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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07
NORTHFlELD. MASS.
G. /. Spofford's Valuable Gifts to L.
brary,

George L Spofford, for many years
conductor on the Central Vermont
railroad, formerly of this town, has PEE
sented Mortified with a valuable col
lection of relics to be placed in the
relic rooms of the Dickinson Memorial
library. A large number of legal papers
which bear names of prominent North
field families going back nine genera
tons; several Robert B. Thomas alma
macs more than 100 years old; the first
annual catalog of the Mortified Insti-
tute dated 1851; Railroad pathfinders of
the very earles date for this state and
other similar papers which will be of
great interest to Mortified families, the
value of which will increase, are among
this collection, also a large long gun
which formerly belonged to Charles r.
Field, the grandfather Of the donor used
by Henry Field, who was Revolution
airy soldier. This gun has been changed
from flint lock to cap lock and is ac-
companied by a birch bark shot box
and tin powder can. Another gun for
merly the property of General John
Nevens, major general of militia in 1872
There are two horse pistols used by
the mail carriers between Mortified and
Boston as early as 1889 when mail was
carried on horseback; afterward used
on the stage line; a sword, the property
of Major Elijah Alexander, handed down
to him by Major Elisha Alexander, who
marched with the Mortified minute nen
to Concord April 20, 1775, and who was
made orderly sergeant 1776; a sword
bayonet carried through the Civil war
such as was used by the New York fire
Iouaves. Mr.. Spofford promises the trus-
tees other relics in the future.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07

STATE OF VERMONT.
- Windham County, SIS.
MARY F. GRADY.
SAMUEL G. BROWN.
Municipal Court of the Village of
Notice is hereby given that l hold an
execution against Samuel e. Brown OF
Brattleboro, Vermont, the above named
defendant, in favor of Mary F. Grady
of Brattleboro, Vermont, issued upon a
judgment rendered by the municipal court
of the. village of Brattleboro, on the 18th
day of May, A. ID. 1912, for the sum of
the sum Of ($4s.0O) Forty Eight Dollars
damages, and (s3.25) Three Dollars and
Twenty five Cents costs, and that said
execution has been levied and extended
upon the following described parcel of
land situate in the town of Brattleboro,
in the county of Windham, and state of
Vermont, with the appurtanences there
of, and with the defendants right in
equity to redeem the same, as the prop
erty of said defendant, Samuel G. Brown,
to vita certain piece or parcel or land
situate in said town of Brattleboro,
bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Lot No. 10 on plan known as Morning
ed in Book AS. page 463 of the land record
of said town of Brattleboro, and refer
ence to which is had for a more partic-
Notice is hereby further given that by
virtue of said execution and by the di-
rection Of H. G. & F. E. Barber attorneys
for the creditor in said cause, unless, said
amount of said execution costs and In
terest, together with my fees and legal
charges thereon are in the meantime
paid and satisfied, shall sell the real
estate above described, with the appur
tenances thereof, with all the debtors
right in equity to redeem the same, and
all the debtors right, title and interest
in and unto the same, or SO much there
of as may be necessary to satisfy the
amount of said execution, interest and
all costs thereon at public auction to the
highest bidder for the same at the above
described property in said town of Brat
tleboro, on the first day of August A D.
1912, at o'clock in the afternoon, to
satisfy in whole or In part said amount
of said execution costs and interest, to-
gether with my fees and legal charges
thereon, as directed in said execution.
Dated at Brattleboro, in the county Of
Windham and state of Vermont this 31st
day of May, A. d. 1912.
c. e. MANN, Deputy Sherif:
II. G. & F. e. Barber Attorneys for
plaintiff.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07

