Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-02
WEST BRATTLE5oRo.


came Tuesday to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra |
Fisher
Charles Stockwel spent the week in |
Dover in company with Guy Jones OF the |
east village, but shot no deer
Mrs. A p. Mallory of Shelton, Conn, |
returned home Tuesday after spending a |
few days at Rev. L. M. Kenestons.
Wesley Minis and Miss Mabel Minis |
spent Saturday and Sunday in Ashburn- |
ham with their mother, who continues |
very Ill.
Fred Stone of Centreville was in Lud-
low during the deer season and brought |
home fine animal which dressed 230 |
pounds
The Near and Farther Lights society |
met at the home of Miss Ellen Miner In |
Centreville last evening. The subject |
studied was Japan"
Mr.. and Mrs. L. II. Stellman nave been |
on a vacation trip this week down the |
Hudson river, stopping at Albany New
York and other places.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Chase re- |
turned home the first of the week and |
Mr.. Chase resumed work in Durham !
Brothers store Wednesday.
w d. Newton has recently sold one
of his well-bred Holsteln- Friesian cows to
F. E. Harrington of Windham who is
starting a herd of that breed.
Mrs. Dexter Stone and daughter have
returned to Mrs. Evans's after a visit in
Vernon and are preparing to leave for
their home in New York soon
The woman's association of the Con-
gregational church held thank offering
meeting at the church parlors yesterday
afternoon with a good attendance.
The Young Peoples club will meet next
Monday evening in Academy hall for an
entertainment and social. There is to be
special march for children under u.
Lawrence Cushman of Wilmington has
rented the new house at the west end Of
the village owned by H. F. Weatnerhead,
and expects to move there in about a
month.
Mrs Valera Jakway returned to her
school in Barre, Mass, Monday after a
months absence caring for her son,
Clyde, who has recently recovered from
typhoid fever.
Carroll Fisher, who has been employed
in the branch office of the Remington
Typewriter company at lion, N. Y. has
been transferred to the firms headquar-
tiers in New York city.
Arthur G. Winter has left the shops of
the Worcester Polytechnic institute where
he has worked for the past four years,
and is employed in a machine shop in
Athol running a surface planer.
Cotton Mather has finished work on the
Clapp farm in Dummerston where he has
Mather left yesterday to spend a few
weeks with their son, Myron Mather, who
has just completed a fine residence in
Campello, Mass.
A Halloween party was held at the
home of j. s. Wood Wednesday evening"
Oct. 81. Much enthusiasm was shown
during the games which Old Dame Puz-
zle and her train brought with them.
Several young ladies wendell their way
homeward rejoicing that they had at last
seen their expected honeymoon
Chester Sargent, Warren L. walker.
Arthur Horton, Pearl Stockwell and
Warren Miner spent last week hunting on
Dummerston hill and around Sunset LAKE
They returned Saturday with handsome
buck which Mr.. Sargent shot in Dunn
merston the day before. The deer
weighed nearly 300 pounds and had ant
lers with five or six prongs
The Halloween party given by the
freshman class in Academy hall Wednes-
! day night was attended by about $50
! young people and their friends. The hall
| was decorated with evergreen and adorn-
| ed with skulls and crossbones. 5ack-o' Ian
| terms and other Halloween paraphernalia.
! The usual games and amusements were
enjoyed and the evening closed with
grand march.
While Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Brown
and Albert Phillips were driving to church
/
| front of DIR. Hunters house by team
! driven by a man who did not introduce
| himself The wheels locked and both
Mr. Brown and the stranger were thrown
out. The latter. upon recovering himself,
| searched anxiously for two precious bot
ties which were found with their con-
tents intact, much to the owners relief
| He then drove away leaving Mr.. Brown
with one wheel smashed so that he was
obliged to procure another carriage.
Miss Bessie Mackenzie, who has taught
in the village school very successfully
over two years, has resigned her position
as teacher of the 4th and 9Th grades to
fill a vacancy caused by the resignation
of Miss Olive Shumway OF the Canal
street school. The change will take
place Monday. Miss Mackenzie's work
has been giving satisfaction and her
scholars and friends are sorry to lose
her. Mrs. Vera Jakway, who has been
teaching in Barre, Mass, has been en-
gagged to take her place. Mrs. Jakway
has taught here and in other places a
number of years and the people of West
Brattleboro are glad to have her back
again.
The Baraca class held social and
business meeting at Rev. ]. A. Mitchell's
last evening contest was inaugurated
to increase the membership OF the organ.
ization The class, which now numbers
80. was divided into two companies called
the blues and the whites. The side which
secures the larger number of new mem
bers in the next two months will b'
provided with a supper at the expense
of the defeated party. The captains elect
ed for the two sides were Oscar CoveN
of the blues and II. T. Miller of thu
whites. Committees for the next quar-
ter were elected as follows: Member
ship, Hugh Fisher, Lemuel Miller ant
Harold Stoddard; social, Leonard Taylor
Herbert Thurber and Harry Miller. TIL
rest of the evening was spent In socia
amusement and light refreshments wer
4 served.