Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-22

The total receipts for eggs and chickens
sold or used was $14729 The total cost
for feed for the year was $71.16 thus ex-
ploding the theory that one dollar will
keep a hen a year, for his average was
500, The average profit per hen, with
out deducting the value of time spent in
their care, or the interest on the money
invested, was S2.34. After careful study
of the work done by each variety he
found that the Rhode Island reds beat the
Wyandottes six per cent at the laying
game, therefore he has dropped the
Wyandottes and his present roost con-
ssts of Al fine Rhode Island red hens
and pullets and two handsome cocks.
Edward Walters was at the Inn over
Sunday.
Miss Harriet Doane visited in town
this week.
Mrs. Lydia Fullerton sprained her an
kle recently.
Walter Kidder is working in the woods
for Taft & Tibbetts
w. NJ. Sparks recently visited West
Wardsboro on business.
Earl Hamln has been in Newfane with
his parents for a few days.
Charles H. Evans in Springfield,
Mass, Thursday and Friday.
Miss Ethel Follett spent the week-en
with Mr. and Mrs. F, l.. Lowe.
NJ Park Osgood came home from the
University of Vermont Thursday
Miss Blanche Brigham has recovered
from a recent attack of sickness.
Deacon Silas Pike is busy putting on
weather strips through the village.
Romance Jenison and son, Newell,
have moved into the old homestead.
Martin Sparks, who has been on the
sick list with grip, is able to be out
again.
Miss Margaret Mills is at home from
Middlebury college for the Christmas
vacation.
Willard Fisher has moved his house
hold goods from the Snow house to his
farm in Guilford.
Alton Holden has just completed a
suice way across the west road near the
railroad crossing.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Order of the Eastern Star was held on
Wednesday evening.
w. A. Eddy has had a setback in his
recovery from his recent accident. Silas
Pike is doing his work.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Rydell has been very sick this
week, but it is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Williams visited
this week with Mr. and Mrs. William
Clark at the Hodgson farm.
Mrs. Robert C. Kearley of Brookline,
Mass, is visiting with her children at
Mrs Appleby's in Harmonyvine.
Herbert Benson and Earl Hamln have
a contract for a log cutting job for Taft
& Tibbetts in the north part of the town.
Hazel O'Bren of West Somerville
came to visit her aunt, Mrs. Persons, to-
day. She will remain over the holidays.
Mrs. Almon Marsh was called to Put
ney Friday by the sudden death of her
father, Harvey Branard. Hayden Marsh
Joined his mother on Saturday.
Benjamin Mehuron has received an
offer of employment from the Central
Vermont Railway company and is off
this week investigating its desirablity.
Miss Georgianna Mexican of the West
field Mass, normal school came home
today to spend the holidays with her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Mexican.
The O'Brien house in Harmonyville is
being extensively repaired. 1t is the
purpose of Mrs. O'Brien to fit it up for
a summer residence. Haynes Saunders
is doing the work.
Miss Ella Stebbins came home for a
two weeks stay with her father and
sister Saturday evening. She is connect
ed with the millinery parlors of Miss
Dawes & Co. of Springfield Mass.
Alonzo Hines, who died in Brattleboro
Monday was a brother-in-law of H. H.
town. He was a student at Leland and
Gray seminary in his young days and
married his wife in this town.
There will be union Christmas exercises
with the usual Christmas tree in the
Congregational church on Monday even
ing The two Sunday schools will unite
| in the exercises of the evening. good
time is expected. All are cordially in
| vited.
Charles Mills is very busy at his grist
| mill, as the corn crop was so abundant
| and the price of grain so high the farm
| ers are rushing the native corn to the
mill. There being no lack of water this
| fall the mill is kept grinding both day
! time and evenings.
Mr.. Kenney and Miss Cola Martin,
teachers of the village, schools, took their
scholars to the railroad station Friday
to see Santa Claus" The train made a
stop so the children were enabled to be-
come acquainted with a realistic mani
festation of their tabled friend.
Mr.. and Mrs C. a. Brown of Sctuate,
Mass spent several days last week with
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bigelow. They have
felt that they did not care to stay on the
Bemis farm, which they bought last win
ter after their daughter died last June.
Mr. Brown has closed the buildings
for the winter and has put the farm on
the market for sale.
announcement cards of the marriage of
her cousin, Miss Susan White Kellogg of
Westminster, to Sheriff George Cragin
Wright. They were married in Fredonia,
n. Y, by Miss Fletcher's brother-in-law,
Rev. F. B. Palmer, Phi. D., former prin-
cipal of the normal school. They will be
at home in Westminster after Feb. l.
There will be no service in the Congre-
gational church next Sunday. There will
be union services in the Baptist church
| next Sunday both morning and evening.
In the morning the pastor will preach
upon the topic "The purpose of the COM
! ing of the Christ" In the evening there
| will be responsive concert exercise
with short talk by the pastor on THE
| old and the new"
The annual meeting of the Congrega-
| tional society was held on Monday even
| ing with a good attendance and much
| interest was manifested in the business
| of the evening. The following officers
| We're chosen for the ensuing year: Mod
orator, j, II. Ware; prudential com. ].
| ii. Ware, e. b. Batchelder and Earl
Knapp; collector, Bliss Prentiss; clerk.
DR. F. L. Osgood; treas, Mrs. F. L. Os-
| good; auditor, H. II. Holbrook 1t was
voted to hold a New Years dinner on
| Monday, Jan. l. 1872 In the vestry of the