The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-04-13
STAFFORD.


| ing quite good season.
Thel listers are about town now, pry-
ing into peoples financial secrets, for so
large tax as possible.
w. II. Sanborn and wife are away
for week weeks vacation in Greenfield,
Mass, and in New York.
Mrs. Alvin Carpenter has been very
i'll, threatened with typhoid pneumonia,
but is better at this writing
Miss Nina Kendall Of South straHord
went TO Dickinson. ~ T., recently to
attend the funeral Of her uncle, Willard
tasewell.
Mrs. McCuIIoch and son, Brinton. are
at home at South Strafford, from Han
over, N. H., where he is student at
Dartmouth
After an absence of several months in
Boston, Miss Nellie Robinson has RE-.
turned and Is at work in the family Of
H. a. SticlSney.
Fred Hazelton, who had felon on one
Of his fingers couple OF weeks ago. ii
yet under the doctors care, and unable
to do any work.
RolIe Titus. member Of the corps Of
engineers OF the Bellows Falls Canal
Co.. Is on vacation, visiting at Mrs.
Jeanette Baeon's.
Mrs. Mcdonnell and her two children
have been visiting with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Chase, aud have re-
turned to their home IN Chelsea
Mrs. w. NJ. Flanders 81 South Barre
ard her daughter Hazel. have come to
II. G. sideways for the summer. Mrs.
FLINDERS and Mrs. siIloway are sisters.
Miss Elsie Norris BIT STAFFORD and
rrary Buell. Of South Strafiord, who have
been at home from Goddard seminary
on a vacation, have returned Tor another
term.
Tho Congregational church recently
forwarded its annual offering. amounting
to $500, for home mission work, state
and national, to Rev. q. II. Merrill, st.
Johnsbury.
Frank Brown has been appointed as
school director BY teh seleetmen, to fill
the vacancy caused BY the resignation
Of II. Il. Hatch, elected at the last March
town meeting
Several persons in town have pur
chased a copy each OF the Vermont Re
yised Statutes, which arrived i few days
ago, and other free copies at the town
clerks Office, and have since been dis
trihuted
Alfred Brown, injured recently by a
tree falling on him while at work for
Arthur Lyman IN Hartford, has come
to his home IN this town. lie II slowly
recovering from The injury received, but
Is yet unable to do any heavy work.
Thirty or more persons came together
in the Free Baptist yestry one evening
last week To get sweetened TIP with the
delicious maple honey which III quite
abundant here at the present writing.
a pleasant time was enjoyed by all
present.
The Ladies' Circle Of the Congrega
tional church have recently been putting
together quilts, making new sheets and
pillow cases, and collecting clothing and
other articles, new and second aand, to
send o barrel to the Tuskegee institute,
Alabama.
Earl Crane closed his labors in the
store OF II. H. Udall ON Saturday last.
He is expecting a visit this week from
his cousin. j. II. Rivers Of Burlington.
who Is taking course Of study at the
st. Miehael's classical and commercial
college, Winooski, VI.
Miss Mary Cummings came home from
the Moody school at Northield, Mass,
recently because 81 illness from the
grippe. She is member Of the senior
class and would have graduated next
June, but is unable to return, and will
be compelled to fall back a year.
The friends Of Rev. and Mrs. r. w.
Bennett viii be panied to learn that on
the 26th of March. Just two weeks after
their landing in England, the father Of
Mrs Bennett died. He had been very
feeble for some time, and ii was forth
nate that Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett sailed
when they did, fof Mrs Bennett was ess
peeially fond Of her father. and many
times while in the pastorate at South |
expressed an earnest desire to
20 home that She might see him again
before his death.