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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
JUDGE SUSPENDS SENTENCE.
GerOw VIII Have His Freedom rs
Long as He Behaves Himself.

Burlington Feb. 23.-The United
States Grand Jury, now in session at
Burlington, reported to the colrt to-
day, having one true bill and then
went into session again. The indict-
ment is against two parties ROW un'
der arrest, but their names were not
given out. They will be produced
before the court tomorrow.
Edward Gerow. the young man
found guilty of the charge Of violat-
ing the United States mails by send
ing a threatening letter, was taken
into court today, when Judge Martin
announced that his sentenc, would
be suspended pending good behavior.
GeIow was released with this under
standing. About two years ag1 the
respondent sent a letter to the Rut
land Railroad officials telling them
20 deposit a sum of money in GER
tain place, or he would wreck the
train. He has just completed serving
a sentence at Windsor, which was i'm
posed by State courts for the same
act. Gerow's conduct while in
prison was such that the COVE nment
officials are inclined to give I'M,
another chan 3e.
Judge Martin today over ruled the
motion that a verdict be directed tCr
the defendant in the case of Abraham
Cohn, VS.. John T, Slack of 81 100,
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OBSERVED 63rd ANNIVERSARY
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram F. Wyman CeIe-
p brate Wedding Bay OF Many Years
AWa Ill.

Springfield, Feb. pa noteworthy
occasion in, the Lives of Mr., and Mrs.
Hiram f, Wyman as we'll as 10 their
grandchildren and great grand child
rem was the celebration today at
their homo on Valley street Of their
6Srd wedding anniversary Many
friends called at their home during
the day and gave their regards and
wishes for many b more years of.
happiness II d .d~ e.i t...t '4
Hiram F., son Of Thomas and Hilda
WyIfian was born in Rockingham, VI,
January s, 1876 and was one OF a
family of nine children, His father
was a farmer and Mr.. Wyman' 5 early
days We're spent on his fathers broad
'acfes. His education was received
Fin a district school in his native town,
ia Seminary at Chester and an aeadt
envy at SaXton's River. His horne was
in Rockingham until he was thirty
five, years Of agebnn ,,ntsi on s.sc
Mrs. Wyfian Was born in bhe 81 ne
year and in the same town9'a as her
husband and was a valentine she was
one of a family Of four children.
daughter of Peter and Abigail Wilson.
She attended a district school in
Rockingham She has lived n Sher-
burne, VT. Saratoga. N. Y, Lowell
Mass, and Hinstiaie, ~ Hn''aof i'Sl
| Mr.. and MIS-. WyInah were United
in marriage February 30, 1S47 in
! Rockingham, In 1861 they moYed 4
Springfield and Mr.. D. Wyman entered
4 ne employ of the Parks and Woolsor
Machine Company. He was in tn,
. employ OF that company for ovel
forty Years and twenty years of TIKI
! time he was ct the head of the blad'
department. %"
One daughter was born to them
r Lucia Neila in 1S4S, who marie,
t Col. w. II. II. Slack of Springfield il
: 1865. She died in 1877. Two gran,
s sons are living, Harry Carlton Slacl
n Of Boston, Mass. and Walter W
n Slack of Springfield. There ar
also .olI great grandsons.
| WI b. a.
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ADDRESSED VERMONT VETERANS
Gov. &. II. Prouty Guest at BANQUET
Held i'm Boston,

Boston, Feb. 23.-Gov George u.
Prouty OF Vermont was the principal
gLcst Tuesday evtning at the, .22nG
annual banquet of the Vermont Vet
Grams Association of Boston aid
vicinity about 40 members being
present ~t' fi' al7
Other guests, introduced by Col Az
bert Clarke, president of the asso-
citation We're Rev Dr.. Arthur Little
of Boston, John I4,Parker, Masga-
chnsetts department. commander, q,
A, Re- Col A. b. Franklin Vermont
department commander, g. A. H.;
Col, Henry p. Butler of Lafayette
post, G. A. r., Of New York City
Brig. Gen. Charles K. Darling, .presi-
dent of the Vermont Association OF
Boston, and Hon Herman w. Allen
of Burlngtony VI, =" Gen. Carmi IL.
Marsh of Enosburg Falls W. and
Col. Henry o. Clark OF East Orange
~, j., comprising a sell-constituted
committee of the 18th Vermont regi-
ment. ~ DDS uN 20 i1 spl9
Gov. Prouty paid tribute to the
members of the GA r. as the' grea
force inculc9tipg the principles o
loyalty and liberty, He urged tina
the best oratory be obtained for Mem
orial day, and oFatory of the spread
eagle type, since the proper 'subjec
for that day was the deeds of the vet
er4ns only.
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ARREST BARRE ITALIAN.
Police Arrest RiccO Maggini Who
Committed the Assault Upon An
other Italian in Barre Saturday.
\ipht l-- 40

