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critlcizina the President.

Andrew Jackson in a message to the
senate on April Is, 1884. put the case
exactly as it should be put He said ;
THE president is accountable at
the bar Of public opinion for every act
of his administration Subject only
to the restraints of truth and Justice
the free people OF the United States
have the undoubted right, as indiyidu-
ais or collectively, orally or in writ.
ing, at such times and in such langu-
age and form as they may think
proper, to discuss his official conduct
and express and promulgate their OPP
inions concerning it,"
Theodore Roosevelt advances this
claim of Old Hickory as his warrant
for such structures as he has seen fit
to make or may see fit to make upon
the present executive and what he
describes as his policies. No honest
official shrinks from honest criticism.
No republican orator in the present
campaign needs to stray beyond the
realm of truth. The facts themselves
are bad enough.-Pittsfeld Eagle.
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HISTORY OF THE WORLDS
SERIES.

y The 1916 worlds series will be
x the thirteenth clash between The
y American and National league
* clubs champions.
X The Boston Americans won the
q first series from the Pittsburghs
x in 1908. The New YOtk Nation
y ais beat Philadelphia in 1905.
y The Chicago Americans scored
y over the Chicago Nationals in
~ 1906. The Chicago Nationals
y then turned in and redeemed
y themselves by whipping the De
y troit Americans in Y and 1908.
~ In 1909 The Pitts .rgh Nation
.s ais beat the Detroit Americans,
;: and in 1910 the Athletics defeat
y ed the Chicago Nationals. The
y Athletics defeated the Giants in
y 1911, and in 1912 the Boston Red
y Sox trounced New York.
* In 1918 the Athletics won from
- the New York Giants. In 1914
y the Boston Nationals mauled the
Y Athletics. Last season the Bos-
y ton Red Sox beat the Philadel-
y phia Nationals.
"
y: - " " " =. " " - s.eM " y ass,
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wives gossip II
was so rcstful
after the rush
aud hustle Of the
city. Suddenly he
m is 5 ed some
thing. Where
Hodges in d.
mill?" he asked
In surprise. 81
can only see one,
and there used TO
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NoTsTCEss

A Democratic caucus will be held
in Apollo hall on Saturday evening,
Oct. u for the purpose of placing in
nomination candidates of the Demo.
cratic party for justice of the peace
for the town of Bennington to be vot-
ed for at the coming November cleo
ton pursuant to No. A of acts of 1915.
Signed
Democratic Town Committee.
Oct. is, 1916.
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Farm For Sale

Farm consisting of 900 acres of land
in highest state of cultivation, 2 miles
from Old Bennington, 1miles north
from Colgate road, watered by never
failing spring, running to house and
barn, buildings consist of hay barns,
l horse barn, / large barn with base
ment, nearly new constable with con-
crete floor equipped with Louden steel
stanchions tor 20 cows, nearly new
12x20 silo. rs fit. hen house, grainery,
20xS5 garage built last year, IL room
house in good repair, wood shed at
rear, sugar orchard of about 300 trees.
Plenty of fruit.
BERT a. sANDERs
Remington, VT.
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TO be two" rhe native gazed thought.
fully around rs il TO verify the state
ment Thea he said slowly: "rhey
pulled one hoWn. There wasn't cncugh
wind for two Of EN-, st. Louis Post,
Dispatch.
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Light as Chaff
VILLAGE CHANCES.

