Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
Elmer Lasher is on the sick list.

Jonn Westley mas gone 10 NOrWlch,
Conn.
Miss Eta Stebbins of Vernon was
in town Tuesday.
Mrs. w. f. Robertson spent day in
Springfield recently.
Mrs. o. C. Robertson was in Spring
field, Mass, last week.
Mrs Grace Slade of Walpole is Wis
iting Mrs. Henry Royce.
Miss Carrie Shattuck of Laconia is
visiting Miss Mary Mann.
Henry Britton is working in the
White-Washburn Co. s mill.
Cornelius Weeks is home from Tufts
college for the Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Emily Estey has been very i'll
and under the care of a trained nurse.
Miss Hilda Sawyer spent Saturday
and Sunday with friends i'll Winches
ter
Miss Martha Gray of Togus, Me-, is
visiting her parents, DR.. and Mrs. c. A.
Gray.
Principal +. l.. Wentworth has gone
to his home in Dover, VT, for the holi-
days.
Sidney w. Stearns of Wilmington,
VT, is at his home here for the holi-
days.
Harvey LcVasscur of the United
States navy is visiting at his home
here.
Miss Mabelle Lang is spending the
Christmas vacation with her mother in
Laconia.
Miss Josie Rcdding of Boston is Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Redding.
The annual Christmas supper and tree
will be held in the Universalist church
Saturday.
Mrs. j. +. Mann, who has been seri-
ously i'll for several days past, is much
improved.
Miss Mildred Clark will go to her
home in Alstead Saturday to spend
Christmas.
Mrs. Luther Kaye of Brattleboro
spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs
Charles Stafford.
Mrs. Mary Field of Shelburne Falls,
Mass, spent last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. L. Leach.
Mrs. Edmund Burke of Greenfield,
father, John Murray.
Miss Ethel Ward has gone to her
home in Leominster, Mass, to spend
the Christmas vacation.
Miss Katherine LaLiberte came We'd
nesday for a two weeks vacation from
her studies in Hooksett.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. Fisher are spend
ing two weeks with their son, Earl
Fisher, in Newark, n. j.
Fishing through the ice has begun in
the lake, the ice being between four
and five inches in thickness.
William Redding is housed by in
juries received when staging upon
which he was standing broke.
Christmas tree with exercises will
be held i'll the Congregational church
Saturday evening at 100 clock.
The schools closed Friday and will be
reopened Tuesday, Jan. 2. The teachers
have gone to their various homes.
Miss Marion Fitzgerald came home
Thursday, after several weeks visit
with relatives in Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. F.. w. Tilden, Mrs. F. S. Leon
ard, j. M. Lamb and Rev. +. II. Cole
attended a Universalist convention in
Manchester last week.
Golden Rule lodge of Masons will
hold a cancert and ball Friday evening,
Jan. o. Lyman s string orchestra of
eight pieces will furnish the music The
affair will be conducted similar to
last years event, which proved very
satisfactory.
The body of Mrs. Frank Cleary, q
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Cooper, formerly of this town,
was brought here from Millcrs Falls,
Mass, for burial in Pine Grove cemetery
last Saturday morning. Rev. A. l.. Hill
conducted prayer service at the
grave.
Miss Monte Purcell of Greenfield,
Mass, William Purcell of Kcene, Mr..
and Mrs. j. c. March of Turner's Falls,
Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph p. Cook and
little daughter, Margaret, of Litchield,
Conn, are expected Sunday to spend
the holiday at the home of their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Purcell.
The coming of cold weather has
marked the beginning of winter fishing
through the ice. Pike, pickerel and
wall-eyed pike make up the principal
catches hereabouts. Pike fishing was
not as good as usual last year on the
river, owing to the drawing off of all
the water in the lake the previous sum
mer.
Monday morning was the coolest
thus far this season, the thermometers
going down to s to 10 degrees below
zero. The light snow which fell Friday
was piled into drifts by the high
winds Saturday in exposed places and
automobiles had considerable difficulty
in travelling between here and Brattle.
boro.
The election Of officers last Monday
evening at meeting of Squakheag
tribe, /. O. r. NJ, resulted as follows: ],
E. Scott, sachem; +. j. Young, senior
sycamore; M. Major, junior sycamore
Thomas Mann, prophet; Charles Fletch,