Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-29
NORTHFIELD.

Miss Anna Grace is home for the
Thanksgiving vacation.
The Good Templars of this place
gave a pillowcase party to large nun
Der of invited friends at the S. of v.
hall, Monday evening.
Mrs. Ed Barber is very sick with
pneuomnia Frank Proctor is very
sick with typhoid fever and Mrs. Ken
dali is under the doctors care.
Harold Chamberlain gave a party
to large number of young people
Friday evening The most important
resfreshment of the evening was ven
ison.
The W. R. C. are planning for
their annual fair December Is, and
are meeting at the several houses for
work. Last week Wednesday they met
with Mrs. S. W. Bailey at Vernon.
Charles Field of Winchester, was
engaged in drawing cement from
Mortified station to the Schell man
sion last week Wednesday, when he
fell from the load and a wheel passed
over his left leg, fracturlng the flbula.
Mrs. W. D. Morgan received word
last week of the death of Frank Mears
in Lee. He was the husband of Sadie
Barrett. Mrs. Morgans sister, and
was a dentist by occupation he was
only sick three weeks with typhoid
fever. He leaves besides his wife two
bows, the youngest less than year old.
Mrs. Abbie f. Woodbury. Britton,
widow of the late Charles Brltton,
passed away at the home of his son,
Frank, Wednesday evening of last
had IAn in fn l.
ing health for some months, death re
sulting from tuberculosis Of the bow
els. She was a native of Winchester,
n. H., and lived there until ii years
ago. when with her family she moved
to fine farm left by Charles Britton,
Sr., in the extreme northern boundary
of this town. She leaves five children,
Fred. Frank, Clarence, Nettie and
Mrs. Hattie Severance. Her funeral
was held Saturday afternoon and the
burial took place at Winchester She
was a woman of fine character and
was much loved by large circle of
friends and relatives.
Mrs. Jennie Mann Holton has been
taking a pleasure trip along the Pa
cific coast and the following extract
from a letter to her mother. Mrs. W es-
ley Mann, will be of interest to her
many friends here: 1--WE left Lords
bury and spent a week at Long Beach,
a popular resort on the ocean. Here
we saw a skeleton of large whale
which came ashore there in May,
1897, and was captured alive, killed
and the skeleton mounted. They
claim it weighed 4S tons when alive.
Its dimensions were as follows: length,
90 40 feet length of jaw, IL 40
feet: tail, width, u $40 feet; diane
ter, u fit; fin, length, 40 ft skull,
width, 7 5-1O fit. The under jaw bone
was about the shape of and as large
as a good-sized boat. 1t was protect
ed by roof and wire netting. We
spent one day at San Pedro. At this
place the government is making i'm
provements on the harbor, to cost 50,
600, 600. We spent one day at Point
Soma, there we went to the top of
the lighthouse 50 feet high. 1t cost
$50, 600 and the glass four inches thick,
around the lamp, cost $40, 600. The
lighthouse keeper told me he had
shown over 1000 people the tower In
the last eight months. The next day
we spent at Lila Juana Mexico We Wis
tied the largest lemon grove in Califor-
MIA said to contain 10000 acres of
lemon trees. We also visited the caves
of La Jollamade in the sandstone
rocks by the water. We also visited
Dobey ruins which was the marriage
place of Ramona.