The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-16
NORTHFIELD. MASS.

Mrs. R. L. Finley of Egypt, now a
! resident Of East Mortified, leads the
Ladies Missionary society at Mount
! Iiermon Wednesday afternoon III the
homo OF Mrs. II. F. Cutler.
Mrs. Clapp, superintendent Of the
seminary laundry, will open the Dickin
son house on South Main street for the
! Christmas vacation and will have he
sons from Mount Hermon with her.
The Christmas vacation at Noun
] Hermon school will begin at 400 p. m
Friday, Dec. is, and close at 6 p. m
Monday, Dec. 2s. Inspection and reg
! istration of students viii take place at
Holbrook hall from 10 G p. IN. o,
Dec. %.
The Christmas celebration in the
| Unitarian church win be held Thursday
evening, Dee. %, and in the Congrega
tional church Wednesday evening, Dee
-. Christmas exercises with Christmas
trees will be held in the lower grades
of the public schools this week Friday
afternoon.
Christmas exercises were held in the
| Barber district school house Monday
evening Of this week. The program
included solos, violin selections and sing
ing by the children, Christmas tree
with Courtland Finch as Santa Claus.
The evenings exercises were in charge
of Miss Marjorie Morse.
The benefit concert for Miss Amy
Chadwick of Atlanta, given in the
Mortified Hotel Saturday evening net.
ted $29. Those participating in the
program were Mrs. r. II. Philbrick
Mrs S. f. Walker, Messrs. Atwood and
Woodruff of Mount Hermon and Misses
Nelson, MeGranahan, Morse, Smith
Flagg and Whitehouse.
Rev. w. w. Coe preached in the Con
gregational church Sunday. No even
ing services were held in the church
but all attended the Christmas concert
in Sage chapel at 7.30. The concert
was given by the Nesper choir and Is
tey chorus CT Northfeld seminary, &c
companied by Miss Josephine Smith OF
the piano and Miss Angel and Miss Til
linghast at the organ. Twelve semin
airy students accompanied the chorus
on violins. The program consisted
mainly of carols from the 18th and l6tf
centuries. Several beautiful selection:
were given by the organist and pianist
The entire program was very impress
sivc in its sweet harmony and rendition
of the Christmas story. Rev. James Me
Conaughy, former professor of Bible
. III Mount Hermon, now of Philadelphia
gave n short address on Service. Rev
W. w. Coe preached at Mount HermoI
in the evening and Rev. McCOnaugh,
at Mount Hermon at the morning ser
vice.
The Fortnightly met Monday, Will
large attendance. The subject wa
Types of Character Produced, followin;
the subject of last week on Types o
Ideas Planted by the Colonists Mrs
f. W. Brown presided. Mrs. Warre'
French of South Vernon was voted int
the society. Mrs. Brown held a ques
| ton bee on colonial history. The sid
| winning received a dish of dates. Mr.:
| Fred B0oIittle had charge of the pre-
gram and gave Il paper on John Win
throp. Miss Ellen Callaghan gave
/ character sketch of William Bradford
= paper written for the Greenfield We
man Is club few years ago. DIR. Z. W
Brown gave paper on Jonathan Ed
: wards which he wrote - years ago
: Everyone enjoyed the life stories O
!, these, men of colonial times. Miss Cal
men of Northfeld seminary rendore
o. two piano solos. A social hour was Ell
9 ioYcd, with tea and cake; Mrs. e. y
= Lazelle and Mrs. J. A. !Stebbins actin
8 as hoStesses. The next meeting Of tn
: ortnightlY will be the annual musical
8 Jan. 49,. E. . 49," 4 ..t ).