Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-05-11
THE PUTNEY COLUMN

Mrs. George Littlefield returned Friday
from visit in Chester.
The telephone linemen completed their
york in this vicinity Monday
L. w. Hawley of Brattleboro spoke at
the Baptist church last Sunday morning
Work was begun last week at the brick
ward and Is or 20 men now are employed
Miss Lena Clark of Marlboro. N. H..
came to Mrs. w. S. Adams's Thursday.
Mrs. Grace Wheeler and child went To
Keene Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs
bort.
Mrs. NJ. E. Whitman returned Tuesday
from several weeks visit in Springfield
Mass.
F. L. Amlng served a bean dinner of
superior quality to several of his friends
Sunday
Frank Young of Brattleboro was with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Young,
Tuesday.
Miss Antoinette Bowie is in Springfield.
this state, with her sister, Mrs Edmund
Richards.
wayland Aver, employed by the New
England telephone company, was at home
over Sunday.
Harold Bugbee has finished work for
Corser & Britton and is employed by w.
G. Treadway.
past week TO consider a call to a former
pastorate in Maine.
The Kendrick hotel will be closed this
week. The proprietor, d. Frank Shea
and his family will go to Bratteboro to
live
C. L. Coane went to Sunset lake Satur-
day and on his return Monday exhibited
at the store of A. ]. Aher six large trout
each weighing over one pound.
from a trip to Massachusetts, where she
visited her sisters at Holyoke and her
sons at Worcester, Whitman and Spring.
field.
The theme at the Baptist church next
Sunday morning will be Trained Work.
ers" and in the evening Christ Seeking
the Lost" There will be special music by
Miss Winnie E. Buzzell.
Hubert Donohue spent Saturday with
his father in South Vernon. His father
was run over by a train recently having
one ankle crushed so that amputatlon of
the leg above the knee was necessary.
F. D. Kendall, formerly marketman
here, recently bought the residence Of A.
V. May on Chase street in Brattleboro.
The family viii move there soon. Mr..
Kendall is now employed by Dennison
Brothers Of Brattleboro
Mr.. and Mrs. R. C. Winchester of Hol-
yoke, James Anderson of New York city
and Rev. Francis A. Rowley of the Com
monwealth Avenue Baptist church, Bos-
ton, are guests at W. A. Coles this week.
The men are enjoying their annual fish
ing trip.
The ladies of the Fortnightiy club will
give an entertainment at the town hall
on the evening of May %, the proceeds
to be used toward paying for the painting
of Masonic hall. The entertainment will
consist of music, readings and farce.
The full program will be published next
week.
Norman Whitney. N. Harlan Whitney
and Miss Ida b. Whitney went to Keene
Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Lucia Whitney Chaplin, wife of Charles
Chaplin of Keene, and a sister of Norman
Whitney of this town. Mrs. Chaplin died
at her home on Thursday, May 8, at the
age of 81 years.
Col. w. H. Greenwood post No. 80, G.
A. R., has procured markers to be used
on the graves of veterans of the civil wal
and on the graves of Revolutionary
soldiers and soldiers of the war of 1912
Twenty-one markers have been placed In
East Dummerston, 20 in East Putney, one
in Westmoreland, one in Williamsville and
As in Putney.
The school directors, authorized by q
vote of the town, will sell at public
auction tomorrow the schoolhouse and
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buildings formerly used for school pur.
poses in district No. 2. The site of the
No. / schoolhouse has been reserved by
the town. The sale will take place at
o'clock in front of the town hall.
Letters and blanks have been distrib
uted in the schools to enable those wnC
wish to do so to contribute and have par
in the erection of New England school
house in San Francisco. Nearly 80 larg'
and excellent school structures were des
troyed by the earthquake and fire anC
over 40 were damaged seriously. 1t Ii
the purpose of the originator of this plal
to erect a schoolhouse from the conrribu
tons of the New England boys and girls
The offerings will be voluntary, and child
rem are asked to give not more than on
dime. The cause certainly is worth!
one and should receive our cooperation.