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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20

penf Sunday with her parents, Mr..
M Mrs. James Clark.
Mrs. Harry Gfcenleaf was taken to
Inc Memorial hospital Wednesday
evening She is comfortable at this
writing.
Misses Bernicc and Elsie CLARK and
Lillian Webb went Thursday morning
to West Brattleboro to take examina-
tions for the high school.
4 box supper and social win be held
Tuesday evening. May %, in Grange
hall. Everyone is invited and women
are requested to bring box Of sup
per for two
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20

stage at the east end of the dining room.
This afternoon from to 53C
o clock there will be held a Rebekab
reception in the parlors of the Brooks
house. At 80 o'clock this evening
the Rebekah degree viii be exemplifet
by Amity lodge of Bellows Falls il
Festival hall and at the same hour in
Odd Fellows hall Oasis encampment
viii exempiify the Golden Rule de-
gree. The both annual session of the
row morning in Odd Fellows hall and
Rebekah assembly viii be held tomor-
i'll the evening open house will be kept
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The annual dinner Of the stock
holders Of the West River Railroa |
will be served in the Brooks House
Saturday noon, May %.
The Brattleboro high school baseball
team viii play the Leland and Gray
seminary team on the fair ground
Monday afternoon at ; o clock.
Mrs. A. s. Lamb of Canal street has
received news Of the death in Pasa-
dcna, Cal, May /, of her cousin, Edwin
Fowler brother of the late Wyatt A.
Fowler Of Greenfield, Mass.
The Home Mission circle of the
Methodist society will hold a Grub
Der social next Tuesday eveing at
the home of Mrs. Dora Winslow in
CenterNille. All are invited.
George Edward Rondeau of Worces-
ter, Mass, and Miss Bertha Emmcline
Harris Of Providence, r. l., wee riaF-
Iied this morning in the Office of the
town clerk by Carl $ Hopkins, justice
Of the peace.
+. II. Sanford, manager of tho Last
Block company, on turning his auto
mobile around the curve above the
factory on the Vernon road this fore
noon, narrowly escaped running into
iENE btCf. ne dHNnalS SCahil1cie
across the field and disappeared in til.
woods to the west.
The postponed May meeting Of Brat
tleboro chapter, Daughters Of tn,
American Revolution, was held yester
day afternoon in the home Of Mrs
G. T. Bingham on High Lawn road
Mrs. Bingham and Mrs. L. G. Petite
being the hostesscs. There was larg,
attendance and the meeting was I'M
usually interesting. Comprehensive re
ports of the proceedings Of the recen
Continental Congress of the nationa
society in Washington were given b.
the regent, Miss Susan E. Clark o
West Brattleboro, and by Mr.,
Julius j Estey and Mrs. Fremon
Hamilton Of this village and Mr..
Georgia NJ. Love of South Newfan,
Refreshments and social hour wer
enjoyed.
Everybody go to Vernon Friday
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
GRAND LODGE DAY TODAY.
Continued from Page -

Grand Sire A. S. Pinkerton of Wor-
cester, Mass, Grand Master Trip of
New Hampshire, Grand Secretary T. l..
Way of New Hampshire and w. P.
johnson, grand treasurer of the grand
eneampment of Massachusetts.
The session was adjourned to 2
O'Clock for the announcement of APP
pointments by the grand master and
the installation of officers.
DR.. Human G. Holcombe.
DR.. Luman c. Holcombe, the new
grand master of the grand lodge, was
born in Chateaugay, n. Y, April g.
1865. He graduated from the Uni
versity of Vermont College of Medicine
in 1894 and did postgraduate work
there and in Boston university. FoI
brief periods he taught school, was
employed in an express Office and was
head bookkeeper in the retail sales
department for Jordan, Marsh & Co
of Boston. He has practiced in Mil
ton since 1894 and has been identified
with village, school and fraternal at
fairs in various official capacities. He
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
WEST NORTHFIELD, MASS

Mrs Josie Smith has moved I,
Mortified TO live.
T. A. ADAMS and E. L. Brooks were
in Springfield on business Wednesday
Rev. and Mrs f. H. Leavitt return
ed Friday from Worcester, where they
had been for week.
T. b. Bufum and Mrs. c. P. Buffuu,
and Gordon. who had been in New
York and Wilmington returned the
middle of the week
Mrs. F. l. Gassett came Monday to
have her household goods moved to
Alton, \. H.. and get her child w.lor
she left here with Mrs. Adams a few
weeks.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
WEST BRATTLEBORO.

Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Covey have be
gun housekeeping in w L. Bartlett 5
house.
Mrs T. NJ Allbee returned yester-
day from Northampton, Mass, where
she had been spending few days with
her daughter, Mrs. Harry Martin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
WARDSBORO.
old Home Day in August.

The interested people of the town
met in the parsonage Tuesday after
noon and arranged for an Old Home
day in August, the date to be fixed
later. Chairmen for the various com
mittees were appointed and program
for the day outlined, which it is hoped
will be interesting. Old residents are
requested to keep in mind the month
of August, and look constantly at the
columns of this paper for further de
velopments regarding the day
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
BIRTHS.

In Brattleboro, May IS, a daughter
to Frank NJ. and May (Yauvey) Hell
land.
IN Brattleboro, May 10, a son to Mr..
and Mrs. Cecil Watkins.
In Greenfield. Mass, May II. a son,
Earle Raymond, to Raymond L. and
Mamie (Turner) Brooks
In Syracuse, \. Y, May 20, a daugh-
ter to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis NJ Stellman.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
PERSONAL.

Among those who have attended the
Odd Fellows meetings this week is
Eva f. Ames, the well-known Vermont
author, of White Rock lodge, No. 81,
Of Wallingford She was the writer of
Way Up in Old Vermont, recently pub
ished in The RefoTmer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
DEATHS.

In Washington, D. c., May 10, Fred
P. Sawyer. formerly of Putnev.
In Mortified. Mass, May Is, Miss
Caroline b. Stevens.
May Is, Austin Sanderson OF Westmin-
ster, &c
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
WEST DUMMERSToN.

Miss Dean of Troy, \. Y, is visit
ing at G. NJ. Tubbs s..
S. S Washer has moved into his
house which he recently bought.
Miss Ruth Clark of Brattlebo~o
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20

has wife, who was Eleanor Pearl
Brainard of ST. Adams, and several
children
Encampment Elects
The grand encampment officers were
elected and installed late yesterday
afternoon They We're Grand Patriarch.
Charles ". FAIR of st. .Johnsbury; grand
high priest, w D. Wilson of St Albans
grand senior warden, f. F. JENNIE of New
port: grand scribe, o. H. Henderson Of
St Johnsbury; grand treasurer, c. G. Sta
pies Of Brattleboro, grand junior warden,
j. NJ. Jewell of ProctorsviIle; grand mar
shall, 4. f. Nash of Burlington; grand IN
side sentinel, H. L. Smlth of Bratt1e-
boro; grand outside sentinel, H L. Rus
sell Of Rutland: representative to soyer-
eign grand lodge.efor two years, J A Fos-
ter, past grand patriarch, of Waterbury.
The annual business session of the Past
Grand Officers, association was held in
the Brooks House last evening Just before
the annual banquet by the association,
and resulted in the reelection Of the en-
tire old board of officers, as follows
4 President, H. c. Farrar of Rutland; vice
! president, s. b. Waite OF HYDE Park
secretary, Frank ". Jackson of Barre;
4 treasurer, o. f. Chilson of Middlebury
! historian. f. G. Nichols of Richmond
Bennington, H w Scott of Barre, G. I
| Walker of Bellows Falls
Banquet and Speaking.
The doors of the dining room of the
E! Brooks House were opened promptly or
/ the stroke of o'clock. the time set foi
( the banquet and guests including mant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20
MARRIAGES.

AshfeId Ashford, Frank G. Patterson
and Ethel L. Lippincott of Jamaica
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20

st. Johnsbury Man Elected at Head Of
Grand Encampment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-20

Everybody go to Vernon Friday
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Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
Napisr's One Word Dispatch.

