The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-14
SOUTH NEWFANE.

Haying progressed rapidly last week
but was held up early this week by wet
weather.
Ernest Z. Bailey on Tuesday and
Wednesday visited his mother, Mrs Alice
A. Bailey.
Miss Matte Wade visited her brother,
Ernest Wade, in Guilford last week from
Tuesday to Friday
Mrs. Stella Burnett of Brattleboro
spent Tuesday with her brother, c. L.
Brown, and family.
Mrs. F. w Morse and daughter, Mar
guerite, of Bratteboro, were at Mrs
Walter Teft's Tuesday
The lateness of the season is illustrated
by the rose gardens, which have not been
at their best until this week
Deer have begun their annual destruc-
ton of the food gardens and are tramp
| ling some OF the choicest plants.
Miss Teresa Sym. who was guest OF
her sister, Mrs. E. Milton Dexter, has re-
turned to her home in Montreal, Canada.
| Miss Martha Tracey of West Dover
has returned nome, after spending a
week with her grandfather, Clark Shep-
ardson
/ Next Sunday, following brief session of
the Bible school, the ordinance of baptism
will be administered to number of can
didates.
Mrs. Idella b. Hescock, who has been
visiting her sons in Greenfield, Mass, has
returned and is with her daughter, Mrs
Walter Teft
Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague of Halifax have
come TO spend the summer with Mrs.
Sprague's mother, Mrs. Lyman c. Powers,
who is in i'll health
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Stockwell and son
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs Charles Al
len, Mr.. and Mrs. George c. Harris and
son, Arland, and friend, all of Brattleboro.
were recent callers at II. c. Smead's.
Coley Lane reports that his string beans
(pole beans) planted May % are now
seven feet high. From peas planted May
they began using them for the table
july .. Pretty good for this cold season.
Mr. and Mrs j. L. Whitaker attended
Sunday the funeral of Mrs. Whitaker )
brother, George Adams, in Chesterfield.
\. II. They went by automobile and
were accompanied by Miss Elsie Brown
: and {. l.. Gould.
| Mr. and Mrs Ebenezer \. Strattor
of Suffield, Conn, Mr.. Saxon and Mr.
Warner of Connecticut came by automo
bile Friday to 90 over Mr. Stratton'
lumber lots. They called on friends il
( the village before leaving for home.
The program committee Of the Wind
b ham county Baptist association met al
: the parsonage Wednesday They are Rev
S L w Johnson, Rev c. w Bishop an,
Mrs. +. s Willard The association an
| lo bal ,-it Il
. church in September
b The Ladies Benevolent society me
"Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Ralpl
! Moore and Mrs Erwin G. Sparks at tn
J, home of Mrs. Moore Twenty women wer
!. present, also a number of children, o
whom four were babies and received mucI
attention. Supper was served, includin
y ice-cream and cake
Mr. and Mrs Samuel H. Morse O
, Cambridge, Mass, Miss May Kelsey c
Torrington Conn, Mr. Hosterman an
:, Mrs. Wilder of Dorchester, Mass, al
~ tended the band concert in Brattebor
= Tuesday evening following an afternoo
~ trip BY automobile to East Dover, wi
mington, Raponda and Brattleboro.
Il News received here from friends
u Southern California is that the longcol
: tinued hot spell there has done niue
~ damage to lemons and walnuts. Man
English walnuts larger than filberts, WEI
J.. fSterally cooked and turned brown on OF
er side. Oranges escaped injury. The me
It curry for II days ranged from 100 degree
*, to ll6 degrees during the hot part OF Il
days. This is the worst severe hot peric
k, since records have been kept of Il
s. weather conditions.
SIS Rev Frank A Kelly of Oglesby, Ill., hi
Is accepted "a call as pastor to the Weste
Avenue Baptist church at Danville, II
at and has moved to the latter city Wi
20 his family This church has not been
ay filiated with the denomination until la
ct fall, when it united with the BlOomfie
it Baptist association. The church nuildil
Or has been repaired and rededicatory ser
ices recently were held. The membersh
on Is l64 and all departments of the chur
est are in good working order as stated
is the Dahville Morning Press of June
ties Mr. Kelly began work with the chur
re- July /.
cts Alva II Noble of Brattleboro cal
ny Saturday to inspect the children's 10
m gardens in the Marlboro Branch distri
81 and returned home Monday These eli
dren were given buttons; Leon Ingra
. Lester Johnson, Doris Adams, Lawrer
ADAMS, Harry Elmer, Perley Hebe
Grace Hebert, Sidney Hebert, Les
Hebert Alice Goodell, Huldah Good
Leslie Burch, Earl Collins, Calvin La
Cecil Lane, and Florence Lane Mr.. No
states that the children have some exc
lent gardens and that the Green Mo-
tain Guards badge was awarded each
good work in caring for them.