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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
WEST GUTLFORD.

There was a frost Monday morn
ing, May 26.
Mrs Arthur Lynde is spending a
cousin, Mrs. A. +. Thomas.
r. B. Thomas and son, Charles
Thomas, were in Wilmington last week
on business.
Mrs Fannie Thomas went Sunday to
Bernardston to visit her niece, Mrs.
George Nelson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Briggs of Brat
tleboro spent Sunday with their broth
err, Henry Briggs, and sister, Mrs. c.
II. Phelps.
Mrs. H. w Carpenter and two chill
dren of Greenfield came Sunday to
spend a few days with her brother
Austin Nichols, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fuller OF
Feeding Hills, Mass, came Friday to
visit Mrs Fuller s brother, Wesley
Whitney and family, also her sister
Mrs. Loella Lake. They returned HON,
Monday, Mrs. Lake accompanying
| them for an indefinite stay.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
STRATTON.

Several of the townspeople attended
the w c. T. L convention at West
Wardsboro last week Wednesday and
Thursday.
Miss Ethel Goodale of Brattleboro
came with Miss Ethel Eddy Friday
night to visit the latter's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T.. A. Eddy. They returned
to Brattleboro Sunday.
Roy lyman of Ware, Mass, came
Friday night to visit his father, W. r.
Lyman, who has been in i'll health
some time. Mr.. and Mrs. Ona Lyman
and son, Kenneth, visited there recent
~.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. A. Eddy went to
Jamaica Monday, where they called on
their aunt, Mrs. 0. A. Johnson, Mr..
Eddy boarding the noon train for New
fame to attend court. Mrs. Eddy at
tended the funeral of Mrs. Ethel But
ler) johnson, going then to Newfane
to visit her sister, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Bills
Miss Ethel Eddy, who went to Jamaica
to attend the funeral, returned ito
Newfane with her mother, returning tC
Brattleboro Tuesday morning.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
BELLOWS FALLS.
sELEorMEN WILL CALL MEETING
Various Matters Of Importance Need
Early Consideration.

The selectmen have decided upon a
special town meeting to be held in
about two weeks as many requests
have come to them for action upon a
number of subjects. The armory COM
mittee wants authority to sell the
buildings recently bought Of the Ban
croft estate and have hem removed
The deeds to the property have been
taken by the town the past week and
the state armory committee does not
want the buildings for any purpose,
but wants the lot cleared. The Liberty
Paper company, which recently bought
the Casein Co. 5 buildings and is put
ting in the machinery, has asked to be
exempted from taxation for a term of
years.
Some of the voters who were dis
satisfied with the vote of the town last
March, which, by a majority of only
two in a total vote of 1876, instructed
the selectmen to cut down the grade
of School and Church streets to an
important amount, with consequent
damages to abutters, ask that the town
reconsider the vote. The amount APP
propriated, $500, is not considered large
enough and the village has no money
to carry out its part of the work at
! the present tax rate. Nothing has been
| done under that vote.
The special committee chosen at the
last meeting to investigate the methods
| of caring for the poor of the town will
make a partial report and ask for
funds for further investigation of
buildings for the purpose The special
| committee of investigation of the large
sum of unpaid taxes is expected to re
port. But few of the unpaid taxes of
the past two or three years, which
were unpaid last February, have been
collected.
The board of civil authority indieat
ed at that time to the collector about
/ 80 delinquents well known here ano
instructed him to take legal measures
| to get the amounts in. The collector
says that the attorney of the town
tells him not to arrest any person fol
taxes, and it still seems to be go-as
you-please III regard to paying. Sever
al other subjects of Importance will b,
discussed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28

The Mortified hotel has iust receiv-
Ell large new Cadillac automobile.
Mrs. f. l.. Tyler and Lawrence Wis.
tied from Friday to Sunday with rel
atives in Winchester, y. III.
Mrs. Rollin c. Ward is moving from
Mrs. Charles Stebhins S house to Miss
Sarah Aver 5 cottage on Birnam road
Richard Holton has returned from
Dental college. He is president of his
class.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
FELCHVILLE.
Purse and Money Gone.

