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

Bailey of WATERFOWL, Mass, and Mrs.
| Brown of Brooklyn have been recent
guests at ]. II. Wares.
Hope Chase win teach next term in the
| Holland district, Miss Christabel Garfield
Of the west village in district No 3, Miss
Abby Follett will return to Weston, where
| she has taught many terms, and Mabel
| Allbee will return to Windham.
e. II. Willard expects to build a cot
| tage next season for the accommodation
of the artists and their friends, who would
like to come to occupy it. This summer
during the day they have occupied tent
and have had rooms in Harmonyvile.
The local base ball team will play
Albert Shermans semi professionals at
Newfane Saturday Mr.. Sherman has
| spared neither time nor expense in get
ting the team together. The gate re-
ceipts will be divided between the two
| teams.
An entertainment will be given by the
| primary department of the Congregational
| Sunday school in seminary hall next We'd
| nesday evening at $50 o'clock. The pro-
| gram will consist of pantimmes tableauX,
etc All are invited. The proceeds will
be used for the purchase of chairs
Mrs. Susan Lawrence celebrated her
| birthday anniversary last Saturday. All
her children were at home Mrs. OBrien
Of Boston and Mrs. Herbert Livermore of
| Athol were present and all enjoyed a
delicious dinner in the old home which
| has been occupied so long by the Law
| renee family.
The body Of Marshall II. Twtchell,
| United States consul at Kingston, Ont,
was brought here for burial yesterday. The
| service was in charge of the local lodge
OF Masons. II was a very short time ago
that Mr.. Twtchell and his son visited in
! town. and at the time he seemed to be in
his usual health.
About the usual number Of pupils at
| the seminary have applied for room and
board. The upper part of Dr. Rices
| house has been let to Mrs. Plumb and the
| upper part Of the Twitchell house to Mrs
| Cutler Both Of these places have ac-
| commodated a number Of students and
there seems to be now scarcity of rooms.
Mrs. Wallace and two sons of Meriden,
| Conn, are guests at the Townshend Inn
| for the third season, which speaks well
for the house and Mr. Burke. The Taner-
hills from Englewood, n. j., mother
daughter and son, also are at the inn.
Last summer they were here and occupied
the b. b. Brigham house in the absence
of the Brigham family in Duluth, MINI.
We need a village improvement society
to do some things to improve the village
one thing is to cut the high grass and
weeds al the side OF the road. which
hold so much moisture in damp weather
and so much dust in dry times. We wish
| IL might be attended to before school
| opens and the Sunday school convention
| comes here. as it would give our village
a much more tidy appearance.
Bush's clever work was the feature Of
the game on Reeds field last Saturday
when the local team defeated Grafton 9
to 0. Only six hits found their way to
the outfeld, and Dexter disposed of three
of these, and made good try for Kings
long drive, but II went through his hands,
leaving the only safe hits for the visitors
TO Stewart, Rickett and Park In the
first three innings Severance gave six
free passes, but after that he settled down
and pitched a good game. There was
noticeable falling off In attendance. due,
no doubt. to the disappointment of the
week before.
The seminary class OF 1908 held re-
union in the form of a picnic last Sat
urday in Maple grove. \ very pleasant
time was enjoyed. This was the first re-
union which the class had held. Those
| present We're Esther Dale. Abby Starr,
Alma Gale, Florence Greenwood and Leon
| Truesdel, now OF Brown university all
of this town, and Ethel Johnson of
/ Wardsboro and Cora Barnes of westmins-
| ter. Josie Taft, Myra Hardy OF East
| Jafrey. y. H., and Mabel Allbee were
not here, and one member of the class
has died since graduation, Miss Grace
| Bailey, whose memory is so kindly and
pleasantly cherished by ALL
The Masonic fraternity held meetings
| both afternoon and evening on Tuesday
| of last week After the afternoon session
| "a Masons marched to the Baptist church
| parlors TO partake Of a banquet furnished
10y the ladies' aid society. Among those
from out OF town, who were former resi-
| dents, We're Marshall Martin OF Bellows
| Falls, Clifford Holbrook and Sylvanus
| Hescock of Brattleboro and Fred Cham
berlaln Of New Orleans, La, who has been
! away several years After the banquet
| Mr.. Hescock said he would like to express
his appreciation OF the effort the ladies
had made In furnishing so excellent a
| banquet Misses Flossie Ober, Bessie
| Dutton, Ethel Sparks, Flossie Marsh.
| Ethel Carleton and Mildred Phillips, who
waited on the table, were very generously
4 remembered. Had it not been for the rain
we were told so people would have been
present.
AMI Lorenzo Barber of Washington.
d. C, son of Rev. AMI Doolittle Barber,
| who was pastor of the Congregational
| church in SaXtons River from 1912 TO
| 1852, where Amzi Lorenzo was born visit
ed Townshend last Saturday, accompanied
! by his wife, who was Julia Louise Lang
DON to see the birthplace OF his father.
They came from New York city in a loco
mobile and on their way visited the old
| home of Mrs Barber at Colebrook, Conn.
| Her grandfather was Daniel Stillman,
| WHOSE grave lney visited. Mr. BARRIERS
grandfather was Calvin Barber one of a
family of five brothers, who lived on the
| farm now owned and occupied by Harri-
| son Chamberlain, who built new house
as there was no house there at the time
Of his purchase. Mr.. and Mrs. Barber
went from here TO Saxtons River to visit
! the scene OF Mr.. BARRIERS birth and youth.
| Mr.. Barber went to Ohio when his father
| moved from SaXtons River to Bellaire in
| that state in 1852 just after the burial of
his grandmother, Polly Barber, in Maple
Grove cemetery in the autumn of that
year. Mr.. Barber's father died i'm Ober-
lin, Ohio, at the age of 9S years in 1902.
| Mr.. and Mrs. BARRIERS only son, L. Lang
don Barber died at West End, N. j.,
May 10 last, aged 80 years, after a long
and painful illness. Mr.. Barber was the
originator of the asphalt pavement BUSH
ness which he began in 1878, Incorporated
as the Barber Asphalt company in 1888,
and from which he retired in 1901 after
laying upwards of 100000 900 square yards
In many cities of the United States and
In foreign countries.