Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Miss Isabel Pierce is spending the
week with her cousin, Mrs. p. A. Per
ry.
Rev. E. w. johnson has the use of
DR.. George Hopkinson s team during
the winter
Raymond Reed has been in increasing
demand lately as chauffeur and repair
er of automobiles.
Rev. f. w. johnson attended the
meetings of Christian Workers in West
Brattleboro Thursday.
Mrs. Nora Kendall and Mrs. N. H.
Robinson visited in Wilmington from
Thursday to Saturday, Mrs. Avis
Waite returning home with them.
Mrs. Avis Waite is housekeeping at
E. A. Eddys in Stratton during the
absence of Mrs. Eddy, who is taking
an automobile trip to. st. Adams with
her daughter Miss Ethel Eddy.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. NJ. Stocker returned
Sunday from an automobile trip with
their son, Merle Stocker, wife and son
to Seymour, Conn, to visit their son,
Shez ian Stocher, and family.
Six wall clildreJStof the families of
Almon Hobinson and Ralph Pike have
been in the care of Miss Corene Pike
during the absence of their parents,
occasioned by the sickness and death
of their grandmother.
Mrs. s. NJ. Estabrook has received
news that her two grandsons are in
military service, Miles Curtis is at a
camp in Maryland and Milton Curtis
with a regiment in the state Of Wash
ingtOn. Both are with California
troops.
John King of Newark, n. j., Mr..
and Mrs. o. A. Johnson of Jamaica
Mrs. Maud Lucies and little girl of
BrattleborO, Mrs. A. j. Pike of STRAIT
ton and Mrs. Hattie Boyle of Dover
were out-of-town guests at j. A. Street
er s Saturday.
The Ladies Social circle has sent to
the Red Cross at Brattleboro this week
the second box of knitted goods, max.
ing in all sent in since the work was
taken up in July: Two pairs hospital
socks, II pairs service socks, 40 pairs
wristlets ~ muffiers and two sweaters
Mr.. Clark, the sheep herder, has been
gathering a flock in this vicinity this
week. He did not secure as many a:
usual in this immediate section al
though he expects the usual number
eventually. He offered II cents pei
pound and as high as $l5 apiece fol-
some sheep.
Miss Isabel Pierce has received news
that two cousins, sons of Clarke Knowl
ton of Memphis, Tenn, are in United
States military service. Clarke jr.
is now somewhere in France {
member of the Harvard unit, and Mil
ton is at the officers training camp al
Oglethorpe, Ga.
Mrs. Nora Kendall Raymond Ken
dali and Hugh Putnam went to North
field, Mass, by automobile Sunday. Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Putnam and son returned
home with them for week S visit
Mrs. Hattie Putnam is now in Wal
pole, n. H., with her daughter, Mrs
Irving Frost, and family.
Baptist church, E. w. Johnson pas
tor Sunday services Oct. 2S: 1914
a. M, morning worship, subject, Christ
the Church, and Our Country IL IN.
Bible school; 7.30 p. M, evening wor
chip, subject, A Mexican Hero. A
short church meeting will be held afte
the Bible school. All members ar
asked to attend.
| Albert Robinson brought in his frs
trophy of the season Sunday afternoon
1t was a bobcat, so long and slende
that while it weighed IA l2 lbs severa
guessed its weight as twice that. MI
Robinson found the eat alive in hi
bear trap. When he went to set hi
traps two week previous to this h
mot bruin in the road but did not sue
coed in capturing him.
Mrs. Almon Robinson and Mrs Ralpi
Pike were suddenly called to Brattle
boro Saturday by news of the seriou
illness of their mother, Mrs. Truman
Wallace, whose death occurred the fol
lowing day. Both daughters wer
joined by their husbands and attende,
the funeral in Brattleboro Tuesday aft
noon. Mrs. Wallace was well know
in this place and will be greatly misse
in the homes of her daughters, VIII
hnVn thn cynnpotbv of oil IN thoir On,