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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
MRS. ASAPH P. CHILDS.
Prominent lCastIeton Woman Died Sud
denly of Heart Disease.

Mrs. Clara sherman Childs of Castle
ton, regent OF Ann Story chapter
Daughters Of the American Revolution,
a singer and lecturer Of note and one
of the foremost women of her town,
was found dead on her bed Wednesday
morning about $50 clock at her home
in Castleton bv her maid The BODY was
partially dressed. \ physician, Or. r..
H. Seeley Of C9stleton, was summoned,
but life was extinct on his arrival
Death was due to heart disease She had
complained Of not feeling well the day
before and was known to have been MP
during the night.
Mrs. Childs was daughter of Rev.
Levi I'll. Stone and Mrs. leighton Stone
and was born in Northfield July 50.
1880. Mr.. Stone was Congregational
minister of prominence ana WAS a
strong temperance advocate
When Mrs Childs was IL wears old
the family moved 10 Castleton, where
Alr. Stone retired from active work.
They lived ia what was known rs the
Stone house on Main street.
Mrs. ChiIds received her early edu-
cation in Castieton seminary ana dur.
ing the wear 1872 was married ia Car
los =. sherman, the ceremony being
performed i'm Castleton
MIR sherman died June %, 1896. af
ter which Mrs, Sherman spent about
four years with her children in New
Haven. Conn During this time she
Travelled extensively, spending her win.
ters in New York
She was married to Asaph F. Childs
| in 1898 aud the couple lived about two
| years in Bennington. Later Mrs. Child,
| returned to Castleton where she hdd
since made her home. Mr.. Chiids dice
| in April, 1905, in Batesbure, :. {.
During the fail of 1907 Mrs Child,
went ON trip abroad, visiting the Con
| tinent. also Egypt and England, anj
/ in 1910 started from San Francisco OF
la trip around the world. visiting Egypt
| Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Enelant
and Ireland. She saw the Passion Pla,
| twice at Ohcrammereau.
! Mrs. Childs was n. member of tin,
| Colonial DANES, regent OF Ann StoiN
| chapter. Daughters Of the Amoric;r
| Revolution and an active member ot
| the Advent Christian church in Castle
ton. She was also member OF the Rut
| land Woman : club. She WIS a con
trdltO singer of note doing much con
cert and church work. Last Sunday sh
rendered - solo in the Advent Chris
tan church in Castleton.
She leaves two daughters. Miss Cath
Ilcen \. sherman Of New No@li an,
Miss 6. Louise Sherman Of Ca~tleto1
and Il son, Dr. Arthur l.. sherman o
I New York Funeral services viii b
held at the house tomorrow afternoon
at > clock r. $. Childs and Mai
/ F. ". Childs Of this town, brotncrs o
the late \. r. thiids, viii attend tn
funeral.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
MRS. JOHN B. DUNTON.
Death. Following Year s Illness, Hast
ened by Severe Fright.

Mrs Mary Abbie Payson) Dunton, 40.
wife OF John j. Dunton, died early this
morning in the home of Mrs Eta A
Chamberlin, IL Spruce street. Mrs. Dun
ton had been in i'll health a year and sui
fcred a severe fright at the time OF the fire
on Flat street on election night, which
hastened the end. She feared then that
the large building in which Is located the
business of her husband and their home
would be destroyed and it so affected her
condition that she had scarcely any sleep
for two weeks.
Mrs. Dunton was born Sept %, 1863, in
South Hope, Me. a daughter of George F.
and Emily IL. Payson. She lived there
during her early life and on Aug. %, 1SSS,
was married in Union. Me, TO Mr. Dun
ton. They came to Brattleboro % years
ago last March
Mrs. Dunton had been a member Of the
congregational church, but OF late had at
tended the Christian Science church. She
leaves, besides her husband. who is a we'll
known dealer in furniture and second.
hand goods, three daughters, Mrs. Frank
Woodbury. Of Brattlebolo Miss Carrie a
student in Middlebury college, and Miss
| Helen. who Is student in the Domestic
! Science college at Worcester Mass. and
one son, John D., jr Of Brattleboro She
also leaves one sister, Mrs. Mark Crockett
/ of Waltham. Arss., and three brothers
Oscar Payson Of Camden, Me, and Fred
H. and Sanborn Of South Hope, Me
The funeral viii be held tomorrow after
noon at O'Clock in the undertaking rooms
of Bond & Son The burial will take place
in Prospect Hill cemetery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
CONGRESS SPENT OVER BILLION.
Appropriations Committees Submit
Final Computation.
Submit

