Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-02-13
VERGENNES NEWS

i AkNUAAN1NAN AVA H ~
M. S. Sawyer of Rutland visited
friends in town Monday.
Miss Hattie M. Cormia spent Tues
day in Middlebury.
Thomas, the oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. David E. Ryan, is i'll.
Homer Hamel has purchased the Fred
Boughton place on Green street
Mrs. Emily Miller, who has been crit
icallv i'll, narrowly escaping pneumonia,
is improving rapidly.
The condition of Ernest, son of Mrs.
Peter Little, who has been i'll for some
time remains about the same.
Joseph LaBoeuf has returned to Rut-
and, after a visit to his sisters, Mrs.
w. H. Norton and Miss Anna LaBoeuf.
The Rev. L. A. Vezina went Monday
to Rutland to attend an entertainment
given by the Catholic Order of Forest
tiers.
The monthly meeting of the Yer
gennes- Waltham chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross was held Tuesday even
ing at the rest room at BiXby Memorial
Library.
The Friendly Whist club held the last
meeting of the season Tuesday night at
the home of Mrs. George Myers, with a
good attendance. The meetings will be
discontinued through Lent.
James Tucker of West Ferrisburgh
and Miss Selia Curtis of Panton were
married February 7 at st. Peters
Church by the Rev. L. A. Vezna.
They will reside in West Ferrisburg.
Mrs. William Ladue has gone to Rut-
land to live, her two little granddaugh-
tiers having entered the parochial school
in that city. Mr. Ladue remains here,
but expects to join his family in the
spring.
Harry Daigneault, who is i'll with APP
pendicitis, will be taken this week to
Burlington hospital for an operation.
Harriet, the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Daigneaut who has been
very i'll with typhoid, is gaining, al
though slowly
Mrs. Christine Bruce, who has been.
caring for j. 0. Walker at the Stevens
House, has gone to Randolph, where
she will be employed at nursing. Her
little daughter, Joyce, accompanied her
and will stay with her grandmother,
Mrs. Alice Bruce.
News was received here Monday
evening of the death that day of Mrs.
Michael McGettrick of Burlington, fol-
lowing an illness of but few days with
pneumonia. Mrs. McGettrick, before
her marriage was Miss Anna Coughlin,
trained nurse, and had many friends
in Vergennes, having cared for a num-
Der of patients here, and also been a
frequent visitor at the home of DR.. and
Mrs. d. j. Carroll She was but q
years of age, and was married a little
over year ago.
A largely attended and interesting
meeting of the Parent-Teacher's asso-
citation was held Monday evening. Mrs.
W. R. Warner, who presided in the
place of the president, Mrs. William l..
Cotey, who is i'll, opened the meeting
by giving synopsis of the founding of
Parent-Teachers day in Washington,
D. c., % years ago and of its growth
in this country. The subject of the
evening was 1.-THE Teachers Better
ment Campaign" Miss Adsit, principal
of the Pomeroy school of Burlington,
gave the opening address, followed by
Superintendent of Schools Cogg'ns, DR..
Frank M. Rogers, who spoke for the
school committee, H. V. Wheelock, who
spoke for the school, Miss Edith Cham
berlain, Mrs. Leon Hum, Mrs. f. A.
Lee and Prin. w. H. Carter, who gave
a summary of t e thoughts of the even
ing. At the close of the meeting the
home making department gave an in
formal reception, at which refresh
ments prepared by the two home econ
omical classes were served.
7. H. Storrs of Boston is visiting at
the home of Mrs NJ. NJ. Blair.
Walter Dixie of Hartford, Conn, is
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Dixie.
Mrs. Katherine Waterman has closed
her home on Park street and is stay
ing at the Stevens house.
Harold Daigneault, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John L. Daigneault, was taken
ill Sunday with an attack of appended
tbs.
Mrs. Foster A. Young is ill with
grip and indigestion and Miss Anna
LeBoeuf, the domestic nurse, is car
ing for her.
Walter Scott of the U. S. army ser
vice detachment at the West Point
Military academy is visiting his moth
er Mrs Edward c. Scott.
Frederick Richard of Rutland ar
rived here Saturday and George Rich
ard of Worcester, Mass, on Sunday,
to attend the funeral of their mother,
Mrs. Augustus Richard.
Thomas Mack on Monday received
a car load of stove coal and one of
chestnut, which helps to relieve the
shortage. Ten teams from some of
the surrounding farm communities
went last week to Port Henry, ~ Y,
to secure a supply, there being no lack
of fuel in that village.
The funeral of Miss Ethel May Els
worth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Carl
ton Ellsworth, who died in Burling-
ton, where she was working, was held
Monday afternoon, being private be-
cause of quarantine. Burial was in
a