Mrs. Eva Stickncy while shopping
recently is +. b. Watkins . store lail
her purse on the counter and went to
another part 81 the building When
she returned the purse and contents
had disappeared. THE evidence was 50
strong against Theodore Ashley that he
was arrested and searched. Paper
money of the same denomination Is
that i'm the lost purse was found a
hearing was held before the municipal
court and tlr. Ashley obtained bail un-
til some future date.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
Weston Hall Won Meet

The annual athletic contest was
held Monday afternoon on the Mar
quand field and the contestants were
cheered by large crowd of visitors.
The v w. G. A. girls added 10 their
funds by the sale OF sherbet In n tent
on the grounds. Weston hall won the
most points and won the athletic ban
ner which has been held bv RcveII
hall. Henry Moore cottage came see
ond and Mortified hotel third
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
JAMAICA.
Funeral Of Mrs. Ethel Johnson.

The funeral of Mrs. Ethel tButler)
johnson was held in the Baptist church
Monday at / p m. The great profu-
sion of beautiful flowers showed the
love and esteem in which Mrs. John
son was held. The grave was not only
covered, but filed with them beside
many which were taken home by
friends. Those from out of town who
attended the funeral besides her hus-
band, Paul Johnson, and his mother.
Mrs. Johnson, of Waltham, were Mrs.
Burgess of Washington, d. c., Judge
and Mrs. T. NJ. Butler and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Barney of Rutland, George
Prentiss and Charles Prentiss Of Brat
tleboro, Mr.. and Mrs. Maryland Adams
and Helen Adams of Windham. Mrs.
f. A. Eddy and Miss Ethel Eddy of
Wardsboro, Mrs. Lee Benson OF Brat.
tleboro. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Churchill
of South Londonderry. The burial took
place IN the jamaica cemetery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28

The central office of the New Eng
land Telephone & Telegraph Co. is be.
ing moved from the store owned IS
3. NJ. Newton 70 that occupied hv f..
3. Watkins. A new switchboard win
bee placed in the Office
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
Where the Rhine Is gusv

The traffic on the Rhine between
Strasburg and the Holland frontier
amounts to the enormous total Of for
ty million tons annually.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28

The United States does recognize
Mexico-as the darndest, most iracsi-
able and fussy neighbor we ever had.
= Jacksonville Metropolis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
Everlasting.

Things gained are gone, but great
things done endure.-Algernon swim
burne.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28
The Brute.

Co-ed-What tense do l use when ]
say, q am beautiful
Bold Soph-Remote past.-Vermont
Crabbe.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-28

There Is still expectancy of a cure
that VIII turn out t. be = scll.-Wash-
ington Post.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-01
THE FLIRT.
BY Agnes Kirby.

Monsieur Rambouche? You mean
that disgusting little Frenchman
whom we all hated so at Bar Harbor
last summer? He called himself the
count of something or other, didn't
he, and claimed that the wrong
branch of the family had got hold of
the title? So he has settled down in
America and become naturalized, has
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-01
They Came stroIIing Along.

he? And he really had money of his
own and was not fortune-hunter!
Well, of course, that does put his
persecution of Edith Moore upon a
different level and it may be, as you
say, that he loved her and not her
fortune only he certainly took a
queer method of showing his affec-
ton. not to speak of her being already
engaged to George Turner. And he's
married Edith's sister! Well, that
surely is some news and now since
you don't seem to know all the cir
cumstances about last summer I'll
enlighten you in. turn,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-01

