Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-04-29
NEWFANE

Imogcne Hoyt is boarding at II. A.
Carpenters.
George Parsons, who was improving in
health and was able to be out is i'll
again.
Mrs. A. L. Lockwood and Mrs. Wilson
Winchester visited in Dummerston this
week
A. L. Lockwood has recently bought a
thoroughbred Guernsey bull seven
months old.
The w. c. T. U. will meet Friday after
noon, May 6, at o'clock with Mrs. G.
e. Davidson.
Mrs. Nelson Gray is spending a few
days with Mrs Charles Sumner Wilson
in Brattleboro.
Ward H. Eager of New York recently
had number of trees set out in his APP
pie orchard here.
Mae Redheld has gone to West Wards
bOro to spend the summer with an aunt
and to attend school.
The annual meeting of the village cor
poration will be held in Union hall next
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Elnora Rhoades is a guest of Mrs.
George Knapp and is visiting her son,
Ransom Rhoades, this week.
Treasurer F. A. Dewitt went the last
interest of the savings bank.
Mrs. Maria Coleman of Windham is
staying with Mrs. F. A. Dewitt during
the absence of Mr.. Dewitt
Mrs. Leroy U. Howe and two children
and Mrs. Young returned Monday morn
ing to their home in East Templeton,
Mass.
Mrs. II. E. Howe, who visited few
days at the home of her son, Eugene
tn, Dat
Sunday.
Bert Wright, who came with his family
from Fishers Island, took possession
Saturday of his farm which he bought
a year ago.
Mrs. E. c. Benedict, who visited her
mother, Mrs. Charlotte l. Underwood,
returned Thursday morning to her home
in New York.
Mrs. Harry Bowie, who has been a guest
at Bert E. Morse's the past five weeks,
will return Saturday morning to her
home in Brooklyn.
Work was begun in the steam mill Mon
day morning and will continue until the
logs, which have been drawn in this sea-
son, are sawed out.
The best report of trout fishing yet
heard comes from w. c. Ballou, who
caught 81 one day this week which
weighed four pounds.
DClOOl btBdl al lIlc union district Mou-
day, with Miss Edna Marsh of Brookline
as teacher Miss Marsh viii board at
Charles L. Hescock's.
The Winchester brothers have recently
sold their large registered Holstein bull
and have bought another from the Re
treat farm in Brattleboro.
Mrs. Charlotte Higgins, who spent the
winter in Haverhill, Mass, at the home
of her son, Charles Higgins. returned
DO. 49,
daughter, Miss Madeline Higgins.
Herbert c. Tutte who spent the winter
at the home of his father and who was
been engaged in numbering will go the
first of next week to West Dummerston, |
where he will be employed getting out
granite.
James H. Underwood and daughter,
Miss Sadie Underwood. who visited rela-
tives and went on a business trip to |
Londonderry and Jamaica, returned |
Wednesday afternoon to their home in |
Bratteboro.
Repairs are being made on the Con-
gregational church. William Hazelton |
has charge of the work and he began |
to paper there Monday. When this is |
completed Mr.. Hazelton will go to West |
Dummerston where he has been engaged |
TO paint the church.
Next Sunday the communion and other |
services will be held in the Congrega- |
tional vestry on account of the work of |
papering and repairing the auditorium. |
Rev. n. S. Moore will preach on the sub |
ject, THE secret of overcoming the ]
world" from the text, John 81
The society column of the Boston |
Journal April 81 contained the following: |
Mrs. Albert w. Pratt of Cambridge |
viii leave soon for her country seat, |
Newfane, VT. Her house is a bit his |
toric, being the early home OF the late |
Eugene Fields parents and the subject |
of one of Fields poems"
The church was well filled Sunday |
morning, there being nearly 40 members |
of the Odd Fellows lodge and a good !
delegation from the Rebekah lodge pres
emit Our pastor, Rev. n. S. Moore, gave
a very able and interesting sermon on
The brotherhood of man." which was
very appropriate, and especially pleasing
music was rendered by the choir.
The spring term Of school in our village
began Monday, with Miss Edith Clark of
jamaica who taught the last two terms
here, as teacher. There are "a pupils
now, and several more are expected soon.
The flag which has been presented to the
school by Birchard Women's Relief corps
will be presented and raised today and
there will be appropriate exercises by
the school,
Rev. H. A Durfee, D. D., of Burling-
ton, state secretary of the Vermont Sun
day School association, which is inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL, addressed the Sunday
school teachers and many of the pupils
at the Congregational church Monday
evening. He spoke on the training Of