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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1902
Page
7
Local notices recount a string of community events from Windham County and nearby areas. Updates include church suppers, Grange meetings, lectures, birthdays, visits among families, and school staff changes, with residents from Boston to Guilford and North Bernardston referenced among the gatherings and daily life details.
About 60 people attended a harvest supper at the vestry of the Congregational church in Newfane. An entertainment at Union Hall by the senior class of Leland and Gray Seminary in Townshend drew a larger audience. Local residents noted political debates on moving the state capital and discussed road and town improvements as well as library events and visits from out-of-town speakers and guests.
At Guilford Centre a Sunday meeting at 41 pm in the Universalist church aims to unite the community with a Tie ext dayer event by Love Grange Friday evening. Attendees will mask and a local resident, Ellen Mann of West Coverts, is mentioned among participants. Next Grange meeting is scheduled for Monday November 12 with plans for a 14 detail and attendance encouraged.
Ayer's Hair Vigor is endorsed by A Gruenenfelder of Grantfork and others as an elegant hair dressing that helps prevent split ends after thirty years of use. The reader list includes Ti Atenas and Lares Mate.
The Wardsboro cornet band held a concert and dance at the schoolhouse on Friday evening. The village school reopened after Thanksgiving with Miss Nina Cutting as teacher. Various local residents are noted for health and work updates, with a farewell event and a memory purse for a fallen ward.
Fragmentary ad style notice urges readers to buy genuine tablets stamped C CC and warns against substitutes, promising cash on demand and authentic products. Mentions draggists and a secretary or sec in a clipped, urgent tone.
Townshend details a busy week with Rev Mills preaching at Cunztewntiinial church, a Maine trip by Mille, and Leland & Gray seminary football victory. A Sunday service, fund drive, and a tribute to Tra Kendall Hatebelder highlight community life. The obituary notes Hatebelder as a longtime educator and citizen.
A local notice recounts the hospitalization of a Mr. Miller after a serious injury near Sinton River and his ensuing care by relatives. It notes a Nov 17 gathering for C J Hale’s birth anniversary at his West Dover residence, with a surprise tribute, and mentions a hospital stay in Springfield Vermont for treatment and an arm amputation.
A terse obituary notes the death of Mrs Elite vons aged six at Nort o. The brief entry mentions a recent residence and that she had been ill, with limited surviving details recorded in the fragment.
Mountain mills shut for winter. A party honored Miss Ethel Boyd at John T. Cooper Britny residence. Talks of new hotel and assembly hall nearing completion and planned openings. Obituaries note death of prominent local figures and church notices signal upcoming services. Town updates include residents in Boston and Jacksonville on business and social ties, with several announcements of births, marriages, and community events in Wilmington and nearby Londonderry.
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