The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-04-09
West River TOWns
TOWNSHEND.
Charles Hall is still very poorly.

John Wright OF vernon visited al IL
o. Gales this week.
Arthur Greenwood has bought thu
Deane farm on Durham hill
Judge Allbee of Bellows Falls was in
town Wednesday for probate court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Perry and Mrs
Alma Blood spent Monday in Brattleboro
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Timson of Brattle
boro were visitors at A. f. Stones this
week.
Miss Florence Lazele of Williamsvile
spent several days with Miss Stella Morse
this week.
Miss Nellie Underwood, one of the SEM
mary students came down with the
measles Monday.
Mrs. James Sexton and baby of Brattle-
boro were the guests of Mrs. Daniel Nc
Intyre over Sunday.
The Ladies' Home club will meet with
Mrs. G. G. Taft Wednesday afternoon,
April IA at 3 o'clock
The Dorcas Guild will hold its April
meeting with Mrs. Harry Franklin Thurs
day afternoon, April Is.
visited Mrs. Mary Phillips on Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
On Monday Mrs. Henry Miles enter
tanned few of her friends at dinner, the
occasion being Mrs. Miles birthday.
After spending 10 days with her mother,
Miss Esther E. Dale returned to her work
in Springfield, Mass, Tuesday morning.
John Howard of Brattleboro has bought
Harrison Eddy's house on South street
and will begin repairs there Immediately.
Mrs Otis Phillips of Orange Mass, with
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cross, was recent guest at Mrs.
Mary Phillips
Miss Abbie Starr came home last Sat
urday for the Easter vacation. Raymond
Starr is expected from Seattle Friday and
will probably spend the summer here
Mrs. Fred Reed and daughters. Ruth
and Marjorie, have gone up to South Lon
donderry for few days visit before re-
turning to their home in Amsterdam,
N. Y.
Among the other diseases flying around
town this spring is the chicken-fever. The
only sure cure is a new hen-house, but pa
tients are not only faithful but most en-
thusiastic in following the prescription.
Mr. and Mrs Arthur Stone, whose mar
riage occurred in Westmoreland on Tues
day of last week, are visiting the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo f. Stone,
and other relatives in town. The young
couple will make their future home in
Westmoreland.
The food sale of the Baptist Ladies'
Aid society on Thursday of last week was
very successful, every article being dis /,
posed of. Much more might have been
sold had the women realized the demand |
there would be from housewives busy with |
spring cleaning and sewing.
H. A. Fisher of Windham delivered 300
pounds of maple sugar to Henry Miles on |
Tuesday to be shipped to Connecticut |
Mr. Fisher reports that even back on the
hills the sugar season is at an end and IN
this vicinity sap buckets are washed and
dried and stored away for next springs
use.
At the morning service in the Baptist
church next Sunday the pastor will preach
an illustrated sermon to the children. The
will be Catch Words for Easter Truths.
There will also be special Easter ser.
vice in the morning at the Congregational
church.
Miss Florence Sanders has been in
Springfield, Mass, and Hartford, Conn.,,
this week buying goods for her millinery
opening. Those who had the benefit of
Miss Sanders good taste and slSillful
work last fall will be very glad to know
that she will open a shop in the village
very soon.
Wnen Cne thermometer registers u ue-
grees in the shade and the crocuses are
opening their crimson and golden heads to
the busy bees, one may surely feel that
summer has come in spite of lingering
patches of snow and the quite respectable
drifts still to be found on the north side
of our buildings.
The school board announces that the
spring term of the town schools will open
on April 10 this year instead of May as
heretofore. Teachers for the various dis
tricts are as follows: No. l., Mrs. F. M.
Brooks of Brattleboro; No. 8, Miss Lot
tie Jones; No. 6, Fred Gilbert; No. 7,
Miss May Howe; No. s, Miss Alcestis
Wheeler. In connection with the village
school it is suggested that persons having
any books to spare suitable for a school
library should donate them to fill the
shelves of the new bookcase secured by
the children last term. Volumes of poet
ry, tales from history, books suitable for
supplementary reading, nature books and
good clean sweet stories of child life, such
as the Alcott books, would all be helpful
and form the nucleus of good library
without which the teacher is handicapped
and no school can do its best work.