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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10
WHITINGHAM.

Mr., and Mrs G. W Kentfield attended
picnic and fiat rock fry at John Carrier
the first of the week.
David Dix and friend, Miss Carrie
Pitcher, drove from Charlemont Saturday
night and visited Mr.. Dix's parents over
Sunday.
Mrs. c. S. Goodnow entertained her old
schoolmate and friend, Mrs. Eleanor Jen-
lins of Williamsburg, Mass, a part of
last week.
G. b, Morse started Monday for White
River junction to attend the Republican
convention held Tuesday. He also at
tended the one in Montpelier "Wednesday.
Mrs. G. w kentfeId and Mrs Dem
ming went to New York city last week
"Wednesday and returned Friday Their
sister, Mrs. Grace Sherwood, accompanied
them home
| Florence Tyler is attending the high
school in Readsboro this fall. She will go
| to and from the school on the train.
Mrs c. s Chase has been visiting
| friends in town.
AIHawkIliott of Boston was in town Tues
day and set up a corn harvester machine
, for the International Harvester Co. OF
! America. 1t is in the hands of then
iONdl de9Sllb, ~ II NTlllclt
/ Nesta tand Houghton Sawyer returned
this week to Gushing academy, Ashburn
ham, Mass, Miss Vesta entering upor
her senior year while Master Hou9htoI
has the trials of a junior before him.
Schools in the village began Tuesday
with Miss Gibson of Chester and Mis-
Mann of Wilmington as teachers Tht
schoolhouse is completed except putting Il
the chimney, which will be done SOM
Saturday. The teachers board at H. a
Wheeler's.
Mrs. Marcia Davis accompanied Mr. an,
Mrs c. A. Faulkner and daughter, Pear
to Mortified. Mass, Tuesday Mis-
Pearl enters school there this fall Rut
and Gertrude Wheeler will attend schoC
there this year. They have been in Arm
academy in Shelbune Falls the past tire
Years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10
SOUTH WINDHAM.

Albert Stentiford is at work for Ava
Harris.
Edmond Harris attended the Springfield
fair last week.
Leon Gibbs has moved into c. f. Carrie
ton IS upstairs teuemcnts.
School began Tuesday with Miss Carrie
Squier of Chester as teacher.
Miss Eva Howe is attending Leland and
Gray seminary in Townshend.
Mr. and Mrs A j. Westcott and two
children were in Brattlehoro Friday,
Mr. and Mrs Frank Jones of Langdon,
n. IL, are visiting relatives in town.
Mr. and Mrs J.. 5. Axtell of Wards
boro have been visiting their daughter,
I Mrs. G. Z. Carleton.
Misses Jessie and Clara Pierce spent
Saturday and Sunday with their aunt,
Mrs. f. IL. Robbins.
Mrs. Mason Jones and daughters, Irene
and Ruth, Of Pixies Falls, spent the week
end in the home Of Mrs. Jones's brother,
a. A. Harris.
Mrs. Edgar Bragg and two children,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10
TOWNS HEND.

Hector FiIion of BrattIeboro was a
weekend guest in the home of f. w.
Watson.
John Dale and friend, Mr.. orvis of
Springfield, Mass, were at the home of
Mrs. H. V. Dale over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. S. Landers, who visit
ed in the home of Mrs Lois Rumwell,
have returned to their home in South
Deerlield, Mass.
Miss Margaret Mills went Monday to
Middlebury for the opening of the high
school, her presence being necessary as
the course of pedagogy which she is TAX
ing IN connection with her college course
compels each member of the class to teach
one lesson day in the school. Miss Mills
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

will have charge of the geometry class
The regular college term begins Sept. n
Mr.. and Mrs II. L. Levoy. formerly of
South Hampton, n H., came Thursday
and are at A. F. Stones while their house
hold goods are being settled in the Bap-
list parsonage The parsonage has been
newly papered and painted and new
.Glenwood range, d gift of the Hadasah
league, has been installed in the kitchen.
Both Mn. and Mrs. Levuy seem favor
ably impressed with their new nome
and the locality.
The grammar school began Tuesday
with good attendance. The seats aud
desks from the schoolhouse have been
placed in the various rooms which the
pupils viii occupy until the completion OF
the school building. The school teams
have the same drivers a. last year, Mrs
Matte Turner carrying the pupils from
No. , district, O, ". Follett from the
FoIctt district. while the Ncacham team
brings the children from across the river
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10
lesa .i. -. ~,

