Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-10-20
NEWFANE

Mrs. Capen of West Townshend is at
Hurdis Smith g.
The w. @. T. U. will meet Friday af-
ternoon with Miss Mary Newton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Howe of Whining
ton visited Mrs. Josephine Howe Sun
day.
Miss Gertrude Braun, who had been
waitress at the Newfape Inn, returned
to Boston last week.
| T. j. Ford of Rutland and L. NJ. Hall
of Wilmington came by automobile and
have been at the Inn this week.
On account of the heavy rain storm
Thursday but few from this place at
tended the Grange fair in Williams
vile.
Mrs. Slack Of st. Johnsbury, wife of
Judge l.. P. Slack, is spending some
time in town and is a guest at the
Newfane Inn.
Mrs. E. A. Comeau, who spent the
summer with her daughter, Mrs. Whit
comb, at the Newfane Inn, returned
| Tuesday to Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. White and
daughter, Marguerite, of Brattleboro
and Henry Bowker Of Syracuse were at
F. W. Underworld Sunday.
Miss Elsie Newton went last week to
Maine to visit Miss CARTRIDGE. She
will return home with her automobile
through the White Mountains.
Mrs. Albert w. Pratt and son, Rob
ert, came Sunday from Cambridge for
a visit with Mrs. Pratt s parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Goodnow, at Elm Hall.
A. w. Rawson and family of South
| Londonderry, Mrs. John Skinner and
| little son, Raymond John, were guests
over Sunday at the Windham County
| House.
Judge Frank L. Fish is in town to
preside in the county court through the
case now on trial The jurors were
Monday.
A large number from this place at
| tended the Grange fair in Townshend
Tuesday evening, which was very sue
cessful and the last one to be held in
this vicinity this year.
w. A. Graham of Bellows Falls, who
is attending court this week, his wife,
Mr.: and Mrs w. M. Chaplin, Mrs. M. P.
Bundy and Lottie Doyle of Bartonsville
are guests at the Newfane Inn.
Miss Mary l.. Plat, who went last
week to Nashua to visit her brother,
James Plat, attended the district meet
ing of the Rebekahs in Brattleboro
Tuesday, returning home Wednesday.
George H. Batchelder, formerly of
this place, now of Westhampton, has
sold out his mercantile business and will
| give possession about Nov. |. Mr..
| Batchelder has not decided where he
will locate.
Mrs. Abby Pond returned Sunday
from a visit of four weeks in the home
of her brother, George o. Davis, in
Norwood, Mass. She stopped on her
journey home for a short visit at George
HI. Batchelder's in Westhampton. i,
George solandt recently received
news of the death of his brother, Dr.l
j John B. Solandt, who was killed in an
automobile accident while returning
from a nearby town to his home in
Hayden, Col.
Miss Ida Lewis, who supplied the pull
pit in the Congregational church in
Peru through the summer, visited here
the latter part of last week while on
her way to Brattleboro, where she will
spend few days.
Mrs. G. f. Davidson, who attended
the state convention of the w. G. T. U.
in Barre last week, visited relatives in
Burlington, where she attended the
teachers convention. Spending the
week in the home of her grandson,
Prof. M. Park Osgood, in Underhill, she
returned home Monday night.
Mrs. F. A. Dewitt and sons were here
from Chester last week. Treasurer +. A.
| Dewitt has rented the house recently
vacated by Nelson Gray and has moved
his household goods there. Mrs. De-
Witt and the younger children will
come to their new home about Nov. l.
Emery Phillips and son, Albert, Miss
Mabel Phillips and Miss Marion
Wright went Saturday to Springfield to
attend the dairy show. This week Will
Bruce, j. ID. Maher, C. l.. Hescock, Earl
Davis, Arthur Howe, Earl Hamlin,
Samuel Wiswall, Guy Grout, W. p.
Eames, R. R. Rhoades, Henry Wilson
and Herbert Howe attended the show.
The high wind did considerable dam
age here on Tuesday. One tree by the
fountain on the common was torn
asunder,- one half of it falling to the
ground. Another tree near Charles Hol-
land IS fell across the telephone and
electric light wires, throwing them out
of commission. The lights were on
about $50 in the evening and the tele-
phone again in order next day.