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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
CHRISTMAS TREE
LIGHTED TONIGHT
Gifts Distributed Thursday and Friday
in Quarters Formerly Barber Shop
in Brooks House Block.

The municipal Christmas tree on the
plaza on the site of the old Brattle-
boro house was placed in position Sat
urday and today electricians in the
employ of Horton D. Walker wired the
tree 1t is planned to have it lighted
for the first time this evening and to
have it lighted every evening this
week
The quarters in the Brooks House
block, formerly occupied by Allen S
barber shop will be used Thursday and
Friday as headquarters for the distri-
button of gifts to be purchased by tno
municipal Christmas tree fund.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
President and His Bride En-
jOying the Game at Hot
Springs Today
GUARDED BY SECRET
SERVICE AGENTS
Every Effort Made to Allow the Dis
tinguished Couple to Spend Their
Honeymoon Quietly in the Mountains
of Their Native State.

HOT SPRINGS, Va, Dee. -20.-The
golf links on the countryside here to-
day lured President Wilson and his
bride on the second day of their honey
moon. They had brought their clubs
from Washington and planned to spend
several hours on the course. Mrs. Will
son is a devotee of the game, the
President having taught her since they
became engaged.
Every arrangement had been made
to allow the distinguished couple to
spend their honeymoon quietly in the
seclusion of the mountains of the state
in which they both were born.
A section of the hotel were set apart
fer them and secret service agents
attempted to keep off corps of photo
graphers and moving picture opera
tors. Mr.. Wilson arose shortly after Z
a. m. today and after breakfast in his
private apartments, began the task Of
clearing up volume Of accumulated
personal correspondence.
The President called in his private
stenographer and dictated responses to
messages of congratulation received
from rulers in Europe and South and
Central America and from personal
friends in this country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
u. S. COURT SESSION
HERE TOMORROW
Kaye Bankruptcy Case to Come Before
Judge Howe in Office of Marshal
Arthur P. Carpenter.

The regular session of the United
States district court assigned by statute
to be held in Brattleboro on the third
Tuesday of December will be held in
the office of United States Marshal Ar
thur p Carpenter tomorrow, opening at
10 clock. Judge Harland B. Howe of
St. J6hnsbury viii preside for the frs,
time in Brattleboro and Frederick S
Platt of Rutland, clerk of the court
viii be present.
The bankruptcy case of G. Luther
Kaye is assigned for a hearing, and
several naturalization cases will come
before the court. There are no jury
cases to be heard here.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
Centre Congregational Church
Special Church Meeting.

A special meeting of the Centre Con
gregational Church is hereby called for
Friday, Dee. "a, 1915. at 7.3O p. m. in
the chapel to transact the following
business:
Article l. To hear the report of the
committee chosen to secure a new pas
tor, and act on the same.
Article >. To transact any other bus
mess that legally may come before the
meeting.
BY order of the trustees,
WALTER A. GILBERT, Clerk.
Brattleboro, Dee 90. 1915.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
SLEIGH READY IN
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Automobile Truck Ready for All Calls,
but Department Makes Prepara-
tion for Emergencies.

Although the automobile fire truck is
able to respond to all demands upon it,
even in the present hard wheeling, the
fire department has prepared for all
emergencies by placing in service a
sleigh in place of one of the horse
drawn pieces of apparatus. This sleigh,
which has been painted and lettered,
is to be drawn by one of the pairs of
horses in answer to bell alarms during
the period of sleighing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
GOT AWAY WITH $500.
Burglars Successful in Bold Break in
Fall River This Morning.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Dec. 20.-Bur-
glars blew open the safe in the grocery
establishment of Edmund Whitehead,
across the street from city hall in the
heart of the city this morning and got
away with $500 in cash.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
FOOD SHORTAGE IN TURKEY.
Women Who Held Meetings of Protest
Dispersed by Troops.

