The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-04-23

Edwin Persons is much better.
Richard Pierce has been sick with the
grip.
John Ware has recently bought a new
horse.
Charles Allen of Brattleboro was in
town Wednesday.
Harry Howard is having an ell added to
the blacksmith shop.
r. ID. Phillips is shingling the ell of
Miss Hobart's house.
Mrs Russell Blood is recovering from
her recent severe illness.
Miss Beulah Timson of Williamsville
visited in town last week.
Miss Ella Stebbins was home from
Springfield, Mass, over Sunday.
Frank Martin and G. c. Johnson made
a trip to Bellows Falls last Saturday.
Miss Lizzie Flynn after an absence of
several weeks has returned to school.
The listers are at work in the town
clerks office making out the grand list.
Fred Willard has sold his barn and lot
opposite the Pierce place to Fred Cutler.
Miss Florence Fits of Brattleboro spent
several days at the Townshend Inn last
week.
Earl Martin, who drives the Grafton
stage lost one of his horses last Saturday |
evening.
Edwin Fessenden, who has been in
poor health for some time, has failed very
much recently.
Mrs Dutton is expected from Gaines
vile, Fla. May 4 to occupy her summer
home in Hamonyville.
Mrs. William Mccoy and son of Fitch
burg, Mass, have been visitors at Ralph
Snyder's the past week.
Miss Abbie Starr returned the first of
the week to her work as teacher in the
Brattleboro high school.
John Grout is now carrying the chill
dren from the Follett district back and
forth to school every day.
Albert Franklin, VIII Sparks, Charles
Cutler and w. H. Miles made a business {
trip to Greenfield Tuesday,
Mrs Fred Barwell and Master Her
mann Wright spent Wednesday in Graf
ton with the latter's parents. 6
j. 0. Folett is putting in a new bridge
in Simpsonville. Mr. Bgelow and son of t
Brattleboro are doing the blasting.
Raymond Starr, who returned from s
Seattle, Wash, last week is assisting his
uncle, E. L.. Hastings in the station.
Miss Ethel Follett returned from Yves
ton Wednesday morning after a weeks /
visit to her sister, Mrs. Alice Austin.
Miss Lucy Booth of New York came 8
Tuesday night to open her cottage for the !
summer Sir Jibbie arrived on Wednes
day night. $
After visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. B. S
Batchelder, a few days, Miss Elsie La I
kin of Waterville, Me-, went to Peru last
Friday to visit her sister. +
Mrs Stella Martin entertained the S
Hadassah league very pleasantly at the S
Loot Eri1 off |
noon Ten members were present.
John Howard of Brattleboro is in town !
attending to the repairs on the house he i
recently bought of Harrison Eddy. John S
Skinner of Brattleboro is repairing the V
chimneys in the house. a
The early spring flowers are Turing us I
TO tramps over hillsides made beautiful
by hepaticas, spring beauty, yellow VIC
lets, adders tongue and the fragrant pink
flowers of the shy arbutus.
Miss Florence Sanders returned from
her business trip last Saturday and next q
Saturday will display her millinery goods d
in the old post-office room to the women
of Townshend and vicinity. I
Master Aubrey Stratton of West Towns
bend is boarding with Mrs. Ellen Plumb
and attending the village school, where he y
can havefthe benefit of the short hours .
for the primary grades and live near the
school building. j
Royal Sanderson, who has been spend e
ing the winter in Savannah, Ga, re-
turned to his home here on Wednesday o
of last week. He was accompanied by his t
son William. The latter returned to the
south the next day. I
At the Sunday morning service in the s
Baptist church Pastor Mexican will preach
on the subject A Prayer that was An T
swered. At the union service in the eve \
ming the topic will be The Prayer of a I
Man Who Never Learned How to Pray.
A number of fishermen have tried their +
luck these early days of the season, but e
the finest string of which the writer has v
heard was caught by A. i. Rand last W
Saturday in the big brook. Out of 20 W
fish one speckled beauty measured one
foot, seven measured 10 inches, and the
rest were all seven inches or more.
The Dorcas Guild was very pleasantly 10
by Mrs. Henry Franklin
afternoon of last week. Seven :
5een members and one guest were pres +
mt The usual busy afternoon was spent, ST
several busting caps, two tablecloths and
ZONE aprons being finished. AT five is
o'clock bountiful supper was served. ID
Old Sol refuses to shine on Dorcas
Guild hash suppers, but in spite of the