Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-02-01
NEWFANE.


Tor a few days stay.
Members of bankers sleighrlde party
from Brattleboro had supper at Newfane
Inn Wednesday evening.
Dr. and Mrs. Cole of Readsboro, for
merry of Newfane for a year, were guests
this week of Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Ballou
The next regular Grange meeting will
be held at Union hail Wednesday evening,
Feb 13, when a literary program will be
i'm order
Owing to unfavorable weather the an
nual meeting of Union Hail Helpers was
postponed to Wednesday evening, Feb.
IS, at the home of Mrs NJ. h. Pratt.
The odd Fellows masquerade ball in
Union han this evening is scheduled to
attract a large party one of the provis
ions being a round dozen Of chicken pies.
Charles Severance, village blacksmith,
went to Mary Fletcher hospital Burling-
ton, on Wednesday for treatment He
was accompanied on the journey by
Ellory a. Chase.
Mrs. Alice Brown, daughter of the late
Col. Holland Plimpton of Wardsbcro and
Newfane and Mrs, Nancy Plimpton, now
of Greenfield. is critically i'll with heart
difficulty, a result of rheumatic fever.
Frank c. Lowe has accompanied A. \.
Goodell, lumber dealer of Windham,
whore he has been working recently. to
large numbering business in North
Brooksvlle, Me lie previously visited
his sister Mrs, f. NJ. Wiswall.
A telegram from DR.. Marshall \. Howe,
who was on the island of Jamaica at the
time of Kngston's CONFUSION, being on
another part of the island, states that he
has arrived in New York city, where he
is curator in the Bronx gardens.
DR.. Marshall \. Howes telegram Of
yesterday, Arrived safely in New York
with my specimens" also spoke of a de-
layed letter from Jamaica, written on
the day after the earthquake, which,
when it arrives, will afford very interest
ing reading.
Christian Endeavor day will be OBJ
served by the local society on Sunday eve
ming at the Congregational church with
program under leadership Of Mrs. c. L.
HescoCk Mr.. Hescock will sing and
there will be other special music. All are
invited to help make the occasion inspir-
ing by their presence.
Ward II. Eager is serving on the jury
of a two weeks term of court in New
York city at the laws demand though he
leaves a profitable banking business for
the charge Jury duty there brings 81
day, the same as in our county court
and for every case on which he sits he ia
paid % cents in addition.
Mrs. c. =. Dewitt, who returned from
Southern Pines, n. c., and was subjected
to stops in Washington, particularly and
Hartford and Springfield, on account of
Illness spent two or three weeks at the
Memorial hospital in Brattleboro, and is
now at her former and long time board
ing place Mrs. Hunts, on Green street,
Brattleboro.
c. NJ. Newton OF Orlando, Fla, reports
that he saved his pinery through five
nights of freezing by lighting 80 fuel piles
and keeping guard over them all night,
and he shipped limited number OF fine
pineapples soon afterward to Connecticut.
He banked high his orange and grape
fruit trees, which was a protection for
the summer fruitage.
The list of those having telephone con-
nections in districts and includes
VIII Wilson. c. l.. Hescock. Bert Morse
c. NJ Goodenough. A. r. Edwards Rev
Fred Wiswall and Samuel Wiswell. Poles
are set for phones at II. NJ Halls and
Mr.. Persons in the upper district on
the Wardsboro borders. Mr. Pierson lives
on what was known for half century or
more as the Isaac Newton place. where a
family of ten children was reared and
played their part in the school Of 40 chill
dren of the district which now unites with
4 and Q.
Mrs. Grace Plat Smith. formerly a
Newfane girl recently gave a vivid ac-
count Of the ringing of church and fire
alarm bells in Cottage City. on Martha's
Vineyard, saying that when the school
bells Joined the fray and one man fired
gun near her home the excitement took
hold of her and she went to her telephone
which gave out In reply that the name
Cottage city will henceforth be known
as oak Bluffs" and the iubilant ones
We're celebrating. Some of the swell sum
mer people had been working for the
change because their fine houses were not
mere cottages. The coolest weather on
the island this winter was four degrees
below zero.
Miss a. L. White, one of the principals
of Montgomery, Ala, industrial school.
and a summer resident Of Newfanc, re-
ports that in that state people have not
had so warm winter for a long time.
and that in spite Of violet and jasmine
fragrance she longs sometime to see a
beautiful white world, as we have 1t in
the North. Miss White sends a greeting
to the Bencasson Homeland army OF boys
and girls who gave the contents OF their
mite boxes last summer to pay the tu-
ition of little colored girl in the indus
trial school; also letter in the hand Of
their little unknown friend, Ruth Page"
who correctly and naiVely expresses her
thanks to the young 'missoners." This
letter in addition to the greeting will be
read in the Sunday school to the boys and
girls.
The address of State Superintendent of
ers institute last week was fun of peril
nent thought and a certain business-like
sagacity, showing executive ability. He
would have teachers well prepared for in
crease of salary and alive to the pro-
gressive interests of Greater Vermont"
To the school directors he dwelt upon the
advantages of better school supervision.
Mr.. Stone has an effective delivery, which
holds attention. In the evening A. M
Fletcher of Cavendish and Frank i.
Greene, editor of the St. Adams Messen-
ger spoke interestingly along educational
lines. The latter asked how many people
present had visited schools since thew
were pupils and he so impressed his audi
ence with that particular form of interest
in schools that this week has witnessed
the advent of increased number of Wis !
itors to the village school
II. L. Sargent, notice of whose death
Is in another column as occurring in |
Brattleboro, where he had lived a year |
came to Newfane with his wife and son.
the late Fred Sargent, in 1892, when Mrs
Sargent bought Of Mrs Dewitt the new
Orchard house built in 1890 on the site |
OF the old property destroyed by fire. |
Mrs. Sargent lived about a year and the |
mousse was inherited by her son, who after |
several years sold IL to w. N Chase and |
bought the F. A. Fish carriage shop. |
taking down the butternut granite land |
mark and making of the newer shop a |
commodious residence. In 1904 he bought |
the Tuthill house on Main street and after |
thorough repairs father and son lived |
there few months and then returned to |
West street. All property which the
family owned was kept in state of i'm
provement Mr. Sargent married sister
OF r. A. Fish and was a carpenter in