PARIS, Dec. 20.-The opening of
railroad communication from Turkey to
Austria and Germany has resulted in a
considerable increase in the price Of
the necessities of life in Turkey, says
Havas despatch from Athens. Turk
ish women have held meetings of pro-
test in Constantinople, which were dis
persed by troops.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
TROOPS
HAVE WITHDRAWN
Give Up Two of Their Positions on the GalIipoI
Peninsula Whether This Means Abandonment
of DardaneIIes Campaign Is Not Known-Teu
tons MaSSed on Creek Frontier

The withdrawal of the British troops
in the Suvla bay and Anzac zone of
the Gallipoli peninsula and their trans
fer to another sphere of operations is
officially announced in London.
The significance of the move is not
clearly brought out by the official an
nouneement, but it may herald the
abandonment of the Gallipoli en-
terprise No mention is made, however,
of the British troops that have been
stationed near the tip of the peninsula
or of the French forces cooperating in
the campaign.
The Greek protests against the Bull
garian armies entering Greece caused
the Germans to halt their allies at the
border, according to an Athens cores
pondent. Germany is said to have mott
fed Greece to this effect and to have
begun the concentration of Austro- Ger
man forces at the border. The con-
centration will be completed by Thurs
day and n decision as to the makeup
of the army to march on Saloniki will
then be made, it is declared.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
Would Receive the Asylum
Accorded a Political
Refugee in u. S.
STATE DEPARTMENT
GREATLY INTERESTED
IF He Abandoned Fight Against Car
rama and Retired to Private Life It
Is Believed Revolution in Northern
Mexico Would Fail.

WASHINGTON, Dee. 2O.-State de-
partment officials have decided that
Gen. Villa vii receive the asylum ac-
orded political refugee should he en-
ter the United States. This decision
was Gent last night to Gen. Funston
by the war department for transmits
sion to Villa or his representative.
State department agents had report
ed that alleged Intermediates had re-
quested Villa S immunity from arrest,
saying that If this was given they be-
heved Villa would abandon the fight
against Carranza and retire to private
life in the United States. The state
department does not conceal its desire
70 have Villa eliminated. Without him
the revolution in the north viii GER
taiRlv fall. officials believe.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
FIRE IN FITCHBURG.
John Shireff's Home Destroyed and
Family Had Narrow Escape.

FITCHBURG, Mass, Dec 20-John
Shireff, treasurer of the Star Worsted
Company, his son, Stanley, a niece and
maid, barely escaped with their lives
early today when fire destroyed the
Shireff home, the loss of which was es-
timated at $4,000. They were aroused
by a policeman after the flames had
gained considerable headway.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
EAsTLAND TO BE SOLD.
Inflated Steamer Carried 812 Persons
to Death Last July.

CHICAGO, Dee. 20.-The steamship
Eastland, which tipped over in the Chi
cago river last July, carrying So per-
sons to their death, is to be sold at auc-
ton today by the federal officials to
satisfy claims against the company
which operated it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20

LONDON, Dec. 90. - The British
troops at the Suvla and Anzac district
of the Gallipoh peninsula have been
withdrawn. The following official state
ment was issued here today:
All the troops at Suvla and Anzac
together with their guns and stores
have been successfully transferred with
insignificant casualties to another
sphere of operations.
The Suvla bay and Anzac cove po
sitions are on the north coast of the
Gallipoli peninsula and that cove i
about 16 miles from the tip. suvla bay
is about FIVE miles further on. AS NJ
mention is made in the British an
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
Unitarian Church
Unitarian Literature Free.

Leaflets describing the Unitarian belief
may be obtained on application to Mrs.
James NJ Adams, Cedar St.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
THE WEATHER,

Fair Tonight and Tuesday-Fresh West
Winds.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. = The
weather forecast: Fair tonight and
Tuesday. Fresh west winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
First Baptist Church

Tonight, 'clock-Important Scout
meeting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
In Odd Fellows Hall

Monday night at 7.30-Regular meet
ing of Wantastiquet lodge. Second de-
gree will be conferred.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
FIGHTING THE BOND ISSUE.

Republican, fighting Fairgrounds Bond Issue for Mr.
Houk create the
virtually everyone knows
periods This is
certain
The Republicans figures fact during
Mr.
he found Sl0l hand The following the
approximately year. however balance
S1OS9S than
These figures show that the
ard when declines simply indicates
than the years Mayor Kage
h thoogfaes
ordinance
and signed by Mayor Kae compelling paving
the crossings.
probably expense during
paid back in the
and would be about the condition
of
the
Today virtually
third less than Mr.
debts cemetery
purchased by the city and paid for.
of the aside of
city, unspnt years
this the
Gel but will have a surplus hand
Republican question
Mayor people
irdor dandid by he Republican
Republicans the bond has much
foizcd Four months
Fairgrounds
city
Fairgrounds worth $4,000 100000 will
The Republican it isn't worth $4,000 by itself?
Republican
toll Houk the the Fairgrounds,
and therefore, gurglng what Mr. Houck has ordered to
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
AMERICANS SHOULD BE AMERICANS.

