The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-09-13
Mn. @. II. Taintor Of the Congregational
Church Building society.


Mrs Thayer of Smpsonyille is spend
ing week in Brattleboro.
Mrs, William Knapp of Brattleboro Il
visiting Mrs L, ). Brown,
Mr. +. A. Kenyon went TO Newian,
Tuesday to visit Mrs, Gracia Davidson.
Alston Cushing has new horse which
he purchased from A. l., Saxton of New
fame.
Mr.. Spenser and his daughter of New
! Haven, Conn, were recent visitors N
town,
John Salyesky has moved from his home
in Simpsonyille to a house near Mr.
Parks mill.
Carl johnson has gone TO Worcester
Mass, to visit his daughter Mrs, Ed
son Chamberlain.
Miss Abby Follett went Saturday TO ia.
maica, where she will teach the primary
room in the village school.
John Brigham has come from Wisconsin
% spend few weeks with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs b. b. Brigham.
MIR. and Mrs. Lyman Gale drove TO Bel.
lows Falls Saturday spending Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs win Marvin.
Mr.. Railway of Brool,line is in town
with his thrcshing machine and has been
stirring up dust on the Gale hill.
Herbert Randall of Dwight, Mass, has
been spending few days with his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs Moses Randall.
Col. Dutton was obliged to return from
Boston last week because of i'll health
and is at his home in Harmonyville.
Eugene Wetherhee's sister, who has
been visiting him for month, has return
ed to her home in Worcester, Mass.
Miss Bertha Phillips went the first of
the week to Newfane, where she will
work during the session Of the court.
Mrs. Lois Rumrill has gone to Spring
field, VT, her old home, for a visit She
viii also spend some time in Charleston,
n. II.
Col Alvin Franklin and Henry Miles
have gone to Saratoga Springs, \. V, to
attend the encampment OF the Grand
Army.
Miss Susan Ross returned Friday from
Worcester, where she was called some
time ago by the death OF her sister, Miss
Hannah Ross.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Brooks of Crystal
Lake, Mimi, are visiting Mrs. Brooks's
brother, A. 4. Mason, and her sister,
Mrs. Sarah Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gould of Bellows
Falls with their little girl and boy are
visiting Mr.. Gould's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Gould.
Mrs. Daniel Mcintyre and Jonathan who
had been spending the summer in New
Hampshire with Mrs. Mclntyre's mother,
returned home last week.
Mrs, William Sanderson and her son,
who have been spending the summer with
Mr.. and Mrs. Royal Sanderson, expect to
leave Monday for their home in Savan-
nah. Ga.
Prof. and Mrs. Newton and their
daughters. who have been spending the
summer with Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Hol-
brook, returned to their home in Andover,
Mass, Friday.
Posters are up announcing that the
blacksmith shop recently purchased by
Mrs. Harriet Fletcher will be sold at
auction next Wednesday afternoon, Sept.
Is, at 2 o'clock.
DR.. and Mrs. Parker, who with their
son have been spending some time with
Mrs. Parkers parents, Mr.. and Mrs, \.
A. Mason, returned to their home in
Fitchburg Monday.
Mrs. Booth, who had been spending
some weeks with her daughter Miss Lucy
Booth, at the cottage, returned to New
York Thursday. She was accompanied
as far as Brattleboro by Pauline Frank
lin.
Miss Lucy Booth and Miss Pauline
Franklin went to Windham Monday to
call upon Sir Gibbie who has spent some
weeks there learning the rules of dog
etiquet under the supervision of Mr..
Chapman.
Owing to the rain, neither Sunday school
observed rally day last Sunday. The ex-
ercises at the Baptist church were post.
poned until some future date. At the
church rally day will be
observed next Sunday.
Mrs. Francis's sister, Miss Clara Con
verse, who has been for some time a mis-
sionary in Japan, is in Vermont accom-
hoped that at some date this fall she may
be able to tell her story to a Townshend
audience.
Riyerdale horses seem to be on a ram
page. The example of Harry Pierce's
lands steed While Mrs. Park Holland
was calling on Mrs. Greenwood her horse
started for home on the run and left her
to go on foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. +. Sherman of Ions
dale, R. l., are visiting Mrs. Shermans
sister, Mrs Gushee, at the Baptist par
On Monday evening Mrs. Gushees
sister, Mrs Sparhawk, and her husband
came to spend few days of their honey
moon in Townshend
rTbo &c 1ost ,,-oaI lie
abled the main telephone line so that it
was for several days impossible to get
anyone in the village. While the line was
being repaired wire was cut in some
way so that j. H. Ware, Evans Brothers
and Fl. Fl. Holbrook were unable to use
their phones for at least a week.
In spite of the rain and the mud half
a dozen members of the Home club |
climbed the steep hill to meet with Mrs.
Windsor Whitney Wednesday afternoon,
Work upon the quilt went merrily on I'M
til supper time when they enjoyed the
delicious tea. All had a good time and !
voted the journey well worth taking.
The New England Telephone company
put a phone in Frank Stevens's house
this week. Speaking of telephones, brings |
to mind a Vermont family who had a
phone put in con condition that they
could listen all they pleased" Of course
the company had no objection but how
the neighbors may have felt about it is
another story.
Mrs. Dennis Jones has the sympathy of
The community in the loss of her brother,
H. H. Chase, who was struck by locomo
tive near South Vernon last week Thurs
day night, dying of his injuries in the
Memorial hospital last Friday. Mr.. Chase
was formerly a section foreman on the
West River branch of the Central Yer
mont lie leaueS a widow q father and |