Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-24
BRANDON.

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Mrs G w Turner, wife of former
Baptist preacher. was in town recently
visiting friends.
The Girls club of the Congregational
church held a parcel post sale in the
church chapel on Tuesday evening.
Daniel Burditt of Pittsford was in
town Friday.
Mrs Mollie Durgy returned from Pitts
ford Friday.
The Sons of Veterans held a meeting
In q. A. X. hall ON Friday night
5 w Jones was in Rutland Saturday.
Henry Landon of Pittsford was in
town Tuesday.
w Jones was in Shoreham on Friday
on insurance business.
Clarence Bosworth of Burlington was
in town over night Friday night.
Freelock and Olivia Lafrance are the
parents of q son, born this week.
William c. Wilson of Boston was in
town Tuesday.
Ernest and Goldie Aver have sold their
home to FL ID Aver, the father of Ernest
Aver.
William Walsh, jr., aged 81 years died
on Wednesday morning at IL o'clock.
The funeral was held Friday morning at
$3.50 a. m. from st. Mary's Catholic
church.
DIR and Mrs w H Wright left Monday
for Kansas, where they will visit their
sons, Theron and Earl Wright for some
weeks, and will visit other places in the
West before returning to Brandon.
Miss Bertha Shaw of Pittsford, who
has been visiting Mrs. F. E. Kingsley
has returned to her home in Pittsford.
The schools will reopen on Tuesday,
January Bird, after a vacation of two
weeks durin & the holidays.
w A Atwell returned to Brandon Mon
day from Middlebury, where he spent
Sunday with his family.
George Benoit of Union street, in this
village, has gone to Gary, Indiana,
where he has position with the United
States Steel corporation Of that place.
Clarence Martin of Rochester was in
town Monday, the guest of NJ L Gibbs.
There are good prospects that there
will be a new quarry opened here this
winter. The papers are all drawn, and
the machinery bought, and there is
promise of quite number of men being
employed.
Governor Charles w Gates and an
advisory board met here last Monday
at the State farm for inspection of the
premises.
There will be meeting of the young
people of the village next Friday even
ing at the Congregational chapel at 1870
p. m. for carol singing. All the boys and
girls who wish to come are invited. A
sociable will be held, and the bands of
young people will visit various parts of
the village and will sing the carol songs
The Rev G R Hawley, who died in
Saratoga recently. was formerly pastor
in this village. He also was prominent
for years in the Spring Grove campmeet
ings at New Haven.
ia Bixby of Albany, NY, is visiting
friends in town.
II d Crooks, " no has been confined to
the house for week, is better and is
able to be out.
Reginald Ray is home from college,
and will spend his holiday vacation with
his parents.
All the stores will remain open during
the evenings this week.
Nearly all the students from Brandon
in both Middlebury and Burlington COL
leges are spending the holidays at their
homes.
Mrs. Elroy Woods is confined to her
home by illness.
Edward Griswold, son of Eugene Girls
void of this town, who is working in the
New York Office of the Vermont Marble
company, will be home on Friday to
spend Christmas with his people.
Dorothy, daughter of Irving and Mar
garet Jenney, died Monday of tubercu-
losis. She was eighteen years of age,
and is survived by one brother and three
sisters. The funeral was on Wednesda v
morning at 80 a. m, from st. Mary Is
church, and the interment was in tn e
Catholic cemetery
The Bicojon Manufacturing company
are moying their goods from the Benoit
block to the shirt factory building.
All the merchants in the village are re.
porting that the Christmas trade is as
good as it was last season.
Mrs H G Reynolds of Ashland Ohio
is visiting friends in this town and Sud
bury.
Mrs Carrie Brosseau has been visiting
in Rutland.
At the Congregational church last
Sunday morning the Rev E Treat of
Pittsford spoke of the recent national
council. In the adult class at noon Mrs
E T Hetherington spoke of the Mes
sages from Great Pictures" At the four
o'clock vespers, the pastor spoke of The
Prudence of the Parsonage"
Mrs Clara Brown, who has been visit
ing in Middlebury, has returned to her
home in Brandon.
Mrs II III Pacher of Philadelphia, Pa,
is visiting her brother, w II Fl G Whit
comb of Forestdale for week.
Miss Minnie Truan of Rutland has
been visiting Mrs w Horn for a short
time.
j A Murray of New York has been
home for few days.
DIR and Mrs Ernest Buttles of Burling.
ton have been visiting his mother in this
village for few days.