Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
NEWPORT NEWS
Peter Pickle is i'll with la grippe.

| Peter PICKLE IS III with la grippe
Olin Hardy is released from quaran
tine.
J. L. Redmond was in Montpelier on
Monday.
A party of Is took strawride to Or
leans Friday night.
Mrs. G.. H. Flint entertained the
Monday club this week.
Mrs. Perry Hitchcock of Irasburg
visited at C. H. Green's this week.
Editha Drew Of Lyndon Institute is
i'll at the school with scarlet fever.
Mrs. Taylor has gone to Massachu-
sets General hospital for treatment.
The Girls Sewing Circle met on Mon
day evening with Mrs. Sam Hamilton.
Judge F. NJ. Sears and Sidney Beau
clerc of Irasburg were in town Tues
day.
Miss Winifred Elkins and Miss Hazel
Hyde of North Troy were in town Tues
day.
Will E. Hackett is back in Fl. R.
Flowers store after an attack of la
grippe.
Harold Dow has moved into the Root
tenement formerly occupied by Mrs.
Leavens.
Mrs. j. C. Lambert entertained
one of the many bridge clubs Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. D. J. McDermott was called to
Boston last week to attend the funeral
of sister.
Mrs. A. Basson of Nashua is in town
and is rooming with Mrs. Sawyer on
Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. True and Mr..
and Mrs. E. C. Blanchard left this noon
for Boston for few days.
Misses Dorothy and Leslie Duncalf
and Miss Helen Baxter of Derby Line
were in town Wednesday.
Friends of Frank E. Miles will be
glad to know that his condition is some
what improved at this writing.
Miss Marion Pope and Mrs. Walter
Human have gone to Lyndon Institute
to care for scarlet fever patients.
Mrs. Bessie BeIden was called to Is
land Pond last week by the illness and
death of her father, H. b. Pettengill.
Mrs. Augustus Lane of Springfield,
formerly of this town, died on Tuesday,
the 25th. Funeral will be held on the
9th
Enoch Colby of Ottawa, engaged on
government work with the Canal Con-
struction Co., is in town calling on old
friends.
There will be a meeting Of the Civic
Improvement association Tuesday even
ing, Feb. 1st, at eight o'clock at the
Goodrich library.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Wood. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Dow. w. H. Clement and
George H. Massey went to Irasburg
Wednesday to attend the funeral of S.
E. Clough.
4 At the annual meeting of the M. Y.
c., on Tuesday evening, Jan. 25th. the
following officers were elected: Com
modore, G. H. Prouty; vice commodore,
r. S. Newell; rear commodore, ID. N.
Dwinel; clerk and treas, G. F. Root;
fleet captain, F. S. Tinkham directors,
A. H. Grout, A. w. Dennison, H. G.
Blanchard, VIM. Pike. j. E. McCarten.
C. H. Wilson of Glens Falls, N. Y,
gave q talk on Tuesday evening at the
D. HOOuIlCb hDI at DcloiC Tic SNiS iui-
provement Association and friends, on
community gardening. Mr. Wilson has
had charge of this department in his
city for several years. The principal
idea advanced was the relation of the
boys and girls to the community, the
possibility of developing in them the
spirit of industry, self reliance and a
love of nature, and instructing them in
lines Of work t at they are pretty capa-
BILE of doing and doing well. He showed
photographs of results of work accom-
panied under the supervision of his com
mttees, and that this same thing was
possible in our own town. Mr.. Wilson
invited all who might be interested in
this project to get together, talk it
over, organize their committee, and he
would meet them again In three weeks
to take the matter up in detail