Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-19
WEST BRATTLEB0R0


Harlan Jillson of Vernon was a guest
at Wesley Rockwell's over Sunday.
Paul and Harlan Taylor are getting up
| from a recent attack of pneumonia
MILFORD French of Greenfield is spend
| ing the week with his father, w. s.
French.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kingsbury of South Wind
ham visited Friday and Saturday at c. n.
| Robbins's.
Mrs. Melvina Estey of Greenfield is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Nourse,
few days.
Miss Bertha Ramsey of Bellows Falls
came Tuesday to spend some time with
her aunt, Mrs. w. S. Cove
Fred McCasser, who has been living in
the home of f. e. Bennett some time, is
| attending school at Mt. Hermon.
Mrs. Emily Bailey has closed her tene-
| ment for the winter and is staying in the
home of her sister, Mrs. r. NJ. Williams.
The nurse from the Mutual Aid who
| has been caring for Mrs. Thomas Storm
| was called to another case the first of
the week and since then Mrs. Hattie Call
has been caring for her.
The womens association held a sew
ing meeting with Mrs. Edward Bissell
at Washington street Thursday after
| noon. Sixteen women were present and
the work was for Kurn Hattin.
The snow fall Sunday night improved
| the shedding very much and many teams
are busy drawing logs, wood and ice.
| This extreme cold weather also calls for
| renewed activity on the coal teams.
Sunday morning was the coolest of the
season thus far. The thermometer reg
| istered all the way from 20 to 81 degrees
| below zero, according to locations, at F.
d. Marsh's 81 degrees, at Charles Stock
wells 80 and in the village 20 to %.
Roscoe Fisher is still so i'll as to be
cared for by trained nurse, Miss Mary
Lawrence of Boston. He is thought to
| be improving slowly. Mrs Fisher re-
turned from Lancaster, n. H, the last of
the week, where she had been for some
| time with her son.
A letter has recently been received
| from Rev. E. ]. Lewis stating that Mrs.
Lewis had suffered a nervous collapse
since their arrival in Chicago and that it
would be necessary for them to return
East as soon as they could arrange to do
so.
o. G.. Covey has the contract for draw
ing logs from the George Whitney place.
w. l.. Walkers team is helping him and
George Wheeler and Puzzle Allbee are at
work in the woods. 1t is large con-
tract and will not be finished this win
ter.
Mrs. Charles Leitsinger has received a
| visit this week from her stepdaughter
and her husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
! HILL formerly of South Worthington,
Mass, but now of Townshend. 1t had
| been 26 years since they had seen each
! other until a week ago.
Harry S Lowd of Andover, Mass, a
recent graduate from the Bangor Theo-
| logical seminary, who is now taking a
post graduate course at Dartmouth,
| preached very acceptably in the Congre-
gational church last Sunday. Owing to
the extreme cold only a small audience
was privileged to hear him.
Baptist church, Rev. E. S. Harrison,
pastor. Divine worship 1890, sermon by
the pastor, subject, "a good neighbor" .;
LlDle school ~ m; evening service at Z.
| Church prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 7.3O. The pastor will give the
| third lecture in the course. How to
study the Bible systematically" The
talk will be illustrated
Mrs Edward Lindsey of this town sue
ceeds Miss Jessie Closson as assistant
teacher in the Academy building. 1t will
be remembered that Miss Closson had
been teacher here several terms, but was
called to her home in Lebanon, Me-, on
account of the illness of her mother,
which was followed by the death of her
father, thus preventing her return.
The mission circle met last Thursday
afternoon in the chapel of the Baptist
church and tied a small quilt. A very
| interesting letter from Mrs Thomas R.
| Gale of the missionary chapel car, THE
| messenger of Peace" was read, thanking
the women for their recent help to aid
| the particular work. Several articles
| We're also read telling about the chapel
J car work.
Leslie Whitney, who recently under
went an operation for appendicitis in the
| Farren hospital in Montague and ex-
| pected to return home Saturday, was
| unable to do So When removing the
stitches from the wound a large guam
tity of pus followed and he has been in
| a somewhat weakened condition since.
| His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. f. NJ. Whit
ney. visited him Wednesday and think
he is now improving. They hope he will
| be able to return home in a week or
two.
The funeral of Mrs. Susan Warren was
held in the Baptist church Friday after
noon at 9 o'clock. Rev. E. S. Harrison
officiated. Mrs. Harold Blodgett sang
| two selections, "Abide with me" and
Nearer My God to Thee" The floral
tributes were very beautiful and spoke
| very plainly of the love which lives in
| the hearts of many for this aged friend
and relative. The bearers were l.. E.
Bond. ]. S. Morse s. d. Holbrook and
| ]. l.. Stockwell. The burial was in the
family lot in West Brattleboro cemetery,
| Friends from out of town who attended
| the funeral were Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
| Bailey of Peppere. Mass, Mr. and Mrs.
! w. X. Younglove of Fitchburg, Mass,
Mrs. III. A. Staten, Mrs. NJ. l. Reed,
George and Carroll Kingsley and Mrs. A.
| H. Jaquith Of Vernon.
! The annual business meeting OF the
| First Congregational church was held
Friday evening in the church vestry.
| The meeting was called to order by the
clerk, C. r. Prentiss, who read the war
rant for the meeting. DR.. C. 8. Clark
| was chosen moderator. Reports were
given for the different church committees
and the following officers were chosen
| for the present year: Clerk, c. r. Prem
| tiss; treasurer w. f. Chase; standing
COM, C. r. Prentiss, F. r. Mann; business
| CON-, r. p. Wheeler; auditor. Wilburt
| Renfrew; receiver OF Sunday collections,
DR.. c. s. Clark solicitors, ], o. johnson.
]. f. McVeigh, o. G. Convey; collector, r.
! p. Wheeler; collectors of Sunday offer.
ings. w. f. Chase. Willard Richardson.
Reuben Alexander; ushers. H. C. Harris,
e. A. Knight and George Hawkins;
Sunday school supt.. w. f. Chase; asst.
supt., C. r. Prentiss sec-treas., Emma
| Mixer; librarian, III. c. Harris; supt. OF
primary dept. Mrs. C. r. Prentiss asst.
supt., Mrs. II. c. Harris. The church is
without minister and no call has as yet
been extended to any one to become its