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

Mr.. and Mrs. George Fisher returned
Tuesday to Worcester.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. T. Wheeler returned
last week to Springfield.
The young people from this place broke
camp at Sunset lake last week.
Mrs NJ. L. Plat will return from Lake
| Pleasant the first of September
II. L. Sargent and son, f. H. Sargent,
will return next week from Lake Pleas
ant
Mr.. and Mrs. Kinson Taylor and chill
dren of Boston are boarding at Mrs. Felix
Micott's.
Rev. F. M. Wiswall supplied the Con-
gregational pulpit for Rev. T. ID. Davies
last Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Fish and Miss NJ. Newton
have spent part of this week at Lake
Pleasant, Mass.
| A. w. Pratt of North Cambridge, Mass,
| Joined his family at Elmhall for a few
| days the past week.
The ladies' aid society will have an ice
cream and cake sale at the church rooms
this (Friday) evening from TO o'clock.
NJ. j. Pratt Is visiting rs son in Wor-
| cester, who is in a hotel on Lake Quin-
| sigamond, and before returning Mr..
Pratt will go to Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. r. Pratt and daughter,
Miss Nellie Pratt, spent part of Old Home
Il
merly lived several years.
The Misses Hayes of Bethel, Conn,
Mrs. Spaulding Of Pratt institute, Brook
| Ign, Mrs. and Miss Soule of Hyannis,
Mass, guests at Mrs. Davidsons left
Tuesday,
| Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Newton of Wal
llngford accompanied their daughter, Miss
Elsie Newton, to Moscow, this state, Mon
day for several days stay They will be
| here next week.
Mrs. William Clifford of Conway, n. H.,
recently called on former neighbors, en-
route from her brothers in Thompsonville,
| Conn. She returned via her old homes in
Danville and Peacham, VT.
District Attorney Martin is having a
two-story addition built on the north
west corner of The Naples. Carpenter
Blood Of Townshend is in charge of the
! building, assisted by Fred Underwood
and the Smiths
The death of Manuel Veira by falling
| from the railroad bridge in Williamsville
| recalls the similar fate OF Bridgebuilder
| Clisbee who was instantly killed by fall
| on the same rocks in the early years of
! the narrow gauge.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Kenney spent Sat
urday and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
visit they received call from Silas y.
Kenny, who is experimenting farming
| work at county institution in West
moreland.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. c. Dewitt and family
| of Brattleboro are at +. A. DeWitts.
| Guests at the same home, The Terraces,
! last week were Misses Grace and Alice
! Gaylord OF Dayton. Ohio. cousins Of the
! DeWitts. and Mrs. ID. w. Baldwin of
Hillsboro, Ill, cousin Of Mrs. Frank De-
! Witt.
G. X. Davis returned from Peekskill,
| n. Y, Monday, accompanied by his neces.
| Misses Florence, Olive and Grace Davis,
whose mother was Miss Ellen Amsden
! of Newfane. The first-named daughter
is in Vassar college on a scholarship pro-
! Vided by Miss Helen Gould for superior
scholarship at the Tarrytown, n Y, high
school.
Dr. Abel j. Grout Of New York. who.
with his wife, is at his fathers. Deacon
! CIRCUITS. is building something for tenn
| porory camping place on the Merrield
! land which he bought of his brother, sit
uated on the crest of Newfane hill. 1t Is
| Mr.. CIRCUITS plan TO build another year
| a large log cabin where he can spend
his summer vacations on spot overlook
! ing his large pond. known in the old
days as the Kenny pond. The Local ton
| chosen is said by actual survey TO be n
few feet higher than that of Bencas-
son cabin to the southwark
Miss Hanna Halonen, who has been
| substituting for w b. Willard at the
creamery two weeks, came from Finland
! in 1900 to Worcester, Mass. She learned
! the buttermaking business in her home
! land at one of the dairy schools. which
| offer an opportunity for considerable ed
ucation aside from the creamery business.
and for which a good examination must
! be passed. Finland, though under Rus
sian government. sympathlzes with Jap
| an, says Miss Halonen. The Finland men
/ are not compelled now to enlist in the
! Russian army as a certain sum Of money
! IS paid by the Finnish country instead
! of war service. The whole month of
! June is one of constant daylight, which
| brings forward vegetation rapidly. For
| the other summer months lamps are not
| needed and are put away i'm the attic.
| Steerage passage is cheap to and from
! Russia. Miss Halonen says $50 would pay
| all her expenses by boat and land to
her old home whittier she hopes to go for
! visit in the course of a year or two.
She now is in charge of the branch cream
! cry at Wardsboro. The brief facts
| given are, of course, well known, but adj
ditional interest is given to them by hav-
| ing them from a native of that eastern
| land.