Very few commanders have revealed any sense of hunOr in their campaign ing exploits, and it was reserved foI the witty Sir Charles Napier to be come pre-eminent in this rare 8ccom plishment. His crOwning achievement in the realms of humor was coincidenI with his most brilliant feat of arms.
 He was deputed to essay the con quest of Scinde. and. after series of fine exploits in the face of innumerable difficulties, he accomplished his ms sion BHt the authorities at home wait ed anxiOusly for his dispatch announc- ing this momentous event. The days passed. and it added to the tension. At last the long expected missive arrived and it contained one word. "Peccavir X man who knew Latin was sought and he translated it. ''I have sinned ,Scinde)w-London Mail
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
FALLS VILLAGE

Mir. John B. Reed. of Canaan, was u Falls Village visitor Tuesday.
 Al the annual meeting of the Village Improvement Association. Friday even ing, reports were read and accepted, and the following officers elected for the ensuing wear: President. F. F.. | Esylpston: vice-presidcnt, Clayton NJ. Benjamin; secretary and treasurer, J. <. Tracy. \ committee of three were appointed to establish boundary lines for fire district. as follows: J. S. Tracy, Dwight l.. Dean, Clayton NJ. Benjamin, who will report at an ad- journel meeting tomorrow evening.
 Mrs. Mary Kemp, of Canaan, visited Mrs. Walter Kellogg last Sunday.
 Mrs. J. F.. McCrory is visiting in New York.
 Miss Rae Hazrltine is visiting her aunt in Thumpsunville.
 Miss Lucy Randall returned Saturday from her visit in New Haven.
 At the Mcrrimun farm this season, maple sugar making is carried on in an extensive scale. Up to the present time quarter of ton of sugar has been made and liSlused of, and as II. uch more will have been made by the end of the sugaring season. The quality is excellent this year, and it is impossi- ble TO keep mp with the demand. An "evaporator" has been added to the Merriman equipment which is a great convenience and labor saving device.
 Large quantities of maple sugar also are made by M. c. Dean, which finds n ready market at good prices. South Canaan leads in the maple sugar indus try, in these parts.
 Station Agent A. S. Davis attended the big Safety first" meeting of rail road men in New Haven last Sunday.
 J. K. Mackey, superintendent of the power plant, and Frank Whiting of the Canaan power plant, walked over the transmission line last week, to Bristol and Thomaston, on a tour of inspection.
 George W. White, of Pittsfield, was in town Sunday.
 County Game Warden Hornbeck re- ports that violations of the game laws are rare in these days. Two deer were reported killed by a Sunday train at New Hartford recently.
 The ladies have already forwarded to the Vacation War Relief Committee, New York, 214 dozen congresses be- sides large number of slings, band ages, pads, pillows etc.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
TO HURL ZIG FORGE AT GEAR
Germans Preparing to Attack Russians From Two Directions-Czar
 Again Off to Front.

For the second time since the begin ming of the war the ear will go to the front to see his soldiers in action, hay ing left the imperial residence at Tsar, skoe-Selo. says d dispatch from Petro, grad.
 . There is every indication that the Germans gre preparing to hurl their forces against the Russians in two di- rections, one with it's center north of PrZasnysz, sweeping in wide curve to the south and west. and the other nov ing down the Narew toward OssOwetZ.
 Contcmporaneously with their artil- lerv attacks the Germans are putting Nut fanking columns to the right and ,eft. Russian forces have come into contact with tHe column protecting the German right wing in the PlOnsk dis trict at the village of ChekanOw, four mics east of Plonsk. at which place there was lively skirmish.
 In the Carpathians the Russians have dislodced the AustrO-German forces from their fortified positions at Lup kow and Smolnik. driving back theil opponents toward the mountain pas! commanding that district.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
AmbItlon.

ConteILCd. unamAitioGs people are ail very we'll in their way. They form q neat, Useful hIcEgruuud for great DOT. traits tu ue painted against. and they make q rcSpcrtah.r if not particularly intelligent audience for the active Spir its of the age tu play before. But do not, for goodness sake let them go stalkin" about. ;IS they are sU fond 0f doing. crying out that they are the true models for the whole species. Why. they are d"adhradS. the drunes. the street crowds that lounge about gaping at those who are working.
 They never know the excitement of expectation nor the stern delight of ac compliSh"d effort. such as stir the pulse of the nian who has objects. hopes and plans. To the ambitious man life k n brilliant gamc-a game that calls forth all his tact and energy and nerve: a game tn be won in the long run by the quick eye and the steady hand and yet having sufficient chance about its working out tu give it all the glorious zest of uncertainty
 And 1T he be defeated he wins the grim joy of fighting; if be loses the race he at least had a run. Better to work and fail than tU sleep ones life away ay.-JCrume k. Jerome.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
ASHLEY FALLS

