Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
NEWFANE.

school in district No. 3.
Miss NJ l.. Plat is spending a few
weeks in Willlamsville.
| Thanksgiving service was held in the
! Congregational church on Thursday even
ing.
Thanksgiving services were conducted
| by Pastor Moore Thursday evening in the
vestry.
Miss Hortense Switzer of West Towns
| bend was the guest Of Mrs. w. N. Chase
! over Sunday.
! Fred &c. Gilbert, formerly a teacher in
| this town, is engaged for the winter term
in Newfane village.
Mrs. w. H. Goodnow and her grandson,
Robert arrived on Monday to spend a
| week at the summer home.
Maud Railway, Mildred Palmer and
| Hugh Mack, pupils of Leland & Gray
seminary, are at home for the holiday
| week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Curtis of Boston.
! guests at d. A. Benson's several days,
went to Londonderry to spend Thanks
! giving.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Johnson went to
! BrattlebOro Thursday morning to spend
two days at the home of their cousin,
! Mrs. John Howe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benson, Mr. and Mrs
w. p. Games and Marjorie, Mrs. w. n.
Chase and others partook of the turkey
| at Newfane Inn on Thursday.
Mrs. Angie Bradeen and child of Boston
were at II. a. Carpenters last week.
Her sister Mrs. Dickman Ryder, and
children will move to Bellows Falls.
The drama at Union hall by Towns
| bend young people drew a full house and
festive dance continued until the small
| hours. The last ladies' aid supper at
the church rooms was well patronized and
| is likely TO be followed by similar social
gatherings through the winter.
Mrs. David Davis and daughters antici-
pated the Thanksgiving date by celeLrat-
| ing in due form while they were having a
| visit from the youngest daughter, and in
vited the minister and his wife to share
with them. Mr.. and Mrs. II. a. Rand had
expected their son, Frank, from Beverly.
| Mass at this time but unfortunately he
was obliged to go to hospital for treat
| ment
! w. c. Walker, his sister. Mrs John
son. and cousin, Miss Cottell. for two or
three years OF the Jarvis Tuthill or old
Gen Kimball farm. have returned TO
Boston for at least the winter. Mr.
Walker, who is a retired policeman Of
| Boston on half pay after many years
! service, has established Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Randall Of Brighton, Mass, in
! the care Of his farm.
on the whole November has been n
mild month for the season with a leading
proportion Of balmy days. 20 degrees
| above zero being the lowest drop OF
mercury in most sections OF the place.
! With the bare and unfrozen ground 1t
| seems like having been relegatcd 10 a
| previous winter to think OF the imposing
! town snow roller which was out two
| weeks ago drawn by four horses and
| with n rear attachment Of small bows
| riding on a big sled attached to the con-
Germ.
The Christian Endeavor society will
| hold their annual sale on Friday evening
Of next week at Union hall in connection
| with part second OF Mrs. n. S Moore's
address AN Evening in Scandinavia"
Mrs. Moore will exhibit pictures OF sved-
! ish life. also show choice specimens OF
handiwork from that country Mrs.
| Moore's narratives concerning her native
! land have always been interesting
Among articles for sale by the Christian
| Endeavorers will be home cookery
small admission fee viii be charged at
the door.
Dr. Marshall A. Howe of Bronx Gar
| dens, New York city, who is spending a
| week with his parents. will sail on Satur-
| day, Dec. s, by Hamburg American line
| for the island of Jamaica in quest of
| further marine plant knowledge. making
a six weeks stay. The botanical gar
| dens. where DIR. Howe Is a lecturer and
| investigator of plant science, hires a sta
ton of the British government In the
! heights of the jamaica mountains. 5000
feet above the sea, for the purpose OF ex-
perimenting with the cinchona tree which
curiously enough, does not flourish there
| as we'll as in Ceylon, much farther away
| than Jamaica from its native place. Dr.
| Howe has been twice each to Porto Rico
| Florida, and the Bermudas once to the
| Bahamas. the coasts around Newfound-
| land. Prince Edwards Island and Nova
| Scotia, and to Europe In botanical ex-
petitions. He taught five years at the
| University of California, and several years
at Columbia university
The picture in last Sundays Tribune Of
| Miss Knickerbocker transferring her at
tention from horses to n lively tandem
team of turkeys suggests that every
where in the land will be family gather
ings and much good cheer around the
tables in the centre of which that IA
vorite bird will be n palatable figure
DR.. M. A. Howe of New York and Princi-
pal Carlton ID. Howe of Essex Junction
were of the family party at NJ o.
Howe's; Mr.. and Mrs. Sumner Wilson of
Brattleboro at G. W. Parsons's; Mr.. and
Mrs ]. NJ Kenny, Mr.. and Mrs Silas
Kenny of this place and Mr. and Mrs
A. A. Austin and family of Brookline
gathered at Mrs. Rosella Kenney's There
were guests al the County Hotel and
Newfane Inn. Mr.. and Mrs Goodnow and
grandson, Robert Pratt, came up from
their North Cambridge home to spend the
anniversary at Elmhall. Daniel Fisher of
Boston called on his sister, Mrs Johnson
in advance of the daV