Morgn
New speech last Thursday night that all Americans should be
loyal America thoroughly of for those who live in
their but shows lack of culture if Americans dis
play the loyalty to their home
look Germany with
than the United States if he good citizen according
'he Of the Berlin MOgn Post Americans have right to exist they
unwilling 0 kowtOW the Kaiser
American who lives
county Germany be
he did love the land his cradle and the
which him But what good German good
And the American the United
is 0 his country and al undesirable citizen.
Germany Americans different from the
the other blnt The only America and Americans
considered the of Germany by being ProCman
when he said Americans should be Americans
Washington through his memorable campaign
fighting Their removed the
Which than would
have been had the United States been under Germany
fought this has been haven Of refuge for
France and other
country They the doors of opportunity closed
to United be
enjoy liberty And according we'll established
the Americans of today
And them who the Kaiser the King to Pres
they without danger he
always full we'll that America will
bccaus he has departed.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
BEARS nine BABIES
in EIGHTEEN MONTHS
Kentucky Woman Has Made
Worlds RecOrd-Seven
Sons are living.

Lexington, KY, Nov 5.-Mrs. Gath
err Drewry of Spencer County, Ky,
completed a record today, which it is
believed, has never been surpassed. In
eighteen months she has given birth
to nine children.
One year and a half ago, she be-
came the mother of two girls and
three boys. The daughters died, but
the three boys lived and are enjoying
good health today.
This morning she received another
visit from the stork and he left her
four boys. The four babies weigh on
an average of four pounds each. They
are in good health and the attending
physician believes all of them will live
Mrs. Drewry is doing nicely, and is
delighted to think that she has accom-
plished the worlds record. The mother
is Just thirty years old.
1t is said that her unusual record
will result in a bill for mothers pen
sions being introduced in the coming
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
PARK WOULD NOT
INCREASE TAXES
City Collector Meyers Shows il
Would Soon be
Wiped Out
FIRST YEAR MEANS DIME
After That Cost to People Would
be Insignificant, Figures
Show.

George H. Meyer, City Collector of
Cape Girardeau, yesterday compiled
for The Tribune a statement, showing
how much the purchase of the Fair
grounds would increase the taxes. For
the first year it would amount to ten
cents on the valuation, which would
bring the city taxes up to the same
amount the people paid last year.
In 1910 the city taxes in Cape Cir
ardeau on the 500 valuation was 81.
In 1911, it was so cents on the 500;
1912, &c cents; 1918, 90 cents; 1914,
so cents; 1915, so cents. These figures
show that the city taxes have been
cut in half during the past five years
and they are going to continue to de-
crease.
Should the city buy the Fairgrounds
the total city taxes for the first year
would be 60 cents on the 500 valua-
ton. This would not only pay the in
terest on the $4,000 bond issue, but
it would provide enough to redeem the
first bond, amounting to $1,000. The
city would take up one bond each year
and therefore the assessment would
decrease accordingly.
The report compiled by Mr.. Meyer
follows:
valuations for taxes for 1915 are:
Real estate and personal. .$2,615.500
Merchants statements. 160,S8O
Manufacturers statements. 10000
Dramshop advalorem. .. 1880
Total S2,ST3,4SO
"a $4,000 bond issue at Az per
cent interest, would amount to S1,8O0
per year. If the bonds are issued in
serial form-that is, one bond of
81 900 becomes due each year-it
would make total of $4,000 to cover
interest and sinking fund. This would
increase the taxes ten cents, or a dime,
on the 800 valuation. This would ap-
ply only to the first year. Each year
after that, until the bonds were re-
deemed, the tax would, of course, de-
crease.
"This city now has the lowest valua-
ton to cover the taxation in any city
of the third class in Missouri. Our
city taxes have been decreased from 81
on the 500 valuation to so cents on
the 500 valuation in the past five
years. The normal increase in proper
ty valuations will decrease the taxes
each year, and the increase made by
the purchase Of the Fairgrounds will
not be noticed"
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
MAY LOCATE new
Shoe FACTORY HERE
COm'ml Club Heads to Learn
if Bonus Will Win
Industry.

