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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The Meeting House Hill cemetery
association has recently received a gift
Of $500 from the estate of G. ID, Wallace
of New York City.
The woman 5 foreign missionary
society of the Methodist church viii
,neet with Mrs. g. ID. Smith on Cedar
street Thursday afternoon
William f. Sexton was arraigned IN
municipal court this morning charged
with disturbing the peace and annoying
his wife, His ease was continued a
week.
AT the Star bowling alleys W. j.
Anderson is the winner Of first prize
aud Jerry Curtin the second prize in
box ball, Carl Ellis was the winner in
pin pool this week
Holden 4 Martin have a number of
Christmas trees which they will be glad
10 give to families that are unable to
buy them. For number of wears the
firm has made a practice of distributing
trees among needy families.
As in former wears. the Centre Con
prcgatiOnal Sunday school will send a
box Of CLOTHING. TOYS and games to Rev.
Antonio Arrighi for the Christmas
Festa of his Italian Sunday school in
New York City. Articles for the box
should be left at the chanel between
Friday and Monday, Dee. - to is.
Elsewhere in this week 5 paper will
be found reference to the progress of
the street railroad extension in which
mention is made Of the possibility of
establishing regular stopping' stations
on the line instead of allowing the cars
to stop nj any point. A decision was
reached Yesterday afternoon to estab-
lsh such stopping places. and white
poles will indicate the points where the
cars will stop TO receive passengers or
allow them to leave.
-Mosher & Cobb are TO go out of the
livery business week from tomorrow,
as indicated in an advertisement in this
weeks Rcformer. The members of the
firm intend to enter the lumber business
aud will begin operations on the Dun
klec lot Of loo acres which they have
bought. as mentioned elsewhere in this
paper. They will hold an auction at
their stable ON Flat street saturday.
Dec. %. when everything will be sold.
For a while the firm will retain posses.
sion of the premises now occupied and
viii make their Office there.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.
Mrs. Maud Moon, Arrested for Trifing
With Matrimonial Matters.

Mrs. Maud Moon. a muchmarricd wo
man. with record Of residences IN various
parts Of New England was arrested at
West DmmerStou yesterday afternoon by
Chief of Police George Wilson and brought
10 Brattlcboro to await the arrival Of
sheriff Kiniry Of Windsor who came last
evening to escort the woman 10 Woodstock
iaiI She was charged with adultery. Ac
cording to the story she told the officers
Maud had been married three times. She
said that q number Of years ago she married
a man by the name OF Royce and after living
with him one year decided on a change and
married Henry Roberts With Henry she
lived at North Adams. Mass, a few
months. Then she married Delbert Moon
and they lived together intermittently for
about nine years They have recently been
living in West Dummerston and several
weeks ago Maud got hankcring for an
other change and went to Queclee which Is
a hamlet in the town Of Hartford, Vt. She
was living there as the wife of John Albcr.
tine when the neighbors learned of Mrs.
Moons marrying proclivities and an invest,
igatiou was made John lost his Job and
Mr.. Moon brought his wife back TO Wind
ham county. Then the attention of the
states attorney of Windsor county was
brought to the matter with the result that
Mrs. Moon is in Jail at Woodstock await
ing trial. She was detained in the lookup
in Brattleboro until the arrival of her es'
cort from Windsor.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Santa Due This Afternoon.

4 wireless message to E. j. Fenton
& Co. announced that Santa left South
Londonderry this morning on the train
for Brattleboro. He will arrive here
at $50 this afternoon and either hack
or an automobile viii meet him at the
station to take llim to the big Fenton
daylight store \ drum corps will es-
cort Santa from the station, and repre-.
sentatives of the police department will
be on hand to keep the crowd moving:
Since he left the northern terminus of
the West river valley word has been re
ceived from various stations that Santa
has held receptions all along the line
and presented every child he has met
with his photograph. He will give his
picture to every Brattleboro. child who
meets him. and upon his arrival at the
Fenton store will give Il demonstration
of mechanical TOYS in one of the large
windows. He will also establish post,
office. and every child calling there will
receive letter. Every boy and girl in
Brattleboro and surrounding towns is
invited to meet Santa upOn the arrival
of the $50 train this afternoon from
South Londonderry.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
1.ncal Raskethall Plans.

