Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-07

Meetings are being continued this week.
Mrs. Henry Adams spent Sunday with
her parents.
Carrie Mason and Annie Nichols spent
Sunday at a. A. MasOn's.
Mrs. Smith and son nave gone to Am
sterdam n. Y, for a visit
Alice Ware was badly injured while
sliding down hill last week
G. H. Wizards mill has been shut down
the past week for repairs on the engine.
Mrs. Simonds, who has been working at
Theodore Rand's, has gone to her home.
Thomas Crane has been granted a reis-
sue of pension through Col John Hunts
agency.
Mr.. Sanderson gives the following re-
port for January: Snow. l0ia inches; rain.
pa inches.
Mrs. Van Kirk of Roselawn, Ind, has
been spending two months with her
brother, Fred Smith.
Mrs. Mary Phillips has returned home
after spending most of the winter in Mil
lers Falls and Orange Mass.
Fred Derry continues quite III. Ned Dut-
ton has been ill., Mrs. Greenwood has
been i'll with the prevailing influenza.
Colonel Franklin has returned from Bos-
ton with a handsome bay horse sleigh.
carriage, harness and laprobe bought of
a woman who will go to Europe soon.
J. II. Walbrldge of West Concord, Vt.
has been in town delivering a paper con-
tanning sketches of townspeople, for
which he took subscriptions long ago.
+. b. Batchelder will sell by public auc-
ton Wednesday, Feb. 10. at 10;30 a. m, all
his personal property and real estate.
The sale will take place on the premises.
Blazing Star lodge. No %. +. and A. NJ.
f,11g riv,,r -
nual meeting last week: w. NJ a. C
Franklin; S w, F. a. Dewitt: j. w"
Or. r. Rice; secretary, c, II. Evans 4;
treasurer, G. II. Houghton; S. d. r. w.
Blood J. D, Jesse Harvey.
The community was shocked to hear of
the death of Mrs. VIII Franklin. 80.
Monday evening. While Mrs. Franklin
had been in feeble health some time. her
death was unexpected to the immediate
members of the family. She leaves a
husband, mother. brother and sister for
whom much sympathy is felt in their
bereavement.
The body of Miss Sarah Holbrook of
Orange. Mass. was brought here for bur
ial on Tuesday. Miss Holbrook was for
mer resident Of this place. but for few
years past had lived in Orange. She had
many friends in this town who sympa-
thize with the two sisters. Mrs Brooks
tives, in their afiliction.
The students in elocution will give a
recital next Monday evening. Feb. 10th,
at Seminary hall. a very fine program
is being prepared and a special feature of
the entertainment will be the presentation
of the Garden Scene" from Shake
speare's. LAS You Like It." The proceeds
will he for the benefit of the seminary and
and it is hoped that a large number will
be present
We are told to keep cool about the mar
row gauge and everything will be
done for us that can be by those who are
Interested in having things in better con-
dition We We're keeping quite cool be-
fore this advice came. one woman who
went down to Brattleboro from this place
about three weeks ago thought she would
freeze. The weather was surely cold and
there was no warmth in the cars. as the
trainmen were unable to turn on the
steam.
The friends of Miss Minora JOY, a for
mer resident and a native of this town,
will be sorry to hear she is in poor health,
and is at a sanitarium in South Lancaster.
Mass Miss JOY has been for number of
years at the head of an industrial school
in Woodstock, Vt, where girls are taken
from bad homes and taught to work and
also from books This school is supplied
with funds by the benevolence of the peo-
pie there and if we have been rightly in
formed. largely by the generosity of Mrs.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock.
Wednesday morning there appeared in
our street a laughable sight-a take-off on
our enterprising narrow gauge railroad.
\ donkey hitched to a sled was covered
with a blanket labelled Coal Burner"
At the sides of the sled were boards COW
cred with white cloth, and one side was
written "B & w. r. r. Main Branch"
and on the other side. "B. & w. r. r.
Fast Freight Trying to Connect with the
| Boston & Maine by July 10, 1902" A few
boards on the sled represented the lumber
| interests on the route, ana lantern was
hung on behind.
There were no trains on the narrow
gauge from Saturday evening until
| o'clock the next Wednesday morning, and
as the Boston dailies did not come until
| that time the news was not very new.
Some summers ago the writer spent sew
| eral weeks in Nantucket. Mass, and
| learned that in winter there. when the
weather was unfaVorable, and the cold
was intense, the boats could not reach the
town on account of the ice, and some
| times the people would not receive their
| mail for a week at a time, and at such
times some persons would receive BUSH
ell of mail. We think we are nearly as
badly off as the Nantucketers.
The article in The Phoenix last week
headed Brutal Cabot Farmer Left Cattle
| to Starve" was a duplicate of case In a
nearby town where the authorities are
| cognizant of the facts, but they have
| done nothing about it. 1t is this
| class which need line upon line and pre-
cept upon precept' from the pulpit and
| press. and if their hearts are too harden
| ed to be benefited in this way we think
| public sentiment should become so arous-
| ed that no such abuse would be tolerated.
| Besides the abuse of not feeding animals
sufficiently is the sin of overlooking them
| far beyond their strength, as one sees
| every day and many times in living in a
| numbering community where teams are
passing constantly. Many of these teams
| are old WORKOUT horses that are wholly
unfit for such hard usage. The Bible says
| a righteous man regardeth the life of his
beast, and we are sure we would give lit
| tie for ones religion who would in any
way misuse the animals that serve so
faithfully. Blessings on the society with
the long name.