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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-23
Weather Report.
 Valdez. March 22, 1915,

The government launch L. V. Don- aldson suffered slight mishap which will put her out of commission for a day or two. One or her boiler pipes blew out and the work of making the repairs Is under way.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07

out most OF the pea crop and set to
work with a large pillow turning under
vines, stalks and all. The cotton stalks
were large. and a grea1 many Of them.
as well as some eornstalks. were left
above ground. But when Sam sowed
the ground with winter oats and rye
and had Googe follow him with a disk
it cut the stalks TO pieces and left the
soil smooth and unbroken.
Soon after they finished sowing a
gentle rain began falling lasting for
day 1t sank into the soft soil and
seemed to touch the planted grain with
magic Ia a very short time the field
from end TO end WAS one long carpet
Of green.
The year was growing old. and the
great bnlk Of the work was done. sam
now had mure leisure than he had had
at any time during The year OF morn.
ings there was SometmeS a hiat of
frast ia the air. bur tae days were yet
bot aud Sutry Sams friends Fred
Martin. Joe Watson ana Andrew
White bad visited ann several times
that summer IN addition H. the days
that they had worked But he had
something that be thoughi would make
pleasant surprise Tor the boys. 81 he
invited his ueighbor. Bob Pagan and
those three from town To visit him on
Saturday. Sans surprise was some
large watermelonS. the last OF the sea
son. that he had covered up with grass
and kept fresh and sound The melon
crop had been gone for long time.
and this would be a treat worth Civ
ing on what would probably be their
last visit this year. Even Bob Pagan
would be as much surprised as any. for
they never grew melons on the Pagan
farm and knew nothing about keeping
them until cold weather
The boys came. and the day proved
10 be suitable for the occasion. 1t was
a hot. sultry day and seemed to belong
more to midsummer than to autumn
First the melons were carried to the
creek near the swimming hole and
dumped in clear pool to float round
and round and cool. Then the boys
were off ON hunt for wild grapes and
pecans. They found both Winter
grapes and fox grapes they found
hanging in thick purple clusters from
vines that ran along branches and
from tree TO tree. To get them the
boys generally had to do ii lot of
climbing but they liked this. though
they bad TO be careful about getting
too far ont on weak limbs.
The pecans' hulls We're popping open
and dropping their fruit to the ground.
so they had little TO 90 except to pick
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07

them up or chunk the trees to bring
more down. The only competitors they
had were the squirrels and crows
The crows merely Toasted. but the
squirrels we're busy in every tree,
gathering their winter supply and stor-
Ing them away In their homes in the
tree hollows
Autumn is time of beautiful colors.
and the nature lover, like Sam Powell
prizes it almost as much as spring
Sam gave his comrades their first les
son in woodcraft-h to see things
He pointed out TO them the flashing
rolors of red and brown and green and
gold For the first time they really
saw the sumacs flaming on the bill or
the red birds and jay birds making
red and blue streaks as they tiew
swiftly through the woods He show.
ed them how to sit very still and see
the wild things that would come out
and begin their work and play all
around.
The hours passed swiftly. and before
the boys realized it noon was long
past. Being hungry and tired. they
turned back toward the creek and the
pool where the melons were floating In
the sparkling water. In short time
they were there, and. carrying melons
to grassy place in the shade of some
trees, they cut them In halves and ex-
posed the juicy red hearts. In jiffy
each boy had a big dripping slice and
was eating 1t between grunts Of salts
faction.
They lay In the shade and talked
long time after they had disposed VI
the watermeloRs. One or two slept.
and Sam and the others amused them
selves by throwing rocks al the trunk
of a tree Suddenly some one said:
Lets go swimming I'm going To be
first iu!'' Then the race began Every
boy was up IN a second peeiing off bis
clothes faster than. be had ever done
before in his life.
Three were 50 close together that it
was bard TO tell which was first They
gave a whoop and. running to the
bank. sprang into the air. They came
down head first. for the water was
deep. and there was no danger Of
striking anything Chug. ehug. ehug.
they went, one after tie other The
water was as warm SIS ON an August
day. and the boys bad tine sport They
dived after pebbles. bad contests Of
swimming under water. floating, tread
ing or swimming on their backs.
Somehow that afternoon seemed too
short to the boys. They bad been
swimming a long time when Joe Wat
son spoke up suddenly:
MY. but look how low the suns
getting. We've got to be hiking. boys."
-
(To - ceat1nuoAl
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
JUDGMENT ON LEGAL Points
Recent Decisions Handed Down That
Are of More or Less Gen.
eral Importance.

