Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-04-20
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MISS M -. is assisting In the care
Of Miss. Lizzie Edwards.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. johnson expect to
be in Worcester a few days next week.
Miss D. NJ. Tuthil has returned from
Winchester N. H., and Northfeld, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Skinner have re-
turned to their home after visiting their
children
Mrs. Ernest Marcy of Brattleboro is
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. d. S.
Ballou, this week.
The subject Of Pastor Moores sermon
on Sunday morning will be "Confessing
Christ before Men"
Only FIVE teachers were present at the
county examination of teachers here We'd
nesday and Thursday.
Mrs. Annette Townsend has bought the
Judson Derry house in Harmonyville,
Townshend, having sold her place here.
Thirty new books have recently been
bought for Moore Free library, making a
total of about 100 additions in the past
year.
Juryman G. G. Smith his daughter.
Mrs Pierce, and son, George Smith, were
guests at d. A. Benson's and Mrs. Chase
this week
Edward Davis, who is employed in the
banking and brokerage business in New
York city, was a recent guest of his
parents at the County hotel.
Ben Hur" by General Lew Wallace,
was translated into the Swedish language
by Mrs. Botilda Pierson Moore, wife Of
Rev. N. S. Moore of this place.
W. II. Goodnow, who with his wife
spent a winter week at their summer res
idence has been seriously i'll at his home
in North Cambridge, but has recovered.
Theophilus Grout of Boston, a brother
of ex-Gov. Grout and now a special agent
of the treasury department, and POST
master Cannon Of Bellows Falls were at
the Inn recently
The dance at Union hall was an entire
ly separate affair from the dramatic en-
tertainment which was furnished earlier
in the evening by students from Leland
& Gray seminary Of Townshend.
Miss Hortense Switzer Of West Town
shend conducted the teachers examina-
ton here this week under the direction Of
County Examiner Ryder, who is engaged
in court duties as states attorney.
Warren c. Cushing OF Vernon was in
town Tuesday to arrange for the burial
OF the body OF his sister, Mrs. Mary
Page, wife OF Joel Page of Groton, Mass,
both Of whom died within the week.
Moses Grout bought in Middlebury last
week for $1,000 a full blooded Morgan
horse which is regarded as a great beauty
in horsefiesh, nearly four years old, proud
and supple in movement and Of fine arch
in his neck
The late Mrs. Mary Cushing Page,
whose body was brought here for burial
Wednesday, was a pupil for a year at Mt
Holyoke college in the day Of Mary Lyon
as principal and she afterward taught
drawing and painting.
Attorney General Fits and w. B. c.
Stickney, opposing lawyers on the suit
for railroad damages, had headquarters
at the County hotel. The case has been
the principal one thus far this term and
has attracted much attention. Engineer
Shattuck was well known here and lost
his life on the railroad two miles below
this village.
The Homeland circles thank offering
meeting of Good Friday at the parsonage,
though small in attendance, was OF
special interest in the program furnished
by the state union and Of good results in
the offering. A greeting from Mrs. Fair
banks of st. Johnsbury. state president,
appealed to the self-sacriflcing principle
in sustaining missionary and other good
causes.
Rev. Newton Glazier, DID, Of a Baptist
pastorate near Boston, has recently been
stricken with paralysis. He is a Windham
county native, a veteran of the civil war.
who enlisted from Wardsboro, and has
visited here as the guest OF his sister-in-
law, Mrs. G. w. Knapp. His sister, Rev.
Ora Glor of Nebraska, who has also been
a guest here, is with DR.. Glazier.
The story OF the ruffied grouse which
for three years has been so friendly with
w. N. Rand, making advances to init
macy Of hand-feeding and other famil-
iarities. is in the April number of Coun-
try Life. Mr.. Rand did not see the par
fridge early last season and had begun
to fear that 1t was not living when IL
appeared late with a lively brood. the
first that had ever been noticed in ac-
quaintanceship with this particular bird,
which has attracted wide attention, hav-
ing been illustrated in Bird-Lore and
other periodicals.
The somewhat historic room, No. l, OF
the Newfane House. has been newly
papered, painted and carpeted. 1t has
an old-time fire place which was en-
joyed many years by Judge Royal Tyler
of Brattleboro who was clerk OF county
court and otherwise a familiar figure in
county business for about half century.
The name. Judge Tyler's room" has
chung to IL, end It Is now occupied by
Judge James M. Tyler, presiding judge
for the April term of the court 1t is
fitting that the generous improvements
about the house should be mentioned,
as such a determined effort has been
made by the local company. with the
assistance OF public spirited friends out
sue WHO are interested IN the community,
to make the house an attractive host
lery, suitable for the demands which
the county court and other public gather
ings entail upon the place.
Mrs. Mary Cushing Page, wife of Joel
Page, and her husband both died in Ian
caster, Mass, last week, within two days
of each other. The double funeral was
held in Lancaster in the Congregational
church on Tuesday. Mr. Pages body
was buried on Tuesday in the family lot
in Fitchburg Mass, beside a former wife,
and Mrs Pages body was brought here
and inferred Wednesday in the Cushing
lot in Newfane cemetery Rev. N. S.
Moore offlciated at the funeral here
Among those present were her son, Ed
ward Page of Clinton, Mass. her brother
Warren c. Gushing of Vernon; her
nephew, Carl Cushing, and his wife, Of
Brattleboro; her cousin, Ralph Gushing,
formerly of Newfane, and Mrs. o. T.
Ware, an old-time friend of Brattleboro,
besides local friends. Mrs. Page was
greatly interested in tracing ner family
genealogy, which on one side dated back
to Deborah White, who came over in the
Mayfiower. Though a very modest
woman she possessed a firm and ener-
getic character, and was of a deeply con-
scientious and religious temperament
Miss Nellie B. Pratt cordially invites
h. L.