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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
DAY IN CONGRESS


 Convened at 10 a. m
 Agreed to consider campaign contribu- tions bill Saturday.
 Bills of lading bill made up and ayo- cational bill to be presented Tuesday
 Passed Coosa river dam measure.
 Conference report on Panama canal bill was, approved by vote of safe major ity after fight led by MT. Brandegee.
 Attempt to pass wool tariff revision bill ever Presidents veto failed.
 Senator LaFollette attacked new pro gressiye party and swore new allegience to progressive republicanisnl.
 Number of important army promotions confirred. but confirmation of Socundino Romero as marshal for New Mexico was withdrawn.
 Passed Kenyon freight classification bill
 Adjourned at 6:55 p. m. until Il a m. sunday.
 House:
 Convened at noon.
 Chairman Hamiin of state department of expenditures committee filed informal report reviving old charges of dangerous practices in expenditures by the state department
 Representative Warburton in set speech denonnced preconvention campaign in Washngton's state.
 Representatives Legare of South Caro- l;na and Haugen of Iowa, whose places were contested, were declared entitled to their seats.
 Attempt to pass Corbett tunnel eiii over Presidents veto failed. Unexpected opposition to Panama canai hnl conference report developed. forcing sn aoiournment before consideration of report was concluded. Bourne Bristow parcels pos- provision ir DOS toffice appropriation bill substituted i,y system of Representative Moon and bill returned to conference. Lecis,ative-e ve-executive-judicial bill with commerce court and seven year tenure civil service provisions eliminated, re- introduced. Army appropriation and fur zeal treaty hills sent to conference-
 Adjourned at 7.22 ,. m. until lO:3o .. m. Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Confirm Appoint ments

Washington. August 16--The Senate in executive session tonight confirmed the appointments of Brigade General Clarence K. Edwards as an officer of the line; Col. Frank McIntire as chief of the bureau of insular affairs with rank of brigade general; Col. E. z. Steever, Fourth cavalry, as brigade general. col. George Andrews as ad jutant general of the army with rank of brigade general, and number of minor military appointments.
 No action was taken. however, on the appointment of Brigade Gen. W. w. Wetherspoon as major general to succeed Major General Grant. Failure to act on this appointment prevented action on that of Col. John McClernand to succeed General Wetherspoon as q brigade general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
TODAY's AGE-HERALD

I--Lafollette bitter in attack on new
 party.
 Tarin Is main tSic of Colonel's first
 speech.
 Senate passes bIl for the construc-
 ton of ccosa hn.
 Center attentonIon graft cases. Darrow case goE to jury today. Editors will co1er with Wilson. 2--Great opportJity now confronts
 Governor O'Nal. 3-Board of tradeFermed at Marion. Seed ccisents F address farmers. Walkef bar rdrets Simpsons death. l-EditoriaI eomtfnt- 5--Molton gets che and takes another
 rap at O'Ne5
 Will urge Ne9ith for supreme bench G--Society.
 Dolly Dalrymle. 7-Sports. 5--Iriim men atacked by the govern
 ment. s-Dead man bun1 on Ensley tracks
 is said to ' Jim Love. lc- Rus.ness ciihes are not alarmed. Il Markets. i3.%rrop situattn much improved New OrleaJ men interested in line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
EDITORS ID CONFER WITH GOV. WILSON Today Is New Jersey Day
 at Seagirt ENCOURAGING NEWS Mrs. Gertrude Athcrton Takes Stump in Behalf of Wilson and De-
 livers Attack on Colonel
 Roosevelt
ENCOURAGING NEWS

Seagirt. N. l., August 16.--Deno. cratic editors throughout the country soon may be invited to gather at Sea grt for a conference with Gov Wood row Wilson.
 Josephus E. Daniels, national com. mtteeman from North Carolina ant chairman of the committee on pub. licity, broached the plan for a meet. ing of editors of democratic and in. dependent papers the time to coincide with the annual meeting of American Newspaper Publishers association 1T New York next month.
 'I like the idea very mueh.' sait Governor Wilson tonight in comment ing on MT. Daniels scheme. With MT. Daniels tonight came Will Ham c. McAdoo. vice chairnlan of tn, campaign committee. They told the governor that Chairman McCombs, who Is III, would be able to be at work again in aHmt two weeks.
 The two visitors brought the gov ernor a report made by George NJ. Pal mer. democratic state chairman in New York, after visit "to every sena- torial district in New York" declaring that the Wilson forces 'held the state safe"
 The governor also received a report made by Fred B. Lynch, national com mitteeman in Minnesota, stating that while the Roosevelt movement was strong. the Wilson forces would carry the state"
 The governor announced he had ac- cepted an invitation to speak on Au- gust 19 before the Plattdeutscher Volk- fest Verein at Hoboken, N. J., and also would make an address at the New York state fair at Syracuse on Septem- Der 12.
 Tomorrow will be New Jersey day at Seagirt. Special trains have been arranged to carry delegations from various parts of the state. Goyernor Wilson will speak at noon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Recall Appointment of Romero

