Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-02-09

weeks.
Fred Beeman visited last week at Mrs.
Newman's.
Arthur Cheney is attending school in
| Brattleboro.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Benson were at
John Ellis's last week
Mrs. II. H. Reed and children visited
at w. II. Joslin's last week
Henry +. Gilfeather of Greenfield, Mass.
is visiting in town this week.
The ladies' Industrial society will meet
next Wednesday with Mrs. Kellogg.
Revllo Howard has been confined 20
the house by illness the past week.
Rev. ]. E. Bowman attended the minis
ters' meeting in Brattleboro Monday.
Several from here attended the funeral
of Osmer Clark in Wardsboro Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. E. Rawson are visit
| ing their son, Roy. in Windham this week.
DR.. and Mrs. Isaac b. Doane of Putney
were guests at DIR. +. c. Brigham's last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lackey attended Mr..
Lackeys fathers funeral last Friday in
| Wardsboro.
The Jamaica Lumber company began
drawing logs again Tuesday from their
West Hin lot.
The village schools closed last Friday.
| haDel sage mas VISITED at - - AdlA
in Townshend this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Blanchard OF
| Springfield have been spending a few
days at F. ]. Holenbeck's
Louis a. Allen and F. b. Putnam of
Brattleboro were in town last week and
took in the play and dance.
Miss villa Crooker has gone to Boston,
expecting to go to a hospital for a surgi-
| cal operation upon her jaw.
| Mr.. and Mrs b. F. Howard and son,
and Frank Howard OF Putney have been
| spending a few days in town.
Skating has been excellent on Blood
sucker pond the past week and several
parties have been over to spend the day.
Rev. Huntley sprague preached at the
Congregational church last Sunday He
went this week to fill a pastorate in New
York state.
a. A. Willis has been drawing the nay
| stored in the cheese factory belonging to
| A. l., Howard, to the station to be shipped
| to Brattleboro.
Fred Sellers was in South Londonderry
Monday looking for place to locate
barber shop there He expects to leave
Jamaica about April !.
Four OF the Jamaica Lumber comp1nys
men finished work on the West Hill lob
| last week and returned to their homes
in Fort Covington. n. Y.
j. ]. Shields and w. c. Shields Of Bonn
bay, n. Y, We're in town this week
taking inventory and looking after their
interests in connection with the Jamaica
Lumber company.
Several of the unregenerate in town
have received anonymous communica-
tons through the mail relative to their
welfare and much speculation is rife as
to who is the author of them
Rev. Mr.. Ropes has closed his pastorate
with the Baptist church mere and will
| go this week to South Newfane to take
the church of which Rev. Mr.. Swart was
pastor previous to his recent illness with
paralysis.
The auditors will begin their work.
| going over the towns books at the town
clerks Office next Thursday 1t is hoped
| all persons having outstanding bills or
orders against the town will present them
for payment on or before that time.
The Congregational Sunday school will
observe Lincoln memorial Sunday, Feb.
is. at the evening service. when appro-
| pirate exercises will be held and the mite
boxes will be brought in, the Offering be-
ing for the American Missionary asso-
citation.
An Anderson boy 16 years old. living
on West hill, shot himself last week while
handling revolver, the bullet penetrat-
| ing his bowels. Drs. Brigham, Hefflon
and Rice attended him but the bullet
could not be found. At last accounts he
was doing we'll
Deputy Sheriff H. F. Willis was in
Grafton Thursday and Friday and took
| Prouty to Newfane Jail in default of baiI
In the $25OO suit which M G. White OF
| Wardsboro has brought against him for
alternating the affections of Mr. Whites
wife Mrs White at present is in Keene.
F. A. Ballard was in Stratton Saturday
1
| the Sherwin timber lots and other pron-
critics with view to buying Mr.. Ballard
also mas several other parties looking
at TINS ana other property in his hands
| lot sale ana expects to consummate sew
erai large deals i'm the near future.
The w. C. T. U. met Wednesday with
Mrs. Kellogg. Eleven of the ID mite
boxes given out last month for the bene-
nj OF the state headquarters at Burling
| Ton We're brought in and were found 10
contain S4.5S which will probably be made
up TO 80. The union voted 50 TO the n
| II. willard memorial fund. Ice crean,
cake and pop corn We're served and n
soclal hour was enjoyed 1t is expected
Inat Rev Mr.. Chase win preach at the
BAPTIST church next Sunday
With only four weeks before NIaro,,
meeting, town politics are beginning 70
s oolI ana several tickets already nave been
sf
work to carry them through. AS nsrai
everyone wants to throw everybody ont
! VINO Is IN office and put in somebodv WIZ
doesn't want to get. in at all and also
nv Mp T Uut everyone who does want to get
~ mere Is, however, every Indication
oI change in the board of selectn,a,
me me present tax collector and listers have
eohe excellent work and given good salts
t tatnna and It is hoped they may be re-
t@lhSu announcer year. The oversee. 90
the poor says ne is tired Of bis ,,,o,, ui
Dut ne mas been known to change he
NINA The present road commisSionaT
WIN undoubtedly be retained. as he is on
eooS Tnao one and when town gets a
sood man In that position he sho1IS "a
kept In office. Many men bsn,o "a pe
lucas OF how a road should be built bnt
Few men know how to build tbenn out
S Ssuaa there win have to be new soao A
firing nos e,Seeeu, f. B. Pier being the re-
s MEMBER OF the present board.