Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

A mass meeting will be held at A. o. H.
hall next Sunday at p. m. in the inter-
est of the Irish Nationalist party.
Gen. N. C. Williams is in Rutland this
week in attendance upon the hearing Of
the investigating committee upon the
house of correction.
An innovation this year has been the
calling of next Mondays corporation meet
ing at a. m. instead of in the evening
as has been the practice heretofore.
Next Tuesday afternoon the speaker of
the Woman's club will be Rev. Albert
Hammatt, formerly the local UniveTsalist
pastor. His subject will be Mrs.
Humphrey Ward"
Hereafter all employees of the Interna-
tional Paper company will be required to
pass through the office in going to and
from their work. registering their time by
a time clock system.
The Williams homestead on Westmins-
ter street has been closed for the remain
der of the winter. Miss Kate Williams
has gone 10 New York, where she will
pass the remainder of the season with a
niece.
Tuesday evening was observed as gem
tlemen's night by the Westminster club
and the rooms were thronged until a late
hour. An orchestra was in attendance
and refreshments were served during the
evening.
Four or five large sleigh loads of young
people, numbering nearly 100. were taken
to Alstead last Friday night to attend the
Universalist fair. They report an ex-
cellent sleigh ride combined with pleas
ant entertainment.
beginning Wednesday Principal futile
instituted in the high school compulsory
physical education and exercise. For the
present he will require OF all pupils ten
minutes exercise in the setting up
drills" each day.
Principal futile was in Burlington
Thursday and Friday last week in at
tendance upon the Vermont educational
conference. On Friday he delivered an
addrss that was literally quoted from
and commented upon by the newspapers
of the state.
P. H. Duffy, the past 10 years foreman
of Engine room No. of the international
Paper Co., who has had charge Of the
preparation and mixing of the paper stock
for the machines of the company, died
Tuesday nigh at his newly erected resi-
dence beyond Cages mills.
One day last week w. NJ. Edison, for
mer resident of Bellows Falls, now living
at st. Adams and acting as route agent
for the American Express company, was
taken suddenly i'll in the office OF the
company at Essex Junction. He was
taken to his horne in st. Adams and 1t is
understood he is recovering.
The Womans club have decided to
give their rendering of the play "A Scrap
of Paper" gentlemen's night, Feb. 13
Rehearsals are being held tree evenings
each week. They will be increased to every
evening during the last two weeks. II
will be an invitation affair, each member
being entitled to give several invitations
Two teachers OF the public schools
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Miss Alice Dascomb, who has been en-
ployed nine years in grades one and two
will complete her work here in two weeks
to accept an advantageous opening in
the public schools in Everett, Mass Miss
Marion Wilson, a teacher Of the fourth
grade in No. building, has resigned.
The question OF the Washington triI
by the senior class Of the high schoo
next spring was definitely decided last