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

! Mrs Henry Twitchells.
Miss Myra Hobart is at home, after
being away since last fall
Mr.. and Mrs. Park have returned from
| Bernardston and Brattleboro.
Mrs. A. f. Stone recently visited several
days i'm Brattleboro and vicinity.
We hope no one will have measles from
reading the Townshend items this week.
Robert Holbrook attended the New
England Kennel club show in Boston last
week.
Leonard Frazier has returned from
Amsterdam, N. Y, to work for Fred
Reed.
The seminary opened on Monday with
the few scholars that are not i'll with
measles
w. w. Holbrook and bride of Fairfax,
this state, are visiting at H. II. Hol-
brooks.
The young mems chicken pie supper
has been postponed on account of so many
being i'll.
More blue jays than usual come about
the houses this winter and they seem
very tame
We hear that Clarence Woodland will
move soon from Westminster West to the
Brooks farm.
william Gale of Wendell Mass, and
Mrs. Chauncey Gale of SaXtons River
were in town Sunday.
Miss Lillian Stoddard of West Brat
tleboro is spending some time with her
aunt, Mrs. A. f. Stone.
Mrs. Fred Reed is spending some time
with her parents in Winhall, and Mr..
Reed was there Sunday.
Mr.. Jenison says 1000 cakes of ice have
been taken from his pond thus far, and
the men are still cutting.
Elias Stowell was In town last week,
and moved the remainder Of his goods to
his new home in Windham.
There will be a covenant meeting Sat
urday afternoon at the Baptist church,
and communion on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs George Boutelle. who have
spent the winter in Yonkers, n. Y, are
visiting their son, VIII Boutelle.
Mrs. Lizzie Barber is at home from
Londonderry, after spending the winter
with her daughter Mrs. Joseph Cum
mings
Miss Anna Twitchell has returned from
her stay of several weeks in Saxtons
River, where she has cared for her grand
mother
We are. sorry to learn of the illness
with tonsilitis of Miss Carrie Mason at
the home Of her sister, Mrs. Parker in
Fitchburg.
Josie Taft took Miss wellmans place
while she was away from the hotel. and
, during Mr.. Cutters Illness Miss Taft is
helpful in the post office.
, The mail train from Londonderry.
! which usually reaches here at 1.45. did
not arrive Monday until O'Clock in the
afternoon, owing to a landslide.
a. A. Blood is changing the second
story of his house into a tenement.
and Russell Blood, who is at home from
his work in Bellows Falls, is helping
( him.
Mr.. Wellman, who lives on the road to
= the West village, has been seriously i'll the
past week. Mr.. and Mrs. Wellman cele-
[ brated their golden wedding late in the
4 fall.
4 Fay Bridges of Athens. who was
= obliged to leave Mt Hermon school on ac-
/ count OF his health. and who has been
= at home some time, is now i'll with
measles.
Those who prophesied a mild winter.
Y We should think would lose confidence in
, themselves as prophets. We read OF
= false prophets" in the Bible which says
i there shall be such"
A number from this place attended the
fellowship meeting OF the Congregational
e church in Bellows Falls last week. and
= several were present at the Masonic meet
v ing held there the same evening.
I Rolla Phillips is getting on as well as
can be expected after his injury while
? | chopping in the woods When the swell
ing was reduced it was found that a bone
in the ankle. not in the leg as was at
p first thought was broken.
There is some grumblng about the new
law regarding payment of tuition for
. scholars, and many think II should be
for those who are able to pay and not
T for those who are better off than those
y who are taxed, to help pay their tuition.
I Mr.. and Mrs w. H. Miles. Col, and Mrs.
: Franklin, Martin Sparks, Mrs. Henry
Twitchell and II. II. Holbrook attended
the Grand Army encampment in Brattle-
y boro last week. Mrs. Miles and Mrs.
e Twitchell were delegates from the Wo-
1 mans Relief corps.
Several deer in a starving condition were
: found recently near Walter Eddys, and
- there was one dead animal. Some of the
- people, learning of the condition OF the
: deer contributed hay which f. B.
; | Batchelder and ]. c. Taft carried and
. placed where it could be seen by the deer
r The usual Thursday evening meeting
4 at the Baptist church was turned into
n a missionary meeting in accordance with
@ circulars sent out from the mission rooms
n Both the foreign and home missions
@ were included The meeting was OF much
d interest, and there VIII be a series OF
: meetings in the coming months. Mrs
w. II. Miles has been chosen to collect
funds for the Woman's Foreign and Home
Mission society.
The annual report of this town has
n been circulated, ]. H. Ware, who has
Deen oNeTSetT Oh the poor 10 years, mas
8 paid out during that time for the poor
Is SlO,5O5.62, an average of about $7O4 q
n year. Twenty town charges have died
h during the time, and II families that were
partially supported have moved away Al
- present only two persons are supported
y wholly by the town, and three are sup.
% ported by the state.
J. We think the industry of some of oul
: village lads and some of the student.
n from out of town who did not go HON,
% during the week school was dismissed /;
y worthy of commentator. Two of tn,
Ie village boys who have taken wood to saw
70 are doing chores for Mr.. Boutelle, wht
~ supplies milk to a number of customers
/, All of these are making themselves use
~ full in different ways and forming in
~ dustrious habits to go with them through
= life, which is so much better than t
! leave 1t to one whom the old adage say
n is always willing to find work for "idl,
- hands to do"
If the person who gave the measles I,
- this town regards the case as n joke, tn,
n sufferers to whom he gave them do no
~ consider it so. Nor do the elderly people
~ who have never passed through the or
20 deal of having the disease, and witt
- quarantine themselves whenever tn,
disease is prevalent; nor the teachers il
= the seminary who have had to clos,
- school week, nor the pupils who ar,
. now i'll at home. Some of the cases have
- been very severe, and in some instances