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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
The Suffragists Last Hope.
(Fitchburg Sentinel.l

The federal suffrage amendment to
the constitution of the United States
would make woman suffrage universal
throughout the country without civ
ing the people an opportunity to vote
upon it. 1t is necessary for the ras
sage of such an amendment that it
should receive a two-thirds vote in
the house Of representatives and also
IN the senate, and that it should be
signed by the President. 1t would
then go before the legislatures of all
the states and if SO of these endorse
1t, 1t becomes a law in all the states.
That IS, if the legislatures of SO of
the smaller and more sparsely settled
states will endorse the amendment,
woman suffrage will be forced upon
the millions of people in Massachu-
setts, New York, New Jersey. Pennsyl-
vania, Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio. Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Nebraska, North ana
South Dakota, where suffrage has been
defeated by big majorities. This is the
measure for which the Woman 5 party
IS working 50 strenuously. 1t is the
suffragists last hope.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

bad luck that made him move all the
time, but they said that he was fond
of Visiting and liked a change of air
and place all the time.
- am just unfortunate he said
one day when he was talking to some
new Spider neighbors. He had just
spun Home near a Morning Glory
vine. and around the Piazza near by
were lots and lots of Spider Webs.
"'We've heard, you know, Mr.. Spi-
der Spin Web they said, that you
are fond Of leading a moving life
We'll said Mr.. Spin Web, come to
think of it l am! But it is all be.
cause | have to and it is very wise
thing to get used to what you have to
do. Then you find you're very apt to
like it, which is an extremely good
scheme
So now you really wouldn't care
to live in any one place. is that So
Mr.. Spin WEBB
That's true, and then too, it has
made me so quick at making a Home
| am one of the fastest Spinners you
have ever seen. Isn't that so? Didn't
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
Member of the Associated Press.

The Reforr1er is on sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co,
Park Drug Store, c. w. Cleaveland, ID.
X. Cutler & Co. (Esteyville), Brooks
House Pharmacy.
West Brattleboro, J. l.. Stockwell
East Dummerston, NJ f.. Brown.
Putney, NJ. G. Williams
Newfane, n NJ. Batchelder.
Townshend, c. w. Cutler.
West Townshend, c.. II. Grout.
jamaica, X. J. Daggett.
South Londonderry, r. II. Tyler.
South Vernon, +. Il. Buffum.
West Chesterfield, NJ. H., Mrs. w
Streetcr.
Hlnsdale, NJ. H., w. H. Lyman.
Bellows Falls, VT, Depot Restaurant
Bertolno & Bertolino F. .. Winnewisser
Windsor, VT, Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
"Oh, Dear" Said
Purple Morning
Glory.

dressed in their best, for the Day was
tine and sunny. There were dark Blue
ones and light Blue. There were Red
ones and Purple, and how they did
Smile at the glorious Sunshine!
Now Mr.. Spin Web was very near
the Morning Glories. oh dear said q
Purple Morning Glory to Mrs. Bundle
Bee who had invited herself for break.
fast, I hope that Spider won't make
Cobweb around me and crush mer
"'If he Does said Mrs Bundle Bee
I will sting himr
oh thank you, thank you, Bundle
Bee said the Morning Glory. L dc
hope you're enjoying your breakfast |!
For the Morning Glory wanted to be
very polite to the Bundle Bee who
was going to save her.
"'1f you stung me, I'd trap you in
my Web said the Spider to the Bum
BILE Bee-but just then the Queen OF
the Fairies happened along, and said
How nice it is to see Mr.. Spin Web
near by-and Mrs. Bundle Bee having
her Breakfast, and all the lovely Flow.
ers!' So the quarrel didn't take
placel"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
CAMBRIDGEPORT.

