Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-03-14
ORWELL COLUMN

Rev. L. M. Isaacs was in Whiting
Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. O. B. Root spent Tues
day in Rutland.
Mrs. Goddard is i'll at the home of
Mrs. Mabel Young.
Mr.. and Mrs, R. S. Hall spent Thurs
day and Friday in Burlington.
Miss Sarah Purcell fractured her arm
on Monday, the result of a fall on the
ice.
Mrs. Otis Doane who has been seri-
ousIy i'll of plurisy is gradually recover
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Young after pass
ing two weeks in Boston have returned
home.
Rev. c. C. Merrill of Burlington was
a guest Friday night of Rev. L. M.
lsaacs.
B. j. Barber has purchased of Mrs.
j. M. Stevens her house on Prospect
street.
Clarence Belanger having been out
of town for several days returned home
Monday.
Miss Ellen Allen of Keene, N. H., is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest White are the
parents of son, Harold Vernon, born
Thursday, March 6.
William Easton of Putnam and Fred
Walker of Glens Falls, N. Y, were
weekend guests at 0. B. Roots.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Barnard enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Barnard of
Brandon on Thursday and Friday.
C. Carlson of the New England Tel
ephone Co. is in town to install new
switchboard in the local exchange.
Mrs. Della Bishop who has been for
several weeks with relatives in Glens
Falls, N. Y, returned home Friday.
Miss Emma Fuller, County Home
Demonstration Agent, will give dem
onstration at the ladies' rooms Monday
evening.
Mrs. T. H. Purcell and son, Harold,
who have been for the past week with
relatives in Holyoke, Mass, have re-
turned home.
A son was born on March to Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Walsh of Worcester,
Mass. Mrs. Walsh was formerly Miss
Leah Desjadon of this town.
Mrs. Zebulon Baker returned home
on Thursday of last week from spend
ing some time with her daughter, Miss
Delphine, in New York City.
C. L. Hammond was in town from
Tuesday until Saturday, relative to the
auction of live stock which was held at
the Hammond farm Thursday.
George King is to enter the employ
of D. A. La Due for the coming season,
and will move his family 5000 to the
tenement house of MIR. La Due
Mrs. Corinne Ouillette, who has been
for several weeks the guest of her
mother, Mrs. Peter Jenners, in Yer
ge mes, returned Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy M. Cook went
Tuesday to Montpelier where they
were the guests of Mrs Cooks father,
Fred Brookins, representative from
Middlebury.
There will be st. Patricks Social
at the ladies' rooms Wednesday even
ing, under the auspices of the Junior
Christian Endeavor and the Girls
Bible class.
Robert King went Thursday of last
week to the Mary Fletcher hospital in
Burlington for treatment He was &C
companied by DR.. G. A. Sargent who
returned that evening.
Mrs. Julia Brown went this week to
Burlington where she will undergo at
the Mary Fletcher hospital an opera
ton for appendicitis She was accom-
panied by DR.. c. A. Sargent and Miss
Jessie Griswold.
The Fortnightly Club met Tuesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. l.. M.
Isaacs, sixteen members being present
The program consisted of reading by
Mrs. D. l.. Wells on "Our National
Highways; a story by Mrs. C. W..
Bodfsh and a talk, illustrated by radi-
opticon views on Natural Scenery of
Vermont" by Mrs. o. S. Wisell.
Mrs. Mamma (Fuller) Steadman,
wife of Erwin Steadman, died at her
home Wednes 'ay forenoon. Mrs.
Steadman was born in Granville, March
20, 1847, the daughter of Jiduthan and
Susan (Greene) Fuller. The funeral
was held at her late home this after
noon at p. M, Rev. l.. M. Isaacs off
ciating The burial was in Mt. View
cemetery.
Miss Katherine Barron, a former
resident died Friday in Brooklyn, N. Y,
following several weeks illness. She
is survived by four sisters, Mrs. T. j.
Murphy of Fair Haven, Mrs. Earl Hop
kins of Orwell, Mrs. Guy DeWolf of
Middlebury, and Miss Maud Barron of
Brooklyn, N. Y, four brothers, William,
Thomas and John of Hartford Conn,
and James of Middlebury, all being
present at the funeral. A Solemn High
Mass was celebrated at St. John s
Catholic church in Brooklyn, Monday
morning and the burial was in that city.
Mrs. C. R. Burnell has received a
letter from her son, Pv. King Burnell,
telling of his safe arrival at Camp Mer-
rift. Pv. Burnell went on board the
transport "Powhatan" February 18th
at Panillac the harbnr of Bordeaux but
sailing was deferred until the 18th ow-
ing to a severe storm on the Bay of
Biscay. The "Powhaian" which was
the ship on which the Ex-Kaiser enter
4 ~ n Il ~