Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-01-30
THE VERMONT PE0ENIX BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JANU4
NEWT ANE.

Mrs Alvin White of district No. has
been very i'll with pneumonia this week
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet on Wednesday with Mrs
Grout. at 2.3O p. m.
A lunch will be furnished at Union
hall Tuesday during the hours of the
vote on the license bill
In this day Of the use of initials for So
cietes interest is bespoken for the ~.
H. H." more particularly mentioned in
another paragraph.
Mrs. Dewitt and son, ID. p. Dewitt,
and Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Underwood stop
ped in New Haven and Washington en-
route to Southern Pines last week,
Millicent F. Walker, of whom an obit-
uary was given last week left brother
Austin b. Fisher of Boston in recent
years, and staying for the past year at
Mrs Walkers late home with her son,
| +. j. Johnson. Jane Fisher who died i'm
| Waterbury about three years ago, was a
sister of the deceased.
Lawyer Frank L. Fish of Vergennes
| was present at the recent meeting of the
| North American Fish and Game associ-
! alton in Montreal and presented in be-
/ half of Vermont the subject of seine
fishing i'm Lake Champain. Among those
| at the table with Mr.. Fish were the gov
! ernor general of Canada and Lord Dun
| donald, who went to the relief of Lady
smith in the South African war.
y society called Union Hall Helpers"
! was organized Tuesday with the primary
! object of paying for crockery and some
other necessary furnishings of the dining
room department, and such further work
I'm view as may be deemed desirable to
keep up the interest i'm the hall, which
has been such a useful general institu-
ton i'm the place of late years and was
in the early part of the 18th century the
only church building I'm the village,
! whore all denominations worshipped
Mr. HemenwaYs singing school, assist.
ed by members of his family from Graf
ton and his classes in Williamsville,
Wardsboro and Jamaica. will give a
concert at Union hail on Friday evening
Feb. C. Judging from the concert Of
last year under the same management
, the song program will be a good one
An oyster supper with other furnishing
will be served in the basement and tn,
. closing feature of the evening will be
dance in the hall.
= \ late number of the Burlington Free
Press contains a column abstract of tn
I lecture on forestry, delivered befor
students of the University of Vermont b.
o Clifton d. Howe of the class of '9S, an,
g now of the University of Chicago. In
structor Howes work in this line is at
n tracing considerable attention, and h
d has been engaged to speak in other sec
l. spend Sunday at the family home mere
and next week will deliver an address be
y fore students at the Johnson Norma
O school.
is The w. c. r. L. at a recent meetin
= considered as good text for the preser
Al crisis in our state Gladstones sayin
that 1T is the duty of the governmer
SO to legislate to make it easy to d
right and difficult to do wrong" Anon
number of other three line pithy say
l. / ngs discussed were a licensed saloo
n is drunkenness made easy. y secret NJ
a licensed saloon is drunkenness made di
70 fcult. or the law lodged in order to g
40 a drink" He who gets drunk in a !
IA censed saloon does so with the conseI
Of of the law, but he who does so und,
II prohibition does so in spite of law" "Tf
IN license system is based upon the fa
M that drunkenness is a gigantic evil ar
A. therefore proceeds to regulate it, IN
n wrong can be regulated by sanction
he permission. Any attempt to do so Civ
9 strength and vitality to interests vestC
in in it," Much is said about the impo
o sibiity of making sober by law, a XIII
Id of argument supposed to have muC
force. but we submit that it is rather
question of making men drunkards
law which is different propositio
Men are sober; they are born sober, al
re it is the tempter who helps them to
ch | otherwise.