Towns North Gossip Reflects Local Life and Visits
The column lists dozens of residents and movements across nearby towns. Notices mention marriages, funerals, travel to New York and Sutton, wartime era style social visits, and local work shifts with names like Weet Burke, Bernice, Kate Towle, A A Moulton, Ida Tower, and Mrs Richards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice M
Grind Teunk
Evita
Tehent Pond
Mroanil
Boma
Mas Way
Gyndenville
A. J. Uhuney
Warren Warren Hill is on furlough from 26th division
A wartime notice details Warren Wheel of Go. E, 108 reg, on a 15 day furlough after active service in France from Bel before July. He was wounded by a machine gun on the right knee and right shin, 18 years old at enlistment, to return to Walter Reed hospital next Monday for knee surgery. Other local items mention Miss Avery’s family, Rev. I. A. Hamilton filling Orleans High School, job changes for Ray Rexford, and various soldiers and civilians in recovery or travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Haxveline
Go. E
Bel
Waltes Reed Hospital
Avery
Orleans High School
Rev
I. A. Hamilton
Ray Rexford
J. G. Turnbull Co
North Thetford
TH. P. Wood Co
Lawson
Orison
Alto
Spaulding
Helen
Edna Lawson
William Lawson
Our
Tully
Newport Center
Clas
Humphrey
Newport City
Newport
George Howe
Orleans
Mes
N. L
Charles Taylor
Bar-' Bara
Beecher Falls
Mr. Taylor
Montreal
Lane
de. G. BH
Newland
Tetrenult
Pleasant St
The
Starnes
New York
Moldavia
Halifax
English Channel
Dover
England
Calais
France
Usay-sur-Marne
Paris
Grand Palais
Lizy
Courtchamps
Chateau Thierry
Fismes
Wesleiver
Soissons
Mars-sur-Alliers
Nevers
Nievre
St. Agnan
Bourges
St. Dizier
Tours
Blois
Troyes
Rampont
Verdun
Montfaucon
4Th Division
Pershing
Stars and Stripes Press
A. E. FP
Walden News Roundup and Local Notes
Walden Heights resident Rogers sold farm stock yard and business to L A Farrington and Cabot partner who already run a Heights food store. Weather swung with a severe blow though roads would not have blocked much snow. Local visitors include Edear Hawes and Pi Badger. Household news covers Helen Laundry, Colin Cassidy, and a social tack at the Ladies Aid hall. A prisonage church meeting planned a future path with good turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers
Walden Heights
L. A
Edear Hawes
Woodsville
Pi Badger
Marshfield
Wheelock Card of Thanks for Kindness and Flowers
We express appreciation and sincere thanks for acts of kindness during sickness and death of our father and grandfather. Flowers were sent by neighbors and friends. Signed: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Folsom, Mr and Mrs. Chas Benedict and family, Mr and Mrs. Albert Reix and family. Whitelock Vermont. Mary Stickney Lawrence of Rutland, overseas canteen worker, arrived in New York on the La Lorraine and then returned home in Rutland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandfather
Arthur Folsom
Chas Benedict
Ant Mus
Albert Reix
Whitelock
Mary Stickney Lawrence
Rutland
New York
Cut This Out It 15 Worth Money NF Miss This
An old advert promotes a mail order package labeled Foley products and other remedies for pain stomach issues and kidney complaints. The message urges collecting a kit including tonics and cathartic tablets, claiming broad cures and cleansing effects. The wording resembles a mid century sale catalog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falyy & Co
Foley
Newport Local Roundup of Illness Deaths and Social News
Readable Newport items cover sickness and recovering residents, a death in the Clement family, a church supper with donations, a charity event with a theatrical program, local legal cases in court, a yacht club election, weddings, births, and town notices. Names include Mrs Aubie Burt, Nula Mstey, Dorothy Wood, Tavscon family, Frances, Willer Clement, Homer Mercier, Deacon Clement, C Lawson, Edna Lawson, Miss Novi Blanchard, C A Randell, Miss Philips, Miss Annis, J N Dwinell, George L Frost, Annie McCauley, Jennie Lawson, Stanley Judd, Wayne Davis, and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubie Burt
Nula Mstey
Dorothy Wood
Tavscon
Clark
Gou
Maurier
Frances
Willer Clement
Bellen
Membhiemagog Yacht Club
George L. Frost
J. d. Rosevan
Charles A. Brown
Alfred E. Bishop
George J. Eaton
Pig + Woodruff
Wiliam F. Pike
Walter H. Cleary
George F. Roat
Searles
J. N. Dwinell
C. H. McCauley
O’elock
Annie McCauley
McCauley
Jennie Lawson
Ruth Holton
Lyndonville
Willian Law
Mawson Dane
Martialen
Walter Dane
Saxon Road
Newton Highlands
Mass
Stanley G. Judd
Cobleskill
Niees
Harriet
Helen Dine
Barbar Dane
N.Y
Brde
Newprot
Newport High School
Mrs. Judd
L. J. Menuel
Verdun Veteran Tetreault Writes From The Front
Pvt Thomas B Tetreault of Co A 58th Infantry AEF describes wartime service from landing at Halifax to hospital stays near Verdun and Rampont He notes front line actions Montfaucon relief Oct 23 and plans further assignments while sending health good wishes to family. Also listed are local obituaries and relief nursing plans.
