Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-12-18

tory rs closed TINS week Whlle Inventory
is being taken. SCI
The barber shops will be closed all day
on Christmas day. They will be open
Thursday night until 10 o'clock
An article on "A New Spiritual Inn
pulse" by Rev. #. II. Marble, Phi. D., is
published in the last Issue of the Watch
man.
The annual meeting of the Methodist
sunday school board will be held in the
Epworth League rooms next Monday !
evening at 100
Dennis Rebeltah lodge will elect officers
next Tuesday evening. Wantastiquet |
lodge of odd Fellows will elect officers on |
Monday evening, Dec. rs.
4 box will be packed by the Congrega- |
tional Sunday school next week to be |
sent to Rev. Antonio Alright of New York |
for the Italian Evangelical Sunday school. !
The ladies' of the Baptist church held
"A supper and sale of articles suitable for
Christmas i'm the church parlor and din
ing room last evening. Both were well
patroniZed
Arthur G. spencer was appointed adj
mnistrator of the estate of the late Mrs
| l.orinda Blocker at "A hearing before Pro-
| bate Judge Allbcc of Bellows Falls i'm
| Jamaica Wednesday.
~ the regular meeting of Fort Drummer
| Colony of Pilgrim Fathers Tuesday even
| ing Mrs. Ida l.. Goodenough was elected
|
the supreme colony in Boston next April.
The Fcssendcn Helping Hand society
| held a Christmas sale in the COngrega
| tioual vostry Tuesday afternoon and even
ing There was large attendance and
many handsome useful and fancy art-
Giles were sold.
There will Ice a Christmas tree at the
| Home for the Aged and Disabled Tues
Dec. %. arranged by a committee from
sf..fnH 1aVaaV NsslN
aged friends look forward to this event
each year with great pleasure. Anyone
having gifts for them will please send
them to the matron, Mrs. Nash. at the
home.
| The examination for commissioned Of
fccrs of the Vermont National Guard,
which was to have been held at Brat
! tleboro Friday. Dec 49, has been post
poned until Monday Dec. 2S, owing to
the late date on which some of the cleo
tons took place. The postponement was
made in order To allow the newly elected
officers more time to prepare for eNami-
nation.
The interior work ON the Thompson
memorial hospital has now reached the
point where it shows the very substantial
ana thoroughly tire-proof construction Of
the building. The concrete flooring Is eX-
posed to view, the partition walls of plas-
J ter blocks are being put in place. and the
ceilings show their type of construction
on "A network Of metal screening.
The prices for seats at the Criterion club
| performance in the AUDITORIUM Jan. /.
| have been placed within reach OF all.
ana ii is hoped that "a fun house will greet
this popular equalization. The club has
: played this winter at Concord. Mass,
. | Boston and the theatre in the new club
p house in West RoXbury Each pcrfor-
nance has been given before "a fun house
h The company Will appear in Bratueboro IN
+ "a triple bill.
= The funeral of Henry 6. Field was held
l. at the house on Western avenue at
O'Clock sunday. Rev. l.. NJ Keneston OF
: West Brattleboro officiating. Miss Hattie
10 Clark and Mrs. l.. H. Stellman Of Wes
Brattcboro sang The burial was il
g Prospect Hin cemetery, the bearers be-
= ing George Harris. Bert Miller, Walbridg'
c. Horton and Harland Miller MIR an,
e Mrs W. b. Sutherland and son OF Ma
n Quoketa, Iowa. and Henry Pitman o
- Troy. y. Y, attended the funeral.
, Charles H. Thompson resigned tn
10 Craftsmanship of the school board Of tn
: village last week. At a meeting Of tn
,. board held Friday. Dec. II. Rev. +. q ;
/ Osgood was elected chairman in his place
p, James J.. Martin succeeding Mr.. Osgoo'
= as clerk of the board. Hereafter tn
,s regular meetings Of the board will be he'll
in the supervisors Office in the IIig
school building on the first Saturday eve
III ming of each month, when all bills agains
n the district should be presented for ap
X prevail
- The marriage of Miss Fannie NJ. Scott
= formerly OF Bratteboro. to Herbert n
" Heath OF Mystic Conn, took place Wed
>, nesday at the home OF the brides sister
- Mrs Ernest g. Brown, in Amherst Mass
!, | Rev w. f.. Strong performed the cerc
NJ mony Mrs, Heath formerly lived wit
40 her grandfather Martin Scott. and Al
IS tended the Erattleboro High school grad
IN uating In 1900. She afterwards studio
- In the Mystic oral school and then taugl
IN in that institution. Since June she Ia
lived with her sister.
, Ira q. French. native Of Dummers
- ton, is the inventor Of a keylcSs loo
W which is remarkable for simplicity an
- efficiency. II was designed for the door
~ Of dwellings, but may be used whereVt
u" il is desirable to have a keyless lock. Tn
~, combination may he changed without me
.IN Chanical skill and without removing III
- lock from. the door. 1t is said that hi
az lock bears the same relation to other lock
w. that the stem winding watch does to III
ny key windcr. Mr.. French has worked SON
VA time along several lines as an inventor 3
- his present home in Orange. Mass.
err The Bratteboro chapter Daughters
ed the American Revolution. held their ar
We nual meeting at the home of Mrs. f.
ed Whitney Tuesday afternoon. when thes
Regent, Mrs. Frank w. Weeks. vice II
an gent, Mrs. Fred l.. Smith; recording sec
1 SV rotary Mrs, William T. Haigh; CORES
- bonding secretary. Miss Genevieve Slat
II treasurer. Mrs. George F. Barber; regis
trar, Mrs Edward a. Starkey; historian
~. Mrs Edwin $. Bowen; chaplain, Mrs EC
~ win II. Putnam: auditors Mrs. Luther v
90 Hawley and Mrs, Abby f.. Fuller; exec
Wv utive board, Mrs c. f. r. JENNIE, chair
- man. Mrs. II. p. Wellman, Mrs. G.
~ Sticknev. Mrs J. Il, Hall, Mrs w.
ia V Root, Mrs. f. G. Pettee and Mrs. c.
-, Pratt
he When William Searles, who is employt
zen | by Blacksmith O'Leary, opened the do,
i'm on the south side of Flat street Tuesda
ell morning about o'clock. he was drive
he back by dense volume of smoke. +
went to Browns livery stable, secure
. pals of water and returned to the she
w. and was able to make his way to Il
a source of the smoke, which was son
= charTed embers in the floor. made of tv
az inch planking, and the tmbers under Il
- floor had been burned off, Mr. O'Leal
NY remembers having dropped some red H.
re toe calks OH the floor Monday night. al
,oI thinks he may have overlooked one
~ them although he thought at the tin
w, that he picked all of them up. The fl
~ probably had been smouldering all nigh
~ bur as there was no cellar under Il
~ building the fire had no draft If Il