Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-04-21
Mrs. Bella Brigham Is If.

Edwin Harris is III this week.
Harry Sparks is working for ]. C. Taft
Horace Gale was in Saxtons River last
week.
Miss Stone is working at E. B. Batch
elders.
Edwin Person has returned from a trip
to Boston.
Russell Aldrich has begun repairs on
his house.
win Mccoy of Fitchburg is in town
this week.
Will Boutelle is running a fish cart in
the village.
Mr.. Cook is working for Mr.. Carleton
this season.
Gerald NJ. Allbee will teach in Athens
this spring.
Mrs. Metcalf of Newfane is visiting
Miss Myra Hobart
The reading club met this week with
Miss Ethel Follett.
Mrs. Harry Adams Of Brattleboro is
visiting her parents
Miss Cora Barnes Of Westminster West
is in town this week.
Mrs Asa Greenwood is kept at home
this spring by Ill health.
Deacon Folett is drawing lumber from
the mill for a new barn.
Newell Jenison is drawing lumber from
Eddys mill for a new house.
Four new members were added to the
Grange last Friday evening.
The Hadassah league met with Mrs.
Roscoe Marsh Friday afternoon.
DR.. Rice, VIII Sparks and Charles Cut
Ter went to Brattleboro Tuesday.
Miss Wellman attended the funeral Of
her uncle in BroolIline last week.
The wise ones" say this cold weather
/ Na 1Iars
Charlie Carr and mother visited at
Prentiss Cars in williamsvile last week
Most people have gathered their sap
buckets and call 1t very poor sugar sea-
| son.
A. a. Stebbins of Fitchburg who has a
case in the county court at Newfane, is
in town.
| Mrs, w. II. Miles is spending a few
days with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Cut
Ter, in Brookline.
The seniors served a salad supper at
the seminary, followed by a social, which
was much enjoyed.
Nearly all of Mrs. Wizards help went to
court Tuesday morning, and the mill was
closed for the day.
Russell Blood is at work in West
Townshend for Charles Kimball, making
repairs in his buildings.
|
Brattleboro Monday morning Mr.. Lowe
brought home new horse.
Mrs. Dutton is expected from Gaines
vile, Fla, the 18th of May, at her sum-
mer home in Harmonyville.
The high winds this week have been
exceedingly disagreeable, and the cold I'M
usual for so late in the season.
E. w. Phillips and Fred Randall are
kept busy going the rounds helping peo-
u, nzaG. ,f..eN
We think the spring so far has been
unusually cold, after the hard winter, and
some who took down stoves warm days
are the sufferers now.
Zna Cobb and Martin Sparks went
to Keene Saturday and returned Monday.
Mr. Cobb visited his son, Harry and Mr..
Sparks visited his nephew, Elmer Sparks,
Florence Sanders has recovered suffi-
| GENTLY from measles to be able to return
to her work in Brattleboro. Miss Edith is
not gaining. and is suffering from her
late illness.
Mrs James Stoddard has returned
from a months stay in Bellows Falls with
her sister, Mrs. George Farnsworth, who
has been i'll, and with her daughter, Mrs.
Davis in Chester.
Blazing Star lodge of Masons conferred
the third degree Tuesday night The
lodge is in a flourishing condition and at
this last communication voted upon seven
applications for admission.
Mrs. Rachel Twitchell and great grand
daughter of SaXtons River visited at
Mrs. Twitchelrs sisters. Mrs Martin
Sparl1s's and Mrs. Henry Twitchells, last
week, returning home Tuesday.
Miss Jessie Johnson of Wardsboro will
teach in the north district and Miss Hope
Chase of this town in the Holland dis
trict by the bridge. Both teachers were
graduates from the seminary last June
E. w. Phillips has improved his house
by removing the temporary posts on his
piazzas and putting in new ones. Mr.
Phillips moved into his new house a year
ago and when II is completed. 1t will be
a very pleasant home.
The marriage of William Blood and Miss
Annie Cooke took place Wednesday even
ing, Rev. f. A. Royal performing the
ceremony with only members OF the Inn
mediate families present. Congratula-
lions and good wishes are extended from
their many friends. Mr.. and Mrs Blood
will live in town.
Mrs Plumb and daughter Mary, who
are visitors at Henry STATIONS in the
West village, attended the Congregations
church in this village Sunday. Mrs
Plumb has been a teacher in Connecti-
been a student, we think a graduate, OF
Mt. Holyoke college. Both are former
residents
Martin d. Kneeland, ID. D., secretary
of the New England Sabbath Protective
league, will speak morning and evening
next Sunday in the Congregations
church. At the evening meeting, which
will be a union service, DR.. Kneeland will
present the work OF the organization
which he represents and an Offering will
be taken for that purpose. Everybody Is
invited to be present.
We are glad of the renewed Interest
now shown in bird life here. When the
late Prof. Call was principal Of the sem
mary he aroused much interest in this
line of study. We are glad of the lecture
which we will have this evening, an6
hope the interest may not end here. We
presume c. II. Evans would give us {
bird talk at some time in the future. A
few years ago he gave a very interesting
talk on birds before the Fortnightly club
which was much enjoyed by the mem
: beTs. One lady here who watches thu
birds and is much interested in them say
the cats destroy a great many. 1t makes
us wish people wouldn't keep but on
cat and feed that one so well that 4
would be no object for 1t to kill birds
News was received Monday OF the dealt
Saturday in Baldwinsville, Mass, OF Mrs
Gustie Wood Wardwell, wife of Leon E
Wardwell, after an illness of only ten
days. Mrs. Wardwell was born II
Jamaica, and her age was 81 years and
6 months. She was the youngest daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Wood OF Jamaica
Besides her husband and aged parents