Philip Moore and family spent Sun
day with Mr.. Moore S sisters in Town
shend.
Miss Isabelle NJ Dimond returned
Saturday from a two months vacation
spent IN Massachusetts.
As Scion P. Cushing was going up the
Hill III tho village last Friday with
load of cider apples, his horses became
frightened by an automobile and backed
his wagon off the bank. His son, Ray
mond, who was with him, jumped from
The load and injured his back 50 he is
confined 70 the bed. No bones were brok
en- and it is hoped he is not seriously
hurt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
5 and sealing uaX of cabbaSes 3 kin8sS
TIL e OIL NJ AID
Howard liam

The old maid is a thoughtful, farsee
ing female who looks over the hus-
bands she has known and realizes that
it might be worse.
Ever since the landing of the May
flower it has been popular pastime
to poke fun at the old maid. Man
has always believed that if woman
were left to her own resources she
would languish like a withered sun
flower, and that on that account it is
charitable act to marry one now and
then. It is terrible humiliation to a
proud, pigeon-chested sutton to ask
some woman to marry him in order
that he may put her in a gilded cage
at 1880 per week, and then be in
/. formed that she is not hankering after
any more relatives to support.
The old maid has always been sub
ject to the suspicion that she would
marry anybody unsought and unseen,
/ but thousands of men could testify
to the contrary if they were not afraid
/ of melting a riot at home. For some
reason or other every wife likes to be
/ lieve that she was the first woman her
/ husband proposed to, and no man has
ever been found who dared to deny
it and still retained his skull in its
original bald and unbleached condi-
protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

ton. We shudder to think what would
happen if a few of the more promi-
nent old maids III every community
would dig down into an old hair trunk
and publish a few of the ardent and
ungrammatical love letters written by
husbands who have lost their hair and
independent aspect.
Now that woman is beating man to
everything except the sport shirt, the
old maid who earns her own living
and has money out at interest is be
ing looked upon with more reverence.
Few people nowadays wonder why the
old maid doesn t get married and be
come the author of twins. The modern
Old maid earns more money than Il
union bricllayer and would rather live
alone than try to make her salary
stretch around the upkeep of nine
room house and the elastic, unfetteren
appetite of a husband troubled with
chronic lassitude.
Before shedding any tears over the
lot of the old maid, remember that she
does not have to wrestle with the
breakfast dishes, the balky corn broom
or the deceptive gasoline oven. While
a husband is a nice thing to have, we
should try to avoid the narrowing feal
that somebody is trying to steal him.
MS Newspaper service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

he was known as the Visiting Spider
because he went a-visiting every new
window, ceiling, tree, cellar door, that
he hadn't tried before.
Sometimes just before Night would
come on he would say to himself,
This will make n nice Home for me
In this Cellar Door. l think | will
spend the night here-maybe several
nights-though I'm none too sure how
many
Then Mr.. Spin Web would do just
as his name says and would get to
work and spin a fine Web as quickly
as any Spider you have ever seen. At
ter it was finished-Or as finished as
he intended just then to make it. he
would get ready for bed and go sound
asleep.
"And when Morning would come he
would be awakened by voice saying.
Dear me, there's a Spiders Web
which has been weaved overnight.
And it gets in my Face! It's so an
noying. / must get the Milk and
Cream out of the ice box for Break
fast-but / do hate to get Cobwebs
In my face
"And then wouldn't Mr.. Spin Web
be mad!
"'Of oil the rude things he said to
himself. AS if l wanted her Face In
my Homel Dear me! It's too annoy
ing | want Home-a nice Cobweb
and somehow I always spin one where
/ can't even have a good sleep
And so it was from times such as
these that Mr.. Spin Web made up his
mind 1t was no use to be cross, but
just to make Home after Home. He
told his Spider Friends that it was his
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER I, 1916.

