The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-08-19
Dorset Field Club Notes

Dorset Field Club Notes
An auction bridge tournament wa.
started Monday night, August 10th
with a total Of 20 entries. The win
ners of the evening were as follows
Miss Mary Warren, Miss NJ. A. Hous-
ton, Mrs. X. NJ Pierce, Mrs. Z. f
Starks, Mrs. d. w. Houston, Mrs. H
Prentiss, Mrs. j. ID. Schroeder, H. {,
Durand, Mrs. r. ID. Campbell, Mrs
Davenport. The semi-iinal games of
the tournament will be played off dur
ing the week with the finals coming
on Monday night, August 23rd. The
prizes offered are very good and all
indications point to some very inter
esting bridge for the finals on Mon
day evening. The losers of the first
evenings games will also continue to
play for a prize in their set.
Saturday evening, August 2lst, the
"Black Circle" will give flavor
dnace" as their entertainment for
the evening. Some new ideas in the
line of favor dances will be tried.
The week of August 23rd to 10Th in
elusive promises to be the banner
week of the club season. The first
three days will be taken up by a
''lady's singles and mixed doubles"
tennis tournament, while the last
three days of the week will be taken
up by the first annual invitation golf
tournament of the club. Entries are
coming in daily for both contests and
an exciting week is assured. The
cups and medals for both tournaments
will be well worth winning. A full
schedule of the golf events was given
in the Journal of August 18th.
The regular Wednesday afternoon
tea Of August 18th was in charge of
Mrs. r. S. Binkerd and Mrs. Z. Z.
Pratt, an account of which will be
given in next weeks issue of this
paper
A word should be spoken about the
excellent condition of the golf links
at this season of the year. The recent
rains and constant attention have
made the greens improve very rapidly
and they are now at their best condi
ton of the year. All visitors and our
own subscribers have nothing but
words of praise and say that this is
one of the snappiest ninehole courses
in this part Of New England.
Working for the Wounded Soldiers
The Dorset committee working for
the wounded soldiers has already for
warded ten entire kits of surgical
dressings to the Surgical Dressings
Committee, SO w. 38th St., New York,
to be shipped to the small hospitals in
France. These kits contained 45O
carefully folded dressings, 600 social
ed wipes" cut to measure, besides
many bandages, fracture pillows,
sings ,etc. All of these articles will
be sterilized by the New York City
board of health before being sent
abroad. The demand for more is in
creasing, however. To quote from a
circular issued by the New York COM
mittee: "War stricken Europe is now
frantic for surgical dressings and the
chairman begs for more material and
more volunteers. Public spirited men
and women are urged to organize sec
tons without delay in every village
and city throughout the United States
for the making of surgical dressings,
the work to continue as long as the
war lasts" To realize how grateful
are the recipients, we quote the fol-
lowing letter-(one Of many repro
duced from the Surgical Dressings
committees report:
Students Atelier Reunions,
Place Denfert Rochereau, Paris,
France, April 20, Is
"Your letter telling of the eplendid
shipments of hospital supplies has
Just reached me. cannot tell you
how welcome it was, coming as it did
" zen this dreadful battle Of User is
filling all the towns of France with
| have list OF small hos
pitals near the firing line, all of which
are very poor and in great need Of
supplies. 1t is appalling to realize
the condition of some Of these French
hospitals, SO absolutely do they lack
event the barest necessities. plan
10 place your gifts only in such hospi- /
tails where the need is greatest"
The work in Dorset will continue
as long as materials and volunteers
are available
DORSET HOLLOW Ii