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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05

f. j. Farnum visited in Brattleboro
last week.
Herbert Wells of Newfane visited in
town recently.
Miss Eliza Bailey is visiting at
Edith Putnam s.
Mrs. Fletcher visited her daughter,
Mrs. Pine, Saturday.
George Weatherbee returned last
week with a new horse.
George futile visited his daughter,
Cola, at l.. j. Fosters last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Chairman were in
East Jamaica on business Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Putnam are away
visiting relatives and friends in varI
Gus places.
w. A. Smith returned to Springfield
Mass, this week after visiting his ia
ther, NJ. Smith, few days.
Mrs. Abbie Whitney has returned tC
her home in Brattleboro, after selling
some of her goods and storing some.
Miss Isabel Pierce is staying a few
days at DR.. Heffion s while her rooms
are being prepared for her at n
Wilder s.
Mrs. Sarah Esterbrooks, who spent
the winter with Mrs. Haskins in Wards
boro city, returned to her home here
| last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. j. Farnum visited
the first of the week in the home OF
Mrs. Farnum s brother, Earl Simpson
in Windham.
James Dexter and family have
moved from Mrs Estabrook s to Mrs
Emma Smith S house, having rented
the first floor.
Mrs. Emma Smith, who was here las
week storing her goods was called t.
Boston Saturday by the death of he
brother, Henry Bissell.
James Dexter is moving this weel
from Mrs Esterbrooks s house to Mrs
w. Smith S house, which will be more
convenient for the town clerk s office.
David Smith and little granddaugh
ter, Mabel Fitzpatrick, also Mr.. lie
Beau of Three Rivers, Mass, visiteC
Mr.. Smith s daughter, Mrs. Bert Ba
con, Sunday.
] William Fitzpatrick started Frida!
for Hillsdale, n. Y, to spend Sunda,
with his mother. From there he eX
pected to go to Seymour, Conn, t.
work.
Miss Marian Putnam had birthday
party Saturday afternoon. There wer
about 25 present. Refreshments of ice
cream, cake and candy were served
She was well remembered with pres
ents. All report a very pleasant after
noon.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
Saturday, the 18th Day Of May
A. D. 1916
at 2 o'clock p. m,
to act on the following articles.

to act on the following articles.
Article l. To see if the town will
vote to raise any more money for the
repairs on the highways, in addition ia
the 30 per cent raised at the last an
nual meeting, and if so, how much.
Article 2. To see if the town will
vote to rescind the action taken at the
last annual meeting in regard to article
IL in the warning for said meeting
which article reads as follows: "To
see if the town will vote to appropriate
any money to take advantage of the
state aid law, and if so, how much"
Article 3. To elect an agent to con
vey the school house in district No.
(lolland district so-called), sold by the
school directors agreeable to a vote
taken at the last annual meeting.
Article A. To transact any other
business proper to come before said
meeting.
Dated at Townshend, VT, this Goth
day of April A. d. 1916.
F. w. WATSON,
w. w. VAN NESS,
L. II. ALLBEE,
Selectmen of Townshend, VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
ESTATE OF WILLIAM H. viNToN.

State OF VERMONT.
~ District of Marlboro, SIS
The Honorable Probate Court Tor the
District Aforesaid
TO the heirs and all persons interested
in the estate of William II. Ninton, late
of Brattleboro. in said district, deceased,
Greeting:
Whereas, application hath been made
to this court in writing by the admins
traitor, praying for license and author
ceased, representing to said court that it
would be beneficial to the heirs and all
persons interested in the estate of said
deceased, to sell said real estate and
convert the same into money
And bringing into court the consent
heirs to said estate residing in this
state and setting forth the situation of
the real estate.
Whereupon, the said court appointed
at the probate office in Brattleboro. in
said district, to hear and decide upon
said application and petition. and or
dered public notice thereof to be given
to all persons interested therein. by pub
fishing said order. together with the
successfully in The Vermont Phoenix, a
newspaper which circulates in the
neigh borhood of those persons interested
in said estate, all of which publications
shall be previous to the day assigned for
hearing.
Therefore. you are hereby notified to
appear before said court, at the time
and place assigned. then and there in
said court to make your objections to
the granting of such license, if you see
cause.
Given under my hand at Brattleboro,
in said district, this 18th day of April,
1916.
1918 A. F. sCHWENK, Judge.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
Matter of Endurance.

