The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-27

with their parents. This is an organiza
Foreign Missionary society. Mrs. F. T.
Pallam is chairman of the committee.
The following people from town at
tended Founders day exercises at
Mount Holyoke college on Tuesday
Principal and Mrs. c. E. Dickerson, Mr..
and Mrs. w. r. Moody, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
G. Moody. Miss Jennie Haight, Miss
Clara B. Tillinghast and Prof. +. L.
Duley. DR.. Churchill King of Oberlin
college was the speaker of the day.
Supt. E. F. Howard, DIR. n. P. Wood
and Rev. G. L. Thompson visited the
high school Wednesday and spoke in
the interests of buying a Liberty bond.
The result was the purchase by the
school of a $50 bond. w. r. Moody
spoke at Mortified seminary and Mount
Hermon schools on the subject of buy
ing Liberty bonds for the schools The
result is that money is being rapidly
subscribed for bonds.
On Monday the senior class of North
field seminary, chaperoned by the class
teacher, Miss Bacon, went on hike
to the Sykes place on the Erving road.
1t was at this place that Dwight L..
Moody saw the three Sykes girls braid
ing straw hats and that the idea of
founding a school where girls of small
means could get ali education, original
ed. The girls took their lunch and were
joined there M Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Schell, honorary members of the class.
Eighteen women met in the parlors
! of the Mortified hotel on Friday for
Red Cross work. All women are urged
| to come there each Friday to assist in
the work. The meetings at Northfield
| are held each Tuesday afternoon in
Alexander hall. Women are urged to
come to the hall at this time to make
the surgical dressings. The vice chair
man, Mrs. Wood, reports that 90 Christ
mas bags have already been taken to
| fill.
Last Sunday was observed as Liberty
Sunday at the churches. The governor s
proclamation setting aside Wednesday
Oct. "a, as Liberty day was read and
at | / o clock all sang The Star Spangled
Banner. In the evening in the Congre-
gational church, the Mortified Brother
hood had charge of the service Patri
Iotic songs were rendered by the choir
Prof. T. l.. Duley gave talk on Why
Buy Liberty Bond, and gave a very
Interesting account of German intrigue
to acquire property and positions in this
country that they might be effective
against the United States in this war
Rev. F. w. Pattison told where and
when to buy Liberty bonds.
The first study meeting of the Fort
nightly was held Monday afternoon il
Alexander hall with 81 present. Mrs
+. F. Howard presided. The society
Voted to fill five Christmas Red Cros:
bags for the men in military service
Mrs. T. R. Calender gave a very inter
testing account of her trip of the pas
summer to Honolulu. The subject o.
study for the afternoon was Queen Vie
toria, with Mrs. c. c. Stock bridge il
charge. Mrs. George Foreman gave
isketch of the girlhood of the queen II
her coronation, then Mrs. Stockbridg,
followed with bits of her ancestry, he
; ascension to the throne and her reign
: poem by Alfred Austin, A Tribut,
to Victoria, was read by Mrs. E. M
, Lazelle. The entire program was yer,
satisfactory and gave the members
: fitting setting for the year s study o
The Victorian Era.