Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-02-03
NEWFANE.

| MISS Elsie Newton OF WalllngtOfu,
! Conn, spent Saturday and Sunday with
her aunts, the Misses Newton.
Town Auditors Hastings williams of
| Williamsville and Arthur Warren met
with Lewis H. Higgins at the latters
| residence on Wednesday preparatory to
| issuing printed reports before the March
| town meeting.
Unless wind and weather forbid Union
hall is likely to be filled to overlooking
at the masquerade ball and chicken pie
supper this Friday evening, to be given
| by the odd Fellows and their guests from
surrounding towns.
Mr. and Mrs. Henson Taylor of Bos-
| ton were among the incoming visitors on
the train during the storm last week, and
! they have been visiting here a few days
| Mr.. Taylor is one of the exchange ed
! itors of the Boston Globe
Newfane Grange will hold the next reg
ular meeting on Monday evening, Feb 8,
| at Union hall Evening Star Grange of
| Dummerston is expected to be present
| and to furnish the program, after which
| a supper will be served by Newfane
| Grange
In spite of the blizzard of Wednesday
| of last week about 40 people gathered at
| Union hall in the afternoon and so in
the evening to listen to speakers who APP
| peared under the auspices of the state
| board of agriculture. A good and profit
able meeting was held.
Revs. Smith Norton and wife, formerly
preachers in the local Congregational
| church, have been more or less III in
/ Oberlin, Ohio, the former being obliged
to use crutches because OF lacerated
muscle. Mrs. Norton sustained injuries
! ny being blown from a platform.
Communications from one who rolls
in Oregon" and other coasts and interior
places of the great country speak appre-
ciatvely of old associations and of how
eagerly The Phoenix is scanned for old
| home news. Let the word come in from
others and the welcome round robins
carry good cheer
Rev. and Mrs. L. p. Broad, summer
residents and owners of Bencasson. have
been in Arizona and New Mexico this
month. They recount railroad trips from
height of 5000 feet and nerve-trying
experience Of gazing from narrow edges
of rock into deep abysses. They have
given many missionary talks in mining
towns. They will spend a month or more
in the southern states.
The late Mrs. c. p. Stone of Newfane
whose body was taken from Springfield
Mass to Townshend last week, is well
remembered here a kind hearted gem
erous woman, and an indefatigable man
ager of the domestic wheels in the Coun-
ty House several years. Capt and Mrs
stone succeeded Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Evans in that house and were respected
as very efficient and resolute Keepers of
the hotel and Jail Capt. Stone served
as commander of company in the civil
war. He was succeeded at the hotel by
the late Charles Bowles as landlord
Speaking of the late Lemuel r. Wins
| low will remind people of his special in
terest in securing Rev. w. w. Mason OF
Billerica, Mass, 18th juryman on the
fucker murder case, as pastor of the To-
cal Congregational church. Mr. Mason
brought a bride here during his years
service, and they had rooms with the
Winslows and boarded at neighboring
motel His engagement with the church
was temporary, as he could command n
larger field but he formed a strong at
tachment here and left an impress for
high tone in character which has Doubt
less borne fruit.
Local interest attaches to Rev. Arden
NJ Rockwell's pastorate of the Highland
Congregational church of Portland Ore
gon, Mrs. lockwood (Clara) being the
daughter of the late l.. +. Winslow. an
active and retired merchant of this place
She graduated in Amherst and became n
teacher. Mr.. and Mrs Rockwood's first
parish was in New Hampshire. their sec
ond in Wayland. Mass. whittier they
were called across the continent Mrs
Wlnslow removed from Amherst to ioin
her son, Park, a college graduate, when
ne stopped IN California en- route for the
Philippines after the war, and who now
is connected with the San Francisco Call
Mrs. Winslow is spending the winter in
Portland and Is contemplating eventual
return to New England, as her other
daughter, Annie, Mrs. Bryantl still lives
in Gardner, Mass.
The late Charles Orchard. who died
in Springfield, Mass, Sunday was the
octogenarian male remnant Of an old
family, the heads of which were Mr.. and
Mrs. Austin Birchard. His sister, Mary,
persisted in the memorable Ashtabula dis
aster. Sardis, a younger brother, was
orderly sergeant in the 18th Vermont
regiment, in whose eptaph written by
Gen. Phelps, are these words: Reader
are thou possessed of liberty. he died for
thee. Sardis died in Andersonville
prison. The local Grand Army post bears
the honorable name Orchard. Mrs Char
lotte Dewitt, sister is the only sur
wing member of the family Charles
Birchard had been an invalid most of
his life and he boarded in the home of
capt. and Mrs. C. p. Stone of Springfield
The commitment was in the vault of
Woodlawn cemetery by his nephews
John c. and DeWese p. Dewitt of Brat
tleboro and f. A. Dewitt of Newfane
whose mother was unable to be present.