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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
A Desirable Reputation.

For many years Brattleboro has had the
reputation OF being a clean town morally.
An illustration of this may be seen In
the fact that the famous valley Fair. ="
which attracts upwards Of 10000 people
each year, is strictly fair, and is carried
on with no unworthy and unwholesome
side shows and gambling attachments.
Brattleboro wants a straight fair, and
has found that a straight fair pays far
better than a conglomeration of fakes and
falxirs such as have disgraced some Of the
SO called fairs OF the state. For a long
time the leading men of the place have
stood for a high moral standard. The
elder Esteys were devoted Christians, and
the sons are generous supporters OF the
Baptist church. Congressman Haskins is
vestryman in the Episcopal church, At
torney General Fits is teacher In the
Sunday school in the Congregational
church, District Attorney Martin holds
official relation with the Universalist
church and Postmaster Webster was a
steward in the Methodist church at the
time Of his death. 1t Is not claimed that
every prominent man in Brattleboro Is
a candidate for canonization, but 1t is
maintained that, as a whole, the past
history of the town shows that majority
of its public citizens have stood for
standards of decency and sobriety
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
DlgnlHed Conservatism.

The chief industry of the place is the
manufacture Of organs, and the name Of
"Estey" is famous over three continents
Hundreds OF men are employed In the
organ factories, yet no strikes occur to
mar the harmony between employer and
employe: the master pays a living wage
and the men are bound to him by ties Of
loyalty and respect. The absence Of
shabbness in the appearance of the
houses marks the existence Of the spirit
of thrift and prosperity. The growth Of
the place is not rapid but always sub
stantial. few new houses and places
of business are erected each year. These
are OF a solid character. That the people
Of Vermont as a whole are ignorant OF
the fact that Brattleboro contains the
largest wholesale shoe establishment in
New England shows the type OF the place;
it's prosperity is solid rather than
shadowy. "Dignifed" is a good term
with which to describe the place. The
venerable town clerk, who has held his
present position for upwards OF 40 years,
in attempting to describe man who met
his ideal, called him. heightened, digni-
fed" That Is what Brattleboro is; yet
the dignity does not lessen the business
ability, nor the freedom from clap trap
the affable character Of the people.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01

The saw mill which Parker, Young &
Co. began running in Newbury a short
time ago was burned Thursday with about
$4,000 feet OF lumber. The loss on the mill
was $4,000, with no insurance.
Miss Josephine Barker, 4S, a town
charge, committed suicide Friday by hang
ing at Hubbardton. The scene OF the
tragedy was a corn barn near the hand
some house which Miss Barker owned
before she met with financial reverses.
Rev. r. C. Flagg, D. D., formerly of
Berlin, N. H, was installed as pastor of
the Congregational church in Newport
on Tuesday. President w. j. Tucker.
D. D., of Dartmouth college preached the
sermon. Rev. DIR. Flagg for ten years
was president of Ripon college. WILSON,
sin, and 20 years ago declined a cali from
the church at which he will now officlate.
A short time ago the call was unanimous
ly renewed and was accepted.
Isl Clone" the Dorset Valley cor
respondent, sent the following to the Lon
donderry Sitter: Proctor has bought out
the boys quarry at Dandy for about
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
leased the south end Griffith works for a
marble mill, also a large water power
plant east of the Dandy station for an
electric plant to run his quarries with and
contemplates building a railroad to the
quarries and has entered into negotiations
with w. H. Bond to buy his block, hotel,
store and all connections"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
A Sentiment for sobrlety.

More than in some places the domi-
nant sentiment of the public men has
been for sobriety. The elder Esteys were
total abstainers of the old fashioned type.
II tradition may be believed, and large
number Of the prominent men of the
place have been either total abstainers
or else very moderate in their use OF the
beverages that inebriate as well as cheer.
some years since an informal vote was
taken on the question of state prohloltloh'
and the result was a majority for license.
One reason ascribed for the vote was the
charge that many of the rich men had
wines in their own cellars but were willing
to close the doors of the saloons to the
poor man. Doubtless there was something
of truth in this assumption; yet 1t is still
true that many of the dominant IN
Auences in Brattleboro have been for
sobriety and abstinence.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
The Supreme Courts Decision In the Mary
Rogers Case.
[Rurllngton Free Press

