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SPRINGFIELD REPORTER, SPRINGFIELD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1948. A7 PERKINSVILLE and AMSDEN (BETTY GOODALE MURRAY) Maine Guide Conducts. Tillsons Have Party Scout Nature Walk Inspect Beaver Dam PERKINSVILLE Girl Scouts Perkinsville a nature walk through the woods beyond Andrew Titcomb's house last week, Wednesday afternoon. Sylvester, a Maine guide, of Eustis, Maine, guest last week at the of Mr. and Mrs.

Titcomb, conducted the walk and out flowers and trees of interest to the group. About $15 has been collected for the Girl Scout Drive being conducted in Perkinsville accordto Mrs. Richard Butterfield, Scout leader. Further donations will be welcome. At the recent box social held at the Perkinsville school house $5.

was raised. Virginia reels and square dancing provided the entertainment. Seven boys bid in the thirteen decorated boxes furnishing the refreshments. The party was unaer the direction of Mrs. Richard Butterfield, Mrs.

Royadon LaFrance, Mrs. Elmore Hawthorne, Mrs. Phillip Woodbury and A. S. Childs.

THE WHITE ELEPHANT Offers you the opportunity to dispose of excess articles which are still usable. Goods accepted to sell on commission. WE HAVE FOR SALE "Thor Gladiron" Mangle, latest model, practically $70 "Norge" 6 cu. ft. Electric Refrigerator $135 "Frigidaire" Electric Refrigerator, cu.

ft. $125 "White" Treadle Sewing Machine $12 Maple Breakfast Set, table and 4 chairs $25 "Firestone" 3 5-10 H. P. Outboard Motor $80 We also have Living Room Furniture, Chest of Drawers, Boxes, Boudoir Chair, 'Baby Furniture, Baby Walker and Strollers, Radio Record Player Combination Console, Garden Tools, Coal or Wood Iron Range gas burners attached, and other items. If you have anything to buy or sell contact CHARLES BREASON Tel.

409-Y. 21 Litchfield St. Springfield, Vt. PERKINSVILLE Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Tillson entertained at a family dinner, 30 and held a family reinion.lay Mr. Tillson's brother and his Mr. Mrs. I. Lewis Tillson and Mih.

and Mrs. Walter daughterre Carol week-end of guestsan, Additional guests arriving for Sunday dinner were two of Mrs. Tillson's brothers and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Freeman and their grandson, Donald Robar of Whitman, Mrs.

Claude Flanders of Lunenburg, and Mr. and Mrs. rence Freeman and children, Larry, Lizzie and of Cuttingsville. After dinner they all wanted to see the beaver dam in Clinton Moore's pasture in Amsden. Mr.

Tillson saw a splash as the two hind legs and tail of a beaver disappeared in the dammed up waters -but the rest of the party only saw the dam. Returning home the Tillson's I discovered guests from Claremont, N. had arrived: Miss Nellie Hoidahl, Anton Evinson and his son, Edwin Evinson. Bridal Shower Given Miss Shirley Perry PERKINS -Miss Shirley Perry was guest of honor at a bridal shower held in Perkinsville Grange hall, Thursday evening, May 27. The many lovely gifts were placed on a long table decorated In pink and white, above which hung a large pink and white umbrella with streamers running to each gift.

There were twenty guests, grangers and friends, present. Refreshments of sandwiches, cake and coffee were served by Mrs. Elsie Robinson and Mrs. Gertrude Barrows. Miss Perry will be married to Henry Lilley in Perkinsville church, June 19.

PERKINSVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH Rev. Robert T. Pruitt, pastor Sunday, June 4: 10 a. m. Church school.

11 a. m. Morning worship. Rev. Pruitt will use the First Commandment as his sermon topic.

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SPRINGFIELD, VT. School Memorial Program Held Friday Afternoon PERKINSVILLE Primary intermediate pupils of the Perkinsville school held their Memorial program in a classroom decorated with lilacs, apple biossoms and violets, Friday afternoon, May 28, under the direction of Mrs. Edson Teft and Miss Leona Benjamin, teachers. Singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" by the entire school and Flag Salute opened. the program which included: "Gettysburg Marilyn Adams; "Memorial Day Flowers," primary pupils, Dorothy Phillips, Susan Noyes, Dortia Brown, Theda Stevens, Margaret Snide and Mary Bradish; Freeman Pruitt; "Little Hands' and Little Hearts," Sylvia Salmond; song "We Remember," Thompson, Yvonne Stevens, Laura Parison, Rebecca Woodbury, Joyce King, Carolyn Bean, Olivette Royce and Joan Bromley.