IOu hllOW L always otdyCu dI d
quiet, >old-fashioned place up in
Mount Desert I'm getting to be an
old woman and the new, noisy hotels
don't appeal to me as they do to
younger folks. We'd had the same
crowd there year after year until we
got to be all old friends together. And
I'd met Edith Moore and her sister
Elsie each summer since they were
little bits of things, so that when she
whispered to me the news of her en-
gagement to George / was nightly
well pleased. And George came up for.
his vacation a day or two later and
/ tell you it made me glad to see how
happy they were.
Monster Rambouche was staying
at the same place. You remember
how he used to vent his spleen on
America! 1t was good enough to live
in for while and to spend a holiday
in, but as for being citizen! Where
was our art, where was our literature,
what about our patriotism, and
wasn't it true that Washington
wouldn't have won if France hadn't
whipped England on sea and land?
He tried me a little, but l couldn't
exactly resent a. man standing up for
his own country, though why should
he come here and then make fun of
us?
What made me angry was when he
attacked American women. The
women of his land, according to him,
were paragons of virtue and we
mustn't believe those wicked plays
and novels, written all by Alsatians.
When they were married they stayed
at home and helped their husbands
at their offices as well, and before
marriage they made their mothers
and fathers and brothers and sisters
lives happy. And as for flirting why,
hadn't France had to take over the
English word because there wasn't
any for it in French?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

and talented French engineer officer
who had left the French army TO
come TO America in l777, at the age
OF twenty-five. and take service in the
Revolutionary war. and had been
commissioned captain OF engineers
His name was Pierre Charles l.
Enrant. He was one of the most pic
turesque characters evolved in this
picturesque period. He was indebted
to Jefferson for his employment in the
service which has given him his dis
tinction and in which forever will rest
his fame. Such Is the fickleness OF
fortune that for the best part of
century he lay in an unmarked grave
in a country graveyard, his name al
most forgotten, and then suddenly the
light of fame was turned upon him
and to him has been given the credit
of being the almost sole author of the
splendid plan on which the national
capital is laid out.
That he was a man of grand ideas
and OF extraordinary gifts is certainly
true. but il is far from true that to
him alone is due the magnificence of
the plan of the capital OF the United
States Much of this great concep-
ton was due to Washington: much,
especially in those matters of grand
detail which makes Washington city
unique among the cities of the coun-
try. if not of the world. is due TO the
universal genius of Thomas Jefferson.
To the first commissioners and TO An
drew ElIicott was owing the sound
ness and accuracy of the plan; to l.
Enfant was probably due its beauty
and taste and harmonious grandeur.
They all touched at different points.
and TO their joint influence exerted
then and reasserted over a hundred
years later we owe today the almost
romantic beauty of what has so well
been termed this Capital of Capitals.
THE Romantic Founding of
Washington" by Thomas Nelson
Page in the September Scribner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
IN NEED OF BEST HELP.

Apropos of Senator Roots rumor-
ed refusal to run again for the SEN
ate, a New York lawyer said:
Root Is admitted to be the strong
est corporation lawyer Of the day.
heard this fact well brought out once
in the Metropolitan Club.
Two capitalists, over rickey and
regalia, were talking ship.
:" THE wind trust, 1 see,' said the
first capitalist, is to have dissolu-
tion proceedings brought against it
by the government. All sorts of in
iquities are charged to its account
Does it admit its guilt?'
"'Well,' was the reply, 1t has en-
gagged Root"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

ford White but the general public
which has to read of his affairs is
even more entitled to complaint.
>>s~e>>~
Major SwartzlandeB is upholding
the welfare of the Indians as an In
dian agent should do but as some
agents fail to do.
1t has been a long hot spell yet the
commission government committee
has kept on with it's work.
The fact people are getting inter-
ested in the opening OF the duck sea-
son shows the harvest moon is wan
ing.
>>~>s>~s-~
Special trains are being arranged
from every point of the compass and
then some.
Good idea to get those weeds cut
and to brush up those cluster lights
on the Main street bridge.
~~s>
Huerta seems to be an expert at
making a long bluff and then back
ing down.
a%
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
IN MIRTHFUL VEIN
YES; SHE UNDERSTOOD.