F.rsrything IN the dear old village
seemed the same TO Jones after his alb
sence of four years. The old church,
the village pump. the ducks on the
green. the old men smoking while their
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am prepared with large wag-
on with springs to do all kinds OF
trucking, haul apples to cider mill
or handle any one horse load.
JAMES CONE, sr.,
Mckinley Street
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It avails a man nothing 30 attempt TO
exchange. But the man | patronize-
the home merchant, the man who helps
to pay the town. county and state tax
will exchange any article buy from
him which is unsatisfactory.
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To tho Ladies' and Gentlemen Of Ben.
nlngton and Vicinity.
Call and see my new Fall and
winter samples. and you will surely
leave your order. Prices very rea-
sonable. Cleaning. pressing and al
legations a specially.
Nathan Levin,
1870 North Street. Tel. 98-J
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Founded on Facts and Should Be Lived
Up to by the American People--Not
Religious Creed-People Of North,
South, East and West Can Unite For
Good
copyrighted. 1911. by Thomas J. suliivan.l
Every failure is IL step TO success;
every detection OF what is false directs
us TO what is true; every trial ex-
hausts some tempting form of error.
Not only SO. but scarcely any attempt
is entirely failure; scarcely any theo-
ry, the result of steady thought. is al
together false. No tempting form of
error is without some latent charm de
rived from truth. With these thoughts
in mind | have prepared what | call
the consumers creed.
A Gate to the City.
IL is not Il religious creed. If it were
| would not he writing it, as ] am
afraid | might get my metaphors
crossed This is business creed.
something like the people of New Eng
land unconsciously adopted when Lord
North undertook to tax them. Thereto
fore they had always been accustomed
to divide on points lt so happened,
fortunately, that their opposition to
Lord North was a point on which they
were all united. 1t was business
point.
| have written Il creed upon which
the people of the north, south. east
and west can all unite for their own
good
A good creed is n gate TO the city
which has golden foundations; mis-
leading creed may he road to de-
structon. or If both misleading and
alluring it may become what Shake.
speare calls a primrose path to the
eternal bonfire
Perhaps my creed is nothing more
than set of principles which it would
be well for every consumer to practice.
Read them and then adopt them az
your very own:
A Business Greed.
First.--I do not patroniae the mali
order system because it is selfish and
greedy and for the reason that buy
ut home, where my interests are.
Second.--lf this community is good
enough for my family and | TO live in
IT ought to be good enough for my fam
fly and TO buy our necessaries in.
Third will not take the word OF
the mail order house for its goods, as
l want to see what am buying. and
want to get what pay for.
FOURTH do not patronize the mail
order houses because they demand
cash in advance. and when | am
broke" and sick and need supplies my
home dealer is willing to "carry" me.
Fifth.-I patronize the hope dealer
because he stands back of his goods
and in case of error is willing TO rec.
tify.
T.
Sixth,-I paironize the home mer.
chant because | believe a man ought to
spend his money in the community in
which he earns it.
y y
SEVENTH patronize the home mer-
chant because ! believe the man who
sells what he produces and buys what
he needs at home cannot be injured
by deceptive catalogue pictures or al
legged bargains
v R
Eighth.-I do not patronize the mail
order houses because they frequently
sell damaged and inferior goods which
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Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
& q 8 Q Fri a
Notice

Notice
The stockholders OF the BENNINGTON
& Glastonbury Company are herc3y
notified that a special meeting of the
Stockholders of said company for the
election of directors and other officers
Of said company necessary to be elect
ed by the stockholders, will be held
at the First National Bank os North
Bennington, VT, on Tuesday, the 7th
day of November, 1916 at ten o'clock
in the forenoon
0. NJ. Barber, Clerk.
Dated North Bennington, VT, Oct. IA,
1916.
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Cleveland Has Eighteen Hurlers.
Eighteen pitchers have been secured
by Cleveland for next season. 1t Is
expected many more will be added
from which to select the staff.
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Ninth spend my money with my
home merchant in preference to some
mail order house in distant city be
cause the local merchants help to sup.
port the public schools where send
my children. the churches and the de
pendent poor in my vicinity.
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May Examine and Select.

