Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-07
Friction in tn. school at North waIpoIe.

Friction In the school at North w aIpOle'
The North Wapole schools opened their
spring term Wednesday with only four out
of the seven teachers being in attendance.
Their absence was the result of differences
between the school board and the teachers
during the vacation. Principal Riley was
in his place as usual, but only tw 10 other of
the old board of teachers were there, four
having decided not to go back. In the
town reports of Walpole this year the
school board of the town seemed to be
somewhat divided in their judgment of the
wisdom of certain measures, resulting in
the rendering of a majority and minority
report of the directors. The dissenting
member was John w. Cahalane. Father
Corcoran, the other member from North
Walpole, was included in the majority with
the members from the other part of the
town. The others are Elisha A. Keep H.
E. Putnam, F. H. Wright and Charles H.
= Barnes, Three weeks ago at a town meet
ing held in Walpole about 175 voters from
this end of the town, including large num-
Der of ladies, went down and came back by
a special train over the Fitchburg road
expecting there would be werm discus
sion of the merits of the two policies of the
committee and perhaps a material change
in the makeup of the board but it resulted
in a quiet and harmonious time The full
tenor of the points under discussion which
cause the variances, and now the disad-
vantage of complications at the commence
ment of the term, are not quite apparent
to outsiders, but seem unfortunate for the
best interests of the schools.
The marriage bans of Michael j. Welch
and Mary j. Cray were announced at St.
Charles church Sunday morning.
A large audience greeted Leon W. Wash
burns MINISTRIES in the opera house Tues
day evening, and the show given was a
success in every respect.
On April 1, the last day for licensing
dogs, only 146 had been registered, which
is a smaller number than usual Evident
ly more people have been careless, and
will be required to pay the additional fee.
Tracy Leonard, who has been working
in one of the lunch rooms on Canal street
recently, went to Boston Saturday after
noon for the purpose of having an opera
ton performed for appendicitis at the Mas
sachusetts General hospital.
Rector D. L. Sanford of Emmanuel
church was called to his old home in Con-
necticut early in the week by the death of
a relative. The church service Wednesday
evening was conducted by Rev. A. H.
Wheeler Of Charlestown, and that of this
Afternoon will be omitted. 1t is expected
Mr.. Sanford will return in season to be in
his place Sunday as usual
The Rutland railroad has just bought of
the Pullman car concern of Chicago $50
freight cars, to be delivered in October.
They are box cars, made to carry co. 900
pounds each, and are intended chiefly to
run between Ogdensburg and places ia
New England with through business from
the West. They have galvanized iron roofs,
steel trucks, metal brake beams, air brakes
and automatic couplers.
A number of the officials and men of the
international Paper company, as we'll as
John o. Spring and some of his employees,
have been in Rutland portion of this week
in attendance upon the county court in the
case of the heirs of Mr.. Kennedy against
the paper company. 1t arises from the
circumstances attending the death of Mr..
Kennedy from I'M uries received by letting
steam into digester which he was repair
ing, few months ago. Although it was
expected the case would be reached early
in the week, it did not come up until late
Thursday afternoon, when jury was EN-.
panelled and the trial is under way now.
Butler & Maloney of Rutland are the at,
torneys for the estate and Hon. Joel G.
Baker of Rutland for the defence.
The services at st. Charles Catholic
church on Easter Sunday were of an unus
ually interesting and pleasant nature. The
special music service under the direction OF
DR.. O'Connor were of high order and re
fected a large degree of credit upon al
who took part, both morning and evening
The singing of THE Holy Cityn by the doc.
tor was especially fine and revelation tc
those who had not heard him sing. The
quality of the music throughout the whole
service has never been equaled in that
church. and seldom in town. Miss Mar
garet Pierce was the leading soprano, and
Miss Addie Zuill was the organist. The
choir have been practicing for number OF
months upon this special music and the re
suit was a pleasing success. The Easter
offering to the pastor was very large one