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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23
PUTNEY.

Mrs. w. G. Wright is visiting her
children in Brattleboro and Newfane.
Harold Bugbee and E. w. F. Dyer
and a force of men began cutting the
hay on the Houghton farm Monday,
Mrs Alice Campbell and daugh-
ter of Grovetown, n. H., are visiting.
Mrs. Campbell s parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Townsend, and other relatives
in town.
The men s class of the Baptist Sun
day school will hold an old fashioned
social and spelling bee, followed by
an old fashioned supper, Wednesday
evening, July %, in the church vestry.
Ethel Wing, Ada Wheeler and
Florence Martin are among the berry
pickers on West hill at the Darrow &
Aiken fruit farm Ethel Wing assists
Miss barrow at the camp and in can
ming berries.
Mrs II. II. Lawrence and two
daughters, Frances and Barbara, are
visiting Mrs Lawrence 81 sister in
Springfield, this state. DIR. Lawrence s
father and mother are with him dur
ing her absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Farnum and
daughter, Adine, went Sunday to
Greenfield, Mass, by automobile. Mr.
and Mrs. Farnum returned that day
| but Adine remained for a visit with
Lucy Clemens, formerly of this town
A new athletic field will be chris
tened Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Plant
| has allowed the use of the plain be
tween the two depot roads, owned by
her, to be used for a baseball field
Saxtons River and Putney will eros:
bats.
| DIR. and Mrs. L. II. Bugbee and son
Richard, returned home Monday. DIR
Bugbee attended the health officers
school in Burlington last week ant
they visited with Mrs. Bugbee's par
ents in Quechee and the doctor ,.
brother in Hartford before returning
home. 3A&. ..s
| Although the night was stormy thu
lawn party advertised to he held a
the Congregational church was giver
in the church vestry. Crimson ram
bier roses decorated the, rooms, giving
it bright and cheerful appearance
on such rainy night. A good sun
was realized sHE. ...
First Baptist church, r. B. Davi
|
iect, How May We Know We Ar
Saved? II, Bible school. A debate vii
be participated in by members of tn
men s class. 4 tour contest viii be
gin August l between the two div
sions of the Bible school; Z p. m
Christian Endeavor meeting. Subject
| Christ in Me. Thursday at 100 p. m
Bible study class meets in the vestry
1
At the moving picture show Tuesda
| evening Mr.. Carter Announced that 0
/ Tuesday, July 27, the proceeds woul
/ be given as benefit for the repair
on the Congregational church and tn
\ picture play that afternoon and ever
ing would be David Harum. A nous,
toulouse canvass will be made for tn
sale of tickets. This is the frs
i matinee given by the Princess Pictu1
/ Co., and it is hoped those who cannC
/ come in the evening can avail then
selves of this opportunity to see one {
/ the best picture shows and help
| worthy cause.i sThe renbvating of an
/ public building is cause for the MAJ
Hesitation of public spirit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23

w. A. Wheeler and Miss Christian
went on an automobile trip to War
wick, Mass, and return Wednesday.
They stopped several hours at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Reed
and his parents.
Rev. Mr.. Rafter of Wilmington
preached in the church here Sunday
afternoon in the absence of Rev. JOS
eph Macdonald, who is enjoying a
vacation at his home in New jersey.
His friend, Mr.. Russell returned with
him, and some of his time viii be
spent in New York with Mr.. Russell.
Rev Mr. Rafter viii occupy the pulpit
again next Sunday.
James Pike, lifelong resident OF
this town, died in his home last week
after "a lingering illness with tuber.
culosis He leaves his wife, Julia. one
son, Carl, who is married and lives in
Massachusetts, and two daughters
Mrs. Flora Dixon of Wilmington and
Leola, who lived at home. The funer
al was held at the house Sunday after
noon, Rev. Mr.. Rafter officiating.
A party of eight young women went
on a carriage drive to Halifax Satur
day afternoon and enjoyed a picnic il
the home of Miss Gladys Chase. They
remained in the evening and were
Joined by a number more of Mis-
Chase's friends and a delightful even
ing was spent in honor of her 19tl
birthday anniversary. The young wo
men were chaperoned by Miss Ma,
| Monahan.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23
WHITINGHAM.
Italians Body Found in Shack.

