The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-25
ATTI EBoRo DAILY EEroIEi SATURDAY, JANUARY % 1919
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

Rev. Clark T. Brownell will conduct
the chapel service at the Retreat Sun
day at 3 O'Clock.
The women of the First Universalist
society will hold their annual fair,
which will be called Victory fair,
Thursday. Feb. 6, afternoon and even
ing
A letter has been received by the
local board of trade from Senator Viii
liam p Dillingham; stating that heS has
entered the name of that organization
to receive the Congressional Record.
Pavson Smith, commissioner of edu-
cation for Massachusetts has been en-
gagged as one of the speakers at the
meeting of the Southwestern Vermont
| Teachers association which will be held
next week in Bellows Falls.
A series Of meetings to discuss early
Matching and demonstrate various
phases in setting up and operating in
| eubators will. be held in Windham eoun-
ty beginning Feb. 3, and A. L. Smith,
poultry specialist, will be present. Any
community desiring one of these meet
| ings should communicate with the
| Farm Bureau.
| The Red Cross has asked the women
of the Windham county chapter to
finish before March l, $4,000 garments
| for the women and children of war
stricken Europe. Every woman who is
willing to help is asked to remember
that the work rooms in the federal
building are open every afternoon for
sewing from to 5 O'Clock.
Friends of Miss Mary Davis of
jacksonville, Fla, formerly of this
town and a graduate of the high school
in the class of 1916, received cards
yesterday announcing her marriage to
Robert Justin Mansert, in Jacksonville,
Fla, Monday, Jan. 6. They will be at
home there after Feb. at 303. Cottage
avenue.
During the coming week the First
Baptist church will hold its annual weel
of prayer services which were postponed
from the usual time on account of tbs
recent epidemic. Services beginning
i, each evening at 7.30 have been arranged
as follows: Tuesday, meeting of th'
Christian Enlistment week committee o
seventy; Wednesday, meeting for mel
and boys; Thursday, a meeting for tn
women and the girls; Friday, a genera
meeting for the congregation.
Howard Rice, jr, Truxton Britain
! Lester Haywood, William Haywood
John Durham, Frank Shumway, Jacl
e Vendeveer, Osmer Fits, Lyman Adams
e Cedric Emerson, Richard Lane, Ulri
Rolin and James Irish gave an enjoy
able party last evening to some of thei
: friends in the Unitarian parish house
z | D,.t I
I don l.. Durham chaperoned the party
Mrs. NJ. P. Estey and Mrs. Frederic
T Greasy played for dancing. Punch an
Sandwiches were served.
America s Victories, Past and Pre-,
ent, will be the subject of the illustrai
ed lecture by Rev. d. f. Trout in tn
Universalist church Sunday at "a
D. m The lecture deals with the strus
! gle for national and world liberty.
treats of the five wars for liberty
which the United States has been Ell
! gagged, and closes with the great figf
: for world freedom BY the America
I army under General Pershing. Thel
h are about 100 views used in illustra
+ ing this very interesting story {
n America s victories
The funeral of Mrs. Harriet A. Gil
! son, who died Wednesday night in tn
> home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry w Whit
= of 10 Cedar street, was held in II
= White home ut 2.30 clock yesterda
, afternoon, Rev Delmar f. Trout off
ciating, and the burial took place
= the family lot in Prospect Hi
= cemetery. The bearers were Fer
r. Vaughan, Arthur F. Carpente
Julius E. Leach and Carl Endlieh TT
floral tributes were many and beaut
full. Mrs. Alice Whitney Bascom {
g. Glens Falls, n. Y, came to attend IL
service.