Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-05-11
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week in Londonderry.
Miss d. M. Tuthill is spending a few
days in Williamsvile
Miss Mary Miller of Brattleboro was
with relatives here during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs Smith of Putney are
spending a few weeks at the home of
their son, Fred Smith.
r. c. Dewitt, who has been in Europe
eight years studying languages, is ex-
pected to sail for home this season.
| d. S. Ballou is more enfeebled in con-
sequence of a fall, since which he has
been obliged to sit in his chair day and
night
The pastor and wife by letter and two
young people by confession of faith were
received into the Congregational church
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Dewitt, who were
in Springfield, Mass. over Sunday, re-
ported foliage as about week in advance
of this locality.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Davis have given up
for the present their work in the county
institution at Westmoreland and are with
their parents in this place.
Mr.. and Mrs A. V. d. Piper of jam
aica were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Smiley
at Newfane Inn Tuesday night on return
ing from their wedding trip
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Hastings of Towns
bend were among the audience of Sunday
evening at the Congregational church to
hear Lawyer Ferguson Of Burlington.
Mrs NJ r. Pratt, who began to take
little dooryard exercise last month after
being housed all winter. is i'll again this
week from a severe bronchial attack.
DR.. Edward Fisher director of the To-
ronto Conserva tory of Music, formerly
Newfane boy, has moved into an attrac
tive new home which he bought recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Marcy and Mrs.
Albert Sherman were at D. S. Ballou's
recently. Mr.. Marcy has returned to
travelling for a steel range company with
headquarters at South Bend, Ind.
Miss NJ. Whitney of Putney has visited
her sister Mrs. Charlotte Underwood of
this place and her niece, Mrs. Walter
Wheeler of Williamsville. after spending
the winter at ]. H. Undeerwood's.
Rev. and Mrs. L. P. Broad, who are at
tending the Congregational Home mis-
sionary annual meeting in Oak Park, ILL.,,
this week, expect to return in June for
their summer occupancy of Bencasson.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Johnson will move
to Mrs. Townsend's house by the first
| of June. Mrs. Harriet Morgan originally
occupied the place a number of years
after II was converted into a dwelling
house.
A little note on the fishermen who were
early abroad last week was accidentally
omitted. Among the strings of speckled
| beauties was tnat OF A >. OnueTWOOu,
the united weight of several specimens
being five pounds.
Within a week the county Jail has been
without an occupant Naturally the
| April term of court disposes of winter
prisoners but the liquor business seldom
makes a gap possible in the Windham
county board bill for short term prisoners.
A portable mill is expected daily at the
station to be placed on the timber lot of
C. C. Abbey of Springfield, who has
bought standing timber in Brookline,
which will be shipped from Newfane sta
: ton Robert Edison of Greenwich has
! taken the contract for saving.
team of the Standard Oil company.
which delivers kerosene here once in
three weeks. is noticeable for its three
good looking, large horses driven abreast.
! The tank holds over 500 gallons and is
the regular source of supply for most
country stores. Though the drivers pat
roniZe public houses en- route, they carry
their own grain.
: Charles Clark Mum, author, who comes
+ to this county in his commercial travels
4 has sent to friend here a printed card
I with list of terse sayings from ICY
Walker" the humorist, philosopher and
nature-lover in Mr.. NUNS latest
story, 1.-THE Girl from TINS Place." in
which sentiments similar to "argufyin
a with a fool and shaking hands with
trouble before you meet it, play their
n part.
The lecture of C. ]. Ferguson, attorney
i and superintendent of the Vermont Anti
g | Saloon league. drew a considerably In
creased Sunday evening audience, but not
f, as large as a speaker of so good repute
>. should have. Mr.. Ferguson'S argument
= against the saloon was practical from in
= controvertable points and without undue
wordy stress the narrowing conse-
a a quences of the drink evil. The address
u had the gift of logic and of intoxicating
noble qualities by resisting evil.
: The Congregational Sunday school was
a reorganized Sunday with the election OF
Y c. l.. Hescock superintendent, Arthur
: Railway assistant, Miss Maude Railway
secretary and treasurer Harry Smith H.
brarian. In the last quarter IS members
of the school We're reported for perfect
attendance among them being Mrs. De-
Wits class of ten boys and Mrs Knapp's
class of six. The average attendance for
the year is about So. A home department
u was organized Sunday with Mrs. N s.
Moore in charge and a cradle roll
! branch under direction of Mrs. c. l.. He's
k cock was started
H. A. Kilburn recently secured in St
T Adams a relic of the civil war in the
form of The Vicksburg Daily Citizen
July 2 1868. printed on the reverse side
= of common wall paper. One column is
y devoted to Yankee news containing a
j variety of paragraphs in regard to war
operations. The concluding article is
e headed Mote" in different type set by
e Yankee printers" after the taking OF
= Vicksburg. The tone of the Note is
moderate in exultation and without har-
rowing unfairness to a city despoiled by
the havoc of war. The paper was the
last wall paper issue.
Y Byron Wood, nephew of Mrs. D. A.
Benson, mentioned since the California
< earthquake as a policeman in San Fran
cisco, escaped without harm to himself
or wife and though his home is left
v standing everything breakable in it was
4 more or less demolished. Park Winslow,
reported as escaping with his wife by
: boat from burning San Francisco, was
! once the little fellow here whose chief
> impression of prisoners was that they
! all must hang, and who haunted the jail
! windows in court sessions from a fasci-
mated curiosity or possibly the reporting
instinct, for he is a newspaper man, his
invariable question to a prisoner who
might come to the window being, when
you going to be hung?" An incident in the
local career of Henry X. Field, whom The
Phoenix recalls as in the insurance bust
ness in San Francisco, whose home is in
Alameda, across the bay, is that he was
the first depostor in the Windham
County Savings bank; that he spent the
| deposit presumably a boy but after
ward renewed the book account which he