The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-01-07
West RiUer TOlpns
TOWNSHEND.
Interesting story Of a so-ys.r OLD Pias

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Interesting Story Of % Year Ola Pune
siudrnss sho arc Interested IN naluis
and shsi true siudenl y nni t-shoaid
make Nisii a. MiilAtds nall aud lss ons
II tbs lssss that lie IN the taId lhrfs tel u
them lie story; that y. .Ae sllrnl sloIy
that slnks 80 dr-p sometimes and dors ~
murh Ia influence III. iuluN, The sIillsh
story ls this, sonas ~ yrans ago Ia0
boys al play dug an thrifty pane iT1r
aud ssl 4 eal a'aF the home ~ one q
them, The hays srte MsTisn Perry and
Warner Hurt, and the place shsIs the
pine Aas planted Mas the lAiirts home,
knoan naw a. the David nrtnls place,
The Young tree houIlslled aud Ia the ecu
tnfy ~ lts lie saw both The bays grow 10
he Old men WIN nsei a. visit beneath lie
shade hrIoI- lh-y lassed away, u saN
the farm grow more productive year by
Year until that too, grew old and became
neglected, II saw the buildings an the
place multiply aud al last they also grew
old aud irll into decay, and NOW the old
pune has gone 10 the MIL yard, "a much
Tor the sentimental student, but for the
moIu practical there " still lesson Ia he
learned, The tree sas not over l0o yeats
old aud Yet the butt cut y feet long
measured ass feet, while there were three
more l?.iooi logs aud two Of 10 ieri, max
ing u feet in length Of log with the top
one ~ inches through The whole tree
measured 1873 feet Of lumber.
Mr., and Mn. A. A. Mason spen, Tues
day in Braitleboro.
I.o,,ic Jones returned 10 her studies al
Castleion Tuesday,
Mr., aud Mn, :. q. Miner 81 Bratileboro
were in town this week,
Curtis futile has moved his family onto
the AlSada Higgins place.
Mr.. Daniel McCany has been very III
for several DAYS aud l. It'll in danger.
Mr. Boutcllc al Providence came Mon
day 10 Visit his cousin, George Bouielle.
Robert Goedhue, a former Townshcnd
hoy. visited Mr.. Ellen Plumb this week.
Mr.. Hanna Austin Of Brookline Is visit
ing her ION. Charles Austin. IN Harmony
vile.
Tie Baptist Ladies Aid society met
Thnrday afternoon at the sosiry TO tie
quilt.
Ali,s Mary Gardner returned to Mrs
Harriet Fletcher's from her weeks yaea.
ton Monday.
The G. 4. X. and Woman's Relief corps
will hold their installation OF officers at
Newfane tomorrow.
Newell Jennerson and Miss Mabel Coy
have been visiting relatives IN south Lon
donderry this week.
Homer Ambrose has received news from
Ferrsburgh OF the serions illness OF his
mother with pneumonia.
Mrs. Edward Wellington of Brookline /
visited her aunts. Mrs. \. a. Snow and /
Mrs Edgar Allbee. the irst OF the week. |
The meeting of the lladassah league /
Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. X. Phlllipss I
was poorly attended on account OF the /
storm.
AT the annual church meeting OF the
Congregational church +. ii. Allbee was |
reelected clerk and Hugh II. Holbrook
treasurer.
Miss Grace Chase and Miss Maude Rad
way OF this town attended the Burgess
Butler wedding at East Jamaica last Fri
day evening.
II has been so cold in district No. 3
that one teamster froze his fingers Their.
mometers have registered from 10 to 20
degrees below zero.
Lewis Enear moved his family from the
i.awes farm in district No 10 to New
Hampshire iear,g.s... ~ Danear and
family remain on the farm.
Russell Aldrich of Springfield is in town
this week settling the estate of Mrs. Al
drich and caring for his household goods.
He expects to return soon.
1t sounds good to hear that we are to
have new two.tenement house again this
year. c. f. Willard will erect it in Har- {
monyville opposite Mr.. Persons's house.
Fred Osgood has returned to the Univer-
IS .hap 1a rrnIn "a
the coming June. He will take another
year, however, as he wishes two degrees.
Miss Alice Randall went back to her
duties at Athol Tuesday. Miss Randall
has been with the same house for some :
years. and "the firm like to see her re-
turn. /
At the morning service of the Congrega- |
tional church next Sunday morning the a
tonic will be, A Word That is True From /
the Beginning. All will receive a hearty d
welcome.
Topics for next Sunday at the Baptist !
church are: Morning What Place Has c
Personal Effort in Ones Own Salvation?;
evening, at the union service, Who Is
Trying to Fill the Wrong Pew?
Rev. Daniel Mcintyre, in his report at the +
church meeting Saturday afternoon, said
he had made $40 pastoral calls, officiated
at 10 funerals, solemnized five weddings,
preached II sermons and conducted 81
prayer meetings during the past year. ,
All friends in town congratulate Mr..
and Mrs. M. NJ Martin of Bellows Falls.
who have just passed the 45th milestone of II
married life. Their daughter, Mrs. Rollin
Phillips, and grandchildren, Miss Mildred r
and Raymond Phillips, of this town, were G
with them on the happy occasion. 7
Miss Hazel Landman, one of the Leland II
and Gray students from Londonderry, has
been i'll for several days. Her father, p
Luke Landman, spent the day with her a
Friday, and Mrs Landman came Satur- e.
day. staying until Monday when Hazel re- Il
turned home somewhat improved.
The Baptist society will give social to e.
the congregation of the Congregational
church and their friends next Wednesday o
evening at the vestry This is really So C
cial for everybody, and is given as a sort of a
return call to the one the Congregational 81
society gave the Baptists last winter, which L
was very successful F
The week of prayer has been observed lie
by our churches this week. In the Bap-
list vestry on Tuesday evening che SUBJ
iect was The Foundations mistaken. I'm
movable In the Congregational church
Wednesday evening the subject was The
Church of God on Earth. On Thursday '
evening each church observed its usual
weekly hour of prayer. t
The weather for the past week brings to
mind the story of the Vermonter in San a