The platform of the Republican par
ty Of Vermont may be called the safe
and sane variety, not calculated to
ALLEVIATE any voters Of the party, nor
yet magnetic enough to pull many
voters away from other parties. Hence
Vermont may be expected to go about
$3.50 in the forthcoming election
Barre Times.
In other words the convention made
mp of candidates for office maintained
its neutrality and didn t put much
punch into its platform.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

The Brockton fair, the biggest So
called agricultural exhibition of the
year in New England, is in full swing
this week. Brocton really has mar
velOus exhibits of livestock and farm
products, but the immense crowds are
undoubtedly attracted to the shoe city
mainly by the races and the various
spectacular attractions. An attendance
of $4,000 in a single day is nothing
unusual at Brockton, which is easily
accessible from the metropolitan dis
trict around Boston. 1t is an interest
ing experience well worth while to
visit the Brockton fair. Spea king of
attendance at fairs, we notice that the
dispatches from nearly every part of
New England exaggerate the number
of persons present in the different To-
calities. We were told for instance that
Greenfield had record breaker this
year, but the first day only 2,037 pal
admissions were recorded and the mum
Der present the second day is now es
timated at 10000, in contrast to $1,000
to 10000 that we read about the morn
| ing after. When the cash returns arc
figured we presume the 10000 will be-
scaled down considerably. The fail
boomers seem to think it is necessary
10 lie about attendance, just as the ole
newspapermen dill about circulation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

The New York Sun, always n stick
Ter for accuracy, in reference to the
possibility of a milk famine in the
metropolis, says: "1,600,0O0 quarts will
be fed to pigs or churned into cheese. "
The Sun ought to explain the method
of churning milk into cheese. 1t would
be interesting to the cheese makers of
Mount Holly and other parts of Yer
mont who have been making it by an
other process good many years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
Increase in Fraternal Insurance.
Rutland News.

The large increase in rates of in
surance promised by the Royal Area
mum on December l will affect three
hundred thousand members in the
country at large, of whom a considera-
bic number live in Rutland and else
where in Vermont. There seems little
prospect of successfully opposing the in
crease i'll rates unless it could be
shown that there was a "'nigger in the
woodpile' for on a previous occa-
sgion the Royal Arcanum was up
held in the supreme court of the United
States i'll its increase of rates. There
is no question but what thousands and
tens of thousands of members will with.
draw from the order as the result of its
large and seemingly unwarranted rate
increase. The new rates do not compare
favorabiy with the rates charged bv
some old-ine companies Members OF
the Royal Arcanum who are otherwise
protected with insurance are not apt to
suffer the hardships that the older mem
bers who are solely dependent on Their
protection III this order will suffer. II
promises hardship to the old members
and 1t seems pity that there is no ap
parent legal relief for them. The in.
crease is likely to sound the death knell
of an order that for third of a cen
fury has enjoyed the highest repute.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
The Cost of Living.
bennington Banner. J


There IS a good deal of grumbling
among Consumers at the increase in
the price of milk and, coming as it
does on top of numerous other bur
dens, it seems like big addition to the
load. 1t IS, however, not so great an
increase as that on the price of other
things and especially other food pro-
duets. Flour has gone up about 50
per cent and meats some 80 per cent
Potatoes are 100 per cent higher than
normal at this season of the year, eggs
are fifty per ce1t up, butter is raised
and still rising. The cost of living
was never before so high as now The
farmer says that it is not his fault
the price of everything he buys has
been raised more than what he sells
that it is no longer possible to hire
labor to work on the farms, and that
the farmers are always the last tC
raise their prices. To the Banner il
| looks as though the prospect is pretty
tough for the man who works for mod
crate wages in a city or village. The
same amount of work on n farm woult
give him better income and more
leisure Still he would be foolish &c
| 20 on a farm if he had no farm train
| ing and didn't know how to raise
crops and take care of live stock
| Also large number of men are no.
| fitted by nature and training to worl
! for themselves. They have to be Sc
ut work and supervised while they ar,
| ut it. One trouble with the farmin.
! business now is that it has too large ;
percentage of men who are not eff
cient in their business and fail to tax,
advantage of their opportunity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

The embattled farmers of New Eng
land and New York state ought to get
a better price for their milk. The
price of ordinary young stock is three
times what it was % years ago. The
price of every kind of food for stock
has greatly increased. The price of
labor has doubled. The farmer. how
ever, has had but slight increase for
the milk he sells. Like the increase
in the price of bread, the trouble over
milk is but phase in the readjustment
that we shall be forced to 90 through
until we have all commodities on a
basis to meet the value of a dollar.
The farmers cannot produce milk with
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