The game scheduled for THURSDAY
nioht in Festival hall between the, AtI-
infirs of Brattleboro and the Cardinals
of Mt. Hermon promises TO pe OF We
Hind that local basketball fans are look
mo for The Former brothers on thee
Cardinal team have played on. one OF
the fastest high school teams III Onlo'
K Former, forward, was chosen Iof
nosition on the interscholast1c team ol
that state. ''Red' Culbertson, Tor
Ward was member of the York, "a,
.hioh school team and played against
nncb strong teams as Pittsburg and
PhiIadelphia high schools Rose ana
Newcomb we're members of the. Wood
land Pa. high school team. Manager
Henry p. Whitney is giving the Ath-
LIES an bonr and half of daily prac-
tice. and the team promises 70 pe ~ l.,
condition. AS vet no game mas neen
arranged for Christmas night. ureet5 a5
field high school comes here, Dec; ~ Z,
and Jan. 3 Turner's Falls sends tean
70 meet the Athletics. On, Jan. lht
Snrinofeld, Mass, high school alumni
tnan, comes TO BrattlebOro. Other mons
e'an,as oe%nl are with Springfield. Mass, !. NJ
= Ian. 12; Westfeld, Jan. 10
Northampton. Feb. 13; at Northampton
Tan ia Among other strong. teaInt
wbicb Manager Whitney has in view 1oi
,,amas in Brattlehoro are. Hudson, beT
arIv and Lowell. Mass, Newport; N. II.
South Manchester, Conn, ~. ,,J JeaUI". nnd
Of Holvoke, Mass. Bellows Falis, ana
number of other fast a@gre@atlohs'
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Emperor and Empress of India.

King George V and Queen Mary of Great
Britain have been. crowned emperor and
empress of India, having iourneyed t(
Delhi for that purpose The POM. and
grandeur of the ceremonies and of the
durbar held in connection have never beer
exceeded in modern times. Announcemment
is made that the capital of India will be
transferred from Calcutta to Delhi, which
is especially pleasing to most Of the native
princes on account Of the religious ano
traditional Importance of that city The
emperor gave S1600,O00 to the cause o.
popular education in India The empress
Wore dress of white satin, appropriate,ly
trimmed with the roses of England, the
thistle of Scotland and the shamrock q
ireland. with border of the lotus of India
The star of India embroidered the front o.
her dress.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Women, s Chances in New Zealand.

For women with courage and .prac-
+icaI turn of mind there is every chance
in New Zealand not only of good liy-
ing, in but of real happiness and hope in
tbe tb FIXTURE. saws writer in the Wide
World. Women are adaptable, and here
in lies the solution of the problem. They
must m st. be ready to turn their hands to
ANYTHING air2 that comes, to find no 5, work vI
beneath them, to work with all their
,nicbt Above all, they must 90 with
m open mind, ready to learn, to appre,
ciate and to understand. They, will find
themselves hens among the most delightful
neopie. who will open their hearts and an
their homes to the girl from the Old
Country, and at all times show tnat a1
true and practical friendship whlcR
makes New Zealand what Il ls-oHe tI5 oi
the happiest countries IN tine Worlu'
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
McNamaras Begin Their Sentences.

James b. and John ]. McNamara: con-
fessed dvnamiters at Los Angeles. began
sunday their terms of life Imprisonment
and Il years respectively, in San Quentin
prison. Neither would make any further
statement respecting the long list of out
RACES with which they are held to have
been connected. McManigle, who turned
states evidence. will go to Indianapolis,
where the federal grand jury Is considering
many possible indictments. Franklin
agent of the defence at Los Angeles, who is
charged with trying to bribe iurymen, will
probably confess LAWYER Darrow, who
drew $4,000 of the Mcnamara defence
fund for the services of himself and his as
sociates in the case, is being brought INTO
these bribery cases
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
General Service Bill Passes House.

The Sherwood general service pension
bill passed the House Tuesday, despite the
opposition of 81 democrats and eight re-
Ipublicans who voted against it; If it passes
the senate and becomes law. il will add
from $40 100000 to $75.0G0,00Q yearly to
the pension expenditures, Soldiers who
served from 90 days to six months will
draw SO per month; from six to nine
months 500 per month; from nine months
to one year, 500 per month; more than one
wear. $50 per month This bill supercedes
the so-called dolar-a-day pension bill that
has been before congress.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Sensational Trial in New York.

