Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-14
The Vermont Teachers.
Their Annual Meeting at Rutland I.s,
Week.

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Week.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
state teachers association was held at Rnt,
land last week Thursday, Friday and sat
urday with a large attendance from all
parts of Vermont. Many valuable naners
were presented by eminent educators and
oy teachers now employed in the state At
the business meeting at the close of tbe
session these officers were chosen: Presi-
dent, Z. 5. Davis, Bennington: treasurer
Z. +. Davis, Vergennes: secretary. c. II
Richardson, Waterbury Centre executive
committee, Geo. A. Williams, Saxtons Riv-
er; ). j. Blanped, Montpelier: c.. H..
Merrill, Bakersfield; examiners. IT. NJ
Soule, Alburgh; j. NJ. Comstock, Chelsea
). A. Andrews, Derby; S. H. Erskine
Rutland; A. w. Pierce, Barre; F. E. Cha.
pin, Bellows Falls Mr.. Cambridge, Spring.
field. Principal o. D. Matthewson of
Barre was elected member of the com
mittee on school laws. One member is
elected each year on this committee and
now consists of E. II. Conant of Ran
dolph, Rev. |. p. Booth of Morrisville and
o. d. Matthewson of Barre.
W. M. Conant, the venerable mayor of
Geneva, ILL.,, was found dead in bed Fri
day. He was native of Brandon.
John Mccarthy of the firm of Mccarthy
~ Co., slate manufacturers of Poultnev.
was instantly killed Tuesday, his neck be-
ing broken by falling stone in his quar-
ry. He was IS years old and leaves a wife
and six children.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
brought against the Fair Haven Era by o.
A Proctor of tha uilloua &c
Fair Haven. The suit grows out of the
Erals remarks in connection with the hang
ing in etligy of a citizen of Fair Haven.
Flora, 17-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Luce of Waterbury, committed
suicide by hanging last Sunday while her
parents were attending church. She de-
liberately planned for death, as was shown
by letters giving directions for her funeral,
etc.
The will of Mrs. Eliza S. Smith of Bur-
lington, widow of S. S. Smith, bequeaths
500 to Green Mount cemetery, $1,000 for
the endowment of a scholarship to the uni
versity of Vermont and state agricultural
college as a memorial to her husband, and
her real and personal property valued at
$1,000, to the home for aged women of that
city.
Acting under instructions from Philadel-
phia Chief of Police Dumas searched the
house occupied at Burlington by Mrs.
Pietzel when she was there with H. II.
Holmes, the insurance swindler A bottle
containing half pint OF dark liquid was
found beneath the false floor of potato
bin. 1t was buried in the outskirts of the
city and the Philadelphia authorities noti-
fed.
An aged but somewhat eccentric citizen
of Richford, who evidently travels but lit
tie and is not accustomed to train boys, as
tonished his family on returning from a
recent visit to st. Adams by taking from
the recesses of his capacious vaise two 90
cent novels, bound volume of Chicago
fair views, cake of fig paste, prize pack
age of cheap stationery and a package of
ice cream candy. He said a nice boy on
the cars gave him these things. He ad-
mitted the boy was an entire stranger, but
fervently chopped heaven would paint him
a sky-blue if he ever forgot the the kind
ness"