Washington. August 16.-The nomina- ton of Secundino Romero as United States marshall for New Mexico, con firmed by the Senate late yesterday. was recalled in an executive session tonight.
 Senator Bacon. who made the motion to recall the confirmation. said charges had been made before the judiciary com mttee that Romero. whiie sheriff, had assaulted former Judge r. V, Long ot New Mexico. The appointRfnt will be taken up again early next Week.
 Representative Ferguson before the Senate judiciary committee. asserted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Mrs. sh0don Reappears

London, August le.--Mrs. r. B. shel- don. the Ametican artist, who was yes terday repor ed to be missing. having left for the English lake district on August 2. rSappeared at her London lodgings today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Came Without Warning

Senator LaFollette's outburst came without warning. He arose 10 make an analysis of the Presidents veto message on the wool bill but had spoken scarcely a dozen words when the break came. He saw that many senators had left their seats as he began to speak. and with a bitter smile he turned to the president of.the Sen ate:
 T note the fact he said, "that on the republican side there are just n senators present. l am constrained to. speculate bit about this. | am forced to question whether that situation may not be a sort of prophecy of what is to come"
 Senator LaFollette then remark ed that he remembered the first time he addressed the Senate and practically every seat on the republican side was vacated as a rebuke to him flor pre- suming to know anything about legis- 1ation"
 T prophesied then that when the people came to understand the sort of service they were getting those seats would be permanently vacated. Since then there have been some 30 of those seats vacated. l don't believe that the public or this country Is going to find any measure of relief from that con dition by wandering off into unexplored fields, under the gt tdance of pilot who exercised a yer supreme control while we were getting into exactly the same condition the country is in now.
 'I believe the redemption of reprs- sentative government In this country will be accomplished by the republican n party"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Dam Will Be Built at the Site Selected for
 Lock IS
MOST IMPORTANT
 PROJECT OF YEARS
Power Will Be Used for Manufacture of Iron Nitrate for Fertilizers. Will Save Government an
 Immense Sum
BY c. E. STEW AFT.

Washington, August 16.-tSpecial)-Th Senate today passed Senator Banhhead bill to allow the Alabama Power com pany. organized at Gadsden, to build dam across the Coosa river about seven and cne-half miles above Wetumpka, at the site selected for lock 1S The construction of this dam will save the government, it is estimated by the chief engineer and the Secretary of War about $l, ,60000 in the Improvement of navi- gation. At the rate of per cent it will represent to the federal government a rental of SC. .22 per horsepower for all power developed by the company
 Use of the Power
 The power developed will DC, used for fhe manufacture of iron nitrate for ferti- lizers. This is the most important project that has been promoted for agriculture in Alabama in half a century, it is claimed by those interested The nitrates used in fertiizing are imported from Chile, almost exclusively. It is said that the nitrate beds of Chile are fast becoming exhausted. During the last decade the expoI tations Of Chilean nitrates have in- creased 50 per cent in quantity and 6o per cent III pIICB anu -Jv per GStfA III AiaaC yaluc.
 The United States has paid the Chilean government in the past 3l years over A- COG, ,0OO, enough almost to build the Panama canal, for nitrates, and 1t is now proposed to manufacture the nitrates from the air in Alabama by the use of this water power that is going to waste over the rapids of the Coosa-A.abama rivers
 Means Much to Alabama
 The fact that this industry will be lo- cated right in the center of the cotton growing section will mean much to the farmers of the south, and stiH more ste Alabama
 Alabama farmers can testify as to the importance of nitrates in fertilizers.
 The bill having passed the Senate will be called up in the House probably to- morrow and finally passed
 The question of manufacturing nitrate fertilizers from the air, on eommer- cial scale, is not experimental. It has been successfully demonstrated in Nor way, where plants that utilize the vast water power of that country have been erected There has recently been com pleted in Canada a plant for the manu fracture of such fertilizers which will derive it's power from Niagara Falls, and it is stated that other establishments will be erected in the United States at points where water power and the necessary raw materials are available. The effect of this industry on the do- mestic trade of Alabama will no doubt be far reaching.
 John c. Eyster. a prominent lawyer Of New Decatur and J. H. Reed and wife of Birmingham are spending few days in Washington. Hector D. Lane, former member of the legislature and now secre- tary to Commissioner of Agriculture Kolb is also in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Forgets Original Purpose