WASHINGTON Nov. %. - Congress
at its last session $1,1l6,-
1lS.13S, for the current fiscal year,
against $l,0SS,67S.799 for the last fiscal
year according to the final eomputa-
tion announced yesterday by the APP
preparations committees of Congress. In
addition, contracts were authorized sub
ject to future appropriations ag9regat-
ing $40, 1873 600 and including 100000
for Notifications, S3S,350,0 900 for the
navy. $4,000 under the sundry civil
act, and $513, 900 for public buildings.
The total actual appropriations eX-
ceeded the total of estimated revenues
for the current fiscal year, the rev
enue estimate being $l,o35, 100000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
CROKER A BRIDEGROOM.
Married Cherokee Indian Woman so
Years His Junior.

NEW YORK, Nov. -. - Richard w.
Croker. former leader Of Tammany
Hall. was married yesterday to Miss
Bula Benton Edmoudson. member of
the Cherokee Indian tribe. who is 50
years his junior. He is - Years old
and She is 23. Last night the bride
and groom started on their way to the
Croker estate near Palm Beach, Fla.
for their honeymoon.
The wedding took place at the home
of Nathan Straus. y number of per-
sons whom Croker had not taken into
his confidence as to Just where the
ceremony would he performed went to
st. Agnes : church under the impression
they would he witnesses to the nup-
tials, only to be disappointed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
BROWN WINS LAWSUIT.
Judges Find That Bemis Must Pay for
Set of Heavy Harness.

The Judges of the fall term Of Wind
ham county court handed down late
Wednesday afternoon the decision in
the suit Of Henry r. Brown against
Eugene Bemis, appellant, of Athens,
and found for the plaintiff in the sum
of S53.44 The suit was to recover for
the sale of a set Of heavy harness in
1899. The defendant claimed that he
had not bought them, but that they
had been bought by one Winslow. The
plaintiff showed that two payments OF
- each had been made by the defend
ant, the last having been in 1909 The
court found for the plaintiff in the full
amount Of the balance due with inter
est. Chase & Chase were for the plain
tiff and W. r. Daley for the defend
ant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
Court Finds That Mrs. Davis
Did Not Sustain Fracture
as Claimed
DEFENDANT GAVE
PROPER TREATMENT
Allowed to Recover Costs in Suit for
Alleged Malpractice which Was
Contested Vigorously in County
Court-Physicians Disagreed.

The decision of the Judges at the
fall term of Windham county court in
the suit alleging malpractice, brought
ny Mrs. Hester 4. Davis Of Whining
ton against DR.. :. Farrar Dunn of that
village, was handed down this morning
and Is complete yindication of the
claim of the defendant to the effect
that he had treated the plaintiff for a
spFained wrist and that that was what
was the trouble with her. not COLES
fracture. as was claimed by tie plant
iff
The court, in the finding. reviews the
facts OF the case at some length. The
plaintiff is widow, 90 years old. and
the defendant a physician of nine
years practice in Wilmington. The
plaintiff fell on the ice on a sidewalk
in Wilmington March p. 1914. and in
JuTed her right wrist.
Accompanied by her son, she walked
TO the Office of the defendant. where
he examined the wrist and Informed
her that he thought there was no frac-
ture, but that She had a very severe
sprain. He washed the wrist with
alcohol and then applied arnica and
iodine and put on cotton ana two
sphnts. There was some question as
Ito the number OF times the defendant
saw the patient, but the court in
clined to the belief that he saw her at
least six times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
DEATHS.

