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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
PARocHIAL SCHOOL TESTS.
Marks Received by Children In the
December Examinations.

Following are the results of December
tests taken by the pupils OF st. Michael's
Parochial school:
Grade 9-Highest average. Eleanor Shec-
hey. 81 per cent; Irma Rattle, "a; Thomas
Clune, o.; William Baker, So; Catherine
Welcome. 50; Ralph Paquette, 10; james
Sexton, a
Grade slightest average, Francis Aus
tin, 100; Mary Kennedy, 9S; 90 per cent
or over, Thomas Connors, Mary Danyew,
katherine Clarity, Helen Mann, Merton
Mann, Justin Moran, Dolor Nolin, Gladys
Russell; 50 per cent or over, Edward
Boyce, Daniel Curtin, Richard Fleming,
Daniel Manning, John Manning, Louis
7Yauvey, Mary Young.
Grade Eighty per cent or over. Anna
Fleming, Marguerite Haus, Brigid Masa-
jada, Mary Pellerin, Martin Cunningham,
Daniel Lyons.
Grade eighty per cent or over, Eve
lyn Austin, Elsie Danyew, Mary Grady
Grade 5-Highest average, Alice Bosce,
90 So; 90 per cent or over, Mary o'Con-
nor, Florence Danyew, Mary Tarrant; so
per cent or over, George Young, Eugene
Moran
Grade 4.-Highest average, Ruth Filion,
100; 80 per cent or over, Mary Carey,
Ruth Deffner, Margaret DanyeW.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
CARPENTERS CLAIM
is NOT SUSTAINED
Board Of Appraisers Appointed by
State Tax Commissioner Finds
Valuation Was Net Excessive.

The board of appraisers, appointed
by Charles 4. Plumley. state commits
sioner of taxes, to hear the evidence
in the appeal from the decision of the
board of civil authority of Brattle-
boro as TO the values Of real estate
owned by Frank O. Carpenter, have
made return Of their findings and find
that the valuations were not excessive.
The board was composed of Edwin 2.
Adams of Marlboro, John f, Gale of
Guilford and O. r. Clayton of South
Londonderry.
The report explains that the appeal
did not state what appraisal is appeal
ed from, but the evidence produced be
fore the board concerned only the
quadrennial appraisal of 1914 and that
only was considered by the board.
Continuing, the report says:
"The allegation of the appellant In
his appeal is somewhat obscure. viz:
He says that stfle home farm and 9th
err real estate enumerated in said APP
praisal is far in excess of its actual val
ne, and much more in proportion than
that of property of like nature in that
locality etc
The board considered that it had
been asked to determine two things
Whether the valuation of the home
farm at $500 is excessive and if so
to what extent and whether the valua-
ton of the wood and timber lands
owned by T. o. Carpenter is excessive
and if so to what extent. The board
finds that neither was excessive, the
wood and timber lot Of 100 acres was
valued at $4,000.
The report was dated and filed yes
| teFday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
BOTH LEGS BROKEN.
Child Knocked Down and Run Over by
Sled in st. Johnsbury.

ST. JOHNSBURY, jan l.. ~. Both
legs of John r. Ide, the five-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. sIde, Were
broken above the knee III a sliding
accident yesterday. With 4 crowd OF
children lie slid from Spring street to
Cliff street and started to walk back
when traverse started from the top
He was unable to dodge this sled and
1T knocked him down and passed over
him. ~
Gar Nicholas of Russia is said to
own 1lfore cestlys chfnaHare than any
other person in the world.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01

The report of the board of education
for the biennial term 1924 shows that
Vermont has not been stationary in edu-
cational reform during the period of the
examination OF its system. The board has
adopted regulations for the certifeation of
high school teachers, which places Yer
mont by the side of Massachusetts and
New York in requiring all high school
teachers to be college graduates, to have
specialized in at least two subjects for
three years in college and in two others
for two years, and in addition to have
devoted part of at least two years to
special teacher training. 1t Is believed
that the results will be beneficial, for, as
the report says: The teacher makes or
mars the school Laws may be perfect,
equipment ample, and public support
loyal and generous, but unless the teacher
is competent and consecrated, the results
in the lives of the children will be disap-
pointing Vermont has no more serious
responsibility than the determination oil
the standards she viii enforce in the APP
pointment of the teachers of her public
schools"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
Fresh Gut Meat and Bone as an Egg Producer

