The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-19
NEWFANE.

week during the Thanksgiving holiday.
Richard A. Wheeler of Wilmington
was a guest Sunday at A. 4. Under
woods.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Benson have.
closed their summer cottage, Uneeda
Rest. They returned Monday to the
village.
Linemen have been in town putting in
order the telephone lines and poles for
the New England Telephone Tele-
graph Co.
The first snow storm of the season
came Tuesday night. 1t covered the
ground to a depth of about two inches
and was very heavy.
Mrs. Fred Underwood has returned to
the home of her niece, Mrs. c. l.. Hes
cock, having spent six weeks in Wards
bOrO, her former home.
Mrs. w. A. Jacobs who spent a few
weeks with Ter sister, Mrs. Whitcomb.
at the NcTfUne Inn. left Nov, II to
spend the winter in Florida.
Mrs. Ralph Houghton returned Sat
urday to her home in Burlington, after
spending a few days in the home of her
aunt, Mrs. George I. Bishop.
There will be a Thanksgiving ball in
Union hall Nov. p, under the manage
ment of Charles Benson. Supper will
be served by the Union Hall Helpers.
MIS-. Horace " OOU Is III. I1eE sister,
Mrs. Burton Halliday. has come to help
care for her. The family are still at
their summer home on the WardsbOro
road.
Mrs. Williams. who was the efficient
cook at Newfane Inn during the summer
and fall closed her labors there this
week: She returned to her home in Bos-
ton Tuesday.
A. f. Cudworth. municipal judge, of
South Londonderry spent Friday in the
home of his sister, Mrs. Bert +. Morse,
enjoying a hunting trip in the open fields
near the Wardsboro line.
Miss Florence Whitaker, assistant
! telephone operator. is taking a short va
cation, going Tuesday to Boston to visit
friends. On the return trip she will
visit in Springfield Mass.
! Homer Ambrose. who has sold his
| farm to Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Rhoades,
moved Monday to the Hurdis Smith
place. The Rhoades family took posses
sion of their home last week.
The manufacture of apple jelly and
! boiled cider. carried on by Walter Bal
| lou all the fall. has come to an end for
the season, the unusually large supply
If cider apples being exhausted.
The Newfane Inn is closed for the sea-
| son. Mrs. \. Z. Whitcomb. proprietor.
! is having inside repairs made, in charge
ot Rol!a Phillips Of TOwnshend. before
| leaving to spend the winter in Florida
Miss Fannie 3. Higgins, who was a
| guest the past week in the home OF her
aunt, Mrs. +. W. Underwood. was called
70 her home in Lexington Monday by
the illness of her nephew, Gordon
! Wheeler.
Harry Pond is boarding at Theodore
| Selkins's at River View farm. having
. change his home because of the i'll
ness of J. d. Pierce in whose home in
Brattleb0ro he was cared for through
| he summer.
Miss Sarah Burnham, who had been
| pending 4 few days with Mrs. Dorr
| Nuen. returned Friday to her home in
Brattleboro. Miss Fannie f. Frost of
| Springfield spent the weekend in the
! home Of Mrs. Allen
A letter from Mrs. Florence Batchel-
Ter Brown tells Of the safe arrival of
| herself and husband in southern Cali
| .ornla and gives a glowing description
! 4 the place and summer weather flow
| rs and fruits in striking contrast to
| he conditions in Newfane at present.
Mr., and Mrs, Earl Hamlin spent the
| week end in the home of Mrs Hamlin's
| sister in South AthOl. They were &C
| ompanied by her father, Almon Marsh
| he family having q reunion Sunday in
| 'HiebratIOn of the Goth anniversary of
| Mr.. Marsh's birthday, when all the fam
| ~ were present except one brother of
| Mrs. Hamlin. who was unable to at
| end.
The meeting Sunday evening was es-
| Decially interesting, the subject being
| Mission Work in China, with stereopti-
| on pictures to illustrate the lecture.
d, which was written by Earl Ballou of
| hester, who has served on the mission
| ED there and has arranged this lee
| ure to hep the cause. Rev. F. 3.
| Hyde read the lecture, Harold Whitaker
| ,hOwed the pictures and Mrs. Lena De
| Witt, committee from the Christian En-
ieayor society, presided
The trustees Of Moore Free library
net Tuesday afternoon for their annual
| meeting, which was postponed from Oct.
| . on account of the absence of the IL
2rarian, who had not returned from her
| Tislt in Canada. The report of the Ii
3Tarian showed that the circulation of
| looks the past year was over $500 and
he magazines taken out for home read
ny numbered GS1. An appropriation was
made Of "G3 for the purchase of new
| looks, which will be available as soon
| as possible. The officers were reelected
Is follows: Pres. +. 4. Dewitt: vice
)res., Mrs. G. NJ. Love Of South New
,ane; see, William II. Newton :. treas.
Mrs. Eta f. Hcsc0c& librarian, Mrs.
W. H. Newton.