Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-04
plan to Grade the schools.


'--s-.-.-r5ent Of schools, the school direct
- ana The teachers met in the Central
-t-- ---u Monday evening and discussed
- matter. and they will meet again in
- z--k. from that date TO make further
-s-. The plan is to grade the schools
e. --...-e he students TO take examina-
~. before entering the Central school.
-.t-- The standard Of admission 10 the
-.-.-s. school one of qualification rather
-,- .-- As & has been heretofore. In the
r.-.-a school students will be fitted for
an t..h school or academy, in fact they
BE- a1.e. upon graduation, to enter the
.-,5cs " ihird years in most advanced
.t1.s. Miss Sawyer. the principal of the
r--.-a. school. is doing excellent work, IS
sAs5 Nj Maynard, who spends one day
AL week in Putney and aims to make
c--so-a. acquaintance with the pupils.
R.7. Y. A. Wood of West Brattleboro
" breach in the Baptist church next Sun
~
y. and Mrs. Frank Townsend went
--s.3ay 20 New London, Conn, where
ley W.. locate.
Mss Flora Sanders has returned from
Amherst Mass, where she has been at
z..k u hat factory.
John Cook. who recently sold his farm
-5u57zd 70 Palmer, Mass, has been Wis
--c u town this week.
Amt" Fanny Pierce, widow Of Leroy
?..,.4 Of Pu,ney Fails, will celebrate to-
z.-.T her @5;h birthday anniversary.
There has been no material change this
v--s Il the condition of James Crawford,
VIZ Las been i'll in bed for several weeks.
NJ. c A. Tefft and daughter Evelyn
g. Newport, this state, formerly of Put
~. Visited at c. B. Willards over Sunday.
Charles Simonds finished work for the
>.-Ee- manufacturing company last week
l.. h2s gone TO his home in Weymouth,
EAs:
Mss Anna Blanchard will graduate next
z4sk from the business college in Burling-
u. where she is taking a course in stenog-
Apply.
Mss Katherine Booth has returned from
=, visit with Mrs. W. Z. Aver in Wind
81: She was accompanied by Mrs. Aver,
v-9 s visiting her parents.
NJ. and Mrs. Arthur Sanders have come
:; P1.ney from Northampton, Mass, to
Ire With Mr.. Sanders's father. Mr.. SAN
.--s has position in the Stowell manu-
1c.oy.
Rev. ". r. Davenport, presiding elder
&: he Montpelier district, will preach in
IL Methodist church next Tuesday even
ga. so o'clock. he will hold the first
-z-.zr.y conference at the same time.
Engineer c. II. Ross, who recently came
g 9-.-ey from Healdville TO run the en-
~ z The Stowell mandatory, finished
T-,z .-ere Saturday and has returned to
E.,E On The railroad.
N,s. George Everleth died Sunday morn
=: q. he home of her son, Il. G. Ever
- with whom she lived. After prayer
Is he house Tuesday the body was taken
q IVES. DummerstOn, where funeral serv-
q we've held, Rev. T. F. Mitchell Of this
--T- c1icia:ing.
Mss Emily Harvey, returned mission
II Who has spent seven years in India,
" give an address in the Methodist
---ca Sunday evening, May Is. All are
-7.,si 70 attend and hear of women 5
T,,k Il India. Miss Harvey is a very in
,5,7s,.1g speaker.
". and Mrs. E. W. Huntley and John
y Underwood, ST., and daughter, Mrs.
LA G)old of Chester, went TO SpOftort
Sunday 10 attend the wedding of Mr.. I'm
!=-To9i's son, J. y. Underwood, jr. MI
Id Mrs Underwood spent Sunday and
E2-ta! in Puiney.
z. 3. Newcomb and Frank Glare un'
sl-hs5 den of snakes a few days age
vile digging in the bank back of Mount
Peasant cemetery. They were of variou:
=-g.hs, from six inches upwards, AND
IL! we've in a dormant condition owing tC
.-s cold weather. The number cannot be
ID but the men who discovered then
iAy .t2, there were 800.
Its ba-ky horse whose stubborn ness wa:
25-.ray5i in the Brattleboro news in Tit
!-FliZ .ast week is owned by an Eas
F-.1sy man, and it is said by many 10 bt
-5 worst specimen of its kind that the!
lave ever seen. The men hitched th'
,=2s. % q tree and came home on the even
= -4-l Saturday, leaving the animal L
-7-.-2.= over night. They returned fo
III sunday morning and found him per
'7-.! agreeable.
There was a mountain fire Of large pro
H-,o1s on Stage Hill Sunday and Mon
-AI. /. started Sunday morning from
s-= Of brush which was being burned oil
.-5 Gay farm, those who were watchin!
.-s burning Of the brush having left for
Nv minutes. The fire was soon beyon'
42ll'o., and it spread across the +. L
[-s'ee farm, the y. c. Newcomb farm an,
-5 Cobb %, TO the stage road where it wa
p. Oh. BY rain Monday night.
Tie body Of Mrs. Sarah c. Dunn viii
= Brought here from st. Paul Mimi, "a
,I,'H0T afternoon and will be buried i
@1-lt Pleasant cemetery. Mrs. Dunn wa
,-7 vie Of John Dunn, brother Of Mrs
oAla C-ough Of Putney. She tormerl
r'71 where Elihu Wilson now lives. FroI
-='e She went South, but returned afte
-7 Death Of her husband and lived in tn
AMY Of {. P. ellison in the house no
y,.lp.ed by 2. L. Pierce. The body hs
zen IN the tomb the past winter.