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camp expect great results from the piison reform movement started by fcrmer Chaplain Tomme,, a man whom all the prisoners like and rs-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
SHERRY ARRANGEs MATCH.
g Masked Marvel Scientific Wrestler,
to Meet Bailey Saturday.

NJ. J. Sherry arranged this morning
for a wrestling match in Festival hall
Saturday evening in which George W.
Bailey, now in Brattleboro, will meet
the "Masked MARVEL in a finish
match at catch-as-catch-can style. The
" Masked Marvel after his appear
ances in the big Tournament in New
York, was generally conceded to be
the most scientific wrestler ever seen
in New York
While it is believed in many circles
that he is Mort Henderson, once known
as the Rochester Butcher Boy he
continues to wear his hood and there
is no admission on his part that his
identity is what many suspect.
Bailey, who has just finished wres-
Ting in the big tournament, met only
two defeats at the catch as-catch-
style, one of which was by Zbyszko,
the world s champion at that style.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01

Herman Bond is i'll with grip.
Henry Folsom is recovering from an
attack of rheumatism.
Mrs. L. A. Pierce is gaining slowly.
She was able to sit up Monday for the
first time.
Mrs. Donald o'Brien and daughter
of Chelsea, Mass, are visiting at Al
bert Wright s.
The Ladies' Aid society viii meet
Wednesday, Feb. ,. Supper will be
served at 6p. m.
Miss Ruth Barnard, who has been
seriously i'll in the Rockingham hospi
tai, is slowly improving.
Joseph Underwood had a severe at
tack of intestinal grip last week. He
is being cared for by a nurse.
Mrs. John Holmes returned last
week, after spending some time in
Bethel with her brother, who has been
seriously i'll.
Miss Lillian Ward, who recently I'M
derwent an operation in the Rocking
ham hospital was able to be taken to
her home last week.
| Miss Irene Atwood and Erwin Hatch
| ir., were married in the bride s home
/ Saturday, Jan. 20, at $50 pm. A dou-
1
The Fortnightlv club will meet Mon
day evening, Feb; {, in the home OF
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Twitchell Mrs
/ The Red Gross Society.
| Mrs. William O'Brien, who has beer
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Wright, was called to her home il
Chelsea, Mass, as Mr.. o 'Brien had me-
| III N xxsIIp h q
hand was badly injured.
On Saturday evening of last wecl
in the church vestry, the Y. P. S. G. L
society of the Bellows Falls Congrega
tional church. A very pleasant even
ing was spent playing games. Refresh
ments were served
The Y P. S. c. f. plans to have
sleighride to Saxtons River Saturda,
evening, Feb. II. The party will b
entertained by the Christian Endeavo
; society of the Congregational churc
of Saxtons River. Everybody is COZ
daily invited the more the merriel
Clarence Wright wishes all who pla
to 90 to send their names to him b
next Sunday so that he may plan fo
arrangements.
The four -months-old daughter of Nj
and Mrs Clifford Hill died early Sal
, urdav morning, JAM 20, after an Hines
of about 10 days. A heart trouble an
other complications followed an attac
i of grip The funeral was held in tn
t home of the grandparents, Mr.. an
f Mrs. Herbert Hill, Monday afternoo
at . O'Clock, Rev. A. B. Ward of1ic
: ating. The burial took place in tn
7 Pine Hill cemetery in Westminster.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
This Happened in 1915.

A year ago a young man-his name
doesn matter-made a sensible New
Year resolution.
He had been married a few years; he
received small salary and had been
mortgaging his future - drifting into
debt. The sums he owed were not large.
but they were larger than he seemed
able to shake off. and his wants were
steadily increasing.
He determined to get rid of the
deadening weight at any sacrifice.
His work was such that he could
work overtime and get extra pay for
it. He had perfect health and dis
covered for the first time that it was
valuable capital. He put that health
and strength and skill of his into the
smelling mill, and they assayed pure
gold
He found in time that while he was
making more money than before, he
was also making himself more efficient.
As his purposes grew in seriousness,
his wants became more simple. He was
finding ideals, the attainment of which
money cannot buy, and which call for
no expenditure.
He had set out to pay his debts be-
fore the end of the year. He had
cleaned them all up within few
months. But he did not cease his eff
forts He found something more than
mere freedom from debts something
even more valuable than that.
He had been fulfilling his obligation
to his employer, which meant that his
work had been up to the average. Now,
he was fulfilling his obligation to him
self also, which meant that his
work was far above the average. His
EMPLOYER could not fail to see it and
appreciate it.
A good bank account in his own
name today helps this young man to
see the vast difference between being
slave of circumstances and master
of them.-The Christian Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
SAVINGS LOST, WIFE DIES.
Baby Expires Also After Baletsky' $
Money is Stolen