The right of person injured in q.
swinging door to recover for the negli-
gence of another customer against the
proprietor of store has Just been
passed on by the supreme judicial
court OF Massachusetts in Smith VS..
johnson. The court held that where
plaintiff, in entering defendants store
through a swinging door. put cut her
hand to guard her face from the door,
which was swinging in her direction,
and it was crushed betw cen the door
and the jamb, defendants we're net liza
bic, such door being in good condition
and similar to those generally used,
and there being no such crowd as
would require the keeping Of a door
man.
A similar ruling has been made in
New York state by the appellate d.
vision. second department. by a ma
jority vote, in Pardington vs.. Abraham
where the prevailing opinion said:
The proof showed that similar
doors. with springs of the same or
greater strength, are in use at nu-
merous like establishments in the
borough of Manhattan. There does
not appear to be anything about their
construction or operation TO make
them dangerous to the customers of
a department store, provided ordinary
and reasonable care is exercised in
their use. That 1t is possible to use
them so as to injure others is DEM
onstrated by this very accident; but
carelessness in the use of any form of
door may inflict injury upon one who
happens to be sufficiently near 1t. No
doubt the plaintiff has been the victim
of a lamentable accident. but it is at
tributable, as it seems to me, not to
any fault of the defendants, but rather
to the hasty carelessness of a third
person over whose movements and
conduct they had no control"
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
INTRODUCE A NOVEL SPORT
Society Girls Sit in Chairs and Cast
Their Hooks for Goldfish in
Hotel Fountain.

A cane, a piece of thread and a
bent pin, together with bread crumbs
for bait, form the basis of novel
indoor sport introduced at an exclu-
sive Pasadena hotel by two fun-loving
society girls. The goldfish in the
fountain which graces the big lobby of
the hotel form the prey. although to
date there have been no serious cas-
ualties among the finny beauties.
To sit comfortably in a big Morris
chair in the lobby of palatial hotel
and at the same time enjoy all the
delights dear to the followers of Izaak
Walton is quite novelty, declare the
girls, who make a great sport of lur-
ing the fish to near-capture.
Goldfish are fun to angle for" says
Miss Marion Landers, who, with Miss
Edna Walsh. introduced the odd sport.
1--WE don't care to eat them, though.
30 any we catch We put back. It's
great fun, don't you Think
It certainly is, declare the promi.
nent eastern guests, who were inter-
ested spectators of the novel fishing.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
The Old and the New.

Inventions have a remarkable knack
of repeating themselves. Among the
more interesting patents for 1914 is
a specification for a wheelless motor
car, propulsion being by means Of
skids, which are alternately lowered
and raised. In the early days of loco
motive history many inventors did not
believe that sufficient adhesion was
to be attained by a smooth wheel
operating on a smooth rail, and weird
and wonderful were the devices for
overcoming this supposed defect. One
ingenious engineer went so far as to
design a contrivanee in which jointsd
metal bars worked up and down on
the rails after the fashion of horses
legs, and there seems to be certain
affinity between this device and the
motor car referred to above.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
Wonders of the X-RaY.

The discovery of the X-ray by Pro-
fessor Roentgen may be fairly consid-
cred one of the most wonderful
achievements of the nineteenth CEN
fury. 1t is today, as it was found by
him in 1895, the same mysterious, I'M
seen, but positive force. species of
electrical energy without a domicile
and needing no conductor, a form Of
light passing through closed doors, in
visible itself, and yet lighting up GER
tain substances with a halo of glory
and radically changing and decompos-
ing others. Rivaling the sun in actinic
power, and writing its autograph with
an unseen hand, it is truly called the
X, or unknown ray.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
CHAPTER Vii,

