Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-05-25


ner Will be served first to members and
associate members of Birchard post and
Birchard Woman s Relief CORPS and
their families. Others will be served
later if the supply of food proves suf.
ficlent. Contributions of food from the
townsspeople will be gratefully received
by the committee.
Mrs. James Perkins has begun work
i'll G. II. Wizards mill.
Miss Bernice Holden has returned to
her home in Westminster.
o. w. Follctt went Wednesday TO
south Londonderry on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harris of Put.
ney are guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Gardner.
Little Kenneth Leach of Northficld
Farms is visiting his grandmother. Mrs.
Ada Pierce, week.
Mrs. w. w. West of Peru is visiting
at +. w. Watson s. From there she will
90 for stay in Ncwfane.
Mrs. Lefty DuttOn has been a guest
at the home of her brother, r. \. Har.
ris i'll Grafton the past week.
Captain Gibson and Private Hayden
Marsh of Company / were in this vii
la9c Tuesday recruiting for the com
pany.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harris of Put,
ney have rented tenement in Mrs
Ada Pierce S house and will move there
shortly.
The first West River league game of
the season will be played on the local
grounds on the afternoon of Wednes-
day, May 30.
Miss Marion Graves, instructor of the
Misunderstanding class at Leland and
Gray seminary, has been i'll and unable
10 attend school.
Mr. and Mrs. II. II. Filion and lit
tie son, Raymond Henry, of Brattle-
boro, were recent guests of their par
cnts, Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Watson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Putnam and daugh-
ter, Edith, and Mrs. Merle Putnam, all
of Wardsboro, were recent guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. K. w. Snyder.
Guy Hawkins. who is in his freshman
year at the University of Vermont, has
returned home and will engage in farm
ing on the Patterson place in the Bar
Der district.
There will be no service in the Con-
grcgational church Sunday, as the pas
tor, Rev. Il. II. Bosworth, will remain
i'll Burlington another week. Services
will be held June 3 as usual.
Harry Martin of Northampton,
Mass, has rented of F. T. Randall the
buildings on the Bradley farm for a
year, to be used as a camp for an oc-
.n nf Ech
ing.
At the regular meeting of West River
Grange Friday evening, June !, pro-
gram, arranged by the patronesses,
Ceres, Flora and Pomona, will be pre-
scented and light refreshments will be
served.
w, II. Taft has rented Mrs. Addie
Green S house in IIarmonyville and
will move there with his family next
week. Mrs. Green, whose residence
is in Jacksonville, Fla, has used the
place for summer home.
Pre- Memorial day exercises will be
held in the village school Tuesday aft.
cmoon, May %, the pupils all gather
ing IN one room. AS public exercises
will be held in the village on Memoir.
al day only simple program will be
given at the school.
+. II. Pierce, Mrs. Brockway and
daughter and Mr.. Martin, all of Pitts
field, Mass, were guests at Mrs. Ada
Pierce s Sunday coming by automo-
bile. Mrs. Pierce returned with them
to Mortified Farms TO visit her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Olive Leach, two days.
Several pairs of the Red Cross socks
nave been finished and many skeins of
the yarn have been given out. There
is still a plentiful supply on hand
which will gladly he furnished to
kniitcrS. Mrs. w. NJ, Sparks also has