The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-21
Dinner Served at Hotel in
Chester-Return Trip by
West River Valley
JUNKETERS SEE
BARN BURNING
Stops Made in Putney, Westminster
and Bellows Falls This Morning =
Stunts Enliven Trip-List of Those
Who Went on Trip.

Forty-three men joined this morning
in the board of trade automobile trip
which started from the town hall at
1910 O'Clock, took them through Put
ney and Bellows Falls to Chester for
dinner and will bring them home by
way of South Londonderry, and the
West River valley
The party began gathering at the
board of trade rooms shortly after 9
O'Clock. Tickets for dinner were sold.
the men given their assignment to cars
and as the cars arrived they were dec
Grated with flags. Each man was given
horn in the expectation that he
would make ample use of it.
Multigraphed copies of the complete
schedule were available for each par
ticipant in the trip. These called for
various events which had not been an
nounced previously and it was under
stood that other features would enter
into the program of the junket. but it
was the purpose of the committee to
keep these features dark until the
occupants of the various cars were near
to or at the point where each was to
take place.
The trip to Chester was made with
out mishap, the party arriving at Hotel
Fullerton at 1890 O'Clock, Chairman
William ii. Richardson of the entertain
ment committee acted as pilot most of
the way. Stops were made near the
town hall in Putney, in front of Da-
Wis s store in Westminster and in front
of Hotel Windham in Bellows Falls. At
each stop a concert was rendered by the
horn brigade, while Bugler Bert A.
Whittemore, Secretary H. E. Moffitt
and r. ]. Eldridge made frantic efforts
TO sound familiar bugle calls. Plenty
OF comedy stuff was pulled off by Paul
A. Chase and George a. Wellman and
the only thing that could have made the
trip pleasanter would have been sun
shine and warmer weather. The stops
helped modify the cold, however
About mile east of Chester village
the party passed the scene of fire
this forenoon. A gasoline engine had
been set up in George Parker 8 farm
barn and the threshing of oats had lust
been begun when spark started a fire
which destroyed the barn and most of
the contents, causing a loss of $4,000
All the stock was in the pasture.
AT l.50 o clock Landlord J. A Rowell
served an excellent chicken dinner
The dinner hour was enlivened by the
reading of number of pertinent tele
grams by members of the party. II
| was planned TO resume the trip at :
clock, going through the West River
| valley and reaching Brattleboro about
6 o'clock
Those who went on the trip were: Ar
| thur F. Roberts, Frank L. Burnett
| Houghton Seaverns, Edwin E. Gobie
Robert W. Tabor, Walter A. Gilbert
Henry f. c. Toedt, William A. Morse
Harry c. Shaw, C. Victor Grant
Charles H. Willard, A. C. Franklin. w
A. Wheeler, Christopher H. Babb, Car
: Hopkins, Edwin H. Chapman. Mi
ehael j. Moran, George A. Wellman
Wayland ?. Frost, William H. Rich
ardson, William Cushman, Russell
Briggs, jr., Sanford A. Daniels, Floyt
+. johnson, Jason f. Bushnell, John F
| Fitzgerald, Albert w. Rockwell, Adj
| +. Miller, William A. Squires, Georg
| Z. Miller, Bert A Whittemore. Raipl
}. Eldridge, Paul A. Chase. Charles W
Cleaveland, c. C. Robinson William A
Shumway. Edwin H. Miller, DR.. Charlie
g. Wheeler, Eugene NJ. Angler, Errol
| w Richardson, Harold E. Moffitt
George Barrie and H. L. Harris of Bos
ton, secretary of the Twin State Gas {
| Electric Co.