IVAN met MIR. burns in town one
day IN September The agents
district embraced several coun-
~ ties. and ne nad been absent
for some time. The two had not seen
each other for several weeks.
Hello. Samr accosted the agent
flows the CORN"
That corn is all right. Mr. Burns.
replied Sam. land I'd like you TO come
out one day this week TO see it gath
cred and measured.
IAN right III be out Friday and
bring along the committee that's going
to report on the contest acres IN this
county. VIII it take long to gather
the cornT'
Yes. it's going to take quite bit OF
time. for unless I'm mighty BADLY mis-
patch"
well. you've tried farming for
year. What do you think OF 1t as a
business?"
81 think it's the finest business there
is. like il better than anything else
| can think of. and I'm going 10 stick
to it and learn it
Mr. Burns smiled Il see. he said,
that you don't think you know all
about the business. Did Fon Rad those
books that told you aboutT'
NO, sir said Sam. replying to the
agents first remark, Il really don't
snow much about farming / need
more experience. Most OF what ! kno"
I'VE learned from reading. As Tor
those books. I've not enly read them,
but I've stadied them too I've bought
several more since then. ana ID go
ing 10 keep on buying till I ga all the
best ones in my line. don't DeheNe
Ii paws to economic on books 90
your
NO. IL doesn't" said Mr.. Burns II
vou snow the science of farming II Is
easy enough to learn the rest But you
never can farm tntelligentiy without
learning the science Of II what otnef
books did you buyr
.Weu. | bought Bailey's Manual OF
Garaeuing, for. mother. but I'm srudy-
tuw II myses1. Thsrss . WHOM sot y
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Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
Russians, coppers of Soup.

Prince Oldenburg, head of the Rus
sian Red Cross service, has perfected
an invention based on the thermos
flask principle that has saved many
lives on the battlefield. Each field
hospital has two huge coppers of a
joint capacity of 200 gallons. and a
gargantuan vessel on the thermos
principle, all mounted on wheels. The
soup prepared in the coppers fills the
thermos vessel. and then the coppers
prepare another supply-and hot nour-
ishment can be provided for 1900
men the moment they are brought in
from the field.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07

Start at once to make some bird
houses Try scattering a few about
the premises and enjoy the neighbors
that Will move into them. One of the
most pleasing songsters that may cas-
lily be attracted to home near the
house, is the wren. A very small open
ing should be made in its house to
prevent other birds from using it.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
aannI Gees Amhition.

Another pathetic little feature OF
everyday life is the way a man at
twenty-one will start out with abso-
Lutte confidence that he is destined to
be a leader OF men and at forty will
regard himself ss a reasonable success
if he can keep from being a goat
Ohio State Journal.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07
In a Vacuum.

Since the time of the great Calico
II has been known that "in a vacuum
. feather falls as rapidly as q piece
Of lead" II we could get rid of the
resistance Of the air the feather and
the stone would be found. wherever
trted. to fall to the ground In the
sane time.
Putnam patriot., 1915-05-07

" AN met Mr.. burns in town one
day IN September The agents
district embraced several coun-
49, ties. and ne nad been absent
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
STOMACH SUFFERER
GETS PROMPT HELP
Hartford Resident Gets Quick Relief
From Use Of Wonderful
=. Remedy.

Mrs. S. E. Johnson of 61 Whitmore
street, Hartford, Conn, was a victim
OF stomach and digestive disorders,
attended by much pain. She suffered
from pains in the side and other dis
comforts.
She took Mayr's Wonderful REM
edy and found quick relief. In writing
of her experience she said:
THE pain left me the next day after
taking the remedy It's simply won
derful how it relieved me; and you
may be sure 1 shall tell every one
who has stomach trouble about it"
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives per-
manent results for stomach, liver and
intestinal ailments. Eat as much and
whatever you like. No more distress
after eating. pressure of gas in the
stomach and around the heart. Get one
bottle OF your druggist now and try it
on an absolute guarantee-if not salts
factory money will be returned.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
JAMAICA.

