The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-15
PUTNEY.
Presented Gold Watch Fob.

Presented Gold Watch Fob. II
At the Boy Scout meeting Monday
evening very pleasant affair took place
and was a complete surprise. The order
of business had been nearly finished and
the social service reached when the scout
master in a few appropriate remarks, IN
behalf Of the troop, presented Assistant
Scout Master L. J. Poelman with a beau
ltiful gold watch fob, rose finish, French
enamel, bearing assistant scout master
insignia and first class rank, Boy Scouts OF
America Although thoroughly surprised,
Mr.. Poelman responded very feelingly |
with a few words of appreciation Tor the |!
token of love and friendship expressed |
| in this act of kindness. After the pres
entatior the boys enjoyed a feed, served /
true Scout style and INDUCED in story
telling As the time is nearing for Mr.
lPoelman to leave for other fields OF labor,
and rcgretting his departure, the Scouts
thus add another page to the pleasant
records of memory.
Fred Taft is visiting his mother, Mrs
H. E. Taft.
The receipts for the Red Cross bazaar
were beyond the expectations of all, $500
being cleared
Mr.. and Mrs F. w Dodge and son of
lSpringfeld were visitors at F. E. Robert
sons Sunday.
Miss Edith Page will go Monday to
Castleton to complete her course in the
normal school.
Mr.. and Mrs H. G. Everleth and
) daughter, Charlotte, have returned from
their visit at New Brunswick, Me, and
Boston.
Miss Eva NJ. Priest of Jamaica
Plains, Mass, was a recent guest at Mr.
! and Mrs. Dorr Clough 8 and with other
friends.
Carroll Murch has been recommended as
; assistant scout master to fill the vacancy
e caused by the removal Of B. Z. Stover
$ from town
\ At the outing at Spofford lake u scouts
+" passed six of the 10 tests for the sec
; Iond-class rank. and Elton harrington was
| promoted to scribe.
: Miss Eunice Pond accompanied her I'M
Gle, Prof Pond of Cornell university, and
his wife to their home in Ithaca, \. l..
making the trip by automobile.
& Earl f. Fuller, who accompanied l.,
son, George F.. and family to their home
e in Glens Falls by automobile last Wednes
day, returned to his home Monday by
train.
Il Mrs j F. Russell and daughter. Miss
L Marion Russell are spending a week a
Il the Old Deertield Inn, Of which Clifton,
Is Pratt, who was a clerk in A. NJ. Corser
1 store at one time, is proprietor
s Dwight Bugbee Of White River junction
/" has returned home after a several days
= visit with his brother, DR. L. H. Bugbee
: While here they took several long auto
mobile trips and went over the Mohawl
:; trail.
: Mrs Ellen Sabin and daughter. Mis-
May Sabin remained another week Wit
: her brother, f. c. Parker. They Lett Mon
!. day for Keene, n H., to visit relatives be
: fore returning to their home in Portland
= Me-
e Oscar A. Wilkinson of South Hadley
nc Mass, was a guest of his cousin, Mrs
u Dorr Clough, from Friday to Sunday
n n making the trip by automobile. Nh
~ Wilkinson called on other friends Will
~ III town.
- John Sanford of Philadelphia, VIII
r. bought the John f. Austin farm an
nr hoped to come to Vermont immediatel.
he writes that he is unable to get his hous
of hold goods shipped on account OF an en-
m barge on freight owing to the moving
= soldiers and supplies.
"A The Parent Teacher association Will ho
Nv their first meeting this season Wednesda
in fSept 10, at 4 O'Clock at the schoolhous
AT All interested in the school are request,
to to be present and meet the new superi
az tendent, Miss Ethel A. Eddy. Very il
~ portant business will be transacted.
nd DR. Simon Houghton Of Thompsonvil
Conn, was in town over Sunday and {
on tended the services at the Congregation
nd church, of which his father was deac
re. many years. DR.. Houghton has visit
ner the town rarely in the past 40 yea
at and found only few whom he knew.
| q First Baptist church, Rev R. B. Dav
wn pastor; Las a. m, subject, Some Ancie
ca Slackers or the Sin of Meroz p m,
rst bic school; p. m, Christian Endeay
to meeting, topic-A Christians Power. I
the subject of the talk on the pledge will
his the words, To do whatever. \ concert
am the Sunday school and choir will ia
but the place of the morning preaching 5
at Twice Sept %, observing state mission d
les The Inroads Of Time
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