Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1921-08-19
TOWNSHEND


Chautauqua TO Open Saturday.
| The children of the village are looking
forward to the joys of Chautauqua wccl
with keen interest. A meeting, which
was attended by between 30 and 40 lit
tie folks. was called Tuesday Afternoon
by the chairman of the junior Chautau
qua committee, Miss Ethel Vincent, ant
plans were arranged for the opening
children's parade, which will be held al
Ia O'Clock the first evening, Saturday
Aug 20. All children are invited to joir
in the parade, each child to furnish its
own costume. After marching through
the streets and circling the village park
the line will proceed to the town hall fol
the opening entertainment.
Special events will be held each day
ESPECIALLY for the children, and Tuesday
a pageant The Cruise of The Jolity
will be presented by them under the in
struction of the junior Ghautauqua dircc.
tor, aided by the local committee OF
young women. The costumes for the pag
| cant will all be furnished by the Chau
| tauqua company.
Refreshments of icc-cream, etc. will
be sold by the guarantors committee
each day of the festival.
Weston Cheney spent the weekend at
home.
Mr.. Yeaw of Brattleboro is guest AT
| w. \. Whtneys.
| ARA Benson of Guilford is visiting
friends in town this week.
| Mrs. Crandcll. who has been i'll scv.
cral weeks, able to be around again.
| Mrs. Virgil Ranney of Newfanc is Wis
iting Mrs. Ellen Plumb and daughter.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Barrett and family
were guests at Arthur Cheney's Sunday
| Mr.. and Mrs. +. s. Wheeler spent the
week end with friends at Hoosick Falls
Mr.. and Mrs Hale of Concord, y, H.
| were guests at q. Il. IIutchinSon'S, Sun.
day.
Miss Bcrnicc Holden of Westminster
| is staying at the home of Mrs. Herbert
| Benson.
Hayden Marsh is chopping on Merton
! adams IS farm and boarding at A. r.
| Marsh s.
Miss Jessie Duncan or Bratteboro
| visited her friend, Miss Mary Kelsey
last week.
W. NJ. Sparks is convalescng from his
/ recent serious illness and is able to be
out of doors.
| Frank Brockway of Burlington has
been spending several days at the home
of c. II. Willard.
| Mr. and Mrs. Thompson of Yonkcrs,
\. V, were guests at a. X. Grecnwoods
| four days last week.
| Miss Olive Dale, who has been for the
summer at Cornell university, Ithaca, is
at the Dale homestead.
Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Pike and little
| Bernice went Saturday to East Dover
| for few days visit.
Miss Nellie Hamilton of Charlestown
y. H.. is guest at the home of her sis
| ter, Mrs. Henry Puffer.
Mrs. Harold Ware of Wilmington is
spending a few days at the home of her
| sister, Mrs. c. c. Gould.
Miss Marion Putnam of Wardsboro
was guest of her friend, Miss Mar
garct Boyden, this week.
Miss Ruth Lamb of Brattleboro was
a weekend guest at the home of her
friend, Miss Eunice Heath.
Lesion and Wilfred Wheeler and Wal
do and Gilbert Able spent two days at
Stratton camping last week.
Mrs. II. NJ. Sparks returned Monday
from Westminster, where she had been
helping care for her invalid father
Mrs. Bertha Whitaker is visiting her
daughter. Mrs. G. w. Nichols. at her
camp at Lake Bomoseen in Castleton.
Miss Elaine Columbus returned Mon
day from Bondville, where she spent sew
eral weeks at the home of her sister
Miss Margaret Roberts. who has been
staying with Mrs. John Allen a week,
| has returned to her home in Springfield,
Mass.
Miss Clara Emerson, teacher at Allan
ia university, Atlanta, Ga, spent last
week with her friend, Mrs. Catherine
Plant.
The receipts of the successful Dorcas
Guild fair Wednesday amounted to 800,
Of which about S75 was cleared for the
society's treasury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Follett and
daughter of Philadelphia. Pa, are guests
| at the home of his brother, O. w. Fol
| lett, and sister, Mrs. Matte Turner.
brother, Percy Bristol, of New Haven,
Conn, came Saturday to w. ii. Taft IS
| for a visit, making the trip in Il motor
| cycle.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wheeler, their two
sons and niece, Miss Ards Putnam, all
of Springfield (Nt), were guests Tues
| day at the home of Rev. and Mrs. s. l..
Vincent.
Il. b. Batcheldcr, +. c. Cutler and II.
+, Howard. with Walter Plumb as chau-
| ffeur, attended the Gill Odd Fellows
| Home Both anniversary field day at Lud-
| low Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Higgins and
daughter of Fairhavcn and Mr.. and Mrs.
| Gibbs and daughter of Orange, Mass,
| were guests last week at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Wheeler.
| Little Bessie Boyden celebrated her
ninth birthday anniversary Friday with
party at Maple Grove. to which II
small guests were invited Games and
refreshments made the afternoon pass
| pleasantly,
Mr.. and Mrs. AthertOn Hale of Yer
non came Saturday to visit at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. $. Kid
| Ter. Miss Hazel Jones came also tho
same night to spend her vacation from
her work in New York with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Wheeler Of Hyde
Park, Mass. came Tuesday from THEN
summer home at Berlin, Mass for few
days visit with his mother, Mrs. Ellen
Wheeler, and her sister, Mrs. III. f. How
ard, also with other relatives in town
c. II. Wizards mill was shut dow
from Friday to Tuesday because of q
brokpn poVpruor whppl Mr. Willard