News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-08-26
Stowe Old Home Week

Home w eek ASSOCIdbiOu at Inc L dHSdueS
last week Wednesday, was attended by
about $50 people. The dinner was en-
joyed in family groups in the pavilion.
President L. l.. Harris opened the meet
ing with appropriate remarks, saying
among other things that invitations sent
went out to every State from Maine to
California, and from Texas NORTH but
il was noted with pleasure that a large
per cent of the people who have left
Stowe in the last 20 years have settled in
Vermont or other New England States
Among the people called on to speak
were w. r. Collins, Mrs. 0. w. Butler,
George A. Town of birmingham, Mass,
M. D. Mcmahon, Ira M. George of Bns.
ton, Miss Mary Moody. One OF The aig
est family gloups present was that of the
Mcmahon family, including Mr.. and Mrs.
M. D, Mcmahon, DR.. and Mrs. P. E.. Nc
McSweeney and son, of Burlington, Mrs.
Henry C. Mcmahon, Minneapolis, Mr..
and Mrs. G. l.. Mcmahon, and Mr.. and
Mrs O. e. Luce of Stowe. Another large
family Included E. W. Kaiser of Green's
boro. Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Kaiser and two
sons of Gilmore, Miss Nancy Kaiser. Miss
Mel tie OF Manchester, n. H., Mrs. G. A.
Burnell of Athol, Mass, Misses Avis and
Lou Vearen and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Casey and daughter of North Leominster,
Mass. The Straw family was represented
by Mrs. NJ. A. Jenney, Miss Rose Straw,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Douglas, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. E. Douglass, Mr.. and Mrs. I'll. K.
Straw, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fl. Cheney, Mr..
and Mrs. Mcmahon, Dr.. and Mrs. FL. W.
Barrows, and Mr.. and Mrs. s. M. Brush.
Among those from out of town were,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dolores Luce Russell of
Merrifield, Mimi, Mrs. |. F. Chamberlin
of Morristown and Mr.. and Mrs. A. N.
Camp of MorrisviIe, Miss Nellie Watts
of Haverhill, Mr.. and Mis-. G. A. Town
and daughter of birmingham, Mass,
Mrs Fred w. Blenns of Worcester, Mass,
Mrs. Lewis Brown Reed and Miss Elsie
Brown of Berlin, Ira M. George of the
L, NJ. NcOl &c W vi DOoOOu, hioS Dol 'Ghy
Heron OF Oshkosh, Wis, Miss Mary
Moody of st. Louis. Mrs. o. w. Butler,
Mr. and Mrs j. A. Pope and children of
Washington, d. c., Mrs. Benton Harris
Of Springfield, Mass, Miss Myra Cheney
of Boston, Miss Wilson of Montreal.
The play, "The Colonel's Maid" given
in June by the pupils of Stowe high
school, was repeated very successfully
Friday evening at the Akeley Memorial
Building for the benefit of the Old Home
Week Association. Former Principal K.
G. Reynolds of Morrisville, who supcrin-
tended the first production, was in charge.
The parts were taken by Donald Nc Ma
hon, Frank Pike, Lillian Godfrey, Elton
Forbes, Isabelle Smith, Muriel Pike, Gale
Shaw, Give Demeritt and John uosmer.
Music was furnished by the Peerless Oh
cbestra. There was large attendance.
Rain interfered with the attendance at
the annual Old Home Week social at the
Akeley Memorial Building Thursday
evening, but the 200 people who Were
present found it one of the pleasantest
events of the week. The guests were
cordially met at the entrance to the Audi
Il rum by MI. and Mrs. o. E. Luce and
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin r. Bigelow of the
reception committee. President l.. l..
Harris was in charge of the program of
no which inoItrHa1 cal.,ntinnS
by the Peerless Orchestra; a violin solo
by D. M. Mcmahon; "Should Aud Ac.
quaintance Be Forgot" and other fa-
miliar songs by the audience, led by G..
A. Burnham at the piano; recitatioLs by
Misses Barbara Burt and Margaret Har-
rs aud remarks by Mrs. Lillian Chase,
Walter NJ Sargent and Conrad A. Adams.
At the annual meeting held during the
evening the officers were reelected as
ollows:-President, Lucius L. Harris;
vice president, Mrs. Mary A. Jenney;
secretary, Mrs. Joanna Mcmahon Luce;
treasurer, P. d, Pike. The records
the past year were read by the secretary,
who also read letters from Mrs. Ellen
Lovejoy Hunter of Chelmsford, Mass,
Mrs. Helen NJ. Ball of Westfeld, Mass,
Miss Jennie Hodge of Naomi, Wis, Mr..
and Mrs. II. G.. Thomas of Los Angeles,
CAL, and Wilbur B. Bigelow of Salem,
Mass. Among those present not before
noted were:-Mr. and Mrs. Hiram d. |
Wood of Minneapolis. L. G. Moody of |
Mr.. and Mrs. Ii. H. Demeritt |
and Miss Margaret Pike of Waterbury,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Sargent of Norris |
Vile, Mrs. Lillian Chase of Cambridge, |
Miss Mary Bigelow of Danvers, Mass
Miss Addie Bigelow of Franklin Falls
n. H., Miss Grace Bigelow of Springfield,
Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad A. Adams of |
Somerville, Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.
Gruber of New York, Mrs. F. w. Blemis
of Worcester, Mass. Mrs. Lydia A. Shaw
over IS and one of the Oldest residents of |
Stowe, who was present with her son. Fl.
Shaw, and family, was probably the old
est person in the assembly. The evening
closed with social hour.
During the latter part of Thursday af-
ternoon the rain, which prevented the
carrying out of large part of the sports