Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-04-09
Miss Fitts's kindergarten will open next

been engaged to deliver the Memorial day
address in Brattleboro.
T. Frank Turner drew % "speckled
beauties" from the waters of Massachu-
sets brooks Wednesday.
Miss Anna Lockrow will give another
public talk upon physical culture at the
Congregational chapel at o'clock to-mor-
row. No admission will be charged. She
invites mothers to bring their children as
a class of girls will probably be formed
News has been received by telegraph
this morning that the Martin Il Fits lime
kiln at Sherman (Whitingham) was burned
last night. Six hundred barrels of lime
were destroyed. The loss will reach $1,000
The property was insured for $1,000.
"O'Dowd's Neghbors" was greeted by a
fair-sized audience at the Auditorium
Tuesday night. Mr.. Murphy maintained
his old-time popularity, and his complica-
tions with his "neighbors' over the
widows" affections furnished an evening
of good fun. The singing was notably
good feature.
The boys and girls have 'caught on to
Morse & Simpsons latest advertising
scheme in genuine Young America fashion,
and there is evidently going to be lively
contest for possession of the coveted bicy-
Gle which adorns one of the show windows.
Other smaller prizes are offered, silver
watch, a fountain pen and a pocket knife
being included in the list.
F. j. Bailey has made contract this
week for the sale of the Lawrence Water
cure buildings, with large tract of land
between Flat, Elm and Elliot streets, and
of 60 shares of water from the Wesselhoeft
spring. This sale, if completed, will in
clude the largest and probably the highest
priced piece of real estate that has been
sold near the centre of the village for sew
eral years.
A conference of Baptist ministers was
held in Rutland on Tuesday of last week
to make arrangements for holding meetings
in Rutland, Burlington, Bennington and
Bratteboro some time in May or June for
the purpose of seeing what the Baptist de-
nomination in the state can do toward pay
ing the indebtedness of the Home and
Foreign Missionary societies. No definite
plans were made and it is probable that
another meeting will be held during the
latter part of next month.
These scores have been made in the
Vermont Wheel club tournament since
last Friday: Billiards-DeWitt 20, Mum
ger "A, Dewitt winning on the handicap.
on, w. H. W. H. L Cll y
so, +. f. Perry III w. H. Perry winning
on the handicap. Munger so, Bingham
50; Munger so, Knight 80. Pool-Perry
80, Aver -, Perry winning on the handi-
cap. Perry wins class b, which leaves
Perry and Landry to play off the champion
ship. Chess-Cudworth beat Hunt, Pet
tee beat Munger
Miss Anna Lockrow, graduate of the
s
gave lecture on physical culture before so
women at the Brooks House Friday even
ing, illustrating her talk by the movements
which she teaches. AT the close of the
lecture nine women gave their names for
membership in a physical culture class.
The first lesson was given at the Young
Mems Christian association rooms Satur-
day night and the second lesson was given
last night. A class for misses will be
formed if the membership permits. Miss
Lockrow is at Mrs. f. d. Whitney's
Reference was made in The Phoenix a
few weeks ago to Robert Folger of Massil-
lon, O., in connection with the discovery
of the mutnoers of the ship Bounty.
Those who have read the account of the
mutiny will be interested to know that the
descendants of the crew which mutinied
more than a hundred years ago, settling on
Pitcairn island, are henceforth to be sub
iect to the colonial government of New
South Wales, Queen Victoria having signed
a privy council order to that effect. Pit
cairn island has long since been abandoned
by the descendants of the Bounty mutt
neers in favor of Norfolk island, which
they now occupy
The same question has been raised in
the Connecticut supreme court with re-
gard to the building of electric street rail-
roads which was brought before the Yer
mont court at the time of the construction
of the Brattleboro electric road. The suit
was one brought by the Canastota Knife
company of Newington against the New
ingtOn Tramway company, in which the
question was one as to whether trolley rail-
roads impose additional servitude upon the
highways. On that question the court di-
vided. Two judges, Chief Justice An
drews and Justice Hammersly held I'M
qualtiedly that the trolley is an additional
servitude upon the highway. Three
Judges, Torrance, Baldwin and Fem, held
that the trolley was not in itself such addi-
tional servitude, but may become so by
abuse. The result, while somewhat indie
cisive, appears practically TO be victory
for the trolley companies inasmuch as it
indicates that special and exceptional
damages will have to be proved, and that
it will lie with abutting property holders
to prove such damages,
Farmers who live on the country roads
in the settled portions of the town say
that this is the season of the year which
puts the quality of our annual road-mak-
ing to the test. They say, too, that in
many cases the roads do not stand the test.
The Hinesburg road is cited as one in
stance of what bad methods reveal when
mud time comes. The mud there is so
deep, by spots at least, that it is almost
impossible to draw load over the road.
The point made is that the towns money
should be put more and more into perma-
nent improvements. The trouble with
many pieces of country roads is that, by
the constant use of the road machine, worn
out material is thrown up into the centre
of the road over and over, when new and
hard material could be used almost as
cheaply and with a result that when,
once in place it would stay there. All
road-makers, whether in Brattleboro or in
our neighboring towns, may rest assured
that the sentiment of observant farmers,
say nothing of other folk who travel, has
come to be that true economy lies in max.
ing little good and permanent roadway
every year in place of the eXlravagant an
nual patching up.
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