Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-09-08
WEST GUILFORD.

Miss L. Tulley of Montpelier is a guest
at r. b, Thomas's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Halle Streeters young
est child has been very sick with cholera
infantum.
Mrs. James Eastwood is in Brandon
visiting her son, DR.. James Eastwood,
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Thomas of Cropsey,
H., are visiting in town and calling on
old friends and neighbors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Fisher of Jamai-
ca spent few days last week with Mrs.
Fishers mother, Mrs. William Akley.
Ira Willard of Bernardston and Forrest
Willard of Chicago have been guests of
the formers sister, Mrs. Hosea Fisher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenzo Whitney were
called to New York Tuesday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Whitney's aunt, Miss
Della Welch.
Mr. and Mrs. David Furbush and Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Berdge of Lynn, Mass,
| are spending the week with their father,
L. d. Berdge.
The ordinance of baptism was admins
| tered to four last Sunday by Rev. Edgar
| Hatfield in the brook near the w. c.
Phelps place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Betterley went to
Athol Saturday in his automobile to visit
friends and to attend the fair there Mon
day and Tuesday
Leon Webster and sister, Lottie of
Worcester, Mass, and Mr.. and Mrs. E, S.
Alexander OF Leyden visited at NJ. w
Lyndes the first of the week.
Mrs Henry Carpenter and three chill
dren of Greenfield returned home Sunday
after spending the week with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. II. l.. Nichols.
Mr.. Granger of Worcester, mass, came
to r. B. Thomas's Friday to remain
over Sunday with his family, who are
staying there through the summer.
Mrs. Tilton of Montague, Mass, spent
a few days last week with her daughter,
Mrs. y. f. Falby. Her granddaughter,
Miss Nina Falby returned home with
her
Mr.. and Mrs Cyrus Mortified and
three children returned home from North
Heath Friday after spending the week
with Mrs. Merrfield's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Murray Cook.
Leslie Lee met with an accident Fri
day when coming home from Brattleboro
He met an automobile and the horses
became frightened, throwing him out and
, breaking two bones in his ankle
Mr.. and Mrs. D. S. Bond narrowly es-
capped a serious accident Monday as they
were driving down the hill from O. j.
Hale's. The horse stepped on a rolling
stone, throwing it down in the ditch. The
carriage was broken.
Mrs. Clara +. Powell of the Gordon
missionary training school, former pas
tors wife in the West Guilford Baptist
church, has been doing excellent work in
supplying the little church in East Swan
! ton Mrs. Powell has labored faithfully
| and hard and as a result she has had
the largest attendance at the Sunday
school sessions and preaching services
for many years. Many have already taken
a stand for Christ and on Sunday, Aug.
| 90 State Superintendent Dawson bap-
| tized seven adults, a husband and wife, a
! mother and her son, a young man about
| 20 years of age and two sisters. 1t is
| expected that others will be received by
| baptism before the last of September.
| Mrs, Powell's work has been so satisfac-
! tory that the little church is willing to
make a strenuous effort to retain her
services continually, but she feels that
she ought to return to the school to fin
ish her course, which will take another
| year.