"My DEAR" said Mr.. Hawkins to his
better half the other evening, edo you
know that you have one of the best
voices in the worldl'
Indeed" replied the delighted Mrs.
H., with a flush of pride at the compli'
ment. edo you really think 500"
81 certainly do, continued tho
heartless husband; "otherwise it would
have been worn out long agol Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
wARDsBoRo CENTER.
Henry G. Bissell.

The following notice of the death
Saturday of Henry G. Bissel is from a
Boston paper: "Henry G. Bissel died
yesterday at his home, 121 Stoughton
street, Dorchester, after having been
i'll since December. He was born in
Wardsboro, VT, July %, 1858, and at
the age of 10 came to Boston and en-
tered the employ of the leather firm of
Billings and Eaton. Later he had a
part in forming the firm of Hickman &
Bissell and some years afterward joined
j. II. Emery in forming the Boston
Sheepskin company. In 1910 he organ
lied the II. G.. Bissell company. He
was one of the three oldest men in Bos-
ton dealing in picked sheepskins and
tanned skins. He was a member of
the chamber of commerce, the Boston
City club Union and Dorchester lodges
of Masons, Dorchester Royal Arch
chapter and Commonwealth lodge, l
o. o. F. He leaves a son, Eugene, Q
brother, Charles l.. Bissell of GRAND
Rapids, Mich, and a sister, Mrs. En-
ma A. Smith of Springfield
Mr.. Bissell is remembered by tn,
older residents of this town. He made
occasional visits here and was interest
ed in the place familiar to his boyhood
He spent a week or more in town il
December, hoping to derive benefit from
the change, but in that he was disap
POINTED.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
Not Much Difference.

Philo-Did you say window or wild
ow?
Sopher-I said widow; but they are
both very much alike.
Philo-How so2
Sopher-When / get near either of
them l always look out.-Judge.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
NEWFANE
Died While Visiting Daughter.

Mrs. Harriet j. (Blanchard) Simonds,
"a, of Dana, Mass, died about O. clock
Tuesday morning, May 2, in the home
of her niece, Mrs. j. d. Pierce. On ac-
count of i'll health she closed her home
in Dana about four weeks ago and came
to stay for a time with Mrs. Pierce.
She was taken seriously ill last week
with bronchial pneumonia, which caused
her death.
She leaves two brothers, Amos p.
Blanchard of Guilford and Arthur
George Blanchard of Marlboro, and
several nieces and nephews. The fu-
neral. was held in the home of j. d.
Pierce at l o'clock Wednesday, Rev.
i. M. Wiswall officiating. The burial
will take place in the family lot in
Dana, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
SOUTH NEWFANE.
The Minister'S Conference.

The West River Valley Baptist min
ister's conference was held Tuesday
morning and afternoon at the Baptist
church. There were present Rev. and
Mrs. +. II. Perkins of East Dover, Rev.
p. S. Contois of South Windham, Rev.
Edgar w. johnson of West Wardsboro,
Rev. w. c. Goodwin of South London
derry, and Rev. and Mrs. Frank A.
Kelley of this place. After the morning
session dinner, which was provided by
Mr.. and Mrs. Kelley assisted by the
women of the church, was served at
the parsonage.
At O'Clock they returned to the
church, where Mr.. Contois preached the
sermon of the day. Later the sermon
was reviewed and discussed by the
ministers present. The afternoon meet.
ing was open to the public and a mum.
Der of the villagers attended. There
being good singers among the minis
tiers, and Mr.. johnson being an ac
complished organist, there were many
hymns sung after the program. Supper
was partaken before the guests depart
ed for their several homes.
The Ladies' Benevolent society viii
meet next Wednesday afternoon in the
vestry.
The children enjoyed the annua
frolic Monday evening hanging Ma!
baskets.
Deacon Ebenezer NJ. Stratton, whc
has been i'll, is able to be about thu
house and yard again.
Next Sunday will be observed a
Bible Rally day and the second Sun
day in May as mothers day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman II. May move,
this week into Z. n. Stratton s hous
on the Marlboro Branch road.
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Stratton AM
son, Harold, of Brattleboro were visit
ors at John S. Stratton s Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Whitne,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward V. Morse o
Brattleboro were at c. f. Brown
Sunday.
Mrs. Samuel II. Morse returned Fri
day to her home at 99l Massachusetts
avenue. Cambridge, Mass, after an alb
sence of II weeks, two months o
which time she spent in the Cambridg
hospital. She is still under the doc
tor s care and is improving.
James p. Bruce, who for a numbe
of weeks has suffered from troubl
with one foot, last Saturday had
portion of the foot amputated. Dr. +
r. Lynch, operating surgeon, cam
with nurse and was assisted by ID
L. B. Gordon. Mr.. Bruce is doing a
well as could be expected, and reste
better Tuesday night.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
DUNIMERSToN.
Program of Pomona Grange.

