Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-10-29
BRANDON NEWS

n. Y, are visiting relatives in town
Mollie Barnard has returned from
New York City where she spent
week
Mr.. and Mrs H. f. Bartrum are
spending a week at their farm from
Bridgeport, Conn
Asst. Postmaster Edward Powers is
enjoying 10 days vacation from his
duties at the postoffice.
w. H. Tarble has sold large tract
OF timber land in Chittenden to the
international Paper company.
Mrs v Bump, who has been sub
shutting in grade three at the graded
school, has returned to Pittsford
Judge and Mrs. Charles I. Button
of Mddlebury spent Sunday here at
the home of his mother, Mrs. 2. R.
Button.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Bennett and
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Foster reformed
Sunday from an automobile trip to
Canada.
Charles Dram, clerk in F. L. Smiths
grocery store, is enjoying weeks va
cation. c. w. Dodge is taking his place
in the store.
Burt Merritt has returned from
! spending several days with friends in
New York City and has resumed his
position in the postoffice
Frank and Mary Button of Middle
bury College spent Saturday and Sun
dav at the home of. their parents, Mr..
and Mrs E. H. Button, of Park street
Lucen Thomas and daughter, Miss
Edith Thomas have moved from their
farm east of the village to the May
nard place on Carver street which they
recently bought
A special communication of St
Pauls lodge, No 25, f. and A. NJ, Will
be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock
for work on the Master Mason degree
Refreshments will be served.
Frank H. Knowlton of the Smith
sonian Institute at Washington, D. c.,
who has been spending two weeks here
with his sister, Miss Nellie Knowlton,
left last night for his home in Laurel
Md.
Miss Reba Maxfeld and classmate
Miss Beatrice Benedict, of Middle
bury College, spent Saturday and Sun
day at the home of Miss Maxfeld's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, Ira Maxfield
OF Seminary Hill
The annual meeting of the Brandon
branch of the American Red Cross
will be held this evening at s o'clock
in Grand Army hall Miss Elizabeth
Van Patten of Burlington, superintend-
ent OF public health nurses, will be
present and give a talk on what
public health nurse can do for a com
munity.
The game of football played here
last Friday afternoon between the
Burlington and local high school teams
resulted in a scor of Clio in favor of
the Burlington team. A supper was
served in the evening at the high
school to the Burlington boys, by four
of the senior girls, which was followed
by dancing in which all four of the up
per classes participated.
A largely attended meeting of the
Monday club was held at the home of
Mrs. George H. Young on Union street
Monday evening Benjamin Williams
of Proctor gave very interesting talk
on the Welsh people and their Gus
toms A quartet, Mrs. F. w. Briggs,
Mrs. ! w Estabrook, Miss Vera Pur
inton and Mrs II. w Williams render
ed a vocal selection and Mrs. Williams
a vocal solo.
Sire starting in the loft of a barn
| located at the rear of the home of Mrs
Alice c. Sprague, did about $4,000 dam
age Sunday morning The ground floor
OF the building is used as garage and
contained four automobiles at the time
of the blaze These were all severely
damaged The Dunmore Hose COM
pany had three streams on the build
ing from 10 o'clock to noon. The
building was not entirely destroyed.
Silver Lake Lodge, No. 4, Knights
OF Pythias have arranged to receive
election returns in their rooms on cleo
ton night, November 2 A wire will
be run to the rooms and an operator
has been engaged to take the returns
The Brandon Concert band will fur
nish music and lunch will be served
at - o'clock. The public is invited
The Brandon Community fair open
ed today and will continued through
tomorrow, in the high school gymnas-
ium This project, the first of its kind
to be held in Brandon, promises to be
highly interesting to residents of the
village and surrounding territory Ex-
hibits OF sewing and canned goods from
the domestic science department and
the manual training department have
been entered. Probably the display
OF most interest is the poultry and
livestock exhibit for boys from the ag-
ricultural classes Students from other
departments have their work on exhi-
bition. Today was the opening day
and this afternoon athletic events will
he held on Park street, consisting of
running and jumping contests Prizes
Will be given for the winners of these
events. Tomorrow, the event of the
dav viii be the football game between