Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-08
NEWFANE

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The number of inmates in the county |
Jail has increased this week to 49,
A barber will be at the Windham |
County House every Wednesday and Sat- |
urday.
John Corey will carry on the sugar |
place at Rev. F. NJ. Wswall's this
spring.
Noble Pratt and son, Raymond, and /
Leon Pike are chopping wood for Ar
thur Howe.
Seven new prisoners were committed
last week to serve short sentences in the |
county jail.
Miss Sadie G. Smith, court reporter, is
spending a vacation of a week or two
in New York city.
Harrison II. Chamberlin of Towns
bend visited at d. A. Benson's the latter
part of last week.
Mrs A. H. Farnum left Thursday to
spend a few days with Mrs. William
Clifford in Brattleboro.
d. A. Benson has given an order for
bill of timber to build a bungalow in
his pasture near the railroad station
Mrs. Van Valkenburgh came last week
to visit her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Ham
lin, and returned Monday to her home IN
Mount Hermon.
Frank Davis of Londonderry visited his
son, Earl F. Davis, at the Wlnunam
County House Friday and went with MIN
on a business trip to Brattleboro betore
returning home.
Mrs. Ella Eames of Brattleboro was
the guest of Mrs. " l. chase from TT
day until Monday morning. Mrs. Eames
will go to Greenfield this week and
later to Boston to remain until spring.
Sunday services in the Newfane Con-
| gregational church March 10: Morning
worship at II, subject of sermon The
Zealot'; Sunday school at 12.15; evening
service at 7.9O. Christian Endeavor
! Tuesday evening and prayer meeting
! Thursday evening.
installed in the Windham County cream
cry Saturday. 1t was drawn from the
railroad station by Herbert Howe with
| his pair of mules and to avoid a part of
the hill on North Main street it was
taken through West street.
News is received from James NJ
Platt, who is engaged in the poultry
business in Nashua, that he had 81 doz-
| en- eggs per week, which he sold in
| Lawrence for So cents per dozen, the
| strike not having affected the price of
/ eggs Mr. Plat has 80 little chickens
running around in the snow.
Through misinformaton it was stated
! in the Newfane correspondence Feb. %,
| that the late Amos A. Mellen, whose
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Mass, married Miss Dulcena Kilburn.
Mr.. Mellens brother the late Edwin
| Mellen, was the one who married Miss
| Kilburn, and she is now living in Mich
| igan.
Five new members united with the
| Congregational church upon confession
of faith and four by letter last Sunday.
Mrs. Georgia Love and Mrs. Lillian
Morse came from South Newfane to at
tend the morning service, and William
! Hescock and family of Dummerston hill,
| who spent the day with relatives here,
were also present.
James Flynn, who has been at work
for a few months in the largest restau-
rant in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has
been promoted to second cook Soon af-
terward the chef was incapacitated for
work and Jimmie as he was known in
| Newfane cooked the dinner for 100 pa
irons and is therefore worthy of another
| promotion.
A friend in Minnesota is responsible
for the statement that Marshall Hudson,
| organizer of the mems Baraca move
ment, a resident of New England, is a
| son of Albert Hudson, formerly of dis
trct No 8, this town, and a brother of
| Rev. Dorr Hudson of Westbrook, Me.
He gave an address on this subject at
St. Paul this winter.
Mrs. r. d. Newton and her daughter,
Miss Harriet, returned from Ware last
week Thursday evening, accom-
! panied by William Newton. Mrs. Will
! liam Newton came up and remained over
Sunday. Monday morning Mr.. and Mrs
| Newton returned to their home in Will
| braham. Richard Park assists in the
store forenoons and George Bush after
moons and evenings for the present.
The thermometer registered % degrees
below zero at the creamery Wednesday
morning and few degrees less in the
village. Newfane, like all the other
towns, has suffered from the, extreme
cold weather. More trouble with frozen
water pipes is reported than usual, but
no trains have been delayed on account
of deep snow, and the lumbermen are
| pleased and report this fine winter fol
work.
A large number from this village join
ed those who came from Wardsboro
| Brookline, Dummerston and Brattleboro
to attend the female minstrel show in
| Williamsville Wednesday night, which
scored a big success and called out the
largest audience which has been in
their new hall this winter. This enter
tainment was given by the Grange
which society has been very successful
in reducing the debt for their new hall
The following note is from the literary
section of the New York Sunday Times
The life story of Harriet Caswell- Broad
| is told by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Bourne
| Clark in his book, entitled Blue Sky.
Mrs Caswell Broad was engaged in mis-
sonary work for "a years. and was
known to missionary folk throughout the
country. She was with the Seneca In
dams 10 years, then with the North END
mission in Boston, and later with the
woman's department of the Home Mis-
sionary society. She died in 1909. (Pil-
grim Press)"
An unusually large number of voters
/ We're present at the town meeting which
was held this year in Williamsvile The
meeting passed off tremendously. The
only contest was for the Office of road
commissioner. The customary special
| appropriations for sidewalks in Newfane
| village, transportation of library books to
the south part of town, and for observ-
ance of Memorial day met with no OPP
position. The hot dinner served by the
Cleaners was reported to be very salts
factory and the idea of the women in
asking the men to wait on table is COM
mendable.
The story of a "Prodigal Judge" by
| Vaughan Hester, published in 1911, and
now in the Moore Free library, contains
| frequent references to Fayetteville
| North Carolina, probably so named. as
well as this village, at the time of Cen
eral Lafayette's visit to this county after
his service in the Revolutionary war.
Some were not reconciled many years
afterward to changing the name of