Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-10-27

week to visit his cousin, Mr.. Lawrence.
He returned home Saturday.
Miss Gertrude Brown of Brattleboro
was a guest of her sister, Mrs. Karl d.
Maher, a few days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Farnum of Put
ney were guests Sunday of his brother,
A. II. Farnum, and family.
The deacons of the Congregational
church are making arrangements for a
new individual communion set.
Mr.. and Mrs, Samuel Wiswall attended
the 10th wedding anniversary of his
cousin, Dorr Hitchcock, Monday.
Ray Jefts has taken a contract to cut
the lumber on the old Baxter Gushing
farm and draw it to the mill yard.
Judge George NJ. Powers came Mon
day to take the place of Judge John II.
Watson, who was presiding at the fall
term of court.
Mrs. Stephen Foster was called to
Townshend Thursday by the illness of
her daughter, Mrs. Jenison. She return
ed home Sunday,
Mrs. j. d. Pierce came Saturday night
to her home and returned Monday to
Bra ttleboro to care for her daughter,
Mrs. Breslin, who is i'll.
Ralph Virgins and Erland Barney,
who nave been confined in the jail, plead
ed guilty Monday to a charge of burglary
and to an attempt to break jail.
Rev. George *. Carter has accepted a
call to the Congregational church in this
village and will be here to occupy the
pulpit Nov. 8. H.. S. Upton, a student
from Mount Hermon, will be here next
Sunday.
Repairs are being made at the parson-
age and a party of women from the
church and parish met there Thursday
to put the home in readiness for the new
pastor and his wife, who will come soon
to occupy it.
]. II. Underwood has been shipping
apples from White River Junction a
week or two. His daughter, Miss Sadie,
came to Newfane for a short visit Satur-
day night, both returning to Brattleboro
Sunday afternoon.
over 20 attended the Grange fair in
Williamsville Wednesday evening. The
exhibit was very good considering the
early frost this year, as was the con-
dition here and in this vicinity. All re-
port a good time.
Mrs. Caspar Smith received a sentence
Tuesday of confinement of not less than
a year nor more than two years in the
house of correction at Rutland, which at
her request was changed to the state
prison in Windsor.
Mr.. Russell of Dummerston, who from
time to time during the fall has been en-
gagged in repairing private lots in the
village cemetery, is now at work max
ing thorough repairs on the long flight
of stone steps leading to the yard.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ, Randall left Mon
day to visit her sister in Springfield, this
state. Mrs. Randall will be away a weeh
and Mr.. Randall will remain longer to dc
some carpentery work as the sister Is
making improvements in her home.
Mrs. Albert w. Pratt was one of Il
ushers who wore knots of pink clover
their club flower, at a reception In honol
of Mrs. Henry Coolidge Mulligan, follow
ed by a luncheon, given by the Daughters
of Vermont at the Vendome in Boston
last week.
A former Newfane boy says upor
hearing of the short crop Of apples II
this section that there is such an abund
ance of the fruit in Connecticut that l
is difficult to fine a market for 1t. Bar
rels in which to pack them there cost A
cents each.
Mrs. Carrie Miller and Mrs. Pete
Chase of Brattleboro were guests of Mrs
Jeanette Gates Tuesday. Mrs, Gate
expects her son, Engineer Bert Gates
tonight to stay a few days with her II
the old home and help move her house
hold goods into the new tenement in A
III. Farnum's house.
Fifty attended the husking bee at VIII
liam Knowlton's Tuesday evening. A
enjoyable evening was spent and tn
party husked $50 bushels of corn In a
hour and a half. Had not the suppl