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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
PERSONAL.

E. c. Crosby was in Springfield (Vt.)
yesterday on business.
In Brattleboro, JAN %, a son to Mr..
and Mrs. Patrick Mcclure.
D. f. Mckinney of New York and
Brattleboro is i'll in New York with
grip.
Mrs. William E. Cooper of Quincy,
Mass, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs d. P.
Dewitt.
Mrs. Frederick C. Adams and son.
Lyman, are spending the day in Spring
field, Mass.
Attorney W. R. Daley went to Wood
stock yesterday to attend the Wind
sOr county court.
Postmaster NJ. j. Moran has been
confined to his house several days this
week with severe cold.
Mrs. Guy Downer of Springfield
Mass, has been a guest of Mrs. Leroy
Adams few days this week
Miss Mary R. Cabot, who had been
spending few weeks in town, went
to Boston yesterday to remain fo1
some time.
Frank B. Putnam and Christie b
Crowell attended in Burlington vester-
day the meetings of Vermont consis.
tory, sd degree Masons.
Hal l.. March, who had been in the
Memorial hospital three weeks, follow
ing al operation for appendicitis, re
turned to his home on Oak street yes
terday.
/ Thomas, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Johr
| Clark, was taken to the Memorial hos
/ pital to be operated upon as soon a,
he is able, for appendicitis The boy
is now i'll with grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Thompson ant
son, Onslow Thompson, returned las
night from New York, where they ha,
been two weeks. They were accom-
panied home by Mr.. Thompson S sister
Mrs P. G. Ferris of New York, ant
Miss Marion Thompson of Brooklyn
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
SPORTING NEW
HOW YALE FOOLED TIGERS.
Z Cheese tt the Signal by Which Ellis
Made Touchdown in 1882

The delving into Yale football his
tory by Walter Camp has uncovered a
number of interesting features not the
least of which is the use of signals by
the Eli elevens In the days of long ago.
In commenting upon this work Henry
b. Twombly, quarterback on the Yale
teams of 1882 and 1888, writes to the
Alumni Weekly on old Yale football
days, as follows:
Walter Camp is right in his first
written list of word signals used by
the Yale team in 1882, but he has APP
parently forgotten the signal given on
the occasion of the first touchdown
made by Yale against Princeton since
1877. AS boys playing in the Boston
streets, cheese it was our well known
signal to look out for cops When
we were arranging signals in the fall
of 1882, | remembered well the
glee with which Doc Beck, our right
tackle, and | fixed it up that when the
signal cheese it was given he was to
drop back behind the line for a quick
pass from the quarterback After con-
siderable play in the Princeton game
at the old Polo grounds on November
| 80, 1882, Richards dropped back appar-
entity to try a drop-kick for goal.
But on the signal cheese it the
Princeton line broke through the Yale
line with great ease to block Rich
ards's kick Such, however, had been
, the intention on the part of the Yale
line; Doe Beck dropped back of the
line in exact time to get the bal
i thrown over the heads of the charging
| Tigers, and without a Princeton man
touching him Beck rushed the ball ov
er for a touchdown. l can see old Doc
now, with his white hair standing
straight up, and grin all over hi
face. shouting out How do Won like
that, you Tigers?' +"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
SOUTH VERNON.

Mrs. John Mack is i'll with grip.
Austin Jillson is at work for H. A.
Staten.
Mrs. J. A. Newton is in Mortified
few days. 81, ssc 49,
The roads are very poor and icy
since the rain.
Mrs. Clarence Beers has returned
from Mortified.
Rodney Deohttle is improving and
is able to be up.
Lyman Kimball of Mortified, is at
work for Charles Richardson.
Miss Edna Orr has gone to her home
IN Providence, R. L., for the rest of
the winter.
Mrs. Walter Cushman has returned
from West Brattleboro, where she Wis
tied her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Burrows of
Bernardston We're guests over Sunday
ct Fremont Fairman s.
Mrs B. E. Clarke was called 70
Greenfield to attend the funeral of her
niece, who died in a Boston hospital.
News has been received by the rela.
tlves of George Fairman of Colebrook,
n. H., of his death from pneumonia in
Greenfield, Mass. He was % years old
and visited here last fall. He was a
fur dealer 80 years, always active
and travelled much up to the time of
his death. One son survives in Spring,
field, Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
BASEBALL PEACE
SAVED The SPORT
Two More Years of War Would
Have Been Fatal.
GAFFNEY DESERVES CREDIT
Owner of the Boston Nationals Did
Much to Bring Warning Factions to
See the Light-Better Baseball In
sight-Players Will Play Harder.

