Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-03-25

W. A. Beaman of Athol, Mass, has
prepared an edition of the Bowker tele-
phone index for Brattleboro and Bellows
Falls.
The University Extension class, con
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. Collins, will meet at
the rectory next Monday evening at $50
O'Clock.
E. Wales will give his annual reception
to his dancing classes April II in Festival
hall Some if not all of the dances will be
given with calcium light effect.
The gross receipts of the St. Patrick S
day fair and festival in the armory on Eli
ct street were $S2S. The expenses were
Sll1. leaving a net profit of S71l for the
benefit of the Roman Catholic church
The whist team of the Bay State club of
Holyoke will meet Brattleboro players for
a second game in Grange banquet hall this
evening. The visitors will be the guests
of the local players at the Brooks House
Policeman Worden arrested Ed. Rawson
Saturday night for being intoxicated
Rawson was arraigned before Justice New
ton Monday morning, He pleaded guilty
and was fined 50 and costs, amounting to
500.
l. b. Taft has rented the second floor of
Il
ard for a carriage repository. Mr.. Howard
IS now away buying his stock Mr.. Taft
is equippng the building with an elevator
at the northeast corner.
w c. Mitchell. of the firm of Hooker.
Corser " Mitchell. has returned from Chi
cage, where he went to investigate the
trm loss by recent fire in that city.
About 10000 pairs of the firms stock of
fixf
which will make the loss about S250O
The stock was fully insured
Mrs. A. 5. Codding 80, died at ] o'clock
Saturday afternoon at the Brattleboro Re
treat. of heart disease. She was a native
of WoodfOrd but had spent large part of
her life al Newfane. For the past year
her home had been with her son. Bert A
Codding at Jamaica She married A. 5.
Coddlng of Westminster 80 years ago and
leaves, besides him. two children. Bert A
and William Fl. Codding of Newfane.
Funeral services were held at Newfane
Wednesday afternoon. The body has been
placed in the vault and will be buried in
Westminster in the spring
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Price left for Chi
cago Saturday after visiting at w. Il. Min
ors. Mr.. and Mrs. Price recently Jour
neyed from Chicago to Tehuantepec. Mex
leo, by way of Havana, Cuba. and the
Gulf of Mexico. They went on board the
United States warship Maine while at Hs-
vana and MI Price made photographs of
the vessel. When he returned from
Iehuantepec the vessel had been wrecked
by the explosion, and several more photo
graphic views were obtained. From Ha-
vana MI and Mrs. Price came TO New
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Il. Il. Thompson, superintendent of the
Congregational Sunday school, reached the
5Oth anniversary OF his birthday Monday
and TO commemorate the occasion the
members Of the school were invited to
spend the evening at his house wthou,
giving warning Of their coming He had
planned to have the company of a few
nelghbors, so that their arrival was not IN
looked for; but when $50 members of the
school Desieged the house-well. his sur
prise can be better imagined than described
Refreshments were served during the even
ing, and at the proper time Rev c. o. Day
presented Mr.. Thompson a handsome Nor
ris chair for members Ct the company. a
lardlniere stand and from 80 TO 100 carna-
lions were also left as mementoes of the
occasion.
The Northampton and Amherst electric
railroad question has come to be the ab-
sorbing question in those towns This is
the road in which L. c. Crosby is one of
the leading movers and, as was the case in
Brattleboro, ne has got to fight TO win The
company have secured franchises in North
ampton and Hadley, but the selectmen of
Amherst have Just refused them a fran
chise by vote of two to one. The Spring
field Union says that 1t is undeniabe that
a majority Of the people want an electric
road TO Northampton, and they now feel
that the contamination of this project has
only been delayed 1t says: That the
road will be built in the course of a few
years is believed by all liberal and progress
sive citizens, for the public demands it. 1t
is probable, now, that town meeting will
be the result OF this agitation and a move
ment is already on foot TO carry this out
The time is now most opportune for such
gathering, and the Amherst and Sunder-
land Electric Railroad company and the
few conservative merchants will learn that
they do not constitute the voting majority
of the town
Two excellent papers were read at the
meeting of the Woman ciuO with Mrs.
L. D. Temple last Saturday night. The
nrst, or prison reform, by Mrs. h +.
Whitaker, was an exhaustive description of
the Elmira, n. y, reformatory. the meth
DDS of education employed there and the
remarkable work which has been accom-
plished by Mr. Brockway, the head of the
institution. Reference was made to the
methods of discipline in three of the lead
ing reformatories in the country-Penn-
sylVaDia, Auburn and Emira. In the
former the inmates are put in solitary CON
hnement in Auburn they are allowed TO
mlngle with each other but communication
is restricted, and in Elmira they are allowed
both TO mingle and TO communicate 1t is
MI Brockway's aim not so much TO punish
but TO educate criminals along legitimate |
lines so that upon their release they NAV |
be able TO take position among respect |
able people. Mrs Whitaker has spent /
several years in study upon this subject. |
She exhibited paper published at the in |
stltutlon, the work, even to the making of !
the cuts, being done by the convicts. The /
other paper was upon "a Famous Prison |
by Miss NJ. Belle Smith. 1t gave an &C /
citrate description of the Tower of London .
and was illustrated by photographs and by .
a chart showing the location of the grounds. /
of II. u. Carlisle at ST. AIbans.
The marriage of Henry D. Carlisle, former
ly manager of the Brooks House, and Miss
). Grace Bedard, daughter of the late Hon.
5. 5. Bedard, was celebrated quietly Thurs
day evening, March II, at the home of
the brides mother in ST. Adams Only
small number of intimate friends were pres