New York is providing the current court
sensation in the trial of Lillian Graham
and Ethel Conrad. charged with attempt
ing to kill w. +. D. Stokes, the millionaire
hotel proprietor Stokes is in a critical
condition of health. Many letters tending
to establish undue intimacy between Stokes
and Miss Graham have been introduced,
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Peace Meeting Very Warlike.

4 meeting in Camegie hall New orK..
Tuesday evening to urge the ratification of
the Taft peace treaties, at which Joseph
Choate presided, and Henry Waterson;
Nicholas Butler. Andrew Carnegie and
Frederick Coudert were down as speakers,
was broken up by riotous disturbance IN
the galleries created chiefly by Irish and
German Americans opposed to the treaties.
Police were summoned and the rioters
elected. A prominent citizen on the plat
form moved to substitute for the favorable
resolutions the report of the majority of
the senate committee on foreign relations,
which was adverse.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Calves Wanted!
Leqal Notices.
.,,-,sIoNrRs, NOTICE.

rcrATE OF WINFIELD w. WHITNEY.
EohAi II,adars;oned having been appointed by the
,1Ihe Inc Probate Court for the District OF Mari
boro Commissioners to receive examine and aa
%st the and de%aRSs SstpaH Of all Of HaS
the estate aI deceased and all claims exhibited
in sad Distric it hereby give notice that we will
Clerks Of Sna 81 iaa dag Of
trict on tfe ron, loo clock A. NJ until3 M
May sad DAYS and from the
SaT On If November A. D. 1911 is the time Gs
said Court for said creditors sSd 20 allowance
claims to US for V tbs 18th day of Dec
emOef' "a W. c. DooLITTLE Commissioners
A. w. 5O-59
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

Prizes valued at over 100000 are being
,i,-an n,Aip in various parts of the country for
saIIinp If red cross seals. These prizes consist
sfiiIl,e sc aenm nm cleaners. pianos, drinking foqn
tains IA IS books and variety of other articles i
Jnwn % to a button for every red cross seal
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Athletics Beaten in Greenfield.

In its first away.from- home game last
field Young Men s club S basketball
team by a score of % to 10. In the first
neriod the visitors were outplayed, but
IN the second the Brattleboro men
piayed the Greenfield team off its feet,
and had the Athletics not been haandi-
capped by the absence of Ellis and Oscar
Whitney the chances would have been
excellent for winning, Fortier OF the
Keene, n. H., team played center for
the Athletics. Maher and Cain were he
of dl the fdr Rd kt6ecs fa we Mas 1
mcndable. The line-up
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Saya & Sheinuk Co., Junk Dealers

Buy rags, rubbers, metals, OLD papers anu ''"e
ines. Send postal and we will call.
Shop 70 Elliot St. Tel. o|H"
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

Score, Young Men 5 Club, %; Athlett-
les 10, Goals from the floor, Maher !,
Sauter S ?, Manning 2, Cain 2 Kelley J.
Fortier 1. Goals from fouls, Fortier A.
Maher 3. Boutwell, l. Referee, By,rrn!es;
timer. Gould; scorer, Pervere, Ilme'
one 90 and one 15-minute period.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Wanted

WANTED At once good man 10 run double.
edger IN saw.mill, Holden q Martin, altf
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

WANTED-Woman TO knit or crochet Garnet
slippers, Address Miss Il. L. Ward 75 Lin.
uen 81 sns
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10
.GETTI.lG STAND
OF hLFALrd
Old Feel Lot is Ids3I FIaG9 Tor
Seeding.
BED MUST &c WELL PREPARED.

By c. B, Hutchinson, Instructor in
Agronomy, Missouri College of Az.
Ticulturc.
Alfalfa thrives best on a deep, rich,
loose and well drained soil. 1t takes
good and to grow it without consider
able care. Well drained creek and
river bottoms, as well as ali well
drained rich Enthusiastically those
containing plenty of lime-grow it
readily where properly handled. For
the small farmer who wishes to groy
only \ few acres, an old feed lot will
usually be found to be an ideal place
for seeding. For average to thi
lands, much care is necessary to keep
the grasses and weeds from taking
the stand. On such lands it is use
less to SOW alfalfa without the liberal
use of stable manure, although where
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10