As Senator LaFolIette continued he grew more earnest. Several times he realized that he had forgotten the orig inal purpose of his speech and inter rupted himself. Go on; go on" urged Senator William Alden Smith. who sat near him,
 T didn't intend to make this sort of 2 speech. l vow I didn't" said Sen ator I-aFollette, but I would like to go on. I'm just seething with If. [ intend to go on in two or three weeks. night and day. I am going to keen tho fight ia the republican party. I think that is the best instrument through which to progress. Now. when if Is the purpose to make the repubIica n party respond to the purposes for which it was born an attempt Is made at Chicago to divert 1t. It won't auc- ceed. It will only disturb the surface at things a Httle."
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Hayes Makes Statement

Hayes statement that he had been or dered not to raid disorderly houses until told to do so by the commissioner was made this afternoon to the commissioner after a similar statement made public in an evening newspaper Commissioner
 
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
WEST GUIlFORD.

Leslie Lee has finished work in Brat
tleboro for Holden & Martin. He has re-
turned to the home of his father. Eli
Lee.
A. p. Blanchard of Mortified has
been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Otis
johnson. two weeks. He is moving his
household goods to Gulford.
Mrs. d. S. Bond of Greenfield was in
town last week calling on old neighbors
William Akley will take her household
goods to Greenfield Saturday
School in district No. ! began last
week Tuesday with Miss Bertha Gold
thwait of Shelburne Falls as teacher.
she Is boarding at Ernest Thomas's.
The young daughter of Charles Lynde
of Bratueboro is very i'll with pneumo-
MIA in the home of his father. NJ w.
Lynde. DR.. Lynch is the attending ply
sician.
Mrs. Ophela Harrington of Searsburg
visited a few days last week with her
brother-in-law, Charles Shepardson, and
niece, Mrs. Austin Nichols. Mr.. Shep-
ardson took her to Wilmington Saturday,
returning home Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Whitney visited
a few days recently in Feeding Hills,
Mass, with Mr.. Whitney's sister Mrs
William Fuller, and family. They also
visited in Greenfield with Mrs. Whit
ney's parents, Mr.. and Mrs j. n. Cor
bett.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
WEST DUMMERsToN.

A dance will take place in Grange hall
this CFriday evening.
Carroll Coombs went Tuesday to Brat
tleboro to attend the high school,
Charles Johnson of Springfield. Mass
was guest Sunday at w. B. Leonard's.
Miss Kate Hartnett of Brattleboro is
visiting her sister, Mrs. E. B. Russell
Miss Vina Hackett of Forest Hills.
Mass, is visiting her sister Mrs. Net
tie Young, a S. S. Washers.
Mrs. Sylvia Adams and two children
Belle and Robert, went Tuesday to New
ondon, Conn, for a two weeks visit
Congratulations and best wishes are
extended to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Guilt
nan, who were married Wednesday in
Brattleboro.
Some of our people, including Miss
Batchelder, teacher of the village school
attended the funeral of John Houghton
in East Dummerston Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Butterfield at
tended the veterans reunion in Brat
tleboro Thursday of last week, going
thence to Marlboro and returning home
Sunday.
Wallace Hall has bought of w. w.
and Frank Burnett the NJ S. Burnett
farm This farm has been in the Bur-
nett family many generations and is
considered one of the best in this part
of the town as II contains a valuable
timber lot, which was included in the
sale.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
JACKSONVILLE.

