Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-31
THE PUTNEY COLUMN


tr,rS Albert Abbotts.
r- u Doane of Springfield was in
..ng Monday and Tuesday.
rom Carpenter moved into DR.. Fosters
...r.u. house Wednesday.
,.-- Mabel Briggs of Bratteboro was
. 40. Luvyand's over Sunday.
....fI T.. Black of Greenfield was in
-..a 0a business, coming Saturday
,lr and Mrs Patrick O'Conners spenc
-..d.. u Bellows Falls with relatives.
f Davenport, who is employed in a
uH u Wells, came home Wednesday.
Aims F l.. Pierce went Wednesday to
r.tlaurg to visit her son, H. L. Pierce.
IT, ID Pierce of Warren, Mass was in
-.u visiting relatives from Saturday to
Monday
.-a.o-fore Lord of Boston was at Mrs.
T. s. Slaws Memorial day also Mr.
lHkaIu.
Miss Annie Knight who is working at
l. d. uoughtons, is enjoying two
weeks vacation.
l..rse H. Burnett of Brooklyn came
Wednesday TO A. \. Langley's to visit
l.- daughter "a few days.
Mrs. james a. Stacey ana children have
been spending the week with relatives
aid friends in Shelburne, Mass.
Miss Ethel Aiken and Grace Littlefield
ot Tuttleboro have gone to Bethlehem.
d.. To work at Hotel Idewld
Rev. Charles Conkn of Boston, who
delivered the address Memorial day. was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. Bailey
during his stay in town.
o. Herbert Huntley of Brattleburo. who
spent the winter in Southern Pines n
& for his health, was in town Sunday
visiting relatives.
orlando Smith, member of Greenwood
Grand Army post who spent the winter
!, california, came to Charles Booths
Wednesday and joined the old soldiers in
IGNORING the memory OF comrades.
80. i schoolhouse, which was sold to
Mrs. j. +. Washburn, is being taken
down. Charles f. Brown is taking off
the clapboards. People will be glad at
last to see indications of its removal.
NJ our public school teachers Miss
March went to her home in Brattleboro
Wednesday to spend the remainder of the
week, Miss Howard to Bellows Falls to
visit relatives; Miss Davis to her home
III Fair Haven, to return Sunday.
\. c.. Winchester and daughter, Mrs
Una May Warnock of Holyoke. came to
vs. A. Coles Monday. Mr.. Winchester
has been annually with friends here a
week fishing but this year his friends
were unable to come. Mr.. Winchester
and daughter returned home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James p. Whitney and
Springfield, this state, came Saturday to
Misses Mary and Alice Whitneys to
spend a week. Mr.. Whitney is a veteran
of the civil war and he joined in all of
the services connected with Memorial
day.
Fred A. Austin lost cole Thursday
risht, May %. He put the colt with two
others, belonging to b. F. Howard and
Eoen Bridge, in the Nathan pasture. In
the morning the colt was found beside the
highway with one leg broken, so that it
was necessary to kill it. The colt had
jumped over Keystone fence to get out
ot the pasture.
Mrs. Abby Allen, one of the oldest res
ldents Of East Boston, died a the home
of her son, Warren w. Allen, 31a Lexing-
ton street May Is. Mrs. Allen was
married to Nathaniel W. Allen, who for
80 years had been roadster of the old
Eastern railroad company. Mr.. Allen
Vas native of this town, brother of
Aunt Ruth Smith, who will celebrate
her 1880 birthday anniversary on Satur-
day.
VIII Carlton Perry son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ". J. Perry, has been appointed
m.ashipman to the United States naval
academy in Annapolis by Congressman
Htskins. He has gone to Annapolis o
prepare for the entrance examinations
June is The principal and alternates
first named by Col. Haskins failed to
qualify. Young Perry graduated from the
Hutteboro high school two years ago
H. stood we'll in his studies and his many
friends are glad the appointment has
come to him.
Maple Grove cemetery association will
Hold meeting in the selectmen's
room in the town hall Wednes-
day evening June 3, at 80. a number of
officers are dead and it is desired that a
large number be present so that a new
board may be elected. The late Warren
Willard was treasurer, and the admins
TRAITOR Of his estate, John Gale. has a sum
ot money in trust which he will pay over
TO a newly elected treasurer. NoChing
can be done under existing circumstan-
ees, so all come to the meeting who can
and If those owning lots are unable to be
present, they should make a special eff
fort 10 be represented by some member
Of the family.
News was received Sunday of the death
o. Mrs. Mabel Blake Grant, So, in a hos
Wnl in Springfield, Mass, of acute
brghts disease. She was a native of
Greenfield, daughter of Eugene b. and
Cara CHeywood) Blake. She was mar
ned last December to Lewis Grant of
Iapmpsonville, Conn. Mrs. Grant was a
teacher in kindergarten work and she
spent a part of her vacations here each
Year at the home of her cousin, Mrs. L.
D. Bailey She made many friends while
here who are grieved to learn of her
death. The funeral was held in Green
FIELD Tuesday at ( o'clock. II. L. Bailey,
accompanied by Mrs. Charles Bailey of
SW.ngfeld this state, attended, and Roy
Bailey joined them in Greenfield.
The entertainment under the auspices
TO-. Tire Fortnightly club Thursday evening
was success, as their entertainments al
ways are. The first part of the program
consisted Of several musical numbers and
readings. The vocal selections by Mrs.
ht"'y and Miss Pierce both in solos and
duets, We're well received, they being in
unusually good voice. The piano solo by
NIS Coe, an accomplished musician, was
'H.'Eed by all Miss Hart, the reader
""' appeared here last year for the first
-me was again heard with pleasure es-
I'-lally her own inimitable way of inter-
I.tHHg the small boy. Part second con-
.isi". Of a farce, Apples, the parts