A teacher in one of the lower graies
was endeavoring to impress upon her
pupils the fact that plural subject
takes verb in the plural
Remember this" she said. girls
are, boys are; a girl is, boy is. Now
90 you understand it?"
Every hand in the room was raised
in assent.
well, then" continued the teach
er, who can give me a sentence with
girls-plural, remember"
This time one hand was raised, and
that belonged to a pretty little miss
Please, ma'am," she said, with all
the assurance of primitive reasoning
II can give a sentence. Girls, are
my hat on straight?'"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
THE GREAT MEN WHO
PLANNED WASHINGTON

Washington went about the work
with his usual care and began by lay
ing down lines OF experiment. begin
ming at the court house in Alexandria
in Virginia. and following courses
which he himself determined.
Fortunately for the country. the
men who were TO have most TO do
with the planning OF the federal city
were men OF large ideas Washing
ton, jefferson and Madison saw the
future of this country with eyes in
which it loomed large.
In laying out the city it was decid-
ed to do so on a large plan. with a
view 10 the future greatness OF the
capital OF the nation. Washington
himself believed. as he wrote his
friend. Mr.. Fairfax, that in a century.
should the country keep well united,
lit would produce a city, though not
as large as London. yet with a mag
nitude inferior to few others in Eu-
rope"
Next to him in the work OF planning
came his secretary of state, Jefferson,
also man Of large ideas and of IA
miliarity with the capitals of Europe,
some of which he had viewed with
eyes already holding the vision OF
the new capital in all its magnifi-
cence
In the actual work of planning and
surveying the city they secured the
services OF two able engineers and
surveyors. The first of these was
Major Andrew Ellicott, an Ameri-
can engineer officer of much distinc-
tion and experience, who in 1854 had
run the boundary line between Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvaia, and who. aft
er the federal city was laid out was
commissioned by the president to set
tie by survey the boundary dispute be-
tween the states of New York and
Pennsylvania and to decide in which
state lay the town of Erie.
The other surveyor was the young
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
INGRATITUDE.

II helped an intoxicated man out
Of the gutter several weeks ago and
put him aboard a car"
''Yes?"
The other day he wrote to the po-
lice asking them TO find my address. .
"Ah l see. He wants to force $10.-
900 on YOU"
NO, he says he thinks must have
pinched his watch"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
ReiephOns ............. Main
ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE
WORLD.

. don't believe the worlds
y gone mad;
. In spite Of all the crow led 4
. jails I
. And all the scandals. am
. glad 4
. To think that Righteousness 4
. pervails; 4
. / pick my paper up and see 4
. That Brown is suing for di-
= vorce,
. While Smith is charged with
= bigamy.
= But still the world rolls on its
= course.
, We hear that women make dis 4
plays
= Which blushing modesty con-
demns: I
The frail and foolish are ablaze.
, With costly and ill-gotten
gems;
D The wicked hold high revelry 4
, And flaunt their folly day and
night,
, But. none the less. it seems to
D The world Is getting on all 4
right.
The sinners make a lot of noise,
They claim attention every 4
where,
B But there are many girls and
boys
B Who have ambitions that are 4
fair;
b The worthy are content to be
3 Unnoticed while they prove 4
b their worth, 4
, And, therefore. it appears to me 4
, That there is hope for this old 4
earth. 4
, Chicago Record-Herald.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
THE WISDOM OF YEARS.

Il wish I knew where to go this
summer"
You have been away every sum-
mer for years. You ought to know
where You want to CO."
"No; all l know is lot of places
where I don't want to 60"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

That fellow is bitterly hated by
the suffragists.''
What has he done?"
He invented the acidproof envel-
ope."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
THE PLAsTERED MAN.

Hello. Jack! Fighting again, eh ?"
Fighting nothing. I'm a walking
advertisement for Stickem's court
plaster.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
ALI He Got

Struck Wombat for a quarter just
now. A rich relative had just sent
him $40 and some advice"
Did he give you the quarter?'
NO, he passed along the advice
Kansas City Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

the mark" says a philosopher. What!
kiss a girl on the nose? Never!
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
CHEAP TALK.

