Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-01-04
N0RTHFIELD, MASS.
Miss Laura Baker Dies on Train.

Miss Laura Baker Dies on Train.
Miss Laura Baker, 90, died Friday of
last week, on q railroad train to Keene.
She was being taken to the Keene nos
pital by her physician. Miss Baker
has been i'll since last May and under
went an operation in Boston hospital
this summer. She was born in the house
where she has always lived, on the Ash
uelot road q daughter of Stebbins and
Lucina Bracket Baker. Since the death
of her parents she and her only sis
ter, Mrs. Helen Sprague, have conduct
ed market gardening and are well
known here. The funeral was held
Monday, Rev. Mr.. Bufrum of Winches
ter, n. H., officiating.
Fred Huber is home i'll with quinsy
sore throat.
Mrs. j. r. Cummings cntertains the
Knitting club tonight.
Miss Grace Hodges is visiting her
mother and sister here.
Schuyler White is i'll with pneumonia
at the Northfeld hotel.
Mrs. H. b. DeWolf has returned and
is at the Mortified hotel.
Lieut.. Clarence Steader left Wcdnes-
day for Camp Dix, New Jersey
There will be no Red Cross meeting
at Mortified Center this week.
Charles Baxter ir., of Harvard is
home for the Christmas vacation.
Fred and William Tanski spent
Christmas with their mother here.
The Unitarian Alliance met with Mrs.
Frank Williams Wednesday afternoon.
Frank Kendrick has been confined TO
the house several days with rheuma-
tism.
Mrs. w. c. Roberts and daughter, Miss
Ruth, are visiting cousins in New Brit
ain, Conn.
Miss Belle Polhcmus is a guest of her
brother and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A.
Polhcmus.
The public library will be open each
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday after
noon and evening.
Mrs. L. II. Lazelle returned on New
Years day from visit to her dau9h-
ter in Orange, n. j.
Miss Annie Thompson Of Mount Her
mon hospital has been the guest of Mrs.
n. Fay Smith for week.
Fred Morse has returned to his work
in Greenfield after recovering from
humps at his home here.
The Sunday evening services will be
held in the Congregational vestry on ac-
count of the lack of coal.
Miss Marion Collins of the seminary
has been a guest of Mr.. and Mrs w.
r. Moody for the holidays.
Miss Gertrude Ball slipped on ice
and fell Sunday, breaking a bone in her
wrist and spraining her thumb.
Miss Dorothy Wise and Miss Gertrude
Atwood expect to 20 to Fitchburg normal
school for visit the first of the week.
Miss Alice Zabriskie of Columbia
university is in charge of the students
at Northfeld seminary for the Christ
mas vacation.
Mrs. A. NJ. Solandt has organized n
knitting club on Warwick Avenue ,pnd
they are doind excellent work in guam
tity and quality.
+. w. Doanc has moved a building
from the Whitman place on Warwick
avenue to his place on Main street and
will fit it up for garage.
The Ladies' Sewing society of the
Unitarian church held an all-day meet
ing for Red Cross work at the vestry
on Thursday Of this week.
Mortified has added again to the list
of Red Cross members and now has
over 600 enrolled. There are between
90 and 20 families where each member
has joined the Red Cross.
Myron L. Cutler of East jeffrey,
n. H., will give an address before the
board of trade Friday evening of this
week at Sons of Veterans hall. His
subject is The Problem of the Village
Life.
The vital statistics for Mortified for
1917 are 81 deaths, II marriages, 30
births The deaths are the same as last
year: II of these were of persons "a
years old or more. There were two more
marriages and three less births.
The following are the subjects for
the services each evening this week at
the Congregational church, Tuesday
Thanksgiving and Confessions; Wednes
day, The Nation at War; Thursday
Education; Friday Missions.
Services on Sunday were held III