Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
WILMINGTON.
Governor Selects Mr.. Parmelee.

the food cards when presented to them
but to conscientiously live up to the
suggestions made by Mr.. Hoover. The
plan is to have four-mnute speeches on
the subject before the moving picture
show Saturday night and before each
church service Sunday morning. Ev-
cry woman in town in the next 10
days will be given her chance to help
stand behind our own boys in the
trenches. 1t has always been one of
woman s very highest duties to see to
the well being of her family, and in
this promise to economize she is simply
extending her home interests to include
the millions of homeless throughout
the world
Mrs. Sarah Stanley is visiting in
Readsboro.
Claude Hiscock is serving as fireman
on the Wilmington Hoosac Tunnel rail.
road.
Mrs. John Buckley and children left
for Boston Monday for a visit with rel
atives.
Six carloads of cider apples have been
shipped from Wilmington this fall.
Buyers are paying the unprecedented
price of one dollar per hundred pounds.
George Streeter is confined to his
bed with an attack of heart trouble
and bronchitis. He had been serving
as juror in Newfane, but had to be
excused.
Mrs. Frances Smith has left for an
extended trip. She went by motor Sun
day to visit a daughter in Massachu-
sets and will later go to Ohio to spend
the winter with son.
1t will be recalled that the school
children under Mrs. Strawser S direc-
ton gave an operetta during com
mencement week last June. Out of the
proceeds of it S. has just been given
to the Red Cross.
At recent meeting of the executive
committee of the Village Improvement
society it was voted to put in several
cement sidewalks, one in front of the
Ludington boarding house and one
from Mr.. Allen s store to the Baptist
church.
The Trumbull players closed a sue
cessful week in Wilmington Saturday
night. They went to North Adams
Sunday, hiring a special train to take
them and their equipment down. They
are to appear this week in Cambridge
n. Y. They present plays of the clean
est and best type and have become
something of Wilmington institution
returning year after year.
The Sunday morning service in tn,
Congregational church was a patriot,
service. There was special music, whicl
was very impressive, and Mrs. Ralpl
Howe read one of Dr. Jefferson s ser
mons on the subject, The Christian il
Politics. 1t was sermon for voters
and urged that the Christian pulpit
has no more critical task today THAI
urging upon citizens of the republi,
the conscientious performance of thci
political obligations.
The Boy Scouts who were appointed
by Scoutmaster l. J. Dutton to make
canvass of the town in the interest O
the Liberty loan were excused from
school on the afternoon of Libert,
day. Because of the severe storm O.
wind and rain only four made their re
port that afternoon. They had Sc
cured pledges for sales amounting t.
$1,000. 1t is hoped that as the othe
Scouts are able to complete their can
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The Woman S auxiliary of the Son
of Veterans entertained 90 guests iron
North Adams Thursday. The visitor
attended an afternoon meeting in G
A. r. hall, then the Wilmington OF
ganization served hot supper to then
and the evening was spent socially
There was an accident which prove,
not so very serious, when the guest
were returning home. The big automo
bile in which they were riding wen
through small bridge in the town o
Readsboro, which delayed the part,
some time, but no one was injured. Thu
Wilmington auxiliary accepted an in
vitation to make return visit to Nortl
Adams this week.
Seventy-five singers and dancers il
the big Red Cross musical comedy. TIL,
Rose Girl, in Brattleboro Auditorium
Thursday and Friday evenings and Sat
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