The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-12-30

A The Hsisy Organ semr4hY sloses
lie farlaFV Tuesday 10 take hs 4hha4
iHNrnloTg, ana all Fpsanr ei'Tietsea'
"Wednesday
-Ths iiaaksr, .ess~s a Mitchell som
tsahy, ahirh piosri SATURDAY i"E iis an
anal iaking ~ inseHiafF, all ssAH %
agaih Tuesday,
The ahnaal ladies alshl u tbs
N1fmenl Mhoel rlab Aill TAKE place
Friday evening. jan a Cards aht
danring nlll furnish The rhsrftaln
meni, ani ErlTrshmenis viii be served
n. T.. Perkins Of NeFih springfield
VI. will rf.aph Al the Adseatlsi .hi.s
iian church Sunday " exchange All
q. ~, l.eel, NJ, 'sIkinss mani
THREADS MI 10 sfieNed 10 leaih et W
death ef his wife, Nhs Was hn'sra
Christmas day,
The block signal system. which The
nostab a Maine railroad H. installing
between bellows Fails and bIaitlcbofo
will lie completed sometime the comihH
spTlnr. The semaphoFe towers have . Y
been sci along the iine, aud the Moth
~ making the electrical connection
with the rails has been started
The Ladies circle 81 the Inikef'
salist church Nili bold their moh,hlf
business meeting Ia the church parlers
| Thursaay afternoon al clock, This
h tha last meeting before the fair, All
interested in the fair are urged 20 come
-arly prepared Ia work, ~ There u Nofih,
which must be- finished, supper VIII
no, be served.
All the Centre Congregational
church neat Sunday morning the theme
I Of the sermon will be- Christian Ifes'
RES. This will be q message espceinlli
10 Young people, The college students
I who are ~ home for the holidays are
/ Cordially invited, The subject OF the
| devotional service THIS evening WIZ u'
/ God 10 Ills World.
-R.rause IL the Illness Of the rector,
Roy. A. y. Harpar. Jr,, the Observance
/ IN Holy lnnocents day 10 -, Mlsh'
a.l's Episcopal church Tuesday was
omitted' The supper planned for the
nnnils Of the Sunday school was held
| M Grange hall, and the regular thfis,
mas exercises followed. The commit
| Ice In charge of the tree and exercises
were Mrs. I, ". Gibson, Mrs ~ "
Brown aud Miss Ruth Childs.
Sidney Holt. who left town early
I IN .Julv for a trip 90 the north part OF
I Tie state. returned Tuesday after
/ snending the summer and fall IN ~. NJ,
/ bans, Burlington and Rutland. lie saiu
| that he has been engaged IN wrltlhe
poetieal advertising for upstate net.
/ chants. As his cabin ON Nnntastane'
| mountain has been sacked and nartial'
/ IN demolished by vandals during, his ab'
s.nee. Mr.. Holt il undecided where he
will locate during the rest OF the WIN
ter.
A good. sized audience gathered IN
the Baptist church last evening 70 MS
Ten 10 n song recital bv Mr. and Mrs;
| Walden Iaskev. under the auspices OF
/ ,be Womnu's club. The program was
one of great variety. and enabled MI
Joskev 10 DISPLAY his powerful voice
20 snleudid advantage II included Sc
I ieetions from Handel. Strauss, Dyorak'
Bantoek. Verdi. Damrosch, and hast.
/ ings. Mrs. l.askey aecompanied neI
husband finely. her work adding no,
i little 10 the enjoyment OF the OCCASION
The CRYSTAL Springs Ice company
has been Obliged 10 suspend ice cuttlhg
operations on account of the weather
! The small pond on Frost place has been
cut. and the ice was Of hne qnalltN
! 10 inches thick. The beef house ana
The Schorling slaughter house supply
have been mt in during the past 10
dnys. About 400 tons have been mar
vested thus far, hut in view OF the iaei
that last season the company harvested
: OD0 tons and expects TO increase that
amount this year IL will take several
DAYS Of cold weather TO make enough
lee TO fill all Of the company s houses
The date of the next hearing he
fore the railroad committees OF the
legislature on the bill giving the yer
mont Valley Railroad company tne
ripht to build from Brattleboro TO
south Vernon has been changed from
Ian 4 70 Jan. 10. The committees are
determined to give but one more near
inc ON the matter and made the post
ponement at the urgent request OF az
tornevs for the Central Vermont;
Vice.President Fitzhugh and General
Manager Jones of the Central Vermont
road were in Brattleboro "Wednesday
for n few hours on business in eonnec-
tion with the legislative fight over TINS
bill.
Brattleboro merchants express
themselves as well satisfied with the
yolume of business that came to them
during the week preceding Christmas oh
the whole. local trade seems TO nave been
mn TO past years, while in some cases
If was better than usual, in spite OF the
rainy weather of Saturday whlch. un-
doubtedly kept many suburbanltes from
coming here to do Their holday shop,
ping. There was tendency amour
BUYERS this year to purchase praciieai
Gifts and n disposition also TO do shop-
hing early. There has been no year.
according to some merchants, Wheh
more shoppers have visited the stores
in the early morning hours.
Mary Brosnahan, 2S, died in Dor
chester. Mass, Tuesday of heart trou-
bile. Since childhood she had been an n
invalid, having suffered an attack OF
Sn en- meningitis when about two
years old. she was born in Bellows
Fails in January, 1882, and was the
daughter of Daniel W. and Mary (Snl-
livan1 Brosnahan of that place. The
hodv was brought to Brattleboro yes
terday and Rev. George E. Il 'Ecuyer
If ST. Michael IS Catholic church otliclat-
cd All tbe committal service IN the. Cain
olic cemetery. Miss Brosnahan IS sur
| yived nv her parents and two sisters;
Elizabeth and Helen of Dorchester, ana
a brother, William, of San Francesca
The annual meeting, of the Home
Sunshine society was held Tuesday ar
ternoon at the Home for Aged and DIS
ahled. The following officers were
elected: President, Mrs; George F.
Barber; vice-president, Mrs II. T.
Houghton; secretary and treasurer
Mrs. j. D.. Barrows., A n mus 81 b, pro Pro-
gram, in charge. of Mrs; F. +, bla lake
was greatly enjoyed. Numbers were i
Miss lula Simonds, Miss Mary Cox
and Miss Maize Calvin. lea was
served, after which the members OF
the home enjoyed their annual CHRIST
mas tree. which was prepared and dec
GRATED bv Miss Emma Gregg and MISS