At the home store you make your
wants known; the salesman shows you
the desired article. helps select or sug
gest the article best suited TO your
needs
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The Seminary Of All Other In.
situations.
HOME PARADISE TO ADAM
BY Home Buying the Consumer Helps
Not Only His Town, but Helps Him
self-Every Man With Heart Loves
Home and Towr-some Should Be-
Conscience Stricken.
copyrighted. 1914, by Thomas ]. Sullivan.5
Only the home can found state. II
is the seminary of all other institu
tons. There is magic in that little
word home 1t is n mystic circle thar
surrounds comforts and virtues never
known beyond its hallowed limits.
We need not power or splendor.
Wide hall or lordly dome.
The good. the true, the tender
These form the wealth of home.
Destroying Your Paradise.
The retail mail order houses are try.
ing TO destroy your home and your
paradise by inducing you to buy your
necessaries from them instead of your
local merchants. to the injury OF your
home industries, home market and
home town.
There is so much difference In buying
goods of home place of business and
ordering them by mail from cata.
logue house from mere picture or dc
scription that ! want to point out .
few facts that many may never have
thought Of
May Examine and Select.
At the home store you make youI
wants known; the salesman shows You
the desired article. helps select or sug
gest the article best suited TO your
needs.
Thus you have an opportunity~to ex-
anime the quality, to see the style to
select the size and color. as the case
may be; you can compare the different
grades, and then If everything is salts.
factory ana in your Judgment the price
IS right you will make the purchase.
VIII Exchange or Refund.
When Tou get home and upon n rigid
examination you find Jaw or mar Oh
your purchase. or the article may he
too large or too small or black in
stead of blue then the next day or
the week after you go TO your dealer
and explain. and he will gladly ex-
change the item or refund the money.
y y
And another matter worthy OF
serious thought Is this: SuppoSing the
mail order houses could sell -nDds
cheaper and everybody would order his
goods from them.
The local stores would soon exist
only in memory. You woud then be
at the mercy OF the mail order horses
entirely and be obliged TO send away
for everything
Buy Big Things at Home.
Remember a store cannot he kept up
with small purchases if the local mon
ey is sent away for the big things.
This method Will result only in ruin
ing your home trade and in helping to
build up an enormous corporation in
some PARKWAY city.
The failure TO patronize home mer-
chants decreases the value of farms,
and town property becomes less valu-
able, as YOU well know that if town
goes back both local and surrounding
values decrease.
Send your money away; you get
nothing but the goods Spend your
money Mt home: it will come back to
you in better towns, better stores and
better social advantages.
Help Build Up Your Own Town.
Is it not more to your interest to
help build up your own little city or
town than to contribute to the up
building of some PARKWAY large city?
y y
Is it not a fact that if your own
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There is so much difference in buying
goods of home place of business and
ordering them by mail from a cata.
logue house from Il mere picture or dc
scription that ! want to point out &
few facts that many may never have
thought of.
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Thus you have an opportunity>to ex-
anime the quality, to see the style. to
select the size and color as the case
may be; you can compare the different
grades, and then If everything is salts
factory ana in your Judgment the price
IS right you will make the purchase
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oestroyina Your Paradise.

The retail mail order houses are try.
ing TO destroy your home and your
paradise by inducing you to buy your
necessaries from them instead of your
local merchants. to the injury of your
home industries, home market and
home town.
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Tenth.--I patronize the local mer-
chant because he does not try to trick
me into buying cheap goods, which
because of their effectiveness prove
to be expensive, and, further. because
should III luck or bereavement come
my way my local dealer would not
only prove that he was a neighbor
and friend, but man, with mans
heart and n mans inclination to do
good; not soulless corporation like
the mail order system. whose only in
Ainet is greed ind a further desire for
gain.
"Do Unto Others"
Let all citizens follow this creed
and they viii be blessed with happy
homes and happy life, They will
prosper financially and Mt the same
time improve their moral standard Do
for your neighbor what you would like
him to do for you; then you are doing
your full duty 70 yourself and to all
mankind.
Moral.-Buy and sell at home.
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HOME AND The
HOME MERCHANT
The Seminary Of All Other In
StitutiOnS.
HOME PARADISE TO ADAM

BY Home Buying the Consumer Helps
Not Only His Town, but Helps Him
self-Every Man With a Heart Loves
Home and Towr-Some Should BE-
Conscience Stricken.
copyrighted. 1914, by Thomas ]. sulliyan.J
Only the home can found Il state II
is the seminary of all other institu
tons. There is magic in that little
word home. 1t is n mystic circle thar
surrounds comforts and virtues never
known beyond its hallowed limits.
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VIII Exehanee or Refund.

