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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-08
GREAT RE-
MOYAL SALE

After Dec. 18th, we will be
at our New Store Building,
nothing but new and up-to-
date merchandise will be
moved, and all goods remain
ing at old stand, will be Of
fered for sale at sacrifice
price.
All goods not sold by Dec.
10th, will be sold at Public
Auction.
Remember the date, We'd
nesday, Dec. 20, 1916.
Remember the place, Luns-
ford'S old store. =
J. LUNSFORD& SONS
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-08
Notice

All persons having claims against
C. W. Botkin's estate will please
present the same verified for pay
ment, and all parties knowing them
selves indebted to said estate,
please pay at once to
j. H. Samples, Admir-.
of C, W. Botkin.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-08
Notice

stpayed or stolen from the range
in Tower Hill, Is to 20 ewes. Ear
marked with a crop off of left and
upper keel in right, tag in ear
with R. G. McC. on it, tar mark
across hips. A liberal reward will
be paid for information leading to
recovery of same.
Rnhnrt MnClin In
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-08

400 TYPEWRITERS! Remingtons
$12, Smith Premiers $12. Let your chill
dren learn Typewriting at home during
vacation. Instruction book Free. Ask
Empire Type Foundry, Buffalo, N Y
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-08
Business Advertisements

MOTT Eff you want TO buy or sell
anything place an advertisement in this
column. Rate five cents line. cunt
six words to the inc. There are lots of
things going to waste that some one
would gladly buy. Adv and get rid of it
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-08
For Christmas


Our Store is acknowledged to be
a most satisfactory shopping place.
A carefully selected stock of price
worthy goods, courteous treat
ment and sense of security as to
reliability of the
goods makes gift choosing a pleas
ure. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended for you and friends to visit
our store and compare our prices.
H. L. LANG'S,
Masonic Temple,
Staunton, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-08

Robert McClintic
Green Valley, Va.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
SOMERSET MAN ROBBED.
Woodchopper Loses Watch, Money and
Clothes in Holyoke

The Holyoke, Mass, correspondence
in the Springfield Sunday Republican
contained the following about a Somer-
set man S experience:
Joseph Pelkey of Somerset, VT, will
cut Holyoke off his visiting list in fu-
ture unless he receives better treat
ment He is employed as a wood
chopper and came down from Vermont
Friday with $40 in his pocket and an
extra suit of clothes done up in a
bundle, intending to see little of city
life. He saw a little. Friday he lost
$40 and gold watch; Yesterday he
lost the suit Of clothes. Events were
succeeding each other so rapidly that
he went to the police station to see
If the brakes could not be put on.
Within short time Inspector Man
ming brought III Hormisdas La Foun-
taine, who returned about two months
ago from Concord reformatory. When
captured, Ia Fountaine was wearing
the visitor S hat. He had disposed of
the clothes at secondhand store
for 60 cents, according to the police.
Up to last evening the $50 and the
gold watch were still missing, but the
police have hopes of their recovery
Pelkey will 90 back to Somerset with
wrong idea of the motto, DO it for
Holyoke. =
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
BRANDS OF PRoHIBITIoN1sTs.
r. s. Childs Defines the Different Vari-
cites as He Sees Them.