David Drinkwine made grewsome
discovery Sunday about noon, when
he found the body of lonely Italian
who had been known as "Crazy
Pete" and had been wandering in
that locality for some time, making
his abode in an old shanty on the
Wilder place near Mr. Drinkwine s
house. The man appeared to be about
40 years old and without friends
work or money, and he could neither
talk, read nor write so that anyone
could understand him.
No one remembered seeing him fol
some time and evidently he had beer
dead from one to two weeks as his
body was very badly decomposed. The
selectmen were called and undertakes
Canedy took charge of the body, which
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23
NEWFANE.

Virgil Ranney spent last week with
Mrs. Plumb and daughters in Town
shend.
Mrs. w. l.. Wright of South Lon
donderry came Wednesday to spend a
few days with her daughter, Miss Mari
on Wright.
f. A. Dewitt and DeWeese attended
the state horticultural meeting in Put
ney Thursday on Darrow & Aiken s
berry and fruit farm.
Miss Amy johnson of South London
donderry returned home Sunday will
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23

Sara Pike is a guest of Mrs Emma
Knapp.
Rev. Henry Hopkinson spent Friday
in Brattleboro.
Mrs. George Hopkinson was in Brat
tleboro Wednesday.
Miss Lucia Gleason went Wednes-
day to Brattleboro.
Lewis Williams of New York is back
at Underwood s hotel.
Theron White, who was in Brattle-
boro for sometime, is home.
Mr. sand Mrs Harvey Willard re-
turned from Northfeld, Mass, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Torrey of Brat
tleboro visited at Charles Shine s Sun
day. r 0
Mrs. R. E. Wilder of Manchester,
n, H., is visiting her brother, Charles
Shine.
Harry Hopkinson of Boston came
to visit relatives here from Friday
night to Sunday.
John A Farnum and friend of
Worcester, Mass, were in town We'd
nesday on business.
Mrs. H. H. Forester, who had
been visiting relatives in Vernon, re-
turned Monday night.
Fred Eddy of New York, who was
| with his relatives two weeks, returned
to his home Saturday.
DIR. o. v Hefflon returned Saturday
| from Burlington, where he went tC
attend the health officers meeting,
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Allen of West
| Dover visited at H. II. Forester Is
and Wesley Allen 5 the first of the
| week. N
| Mrs. Lizzie Barber of Townshend
! who visited her father, L. \. Whit
comb, at George Briggs, has returned
i home.
Two cans of small fish were sent t.
IPerley Kidder from the state fish
hatchery. He has placed them in tn
brooks.
4 Miss Simon, Miss Claflin and Mis-
Hughes walked to Newfane recently
) but decided TO return by public cor
t veyance.
II Mrs. Reed, who had been stayin
: with her daughter, Mrs. o. Y. HeffloI
: long time, went Wednesday to he
home in Fairfield. ..
Rev. and> Mrs. .Ashfeld Ashford an
children returned Saturday night frol
two-weeks' stay in South Hadle
Falls with her parents, Mr.. and Mr.
+ Buchanan.
Mrs. Fred C1uett, who had bee
i with her mother, Mrs. Irene Dexte
a and aunt, Mrs Laura Blanchard, fl
i sometime, returned Wednesday to h
home in Round Lake, N. Y.
d The Grange memorial services wi
+ be held in the church next Sunda
s July %. Rev. A. Ashford will preaC
an appropriate sermon. The evenil
\ subject will be Cod Great Love.
h Moses Dexter, Mr.. and Mrs. Walt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23

Ike new girl and / am now relieved
IF all these troubles. hope all young
girls will get relief as have. never
Felt better in my life. Mrs. JOHN
rETREAULT, Box 116, Sterling, Conn. :,
Massena, N. Y.-"I have taken Ly-
ia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
nd highly recommend it. If anyone
Fants to write to me / will gladly tell
er about my case. / was certainly in
\ bad condition as my blood was all turn
ng to water. Ihad pimples on my face
nd bad color, and for five years had
zen troubled with suppression. The
octors called it 'Anemia and Exhaus-
ion, and said was all run down, but
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
ound brought me out all right. ~ Miss
lAvIsA MYREs, Box IA, Massena, NY.
Young Girls, Heed This Advice.
Girls who are troubled with painful or
Irregular periods, backache, headache,
'ragging-down sensations, fain ting
.pells or Indigestion, should Immediately
eek restoration to health by taking Ly.
ia L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23