Clifton Murdoch was in Greenfield
from Friday to Monday
Miss Ella Blanchard of Bridgeport.
Conn, is visitor in town.
Mrs. Lucy Haskins visited in SPRING
field and Greenfield, Mass. recently.
number of our young people are at
tending the Charlemont fair this week.
Mrs. Sarah Sprague and Miss Jennie
Pike attended the fair in North Adams
Saturday.
Miss Aimee Murdoch is attending
school in Greenfield and is staying at
Clayton Plumb's.
Mrs. Belle Cain is the guest of her
old schoolmate, Mrs. C. S. Wilson, in
Worcester, Mass.
Bion Leonard and, Halbert Stetson of
Wilmington were guests of Hollis Stet-
son and family recently.
Harland burlington of Colrain has re-
turned home after spending a few days
with his cousin, Mrs. Isabelle Cain.
The Young Peoples union will meet
in the church next Sunday at 1915 as
usual. The topic will be Courage"
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Upper of
Brighton, Mass, were guests of their
grandmother, Mrs. Caroline Chase, re-
Gently.
John Coleman and family took an
"u'pHhophe Trip ouHudN 10 somerset TO
see the big dam that is being built
there at Peck's Mills.
The ladies of the social circle will
serve a harvest dinner in their church
parlors at ~, noon, Thursday, Sept. 49,
All are invited to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Brown. who had
been at Laurel lake two months, return
ed Monday to their home in Newark,
n j., Johanna Begiebing accompanying
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Barker and Mrs
Abigail Kngsbury have returned home
after visit of two weeks in Worces-
ter, Orange and Greenfield, Mass, and
Keene, N II.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Coleman have
gone to Weare, N. H., as delegates to
the grand lodge of knights of Honor
from this place. They will visit relatives
in other towns before returning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Collum. Mrs George
Swan, Mrs. George Weber of Provi-
dence, r. l., and Warner Green and
Frank Cook OF Bristol, Conn, have been
boarding at DR.. Gordon's the past few
weeks.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
GUlLFORD CENTRE,

Rev. d. E. Trout will preach in the
Universalst church at o'clock.
Miss Eva and Miss Leola Clark went
to Brattleboro Monday to enter the high
school.
Miss Clara Betterley of Brattleboro
was a guest at F. f. Jacobss the last
oc the week.
Several from here attended the flu
neral of Moses X. Nelson in Bernards-
ton Saturday.
Mrs. Lucy Gibbs of Brattleboro is
spending the week with her nephew,
L. ]. Huntley.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Z. Thayer of Deer
field are visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. f. Thayer.
Schools began Sept @ E. A. Pierce
is teacher in district No IA and Miss
Maude Clark in district No. 9.
Mrs. f. A. Pierce has moved to Brat
tleboro, where she will keep house for
two of her sons, who are attending high
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ashworth have
been entertaining his sister and hus-
band from Worcester, Mass, also
brother from Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Whittemore at
tended the golden wedding of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred King in Millers Falls last
week. The women of the church served
an old fashioned boiled dinner.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
WHlTINGHAM,

Mrs. Ida Murdoch was with her Sis
ter, Mrs Fred Hull, over Sunday.
ID. T. Perry of Brattleboro, county
road commissioner, was in town Mon
day.
Mrs. Jennie Downs of Boston has been
visiting at the home of her cousin.
Fred Hull.
Vesta Sawyer started Tuesday for
Ashburnham, Mass, to enter Cushing
academy.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. II. Sawyer went on
an automobile trip to Ashburnham,
Mass, last week.
Lawrence Jillson lost three good
shoats one day last week He thinks
the cause was cholera.
Malah Murdoch is staying with her
cousin, Mrs. c, f. Wheeler, and attend
ing the village school.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allbee are staying
with Mrs. Homer Boyd while Mr.. Boyd
Is at work in Shelburne Falls.
Bert Shippee lost another valuable
cow recently. One owned by T. Betit also
died after showing similar symptoms
The Misses Bemis have returned to
their home in Boston after spending
a month with their cousin, Mrs. H. A.
Wheeler.
Fern picking has become an important
Industry here. II. A. Wheeler is packing
and shipping them for the pickers in
this town.
Ruth and Gertrude Wheeler are at
tending Arms academy in Shelburne
FANS Carl Jillson has gone to Brattle-
boro to enter the high school
Mr.. and Mrs Elliott Gillett of Shell
burne Falls visited relatives i'm town Fri
day and Saturday on their way home
from the soldiers reunion in Whining
ton Thursday.
Odd Fairbanks and daughter, Mrs.
Musa Dalrymple, C. A. Barker, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. r. Gllett and Amos Pike at
tended the 50th reunion of Company F,
10th Vermont Volunteers, in Wilmington,
Sept. 8.
Mrs. Charles Crosby, daughter and
mother of Brattleboro were at II. A.
Wheeer's Sunday, also DIR. and Mrs.
Stafford, Mrs. Wing and Christine
Wheeler came in an automobile from
North Adams and took dinner at Mr..
Wheeler's.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
WILMINGTON.

