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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
Mrs. Eliza (Phillips) Thayer.

Mrs. Eliza (Phillips) Thayer who
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs
+, c. Davis, in Athol, Mass, last Satur.
day, was born in Bakersfield. Vt, in
December, 1897. She married Lucien
o. Thayer of Jamaica Dee. %, 1864.
Her parents, with five children, came
from Bakersfield to the place now
owned by A. NJ. Gushing, when she was
smll child When Young woman she
went to work in the Brattleboro Retreat
where she remained until her marriage.
They bought the farm now owned by
George L. White, where they remained a
few years, after which they both
worked at the Retreat for number of
years. Later they bought the place in
this village now occupied by Russell w.
Blood, where Mr.. Thayer died Oct. -.
1900. After the death of her husband
Mrs. Thayer lived with her daughter in
Brattleboro until two years ago, when
they moved to Athol, Mass.
The funeral service was held at Athol
Sunday morning. The body was taken
to Townshend Monday morning, where
the .committal service was held in Oak,
wood cemetery, Rev. Joseph Mexican
officiating.
Mrs. Thayer leaves one brother, ST.
mon Phillips, who lives in the west, also
an adopted daughter, Mrs. E. C. Davis,
of Athol Mass.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15

married Saturday by Rev Alfred Cor.
nell
Ebert Howard of Newfane has been
working AT Edward W, Holden 5, re,
pairing his house.
Mr.. aud Mrs. W. W. Van Ness aud
son, Walter, aud w, H. Taft spent
Thursday in Charlemont, Mass.
The funeral Of Ora u, Howe was held
Sunday az his home Rev Alfred Cor.
nell ollicntcd and interment was in the
river cemetery NJ East Jamaica Mr..
Howe died Friday night after a short
illness, having come from New York
city TO his former home here about
week ago. His death was due 10
chronic Bright 5 disease. He was born
in Jamaica, the son of Osma and Verona
old. He leaves Il widowed mother. "a
wife and two children, besides two
brothers.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
WEST ToWNsHEND.

Mrs. Cyril B. Switzer was in Brattle-
boro Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Taft were in
Brattleborc Wednesday.
Victor P Jyden Of Brattleboro is with
his father. Dexter E. Boyden.
Mr.. ant. Mrs. Jason A. Veinot and
children spent Wednesday in Brattle-
boro.
George Sanderson cut. the second
finger of his right hand Monday while
cutting corn.
Clarence Albert Peacock and Miss
Ella s. Craique, both Of this place, were
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
HOUGHTONVILLE.

John Walch is on the sick list.
Mrs. Benjamin Gallup is on the sick list
Charles ODER visited in Londonderry
Friday,
Guy E. Blood has returned home from
Washington.
Mr. Sweet of Bellows Falls called on
friends here Sept. IL.
Miss Fannie Z. Jackson returned home
Sunday from her visit at Bartonsville.
Mrs. Emma White and Ryland Devoll of
Grafton visited at e. H. Ober's Sunday.
Miss Carrie Z. Blood of Grafton visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Blood,
Sunday.
The body of Mrs. Calista Fay was
brought from Cavendish to the cemetery
here Tuesday
Mrs. Jennie Whitney returned to her
home in Londonderry Friday from her visit
at E. H. Ober's.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams of Good
ellsville, VT, spent Sunday with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Axtell.
Miss Eta N. jackson returned home
Sunday from Alden Culver's where she has
been working for the past two months.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
WINDHAM.

4 recital by Miss Anna Lamphear of
Boston, violinist, and Miss Marion II.
Clarke of Bellows Falls, reader, will be
given at the town hall Monday evening.
Sept, IS. Refreshments will be served
after the entertainment The recital is
under the auspices of Glebe Mountain
grange and the proceeds 20 toward the
mann fnnl
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
Legal Notices.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