II Is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
of the paper each night, and it solicits
the cooperation of subscribers to that
end. Prompt reports should be given of
each failure to receive the paper on the
morning following the omission, in per-
son, by telephone or postal card, thus
enabling the cause Of the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
the proper remedy Immediately applied.
II is only by this method that the pub
fisher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

l make this Home
quickly z
You certainly
did said the 9TH
er Spiders admir-
ingly.
+" b Ut h u s b /!
What sound do /
hear asked Mr..
Spin Web.
" It's the hour
for getting up
a m o n 6 Morning
Glories.'
IS u r e enough
the Flowers were
o p e n | n & their
Sleepy Eyes and
were coming out
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
DADDY'S'EVENIN1
HEAlR TALE 81
b. MARY GRAHAM BONNER,
MR.. SPIDERS HOMES.

"A Spider named Mr.. Spin Web was
very fond of changing his home" said
Daddy.
Perhaps he couldn't stay in the
same place. His Home might have
been knocked down every time" sug-
gested Nancy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
TO ADVERTISERS.

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50 cents an inch for first insertion; 2
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
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double rates
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements Five cents
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discount for each subsequent insertion,
without change of copy.
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for each subsequent insertion without
change Of copy
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

out getting a fair profit in return. AS
a matter of fact there are none of the
necessities of life where we have been
getting so much for our money as when
we have bought bread and milk.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

II n q [ S S o,
n gree d Nick.
when we go
walking In the
Woods we always
break through n
Spiders Web If
we can't get be-
meath it or around
it."
We'll, maybe"
continued Daddy,
that was the rea-
son Mr.. Spin Web
changed his Home
so often. But in
the Spider World
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
Assets,

Office Boy-"Guy in from. says can
you let him have some OF til back
allmony you owe his wife! He's jus.
back from tn honeymoon trip. and he
needs it!"-Life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04
''THE DOUGH-

like father used to make" is the wav
one bright youngster put it when his
widowed mother received her monthly
income we have guaranteed to send her
as long as she lives. Send for particu-
lars. National Life ms. Co., of Vt.
(Mutual.) 9th year.-ALBERT c..
LAIRD, Special Agent, Crosby Block.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

A wire clip, to be screwed into a
door frame, has been invented for hold
Ing milk bottles out Of the reach Of
cats and dogs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

When a man and wife argue the man
gets good chance to say a lot of I'M
printable things and the wife to turn
ON the brine.-Chieago News.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

ADVERTISE IN THE REFoRMER.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-04

Protected by The Adams Newspaper servicel
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
WOULD UpLlFT RAcE7
 THEN GET A DIVORCE

PHILADELPHIA. March 15.- Dr. James P. Litchtenberger, professor of sociology in the University of Penn. sylyania, today told members of the Philomusian Club. an organization of society women, that the increase in divorce indicated rising standards of morality among American women
 He said in part:
 "Divorce must not be regarded as an evil. It never wrecks families founded on ties of love and sympathy but simply serves to give legal status to families which have already disin- tegrated.
 'Furthermore, l contend that the di- vorce rate does not indicate the fall- ing off of morals among women. If anything, it denotes the coming of higher and more intellectual moral standard.
 CT should be willing to urge new law to compel families who live to- gether without ties of mutual affec tion, and exist under conditions in which the mother would prefer to earn her own living, rather than live with her husband, to separate. In such
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
ISLAND NEWS NOTES

