Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13
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tor in town.
West River Grange will meet Friday
evening, Jan. 20.
Miss Alice Randall of Athol spent a
short vacation at home.
The Dorcas Guild will meet with Mrs.
Taft Thursday afternoon.
The Misses Sanders have returned to
their work in Brattleboro.
The Home club will meet with Mrs.
Dale Wednesday, Jan. IS.
The weather interfered sadly with the
plans for the week of prayer
Harry Sparks is i'll and under the doc
tors care. Pneumonia is feared.
The new dynamo has arrived and Will
lard's mill is now running on full time.
John Greenwood visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. Greenwood, last week.
Carl Johnson and family visited at Her
bert Johnson's in Saxtons River last week.
The seminary opened last week on
Tuesday with the usual number of pu-
pills.
Ethelbert Howard spent several days
in Springfield, VT, his former home, last
week.
Mrs c. II. Willard has returned after
a visit of several months to Beloit and
Chicago.
Lottie Jones has returned from her visit
in Londonderry and is attending school at
the seminary.
Mrs. NJ. y. Metcalf is in Windham car
ing for Mrs. a. ]. Parker, who was badly
injured by a fall.
Mrs. Blakes mother died last week at
her home in Richford, VT The burial
was in Burlington.
Miss Blanche Brigham attended the
burial service for Dorr Plimpton at
| Wardsboro last week
Royal Sanderson reports the snowfall
for December to have been 2 feet and
inch. with one inch of rain.
The Baptist ladies' aid society held
business meeting in their rooms last week
| Thursday, without the usual supper.
Perley Dutton, who is attending the Mt
Hermon school, spent the holiday vaca-
ton in New York city and other places
Bernie Phillips cut his foot badly while
in the woods chopping with his father
Monday. a doctor took several stitches
in the wound.
Emery Jones' who cut his hand badly
a few weeks ago, was able to be out with
his saving machine last week, saving
for Mr. Davis a. l.. SaXton helping him
Leland & Gray seminary defeated Brat
tleboro academy Of West Brattleboro 81
to 20 in a basket ball game Tuesday
evening. Bert ODER made some very good
plays.
Fred Zuil Of Springfield. Vt, was a re-
cent visitor at Mr.. SaXton's. Mr.. Zull
has taken the contract to clear off the
timber on a large wood lot in the west
ern part of the town.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Greenwood have
returned to their home at \. b. Green
woods after spending several months
with Mrs Greenwood's parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Kidder
An ice house has been erected recently
for the Townshend Inn and into it has
been woven the combined wisdom of the
| village as to how an ice house should be
properly built Haynes Sanders took the
| job.
Harlan Winslow. of the ella Valley
bank, trust and loan company of Cliff
| ton, Arizona, has remembered some of
his friends here with handsome calendars
| issued by the company, as he has done
| several years before.
We are sorry that so little interest is
shown in the Park association and fire
mean so much good to our village. We
| hope that the next call for a meeting will
| bring out every member
The SaXtons River basket ball team did
not come here last week as expected, on
account of the storm and travelling. so
the seminary team played against the
! town team, and at the close of the game
the score stood AZ to Is in favor of the
| seminary.
a stray dog was wandering about the
| village without food or shelter during the
severe storm and cold of last week, I'M
| til he was taken into a home, almost
| frozen and benumbed with cold, and kind
| ly cared for. The dog Is a brown and
white spaniel.
Mr.. and Mrs E. b. Howard of Spring.
field, VT, have come here to live with
! Mrs Towards parents, Mr.. and Mrs
! Romance Thayer. The Misses Howard
Mabel and Avis, spent the holiday va
! cations here, Miss Mabel leaving to re-
sumo her duties i'm the high school in
| Springfield, where she is a teacher, and
! Miss Avis to work as stenographer in
! Suncook, N. H.
West River Grange has elected the fol-
lowing officers for the coming year. Mas
! ter, G. II. Houghton: overseer, w. H.
| Miles; lecturer Mrs. L. B. Batchelder
steward, r. n. Marsh; assistant steward
| II. O. Cobb; chaplain Mrs. w. H Miles
| treasurer +. l.. Osgood; secretary, Mrs
y. \. Snow; gatekeeper, T. h. Batch
elder; Ceres, Mrs II. o. Cobb; Pomona
Mrs. r. n. Marsh; Flora, Mrs Wilmer
! Turner; lady assistant steward, Mrs. L.
Gale; organist Mrs II. o. Cobb
Mrs. Abby Winslow was called to
/ Wilkesbarre, Pa, some weeks since on
account of the illness of her sister Miss
Ruth White, who has since died This
is the first death in the White family.
! consisting of six i'm number Rollin White
of Cleveland Ohio, is a member of the
| family, all of whom are natives of this
place. The parents occupied for many
years the farm now owned by Ephriam
| Fuller in the northwestern part of the
town. Mrs. Winslow has n married
daughter and family living in Wilkes
barre, where she will remain some time.
The Bellingham. Mimi, Times recorded
the death of William Jackson Clark. Ga,
who passed into the great beyond" at
that place Dec. %. He was highly re-
spected as a man of strict integrity and
high moral character He was born of
an old New England family in Caven-
dish, Windsor county, Vt, and married
there March 20, 1868, Jennie c. Rice. He
moved from Cavendish to PENNSYLVANIA
in 1864 and then to Montevideo, MINI.
The family lived in that section six years.
coming to Townshend in 1881 and being
residents here some time. Mr.. Clark
built the first house ION the bluff at
Montevideo and was connected with va
rious business enterprises there and else
where, but in 1887 he suffered a com
plete loss of property through the ras-
cality of partner and a disastrous fire
lie was member of the congregational
church and the Masonic fraternity He
is survived by his wife, one daughter
Mrs j. j. Willis, and a son, Lucius f
Clark, all of Bellingham.
DIR. Patterson, dentist will be at Townshend
Inn, next Wednesday, Jan. IS.