The peace treaty signed by the pow
ers of organized baseball and the Fed
eral league at the shank end of the
past year was the salvation of profess
sional baseball Two more years like
the seasons of 1914 and 1915 would
pretty nearly have wiped the profess
sional end of the great American sport
off the map.
While the National league was be-
ing PANIED from various sources for
making peace-largely, however, be-
cause of President Tener's method of
handling peace news-Jim Gaffney,
owner of the Braves, said to a well
known baseball expert:
Il don't see where the National
league comes in for all this panning.
Continuance of this war would have
been downright foolishness. To pro
long the strife through the season of
1916 would be the worst kind of non
sense. You can be sportsman and
still have u little horse sense"
Gaffney presented n splendid argu-
ment and deserved credit for his stand
for peace and for having helped to
bring it about. Who, in fact, deserves
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
VERNON.

Mrs. B. A. Streeter is i'll with grin.
The library viii be open Saturday,
Jan. 30
Mrs. G. s. Hewins and daughters are
with Mr.. Hewins at H. A. Staten s.
Raymond Fairman has gone to Bel
mont, \. H., where he has employment.
Permelia and William, children of D.
+. Phetteplace, have recovered from an
attack of humps.
The funeral of Dwight S. Fairman.
who died Jan. 20, was held Sunday at
II o clock at the house and Rev. Geo
t. Tyler was the officiating clergyman
The large gathering of relatives
friends and neighbors and the MANY
beautiful floral tributes served to at.
test the esteem in which this aged cit
lzen was held. Miss Eta Stebbins
Mrs. j. Il. Frost and G. E. Fairman
sang When the Roll Is Called Ur
Yonder, and Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me
The burial took place in the family LOT
in Maplehurst cemetery in Guilford
The bearers were E. C. Tenney, F. l.
Stark, A. E. Weatherhead and H. A
| Brown. Among those present from out
of town were Mr.. and Mrs. Hall OF
Westhampton, Mass, Harry an6
, Charles Lampson of Huntington, Mass.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Holton, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Ernest Motchman and Charlie.
Strange of West Northfield, Mass, c
j P. Miller and John Miller of Green
field, Mass. Joseph Miller of Brattle
boro, Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Carey anC
Mrs. H. c. Bell~and James Bell of Hal
flax.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
Death of James w. Cowles.

James w Cowles, So almost a life
long resident of Mortified, died at
midnight last night in his home on
Glen street after long illness.
Mr. Cowles was a son of Porter and
Caroline (White) Cowles of Amherst,
Mass, his mother having been a ma
tive of Mortified He made his home
with his sister, Mrs. Sarah Cowles, for
many years until her death about a
year ago. He was successful dairy
man, had been a director of the
Mortified creamery for years, was ac-
tive in the Northfield Grange and was
associated with the Unitarian church.
His nearest relatives are nieces, Mrs.
Kate Whitmore and Miss Irene Cowles
of Fitchburg, Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
BIG JEWISH COLLECTION.
Probably About 100000 Raised for
War Relief

NEW YORK. Jan 29.-Predictions that
the receipts of Jewish relief day through
out the nation would approximate $1,000
900 for the relief of suffering in the war
zones of Europe were made last night at
the headquarters of the central relief COM
mittee No attempt was made to estimate
the total for New York city, but it is
known that it will exceed $250,0O0, in
addition to nearly 81 100000 pledged at a
|mass-meeting in New York Thursday
might. kilograms received yesterday from
almost every city in the country stated
that the contributions were much larger
than even the most sanguine workers had
anticipated. In only a few places had the
totals been computed and it is not expect
ed the work Will be completed before Mon
| day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