Norris and Doris, of Brattleboro. recently
visited her aunt, Mrs. Elnora Rhoades,
and her friend. Mrs. +. X. Bridgeo.
Mr., and Mrs Z. n kingsbury and
daughter Louise of East Mortified,
Mass. have been spending a week in town
and calling on their many friends here
| Master Alison Q. Baker, who had lived
several years with his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs y. ] Baker, returned to the
home Of his parents in New York city
| Monday.
Miss Clara Notey of Detroit, Mich has
been with Mrs f, II Robbins and calling
on old friends in town. Miss Notey'
father, Rev. c. A. Notey, was a formel
! pastor here.
Mr.. and Mrs J. \. Shaw have returned
home from a carriage drive through Wash
ington county, New York. They also
Ispent several days with relatives at Lake
st Catharine
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10
WARDSBORO CENTER.

School began Tuesday Mrs NJ. E. Put
nam continues as teacher, also conveys the
pupils from the Podunk district.
Spencer Robinson, who is spending a
few days in town calling on old neighbors
and acquaintance, was a guest at c. II.
Kenmore Tuesday night.
Mrs Alice Robinson and son, Fred Rob
inson, returned Sunday from few days
visit with relatives in Massachusetts.
Mrs. Elliott and daughters, who had been
their guests about two weeks, accompa-
MED them to spend some time there before
going to their prospective home in Florida
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

turned to New Haven. Conn. last week.
after spending two months with her
mother, Mrs. Mary Smith. at NJ. l..
Rice's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Decker and
daughter, Marie, of Newark, \. j.. and
Miss Helen Akerson Of Irvington, \. j.,
returned to their homes last week. having
spent several weeks at J. A Streeter's
Mrs. L. b. Kendall, Mrs. \. c. Robin
son, Mr.. and Mrs. \. II. Robinson, Mrs.
John White and Raymond Kendall went
Ito Wilmington by automobile Sunday
Mrs. Kendall and Mrs White remained
Tor a few days visit with Mrs. f. T. Ray.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10
SOUTH WARDSBORO.

Mrs Eunice Sprague of Jamaica is
with her brother, J. b. Sage
Mrs Robert Herbert and child of Wal
lngford (Nt.) are at L. w Seebar's.
School began Tuesday with Miss Har-
riett Davis of South Londonderry as teach
er.
Mrs. J. B. Sage is visiting friends aud
relatives in Townshend and Gardner,
Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs Clifton Timson of Brat
tleboro are visiting in the home of her
father, John Scranton
Mrs. Ernest Howe and twins and Miss
Jennie Scranton of West Dover visited IN
the home Of their father, John Scranton, a
few days last week.
Alamanda Wheeler's son, George Wheel
er, and granddaughter, Hazel Douglass, OF
Waterbury, Conn, who visited him the
first of the week, have gone to Manchcs
ter to visit Miss Douglasss parents be
fore returning home.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10
NEWFANE.
Eugene Field's Daughter Married

The following Chicago despatch to
the New York Evening Sun of Sept. 3
will be of interest to Newfane readers.
as relatives of Eugene Field were for.
mer residents of this place: " Ruth GRAY
Field, youngest daughter of Eugene
Field and inspiration for many of his
poems, notably Little Mistress Sans
Souci and The Stork. viii be married
this afternoon to Elmer Davis Foster
of Tomahawk, Wis, ir st. Peter s Epis
copal church. After the ceremony the
couple viii visit Roswell NJ Field. an
uncle of the bride, at Morristown, n
J. On their return they will make
their home in Tomahawk. Miss Field
Sister Child as she was styled by hen
father, was less than two years ole
when her father died She has lived
with her mother in the old Eugene
Field home at 1912 Clarendon avenue.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

pR. HENRY TUCKER. Residence. IL Grove
81; telephone, 258. Office, Leonard block
Hours. 100 to 3. and to 8. Telephone
~ W
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

Minneapolis is preparing to appoint
on the police force
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

DIX. q. 3. HUNTER. Williston Block, over
SCOTS grocery. Office hours: l to 3 p. IN,
$50 to D. m. Residence. West Brattle boro
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

DE-. w -. LANE. Office and residence 81
No. Main ST. Office hours: Mornings until
'; afternoons until ESQ; evenings until 3.
Telephone 430.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

o. r. ALDRIoH, NJ. D. Hours, 1890 to
ESQ, to &. Office phone 1851: house 165 3.
THOMAS RICE, M. d. Office and residence
Vermont Savings Bank. Hours, s to 9
=. IN, 1 to 3 and to 3 D. N.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

