The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-04-03
West RiUer TOUns
TOWNSHEND.
Rev. @. II. Baker Now Bank Priest
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dent.
A letter of recent date from Mrs, Il. III
Baker al Lowry, ;, ID, u oi Interest
Rev. and Mrs. u. H. Baker moved from
Aberdeen, :, D., several months ago u
Lowry, a town which has had IL exist
enc. only since last July, Mr.. liaker !.
president IL the Farmers State Hank ol
Lowry and Mrs. Baker Is postmaster
Mrs. BAKER writes that he winter has
been quite mild. but there has been SOME
sickness, The nearest physician u "
miles away and Ia other directions y
miles aud further, No ehurh has yet
been established but schoolhonse 4
nearing completion, The people are most
Ia Germans and Russians, There ar
only threr Protestant families IN town,
hut a good number ol American families
live on farms on ranches, or are holding
down claims within few miles OF the
town. The women IN these families win
the few in town. have organized an i'm,
proyemenl league for the identifying OF
the town, Of which Mrs. Baker Is presi'
dent.
Mrs, +. ID, Reed was in town Wednes'
day.
Mrs. Royal Sandcron i confined to her
bed.
Houensc Swtzer called in town We'd
nesday,
Mary war is home from Bellows Falls
for a while.
John Sylye-li has moved back TO his
place near Simpsonville.
Mrs. Harry Cudworth visited at Eur
gene Cudworth's recently.
Mrs. w. ). Holland is in Brattleboro
this week for a few days.
Mrs. Mabel Howard Allen arrived on
the train Wednesday night.
Miss Mya Hobart has gone to Gull
ford to visit her sister, Mrs. Ward.
Mrs. Mabel Farmer Allen and daugh'
ter Irene were in town over Sunday.
Susie Watson and Guy Bardwel spent
a few days at Fred Watsons recently.
Fred 0sgood of the University OF Yer
mont is at home Tor a short vacation.
Mrs. Merle Willis and child of Jamaica
are spending a few days at !. T.. Chases.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Harris OF Alillers
Falls, Mass, visited at w. q. Bruce's
last week.
The Ladies' Home club will meet at the
Congregational chapel next "Wednesday
afternoon.
Miss Lucy Booth, who spends her sum
mers in town. came to c. ii. Willards
Wednesday night.
Leon Truesdel gave an interesting talk
to the seminary students last Thursday
morning on What Is Educationy
Mrs. Lyman Gale and Lettie Gale spent
Sunday in Vernon at Mr.. Wright's Lit.
tie Roby Wright came home with them.
The Baptist missionary meeting was
held at Mrs. Bickford's last Friday after
noon. The subject taken up was Aliens
or Americans.
Mrs. David Howard and son of Orange,
Mass, visited few days recently at ii.
G. Franklins. They are now stopping
at Byron Thompson's.
Jerry Lowe, who came home for a short
vacation, came down with the German
measles last week. He is out again now
and returns to Boston this week.
Lizzie Aldrich, who has been visiting
in Springfield, Mass stopped few days
with her sister, Mrs. w. Nj. Sparks, on
her way home to Westmoreland, n. H.
At the Christian Endeavor service next
Sunday night collection will be taken
for the benefit of Kurn Hattin Home,
which recently met with such loss by
fire.
Fred Gilbert, who has taught the vii.
lage school in Newfane for number of
terms, has been engaged to teach the
village school in this town the coming
term.
Rev. Daniel Mcintyre and son, Jona-
than went to North Adams, Mass, Mon
day to spend the week. Mr.. Mcintyre
expects to return in time for the SER
vices next Sunday.
Miss Susan Ross has received an inv-
tation for April 4 to the 9th wedding
anniversary of her half-brother, Willis
Ross of Stoneham, Mass. Mr.. Ross is
about 80 years old.
Miss Mary Plumb went to Westminster
Monday. Her mother, Mrs. Ellen M.
Plumb, was called there the week before
on account of the illness of her brother,
Joseph Powers, who has since passed
away. The funeral was held Tuesday.
Mrs. Plumb and daughter returned to
town Wednesday night.
An interesting grange meeting was held
last Friday night. One of the principal
features of the program was the rollcall,
members responding to their names by
Quotations from old almanacs. A prize
of glass berry dish was given to the
one quoting from the oldest book This
was won by Mrs. w. Fl. Miles, whose
quotation was from an almanac dated
1928. The quotation was as follows: Let