Windham County Pomona Grange
will meet with West Dummerston and
Evening Star Grange in Grange hail.
Dummerston Centre, Saturday, May g.
with the following program:
Morning session, 10.45 o'clock
Music, Grange choir; transaction of
business; question, Advantages of Lo,
cal Culture for Corn and Potatoes
Speakers, w. w. Walker, f. II. Brown
Willis Ray and Frank Learnard.
Dinner will be served and at Las
the program will be resumed, with the
following numbers: Music, Grange
choir; address of welcome, Harry
Brown; response, Charles Stacy; mu
sic, Charles Laughton; reading, Flor
ence futile; reading, Abbie Patch
song, Kittie Clark; reading, Mrs. NJ
IIuntley; reading, Frank Learnard
music, Laura Phillips; question, Does
it Pay to Keep Farm Accounts
Speakers, Charles Laughton, Walter
Robbins, II. Hazelton and o. T. Ware
The Grange held its usual regular
meeting Tuesday, April 20, Worthy Mas
ter Harry Brown presiding, There
was an excellant literary program in
charge of Mrs. Dora Davis. The next
meeting will be held May Q. Question
for discussions; Should Agriculture be
Taught in the Common Schools.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05

After a girl has been wishing for
several months that he would pop the
question she can act just as surprised
ms if such a thing had never entered
her head.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
AUCTIONEER
A. W. J. wilkins, Bratteboro, Vt
Wide Experience. Terms Reasonable
Telephone Connection
Central Vermont Railway
Corrected to September &c, 1915.
Trains leave Brattleboro


600 a. m. Daily. For New London.
700 a. m. Except Sunday For South
Londonderry.
9.2O a. m. Except Sunday. For New
York via Springfield.
9.45 a. m. Daily. For South London
derry.
1925 a. m. Except Sunday. For Millers
Falls
4.1O p. m. Except Sunday. For Keene,
New London and New York
via the Norwich Line steam
ers
600 p. m. Except Sunday. Local for
South Londonderry.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
NOTICE

The legal voters of the town OF
Townshend are hereby notified anC
warned to meet at the Town Hall, il
Snid TOWN ON
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
Mrs. Cora Winn Starkweather.

Mrs. Cora VIM Starkweather, 81,
wife of Charles Starkweathcr and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Winn of this place, died in Beaver
Dam, Wis, April g. She leaves her
husband and two daughters in Beaver
Dam and her mother, who went to her
several months ago, two sisters, Mrs.
Curtis Chickering and Mrs. Hermon
Checking and two brothers, Charles
Winn and Samuel VIM. She is RENE n
bered as a good teacher, an intellectual
and refined young woman, and at
Beaver Dam she was much beloved
worker in the Baptist church. Samuel
Winn of this place attended the funer-
al in Beaver Dam.
S. l.. Rice has returned home from
Brooklyn.
Mrs. Helen Burnham went to Spring
field Saturday to visit friends.
There will be services in the church
next Sunday afternoon as usual.
Lewis Ford of Springfield, Mass,
was at his place here over Sunday.
Miss Charlotte Houghton, who was
in Hinsdale a few weeks, is at home
Frank Davis of Greenfield came Sat
urday and attended the Grange meet
ing and visited relatives and friends.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
COMFORTING WORDS.
Many a Brattleboro Household Will
Find Them So.