OIller ltalIun Ill Dhrre iSdtuEniy
Night. ~
Chief J. S. Durkee made an import
ant capture Tuesday morning in
Ricco Maggini, the man who attempt,
ed to kill a fellow countryman in
Barre last Sunday evening after an
arguhieht' which arose in a boarding
house and ended with the assailant
being found with blood streaming
from his head as the result of the al
most animal attack of Maggini After
the assault the would-be murderer
fled and was not seen again until he
was spied by an officer in this city
yesterday forenoon.
AS Special Officer Charles Jerd
was walking down Barre street short,
ly after IL o'clock yesterday morning
helmet two Italians, one of whom was
terribly cut on the face and neck
Mr.. ,Jerd noticed that this man was
wearing black silk handkerchief
about his neck one end of which
having fallen down, revealed a shirt
covered with blood. The officer vast
ed no time but went to the nearest
telephone and called up. Chief Durkee,
who took the next car. for the scene.
The Chief got off near the Pioneer
and met Mr.. Jerd, who had kept
close watch on the two men. Mean
while one of the men left and went to
a house. while another came out and
Joined the man with the blood on his
shirt and the two walked off toget-.
her, closely waite ed on the other side
of the street by tie two officers, uu-
til opposite then, when Chief Durkce
recognized Mage i, for he had deal,
ings with him W IN he shot Conduct
or Perkins a few years ago.
He was arreglsd and placed in the
county Jail and later in the afternoon
taken to Barre where he appeared
before Judge Scott and was placed
in $1,000 bonds which he was unable
to furnish. He will have a hearing
within day or two and will be kent
in the Barre lookup until that time.
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FrateIliities.

A few years ago there was some
trouble with the local High Schooi
fraternity, but at present this LOdy is
if anything rather help to the school.
The chief evil III connection with
High School fraternities is that of
political graft for these societies
generally attempt TO secure for their
members the elective officer in stu
dent organizations and thus dominate
the student life of the school, / knew
of a school in which eight members
of fraternity held st one tine thirty
different offices. In the line of pro-
tecting the school and making schol-
arships rather than merely good fell
lowship the ideal the High School
faculty two years ago issued the fol-
Il wing regulations:
l. To be eligible for any office a
student must be meeting the school
requirements in school work to the
amount of twenty hours a week.
2. No student may hold more than
one office at the same time.
3. No student may hold the same
office for two years in succe sion.
These regulations secure school
honors 20 the attentive students and
besides are so fair that no reasonable
complaint can be made against them.
In conclusion l wish to add word
of tribute to the teachers and prin-
cipals. They, all of them, do mere
work than is required by the school
regulations, and the only fault l have
TO find is that their earnest zeal to
produce progress results each year
in temporary breakdown with one
or more. The teachers are reading
widely and keeping in touch with the
times; they do not feel bound to any
killing routine and are quick to adopt
ideas from any source.
Respectfully submitted,
FRED J. BROWNSCOMBE
The statistical report Cor the time
ending Dec Il 1909, shows a total
attendance of 1143, divided by depart
ments as follows; High III; gram
mar, 1885; Intermediate 300; primary
81; kindergarten SO. The total en-
rollment showed SIS boys and 525
girls. There was an average daily
attendance of 1894 and 1913 instances
of hardness. The average daily at
tendance for the year ending June
II, 1909, was 1913
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
DIED IN BERLIN.
Albert House Expired Mt His Home
at the Age OF SIS Years.

