The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-04
About $4,000 Taken in at
Hinsdale in Two
Evenings
AND EXPENSES
WILL BE SMALL
About $50 at Strawberry Supper Last
Evening and 1000 Admissions Broke
All Records for Attendance-Booths
of Allied Nations.
Especial to The Reformer.>

d1NSDALF, y. H., May 4.
That the Red Cross fair of Thursday
and Friday nights was the greatest
social, as well as charitable ard pa
triotic, event in the history of the town
no one vii question when it is known
that the admission tickets to the hall
for the two nights totaled 1892 and
that the gross receipts were in the vi
cinity of $4,000, which will net the Red
Cross branch a tidy sum after the ex-
penses, which were small, have been
paid
The worthy cause for which the many
committees labored so faithfully during
past several weeks is apparently real
lied by all, Judging from the attend
ance and by their generosity. There
were 692 admission tickets to the hall
sold the first night and large
number partook of the bounteous chow
der supper in charge of the Grange,
which was served in the basement din
ing room and in the vestry of the Bap
tist church, the dining room not being
ldISt tuOuSH 10 Iiit
usual number
| The hall presented a beautiful ap-
pearance with its prettily decorated
and tastefully arranged booths repre-
S"nting the allied nations, at which
there was an exceptionally large va
riety of articles on sale, and the sales
that evening were tremendous. Above
the stage was suspended the Red Cross
! flag and the town s service flag con
tanning % stars. Red, white and blue
were the colors used in the decorations
with predominance of American flags
which enhanced the patriotism of the
event
At the head of the hall on the left
hand side was the fancy booth, repre-
senting Great Britain and in charge
of the Eastern Star and Masonic lodges.
The decorations included British flags
and the Masonic and Eastern Star en-
blems The flower booth in charge of
| the Woman's club, represented Italy
and was very pretty with its white
birch construction decorated with
trumpet flowers and miniature green
lights. The domestic booth was in
| charge of the Rebekahs and Odd Eel
lows and the japanese decorations and
the societies emblems were beautiful.
The ". C. T. [. represented Portugal
and sold lemonade in red booth dec
GRATED with flags. The Hooverites rep
resenting Serbia sold ice cream, and
nearby was demonstration of food
made from wheat substitutes, and there
was also a table with Red Cross exhib-
its.
United States was represented by the
Pocohontas and Red Men lodges at the
candy booth which was patriotically
decorated with American flags and
spears surmounted by an eagle. The
Knitting club had charge of the Red
Cross booth, where the famous auto
graph quilt was sold by auction Friday
night
France was we'll represented by the
Junior Red Cross booth, where dolls
were sold and which also contained an
lexcellent miniature hospital with full
equipment, the product of the manual
trained boys. The Camp Fire Girls rep
resented China and did thriving bust
ness at the grab bag booth and equally
busy was the Belgian popcorn booth
in charge of Misses Elizabeth Hinchey
Hazel Bell and Mrs Violet Wood The
lattendants at all the booths were
dressed in white with the Red Cross
headdress
Selling and taking tickets was ably
executed by the Sons of Veterans, and
the A. o. d. II. handled the checking
very satisfactorily. The programs in
charge of Mrs. r. NJ. Langworthy wer,
distributed by the Boy Scouts and th'
Y. NJ. c. A.
The general committee who have S,
generously devoted their ability ant
time to the success of the fair are a!
follows: w. F. Robertson, chairman
assisted by Mrs. F. w. Jeffords, Mrs
G. T.. Robertson, Mrs. w. F. Robertson
Mrs. X. Z. Smith, Mrs. A. L. Taylor ant
Miss Grace Roberts
At SIS the three-act comedy, Safet,
First, was presented before an audienc,
that filed every seat in the hall an,
all the standing room, by one of tn,
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