Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-02-11

ate Monday the statehood bills which had
been approved by the committee on terri
tories and by President Taft These pro-
| vide statehood for Arizona and New
/ Mexico The Senator also presented
memorials of citizens of South Windham.
| Woodstock. Hartland and Windsor re-
/ monstrating against the enactment of
! legislation providing for the Observance
! OF sunday as day of rest in the District
/ OF columbia, besides a memorial of cit
| lzens of Orleans, VT, demonstrating
| against the passage of the so-called postal
/ savings bank bill
The President sent TO the Senate Friday
the nominations of o. II. Jones to be
postmaster at Wilmington and Frederick
chapman to be postmaster at Woodstock
both appointments
whether IL be due to the active interest
winch the railroads are taking in tho
/ development of natural resources of the
restohs IN which they operate, the efforts
u I'VE boards of trade or some other
tause, 1t is. perhaps, significant that the
president of the association of agriculture
experts in Massachusetts should receive
hundreds Of letters from Western farmers
ana others, inquirng about cheap lands
III New England Evidently these in
qulrles come from the sons and daughters
OF former New England residents who arc
seeking homes in the East because A.
may be, OF the rapid advance of prices NJ
iahd IN the West. 1t is very evident that
the tide. in measure. is turning toward
, tne uarIhs OF Old New England, and those
Iocdntles which can offer the most do
slrable conditions are sure 10 oct ~
greater proportion of these homeseelxers
mere then, Is an opportunity for some
good advertising and some Intelligent
' work on the part of public service organ
.Zdtiohs' such as the railroads. boards of
trade, and others The Maine Cen+roi
railroad mas an Industrial department &C.
ldpilshed at Portland, which is investi-
gazing every form of the states industries
with particular attention to the innro,e- !
meht or agricultural conditions THO
poInt Is emphasized that apples for in
stance, can be grown more econcmicou,.
ana or better quality i'm Maine than ~ |
the Pacific coast. 1t is also shown thot
Deer, sufficient to the wants of al Naa, |
england, can be raised on the NIotro /
Farms. II Is this sort OF competent Dire
'ion thaI IS calling attention to that |
state ana the efforts might be nro6+obI,
initiated by other states and hv Iooa,
communities which can certainly ofsan % 90
promising opportunities as those of +bo
Pine Tree state. ''ose oi the
ms movement began some Years ago
III III, me south and later was enlarged unon
py the Pennsylvania railroad which fo
established a number of modal 60. mas
demonstration and to prove the a,1,,aU ~
taees Vi pennsylvania as an aericultnro, |
state The method has proved YER, so ~ al
factory and has attracted wide ana ,,'nss
able attention. Your own beantif,ip IN IN
u'iun OF these
me case of Flint VS.. the stona-Tro,,,.
t,oInpahE OF windsor, VT, which invol,,oS
me constitutionality of the cornnno4t es
oaN law and when was brought hafora I'm IN
supreme Court of the United States ~
TEST case in the hope that n y,iott Ss
duNahced on the calendar. win ne 80 nc
DS tne court sometime during the Vel,
BEGINNING March 14th. This viii ho "t t
aIe 10 anticipate the returns. which ~ ~
Nv requires shall be filed by the co,no r,'e
IONS about Marcn LIST wi pora-
H. IL Willard will place handsor,o ~,
any windows in All Souls TInitoi ~
'huIch mere in memory of his fotb l,'i nan IAN
nother. The designs will nortraS i.TI ana
,liu christ blessing the children - G ,P,s
pliiieI VIII be dedicated to the rotbon
ne latter to Mr., Willard. ''o'"er'
MI ana Mrs. S. b. Emerson NJ 1,....,
'oIo' on their way to North Ciana! ne
eeing '0'' Iast week sight I
oongIessman Weeks's consarvot,o,, -, {
bo oSiuihs Tor the protection Of the u,o on
IlTus OF navigable streams. and ~ water 5
Ia commission for the acouIsittor"p S
49,, i tou the purpose OF conser,ylns ~ VI
on,e p plity OF navigable rivers ,ne '
'"e oefore the agricultural con,r,i may '