DR.. II. P. GREENE, physician and Surgeon.
Office, Bank block. Hours: 3 to 9 a. IN,
/ 30 3 and to 8 p. m. Residence, SO Green
St. Telephone connections.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

@. R. ANDERSON Surgeon ana Physician
Surgery a speciality. Office and residence
Brooks House, 80 Main st. Hours until 10 a
IN; to $50 and to D. N. Phone, GAG
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-10

Dr.. Z. 3. LYNCH, Surgeon. Office Park
Dldg., rooms l and 3. tel. $40, Office hour
untIl 9 a. m, l to 3 and to 9 p. IN.
Meirose hospital tel. 20l. g to 10 a. m.
residence 14l Canal St, tel. III; Sunday
BY ApDNIntmeut unIY.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
Turns to Wave Hand to
Friend and Falls,
Crushing Skull.
CHILD MEETS DEATH
UNDER AUTO TRUCK
Man Has Ear Torn OF, and Car
Breaks Woman's Leg and Dis
locates Shoulders.

New York City passed SUNDAY "itn-
out ar automobile fatality. but over IN
New Jersey a boy was killed under a
truck and a motorcyclist met death
through his own carelessness. on Long
Island a touring car turned over twice
with five people. yet all were aoie 10
90 home after their injuries had Deeh
dressed.
AS a result of the killing of Charles
Sczerbinski, nine years old, OF oz Jones
at. Newark, two men are held. One OF
them is Dominic Piccoli, Of II Roose-
Welt St. this city, who Is accused OF nav
ing pushed the boy under truck
driven by Meyer d. Minnick, of 80
Division Place. Minnick is the other
prisoner. The accident occurred IN
front of the site of the Public Services
new terminal building in Park Place,
which was crowded at the time.
Harry<T. Quay, Of Woodbury.. \. D.;
was riding along at fair rate OF speed
when he passed friend. As he lifted
one hand from the handle bar OF the
motorcycle the machine nit rock In
the road and he lost control. lie was
thrown Oft. his skull crushed and ms
face and body badly cut and bruised
ne died in house near by before a
doctor arrived.
Thomas O'Connor. a theatrical man
wing In Lynbrook. Long Island, triea
- ,ake . sharp curve on the Merrick
Ksi n, Raldwin's early yesterday
.no' " while travelling az high speed
sE@A ihine struck the curb. went over
sw{.e q landed right side up but
,eia9 the direction from which ~
, row m
vCon,. r'a right ear was torn on
49, hs wh unconscious when picked
u r.ed snlin was cut by glass
IRE, ne wndshield. Burt Johnson
and .-s. hrson were painfully
hrul.s., while frank Macs, OF Rock-
away. 4 cticellv unhurt. The
othrrs n I nbreok DR.. Luther
n. Ki.s o>d ofonnor and patched
up a.. IT. 40 &. all were able 70
20 hoiae &C. ,' -fr co 3"
WLth Nj n, 80 = 'sner, Of BROOK
dale as, Nutloi nes her way 10
Sc. Marv's iospii y aic. TO VISIT
a neighkOr who j. % % there, sne
was struck by an E9'D ts'ren by =.
Mccarthy. n garage r.----er' NJ III
West 95th ~. The won'aD eventualiy
reached the hospital. where her condi-
ton is regarded as serious. Her leit
leg was fractured in two places ooth
shoulders were dislocated and II Is
feared that her lung has been punet-
ured. Mccarthy was paroled:
Thomas Stanstson. OF III Olive boule-
ward. Freeport. Long Island, was
knocked from his motorcycle at Bergen
and Hill avs, Jamaica, yesterday by an
automobile owned by Harry Wheeler,
of Tenafy, n. J. lie was taken to st.
Mary's Hospital, Jamaica. .
Two automobiles were in collision
last night at Washington av. and l65th
ST., The Bronx. A touring car owned by
Jacob Hornsberg, of 1873 Suffolk ST.,
escaped damage, but the smaller car OF
Herbert A. ICES, of 977 Simpson ST.,
lost both front wheels and the radiator
was torn off and thrown some distance.
ICES says repairs to his car will cost
s4OO. No one was badly hurt in the
crash
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
RUSH TO PAY WAR
TAX ON SMOKES
Dealers Generally in lg-
nOrance Government
Had Made Levy.