Also "Flags," Barbara Aldridge; "Mayflowers," Flora King; "Little Girls," Barbara Litchfield and "The Little Army" by primary pupils, Allen King, Edward Thorburn, Terry Robb, Richard Bromhey, and minuet Philip "I Wish Childs. I Had Lived In Colonial Days" was presented by primary children; Richard Maynard, Madelyn Aldridge, Frederick Barton, Dorothy Phillips, Michael Elaine Aldridge, Philip Virginia Adams, "The First Flag" was dramatized by Barbara Hastings, Betsey Ross; Joan Butterfield, tience Adams; Michael Morley, Robert Morris and Frederick Witham as George Washington. "Followed by "Dip The Colors," Wendell Noyes; "The Three Torches," David Stoughton, Dow Tillson and Harold "Flowers Of Love," by intermediate pupils, Barbara King, Lorraine Patch, Laura Parison, Yvonne Stevens, Gail Woodbury and Alice Bradish; "Flag Drill," pupils in grade three, Freddie Barton, Bernie Graham, Barbara Noyes, and Barbara Litchfield. In conclusion the entire school sang selections: "Columbia, The Gem of The Ocean," "Battle Hymn of Republic" and "America The Beautiful." About 25 friends and relatives of the children attended the program. 4-H Members Meet At Hanson Farm Saturday PERKINSVILLE Members of the 4-H club met at the home Mrs.

Walter Tillson, Saturday afternoon, May 29. Plans were discussed for a carnival to be held June 12 from 10:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.

in Perkinsville for the benetit of the 4-H club. The possibilities of entering bers Hartiand and Rutland stock ownea by 4-H club, memfairs were discussed. Grace Tillson demonstrated proper procedure in animal lead- Retreshments of sandwiches and lemonade were served. The next meeting will be on Saturday, June 5 at 1:30 p. m.

at Howard Hanson's farm. Mr. Hanson will give instruction in dairying and in gardening. The May meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Elwin Brown.

Apron construction was begun. Games were played. Refreshments of cocoa and peanut butter crackers were served. PERKINSVILLE-AMSDEN COMMUNITY CALENDAR Wednesday, June 2: Weathersfield selectmen and auditors meet at Town Office Perkinsville at 7:30 p. m.

Thursday, June 3: Hawks tain Grange, 8 p. Grange hall, Perkinsville. Friday, June 4: Greenbush-Amsden Community Club, 8 p. School at Amsden. Saturday, June 5: 4-H club at Howard Hansons, 1:30 p.

m. Sunday, June 6: Church Notes appear elsewhere. Miss Janice Childs To Marry Ludlow Man PERKINSVILLE Mrs. Mary Childs of Perkinsville announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Janice Lois Childs, to Amedeo Pallotta, son of Mr. and Mrs, James Pallotta of Ludlow.

Miss Childs graduated from Springfield high school in 1943 has been employed at Fellows Gear Shaper for the past five years. Mr. Pallotta, attended Ludlow high school and served four years in the Army. He is employed by Richard Dunlap of Ludlow. A summer wedding is planned.

AMSDEN (Betty Goodale Murray, Cor.) Night-Blooming Cereus Mr. and Mrs. Albert Banister held open house in honor of their night-blooming cereus, Friday evening, May 28. 'Suspended from thick green leaves, the two white blossoms composed of a multitude of long, slender petals opened slowly to a nine inch spread and seemed to fill the porch with their fragrance. Mrs.

Banister has had this night-blooming cereus for six or seven years. One year it had ten blossoms, five of which opened on the same night. Left on the plant these one night blooming blossoms would be wilted by morning, Mrs. Banister said, so before retiring Friday evening she planned to pick blossoms and keep them in the refrigerator to show to her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Spitzli of Simmit, N. guests at the' Banister home Memorial Day week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Spitzli and sons, Donald and Edward, were also guests at the Mr.

Spitzli's mother, Mrs. Albert Spitzli in Springfield. In their' spare time over the week-end, the Spitzlies planned to fix up their summer home in Walpole, N. H. Memorial Program Flag Presentation An American Flag was presented the Amsden school by Mrs.

Persis Smith of the Springfield Woman's Relief Corps at the Memorial Day program, Friday evening. Prizes were awarded Irving Eaton and Mary Moore for the best essays on Americanism. Mrs. Smith, patriotic instructor of the Woman's Relief Corps, presented first prize to Irving Eaton and second prize to Mary Moore. Mrs.

