will leave Saturday
morning for Newbury. Vt, to be in the
family of George Andrews, former res
ident OF that place, but now living in
California, where the family have bought
home, and where they will return In
the autumn. Miss Twitchell accompanied
them to California, where she remained a
year Mr.. Andrews was clerk in the drug
store here at the time Miss Adah Bar
Der sister of o. NJ. Barber of Benning-
ton, was proprietor and which was de-
stroyed by fire with many other buildings.
A very interesting and instructive bird
DOCK prepared for teachers and school
officers by Carlton d. Howe, principal
OF the Essex Junction high school, has
been received from the author and It
corroborates what was said recently in
this column that the farmers do not half
realize the good birds do in destroying
harmful insects. 1t says under the head
ing Economic Value of Birds" They
live upon harmful insects, their eggs and
larvae, the seed of noxious weed and
small animals that injure crops 1t is a
well known fact that when birds decrease
insects increase. They destroy a large
amount of weed seed which II allowed to
grow would cause a heavy loss to the
farmer. There are many birds which
live almost entirely throughout a large
part OF the year upon this seed. We wish
all could read the book and then carry
into practice all OF the good things II
says. And the suggestion 1t makes about
making the birds welcome guests about
our homes and being thoughtful of them
In winter when 1t is so hard for them to
exist In our long cold weather and many
ole Bird houses are spoken Of and in
structions given for building them for
the different classes OF birds. We are
sure that valuable and useful lessons are
taught Of bird life in this excellent work.
II tells OF the birds frequently found in