Fresh Cut Meat and Bone has been
called the Ideal Food for laying hens
because it contains in q highly concen-
trated but easily assimilatcd form all
the Materials which are contained in
the egg If your hens are not laying
You had better send to c. S. Page,
Hyde Park, VI, for 2o0-pound bar
rel of this Food. 1t will cost you on
ly 1878, freight prepaid, to your rail
road station. When writing him men
ton this paper
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
Newfane Church Incorporated.

Articles of association have been
filed with the secretary of state by tho
Vermont and Chicago Granite company
of HardwiclS, capital $4,000, author
lied to do general granite business
The incorporatofs are Edward Mae
Lane of Chicago: Ashley Smith ant
Mae b. S4nith of Hardwicl a certifi
cate of incorporation has also been is
sued to thes First Cen gregationa
church OF Newfaae. Thr Subscriber.
are f. NJ Wiswalls eor ge Bush, Il
Cory, Charles w. Mock Al. w: Rad
way, all of New fl1e. 8
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
Union. superintendent.

The board has also raised the standards
for certification of union district superin-
tendents Heretofore persons who have
never completed high school course have
been able to qualify for these positions.
The cost of this service to the state eN-
interested, therefore, in the quality of the
persons chosen for this work, and has a
right to insist upon a high degree of spc-
cal preparation. The regulations adopted
by the board require graduation from a
college or normal school, teaching expert
enee of at least two years, and evidence OF
| professional knowledge of the history OF
education. educational psychology, school
administration and methods Of teaching.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01

same chance The state must come to the
aid Of the small towns in education, Just
as it has done in road building
The report is signed by John NJ. Thorn
as Herbert ID Ryder Wallace H. Gilpin.
Guy Potter Benton and Frank H. Brooks,
and a special additional report ON the ex-
penditures of state funds in colleges and
normal schools is made by Messrs. Ryder,
Cdlpin and Brooks
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01

TO LET-Rooms and Offices, steam
heated, in Ullery building 207-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01

TO RENT-Pleasant downstairs tene-
ment. Inquire Locust st. 166-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT
ssah 2i-2 line sahssauat hsaH
n Minimum Charge 20 cts
To Rent

TO RENT = Nice six-room tenement,
Charles S. Chase. 220-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
Elementary Teachers.

As to the certifcation Of teachers for
grade positions and district schools, the
report says; The present statutes upon
this subject are elaborate and detailed It
would promote efficiency if the compli-
Gated provisions were all repealed and the
entire matter placed in the hands of the
board of education, with the simpieb mos
vision that the board should determine
the qualifications of elementary teachers.
The administration of this provision would
devolye upon the superintendent of educa-
ton, as at present. but freedom and elias
ITCHY would be secured, and opportunity
afforded to raise the standard as circum-
stances might allow. The schools must 90
on, and they must have teachers, but the
quality OF teachers will be determined in
the end by the standards set BY the state.
When the state Is free through its admin
lstratNe agency, to recognize fitness and
merit, and to refuse approval of those
whom experience has found 10 bc unwor-
thy, no matter what examinations they
may have passed, the way will be open to
better teaching force throughout the en-
tire bounds of the state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
VERMONT NOT
STATIONARY
Board of Education Issues
Interesting Report for
Biennial Period
COMPARES WELL
WITH OTHER STATES

Regulations for Certifcation Improved
Commends Recommendation of
More Adequate Support of Schools
ins Small Towns.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01

WANTED-Woman for general house
work Good wages. Address II, Re
former Office. 2o-e2ou
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01
A Card.