In Brattleboro, Nov. n, Mrs. Mary
Abbie (Payson) Dunton 40. wife of John
r. Dunton.
In Brattleboro (Memorial hospital)
Nov. 25, Arthur Williams, 40.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27

Consul Felix $. 5. Johnson reports
that owners of feldspar properties in
the Kingston district of Ontario PROV
ince are experimenting in the eXtrae,
tion of potash from ground spar.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
THE WEATHER.
Fair and Much Colder Tonight and
Saturday; West to Northwest Winds

WASHINGTON, Nov. -. - The
weather forecast: Fair and much colder
tonight and Saturday. Moderate west
to northwest winds
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
DR.. Page Called it Fracture.

He had not seen her for several davS
prior TO April l3, when she was ut the
home of her son in West Dover. and
n DR.. Page Of Wilmington was pass
ing. her son : wife called him in and
he examined the wrist. He pronounced
the injury n fracture and advised that
She 60 to the hospital in North Adams.
Mass, and she went that dav, accom-
panied by Dr.. Page.
There an May picture was taken Of
the arm. She was put under m anaes-
thetie and DR.. Page testified that ne
reduced the fracture, assisted by three
other physicians. \ plaster east was put
on the arm and ii remained there about
| 10 weeks. At the time OF the trial in
| November she had the use OF hand and
| arm and had the use of it for some
weeks. There was some swelling or
thickening across the back Of the hand
and the fingers were somewhat stiff.
/ but the wrist had been for some weeks
and still was, improving.
| DR.. NJ. NJ. Brown Of North Adams.
one of the plaintiff s witnesses, testified
| that he saw the wrist when the patient
was taken TO the hospital, but that he
made no careful examination He tes-
| titled that it showed the so-called
silver fork deformitv of a COLES
/ fracture. DIR. H. A. Bushnell Of the
same city testified that he did not make
Il careful examination, hut he had the
opinion that there was a probable frac-
tnre. Or. w. II. Lane of Brattleboro,
answering Il hypothetical question.
| thought the INJURY was an impacted
COLES fracture.
T.oca1 NUi+naccac TlieN r~voa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
Court S Decision.

1--WE find, SAYS the decision. upon
what we consider large preponderance
of the evidence. including the N-rav
plates, that there was no fracture OF
the radius, or of any part OF the plant
if : wrist, except the breaking off OF
n scale or small piece from the point
Of bone on the nina, called the styloid
process, which is no part Of the injury
called COLES fracture-this last named
being a fracture Of the radius; that the
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-27
Local Witnesses Disagree.

The defendant $ expert witnesses in
cluded Drs. Wheeler, Ienne and Tink-
ham of Burlington and DR.. George r.
Anderson Of Brattleboro, all Of whom.
after examining the N-rav plates, gave
it rs their opinion that il was not a
fracture, but :: severe sprain. They also
examined the injured wrist IN court
and could discover no evidence of
fracture. Nray plates taken by DR.
Carpenter in North Adams and by Dr.
c. Il. Aldrich in Brattleboro were ex-
anined and the two physicians did not
agree rs to what the plates showed. Dr.
Carpenter maintaining that those ia ken
by him showed a fracture while Dr.
AIdrich disagreed with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-03
UNIVERSITY OPENS NEXT WEDNESDAY Many Improvements Made Since Session Closed
 in June

University, September 2.-(Special)-O week from today, the university will throw open its doors for the beginning ot the eighty-fourth session. On that day. work is expected to begin. The two pre- ceding days. Monday and Tuesday will be given up to the work preliminary to the regular opening.
 Tn anticipation of the opening, practical ly all of the professors and instructors have returned from their vacations. A few. however, will hardly get back before mex. Monday or Tuesday. A number of students have also come in. Saturday will no doubt find good many on hand
 Since the end of the summer session considerable amount Of improvement work has been done on the university grounds. Of course the most notable change that the old students will notice is the completion of the new dormitory fer women. But there are others of a smaller nature which will contribute to the convenience of the students.
 Pursuing his general scheme for the i'm provement of roads and walks, President Denny this summer turned hIs attention to the grounds around the engineering building. Concrete walks now lead from the quadrangle to the entrances of this building and connect it with the system of walks that were built last summer between the other halls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-03
BOY GIVEN THREE . YEARS FOR MURDER Bryan M0uchett Convicted at Vernon for Staying
 Companion

