The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-19

Accepted-other Officers Reelected.
"He went right up and roared
around and Topped right down again.
This rather farfetehed parody on the
title of popular song all too made.
quately describes the remarkable stunt
performed by DIR. Fremont Hamilton,
chief acrobat in the one ring circus
which was given in the high school
building Tuesday evening previous to
transacting the business of the an
nual district meeting The feat was
unique. II began with balloon as
eension and developed rapidly into an
exhibition of slack wire walking fol-
lowed by a double backward somer'
sault after which came n demonstra'
ton of humbletpie eating which was
an appalling revelation of the ca
pacitv of the human stomach. Dr.
Hamilton began TO rub the soles Of his
shoes in powdered resin as soon as
the meeting was called to order ana
started his act as soon as the tormali'
ties were concluded. After rising to
a sufficient height in his oratorical bal
loon he stepped gracefully to the slack
wire of rgumentation, maintaining
his equilibrium by means of Middle
bury school report held perpendicular
" in one hand. and attempted to make
progress along the line that every
thing. almost. about the school system
of district No. . was radically wrong.
This. however, he found to be extreme
ly difficult on account of the instabil-
ity of the footing and so he shifted
his position to a point where he could
make passes at Principal Smith with
out attracting too much attention
from the ring-master. And the way
the doctor landed on his imaginary op'
ponent for a few minutes was highly
entertaining. Totally oblivious to the
perils of his position he called tine
crowd to witness that Principal smith
was a fool and a meddler for daring TO
saw before the Brattleboro Woman S
club that some of the high school pu'
pills ought to give more care to thelr
hair and finger nails. Then before
the stunning effects of this upper'eut
could die away he landed again by
intimating that there was an agree
ment between the principal and the
honor pupils of the school whereby
the latter would be marked up in re-
turn for "squealing" on their mis-
cbievous mates. And as if this knock
out blow were not enough the doctor
inexorably put on the finishing
touches with the paralyzing statement
that Principal Smith "talked up ms
sleeve" Gee, but it was an awful
phmmeling! How long DIR. Hamilton
could have continued had he been sat
isfed to confne his efforts to mental
sparring with an imaginary partner
there is no telling Suffice it to say,
however. that his assurance overcame
him, and in reaching out to take
crack at Rev. Z. Q, S. Osgood, chair
man of the prudential committee, ne
lost his balance completely and fell
from his lofty position with dull
and sickening thud. The pie-eating
demonstration came while the band
was searching after the music of that
familiar ballad entitled 0 Didn't he
Ramble.
incidentally it may be said that the
voters present at the meeting, Oh
whom there were about 200 in addition
to at least so women, accepted the
reports of the principal and school
committee, reelected all the old OIL
GERS whose terms expired left the mat
ters Of employing a supervisor and tax.
ing tuition scholars in the hands OF
the committee, authorized the commit
tee to continue the summer school of
manual training so far as may seem
advisable and voted school tax of
IS cents payable forthwith.
The meeting was called to order at
promptly CLOCK by DR.. H. D. Hol-
ton who was reelected moderator at-
ter the call had been read by the
clerk, w. A. Gilbert. On the question
of Accepting the reports of the princi-
pal and prudential committee G. W.
Pierce moved for their acceptance and
adoption. DR.. Hamilton then arose
and inquired if voters would be con
fined to discussing what was in the
report or what was left out of it. The
moderator replied that a free discus
sion would be welcomed and so the
doctor began. He called attention to
the trouble that had arisen in the high
school a few weeks before its close and
said that he couldn It remember time
in IA years, except when Mr.. Horne
was principal, when there had not
been fuss in school district No. 2.
This, he doctor said, had led him to
make inquiries, and he then read ex-
tracts from the report of Middlebury
schools regarding expulsions that had
taken place there. "Through your
clerk,'' continued the doctor, "and
whether with the connivance of your
principal I do not know, a malicious
falsehood has been circulated through
out New England. You have commit
ted a sin and injured me and my boy
beyond reason. Thirty-one thousand
dollars is expended by the district an
nually, and what have you got to
show for it7 Eleven boys from the
best families in town thrown out into
the street." DR.. Hamilton admitted
that his boy had done wrong in cut
ting the rope on the high school flag
pole but he maintained that due rep
aration had been made and that there |
was no reason for debarring his son
from the privileges of the school
was wrong, he thought, in
the management of school affairs and |
he believed the trouble lay with the