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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
THE Value OF TRUTH

Truth in business is just as important
as truth in everyday life; truth creates
confidence, establishes goodwill and
builds a reliability that will not be
wrecked by the storms of competition.
Through three generations people
have leaned to place reliance on the
advertised words of SCOTS Emulsion,
because they are untarnished, unex,
aggerated truisms about a household
remedy of real and actual worth.
The popularity of SCOTS Emulsion
IS increasing as intelligence advances,
because in these days of authorizations
it contini es to guarantee pure cod liver oil
incidentally perfected with glycerine and
hypophosphites to build strength, inn
prove the blood and strengthen the lungs.
Its free from alcohol or opiates-a whole
some food-tonic, truthfully advertised
Scott & Bovine, Bloomfield N. J. 1920
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
HOT WATER THE
BEST LIVER AND
BOWEL MEDICINE
Says glass of hot water before break
fast washes poisons
from system.

Physicians the world over recon-
mend the inside bath, claiming this is
of vastly more Importance than outside
cleanliness, because the skin pores do
not absorb impurities into the blood,
causing i'll health, while the pores in
the ten yards of bowels do.
Men and women are urged to drink
each morning, before breakfast, a glass
of hot water with a teaspoonful of
limestone phosphate in it, as a harm
less means of helping to wash from the
stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the
previous day s indigestible material,
poisons, sour bile and toxins; thus
cleansing, sweetening and purifying
the entire ahmentary canal before put
ting more food into the stomach.
Just as soap and hot water cleanse
and freshen the skin, so hot water and
limestone phosphate act on the elm
NATIVE organs.
Those who wake up with bad breath,
coated tongue, nasty taste or have q
dull, aching head, sallow complexion
acid stomach; others who are subject to
bilious attacks or constipation, should
obtain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate at the drug store. This will
cost very little but is sufficient to
demonstrate the value of inside bath.
ing. Those who continue it each morn
ing are assured of pronounced results
| both in regard to health and appear
ance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
SOUTH NEWFANE.

The Ladies' Benevolent society will
meet next Wednesday afternoon in the
vestry. All are invited.
Mrs Ralph Moore returned Wednes-
day from Brattleboro, where she has
been visiting her father, Barney Pratt
Mrs L. w. Shepard has been confined
to the house most of the time since
Thanksgiving day with an attack of
neuralgia.
Miss Matte B. Metcalf, who is stay
to the home of her father, John O.
Metcalf, this week.
Rev. Frank A. Kelly and sister
Miss Gladys Kelly, attended the Chap
man-Alexander meetings Wednesday
afternoon and evening.
Bingham Brothers recently sold to
F. L. Pierce of Brookline the engine
which they used at their sawmill near
this village few years ago.
William A. Howe, who came from
Greenfield last week to hunt for a few
days, was entertained at H. E. Spark s
and returned Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Wilcox of
North Yakima, Washington, have been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Knowlton
in Rochester, MINI, and Mrs. John d.
Blake and family at Minneapolis.
They expect to spend three months in
Minnesota.
Sunday school committees chosen to
prepare the entertainment for Christ
mas night at the Baptist church are:
Executive and entertainment commit
tee, Mr.. Kelly, Mrs. Love, Mrs. Will
. lard, Miss Landman and l.. E. STRAIT
ton; box and candy committee, Mrs L.
w. Shepard, Mrs. L. E. Stratton
Mrs. E. W. Morse and members of Mrs
C. E. Brown s class and Mrs. Alice A
! Bailey s class; committee to get, set
and remove the tree, Frank S. Stratton
/ Leslie L. Stratton, William A. Brooks
| G. f. Field s, M. A. Bingham and C. E
Brown; tree-trimming committee, Mr.
| Kelly, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Bingham
Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Morse, Mr. ant
Mrs F. E. Fisher, Mr.. and Mrs. H. c
Bingham, Miss Ella j. Stratton, Mis-
Ruby J. Ingram; for removing gift
from tree, NJ. A. Bingham, L. w. Shep
ard, H. C. Bingham, Z. w. Morse; t.
call gifts, f. f. Fisher, L. f. Stratton
to distribute gifts, Mrs. Bailey s elias
and Mrs. Willard S class; to look afte
unclaimed gifts, Mrs. Willard.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
NEWFANE.