The special war tax imposed on deal
ers in cigars and cigarettes must De
paid at internal revenue Offices not later
than 5 o'clock this afternoon, and
present indications are that several
thousand small dealers in New YORK
and vicinity will face heavy penalties
as result of delinquency.
The new tax. as imposed by Congress
October %. falls heaviest on the small
storekeepers whose cigar and cigarette
business is purely a side issue, and
amounts 10 only $500 or S4OO annually.
This sum brings them within the scope
of the law, as the exemption minimum
is $500.
croprietors of barber shops, drug
stores, amusements resorts, bowling
alleys, billiard rooms and pool parlors,
and in fact all who sell tobacco in their
places of business, are hit by the new
tax. The situation is complicated by
the fact that no direct legal notices
have been sent TO dealers, and that
most of them are ignorant of the fact
that the tax has been levied
For the small storekeepers the tax
is about SO. Dealers who fail to pay
the tax to-day will be subject to a 90
per cent increase in the tax, and IN
addition VIII De ildDlt W n iHc VI @"NN
and Imprisonment in the federal
prison at Atlanta for six months.
William L. Woodill, deputy revenue
collector in Queens, discovered last
week that the tax had been paid by
negligible percentage of dealers in that
section. and consequently issued no
tices TO storekeepers. There are one
thousand such dealers in Queens alone.
In Jersey City it was said that there
were one thousand taxes unpaid, with
dealers generally ignorant of the ex-
istence Of the tax. In New York City
thousands of persons are liable, and,
so far as is known, no notices of any
kind have been sent out. II is ex-
pected that there will be rush to pay
to-day, with a long delinquent list as
the result
Among others whose time limit for
the payment of war taxes expires to-
day are the motion picture proprie-
tors. some of whom will be taxed both
as the owners of amusement places
and as venders of cigars and cigar
cites.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
NAMES OUT OF
TUNE, WIFE QUIT
Household Harmony Dis
rupted by Husbands
Acts, Is Charge.

Mrs. Aso-Neith Cochran, of 4O3 west
ll5th ST, is the high priestess OF a
cult that believes in the psychology OF
appropriate nomenclature. Her cult
teaches that the taking OF name that
harmonizes with ones vibrations m
sures happiness and prosperity.
She had nothing TO do with the ac-
tion Of her daughter Adelaide IN mar
rying Charles NJ. Pond and thus chang 1
ING her name. Apparently the married
name did not harmonic. and the re-
sult has been a separation suit. Mrs
Cochran has another daaghter Thoss
name is Olea Wanda Lafaye.'
Mrs. Pond alleged IN her FAf
Pond abandoned hes and - %
ter Beatrice. Justice Gnvrga,. "' ~
6ered Pend 60 pay his vile =
week alimony.
Tho husband, in opposing The
mony application. said that his
lef. him without cause and Mrs. fon
was able TO support herself
Mics Cochran and Pond lived on tho
same Aoor of an apartment house.
They eloped. and for some timc after
their marriage. when the Pond fam
ilv moved, they lived with the family
of the husband. Mrs. Pond said that
she WAS treated cruelty, and when thia
treatment became unbearable she re
fused TO go 20 the table 20 eat. she
became III and the physician said she
was suffering from starvation. Then
her mother took her home, where she
remained for some time.
Mrs. Pond asserted that her husband
did no work for two years, and she
was compelled to supply him with Gig
arctic money. The wife said that her
mother got Pond job with the New
Haven Railroad. and later obtained Tor
him the job he now holds. Besides,
she alleged that for the greater part
Of her married life her mother had
supported the family.
Mrs. Cochran has added an affidavit
in support of the statements made oy
her daughter. The teaching OF Mrs.
Cochran with regard TO the harmony
Of nomenclature has been described
by her.
"Mv teaching is that life harmony
consists of adjusting ones being TO
number of vibrations which Will give
forth concord instead of a discord.
Everybody knows that certain musical
notes sound well together, while
others are discordant. II is the same
with ones life. | can find name for
ANYBODY which will harmonize with
that persons birth number. and his
fate will change Immediately from mis-
,rv 10 happiness of all sorts.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
COLEMAN PIONEER COOPER,
DEFIES CITY OVER STREET
Mmno, Old Time Blacksmith Joins Him in Fight to
Horror of Their Fashionable Neghbors in
Queens, Who Must Bear Cost