McManus, Bessie and Ella McDougal
came Sunday from Troy, n. Y, by au-
tomobile to visit relatives. All but
Mr.. Dexter returned Sunday night He
WIN remain some time.
Mr.. Clemens of Andover, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Leland and sister, Charles
Leland and son, George, of Spring.
field were in town Tuesday looking
for timberland and called on Mrs II
+. Howard. They came by automo,
bile.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23

month ana was very
weak. / was also
bothered a lot with
female weakness. I
read your little book
Wisdom for Wo-
men, and | saw how
9th ers h ad been
helped by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound, and
decided to try it, and
it has made me feel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23
was given a respectable burial by the

was given respectable burial by the
town.
The body was found on the top
floor of his shanty and death evidently
was caused by poisoning. 10O-pound
box of paris green was found in
his home and one package was broken
open and traces of the green were
found in his water pail and spider. 1t
is thought that in his. ignorance he
mistook the poison which was marked
c. IL. Waste, Jacksonville, VT, and
was stolen from the station, for some
kind of food. No trace of any par
tiele of food or dishes were found in
his rude home.
Mrs. Marcia Davis and sister, Miss
Stella Butterfield, are enjoying a va,
cation in Massachusetts towns
Miss Ruth Goodnow and friend ot
Brattleboro went on n motorcycle triT
to North Adams Sunday, enjoying the
beautiful trip over the Mohawk trail
Mrs. Cora Gould who has position
in RoXbury, Mass, as companion tt
Mrs. Clarissa Green Flint, former
| Nottingham girl, is spending a two
| atives in town.
Mrs. G. w Kentfeld and Mrs L
| Deming went to New Haven, Conn.
Monday, where their sister, Mrs. Grac,
Sherwood, underwent an operation
| Tuesday. Mrs. Sherwood is in a yer,
| critical condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Wheeler, Mrs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23
WARDSBORO.
Old Home Day Aug. 81.

Old Home Day is Aug. 81. The com
mittees in charge are Rev. Ashfeld
Ashford, chairman; Miss Clara Simp-
son, sec; sports, DR.. o. V. Hefflon
and Martin Gleason; ice cream, Mrs
Olive Briggs; dinner, ]. Z. Gleason;
supper, Alfred Briggs; fish pond, Gen
lie Plimpton, Edith Wilder, Berry
Hefflon and Bertha Chamberlain; in
vitation committee, Rev. A. Ashford
and Mrs. w. w. Kidder. Anyone de
string friends to receive special in
vitations is asked to send name ant
address to invitation committee
There will be Old Home speeches il
the afternoon and a concert and enter
tainment in the evening.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-23

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in STERLING
LIVES 4 GIRL
Who Suffered AS Many Girls
Do-Tells How She
Found Relief.

Sterling, Conn. am a girl of %
Fears and / used to faint away every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22

Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, is the greatest single newspaper and mag azine proprietor in the world and by his attacks on the British government, in himself one of the most talked about men in England. He came to London 20 years ago, says Will Irwin in the Metropolitan. to seek his fortune in newspaper work At the age of 40 he had reached the top in his profession and had been ennobled. Lord Northcliffe both by his meteoric, rise 70 fame and his scorn for British precedents, has shocked his conservative eountrymen time and again, but they have been forced to con- cede the power of his genius and person. ality. He was the first man to introduce so-called American methods" into Eng land and his Daily Mail was execrated by Englishmen, but he made success of it, despite the fact that he was dubbed the Hearst of English journalism. When he took over the London Times, a sort of weekday British Bible, the conservative element groaned, but they continued to subscribe for and read the paper. Lord Northcliffe has attracted the attention of noveIists and it is saidAthat he has fig- ured as a character in a half dozen works of fiction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22
Prosperity and the Railroads