Mrs. Mary Doolittle is visiting her sister,
Mrs w II. Bracket, in Maiden, Mass.
Mrs. A. l. Parquetto will hold an auction
of household goods and tools at the home
of the late Mrs n F. Alexander.
Mrs. R. Smiths Bible class was again
postponed this week, as the leader is i'll
with grip
Prof. Thomas Hebron of Keene has a
private dancing class in Red Mems hall
each Friday evening There are ID couples
in attendance.
Prof f. L. Duley has returned from
Washington, D. c., where he attended the
convention of the National Security
league.
The mothers meeting was held in the
parish house Wednesday afternoon with
Mrs. F. L. Duley in charge. The subject
was Favorite Hymns.
Prof. f. H Hawkins, PHI D., professor
of political and social science of Clark col
lege, will lecture before the Saturday club
of Hermon Saturday evening
Thursday of this week was observed as
day of prayer for schools and colleges
and Rev j. Douglas Adam of Hartford
Theological seminary was the speaker
| The seniors of the high school will serve
chicken-pie supper the evening of Tues
day, Feb. 1, in the town hall, followed by
farce by the faculty of the centre schools
Robert E. Speer, d. D., was the preacher
evening. He is secretary of the Board o
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
JIM GAFFNEY, OWNER OF THE BOSTON
NATIONALS.

JIM GAFFNEY, OWNER OF THE BOSTON
NATIONALS.
more credit-Gaffney who brought
Sinclair and Gilmore into a conference
with the National league, or Ban John
son, who kept clustering away to the
end, smashing his fist on tables and in
sisting the American league had moth
ing to do with bringing peace about?
American Leaguers Satisfied.
However, now that peace has been
made, the American league men make
no attempt to conceal their satisfac-
ton. Had Ban Johnson attempted to
continue a war to determination he
never would have been backed by his
league.
Yet it is as Ed Barrow, one of the
real heroes of the war, put it: 1--WE
shall forget the past and start all over
with fresh deck"
That is the logical way Of looking at
it-forget all past animosities and
everybody start afresh, pulling for the
good of the game and keeping the
game in such way before the public,
where it will command the most re-
spect. If the magnates have any horse
sense, as Gaffney put it, barroom poll
tics, trades and intrigue will belong
to the days before the war
Means Better Baseball.
Peace will bring better baseball.
Weak clubs like the Giants, Yanks,
Browns and Cubs will probably land
the cream of the Federal league talent.
fnI CIN A Loo fnnr in
New York and ST. Louis will awaken
fresh interest in these cities and will
go a long way to bring a tidy margin
on the right side of the ledger.
The end of the war also will take
the magnates off the sporting pages
and put the players there instead.
There is much interest among the base
ball fans just now as to which clubs
will draw the Federal league prizes,
and there will be more interest next
season because of the merged clubs
and the desire of the fans to see how
the Fed stars will make out In their
new surroundings.
Players Will Try Harder.
Baseball peace also will bring more
hustle, and players who were shirkers
will know they must hustle for their
jobs That means more interesting
baseball. Peace also will bring an end
10 the long term contract war
peasure which has worked out very
badly.
As soon as certain players knew they
were fixed up for fat salaries fer three
years and had contract which was
absolutely binding their work slowed
up perceptibly. Baseball is Il profcs
sion where past regulations count lit
tie, and nothing keeps the ola boz
hustling any more than the Enowlcds;
that some youngster with lot Of pei
Is after his job.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
church in the United States, also vice
president of the board of trustees of the
Mortified schools.
About 80 new students have registered
at Mortified seminary this week. On
Tuesday and Wednesday entrance exami-
nations We're taken. About 30 of the semi
nary students We're not able to take their
final examinations, on account Of illness.
Special arrangements will be made for
them
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
More Nomination Papers Filed.

