The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-29
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visitor with his brother Wayland
Aver, Friday.
Private William Speno of Camp
Devens came to his home Friday night,
returning Monday to camp.
The marriage intentions are announced
of Miss Florence f. Allen of Locust street
Northampton, Mass, and Merwin A. Pond
of Putney.
+. c. Parker has been at work in the
cemeteries, Maple Grove and Mount
Pleasant, TO get them cleaned up for
Memorial day.
Miss Mary T. Andrews expects to
have young women from Bryn Mawr
college. Pennsylvania, to work on her
farm this summer.
Mrs. Daniel Holt and two sons of Bel
lows Falls have been visiting at Eugene
Holt s and Mr.. Holt came to spend
Sunday with them at his fathers
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Dodge and son,
William Robertson Dodge, of Spring
field, were visitors Sunday at f. E.
Robertson s coming il. their automobile.
With the recent warm humid air
grass and corn that is up, have grown
fast; also all seeds planted spring up
in q few days. Some are hoeing their
corn and potatoes for the first time.
Mrs. Munson and her daughter of
West Haven, Conn.,, who bought of Mr..
Proctor of Keene the f. G. Parker farm
in East Putney, are established there
and hone with the help they brought
with them to farm on an intensive
scale.
Services were held Sunday morning
in the Baptist church, Rev. Cornell
pastor, preaching strong patriotic
sermon. The Greenwood post and
Women s Relief corps attended and
there was special music for the oc-
casion.
On Friday night of this week the
moving picture program in the town
hall for the benefit of the stage funt
will include n five-reel play, An Ala
baster Box, by Mary Wilkins Freeman
also The Spirit of the Red Cross, il
two reels.
DIR. l.. II. Bugbee returned Saturday
from Burlington, where he attended tn,
school for health officers. While Their,
| he saw the boys from our town who ar,
at Fort Ethan Allen taking the thre,
! months mechanical course to fit then
= for service abroad.
4 Mr. Pernie of Springfield, Mass, VIII,
has been a guest the past week at /. c
Bradley's, certainly has patriotic fam
II lily. Mrs. Pernle is matron at the hostes
| house at Camp Upton, two sons are il
/ France and Mr.. Perne will take I'D som
\ phase of the war work
II f. j. Parker and family who ha
4 been at work on West hill for Raw
h inond Buchanan, have moved back &
II the village and for the present are oc
II cupying the lower tenement in the Viii
II lis Young house. Mr.. Parker will re
sumo work in the Bradley corporation
II shop, where he was employed befor
II he went to farming.
II Mrs. Thomas Ames and young so
left Wednesday for their home on
ranch in Cody, Wyoming. Mrs. Anne
takes with her the young woman an
her child who have been with her a
the White farm all winter. Mrs. L. +
Bugbee and son Richard accompanie
her as far as Springfield, Mass. The
returned to Greenfield, Mass, to spen
Memorial day with Mrs. Z. w. f. Dye
i The pre-Memorial day exercises by tn
schools of the three rooms in the Centrs
: school and Miss Wards school in tn
North district were held Tuesday after
= noon at the town hail. They had the ha
Q. handsomely decorated with wild flower
H. consisting of daisies, violets, columbir
= pitcher plants, ferns, etc, with the M
n. tional flags and bunting much in evidenc
s. Teachers and pupils deserve much cred
s. for the fine way in which the prograI
Mt was carried out