Local News Roundup From St Johnsbury Center
St Johnsbury Center residents report hospital operation for Mrs Hallie Spinney and a move to Concord by Mr and Mrs Albert Duclos. Clayance Calby returns from Buffalo to work in Orleans. Visits from Wallace Harriman of Somerville to family in St Johnsbury. Sick list includes Bernard Stafford and Maud Beneillet with distemper and flu respectively. J E Goodwin becomes North Hadley station agent. Several locals visit relatives and attend errands in St Johnsbury and Windsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallie Spinney
Bright
Clayance Calby
Buffalo
Parker & Young Co
Orleans
Wallace Harriman
Somerville
Mass
Harriman
Helen Harriman
Bernard Stafford
Albert Duclos
Concord
F. Crepenult
Maud Beneillet
J. E. Goodwin
North Hadley
J. Hull
St. Johnsbury
Harley Wheeler
William Powers
Henry Davis
Rex Turner
Mix
Jessie Williams
Concord Corner
Earl Hill
Camp Mills
Glen Ayer
Windsor
Mys
Raymond Whitney
George Nichols
St Johnsbury
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West Burke
Robert M. Deming
Burlington
East Burke
Borie
Lin Manny
St. Johnehuay i
Perry Stoppin
Ptt
John
Roth
Q. Angell
Mr. Longley
Rose
Mabel Vance
von Tnidhvengt
Ain
Welle Eid
Wilbur Duvdl
Burke
Steiger Bird
Voltows
New England
England Fertilizer CO
Beach Crraat
Mandaring Co
al Fertilizers
Homer Mercier
Allen
Novi Blanchard
Christine
Smith College
C. A. Ramadell
Florida
Robert Clement
Baldwin Va Gaines
Bert Kelsey
James Allen
J. HM. Martin
Percy Lawson
F.C. Woodruil
J.T. Gardner
Harry Harvey
B. T. Webb
Methodist Church
Witlix
Philips
Annis
Tom Lynch
Treasury
Ladies’ Aid
Wis Calling Downey
Jane Willis
Nelon Caron
St. Johnsbury Hospital
Hilda Humphrey
Wayne Davis
Sickneas
Law
Mra
Sam Lawson
J. F. Lambert
Alabama
National Wrapping Machine Co
Oo County
Frank Thompson
Lowell
Lowell Fertilizer CO
Boston Consolidated Rendering Co
Barton
Neen
St Johns
Youngel
Thionville
Lorraine
Hec. 1
Pvt
Thomas B. Tetreault
Co. A
N. 8
Infantry
Flora Jenne
Altic Burt
Sidney Tisdale
Middlebury
East Middlebury
Chesterfield, N.Y
Mabel H. Powers
North Hero
Cascara
Mr. Hill
St. Johnsbury Center
Miss Sadie Hooker
Boston
Hardware Sealer
Crockery
Benuro
Kean
Neluenz
DR. True
J. F
Caledonian
Stetson Oil Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Vermont State Hospital For
Vermont State Hospital For the Insane
Waterbury
O. N
C. v. Drew
Tel
Danville
Saratoga Hospital
Saratoga Springs
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