burlington Free FreSS.l
The refusal of the Supreme Court of the
United States to interfere in the case of
Mary Rogers, the Bennington murderess,
in response to the appeal for a writ of
habeas corpus, would seem to seal the
fate of the condemned woman. Every
thing that the ingenuity of ambitious law
yers could devise or maudlin sympathizers
suggest has been done, and If ever a MUIR
deress was given the benefit of every pos
sible doubt, that woman is Mary Rogers.
There is every probability that she will
now pay the legal penalty of her ter
rible crime, and that Vermont will de-
monstrate that married person can not
resort to murder to end a hated union
and escape the penalty of the law even
though that person be a woman
1t is natural that people should shud-
der at the thought of executing a woman,
for one ipstinctively thinks of the sex as
the gentler in every sense of the term and
with all which that implies. That senti-
ment which almost invariably leads men
to shield a woman from the buffeting and
the sterner realities of life, would nat
urally cause one to shrink from the
thought of inficting the death penalty on
a woman. 1t is to be borne in mind in
this connection, however, that a woman
who commits murder, particularly in the
revolving and cruel manner in which
Mary Rogers murdered her husband d.
vorces herself from all considerations of
the sort named by unsexing herself and
making conspicuous her Lucretia Borgia
character
The legal aspects of this case are not
without their interest at this time. Re-
CARELESS of the nice points of the law, 1t
is manifest that If the Supreme Court Of
the United States had interfered in this
case, 1t would have had its hands full
from this time forth disposing of similar
appeals in behalf of murderers from this
and other states. Only an unusual stu
alton would have justified the supreme
tribunal of the nation in any interference
with the course of justice in a murder
case of this character. which under our
individual states.
1t is significant, however, in this con-
nection that the supreme bench upheld
the state authorities of Vermont on all
points of law. The state held that no
federal question was involved in the case
and that therefore the Federal courts had
no jurisdiction. The lawyers for Mrs.
Rogers commended that the proceedings
against her had been irregular and illegal
and void but the higher court did not up
| hold this contention 1t is significant
| that If the proceedings following the re-
| prieve of the condemned woman by Gov
ernor Bell had been declared irregular as
contended by Mrs Rogerss attorneys, II
would have been owing to the fact that
| Vermont's executive listened to the APP
| peal for a chance for those very attorneys
| to show that she was not responsible
| when she committed the crime, and fu-
ture executives would have had cause to
hesitate to listen to similar appeals.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01

Plumbers from A " Coxs Brattleboro
store have been at work the past ten days
piping Charles Ramsdeils house for steam
heat and gas.
S. M. Bullock and family spent this
week in Springfield, Mass, with relatives.
T. W. Lynde is staying in their house
during their absence.
Broad Brook Grange will give an old
folks dance Wednesday evening, Dec. 6.
All are requested to wear old-fashioned
costumes. The program will consist
of old contra dances and quadrilles.
Leitsinger's orchestra will furnish music,
A. H. Hines, prompter. An oyster supper
will be served. All are cordially invited
to attend.
The program for the next regular meet
ing of the Grange Dec. 13 is as follows
Piano duet, Mrs. Eloise A Thayer and
Mrs. S. NJ. Bullock; description of the
process of making glass, Roy Ingraham
sketch of the life of William Cullen
Bryant, Mrs. Minnie Whittemore; selec-
lions from the writings of William Gull
len Bryant by each writer; music.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
10 KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK.
Montreal Express on Fltchburg Division
Of Boston 6 Main Crashed into Local
at Lincoln. Mass