ESTATE OF CATHERINE E. SULLIvA
The undersigned. having been appointed Y !,
Honorable Probate Court for the District VI
boro. Commissioners. to receive, examine IL Y
just the claims and demands Of all persons Asla]
the estate of Catherine T. Sullivan, late Of 5'ia1
boro in said District. deceased. and all cirz Il
hibited in offset thereto, hereby give nous Il
we will meet for the purpose AFORESAID
County Clerks office. in the village Of Bntaasl
in said District, on the 23d DAY Of StptenhS, 4
and Sd day of February, next from ocoef !
until o'clock p. NJ. on each Of SAD iaH !
that six months from the 10th day q w
A. D. 1911. is the time limited by ssid l11N /, 4
said creditors to present their claims 70 4
examination and allowance
Dated at Brattleboro this 25th day OF A4A
A. d. 1911.
F. d. Z. STOWE r,-,,,,,.,s
S5-37 CHAS. C. STAPLESi
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15

No appeal except by prayer is ever made
for. the support of Muller's orphanage and
scriptural knowledge association at Bristol
Eng. The I'D annual report of this insti-
taking, for the receipts last year Were were
nearly 100000
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15

Mr.. Rhodes Ia the face. one tooth Nas
knocked out and another one broken Oh
Hls face was badly swoAen and very sore,
but the law bone was not broken.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
WEST DUMMERSTON.
Death of Mrs. William Leonard.

Mrs Lillian Leonard died at hei
home here Saturday evening after 4
| long Illness. Mrs. Leonard will be
missed by a large circle of friends. She
was always a kind wife and mother and
a thoughtful neiglrbor. She was a mem.
Der of the Baptist church of this place
| and of West Dummerston grange and
| Ladies Aid society. She is survived
by her husband, William Leonard, and
one son, Frank Leonard, both having
the sympathy of the entire village.
Quito town friends and relatives who
attended the funeral, which was held
at the Baptist church Tuesday, were c.
ID. Hosely, Mrs. Maria Johnson and son
of Springfield, Mass, Mrs. i. Hoselv
of Shelburne Falls. Mr.. and Mrs. Wheel
err and Miss Edna Wheeler of West
Brattleboro, Mr. and Mrs. George Bur
nett. Mr.. and Mrs Frank Burnett, Mrs.
Williams and j. Herrick. all of Brat.
tleboro, also Austin Roel and his broth
er, Rev Mr.. Roel, who assisted Rev.
Mr.. Clark at the funeral services.
There was a profusion of beautiful
flowers from relatives, friends. Ladies
Aid society. grange, Sunday school and
school children.
A heavy frost fell here Wednesday
night. 1t was the first frost of the
season.
Archie Livingston of Manchester. n.
H., was guest at p. Connarn s this
week.
Charles Taft attended his grand
mother S funeral in Hartford, VT, last
Sunday
Miss Ruth Baldwin went Wednesday
to Mortified, Mass, where she is to at
tend the Moody schools.
Miss Leora Connarn left Monday for
Bethel and will also visit her sister at
Montpelier before returning.
Mrs. Hattie Marsh returned from
Brattleboro Wednesday where she has
been spending some time with Mrs.
Allen.
Mrs. John Taft returned Wednesday
from Hartford, VT, where she was
called by the sickness and death of her
mother.
Robert Coombs came from Salem. |
Mass, Tuesday. He is able to go about |
on clutches after being confined for the |
past few weeks with broken ankle.
The entertainment which was to have
been given in Grange hall last Friday
evening, was postponed until some flu.
-ue date on account of the serious i'll
hess of Mrs. w. B. Leonard.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
Annual Seminary Reception.

The senior class of Leland and Gray
seminary gave their annual reception to
the freshmen and the faculty in Semi
nary hall Tuesday evening, Sept. u.
The hall was tastefully decorated with
maple leaves, evergreen and asters.
After the usual reception there was Il
brief entertainment, consisting of a
piano duet by Misses Margaret Mills
and Hazel Landman, song by Miss
Esther Dale, and violin, mandolin
and piano selection by Park Osgood,
Madge Ellwell and Mrs. f. l., Osgood.
Rev. Joseph Mexican, president of the
board of trustees, gave a short address
in which he extended a welcome to the
new teachers and to the freshman class,
and urged the townspeople to take a
new interest in the welfare of the in
stitution, emphasizing the need of occa-
sional visits to the class room as well
as an increased interest in the social
functions. The response was given by
Principal Guy w. Powers, who in few
well-chosen words thanked the trustees
on behalf Of the faculty. Refreshments
of ice-cream and waters We're served,
after which the young people engaged
in a number of marches. A number of
former students were in attendance.
Those from out of town were Miss Har-
riet Doane and Miss Lottie Hosley of
Jamaica and Miss Belle Timson of Will
Evansville.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15
Descendants of the Newton Family.

