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

day from Springfield, Mass, where she
had been six weeks.
Mrs. Alice A. Bailey went Saturday
to Greenfield, Mass, to stay with her
niece, Mrs. r. l.. Davenport.
During school vacation the Pathfnd-
err girls meet Tuesday afternoons at
the parsonage with Mrs. Kelly.
The Ladies Benevolent society will
meet next Wednesday afternoon with
Mrs. Wallace johnson on the Marlboro
Branch road. All are cordially in
vited to attend.
Mrs. Erwin c. Sparks, who had been
i'll with grip several weeks, went Tues
day to Brattleboro, where she is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. A. f. Atwood, while
regaining her usual good health.
Mrs. Lyman G.. Powers, after spend.
ing the winter with her daughter in
Bernardston, Mass, has returned to
her home and opened it for house
keeping. Mr.. Grout, who accompanied
her, will remain for the present.
The mission study class will meet
next Tuesday evening with Mrs Love,
to take up the third chapter of The
Kings Highway. Rev. f. A. Kelly
will be the lecturer. All, including
the men and boys as well as women
and girls, are invited to these meet.
ings.
Mrs Sumner G. Shepard, who has
been at c. E. Brown s since early in
January, went last week to the hons
Of her son, l.. w. Shepard. Mrs. AL
ton j. Morse of Baldwin Place, n. Y,
came Friday for visit and Ernest
Morse, also of Baldwin Place, arrived
Monday.
The Brookside school, Miss Edith
Adams teacher, closed Friday, March
10. Those who won prizes on the roll
of honor We're Olive Mundell and Es-
Their Trevarrow; prizes for perfect at
tendance, Fannie Knapp and Hollis
Powers. Merrill Mundell had perfect
attendance during membership. Ray
mond Stone was absent onehalf day
on account of illness and Olive Nun
dell one day. Miss Adams will be at
her home in Windham during vacation.
Miss Matte b. Metcalf went last
week to Wayland Moore S in East
Dover to assist in caring for their
daughter, Miss Edna Moore, whose
the early age of Is years. Mrs. Moore
idS bNNh III NHtti ~ vi tNh' phOuN NCh-
trail for this section for a number of
years and has wide acquaintance.
Much sympathy is expressed for Mr.
and Mrs. Moore in the loss of their
daughter. A number from this place
attended the funeral Wednesday morn
ing.
Rev. DR.. Tympany, returned mis-
sionary, who had planned to lecture
here next Wednesday evening, is pre-
vented from doing so by the severity
of the season DR.. Tympany is ac.
customed to tropical climate, but has
faced the rigors of winter, wading
through snow drifts and driving many
miles in sleighs and other vehicles to
fulfil his engagements, until it has be-
come necessary to cancel a portion of
them DR.. Tympany is in America for
vacation and rest and within a few
months will return to his foreign field
of labor.
! The Marlboro Branch school, Miss
Helen Lewis teacher, closed Friday
February %. The number of pupils
was is for three weeks, 10 for three
weeks and II for six weeks. The av-
erage attendance was 49, Colds and
other illness interfered seriously with
lHc dlIcHudHCe ana NONE OI lne pu-
pills escaped absence. On Washing
tons birthday special patriotic pro
gram was given. A sleighride had
arranged for the last afternoons but
was prevented by unpleasant weather
Games were played and general good
time enjoyed in the school room. The
spring term will open after a vacation
of seven weeks.
The Boston Sunday Herald of March
5 in the Automobile section, gave full
page illustration of a portion of Ire
mont street and Boston common. 1t
showed the large amount of traffic with
automobiles on that street in one of
the stormicst days of winter, large
number of pedestrians, crowding the
sidewalk in some places also the snow
on the common. Since that time much
more snow has been piled in the com
mon and some suburban residents have
been compelled to abandon their au-
tomobics and fight their way through
drifts eight or 10 feet deep, to their
homes. Heavy snow, in and around
great cities (where it is not thought
to be needed, is far more troublesome
than in the country, where much Of
the business of winter is dependent
uDOO snow