The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-16
SOUTH NEWFANE.

Miss Vida Chase of Revere, Mass,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. John +.
Morse.
Mrs Mason White, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Cushing and son, Coburn, of Brat
tleboro were Sunday guests at hurry I
H. Cheney s.
Samuel J. Shanbaeker Of Philadel- /
phia and son, Frank Shanbaeker Of {
Princeton university, are guests of /
Frank G. Morse at Liberty hall.
Mrs Milton A. Bingham and daugh- |
ter, Aldine, spent Tuesday and We'd !
nesdav in Putney, with Mrs. Bing
ham 5 brother, Frank Knapp, and
family.
About % residents and summer
guests from Brookside attended We'd
nesday the Methodist Sunday school
picnic at East Dover at James Brown 5
place.
Miss Bishop and Miss Fieldscnd of
Meridcn, Conn, arc boarding at hubert
w. Shepard IS, Wednesday, with Mr.
and Mrs Herman Osgood, they spent
the afternoon on Newfane hill.
Schools are expected to open Tuesday
Sept. , Miss Lottie Hunt has been
engaged for the Brookside school and
Miss Daisy Barber of Lyndonvillc, "A
state normal school graduate, for this
| village.
| RAY L. Brooks met with consider
able loss Tuesday morning when a val
liable COW which was being led across
bridge to pasture jumped aside, fall
a broken neck.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, two daughters
and son Of New York city, Miss Eva
krast and Miss Ella Burgess Of New
Haven. Conn Mrs. Ware and daugh-
ter. Miss Marion Ware, of New Provi-
dcnce r. T., are boarding with Mrs.
Frank +, Bruce.
Late arrivals at Mrs. Mary Ballou Is,
at Brooksidc. are three sisters, Misses
Dorothy, Beatrice and Edith Emerson
of Lynn, Mass. who win remain for
several weeks, and II. G. Smith Of
IBrattlcboro Wednesday, leaving ycstcr-
day Miss Mary Moller and Miss An
ma Ilamerick returned yesterday to
| RoNbury, Mass.
The drought through some parts OF
the west is becoming a serious matter
Nebraska newspapers state that pas
turage is drying up and that it IS ne
ccssary for many farmers to feed then
stock. The prospect for the corn croI
IS >crv discoaraging. In California
where no rainfall Is expected between
April and October. rain visited Ger
tain sections during July.
The dry weather is lowering some OF
the springs. cutting off the water sup
ply in some homes. At Brigham Broth
crs steam min on Stratton hill tht
water supply is exhausted and it Ia.
to be hauled from the brook. 1T Ran
doH : mill it is said that work vii
; have to be stopped unless relief come
soon Showers which have favore'
: | ether places have been very light here
O. f. Duling OF Morgantown, Yves
Virginia. n student in the university o
S that state. has been canvassing for TIN
e sale of books in town this week. Dur
. ing previous vacations, in earning mon
, az to pay for his college course he ha
t Travelled in al states cast Of the Miss
,ssippi river except New England, an
i spcn,jinr this summer in Massachu
Isctts and Vermont. Last sprlng M
Duliag and another candidate from III
Y state successfully passed the examlna
Z. tion for the Bhoades scholarship.
t the final decision. which was 10
Il chance. the lot fell to the other mar
giving him three years s course o
training mt Oxford, England, with tray
a on the continent during the sun
mers. Mr.~~Duling viii complete HI
q college course and then enter the la
school at Yale university. lie IS on
of four brothers who arc earning thol
!, own way through college and prole'
sional courses of study.