The gathering Of the descendant, Of the
family Of Marshall Newton, an early set.
tier on Newlaue Hill. was not large in the
sense OF embracing all the lines spread over
the whole county as II was hastily called,
Owing TO the atencss OF the date of gath.
eriug, sept. Oil, many OF the more dis.
tant relatives were unable TO respond hay
ing already had their annual vacations An
organization, however was effected aud
the interest manifested promises large
reunion earlier in the season next year.
The president is w. H. Newton OF Wal.
lmgiOrd, Conn secretary and assistant
secretary are Miss Ellen ITuldah Newton
nf Cincinnati, O.. and Miss Elsie NJ. New.
ton of Walingford, Conn; treasurer, Her
bert Baker of Mechanicsyillc. y. y.
Saturdays rain prevented the proposed
picnic at the old homestead on Newfiuc
Hill but Newiane inn arose TO the occasion
as headquarters and 81 sat around long
table loaded with ample picnic provision
in addition 10 4 hot stew and boiled corn.
provided by the landlord.
Descendants in the Rev Ephrdim Hol-
land Newton line from Pittshed and Cam
bridge. Mass. who came In their touring
car managed TO take hasty trip over the
hill between showers before their home.
ward Journey Twenty-Five were left 10 at.
tend church in body Sunday morning
Finally most Of the gathering went TO the
homestead in clearing weather
where they were photographed They also
visited general points Of interest on the old
bill summit, the kenney farm and the
Isaac Newton place. -Four states We're rep
resented Vermont. Massachusetts,. New
\ ork and Texas.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15

w. Fl. Miles spent Wednesday in
Brattleboro.
Frank Lawrence spent Friday in
Brattleboro.
Clarence Reed of Brattleboro spent
Tuesday here.
Mrs. Almon Marsh visited in Brook
line this week.
Miss Addie Shaddock has returned to
F. Fl. Wizards.
S. F. Henry of Burlington spent last
Thursday in town.
Harry Sparks is working for Earl
Davis in Newfane.
F. f. Perry of Brattleboro spent
Thursday in town.
Mrs. Minnie Cobb has moved her
goods to Brattleboro.
Emory Jones of Charleston, N. H.,
was in town Monday.
Fred l.. Lowe bought new Ford
automobile last week.
Lesion and Wilfred Wheeler were in
Brattleboro last Monday
A. R. Marsh was business visitor in
Brattleboro last Wednesday.
R. N. Fairbanks of Guilford visited
recently at F, w. Watson s.
Earl B. Hamlin returned Thursday
from visit in Springfield, vt.
Miss Edith Sanders was at home
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04

terested in maintaining that status
of correct behavior between news
paper men and public men than you
gentlemen yourselves. Suppose that
during this trial had given the name
of my Informant and he had given
the testimony; it would have had a
wonderful influence in the case.
l asked him if he had changed
his mind and If l was at liberty
to give the information and he said
No, could not release you,' and he
told me why, and his reasons were
absolutely sufficient, and l would not
violate that confidence for anything.
81 am sorry I cannot give you the
information, but it is really impos-
sible for me to violate that conf
dence / have been very frank with
you and will answer any question ex-
cept leading questions that you wish
to put to me-"
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04
CLEVER ARTIST is SOUGHT

Washington, Arpil "A pen and
ink artist, who raises 81 bills to $40
and 500 national bank notes, is being
sought by the secret service. The
newest specimen, 500 note on the
United States National bank of Los
Angeles, was picked up in Chicago
and sent to headquarters. Acting
Chief Moran, the governments expert
on counterfeit money, says the bogus
bills were originally genuine certifi'
Gates, washed in solution which
removed the ink. The counterfeiter
then proceeded to make with pen and
ink a new note.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04

