Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-07

conducted hereafter. The company is
authorized to issue stock to the amount
Of $50, 600 for the manufacture of brick
tine and other clay products. Mr.. Har-
butt will manage the business and Mr.
S0eadman will live here most of the time
The company will organize soon.
charles w. Adams of Wapole was in
town Tuesday.
A. NJ. Corser went Wednesday to Bos-
ton to buy his spring stock Of goods
Willie Grimes has been at work a week
for James Meaney in the meat market.
ID. H. Smith has an assistant in his
blacksmith shop, George Wells by name.
Mrs Hannah Waite went Wednesday
to Bellows Falls to visit her sister, Mrs.
6. H. Gorham.
Misses Katherine and Louise Williams
are visiting their grandmother, Madam
williams, in Saxtons River.
Clarence \. Poland, superintendent of
the w. y. Cole Paper Co, went to New
York Wednesday on a business trip.
the union service for girls and boys
will be held next Sunday afternoon at
$50 in the Congregational church.
rev. and Mrs. j. i. Berry and son,
Lawrence, attended the Baptist minis
ters' meeting in Townshend Tuesday.
Patrick OConnor having resigned as
ianitor of the town han Ira Davenport
took up the duties of the position April !.
Fred DeFoll finished work at Capt.
Niliam Robertson's paper mill Satur-
day, His place is taken by John Murphy.
Miss Abby Washburn returned March
30 from a visit of several weeks in Bos-
ton with her sister, Mrs. Sarah Ashen-
den.
George Fuller has closed his black
smith shop in East Putney and has taken
u position with u. H. Smith at the old
Pepn stand.
Mrs Frank Holt is now i'll with
measles Hollis has so far recovered as
to be around the house Mrs. Farnum is
caring for Mrs. Holt
Mr.. Beach, the Mount Hermou student
will preach in the Congregational church
next Sunday morning and evening; sun
day school at noon as usual.
Miss Winifred Bugbee and young sis
ter of West B,uttleboro visited their
brother, Harold Bugbee, over sunday
Harold is working for Z. E. Blood
Mrs. Ruth Robertson Dodge of Spring
field was with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred L. Robertson, on Thursday, the
day being her birthday anniversary.
w. C. Treadway was in Greenfield
Tuesday to attend a sale of horses. Ru-
fus Jacobs went to the sale. taking some
horses for b. c. Clemens, which were put
into the sale
Miss Elizabeth Braley, after enjoying
vacation visits in North Adams and AL
bany has returned home and win re-
sumo her duties s teacher in district No.
. next Monday.
Postmaster L. p Bailey is housed with
rheumatism, having had to give up and
go home from the office Saturday fore
noon. David NJ Frost is assisting in the
post office during his absence.
On account of i'll health DIR. C. \.
Prouty, the veterinary, who has had an
office in Bellows Falls, has been obliged
to return home and has leased the farm
of his father, C. a. Prouty. for another
five years.
Mr. Farnum, who has lived in the house
known as the Buxton place in East Put
ney, has moved his family to the house
on the Westminster road owned by Or
rison Bragg of Keene, but known as the
Brown place.
E. E. Blood, who has been away on
business trip. has just returned with a
carload of horses which he will offer for
sale at his stable. These are business
and draft horses weighing from 100 to
1900 pounds.
Mrs. B. @. Lewis of East Putney and
little daughter were called Wednesday
to Manchester by the sudden death OF
her brother, John Stockwell, who was
killed by going over an embankment with
u load of wood.
g. c. Clemens received news Satur-
day of the death of his mother, which
took place in Bridgeport, Conn. Mr..
and Mrs, Clemens attended the funeral,
which was held in East Charlemont,
Mass, Monday afternoon.
Miss Briggs and Miss Foett of Boston,
who have their summer home on West
Hill, sailed Saturday from Boston for
Europe, where they will remain through
the summer. They were accompanied
by Miss Munroe, also a former summer
resident of West hill.
Mrs. G. T, Southworth of Chester Wis
tied her husband over Sunday in his
boarding place at NJ. e. Robbins's Mr..
Southworth, who Is employed at the w.
A. Cole Paper Co.'S mill will move his
family May to F. S Harriss tenement
on upper Main street.
Earl Fuller has made some excellent
maple syrup this week He uses covers
to his sap buckets and therefore has been
able TO save what sap has run, while
those without covers have been obliged
to throw away the sap on account of the
rain and snow falling into it.
The fumgation and removal of the
quarantine from the home of A. ]. Aver,
where his daughter, Dorothy has been
Ill with scarlet fever is being completed
today. Mrs. Downing, who was nurse
Tor Dorothy, returned to her home in
Rockingham Thursday. Mrs. Aver and
Gordon will return home from Rocking
ham, where they have been staying sew
eral weeks.
Miss H. Beatrice Bartlett Miss Hattie
Lombard and Miss Ethel Omar will re-
turn Saturday to their positions as
teachers in the public schools. Miss Edna
M. Burroughs of Rutland will be the new
primary teacher The four teachers in
the high school building win board with
Mrs F. S. Harris, Miss Bartlett and
Miss Lombard rooming with Mrs. w. G.
Wright the same as last term.
The annual business meeting of the
Baptist church was held Saturday. April
!, and the following officers were elected
for the year: Clerk f. A. Burditt; treas
urer, Deacon H. D. Gassett; collector,
Mrs. f. A. Fifeld; collector for East
Putney Mrs. Frank Reed; junior deacon,
F. A. Burditt; trustee for three years, c.
L. Pierce; ushers, Lewis Burdltt and Ray
mond Flfield; committee to raise funds
for the state convention, Mrs. f. A. Bur-
dit and Mrs. Grade Miller for East Put
ney.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Dyer and
daughter, Elizabeth were in Mortified,
Mass. Wednesday to attend the wedding
of Mrs Dyer's sister, Miss Marion How
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