Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-19
Operators 70 GOODNOW PEARSON & HUNT p""non"

this summer Of the manufacture OF maple
sugar There is TO be miniature maple
orchard with sap spouts, and sap drop
ping from them, buckets. and then a com
plete sugar house and all appliances.
The Bird club will have an entertain
ment of rare enjoyment Monday evening
and will share it with their friends.
Ernest Harold Baynes, secretary of the
American Bison society, Will give a lee
ture in Assembly hau in the high school
building upon Birds, Their Friends and
Enemies The lecture is by a noted
authority and will be fully illustrated by
the sjereopticon. Members of the club
are distributing liberal number OF tick
cts among their friends. the lecture being
an invitation affair.
New motor boats have been ordered
for this seasons fleet upon the Con-
necucut river by L. L. Northrup, Edgar
Guild Elmer Underhl. Frank Adams
and q F. LawtOH. Hulls have been in
process of building during the winter for
TWO more by Edward 4. Pierce and Her
bert Bancroft. This makes a net addition
Of seven to the ten here last season.
With the large number of canoes, row.
boats and sailing craft already in use,
the coming year will be a busy one upon
the eight miles of still water above the
falls.
Lieut.. Francis B. Upham, B. F. H. S,
90, Norwich university and West Point
who has been stationed the last two years
al Newport r. l., in the 18th United
States Coast Artillery, has been ordered
TO Fort Moultrie in Charleston, S. c., har-
Dor. He left Newport two weeks ago.
He and a number of other officers are
just now taking a trip down the entire
eastern coast of the United States, exam
ming the coast defences. A few days
ago he was at Key West, Fla. His ser
vice at Fort Moultrie is of indefinite
length, but will probably cover some
years.
\ hearing was held Friday and Satur-
day in the Office of Bolles & Bolles in a
county court suit of S. J. Cray VS.. Bridget
O Brien, in which Mr.. Cray seeks an in
junction against Mrs. OF rien for turn
ing surface water upon his land. The
hearing was before Gilbert A. Davis of
Windsor as master in chancery, and his
| report will be filed with the court.
| Twenty-Five witnesses were examined and
some lively sparring was INDUCED in.
| Weston & BOlles were the attorneys for
! Cray and 4. II. Allbee and Thomas w.
! Maloney of Rutland for Mrs. O'Brien.
! The hearing drew a large crowd OF spec
! tators.
! The teachers of the Rockingham schools
| were informed last week that the school
! board had decided to abolish the limit al
| which the increase of the salaries of its
] teachers shOulu STOP anu TINS ueClsloA
| will make a small increase in the pay OF
some of the older teachers, and give a
greater incentive for the permanence OF
service as teachers in this town. The
board will use its judgment as to the
value of the services of different one:
without the limit of $500 per year fol
grade teachers as formerly. The board
| has also decided 10 abolish examinations
in all grades below the seventh and here
| after there is TO be no promoting of pupill
on conditions. If a pupil is not up TO thC
required 20 per cent. at the end of th'
school year he will not have the chance
Of making it up and squeezing through
during the summer vacation. They mus
pass or stay behind.