Mr.. Richie, section boss, is ill with
grip.
Little Charles Mock is i'll and has
been unable to attend school this week.
Mrs. Caroline r. Cushing, who has
been i'll a week or two, is not as we'll.
Miss Susan Rugg of Ware, Mass, is
spending a week at John F.. Whitaker s.
Lyman Bills, who has been suffering
from blood poisoning, which started
from a cold sore on the lip, is improv-
ing.
Misses Minnie and Olive Howe re-
turned to Brookline last week Thurs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
PUTNEY.

day school who gave the play, All
Tangled Up, last Friday evening, did
well and entertained fair sized audi
enee. A slight snow storm earlier in
the evening prevented some from being
present who were planning to go.
First Baptist church, R. B. Da-
Wis pastor. 10.45 a. m. Preaching
Services; subject, The Christian s
JOY; II M, Bible school; p. M,
Christian Endeavor meeting. Subject,
The Reasonableness and Value of the
Christian Endeavor Pledge. The pastor
will continue his talks on The Christian
Life, speaking on the questior Why
Be a Christian?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
JAMAICA.

Mrs. Robert Tilden went to Maine
Wednesday.
Mrs. Emma Benson and two daugh-
tiers and Mr.. and Mrs. John Cummings
are AZ Ernest Martin s this week.
Committees We're chosen last Sunday
by the two Sunday schools for the usu-
81 union Christmas tree and exercises.
Mr.. and Mrs A. B. Stark returned
Monday night from a few weeks visit
in Providence, r. l., Springfield and
other places.
Miss Charity Pitman, who has been
at Fred Sellers s for two or three
weeks vacation, went to Brooklyn
Thursday. She will sail from there fer
the Bermuda islands Saturday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10

day, after spending two weeks in New
fame.
Miss Nellie Hamlin is home from the
hospital in Springfield, Mass, where
she is training, for vacation of three
weeks.
Nutting and Whitaker have moved
the saw mill they bought of E. P.
Squires from the Walter Eager place
to West Dummerston.
Mrs. j. F. Ward of Westminster,
who had been visiting her sister, Mrs.
A. H. Farnum, left Friday to spend the
winter with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. C. Boyd, in Wilmington.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
TOWNSHEND.
Visit of Library Expert.

Miss Rebecca w. Wright of Mont
pelier, secretary of the Vermont Free
Public Library commission, gave an
address Wednesday afternoon in Acade-
my hall to the students in the teacher
training class. The librarian and
trustees of the town library also were
present by invitation. Miss Wright IS
central thought was the need of good
literature for children from their earli-
est years. Adults have experience and
can Judge what impressions are true;
while children IS ideas are fanciful.
Good fairy tales are read as such and
are an aid to the imagination, but tales
founded upon improbabilities dull the
taste for the worthwhile books. Miss
Wright gave the training class direc-
tions for securing the state library
books for use in their schools, men
tioning the fact that 10000 books from
these travelling libraries were read by
children in this state in the past two
years. There are ia free town libra
ries in the state receiving state aid in
some form. Besides the travelling
libraries of general fiction there are
grammar school and high school study
club collections on a wide range of
subjects and farmers libraries and col
| lections of pictures. The many beauti-
! full views decorating the walls of the
training class room are from one OF
these collections.
Miss Wright addressed the entire
school at the vesper service in the same
hall. She urged the students, when
they became voters, to remember the
needs of their town library which is
as much an educational institution as
the public schools.
She visited the town library with the
librarian, Mrs. Ellen Plumb, and made
many helpful suggestions and showed
much interest in the arrangements o.
the books and of the room. It is prob
able that she will visit the library
later in the winter and assist in cat
alleging the volumes by the card sys
tenn. Miss Wright, who is the daughte
of the late Rev. DIR. J. Edward Wrigh
of Montpelier, has a most charming
personality and made many friend
during her brief stay in town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10

Wealthy Russians are buried in glass
collins.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
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WILLIAMSVILLE.

