Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-06
NEWFANE.


elders.
Miss Daisy Hill has been in Hinsdale,
N. H., few days.
Mrs. r. w. Rand is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Emery, in Orange.
Mrs p A. Knapp of West Brattleboro
is spending the week in town.
Miss Ruth Welman OF Brattleboro was
at home a week recently.
Mrs. G. W. Solandt returned last week
from a visit in Enosburg.
Miss Ford, a teacher from New York
city, is the guest of Mrs. II. ]. Batchel
der.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amasa Grout and daugh-
ter Margaret have returned to their
home.
Mrs. p. A. Davis came Tuesday from
Bellows Falls to her sisters, Mrs. Par
sons's.
Mrs. A. w. Pratt Of North Cambridge,
Mass, have arrived at Elmhall for the
summer.
Hugh Wellman, who is machinist in
Springfield, this state, spent the Fourth
at Mr.. and Mrs j. D. Pierce's.
Daniel Fisher Of Boston and Mrs. John
Howe of Brattleboro were guests at Mr..
and Mrs. G. B. Johnson's Thursday.
The County hotel and Newfane Inn each
furnished dinner to about so men who at
Tuesday.
Miss Grace Weston, daughter Of Dr.
and Mrs. e. S. Weston of New Haven, this
state, formerly of Newfane, has graduated
with honor from the business college in
Burlington
Miss Mary b. Phillips, teacher in
high school in Chicago and in other public
and private schools Of Illinois for about
25 years, has been engaged to continue
her TrpSppt service another yeor
Repairs on G. b. Johnson's place under
Carpenter Blood of Townshend, assisted
by Leon Whitney, are nearly finished.
G. w. Parsons has been doing some OF
the mason work in the new rooms.
Win Harvey, who is taking the course
in civil engineering at the University OF
Vermont, is spending his vacation at home
after two weeks at the summer school in
Orleans county in experimental working
of his department of study.
Principal Carlton Howe Of Essex june
tion will arrive this week en- route from
the Mt Mansfield summer meeting OF the
Vermont Botanical club; also Prof. Cliff
ton Howe Of the Biltmore, N. c.. school
of forestry and probably Arthur o. Howe,
electrician in Connecticut.
The Fourth was celebrated quietly but by
a considerable display Of fireworks, bal
looms, etc, and the drum corps. with
n
marched around the village in good time
and saluted the belated evening train de-
layed until IL o'clock by a freight train
off the track.
Mrs. Caroline Converse, daughter Of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. John Rice OF this place
for many years, recently called on friends
here. In company with her cousin, Mrs.
Henry Kidder Of Wilmington. with whom
she spent a week or more, she was on n
carriage drive to Wardsboro. She lived
in Monson, Mass, several years, after
ward in Rochester. n. Y. and her present
home is in Burlington.
DR.. and Mrs A. j. Grout Of Brooklyn
are in town of the summer. They will live
an outdoor life with convenient tent at
hand for domestic purposes. 1t has been
Mr.. CIRCUITS purpose to build some kind
of structure on what he thinks is really
the highest point of Newfane hill, land
formerly called the Merrifield place. He
has been attending the summer meeting
of the Vermont Botanical club this week.
He is an authority on plant life and an
instructor in botany.
Isadore A. Sawyer wife OF ]. F. Saw
yer OF Sebastopol, Cal, died June II. She
was daughter Of Chester and Patty c.
Rand. late OF Newfane, and was born in
Townshend April 10, 1881. She leaves
a husband in Sebastopol. n son, Ebert
Ransom Sawyer in Santa Rosa. and two
brothers, Norman II. Rand of Orange
and Ransom w. Rand OF Newfane. A
| Sebastapol paper says of her: MANY
friends mourn the loss of this good wom-
an for they knew her worth. She was a
loving mother and wife, whose pride lay
in her home and family and whose deeds
of charity were done without ostentat ion.
For more than 40 years she was a member
of the Episcopal church." Mrs. Sawyer
had lived more than 20 years in Santa
Rosa and Sebastopol.
w. c. Bliss. who died in Dover on Sun
day at the home of his brother-in-law
Mr.. Russell, where he had lived year.
| was a resident of Newfane about 40 years
The funeral was held in the Congrega-
| tional church Tuesday, Rev. n. S. Moore
officiating. Mr.. Blss's son. Almon Bliss
wife and children and daughter, Maude,
with her husband, Mr.. Fales OF Hinsdale
N. H., and the grandchildren, Katherine
| Charles and Carlos Lowe. Harold and
Abbie Bliss. were present; also relatives
from the Johnson family. The late Mrs
| w. G. Bliss was first Mrs. Johnson then
Mrs. Tyler. Mr.. Bliss was a soldier Of
the civil war. The bearers were NJ. r.
Pratt, r. w. Rand, Alonzo Mills and Mr.
Howard, all veterans The other surviv-
| ing daughters OF Mr.. Bliss are Mrs. F. F.
Lowe of Hinsdale and Mrs. Myrtle Ba-
ker who lives in the West The burial
| Of Mr. Bliss in Woodlawn cemetery was
the sixth burial in the new cemetery Of
veterans OF the civil war