The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-16
CROWD AT MOTHER
GOOSE CARNIVAL
Ladies' Club Of Dummerston Church
Serves Delicious Supper and Gives
Pleasing Entertainment.
Especial to The Reformer.)
DUMMERSTON, Nov. II

III NJ VI YIN, NOV. ~
Each of the 129 persons who bought
tickets for the delicious chicken pie
supper served by the Ladies Club of
the Congregational church in Grange
hall last evening left the tables feel
ing it would be a good idea to install
an elevator if they plan always to
provide so bountifully for their pa
irons, and entered the upper hall,
where a Mother Goose carnival was IN
| full swing, only to find booths and ia
| bles laden with edibles as well as use
| full and fancy articles.
The supper menu included chicken
| pie, mashed potatoes, squash, picked
cabbage, boiled cider, apple sauce,
| pumpkin and squash pies, baked rice
| pudding, cream cake and various other
| kinds of cake, apples. grapes, tea and
| coffee A unique plan for fruit dishes
was carried out, pumpkins being cut
in half and the edges cut saw-tooth
| fashion. All the mattresses were
| dressed in Puritan costume.
| As persons entered the assembly hall
| they were met at the door by +. Al
| bert Newton, representing the King IN
| Sing a Song of Sixpence, who relieved
| 1870 corners of their admittance fees.
At the left after entering the hal
| was a booth decorated with hearts and
| laden with cakes, tarts, cookies anC
other food. This was presided over by
the Queen of Hearts, Miss Heller
Evans, assisted by the Knave OF
Hearts, Ernest RAY. Little Miss Muf
felt, Miss Helen Armand, sold cottag'
cheeses from small table next IN line
The next move was beside a coy fire
place. where holders were sold by Mis-
Ruth Walker as Polly Flinders.
| Mary, Mary, Quite Contrar was i'm
pcrsonatcd by Miss Fanny Wilder, VIII,
presided over the grab booth. Thi
was in the form of a flower garden
ground cork representing the earth, ant
paper flowers were fastened to la
crabs which were hidden in the earth
The penny brags were found in Gin
ton johnson s Little Jack Horner pie
The stage was given over principal
to Old Mother Hubbard, Miss Miriar
Reed, who sold ice cream from he
cupboard, but room was found &c
small tent, where Miss Mary Mile
OF Easthampton, Mass, as See Sa1
Marjorie Daw. told ones future If
for a small fee.
large collection OF dolls were o
sale by the Old Woman in the Sho
Miss Ruth StOckwell. Fancy article
were sold at a booth by Mrs. +. |
Miller as Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. Il
I the time visitors had reached til
= point they were ready to patroni.
Old King Cole. Harry VIM, and n
- | Fiddler. RAY Simonds. who sold fru
|
a | Reed. sold aprons. bags and other us
tul articles from her Clothes Line
the Garden.
. The Queen. Miss Ida Davis, was
t her table TO await one > pleasure wit
a various sizes OF hand colored picture
book marks and Thanksgiving card
. Mrs. Abbie +. Patch as the Beggi
Woman sold fve-cent grabs and mig
, bee found anywhere in the hall. N
= Hoover : table Of pop corn balls al
: war time candy was near the cent
of the hall and was presided over
Mrs. Don Hewitt.
u Other Mother Goose characters re
resented We're Mother Goose, Nj
Alice Laughton, who had gener
II charge Of the affair; Mary Had I.
:, tie Lamb EVELYN Crosby; BoPee
II Marjorie Crosby; Jack and Jill, Do
t. tn and Ray Hewitt; Little Boy 81,
lie Lawrence Blood; Simple Simon, T
n ward Davis; Betty Blue. Bcrnice Cf
" by; Butterfly, Juliet Miller; ia
- Sprat and his Wife. Ransom Taught
rs and Mrs. L. Albert Newton; Pref
n Milk Maid, Miss Gertrude Kingsbul
r. Three Wise Men, +. II. Miller, Walt
+. Walker, Arthur w. Laughton.
y The children sang several songs,
~ Guiding Jack and Jill, Bo-Peep, Bri
y Back Ny Bonnie to Me, Dickery, III,
! cry Dock. AID others. They were
-, companied on the piano by the Pre-
-, Milk Maid, who also gave several
W ano selections
81 The carnival and supper will sw
on the treasury of the club by appro
~" matelv $50