Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-12-24
PILGRIM TERCENTENARY COMMEMORATIVE
IN 18TH LOCAL FOREFATHERS DAY
Historical and Labape Societies Entertain at Turkey Supper Un
usual Grafton by Dr. Bridgman of Boston.

best for the supper. Turkey and its
ixings, fruit salad and rolls ice cream
and twenty varieties of cake, all form
ed menu that left nothing to be de-
sired. The mattresses, young ladies
dressed after the fashion of Pilgrim
misses, in linen cap, kerchief and ap-
ron, added to the reader appreciation
of the meaning of the occasion. The
decorations of the festive board con-
sisted of silver candelabra and potted
flowers.
After dessert the toastmaster. Presi-
dent Thomas, raped "The Ladies So
cal Party" into order and called upon
Professor Hathaway to begin the in
formal program with a piano solo.
This done, he outlined the plan Of
an initiation of the two ministers who
were present at a Middlebury ceebra-
ton of Forefathers Day for the first
time, and a newly arrived professor
Rev. E. W. Gould of the Methodist
church was the first speaker, followed
by Professor Stewart Macdonald and
Rev. Herbert L. Howard, pastor Of the
Memorial Baptist church The orator
of the evening, DR.. Bridgman, was the
last of the post-prandial takers
and demonstrated that he was as able
an entertainer as preacher. Hon. A.
w. Foote, lieutenant-gOvernor elect,
had before him described a trip he had
made with the delegates to the ma
tional grange convention in Boston re-
Gently to the historic spots in and
around Plymouth. Hollis Cooley sang
the ave Maria" accompanied on the
piano by Prof Hathaway. After the
solo the POSTMASTER remarked that the
countenance on the portrait of the Rev
Benjamin Labaree, president of the
college from 1S40- 1866. and one Of the
founders of the society bearing his
name, seemed to have darkened sew
eral shades at the singers enunciation
of the "Ora pro nobis." He facetious-
ly recalled that traditions had been
abruptly shattered previously in the
exercises when an Episcopalian minis
ter had offered prayer, the TIE Deum
had been sung by the choir, with the
breach to be concluded then by the
singing of the Ave Maria.
The singing of Auld Lang Syne by
the whole gathering brought the social
to a close just as the candles which
had burned to the end of their wicks
were being snuffed.
The Committee responsible for the
success of the program was headed by
Mrs. w. s. Burrage and included Mrs.
A. W. Dickens, Mrs. Ezra Brainerd,
Mrs. w. H. Brewster and Miss Susan
Parker
The mattresses were the Misses Mary
Fletcher. Margaret Graham, Florence
Yates. Rena and Marion Smith Kath-
crime Hammond Dorothy and Ruth
Brainerd, Frances Burrage. Beatrice
Mills. Frances Bristol. Elizabeth No
wax, Catherine and Dorothy Ross, Ma
rion Hurlburt. Ruth Mary Collins,
Frances Caswell and Violet Howard.
The center table was presided over by
Pres. and Mrs. J. M. Thomas who en-
tertained the guests Of honor, includ-
ing the orator of the evening, the
speakers, and Hon. and Mrs. A. W.
Foote. The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution sat at a special table
also in the center of the floor. Theother
hosts and hostesses we're Rev and Mrs.
Z. w. Gould. Rev and Mrs. H. L.
Howard Doctor and Mrs. Ezra Brain
erd, Mrs. W. S Burrage, Mrs. Davis,
Mrs E. D. Collins. Mrs. Manchester,
Mrs. Bryant, Mrs. ]. ]. Ross, Mrs.
c. l. Button and Mrs. o. W. Mills.