at Lincoln, Mass.
Nineteen people were killed and 80 Sc
riously injured Sunday night at SIS in a
railroad wreck at Bakers Bridge station
one and one half mile west of Lincoln on
the main line of the FItchburg division of
the Boston & Maine railroad. The regular
Sunday night express which left Boston
at AS o'clock for Montreal via the Rut-
land system crashed into the rear of a
q local train which started from Boston
at lis for points on the main line and
the Marlboro branch. The Montreal train
consisted of two locomotives and nine
cars, and it was going with such force
that it demolished completely the two
rear cars of the Marlboro train. All of
the passengers killed were in these cars
and they came mostly from Concord, West
Acton, Maynard, Hudson, Marlboro and
several smaller towns in the Assabet
valley. None of the passengers on the
Montreal train were seriously hurt, but
the engineer and fireman of the leading
locomotive were killed. The wreckage
caught fire and some of the passengers
were incinerated.
In a few faltering words Engineer Hor-
ace Lyons of the Montreal express con-
fessed to the Boston & Maine railroad
officials Monday that he had run past
every signal set against him and sent his
great pilot engine crashing into the Marl-
boro local. IT saw the signalS-all of
them," he faltered, plainly on the verge
of becoming a mental wreck through his
terrible experiences. 81 don't know why
l ran past them" and this statement
President Lucius futile has accepted, at
tributing Lyons's actions solely to sus-
pended mechanical action of the brain.
a condition in which he firmly believes
and on which he has frequently lectured.
OF the 10 dead, Is have been identified
and the remaining four are partly identi-
fed. Four are missing and it Is believed
these, or most of them, will prove the UNI
identified dead.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
What is Shown by Study Comparative Conditions BattebOo
Under the Two Systems
LARGE DECREASE IN DRUNKENNESS SINCE SALOONS CLOSED
Experiment Of License Figured DISMAL Failure Opinions Of
Some Prominent Men

were not destroyed. During the year a
quiet campaign was carried on, and the
workings Of the new regime were carefully
noted and publicly set forth. AS a result,
at the March election in 1904, out of a
total Of 1914 votes the Noes cast 500, and
the license won by majority Of but &c.
Thus encouraged, the No-License men
carried on a still more aggressive cam
patgn last winter and, Notwithstanding
the thorough organization of the license
forces, and the aid received from outside,
when the ballots were counted in March
1t was found that, out of a total OF 1912
votes the town had gone dry by a majority
OF 149, most emphatic condemnation Of
the license regime.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
A Healthy Sentiment.

One reason for the quick correction of
this evil lies in the strong local senti-
ment for the enforcement Of the law. Just
a few days ago violater Of the liquor law
was sentenced to the House Of Correction
for 3.215 days for three first offenses OF
selling. The general opinion Of the COM
munity seemed to be that the sentence
was none to large, that the offense war
ranted the penalty. This sentiment for
the rigid enforcement Of the law may
arise partly from the fact that the people
themselves have voted mo; but the
ultimate reasons lie deeper than that The
fact that this place has never required a
policeman, save during one short period
last year. shows a consistent past senti-
ment for obedience toward law and au-
thority Such a sentiment is OF vital i'm
portance to any community.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
GUILFoRD CENTRE.
Program for Sunday School Institute Dec

The program is given below for the
Sunday school institute which will be held
in the Universalist church at Guilford
Centre Tuesday, Dec. II, under the au-
spices of the Vermont Interdenomina-
tional Sunday School association. Every
Sunday school in the vicinity is invited
to- attend and all persons interested will
be heartily welcomed:
1870 a. m, devotional service, conducted
by Rev. James Jones.
Address, THE purpose of the Inst-
tute," Rev. E. c. Fisher of Westminster
West, president of the county association.
Problems in the Sunday school," open
conference led by Rev. E. NJ. Fuller, field
secretary of the state association.
1.-The Home Department" (a) What 1t
is; (b) How to organize; (c), How to make
it go. Conference conducted by E. H.
Jones of Windham.
Dinner-Everybody expected to bring a
box lunch. Hot coffee will be furnished
by the ladies of Guilford Centre.
19O p. m, Possibilities in Elementary
Teaching" Mrs. w. A. Ferguson of Bel
lows Falls.
General question box. Bring all the
questions you can think Of Secretary
Fuller will answer them.
Address, 1.-The County Association" by
tho county president. Rev. E. c. Fisher
THE Pyramid of Teaching" Secretary
Fuller.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
SOUTH VERNON.

