Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-10
NEWFANE.

Miss Sadie Underwood is at home for
few days.
II. L. and f. H. Sargent will move Mon
day to their place on West street.
c. II. Dickinson, dealer in musical in
struments was in this place Tuesday.
Mrs. p G. Moore has recently added
lot of 80 books to the Moore Free library
The Grape family have rented Mr. Par
sons tenement north of the latter's house
Rev. w. w. Mason. formerly Congre-
gational pastor here, has a daughter at
Radcliffe.
Ralph Gushing is at N Pratt's. He
will make repairs on the house he bought
of j. Eddy.
Miss Sadie Whiting of Putney spent a
few days recently at Mrs. Charlotte
Underwood's.
Mr.. Gallup and family are expected to
move to F. j. Micotts place two miles
south of the village.
The Misses Marcy of Brattleboro were
with their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. d.
s. Balou, this week.
Mrs. c. p. Dewitt went to Southern
Pines, N. c., with friends after a day
or two in Washington.
Mrs. Wright of district No. has been
i'll, and Mr.. Wright was not able to do
his work at the barn several weeks.
e. c. Stiles suffered a paralytic at
tack on Tuesday. This is the second at
tack Mr.. Stiles has had in about a year
There is an opening here for good
physician, none being located in the ei-
lage Heretofore doctors have done well
in this field.
Mrs. Eugene Howe of Putney and Mrs
Gertrude Wright Martin of Brattleboro
visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs
Wright, this week.
rrboro hoe boon oopsilor, I,1a
at the home Of Mrs. Ichabod Wiswell dur
ing the winter, including Mrs. Wiswell
and her sons family.
Newfane Grange worked degrees on
Wednesday evening. Among the visitors
from outside was Miss Switzer of West
Townshend, who spent day at Mrs. W.
| N. Chase's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Best of Sutton, this
| state, Mrs. Isabelle Hansford OF Brook
Ign and Mrs. Rose Hall of Springfield
| Mass, were called here this week by the
death of their brother, Arthur Best.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ Hescock expect to
| go to Somerville, Mass, in about a week
to their daughters, Mrs. Randalls. for
ten days. Mr.. Hescock's team will make
no trips to Brattleboro in his absence.
Recent victims of measles are three
Maher girls, Miss Mary Brown and Ray
mond Pratt. The epidemic has not been
under great Roadway yet in town, school
not being in session when it appeared.
In closing her sermon Sunday morning,
Rev. r. d. Davies fervently made the
application Of sustaining good law and
exhorted voters to attend town meeting
and perform their part in the temperance
question.
Mrs H. A. Carpenter was called to
Chicopee Mass, last week by the death
of her grandson, Howard Chaplin, s, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Chaplin. The latter
was formerly Winifred Carpenter. The
boy fell supposedly from apoplexy and died
without speaking.
Town meeting passed off quietly F. A.
| Dewitt was elected to succeed Claude
Maher as school director. a vote was
carried to buy road rollers for winter use
The vote Of only IA for license against &C
noes was a decrease of 4 over the license
vote of last year and Is over 1908.
We venture to take issue with the YER
satile Townshend correspondent on the
! question as to whether the world is grow
| ing better, taking the affirmative stand.
| Witness the countless schemes for pro-
lection and help of humanity and constant
| growth of the same, and the spread of
more humane views in general.
w. p. Eames has sold his farm, for
merly known as the Shubael Barrett, and
| in earlier years as the a. j. Morse place,
to r. S. Willard of Boston, who has en-
gagged VIII Micott to carry on the farm.
| 1t is expected that the two tenements
will be rented as usual. Mr.. Willard has
| recently been employed at the Estey fac
| tory in Brattleboro. His family are in
| Boston. The place always has been de-
| sirable village property, with its small
| farm and well kept buildings Previous
| to Mr.. Morse's long ownership 1t was oc-
cupied several years by the late DR. ].
| p. Warren
Arthur Joseph Best, youngest son OF
| Charles ]. and Martha Best, died Sun
day shortly before midnight from tuber-
| through the past year, but was able to
work to some extent in the summer and
| to come to the village occasionally this
winter. For ten days his decline was
very rapid. The funeral was held at the
| house on Tuesday afternoon, Rev T. d.
| Davies officiating. Two Hymns. After
and "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" were
sung by VIII Micott, and there were sew
eral floral tributes of sympathy The
| bearers were Fred Smith, Frank Whitta-
ker, Lewis Clapp and VIII Harvey. The
commitment was in the Woodlawn vault
| This was the first break in the family
since the children were grown. Besides
the parents, who mourn for their young
est child there are surviving the bro
theirs, Fred of this place and Edwin of
Sutton, and the sisters, Mrs. Isabelle
Hanaford of Brooklyn and Mrs Rose Hall
of Springfield Mass