pared. Young alfalfa plants are very
tender, and the conditions must be IA
vorable to start them off wei. For
spring sowing the ground should be
plowed in the fall, so as to allow it to
be well settled before seeding. In the
spring the ground should be worked
down and a well %pulverized seed bed
prepared. For fall sowing the ground
should be plowed early, preferable in
June or July blowing deep and work
ing down at once. 1t should be
worked at frequent intervals until
time to SOW, in order to kill all growth
of grass and weeds and conserve mOis-
ture. Ii late blowing is necessary the
ground should be well rolled to COM
pact it below and bring the loose soil
in close contact with the bottom Of
the furrow.
Where manure is to be used it is
best applied with a spreader at the
rate Of ten to fifteen tons per acre,
and plowed under early.
Cowpeas is an excellent crop TO pre-
cede alfalfa, as they leave the ground
in good physical condition and in fine
shape for fall sowing. Where alfalfa
follows this crop, the manure should
be plowed under before the peas are
planted, so that it will become more
thoroughly worked into the soil than
# applied just before seeding the al
falfa.
An early maturing variety Of cow
pea, such rs the New Era, will, If
sown early, mature and be ready to
cut for hay by the middle of August.
After the peas are removed, a good
seed bed can be prepared by thorough
disking and narrowing, which will be
better than blowing so late.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10

this is applied at the rate of twelve
to fifteen tons per acre, if the soil is
well drained, it ear usually be grown.
1t is practically useless to try to grow
alfalfa on fat prairie soils which are
poorly drained.
On uplands where alfalfa has never
been grown, it is usually necessary to
inoculate the soil. If there is much
sweet clover in the vicinity, the soil
is probably already inoculated, for the
same bacteria grow on the roots OF
each. Bottom lands which overflow
never need incubation.
The best way to ~inoculate is to take
soil from an old alfalfa field or from
n patch Of sweet clover and scatter
two or three hundred pounds per acre.
It should be narrowed in Immediately.
as any considerable exposure to the
light will weaken or kill the bacteria.
Another way is to dry the soil in the
dark and SOW from a gram drill. The
method Of inoculating the seed with
artificial cultures is not yet estab-
ltshed as a reliable method.
On some soils which have a ten
dency to sourness, lime is beneficial.
The best form to apply Is the ground
limestone, which is also the cheapest.
Three or four thousand pounds per
acre is usually the right amount to
apply. The lime from gas works is
not suitable. For a small area, ordi-
nary lime may be slaked and used.
There are numerous methods of
spreading it on the soil.
Alfalfa may be sown in the spring
on very fertile lands. but for average
10 thin lands, fall or late summer sow
ing is much better. The time Of seed
ing depends largely ON the weather
conditions. from the first of August
10 the middle Of September usually
covering the most successful sowings.
Clean seed, of strong vitality and
free from obnoxious weeds, should be
used and sown at the rate Of fifteen
or twenty pounds per acre. Seed con
tanning dodder is especially to be
avoided. The better the seed bed, the
less seed required. The seed is best
hroadcasted and lightly narrowed in.
A more even stand will be secured If
half the seed Is sown and the other
half own across it. A grain drill
may also he used, covering lightly
with the hoes.
On very fertile lands alfalfa is
sometimes seeded in the spring with
good success, but on the thinner soils
plants seeded in the spring are usually
overcome by weeds and grass before
they are well set. Where it is sown
in the spring, It may be sown alone,
or with a light seeding Of oats or bar
ley for a nurse crop. It is sometimes
sown on wheat in the spring in much
the same manner as clover, but this
should be done only on the very best
lands, such as the river bottom lands.
In fall sowing there is some danger
Of the plants being burned out If dry
weather follows the seeding, and if
near a meadow the g%rasshoppers fire.
q~uently destroy the plants. For ordi.
nary upland, however, the chances for
q successful stand are much better
than where spring sowing is prac-
ticed.
The seed bed must be well pre-
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10

More than 2.1Oo men received def
mite instruction in the College of Ag-
riculture of the University of Mis-
souri, this year. It a scarcely be
said that the college educates these
men away from the farm, for probably
1900 of them are now back on farms
in the midst Of spring work. Some
400 more are still in school in the
long course and will be on the farm as
soon as school closes in June. The
College of Agriculture is in intimate
touch with the farm, and, contrary to
the opinion Of some, it educates the
men to stay on the farm and make
good. These trained men go out as
veritable missionaries in the commu
mites, to carry the gospel of more eff
hcient work.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10
PaSTURING HOGS ON RAPE
Cheaper Gains Than on Corn Alone.
Cold Weather Pasture.
By F. G. King, Missouri College Of Ag