Smith also presented the winners with silver dollars, gifts of Seaman Stanley Richmond. Nearly seventy persons jammed the school room to see the morial program arranged under the direction of Mrs. Edward Williams, teacher. "Memorial Day Song" and "The U. A.

Forever" sung by the entire school which opened the evenings program included: come," Barbara Williams; "Flags And Flowers," Lucilie Crandall; "'We Keep Memorial Day," Mary Williams; "Decoration Day," Max Emery; "Where Poppies Grow," Glenice Moore and "Memorial Day Lois Gardner. A Memorial Day Play with characters and cast: Uncle Sam, Dick Richmond; girls, Deanna Alice Brown and Brown; Soldier, John Murray; Sailor, Frank Brown Nurses, Beverly Brown and Corinne Hastings. Followed by "Flag Of Union," Moore; "Flag Exercises" Robert Murray, Cynthia Eaton and Frances Brown; "Columbia's Song' and "America the sung by the entire school. "The Little Flags," John Digby; "The Stars And Stripes," Bruce Murray; "Flag Song," Freida Smith; "The Flag," James Williams; "The Message," Edith Brown; "The Parade," Mabel Brown; "Flag Salute," Robert Murray and Mary Moore. Two songs by the school "Flag Of The Free" and Spangled Banner;" "Let Freedom Mary Gonyea and "There'll Always Be America," Irving Eaton.

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Stevens SPRINGFIELD, 525-11 "America For Me." Mrs. Harry Richardson was the pianist. Superintendent and Mrs. Moore of Windsor and Mrs. Nellie Barnard, treasurer of the Woman's Relief Corps of Springfield and George Smith and son, Marshall, of Springfield were among the out of town guests attending the program.

Preceding the program a brief business meeting of the Greenbush-Amsden Community club was conducted by C. A. Murray. It was voted to donate $10 for the last day of school. Mrs.

Robert Smith was in charge of the refreshments. Banister Reunion Mr. and Mrs. Albert Banister and Mrs. Albert Spitzli of Springfield and Arthur Banister of Reading attended the christening of Thomas Sheehan son of Mr.

and Mrs. Earl French, held at noon Sunday at the Episcopal church in Charlestown, N. H. Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Spitzli of Summit, N. were godparents at the christening which was also attended by their sons, Donald and Edward. In the afternoon a family picnic and reunion was held at "the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nichols in Springfield in honor of the approaching marriage of Miss Lou Graham and Chester E.

Pittman of Cambridge, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bates have named their son, Mervin Russell Bates. Mr.

and Mrs. Reginald Digby and Johnny took in the Memorial Day parade in Springfield, went fishing at Tyson where Johnny caught a inch perch and his father caught limit of 6 perch. They returned home via Plymouth Union and took in a parade in West Lebanon, N. H. Alice Feathers, eight-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. George Feathers danced in "Fancy Free" at the spring recital featuring "Alice In Wonderland" in Ridley Park, Penn. Alice, who has been taking tap dancing lessons and attending 'school in Pennsylvania while staying, with her grandmother, C. Becker, plans to spend the summer with her parents her three year old sister, Marie. Alice will also acquainted with the thousand chickens her folks are raising.

Herbert Smith of Boston arrived Saturday to spend Memorial week-end at the home of his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, who live on the knoll. Sunday Mr. Smith and Mr.

and Mrs. Smith with Freida, Alfred and Margaret drove to Quechee to visit friends. Miss Marion Moote was sixteen on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.

James Moore and children, Judith and Charles of West Lebanon, N. spent sevcral days at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Moore. Mr.

and Mrs. Clifton Moore and children, Mary and Glenice, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lockerby in Saxtons River. Corinne Hastings went to Springfield to stay over Memorial mother, Mrs.

Hastings. planned to to attend school on Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Crahan of Pittsford came to see her daughter, Mrs. Edward Williams one day last week.