PASSAIC, \. J., Feb. BARTON
Baletsky of IS South Street told a
pitiful story in the city court yester-
dav of how his wife died as the result
of grief over the loss of 800 of his
life savings. The woman died few
days after the birth of a baby and
the day after her husband told her he
had been robbed of the money. The
child died from lack Of proper nourish-
ment.
Baletsky charged Joseph Shevitz of
81 Pasaic street with the robbery.
Shevitz was held in $1,000 bail for the
grand jury. He pleaded not guilty.
Baletsky said that he drew the money
from a bank here to purchase a
grocery store on the east side, and
that he stayed with Shevitz in his
home on the night of Jan. /, and miss
ed the money when he awoke the next
morning.
Shevitz said that there was third
man i'll his home on the night of Jan. l
He could not tell his name.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
MILD WEATHER MAKES
LOG SUPPLY SHORT
S. A. Smith Mfg. Co.. S SawmiIl Shut
Down-Other Plants Have Enough
Logs for Short Time.

The S. A. Smith Mfg, Co. was
obliged to shut down its sawmill yes
terday because of lack of logs. Al
though the lumbermen took early ad-
vantage of the sleighing it did not
last long enough to allow them to get
in much of a supply ahead for any
of the local plants. 1t has been week
since it was possible to haul a load
through the streets of the village on
runners, and the sleighing is practi-
cally gone now outside the village.
While some of the logs may be hauled
ON wheels, many of them are so To-
Gated that it is impossible to get to
them with wheeled vehicles.
Frank E. Perry of Holden & Martin
says that while the firm has enough
logs on hand to keep the plant in full
operation for some time, unless there
is a decided change in the weather and
the lumbermen and farmers are able to
use runners again soon it will be nee
essary to curtail operations. A com
parativelly small supply of logs are
where they may be hauled on wheels
but the great bulk requires good sleigh
ing to get them to the mills.
The White River Chair Co. receives
most of its lumber by rail and has con
siderable on hand, but the handicap OF
poor weather conditions fer hauling
them to shipping points will be felt in
the near future.
The Vermont Last Block is fairly
well supplied at present. 1t has
enough to carry the plant along until
there is shedding, if enough snow falls
to make shedding again this winter
otherwise the concern will get logs by
wheel and rail
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01

all of them. Here is our list of shame:
Tom Jones" We have tried to read it
four times and could never get five pages
into it.
The Vicar of Wakefield" We have at
tempted it at least six times and taken the
count in the first round every time.
Dante's Divine Comedy" We have
been going against the Cary translation,
which we hear is good one, at least once
year for 20 years and we can't get inter
ested in it. Yet up to the present moment
We have always, pretended that we had
read all of it and liked it.
Don Quixote" We have read a little
of it and we know all the usual things
that are said about it, and we even wrote
some stuff about it one time, saying all
the things that are usually said about it,
for which we got SO, but we don't really
like it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
Literary Insincerities.

Picking out the six or ten or twenty
greatest books in the English language, or
in the world, is still one of the favorite
pastimes of literary supplements and re-
views
How many of us, if we were really hon
est. could make list of great works that
we have tried to enjoy and couldn't rise to.
We have for our own part a greater sin
than that on our conscience. There are a
number of books that we habitually pre-
tend we have read which we have never
read at all They are great books, we sup
pose At least we've heard lot about
them and read lot about them, and peo-
pie who assume to know say they are great
books Some of them we have tried to
read and couldn't read, but we have pre-
tended at one time OF another to have read
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
Seed Thousands of Years Old.