Cape Girardeau last night became a
bidder for another shoe factory of the
International Shoe Company that is
to be erected soon and steps were
taken by the Commercial Club to en-
deavor to have the proposed plant To-
Gated here.
President J. H. Mcpherson this
morning will call jackson johnson,
president of the shoe corporation, by
long distance telephone to inquire if
the Cape has any chance in the COM
petition for the new plant.
For several weeks past, the Inter-
national Shoe Companyhas been work
ing all its factories on full time and
many of them have been doing much
overtime. An officer of the company
who was in the Cape Thursday let it
be known here that the concern was
looking for a favorable site for an
other factory.
The matter was brought before the
club and Mr.. Mcpherson authorized to
learn from the head of the corpora
ton what he will consider in the way
of bid from the Cape.
When. the present shoe factory, one
of the best the concern now has, was
installed, the business men Of the Cape
gave the company substantial bonus.
1t is proposed to offer a similar bonus
to the company for the establishment
of another such factory in the Cape.
The shoe factory last night was es-
timated to be the largest paying con-
Germ in the Cape by severa! business
men. The establishment of duplicate
factory would mean a big industrial
bound for the Cape.
The international Shoe Company
now owns ground in the Cape suffi-
cient to accommodate five such fac
tories as the present one on North
Main street.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
SCARLET FEVER IS
RAGING In CAPE
Five in One Family Iii and Many
Other Cases Are
Reported.

An epidemic of scarlet fever is rag
ing n Cape Girardeau, but none Of the
cases is of malignant form. In one
family of six, five are nov. confined
to their beds with the disease. None of
them, however, is in a serious condi-
ton.
Theodore Stcger, a foreman at the
shoe factory, is the only member OF
lis household who has escaped the
disease. The physician who is treat
ing the cases, ordered Mr.. Steger to
remain from the home. He calls sew
cral times each day, but is not per-
mitted to enter his home. He calls to
the nurse from the front gate, in
quires the condition of the members
of his family and then departs. Through
this means he is enabled to keep in
constant touch with his family.
Mr. Steger's daughter, Hazel, who
is s years old, has been i'll sixteen
days. and has passed the crisis and is
on the road to recovery. Mrs. Steger
and her thirteen-mOnth old baby are
confined to their beds, but they have
only light forms of the fever. Susie,
years old, is now reaching the crisis,
and has been seriously i'll. Her phys
ician announced last night that he eX-
pected her to begin to grow better
within tho next day or so.
Little Leo Steger, years old, is
quite i'll, but his condition is not seri-
Gus.
Mrs. Steger has been i'll about a
week, and she contracted it While nurS-
ing her eldest daughter, Hazel. The
day the mother was stricken, hcr son,
Leo, became i'll. Then SUSIE contracted
the fever, and the baby became sick
only few days ago. The Stegers live
at 81 North Main street.
Claude Blackman, 7 years old, the
stepson of John Fisher. and living at
346 North Sprigg street, has been quite
i'll with scarlet fever, but his condition
is improving.
The small daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
August Gockel, of North Sprigg street,
is confined to her bed with the disease.
While she has had fever each day, her
condition has not been of a serious ma
ture |
Three other cases are reported in
Marble City Heights. Several other
homes have been pIacarded with no.
tees that the houses are under quar-
antine
Billy Alexander, the son of Mr. and |
Mrs. Harry f. Alexander, who is i'll |
with scarlet fever, is quite sick. At
torney Alexander is not permitted to
enter his home until the quarantine |
has been removed.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
THE FAIRGROUNDS AND THE CHILDREN.

o night
the Fairgrounds the
the By
right the Council the Mayor the Commercial Club
could hold Fairgrounds honestly believes
either
St Louis holds its civic entertainments Forest Park The St Louis
Park; Worlds Fair
there city park belongs to the city and what good for the city, WILL
be encouraged
the that purchase the will
the this
befogging the they
accomplish their they will befOg the issue.
No has defeating the Park Bond The
needed will be needed
without park like park without flowers and park without its blossoms
children children
the world because they control in the future And while they
children all belongs childhood
childhood And they they
that park
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
Mr.. SHERMAN AND CAN OPENERS.

