Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-01-22

the Y. NJ. G. y. gospel meeting at
o'clock Sunday afternoon
The Epworth League will give q mu-
! steal evening at the home OF MISS Hat'lc
| Smith NO Cedar street, next Mon
day. and q general invitation Is cNtehueu'
Home made candies will be on sale.
The regular monthly business meet
ing of the Epworth League will be held
IN the paruis of the Methodist church
next week Thursday evening AT
o'clock The cabinet will meet halt an
hour earlier. at the same place.
The show windows in y. f. Roberts
a. Co $ new store. arranged bV .. H.
Stickney have attracted great attention
this week There has been a particularly
tempting display i'm the north window, de-
voted to pickles. olives, canned goods
etc.
The Brattleboro members of the Yer
mont Automobile club met in the Brooks
House saturday night To make arrange
ments for entertaining the club ana Whlle
there organized the Brattlcboro Auto
mobile club by electing Charles y. llar-
rs Pre- sdcnt and Ferris A. Vaughan Sec
Rotary
The annual Temperance rally will be
held at West Brattlcboro next sunday at
| 103O a. m. Hon. Clarence j. Ferguson
viii speak in the First congregational
church. and Rev. Guy G. Lamson in the
] lbVIlSl tllNIfIt \ uItlpu mass H''ti'iH
will bo held in the Congregational church
at y. IN.
The Brooks House billiard and pool
| room contains each ching Interested
spectators who watch the games in the
handicap pool tournament. There are
four classes and the class winners Will
finally meet to determine the ownership
of a handsome stein, which Manager
Waite has put up as first prize.
c.,
ings bank held their annual meeting in
the banking rooms yesterday, These Of
hCcrs were elected: President +. l..
! Waterman; vice president, +. *. Bar
3 rows; treasurer, G. y. Harris. assistant
! treasurer. }. c. DE witt: trustees. II. II.
Wheeler, l.. f. Adams, +. w. Melendy,
I c. w. Wyman, j. l.. Martin, c. a. Har-
rs. f. X. Burrows, $ T. LawtOn, T.. L..
Waterman, H. =. Wellman and j. Harry
, Estey; board of investment, f. X. Bar
rows. f.. l.. Waterman G. y. Harris,
l.. f.. Adams and c. w. Wvman. These
new corporators were elected: Dr. @. +.
Barber. H. =. Dewitt. II. l.. Emerson.
&. T.. Fits .. L. French. O. NJ Lawton.
1 pr A. l. Miller and NJ. j. Moran. The
annual financial statement of the bank
is published in this paper
| over 90 ten-cent admissions were re-
l | ceved at the Choral Union rehearsal In
A the Baptist Vestry Wednesday evening.
1 ization. The special attraction was sing
ing by Mrs G. NJ. Calvert, soprano, and
n Mrs. +. G.. bort, contralto. members of
the Keene Choral club, both of whom
appeared in solos and assisted in the
chorus work. The visitors were very
a warmly received and gave much pleasure
. not only to the public audience, but "a
the members of the Union Mr.. and Mrs
iobrook and Mrs Huntress, accom-
;, PIANIST for the Keene society. also were
t,t,l ..1l l. Mo
; IIuntress played the accomplishments foi
- a large part of the rehearsal. doing eX'
y cellent work. There is "A special attrac-
tion during the intermisson at every re-
hearSal
o Richard A. Blomberg. 81. died Wednes
h day at his home at Chestnut street al
ter a long illness with an intestinal dis
, ease OF "A cancerous nature. He was
- treated at a hospital in Burlington sew
eral months ago. but without permanent
benefit Mr. Blomberg was born in Fin
"a land and was son of Richard Blom
~ berg. When w +. Haskell came to Brat
- tleboro from Philadelphia to take charg,
"a of the pine organ department Of the Este!
- organ plant Mr. Blomberg accompanied
!, him as an expert mechanic and gave val
h liable service until his Illness compelle,
10 him to stop work The funeral will b,
:, held in the Congregational church at 2.S
>, o'clock today. Rev. II. II. Miles and Rev
=, Mr.. Cook, pastor Of the Swedish Congre
~ gational church. officiating. The bod!
~ will be placed in the tomb in Prospec
~ Hill cemetery. Mr.. Blomberg leaves
\, wife and four children.
In accordance with the circular lette
ia sent to the health officers of Vermont b,
l. the state board of health "A systemati
&C inspection of the hotels. public halls
If places of amusement factories. mills
a. workshops and other buildings IN Brat
ID tlehoro coming under the provisions @
= sections 470l, 47O2, 47o3 and l70i of IN
~ Vermont statutes will Ice made by Or II
AZ J.. Waterman, health officer. to see
~ they are provided with means of es
Of cape in case of fire. DIR. Waterman al
IN ready has inspected the Brooks HDus,
ID which he found amply equipped, all O
- the rooms being provided with a rop
nd fire escape, also the town hall building
n which has iron stairway fire escapes be
R. sides several exits on the ground floor
IN Other buildings will be inspected as III
RS Waterman has opportunity to visit then
Some are known to come within the Law
- while others are known to be withou
, adequate equipment.
:: The cold wave of this week brought
g. temperature of below zero Monday an
sc Is below Tuesday. The latter record
l.; 10 degrees warmer than the recor
n. breaker of Jan. s. Many unofficial ther
Y, mometers registered in the POS on Tues
r day, and in some parts of New Englan
z. | the marx was the lowest Tor many Years
l. At Piers store in Jacksonville 81 degree
IN We're recorded and when the Whining
k ton stage driver left Wilmington at
lie o'clock Tuesday morning the mercur
l. stood at 80, and the Jacksonville stag
Of driver found like conditions when h
i'm started for Brattleboro. The stag
I'd drivers and others who were exposed t
rd the weather declared that Tuesday WA
+ the most trying day to be outdoor tina
l. they have ever known. ST. Johnsbur
~ made bid for distinction by sendin
Y out reports of 40 to 80 below zero. tn
lie claim being made that the latter figur
was recorded by a spirit thermometer
and that the mercury was frozen in tn
l. ordinary thermometers.
~ Rural Carrier Wall, on route 4. fror
no West Brattleboro, over "Ames Hill" t
re- Marlboro Centre and Hale, via "Thoma
ro Corner early this month found it i'm
- possible to cover the Marlboro portion q
n, his route, owing to badly drifted road,
= which the Marlboro selectmen ordere
- their road commissioner not to open, "A
r. they would pay nothing for such labor
al and the carrier has been compelled I
- reach Hale by way of the road sout
~ from Bradley lIoughton farm past Noa
~ AleXander's and Orlen Hale's. The pos
~ Office department has authorized sue
- deviation from the route as establishe,
80 | only during such period as the Marlbor
80 authorities continue to permit the i'm
=, passable condition of the roads With