The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-22
County NelUs.
EAST DUMMERSToN.

Fred Crosby is at G. n, Crosbys this
week.
Sylvenus Kelley is in Westminster
this week.
Clarence Blodgett of Westminster
was in town Tuesday.
Miss Ida May of Halifax is working
for Mrs. Robert Blood.
The next dance was announced to be
Oct. 6. All are invited.
+. O. Downs and F. II. Miller are fill.
ing their silos this week.
Mrs. Elvira Davis of Chesterfield, n,
H.. is with Mrs. Leon Crosby.
Mrs. c. c. Walker has been spending
few days with her parents.
Preston Smead went TO the state fair
in White River Junction Wednesday.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Knight and Mrs. H. H.
Miller visited in Brattleboro, Tuesday.
Superintendent Whittier held teach
ers meeting at the Center Friday after
noon.
Mrs. Lila Reed and Miss Alice Laugh
ton attended the Putney grange fair We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Ellen Holton has returned TO
Henry Miller S after several weeks va
cation.
Mrs. Helen Phelps of New Ipswich,
N. H., is the guest of her niece, Mrs. E.
ii. Brown.
A new cement bridge Is to be built
over Salmon brook, on the Putney road,
near James Boyd's.
Don't fail to see McCurdy. the famous
aviator. fly each day at the Valley Fair,
Sept &c. ~ and 2S.
John f. Walker and Harold A. Reed
went Wednesday to White River June
tion to attend the state fair.
Sidney Miller was visitor OF John NJ.
Knight and other old friends in town Tues
day. Mr.. Miller is from Omaha, Neb.
The last dance was well attended and
an excellent supper was provided.
Quantity quality and service were mp
to the standard.
Putney grange fair was a big local
attraction Wednesday. The Valley fair
will be the Mecca to which the throne
will travel next week.
Will Kent is exhibiting his private
menagerie at the fairs. He is in White
River Junction this week and will probably
be at the Valley fair next week.
Miss Irene Mather. Miss Florence
Ober. Ernest Miller and Irving Miller of
Brattleboro and Avery E. Miller of
Springfield were guests Sunday at Ma.
pie Ridge fruit farm.
Carpenters and masons are busy on
Beattie Balestier's house Mr., Rice Is
boss carpenter and Fred Stewart and son,
masons All are from Brattleboro. They
board with Mrs. F. 0. Downs.
Sunday evening Wav Sung New OF
in the auditorium His subject will be
Life in China. Mr. New is friend of DIR.
River and is studying in the Harvard Med
ical school
Miss Minerva Crosby has returned
from New York where she went with
Mrs. Brooks to sturdy the new fashions
in millinery. Miss Crosby spent Sunday
here with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
N. Crosby.
The freeze last week Wednesday night
made havoc with the gardens and peaches;
Many orchards We're entirely spoiled and
those who reported their peaches unharm-
ed found when they picked them that they
were in bad condition.
Next Sunday Rev. Charles River will
preach his third sermon on the life Of
Joseph The subject of the discourse will
be: Joseph the Great Statesman and
State Socialist. These series Of sermons
promise to be interesting and not one
should be missed Full pews always in
spire a speaker.
Rev. Edison M. Roel of Stephentown, n
Y. who is native of Dummerston, was
in town this week visiting familiar places
of his boyhood, and among other places,
the old church on the common claimed a
share of his attention. The old homesteads
were also of interest but most of the old
families of 40 years ago have passed on,
and their descendants have sold the homes
to others while they have gone out to other |
homes. The only house on the common oc.
cupied by descendant of any family of |
40 years ago is the Judge knight home |
stead, now the home of John M. Knight
On the farm that has been in the Miller |
family since 1910, east of the common, live
Mrs. Mary Rust and her sister, Miss Lu-