Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-02-09

George A. Weston, went yesterday to West
Gardner, Mass, where she will remain
some months with nephew.
The Epworth league of the Methodist
church are planning a sleigh ride to Putney
Wednesday, Feb II, where they will be
entertained by the league in that place.
C. w. Butter6ed offers a good position
to the right man, it being the charge of his
vegetable farm. An experienced man can
make himself valuable to Mr.. Butterield,
and secure good permanent position.
The death of DIR. Richardson, which oc-
Cured at Walpole, Sunday evening, re-
moves a practitioner well known in our
village, and highly respected by all who
knew him. He had been a well-known
figure upon our streets for the past 81
years.
Rev. Father Corcoran, formerly pastor
of st Peters church across the river, is to
officiate for the next two Sundays at st.
| Charles. Father Reynolds is having a
needed vacation of two or three weeks and
taking trip of much enjoyment through
the South.
The Baptist church society have started
a new monthly missionary paper known as
"The Flash Light" The Congregational
church pastor has published a monthly
paper the last ten months known is 1.-THE
Parish Visitor" devoting it to the general
interchange of thought in the interest Of
the work as a whole.
Mrs. w. S. Durham and Mrs. L. l..
Durham have arranged an attractive social
entertainment at the parlors of the Uni
versalist church for next Tuesday evening,
consisting of music, readings, Gibson's
pictures in tableaux, with farce entitled
"Bachelor Maids" Those who attend are
sure to be highly interested and enter
tanned.
The "Sixth Mid-Winter Rally of the
Baptist Young Peoples union of the Wood
| stock association is to occur here next
! Tuesday afternoon and evening The pro-
| gram is an interesting one and will probably
draw here a large number of members of
neighboring churches in the association.
! The ministers of the association will meet
at 9 in the morning.
Rev. f. w. Lewis, pastor of the Metho-
dist church, will preach Sunday morning
on 1.-THE Uprising and Extension of Early
Methodism," Rev. Alfred Hammatt will
preach upon "David Harum," at the Uni
versalist church, and Rev. j. II. Reid will
preach upon Henry Drummond-A char
acter Study" Mr.. Reid will speak at 7 10
p. NJ, upon "Some Impressions of Scot
land and England"
The fifth attraction of the lecture course
! the Stevenson string quartet assisted by
Addie Chase Smith, reader, drew a large
audience last evening at the opera house
This was in the place of Willis Dudley
Warner who was billed for 1.-THE Kodak
Fiend" on Feb. -, and whose engagement
the lecture bureau, who furnished the
course, thought best to cancel, so there
will be no attraction on the date given up
on the course tickets for Feb. -.
The school of shorthand which was
opened Wednesday evening at the High
school building, by Leon j. Ball, was well
! attended and promises to fill a need of our
village. Mr.. Ball, besides a number of
| years experience in practical business of
that art, both in the Office of the Vermont
| Farm Machine company and in other bust
ness houses, was for two years at the head
of the shorthand department of the Que
bee business college in the city of Quebec,
so he has large and valuable experience
as teacher.
The tax collectors on both sides of the
river have recently been after the delin-
| quents of years prior TO 1899, and large
number of trustee suits have been brought
| by Attorney Ryder, principally against poll
tax payers. In North Walpole alone the
number of delinquents who we're called to
pay up, many of whom were trusted, was
| 90. The taxes this side of the river had
been much more closely collected, and
there were not as many. There has been
a hustling among the delinquents as the
expenses of collection more than doubles
the amount of the taxes in most instances.
1t is safe to say there will be less who try
to avoid paying this year, than for some
years, in both towns.
The Methodist church have decided up
on doing a much-needed Job of newly fres-
Going the inside of their auditorium. A
subscription paper to raise the funds is be-
ing circulated and meeting with excellent
success. The parish are also discussing
putting in electric lights while the building
is torn up, the cost of the two improve
ments being estimated at about 5000. 1t
is not yet definitely decided who will do
the frescoing, but 1t is probable that Z. p.
Saunders of Montpelier, who did such sat
isfactory work upon the Baptist church
last summer, win do 1t. Works to be be-
gun week after next, and the church serv-
ice will be discontinued two or three weeks
while it is in progress.
Rev. Mr.. lodges sermon at the Baptist
church last Sunday was devoted to the
subject of the reputed falling off in the
| general belief in future retrbution, his re-
marks being called out by a sentence in
recent editorial in the local paper that
There is no longer an absorbing, vivid,
awful belief in the realities of perdition.
He'll has been robbed of many of its ter
Tors." He admitted that, generally speak
ing, this statement was true, and drew an ex-
cellent lesson from this trend of public OPP
inion. While he admitted this trend of op
inion he stated his unqualified belief that the
tendency was wrong, and that it was the
swing of the pendulum to the opposite ex-
treme Of popular opinion, caused by the
rise and fall of so many "isms," and that
it would return again as the tides. His
sermon was deeply interesting one and
gave many new thoughts to his hearers.