The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-20
Brattleb0ro to Help in Meet
ing Greatest Need World
Has Ever Known
NAMED
BY WOMAN'S CLUB

WILL De fart OF National Movement
Under Proclamation of President of
the United States = All Money to
Go for Relief.
Brattleboro will be given an oppor-
tunity tomorrow to do her share IN
meeting the unimaginably great need
winch exists for relief among the
starving peoples of Armenia and Svria
President Woodrow Wilson has desio-
hted tomorrow and Sunday as davs
Tor making special offerings for this
purpose, and the Brattleboro Woman s
club has decided to make house.to-
mouse canvass of this town tomorrow
Inc arrangements for handling the
lunds collected are sueh as to invite
entire confidence on the part of those
VINO give. The chairman of the Amer
lean committee is James L. Barton.
an authority on Turkish conditions
and a great administrator. The com
mlttee includes two former United
states ambassadors to Turkey. to-
9ethcr with large number OF leading
citizens III church and state. Members
OF the committee pay all expenses of
| the committee S work. thus maxine i
| possible to send every dollar given for
fehef. recent telegram from Con
stantlnople to the state department at
washington gives assurance of the con
sent OF the Turkish government for the
| distribution of money, food and other
supplies The funds are administered
on the field by strong commissions
I, headed by American consuls and mis-
sIonaries. All giyeHs may be assured
that their entire gift will be applied
| to the terrible need in the stricken
lands
| A few of the features of the dark
and terrible picture, which constitutes
the blacklist page in modern history
are as follows: A massacre. the most
| dreadful of modern times; pillage and
deportation on scale probably never
/ peIofe attempted; at least q million
Armenian survivors destitute in Svria.
fersla and Palestine, widespread hun
| ger, disease and death; one cableqram
announced that the refugees were eat
| ing grass; a later message reports that
the grass is dried up and that the
emaciated victims are eating carrion
the street dogs and even human flesh
The solicitors who will canvas +bc
town beginning tomorrow morning are
as follows:
Main street-Mrs. C. C. Fits, Mrs.
Harold Putnam, Miss Alice Leonard.
high street-Miss Mary Henshaw
Miss Orlana Ranney
Green street, Post hill, Whipple. Bu1.
| lock and School streets-Miss Beatrice
Vinton.
Chestnut hill, Elliot and Elm streets
Mrs. Howard c. Rice, Miss Mary
Fits.
Oak street-Miss Adeline shattuck
Chaplin street-Mrs. Herbert A.
Wood.
Chase street-Mrs. Murray Tucker.
Forest street-Mrs. Daniel Stolte.
Walker place, Williston and Grove
streets-Miss Gertrude Marston.
Walnut street-Mrs. Lillian Royce.
North Main street, Harris place and
Linden streets-Mrs Richard Ayerill.
Mrs. J. E. Smiley.
North, Terrace and Tyler streets
Mrs. F. H. Sanford.
Putney road and Park place-Mrs
Charles Boyden.
Western avenue-Miss May Douglas.
The Square-Mrs. William Daley.
high Lawn road-Mrs. Edward Col
lis.
West Brattleboro-Miss Maria Sted
man.
Williams and Guilford streets-Mrs.
Prescott.
/ Esteyville-Mrs. E. w. Rice.
| Overall factory-Mrs. James P. Ell
mer.
Washington, Pearl and Highland
.streets-Mrs. Carl Cushing.
Central street-Mrs. A. w. Mont
gomery.
Flat and Frost streets-Miss Helen
Martin.
/ Maple and Fairview streets = Mrs.
i Sewell Purinton.
Il Belmont avenue-Mrs. Mason Ar
mold.
h Oak Grove section = Mrs. William
Bond.
Birge street-Mildred Eddy, Mildred
Proctor.
Brook street-Mrs. Frank Burnett.
Canal street-Mrs. Leslie Edwards.
!, Mrs. Harold Whitney.
\ Pine and South Main streets-Nrs.
|, Albert Hopkinson.
h Clark and Estabrook streets-Mrs.
Dan Webster.
Small closed boxes will be used for
the contributions, and the solicitors are
i requested to bring them to the chair
man of the philanthropic committee of
the Woman s club, Mrs. Cora Leonard,
8 Chaplin street, after they have finished