Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-03-10

while making repairs on the telephone
lines
Earl F. Davis expects to complete his
lumber job in Jamaica in about two
weeks.
Rev. F. NJ. Wiswall is spending week
with relatives at his old home in Marl-
boro, N II.
Mrs. Read of Wardsboro, who had been
nursing a Bert Morses a few weeks, has
returned home.
The Baptist society in Brookine held
social Thursday evening in the home of
Arthur Wellman.
Five young people from our village at
tended the dance in the hotel in Jamaica
Tuesday evening.
Fred Daniels will go to Wilmington to-
morrow to be employed running a saw
for NJ. E. Lyman.
The students who are attending school
| at Leland and Gray seminary are at
| home on a vacation.
| Mrs. Carrie Benson has returned from
visit to her relatives, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Henry Johnson, in Williamsville
News was received last week that Mrs.
Earl F. Davis was Ill. This week she is
more comfortable and seems to be gain
| ing.
Rev. n. S. Moore will preach Sunday
morning on the subject What has the
minister to do with politics?" from the
text, Titus 81.
Ransom W. Rand has returned from
Orange to his home here. His son.
Frank Rand, and family expect to come
| soon to live with him.
Herbert Howe has been moving the cot
| tage which is to be occupied by his hired
man, this week SO that it will be nearer
their farm in Brookline.
The new five-horse- power Gray gaso-
! lene engine which the Grout brothers re-
| ceived through the agency of Albert Phil
| lips last week. was equipped with a saw
ing outfit
Thomas j, Fitzgerald, a plumber from
| Bellows Falls, has been in town this
week making repairs on the water works
at the Windham County House and the
court house.
Mildred Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Charles w. Morse of Walpole, and a
niece of Mrs Charles L. Hescock and
Bert E. Morse of this town, is i'll with
| spinal meningitis.
The thermometer in our village Tues
| day morning registered 10 degrees below
zero. 1t was reported to have been IL
below in Wardsboro and % below in
South Londonderry.
Mrs. George T. Davis and son, John
F., and daughter. Miss Eleanor, were
! guests at the Newfane Inn recently.
They returned Saturday morning to Their
| home in Greenfield.
The excellent dinner served by the
| Union Hall Helpers in the dining room in
Union hall town meeting day was very
literally patronized, nearly all the tables
being filled for the second time.
Mrs. n. S. Moore, who left here last
| Wednesday morning for Denver, had a
| comfortable journey and reached there
safely Friday night She finds the eli
mate mild and will spend a few weeks
there with her son.
j. S, Smith of Brattleboro, who has
. bought large tract of timber on the
Read place, six miles above our village
on the Wardsboro road, was in town
Wednesday with Mrs. Smith, looking for
| a tenement, as they plan to live near
while the lumber is being cut off
A. II. Farnum has sold his piece of
land adjoining the schoolhouse to the
| town to be used as a playground for the
! children. Mr. Farnum has bought a
! strip Of land of Herman A. Eddy, a short
distance below his shop, and across the
, road, where he will build a dwelling
house
A large new boiler. drawn by four
| pairs of horses, passed through the viii
lage Monday morning. 1t will be used
| at the lead and silver mine. Another
| boiler outfit, drawn by seven pairs of
| horses, were here over night, the party
staying at the Inn. 1t was being drawn
by j. S. Smith to his timber lot near
Wardsboro.
The dwelling house of II. M Hescock
| narrowly escaped being burned Wednes-
day morning, The floor under the roof
was all ablaze, caused by the chimney
| burning out. The fire was discovered by
A. f. Farnum and other neighbors, who
went with ladders and pals and ex-