exactly
his of the bond Who
park? How
be worthS $3.50?
political
political when sandbag Blatner
doubt within his
contribution and Mr. Btner had perfect the
if he wanted
Mr. Sherman dropped the school boy level
to To
Mr.
Would
to have threatened Sherman? Certainly
admitted that Mr. in
You Halifax and when
TO
of can is forbidden
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
TO SENO 100 DELEGATES
TO SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET

An effort will be made to send 100
delegates from Cape County to the
State Sunday School teachers conven-
ton in st. Louis, November IS, II and
Is. The aim of the Sunday School
workers is to have each school in the
county represented in st. Louis with
three delegates.
The movement to organize the dele
cation of 100 started Friday night aft
er the Cape Girardeau Sunday School
teachers and workers had been adj
dressed by Miss Harriet Edna Beard,
an officer of the State Sunday School
Association.
A. W. Vaughan of the department of
public speaking at the Normal School
is at the head of the movement to send
the delegates from Cape County, and
inquiries should be directed to him.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12

asks the mayor to tlel him facts about
the Cape that warrant his removal to
the city to make his permanent abode
here.
The mans name is W. A. Dixon and
he asks the following questions about
the Cape:
what is the main support of the
city?
"Do you have first class schools?
SIS gas used for heating in the
city?
what electric current is used?"
The mayor has written to him to
come ahead and explained the adj
vantages of residence in the Cape.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12

C. Wielpuetz and members of his
family returned yesterday from st.
Louis, where they have been visiting
the wife of Ernest Wielpuetz, who has
been in hospital there.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
MAN ASKS MAYOR KAGE
ABOUT LIVING IN CAPE

Mayor Rage has received letter
from a man in Mount, Vernon, O., who
The daily Alaskan., 1915-05-26
IS MUCH WORK
 FOR TIE MAKERS

Valdez Miner: The Alaska en- gineering commission have issued a notice that they will require ap- proximately 125,OOO railroad cross ties for the work that will be done this season. They announce that they will purchase the ties from any one who may desire to get them on a basis of twenty cenIS each for ties graded as number two' and twenty-five cents for those tHaI grade number one. .
 Either hewed or sawed ties will be accepted and they may be ot spruce or hemlock, but must be free from score hacks and have uni- form and parallel faces on two op- pcsite sides.
 The specifications for g. numDer .ne tie require that they shall be ' in. thick Icy 2 in. to II in. face by 8 1t, long, and for q number two shall be in. thick by 6 in. to Il in. face by s it. long.
 Ties are to be delivered on the railroad right of way and properly piled for inspection, and no pay ment of any kind will be made till the ties are made, inspected and accepted by the engineer or inspect
The daily Alaskan., 1915-05-26

The settlement (. the case of ..rs. Dorjcro ys. Tae Home Power yo., was for $3,0o0 and $500 costs, instead of $g.50O and $500 costs, .s We had it yesterday.
 Tae Princess 1IaQutnua cane in at l2 o'clock noon today with 2+ H.sL aid r s.cguG class passen- z.r- and 435 t1ls cI freight. She waI saiI south ar about Il o'clock tonight.
 Ms. Ooeel, vile Of tlo Daw- .-- theatrical man, is Lcre on her ..g ito the u,ertof after having -a.-t several mont.s ou the out .i.e. s-e came uortl. ou the '.@gaiaua.
 The 10 head of cytl.e that arrived j. skagway cu tie TrIrcess Maqutn- a~ this morning are oLout equal 1v divided between r. bums < Co. gt Whitchorse and Dawson and Louis schulz of Attm
 l.. J. Davis, J. B. Nelum and P. Marion of PiJtsburG, Pa. who are Interested iu Mckee creek, AtIta district, placer properties, came ia oa the Princess 5IagUinua to- 1~s guoutc to the interior.
 Royal Puucn, sou of Mrs. II. S. HU'-a. who has beer assistant For the past three years to .J " Boyle ill L.s dredging opera uo2- near Dawson. wiU come out a3cut tue middle oE July and as ist his mother in the management o1 her constantly and rapidly in c-aasiug business in SEasway.