Editor of The Reformer:
Experience has abundantly demons
trated that there are two brands OF
prohlhidonists in Vermont One is the
genuine l6-ounces-to-the-po pound prohib,
itionist whose voice, vote and untiring
efforts have ever been directed toward
true temperance and sobriety from
principle only. The other brand is the
protesting prohibitionist who avows
himself at Intervals for. drastic laws
governing liquor and the liquor traffic.
but ism t 1t for revenue only. For a
half century or more the Vermont pro-
hIbltlonists have annually and bien-
n1ally nominated able and worthy can
didates for the state offices and placed
them upon a platform of clean-cut dee
iaratlons, hewn to the line of total alb
stlnence. Did anybody ever hear the
clarion voice of Clarke C. Fits raised
IN support of such candidates and plat
form principles? Ism I it = sad com
mentary upon the cause he now SO Wig
orously espouses, and ism t it a refec-
ton upon Mr.. Fits and his active po-
litical associates that in the last wear
Of state prohibition (1902) the prohi-
bition ticket received the beggarly
number of three votes in the town of
Brattleboro, 81 i'll Windham county and
only 1854 in the entire state?
| 1t could not be that Mr.. Fits with
held his support OF those candidates
because of their unworthiness, hence
he should lose no opportunity in his
public addresses to explain his action
and influence as a strict prohibition
ist.
| In the last presidential campaign the
prohibitory vote in Brattleboro was ),
and in the count of Windham 80. We
believe Mr.. Fits was especially active
in this campaign. 1t is evidently not
so much for the cause of prohibition
that Mr.. Fits argues as for effects.
his declaration last evening about seiz-
ures of personal consignments of hq-
uors from the local freight and ex-
press stations, accords precisely with
THE old order of things under the nui-
sance act; but why did not Brother
Fits include the United States post
office as a place of assault and where
thousands of parcels of liquid. which
docs not bear the odor of cold water
are monthly received throughout the
state of Vermont2 In this declara-
ton he is clearly nullifer of later.
state commerce law. He reioiced in
the disappearance of the old American
and Brattleboro houses, which he had
previously asserted were "eenters OF
the liquor traffic, even under hi:
watehful eve as public administrator
with the legal, legislative, judicial an6
financial departments of the state gov
eminent to effectually assist him in dis
lposing of them several years before
their departure.
RoLLIN S. CHILDs.
Brattleboro, VT, March 6, 1916.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
TOWN MEETING WILL
OPEN AT 9 O'CLOCK
Candidates and Referendums to Be
Voted on By Australian System
Boxes Turned at O'Clock.

he annual town meeting to be held
tomorrow will be opened at o'clock,
Attorney A. F. Schwenk, as moderator.
presiding. Voting will be continuous
from until o'elock, when the polls
will close on all questions.
This year the Australian ballot sys-
tenn will be used for voting for the
candidates for the local offices. 1t will
be necessary to decide at once wheth-
er the town shall have one or two ROAD
commissioners and this question will be
decided probably, at once, in order, if
IT is voted to have two road commits
s1oners, that some candidate may be
nominated for the second position and
his name be written in on the ballot
by each voter
BY the same system the primary and
prohibition referendums and the license
question viii be voted on.
The board of civil authority added
IL names to the voting list at their
session Saturday afternoon. This af-
ternoon Town Clerk Carl S. Hopkins
and Tax Collector w. a. Shumway
will check with red ink the names OF
all those whose taxes were not paid
Feb. Is. Those who names are sc
checked will be allowed to vote ON the
two state issues only.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
TRIP BY BOY SCOUTS.
He'd Supper of Lamb Chops and Cocoa
at Durham Bungalow.

Seven members of Troop l of the Boy
Scouts went on a trip Saturday to the
Durham bungalow. Three went on skis
and found the skiing up the river excellent.
After starting fire at camp, the BOYS
went out on nearby hill and took turns
using each others skis Some of the bows
showed skill. In few minutes they built
up small ski jump where a jump of 81
feet could be made
Returning from the outdoor exercise
they sat down to a lamb-chop supper to
which Mr.. Durham treated them. The
chops were cooked over the Goals in the
fireplace and the odor of them added a
razor edge to an already sharp appetite
Hot cocoa also was served.
Francis Nichols was appointed a com
mittee OF one to look after getting the new
Scout room in order
Two weeks from last Saturday an outdoor
hike will be taken and month from last
Saturday another hike will take place to
the Durham bungalow. Troop / will have
an informal meeting at the Centre church
house next Thursday night, and a week
later the regular bi-weekly meeting will be
held
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
VERDICT AGAINST
THE HOTEL ESSEX
Judgment Of S6,11o Obtained by Man
Who Lost Money Betting in
Pool Room.

BOSTON, March 6. = A jury in the
superior court today returned a verdict
for So, against the Hammond hotel
proprietors of the hotel Essex in this
city for money which Robert H. Kemp
OF Brockton claimed to have lost in
betting on a "fake" horse race at the
hotel im November, 1913.
Kemp alleged that he was persuaded
by gang of swindlers, who had set
up pool room in the hotel, to bet So
800 ON a horse race. He brought suit
against the hotel corporation to recover
this amount with interest under a re-
vised statute, which makes property
holders liable for money lost in bet
ting on their premises if it is proved
they had knowledge of what had taken
place. The hotel management said it
had no knowledge of gambling on its
premises.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
GREAT INFLUX OF
CAMPAIGN MAIL
Postofice Denies Report that Liquor Is
Sent by Parcel Post-Law Is
Explicit Against It.