DOUGLAS. March 15.-Miss stella Cleod was given a party at the family residence on Fourth street last night. The occasion was the celebration Of Miss McCleod's birthday. About 15 persons were present and games were played followed by light refreshments.
 Mrs. Ferdinand Wasterlain was ta. ken to st. Ann's hospital last night and will undergo a minor operation.
 There will be no more match tennis games at the Natatorium until after the St. Patrick day dance, owing to the work of decorating and preparing the hall for the affair. The Natator- ium at present is a hive of industry and wonderful results in decoration are promised by the ladies in charge of the work.
 The Douglas Pioneers Society meets tomorrow afternoon at the home OF Mrs. John Hull.
 The Ladies League of the Congre- gational church will hold a 10 cent
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
U. 8. AGENTS SEIZE PICTURES
 OF CANADIAN ARMS PLANTS

SUPERIOR, Wis. March 15.- The aeroplane scare of the last week has not subsided, A local photographer was forced to give up about 300 photo graphs of Canadian munitions plants, docks at various lake ports and oth- CT points which Q hostile spy might attempt to destroy.
 The secret service men were sent here following the reports of aero planes over the city. They made a search of all local photograph galler- ies and kodak development establish ments.
 The photographer whose photograph negatives were seized recalled that o man of foreign appearance last sum- mer brought several films, showing the Superior and Duluth ore docks and large Canadian munitions plants to be developed. It was several days ago that the latest batch was left The man who left the films is being sought as well as the mysterious aviator.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
LEAP YEAR GIRL oUTsHINEs
 LocHlNvAR AS RAPID wooER

KANSAS CITY. March 10. - Miss Alpha Clayton Of Excelsior Springs drove her motor car to Kansas City last night. proposed to Ernest c. Pey- ton, bundled him into the car and eloped with him to Olathe, Kan. There she married him.
 Then Mrs. Peyton put her husband back into the car and took him to Ex- celsior Springs, where she introduced him to her mother. The mother, Mrs. Viola Clayton, Q society woman of the Springs Colony forgave her daugh- ter.
 "It was Leap Year." Mrs. Peyton explained. CT decided to propose to him before any one else took tho op- portunity."
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
srAaE A sYMPATHY srRLKE

ALGOMA. Wis, March 10. - The strike yesterday of nine women teach CTS in the high school was followed today by the walking out of the dozen teachers in the grade schools.
 The teachers say they will not re- turn if Principal George Bassford Is acquitted at the public hearing of im- morality charges against him.
 The teachers who have walked out today do not charge that they were themselves insulted. as did those who struck yesterday, but are out in sym pathy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
WEAPONS BY cAkILoADs
 DISCOVERED lN BAsriLE

BOSTON, March 15.-Many carloads of knives. chisels. files and blackjacks relics Of unsuccessful plans of escape from the House of Correction on Deer Island during a half century. were dis covered between the walls Of the old prison. which are being repaired.
 The collection was explained by of- ficials as representing the efforts Of prisoners at various times to rid them selves of smuggled articles, when the signal was passed along the corridor that officers were making O general search of the cells.
 Venhlators communicate with the space between the walls, and the con- traband articles were thrown through the openings.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
rREADwELL Norss


 TREADWEIL, March 15.-Accord. ing to a notice posted on the bulle- tin board at the Treadweil Club. tho children of Douglas Island win not be allowed the use ol tho swimming tank until further notice.
 The order ls given as @ precautlon' ary measure, owing to the report of a contagious disease in Douglas.
 Charles Walker, of the Electrical force. left for tho South last night on the Alaska. He will spend the next two or three months in the States
 Mrs. Douglas Meade will leaTe for the south on vacation on one of the early boats
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15

This was Sir Edward Grey's answer to Q question whether he was aware that the friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain had been injured by offensive arti- cles and cartoon published In Eng land. reflecting upon American diplom- acy, and whether steps should be ta- ken to counteract this influence.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-15
UNIQUE

One of the most remarkable and unique signs ever seen in Juneau was hoisted in front of the Gran's Nu- Style bakery at 820 Franklin street this morning. When tho laborors started to place tho sign iu position many gathered around watching the placing of the great masterpiece. Soon word spread around the city of the sign and during the day scores have visited the bakery and inspect ed tho wonder work. The manage ment of the bakery does not care how many take look at the sign provided the main entrance ia kept clear. - -(S-1S-3t)