Miss Edith Gray is at home from North
field seminary.
Miss Gould is at home from her school
in Albany, N. Y.
]. A. Beers is on the sick list and H.
Fairman is driving the team for him this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Newton are spend
ing a few days with their sons in SPRING
field, Mass.
Rev l. M. Blanchard and family have
returned and he will preach in the Advent
church at the usual hour Sunday.
Mrs. Clarence Buftum, Mrs. Thurlow
Johnson and Mrs. Dayton Park attended
the ''baby show" in Bernardston last
week, and Mrs. Buffum and Mrs.
johnson each received a prize for their
little ones.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
A Dismal Failure.

From every standpoint the experiment
Of license was a complete failure. Not a
single one of the promises of its friends
was fulfilled. while all too many of the
predictions of its foes were realized. A
visit to the office Of Justice William s.
Newton, the venerable and revered town
clerk, who was elected to that position in
1852 and made a justice a few months
later, gave the record of convictions for
drunkenness. According to his books the
total number OF convictions for intoxica-
ton during the six months beginning with
May, 1902, the last year of prohibition
was but IL. The number during the same
period the first year Of license was more
than six times as large, and for the same
period the second year of license nearly
three times as large, while the number
this year, during the first six months was
even less than under the old prohibition
days. To be exact, the figures are as fol-
lows. the months Of May-October being
taken in each case:
1902, under prohibition. II convictions in
mo.
1908, under license, Il convictions in 6
mo.
1904, under license, 80 convictions in 8 mo.
1905, under no license. convictions in 6
mo.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
ElArIoNAL BISCUIT coMpANY

The experience of Barre and Brattleboro
shows that license is needed no more for
the cities and larger villages than for
the smaller towns and hamlets. Yer
monters are too sensible to keep a thing
for which they have no need; especially II
1t is one which brings both added cost
and increased misery. The days OF the
open saloon in Vermont are numbered,
and ere long the entire state, from Canaoa
to Massachusetts, will shake OF the
bondage of the legalized liquor traffic.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01

A visit to the county clerk revealed the
fact that among the means resorted to by
the bibulous inhabitants of Brattleboro
to satisfy their thirst was the old fashion
ed scheme to get a prescription from a
physician for some imaginary ailment
The four Brattleboro druggists filed $50
prescriptions during the month OF October
A remarkable coincidence is the fact that
an abnormal number OF these cases of
sickness" occurred during the Valley
Fair. This fact has already been made
public and both physicians and druggists
have been warned by the states attorney
that they must comply with all legal
restrictions concerning the matter. An
awakened public sentiment on the question
will also cause greater care. 1t is learned
that the majority of the prescriptions
were from one physician, and that the
rest of the doctors are without reasonable
reproach in the matter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
oUILFoRD.

The winter term of the district schools
about town will begin next Monday, Dec.
a.
John Tyler returned last week to the
soldiers home in Bennington.
Mrs. Salina Warren and granddaughter,
Hazel Yeaw, are visiting in Pittsfield,
Mass.
Miss Maud Patterson of Nottingham
was a guest of Miss Annie Mellen over
Sunday
The ladies' social held at the home OF
Mrs. Jesse Weatherhead on Thursday
afternoon was enjoyed by 80 or more. An
excellent supper was served
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
Three Boy. Drowned at Barre.

While John and Francis Bianchi. Arthur
Broderick and James Cruikshank were
skating on the Winooski river at North
Barre Friday the ice broke and they fell
into Is feet of water. The Bianchi boys
and Broderick were drowned. The alarm
attracted the attention of the stone cut
tiers in Bianchi Brothers stone sheds
and John Drumgold succeeded in rescuing
young Cruikshank as he was going down
the third time. The bodies OF the other
lads were recovered later in the afternoon.
The Bianchi boys were aged ~ and eight
years. respectively, and Arthur Broderick
was 10. Their parents are all residents
of Barre. A crowd quickly gathered on
the shore OF the dam, where the accident
occurred. but it was a half hour or more
before the bodies were taken from the
water.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
BABY'S AWFUL
ITCHING ECZEMA
Sores All Over Face and Body
Could Not Tell What She Looked
Like Unable to Sleep Grew
Worse Under Doctors.
CURED BY CUTICURA
IN ONE MONTH