Miss Eva Robertson was in Boston last
week.
Henry Brownell of Keene visited here
Thursday
Harold Merritt is at home from Yale
university.
G. E. Stevens was in Bennington sew
eral days recently.
w. F. Robertson was in Springfield the
first of the week.
Mrs. James j. Mccormick visited Mon
day in Northampton.
Miss Opal Hudson of Brattleboro was
in town Memorial day
Miss Nellie Coriss of Springfield is
visiting at John Corlss's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Halle Dole of AL
stead visited here Thursday.
Miss Lillian Myers of Florence, Mass,
spent Sunday with her mother
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stafford of Keene
visited Sunday at C. w. Safford's.
Mrs. Della Torrey of Greenfield has
been visiting Mrs. May T. Leach.
Jason Wright entertained a party of
school friends Wednesday evening.
Misses Jane and Elizabeth Lynch Wis
tied Memorial day in Farley. Mass.
Leavitt Hubbard of Chicopee, Mass,
visited relatives in town last week.
John Fisher of Norwood, Mass. was a
Memorial day guest at F. E. Fields.
Guy and Milan Smith of White River
Junction were at George Smiths May
80.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Parsons of Mil
lers Falls are visiting at William Walk
er's.
Earl Fisher is at home from Worces-
ter Polytechnic institute for the sum-
mer.
Mrs. Sidney Butler has been in Keene
a week Mr.. Butler is at work in Or
ange.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stevenson OF
Millers Falls were visitors in town last
week.
Miss Nella Clark, who has been seri-
ously i'll with typhoid fever, is conval-
escing.
Rev. A. l.. Hill exchanged pulpts last
Sunday with Rev. s. G. Wood of Win
chester.
Robert w. Field and Miss Baer o.
| Springfield spent a few days last weel
at F. E. Fields.
Mrs. Ira Chamberlain and two children
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07

Booker II. Washington in an address
on the Progress OF the Negro" before
the Paint and Oil club of New England
said that at the time slaves were freed
about 3 per cent of them could read and
write. while today 70 per cent of them
can read and write. He said that In
Virginia during the last ten years, the
negro farmers have acquired 1000 farms,
In Tennessee the same number, in Ar
kansas and Alabama 10000 each, In
Mississippi $4,000 and in Georgia $4,000.
I'm farm lands alone In Georgia the me-
gro own s32,OoO.OOO worth OF taxable
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07

Enough potash to supply the United
States probably for the next 80 years has
been discovered by government scientists
in Searles lake, San Bernardino county,
California. The deposit may amount to
100000 tons but authorities in WASH
ington think that It will amount to more
than 100000 tons. The great value Of
the discovery is that the product is in
readily available commercial form.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07
THE SUMMER SESSIONS OFTHI

afford teachers and others a superior
opportunity to study bookkeeping, short
hand, typewriting and other commercial
subjects under specially favorable con-
ditions. Teachers can specialize in Civil
Service subjects or take any branches
desired. Only SIS for five weeks instruc-
ton. For new catalogue address Car
nell G. Holt, SO No. Pearl ST., Albany,
N. Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07
Progressing with Railroad Work.

Railroad work is progressing steadily
but is now scattered over 80 large a ter
ritory that there seems little to note.
Five cyclone drills have been at work
for some time on the ledge on Mrs. c.
C. Dix's farm. They are drilling to a
depth of 80 or more feet and a large
amount of dynamite is to be used in
each hole. 1t is expected that this
blasting will occur within a few days
AS the ledge lies only 80 feet back Of
Mrs. Dixs house, there is danger that
the buildings there may be destroyed
The temporary track has been laid as
far as this ledge and grading beyond
the ledge is finished to the trestle across
Wantastiquet lake.
A steam shovel just west of the River
Tavern has been making rapid progress
in wide and deep cut there and more
steam shovels will soon be at work. The
one at work now carries three cubic
yards of dirt and another soon to be set
up has double that capacity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07

boys and one girl, Albion Bayers, the
eldest, aged Is, Melvina 9, William 8,
and Arthur, aged I. The funeral was
held Thursday at 2 o'clock, Rev. N. L.
Porter officiating. The body was taken
this, Friday, morning to Meriden, Conn,
for burial
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07

