Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-09-29
NEWFANE
Mrs. William Knowlton is i'll.

Mrs. D.. A, Benson was taken i'll Fri
day, but is somewhat better.
Mrs. Della M. Kenney left Friday to
spend a week or two in Brattleboro.
George X. Knapp bought a horse last
week of William Brooks of South New
fame.
Miss Laura Rice went to Brattleboro
Wednesday to visit relatives the rest of
the week.
Mrs. Sarah Morse went Monday to
West Brattleboro to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Fred Smith.
Albert Phillips exhibited the Gray
gasoline engines and other machinery at
the fair this week.
Mrs. ]. w. Hosford of Greenfield was
a guest of Mrs. p. c. Moore from Fri
day until Monday.
The ladies' aid society will have a
hulled corn upper next Friday evening
at the usual time and place.
The Larkin club of ten were delight
fully entertained at their last meeting in
the home of Mrs. w. C. Ballou.
Mrs. Willis futile has returned home
from Grafton, being called there on ac-
count of the illness of her sons wife.
Mrs. C. w Rawson, who came up from
Springfield to visit her parents last week
Wednesday, returned home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorr A.. Wakefield of
Wardsboro visited Mr.. Wakefeld's aunt,
Mrs. z. c.. Moore, at the library Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry NJ. Hescock left
Tuesday to stay a few days will their
son, William, and his family in Brattle-
boro.
There was q heavy frost here Wednes-
day morning, the first since the severe
one two weeks ago, which did so much
damage.
w. a. Newton and family of Wilbra-
ham, Mass, visited at the home of his
brother, II. d, Newton, from Monday to
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald solandt and
two daughters of Mortified were guests
in the home of his brother, George
Solandt, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smead, former
neighbor of Mrs. Bills and her daughter,
Miss Fidelia, in West Wardsboro, visited
them at their home here Saturday.
Ransom Rhoades missed a lot of fine
squashes, which were taken from his
field the latter part of last week. Alvin
White lost his about. the same time.
Miss Ruth Streeter came from Am
herst Friday night to stay a few days
with her mother at j. d. Pierce's. She
returned to her school duties Tuesday.
Clifton D. Howe, Ph.D., returned last
week to Toronto university, where he is
lecturer on forestry. Mr.. Howe spent
most of the summer at his home here.
Miss Mary Brown, who was at River
View farm three weeks, left Tuesday
morning to visit in West Hartford, this
state before returning to her home in
Providence.
Charlie Benson is in town a few days
settling up some business matters for
his father, M. p. Benson, who has gone
to take charge of the livery business he
recently bought in Enosburg Falls.
Miss Cola Prouty and friend from
Bondville spent a few days this week
with her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. c..
f. Skinner, going from here to attend
the Brattleboro fair.
Mrs. Ward H. Eager, who spent the
summer with her mother, Mrs. Rosetta
Kenney, left Saturday for her home in
New York city. She will visit over Sun
day with her uncle, Richard Kidder, and
family in Worcester.
Miss Florence Davis, who visited four
weeks with little Ida Ballou in the home
of her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. M.
Randall, returned Friday with her to
their home in Saratoga.
Mrs. Maria Coleman, who had been at
j. M. Kenney's the past few months,
left there last week and went to South
Newfane, where she has bought a house
and will have her household goods
brought from her old home.
The balance of the machinery from the
]. S. Smith farm near Wardsboro was
moved by e. j. Squires to North Hins-
dale Monday. The portable mill was
taken there about two weeks ago to saw
out lumber for w. G. Doolittle.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Farnum and
daughter, Miss Ruth, went by
Saturday to visit Mrs. Farnum's sister,
Mrs. Franklin Head, and family in Had
ley, Mass. On their return trip Sunday
they called on friends in Greenfield.
In the last Grange meeting all the
members whose name begins with II to
M inclusive were appointed on supper
committee for the Grange fair, Mrs.
Wilson Winchester, Mrs. Henry Wilson
and Richard Park are ice cream COM
mittee.
In the last business meeting of the
Christian Endeavor society Miss Ruth
Gray and Miss Nellie Hamlin were elect
ed delegates to the state convention to
be held in Randolph Oct. 8, A, 5. Miss
Mamie Plat and Miss Harriet Newton
were elected alternates.
Mrs. Evelyn Starrett, who was at
Glenmere, was the last summer guest to
leave our village. She went Monday to
Massachusetts to visit her sister before
going to Holyoke. She will spend the
winter there in the home of Rev. Mr..
smiley, pastor OF the Methodist cnurch
in that city.
Everybody is asked to bring exhibit
to the Grange fair. Don't forget the
poultry exhibits. The date of the Grange
Fair has been set for October IS and
10. The first night supper will be served
and there will be a short entertainment.
The second night a dance will be a fea-
ture. Homemade candy and ice cream
will be on sale.
Rev. f. M. Wiswall gave an excellent
sermon last Sunday morning taking his
text from Psalms, LAS the mountains
are round about Jerusalem so the Lord
is round about his people" At this SER
vice there We're present four generations
who sat in the pew of George w. Par
sons. The evening service was conduct
ed by the Christian Endeavor society.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Brainerd of Peta-
luna, Calf, left ~Fitchburg Monday for
New York on their return home. Mr..
Brainerd came East to attend the Grand
Army meeting in Rochester and to visit
relatives in New England. Mrs. Brain
erd was formerly Miss Jessie Edminster
of Newfane. Her father was q ply
stefan here many years, occupying the
house where Nelson Gray now lives and
died there. Her mother was a daughter
of Judge William r. Shafter of Towns
bend The removal of her brothers,
Judges James and Oscar Shafter, to
California was the means of the Ed
minister family going to that state.