To have the pains and aches of a
bad back removed-to be entirely free
from annoying, dangerous urinary dis
orders, is enough to make any kidney
sufferer grateful. The following ad-
vice of one who has suffered viii
prove comforting words to hundreds
of Brattleboro readers.
Harry N. Holland, SO Canal ST.,
Brattleboro, says: "For some time
my kidneys were disordered and when
ever l caught cold, my back began to
ache. The trouble became so bad that
| could not rest well. Learning of
Doan s Kidney Pills, l procured n sup
ply at the Brattleboro Drug Co. Three
boxes removed every symptom of the
trOuble.'
A Permanent Cure.
OVER FIVE YEARS LATER, Mr..
Holland said "Kidney trouble has
never returned to me and / give
Doan's Kidney Pills the credit for my
permanent cure.'
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don u
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan IS Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Holland has twice publicly recon,
mended Foster-Milburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-05-05
BUSINESS CARDS.
w. r. MOVES, M. d.

w. R. MOVES, M. D.
Specialist Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat OF.
fee hours, 9-12 q. m. lis p. m, Wednesday
and Saturday evenings, 1890 Sunday and
other evenings by appointment. American
Building Bratteboro. Appointments for
glasses fitting made by mail or telephone.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-17
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

SHTABULA, thriving city of 10000 in Ohio has adopt
~ ed modified form of commission government, in which
body consists of elective members who
empowered city manager The charter includes
of initiative referendum
The feature of the charter is the proportional
sentato of which the recognition proportion
all the parties interested in government
many arriving at the result Ashabula
has adopted plan about like this:
officials to be chosen the number will the
parties the relation of the total vote Of each Ten
Republicans 900 each by the Socialists and
the council Democrats Republicans,
Socialist Prohibitionst
The ordinary commission plan an effort to abolish par
isn the proportional plan
effort give sort of public opinion its due representation
behind the proportional plan, far Ashta
bua appears have toequaze matters
and the dries, prohibition having been always
mooted question in that city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-17
Miller, Famous Editor of
New York Times, 81 Today

Charles. Ransom Miller editor in
chief of the New York Times and one
OF the most eminent of American
newspapermen will pass his sixty
seventh milestone today, having been
born Jan. IT, 1S49, in Hanover, N. H.
He joined the staff of the Times in
1875, and the fortieth anniversary of
his connection with that paper was
celebrated last July by the thousand
or more people engaged in making
and marketing the New York paper.
Mr.. Miller is a son of Dartmouth Col
lege, and commenced his journalistic
career in 1872 as reporter on the
staff of the Springfield, Mass, Repub-
lican. Beginning his service with the
New York Times, he was elevated to
the rank of editorial writer in 1881,
and two years later was made editor
in chief, the position he has held ever
since. His editorial ability, coupled
with the financial and business acu-
men of AdoIph S. Ochs, have trans
formed the Times from the weak sis
ter OF metropolitan Journalism into
one of it's sturdfest representative
a journal which costs it's owners $780,
900 a day to produce
During his connection with the
Times, it is estimated that Mr.. Miller
has written editorials sufficient to fill
the pages of "a thousand ordinary
volumes. Park Row cherises a tradi-
ton" according to one of Mr.. MiIIer's
associates that he arrived in New
York with a reputation for writing
worse than Horace Greeley and play
ing poker better than Bob Schenck
early indications of the learning and
financial ability conductive to success
in the fierce competition of metropo1i-
tan life. In the eight years that pre-
coded his accession to his present post,
Mr.. Miller was various1y occupied; for
a time, as editor of the weekly edition
of the Times. again, as a copy reader;
briefly, as an art critic, a capacity in
which he demonstrated a knowledge
Of the architecture and decorative
value of cows that was of permanent
benefit to the young artists of that
day; and, lastly, as editorial writer,
showing in that work immediately the
capacity that led to his selection for
his present post
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-17
DIR. HARE

