The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-27
w. H. Geddis

this week for the auction which occur
Dec. 4.
Edwin Sawyer returned last Friday &c
his home in Hyde Park, Mass.
Mrs. Plumb and Miss Mary Plumb
spent Thanksgiving in Brookline.
Mrs. Lizzie Barber is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Annie Briggs, in Wardsboro.
Esther +. Dale came home from
Springfield, Mass, for Thanksgiving
week.
The Hadassah league held special
meeting with Mrs. X. ID. Phillips Tues
day evening.
An interesting and pleasing edition OF
the Leland and Gray Messenger has been
issued this week.
The seminary closed on Wednesday for
the Thanksgiving recess. The winter
term opens Dec. s.
Lyle Batchelder went to his home in
Peru Wednesday night to spend the
Thanksgiving recess.
West River grange will meet Dec at
the town hall for the election OF officers.
There will be no program.
Miss Eta Marsh who has been en-
ployed in DR.. Lanes family in Brattle-
boro, returned home Monday night.
Miss Mabel Fullerton has received a
very handsomely mounted head of an an
telope killed by her father and sent from
Wyoming.
Miss Winnie Packard, assistant teacher
in the seminary, went to her home in
Brockton, Mass, Wednesday to spend the
fall vacation.
Mrs. Alma Cummings and three chill
J,o, ,,a enn,J,nn Tho pls1iyipU waal
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Cummings of
Londonderry.
Mrs. George Cheney arrived Tuesday
night from Schenectady, N. y, to spend
Thanksgiving with her daughter, Mrs.
Charles Willard.
The young people of the village, feeling
the need of relaxation after the arduous
labor of examinations, gave a little dance
The orchestra was composed of Messrs.
Eugene Weatherby and Cudworth.
Miss Beulah Timson of Williamsville,
tied in town this week While in Ran
dolph Miss Tlmson frequently saw Pro
fessor Lewis's family and reports that
they are very pleasantly located.
A union Thanksgiving service was held
at the Baptist church Thursday night.
Rev. Mr.. Mexican preached the Thanks
giving sermon and an anthem, Praise the
Lord, was rendered by the combined
choirss of the two churches. Miss Esther
Dale sang the solo, The King of Love My
Shepherd Is.
Next Sunday, the national temperance
Sunday, the topic for the morning. ser
vice in the Congregational church will be
Why Prohibition for the State and Total
Abstinence for the Individual? At the
union evening service Mr.. Mcintyre will
preach on the theme, How that Wealthy
Citizen Lost His Eternal Standing.
There were several family parties cele
brating Thanksgiving yesterday. A. B.
Greenwood entertained his sons and their
families. The families of J. Q. and 0. W.
Folett spent the day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilmer Turner. The Loves, Batchel-
ders and Dales joined forces and devoured
a fine turkey which was a goose, Mr..
tiers and their husbands, Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Franklin and Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam Blood. Mrs. Bickford and her son
Frank were the guests of Miss Harriet |
Fletcher.
The death of Miss Loisa Simpson oc-
Cured at her home in Simpsonville
of last week. Miss Simpson
was 92 years old and was the oldest mem |
Der of the Congregational church, with |
which she united in 1885. In her younger |
lays she was an earnest worker in the |
church and Sunday school but for some
years now has been an invalid and con-
fined to the house. The funeral services,
held Saturday afternoon at o'clock,
were conducted by Rev. Mr. Mcintyre.
Mrs. Dale sang two hymns, Abide With
Me and No Sorrow There The burial
was in lakewood cemetery.