Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-02-23
NEWFANE.

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! Wednesday in Worcester, Mass
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Dewitt spent the
| Washington anniversary i'm Brattleboro
Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Games were in
Boston two days this week, buying goods
A sleighride party Of young people were
! entertained at the Windham County hotel
! Tuesday evening
Mrs. Fred Houghton. formerly Of Will
! Evansville was a guest at c. w. Parsonss
| recently en- route to West Townshend.
Miss Alice Warder's costume at the
White House Saturday is described by the
press as being pale blue with black
picture hat
Newfane Grange will hold mock town
meeting for entertainment of the members
at the regular meeting Wednesday even
| ing in Union hall.
r. S. Wizards incoming tenant is a
Mr.. Johnson of Brattleboro, a workman
in the Estey shops, who will bring family
| including some boys.
Rain Wednesday afternoon was the ele-
ment that postponed the arrival OF a
sieighride party from Brattleboro, expect
ed by Landlord Smiley.
The meeting of the CONGREGATIONAL
! church in the vestry at D. m. on THURS
day, March 1, for election of two deacons.
should be well attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Carpenter have
another grandchld, a girl, born to Mr.
and Mrs. Allison Bradeen (the later for
| merly Miss Angelina Carpenter) of Somer-
vile, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs W. H. Goodnow of North
| Cambridge, Mass, arrived at the Inn
Tuesday evening for day or two and
| opened their summer home for a weeks
winter occupancy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Win Micott, tenants on
the Willard place, will remove to the F.
J. Micott farm in district No about the
| first of
the school in that district
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Wright are in Put
ney with their daughter, Mrs. Eugene
| Howe. and with three daughters in Brat
tleboro Mrs. Charles Adams, Mrs Her
bert Barrett and Mrs. John Martin for
several days.
There was quiet wedding Wednesday,
followed by departure on the train the
following morning by a young couple out
side the village. The bridegroom thought
the news would travel fast enough with
out use of the press.
Miss Cola Edwards is in Brattleboro
this week with her sister. Miss Lizzie
Edwards, who is a patient in the Brattle-
boro Memorial hospital. Mrs. A. T. Ed
wards. who has been in attendance on
her daughter, was at home a part of this
week
Besides the brief Lincoln memorial talk
in the Sunday school, mentioned last week
lue evening service on FeD. IL at the
congregational church was devoted to a
more general address on Lincoln The
pastor preached on Worries last sun
day evening
William Drummer of Boston. young
man who boarded al the Inn most Of the
month looking after gasoline engines in
this section. is in the line Of Lieutenant
Governor William Drummer ancestry, for
whom Fort Drummer and afterward Dunn
merston were named
Mrs. Addie Farr Jennison, whose death
from tuberculosis has been recorded was
the daughter of Benjamin Jennison Of
South Windham. Three of her brothers
Lyman, Fred and Kirk, live in windham.
and C1ere are three others, Dorr OF
Grafton. Otis of Worcester, Mass. and
Dana of Westminster. The latter's wife
cared for Mrs. Farr in her last Illness in
stead of Mrs. Jennison of Windham
Superintendent C. L. Hescock by request
gave on Sunday a brief account of at
tendance of himself and Mrs. Hescock in
Boston and Somerville Sunday schools He
was particularly impressed by an address
in fremont Temple from DIR. Lindsey of
Colorado on work for children with
especial mention of efforts in the West
to look after boys and girls upon the
streets after o'clock in the evening.
Silas n. Kenny. whose face was wound
ed by slipping in the woods and falling on
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tion in the Mary Fletcher hospital in
Burlington last week for the removal
OF splinter Of hemlock five eighths of
an incn in length, and as large as an
ordinary lead pencil. For two or three
weeks he was unable to open his mouth
sufficiently for mastication of common
food.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ransom a. Rand were
guests Tuesday of Mr.. and Mrs Melvin
X Pratt, the occasion of the Rands' 44th
wedding anniversary. Mr.. and Mrs.
Pratts custom of late years has been to
spend the day with their old friends but
Mrs Pratt is unable to go out this winter
Mr.. and Mrs. Rand formerly lived in
Orange, Mass, spending only summers
here, where they have lived several years
as citizens of Newfane.
The Boston Herald OF Monday contains
an article about the jail house written by
T. ]. Howard of that daily and illustrated
with his pictures Of that house, Sneriff
Mcclure and Landlord Davis. also the
County House. Some doubt is expressed
locally as to whether. as claimed by the
article, this instance of combined jail and
hotel is the only one in the country It
would be interesting to know whether Yer
mont or some other states furnish institu-
tons of the kind in county jail keeping
and nostelry.
Wallace Pierson, formerly OF New York
state and vicinity of Boston, has come
with MS wife and daughter of the latter
to occupy his farm in district No Z
bought few years ago of n. NJ Batchel-
der who rented it to Herbert Saunders
Mr.. Grape and others. Many years ago
the farm was known by its long occupancy
Of Isaac Newton, who reared there a
family of 10 children, several OF whom set
tied in more wide apart distances of the
country than most families of their day.
The farm was afterward owned by two
sons, William and Marshall l. Newton at
different times. The latter was a sue
cessful gold miner in California On one
trip he was accompanied by his sister,
Mariette, now Mrs Gerow of Cambridge,
N. y when both were shipwrecked, and
with many others lived a precarious ex-
istence on rocky island until rescued
Mrs. Martha Irwin. another sister of
Nevada probably has led a more varied
eventful business life, not without exciting
vicissitudes, than any other woman in
Newfane who entered pioneer life. She
has often been a Spectator subject to the
mutations and depressons of mining life
| The late Horatio B. Newton died in Utah
after years of residence in California and
| Nevada. Isaac Newton's full Christian
name was Sir Isaac after the American
idea Of naming boy for the great philo-
sopher, title and all.
SOUTH WINDHAM.