The time for fling nomination pa
pers closed yesterday afternoon at 5
0 clock John l.. Dunnell and Frank
Aldrich took out nomination papers
for selectman and Merrill 7. Moore
for assessor.
Griends of DR.. n. P. Wood took out
papers, for him for library trustee, a
position he has held for years He
founded the children 5 room at the Ii
brarv and in other ways has shown his
interest in that institution.
These are in addition to the nomina
tions made at. the regular Republican
caucus
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
WAR rs ONLY BEGINNING.
So David Lloyd George Tells an Inter
viewer

LONDON, Jan. psf think that for us
the war is only beginning, said David
Lloyd George, British minister of mum
tions, in an interview yesterday with the
London correspondent of the Milan Secolo,
but l am absolutely confident of victory,
because although all have made mis-
takes in the past England and her allies
are now taking counsel together and will
be stronger because they are united By
next spring we shall have for the first time
more munitions than the enemy, and our
superiority in men is unquestioned. Be
sides this Germans financial position il
growing worse daily.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29
EASY TIME FOR TEAM E.
Defeated Team T 1915 to 1,253-Cain
High Single with 108.

Team F of the Masonic bowling
league had an easy time last evening
in defeating by 81 pins, team F. The
team totals were 1875 to 1888. Bar
Der, rolling as a substitute, had high
total Of 2S5 while Cain with los ear
ried off the single string honors. The
scores:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

A photographer who can't make a
homely woman look beautiful might
just as well get a job on the section
gang or driving a hack.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

A man who thinks he can make /;
success of anything he undertakes, j:
apt to be an unsuccessful thinker
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

There cannot be good excuse for
time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

Some people are so busy eriticising
creeds that they have no time left for
practical religion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

An ounce of performance is better
than a pound of promise.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

The Colonel is about the best adver-
tisement the dental profession ever
had.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-29

Mrs Elsie Holmes Vok well known society in
ent in the divorce action she has brought
desired o
smother wthN who he
Brazilian
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-09-27
WHAT HUGHES WOULD
HAVE LEFT UND0NE
That Is Campaigns True Angle
and Not the Trite Question
With Which HeckIers Are
Nagging the Republican
Standard Bearer.
ACHIEVEMENTS ASSURANCE
LAUNDERING IS NO HABIT

Wtncing Democrats Trying to Run
Away From the Record of the Adj
minstration and to inveigle the
Voters Down Rhetorical Bypaths,
All In the ThinIy- Disguised Effort
to Change the Subject.
When Mr.. Hughes criticises the rec
ord Of the Administration the spokes-
men Of Mr.. Wilson cry: What would
you have done?" They forget that it
is Mr.. Wilson and not Mr.. Hughes
who Is on trial They forget that
four years ago Mr.. Wilson criticised
Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt through
out the campaign and that Mr.. Taft
spective records, instead Of crying.
What would you have done" They
forget these things or they refuse to
confess them. They are trying to run
away from the record Of the Admins
tration and induce the people to fol-
low them down some bypath Of rhe-
torical hypothesis, all In the effort to
change the subject.
"By their fruits ye shall know
them" When Mr.. Hughes was Gov
ernor Of New York he did not pay
political debts by filing the public
offices with unfit men. He did not
champion certain principles during his
campaign and repudiate them after he
entered Office. AS Governor, he did
not resort to brave and beautiful
words as q substitute for firm and con-
s1stent deeds. He was careful in his
use Of words, but he backed his words
with deeds. He did not promise what
he could not perform. He did not
plaster the people with compliments
they did not deserve. He was not q
rhetorician, he was not a fatterer, he
was not "too proud to fight" for labor
| or for capital, for the strong or the
weak, when the right was on their
side.
Mr.. Wilson's spokesman seek to di
vert attention from the attacks Mr.
Hughes is making upon the record OF
the Administration by asking him.
'What would you doT They are un.
consciously helping Mr.. Hughes. They
are recalling to the memory Of the
people the record he made throughout
his two terms as Governor Of New
York. 1t was then that lie first saie
public Office shall not be a private
snap under my administration" anG
made DerfOrroanca SQUARE with nroTn
Use. There is this about Mr.. Hughes
that makes him so different from Mr.
Wilson: Hughes means what ht
says" So it is that the campaign il
really contest Of character between
two men, with sincerity as the differ
entiating and deciding factor.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-09-27
of mind? 1 tried 'em out on purpose.

