The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-25
NEWFANE.
Discussed Medical Temperance

. Inc w. Y. l.. u. met with Mrs. G.. f.
Davidson Friday and after business the
time was devoted to medical temperance
under the leadership of Mrs Margaret
Wilcox, the local superintendent of this
department. Readings by different mem
bers related to the opinions of eminent
physicians and of the American Medical
association concerning the use of alco-
holic liquor in the treatment of influenza
and pneumonia, and the. growing number
Iof doctors who condemn the use of it in
these diseases, also statistics. showing
more deaths from those diseases have
occurred among those treated with whis-
key than without and especially among
ha bitual users of it.
Mrs. Wilcox, who has been nursing the
sick during the last 10 years, gave testi-
mony that only one physician in this vi
cinity has prescribed alcoholic liquor,
and that in only teaspoon doses to the
amount of two ounces in all.
| The treasurer, Mrs. Lila NJ. Wiswall,
reported that the last installment of
| Newfane's quota of $50 toward the Jubi.
lee Fund has been paid, the amount hav-
ing been made up by personal subscrip-
lions from the members of the union. AT
K.
work of another department will be
studied
Ralph Cushing has been in town few
days.
Lewis II. Higgins has recovered from
his illness.
Mrs. Leon Pike went Tuesday to ia.
maica to visit her mother
Miss Mabel Phillips is spending a week
with friends in Worcester.
n. NJ. Batchelder was away for the
week end on business trip.
| James Brown was at home over Sun.
day, returning Monday to Brattleboro.
Mrs. Georgia Railway is visiting hel
| sister, Mrs Abbie Kelsey, in South New.
fame.
Miss Marion Holland, who visited hel
father, Theodore Holland, returned t.
Brattleboro Saturday.
Mrs. Walter Wright, who was recover
ing from influenza and tonsilitis, is nov
i'll with rheumatic fever.
George w. Knapp is at home, aftel
spending the winter months in Soutl
DoSloH anu DeliOWS FaliS.
Rev. F. B. Hyde of Jacksonville, VT.
will preach in the Congregationalchurcl
next Sunday as a candidate
George A. Gould of Dover, who is al
agent for nursery company, has beer
spending few days in Newfane, takin.
many orders.
Two telephones have been Unstable,
this week one at John Whites, % ring 3
and the other at the meat market O
Lewis Bills, II ring 4
The first blackbird was seen Wednes
day morning, and spring is here. Tn
full sap pals prove this as well, but tn
big snow drifts yet remain.
i Raymond Pratt is i'll with influenz,
and is being cared for by his wife, who i
home from Townshend, where she i
teaching, to spend the spring vacation.
il Mr.. and Mrs. J. O. Coane, who wer
winter guests atsWiniam Rand's, arriv
| ing in Newfane Dec. |, left Alonda,
morning for their home in Chester, Conn
4 Mis-. GERTRUDE Brown, who has been il
!, at j. d. Makers, was able to return t
/. Brattleboro last week. Miss Winnifre
Maher, who also was i'll at her home, re
turned Monday to Readsboro.
News from Miss Margaret Maher, VIII
Is still in the United States Public Healt
Hospital in Alexandria, states that Mis-
Nellie Hamlin, with other nurses, wa
transferred to Arizona because of a
emergency call.
Miss Olive Eager came from Brattle
: boro Saturday evening to spend Sunda
, with her uncle, Ward Eager, and Gale
on other friends. She returned Monda
morning to Brattleboro, where she wi
remain with Mrs. Monroe for time.
. G. B. Underwood returned to Newfan
Saturday, having spent the winter i
> Utica, n. Y. Before returning home h
twisted his brother, A. S. Underwood, i
! Fulton, n. Y, and at the home of hi
J daughter, Mrs. Jesse Harter, in Lyken
, Pa.
ai The spring term of the village scho,
b lopened Monday. The teacher, Miss Ann
5 Finlan, returned Saturday to Newfan
e lhaving spent the vacation at her home
. Bennington. There are % pupils ell
j rolled this week. A few are unable I
;. attend yet on account of illness.
The sugar makers are busy, and man