An exceptional influx of mail made the
carriers about two hours late out of the
postoffice this forenoon, and they will be
late all day. The regular Sunday mail
was very heavy and in addition to that was
a large volume of campaign matter for
both sides of the liquor question, which
made 1T necessary for the carriers to stop
at practically every house within their ter
ritory.
The postoffice makes denial of the report
that liquor is being transported by parcel
post. The government regulation is very
strict in prohibiting the transportation of
liquor through the mails, and it is stated
at the postoffice that not more than three
or four packages containing liquor have
been received there since the parcel post
law went into effect, and those were sent
through ignorance of the law.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
DISCUSSION TOMORROW.
Then 1t Is Expected the McLemore
Resolution VIII Be Tabled.

WASHINGTON, March 6-The house
rules committee today agreed on and will
bring into the house tomorrow a special
rule for four hours debate on the McLe-
more resolution warning Americans off
armed ships of European belligerents
This puts the much-discussed resolution
into parliamentary position where adj
ministration leaders arc confident they can
Kill 1t. The program is to table the Me
l4emore resolution, as was done with the
Gore resolution, thus expressing the sen
timent of the majority of the house that
no legislation whatever regarding travelling
OF Americans on armed ships shall be en-
acted
While the rules committee was meeting
Representative Bailey of Pennsylvania tele-
phoned invitations to senator's and repre-.
sentatives to lunch with William j. BRYAN
at q hotel near the capitol About &c
members of congress were invited, most oil
whom are strong advocates of warning
resolution. Others were opposed to pre-
paredness Mr. Bailey declined to make
public his invitation list
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
HOWARD ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Bridport Farmer Shoots Himself = In
Critical Condition.

BRIDPORT, March 6. = Fred How
ard, about 80 years old, prosperous
farmer, made an unsuccessful attempt
to take his life yesterday by shooting
himself just above the heart. The
bullet has been extracted and his con
dition is critical. No cause is ascribed
for his act unless he became temporari-
ly deranged because of poor health.
His wife called him from his sleep
ing apartment and a moment later
heard the report of the revolver. She
found him on the floor bleeding pro
fusely and sent a young man for help
DR.. L. G. Blaisdell of this town was
soon at the Howard home and a short
time later DR.. W. J. White of Middle
bury arrived. They extracted the bul
let, which was from 80 calibre car
fridge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
JACKSON is HELD
UNDER $1,000 BAIL
Taken to Newfane Jail to Await Hear
ing Thursday Witness Not
Physically Able to Attend Court.

Edward Jackson, who was arrested
Saturday morning charged with a stat
utory offense against an eightyear-
old child, was taken before Judge
Frank E. Barber in the municipal
court III the afternoon. ATTORNEY
Harrie B. Chase was assigned by the
court to represent the prisoner State s
Attorney Q. B. Hughes appeared for
the state. The case was continued to
Thursday for a hearing as one of the
witnesses was not physically able Sat
urday to appear in court. Jackson was
taken to Newfane jail in default of
1000 bail
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
Three Zeppelins Took Part
in Attack on British
Towns Last Night
DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS
WAS NOT VERY SEVERE
Airships Took Various Courses and
from Devious Nature of Their Flight
Were Apparently Uncertain as to
Their Bearings.

LONDON, March 6.-Twelve per-
sons were killed and 80 injured in last
night s Zeppelin raid
Three zeppelins took part in the
attack. This information was given
out officially today.
The statement follows: The num-
Der of Zeppelins which took part in
last night S raid is now believed to
have been three. After crossing the
coast the airships took various
courses and, from the devious nature
of their fight, apparently were I'M
certain as to their bearings.
The area visited included Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, Rutland, Cambridge
shire, Norfolk, Essex and Kent.
As far as is known about 40 bombs
We're dropped all together. The casual
ties so far as ascertained amounted
TO, killed, three men, four women. five
children; injured, So.
The material damage was two
houses practically destroyed, one
office, one public house, cafe, and
several shops partly destroyed and a
block of aims houses badly damaged.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
BIRTHS.