of mind? I tried 'em out on purpose.
They don't arrive
They're rich,' said I. almost all
rich people are bores. We bored them.
The old man, though, seemed about to
become quite animated on the subject
of his stomach
Stella laughed. 'I'm glad we were
In old clothes,'' she said. "And aren't
Epictetus and Luella darlings?'
''By the way" I cried, 'why haven't
I met them before?"
ST just discovered them this noon,''
she answered. "You were working at
the time. I was saving them for a
surprise after supper. I'm glad Gladys
and Gaynor brought no grandchildren
though. It would have been hard to
name so many correctly right off the
bat, and it's terrible to start life with
a wrong name"
Gas Mike would say. it is SURELY
I answered. ''That is why they were
careful to call you Stella
do you like the name?" she whis-
pered, creeping close to me. "Oh, John.
I'm glad we're not rich like them
with gesture toward the pack Of call
ing cards-"1'm glad we can work In
the garden with our own hands and
play games with toads and just be our
selves. Let's never be richv'
Il PROMISE" said I, solemnly.
Then we laughed and went to hear
the hermit thrush.
(To be continued.)
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-09-27
The Idyl of Twin
Fires
CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE


on a wheelbarroW, and carted It
around the road to the point where it
was to go. We put a little fresh &C.
ment on the foundation stones to hold
the two legs, and with Mikes aid the
bench was lifted over the stone wall,
through the hedge of ash-leaf naples,
put in place, and leveled. Stella hoy
cred near, with the can of paint, to
cover our fingermarks and give the top
a final glistening coat.
"There," I cried, as the Job was
done, 1--WE have our pool and our gar
den bench! We have some of our
flowers planted for next year! We
have our bit Of lawni Let's go up the
orchard to the front door and see how
it looks
I left the wheelbarrow forgotten In
the road, and we ran up the slope to-
gether, turned at the door, and gazed
back. The pool shimmered in the aft
ernoon sun. We could hear the water
t1nkling over the dam. Beyond the
pool was the dark semicircle of fresh
mold that was to be green grass
backed by blossoms against the shrub
berry, and finally, at the very rear, now
stood the white bench, from this dis
lance cleaning like marble.
Fine! It looks finer cried.
Stella's eyes were squinted Judi
cially. '"Oh, DEAR" she said, 81 wish
there was cedar, a tall, slender, dark
cedar, just behind the bench at either
end. And, John, do you know, we
ought to have some goldfish in the
poolT'
sighed profoundly. "You are rea
gardener" said I. Nothing is ever
finishedv' =---s--.-+~>.~-
"Tm afraid I am" she answered
"But we will have the goldfish, won
We?' ~~~~
yes, and the cedars, too,' replied
"T'll ask Mike when is the best TIM
to put 'em I'M
Mike was sure that spring was tn
best time, and there We're some goo
ones up in our pasture.
"Oh, dear, spring is the best tim
for everything, it seems to me, an
here it's only Julyr' cried Stella. "Wel
anyhow, I'm going to draw plan O
the pool garden, and hang it over N
DESK
She got paper and pencil and dre7
the plan, while lay under an orchar
tree listening to the ttnkIe Of the ws
terfall and watching her while Buste
came and licked my face.
Il think your arrangements Of ir
on the edge is rather formal" I Wa
saying, land it would be rather MOI
decorous, if not decorative, for you /
sit upon the bench, and" when "
heard a motor rumble over the bride
at the brook, and the engine stop b
our side door.