Floyd Davis is working in Readsboro.
Harold Mann is visiting a few days
I'm Brattleboro.
Leslie w. Boyd is a business visitor
in Springfield, Mass.
Beth Butterfeld has finished working
in the Corner Drug store.
George Iarkin has been spending a
few days, in North Adams.
Marion McGrath of North Adams is
staying with Mrs. Forrest Boyd.
William Vogel, Eli Porter and DR..
Page were at court in Newfane Tues
day.
Guy Hackett returned Saturday night
after a few days stay in Springfield
Mass.
Bert Dunn returned to town Tuesday
night after a few days visit in New
York.
Mrs. Belle Chase of Readsboro visited
her father, Rolln Harris the first of
the week.
Miss Ada Eddy Of Brattleboro came
Tuesday night. She is visiting at f. E.
Medburys.
Fred E. Holbrook and family are oc-
cupying Amasa CIRCUITS house on East
Main street.
Mr. and Mrs Martin V. Plimpton of
South Wardsboro were visitors in town
the first of the week
Miss Sylvia Sherman was a guest
over Sunday of her sister, Mrs. Sher-
win Hill of West Dover
Miss Lillian Smith of Wardsboro is
attending school here and boarding with
her aunt, Mrs. Patrick Foley.
Mrs. II. T. Lazelle of Springfield,
Mass, has been spending a week with
her cousin, Mrs. Leslie w. Boyd.
f C'h1rcb Of HYDE Park Mas
visited few days in town the last of
the week, calling on old friends
Miss Gladys Bassett and Miss Hazel
Wheelock have returned home after
spending the summer in Franklin, N.
II.
number of the young people en-
joyed a corn and marshmallow roast
at the grove Tuesday night. A fine time
was reported.
Lee Davis has returned to Albany
business college after spending his va
cation with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
p. NJ. Davis.
DIR. Gladstone returned to Albany,
N. Y, Friday after spending several
months with DIR. l.. T. Page assisting
him with his practice
NJ A. Brown and family returned to
their home in Winchester, Mass, Fri
day after staying a month at their
summer cottage at Beaver brook.
The alumni association held a box
social in high school hall Saturday ev-
ening. Games were INDUCED in and the
occasion was very enjoyable. About
SIS was realized
What might have developed into
serious fire was discovered Tuesday
night at the village mill about IL 80
Prompt work on the part of
few put out the blaze, which had start
ed in sawdust
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-13
GUILFoRD.

Mrs A. b. Gibbs of Bratteboro is
spending a few days at Lyman Hunt
ley's.
Joel F1agg is in Newfane as grand
juror and Fred c. Coombs as petit
Juror.
Mrs. Margaret Winchester of New
York is guest of her sister, Mrs. AL
fred e. B. Ward.
Mrs. Ann Lamb and daughter, Mrs.
L. Guy Tasker, of Brattleboro are guests
this week of Mrs Julia Frost.
Mrs. Augusta (warner) Shattuck, for
merly of Hatfield, Mass, was a guest
of her cousin, Mrs. Charles Coombs,
Monday.
The Christian Endeavor society will
hold a social in the home of the pastor,
Rev. a. E. B. Ward, Monday evening.
An invitation is extended to all.
Mrs. NJ. A. Atwood and Miss Clara
Woodward of Foxboro, Mass, Mrs. c.
T. Walcott of Greenfield, Mass, Miss
Nellie Prouty of Brattleboro and Miss
Viola Morse of Wardsboro have been
guests at Lucius Putnam's recently.
The conference held last week in the
Congrega tional church was well attend
ed some so or more delegates being pre-
sent, nearly all the towns in Windham
county being represented. On Wednes-
day evening Rev. Alfred f. b. Ward
was ordained as a Congregational min
lister. Mr.. Wards former pastor and
friend of Ridgefield Park, N. j.. Rev
Allen Mcneil took part in the service
Rev. Mr.. Ward for the past seven years
has been an assistant in the Seamen's
Christian association of New York city.
Rev. Alfred Cornell of West Townshend
was present to greet his former parish
toner's Mrs Sanford Smith and Mrs.
Fred Coombs opened their houses to
serve dinner and supper to all who
wished. which was greatly appreciated
by the society members and others who
entertained visiting guests over night.