Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-01-20
NEWFANE

Walter Wright Is gaining and Is able
to sit up.
Miss Lillian Chase is at home to remain
a week or two.
Miss Hazel Smith returned home from
Worcester Monday.
Miss Lucy Benedict is spending a
pleasant winter in Savannah.
The w. C. +. U. will meet this after
noon with Mrs. e. j. Butterfeld.
f. A. Dewitt returned to Montpelier
Tuesday afternoon after the bank meet
ing.
Charlie Benson has bought the fine
pair of team horses owned by L. NJ Ran
dali.
Several more cases of chicken-pox are
reported among the pupils in the union
school district
Several from our village attended
"The Old Homestead in Brattleboro
Saturday evening.
The school in the round brick school
house in Brookline, taught by Mrs A.
II. Farnum, will close today, Friday
Mr. and Mrs. George Shepardson of
Londonderry, who formerly lived in this
village, are boarding at the Newfane Inn.
Miss Nellie Hamlin is helping Mrs.
Wallace w. Persons, who is confined to
the house with an attack of rheumatism.
Mrs. N. S. Moore and Laura A Mum
ger went to Brattleboro Wednesday
morning to spend some time at Linden
lodge.
Next Sunday morning Rev N. S. Moore
will preach on How good things come
to be evil spoken Of" from the text,
Rom. Ia: 16.
Miss Elsie Newton of Wallingford,
Conn, who is spending a few weeks in
Willamsville, visited at the Newton
homestead Sunday.
Oscar a. Perry of Newfane and Mrs.
Efle NJ. Stratton of Brattleboro were
married Wednesday afternoon at the
Newfane Inn by Rev. N. S. Moore.
The nine members of Brchard post G.
A. r., and the Woman's Relief corps, who
attended the joint installation and din
ner in Townshend Saturday, report
very enjoyable time.
Marcus Wellman came up Thursday
morning for few days visit with his
mother, Mrs. ]. d. Pierce. He expects
to return to Brattleboro as soon as the
cut in his foot is better.
Miss Mary Stillson, who has been en-
ployed at the central telephone Office by
Miss Mabel Phillips since October, went
Wednesday to visit relatives in Putney,
after which she will return to her home
in Simonsville.
The stockholders of the Windham
County Creamery association will hold
their annual meeting in Union hall to-
morrow, Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock.
Dinner will be served in the dining room
at noon by the Union hall helpers.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Hawkins came Sat
urday to visit their niece, Mrs. George
Bush They left here Wednesday en-
route for their home in Belding Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. b. Hawkins of Spofford
were guests of their daughter, Mrs.
Bush, over Sunday.
In the annual meeting of the corpora
tors of the Windham County Savings
bank Tuesday the old officers were re-
elected. A vote was taken to make some
repairs inside the bank. a good number
We're present and so, including six women,
sat down to the excellent banquet con-
sisting of roast turkey and other good
things, served in the Newfane Inn by
Landlord j. E. Smiley
One of Newfanes popular merchants
and a plumber, withal, heard a wall of
distress from all parts of the village
Tuesday morning on account of the cold
weather the night before, resulting in
frozen water pipes galore. Each call re-
ceived his attention, even though his
day of labor ran much over eight hours,
even into the small hours of night and
his townsmen say in one voice, Long
live the handy man, w. P. Eames."
DR.. II. L. Britton of Hyde Park Mass
whose summer home near West river
was burned this fall, has decided not to
rebuild and has sold the land formerly
known as the Downs place, to Miss Marie
Williams who bought year ago a part
of the land across the road at the time
when Dr. Britton bought the farm build
ings and a part of the farm. Miss Will
liams is a guest at River View farm and
is now the owner of all the land which
belonged to the Downs farm.
Ephriam Osgood found Tuesday in his
moving near the cemetery in Brookline
large water fowl weighing four or five
pounds. The bird was of gray color with
white breast long peaked bill and a very
long neck, resembling a Cranes. 1t was
about the size of a duck and web footed.
1t was on exhibition Wednesday at w.
p Eamess store and is now at Mr.. Os-
goods home in Brookline. 1t is a bird
which has not been seen here before, but
answers the description given in bird
books of grebe.
The Windham County Creamery asso-
citation made HISS pounds of butter in
the year 1910 and paid its patrons 800
1904 at an average price of 39 1-3 cents
for butter fat This was an increase
over the year 1909 of 1917 pounds of
butter fat and $685.. 80 in the amount paid
patrons. The patrons have been charged
three cents per pound of butter, which
has more than covered all expenses The
books show for January of this year %
more patrons than there were a year
ago, making the prospects for the coming
years business very encouraging
The rat pest which is so prevalent in
some parts of the United States as to
endanger great irrigation dams, and is
therefore engaging the attention of our
national government, has reached New
fame and is proving a menace to the
farmers ensiage. Charles Hescock has
found in his silo these troublesome ro-
dents in such numbers and of such pro-
digious size that it has become neces-