Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-06-15


A little girl came 70 Mr. Mecarty's Tues
day
Mrs. W. o. Davis went TO Jamaica on
Saturday,
Cyrus Farmer was in town last week call
Ing upon friends.
Edwin Davis and wife OF Bellows Falls
were In town Sunday
Captain II. p. Stone OF Springfield, Mass
was at Fayeiie Cooks recently.
There was no preaching service at the
Congregational church last Sunday.
Miss Jean Boyd Sharp went to Jamaica
Tuesday to give recital that evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Of Brooklne were
among those In town for commencement.
II is reported that c. II. willard and
Julian Taft have bought the Bemis place.
william Allbee OF Fitchburg, Mass, Wis
tied his brother. George Allbee, last week.
Miss Cora Brown of Athens and Grin
smith were among the alumni In town last
week.
Charles Cutler, d. d. c. NJ, attended the
state Masonic meeting in Burlington this
week.
J. o. Folett went TO Putney Monday to
nullu an aIpheu SWINE piiuhc va u"'s
! street.
Fred Gilbert Of Philadelphia with his
nephew was in town last week visiting his
father.
Mr. Cone has sold his horse to Mr., Da.
Wis OF Newfane and contemplates purchas'
ing a new one
| Frank Cheney OF Beloit, Wis, was in
town over sunday visiting his sister, Mrs.
Charles willard.
Miss Susan Ross entertained the Home
club Wednesday afternoon. goodly mum.
Der were present.
| Mrs H. Winslow has returned from two
weeks visit TO her daughter, Mrs stratton,
OF West Townshend.
Arthur Batchelder of Granite Falls, Mimi,
came Tuesday to visit his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. b. Batchelder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards of Grafton and
Charles Moore Of Bellows Falls were at Ed
gar Allbee's this week.
A. Harding, who has been stopping at the
Townshend inn left Sunday for Chicago and
other points at the west.
All interested are requested to meet at
the town hall Monday evening 10 make plans
for Fourth Of July celebration.
T. A. Convey, former resident Of Towns.
bend, died at his home in Springfield VI,
Friday The funeral was Sunday.
Mrs Harry Danner and her son, How.
ard, Of Beaufort, S. c., came to town Mon.
day evening to spend the summer with Mrs.
Dale.
Mr.. Hebb Of Hartford, Conn, spent the
past week with his family His little daugh'
ter, Dorothy, who was seriously i'll, is much
better.
Ex-senator Coolidge of Fitchburg, Mass,
who delivered one of the addresses here old
home week and whose wife was a native of
Townshend, died last week Friday.
Miss Abbie Follett, who is teaching in
Weston, came home last week Thursday to
attend the commencement exercises. return.
ing to her school Saturday evening.
Rev Daniel Mcintyre has accepted the
call to become acting pastor of the Con.
| gregational church and will preach his first
sermon in that capacity next Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Franklin has cactus which
had on il at the same time over 40 large,
red blossoms and buds. 1t was a perfect
glory and worth going some distance TO see
1t has been proved of late that though
sunlight, even when the sky is overcast,
is injurious to victims of ivy poison, moon.
light and lampight have no such deleter-
ous effects
Mrs. Atwood and Miss Plumb went fish.
ing Monday in Mr.. Gould's pond Although
they didn't succeed in getting whale
they did have mammoth catch, one land
ling about 80 and the other about so fish.
Mr.. Palmer of Grafton, John Adams of
South Windham Harold Bckford from
| pa EIoranra Adams Of Grafton.
Alice Derry of Putney and many other alum
nj were in town to attend the graduating
exercises.
Prof Bert Kenyon, who has been so sue.
cessful at BrantfOrd, Ontario, will move to
Ottawa before long, Mr.. Kenyon will give
farewell concert at Brantford June %,
when the oratorio, The Redemption, will
be presented.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Taft and family went
TO Jamaica to attend, on Wednesday, the
marriage of Mrs. Taft's sister, Miss Mabel
Sage, to Carroll Robinson. Both Mr. and
Mrs Robinson were formerly students at
Leland and Gray seminary.
H. 0. Gale lost colt last week, which
although only FIVE days old was unusually
large and promising. 1t was apparently all
right when he took it to the barn because
of the storm, but was probably stepped on
by one of the horses
Last Saturday the ball game was inter
rupted by the rain, as usual, this season.
Only seven innings were played but they
resulted in a score Of Townshend 10, ia
maica g. There will be game Saturday
on Reeds field between Townshend and
South Londonderry.
AT the close of the graduating exercises
on Friday it was announced that the Ma
sonic prize in geometry had been awarded
to May Barnes of the sophomore class and
the prize in Latin to May Lyman of the
Junior class. 1t seems to be always May
when the prizes come.
Miss Esther Dale returned home Thurs
day. On the way she stopped over at Brant-
ford, Ont, to take part in the oratorio, st.
Paul. The Brantford Expositor says of the
concert, "A large audience was present at
Zion Presbyterian church to witness Mr..
Kenyon's production of Mendelssohn
torio, st. Paul The solo work particularly
was done in delightful manner. Miss Dale,
formerly of this city, where she has won
many distinct triumphs by her beautiful
voice and manner, was the soprano soloist
of the evening and her rendering of the
two great arias Jerusalem, Thou That Kill
est, and l Will Sing of Thy Great Mercies,
will long linger in the memory OF each llst-
ener. Miss Dale's voice has gained in every
way since her work and studies have been
carried on in Chicago and all predict for
her most brilliant future in her calling
The barn belonging to the Congrega-
tional parsonage has been waiting for years
to come down. 1t has withstood the shock
of numerous committees, toasts and even
poetry which have been hurled against it
until it was believed that nothing short of
an earthquake could remove it from its foun-
dation. 1t seemed hardly worth while to
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