Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-12-12

The Y NJ. G. As last Bible class will
be held Jan. 10 In one of the churches,
open TO boCh men and women. Prof
McConaughy will illustrate his lecture on
Palestine with stereopticon.
William LAWN. the tenor, and an
American woman were married recently
in New York. They went from New
York to London. whence they will go to
Germany, where Mr.. LAWN Will study
Wagnerian opera.
The Green street book club met with
Mrs. l.. ID. Whitney Wednesday evening
for the annual sale and supper. An
excellent chicken-pie supper was served,
followed by the sale, conducted by c.
l.. Suckney. The evening was spent
very pleasantly.
The concert announced to be given in
Memorial hall in Monson, Mass, Tues
day night by the Mary Howe Concert
company had to be given up on account
OF the cold. When the time for the con-
cert arrived a large audience sat SILVER
ing with their wraps on. Miss Howe
announced that it would be impossible
for her 10 sing or for the instrument
talists to play.
Dispatches from New York tell of the
plans OF the National Novelty corpora
ton, with a capital of SO, 600. which
will aim to control the toy trade of the
country The Stowell Manufacturing
company of Putney and the Ideal and
wilkins toy companies OF Keene are
named concerns in the proposed mer-
ger, but the s. A. Smith company is
not included.
The Amherst College glee, mandolin
and banjo clubs will give a concert In the
Auditorium next Thursday evening Dec.
Is. The concert Is arranged by the
High school In connection with the music
work of the school. The Amherst
organizations have long occupied a fore
most place among college glee clubs, hav-
ing given public concerts every year
since 1865. In late years the clubs have
been exceedingly strong, being able to
give n successful concert tour in Eng
land In the summer OF 1894 with n
special instructor regularly engaged the
clubs have steadily improved year by
year fine concert Is assured for next
week. The program will present the
usual variety of college songs and popu-
lar music.
The mercury took drop too much this
week, and Brattleboro, like all the rest
of the country has been shivering. Fol-
lowing the snow storms of Friday and
Sunday which brought good sleighing
came a quick change in temperature
Monday night, and people awoke Tues
day to find almost record-breaking cold
ness. The official record of Tuesday
morning was p degrees below zero, but
In many places temperatures of 25 to 80
were reported. Not once during the
day did the mercury get above the zero
mark. In New York the day was the
coolest ninth of December in 90 years.
Tuesday night the intense cold continued,
and at midnight the mercury was fiirt-
ing around the 20 mark. The weather
grew warmer toward morning and at
daybreak the figures were to Is below,
according to location. The change was
as sudden as the coming of the cold
weather, and in the afternoon 30 above
zero was recorded. Water pipes were
frozen in many places and the plumbers
are still behind on the rush orders
Business was practically at a standstill
Tuesday. All trains were very late and
at times telegraphic communication was
cut on. the wires, swapping from contrac-
ton. The situation was particularly
bad in some households, as the continued
mild weather had made people careless
and unprepared, and storm windows and
other guards against the cold were not in
place. The shortage of fuel everywhere
also made the situation unusually dis
tressing.