The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-03
NORTHFIELD. MASS.

Mrs. H. II. PmlDrlek spent several
days in New York last week
Mrs G. n. Kidder is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Frank Washer, in Greenfield
Mrs T. A. Clark is visiting in Green
field with her daughter, Mrs. John Reed.
Miss Minnie Warden visited in town
| Monday on her way to visit in Vermont
| Mrs. E. W. Cowles has returned from
Canada, where she visited her daughter
several weeks
The Fortnightly programs are being
printed and will be ready for distlibu-
ton in a few days
Mortified seminary opens next
Wednesday The public schools open
next week Tuesday.
John Wall of Nashua spent the week
end here with his children at the home
of his mother, Mrs. James Wall
Guests at e. E. RusselPs are William
H. Russell and Mr.. and Mrs. William d.
Moore and child of Cross River, n Y
i The assessors have set the tax rate
this year at $25 on each $1,000 of taxable
property. The tax last year was $2l.70.
The first meeting of the Order of East
ern Star was held Wednesday evening.
Preparations were made for the annual
visitation Sept. %.
/ Miss Mildred Brown was in town last
week calling on friends She is now in
excellent health and is in training for a
nurse at the Northampton hospital.
DR.. G. Campbell Morgan, who is now
living in Illinois but for many years was
London, England, pastor, will preach
in the Congregational church the next
two Sundays
The town registrars. Frank Montague,
Lester Polhemus and Harry Haskell will
be at the town hall to register voters
the evening of Sept. and Oct. IL, also
Oct % from u m. to 10 p. m.
| The Alliance of the Unitarian church
met "Wednesday afternoon at the vestry
Mrs. c.. H. Webster was in charge of the
program. The hostesses We're Mrs. C. c.
Stearns and Miss Emma Alexander.
Mr. and Mrs w a. Wright and Miss
| Elizabeth Alexander spent the weekend
brother, Mrs Harold Goodwin and n ID
Alexander Clesson Alexander of Spring
field is now their guest here
| Roy Woodland, son of Francis Wood
ard of East Mortified, was married tc
Miss Ruth Elizabeth Buckley of Green,
field Wednesday, Aug. IL, by the pastor
of the German Lutheran church of that
place Mr.. and Mrs. Woodland are living
in Springfield, where he has a position
in the Smith & Wesson factory.
The teachers engaged for the public
schools which open next Tuesday are as
! follows High school, Prin. c. r. Mar
shall of Conway, Miss Caroline Stearns
of Millers Falls, Miss Mary Bowles;
grammar school. Miss Elizabeth G. Bra
ley of Putney, Vt; center intermediate
Miss Katherine Callaghan primary
Miss Mary Dalton; East Mortified in
termediate, Miss Viola Haven, primary
Miss Atherton; West Mortified, Miss
Louise Norcross of Baldwinsville; North
field Farms No. 3. Miss Helen Parker
! grammar. Miss Nina Baker of Walling
ford, Vt, primary, Miss Gertrude At
wood. No. on the mountain, Mrs. F. C.
Britton
Two open air meetings were held this
week Monday evening at the East
/ Mortified postoffice and Tuesday eve
ming at Mortified center. The gather
ings were under the direction of the In
| ternational Reform Bureau of Washing
ton, d. c. The speaker was DIR. Robert
/ Watson, pastor of the Scotch Presbyteri
an church of New York city. His sub
ject. was, The Great Moral Problems o.
America He laid great stress on the
special dangers of Massachusetts, at the
present time in laxity Of morality He
called special attention to the bill before
the state to legalize pugiEsm. which
would bring SO many evils. Mr.. Ac
kerley, the soloist, rendered pleasing Sc
lections.