In this time of general prosperity all the railroads are reporting in- creased earnings. In the east some of the lines are making new high records in the volume of traffic hauled. But in recent years the railroads in the United States, with few excep- tions, have struggled against adverse conditions, and although improvement is now marked, capitalists, economists and railroad executives are of the opinion that until the interstate com merce commission adopts a more lib- eral policy toward the carriers and until politicians and lawmakers cease to harry the transportation companies, new construction on large scale will be greatly retarded.
 The New York Times in an edi- torial, which is reproduced on this page of The Age-Herald, reviews the situation and presents certain facts that should make people pause and think. The Times cites the Frisco as an example in point. Under B. F.
 Yoakum's able and energetic leader ship the Frisco system was built up and in it's building wide stretches of untitled and unsettled country were opened up and developed. During his administration several thousand miles of railway were built in six states, and in territory sparsely inhabited when this great upbuilder was first in con- trol are now hundred thousand 1 farms.
 The Frisco, after the usual receiver
 ship period, is being reorganized on g
 solid financial basis, but if we are tc
 have a new era of railroad construc.
 tion-and the country needs it-tht
 attitude of legislative bodies must be
 distinctly friendly and fair rather
 than antagonistic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22
HOTEL LOBRIES
piscounting Munitions Plots

"If we are to believe all of the stories circulated by the press concern ing intuition plots by the Germans. the 'hyhens have certainly been ex- ceedingly busy in this country within the past few months," remarked John Wiegand.
 "One can hardly pick up newspa- per without seeing some long account of a powder mill or intuition factory being blown to 'smithereens' and of the secret service following some mys- terious clew with view of getting the man higher up. Perhaps some of the explosions occurring in munitions sympathizes, but 1t is hardly reason able to lay all disasters occurring to the door of the German citizens of America.
 "A good percentage of the disasters occurring have no doubt been caused by carelessness. and it must be remem- bered that powder mills and intuition factories of this country are working at such speed that many precautions are doubtless overlooked by inexperienced workers who are hired In order to rush orders out on time; and Americans are naturally inclined to be careless Why not also say that the cotton warehouses which have burned in Alabama were destroyed by German sympathizers so that the staple would not be used by the allies for the manufacture of gun cotton ?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22
WHAT ABOUT SING SING?

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Sing, now in progress, will be
 watched intently by all persons who are puzzled about crime and punish ment. According to Governor Whitman, the campaign against Warden Osborne is largely political a1'-whfcn means, in the present status of the word political, that it springs from other motives than an honest desire to promote the we'll being of the prisoners and of society. It is to be hoped that the camapign will fail. For Warden Osborne is at the head of the modern attempt to apply common sense to the treatment of criminals, and his busting from Sing Sing would re- tard movement which now seems likely to transform the prisons of the whole United States.
 AS Warden Osborne has written, Dis ease-mental moral and physical-is gen. erated in our prisons, and we turn out hundreds of diseased men yearly from our gates to contaminate society. That, said one of the Auburn prisoners to me last year, that is our revenge! It is therefore to society's interest to reform it's prisoners; to put in force a prison system which will bring about & new at- titude on the part of the prisoner; which will mako the man who leaves prison healthy and sound in mind, body and soul. This cannot be done by a system based upon punishment-revenge. That has been tried and has failed. More than two-thirds of the men in New York state prisons are recidivists-men who have been discharged from prison and returned after a new conviction. Is this proof that they are confirmed criminals?' Not at all; it is proof that the old prison system Is failure. What would we think of our hospitals If two-thirds of the pa- tients were those who had been dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22
Yesterdays Age-Herald

Good old Doc Yak! With all his wholesome humor and his foibles he is probably the most lovable character in modern comic newspaper supple ments. Did you notice the touching example of his love for his little boy in yesterdays Age-Herald? It is his intensely human traits and his appeal to our best emotions that make Doc Yak so popular.
 Incidentally the Comic Section of The Sunday Age-Herald is kept on a remarkably high plane. There is none of the vulgar, slap-stick comedy which teaches children to disrespect their parents and elders--none of the laud- ing of gutter characters with their outbursts of bad grammar and worse slang.
 Yesterdays Rotogravure Section caused an unusual amount of favor able comment. The variety of views shown on it's four pages was such as to make it appeal with special force to every member of the family.
 In yesterdays Age-Herald there was a total of 626 advertisements occupying total space of 5000 inches of paid advertisements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22
THE INDIAN REVOLT