By F. G. King, Missouri College of Ag-
riculture.
Rape cal be own so as to furnish a
forage at ~ time of the growing sea-
son, and, if necessary, can be used as
the principal pasture for hogs. 1t
must not, however, be pastured too
closely, and must be given an oppor-
tunity to get well started before being
pastured. The amount of land sown
to rape need not be large, because it
is worthless except for pasture or soil
ing, and ole acre will pasture fifteen
to twenty hogs for a period Of two
to three months.
Rape is a plant Of the cabbage fam
fly, closely resembling it in manner
of growth and character of forage. 1t
is rather 1 cool weather plant, and
can be sown very early in the spring
as soon as there is no danger of a
severe frost. 1t will endure a pretty
severe frost in the fall before it is in
jured; in fact, it may often be used
for pasture after it has been frozen,
provided stock is kept off while it is
frozen.
1t is a gross feeder, and does best
on a very Grille or a heavily MANFRED
soil, but c.,ies fairly well where cor
and wheat thrive. 1t is a very rapid
grower, and If sown alone on good
land will / sixteen to eighteen inches
high in s. 10 eight weeks. When
sowing rap alone 1t is best to have a
well prepared seed bed, well pulver-
lied and sown in drills two and = half
feet apart, and cultivate until eight
inches high. 1t may also be sown
broadcast, and either narrowed or
disked into the ground. When sown
in drills, about two or three pounds
Of seed per acre Is SUFFICIENT, but II
sown broadcast, three to Ave pounds
and sometimes more are needed.
When pasturing rape, the hogs
should not be turned on until the
plants are twelve or fourteen inches,
or better still, sixteen to eighteen
inches high. When pastured before
this time the hogs pull up the young
plants and kill them, thus destroying
the pasture. Rape should not be pas
tured so closely that nothing except
the bare stalk remains. A few leaves
or parts of leaves should be left to
start new growth. II planted In drills
and cultivated after each period Of
pasturing, three crops may be OBJ
tanned from each set Of plants yearly.
At the Missouri Ely pertinent Station
a mixture of rape and oats have given
one of the most productive pastures
ever used. 1t can he sown either at
the same time as the oats, or a be
sow and narrowed in after the oats
are up. Rape can also be sown in rye
and give excellent pasture. The Dwarf
Essex variety has been giving the best
results in this state.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10
NMFkOELhHAI Of WHEAT IN
I MISSOURI BY SCIENTIFIC SELECTION
GREATER YIELDS OBTAINED BY
EXPERIMENT STATION.

Not to reate new freak plants or
peculiar fruits, but to make more ker.
nels Of wheat and more bushels per
acre is the work ui the wheat breed
Ing experiments at the University q.
Missouri. How successful they have
been may be een in the accompany
ing photograph The illustration
shows Turkey wheat, FIST unIm
proved, and then the results Of sGlc,
tion. One strain Sele, ted yioldec
B3.25 bushels. AS against the 5il1
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10

Many q creamery man has known
that his butter was not what it should
be, but has not known just what a
the trouble. Recently the College Of
Agriculture Of the University of Mis-
souri, has arranged tn test butter sent
In from the various parts Of the state,
sending back word as to how it should
be different to come up to the perfect
standard and what to do to improve it
Much Of the trouble found is due To
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10
HARROW THE CORN

BY A C. Page, College of Agriculture.
University Of Missouri
It takes some nerve for a man who
has never tried it to put a spike-tooth
harrow onto a field OF young corn It
looks as If the corn would almost all
he uprooted
As a matter OF fact. there is no way
the farmer can save time and help his
corn crop any better than to harrow
the corn once when It is a few inches
tall II will save the first blowing,
and will kill almost all Of the germin
ated weed seeds. And when a boy
can drive two or three sections and
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-06-10

from the standpoint vi chemical com
position The gluten content is the
most valuable part OF the wheat from
the standpoint Of food value, aud this
they will attempt to increase by selec-
ton and breeding.
The results OF the wheat breeding
work, as well as Of other work with
orn and oats. will all be exhibited at a
invention Of operative millers, which
5 10 he held at Detroit the first week
VI lubr Samples OF the various