Ed. Allen, who has been i'll, is out
again.
II. A. Mclean has gone to North
field, Mass.
Mrs. Lewis Savage, who has been
i'll, is better.
Judge F. NJ. Butler and family were
in town Sunday.
William Burke was in Bellows Falls
the last of the week.
Ernest Brazer of Brattleboro spent
Sunday with relatives here
Roe Robinson spent Saturday and
Sunday at Mrs. E. j. Robinson's.
Harrison Kingsbury went Monday
to Bellows Falls to work painting.
Mrs. George Clarke and Miss Edith
Clarke spent Sunday at their home
here.
A. B. Stark went with C. Ct Allen
by automobile to the Somerset dam
Sunday.
George Wells of Brattleboro has
been here fixing up his house for sum.
mer occupancy
The W. c. t. o. will hold its an
nual meeting at Mrs. Lucy Kellogg s
next Thursday.
Warren Johnson of Townsheud has
moved to the Blandin place recently
vacated by John Stevens.
The missionary tea will be held in
the church parlors next Wednesday,
Mrs. A. f. Hartwell being hostess.
a. B. Stark went fishing Friday with
the county fish and game commissioner
returning with a good string of trout
Rev. and Mrs H. B. Tilden will
move into Harry Clough s house for
the present Mr. Tilden is not as well
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. o. Allen, Mr.. and
and Wheeler, Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Be
mis- and Miss Lila Kingsbury were in
Brattleboro Saturday.
Rev. Harry Gray of North Roehes
ter, N. H., has accepted call as pas
tor to the Baptist church. He expects
to begin his work June 13.
The ball game in South Londonderry
Saturday between Jamaica and Lon
donde~Fy resulted in a score of Is to
Z in favor of Londonderry
A. B. Stark will begin drawing SAND
and gravel this week for making the
new concrete sidewalks. Mr. Park OF
Newfane is TO have charge of making
the sidewalks.
Arthur Allen of Fitchburg, Mass
brought his father, John Allen, to his
home here for a few days, after
which he will return to Fitchburg to
live with his son.
Miss Ruth Mclean went Monday to
Schenectady, n. Y, to spend a week
with her brother, Mark Mclean, who
is student in Union college. Miss
Mclean will visit cousins at Balston
Lake before her return.
Thanks have been received from
Mrs Mary Willard, president of the
surgical dressing committee of New
York city, for the ga yards of ban
dage and 1850 pieces Of dressing, etc.
which were sent last week. from ia
maica.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
MARLBORO.
Mrs. Martin Akley.

Mrs. Lucinda f. Hall Akley, 70,
wife of Martin Akley died Monday
night, May 10. after an illness OF sew
eral months during which time she
steadily failed. Drs. Dunn, Gordon
and Wright attended her. The funer-
al was held Wednesday, May u, at .
clock. Mrs, Akley was born Nov.
20, 1899 in Stratton. She was one or
four children of Mr.. and Mrs. Lamson
Hall of Stratton and WAS the last sur
vivor of the family. Her parents came
to Stratton from Buffalo, n. Y. She mar
ried Martin Akley of Stratton Ia 1850.
For % years they lived IN Strattol.,
where six children were born to them.
IN the fall of 1856 they moved to
Marlboro, where they had since hveu.
She leaves her husband four sons, Gil
bert, Delos and Roy -Akley OF Mari
boro and Clifford Akley of Brattleb ORC,
and two grandsons, Erwin of Brattle-
boro and Bertram of this town.
Mrs. Akley was very active and
industrious woman spending much time
braiding palmleaf hats and rugs be
sides attending to household duties
She viii be missed by many friend.
and neighbors.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
GRAFTON.
Fathers and Mothers Day.

Next Sunday, May %, will be observed
in the Grafton Congregational church as
fathers and mothers day. Mothers will
have special seats of honor reserved for
them on the right of the front of the
church. Fathers will have special seats
reserved for them on the left at the font
There will be special solos, songs under
the direction of Mrs. F. L. Gilbert, organ
list, suited to the day. The pastor will
present carnation with a scripture verse
to each of the mothers present. He has
invited the women to furnish small bou-
quets to present with verse from the
pastor to the fathers. There will be a
sermon suited to the day by Rev. G. Y.
Washburn, the pastor. j. n. Stowell's
large Bible class of young people are in
vited to be present and sit together as
last year. Every one, in honor of father
and mother, is invited to wear a sprig
of apple blossoms or some other white
flowers. It. is expected that the church
will be decorated for the occasion. All
who are not in duty bound to be elsewhere
are cordially invited to be present.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18

Frosts have done considerable dam
age the past week.
William Atherton has sold his farm
TO parties from Hartford.
Rev A. f. Ward is attending the
Congregational conference in Barre,
Mrs Sarah Smith of Putney has been
spending a few days with Mr. and
Mrs. G. II. Walker
Miss Grace Rising, who was q guest
of Mrs. Lynn Fullam two weeks, has
returned TO her home in Springfield,
Mass.
Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Ward, Mrs f.
c. Chaplin and Mrs. a. j. Tate attend
ed the Sunday school convention in
West Brattleboro Friday.
Austin Sanderson, who has been in
failing health, was taken to the Rock
ingham hospital FRAY to be cared for
Mr.. Sanderson lived alone and had
been cared for by Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard for some time.
At the annual meeting of the Ladies
Aid society the following officers were
chosen: President, Mrs. w. S. Fem
vice president, Miss Florence Metcalf;
secretary, Mrs G. II. Comstock; treas
'urer, Mrs. Walter Twitchell.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
SOUTH VERNON.

