Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-04-05
sMONT PHGNIX BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1912
WEST BRATTLEB0R0

siits at r. l.. Coane's
The listers have begun work and are
making their annual calls.
Miss Minnie Stockwell has resumed
work this week for Mrs. Baird.
Harlandp Jillson of Vernon Is visiting
at George Washers a few days.
Mrs. Irving Chase of Maiden, Mass, Is
a guest at A. d. Wilson's for a week.
Miss Martha Parmalee of Mortified is
spending the week at e. II. Davenports.
Harry Miller of Dummerston is doing
painting and papering at w. l.. Walkers.
Shelton Keneston of Preston, Conn,
was in town yesterday calling on friends.
Miss Ruth Helyar, who visited re-
Gently in Newton Mass, returned home
this week.
Miss Helen Redfeld returned Sunday
from a visit of several days in Leomin-
ster, Mass.
Clarence Stowe of Boston was a guest
of his uncle, A. w. Stowe, "Wednesday
and Thursday.
Francis Taylor returned Monday from
a two weeks vacation in Guilford at B.
A. Whittemores
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Perry, who have
been out of town some time, are ex-
pected home tomorrow.
Esther johnson, who has been very i'll
with pneumonia, is improving. The train
ed nurse left Saturday.
Mrs Joseph Abbott of Rumney n. H.,
is spending few weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. c. Bryant.
Mrs j. L. Morse, who has been very ill
with pneumonia, is improving She Is
cared for by Mrs. McNall.
Miss Ethel Blodgett is supplying in the
Centrevlle school until another teacher
can be found to take her place
Purle Stockwell and little son, Charles,
visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Stockwel Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs Hattie Jones of Windham and
son, Paul, of Dartmouth college, are at
c. r. Premises for an indefinite stay.
Ernest Wheeler is much improved in
health and has a position in the whole
sale department of Durham Brothers
store.
Miss May Chamberlain returned to
Mortified Monday after a few days
visit with her mother, Mrs n. S. Cham
berlan.
Rev. Henry Lamb, who supplied the
pulpit of the Congregational church Sun
day, returned to Hyde Park Monday
morning
A. D. Wilson was called to Newark,
Ohio. Tuesday on account of the critical
illness of his aunt, Mrs. Georgianna
Franklin.
u
York yesterday to spend a week with
Mrs. G.. NJ. Higgins at the Martha Wash
! ngton hotel.
Jennie Wilder of Dummerston was a
visitor over Sunday at F, II. Wilder's.
| Hk sister Marion is staying in his home
| for an indefinite time.
John Helyar arrived here Wednesday
from Burlington and he reports that
| when he left that city the snow was six
| ipc still falling
Mrs. George Harris and children, who
| spent some time in Wardsboro with Mrs.
| Harrs's parents Mr.. and Mrs Henry
| Smead, returned home Monday.
Mrs. Charles Millers household goods
| have been moved this week to A. 7.
| Stoves Mouse. Mrs Louise Whitney
| will finish work there Saturday.
Mrs. Sophia Sutherland is moving into
| the upper tenement of F. D. E. Stoves
house. Another family expects to move
! into the lower tenement about April Is.
Mrs John Gordon and three children,
| who spent the winter with her parents.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Nesbitt, returned to
| their home in Griffins Corner. N. Y,
| Thursday.
| Clyde Jakway, who lives with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. john
| son, has the care of 81 hens and for the
last week in March they yielded him
nine dozen eggs.
Mrs. F. D. Marsh went last week to
| Boston to visit her sister, Mrs. Alice
| Garrison On her return she will visit
her brother in Prescott. She expects to
be away about two weeks
Six young women were entertained
| Friday afternoon by Miss Helen Weather
head at a puff tying party. After ac-
| complishing a good amount of work
sugar on snow was served by the hos
| tess.
Lawrence Copeland, six-year-od son of
l.. p. Copeland, is very much interested
in the poultry business, especially the
part of bringing in the eggs. He has 10
hens which have laid so eggs in seven
days
George Hawkins has decided not to
| rent a tenement here. His household
goods have been moved to Belchertown,
Mass, where his parents live. Mrs.
| Hawkins expects to leave the hospital
| this week
Hugh Thayer of Middlebury college
went Saturday to Washington with the
party made up of Vergennes and Bristol
persons on Rutland railroad excursion.
| He went partly for business purposes.
May Thayer is expected home today to
spend the Easter vacation
| II. w. Barber went to Nottingham
| Thursday to assist his son, III. III. Barber,
through the sugar season. Mr.. Barber 8
| sugar orchard contains about 700 trees
and is fitted up with modern apparatus
for boiling sap so that he is able to
produce a fine quality of syrup and
| sugar.
Prof. ]. East Harrison of Mount Her
mon will give a stereopticon lecture on
Life in Australia" next Wednesday
| evening at o'clock in the Baptist
church The lecture will be under the
auspices of the Baraca class and is sure
to be interesting as Prof. Harrison
speaks from first hand information hav-
| ing lived in Australia.
! Supt. ]. ID. Whittier expects to intro
duce into the schools soon, under his
supervision, a text book called the Farm
arithmetic. which is thoroughly practical
! in its methods. 1t contains nothing about
English money or the binomial theorem,
cube root, longitude and time. The SUI
perintendents throughout the country
have recommended this book as well
suited to the education of boys and girls
on the farm.
An Easter supper was served Thurs
day evening in the chapel of the Baptist
| church under the auspices of the Near
| and Farther Lights society. The menu
| consisted of sandwiches, salads, deviled
eggs, custard and lemon pies and coffee.
| and was served on the European plan
| from small tables decorated with yellow
and white. The women of the Baptist
church are very enthusiastic In their