The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-07

4 DR.. ID. p. Webster is again housed
q with rheumatism.
Gov. Woodbury. stopped over her,
? last night from ) AS to 10 10 on hi
o way homo from the south.
9 Merri c. Ward of Tufts Divinit,
+ school will preach at the Universalist
church at Amherst, Mass, next Sun
r day.
News was received Saturday OF
> the critical illness with pneumonia al
, New York of Madame Balestier. But
later reports represent her as improy.
ing.
!, Mrs. Nora Tuhill, knocked down
by II team on the street last week, is
still in a serious condition, confined to
J her bed. with visual arrangement and
symptoms of IA spinal injury from
which it will take long TO recover
". W. c. tournament games week
ending Feb. 6: Whist, Pcttec and
Shattuck 40, Streeter and McRae 27 ::
duplicate whist, Hunt and Robbins
l60, Kimball and Perry 152, replay.
Hunt and Robbins win by IA points:
four ball billiards, Foster 100, McRae
Il, McRae l2o, Bingham 1lS, Knight
100, W. S. Pratt 67.
The selectmen have already gone
to work to remedy some of the more
serious of defect in the town hall and
opera house. They have hitched on a
temporary blow off for the boilers, and
doubled the size of the dressing rooms
by moving the partition back four feet
farther under the stage for which there
is a plenty of room, sheathlng and paint
ing them on the wall side and provid.
ing running water and set bowl for
each room and carpeting the
floors. trouble in the stairway.
which was dangerous, because of II sul.
pipe liable to throw one down, il
remedied, partially, by making wide
landing at this point and turning it
and ultimately second stairway is to
be put in on the other side.
A sink is to be placed in the lookup,
and the selectmen's room has been
piped for gas. The doors leading from
the vestibule are being changed SO as to
swing outward and comply with the
law as the outside doors do. One of
the water closets under the stage burst
this week and flooded things and on in
vestigation.it was found that an old
one, which had been thrown away, was !
taken and patched over. Calvin is re
placing it. at the expense of the con I
tractors, of course. A serious question !
still remains about the ventilation.
There was strong complaint from people I
the gallery at the Universalist festival
as we'll as from the occupants of the
upper gallery Saturday evening in
both of which places between the heat
and the bad air it was al
most insutferable and there were
several cases of people nearly fainting
away three women having to be carried
out. 1t seems that in the original
architects plans there was no provision
for ventilation at all, but DIR. Holton
insisted that it should be included in
the contract. AS was done by shaft
under the stage. Whether this will be
sufficient or not is doubted by good
judges. but the committee insist that
the Job is left by the contractors in
shape where there can be no fair test,
with a rough and split hemlock lining,
where it should be metal and where
the contractors will have to furnish
metallic or pay for one. AT least it is
certain that now ii is no ventilation at
all Place a lighted match before the
ventilator and the flame will not
even flicker The right system !
for the opera house would be a .
large ventilator in the orchestra pit
running under the floor to a large shaft :
provided with an electric fan or steam
roll to induce circulation and with ;
auxiliary ventilators from each of the
four corners of the galleries connecting )
with ii. This of course would be v
orettv expensive TO do now, and sim
bier plan would be a holesin the roof
which. however. would be objection V
,ble in taking off more heat than foul .
.ir. The roof ventilation in the festival
,all has been closed and the chimney
vstem', substituted. and Wednesday
lights experience convinced many
,eople that that won't answer, though
ONE good Judges think that after eX-
,erience has shown how to regulate the
eat better there will not be serious
rouble.
Fittings.
}. d. Austin spent Sunday in Bel
Dws Falls, the guest of J. +. Brosna
an. Miss Mabel Huntley was in
.eene last week to attend the Big g.
all, returning home Saturday. accom-
anied by her aunt. Mrs j. A. Toof
tho was her guest over Sunday =
,alph Chamberlain was in Springfield al
tuesday John G. Baker and +. I. ?,
dickinson returned Saturday from a :.
usiness trip in the northern part of st
ne state. Rev. Mr.. Thunberg of D
range, Mass, spent part of the week b.
18th his family here-Miss Maud
Lunter made a flying visit with VI
lends in Boston this week. Miss
larry Moran and Master Francis kaine
.e spending the week in Holyoke. OF
Ed Bush of Bellows Falls spent m
art of the week in town. -Chas. II. a.
Obj of Bellows Falls was in town w
lis week. Frank Reed of keene n. Fl
:. visited here with relatives this SC
eek. S. W. Maxfield of Ashuelot, n. y
:. spent Sunday in town. Merchant CT
. l.. Emerson was in Boston and Ti
ilford. Mass, part of the week on a fo
isiness trip Harry Horton of Bald ~
insville. Mass. was in town over Sun TO
". Allyn Crosby of Hartford, Conn,
ent Sunday in town with his parents.
Mrs. Il. +. Wheeler has returned ca
,m short visit in Norwich, Conn. m.
Luther Miller attended the dance at ''
estfeld. Mass, last night. Miss IN;
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