Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-28


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'-rk Mortified is spending a few days
ew York city.
Il A. Dewitt and family spent the
lend in Chester.
lrs. Emma Eames of Brattleboro is
ting Mrs. V. |. Chase.
Mr.. and Mrs II. j. Batcheder visited
lends in Chester Sunday.
Mrs Edmund Roberts of West Wards
joro came Wednesday to help Mrs NJ o.
Howe two weeks.
Mrs Leslie Adams, whose husband is
one of the jurors at court, was a guest
"Wednesday of Mrs. A. H, Farnum
Mrs. Victor Cutting and two children
of Brattleboro came Wednesday to visit
Mrs. Josephine Howe and at a. r. Ed.
wardss.
The Ladies' Aid society served their
annual harvest dinner in the church din
ing room Wednesday afternoon and were
literally patronized
All who are knitting for the Red Cross
society are requested to finish their work
and hand in to those who have charge
of the work by Oct l.
Herbert Howe is filling silos for the
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day at Herman L. Eddy's and going from
there to j. d. Maher's.
DR.. Marshall A. Howe and family OF
New York city came Wednesday to spend
two weeks at the home of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs NJ. o. Howe.
Miss Minnie Metcalf of East Douglas
Mass, is spending a vacation of two
weeks with her mother, Mrs. Mouton
nd brother, Ira Moulton, on Newfane
Ill.
Rev, A. p. Solandt of North Dakota
anne last week to visit his brother,
gorge Solandt, and preached Sunday
ening very interesting sermon in the
ngregatonal church.
';eorge b. Bush, Earl r. Davis, Rey
INT, Karl AIaher, Lewis Higgins, H. A.
penter and +. A. Dewitt attended the
thict meeting Of the Odd&HFeAdss
dnesday evening in Brattleboro.
Dr. Clifton Howe is at home for short
W, after having been in Canada to
mplete the forestry work, in which he
been engaged through the summer
expects to return Monday to Toronto
iversity.
The large spreading elm, 100 years old
which was so badly damaged at the time
of the burning of the Goodnow house, was
cut down Thursday. The other elm neal
by will be preserved, although somewhat
,maged by the fire.
Mrs. Frank O. CRANKY who has been
,nding several weeks with Mrs. Perry
Rest Cottage on Newfane HILL re
ned Wednesday to her home in Ston
ION, Conn, Mrs. Perry accompanying
as far as Brattleboro
irs. Ella Taintor, who has been a sum
r guest at Grand View farm six weeks
urned last week to her home in Brook
t. Mrs, Susan Rugg, who spent week
tn Mrs Whitaker, returned Wednes
y to her home in Ware, Mass.
Mrs. Lucius Covey and child came from
-aconia, n. H., the first of the week
1eing called here by the serious condi
who died Tuesday, Her husband, VIII,
lad been i'll about two weeks came
Wednesday and will remain in town q
ew weeks to recuperate.
At the Grange meeting Wednesda,
venng, interesting articles showing prog
css were read from old almanacs ant
papers, The oldest were the Universe
Almanaclls (l79O) and Bickerstaffs Al
manack (l792) in the Windham County
Democrat (lS4D an advertisement of tho
sale of Stone farm, two miles from court
house; in The Vermont Phoenix 1886
Vol. IlI) an advertisement of the fal
opening of a large stock of dress good
made one think the stores at present wer,
not what they used to be. A very inter
esting paper on Farming in 1910, by w
c. Ballou, gave an idea how easy farm
ing might be made by the use of elec
tricity. The program was interspersed by
singing of old songs. Several of the la
dies wore old fashioned clothes and tire,
of the ladies showed how easy outdoor
work can be done by wearing garder
suits or boomers.
WEST DUMMERsToN.