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Evening journal., 1916-06-16
Baltimore Girl wins
WAY INTO THE FINAL
Proves Too Speedy for Miss
Myers in Third Days
Play
MOST THRILLING
SET OF TOURNEY

Miss Susanne " White, Of Balti-
more. won her way to the final round
Of the Women's Delaware State ten
mis- championship by debating Miss
Margaretta ID. Myers, Merton, at the
Wilmington Country Club here yes
terday. 6-S, 11-9. GA.
Miss Whites victory over Miss
Myers was the result Of a remark
able ability 10 maintain a terrific
pace throughout sets that ran to
extra games. So evenly matched
were the players that it soon became
a test Of endurance.
Miss Myers began with a dash and
fought through the first SET winning
Sc. ln the second set Miss White
adopted her opponents method Of
play and extra games began TO ac-
cumulate; the games reached eight
all. Miss Myers appeared unable 20
match the pace set by the young
Baltimore player and. taking advtn-
tage of this, Miss White won the set.
11-q. The third set found Miss White
resuming her smashing tactics. Miss
Myers fought pluckily TO turn back
the tide OF defeat, but was unable to
check the brilliant speed of her op-
ponent and lost the set and match
4-6.
The strain OF playing so strenuous
match seemed to have little effect
upon Miss White. After a short rest
she returned TO the courts and, with
Miss Sarah s. Myers. sister of Miss
Whites opponent. in the singles, as
partner helped TO defeat Miss Mary
ID. Thayer and Miss Sarah Nelson
in the semi-hanl round of the wo-
mems doubles. The pace of this
contest rivaled that Of the feature
match in speed. Miss Thayer and
Miss Nelson gave an exhibition OF
excellent team work. After losing
the first set they rallied and won
the second. eight games to six The
third set. however. was all in favor
of Miss White and Miss Myers. They
tore through their opponents de-
fense and won, 6-3.
The semi-hnal round in the lower
bracket brought forth another exam
ple of excellent teamwork in doubles
Mrs. Isaac Schlichter. Jr., and Miss
Thillvs Walsh had little trouble IT
defeating Miss Hannah Wright anC
Mrs. william Newhall, 6-2, 6-2.
In the consolation singles Mis-
Sarah Nelson. Merton. won her wa
TO the final round by defeating Mis-
Clara Chase. Merion Ga. Ga.
CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES.
Semi-hnal round-Aliss Susanne Y
White. Baltimore. defeated Miss Mar
garetta ID. Myers, Merton, 6-0' 1l-g
GA.
WOMAN'S DOUBLES.
Second round-Miss Mary ID. Thayel
and Miss Sarah Nelson defeated Mis-
Coates and Miss Clara Chase, 60, g.
Miss Hannah Wright and Mrs. vii
liam Newhall defeated Miss Alberta
and Miss Edwina Hensel. 60, 81
g.. Mrs. Schlchter. Jr., and Mis-
Phyllis Walsh defeated Mrs. j. S. Tay
lor and Miss Miriam Steever. 10 2-6
7-5
Semi-fnal round Miss Susanne V
White and Miss Sarah Myers defeate
Miss Thayer and Miss Nelson, Ga
6-s 6-5. Mrs Schlichter and Mis-
walsh defeated Miss Wright and Mrs
Newhall. 60. 6-2.
CONSOLATION SINGLES.
Second round-Miss Clara Chase
Merton. defeated Mrs a. +. DUPONT
Wilmington. 6-i. 6-4. Miss Sarah Neil
son. Merton. won from Miss Elizabet
smucker Merton. by default.
Semi-hnal round Miss Nelson de
feated Miss Chase. Ca. Ga.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
Party Enrolment.
(Holyoke, Mass. Transcript

(Holyol5e, Mass. Transcript
At the referendum on the question
of party enrolment, the voters of Mas
sachusetts, Democrats and Republicans
alike, declared in favor of n return to
the enrolment system in the conduct
of primary elections. This means that
Massachusetts, after having tried the
open primary. such as obtains in Yer
mont. and the closed primary, under
which the voter declares his party
preference before being given a pri-
mary ballot. decided in favor of safe
guarding party integrity.
Vermont voters should take this les
son given them by Massachusetts.
Under the present primary law in this
state, voters receive the primary ballots
of each party when entering the voting
booth, and while they are not supposed
to vote for both Republican and Demo
cratic candidates, still they can, and
undoubtedly did, do so last September.
The Vermont primary law recognizes
the necessity of n government by par
ties, and then goes ahead and makes
possible practices that tend to destroy
government by parties. 1t ism t neces-
sary to repeal the primary law in order
10 overcome lHlS NVdhHtsS, oHlN an
amendment to the present law being
required. st. Adams Messenger.
Let us hope that Vermont will not
take the backward step that Massachu-
sets has lapsed into The party enroll
ment idea is tradition of close cor
poration ideas that we ought to get as
far away from as possible. The Mes
senger refers to it as method of
'safe guarding party integrity On
the contrary it is cunning scheme to
smother freedom in caucus voting.
The whole idea of independence in pri-
mary nomination is put in chains by
the enrolment law.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
WILLIAMSVILLE.

