Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-07

Unitarian church sunday attGr
month s vacation. His subject was The |
Gospel of Labor.
Ambert G. Moody and family left Sat |
urday by automobile for Gloucester and
other points on the coast. Mr.. Moody
returned Tuesday.
Mrs. C. C. Stearns entertained friends
at an auction bridge party Aug. &c. in
honor of her guest, Mrs. John Leslie
of Montreal, Canada.
Mrs. George Maynard of Ventura,
Cal, is visiting her brotherin-l law,
Frank Maynard, and family and other
friends in East Mortified.
Mr. and Mrs. j. r. Hamilton and Mrs.
Mary j. Doolittle went Saturday to
Worcester to attend the reunion of the
36th Massachusetts regiment,
Miss Charlotte and Miss Amelia
Hausman, who were guests of their sis
ter, Mrs. F, A. Holton, month, have
returned to Brentwood, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lawrence and
son of New Haven, Conn, are visiting
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Lawrence of East Mortified.
Mrs. Little and two granddaughters,
Dorothy and Evelyn, have moved from
the Laird house to the lower apartment
in Mrs. Rice s house on Main street.
John Stanerwick of New York gave
piano recital at the Mortified hotel
Tuesday night at clock and an or
gan recital at Sage chapel at SIS.
Rev. A. w. Stevenson of Philadelphia
is with his family on Rustic Ridge to
stay a few days before they all return
to Philadelphia Sept. II for the winter.
Miss Lucy Hammond has returned
for her second year at Fitchburg normal
school. Miss Grace Dooittle left
Monday to begin a course at the same
school.
Miss Bernice Webster has returned
from Mrs. Luther Lulich IS camp FOR
Campfire girls at Sebago lake, Maine,
where she has been an assistant this
summer.
Two long trainloads of troops from
Fort Ethan Allen went through East
Mortified station Monday. Rev Paul
d. Moody, chaplain of the Vermont ma
tional guard, was with them.
Miss Marion Webster visited Mrs.
Persis Washer Holton in Williamsville,
VT, the past week. Carl Holton has re-
turned to his business in Cleveland, o.,
where Mrs. Holton will join him soon.
Miss Martha Whitehouse visited
Prof. and Mrs. Jerome Burke at their
home in Orange over the holidays They
were teachers at Mount Hermon and
Mortified seminary, respectively, last
year.
Miss Margaret Campbell, who made
trip to Alaska this summer, visited the
Campbell home few days last week be-
fore returning to her position as teacher
in Brooklyn.
Miss Beatrice Estabrook and Miss
Beatrice Hale will leave Friday morning
for Boston, where they will enter Boston
university. Gordon Sweet will accom-
pany them. He will then go to New Bed
ford to spend two weeks with his mother
More students have been accepted for
the fall term at Northfield seminary
than ever Before. Over 600 are booked
and all available room has been taken at
the ,dormitories. This is an encourage
ment as the tuition was raised this year.
Mrs. r. r. Calender expected to sail
from Honolulu Sept. for San Francis
co. She then plans to go by boat to Van
couver and will visit Mrs. Carrie Russell
Bedding and family in British Columbia
and return east by way of the Canadian
Pacific.
Mrs. H. B. De Wolf has rented her
house to Ernest Bartlett and family
of Sunapee, N. H., for the winter. They
have two daughters already students of
the seminary, who live at The Mortified,
and two other daughters will attend as
day students.
A party of Young women from East
Mortified left Saturday to camp a week
at Moore's pond in Warwick. They are
Miss Doris Doolittle, Miss Edith Stead
Ter, Miss Esther Cowles, Miss Vivian
Bolton, Miss Marion Harris, Miss Fan
ME Harris and Miss Ruth Sword.
Joseph Waite and Miss Ruthelyn
Smith returned Monday to Springfield.
w. H. Waite has found his canoe which
was taken from the banks of the Con-
necticut river near Schell bridge over
a year ago. 1t was found on the shore
at Gill. Joseph Waite has taken it to
Springfield.
A good number of the Tennis club met
at the club grounds Labor day for
basket picnic at noon, The afternoon
was spent with games of tennis, croquct
and quoits, The final event was a corn
roast in the early evening with other
good eatablcs
DR.. Curtis Lee Law, editor of the
Waterman Examiner, preached in the
Congregational church Sunday. lie
gave strong sermon on The Christian
Relation to the World. In the evening
he gave Bible study of the first Psalm.
Rev. +. w. Pattison will return and
will occupy the pulpit next Sunday.
A smaller number than usual attended
the Sunday school picnic of the Congre-
gational society at Forest lake Friday.
Boat rides, watermelon and ice cream
cones were furnished to all Winches-
ter Old Home day was being celebrated
there at the same time and +. +. How
ard was called upon for an impromptu
speech on The War and Our Boys.
The seven-year-old son of Joseph Lys-
towicki is recovering from serious ac
cident. Last Wednesday he found a
bottle containing some black powder
in the cellar of the home. He took it
out doors and applied lighted match
to the open bottle. 1t proved to be
gunpOwdcr. The boy was badly
burned on his face, chest and arms, but
his physician thinks there will be no
scars eYppnt on his arms whore There