The Collectors Club of Springfield will meet at the LaFountain Lodge on June 6. Holiday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hemming were Mrs. Hemming's sister and family, Mr.

and Mrs. George Stehle and sons, Gene and Richard of Lynbrook, Long Island, N. and Howard and Robert Hemming of Rutland Junior College. Miss Joan Mueller of Rutland Junior College was also a guest. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Brown and family entertained at a family picnic dinner at their home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Brown Chuckie and Connie of Weathersfield Center and Mr.

and Elwin Brown and daughter, Frances of Greenbush were present. Mrs. Mabel Brown returned from wintering in Bradentown, and spent several days last week at the home of her son, Frank Brown. Mrs. Brown attended the Memorial program at the school Friday evening with her son's family and returned to White River on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Royadon LaFrance of Perkinsville stopped: at Honey House farm Sunday afternoon to see how the gardening was progressing and stayed to have rhubarb pie. Mr. and Mrs.

LaFrance were celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary with 8 fishing Their daughter, Gail is quarantined with whooping cough. Mrs. Nellie Ward of Gardner, a and her two aunts, drove up from Gardner recently to inspect the property belonging to' her brother, the late Bert Atherton. Albert Moote has been getting about the side a bit since his return Mary Fletchcountry, er hospital in N. H.

He was very much pleased with the cards and gifts received at the hospital and since coming home. Cynthia and Irving Eaton went around and took up a collection for him, which both surprised and pleased. Mr. Moote expects to return to the Hanover hospital on June 4 for further treatment for his head injury. The state egg inspector was at the Amsden store last week candleing and weighing eggs.

Mrs. C. A. Murray returned Wednesday after visiting her sister, Mrs. Clyde Perkins in Bethel and their father, B.

B. Goodale, a patient in the Gifford Memorial hospital Randolph. Mrs. Perkins drove Mrs. Murray home and Mrs.

Charles Shepard and five months old daughter, Maureen came with them, A special meeting of the G-A Community club has been requested for Friday evening, June 4, at 8. p. the day that school closes for the year and the children hope to have a celebration. Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Murray gathered together their sons and daughters and their daughters' families for a family reunion Memorial Day. A picnic dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Devereaux and son, Bobby, of West Springfield, spent the week-end as well as being present for the reunion.

Also present were Mrs. Mary Harlow and children, Susan and Shirley; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bromley and their twins, Linda and Larry and Kenneth son, Balch Charlie all and of Mr. and Springfield Mrs.

as well as Richard, Robert and John Murray. Frank Brown plowed and harrowed the Allen Miller's garden, Monday while Sonny and Beverly Brown rode their bicycles down to keep him company. Later, Sonny and Beverly were dinner guests of Barbara, and Bruce Murray and riding on Happy-LongEars, the donkey and Roanie. PERKINSVILLE Miss Shirley Mayo, who is staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Gerald Maynard until the close of the Springfield schools, spent the week-end at her home in Milton. Her father, Arthur Mayo of Chester accompanied her. Arthur Adams and Mrs. Richard Butterfield have been called to report for jury duty of Windsor County court at Woodstock on Monday, June 7. Lt.

and Mrs. George D. Nelson returned to Fort Dix, N. the first of the week after being guests at the home of Mrs. Nelson's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. William Salmond. This week-end Lt. and Mrs. Nelson will return for their daughter, Victoria, who is being cared for this week by her grandparents.

Weathersfield town auditors, Mrs. William Covell, Andrew Titcomb and C. A. Murray met last week Tuesday evening at the town office to check the pole tax books. Miss Joanne Hanson played in the Springfield high school band at the Memorial Day parade, Monday.

Among those attending the Memorial Day parade in Springfield, were Mrs. Mable Hollinbrook, and Mrs. Edwin Bromley and children, Mrs. Herbert Phillips, George Phillips and Dorothy Phillips. William Salmond was in Springfield last week to visit Luther Howe a patient in the Springfield hospital.

Rev. and Mrs. Robert T. Pruitt were in charge of the Perkinsville Community church supper, Friday evening of last week. Springfield Locals Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Mahoney and children, and Pamela, and Miss Helen Charlton, SheePhilip, han avenue, spent Monday at Lake Sunapee. Harvey Bradway of Windsor was a -end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Bradway, 99 Merrill street.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wells and grandson. Billy LeBlanc, visited Mr. Wells' brother, Ned Wells, in Enfield, N.

over the week-end. Mrs. Edna Butler, of the Furman Department store, visited her sister, Arthur Hitchens, in Saugus, last week-end. Elizabeth Burroughs of Albany, N. is, a guest of her sister, Mrs.

Walter Brown, Southview. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Traverse and family spent the holiday in Hartford, Conn. Vegetable and Flower Plants for your garden.

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Grant Co. Mrs. Mary Prunelle, of Tunbridge, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Benson Sanborn, Eaton last week.

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