L. f. Stratton went Monday to Brat
tlebOro to work for c. $. Wilkins.
Mrs. A. NJ. Mortified went Wednes-
day to Brattleboro for a short visit
with her daughter, Mrs. F. J. Fair
banks.
The West River Basket Co. S mill
started again Monday, after a shut
down for the first four days of deer
hunting.
At the Grange meeting next Tuesday
evening the annual election of officers
will take place and a good attendance
is desired
The Baptist society of South New
fame will present the, play, The Poor
Married Man, in Grange hall Friday
evening. AT. $50 o clock creamcd fish
supper will he served. The play begins
at s o'clock.
Miss Mildred Tuthill and friend, Miss
Lois Craig, of Brattleboro, who had
been visiting Mrs. d. c. Johnson, went
Thursday to Springfield to visit Miss
Tuthill' S father, +. II. Tuthill, before
returning to their work at Linden
Lodge.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
EAST DUMMERSToN.

Mrs. Lizzie Worden is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Augusta Bennett.
A. l.. Field of Bellows Falls visited
his mother, Mrs. Elvira Field, Wcdncs-
day.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Burton Tarbox, who has been very i'll,
is gaining.
Fred II. Spaulding of Springfield
(Nt.) was a guest Sunday of his par
cnts, Mr.. and Mrs. II. r. Spaulding.
The fortunate deer hunters during
the past week are Walter Kent, Harold
A. Reed, Ray Betterley, Russell How
ard, John Evans and William A. Mil.
Ter. Mr.. Miller's deer was a large one
with points.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. II. Brown invited
"a young people to their home Friday
evening, Nov. IL, to celebrate the DIST
birthday anniversary of their son
Harry T. Brown. All reported de-
lightful time. Games were played and
refreshments of ice-cream and cake
were served. Mr.. Brown received many
gifts, including Il sum of money from
his friends and a handsome birthday
cake decorated with 81 candles.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
GUILFORD CENTER.

Bert Braekett is visiting his sister,
Mrs. w. +. Higley.
W. d. Thayer has been i'll with rheu-
matism several days.
Ernest Paulman has moved % Brat
tleboro this winter.
Roy Clark and Herbert Quinn each
shot buck in Marlboro this week.
Alfred Massey shot a buck last week
on the hill in the lIuntley pasture.
X. +. Day has moved his family to
Brattleboro, where his daughter attends
school.
The date of the Ladies' circle meet
ing has been changed to Wednesday,
Dec, &, ON account of Thanksgiving.
There will be services in the Univer,
sallst church Sunday, Nov. 26, at 2.3O
clock, by Rev. d. L. Trout. This will
be the last service of the season.
Mrs. William Fitch gave farewell
reception to Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Rheimer at the home of Mrs. Fitch Sat
urday evening. A social time was spent
and refreshments were served.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
To Hold Winter Tournament.

The authorities and cadets of Nor
witch university are planning to hold a
winter tournament sometime this win
ter No other college in New England
has more ideal location for such an
event than Norwich. There are plenty
of hills of all degrees of grade and
length, surplus of snow, and several
basins which could be made into skating
Kinks. Every year there are great
many cadets who spend most of their
time which they have to spare during
the winter on snowshOes or skis. Hook
ey is also a favorite sport. The plan
is to put all this latent ability and en-
thusiasm to a good purpose and have q
tournament which will make Norwich
known throughout New England as the
college where winter sports receive
their due attention. At Norwich, as at
many other colleges, the winter months
are on the whole rather a hard grind.
Lecture courses, glee club entertain
ments, etc, liven things to quite de-
gree; but outdoor life is needed to keep
mind and heart active and contented.
This tournament, with the practice it
necessitates, should fill a big gap in
life at Norwich. There will then be
things of interest to the sportsman be-
tween the time of the Norwich-U. V.
NJ. football game in the fall and the
first crack of bat on ball in the spring
Colonel Reeves was in New York
Monday in the interests of the univer-
sity. While there lie had a conference
with Gen. Leonard A. Wood s aide Gen
eral Wood himself being delayed out of
town. General Wood is very cnthu
siastic friend of Norwich university
He and Colonel Roosevelt are both ac-
lively associated with the efforts of the
Rough Riders, i'll procuring funds for a
new riding hall at Norwich.
Colonel Reeves and Major Frank
Tompkins were speakers at the ban
quet of the Military Order of Foreign
Wars held at the country club in Mont
pelier Thursday evening.
Several from here are planning to at
tend the Middlebury-V Vermont football
game at Burlington today. A great
deal depends upon the outcome of this
game. If Middlebury wins she will be
champion of the state, with Norwich
second, and U. V. NJ. last. If Yer
mont wins there will be no decision, for
Middlebury has already beaten Nor
witch and Norwich won from Vermont
last Saturday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
A Dissatisfied Gretna Green.
New York WORLDLY