Harold Washer has gone to lion, n.
Y, where he has a position.
Mrs D. R. Stedman visited in Brat
tleboro Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs W. J. Corbett of Boston is Wis
iting Mrs. E. FL. Richardson and Mrs.
W. J. Corbett.
Mrs. P. B. Sparks is visiting in
Springfield. She will go to Portland
to spend the winter.
Samuel A. Merrifeld was in Brattle-
boro over the weekend, guest of his
sister, Mrs F. J. Fairbanks.
l.. o. Morse, former resident of
this place, now living in Milan, Mo-,
called on friends here last week.
The community Christmas tree and
entertainment will be held in the Meth
odist church Friday evening, Dec. "a
The collection in the Sunday school
of the Methodist church next Sunday
morning will go into the Christmas tree
fund.
Mrs C. K. Stedman has returned
from Springfield, where she was a
guest of her daughter, Mrs. F. E. Frey
enhagen, several days.
In the annual meeting of Williams
vic bIdHSe Inc 1OlIoWlhS oLHcerS were
elected: Master, G. K. Lewis; overseer,
B. G. Halliday; lecturer, Mrs. Minnie
! Timson; toward, G. K. Stedman; assist
ant steward, R. A. Wheeler; chaplain
Rev. A. S. Charlton; treasurer, W. E.
Wheeler; secretary, D. R. Stedman;
gate keeper, E. C. Best; Ceres, Mrs
Mary Ingram; Pomona, Mrs Daisy
Temple; Flora, Mrs. Lena Washer
lady assistant steward, Miss Mildred
Tuthill; pianist, Mrs. w. E. Wheeler.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
BROOKLINE.

Mrs. Almon Dean and children of
Springfield are visiting this week in
the home of Mrs. Marshall Lawrence
Mrs. Emma Stickney and children
visited last week in the home Of her
sister, Mrs. Hattie Smith in London
derry.
Mrs. Marshall Lawrence, who has
been i'll two weeks and confined to her
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
SOUTH VERNON.

The missionary society of the A. c..
church of South Vernon will hold sale
Wednesday afternoon and evening,
Dec. Is, beginning at 8 o'clock. If the
day is exceptionally stormy the sale
will be postponed until Thursday, Dec.
16,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
DOVER.

Mrs. Betsey s. Knight, nee Russell,
wife of Israel knight, formerly of
Dover, died Dec. d in Branch Hill,
Ohio, at the age of 65.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10

Lord Kitchener once assisted al a Drury
Lane rehearsal in correcting the military
evolutions performed upon the stage
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10

bed, is now able to sit up and is gain
ing slowly
Miss Minnie Howe and Miss Olive
Howe returned home this week after
spending their vacation in the home
of their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
O. Howe in Newfane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-11
SIMS TELLS WHY
 CHANGES ARE NEEDED

Henry U. Sims: "The constitution of 1901 was written at a time when the peo- pie had not sufficiently developed finan- cially to know what kinds of state ac- tivities for internal improvement could be safely engaged in. Therefore, the con- vention of 1901 repeated the prohibition of all internal improvements which were forbidden immediately after the carpet bag days.
 Now we know that system of state highways is necessary to the rapid de- velopment of agriculture in parts of the state that are not rich enough 10 build highways for themselves.
 Again the constitution of 1901 was written before modern students of taxa tion had found out that all kinds of property could not be taxed alike; again We had a rural population in 1901; now, we have metropolitan as well as rural communities and th9 constitution can not be bent to fit them both. Again we had little trouble with the administra- tion of our courts in 190l while now the enormous amount of litigation requires the whole system to be organized ani the constitution is in the way.
 These and many other reasons flock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-11
MIR. LEARY BELIEVES
 THE WORST IS OVER
President of Southern Express Com. pany in Birmingham on Tour
 of the South

