Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-04-29
enhance than usual is expected at this

tendance than usual is expected at this
meeting.
a meeting called to form a baseball
association here was held Monday even
ing in the trustees room in the village
building, and it was reported that 1898
had been raised and more was lin sight"
to back the enterprise. These persons
were elected directors: c. j. O'Nen,
Dennis Brennan, o, Carlton Wilson,
James Toner, H. A Morse, Dr. a. c.
Liston and a. NJ. Richards. This board
of directors will manage all affairs of
the association and will elect all the
officers and managers. y meeting was
set for last evening to name the officers
for the coming season.
The result of the decision of the trus-
tees of the village to close all places of
business on Sundays will be watched with
interest next Sunday. On Tuesday even
ing the trustees voted to enforce to the
letter section 1855 of the Public Statutes
and to have violators prosecuted. A
somewhat similar effort was made in 1908
but the lid did not stay on more than
two or three Sundays. During the last
few months many places Of business, the
nature of which does not require them to
be open, have done a large business on
Sunday and many complaints have been
entered to the trustees
The Rockingham Town Sunday School
association met in the Baptist church
Friday evening. Rev. II, y. Durfee
superintendent of the State Sunday
School association, was present and de-
hVered an address on organized and
teachers training work. These officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President, c. w Osgood; vice presidents,
the Sunday school superintendent of the
different churches, DR. Edward Kirkland.
John o. Spring, E. f. Ramsay and John
Macdonald; secretary and treasurer, w
E. Stockwell; superintendent of the
home department, Miss Elvira Gorham
The funeral of Mrs w. w. SAWYER.
who died last week, was held in the Uni
yersalist church at $50 o'clock Friday.
The officiating clergymen were Rev. F.
l. Leavitt of that church and Rev. A. p.
Pratt of the CONGREGATIONAL church
The Masonic quartet rendered a number
OF appropriate selections and the bearers
We're +. l.. Kimball, A. L. futile, w. A.
ferguson and j. Z. Lawrence Mrs.
Sawyer had been for many years a we'll
known and much-loved teacher in local,
public and private schools, and MANY
pupils will cherish her memory. The
body was taken Saturday to Baldwins-
Ville' Mass, for burial.
Fred N. Young, for many years an
employe of the International Paper com
pany and of the Bellows Falls Machine
long time as water commissioners has
been living in Baltimore Md. since Sep
TENDER This week he has been making
MS first visit to this vocality in over two
years. His family have been living 4
Claremont, and he went there Sunday
10 VISIT. lie is in the employ of the gov
eminent as a machnist working upon
the heavy guns of the Notifications near
baltimore For two years after leaving
here he was located at Fortress Munroe.
va, in the same service. Ernest Par
sons, who was located at Fortress Mum
roe several years, has been in similar
work in the Philippines over two years.
Joseph Hartwel Barrett, a native of
this town, who achieved emlnence of
national and almost world wide import
ance' died April 10 in LOveland, Ohio He
was born in Bellows Falls in 1924 He
had brother, Charles F. Barrett, who
was postmaster at Bartonsville, 1S44-47
and another brother, d. X. Barrett. lived
many years in Chester. Joseph Hart
well Barrett married a daughter of Dr.
Lowell of Chester. He chose Journalism
as his profession and moved to Middle
bury and was editor of the paper there
some years, and represented that town
in the Legislature. He moved to Ohio in
1857 and became the political editor of
the Cincinnati Gazette. He was a mem
Der of the national Republican conven-
ton which nominated Lincoln in 1860
and his death removes the last member
of that convention. He later wrote the
first Life of Lincoln" and followed this
with several other books on the great
President He was a widely known and
influential political writer, but he seldom,
if ever, returned to this town after NOV
ing to Ohio.