Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-02-08
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Mrs. E. A. Kenyon Of Townshend was
the guest of Mrs. Davidson on Tuesday
! and Wednesday.
Miss Hosford's dancing class will meet
| Monday evening next week. instead of
| Tuesday, as usual
Hugh Welman of Springfield, Vt, was
! at his mothers, Mrs. J. ID. Pierce's, a
few days Of the past week
Miss Ethel Hall of Brattleboro was the
guest of her sister Miss Daisy Hail, at
II. II. Smiths most of the past week.
Fred Burlingame, who has been handy
man" at the Inn this winter, went on a
visit to his home in New York this
week
Miss Stella Micott returned to SPRING
field, Mass, Monday, accompanied by Mrs
w. p Games, who remained in the city
until Wednesday,
Mrs +. A. Kenyon is visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs f. NJ. Wiswall, with
whom she boarded two years while teach
ing the union school in district No. T.
Use of the farmhouse telephones opened
Just in time to relieve the tedum Of the
cold wave which has reigned ten days and
broken the winters record for individual
ity
G. G. Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pierce
and Miss Stevens of North Londonderry
were guests at Mrs w. n. Chases and
d. A. Benson's over the day of the mas
querade ball.
The Congregational church in Pittsford
this state, has voted to give their pastor.
Rev Clifford H. Smith, formerly of New
fame and Towrshend pastorates. a three
months vacation with salary continued.
Friends in the parish have provided for
all the expense Of a European trip and
Mr. Smith expects TO sail on the Cedric
Feb. 16 for Naples and to spend the
months travelling in Italy, France and
England, to be at home again by June /.
The village school, taught by Fred Gil
bert closed today with rhetorical exer-
cises Mr.. Gilbert has maintained good
discipline and studious attention and at
the same time retained the good will of
his pupils. Mr.. Gilberts paper on teach
ing history at the recent teachers in
stitute held here possessed the merits of
brevity and a clear summing up of various
points to insure progress in the study
one of his essentials was bringing parallel
lines of geography into the instruction.
giving special attention TO locating all
places mentioned
DR.. Marshall A. Howe. who returned
last week from the island of Jamaica TO
New York. hired two natives with dug
OUT to assist him in gathering marine
specimens Of plant life. and the price
WHICH ne pdlu was what we should call
here merely a song" Mr. Howe occas-
ionally secured the service Of hotel
coachman, who had the care Of horses
at the salary of a dollar per week DIT
Howe, however. had to pay hotel rates
for the team. The man. who was fairly
well educated in the public schools grew
attached to DR.. Howe and begged to be
taken home by him. and when Mr.. Howe
tried to explain to the man the difficulty
OF Keeping him in winter he said he could
sleep anywhere; he would sleep in
tree!
The Congregat onalist OF February con-
tains the following which is of local as
well as general interest: REV. and Mrs
l.. Payson Broad began their home mis-
sionary tour in October in Pennsylvania
holding services mainly with churches in
the mining and lumber regions of the AL
leghanes. They gave November to In
diana and December to Kansas, where Mr.
Broad served % years as pastor. state
evangelist ard missionary superintendent
While in Guthrie, Okla. they attended
the constitutional convention in which the
brainy, wide-awake races. white and In
dian. are united in the process Of making
a state. January found them in Texas to
cooperate for month in carrying out
advanced plans for missionary work. They
Will remain until May in the South"
The individuality of the present winter
has received its death blow by the conduct
or the last two or three weeks i'm the Sc
we're and prolonged cold spell. While cold
days had come often II was remarkable
that they came singly for so many weeks
and with invariable rising OF mercury
within "a to IS hours. Another peculiar
ity of about nine weeks was moisture OF
the storms which. with one exception at
the opening Of the season." had only a
few inches accumulation but were OF |
IN hn1h No ole Ia
peculiarly loud crunching and giving way
Of heavily PACKED snow on slated and iron !
roofs with strange and rumbling detona-
tons which fairly shook the whole house |
have also been "A marked and frequent |
feature for two months. somewhat akin, |
we might fancy, to warnings Of earth |
quake commissions.
Cards have been received from Mr.. and |
Mrs. Harry Paine Brainerd of Petauma, !
Calf, announcing the marriage Of their |
daughter, Maude Shafter Braineru. to |
Albert Tullis Strowbridge a prominent
young man in the business and social
circles of Sacramento. The brides |
mother was Miss Jessie Edminster. |
daughter of the late DR.. and Mrs Mary |
shafter Edminster Of Newfane and |
Townshend. After the death Of DR.. |
Edminster at a comparatively early age |
Mrs Edminster with her daughter and .
sons, William and James, moved to Cal |
norma through the interest of her !
brother, Judge Oscar Shafter, who owned .
then and in later years 60 miles Of sea-
coast land, besides large tracts and inter-
ests in mining districts. The Edmin-
sters occupied a ranch and afterward
had separate homes in Oakland and San
Francisco. Mr.. Branerd was a Fitch
burg Mass, boy and is handsomely
located in Petaluma affairs. The daugh-
ter is a graduate Of the New England
Conservatory of Music, having Inherited
he Shafter and Edminster musical talent,
and she is otherwise highly cultivated.
Her only brother is in one OF the Cal
fornia universities. Dr. and Mrs. Ed
Minister are well remembered in this sec
lion as an interesting couple
A handsomely gotten up ten-page PAM
ohlet issued by the Chicago, st. Paul
Minneapolis and Omaha railway is filled
With names of officials over its extensive
Inc OF business, ranging from Minnesota
% the Pacific ocean, and among the trav-
,lng agents is Frederick c. Lang, son Of
Mrs G. w. Lawrence of this place, and
ne late Nalorus Lang, formerly principal
II West Brattleboro academy. This is n
to Mr. Lang. who has been in
abroad work as telegrapher clerk, agent.
tic, dozen or more years When a how
lie learned telegraphy of the late Mrs. !
J. j. Green at this station. His present
headquarters are at Grand Forks, North
Dakota and his route includes freight and
traffic of portions of Minne-
ota and North Dakota bordered by three
treat railroads Mr.. Lang reports that
Ieep SHOWS interfere greatly with hts
ravels, that drifts In North Dakota are
% rect deep and mile in length, that