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

present and his place was filled by Rev.
j. c. Hyde.
Miss Olive Pierce who is teaching in
Dover, spent Sunday at home.
Ernest Gould and family of Bellows
Falls visited in town last week.
Mrs Homer Ambrose and children
visited this week in Bellows Falls.
w II. Blanchard of Medford, Mass,
visited this week at Mrs Celia Cutters.
Mrs Leslie Lowe is staying few days
with her daughter, Mrs. Rice, in Brattle-
boro.
Mrs Sim Cobb of Londonderry spent
Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Ralph
Snyder.
Wesley Phillips of Keene has been Wis
iting his mother, Mrs. Mary Phillips,
this week.
The Baptist parsonage has been greatly
improved by replacing the old windows
with new two-pane ones.
Mir and Mrs. FRANK f. Gray and young
son Of South Dakota came Monday and
are staying at Townshend Inn.
Miss Cora Mason is at home again after
spending several weeks in Brattleboro,
Bellows Falls and SaXtons River
stone has been erected recently in
Oakwood cemetery for Mr.. and Mrs
Benjamin f. Derry by sister, Mrs. Sarah
Clay, of Guilford
Mrs Oren Davis returned Saturday from
the Bratteboro Memorial hospital, where
she has been for treatment She is some
what improved in health.
Misses Mary Ware and Carrie Mason OF
the office force of the Vermont Farm
Machine Co.. Bellows Falls, spent sun
day at their respective homes.
w L. Robbins of Springfield. Mass,
who came to Vermont to enjoy the open
ing of the fishing season has been guest
this week at the house of Mrs. Edith A.
Macdonald.
Services for Memorial day will be held
in the Congregational church and the ad-
dress will be delivered by Rev. Daniel Me
Intyre. \ more complete program will
be given next week.
County Highway Commissioner d. T.
Perry Of Brattleboro was in town last
week inspecting the four sections of state
road which Road Commissioners Mason
and Lawrence have well under way.
The train service from this place was
very poor last week. on Thursday the
morning train went down in the afternoon
and on Saturday seminary students were
unable to reach their homes on account of
the delay Of the mixed train.
Members of the alumni association Of
Leland * Gray seminary who expect to
be present at the annual banquet June I
are requested to send their names to Dr..
F. L. Osgood, on or before June l, wnen
seats will be reserved for them.
Hardly anyone was surprised at being
suddenly introduced to midsummer tenn
perature considering the lateness of the
season. but think IS will do for begin
ming, that being the figure registered by
the post Office thermometer at p. m.
Tuesday.
The line of trout brooks in this vicinity
proved quite a thoroughfare Wednesday,
from earliest morning hours until late in
the day Expert fishermen reported con-
ditions to be very favorable for the sport,
and a good catch rewarded the efforts of
the majority. In one case the old saying,
THE early bird" etc, came true, as a
basket full of beauties were pulled in
before a. m.
In the early morning of Saturday, May
II, the hills surrounding the village
were covered with snow. The evergreens
presented a beautiful appearance as
seen through the fog with their
branches loaded with the white mass, al
| though it requires something of an effort
to see beauty in anything that has become
as common as the snow during the past
fail, winter and the present season. In
- successive months snow has fallen in
seven of them.
reunion was held at Townshend rail-
road station last Friday from $50 TO 9
o'clock 1t was composed of the would be
and leftover passengers of Thursday.
Pleasantries were exchanged and an
abundance of good nature was manifest,
1t is conceded chat disappointments tend
to sweeten a disposition with the greater
part of humanity and it is evident that
the West River branch of the Central
Vermont railroad is doing a great work
for human kind
Following is the program arranged for
the meeting of the West River Grange to
be held Friday evening, May "a Singing
by Grange choir; reading, Mrs. F. L. Os-
good; solo, Mrs. w. H. Miles; roll call;
current events; question, rs it desirable
to raise forage crops for cows to feed
during the summer months?' song, Col.
A. B. Franklin; paper, what do you
regard as the best flowers, and arrange
ment to beautify your lawns and gar
dens?" Mrs. A. A. Mason; reading Mrs,
| Gale; recitation, Miss Sadie Holden.
Leonard Frazier, who is well known
here, is at present engaged in the lumber
ing business in Jerusalem, Albany county,
n. Y. He, with his brother, has bought a
lumber lot of about 100000 feet, con-
sisting mostly of white pine and white
| oak, with some second growth of hick-
DRY, black oak and hemlock.
Included in the equipment is a pair of
black horses six years, old, 1914 hands
high, weighing $500 pounds. Two weeks
We're spent building the log cabin which
is their temporary home and is presided
over by Mrs Albert Frazier. Other him
| ORANGES were experienced putting in en-
CINE, etc, but the result of work so far is
$4,000 feet piled and 100000 feet cut ready
to pile.