In Brattleboro, March 4, son to
Eugene ?. and Angie (Knights)
Houghton.
In Hinsdale, March 5, son to Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Carboni.
In Brooklyn, n Y, March 5, a
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne H.
Rice, granddaughter TO Mr.. and Mrs
5. l.. Rice of Chesterfield, N. H., and
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Fisher of Brooklyn
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
BRATTLEBoRO LOCAL.

The board of governors of the Yer.
mont Wheel club voted in one member
Friday evening.
| The mercury went down to one de-
! gree below zero on Main street this
| morning, as registered by the Their
mometer at Vaughan & Burnett s.
If arrangements can be made a
straw ballot win be taken at the town
meeting tomorrow to give the voters a
| chance to indicate their preferences
for presidential candidates.
A party of young people from Win
| chester will come to the Methodist
church Thursday evening for an Ep-
worth League supper. A party from
| this church went 10 Winchester for
supper ON Washington S birthday.
All who wish to contribute towards
the Red Cross fund are asked to send
their money in to Mrs. j. j. Estey be-
fore tomorrow night as the money will
be sent to the Red Cross headquarters
| this week.
Glass No. IL of the Baptist Bible
school will hold its monthly business
meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, evening
at 10 clock in Mr.. Bond s class
room at the church. Every member is
expected to be present.
Families of the Advent Christian
church parish will 60 on a sleighride
tuesday evening to the home of
| George W. Sparks on the Wilmington
road. If the weather is stormy thew
| will go on the ride Wednesday even
ing.
The supper and dance given by Po-
cahontas council Thursday evening
proved very enjoyable occasion.
About 100 were served with supper
and large number remained for dane
| ing. An orchestra of IL piaces
furnished excellent music, which add
ed much to the enjoyment of the af,
fair.
VERONA H. Blake, two years and one
month old, died Sunday morning at )
O'Clock in the home of Mrs. Gertie
Malinson in Springfield Mass, of scar
let fever. She was a daughter of Mrs
Louise Blake of this town, formerly of
| Springfield. A prayer was offered at
the house at 8 clock Sunday and the
body was placed in the tomb.
Twelve persons were received int
full membership in the Methodist
church yesterday and one was received
on probation. Two of the II were re
ceived at the Epworth League meeting
in the evening, which was attended by
about 90 persons. The communion ser
vice in the morning was the most
largely attended of any during the pas
torate of Rev. Thomas w. Owens
Martin Flannery of Holyoke, Mass
an employee of the Boston & Maine
railroad, a brother of the late Mrs
Mary Calvin of Brattleboro, died
yesterday in his home. He leaves
three sisters, Ellen, Agnes and Kath.
crime Flannery of Burlington, and one
brother, Edward, of Washington Bar
racks. He leaves several nieces. The
funeral will he held tomorrow and the
body will be taken to Richmond, (Vt.)
for burial.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
PERSONAL.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Wheeler of
Turner's Falls were visitors over Sun
day in the home of the Misses Calvin.
Peter S. Chase has recovered from
his illness and is out again. Mrs. Chase,
although gaining, is still being cared
for by a nurse.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
WILMINGTON.

An Estey organ, replacing the one
that had served for the past 40 years
in the Baptist church, was installed
last week and was used for the first
time at the services Sunday. The in
strument is of a special make, and
while it is not a pipe organ it has near
ly all the mechanism Of such an instru-
ment with the exception of the pipes.
In an effort to keep the Germans
from crossing the Vistula several hun
dred women aided the Russian soldiers
to dig trenches.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
MARRIAGES.

In Brattleboro, March 4, by Carl S.
Hopkins, Esq, Gerald Smith Graham
and Miss Clara Agnes McKelligott,
both of Northampton, Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
WEST BRATTLEBORO.

Herbert Millington of Wilmington,
who had been a guest of his sister
Mrs. Fred Fox, few days, returned
to his home Sunday.
Mr.. aud Mrs. R. NJ. Williams enter.
tanned 80 friends in their home Sat
urday evening at a progressive euchre
party. The royal prize was won by w
j. Hawkins and Edward Weatherhead
the progressive prize went to Harold
Chase and Fred Marsh and the boob
to Mrs. Ira Mather and Charles Win.
chester. Refreshments were served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06
Safe Side.

