The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-27
Bronze Tablet to Mrs. USHER.

hronze IaDlet to MIS-. USSner.
A bronze tablet was unveiled at North
field yesterday in the south transcept of
Sage hall to Mrs. Elizabeth Barrows Usher,
wife of DR.. Clarence d. Usher, who died
in Van, Turkey, during the fighting be-
tween the Turks and the Armenians.
The unwilling ceremony yesterday was at
the regular chapel services and Prof T. L.
Drury was in charge of the service Rev
Ernest Yarrow and Mrs. YaTow, who
were associated in the missionary work in
Turkey with Mrs. Usher, gave memorial
addresses. The tablet was unveiled by
Miss Cora Quimby, president of the senior t
class of Mortified seminary 1t bears the
following inscription
Elizabeth Barrows Usher, Mortified |
Seminary, 1SSS1S94 Van, Turkey, 1900 |
| 1915"
Mrs. Joshua Newton fell recently and |
fractured several ribs.
| Mrs. A. D. Elmer is i'll in bed from
the results of severe fall.
| Newton Howard of Union college.
| Schenectady, \. Y, is home.
Miss Gertrude Proctor is in Antrim,
n. H., to visit her parents a few days.
Fred G. Huber of Lowell technical
school is at his home for a week S Wis
If.
Miss Gertrude Calender is home
from her school in Belchertown for the
holiday.
Leon Lincoln of Barre is a guest of
his brother, Orrin Lincoln and family
this week.
c. E. Hicks of Tarrvville Conn, for
mer principal of the high school, visited
III town recently.
Miss Hazel Clapp and Miss Berniee
Cummings of Fitchburg normal school
are home this week
/ Miss Myrtle Cook, who lives at Mrs.
Edward Barber's, is i'll with blood
poisoning in her hand:
Miss Mary &, Sullivan, resident
nurse here in 1902, is now caring for
Miss Osgood, who is not well.
Mr. and Mrs. H, Fl. Mason entertain
ed their four sons and families at their
home for a few days reunion.
Miss Florence Lyman of Springfield
and Mrs. Theodore Lyman are guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. d. E. Lyman this
this week.
Fred C. Britton held an auction
Wednesday of all his livery and passen-
ger business stock and of his place on
Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs Cecil Cummings and
child of Lake Pleasant and Z. NJ.
banks of Easthampton are guests at
J. 7. Cummings S.
Mrs. Ellen Mason and Mrs Arthur
Field left their summer home here
Wednesday for Boston, where they
will spend the winter.
Miss Marion Webster has been in
; Springfield several days and has bought
: q piano for the Sunday school room of
: the Unitarian church
Mr.. and Mrs George Foreman and
Miss Margaret Foreman left their sum
E mer home here on Tuesday for Ports
! mouth, Va, where they will spend the
Z winter.
> Mr.. and Mrs A. G. Moody are en-
PERTAINING for the week Roger Clark
/ of Dartmouth college, Miss Euniee
7 Clark of Smith college and Miss Mil
Y dred Newton of Mount Holyoke col
e lege. Their homes are in Princeton
y III.
Miss Violet Lyman of North Adams
and Miss Minnie Lyman of Orang,
will spend the week with their parents
, Mr.. and Mrs. R. II. Woodbury.. Mis-
Violet is president of the senior elias
of the North Adams normal school
= Miss Minnie Lyman is principal of tn
) Cheney street school in Orange.
Miss Agnes Foreman is rejoicing il
= a recent letter from her mother, Mrs
= G. w. Foreman, III which she state
that Ian Foreman was given five
II days furlough from the trenches in tn
IL battlefelds of France and spent tn
days with his mother in England. Mr..
nj Foreman IS now on the Mediterranea
vo en- route to India to join her husband.
n, Mrs. c. c. Stockbridge has as guest
this week Miss Fannie Stoekbridge Q
Id ISouthbridge, Mrs. Seryna Blodgett an
w son of Springfield and her nephew
to John Stockbridge of Atlanta, Ga, no
student of Amherst agricultural co
lege. On Saturday Mrs. Stockbride
with her two daughters will attend tt
wedding of her niece, Miss Emily
asst Russell of North Hadley to Harold ]
Ia, Phelps of West Brookfeld.
Mrs. Annie Maria Philbrick, IS, vii
at of Charles S. Philbrick of West Son
at erville died in the Massachusetts Ge1
We eral hospital Saturday, Nov. 90 I'll
funeral was held at the West Some
lis vile home Monday and the burial toe
ms place Tuesday in Seabrook, n. H., B
,on sides her husband she leaves thr.
in sons, Arthur of Providence, r. l., E
win of Virginia, Mimi, and Dr.. Re
to coe Hunter Philbriek of this tow
cir Mrs. Philbrick visited her son here til
ere fall. She has been i'll nearly mon
-rs. ana Dr. Phl1prlek was with her maj
times during her illness. Friends WI
met her while here sincerely regr
- her death.