Because 40 out of lis marriages
solemnized there in October were non
residents Bellows Falls will beg the
Vermont general assembly to make the
marriage laws less liberal.
That New England village might
not like to be called Reno we can I'M
dcrstand; but why shy at the happier
title of Gretna Green? Vermont should
be the Elysium of lovers. 1t makes
maple sugar in spring to give them
synonyms in sweetness. 1t specializes
in summer resorts, where courtship
should flourish. 1t builds organs to peal
out the Wedding March, and furniture
to stock new useholds-happier in
dustrics than the quarries where it
blasts tOmbstones for them when they
are dead. Why not be the Marriage
state, and proud of it,
And whose fault is it if strangers
monopolize the time of the parsons?
Fifty years ago Vermont had a mar
riage rate of l7.6. Bellows Falls is a
town of 5000 or so. If with all its
tributary territory it cannot muster
more than eight weddings of its own
in month, it should thank Portland,
Boston and Providence visitors who en-
rich local trade while setting an cx
cellent example to bashful local SWANS.
A fiVe-day notice of intention to wed
is the dubious reform proposed. Peo-
pie might not wish to stay in Bellows
Falls so long; already it is said that
" decent people shan our town. Some
other reason must be sought than lls
weddings a month; that is record to
be worn with pride.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
SOUTH NEWFANE.

Albert Goodell is another hunter who
has shot a buck this week.
Mrs. Viola Morse is a guest of her
brother, c. f. Brown, and family.
Mrs Samuel II. Morse has been seri-
ously i'll at her home in Cambridge
Mass, nearly two weeks.
Supper will be ready in Grange hall
Williamsville, at $50 this, Friday, af
ternoon, when crcamed fish and other
good things will be served. The play
which follows is A Poor Married Man
which begins at o clock.
Mrs. Sumner G. Shepard is at Bald
win Place, New York, visiting her
daughters, Mrs. Alton j. Morse and
Mrs Herman l.. Osgood, and Mrs. Luke
j. Morse of Williamsville is there with
her son, Alton j. Morse, and daughter,
Mrs. George Ware.
The Wisconsin State Journal of Mad
ison in recent issue makes mention
of II. II. Brown, who for 40 years has
been in the trunk business in that city.
Mr.. Brown is about IS years of age, a
native of Marlboro, son of the late
Lyman Brown and brother of Mrs. Ly-
man G. Powers of this village, whom
he visited three years ago. Mr.. Brown
as a boy worked i'll trunk factory
and later made hundreds of trunks in
his own shop. He has not allowed his
business to become out of date and is
said to have more business push than
many younger man. His success is
acknowledged to be due to honesty. in
dustry and concentration.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
MAY LOSE CALIFORNIA.
Secretary Of State Jordan Finds Errors
in Two Counties - May Affect Re-
election of Wilson.

