News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-05-09
STOWE

Fairfax.
A son was born Monday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Pliny Vondle.
Winford Heath of johnson passed a
few days in Stowe recently.
Dwight Ayers of Waterbury passed
last week at his home in Stowe.
Three of the children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fl. G. Smith are i'll with measles
Il. Alden Straw has returned to his
studies at Norwich University after a
week at his home in Stowe.
Richard and Max, sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. III. Straw. are i'll of diphtheria at their
home on Shaw hill near Moscow,
Felix o. Wells returned Saturday from
Burlington, where he attended the in
surancc mems banquet at Hotel YER
mont Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond c. LeavitG of
Lebanon, N. H., are passing few days
with Mrs. Leavitt's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. R. Wells.
Miss S. Anna Fitzsimonds of Essex
Junction, formerly a teacher of Stowe
high school, was visitor at Fl. E. Shaw's
over the weekend. =
Gladys and Harold Smith and children
in the families of Mrs. Mertie Smith and
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Shepard are among
those ill with the measles.
The regular meetings of the H. H.
Smith Post and Women's Relief Corps
were held at the AkeleY Memorial build
ing Saturday afternoon.
The ladies of the Red Cross branch
will meet to sew at the Akeley Memorial
Building Thursday afternoon and regu-
lar meeting will be held Friday evening.
Rev. A. N. Smith of Williamstown, who
recently returned from California, where
he passed the winter, has been engaged
to supply the pulpit at Unity church for
four Sundays, beginning May 10.
Miss Elsie Hastings. head bookkeeper
for. the Mt. Mansfield Cooperative Cream
cry association, went Monday to her
home in Calais for months vacation.
Miss Nellie Potter of Stowe high school
is assisting Miss Watts in the office.
Several of the boys of Stowe high
school have taken advantage of the offer
of the State board of education TO leave
school to work on farms. Six have left
to work full time on their home farms
and two for part time. Two of the gram
mar school pupils have also left-for work
on part time.
A son was born on May to Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Bailey at the home of Mrs.
Bailey's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. J.
Backus. Mrs. BacKus and daughters,
Mrs. Bailey and Miss Ellen, are i'll of
measles. Other cases of measles among
adults are H. w. Ravlin, T. A. Douglass
and A. G. Morrill,.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. <. Bamforth are at c.
r. Eddy's for week. They passed the
winter in Augusta, Ga, where Mr.. Bam-
forth had position as assistant steward
at the Bon Air Hotel. They expect to
pass the summer at the Mt. Washington |
House at Breton Woods, N. H., where |
Mr.. Banforth will have the position of |
receiving clerk.
l.. R. Brown, who celebrated his Goth |
Oct. 7, is assisting in the move
ment by taking charge of the garden at
The home of his daughter and husband,
Mr.. and Mrs, A. A. Royce, on West hill.
He has already planted peas, radishes,
ettuce, beets and other vegetables and
expects to raise everything that grows in
gardens in this latitude.
There was an attendance of 70 couples
It the firemen's ball at the Akeley Me-
MORTAL building Friday evening. Me-
Ieod's orchestra of five pieces of Hard
wick furnished music. The ladies of
Unity church served supper Several
ouples from Worthwhile and Waterbury
we're present The occasion was much
njoyed and the firemen and the ladies of
be church realized a good profit
Mrs. S. NJ. Ashland received letters
tuesday,, dated April 10, from her son, !
CORPORAL Frank Ashland. stating that he
'as leaving London with his regiment ,
)r the front. Mr.. Ashland enlisted at {
t. Catherine, Ontario, in regiment 1884,
50, Canadian troops, early in October, !
nd was stationed in Ottawa until the last
January, when he went to London,
here he has since remained in training.
e has recently been promoted to corpor-
in section four of his regiment.
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