We wish TO thank all the kind friends
who assisted us in so many ways in our
recent great sorrow over the earthly loss
of our dear little Marjorie 1880
Mr. and Mrs. G. w Dunbar.
Brattleboro, Dec 81, 1914
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-01

The board has full responsibility for the
state normal schools at Castleton and
Johnson 1T has conceived its duty to
be that OF trustees, responsible to the
state to make these schools as successful
and efficient a. possible during It's admin
stratiDn of them The state has estab-
Iished and maintained them aud has en-
trusted them to the care of the board, and
1T IS the clear duty OF the board to make
the most OF them as they are, in good
faith, so long as they are continued. When
the board came into Office, they found
both schools In serious condition. The
entering class at Castleton numbered nine
and at Johnson fifteen The principal at
johnson had resigned in the middle OF the
year giving as his reason lack of support
on the part of state officials. The board
revised the course of study changed the
entrance requirements, and instructed the
school to make a vigorous campaign to
increase the attendance, so that the state
would receive full value for its appropria-
tions. The results have been gratifying
The entering class numbers 81 this year at
Castleton and rs at Johnson The mum
Der of students has increased from IS in
1928 to 70 in 1915, and at johnson
from 81 to IS in the same period" OF the
training classes, of which the board has
authorized II and 10 in the respective
years, the report says: The training
classes are now an essential part of Tho
state system of education and should bt
further encouraged and developed
Equalization of Privileges.
The report commends the recommends
| ton of the educational commission as {,
more adequate state support of schools il
small towns. 1t says: e"sAny proposal t,
lift the schools in the small towns to tn
level of efficiency already attained in tn,
more favored communities should hav
the respectful consideration of every frient
lof Vermont. Your board will supper
with enthusiasm any practical movement
in this direction. The inequality of schoo
advantages is the greatest evil in Vernon
education. The boys and girls in many O
the small towns are not getting a fai
chance. Their school privileges are pitia
bly, meagre, while their parents are taxin
themselves at higher rate for the SUI
lport of their inefficient schools than is pai
by citizens in places like Burlington an
Brattleboro, where opportunities compar
favorably with those of any community i
New England This situation is wrong
and it should not be tolerated longer.
child In q sparsely settled hill town is a
much citizen of Vermont as a child i
Montpelier or Rutland, and, So far as til
state is able to secure it, should have til
Evening star., 1915-02-14
ODD ENGLISH VALENTINES

of trick packages left, and jokes gotten
off at somebody's expense throughout
this frolic. Huge bundles, chiefly of
paper with an empty pill box as the
basis, are to be expected. Often a run
away knock will leave a package with
string to it, and there have been
cases where delinquent tenants, de-
camping under the cover of night. have
taken this means to return the key to
the landlord. So. also. an unwelcome
baby has more than once been left
where it's faithless parent thought it
would find a good home.
Many times the collections of gifts
are quite pretentious, for. next to
Christmas. this is the most joyous fes-
toys are laid in and general inter
change of calls and good feeling fol-
lows. The young people observe Feb
English or English speaking peoples
has the custom of gift-giving existed
And it came into practice around the
fifteenth century.
Samuel Pepys in his diary makes fire.
uuent reference to the valentine obli-
cations of the time. One item of inter
est today, especially to Pennsylvanians
is a record of the boyish gallantry OF
William Penn. The future father OF
Philadelphia drew Mrs. Pepys name for
his valentine. and the incident Is thus
recorded in the diary:
Young William Penn did come into cham
Der early this morning and kiss my wife for his
Evening star., 1915-02-14
With the Sleutl1s at Detective Heaelqlarte1

