The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-01
M. d. Staples has purchased the milk
route Of M. McVeigh and took possession to-

M. d. Staples has purchased the mill
route of M. McVeigh and took possession to
day.
"A delegation of 20 from the Keene Vince
club will come over on their wheels SUNDAY
and take dinner ut the Brooks House.
Miss Clara Burt was removed from ii
Il. Ackley's Saturday to Geo. Il. Cr0welps
She expects TO return to Mortified soon. Mr.
and Mrs. Burt returned wednesday to their
home In Plainfeld, N. j.
The citizen who was not proud of the
BrattlebOrO schools and apprecative of the
work that they aresdoing under Prin. Horne's
guidance towards that most necessary part OF
education which has been SO generally neg
lected, the fitting of the boys and girls for
American citizenship, that citizen was one
who was not present at the exercises Tuesday
forenoon in connection with Memorial Day.
'They were the prettiest thing ever saw
was frequent expression. The High school
room was well filed with parentsand friends,
including a delegation of about 30 Grand
platform was ornamented with muskets, KNAPP
sacks and accoutrements, which as Mr.. Horn
explained, were brought from Rich
mOnd after the surrender of Lee.
There were half dozen of the old patriotic
war songs rendered during the forenoon by
the school and the High school Glee club and
mrably. Rev. w. II. Collins spoke briefly
and effectively to the boys and girls about
their great heritage in this government and
their duty to it. Then followed declama-
ton, the same that he gave in the town hall
Wednesday, by Louis Pettee and he gave it
finely With VT an effect Of reserved power that
essay, "History and Description of the Amer
lean Flag" finding its rudment back in the
banner of st. Andrew in the 18th century,
tracing the development of the flag idea to
WashingtOn's time and explaining the signifi-
canoe Of the stars and stripes. Miss
Lucy Simonds gave a recitation with
praisewOrthy clearness and meaningfulness of
Then came series of essays on
the "History of Slavery IN the United States"
Myron Davis gave one on "Savery in the Col |
onies," showing how back in the colonial days
the poison was implanted that made the great
national sin. Miss Ethel Waterman followed |
with another essay about the cause of the great |
The disappointmentlof the expectations of the
fathers by''Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin;"
she gave very clear and simple explanation
If the gin to the instruction ofthe old as well
Is the young among her auditors. Hayes
Morey wrote about the ''Missouri Compro-
MISE" Florence Thurber about "John Brown
md his plan of emancipation by servile insur-
ection, Fred ellison about 'Contraband of
VAR" and the serious problem the refugee
negroes presented in the early days of the
var. Mabel Briggs about Emancipation" and
he way events forced theNsissue, Ernest
Waterman about the "United States or Libe-
ia" as the future home of the negro, and
Amy Jones about "FOrt Sumpter and the Call
f President Lincoln" These were all excel
ent essays, were all of remarkable quality for
upils of the age, the two latter especially SO
or their range and maturity Of thought. Then
anne three "Sketches of soldiers who went to
he war from Brattleboro'-Gen.J j. w. Phelps
y Highland Perry, Col. John s. Tyler, his
atriotic ancestry, his services at Bull Run I
nd his charge at Gettysburg when he would 4
OF retreat, ''not till we have taken those !
yorks,o by Laura Stevens, and Mai. Elijah !
Wales, the first volunteer from Vermont, the I
ero of 26 battles and four wounds, with his +
emarkable experience after the Wilderness, r
v Mamie Croker. These tributes to names a
which Brattleboro will ever be proud, were =
,llowed by half an hours address from an a
her of her brave veterans, COL H. f. Tay- y
r, who was in Is battles, and who told most
and with flashes of humor about >,
e battle of the Wilderness and impressed :.
BON the boys and girls the significance of Me- .
Orial day, one of the most beautiful observ- =
Ices i'm the world. The song, ''Tenting on =
e old Camp Ground" inspiritingly given by =
yht male voices followed, and the exercise
included with 12 quotations of sayings of H. -
strious patriots by Charles Boyden. Kate
lwson, Walter Eddy, Sarah Cobb, Lulu M. =
Drton, Perley Holmes, Ethel Duggan. Flor Il
ce Hemenway, Harry White, Marion a. !,
,yes, Lena Eels and Frank Morse, followed y
q touching recitation of the Goth Psalm by u
nily Guild. :,