Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-01-28
NEWFANE

Mrs. W. c. Ballou is i'll this week with
measles.
Miss Ellen Bills is at work for Mrs.
John Whitaker.
Prof George X. Cherrie is in New
York this week.
Miss Mabel Hazelton is i'll and under
the Doctors care.
Willard Martin visited his sister, Mrs
Lucy Hosley, sunday
A party of eight from Linden Lodge
took supper at the Newfane Inn Wednes-
day.
Rev. John S. LeFevre of Jamaica will
preach Sunday in exchange with Rev.
N. S. Moore.
A series of accidents to the trains at
our railroad station Monday delayed the
trains all day.
Mrs. Ella Eames of Bratteboro has
been guest of Mrs. V. /. Chase rev
days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. f. Benson of Bond
Vile spent the day Monday at the County
House, where they expect to locate soon.
G. o. Abbott has been spending some
time here this week looking after his
timber, which is being cut off this win
ter.
The Junior Christian Endeavor society
will hold u valentine social Friday even
given.
Mrs. Virgil Ranney and Mrs. Truman
Wallace walked to and from Brookline,
a distance of eight miles to visit, We'd
nesday.
On account of the illness of Mrs. Sam
uel Wiswall, her sister Miss Gladys Sew
erance of Londonderry, is at her home
assisting her.
Arrangements are being made by c.
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lustrated STORY of the Civil war in
Newfane next Wednesday.
c. II. Cook of Greenfield has been in
town this week to superintend the eX-
tensive numbering he is having carried
, on in Brookline this winter.
Jailer Earl f. Davis has this week
bought a fine pair of black horses wegl-
ing 1900 pounds, which he will use in
carrying on his farm in Londonderry
John Locker who has been soliciting
for an alleged advertising pamphlet for
a New York firm, was committed to the
county Jail from Wilmington Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank e. Davis, who
were guests of their son, Earl F. Davis
at the County House over Sunday, re-
turned to their home in Londonderry
Monday evening.
H. j. Heath of jefferson county, New
York, who bought the Dayton Clark
possession of their new home the latter
part of February.
Mrs. Susan Whitaker of Westminster
is at the home of her brother, Foster
Whitaker, and is helping care for Mr..
Whitaker, who is improving in health
and is now able to sit up.
News has been received this week of
the sudden death of Elisha Rood of
Swanton. Mr. Rood was a native of
20, Of NIpe h
bic Higgins Underwood and Lewis Hig-
gins.
Mrs. William r. Fay, who had been
with her mother during her critical ill
ness since before Christmas, returned
Saturday with her two children Charlie
and Ruth, to her home in Agawam,
Mass.
Will Nido. who met with an accident
last week, is gaining slowly, but it will
be several weeks before he will be able
to walk. Mr.. and Mrs Nido returned to
their home with her father, a. 7. Ed
wards, Saturday
O. r. Wright and son, Walter, took
his Sunday school class for a sleighride
Saturday evening over to their home on
the river, where they We're pleasantly
entertained and refreshments were
served. On their return home they en-
joyed a ride to Townshend.
Miss Clarissa Coolidge, who finished
teaching in Williamsville Friday. was a
guest of her sister, Xanah Coolidge,
Sunday, at j. NJ. Kenney's, leaving here
Monday morning with her young
brother, Wendell for their home in
Peru, where she will stay a week be-
fore going to the normal school.
w. w. Dearborn Of the real estate firm
of Dearborn q CO., of Woodstock also
his sister, Mrs. Laura a. Munger, state
press reporter of the w. c. T. L.. are
guests of Mrs. G. f. Davidson. Mr..
Dearborns intentions are to look up
several business propositions offered him
in Florida.
w, H. Newton of Wallingford, Conn,
brother of the Misses Newton of this
place, recently was thrown from a
sleigh and the result was a sprained
shoulder. Charles Newton of Orlando
Fla, another brother, has had a busy
time packing and shipping his oranges
grapefruit, etc, sustaining less loss
from freezes than he expected.
Mrs. Phoebe Knapp who has been at
the home of ner daughter, Mrs :. G
Brown, in West BraJtlebOro, left last
Thursday for Needles, Calf, where sh,
will spend the remainder of the winter
with her son, Eugene Sampson. who +,
employed by the Santa Fe Railroad COM
pany. Mr.. Sampson formerly lived fol
time with his mother in Newfane.
Owing to the breaking up of the ice
in West river Saturday morning the
Travelled road above and below Williams
vile station has been in very bad con-
ditiOn. Road Commissioner Charles
Stedman and men have been at work
there several days. The road was impas-
sible for half a mile above the station al
Willamsvile and also for some distance
below.
The marriage of Miss Lucy Davis OF
Londonderry to Abbott Davis of Spring
field, this state, which took place in
Chester last week, is of local interest
Miss Davis being well known here, hay
ing lived in this town several years
Her many friends extend their best
wishes for a happy welded life. Mr. ant
Mrs. Davis returned Monday to London
derry
The meeting of the Homeland circle
with sMrs. n. S. Moore, president, al
the parsonage Wednesday considered the
problem of child labor, which is on mis-
sion programs throughout the country
this month. Illustrated pamphlets show