a couple of men out here" he went on.
There's been a murder, and the mans
got away
SO it goes at detective headaua rters-
known as central Office to the initiated.
Missing poodles and murdered men:
this is part of the grist that grinds
tirelessly through the great mill twen-
ty-fourS hours day and seven days
a week. Ceaselessly and with certainty
the smooth machine continues it's work
Strange, indeed, are the fish that are
drawn into the net. Pickpockets. bur
glars. second story workers and the
lesser criminals.
An elderly man of military appear
ance hustled into the place with the
violence of portly cyclone.
Il want warrant he thundered,
and l want it quick!
They soothed him. told him diplo-
matical1y that central Office men were
not allowed to distribute warrants as
one distributes theater passes.
Where'll I get it?" asked the visitor
who clearly nursed sense of injury
immediate and ample revenge.
1t was fairish while before the de-
tectives persuaded him to tell them Just
what the trouble was.
The trouble" growled the visitor, is
this. Albert Cornseed's dog has come
over into my front yard for three days
IN succession and attacked my angora
cat. valuable animal, and this consti-
tutes trespass. to say nothing of as
sault with intent to kill. And I'm
hanged if I'll stand for it any more"
He finished strong at the end The
man was a natural orator.
In other words said somebody in
low voice. ''the dog attacked his
angora cat and got his angora goat"
Then the choleric gentleman, sud
denly becoming submissive in the face
of authority, permitted the officials of
central office to guide him to the door,
where he disappeared, still uttering
anathema and planning punishment
against the dog which had chased his
angora cat.
Hardly had this individuals face dis
a appeared from the brass grille when a
lank individual with a mustache and
a general air of apology made his ap-
pearance.
Il wanted to find oud aboud some
checks he explained
The detective who answered him was
Evening star., 1915-02-14
WAR YESTERDAY AND TODAY

early in April. 1851. Yet. although
both north and south had been expect
ing a collision since the previous win
ter and making preparations for it.
it was not until more than three
months later that the first battle was
fought-the. first battle of Bull Run,
the troops engaged on both sides did
not reach a hundred thousand amen.
Yet at that time the population of the
north and south was nearly as large as
the present population, of France
Yet even this small encounter. in
which less than a thousand men were
killed, so paralyzed both north and
south that 1t was more than eight
months after Bull Run before any seri-
Gus conflicts took place-the campaign
of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenan-
doah valley-and nearly a year before
encounter occurred between the
main bodies of the belligerents. In
seven days fight around Richmond
there had been no battle between the
armies composing the main strength of
the north and the south. And this
fight took place the last of June, 1862
nearly fifteen months after Sumter was
fired on.
Following this occurred the second
Bull Run campaign, wherein, from the
middle of August to the latter part of
september, there was lively fighting,
embracing Cedar Mountain, Bull Run.
Champions Gap and Antietam. Three
months later the battle of F'redericks-
burg followed. And then, for five
months, the two armies lay idle within
sight of each other.
The battle of Charlottesville was
then fought May 1, 1868. Two months
later came Gettysburg-and then, for
ten months, the Army of the Potomac
and the Army of Northern Virginia, the
bulwarks of their respective govern
ments. rested on their arms, their
trenches hardly rifle shot apart.
Thus 1t appears that oftentimes there
intervened between battles in the prin-
cipal theater of the civil war a far
greater period of time than has been
occupied by, the armies in the present
war throughout all the changing for
tunes of war from Liege to Ypres. The
armies in the southwest were even less
active than the armies in Virginia.
In the revolutionary war months
and even years would elapse between
battles. 1t was more than a year after
Lexington before any real battle was
fought, and more than a year then be-
fore another followed. Altogether, in
the six years that the war lasted, there
were not more than half q dozen en-
Evening star., 1915-02-14

an ''unsolved case" Reporters. individ-
uals, who knew the deceased, persons
who want notoriety. seek to aid. There
is a maze. through which they see their
end.
How does the cry of murder strike
you?" one of the detectives was asked
Like wallop,' he replied promptly.
Il want to go out and get the man.
He added: Now a criminal usually
figures out his crimes. He knows what
chances he has to take when he goes
into the business of a criminal career
But in the case of woman ii is diff
ferent@
''Of course, there was Lucretia. Borgia
and Cleopatra" stammered the inter-
viewer.
"Ah, but they were in a different
age And the interview ended thus.
giant conflict without exciting even
passing notice. This war is proceeding,
by comparison. with the speed of a
telegram.
Evening star., 1915-02-14
ROBERT
DETECTIVES, HIsp PRIVATE OFFICE

seemed to harbor grievance against
his wife for cashing checks which he
hadn't signed. Bystanders stared. This
was a clear case of forgery.
You don't want to arrest your wife.
do you?" inquired the detective.
The visitor was shocked at the sug
gestion of this extreme. But he was
obdurate.
Il didn't sign dem checks he as
serted again.
There was further cross-eXamination
Within a short time it developed that
the individual with the mustache pos
sessed a wife who, in turn, possessed
a bank account of her own-a bank ac-
Evening star., 1915-02-14