George H. Blodgett went to Chicago markets saturday for another carload of hUT>,> R. P, Lee lost valuable COW few days since. She was found dead in the stable in the morning.
 station Agent NJ. F.. Kane was in New Haven, sunday
 l.. J i-umbert. of Mill River, was calling on friends in town Saturday.
 Both Mir. and Mrs. John Turner are ill. the former with pneumonia. Miss Cora Decker. of Springfield, k caring LOT them.
 John Duuham has been on the sick list fur several days. George Hall, IT,, is taking his place on the delivery wagon.
 \. (. Bowen visited his son at Northampton last Friday. He was dis. appointed in not finding the improve. meut in Irving condition he had hoped for.
 Mrs. Jane snyder K recovering from an attack of tonsilitis.
 l.. F.. I.overin, of North Cornwall, has moved his family into George Woods tenement near the crossing He has hired out to R P. Lee for the coming year.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
REPORTED GERMANY
 WILL PAY FOR FRYE
To Make Monetary Preparation
 an Apology to J. 5.

Monetary reparation to the owners of the American bark William F. Frye and to the owners of her cargo will be made by Germany, with an official apology from the German government for the affront to this country through her destruction by the German con verted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich. it was reported in Washington following call made at the state department by the German ambassador. Count vOn Bernstorff. who had an informal talk with Robert Lansing. counselor of the state department.
 Captain Fl II. Kiehne of the Frye gave his version of the affair to Mir Lansing. He made oath his vessel had no contraband aboard at the time it was sunk by the German commerce destroyer. Copies of the ships papers, however, do not give positive proof concerning to whom the cargo was consigned
 The following statement was issued at the White House:
 "The president. when asked regard ing the sinking of the American sail. ing ship William P. Frye by the Ger man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich. said:
 IA most searching inquiry will br made. and whatever action is taken will be based upon the result of that inqutry.'"
 President Wilson canceled all en agreements for the next three weeks in order to assume personal charge of the international situation.
 The neutrality board has made a re port, which it is understood. recon mends that the PrinZ Eitel Friedrich be permitted to make such repairs as would make her "sea worthy" under Su pervision of American naval authOri ties. if the commander of the German ship requests it.
 The Frye left Seattle on Nov. with a cargo of wheat. She was sent to the bottom by the German rover on Jan ? in the south Atlantic. The crew was taken aboard the cruiser. The PrinZ Eitel quietly slipped into New port News. Va.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
Equestrian Statues.

"On the night of the unveiling Of General Sherman'S statue in New York Mir Whitelaw Reid suggested that Bishop Potter. Mir. St Gaudens and myself go to his home in Madison ave nue for dinner" said General Francis V. Greene. ''I there declared that of all the thousands of equestrian statues that had come to my attention the one of General sherman was the best MT St Gaudens then surprised me by say ing that doubtless l was not aware that there were not hundred eques. trian statues in the world. Bishop Pot ter's son-in-law. Mir. !. F.. Cowdin. was at the dinner. Some time afterward. on hot summer night, We were at dinner in the Union club when Mir Cowdin chanced 10 refer to the state ment of the famous sculptor. You were wrong. Mir. CowdIn told me. but MT. St. Gaudens was not right l have collected pictures of all the equestrian statues in the world. and managed to get 111.'"-New York Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
How to Live One Hundred Years

Lo and behold. q physician comes for, ward with the announcement that ii is as easy as falling off q log to live to be hundred years old. He says all you have to do is to avoid alcoholic or malt liquors. don't smoke, go to bed at 10 D. m. and get mp at 6 a. m. sleep sound ly, don't worry about making money we dont-we worry about not making itI. do nothing to excess idon't marry to excess. of course-Mark Twain said that. the simple life all the time. don't get excited i've don't over anything ex- cept elections or priZehghtsI. eat only when you feel inclined tor have the price-this has no reference to news paper men. who never eat regular meah. With the exception of the pa rentheses this Is really serious advice. and you would do well to heed 1t If you wish to make the century mark in life's little Marathon. However. as for Us We wouldn't swap one hour of golden. glittering time on pay day in joyous Jacksonville for a whole century of such simple and uneventful existence anywhere else.-Phil Fl. Armstrong iR Florida Times Union.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
Why Teeth Chatter.