has the stout, straight shoulders. the
upright carriage and the cigar-chewine
habit that characterized Croker wher
he sat in Fourteenth street and gov
erned the city's administration.
Each has that square jaw which
needs a beard to soften its outline, and
each has grown just such beard. In
both the skull is abnormally level, as
though flattened out in infancy, and
friends of both declare that II ever
there was anything in the word
"square-head,' O'Gorman and Croker
should be entitled to whatever compli.
ment there is in the expression.
Blue eyes, brown hair, now turning
to gray. and many wrinkles around the
eyes, give Crokeresque touch to
O'Gorman. His large family, nine
children, has taken up great deal of
his time of recent years, yet he has
found leisure to mingle with the men
he used to know in the law just as
though he were still one of them
selves and not justice of the SUI
preme court of the state.
The breath of suspicion has never
hurt James A. O'Gorman. Discomfort.
ed litigants doubtless have allied
against him, but these have found
themselves without ammunition when
they came to search for personal
powder and shot.
Richard Croker made him Grand
Sachem of Tammany Hall, and when
in 1899, the opportunity presented it.
self, nominated him for justice of the
supreme court. When at his duties in
the court house, he was punctilious
to the point of severity, and woe be-
tide the lawyer who did not have his
case properly prepared
AS justice of the supreme court
Mr.. O'Gorman played a deciding part
in many cases that attracted attention
not only here but on the other side of
the Atlantic. He signed the decree
that freed Ellen French Vanderbilt
from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; he
ruled that the provisions of the city
charter prohibited theatrical perform
ances on Sundays; he frowned on the
haste of Acknowledgement Jackson in
throwing the Oriental bank into the
hands of a receiver, and he dismissed
the suit brought by Mae Catherine
Wood against Thomas c. Platt, the
late United States senator, in which
she sought to establish that she was
Senator Platt's wife. In these, as in
many other cases, Justice O'Gorman
proved himself determined, positive
man.
AS a member of the Judiciary Mr.
O'Gorman has been noted for his re-
served demeanor and his aversion to
matrimonial cases. He has been for
tunate enough to suffer few reversals
at the hands of the appellate division,
though more than any other judge on
the bench he has exercised the priv.
ilege of questioning witnesses and
eliciting from them material testimony
that would not otherwise have devel.
oped.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04

RED MEN-Meet in Fraternal Broth
erhood hall the sleep of the fourth
Thursday of each month, eighth
run, thirtieth breath. Visiting broth
ers always welcome to the wigwam.
w. o. Wood, sachem; David Flint,
chief of records and collector Of
wampum.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04

Jail and was thwarted by bomb ex-
ploded prematurely, the real purpose
of the explosion is unexplainable. The
first explosion occurred in the street
in the front of La Favorita dance
hall and, as the revelers ran out a
woman shouted that two men on top
of a roof opposite the dance hall had
thrown it. A number of special po-
Ecemen and soldiers in the dance hall
dashed into the building where the
men were supposed to be and two
more bombs were hurled at them as
they got into the path of the court,
of the buildings.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04
why REPORTERS
should ALWAYS
KEEP WORD
CHICAGO EDITOR INSTRUcTS HIS
MEN NOT TO 6ETRAY
SOURCE OF NEWS