The death of Albert House occurred
at his home in Berlin on Tuesday af-
ternoon, the deceased being SO years
of age. He was born in Williamstown
and married Miss Sarah Parkhurst
of Meredith, N. H., who died about
three years ago after the couple had
celebrated their 50th anniversary. The
deceased is survived by one brother,
Eleazer H. House of Berlin, and tYo
sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews of
Kearney, Neb., and Mrs. Sophonia
Hayward of .Cresswell, Col The fu-
neral will be held at his late home on
Thursday afternoon at o'clock, bur-
ial being in the Berlin Corners ceme-
terry.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24

was paid in interest to the holders
of the bonds. This is exclusive of
some IS 600 received from sale of
railroad stock and premiums on bond
Issues The total cost will in the END
reach more than 100000, because the
city is still paying interest, though
at low rate, on $4,000 Of those
bonds that have been refunded. And
.,Jn it should be borne in
mind that Montpelier citizens fur
Thor contributed $4,000 toward the
road.
Another item of expense was the
flood in 1869, which carried away all
the bridges in town but the Rialto
structure, and which cost the town
more than $4,000, while another in
1867 took away the bridges on the
North branch and raised the highway
expenses of that year to almost Sc
600.
All these expenses were met by
taxation when the population was
one third of what it is today and the
grand list not more than one fifth.
These arc the principal items OF
eXtre ordinary expense met by taxa
ton, when the town was poor, when
money was scare, when interest
was high, when labor was poorly paid
and the cost of living was large. IN
addition to the public undertakings
aided by the town or village there
I were many losses to be met and many
contribution were made to various
causes. In 1875 fire destroyed the
greater part of the business section
of the town, a heavy blow for any
community, but its citizens quickly
rallied from the blow and began re-
building almost before the ruins
were cold. The loss by the two fires
of that year was close to 100000
though part of that was covered by
insurance.
| In the period included in the table
above, Montpelier citizens have con-
tributed $25 900 to secure the loca-
ton of the Montpelier Seminary
here, they gave $50 900 toward the
| erection of the new Pavilion, they
have erected every church in town but
one and individual generosity has
endowed the city with a hospital &
park and a library
In 1875 the total indebtedness Of
the city was $2O2.3S3 and it's grand
! list was $12,S57. By exercising rigid
economy in public matters and rigoT-
ously taxing themselves the citizens
had reduced that to $685. 39 in 1893,
the last year previous to the adoption
of city charter, and in that year the
grand list had only reached $50 ,919, 4
little more than one half what it is
today
Compared with what it has done
in the past that which it is now pro
posed to do is mere bagatelle.
The grand list of 81 1881 in 1880
was increased to $37,011.73 in 1881
This was after the passage of a new
tax law in 1850 and a quadrennial APP
praisal of real estate. The increase
was largely in the real estate, which
was nearly doubled. If the real estate
to proper figure, all the proposed
increases of expense could be met with
the present $3.50 tax, and perhaps by
less rate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
MONTPELIER FINANCES
Rates of Taxation in Past Years, Bond
Issues and Projects Given Mum.
cipal Aid-Present Tasks Small in

Issues and Projects Given Mum.
cipal Aid-Present Tasks Small in
Comparison.
"Refunding bonds IN. & w. r. r.
9 per cent, due April /, 1919 Or
tional April /, 1904 held by National
Life Insurance Company, 100000"
This item in the city report is the
last financial reminder of great task
undertaken by the town of Montpelier
when it's population was about one
third what it Is today and it's grand
list about one-fifth.
! At the annual March meeting In
1868 1t was voted unanimously to
bond in aid of the construction of
the Montpelier and Wells River rail-
road to an amount not exceeding
eight times the grand list, which
would have been 100000. The char
ter today denies the right to contract
| indebtedness to the extent of more
! than five times the grand list The
following year the amount was in =
creased to 5000 600 or fourteen times
the amount Of the grand list.
The remarkable corporate and indi-
vidual contributions of Montpelier to
public enterprises when the town
was small and poor absolutely as
well as relatively, are worth bearing
in mind when some taxpayers are
beginning to shudder at the prospect
of the taxes they will have to pay
when the two public buildings au-
thorized or under way have been
compic ted
Montpelier village was incorporat-
ed in 1918, not many years after the
organization of the town and in
, reckoning the public burdens the
taxes imposed by both the village and
the town must be considered. The
! combined tax rate was once as high
as $4.20 and that at 4 time
when the grand list of the town was
| less than $4,000. The tax that could
be raised by that rate was $54, 099.4G.
The tax on the 1909 grand list of SOL
S34.75 at the present rate of 1 80 pro-
duced $910O9.29. A similar tax rate
on the present grand list would raise
$256,705 that is, it would be more
than sufficient to wipe out the exist
ing debt of the city or would pay the
cost of both the City Hall and he new
High School building. The average
rate between 1870 and 1880 was $2.2S
| Applying that average rate to the
present grand list would produce
$1409S1 year, that is would yield
about $4,000 year above the pres
ent current expenses.
The following tabulation will give a
better idea of what Montpelier did in
the period covered and what it had
to do it with.
! Year Total Town Village Popu-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24

