Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-02-19

new mousse on Chapin street to L. w.
Barnard.
S. w. Edgetts real estate office has
been redecorated, and private office has
been divided off therein.
5. W. Edgett IL Co. have sold the II.
M. Cook farm in Chesterfield, n H., to
Thomas Welsh of Dummerston.
About 30 pupils of the North street
school drove to Bernardston, Mass, Mon
day night and took supper with Landlord
Baxter Read. The supper was followed
by music, games and dancing.
What promises to be lively post-ofiice
war is on in Wilmington, where the office
has recently been elevated to presidential
Office of the third class. George E. Haynes
and o. Ii. Jones are active candidates.
Both have circulated petitions, Haynes
having secured about $50 names, and
Jones upward of 100, as is understood
Z. M Russell will be compromise" can
didate, and will press his claims for the
appointment upon the Vermont delegation
at Washington.
These vital statistics for 1896 are for
the town district and are in addition to
those of the village district, published in
The Phoenix few weeks ago. Fifteen
P'iopho hltNlg VI WuOUl elGUL were 0lAlp9
and seven were females. Of these two
were under ~ years of age, nine were
over 80, six were over 20 and one was "a.
OF the - children born during the wear
six were males and seven were females. At
the Brattleboro Retreat 10 persons died. ID
being males and five females. Fifteen
were over 80 years old and one had reached
the age of 90 years.
The amount of uncollected taxes now in
the collectors hands, which is stated in
the summary of the town report elsewhere
printed, should not be compared unfavora-
bly, with that in previous years, because
no allowance for suspensions or abate-
ments has yet been made on this years
list Usually attachments have been made
before the auditors report has been made
up, but this year no session of the board of
civil authority has been held for that pur-
pose. Last year the item for ''abatements.
suspensions and errors" amounted to
S442.75. This year Mr. Gordon believes
that $1,000 out of the total of 1851 So of
unpaid taxes is good and collectable.
A district meeting of the Windham
county Sunday school association will he
held at the Methodist church this after
noon and evening. At 2 o'clock there
will be praise service led by II. II.
Thompson. AT 2:30 Rev. II. ii. Shaw
will speak upon "Obvious needs" l.. w.
Hawley upon "Methods worth trying"
Rev. A. J. Hough upon True spirit of
endeavor," Rev. S. F. Smith upon EN-
couragements, under the head of "Our
work" At 3:1j Rev. j. w. Naramore of
Bellows Falls will speak upon "The hid
den treasure State Secretary |. b. Mil
Ter will give the supplementary lesson at
$50, which will be followed at o'clock
by reports from the schools. "A bag with
holes will be the subject OF talk by w.
ii. Hall, state secretary of Connecticut, at
4:l1. social interim will be followed bv
a supper at the church, and at o'clock
there will be another praise service of a
half hours duration, when Mr.. Hall will
deliver an address. G. W. Osgood of Bel
lows Falls will illustrate "The tabernacle"
at S:l5. special invitation TO attend
has been extended to the schools in Dunn.
merston, Marlboro, Guilford and Vernon,
The news of the sudden death from
heart disease of Mrs. Mary Ann Flood at
her home on Reed hill was a sad surprise
10 her many friends Saturday morning.
Mrs. Flood retired in her usual health Fri
day night, but died between one and two
o clock in the morning. Her maiden
name was Mary Ann McSweeney. She
was born in Mallow, Cork county, Ireland.
about 70 years ago She married John
Flood 81 or 90 years ago and a year later
came to this country, living first in TROY.
n Y. Two years afterward she came TO
West Brattleboro and was employed by
Mrs. McCune, who kept boarding school
in connection with the young ladies' SEM
mary. Mr.. Flood sailed for this country
two years after his wife came, and soon
after joined her in Brattleboro, and they
began housekeeping on Elliot street Mr..
Flood died in 1875. For the past 20 wears
Mrs. Flood had lived on Reed Hill with
her daughter Lizzie and her son John s.
Flood, who is an engineer on the Central
Vermont railroad. She leaves three other
sons and has buried four children. The |
funeral was at the Roman Catholic church
1t O'Clock Monday morning. The burial |
vas in the Catholic cemetery.
The attention of the voters of the town |
8 especially directed to that paragranh |
which will be found in the report of the |
electmen recommending a change in the
'olcy or the town in raising barely enough
money each year to cover current expenses.
WITH small margin on the wrong side
Usually. Under this policy every incom.
ng board of seectmen is obliged to borrow
money Tor current expenses until money
rom the new tax list comes in. In this
'sy needless expense for interest is in
urred. Ii margin of five per cent were
De raised 1t would do away with this
tate of things, the town would save M m
y, and small fund for emergencies
you'd gradually accumulate. Take the
omlng year tor example: A 30-cent tax
MI probably cover the actual expenses,
ut II VIII allow nothing for a margin. A
AK OF 80 cents, which the seectmen rec
mmend, would leave the town in funds at
ne ehd OF the year. with no interest
narges Tor the following year. In 1899
lghway bond of 5000 is due. A 35-cent
Ak Tor the next two years will provide for
s payment. 1t only 80 cents is raised a
O-cent TAX will be necessary the third
ear. For the reasons here suggested the
9lectmen believe 35-cent tax would be
economy for the town. Their suggestion
worth careful consideration.
Women as Inventors.
Miss udall gave the paper at the meet
lg of the Alliance study class MONDAY
vening. Her subject was "Women In.
She referred in the beginning to
he most remarkable inventions of modern
mes,-the telephone, phonograph, and
and the remarkable discov-
ries made through the medium of the
o-ctroscope and the X-rays. While the
ames OF women have not often been CON
ected in the public mind with great in.
entions they have often furnished the ,
rimary suggestions which made such in