Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-25

Miss Fray Ballou has a new piano.
Judge Worden of Halifax was in town
Wednesday,
Mr. and Mrs Frederick Hamlin and
family. all Of whom were i'll a week, are
comparatively well.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. w. Parsons spent last
week in Rrattleboro owing to the illness
Of their daughter Mrs G. $. Wilson.
Some Of the new telephones in the vi
cinity are in working order. The village
wires now present a network appearance.
Miss Daisy Hall expects to be at her
fathers in Dummerston several days on
account OF the sickness of a younger
brother.
A sleighride of Is young folk from
Brattleboro jingled merrily to the County
hotel one pleasant evening last week,
where they were entertained
In spite of Saturday evenings rain 20
boys and girls were brought at that time
by Liveryman Yearly to Newfane Inn for
a good time until about CLOCK.
Mrs. Winifred Chaplin of Chicopeo Falls,
Mass, at whose home her mother, Mrs
II. y. Carpenter is staying at present is
improving in the Rutland Mass, sani-
tarium.
Mrs. Sarah Covey, formerly Of Newfane,
is keeping house in South Londonderry at
present, which she alternates with visits
and vicinity of Boston.
Mr. and Mrs c. f. skinner are with
their daughter Mrs w j. Sprague Of
Turner's Falls. ana will probably visit
their son. T.. w. Skinner, and family Of
Fitchburg during the winter.
Fred Smith and family, one after an
other, were attacked 10y the prevailing
distempcr, and others have followed in
the same wake. James Maher. whom "A
nh
Miss IIosford's dancing class was in
terfered with Tuesday evening by delay
Of the train until after midnight Next
Tuesday evening Miss Hosford will come
as usual and take up the tive-step
schottische.
\ man who is given 10 thinking out
affairs carefully before making sugges-
tons says it would have been well to
have circulated posters and flyers to at
tract attention to meetings with able
speakers expected like the teachers in
stitutes in the county this week, espec
tally the evening sessions, which are of
general interest.
Mrs. Eliza Morse, mother of Mrs. Tim
othy Albee. and "a years old. returned to
her sons home in West Brattleboro last
week, She walked with vigor to the
station, with a little assistance by her
sOn-i n-law. Her memory is good and she
relates interesting "reminiscences with
zest. In Mrs. Morse's family were three
or four whose ages ranged from 80 to 81
years.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ o. Howe have been
awaiting with anxiety hearing of the
whereabouts of their son, DIR. Marshall
A. Howe who was on the island of ia
maica at the time of the earthquake. DR..
Howe was there 10 gather botanical spec
linens for the Bronx gardens in New
York. He had a work shop in Kingston
in which to arrange specimens, but is
supposed to have been at the other end
of the island at the time of the earth
quake.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Windham County Cream
cry association Saturday the following
officers were elected: President, ]. o. Fol-
lett; secretary and treasurer, l.. II. Hig-
gins; directors, Newfane-F. A. Railway
A. T. Edwards, II. e, Sparks Townshend
J. o. Follett, e. L. Hastings; Brook
line-E. p. Osgood, F. C. Cutler; Dover,
f. Il. Yeaw, S, H. Yeaw; Wardshoro-J.
e. Gleason, j. b. Sage, A dividend Of 6
per cent. was declared on the capital
stock
So much chair stock from this vicinity
for many years has been shipped to fac
tories in Gardner, Mass, that notice may
be made of the largest chair probably in
existence, which is in the largest chair
town, so-called, of the world. The chair
Is II feet high and 800 feet of lumber was
used in its construction. 1t stands near
the railroad station as an advertisement
of Gardeners enterprise Veteran Albert
Mason, who claims to be the first man to
enlist from Newfane in the civil war is
one of the business men of Gardner
| Several from this town have worked in
the chair shops of that town.