Northfield seminary commencement
will begin on Saturday afternoon and
continue through Tuesday.
1t has been necessary to change the
date of the women's town meeting as
advertised last week and 1t will now be
held on Saturday afternoon, the 18th,
in the Alexander Memorial hall at g.
The trustees urge every woman in
any way interested in the hall to be
present to participate in the business.
The members of the Fortnghtly, with
their families and few invited friends
picniced on the grounds of the high
school building Monday afternoon. The
weather was ideal and a company of rs
thoroughly enjoyed the outing. Before
supper was served. the high school
building and the womans hall were in
spected. and a social hour closed a very
pleasant afternoon.
Wedding announcements have been
received from Mrs. c. II. Green stating
that her daughter, Fanny, and Joseph
w. Field of this town. were married
In Orange, N. j., June 8, also that her
daughter, Mary, and Thomas Parker of
Greenfield were married in Brattleboro
Saturday, June l. Both couples will ie-
turn to live in Mortified, one at the
Green home and the other with Mrs
Field. All are well and favoraby known
In Mortified and they will make a very
desirable addition to society Mr.. Field
Is associated with Rev. w. w. Coe in
the publication of the Northfield Press
and printing.
Mrs. Mary II. Hicks, 50. wife of A. c..
Hicks of this town. passed away on
Monday evening from malignant
growth in the stomach, having been sick
several months. She had lived in West
Northfeld many years and came to the
village few months ago, when they
bought Franklin Inn. She was a mem
Der of the Congregational church and
devoted to its interests also a member
of II. H. Johnson Womans Relief corps.
She Is survived by her husband, seven
children, all of whom came home before
her death. The funeral was held on
Thursday from the church, her pastor,
Rev N. Fay Smith, officiating. This
family have been unusually devoted to
one another and this first break in the
family circle is severe ordeal,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-07
ESTATE OF ORA D. HOWE.

y EtHONI
- Westminster IS.
The Probate Court for said District:
To all persons interested in the es-
tate of Ora d. Howe, late of Townshend,
in said district, deceased, Greeting.
Whereas, James A. Whipple, admins
traitor upon the estate of Ora d. Howe,
late of Townshend, in said district, de-
ceased, his filed his petition in this
court setting forth that the sale of the
whole of the real estate of said de-
ceased will be beneficial to the heirs
and all persons interested therein, and
at the same time filed in this court
what purports to be the consent in writ
ing of all the heirs residing in this state
TO such sale. Whereupon 1t is ordered
that the same be heard at the session
of said court, to be held at the probate
Office in Bellows Falls on the 9Th day
of July, a. D. 1912, when and where
you may be heard in the premises, If
you see cause.
1928 ZINA H. ALLBEE. Judge
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07


 through the heart and killed. His per sonalfty has disappeared. He eais dead However, all the organs and tissues which compose the body are still Hv- ing, and the life of every tissue and organ of the body could go on if a proper circulation were given back to them
 'If it were possible to transplant inn mediately after death, the tissues and organs which the compose the body into other human organisms no ele- mental death would occur, and all the constituent parts of the body would would be dead, for his personality would have disappeared.
 In this case, general death can be defined as the rupture of the contra ct of association between the tissues and organs by failure of one of the part ners-the heart. Therefore it follows that general death is very different from elemental death. It is merely the starting point. of the disintegra- tive Phenom ena, which lead to elemen- tai death. Immediately after general death elemental death begins It is a complex and slow process which progressively destroys the living mat ter Immediately after the stopping Of the circulation all the clements of the vascular wall are alive If the transplantation is performed at this moment, the artery lives in the body of its host and keeps its normal cofl- Stitution.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07
FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE.
Sunday a Field Day in All the Con- gregationaI CI1urches-Important Sessions at the South Church
 Monday.