Secretary of state Frank c. Jordan
declared Wednesday in Sacramento,
California that unless certain mis-
takes and omissions discovered in
returns of the elections from Yuba and
Orange counties are corrected he will
withhold the certificates of election to
presidential electors from California.
Should this be dom there undoubted
ly will be delay, if not a serious situa-
ton, possibly affecting even the re-
election of President Wilson, since his
electoral majority Iepends on the votes
Of the 10 presidential electors from
California.
Following is the statement issued by
Jordan concerning the situation.
Under the provisions of section
1918 of the political code, it is the
| duty of the secretary of state to com
pare and estimate the votes given for
electors. Such comparison and estimate
is to be made as soon as returns are
received from all the counties in the
state.
IN Marysyille, precinct 3, II Demo
| cratic electors are credited with 90
votes each, but the otes received by
Loren A Handley, Democratic elector,
| have not been credited because the
election clerks failed to include the
vote in their returns to the supervisors
the supervisors could not ascertain
| such vote, and therefore the county
clerk was unable to include it in the
returns to this Office. The returns from
| this county are incomplete.
I'm the county of Orange a more
glaring case of disfranchisement is pre-
scnted. All the votes of Orangethorpe
precinct have been denied an express
sion of their wishes as indicated by
their votes. Because the tally lists are
in the sealed envelopes containing the
ballot the board Of supervisors could
not ascertain the vote in that precinct
and the returns certified to this office
are not complete because of such omis
sion.
off these mistakes are not corrected;
if these partial returns are to be ac-
cepted; if the will of the voters of
these precincts is to be regarded, even
the vote of one elector, why cannot
other mistakes be permitted to occur
in other counties and precincts and
thus the will of the voters be thwart-
ed and confusion result2
1t is the duty Of the Democratic
and Republican state central commit
tees to take immediate steps to have
these mistakes corrected, even if the
and of the courts must be invoked, 9th
crwisc the secretary of state may deem
IT his duty to withhold certificates of
election to presidential electors in or
der that evil precedent may not be es-
tablished.'
In order to straighten the legal tan
gle that has arisen over the returns
from Huba and Orange counties, the
superior courts of those counties must
order the ballot boxes reopened and the
count rendered complete, in the opin-
ion Of James Cremin, state statistician,
who has charge of the official election
canvass.
AT the aoAiea,, of, LAT tonney-tsenes
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
WEST DUMMERSTON.

r. F. o 'Brien went Thursday to Bel
lows Falls, where he has employment.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Clark, jr., spent
Sunday in Newfane with Mrs. Clark s
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. futile.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Tuttlc and Mr..
and Mrs. f, Leonard spent several days
hunting at Mrs. Leonard S home in
Westminster last week
At the next regular Grange meeting
Tuesday evening there will be an elec.
ton of officers. 1t is hoped that all
Changers will be present.
Sixteen books were brought to the
Lydia Taft library recently, the gift of
Mrs. Dennison Cowles of Brattleboro
for which the patrons of the library
feel very grateful.
Mrs. r. A. knight, who had spent
the summer at her home here, left
Wednesday for Akron, Ohio, where she
is to spend the winter with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. j. h. Bliss.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
STRATTON.

Rev. Edgar johnson of West Wards.
boro was in Pike Hollow Tuesday, max
ing calls, and held a meeting in the
schoolhouse in the evening, when he
gave a lecture on the life of Christ,
which was illustrated by a stereopticon
and was very interesting.
Only a few deer have been shot in
town that have been reported. Merle
Putnam of Wardsboro got one at the
camp near the Grout pond, Guy Put
man and Ralph Pike shot one near the
old lime ledge Saturday, one of the Up
tons of West Dover carried home a
fine buck Saturday which had 10 points,
and two others have been reported
killed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
Meats--Retail.
The Price of Publicity.
(New York World.)

Miss Jeanette Rankin, Montana s
new congresswoman, is paying the pen
atty of publicity. Numerous American
citizens want to marry her, tooth
paste company wants to photograph her
teeth for advertising purposes, an auto
mobile concern wants to make her a
present of ear and motion picture
representative has taken up permanent
quarters with camera at her door.
No doubt it is all embarrassing to the
young woman. But her experience
gives satisfactory evidence that this is
still America and these are "the Gus
toms of the country"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
JACKSONVILLE.

G. +. Gates and Ed. Goddard are
deer hunting in Somerset
regular meeting of the Rebckah
lodge will be held this, Friday, even
ing
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hancock are re-
ceiving congratulations ON the birth of
daughter
The order of Eastern Star will hold
n dance in Glen House hall the evening
Of December /.
Floyd Stone and Ray Fowler are
among the successful deer hunters from
this vicinity. Mr.. Stone s buck weighed
about 200 pounds.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24

Webb the unofficial opinion was voiced
that the state could not certify to the
returns for the state unless the vote
of every precinct was found correct in
the official canvass.
Yuba county in the northern half of
the state, includes a portion of the
Sacramento valley and runs up into
the Sierras. Marysville is its princi-
pal town.
Orange county, directly south of Los
Angeles, includes Santa Anna, Orange
and other populous places.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
Vermont's Apple Record.
(St. Johnsbury Caledonian. J


