Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-03-24

is thought that sparks or bits of hot
SCOT dropped down into the bottom of
the chimney and smouldered there all
that time. There was insurance on the
building.
Norman Wheeler of Springfield is in
town this week.
Mrs. Charles NJ Goodenough is re.
covering from her illness.
Mrs. V. l. Chase is out, having been
i'll over n week with a hard cold.
Miss Eleanor Taylor of West Brat
tleboro is a guest at George Knapp's.
The Ladies' Aid society met Wcdnes.
day afternoon with Mrs. Alice Micott.
Fred Rice bought . pair of oxen
Monday of Perley Allbee of Town
shend.
Charles Dexter came from Greenfield
and was a guest over Sunday at the
Windham County hotel.
William A. Wilson has been suffering
of late from a cut six weeks ago on the
first finger of the left hand.
The w. c. r. L. will hold regular
meeting Friday afternoon with Mrs.
Mary Johnson at w. b. Park s.
Mrs. G. f. Davidson returned We'd
nesday from visit with her daughter,
Mrs. +. L. Osgood, in Townshend.
Willard Martin went last week to
Winha!l, where he has engaged to
carry on a sugar lot this season.
Miss Margaret Maher, who had been
i'll in a Springfield hospital with grip,
resumed her work there this week.
Mrs. Mann, who had been nursing in
the home of her son, Dana Perry, re-
turned Saturday to her home in Dunn
merston.
Richard A. Wheeler, who was at his
home in Williamsville over Sunday,
spent . part of Sunday with relatives
in Newfane.
Miss Lucy Whitaker has finished
work at w. Y. Bruce S. She returned
Monday to the home of her sister,
Mrs. II. NJ. Hescock.
Mr. Starkey of East Dover was q
weekend visitor at w. B. Park s,
joining there his wife, who is spending
two weeks with her mother, Mrs. Mary
Johnson.
Arthur Railway is in the Union
school district this week with his gaso,
lene engine, beginning Tuesday to saw
up the woodpiie of Charles L. Hes
cock s.
Mr.. and Mrs. James II. Brown came
from Medford Monday. They are at
the home of her father, n. NJ. Batchel-
der. They have leased the farm OF
Bert Read in Brookline and will take
possession of it April l.
Moses Grout is moving some of his
household goods and farming imple-
&c fro,, oh 20 al Iobncou
farm in Newfane hill, which he re
Gently bought and where he will come
with his family to live this spring.
The Christian Endeavor society gave
a st. Patrick S social in the church
vestry last Saturday evening. An APP
propriate program for the evening was
arranged by the committee in charge
and refreshments were served
The Larkin Social club held its
monthly meeting Friday evening and
was pleasantly entertained, appropriate
to St. Patrick's day, in the home of
Miss Nellie Pratt, the hostess serving
refreshments at the close of the social
hour.
Nelson Gray has been in Wardsboro
to work with his team the past two
weeks loading logs for the Last Block
company. Before returning home he
sustained an injury to the left eye
when he was dragged some distance
down a steep bank before he could
control his horses.
A subscriber sends the following:
"Owing to the snowstorm which swept
this section last week and week be-
fore, the mail carrier on R. F. d. No.
> was able to continue his trip only
80, h, L.
boro road for several days, as the
snow was not shoveled out, and con
sequently the road leading from the
Newfane line over the new route to
the Townshcnd line was impossible
near the little red school house, A
short time after the route was changed,
it was noticed by several readers of
this paper that under the "Little Red
School House. notes it was stated
that the carrier would go as far rs
the Lowe place on the South Wards
boro road, and then would retrace ia
the Townshcnd turn, and pass Ed
Page s, Curtiss Knapp S, and the lit
tie red school house, etc, and back to
the old road again, which would ac-
cOmmOdate several more heads OF fam
lies, instead of one as before, and with
"greater ease. - Since that time sew
eral have decided that the above
statement was based on Imagination, as
the carrier goes only as far as the
Townshend turn on the South Wards
boro road, and then takes the snow
drift alley road (when he cam and
after long struggle will finally pass
the Ed Page place, Mr.. Knapp s, and
the little red school house, returning
to his home in Newfane, just in time
for an early breakfast the next day,
and does not accommodate any morc
families than he did on the old circuit,
and in fact does not accommodate az
many"