The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-24

Miss Alice .IeffordS Is at home from
Charlestown for the holidays.
H. A. Jones visited in Keene last
week with relatives.
There will be a waltz party Friday
evening in Foresters hall.
The ice on the lake has reached a
thickness of about II inches.
John Purcell has gone to Holyoke,
Mass, for an extended stay.
Mrs w F. Robertson spent two days
last week in New York city.
Henry W. Walsh was in Boston Mon
day and Tuesday on business.
Miss Doris Merritt of North Charles |
town is at home for "a short visit.
Miss Myra Owen has been confined |
to the house by illness the past week.
| Mrs Lang Of Laconia has been Wis
| iting her daughter, Miss Mabelle Lang.
Miss Blanche Boucher is at home
from Dublin for the Christmas yaca
ton.
Hans I4aaby is at home for the
i Christmas vacation from his studies in
Franklin.
Business at the foundry has increased
sufficiently to give employment to sew
eral more hands.
b. $. Spencer is cutting off pine and
chestnut timber on his woodlot near
Ladder hill.
Miss Ella Streeter of Providence, II.
l., is at home for a short visit with
her mother, Mrs Isis Streeter.
Miss Katherine Laliberte is at home
for a 10-days vacation from her stud
les in seminary in Hooksett.
\ New Years ball will be held Fri
day evening, Jan. ! in Foresters hall,
with music by Lyman s orchestra.
: f. W Tildcn, who has been confined
to the house by rheumatism, is consid-
erably improved, but is unable to be
out.
! \ heavy truck team became frighten-
: ed at the church bells Friday evening
? and ran to Lon Fraser 5 on the Plain
road.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. p. Bailey of Brock
. ton, Mass. came "Wednesday to stay a
week at 4. A. Bailey 5 and l.. l..
Stearns :. 80
Elmer King, a member of the crew of
! the United States cruiser Birmingham,
q is spending a few days furlough at W.
: w King 5.
! The members Of Wontastiquet
Grange had a very ENJOYABLE evening
Q "Wednesday with 4 Christmas tree and
i, social IN Fays hall,
h Mrs. Ralph Metcalf entertained the
I Busy Bees at Christmas tree party
in her home Friday. The afternoon
2 was made very enjoyable hy the host
y ess.
: The women of the Methodist society
/ viii serve an oyster supper in the
: church veStry Friday, New Year !
night, from 80 to 5 0 clock. Everyone
. welcome.
: G. \. Robertson, O. c. Robertson, &
" +. Robertson, w T. Robertson and +
!, S. Leonard attended q meeting Of the
!, Tissue Paper Manufacturers associa
, tion in Albany, \. Y, last week
# Mrs f. w .Jeffords, who has beer
@ i'll for several weeks, has not been rs
Y wei the past few days. She retume,
{ TO the Memorial hospital in Brattle
e boro Monday night for treatment,
y The rain which fell last Saturday af
81 tcrnoon and evening froze about u:
It Isoon us it reached the ground, making
IS the footing very treaeherous, and i
A. was even more so Monday when tbs
n snow fell.
/ The fremen will have their annua
of January While the date is not set
: tied it is expected that il will be hel,
the third Friday, as has been the Gus
I tom for several years.
+. The stock pen at the local statiol
le was disinfected under the direction o
+ a government inspector Saturday. TIL
II party arrived in special train. Tn
r. disinfecting was done to guard agains
d the foot and mouth disease.
II Mrs. w. j. Dew of Boston is visitin,
in the home of her parents, Mr.. ant
: Mrs. J. 2. McCaughern. Mr.. Dew
e expected to spend Christmas there.
T Schools closed Thursday night for til
holiday vacation until Monday, Jan. )
Sheriff f. O. Packard received u tel
ephone message Wednesday from tn
, Brattleboro Retreat to be on the look
! out for an inmate who had ESCAPED
: from that institution. A man answer
4 ing the description was seen by man.
10 on his way through this town, but h
= was not apprehended because it wa
- not generally known that he was be
: ing sought.
n In the annual meeting of Naom
chapter, o. T.. s., the following officer
), were elected: Mable E. Temple, worth
: matron; Rufus Langworthy, worth
y patron; Madelon t. Taylor, assoeiat
Il matron; Gertrude S. Field, secretary
n. Charles Z. Keyou, treasurer; Lila A
- Taylor, eonductress; Mabelle Lang
- associate conductress; Lila A. Taylor
~ representative to the grand chapter
= The chapter held Il special meetin
!. Thursday evening. at which three ear
- didates were initiated Refreshmcnt
:, Mero served.