Vermont apple growers will feel some
pride in the record made at the New
England fruit show held this week in
Montpelier. OF the 1913 prizes awarded
Vermont apples were given 100, or six
ty per cent of all the prizes. OF the
seventy first prizes Vermont got
forty-one or fifty.eight per cent. Yer
mont naturally had more exhibits than
any other New England state and its
percentage of FIRST prizes is not so large
as that of the other states. The per
centage of first prizes of all the first
prizes won bv the different states is az
follows Rhode Island and Connecticut
fifty, Maine forty, Massachusetts
thirty-seyen and Vermont thirty.four.
With such a high standing Vermont
apple growers should press on aud bring
the apple industry in their state to an
even more successful condition than ii
Is at present,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
Favors Amending Marriage Law

Brattleboro has started movement
to have the marriage laws of the state
amended SO that the community will
no longer be disgraced by the laxities
in the law which has permitted so
many fragrant abuses in the past year
In order to dodge the fve-day clause
in other states hundreds of persons have
gone to Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, and
surrounding towns during the past year
to have the nuptial knots tied. A few
inn-keepers and justices of the peace
have proiited, but the communities in
the southern part of the state have re-
ceived a good bit of adverse publicity.
The law should be amended to obviate
the palpable evil.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24

Miss Zada Nichols visited schools in
Wilmington Friday.
Mrs. G.. S. Goodnow was bitten on
her ankle by her dog last week.
Y. Betit and Ray Fowler each got a
deer in Somerset woods last week.
Bertha Mason is working for Mrs.
Josephine Bishop Streeter of Reads
boro.
The ladies are busy working for the
church fair, which will be held the
second week in December.
Blanche Mason is suffering with an
attack of appendicitis. She was taken
i'll while working for Mrs. Almeda
Brown in Readsboro and was obliged
to be taken home. DR.. Crowley is in
attendance.
Pearl chapter, o. E. s., will give a
Thanksgiving ball in Glen House hall,
jacksonville, Friday evening, Dec. /.
The Charlemont orchestra of five pieces
will furnish music. A chicken pie
supper will be served.
Richard Rossmeisl, Claude Carrier
George Upton, Clayton Carrier, Grover
Plumb and Levi Grumash are hunting
on Freezing Hole mountain this week.
Hunters who have been in that vicinity
report seeing many bears this year
and several have been shot at but none
have been captured thus far.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
TOWNSIIEND.

Rolin Childs of Brattleboro was in
town on business Tuesday.
Mrs. Joseph Graves, who has been i'll
the past two weeks, remains about the
same.
Edison left came from Ncwfane last
week to visit over Sunday with his
grandmother, Mrs. Edison Derry.
Dellard Perry and family of Brook
line will live in a house near the mill,
while Mr.. Perry works for a. F. Stone.
c. +. Bond of Windsor has been in
town recently buying furs from Will
bur Snyder, Carroll Boyden and Her
bert Stone.
Mrs. II. II. Chamberln is in Grafton
visiting relatives and friends. II. II.
Chamberlin has returned from Boston,
where he visited few days.
Deer reported shot Nov. % were by
Walter Theg, 100 pounds; II. +. Gard
ner, spike horn, $50 pounds; Il. p.
Bcmis, a spike horn, l75 pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. II. Allbee went to
Saxtons River Tuesday to attend the
funeral services Of Mrs. John Allbee
They went by automobile, carrying Mr..
and Mrs John Allbee of Brookline.
Mrs. w. NJ. Trevorrow came from
Dover to visit her daughter, Mrs. Wal
ter Morse, Tuesday. Mrs. Morse S aunt,
who came recently from England, Miss
Grace Trevorrow, will remain as her
guest for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Beebee of Win
hall, who have been guests several days
in the home of their daughter, Mrs.
Alonzo Chambcrlin, returned home to-
day. Little Evelyn Chamber!in went
with them FOR visit.
Mrs. McCullock saw a herd of | | deer
on the meadow near the house and
called her husband and II. w. Sanders,
who were at work, but when Mr.. Me
Outlook got near enough to shoot at
them all he could find was five, all does,
the two bucks seen being too far away
TO shoot at. .yt
Townshend Inn will serve an old
fashioned Thanksgiving dinner Thanks
giving day from l to 3 p. M, 81 per
platc-AdV AZ
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24
The Father of the House.
(Bennington Banner.l

The Father of the House. ut Mont
pelier this year will apparently be Dan
o 'Brien of South Burlington. Mr..
o 'Brien is Democrat, but not a vio-
lent partisan and has served his town
crcditably in the legislature in 1900,
1902, 1904, 1912, and 1915, and is now
the member elect for 1917.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-11-24

"Say, doc" said a small boy as he
entered the physician s office, 81 got
measles. Nobody else knows and III
keep it quiet. "
The puzzled doctor looked at the boy,
but said nothing.
Finally the boy got inpatient and
said:
Jaw, get wise. What will you give
me to go to school and spread it among
the kids!"