The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
TOWNSHEND.

Mrs. Earl Blanchard went to North
field Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Batchelder were
in Brattleboro Friday.
A number from here attended the
Memorial day exercises at Newfane.
Ross Newell of Waterbury, Conn.,,
spent the week END at Harry Sparks s.
Mrs. j. H. Grout is visiting at Moses
CIRCUITS in Newfane while Mr.. Grout
is away.
Mrs. F. E. Perkins went back to the
Memorial hospital Tuesday for further
treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Wellington
and child of Brookline were at E. H.
Allbee s Sunday.
Mrs. Alonzo Chamberlin, who had
been visiting in Worcester, Mass,
came home Sunday.
Mrs. Pike finished work for Don
Boutelle Monday and returned to her
home in. Wardsboro.
j. H. Grout went to Newfane Satur-
day on his way to visit his nephew,
Abel Grout, in New York.
Miss Mary Jones, who has taught
the primary grade in the school here
went to her home in West Pawlet Mon
day.
WILDER Snyder, under the direction
of the state forestry commission, is re
pairing the telephone line over Bald
mountain.
Rev. Clark t. Brownell, pastor of the
Baptist church in BrattlebOro, will give
the commencement address for Leland
and Gray seminary.
Raymond Phillips, who is at Camp
Wadsworth and was expecting to be
sent across at once, was taken i'll with
mumps and is in quarantine.
Mr.. and Mrs. viii Sanderson of Sa-
| vannah, Ga, accompanied by Mrs. San
derson 8 sister of New York, came to
| his summer home here Monday.
| Miss Hester Holden, whose school
| friends in Marlboro a few days and is
to return here before going to her
home.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Dole, Fred Dole
of Greenfield, Mass, and Mrs. Minnie
Cobb and son, Harold, of Bernardston,
Mass, were recent visitors at Dr.
Snyder
| The baseball team of the Townshend
! grammar school came home highly elat-
ed by its victory over the picked nine
| of Brookline and Newfane, the score
| standing II to 9 in their favor.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Adams, accom-
panied by Miss Hazel Potwine of Brook
line, went to Camp Devens, Aver, Mass.
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as visitors were not allowed on Other
days of the week.
The meeting of the Red Cross society
will be held in the vestry of the Congre
gational church Friday afternoon OF
this week and as there is an extra
amount of work sent in an extra mum
Der of workers is desired
An excellent illustrated talk by DR. f
F.. Johnson, director of Vermont rura
dental clinics, was given in Seminary hal
Tuesday evening, May %. DR.. johnson
spoke of the immense need of this work
Boys and girls living far from centers
where dental service can readily be OBJ
tanned must of necessity be put to {
double expense for travelling and denta
treatment. Army enlistments toda,
show very large percentage of reiec
tions due to defective teeth. He showed
that good teeth are vital asset in thu
life of the young people today, and mad
clear the fact that the education of to
day must furnish effective means t,
lround out sturdier manhood and won
anhood.
I On the afternoon of May % a chill
dren's clinic was held in the Baptis
lvestry. Fifty-one children were exam
med. Those assisting in the work wer
Dr.. f. j. Hair and DIR. F. l.. Osgood
nurses, Miss Mary l.. Wakefield, Mis-
Horton of Brattleboro and our school an
district nurse, Mrs. George b. Whitney
The teeth were examined by the stat
dentist, Dr. f. f. Johnson of Burlington
During the afternoon Miss Lucy
: Swift, the county home economics agent
demonstrated foods for children. Their
were also on exhibition various article
lsthat could be home made and used in tn
care of children. The pleasing featur
was that every child but one under ST
, years was present, this one being i'll an
unable to attend. This work is to b
carried on in all the neighboring town
by the school nurse, Mrs. George B. Whit
lney.