Rlvallng the discovery of the Aztec
oean nearly Is years ago, seed has
been found in the prehistoric cliff
dwellings, OF Arizona, along the Verde
river, that has been planted and has
grown into a hugh green, extremely
warty squash, which has been named
the Aztec. The squash was grown
from a seed hundreds-perhaps
thousand-years old. and in the Verde
country is considered wonder of the
age.
The discovery was made by John g.
Allen of Cherry, Ariz., and in a most
novel manner. Allen was fishing along
one of the tributary creeks of the Verde,
and his skill with the rod seeming
~ failing him, he decided to see if he
could aot make his trip profitable
one by hunting the ruins for pottery
left by some prehistoric tribe.
Making his way into one of the
larger rooms of the cliff dwellings, he
noticed portion of the wall that APP
peared as if some time or other it had
been closed up. Further investigation
proved that he was right, for he easily
broke through the wall at this place
and discovered small room or recess
which contained pottery, corn cobs and
about a dozen seeds that resemb1ed
ordinary squash seed. The room had
been sealed SO tightly that not even a
mouse could make its way into it.
1t was too late to plant the seeds
at the time of their discovery last
year, so they were not planted until
early last spring. Of the II seeds, but
one came up, and the plant from it
carried one large squash, which
weighs % pounds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
NO DU POINT PLANT SPIES.
Company Says Explosions and Fires
Were Purely Accidental.

WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. 1.-The
Du Pont powder company, with head
quarters in this city, issued q state
ment yesterday, in which the officials
denied that any of the recent fires and
explosions at the various plants, which
resulted in many deaths and injuries,
had been caused by spies or any influ-
ence over which they could be expect
ed to have control. The statement
was made by c. b. Lands, who is
authorized to speak for the company,
and was prompted by Friday night S
five fires at the plant at Carney s
Point, \. J.. opposite Wilmington.
These fires caused the death of four
employees, the injury of three others,
and the destruction of 100000 worth
of powder and property.
The DUPONT company brands as
false the statements that any of the
fires or explosions followed warning
notices, which are said to have been
posted on trees and fences near the
Carney's Point plant and at the Hag
lev yards, a few miles from Whining
ton All the fatalities were from ac
cidents, the company alleges, it being
added that the DUPONT secret service
is investigating the fires to see how
such fatalities can be avoided. This
inquiry is not being conducted in tho
thought that the fires were the work
of spies or anyone antagonistic to the
company.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
RECENT INCREASE IN
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
Additions fetal - in Past Six
Weeks IL Churches Participating
in Evangehstic Campaign.

In the past six weeks, since the
close of the series of evangelistic
meetings in Brattleboro by Rev. Dr.
J. Wilbur Chapman and Charles NJ.
Alexander, 182 persons have united
with the Brattleboro churches which
were associated in the movement A
good number of others will be received
into membership in che next few weeks.
Some of these persons would have
united in the natural course of events,
but the large majority of them came
as a result of the evangelistic series.
BY churches the number received
has been as follows: Centre Congre-
gational, 40; Methodist, 40; First Con
gregational of West Brattleboro, q;
First Baptist, %; West Brattleboro
Baptist, 10; Swedish Congregational,
u; Advent Christian, 10. Total, lS2.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
BELLOWS FALLS.
Fined $500 and Costs.

James F. Hayes, aged 80, pleaded
guilty in municipal court Saturday
morning to keeping liquor with intent
to furnish and sell and was fined $500
and costs of 1896, the minimum SEN
tence, by Judge r. E. O'Brien. The re-
spondent's attorney, G. H. Thompson,
asked for leniency because of the man s
family. Town Grand Juror Warner A.
Graham, who prosecuted, said that
Hayes had keg of beer in a barn on
Green street, two doors from the Uni
versalist church, Sunday morning and
many men visited the place. He said
that in the future he would make every
effort to stop many liquor clubs which
are said to be fourishing here. Sever
eel prominent young men would have
been summoned as witnesses had Hayes
no. pleaded guilty.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
Moon to Partially Hide Old Sol Next
Thursday.