Sunday and Monday a Missionary Institute is to be held in this city by the American Board for Foreign Mis- sions and the Woman's Board, on in- vita tion of the Congregational minis ; ters of Bridgeport and vicinity.
 Tomorrow all the, pupils of the by missionaries of large experience or by secretaries of the board. Secre- tary Brewer Eddy, a young man of ing at the First Church Dr. Cor nelius H. Patten, the boards home secretary, will preach at the South Church. Dr. Patten has recently re- turned from journey through India, Turkey, and Africa, and is full of in- formation and enthusiasm. Dr. Ed ward Lincoln Smith speaks at the Church. Gnu 1. Dr. Smith is the recently elected general secretary of the board. He comes from Seattle. where he has been a leader of wide influence. He is Yale man, of intellectual vigor and spiritual earnestness.
 At the Olivet Church, Dr.. J. H. House. of SaIonica, Turkey, will be heard. pr. House has seen long ser desolated by war. He can give very interesting information concerning Salonica. recently taken by the Allies, and the Turkish situation generally: At the West End Church, Rev. Ernest A. Narrow, of Van, Turkey, will de- liver an address. Mir. Yarrow is one or the younger men WHO are nGipInS to remo1d the Turkish Empire. He is at present doing some special work in the Hartford Seminary. At Kings g Highway Church, the people will hear the Rev. Harvey c. Hazen. MT. Haz- en is from India. a man rich in ex- perience and full of spiritual en- thusiasm. At the Black Rock church s morning service, Rev. Charles A. Stan ley will speak. Mir. Stanley will be the one man from China, & country whose wonderful awakening interests everyone with worldwide vision. At the Southport church, Dr. J. K Browne of Harpoot, Turkey. will preach. Dr. Browne is veteran, whose work for many years among Turks and Kurds has been marked with great energy, personal consecra- tion, and success.
 Appointments for the afternoon and evening are as follows: Dr. Patten at the Southport church. at 4 o'clock; pr. Smith at the Olivet church at church at 7:30; Dr. House at the Italian Congregational church at 7:30: MT. Hazen at the West End church; MT. Yarrow at the Kings Highway; Mr. Stanley at the South Churches Vesper service, at 5 o'clock; and pr. Browne at the Park Street Church at 7:30.
 Miss Helen Calder, secretary of the Woman's Board from Boston, and Miss Isabella Blake of Turkey, will be the two woman representatives. MissCa1der will speak to the Park Street church Sunday School at 12:05. and to the South Church Endeavor to the O1ivet Church Sunday School at noon, and to the Black Roc'- En- deavor Society meeting at clock in the evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07
THE OMITTED PRECAUTION.

Expert railroad of New York represented as complaining of the recent order of the Public Utilities Commission, which directed the New Haven Railroad install long and directed toweren open switches for passage to another track in the tion until the train engaged in the movement had a full stop.
 The criticism is made that to change tracks usually due to train, other obstruction It is claimed that if engineer shall by signal with this order in effect he will crash into other and do more damage than if he speeded into switch
 It is justly said that engineer fails observe the stop signal there is something the matter with him. and he will do it anyway.
 The criticism of the Connecticut commission is sound enough and it involved in that preicament by its reluctance to make orders suitable to the demands of public safety.
 . Coroner Phelan, of this city, in recommending for preventing Wrecks similar to the Westport wrecks advised the long crossover and the full stop.
 HE ALSO ADVISE AUTOMATIC TRAIN STOPS AT THE ENTRANCE TO SWITCHES.
 The Public Utilities Commission neglected this part of the proposed remedy and substituted for peril die to the personal another and possibly graver peril
 An explanation from the Public Utilities Commission is in order.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07
CENTENNIAL OF BEGINNING OF
 NAPOLEON'S FLIGHT TO PARIS

One hundred years ago to-day, on Dec. ', 1872, a small man bundled in a frayed and mud-spattered military cloak entered a sledge, and, with one officer as a. companion, drove off to the West, over the snow-clad wastes of Poland. Feverish with haste he lash ed his horses into run. ard as he cheer went up from the ragged, slliv-. ering, half-starved remnants of what had been the Grand Army, left be- hind at Smorgoni to make their des- perate way back to their homes as best they might. The little man in the sleigh was Napoleon, and his com panion Gen. St. Cyr. At Smorgoni the retreat from Moscow, had received news of a conspiracy in Paris, based on false report Of his death, which had for it's object the overthrow of the empire he had reared. So to Paris fled Napoleon, after having assembled his marshals about him, explaining the urgent need of his presence in the capital The retreat was intrusted to Marat-
 As. Napoleon and S.. Cyr set out on that last stage of their retreat from Moscow, they talked of the terrible tragedy that had overtaken the Grand Army. Fragments of that converse ton have come down to posterity
 'Behind US in Russia said St. -Cyr rnournfully, I've have left 300, 900 dead.''
 .'Oh. not so many as that,'' replied Napoleon, mot so many as that. Still there were thirty t21ousand at Mos kova, five thousand here, ten thous- and there, thousands who died on the marches. thousands of others who strayed and never returned. Three
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07
BACKWARD HARTFORD

