Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-06-30
WESTMINSTER WEST
Starts Correspondence with Hawai-

Miss Ethel Wing, teacher at South
Valley school, whose portfolio corre-
spondence between her school and one
i'll France was spoken of in the Phoenix
u short time ago and received much adj
miration from Red Cross headquarters,
and at the Junior Red Cross conference
in Boston recently, where the work was
on exhibition, received a letter from the
director of Junior service after her re-
turn from a conference at national head
quarters in which she said she had re-
ceived letter from Washington asking
if Miss Wing would like to correspond
with school in Hawaii as well as with
the school in France. Headquarters was
anxious to start such correspondence
based ON the maple sugar industry and
France describing farm life and maple
sugar making was Just the sort of ma
tcrial they wished for this correspond
ence project.
Miss Wing started the correspondence
from her school with a school in the
Hawaiian Islands by sending them a
letter describing home life and farms
here, also explaining the maple sugar
and syrup industry as it is carried on in
this section. The school also sent them
two L. S. government bulletins on the
subject of maple products. Packed in
a wooden box they mailed the school a
small bottle of pure Vermont maple
few fancy cakes of sugar
Miss Dorothca Vandcrvcer of Brat
tleboro is visiting Pauline Harlow.
Rev. Walter r. Curtis began Sunday
morning series Of sermons on the
Lords Prayer.
Mariery Brooks of Putnam came
Monday for visit with her grandc
mother, Mrs. Martin Gleason.
Mrs. Chester harrington and baby of
Cambridge. Mass, came Monday to visit
her mother Mrs. Grace Perry.
Miss Marion Harlow. who has been
visiting her aunt, Miss Alice Goodell, re-
turned to her home in Maiden, Mass,
Monday.
Miss Nellie Butterficld. district nurse,
1T Springfield VtD, came home Satur.
day in her Ford coupe to STAY until
after the Fourth of July for her yaca-
ton.
Mrs. George Gould of Windsor came
Sunday to visit her sister. Miss Alice
Goodell. returning home Monday with
her daughter, Lydia, who had been visit
ing here.
Miss Beatrice Harlow of Maiden,
Mass. came Friday. Her uncle, Frank
Miller. is staying with her. and her
mother and sister, Elizabeth, are ex-
pected soon.
Mrs. Eta Howard returned last week
Thursday from Putney, where she has
been working for Mrs. NJ. G.. Williams
several weeks. On Wednesday she went
to Gagevile to help Mrs. Fletcher.
The Ladies' Aid society has resumed
its meetings after several months omis-
SION. They had a picnic supper with
Mrs. Curtis at the parsonage. Next
week Thursday the society is planning
to meet with Mrs. Alberto Barnes !.
Miss Nina Wood of Putney. who grad
uated on the honor roll at the Brattle-
boro high school and was presented a
teachers certificate on behalf of the
commissioner of education of Vermont.
will teach here next fall at the South
Valley school.
Mr.. and Mrs. John O. Tucker and
two children motored here from Brattle-
Walter Harlow to Rutland, where their
son, Henry, and wife, of Burlington,
met them. Mrs. Walter Harlow went
to Burlington with her son, Henry, for
two weeks visit.
The young people at their homes here
from school are Doris Chapman from
Kimball Union academy at Meridcn, n.
H.; Pauline, Harry and Robert Harlow
from the Brattleboro high school; Hill
uiy htDiIOy Oh lne blDlc
school of Boston; Marion and Dorothy
Parmalee and Arlene Taylor of Yer
mont academy.
Rev. Walter Curtis met with an acct
dent Saturday morning while moving
| The machine struck a stump with such
force as to throw him from his seat onto
the machine As the telephone line was
! out of commission they were unable to
, get DIR. Bugbee until Mrs. Alberto
Barnes who was on the village street
went home and telephoned him. Dr.
ing rib fractured and left arm badly
bruised. Mr.. Curtis thinks he was for
tunate in escaping more serious injury.
Schools are closed here for the sum
mer vacation. The gold star pupils for
attendance during the entire year were
Bertha Martin at the South Valley
school, who lost only One-half day when
she thought school was not in session
and Elizabeth AIinard at the Westmin,
ster West school, who lost only one-hali
day when the snowdrifts were SO high
that her father could not get through
with a sleigh, but the men had them
shoveled out so she reached school in
the afternoon. Those not absent the
last term of 10 weeks were: At the
South Valley school, Ruth Hull, Mary
Buxton, Kenneth Beebe, and Wilbur
Taylor; at the Westminster West
school. Mabel and George Pebbles and
Elizabeth Minard. Miss Ethel Wing
who has taught three years at the South
Valley school and will not return next
year, was presented water color paint
ing by Wallace Nutting, framed, from
her pupils. At the pre-Memorial day
exercises at the town hall Miss Wing
presented the South Valley school O
beautiful large silk flag. which Albert
Ranney accepted and thanked her for, in
behalf of his school.