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Newspaper
The Londonderry Sifter
Location
South Londonderry, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
4
Community notices recount a Union Hall June event with dancing tickets at 25 cents and ice cream and cake at 10 cents per plate to benefit the Universalist Society Look for posters. A Fireman's Dance May 29 in the same hall is noted as a financial success with 76 tickets sold raising $32.00.
Weston reports a flurry of visitors and moves among Chester residents including Briggs visiting in Connecticut and Mrs Marble in town to see relatives. Several homes change hands, repairs begin on a grist mill site, and a string of Memorial Day events, church services, and decorations highlight a busy period with family visits, weddings, births, and local commerce.
Landgrove Lizzie Twitelell visiting Chester. Sam Grover rents Fayette Blood's tenement. Will Austin and Ola visit Fred Blood. Geo Tasker and Charles Williams spent days in town. Barbetti family plans to move to Cambridgeport. Mehuron family visiting son Ben. Sanford Gallup’s boy ill with pneumonia. Dr. Gilpert attends, Dr. Havers called. Egbert Davis family from Springfield visit gravestone. Alta Moran had a shock. Dr. Galvin attends. Prayer meeting led by Rev. Frank Goodrich of Cambridgeport. Horace Fuller traveled to Brattleboro. Mrs. Bert Howe from Thompsonburg visiting. Warren McIntyre from Danby in town. Nina Turner of Brattleboro visiting mother Ella Parker. Henry Abbott hosts a ten-pound boy born May 30. Mrs. Fred McIntyre of Danby visiting parents H. C. Woodward. Mrs. Blanchard and Mrs. Dexter take cottage for summer. Jessie Moore goes to London Derry for Decoration Day. John Wheeler to Keene field for work. Rev. Mr. Charlton leaves. townsfolk wish he could stay. A. L. Wiley closes millinery season next Saturday.
Mr and Mrs A I Stone recently gave their daughter Mrs Alfred Howe of Claremont New Hampshire a fine piano with harp and violin attachments. Mr and Mrs Gee Harrington spent Memorial Day with their daughter Mrs E E Lawrence in Chester. Mrs Oliver Lawrence and two children visited W J Smith’s recently. Mrs F H Harris and Miss Mary Harris of Chester spent Friday in town. Archie and Edward Eddy now working in West Derry New Hampshire spent several days at G E Eddy’s. J A Gould has brightened his house with a fresh coat of paint. Miss Alice Johnson of S Londonderry and Miss Emma Goddard of North Danvers Massachusetts visited O D Parker recently.
A large crowd gathered at the Baptist church for a rainy Sunday baccalaureate sermon by Rev G B Lawson of Brattleboro. Rev Mr Gushee filled in later, with Mrs. Wim. Blood and Mrs. Fred Reed judging at a silver medal contest in Newfane. May 29 held Memorial Day exercises at the town hall, and Decoration Day services followed by a cemetery wreathing and a baseball game Townshend defeating Newfane 19 to 5. Local students earned honors at inter-scholastic meet in Burlington and various residents visited, with announcements of upcoming Children’s Day at the church on June 16. Market items, local anecdotes, and small ads follow stating prices for groceries and produce along with household products and a free sample offer for Allen’s Pout Ease.
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