From the Boston Advertiser.
 Overseas colonists in times of peace ma be profitable assets. In times of wsI they may grow to be bothersome liabili1 ties. The great empire of India seems td be in the latter class, just now. judging from reports which slip past the British censorship. All through the empire therd must be isolated British families who rel cali the Indian uprising of former gener1 ation Even in loyal Canada there ard protests from some representative French Canadians who declare that they will not lift a finger to help the mother countryl Perhaps the unconsidered aborigine oi Australia or New Zealand may be medi1 tating some elneute. Who knows? Cer7 tainly the British have had trouble enough in South Africa, since the war began, and g certain proportion of the Boer population did what they could to make that trouble serious. It is not all ways a difficult job to conquer small race of people in some remote land, if one has enough money and men to com. plete the Job But it Is not so easy to make the conquered race forget the past, when the time comes when their con querors are themselves in danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22
Henry CIews, Letter

Henry Clews in hls weekly review of the financial market says in part: "Evidently, therefore, a prolonged war will have both it's gains and its losses for the United States Should the war come to an earlier end than expected, especially in view of ru-
 rnored peace movements the results
 would be vastly better for us than its continuance. We might lose some profitable war contracts, but on the other hand we should gain infinitely
 more by the stoppage of waste and the restoration of normal activities before the much dreaded international exhaus- ton sets in; not to speak of higher motive for peace, which Is to stop the awful carnage that Is drenching Eu- rope in blood. With the coming of peace a new set of problems will have to be met. Our financial demobilization would be in order and many industries which have suffered by the struggle would be permitted to return to their normal relations, a vastly more en- couraging outlook than the inflation- ary profits from war orders, which thoroughly demoralize capital and la EOT
 Home conditions show further i'm provement. Railroad traffic is steadily expanding, the number of idle cars has dwindled to a minimum and in some cases there is actual famine, due to the congestion of traffic. The latter, how ever, is partly owing to the scarcity Of
 ocean tonnage, the war having with
 drawn or destroyed about one-quarter,
 or 10,000,000 tons, of the worlds ship
 ping. Trade in the west shows consld-
 erab1e expansion, particularly in the
 wholesale dry goods establishments:
 new building exhibits decided re-
 vtyal. and the steel trade continues
 upon its unexampled boom. Our ex-
 ports also continue on a large, though
 somewhat diminished, scale. The for
 eign exchange situation has been great Iy improved, due to the placing of ex-
 tensive foreign credits and the oper-
 ation of the $500,000,000 Anglo French loan which served to offset the pres- sure of commercial bills upon the mar ket This country is undoubtedly still creditor nation in the large sense or the term. but a tremendous change has
 taken place in this respect. some
 months ago it was estimated that the amount of foreign capital invested in
 this country was about $5,00o,ooo,ooo'
 Since the war began between S2oo,ooo'-
 900 and s300,0 900 of securities have been returned: we have taken the An
 glo-French loan of s50o,000,OO0; made very considerable loans to France, Rus
 sia, Italy, Argentina, Canada and oth- CT countries, besides establishing big credits to England, Russia, Italy, etc.,
 so that in one form or another, we
 have advanced Europe consideraply
 over s1,0OO, 100000 since the beginning
 of the war This seems like big sum-
 but when thinking of war 1t appears
 to be necessary to talk in billions in
 stead of millions as formerly. Large
 as the sums advanced may oe' our lending abilities have by no means
 reached their limit, and our rorelgn
 obligations have been materially d.
 minished.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-22

cent of them certain plays were con stantly being recommended, nearly al ways the same attractions.
 It is evident that petty pickering, jealousy and rivalry have defeated a movement that might have put an end to the evils of ticket speculation in New York. Unless the managers are gong to trust each other and abide by the agreements they make, no inn provement in the situation is to be expected from them.