$. K. Leary, president of the South. ern Express company, was in the city yesterday on a tour of inspection. He lives in New York and has In the past GO days toured practically every one of the middle western states. He is now making trip through the south and was ac- companied to the city by General Super intendent Mcfarland. who will also go with Mir. Leary to New Orleans and thence to Florida. MT. Leary said yes- terday that business was looking up
 q cannot tell you what I think of the conditions down south at this tlme.'' said MT. Leary, having just arrived. can tell you, however, that the situation in the west Is getting better every day. The price of wheat has greatly affected business in the west while they have been selling commodities to Europe that have been bringing in a greet deal of money. l found everyone optimistic in that section of the country. I believe l shah be able to say with Knowledge that the south is also optimistic before I get back home
 The Southern Express company has. during the past year. been affected pretty seriously. The rates ordered by the in terstatc commerce commission about one year ago and shortly thereafter the ex- tension of the parcel post affected us When we felt reasonably sure that we had weathered that gale here came tho war and tumbled us over again. However. we are optimistic and I firmly believe that we will be able to weather the gale and finally reach the same volume of business. Our company is interested now in the basket produce campaign. We have rates that permit a town man to buy country produce direct from the farm and we furnish names of persons supply ing commodities that are in demand In the cities. We have been able to greatly assist in reducing the cost of living in that way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-11
AVER AND WEBB
 INSPECT PROPERTY
Eastern Capitalists Look Over Condi- tiOns of A. B. & A. and Wood
 ward Iron Company

C. F. Aver of Boston, one of the heav- fest owners of Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic securities. and S. w. Webb. vice president of the Old Colony Trust com pany of Boston, were here yesterday in specting the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic and the Woodward Iron com pany, in which Mir. Aver is also inter ested. They were accompanied by w. w. Croxton, general passenger agent from Atlanta. Mr. Aver and MT. Webb, as this was the end of their trip over the At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic lines, left for the east from this city.
 T have great faith in the Birmingham district" said Mr. Aver. Its future will undoubtedly be greater than even your most enthusiastic men think possible. The natural resources of Birmingham and the proximity of the raw materials here give Birmingham an advantage over any in- dustrial city that know anything about. I am simply looking around down here and there is nothing real significant in our trip. You may say, however. that we like Birmingham and that among men of wealth this city and it's opportunities is getting to be better and more favor ably known every year"
 MT. Webb said business conditions were improving and that the indications point ed to steady but not nasty revival of prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-11
SCHEDULES FOR MEETINGS IN
 CALHOUN AND LAMAR COuN-
 TIES ARE MADE PUBLIC

The popularity of the Alabama crop diversifcation campaign appears to in crease with each new county entered by the speaking crews, according to infor- nation coming into campaign headquar- ters here from the north Alabama eoun- ties where the campaign is now iu pro- gress It Is stated that the average att tendance at the individual meetings throughout the north end of the state would probably be over 200 farmers.
 Word came yesterday that the three speakers being furnished by Professor Duggar of Auburn-F A, Wolf. W. E. Hinds and H. C. Wilson-will abondon the campaign work Friday until the speaking crews reach south Alabama ter ritory. Reports from Montgomery yes- terday stated also that Commissioner of Agriculture Wade and State Superinten- dent of Education Feagin would take part in the campaign in south Alabama. They have not helped with the work in Bir- mingham or north Alabama.
 The exports and imports of Calhoun county are as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-11
ROGERS DECLINES
 TOREFUND MONEY States Attorney General Has Asked for Rehear-
 ing of Tax Case

Stating that he is acting under the ad- vice of the attorney general, Cleon E.. Rogers, treasurer of Jefferson county. has refused to pay warrants that will aggregate about $65,00o that were issued by the board of revenue for the refund of the privilege tax alleged to have been WI ongfully collected from the foreign cor rorations of the county by the probate judge. The law under which the license was collected was recently declared un- constitutional, and the board of revenue was ordered to refund the several amounts collected.
 Treasurer Rogers states that he has teen notified that the attorney general has asked for rehearing of the case before the supreme court on several points not involved in the original case, and that the motion is still pending. He states that in the event of reversal he would not be protected in any payment that he might make at this time. Mir. Rogers left for Montgomery yesterday, but did not state his mission.
 The privilege tax referred to above was collected under the provisions of a bill passed by the last legislature and the payments that were to be refunded are for the years 1910-1911 and 1912
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-11
WARD DEFINES USE Of STREET RAILWAY PASSES BY THE CITY
Says No One But Outside Employees Ride Free on Street Cars-DeWindt
 Makes Statement

