Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-12-02
BRATTLEBORO.

Hereafter the grocery stores will be
closed Tuesday evenings.
The final meeting on the insolyent estate
of George II. Reed was held yesterday
afternoon, when a dividend of 81 cents for
the creditors was declared.
The sclectmen have ordered a new iron
bridge 70 replace the wooden one near the
DeerGeld Valley stock farm at West Brat
tleboro.
Next season Eugene Frost will build a
three-story building, with brick covering in
the rear of his Main street block. 1t will
front on Flat street.
The QuonectAkat lodge of Red Med will
confer the hunters degree on candidates
from Putney and Williamsville as well as
Brattleboro, at their hall this evening.
The meeting of the American Public
Health association, which DR.. and Mrs. II.
d. Holton went TO the City of Mexico to
attend, opened last Friday and continued
five days. American physicians present
were entertained by American residents
and President Daz provided a state ban
quet.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January
20, 81 and %, have been decided upon for
the days of the Y. NJ. c. A. state conven-
tion to he held here, in the Baptist and Con-
gTegatiOnal churches. There will be a con
ference of secretaries, of women's auxlia-
ries, and college conference during the
convention.
Mrs. Elizabeth p. Hildreth died at her
home on Spring street early yesterday morn
ing, after a little more than a week of in
tense suffering, at the age of o. years and
six months. Mrs. Hildreth was born in
Cbitfandan fbiu etatn In bar rly
years her parents moved to Athens. In
May, 1876, she was married In Vernon to
Austin o. Hildreth, and after living for a
short time in Mortified, Mass, removed
TO BratuebOro, where her home has ever
since been. Her husband died here in
April, 1884. For four years Mrs, Hildreth
has been an invalid, having been unusually
feeble the last year She was a woman of
keen mind and more than average ability,
and under a somewhat brusque exterior
she carried a warm heart for her friends or
for those in trouble of any kind. She
leaves four brothers and one sister. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow at 2 O'clock
The December number of "The Litera-
~ Northwest" a monthly magazine, pub
lished al st. Paul, Mimi, contains an ar
ticle by Louise Bronson CrOthers MRS. S.
NJ Crothers) on "Children's reading"
Mrs. CrOthers's article was originally given
as a paper before the St. Paul wOman's
club, and now appears as one of three ar
ticles on "Child culture" which have the
place of honor In this issue of the st. Paul
magazine The article is a plea, brightly
and strongly urged, for a high, and even
severe, literary standard In the books
which are given TO children TO read. No
matter If they do not understand every
word and sentence. They catch the spirit
Of good prose and the ''swing" of good
poetry, and so 'paint in background
against which the future pictures are to
shine out" With those children who are
wisely led when their taste for reading is in
the formative stage, "the world of litera-
ture need be no Promised Land TO which
they must journey through the wilderness,
but rather the home garden, with whose
walks they are all familiar, except they
ever lead them on"