Last Wednesday, H. H. Kohlsaat, ed
itor of the Chicago Record-Herald
declined to disclose to the Illinois
legislative committee the source oil
information that had come to him
concerning 100000 fund raised to
bring about the election of United
State Senator Lorimer, on the ground
it would be a violation of newspaper
ethics to do so.
The information which was given
the Chicago editor in confidence short
ly after the White confession last
spring, he considered to be of such
reliability that it was used as the
basis for editorials urging an investi-
CATION of the Lorimer election.
This is his story before the com
mittee:
Shortly after the Chicago Tribune
published Representative Whites
story last spring." he said, Il met a
friend of mine, a man of the highest
character and intelligence. and a man
who does not make reckless state
ments, and he gave me detailed
account of the raising of 100000 to
bring about the election of Mr.. Lori
mer.
HE gave it to me in confidence
| told him that the confidence would
not be betrayed With that feeling
of perfect security that this mans in
formation that he gave me was alb
solutely reliable, l took the position
that the election should be investigat-
ed and came out editorially and back
ed the Tribune in its fight.
"The natural inclination in cases of
that kind, where there are two great
papers striving in the same field 1or
circulation, advertising and influence.
is to, in the language of the street,
knock the other papers story. But
was so impressed with the truth of
this that | came out editorially the
next day, after this and backed the
Tribune in it's story, and have done
it ever since.
"As l say, this was given to me
in confidence. The cordial principle
of an honorable, upright neswpaper
man is confidence When | engage a
cub reporter or put out correspon-
dent or financial man on the street,
say: Now, one thing you must
understand from the start, that when
a man gives you piece of informa-
ton in confidence you, under no circ
cumstances whatever, must ever di-
vulge his name. If you do, you Will
be discharged no matter how import
ant and vital to the newspaper that
information is
about month ago we printed d
story in Chicago exclusively that l
would have been glad to pay $500 for
"a big financial story. ! asked the
managing editor who got it and he
told me and I sent for the man and
| complimented him on his story,
and then said: Who gave it to your
He said: 4 got it in confidence l
said: IF you had told me I would
have discharged you
Nov, I have talked that to my
boys and men and correspondents for
twenty years, and nothing under
heaven would make me set an exam
pie of breach of confidence to my men
and to the other newspaper reporters
and the men of this country.
There is no one that is more in
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04

g. p. o. ELks-Meets second and
fourth Tuesday evening OF each
month at o. R. c. hall. Visiting
Brothers are cordially invited. ]. X.
Martin. Exalted Ruler: D. w. Con-
don. Secretary.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04

sALDY LODGE NO. ", FRATERNAL
UNION OF AMERIcA-Meets first
and third Wednesdays OF each
month at Fraternal Brotherhood
hall. A. e. Hayward, F. M; w. A.
Givens, Secretary. Visiting mem
bers cordially invited.
Las Vegas optic., 1911-04-04
O'GORMAN, POOR In YOUTH,
SOON MADE ABILITY FELT
Struggling Lawyer Rose to Supreme Court Justice
Now United States Senator

New York, April 4.-James Aloysius
lO'Gorman, the newly elected dem
ocratic senator from New York, sue
ceeding United States Senator Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, was born in downtown
New York City, fifty-one years ago
come next May 5. His parents were
of the simple, unassuming kind, poor
but never looking for charity, on
whim, as foundation, the prosperity
of New York City was built.
Young O'Gorman attended the clas-
ses of the College of the City of New
York, in the days when that institu-
tnon was but cradle for more or
less indiscriminate tuition. Then he
decided to become lawyer, and with
the help of a couple of elderly friends
who had established offices here,
O'Gorman, having passed the Regents
examination, settled down to wait for
degree.
O'Gorman lived over on the "west
side" at that time, and his means of
| livelihood were of the slenderest. He
affiliated himself with the labor party
in his own district and his dominating
nature soon made itself felt, Peter
l
Dooling, a stripping like himself, recog-
nized the value of having such a steam
engine as O'Gorman with him. and
they became fast friends.
! It was not long before John Kelly,
leader of Tammany Hall, saw that
the young west side lawyer, O'Gor-
man." was man who should be
sought after. O'Gorman joined Tam
many Hall, and as reward for hard
work they made him a municipal court
justice. 1t was not jlace highly es-
teemed, for in those days the police
court magistrate was the vital power
in judicial politics. But O'Gorman
made the best of his opportunities and
incidentally earned for himself a re-
putation among his constituents.
1t was in 1893 that O'Gorman as
cended the municipal bench-just
eleven years after he had been ad-
mitted to the bar. Richard Croker
was coming into his own at that time
Though they are not alike in such
manner that one might mistake
O'Gorman for Croker, there is a great
deal of similarity between the ex-lead-
er of Tammany Hall and the new
United States senator.
Never in his widest dreams could
Richard Croker have thought that
he or any other bulwark of Tammany
Hall could be selected as the states
representative in the nations most i'm
portant legislative body. But if the
possibility of the thing had entered
Croker's mind it is quite likely he
would have seriously considered the
young labor lawyer and newly elected
municipal court Judge O'Gorman, as
senatorial possibility. The more Gro
ker saw of O'Gorman the more he
admired him.
Physically Croker and O'Gorman are,
while not at all similar, still mot un-
like" as the saying goes. O'Gorman