Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-22

for the first run of sap boiling down GO
gallons of the finest quality the first
three days of this week. Milton Thayer
is helping him.
Leland and Gray seminary opened on
tuesday after n ten days recess, for the
closing term of the year. Principal GUY
w. Powers and assistant, Miss Sadie
Hewitt returned on Monday.
The maple sugar makers were driven
to their task of gathering and boiling
down on Monday, by the warm weather
which started the sap with a rush and
made an unusual run for the first one.
The Congregational society has bought
six dozen chairs for the vestry to re-
place those moved to the town hall.
With those moved from the chapel they
will have enough for all ordinary oc-
casions.
The Home club held its annual meet
ing with Mrs. f. b. Batchelder March
10. The same officers were chosen who
served last year. There was a good at
tendance and the meeting was of inter-
est Work was outlined for the coming
year.
Alton Cushing's mother, who has been
very i'll in hospital in Boston, has suf-
ficiently recovered to be able on We'd
nesday to journey from Boston to
Townshend to the farm of her son,
where she will make her home. She is
80 years old.
C. H. Willard has an unusually large
number of logs in the mill yard not
withstanding the season of good sled
ding was short. The logs were not all
hauled in, and some work in that line
will have to be done with wheels when
the ground becomes settled.
H. G.. Kinney of Castleton, who was
so favorably known here as the teacher
of the village school, is not coming
back for tho siirnuer terun Manu- wi
learn this with regret as Mr.. Kinney
gained many friends while here not only
| as teacher, but as a man in the COM
munity. They will be pleased to learn,
however, that he has secured a better
| position.
Rev. H. B. 'Seliger will occupy the
| pulpit of the Congregational church next
| Sunday, both morning and evening. Mr..
! Seliger will begin his duties pastor
| at once. His family consisting of a wife
| and two children, will come to the par
| sonage a little later the house is not
| in readiness for them yet. The rooms
are being papered and painted and F. S.
Fuller is putting the finishing touches
| on the furnace.
Saturday. The hard rain of Friday
raised the water but the rain being a
cold one there was not so much trouble
| from melting snow as was feared might
| occur. The ice was very thick, but no
! serious trouble was experienced in this
| town. The water flowed over the high
| way at the Holland bridge to the depth
of a foot on Saturday and somewhat on
| Sunday, but travel was not impeded.
A st. Johnsbury despatch dated March
16 to the Boston Globe read as follows
Mrs. Polly Chapman, who would be 81
years old May IS, died yesterday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs George Chase al
ST Johnsbury East. She was born al
| Townshend, VT, one of u children, OF
whom she is the last survivor. She was
a great Bible student and at her death
was one of the few women left who
could card, spin and weave wool. She
was a famous nurse in her day and wa:
unusually able bodied all her life. She
was a member of the Baptist church al
her life. The pastor of the First Bap.
fist church will officiate at her funera
Sunday afternoon at o'clock"
The Hadassah league. assisted by tn,
ladies aid society of the Baptis
church, will present the farce coined,
entitled "Sunbonnets" in the town hal
next Wednesday evening, March o. Thu
play is founded upon the story of TIVE
women's societies in the same church
which are arrayed against each other
1t abounds in witty sayings and SHARP
hits. The following is the cast of char
acters Mrs. Butterfield, Mrs. Clara
Blanchard; Sharlina Butterfield, Florenc,
Howard; Mrs. Dubois, Mrs. Alma Cum
mings; Mrs. Pheelan, Mrs. A. F. Stone
Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Alma Kidder Mil
bred Dubois, Katie Chase; Miss Try
phena Sanford. Miss Rubie Stebbins
Mrs. Pendelton. Mrs. w. II. Miles; Mrs
Tibbetts, Mrs. Lottie Holden; Miss Mel
vina Spinney, Miss Ethel Sparks Mrs
| Crannor, Mrs. Edith Cutler. Vocal ant
instrumental music will add to the even
| ing's entertainment.