Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-06-09
NEwFANE.

Mrs. A. Grout returned on Tuesday from
three weeks absence.
Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Parsons went to
Northampton on Thursday for a week or
more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rollin Newton have re-
turned to Newfane hill to open Rest cot
tage for the summer.
Mrs. Melvin Pike of Baldwinsville, Mass,
formerly of this town. is expected to spend
few weeks with relatives here and in
adjoining towns.
Mrs. A. w. Pratt of North Cambridge
Mass, who brought her son, Robert, to
Mrs. w. IL. Goodnow's for the summer
remains this time but week.
Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Atwood of Bridge
water this state, are expected at II. j.
Batchelders on Monday en- route to the
state Congregational conference.
Postmaster CIRCUITS brother in Caven-
DISH this state, has among the antique
furnishings of a room Green Mountain
Boys cannon ball, dug up by Grout
brothers on their farm.
Rev. and Mrs. l.. p. Broad, who are
assigned for addresses on the state Con-
gregational program at the conference to
be held In Brattleboro June 1915, will
come from that occasion to Bencasson,
their summer home, on Newfane hill.
Banker w. p. Eager of Tenafiy, N. j.,
seems to dote on his garden. We wonder
If he personally enters the struggle against
the active and remorseless cut worm. II
so let him take his vacation now and
give his native friends the benefit Of his
experience.
Children's day will be observed by the
Congregational Sunday school, the ex-
ercises taking the place of the usual
morning service, with the pastor giving
the address A committee in charge are
Mrs. H. j. Batchelder, Mrs. S. G. Brown
and Mrs A. Grout.
c. l.. Hescock was chosen on Sunday
to represent the church, in company with
the Congregational pastor, Rev. T. d..
Davies, at the state conference next week
in Brattleboro and the delegates elected
from The Homeland circle are Mrs b. C.
Eager and Mrs. c. l.. Hescock.
w. p. Games has bought the contents
of II. j. Batchelder's store which was re-
Gently leased for several years, of A. F.
Edwards. 1t is the store which has been
conducted by Amasa Grout. Mr. Games.
however, had experience in a Brattleboro
grocery store and he will undoubtedly run
good store here. Mr. Batchelder and
son continue at their own place the mer-
camille business.
Walter Nj. Newton, Newfane boy, who
Is engaged in wire fencing, windmill and
house moving business in Wyoming, Della
ware, has recently built for himself and
family a house with modern improve
ments which he planned. He is son of
the late Marshall l. and Alice Ward New
ton. Concerning the strawberry crop he
writes that $4,000 bushels were shipped
in one day from a point in that vicinity
but their peach crop will be short this
year.
Mrs Henry Davis, treasurer of the
Massachusetts Army and Nurse society,"
is in Boston and vicinity to be present at
the annual meeting on next Tuesday
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore was an honorary
member of this organization and 1t is
related by Mrs Downs that it was her
custom to invite the society to her home
in Melrose, where at dinner while others
were partaking Mrs. Livermore held them
spellbOund by her matchless variations
of army "reminiscences.
In the May Genealogical magazine pub
lished in Boston we note a call For the
birthplace and ancestry of Resta Ann
Goodell, whose home was once in New
fame and who married about 1885 Bennett
Underwood. She had several sisters, one
OF whom married a Mr.. Blake, and later,
persisted in storm while driving over
the Green Mountains with her infant in
her arms. The child lived" The maya
zine states that a correct account of the
Underwood genealogy will be forthcoming
in the Converse genealogy. Concerning
the Blake child old reading books (Town's)
in lines written about that snow storm
and the finding of the mothers body, said
The babe looked up and sweetly smiled"