Vernon, September 2.--(Special )-Bryan Mouchett a 16-year-old boy. was con victed in the circuit court today of man. slaughter in the second degree and sen tenced to three years in the penitentiary. flor killing Willie Blaylock, who was only IT years of age. The tragedy was the result of a fight at school between the boys. in which the Mouchett boy used a knife. with which he inflicted the fatal wound by cutting the jugular vein of the Blaylock boy.
 The report of the grand jury to Judge Bernard Harwood states that 250 wit fiesses were examined during the past week and S3 true bills returned, and that out of this number only one was for homicide and that nine-tenths of the bills were against misdemeanors.
 A petition is being circulated through out the county by good roads advocates asking the county commissioners to call an election for bond issue for the pur- pose of building good roads all over the county. It is meeting with great deal of enthusiasm and it seems that an election will be called in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-03
W. B. Yeats Studying Ghosts

From Manchester (England) Guardian.
 w. B. Yeats is engaged on an impor- Itant work which will. contain and inter- pret the latest results of continental and British investigations on the subjects of ghosts.
 Mir Yeats considers that extraordinary progress of knowledge In regard to the survival of personality after death has taken place since the late F. 1T. Myers published his famous book. But very little is known in England of rccnt continental dealings with psychical phenomena, the British investigators-Mr Yeats excepted having confined themselves almost en- tirely to mental phenomena. MT. Yeats has from boyhood been interested in psychic matters, but in the last year or two he has spent even more time than usual with the spiritualists
 His experiences in London with an ex- traordinary medium-a young girl. a per- sonal friend of his own, through whom (he believes) persons long dead have re- ported themselves to him. and from whom he has had writings in many living lan- guages. including Irish, and in the most obscure dialects of dead languages--have. he says. closed ''the great controversy" 50 far as he is cQpcerred.
 Mir. Yeats, no linguist himself, takes these messages to the British Museum and the dialect is often described as mot lfnown.' but finally some scholar can trace the meaning What a terror Mir Yeats must be to the l'nguists at the museun who let their learning go rusty!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-03
PACKAGES OF FEED MUST WEIGH |00LbS.
Dealers Warned That Bags Marked 99 3-8 Lbs. Net.
 Liable to Prosecution

Montgomery, September 2.-(SpecialD Warning was sent out by the state department of agriculture to manufac- turers and dealers of commercial feed Tuesday on the law relating to the labelling of 100-pound packages of feed
 "The department has received what Is considered information that many manufacturers have decided to put up their 100-pound packages and label them "99 s-s pounds net 100 pounds gross reads the letter. "The depart ment wishes to call your attention to section 9 of the Alabama commercial feedstuffs law. A package of feed marked '9s<3-S- pounds net, 100 pounds gross would not comply with the Ala bama law and the merchant making the sale would be liable to prosecu- tior.
 We trust that all manufacturers will respect this provision of our law when shipping feeds to Alabama and thus avoid placing their customers in an embarrassing position. We desire to warn Alabama merchants against of- fering for sale or selling feed so marked The law provides for 10o pounds net and not 99 3-S pounds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-03
APPEAL TOCONGRESS
 FOR COTTON FUNDS
Farmers Union Takes Ac- tiOn to Meet War Situation
 at Fort Worth Meeting

