The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-01
NORTHFIELD. MASS.


O. Dunnell s.
Joseph Waite was home from Spring
field over Sunday.
Mrs. Anna B. Phelps is spending a
week in Weston, Vt.
Miss Jane Smith of New York city
IS the guest of Mrs A. G. Moody.
Miss Edith Davis of Milford, Mass,
IS visiting Miss Gertrude Mattoon.
Miss Katherine Bacon Of Orange is
the guest of Miss Bernicc Webster.
\ regular meeting of the Unitarian
Alliance will be held next Wednesday.
Miss Ellen Howard returned on Sat
urday from visit in Wallingford, Vt.
Miss Margaret Marsh of Rochester.
Vt, is the guest of Miss Doris Cham
berlain.
Mrs. Eva Davidson of Addison, Vt.
is the guest of her sister, Mrs Bessie
Simonds.
L. H. Lazelle, now located in Prov
idence, r. l., spent the weekend with
his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ashton of
Roslindale are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyman Wise.
Mrs. Lorinda Freeman returned on
Thursday from summer S stay in
Provincetown.
Whitman Streeter of Greenfield is
visiting his cousin, Leon Dunnell, at
G.. 0. Dunnell s.
Northfield seminary and the public
schools will open for the school wear
on Tuesday, Sept ).
Mrs. S. B. Thompson Of Washing
ton, u. c., IS the guest Of Mrs. G. II.
Webster and daughters.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Adams and son
Of Boston We've recent guests of Mr..
and Mrs. j. L. Dunnen.
The Sunday school of the Unitarian
society held their annual picnic in
Wisc's grove on Tuesday.
Garrett Boetsma of West Orange, y.
j., addressed the Mount Hermon stu
dents at chapel service on Tuesday.
Services viii be resumed in the
congregational church next Sunday
with the pastor, Rev. T. w. Pattison,
II charge.
Mrs. Riechlc, who has kept the tea
room at Mrs. f. NJ Lazelle s this sum
mer, leaves Friday to spend the win
ter IL Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Boardman of
Addison, VT, were the guests this
week of Mrs. l.. II. Lazclle Mrs.
Boardman was formerly Sadie Davidson
of this town.
Harold and Floyd Washer of Will
Evansville, Vt. visited Mr.. and Mrs.
q. y. Kidder this week They have now
gone to Cleveland Ohio, to visit Mrs.
Persis Washer Holton.
Mrs. I. Amber Weleh entertained
Monday afternoon in honor of her
guest, Miss Catherine Laville Of Quin-
ey. Miss Laville sang at the Unita-
rian church on Sunday last aad vii!
10 SO again next Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Il. A. Maxson and Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Maxson of Glovers-
vile, \. Y, came Saturday to Mrs. G.
Ii. Webstcr's and Sunday Miss Flor
ence MaXson, who has been visiting
here returned to New York with them.
Miss Helen Burr, president Of the
class of 1914 of Mortified seminary,
died in her home in Fultonville, \. y,
Friday Of infantile paralysis. News
also comes of the death of Miss Ma
rion Morse of the 1915 class Of the
same disease.
During the severe electrical storm of
Sunday lightning struck the chimney
on the house of Mrs Bessie White on
Highland avenue and demolished it.
Many of the electric wires in the house
of Mrs. II. B. DeWolf were burned out
by the lightning.
The two new teachers who have
been secured for the high school are
Miss Florence Hodges of Hatfield, a
graduate of Smith college. who viii
succeed Miss Ellen Howard; Miss
Mary Holmes of Westminster, Vt, Il
graduate of Middlebury college will
be the teacher of domestic science and
mathematics. Miss Elizabeth Strccker,
the supervisor of singing in the pub
lie schools, is recovering from an on
Grafton for appendicitis in q New Ia
ven hospital and will not be here in
September.
DIR. G. d. Usher Of Van, Turkey, now
in this country to regain his health and to
secure funds for his mission work, was
the speaker in the Auditorium sunday
Northfeld is especially interested in DR.
Usher, as his wife was Miss Elizabeth
Barrows Of this town and a graduate of
Northfeld seminary. In DR. Usshers talk
Sunday morning he gave an historical
sketch OF the Armenian people and then
told OF an interesting experience he had
with the Turkish governor general Of Van.
who from that time was more friendly
with the missionaries At o'clock DR.
| SSher smoke aUain of his work in Nan
and Of the siege and abandonment Of the
mission for the time
The day Hugh NJ. Follows of Kansas
City, Mo-, married Miss Mabel Graves