Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
NEWEANE.

The Homeland circle will meet at the
parsonage on Wednesday, May %.
NJ r. Pratt and r. w. Rand painted
Masonic hail in Townshend this week
Mrs. William Hescock and elder son
! were guests at II. NJ. Hescocks over Sum
| day.
Rev. Mr.. Sunbury of Brookline will
preach in exchange with Rev, n S. Moore
on Sunday
Mrs. S. b. Higgins returned on Tuesday
after winter spent in the family of her
son, c. L. Higgins of Havcrhill, Mass.
The household goods of DR.. Esmond and
! family, formerly of Putney, are in town,
to be moved, it is unders TODD, to the west
tenement of Judge j. L. Martins house,
| The Naples
Specimens of uncommonly perfect and
wel-kept Northern Spy apples from j. II.
Underwoods cellar have been sampled
the past week and their flavor vouched for
by neighbors.
The Changers are fertile in arranging
steadY-going programs for the semi
monthly meetings, as will be noted by the
novel attraction offered in the subject of
next meeting.
Mrs. johnson and cousin. Miss Cottell,
who spent the winter in Boston, have re-
known as the Gen. Kimball farm, on the
portion of Newfane hill near so-called
Kenny pond.
Edward West Currier step-son of Mrs.
Lura Currier, formerly of this town, left
the larger part of his fortune to Amherst
college of which lac was graduate. His
specific requests to relatives and others
amount to 100000 and it is thought that
Amherst will receive not less than half a
million.
Guests the past week at o. r. Wright's
were Mr. and Mrs Bates and daughter of
Three Mile Bay, n. Y, who spent the
winter in West Townshend, Mr.. Bates be-
ing in the lumber business. Both fami-
| lies came from the same county in New
York, where Mr.. Wright was station agent
is years.
At the next regular meeting of Newfano
Grange, on Wednesday evening, May %,
unmarried members night will be OBJ
served. An interesting program is be-
ing prepared consisting of instrumental
music, songs recitatiOns, readings and Sc
| lections on the photograph. 1t is hoped
every member will make an effort 20 be
present
Rev. n. S. Moore will preach the ser
mon on Memorial Sunday, May &c. in the
Congregational church. when Orchard
post and the Woman's Relief corps will
attend the service in a body. Further eX-
ercises will take place in the cemetery
and soldiers graves will be decorated in
! the afternoon of the same Sunday at an
hour which will be mentioned from the
pulpit. Schools. societies and citizens will
be invited to take flowers and join in the
! procession.
The golden robin must have had the bird
| instinct well on the alert TO avoid Sat
urday's changeable conditions in the up
! per currents which sent 70 earth snow,
| hail and rain and a cold Sunday, for that
! sweet songster was a few days late in its
| appearance here and was not heard much
until Tuesday. The whip poor-will was
| in evidence at about that time, and they
who are supposed to know say that any
supposed cry for punishment as poor
| will heard earlier in May come from one
of our northern species Of hooking bird.
County court which convenes again
| next Tuesday for its adjourned session,
which. it is said, may be prolonged until
| about the middle of June, was remarkable
| in the April term for two trials of some
| what more than a week each, one being
| the criminal case, state VS.. DR.. Ryder. on
which the jury were kept together over
| two Sundays when they attended the Con-
| grega tional church in body morning and
| evening. There were fewer adjournments
| than usual, application to business APP
| peared to be very close and more lawyers
! from other counties than generally We're
| in attendance. Judge Taylor. who pre-
| sided for the first dime in this county,
! was of the Dartmouth college class of Sc
with Rev. F. NJ Wiswall of Newfane. He
is probably the tallest judge who ever
presided in Wndham county.