Patrick Coleman, who was the
pioneer maker Of barrels in Long Island
City, and Patrick Mimno, the old-time
village blacksmith. who was a man of
Importance in years gone by, when the
city officials owned trot ing horses in
stead of automobiles. both of whom are
owners of real estate II Ely av., the
fashionable residential section Of the
1st Ward Of Queens, have started a
contest over the street in front of their
premises. II has aroused the ire and
the opposition of all the fashionables
along the street.
Coleman invested his savings from
barrel-making in a plot of ground at
the corner of Ely av. and 10th st.
Mimno purchased an adjoining plot on
Ely av. That was more than twenty
years ago. They were among the first
buyers in the neighborhood.
Later merchants, lawyers, business
men and political leaders bought along
the avenue and have since erected elc-
CANT stone and brick residences. The
assessed value of the property along
the avenue now amounts to hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars.
Mimno built a modest frame cottage
in the midst Of the more pretentious
dwellings and lives there. Coleman
kept his property vacant until two
wears ago. Their holdings have greatly
increased in value with the improve
ments in the district.
Recently the City of New York,
through the Corporation CounsePs Of
fee. discovered flaw in the title TO
the street, which was originally decided
to old Long Island City By Union Col
lege. All Of the property owners Of
the avenue ceded 20 the city their in
tercst in the street with the exception
Of Mimno and Coleman.
To emphasize his right. Coleman re-
Gently erected brick building extend
ing out 10 half the width OF the side
WALL and established a barber shop.
This greatly exercised his neighbors.
Then he and Mimno declared that
IL the city wanted their title TO the
street IL would have to be taken by
condemnation proceedings. Applica-
tlon was made last wcrs before JUS
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
Those Disliked Least Get
Estate of Old Friend
of Hetty Green.
SURROGATE PRAISES
SINGULAR RECLUSE
Saws She Was Unusually ShreWd
and No One Was Able TO
Influence Her.

Members of the Mclaughlin family.
cousins of the late Saran A. knight,
aged semi-recluse and close friend of
Hetty Green, will come into posses
sion of practically all her $2,00O.OOO
estate through Surrogate Fowler's de-
cision to admit the will to probate. The
will was fought before the Surrogate
last June by cousins in the Knight
branch of the family.
Miss knight died on October IL,
1913c, at st. Luke's Hospital. For a
number of years she lived virtually
alone at 9 West 2Sth st. Her will was
executed in St. Lukes two days before
her death. It named the Title Guar
antee and Trust Company and George
Knight Mackey, of Sedalia, No, az ex-
ecutors.
Surrogate Fowler explained in his
report that Miss knight had increased
the fortune left her by her parents
and brothers, and that when she died
she left no dependents and was abso-
lutely free from obligations to any of
her kindred, not only legally but
morally. The Surrogate also remarked
that Miss knight was woman of un-
usual shrewdness and mental vigor, had
much business ability and was Tex
ceptionally economical"
For some twenty years before her
death Miss knight had had close busi-
ness relations with the Title Gusran-
tee and Trust Company, and it was
Clarence II. Kelsey. the head of the
company and it's affiliated concerns, who
acced as her general business adviser.
He arranged to have her sent to the
hospital. where later she died, and six
or seven months before her last illness
he advised her to make a will.
The Surrogate finds that Miss knigh.
was perfectly competent mentally to
make a will. and as to the allegation
made by the knight cousins that she
had been unduly influenced in the dis
posal of her property. he says If any
influence was exerted it must have
been by her own business agents or
hospital attendants. persons who re-
ceived nothing from her and could
have had no interest in influencing
her.
81 doubt whether any living person
could have obtained undue influence
over Miss knight" says Surrogate
Fowler. 81 doubt il her judgment
could be influenced except. possibly.
by mathematical REORGANIZATION, SO
firm, orderly and superior was her nor
nal intelligence.
From the whole testimony before
me-" concludes the Surrogate. "and the
indications il reveals, am convinced
that at the moment when the testatrix
made the will she herself realized that
her end was probably near and that
she could not safely defer the tesla
mentary act But even then there was
no indication of trepidation or surren-
der on the part of this courageous mad
remarkable woman.
"The fact was, she could keep her
hsndsome estate-the token and re-
suit, in part, of her sacrifices and self-
abnegation- longer, ard she gave j.
deliberately to those of her somewhat
distant kindred she liked best, Ut ir
more accurate phrase, TO those she dis
liked The least. Certainly she saw
more of those she benefited, and thus
there IS rothing unnatural or to be eX-
planned by reason of the preference
Miss KNIGHT expressed for them IN her
will"