Although the muscles which affect the action of the jaws are especially under the control of the brain. the chattering of the teeth is really a spasm caused by chill or fear, and all spasms act independent of the will The muscles which operate the jaw act in a series of involuntary little con fractions which pull the jaw up and permit it to fall of its own weight This action is quick. and the chatterinc occurs from frequent repetition. The cold has q similar effect upon the jaw muscles to that which some poisons have in causing spaSmodic action in other parts of the body.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
Land of the Danes.

Denmark has almost abolished pau. perism and illiteracy among her people Only one in a thousand of her adult The number of those dependent on charity is extremely small and is less ening each year in spite of barren soil and a villainouS climate. The whole land is prosperous, and its pro ductiveness is increasing year by year The community health is improving crime is exceedingly rare. and refine ments of life as well as it's necesSaries are growing more abundant and are distributed in wider and wider circles Chicago Journal
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
A Human Life Net.

There k SOme soul of gOoanes> ill things evil would men ubServingly GiS, till it out" How much evil marked the daily lives of the actors in the fol lowing episode iS a matter Of rUnjrc tnre. but they were, says New York newspaper. deuiZcnS of what iS called the "underwurld"
 \ lodging house in one of the crowd ed teucInpnt districts in New York caught tire. The lives of the inmates were endangered. and seven ot them all women. were cut off by the flames They rushed 10 the windows and >hrieked for help
 Then. to quote the newspaper ac count. 'a crowd of Park row human tiotSam and Ietsam and boys of the npighhOrhuOd launched themselves to 2ether to break the force of the wO mems fail and called tu them to jump The jump was mure than thirty feel but all the women made 1t safely
 "Only one of them needed attention hut some of the men walked ava! with heads cut by flying heels and backs strained by the shock of the falIin. bodies. When the reporter spoke to them most of those who made up this human life net said grutlly that they had no names, When they were asked where they lived they would only say. Oh. round here.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
Ocean Temperatures.

The steamer Albatross. which k used by oceanographers, makes records of deep sea temperatures. These tenn perature observations prove that the ocean has far more limited range of heat and cold than the land. it's maxi mum surface temperature being about S5 degrees F., and its minimum about % degrees f. in the most frigid depths. the "cold puddles" between Greenland and Norway. The average ocean temperature at a depth of six or seven hundred fathoms is 36 degrees F. One of the mysteries of the sea Is a regular nightly temperature rise of half a degree at a depth of 100 fathoms. This unaccountable tempera ture variation has been observed by the Albatross over and over again. American Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
CORNWALL

Rev. Dr. Ecob. of New York, has been engaged to preach at the union service in the First Church on Good Friday.
 John Richter has bought the cid Dr. Palmer place at the Center.
 John R. Harrison is back making sugar at the Cobble farm. We had been wondering wllo was to furnish our maple syrup. Oklahoma seems to have restored health to his daughter in a very short time.
 The first half of March has been re- markedly steady in its weather, cool and windy, but about the same every day, the thermometer close to 20 every morning.
 Richmomd's saw mill has finished work here and returned to MT. Crosby $ place on the Bridge road.
 Monroe brothers, of New Haven, are painting and papering the Kellogg house. Miss Kellogg and friend stayed at J. F. Calhoun $ over Sunday.
Connecticut western news., 1915-03-18
SOUTH CANAAN AND HUNTSVILLE

Mrs. Frank Lucas visited her daugh. ter at tue Hillcrest hospital in Pitts. field one day last week. She is doing nicely and k expected home in short item.
 Lyle Loverin is moving from Cream Hill to Ashley Falls, where he will work the coming year.
 Two of M. c. Dean's men known aS Paul and Chester. have bought Mir. Fitch Willard s farm and will take pos. session on April l. It is reported that Mir. Willard is going to York State.
 Nj. c. Dean has started on the road to recovery. He says he is having Il good time as he does not have to work.