Fort Worth, Tex, September 2.-An ap- pea! to Congress to appropriate funds necessary to finance the marketing of the cotton crop of 1914 was au-horized today by the Farmers Educational and Co., operative Union of America in session here. Details of the plan to relieve the situation caused by the war in Europe and the consequent market stagnation were left to the judgment of committee which will go to Washington immedi- ately to present the appeal. The delega- ton which will be tomorrow. will include at least one representative from each of the cotton growing states and the na- tional officers of the farms organization.
 This action was taken by the adoption of the report of committee appointed to devise a scheme to Insure the move ment of the present notton crop.
 "But one course Is open 10 any civilized nation when any considerable number or it's citizens are threatened with peril. occasioned by no fault of their own, ana that is direct aid from the federal treas ury," the committee urged in it's report.
 A resolution introduced by William II. Hedrick, an Indiana delegate. condemn- ing the present strife in Europe as a relic of barbarism' also was adopted. The resolution urges the establishment of an international parliament and court of arbitration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-03

Under the euphonious title, "distri- button office" Uncle Sam soon will ope nan employment agency in Bir- provide help" for employers in all lines of business and work for those ho stand idle in the 1market places, as it were. Moreover. besides being m employment office, the bureau will partake of the nature of an express company, day nursery for adults and "a place for the interpretation of stronge and weird foreign tongues. rhs was information received In this city yesterday from Washington.
 he office at Birmingham will be one of IS to be established by Anthony Caminetti, federal commissioner of im- migration. who has conducted experi- ments in farm labor distribution and pionounces the plan practicable. In ne.fecting his scheme Caminetti has divided the country into IS zones" with Birmingham as the main office for zone No. 6, which will cover Ala Carolina. Substatons will be estab- lished at Savannah, Mobile. Charleston and Jacksonville, Fla.
 Work of Bureau
 As proposed by Uncle Sam, these bureaus shall bring to the attention of men and women the many oppor- tunities for work on farms and at other labor in all parts of the coun- try, Conversely, it will keep employ CTS in touch with centers of unemploy- ment and will bring together idle capi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-03
AD MORALS AND LAX A WIS TROUBLE HERE,
 ECLARES M'DA VID
FEDERAL AND STATE GAME LAW CONFLICT
Wallace Declares Where Such Occurs Former
 Takes Precedence

Montgomery. September 2.-(SpeciaL) On account of the conflict in the pro- visions of the federal migratory bird law and the Alabama state game law. John H. Wallace. Jr., statte game and fish commissioner, today issued the fol- lowing statement:
 Under section 695S of the code of Alabama tho open season on swans seese, brant. duck. rails, coots, mud hens, sandpipers, woodcock and cur Jews, or other shore birds, begins Sep tember l and ends March IS. following. The federal migratory bird law pro- vides that water fowl, including duck swans, geese, brant, coots. mudhens and shore birds can be legally hunted be- tween November 1 and February l. fol- lowing. and that the open season on woodcoclx begins November 1 and ends January 1. In all cases where a con flict occurs between <Se federal and the state statutes, the federal statute takes precedence, and therefore gov erns
 Under the federal migratory bird law all song and insectivorous birds are pro- tected at all times. The federal statutes for the conservation of birds and migra- tory water fowl was brought about for the reasons that state laws for the pro- tection of these nomads differ widely. 'Caiit StatSS iiot pA AotCCtiIS tilcHi di diiy hence a national demand arose. for 6 uniform law for the preservation of all migratory wild life. In fixing the regu- lations for the taking of water fowl. the United States department of agriculture made an earnest effort to give to the sportsmen of the United States an equal open season at such time when these birds were found most abundantly in a particular zone.
 Devastation of Pests Astounding
 'The devastation wrought by insect pests, which have multiplied amazingly since the bird life of the continent has been depleted is astounding. The cotton boil weevil costs the cotton planters s5o,- 100000 a year. The grassnopper, the cut worm, the army worm the wire worm and other insects cost the people of the United States $420 900 annually. This estimate has been compiled by the Uni ted States department of agriculture.
 There were formerly dozens of species of birds that were of vast value to the American people as insect destroyers; that were erstwhile slaughtered at will, by wanton boys and reckless men. The agriculturalists of the United States, therefore, demanded that Congress enact a statute that would save from extinction the natural enemies of the insect pests, the birds. that they might continue to labor for the farmers, without pay, and cooperate with them in securing bounti- full harvests.'