Fayette Stoddard is confined to his bed
with a severe cold.
Mrs. H. F. Tyler has been i'll. She is
by DR. Lynch Of Brattleboro.
Miss Ella Tyler and Miss Minnie Clark
of Holyoke were guests over Sunday at
H. f. Tyler's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Fairman visited
over Sunday with Mrs. Fairman's parents
in Greenfield
Miss Florence Weatherhead has re-
turned, after week spent in Mortified
as a guest of Mary Aldrich.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18

ago. He was born in Swanzey, N H,
Sept ID, l846, and at the outbreak of
the civil war enlisted in Company K
of the l4th New Hampshire regiment.
serving throughout the war. He came
to Springfield in December, 1865, first
going to school and then becoming a
beokkeeper for Chaplin & Gould. After
two years in this situation, he went
into the clothing business, leaving in
1871 to organize the Hampden Paper
company, which later became the Bee
be- Helbrook company. He has served
Springfield both in the council and
as an alderman.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
NEW RAILROAD PRESIDENT.
George 3. Holbrook at Head Of Con
necticut River Company.

George B. Holbrook of Springfield.
Mass, has been elected president OF
the Connecticut River railroad to sue
coed John H. Alvin of Concord, n. H.,
who in turn succeeded the late Lucius
futile. Mr.. Holbrook has been di-
rector of the road many years.
Mr.. Holbrook was formerly treasurer
of the American Writing Paper com
pany of Holyoke and head of the Bee
be-Holbrook Paper company of Hol-
yoke, which he founded. He retired
from active business life two years
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18

Rev. II. C. APPLICANT of Rochester,
IN. Y, preached in Mt. Herinon and
Sage chapel Sunday. IS.
The juniors of the seminary enter
tanned the faculty at breakfast Mon
day at Kenjockerty lodge on Rustic
Ridge.
The Boys Brigade will go to camp
at Spofford lake, Chesterfield, n. H.,
about July 20 with Col. j. A. Cushman
Iof Clinton in charge.
The decision of the state inspectors
of the Boys Brigade in regard to the
of Max Huber. He will receive his
commission about October l.
Twenty-Five men from town went by
automobile to Hardwiek, Mass, Friday
and visited the Messer farm. On this
farm are 300 head of registered
Guernseys, $50 of which are mich
cows. After an interesting inspection
of the farm, with Sumner Parker of
the Franklin county farm bureau as
conductor, all returned home by way of
lBelchertown and called on George Al
derman, formerly of Mortified.
The Boys Brigade has two enter
tainments scheduled for the near fu.
ture. On Monday evening, May "a.
the musical clubs of Mt. Hernnon will
give concert in the town hall. Jitney
buses will run from the auditorium,
East Mortified drug store and the
Northfeld hotel. On the evening of
June IA the entertainment will be
Howe's moving pictures in the town
hall The reels will be a history of
the navy of the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
WESTMINSTER.
Stone Ratchet Found in Field.

J. P. Holmes recently found a stone
Ratchet while working in his onion
field. The Ratchet was four and half
inches in length and three in width
and showed plainly where the handle
had been attached. The. finding of
such relics Of a former age causes
many speculations as to the tribe or
people who once roa1rfed over our now
quiet hills and valleys. Several years
ago an arrowhead was found by a
farmer while blowing near the river
bank.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-18
NORTHFIELD, MASS.
Service in Memory of Miss varlev

A memorial service was held in the
Congregational church Sunday after
noon in memory of Miss Alice M. Var
ley who was a victim of the Lusitapia
disaster and whose body has not been
recovered. The service was in charge
of w. r. Moody, who had been asso
ciated with her in the editorshin of
the Record of Christian Work ever
since her coming to Mortified II
years ago. Miss Varley's favorite
hymns were sung, The Beautiful Shore,
by Miss Evans of the seminary, and
Light After Darkness, by the congre-
CATION. Rev. j. East Harrison of Mt.
Hermon led in prayer, read the scrip
ture and delivered a sermon, taking
for his text the word of the disciples
after John the Baptist was beheaded,
Let us go tell Jesus. = His thought
was that we cannot understand the my
stery and tragedy of her death, we can
only eco and tell Jesus w. r.
Moody gave q heartfelt tribute to Miss
Marley as beautiful Christian woman.
He felt her two greatest virtues to be
loyalty and humiliay. There was q
large attendance from the town aad
Mt. Hermen.