There will be partial eclipse of the
sun next Thursday. The eclipse be-
gins at 1926 a. m, and ends at l2:37.
The maximum observation of the sun
occurs at 1882 clock and is about
4-10. The partial eclipse, as it occurs
in this region, has not a great scien-
tific value
Persons who observe the eclipse
should have shade glasses for protect
ing the eyes, and if observations are
made with telescopes suitable solar
cyepieces are to be used. The heat
of the sun concentrated by the object
glass of a telescope is very great and
on no account should the sun be look
ed at directly by the eve. Instead cf
looking at the sun directly a small i'm
age of the sun may be formed on a
peace of cardboard By allowing the
sunlight to pass through small hole.
preferably blackened on the inside Of
another card. The eclipse can be photo
graphed with the ordinary small cam
era, but this has a short focus and will
give a small image. The camera is to
be focused previously on a distant
object. The lens is to be stopped
down, and the shortest practicable ex-
posture is to be employed.
The path of totality of the eclipse
begins about 1000 miles off the coast
of Mexico and sweeps towards the
southeast over the United States of
Colombia and Venezuela. and then
towards the northeast, touching the
island of Guadeloupe, and ending
south of Cape Clear, on the coast Of
Ireland
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
WILL GIVE PYGMALIoN.
Mrs. Christabel Whitney Kidder Ap
pears Tomorrow for Woman's Club.

The next regular meeting of the
woman s club viii be held tomorrow
evening in the Congregational church
at s clock, when Mrs. Christabel
Whitney Kidder will give the play,
Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw. Club
members have been looking forward
all the year to Mrs. Kidder' S reap
pearanee, as her rendition of Gang
will s The Melting Pot last spring was
a rare treat. Her repertoire is so very
large that one may easily believe the
fact that in one New England com
munity she has given 81 recitals.
She 50 faithfully portrays each
character of the play that her hearers
forget the speaker, who seems to be
"Thus play, In one person, many PEG
pie"
Mrs. Kidder s management very
| mCdestly says: " Nature has been good
to her, and her painstaking and con
scientious work has done the rest. -
| This meeting is open to the public
upon the payment of the usual guest
| fee.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
PERSONAL.

Miss Stella and Miss Esther Gustaf-
son are i'll with grip.
Mrs. T.. r. Lynch has been Ill wi.h
grip, but is improving.
Miss Clarissa Howe of st. .Iohnsbury
is o guest of Mrs. Eugene Clark.
Betsev Y. d. Crosby is i'll in her
home in the Brooks House with grip.
J. f. Mann went to New York yes
terday on business, to be away several
days.
Mrs. A. c. Walker of Dummerston
is spending the day in town with
friends.
Miss Mary Sampson is i'll in her home
i'm Crosby block and a nurse Is caring
for her.
Peter Cakes, who has been i'll sever
al weeks in his home on Flat street, is
out again.
Mrs. Theodore Cameron of Spring
field, Mass, is guest of Mrs. John
+. Tasker.
Miss Edith Fox and Merritt Taylor
of jacksonville are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. +. II. Spaulding, jr.
W. F. Root went to Montpelier this
morning TO attend a meeting of the
state board of pharmacy.
Edward Gonyer went yesterday af-
ternoon to Bennington, where he has a
position working in barber shop.
Miss Ruby Thurber is having n
weeks vacation from her work in II.
NJ Wood 5 sporting goods store.
Sanford Smith of Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, is visiting in town with his
mother, Mrs. F. l.. Smith, few days.
A. p. Simonds went to Springfield
(Vt.) today to assist in taking inven-
tory in the Houghton & Simonds store
there.
Mrs. Robert E. Briggs returned to
her home in Washington, d. c., this
morning, after a visit of a month with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Brock
ington.
L. NJ. Goodenough and Bert Obel
are in Bellows Falls, where Mr.. Good
enough has a contract for electric in
stallatiou.
Miss Blanche Allen has finished work
in the Holstein- Friesian office. She
will return tomorrow to Schenectady
n. Y.
Mrs. T. +. Allen has returned from
an absence of five weeks. during which
she visited in Boston, Lynn, Somer
vile and RoXbury, Mass.
Hal L. March was able to be at hi
store yesterday a short time, for tn
first time since an operation for ap
pendicitis four weeks ago.
Ernest r. Dubic, cashier in the offie
of the American Express company
went Sunday to his home in Burlington
to spend a week 5 vacation.
Mrs. Russell and daughter of 81
Paul, Mimi, who had been visiting he
sister, Mrs. j. j. Clune, several days
returned to their home today.
Mrs. Henry Dickerman and daughter
Sylvia, Of Hinsdale are spending tn
day in town with her mother, Mrs. l
i. Clark. Mrs. Clark is ill with grip.
Mrs f. ID. Whitney went to Spring
field, Mass, last night to spend a fe,
days Mr.. Whitney, who is at Spoffor
lake with F. X. Barrows, viii join he
there later.
Ernest A. Dix of Springfield (Vt
was admitted to the Memorial hOspit;
last evening and was operated upo
this morning by DR.. G. r. Anderso
for appendicitis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The women Of the Unitarian church
will serve supper Tuesday, Feb. s, in
the parish house.
DR.. Henry Tucker, health officer,
issued eighteen burial permits during
the month Of January.
The monthly business meeting of
class No. II of the Baptist Bible
school, called for tonight, has been
postponed indefinitely.
The Amherst Dramatic association
will give the play, Ready Money, un-
der the auspices of the Brattleboro
Woman s club, on the evening of April
"a. A dance will follow in Festival
hall.
Thirtv.five marriage licenses were
issued By Town Clerk Carl $. Hopkins
during the month of January. Of these
there were six in which one or both
of the parties were residents of Brat
tleboro.
Mrs. julius J. Estey entertained 10
of her friends at a dinner at the coun-
trv club last evening. The guests APP
peared in costume, representing dlffer-
cnt countries, which was surprise to
Mrs. Estey. The affair was very
pleasant one.
Robert Lynde Blood of Organ street,
n farmer, son of Henry D. Blood of
Dummerston, and Miss Marcia Louise
Ware Of Westmoreland, \. II. daugh-
ter of Oscar J. Ware Of that town,
were married yesterday afternoon in
the Universalist parsonage by Rev
Delmar +. Trout.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
Our Navigation Laws.