Wife-Henry, you really must have
the landlord come and see for him.
self the damage the rain did to our
ceiling.
Hub can t without letting him see
the damage the children have done to
the rest of the house.-Boston Tran
script.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06

Scotland is taking to the use OF mechani-
cal potato planters.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06

FOR SALE.-Upright piano or will
exchange toward automobile or build
ing lot. Address ''Pianon care Re-
former Office 5-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06

There are 6,615,S05 orange and 941 200
lemon trees in California.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06

Seven Days Trip to Washington,
March 25-3l. Send for circular to Prin-
cipal f. B. Smith Persons outside the
high school welcome. Adv 4-6-1-3-2t
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-06

In New South Wales there arc loo, 900
more men than women.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-01-19

to adorn with handsome federal build
ings and for the benefit of insignificant
creeks in southern states which they
dream Of making into useful water
ways at government expense.
Thus far no democratic voice OF
power has been raised against them
The president has showed great in
genuity in suggesting new forms OF
taxation to atone for the democratic
deficit in the treasury and to provide
money for program of national de-
fence which he has reluctantly and
half-heartedly espoused. But the pres
ident has shown no courage in trying
to head off the pork hunters as they
are stalking the agile appropriation
to its lair. q
In the last congress the president
vetoed no bill to take money from the
treasury. The fight to beat the rivers
and harbors bill received no encour.
agement from him; while he went the
whole distance in trying to soak the
treasury for $5O,O0O,OO0 more to buy
a fleet of government owned steam.
ships. The rivers and harbors bill was
beaten by republicans. So was the
ship purchase bill. 1t is probable that
republicans will again oppose these
measures and that they will lend no
assistance to q public building bill.
But II the president and his party can
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-01-19
STILL SMASHING PLEDGE.

Washington, Jan. Especial Cor
respondence)-1t makes no difference
to some democrats whether the treas
ury deficit is a hundred and twelve
millions or three hundred and twelve
millions. It makes no difference tC
them whether preparedness Is to cost
ninety-three millions or hundred and
ninety-three. 1t makes no difference
to them whether bonds are issued, the
income tax increased, gasoline put un
der levy, or more stamp taxes pr0vid
ed. No matter what happens, some
democrats want their pork.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors has democratic chairman
Mr.. Sparkman. of Florida. The com:
mittee on public buildings and grounds
also has a democratic chairman. Mr..
Clark, who likewise halls from FlOri.
da. These two southern democrats
are meditating raid on the treasury,
Mr.. Sparkman to the tune of $780,
O0O, 900 and Mr.. Clark for an unnamed
total which may amount to us much
more. u
They find many of their fellow dem
ocrats who will aid and abet them.
With a record for extravaganza made
by the last congress and recognizing
that the next election will sweep the
democratic party from power for a
generation, the democrats are plan.
ming for the last grand plunge into the
treasury for the benefit Of crossroads
southern hamlets which they propose
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-01-19
The Indians and the settlers.

Many, interesting glimpses of pio-
neer life in Iowa are to be found in
volume containing the recollec.
tons of Rev. Charles E. Brown, a
copy of which has recently been &C.
quired by the State Historical Society
of Iowa. Rev. Brown, who was the
father of William c. Brown, the well
known railroad manager, came to
Iowa in 1912, and began his work
as a minister in the settlements
along the Mississippi River. Among
other things. he writes as follows
concerning the Indians then living in
Iowa:
During our pioneer days in Iowa,
1912 to 1861, the Indian tribes, from
whom the land was held by purchase
and treaty, were frequent visitors.
They were the genuine aborigines,
uncontaminated by contact with the
whites. AS a rule they were friendly,
but when game was scarce they were
disposed to make free with the cattle
and hogs of the settlers, and their
presence always excited some fear of
possible danger. They were savages
and we never knew. what they might
do. These Indians were fine speci-
mems of their race; stalwart, digni-
fled. comely. active, and fearless;
we'll supplied with wigwams, ponies,
robes and blankets, bows, arrows and
guns. A visit to their camp was al
ways interesting"