Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-20
THE PUTNEY COLUMN

The officers of the knights of Honor
lodge will be installed tonight.
Irving Ketchum has begun work at the
Houghton farm succeeding Sumner
Phillips
Frank j. Rhyme of Springfield, Mass,
was a guest of Miss Florence Fiske at
F. L. Pierce's over Sunday.
A dance will be held in the old cider
mill on West hill tonight. The Daven-
port orchestra will furnish music and
Calvin Reed will prompt.
A. w ]. wilkins will sell by auction to-
morrow the farm owned by the Almira
F. Locke estate consisting of 125 acres,
a dwelling house and barns.
Mrs Ira Davenport returned Monday
from a visit with her son, clinton in
Winchendon, Mass. While there she at
tended the Red Mems concert and ball.
The Stowell factory was opened Monday
after having been closed three weeks.
During the shutdown the annual inven-
tory was taken, repairs were made and
new machinery was put in.
At the meeting of the Grange Monday
night seven applications for membership
were received. Others are expected soon.
1t is probable that no degree work will
be done until after the staff has witnessed
the work in some other Grange.
4 hearing was to have been held Tues
against II. G, Looms of East Putney, but
by direction of States Attorney Ryder
the case was continued. Newcomb alleges
that Loomis assaulted him last summer.
Rev e. r. Perkins is packing his house
hold goods preparatory to moving to
Fulton, n. Y. lie and Mrs. Perkins will
live with Mrs Perkins's father Mrs.
Perkins, who went to Fulton before the
death of her mother, is still there and
will not return to Putney.
e. p Jewett of Boston, chief clerk at
large. representing Superintendent Ryan
of the railway post office, was in Putney
Monday and made a contract with w. G.
Treadway for carrying the mail between
the post Office and the railroad station,
making SO trips a week instead of "a
as formerly.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Methodist church will be held to-day,
with Presiding Elder w. Nj. Newton
present. officers will be elected for the
coming year. The church is i'm good
financial condition, being free from debt,
and it will request the return of Rev F.
l.. Metcalf for his third year.
Harold L. Ford, who has been teach
ing school in Spofford, N H., has resigned
his position there to go to Wnchendon
Mass. where he will be principal of the
new grammar school. in which there are
two or three other teachers. The school
Is III line new bullulilS VI lOhi iophIS
MISS Florence Sawyer is finishing the
term in Spofford
c. A. Wilcomb of Wawona California
will give a lecture in the town hall next
Monday evening on yosemite and the
Big Trees" Mr.. Wilcomb has spent three
seasons in this marvellous country and 1:
fully equipped to entertain and instruct
The lecture will be illustrated with more
than 100 views. The people of Putney anC
surrounding towns ought to have a pecu
liar interest in this exhibition, as thu
Washburn brothers. who had the homo
of opening the gate to Yosemite and thu
big trees. spent their boyhood days II
Putney, and still hold the town and 1t
people in grateful remembrance.
small admission fee will be charged. MI
Wilcomb is a brother of Mrs. j. F. Wash
burn and has been visiting here and a
his former home in Chester, N. H