The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-16
TOWNSHEND.

ARA Benson of Guilford is visiting
friends in town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs E. s. Wheeler spent the
week end with friends at Hoosick Falls.
HAYDEN Marsh is chopping on Merton
ADAMS s farm and boarding at y. r.
Marsh 5.
Miss Marion Putnam of Wardsboro
was a guest OF her friend, Miss Mar
garet Boyden, this week.
Miss Ruth Lamb of Brattleboro was
weekend guest at the home of her
friend, Miss Eunice Heath.
Mrs. Bertha Whitaker is visiting her
daughter. Mrs. c. w. Nichols, at her
camp at Lake Bomoseen in Castleton.
| The receipts of the. successful Dorcas
| Guild fair Wednesday amounted to $50,
of which about $50 was cleared Tor the
society 5 treasury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Bristol and
| brother, Percy Bristol, of New Haven,
Conn, came Saturday to w. H. Taft s
| for a visit, making the trip in motor
cycle.
| Little Bessie Boyden celebrated her
ninth birthday anniversary Friday with
| a party at Maple Grove. to which Ia
small guests were invited. Games and
refreshments made the afternoon pass
pleasantly.
/ CHI. Wizards mill was shut down
from Friday to Tuesday because OF
broken governor wheel. Mr.. Willard
went Saturday to Fitchburg by automo-
bile to obtain new parts to repair the
| damage, starting at a. III. and return
ing home at p. IN. the same day.
Elnora Grave, the six-weeks-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Loosely
died THURSDAY at their home of con
vulsions following intestinal trouble
i The baby mad been frail from its birth
\ short funeral service, conducted BY
Rev. c. ". Bishop, was held at tht
! house Saturday morning at 10 o clock.
i Mrs. Ronald knobbs of Hanover
4 Mass, who has been guest at the
Il home of her brother, G.. \. Lawson, two
weeks, returned nome Saturday. Hel
husband is a grandson of Rev. Mr.
Knobs. formerly a pastor IN Jamaica
who with his wife Is now living II
1 aIarshfield, Mass The couple celebrated
/ their Goth wedding anniversary within
the year.
Twelve members of Orchard Wo
man S Relief corp from this village at
tended the meeting at Newfane Satur
day afternoon. One candidate was I'M
tiatcd into the corps aud other bushes
was done General orders from depart
| ment headquarters announced tn
J names of Mrs. Edna Hamlin and Mis-
Emma Moulton as department aids an
Mrs Eva March as special and.
A wild and exciting race was stage
Friday i'm the northern outskirts of tn
! village. the course being laid stralgh
] south from T. II. Martins buildings AM
] the goal the village limits. There wer
: two contestants, a PAGER whose years ar
/ eomewhat ripe but whose courage shon
j forth in frey eye and ready hoof, an
his competitor. q handsome, young an
dashing bay. all ready for the fray. Bot
steeGls were driven by their owners. y
the first trial as excitement was runnin
a high and woodchucks and squirrels bet
ting their limit on the result, an unfeelini
odoriferous. honking bubble car" cam
) upon the scene and monOpoliZed the rae
y course 50 the Stepds were turned mort
q again and returned to the starting poin
: This time. with clear track. with straiI
ing nerve and cracking whip down to I'll
a goal they swept with the old PAGER in til
. lead. And this explains why the gem;
q blacksmith in the north end of the villas
d Is driving a rig gaily decorated with blu
u pibhOn