Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-29
WESTMINSTER,


/ A fire started at the Dickinson hous
the morning of May 20, but was 500
! eXtinguished with little damage.
The Junior c. e. society gave ain en-
tertainment and plant sale at the tow
hall Wednesday evening. Light re
freshments and home made candy wer
also on sale.
At the town hall tomorrow night tn
local grange will present the play sou
Folks" The cast is a remarkably goo
one, and will doubtless draw II full
house. Cake and ice cream will be fur
nished by the ladies' aid society
Mrs. Charles Bishop, matron a
Kurn Hattin, with five boys, went t.
Winchester, n. H., Friday to assist il
an entertainment given there for tn,
benefit of Kurn Hattin home. The re
suit was $50 for Mrs. Bishop to bring
home with her.
Howard Fem, nine years old, had {
narrow escape Thursday morning. While
untying IA COW in the barn she caugh1
one horn in his clothes in such a way
as to penetrate his side, bruising his
flesh and crowding him into one cor
ner of the stall
Mrs. Fogg of Bridgeton, Me-, was a
guest last week at Mr.. and Mrs. G. b.
Hall Mrs. B. Z. Phelps visited in
Claremont, n. H., last week. Miss
Bessie Wright was been seriously i'll
last week but is better }. q. Pierce
was the guest of Mrs. l.. A. Pierce last
week.
Miss Fannie Fisher of Boston is at
her uncle's. @. l.. Fishers. Miss Ida
Wright of Brattleboro is home for a
few days. Mrs. Washburn of Alstead,
n. H., is at Miss Mary Tenney -
Mrs George Hayes of Springfield,
Mass, is expected at w. S. Fenns,
Saturday for the summer. Rev. q. II.
DeBevoise was in Boston Monday and
Tuesday.
Mark Ward, a former resident of
Putney, and brother-in law of Henry
Willard of this place, died at Mr..
Wizards Saturday night. Mr.. Ward
had been in feeble health for some
time, his troubles eliminating in IA
shock, to be followed in few days by
death The funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon. Burial in the new
cemetery.
Seldom is a community enveloped in
such universal sorrow, as is this, by
the death of Miss Mary Louise Wright,
aged 10, which occurred at Gaysyille
May 10, after an illness of eight days
of pneumonia. In June, 1901. Miss
Wright graduated at the High school
in Bellows Falls, her essay on charac-
ter taking the prize. Since then she
has been teaching. Her gentle unas-
Stunning manner won the hearts of all
who knew her. She was youngest daugh
ter of the late Edward p. Wright, her
mother. Mary Irwin Wright, having
died in Miss Mary's infancy. Her
death is an especially hard blow to her
aged grandfather, Daniel c. Wright,
with whom she and her sister Edna,
have resided except when attending
school since the death of their mother.
Among her near relatives who are left
are her sister, Miss Edna Wright, who
came to help care for her from Boston
where she was attending the Emerson
school of oratory; her grandfather
Wright, Aunt Harriette Wright,
teacher in Connecticut, and Gage
Wright, brother of +. p. Wright, and
family, also her grandfather Irwin, who
lives in the West. but was too feeble
to be present. Funeral services We're
held at her late home on upper Main
street at 4 O'Clock Thursday afternoon,
d. l.. Sanford. rector of Emmanuel
church at Bellows Falls, officiating.
During the last hours of Miss Wright's
life, she sent messages of love to all
her relatives. and good bye to ev-
short time before starting
out on her journey 10 that far country
where only happiness awaits the tray
aler. Twenty five or her graduating
class were present. Flowers of rarest
beauty were given as a last token of
esteem