Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-08-25
THE PUTNEY COLUMN

Mrs. E. S. Munger returned to her home
in Windsor Saturday.
Mrs. F. s. Harris spent Wednesday in
Springfield, this state.
Mrs. L. II. Olney went to Springfield
Wednesday for visit.
James Lester and family will y,ova 60
Charestown N. H., about Sept. l.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lowell went to
Gardner Friday, returning this week.
The union service will be held in the
baptist church next Sunday evening
Mrs. Samuel Underwood is spending n
month at her home in Potsdam, N. Y.
DR.. c. b. Doane of Springfield, this
state, visited his brother over Sunday.
Misses Maud and Ethel Aiken went to
Grafton the first of the week for a visit.
Eleven people went from Putney on the
Lake Sunapee excursion Sunday morn
ing.
Mrs w. =. Gilmore went to Fitchbure
Friday to visit her son, returning Mon
day.
E. E. Potter of Fall River, Mass, spent
several days at Edwin E. Patterson's this
week.
The stowell factory was shut down
Monday, ring having broken in the
engine
Prof. ]. E. Russell is expected to preach
in the Methodist church next Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Irving Ketchum and son and
daughter returned Saturday from q visit
in Troy, N. Y.
b. M. Charlton, son of Rev. e. C. Charl-
ton preached his first sermon in Brook
line last Sunday
Miss Bertha Bottom returned to Shafts
bury Monday after visiting her sister
Mrs. E. E. Barrett
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Lord and daugh-
ter OF Boston are guests of Mrs. Lords
sister, Mrs. ]. V. Shaw.
Mrs. Emma Cloud of Thetford and Mrs
Sarah Parker of Connecticut are guests
at Rev. f. c. Charlton's.
Frank Downs is conducting H. G. Ever
leths barber shop while Mr.. Evereth and
family are at Sunset lake.
John L. Howard and family returned to
Maiden, Mass, Monday after spending the
summer at their home here
George L. Patterson of Cheboygan,
Mich, and Mrs. L. p. Tucker and Master
Carlton Clouse are guests of Mrs Ellen
Patterson.
to make plans for the Labor day cele-
bration. 1t Is hoped there may be a large
attendance.
Mrs. Addie Johnson and niece, Mrs.
Kittie Coar, and the latter's daughter
went to Springfield, Mass, the last of last
NONhs NlSs JOllilSOIl returning MONDAY.
Curtis Houghton lost a watch Sunday
morning between his house and the bar
Der shop. 1t was one that he valued be-
cause it formerly belonged to his father
The Bodine & Davis brick yard probably
will be operation again next week.
gasoline engine has been bought to take
the place of the steam engine which was
burned
A. H. Duval and sister, Lucy, returned
yesterday to their home in Shelter Is
land, N. Y, after visiting at w. G.. Tread
ways. They came last week and went to
Newport, N. H., to spend several days.
E. E. Blood went to Fitchburg, Mass,
Monday on business. He is making plans
to go to Indianapolis to engage in the
business of buying and selling horses with
Jenner Chamberlain, formerly of Brattle-
boro.
Mrs. Walter Parker of New York city
and Mrs. Ida Robertson of Hartford,
Conn, together with the son of Henry
Parker of Hartford, are visiting at E.
c. Parker's Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parker
are expected later.
Rev. A. S. Buzzell will preach next
Sunday morning at the Baptist church
upon "a Broken Cup and will conduct
services on West hill at 8 o'clock. Prof
Henry Topping of Japan will speak in the
Baptist church Sunday morning Sept 8.
About Is telephone linemen are in town
this week stringing wires The West Hill
and Dummerston lines are up and the
poles for the East Putney lines are being
drawn. Will E. Pierce has the contract
for drawing the poles for the trunk line.
The school house committee has de-
cided to build the school house by day
labor instead of by contract. Fred Brown
of Brattleboro has been engaged to have
general charge of the work The cellar
is being dug. The masons will begin the
brick work next week.
r. L. Blandin, one of the machine
tenders in the Cole paper mill, will finish
work there about Sept l and several
changes will be made in the work of the
remaining employees. Frank S. Harris
will go from the Stowell factory to fill
the vacancy, beginning work in the
bleaching department.
Rev. E. c. Charlton will lecture in
Chelsea on Labor day and conduct re-
Nival services there Tuesday and We'd
nesday. He will lecture in Moretown
Thursday and at Randolph on Friday.
On Sunday morning he will preach in
Thetford and deliver a lecture in the
evening. He will lecture in Brookline the
following Monday.
The funeral of John w. Leach, who
was killed in Walpole on Wednesday of
last week. was held at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Leach of
East Putney, Saturday at 230 o'clock.
Rev Mr.. Roscoe of Westmoreland, N. H.,
oficiated The burial was in Mount
Pleasant cemetery in this village, the
bearers being friends from Bellows Falls
and Langdon. Mr.. Leach is survived by
his parents, one brother, Fred Leach of
Langdon, one sister, Mrs. Georgia Day
of Springfield, Mass, and one sister by
adoption, Mrs. Emma Sherwin of Lang
don.
Mrs. Lydia M. Loud 20, sister OF Mrs
]. V. Shaw, died Friday at her home in
Winchendon, Mass, following an operation
in a hospital last May for the removal of
a cancerous tumor. Mrs. Loud was born
in Putney and was one of 10 daughters OF
Benjamin and Caroline Rumrin Joslyn
She lived in this town until she was 20
years old, when she was married to Elmer
Loud and went to Winchendon to live |
Afterwards they lived in Maplewood many |
years, Mr.. Loud being employed as a wood |
turner in Boston. After Mr.. LIQUIDS death |
IA years ago Mrs. Loud returned to Win |
chendon. She leaves four sisters