Don't let the baby suffer from ec3e
ma, sores or any itching of the skin
Doan's Ointment gives instant relief
cures quickly. Perfectly safe for
children. All druggists sell it.-adv.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24

Constipation causes headache, matt
sea, dizziness, languor, heart palpita-
ton. Drastic physics, grippe, sicken,
weaken the bowels and don't cure.
Doan's Regulets act gently and cure
constipation. Price % cents. Ask your
druggist-adv.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
GDluLLEsr DAY OF I'M THE YEAR.
Stock Market Closed Irregular After
Embarrassing Day-Trading Almost
at n StandstiII. g9ngGY

New York, Feb. 23-After the dull
est and most uninterestipg dsynfor
more than year, the stock market
closed with prices irregular and ira
ding almost at a standstill. Changes
ranged from gain of 1-2 points in
Telephone to loss of point in
Third Avenue. Esefsil soIfi.l
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
Nativity OF School Children

Born in Montpelier 45 per cent {;
elsewhere in Vermont, 33 per cent !;
elsewhere in the United States IL per
cent foreign born 10 per cent. The
foreign births are about in this order
Italians. Spanish French Cana
diam, Russian Swedish, German, to-
gether with Canadians (English)
Scotch, Irish, and English Their re-
cords of promotions and failures are
about the same as the native-born,
and any excess of failure occurs dur
ing the acquisition of the language. 1t
is remarkable how quickly these chill
dren become Americanized, how read
ly they acquire our language, and how
soon often, to the regret of their par
ents, they discard their native ton
CUES. Many of these get a better
business training than the average
American child because they carry
on the banking, buying and other Dus-
mess operations of their parents and
thus lay the foundation of a future
business career
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
General School Matters.

Some five years ago the Board in
reorganizing the school system eX
pressed its desire for results about
as follows: Placing the school on
thoroughly modern basis with the in
PRODUCTION of modern methods broad
ening the course of study raising the
standard upbuilding the High School
and making the school popular, that
is, getting them in touch with the
people. That something has been ac
complished is due 10 the personal et
forts of the Board, to their sustain
ing the school staff to their retain
ing the best teachers, raising salaries
so that the teachers get at least a
living wage,
On the business side, the chairman
of the Board, Mr.. II. j. M. Jones has
devised simple yet comprehensive
system of bookkeeping a model of its
Sind; and Mr.. f. K Goss for the sup
ply committee has compiled a book
he personally looks after which at
the end of every year shows our eX-
act expenditure, covering forty-one
items, for every detail of school eX-
pense. Arrangements have just been
completed for obtaining the years
supplies in one order and to have
competing firms bid on this &.
AS, in addition to this, an in.
ventory of all stock on hand is re-
quired on Feb. of each year it will
be seen that the Board gives the
same careful attention to school az
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-24
The Working School Child.

The percentage of children work
ing elsewhere than at home ranges
from per cent in the ga to 12% per
cent in the eighth grade, and in the
four years of the High School it is
s, 10 10 and 81 per cent respectively.
While there may be some hardship
for the boy who actually supports
himself through school, some regular
employment is an excellent thing for
the average boy. The country boy
who has gOodly amount of chores
to- do before and after schoo! is lay
ing better foundation for success
in life than The city boy who gets up
just in time 20 hurriedly dress, swal-
low his breakfast and get to school
and then loafs the rest of the day af-
ter school.
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fairs that o mercahnt does to his |
business.