That Mrs Neybor dropped in this
afternoon and got off a lot of cheap
talk"
Cheap talk %
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

night previous had taken action look
ing to improving the travel ordinance
and propose to see that the rules are
enforced.
There is so much travel on the
streets of Pendleton, especially on
busy occasions, and there are so many
autos here, that it is necessary such
action be taken. 1t is a move that
will be welcomed by autoists more
than by anyone else.
Heretofore the more sensible driv-
ers have been observing the rules as
to speed and turning corners. But
others have not and their neglect has
often brought other autoists as well
as pedestrians into danger. 1t is time
careless drivers were brought to time
even if it takes arrests and fines to
make them familiar with the law.
Pendleton is not cross roads VIII
lage. In street travel this place has
all the hustle and hustle of a city
and during the week of the Roundup
there will be no other place in the
west where the traffic will be so con-
gested. This traffic can be handled
with far more ease and safety If the
simple rules governing autos and all
other vehicles are closely enforced.
That Judge E. f. Mccall, form
er supreme court justice of New
York, has been Sc
New York's lected by Murphy
Political slavery. as the Tammany
candidate for may
| or of New York was the substance of
a news story yesterday.
Note that Murphy makes the Sc
lection There is not even an attempt
at outward decency; no effort to hide
the bossism. The. democratic party
Of New York City has nothing to do
with the party selection for mayor.
Murphy attends to that detail all
himself.
What slavery for the imperial city
of the United States and what siav-
cry for the empire state! There Is
no such thing as popular government
in New York. The government there
is dictatorship and the avowed and
open purpose of the machine is to
run things for the benefit Of the gang.
New York's hope for freedom lies in
the adoption of direct primary law.
All the great political parties prom
ised such law prior to the last cleo
ton. Governor Sulzer has tried to
live up to that promise and sought to
make the legislature keep faith with
the people. Because he did so the
democratic pirates owned by Boss
! Murphy and the republican pirates
owned by Boss Barnes have been or
dered to make Sulzer walk the
plank. They are now preparing that
ceremony and though it is charged 1t
was necessary for Murphy to literally
buy four votes in order to make
enough for impeachment those votes
were secured and Sulzer is all but
doomed.
Meanwhile even here in Oregon
where the direct primary law Is es-
tablished we have those who sneer
at Sulzer and are glad because the
claws of Tammany are upon him. 1t
shows how their minds run.
~~>~s>~~~
one Of the most vital subjects up
for consideration in Oregon at pres
ent has to do with the investigation
OF tho mower nossfbiIftfes at Celf1o
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23
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Already we are getting a fufillment
of the prediction that with the pro-
gress of legislation
The Revival Is in congress and the
Already Here. advent Of fall there
would be a stimulus
in Industrial and commercial lines
throughout the country
Bradstreets report given out from
New York this day says:
Optimism concurrent with good
buying furnish the keynote for this
weeks trade report. Visiting buyers
have held sway II, most Of the coun-
try's leading markets, and the general
run have bought with more or less
liberality.
Adwces from textile mill centers
indicate that idle machinery is start
ing up. and at the same time COM
plants of slow deliveries abound.
Business failures for the week end
in August 21 were 27S, which COM
pares with 264 in 1912.
Wheat dncludlng flour exports
from the United States and Canada for
the week aggregated 7,OS2,5S7 BUSH
els, against S.S3S,5ss bushels last
year"
That such revival should come is
inevitable and it is a revival that was
not only predicted by administration
forces but by business critics as we'll
The prediction was based on know
ledge that the tariff changes are ben
eficial not injurious to the country
and that the currency legislation pro-
posed is wholesome. Then there IS
the well known fact that for months
buying has been reduced and conse-
quently there are empty shelves to be
filled and mills with orders that tax
the capacity Of the machinery.
Those who predicted hard times
would follow the change in admins
stration did their guessing without
real knowledge Of the problem.
~~~~s~~s~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

Yes, she used our telephone for a
full half hour."-Boston Transcript.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

But it is the natural bent Of some
men to be broke.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

Deliver us from the sympathetic
man who always sympathizes with
himself.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

While ten thousand speed ordin-
ces could not have stopped o. G. AL
lens wild ride
Need OF Thursday evening
Travel Ordinance. it Is nevertheless
salts actory to
know that the city authorities on the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

One Of the most vital subjects up
for consideration in Oregon at pres
ent has to do with the investigation
Of the power possibilities at Cello.
Yet the legislature seems to have
jumbled the business so badly that
1t Is hard to members to serve on
the Investigation committee.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

NO. NEVER.
Always aim little higher than
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-23

Thaw may be getting some punish.
ment for his rash act in killing STAN