There's the devil to pay in Hart ford. We have it on the authority of an excellent lady, whose views are realized to us through the columns of the Hartford Courant. She says that:-
 'Biologically. evolution has been toward the differentiation of the sex es. We are now asked to overlook sex, and to make their work identi- caL''
 Beautiful thought, wonderfully ex- pressed! The terminology is of the best. The conclusion is startling.
 There must be an awful time in Hartford. Its no wonder the last school census there looks shabby be- side that of Bridgeport. But how did evolution come to delay her work So much. up Hartford way?
 Down around Bridgeport that bio- logical differentiation was completed long ago. It's a. hundred million years since a divorce was granted here through an incompatibility growing out of a dispute over the respective biological duties of the parties to the contract. ande that might have been avoided, if the par ents of the unfortunate young people had given them a course in natural history.
 But too much has been said. or too little. Who wants to bump bio iogy on it's bulging brow, and give
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07
institution needs to keep it healthy and honest.
FIRST THINGS

The first General Assembly of the Territory of Missouri met in St. Louis a century ago today, Dec. 2, 1912. The session was held in private house, the home of Joseph Robidoux. between Walnut and Elm streets. The act of Congress changing the name of the former territory of Louisiana to Mis- souri had been passed the previous June. In 1920 the Territory of Ar kansas was set off from Missouri and the latter admitted into the Union as a State.
 The first speech of Benjamin Dis rae1i, (Earl of Beaconsfield), in the House of Commons was delivered sev- enty-five years ago today. It was a masterly effort. and attracted much attention to the young Jew-although a Chris tian convert-who was later to become prime minister of Great Brit ain, a peer, and one of the leading statesmen of England.
 The first crusade against the Hindu rite of burning a widow on the funeral pyre of her husband was started in 1751, but it was not until eighty-three years ago today that the practice was prohibited by law.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07

mammals. job to papa?
 An. here is the answer, right in the scientific lady's own effusion.
 sheq tells us, dear, wise lady. It's those who want votes for women. They are the unreverential, unscien- tific, ignorant wretches. The place in. their heads, where biology should be, is vacuum. They want to lover look sex, and make their work iden- tical.''
 Shame on them. Everybody in Hartford, except these ignorant advo- cates of votes for women, knows that evolution there has been slow all along the line.
 The women of Hartford have no eyes. They cannot see ballot. They have no ears. They cannot hear the campaign speeches. They have no legs and can't walk to the polls. They have no arms. They can't pull the lever over on the voting machines.
 It's too bad. Something must be done about it, before biology is put entirely off the map.
 Don't vote, ladies. If you do bio Iogy II get you, and someday dear little Gladys will be looking down street, will see somebody else coming up street and say, in her sweetest voice, tWho's that2 It's papa. No. it's mamma, Oh dear no, its both of them. How could I have made such a mistake ?''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-07
DIR. GABRIEL, WIZARD
 OF SURGERY, TO GET
 NOBEL PRIZE NEXT WEEK

Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute of New York will be for Nobel prize of s3s, 900. awarded to him for the most notable discovery in medicine and surgery. The wizard of the scalpe1, whose achievements tifc reality, is 8 native of France, and is now in his fortieth year. He won the Nobel prize by his triumphs in the newest branch of surgery, showing the way to transplant vital organs and even blood vessels in the human body.
 pr. Carrei is a native of sainte Foy les Lyon and is a graduate of the University of Lyon, from which he re- cefved degrees of L. B., Sc. B., and M. D. The latter degree was con- menced his medical career as an in terne in a Lyon hospital. When he came to America in 1905 he left be- hind him a record as a careful con- and house surgeon. remarkable for dexterity. A little over three years ago he became an. associate member of the Rockefeller Institute for Med ical Research, and in that short pe- riod built up the reputa tion that has made his name known throughout the world.
 France Dr. Carrers native land, has been slowest in recognizing the genius of the surgical wizard. In Lyon and Paris the first accounts of the wonders peTIOTrneO Dy Dr- car rel met with sneers and scepticisu. When the great surgeon visited France this Summer and spoke before the Academy of Medicine in Paris his reception was decidedly cool. Not un- til Carolus Institute conferred upon the expat triate Fsrenchman the Nobel prize as a substantial recognition of Dr. Carrel's success in the transplan- tation of organs and the suture of blood vessels did scientific France ac- cord deserved praise to their coun- tryman.
 Since the French-An1erican p1hysi- elan has been in the limeIight many lamaNngl statements have been .Gt- tributed to him by interviewers He is quoted as having declared that death is of two kinds, general and ele- m nentaI and from this theory he de- rives remarkable conclusions. He said:
 "A man. for instance. is stabbed