The navigation laws of the United
States have been a subject of spirited
controversy of late 1t has been stated
that the navigation laws of the United
States are inadequate and that they
impose undue hardships on our mer-
chant marine. On account of the lack
of published information on the sub
iect there has been no direct means of
determining whether or not these
statements are correct In order to set
forth clearly and concisely the exact
facts in reference to the navigation
laws of the principal maritime coun-
tries of the world, the bureau Of
foreign and domestic commerce, de.
partment of commerce, win issue, with
III the next two or three weeks, an
exhaustive report on the principal
features of the navigation laws of
Great Britain, Germany, Norway,
France, Japan and the United States.
No such work has ever before been
attempted in the United States, ana
it will be invaluable to those who are
studying the problem of our shipping
and merchant marine.
This publication viii present the
principal features of the navigation
laws of the different countries in such
way to show just how our laws differ
from those of other maritime coun-
tries. The abstracts of the laws We're
obtained direct from the foreign mari
time laws and have been submitted to
competent officials of the various coun-
tries for criticism and revision. No
conclusions are to be drawn and no
attempt is to be made to enter one side
or the other of the controversy that
has been raging for months past with
reference to our navigation laws.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01

DR.. H. L. Brown has bought Chal-
mers touring ear.
Mrs. Oliver Hale is confined to the
house by illness.
Mrs. Henry Royce is in NARROW car
ing for her mother, who is i'll.
J. C. Dufrense was at home over
Sunday from Fitehburg, Mass.
NJ. D. White has bought the prop
erty he has occupied the past few
years on Snow avenue.
There is a very creditable exhibit
ton of penmanship by pupils in
grades 4, 5, Z and s, in j. NJ,
Lamb s store window.
Miss Mabel Temple and Miss Ma
belle Lang spent Sunday with Mrs
John A. Fisher in New Haven, Conn
and on Monday visited the schools in
Springfield, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Stearns re
turned home last week Thursday from
Barre, Vt, where they had been visit
ing FIVE weeks with their daughter
Mrs. Ballard.
Last Thursday evening, Jan. 81, the
following officers of Queen Esther Re
bekah lodge We're installed by District
Deputy President +. Mamie Bolles and
suite: N G., Inez Higgins; r. S. n.
G., Katherine Wilkins; L. S. \. g..
MAY Leach; w. Helena Browning
con-, Evelyn Field; chaplain, Ida
Stratton; Y. G., Ida Watson; R. S. v.
g., Gertrude Bruce; L. S. V. g., Eva
Lockwood; I. c., Dora Stratton; o. g.,
Mary Holman; treas. Minnie Magin-
mis-; rec. sec, Eva Fay. Following the
installation refreshments were served
and a social hour enjoyed.