The first celebrated modern scien1
fist to publicly profess a belief in
spiritual manifestations, and to make
a scientific study of psychic pheno-
nena, was Dr. Robert Hare of Phila-
delphfa, who had worldwide repu-
tation as chemist. DR.. Hare was
born in Philadelphia 135 years ago to-
day, and first attained prominence by
sinventing the ox-hydrogen blow-pipe.
With this device he first fused lime,
rnagnesia, iridium and platinum in
considerable quantities, and made pos
sib1e the invention of the calcium
light For this Invention he received
the Rumford medal and was inter
nationally honored. While professor
of chemistry at the University of
Pennsylyania he continued his re-
searches, and invented the calori1no-
tor, a gaIvanfc battery which evolves
an intense heat, making metallic
wires red hot, and igniting infIamma-
BILE bodies. With this device he was
the first to apply electricity to blasting
operations under water, Great as
were his scientific achievements, he
was also q poet of considerable ability.
He did not hesitate to public an
nounce and defend his belief in
spiritualisIn, and wrote a book,
"SpirituaIism Scientifically Demon
strated,'' which for many years was
the '.bibIe''s of the spiritualists4 DR..
Hare died in Philadelphia in 1858.
about ten years after modern spiritual
ism was founded by the Fox sisters in
Rochester.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-17

meeting house, where he fell asleep
and of how he found employment
as a printer, and obtained lodging at
the house of Mr.. Read, the father
of the young lady who had laughed
at him as he passed.
1t has often been said that England
owes her greatness to her younger
sons, and in the present war the truth
of this proverb has been abundantl-
justified. Benjamin Franklin was the
youngest son in a family of seventeen
children, and his lineal ancestors had
also been youngest sons during four
successive generations. AS a boy in
Boston FrankHn's earliest ambition
was to go to sea. His father desired
to make a clergyman of him, but
when Benjamin was ten this program
was changed. and the lad was ap-
prenticed to his brother James,
printer While employed in the
printing office Bejamin read many
OF several of the early free-thinkers,
and Benjamin at sixteen became a
sceptic, and applied himself to the
study of theological augmentation
with such success that he often
worsted his elders At the same time
he read a book advocating a vege-,
table diet, and put the theory into
practice because of it's economy.
When he became a newspaper pub
Usher in Philadelphia, and some
wealthy gentlemen attempted to DOM
mate his editorial policies, Franklin's
vegetarianism enabled him to say:
My friends. any man who can sub
sist ON sawdust pudding and water, as
1 can, needs no mans patronage
Benjamir1s anonymous contribu-
tions to his brothers paper, the New
England Courant, were SO outspoken
in their denunciation of religion and
other established institutions that the
Mathers, custodians of Boston's con-
science, accused the Franklins of
having established a sfHen Fire Club
of Boston" This was a reference to
the so-ca11ed t'heI1 fire clubs of Eng
land and Ireland, in which young men
of good families abandoned them
selves to the most disgraceful orgies.
The Courant replied to this charge
with an editorial in which the author
of the "hel1 fire. article was referred
to as sfooP' and ga young wretch
Benjamin Frank1in's contributions
to the Courant were in part respon-
sib1e for the arrest and Imprisonment
of. James Franklin, the general court
having found that 1.-THE tendency of
the Courant is to mock religion, and
bring it into contempt, that the Holy
Scriptures are therein profanely abus-
ed, and that the revefed and faithful
ministers of the gospel are tnjuriously
reflected on
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-17
Benjamin Franklin
And the ttHell- Fire 8
Club Of Boston"


Two hundred and ten years ago to-
day Benjamin Franklin was born,
and, while the anniversary will not be
generally observed in the republic
which the great editor and phi1oso-
pher helped to establish, it will by no
means pass unnoticed. The printers
of America have never ceased to cele-
brate Fsranknn's birthday, and even in
France the typographers look upon
the i1Iustrious American as their "pa-
iron philosopher
Every schooIbpy is familiar with
the story of F'ranklin's arrival in
Philadelphia, a. boy of seventeen who
had ran away from his native Boston
how he landed at the foot of Mar
ket street on Sunday morning, with
dollar in his pocket-his purchase
OF three rolls of bread, one of which
he ate as he walked up the street,
with the other 1oaves under his arm,
his pockets bullying with stockings
and shirts, exciting the risibiltties of
the girl who afterward became his
wife-wandering idly into a Quaker