Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-05
NEWEANE,


day.
Mrs. G. w. Knapp is i'll at c. NJ Good
enoughs
Miss Hosford's dancing class will meet
on Thursday in Union hall.
N. f. Wheeler of Springfield Mass,
was a guest at Newfane Inn over We'd
nesday.
Alvin White, who is teaming at Well
mans mill, has moved to G. w. Knapp's
tenement
Mrs. II. A. Carpenter is visiting her
daughter, Mrs Dickman Ryder, of Bel
lows Falls.
Mrs. e. j. Ward, widow of Calvin Ward,
is in the Memorial hospital on account of
a broken arm.
Mrs. =. A. Knapp of West Brattleboro
is with old friends ad neighbors in the
community for a week.
1t is supposed that extensive repairs
will be made on the county court house
after the spring session.
Good clearing-up work on the common
(east side) has been done this week by
men from the County House.
Mrs. Parsons and her sister, Mrs p.
A. Davis, spent three days this week at
c. $. Wilson'S in Brattleboro.
Mrs. Swift spent several days recently
with her cousin, Mrs. II. j. Batchelder,
en- route to her home in Peru.
Principal Carlton Howe of Essex June
ton is with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
O. Howe, during the Easter vacation.
The opportune dropping of the mercury
among the twenties this week was a IA
vorable omen for prolongation o. sugar
ing.
Alvin White teamster at WCmans
mill, met with an accident recently which
incapacitated him from work Temporal
rily.
Mrs. a. w. Pratt and son, Robert, Of
North Cambridge, Mass, who have spent
a week at Elmhall, the Goodnow family
summer home, returned today.
Mrs. Beard, widow Of DR.. Beard. Of
New Haven and daughter of Mrs Saxton,
who with Mr.. SaXton moved here from
Townshend last month"; is guest in the
place.
The exchange with Rev. Mr.. Sunbury
of Brookine, which was planned for next
Sunday, has been postponed by Rev.
N S. Moore on account of an attack Of
bronchitis.
Fred Burlingame's family. who were
burned out last month in New York. have
moved temporarily about four blocks
from their former home. Their goods
We're badly damaged by water.
Mrs. e. A. Kenyon of Townshend, state
superintendent of Loyal Temperance Lee
l.
a class of nine here for a silver medal
speaking contest in Union hall in the near
future.
The Christian Endeavor supper, served
in very appetizing variety last week was
followed by a social which closed with a
spelling match in which Miss Jennie Tn
derwood and Miss Ruth Wellman carried
off the honors.
The body Of Andrew Andersen. the
TR4.r, sI,.,,
eral weeks ago, was taken from Wood
lawn vault last week by his son Of
Springfield, Mass, and taken to Will
braham, his former home, for burial
c. j. Ferguson superintendent of the
Vermont Anti-Saloon league. will speak
in the Congregational church Sunday
evening. Mr.. Ferguson is regarded as
one of the best speakers in the state and
as one well worth hearing in presentation
of the leagues line of practical argu-
ments.
Mr.. and Mrs Gilbert n Batchelder,
who. after their marriage. lived on the
Hawaiian Islands year or more, where
Mr.. Batcheder was chemist in a large
sugar establishment, spent the winter at
y. NJ. Batcheders in F1tchburg. after
staying several months in the West near
Mrs. Batchelder's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Frcam of Montevideo, MINI.
MIR. and Mrs. II. \. Carpenter attended
the funeral of Mr.. Carpenters sister,
Mrs. Alkaline Ashley, in Springfield.
Mass, Saturday. Mrs Ashley's son, DR..
Ashley of New York, in whose home Mrs.
Ashley died, and his wife, and the SON
in-law, Mr.. ADJUST of New Rochelle
y. Y, We're present Mrs. ADJUST was
unable to attend. The other daughter,
Mrs. Charles Williams Of Fort Collina,
Colo. started to come East last week
but was taken i'll in Denver.
Easter services were held according to
program printed last week. Rev. n S.
Moore, although suffering from a severe
bronchial cold, delivered an appropriate
sermon. Mr.. and Mrs O. r. Wright.
whose voices blend well together sang a
duet; Towering plants graced the platform
Mrs Moore planned the evening service
and recitations and The first Easter" a
dialogue by five young ladies', and was
especially assisted in the latter by Miss
Nellie Pratt. Misses Grace Hammond
and Bessie Hamlin were the singers.
Windham County Creamery association
has leased the Newfane plant and the
Dover skimming station to c. A. Nichols.
who took possession April /. Mr.. Nichols
mas served as buttermaker in Newfane
several years, besides long experience in
other factories. The price to be charged
patrons for making butter will be three
cents per pound. The association has re-
Gently aGded q new Victor churn and
worker to the equipment in Newfane and
the buildings will be painted soon The
Wardsboro plant has been leased to
Wardsboro people and will be run indie
pendently.
The towns of Essex, Colchester, Shell
burne, South Burlington and WilIiston
nave formed a union school district, I'M
der the provisions of the law enacted by
the last legislature, and have chosen
Carlton ID. Howe supervisor at a salary
of $1,000 annually, Mr.. Howe, who is a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ O. Howe. gradu-
ated from the University of Vermont in
1898, in the same class with his twin
brother, Clifford, now n forestry expert
connected with the school in Fillmore
n. c. c. d. Howe has spent nine years
IN educational work, the last five as prin-
clpal OF the high school in Essex juno
uon' The Burlington Free Press SAYS:
His experience together with his excel
lent qualifications make him a very de-
sirable man for expert supervision"
A Lowell, Mass, letter to the Congre-
gatonalist, in speaking of some nearby
suburban churches, says some breezy
items nave started from them owing the
the irritation of small salaries, while a
contrasting report comes from North
Chelmsford, where the salary of the pas
tor Rev. Dorr Hudson, has been raised
800 and the last $3.50 paid upon improve
ments in the vestry costing $1,000 Mr.
hudson was a Newfane boy. son of Albert
ana Lizzie Edwards Hudson, who lived
several years on the place now owned
and occupied by c. Z. Skinner in district
No. 3. and he is poubov,