The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-18
NORTHFIELD, MASS.

Principal Mitchell of the high school an
nounces the honors for the senior class as
follows Valedictorian, Miss Irene Allen;
salutatorian, Miss Dorothy Buffum.
The other members will have parts as.
signed later. Graduation is June %
| About 20 members of the Gill Grange
We're guests of the local order on Tues
day evening. a program was given bv
| the visitors in charge of Miss Van Walker
berg, lecturer of Gill Grange An excel
/ lent entertainment was furnished. Three
children dressed, one as Columbia. one a (
I Red Cross nurse and one a soldier. SANG
the Star Spangled Banner with much ey-
preston.
| The Mortified Brotherhood held ladies,
night on Wednesday evening in the vestrv
of the congregational church with a LARGE
attendance. Supper was served under the
direction of +. w Kellogg at $50 f. i.
/ Howard was master OF ceremonies for the
evening. Rev. i. w. Pattison gave the
address of welcome To the ladies' Her
bert s. Stone gave an entertaining ac.
count Of some OF his experiences while in
| Paris the past winter. A. j. Casevetis
told of life in Texas training camp A
program of moving pictures was then
lgiven. The men surely highly entertained
lilclT guests Ibl the evening.
A meeting Of the Red Cross committee
and all solicitors viii be held Friday eve
ming of this week at the library at North
field Farms. Supper will be served by the
women OF that part of the town and the
solicitors win have their work assigned.
The solicitors for West Mortified are
G. p. Butlum, Mrs. Peach, Mrs. f. 4. Da-
Wis, Mrs. +. Is. Caldwell; East Mortified.
Mrs. c. +. Dickerson, Mrs. Pallam, George
Carr. Miss Sophie Nelson: Mortified
seminary, Miss Edith Weidman; North
field mountain. Jones Fisher; Mortified,
Mrs. +. A. Welch, Miss Margaret Gala
CHAN; Mortified Farms, Mr.. and Mrs. f.
II. Montague.
\ service to arouse renewed interest in
Red Cross work was held at Sage chapel
Tuesday morning. William H. Tenney of
the Franklin county publicity committee
was the speaker. He received a war
cross for service in the present war. He
was member of the Harvard unit and
was wounded and incapacitated. He
showed a captured German helmet also
helmets of the allied armies. He also had
piece of aluminium which was formerly
a part Of a Zeppelin. His talk was in
tensely interesting and showed the won
derful value of the Red Cross organiza-
tion.
The Boys Brigade has been fortunate
in securing Sergeant w. f. Carson, l4th
, regiment, United States Engineers, for
| their speaker for June 7. Sergeant Car
son is a Northampton man and was one
of the first Of our engineers to land in
| France. He was beside the first United
| States soldier who was killed and was
! badly wounded himself. He tells of the
| taking OF 200 men to the front one day
! and brought back 500 wounded or gassed
! For two years Sergeant Carson was in the
/ center OF the fighting and tells wonder
4 full story in an interesting way. Admis-
y sion to the inspection and address will be
4 by ticket to be secured of the Brigade
Il boys, bookstore or Press office.
II \ Joint meeting Of all the women's or
II carnations of the Congregational church
II was held on Wednesday afternoon after
II noon in the vestry with Rev. f. W. Pat
I tison in charge. After the opening servic,
III Mr. Pattison called on the following rep
u IeseA ta4iyes aei saei ties for reports: Mrs
: s. l.. Walker, report OF Bible class of Mrs
- L. Il. Smith; Mrs. Mary Doolittle, HON,
=. missions; Mrs. +. VI. Lazelle, w. {. T. l.
4 Mrs. w &. Roberts, mothers society
\ Miss Maud Hamilton, evening auxiliary
! Mrs. +. A. Holton, Bible class of Mrs
\ Moody. The subject of larger co-opera
\ ton of the societies was discussed and
committee was appointed to confer wit
I the pastor and report in the fall. TIL
committee includes Mrs L. t. Smith. Mrs
\. g.. Moody, Mrs. Mary Doolittle, Mr.,
= W. G. Roberts.
The final meeting of the Fortnight
- was held Monday at Alexander hall, Thi
So was a musicale in charge of Mrs. G..
~ Williams and Mrs. &. II. Webster and wa
- delight from the beginning throughou
M Miss Sarah Minot gave a paper on IL
err, history of opera. The story of the oper
es- II Trovatore, by Verdi, was given by Mr.
'nt T.. A. Welch Several selections from tn
- opera were rendered by the soloists, b.
md Field and Miss Hazel Parch; piano due
y Mrs Webster and Miss Marion Webste
violin solo by Miss Webster accompani,
on the piano by Mrs. Webster; Miss vi,
~ Faye Richardson gave a selection fro
cen Rigoletto by Verdi; transcribed by Lis
Several records of ii Trovatore were re
ace. dcred on the sonora in charge of Mrs. w
o ,, liams. Mrs. A. c. Moody recited T
1890 Barrel Organ, by Alfred Noyes in viii
ark the references to II Trovatore are man
fee Every one expressed enjoyment of t
M program and desired the annual musics
un TO be reestablshed in the club progra