M
\Y\Y years of practice, the detec-
" " tive lifted the telephone
teceiver.
'Is this the captain?' inquired an ex-
cited feminine voice.
Detective headquarters. madam re-
piled the detective. "W hat can we dc
for you?"
'T. this the lieutenant" continued the
voice
Jones speaking" replied the detec-
tice patiently. His school of eXpe-
rjence had taught him this calmness.
He repeated his query concerning the
wants of the woman at the other end
Of the line.
II have lost China" said the feminine
voice, petulantly.
Most individuals would have been
nouplussed. Not so Detective Jones.
He merely waited. and while waiting
speculated as to whether this case was
one which would require the services
Of physician or policeman
Yes, madam he said
Further information from the nerv-
Gus woman sped over the phone.
China is Pekinese spaniel she
said. He has almost no nose, long
ears and has one white and one black
eve. His hair is long and he has black
markings on his back" There was
more of the description. The detec-
tive. sitting by the telephone, made
brief notes.
Rather shocked to find that the van
fishing of China had not created more
OF furor, the excited woman asked
what she should do.
First of ALL said the detective, "I
would advise you to advertise in the
papers. Offering reward for his re-
turn. Meanwhile We will do everything
We to find him..
The woman hung up the phone. With
in short time every precinct in Wash
ington had been advised to lookout
for this small dog.
:: ::
Ten minutes later the telephone rang
again. This time the voice was that of
a man, and it was absolutely calm.
Eighth precinct he said, better get
Evening star., 1915-02-14

valentine as lay in bed. making her nne
present ! asked him if he would kiss me aiso'
but he did not heed my request.
At this time William Penn was about
six years old. ,e-
This morning came up to my wife,s bedside - y
being up dressing MYSELF little VIII Mercer to be
blue paper in gold letter done by himseli very
pretty; and We were both well pleased with It; 1t;
But am also this year my wires vaen,,n 1t bsue
laid ont IL We had not been valentines. md that
Mrs Pierce's little girl is my valentine, sne so II
eases me of something more than l must nave
given TO others.
Pepys also relates having purchased
green silk stockings. garters, shoe-
strings and two pairs OF Jessamy Silk
gloves for a cousin of his. He furthef
Tecounts with satisfaction that his
wife received half a dozen pairs OF
gloves and a pair of silk stockings and
garters, and mentions that one year
the Duchess of Richmond received r
Jewel from the Duke of YORK valued q
at $500. and the next year ring valued
at three hundred.
So much apart of the regular custom
was this yearly buying of gifts of all
kinds that a valentine factory was
started in London. where every mag
Unable acceptable valentine from q
penny card to a jeweled fan at 5000
and from scented sachet to glove cases
in the form of music boxes that re-
galed my lady with plaintive airs were
made.
with the year 1900 valentines began
to be manufactured in great quantities
and thereby lost their charm Of Orlgl-
naltty, for up to that time the writing
of lowered bordered hearts pierced
with arrows and strewn with love SEN
timents we're the work of hours and
even days of laborious effort.
Evening star., 1915-02-14
He Didn't Understand.

A n old settler down Nola Chucky
~ way, when the Paint Rock line
first began to run through his district
undertook to explain the workings OF
the steam engine to little crowd of
friends.
AS he talked. a train ran past the
station, and then backed up. This pro
cedure of backing quite habergasted
the old settler.
by gosh, boys" he confessed, Il kin
understand how the engine pulls the
cars, but I'll be busted if | see how
them cars pull the enginer
Evening star., 1915-02-14

That's all right" said he. Only
don't go talking that kind of stuff out
side this office or somebody will be
having the little red wagon after YOU
"Don'd I have a righd to sign dem
checks?' asked he of the mustache in
thunderstruck accents.
Not on your life," came the heavy
chorus. And one husband departed
therefrom, fully convinced that he was
the victim of sad injustice.
To become a central Office man Is 10
badge ones self with years of steady