fairs that a mercahnt does to his
business.
High School.
The present enrolment Of the
High School is 100 about twice the
enrolment Of six years ago. AS there
are but 140 seats in the assembly
room, a number of the pupils have
no desk room and there is constant
trouble in the matter of their books
and supplies; as the cloak rooms are
quite insufficient the mix-up in tn
way of rubbers and oyershoes is at
times more humorous than profitable;
and as the one small laboratory is alb
surdly inadequate the teacher of sci
ence can hardly be reasonably ex-
pected to cover the requirements in
this course. There is an average OF
I6 pupils to each teacher while
throughout the United States the av-
erage OF High School pupils per
| teacher is 26. The teachers in Their
endeavor to keep up the standard CT
the school are taxing their resources
to the limit and we face at any time
the prospect of one or more OF them
breaking down. The outlook for next
| year is even worse and we cannot
| hope under such conditions to have
the school retained on the list certi-
| fled for college. There is no room
| for another teacher, and IL the grade
pupils on the second floor were re-
moved elsewhere, the present build
| ing is totally untitled for the require
ments of modern High School, par.
ticularly in the commercial, drawing
and science dc partments.
Military Drill.
has been dropped owing to lack of
interest and it is noticeable through
out the country that this lack in
creases in proportion to the time dis
lance from the Spanish War IL
Massachusetts, High Schools various
students have secured immunity fro
military drill by presenting physi-
clans certificates to the effect that
these boys were physically untitled
but when the same boys were able to
participate in football games the folly
of compulsory military drill is easily
shown.
Your attention is called to The rrc-
ommendation made by Mr.. Abbott for
a five years course for intending col
| lege students, a recommendation
which seems imperative in view of tt .
increased demands of the colleges In
til last five years we have sent 80 stu
dents to college and six to normal
schools while large number of our
girl graduates are engaged in teach
! ing
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Hardness.

The half and quarter holiday plan
has reduced hardness to minimum
or such hardness as existg 80 per
cent in the primary school is due to
carelessness of parents in getting
children ready for school and dere-
LECTION in having meals ready. in the
upper grades the causes assigned are
errands, carelessness, and church
work.
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Sex in School Progress.

The investigation here shows that
the girls throughout the grades and
high School rank higher than the
boys and have a smaller percentage
Of failures. In only two grades, "a
end one fifth do the boys rank high
er than the girls. the two being even
in the fourth year High School class.
In only one grade, the fit, have the
boys smaller percentage of failures
than the girls while in one sixth
GIade and the third year fIi!,h School
they are even. Throughout the
schools of those ranking first in class
23.S per cent are boys and 1862 per
cent girls. OF those among the first
three in class, 81 per cent are boys
and 70 per cent girls. Sounds like an
argument for woman suffrage, doesn't
it? and bear in mind that these fig
ures illustrate a condition common
in the public schools of this country.
Is it probable that girls are more in
tellectual than boys, or is it possible
that our public school systems are
better fitted to educate girls than
boys? Or might these results occur
because girls are more docile than
boys and because instruction is so
largely in the hands of women? Do
the schools tend toward deadly uni
formity in which neither the dull nor
the unusually bright have an oppor-
tunity? 1t seems to me that the pro-
position to promote pupils by subjects
rather than by grades might solve
this problem
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the latter are found to be much better
off physically. The general conclu-
sion is that physical effectiveness Is
an important factor in retardng
school progress and as much of this
such as adenoids, enlarged tonsils,
defective breathing and bad teeth is
easily remediable, the necessity is
again shown for the medical inspec-
ton of the school children.
There is one striking exception to
the general conclusion that in ali the
grades examined the percentage of
defective eyesight is from to Is
greater among normal than retarded
children. Whether this merely shows
that defective eyesight is q product
of our civilization or whether it Ia
due to greater application to books
might be matter of discussion.
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In this study the apparently extra
ordinary result was disclosed that the
percentage of physical defects was
greater among The normal than among
the retarded children. Further inves-
tigation however explained this by the
fact that many weaknesses OF child
rem tend to decrease or disappear with
age; thus in a comparison of the nor
NAL eight year old and the retarded
twelve year old in a third grade the
advantage Is physically with t'e
twelve year old. But in comparing
the retarded twelve year old children
in the third grades with the normal
twelve year olds, IN the seventh grades
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