Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
DUNIMERSTON.
Baby Show and Clinic.

Baby Show and Clinic.
The baby show and clinic which was
| held on the common and in the lodge room
| of Grange hall Thursday afternoon was
well attended. Mothers with babies,
women with borrowed babies, and little
| girls with doll babies began to arrive at
| o'clock Miss Helen NJ SandersOn, Red
Cross nurse, DIR. Leach, health officer,
and +. X. Brown of Community Service
arrived at the same hour. Many older
| children and interested persons came
| later in the afternoon a few strings OF
colored lanterns and band OF small
gypsies in gay headdress gave the right
| touch of color under the tall maple trees.
| While MIR. Brown entertained the chill
| dren with games on the common Miss
| Sanderson and DIR. Leach assisted by
| Miss Alice Laughton attended to the
| babies and younger children in the hall.
Fifteen babies were weighed, measured
and examined, and as many other chill
dren under school age were weighed and
measured. The children were found to
be generally normal few were under
weight and there was one case of tonsils
| that needed attention.
The swings which have been placed on
the common by Don Hewitt were in great
demand. The best ones in the pole vault
ing contest were Esther Crosby, frankie
Reed, Julie Miller, Dorothy Richards,
Ray Hewitt, Evelyn Crosby and Bar
bara Leach. Ray Hewitt could balance
the best in crossing the river on ice, and
| wien Whitney seemed to conquer the
most foes in the COOP fight with funny
faces At D O'Clock a few, songs were
sung and the entertainment closed with
three cheers for the Red Cross nurse.
| Thomas Dempsey returned to Boston
| Saturday.
The listers are finishing appraising real
/ estate this week.
The Grange dance and supper of July
| - was success. The next will be held
! Aug. II.
Miss Bessie Bachelor of Montreal is
| spending week with Mr.. and Mrs. w.
| Il. Jackson
Raymond Holden of Bondville, Mass,
IS guest i'll the home OF Mr.. and Mrs
| f. l.. Stark.
A good number of people attended
the sacred concert Sunday afternoon at
Mount Hermon.
Mrs. Abbie b. Patch and Harold Wor-
! den went to Newfane Sunday to visit
Mrs Lizzie Worden.
There Will be a community party in
Grange hall Thursday night, Aug. 3
with the usual singing and games.
| The next Grange meeting will be held
Aug. 8. At the last meeting, which was
well attended, the lecturer gave a good
| program
Miss Hattie L. Haven, principal of q
school in Hopedale, Mass, has been a
guest the past two weeks in the home
' OF her cousin, +. II. Miller.
! Miss Hattie l.. Haven of HOpedale
Mass, who is spending the summer in
West Brattleboro, is visiting in the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Il. III. Miller.
Mrs. e.. l.. Rix is entertaining her
parents, Mr., and Mrs. George Parsons
also her sister, Mrs. Harry ]. Perkins
and Mr. Perkins, all of Lynn, Mass.
| Mr.. and Mrs.. Wallace Hatch of Brock.
ton. were weekend visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. w. p. Jackson Mr. jackson
accompanied them from Brockton by
Floyd Starr Miller 80. died at 2.3O
George Sessions in Guilford. lie no WAS q,
son, of the late Mr.. and Mrs. J. Arms
Miller OF this place. The funeral was
private.
A tonsil and adenoid clinic is being ar.
ranged by the Red Cross to be held at the
Memorial hospital Friday morning, Aug
ney and Dummerston, following up the
medical examination in the schools.
MIR: and Mrs. Il. III. Brown and Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Brown went to Bur
lington to attend the funeral of Mr.
Cobb. Harry Brown returned home with
them Sunday night. He had been in q
Winooski hospital since last October.
Special music added much to the i'm.
pressiveness of the church services Sun.
day morning. +. H. Miller sang A New
Heaven and a New Earth, from The
Holy City. by Caul, and Turn Thee I'm,
to Me, from the oratorio of Eli. by
Costa. Miss Juliette Miller sang very
sweety in the first number with her ia.
Their and Mrs. Miller accompanied both
numbers on the organ.
The funeral of Floyd Miller who died
Sunday, was held at the home of d. X
jackson officiating. The burial took
Miller Tuesday afternoon, Rev. w. p
place in Dummerston Center cemetery
The bearers were his six brothers, vii.
liam A, j. Warren, Ernest, Arthur L..
H. Irving, and Dwight Miller. One
brother, Avery, was unable to be present
| because of illness