Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-02-24
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Miss Myrtle Hall went to Bellows Falls
this week.
Saturday of last week was fearfuly
windy day.
Mrs Eta Marsh visited in Londonderry
over Sunday.
The Hadassah league met last week
with Cora Mason.
Fred Lowe has sold his driving horse to
Mr. Wyman of Athens.
Mrs. L. o. Reed has gone to Brattle-
boro to stay some time.
The Dorcas Guild will meet next Thurs
day with Mrs. Edith Lowe.
Mrs Twitchell and Mrs. Franklin went
to Brattleboro Tuesday morning
Miss Irene Gleason of Springfield, this
state, has been in town this week.
Ernest Allen, formerly a clerk in w. s.
| Hollands store, was in town Sunday
All last week ice 2S inches thick was
being drawn from the Jenison pond
The seminary has closed for week, as
all scholars have been exposed to measles
Thermometers in some localities regis
! terea 10 degrees below zero Sunday morn
| ing.
Fred Stewart, Mrs Metcalf and Cecil
| Snow have been victims of grip the past
| week.
w. H. Miles was in wardsboro in the
! v.
! home until Sunday.
| Mr.. and Mrs A. A. Mason entertained a
| few friends very pleasantly at their home
at tea on Wednesday evening
| Prof. Colburn of Burr and Burton sem
| mary I'm Manchester visited his sister
Mrs. Orison Follett, this week.
! Mrs. Irving Watson has returned from
| the hospital in Burlington, and we hope
| she has been much benefited.
! George Clarke OF Jamaica has come
| from his school in Dummerston to take up
| some studies at the seminary.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour Howard enter
tanned very pleasantly a few of their
friends last week Wednesday evening
number from the north part of the
| town attended the party at West Towns
bend at Fred Smiths last Thursday even
| ing.
Herbert Haywood, a Mount Hermon
student preached faithful discourses both
morning and evening in the Baptist
church Sunday.
| Clarence Woodland of Westminster West
has bought the Lawton Nichols farm re-
Gently owned by Mr.. Brooks. who is NOV
| ing to Cambridgeport
George Ware has taken his teams from
c. L. Parks lumber job, as Oscar Law
renee one of the teamsters, was i'll with
grip and obliged to go home
1t is hoped that no one has forgotten to
pay his taxes. as we understand there
are an unusual number of important arti-
cles in the call for the town meeting.
Emory Jones is saving wood for II.
| kidder, Deacon Stebbins and others in
I this neighborhood. and at the Randalis
before coming to this nelghborhood.
The entertainment planned for the 22d
was postponed on account of scholars
who had parts going home on account of
closing tn he mt
break of measles.
Fred Reed has taken a large lumber job
of cutting the timber and drawing it to
Wizards mill. He and his men have been
kept busy all winter They began cutting
the timber in the fall
1t was Win Sanderson who was called
here with his wife and son from Savan-
nah, Ca, on account of the illness Of his
father, Royal Sanderson, and not win
landman, as printed last week.
Alice Dale Ralph Snyder Jerry Lowe.
Sylvia Derry, Bernie and Raymond Phil
lips, Miss Butler and Gerald Allbee are
i'll with measles. Guy Nelson has been i'll
with the same disease. but is improving
Mr.. Carleton, who drives the northern
stage, was i'll last week. Howard Burke
has been i'll with grip. Herbert Evans
was hurt last week while at work in the
woods, falling limb from a tree striking
him.
Rolla Phillips met with a serious ac-
cident recently while chopping in the
woods on the Durham farm three or four
miles from che village. One leg was
broken, and he suffered much pain before
he could get home.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Thayer celebrated
their 55th wedding anniversary Feb 90
Some of their friends were present at
dinner. others came to spend the evening,
and several letters of greeting and con-
ef lo.-s
best wishes to both. Mr. and Mrs. Thay-
er feel very thankful to those who so
lovingly remembered them.
We have had some pleasant replies in
answer to our question OF last week
Who feed the birds this cold and stormy
winter?' Some little girls tell the writer
that since seeing the question in the pa
per they are feeding them. young lad
says he has fed them all winter, and he is
not only kind to the birds. but to the
dumb animals well. We wish this
might apply to all.
The Baptist mission band was enter
tanned delightfully."- at the home of Mrs
L. o. Reed Wednesday afternoon, Feb.
10. Games were played by the children
after which refreshments were served
Alice Barnes and sister, who have
rooms at Rev C. II. Bakers. were taken
Ill with measles, and have been cared for
at Mrs. Olive Thayer's. Their sister of
Westminster with them.
The following is the program for the
Grange meeting March 3: Singing by the
Grange; reading, Mrs. Miles: current
events, Mrs. A. a. Snow: singing, Mr.
and Mrs. II. Cobb; roll call, all to respond
to their names either by remarks or a
quotation; singing; topic for discussion.
for the ladies, Some improvements I
have made in housekeeping" for the
men, How can this Grange be a greater
aid to its members?"
William C. Prouty. IS, a native Of
Townshend, and a former resident of
Springfield. Mass, died OF heart failure
in the home of his son, Lyman A. Prouty
In Philadelphia on Sunday. Mr. Prouty
had lived in Springfield 20 years, being
employed large part OF the time by F
e. Jensen, the confectioner He had |
made his home in Boston the past five |
years and about two months ago being |
taken ILL., went to his sons in PhiladeI- |
phla He leaves another son, Charles G. |
Prouty, and a widow. He was a mast |
member of the E. K. Wilcox post. G. A, |
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We noticed in The Phoenix last week |
that the Boston Herald sent out this
ques' to the head of nine police de-
partments-'1s the world growing bet-
TERI They all answered in the aflrma-
1--WE but one. We think we would have
agreed with the one who answered in tho
negative. When one reads in the daily
papers the dreadful things taking place