A grateful mother, in the following
letter, tells of another of those mar
yelous cures by cuticura: "When
my baby was four months old her
skin broke out with humor. I took
her to a doctor, who said it was
eczema. He gave me medicine to
give her, but she kept getting worse
all the time. Her little face and body
were so covered with sores and large
scales you could not tell what she
looked like. No child ever had a
worse case. Her face was being eaten
away, and even her finger nails fell
off. Then it itched so she could not
sleep, and for many weary nights we
could get no rest. At last we got
Cuticura Soap and Ointment, first
bathing her in warm water with the
Soap, and then spreading on the ONT
ment with soft cloths. saw a change
in a week. The sores began to heal,
and she could sleep at night, and in
one month she had not one sore on
her face or body. Any mother hav-
ing children with eczema or humors
will find a friend in Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. (signed) Mrs. Mary
Sanders, 7o9 Spring St., Camden N.J'
Aug. ID, 1884,"
The foregoing statement justifies
the oft-repeated assertion that Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment afford instant
relief, and permit sleep for baby and
rest for tired mothers, and points to
a speedy, permanent, and economical
cure, when all else fails, in the most
torturing, disfguring, itching, burn
ing, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and
pimply skin, and scalp humors.
ouieuIa Soap Ointment and Pills are sold throughout
The world Potter Drug Chem Corp, Boston, Sole PrOpA
s9-send for How 70 Cure Baby Humours."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
A Town Without a Policeman.

The unusual moral character Of the
place may be seen by the fact that, until
last year, the town. with its upwards of
5000 inhabitants, required the services OF
no policeman. Occasional arrests were
made by a constable or deputy sheriff but
no one made 1t his business to patrol the
streets to preserve its peace. The place
has a night Waterman, who sometimes
arrests a too hilarious pedestrian, but,
save for a few months last year, the place
has had no day patrolman. Those there
are who maintain that the streets should
be adorned by the helmeted police but the
sentiment of the majority says, NO.
And the absence Of crime seems TO 1ustily
the popular verdict.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
Marble Industry Roomlnn.

Marble business appears to be on a
boom in western Vermont, as we'll as all
other kinds of business. The Vermont
Marble company has recently paid $780,
900 for a marble quarry at Dandy and
leased land on which to erect marble
MILL also a large water power in Mt.
Tabor to generate electric power with
which to operate machinery in the quarry
and mill. They are also negotiating for
a railroad to the quarry and for a hotel
and a store near the same
Norcross & West of Worcester and
South Dorset are arranging to send work
men to Wallingford to open up a quarry
this winter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
Gar from the MaddIna Crowd"

1t is here that large insane retreat is
located, and here those with mind dis
eased come for rest and recreation. At
present, unlike certain other institutions,
no breath of scandal attaches to its man
agement. The sylvan beauty and quiet
restfulness of the town attracted the
world renowned Kipling to select 1t as his
summer home, only to be driven away,
much to the sorrow Of Brattleboroeans, by
an unreconcileable brother-in-law. Since
the meteoric career of the notorious Silas
NJ. Waite, the famous bank wrecker,
Brattleboro has furnished few sensations
for the yellow journals of the day.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01

Nathaniel Sawyer, 70, was instantly
killed at Barton Monday, his neck being
broken by falling down stairs.
Charles H. Darling of Bennington, for
merly assistant secretary Of the navy, will
succeed DIN Merrill as collector OF
customs for the district of Vermont on
Dec. 10.
Last weeks Thanksgiving poultry train
for Boston over the Rutland railroad was
so heavy that it was sent over the
Cheshire division OF the Fitchburg road in
two sections
Through the efforts of Frank L. Greene,
president of the Vermont Press associ-
alton, George B. M. Harvey, the versatile
editor of Harper's Weekly, and a native
Vermonter will address the association
some evening between Jan. and 10 next
1t is probable the annual meeting of the
association will be postponed until jan
uary and combined with the mid-wintei
meeting at the time of the visit OF Col
Harvey to Vermont
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-01
whlrled to Death on a Shaft.

Eli Lefevre. 80. granite cutter, was
almost instantly killed in Temple Bro. s
marble mill at Rutland Nov. 23. He
was assisting in putting in a new rubbing
bed, when he was caught in the shaft and
whirled around with great rapidity. One
foot was completely severed, nearly every
bone in his body was broken, and he was
mangled beyond recognition before the
machinery could be brought to a stand
still. He is survived by wife and two
young children.