When Tou get home and upon a rigid
examination you find flaw or mar on
your purchase. or the article may he
too large or too small. or a black in
stead of blue, then the next day or
the week after you 80 TO your dealer
and explain and he will gladly ex-
change the item or refund the money.
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And another matter worthy OF
serious thought is this: Supporting tue
mail order houses could sell -npds
cheaper and everybody would order his
goods from them.
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Eighth.-I do not patronize the mail
order houses because they frequently
sell damaged and inferior goods which
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-23

SEVENTH patronize the home mer
chant because | believe the man who
sells what he produces and buys what
he needs at home cannot be injured
by deceptive catalogue pictures or al
legged bargains.
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THE CREED or
THE CONSUMER
Set of Principles Worthy Of
Practice.
HOME PATRONS PHILOSOPHY

Founded on Facts and Should Be Lived
Up to by the American PeopIe-Not
Religious Creed-Peope of North,
South, East and West Can Unite For
Good.
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Sixth,-I patronize the home mer-
chant because believe a man ought to
spend his money in the community in
which he earns it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24
16 OF AMERICAN CREW LOST
Three Saved When the L. E. Hines
Went Down in Caribbean Sea.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24.-Sixteen
members of the crew of the steamer L.
Edward Hines, including Captain F.
NJ. Mckeige, jr., of New York, were
drowned when the steamer was sunk
In the Caribbean sea 45 miles east of
Belize, British Honduras, in the tropi-
cal hurricane on Oct. 10, according to
wireless message received here from
its Belize agents by the Otis Manu-
featuring company, which had the
steamer under charter. Only three mem
bers of the crew were saved.
The Hines sailed from New Orleans
Oct. I, with cargo of lumber for
Cristobal and had not been heard from
since Oct. II, when the United Frnit
steamer Abangarez sighted her about
$50 miles south of Corn island. She was
owned by the Hines Steamship COM
pany of Wilmington, Del, and until
recently had been in service on the
Great Lakes.
The brief message from Belize to the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24

Ter, Of Boston are visiting Mr.. and
MRS. j. L. Stockwell, being called here
by the death of Mr.. Tyler s mother.
Mrs. Martha Tyler of Vernon.
Gustaf Stromberg of New York city
VINO owns summer home on Ames Hill.
and spent the summer there returning
recently to New York, has sustained
shock in his home. News from there
Is that he is comfortable
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Crane and Mr..
and Mrs. P. w. Chase enjoyed trip
over the Mohawk Trail Sunday. Mr..
and Mrs. Crane left yesterday for their
home in McIndoe Falls, stopping in
White River Junction for brief visit.
The Woman s association of the Con-
gregational church will hold a sewing
meeting Thursday afternoon from 2 to
o o'clock with Mrs. F. r. Mann. The
women will sew for the barrel which
they send each year to Dorchester
academy in Georgia.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAISY-TRY THIS!
Says glass Of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

To see the tingc Of healthy bloom
~ your face, TO see your skin get
clearer and clearer, 20 wake up with
out headache, hackaahc. coated
tongue or nasty breath. i'm fact to
feel your best, day in aud lay out. lust
try inside-bathing every morning for
one week.
Before breakfast each day, drink a
glass Of real hot water with a teaspoon
full of limestone phosphate in it as a
harmless means of washing from the
stomach, liver kidneys and bowels the
previous day S iudigcstible waste.
sour bile aud toxins; thus cleansing.
swectening and purifviu" the entire
alimeutary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. Tie action of
hot water aud limestone phosphate ON
an empty stomach is vcrderfuliv in
MIGRATING. II cleans out all the sour
cancellations g1sscs and aeiditv and
gives one % splcudcd appetite for br.ak-
fast
a quarter pound cf limestone phos.
phutc win cost very little NJ the drug
store but is sufficient to demonstrate
that just as soap and hot water
clcausCs. sWcatcus and freshcns the
skin. 80 hot water and limestone Plies
phatc act on the blood and intcrual or
gaus: Those who are subject to con
stipation, bilious attacks, acid stomach.
rheumatic twiugcs, also those who's
skin is sallow and complexion pallid.
are assured that ono week Of inside
bathing will have them both looking
and feeling better in every way.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24
WEST BRATTLEBOROG