Taht the city had to fight for every con- cession it received in passes from the Birmingham Railway, light and Power company and that only outside employees were allowed to accept them was a state ment of President George B. Ward of the city commission yesterday. He was asked to define the meaning of J. H. P. DeWindt, manager of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, who said in discussing the 'jitney'' service here that the company, amons other things, furnished city employees passes and paid heavy taxes.
 President Ward said in explanation that all patrolmen in uniform and badges, all firemen in uniform and badges, all san- itary inspectors, and as matter of fact, all outside employees do ride free on the lines of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company. But,'' he continued, No commissioner, secretary, department head or any of the clerical forces are permitted to accept free transportation over the lines of the street raiyway com panies. Up to the time the anti-pass bill was passed some years ago, all employees Oi tHC tity icCciNco bOOh psiSSth anu IL was after the fight that the city secured the right for it's police men, detectives and other emergency employees to ride on the street cars with out paying fares I recall that the city purchased tickets and distributed them to the outside employees while the matter was being adjusted. As for other employees riding free on the lines of the company that statement of MT. DeWindt was mis- leading, if he intended to convey the im- pression that anyone except the men have designated ride for nothing.'
 The statement of Mr. DeWindt that his company lost $70O gross per day by reason of the operations of the ''jitney' auto mobiles and his subsequent statement that the commissioners were denying his company a square deal created intense interest in business circles yesterday.
 Mr. DeWindt was asked yesterday after noon by The Age-Herald to define what he meant more clearly, when he declared yesterday morning that the company furnished the city employees with passes. He was informed that President Ward had made brief statement.
 The statement of MT. DeWindt was as follows:
 T do not want to get into controver- sy with Mr. Ward in reference to my statement. However, I will say that mem- bers of the engineering department, the sanitary officers, patrolmen, detectives, firemen and officials engaged in outside work for the city are given free trans portation over our lines The commits sioners do not get passes, as under the law the city hall clerks and others en- gagged on inside work are also barred from getting passes I did not mean to imply that MT. Ward Or MT. Weatherly or Judge Lane received free transporta- ton over the street railway lines'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-11
NO CLUES FOUND TO
 BOYS MURDERER
Funeral of Willie Tucker Held Yes terday at Tuxedo Junction and
 Large Crowd Attended

Owing to the modest-sized home of Mrs. Fannie Tucker Hornsby at 22,2 Twentieth street, Ensley, many of the sympathetic people of Ensley who at- tended the funeral services of her mar tyred son, Willie Tucker, at S:9O o'clock yesterday afternoon were unable to enter and the front yard and street adjacent to the Hornsby residence was filled with sombre-faced persons who shared the grief of the immediate relatives of the murdered boy.
 At the residence. the Rev. l.. B. Bru- baker, pastor of the Highland Presby- teran church, and the Rev. R. A. Dowl- ing of the Shady Side Methodist church, officiated in the services.
 The gathering of so many persons at the funeral brought out much criticism Of the authorities in making no arrest in killed at 10 o'clock Monday night at Tuxedo Junction while riding home on his bicycle. Willie was employed as de- livery boy for the Robert K. Martin Drug company at Avenue F and Nineteenth street, Ensley.
 Detectives Granger and Wiggins of the E.nsey precinct, who were ordered on the case. have reported no progress. The Ensley police department frankly admit tLat the shooting is an unfathomable mys- tery as far as they are concerned. The officers state that they failed absolutely in securing any clue to the murderer, and only chance for voluntary surren- der will bring the assassin of Willie Tucker in the hands of the authorities
 The pallbearers at the funeral yester- day afternoon were: Phil Stinks, John Acuff, Joe Otwell, Prank McWilliams. Fred Burchfie1d and Thomas Minyard.