Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-18
NoRTHFIELD, MASS.
Grange Events.


turned from war service and who are
Grange members. Five of the seven men
we're present. Supper was had and an adj
dress of welcome was given by l.. O.
Clapp, master Singg, dancing and So
ciability was the program for the evening.
Another dancing party will take place
in Grange hall on Tuesday evening of
this week The committee in charge are
Miss Ionia johnson, Miss Esther Long
Thursday off this week Harry L. Gardner
of Blackstone, who is the lecturer for
the state Grange, will visit Mortified
Grange The local Grange has invited
the Greenfield Grange for the day A
picnic luncheon will be enjoyed at the hall
and an entertainment furnished by mem
hers of both organizations
Mrs. Charles Abbott is i'll on Birnam
road.
Miss Minnie Worden of Orange is Wis
iting friends in town.
Miss Katherine Callaghan is visiting
her sisters in Boston for two weeks.
Mrs. George Foster of Boston is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. +. w. Kellogg.
DR.. Robert johnson of Montreal will
preach next Sunday in the Auditorium.
Miss Abigail Stockbridge of At'nnta,
Ga, is guest of Mrs. c. c. StockbrdGe.
Sidney Coe has been visiting his aunt,
Mrs. w. w. Coe, at ID. T.. w. Brown
recently.
Miss Marion Caldwell visited Miss
IIilda Sawyer in IInsdale the first of
the week.
Miss Maud Whitaker of New York
is guest of her cousin, Mrs. Frank
Maynard.
DR.. c. /. Scofeld and family are at
their bungalow on Ashuelot mountain for
the summer.
DR.. and Mrs. John Mcdowell of Bal
timore are at the Mortified hotel for
the summer.
Miss Nan Stratton of the staff Of the
Mortified Press is visiting her mother
in Nashua, y. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell and
John Campbell were guests this week at
the Campbell home.
Mrs. Sarah Ward of Orange and Miss
Hattie Hastings of Greendale are guests
of Mrs. c. II. Webster.
Mr.. and Mrs l.. r. Smith have returned
from visit with their son, DR.. II. NJ.
SINFUL, anu ldlllly III IpbSlpl,
Jerome b. Clapp is with the All-Amer-
lean Cable Co. at Buenos Aires, Argcn-
tina, on a two-years' contract.
Ross Spencer, who is at Camp Devens
running his auto for camp service, is
spending a week with his mother, Mrs.
George Spencer.
Miss Esther Cowles and Clifford Boil
ton, who accompanied Mrs. Eva Childer-
hose on her return to Orilnla, Canada.
have arrived here, after q twO-weeks ,
visit.
Miss Marion f. Webster is away for
two-weeks' vacation. She will visit Mrs.
W. A. Barr in Somervlle and later Mrs.
Davis in Quincy, who is mother of Mrs.
+ A. Welch.
All except four of the men who were
in service of the war from this town,
have returned These are Lieut.. Gin
ton Darling, Lieut.. Clarence Steadler,
Roy Woodland, Linwood Courser. p. 81.
About 90 from the. Mortified chapter
of Eastern Star attended the all-day pic
mic at Forest lake last week Wednesday
of the chapters of Winchester, Keene,
Hinsdale, Brattleboro and Mortified.
William Sherwin and Mrs. Mabel L. S.
Kellogg were married at Skinner Memoir
al chapel in Holyoke, July by Rev. Du
vid Adam. Mr.. Sherwin is son of the
late Mrs Ella Sherwin of this town ano
is connected with large steel orpora.
ton in Minneapolis, where their future
home is to be.
Ector Wallet returned from New York
last week Wednesday with his bride. Mr.
| Wallet has been in service in the war
| returning from France last February. In
| Liverpool he met Miss Doris IIeppel, who
came on the steamer Baltic July 6 and
was met by Mr., Wallet and his sister,
Miss Irene Wallet of New York. Here
| they were quietly married and they are
now with his parents on Warwick avenue.
Last Thursday evening at the town
meeting the town voted to borrow and
appropriate $4,000 for highway construc-
ton work, of which $500 will be used
on reconstruction of the NIilers Brook
bridge and the remainder for rebuilding
portion of Main street in cooperation
with the state.
C. s. Warner has been appointed
! agent in Mortified of the 500 bonus
| for service men. 1t is his duty to assist
the men who have been in service in
making out their application blanks,
| their afhdaNlts, ana to transmit them
to Boston, also to give all information
in connection with this subject.
Lieut. Roger Warner arrived from
Brest, France at Hoboken Sunday. His
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. s Warner, ex-
pected him Wednesday. Lieut.. Warner
enlisted from Dartmouth college, trained
! in the officers camp at Plattsburg and
has been in service in France l3 months,
After the armsticc was signed he was
made assistant adjutant at st. Nazaire,
For the past three months he has been a
student at Oxford university in Eng.
land under the United States govern.
ment.
Mrs. Mary R, Purdy, widow of
Charles NJ. Purdy of New York, died at
| her home in East Mortified Sunday
night after a long illness. She was born
/ in New York, Feb. 90, 1875, daughter
of Joseph Carpenter, and came to this
town about eight years ago, making her
/ home with her granddaughter, Miss
Betty Moore She leaves two daughters,
Mrs. Mary L. Mitchell and Miss Susan
, Purdy and q son, William .Purdy of New
| York. PrayGrs were held at the home