Russell H. Briggs of Guilford street
is i'll and confined to his bed.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hubbard of Hal
flax were guests over Sunday of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Marsh.
Miss Maude Miller is having a
week s vacation from her work in
Houghton & Simonds's store.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weatherhead
moved Saturday from Western avenue
to Z. E. Covey's house on the same
street.
There will be a dance for the benefit
of the piano fund tomorrow evening
i'll Academy hail. Leitsinger's orches-
ira will furnish music.
Mr.. ana Mrs. John Hawley and party
of Amherst, Mass, came by automobile
Sunday and were guests of his sister.
Mrs. Frank Fl. Martin.
Mrs. Lulu Lashman and daughter. FL
sa, who spent the summer in West
Brattleboro, went yesterday to Hins-
dale to make their home.
William J. Tyler and son, Roger Ty-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24
Central Vermont Ry.
Corrected to October l, 1916. !;
Il


Trains leave Brattleboro
600 a. m. Except Sunday. For New
London.
700 a. m. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
9.2o a. m. Except Sunday. For New
York via Springfield
$50 a. m. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
1928 a. m. Except Sunday. For Millers
Falls.
40 p. m. Except Sunday. For Keene,
New London and New York
via New London.
500 p. m. Except Sunday. Local for
South Londonderry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24
SKIDS OFF THE ROAD.
Auto Wrecked Near Middlebury-Mr.
Washburn Seriously Injured.

MIDDLEBURY, Oct. PA serious
automobile accident occurred on the
Salisbury road about eight miles from
this village early this morning, when
Mr.. WaShburn and his son Harold of
Colchester, in turning out for an auto
mobile skdded off the road. They were
thrown out and the machine was tipped
over and wrecked.
Mr.. Washburn was badly cut about
the face and his jaw was broken. 1t
is thought he is also hurt internally.
His son escaped with a few bruises
Medical aid was summoned from this
village. The two are being cared for at
the home of A. A. Boardman, in front
OF whose house the accident happened.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24

The Ladies Catholic Benevolent as
aociation will hold progressive whist
party tomorrow evening in the Knights
of Columbus hall. POI
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24

Secondhand Victor and Columbia
records wanted. viii give Zoe to 25c
each. Address I'D, - Reformer Office
Adv. l9g-2Ol
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24
BELLOWS FALLS.
Woman viciously Attacked by Cat.

\ book agent, who gave her name as
Mrs. Edith Adams of Somerville.
Mass, sustained painful injuries yes
terday afternoon when she attempted
to pet cat on Atkinson street.
The animal was on a veranda railing
and Mrs. Adams bent over to speak TO
1t. 1t sprang at her and badly Iacter-
ated her face and arms. She refused
to have doctor dress the wounds. do
ing it herself at a local drug store.
Senator Matt l.. Divoll of Rocking
ham has reported that recently dogs
have killed more than IS of his sheen.
He had flock of purebred merinos.
numbering more than 200.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24
San Felice Standard to Be
Maintained, Say Makers
All Dealers Now Sell Famous Cigars
at &c Straight. In Effect Today.

Owing to the greatly increased cost
of quality tobaccos, in fact everv-
thing pertaining to high grade cigars.
the makers of the San Felice cigar.
The Deisel-Wcmmcr Company, have
advanced the selling price to the job
bers and Dealers, and henceforth this
cigar Will positively be sold to the con
sumner at cents straight instead of
SIX for quarter as previously.
The SAN FELICE is national in its
scope and character, having Justly at
tanned this eminence through its lun-
cXcelled excellence. To maintain this
unequaled standard of quality, the adj
vance in question is absolutely ANA
voidable. The generous support II all
men using quality cigars is earnestly
desired.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24

Salvation Army rummage sale, Elliot
street. Great bargains.-Adv. 200-2O2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-24

charter holders here said that A. L.
bahlstrom, chief engineer, and two
other members of the crew were res
eued from small raft by a vessel
some distance off Belize, arriving here
this morning, and that these three
were the only survivors.