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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
THE LATE MRS. w. w. HOLDEN.
Was Active in Baptist Church and
Lived Life of Devntion-

In the death of Mrs. Sylvia Lucinda
Whitaker Holden, wife of W. w. Hol-
den of Guilford, the friends of this
place feel a sense of deep loss. She
was resident OF this place at the time
of her marriage and spent seven years
of her married life here in caring for
her aged mother. She was an active
worker in the Baptist church, where she
always had a Sunday school class and
sang in the choir. Her friends will miss
the influence of a life strong in an
things-devout, loyal, sympathetic and
broad minded. Those who were priv
ileged to see her courage, while facing
death, her patient endurance of suffer
ing through these last sad months OF
painful illness, her thoughtfulness OF
others and her answering faith and
firm trust in her Saviour, will be better
fitted TO meet life and TO face death.
Beloved by all her friends, she was
bound closer and dearer TO her own fam
lily TO whom she gave the last full meas
ure of devotion. She leaves, besides
her husband and two daughters at home.
a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Watson. and
son, Erwin NJ. Holden. a well known CON
tractor, of this town.
COMMUNICATED.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
Member of the Associated Press.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1916
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.

The factors for prosperity are here
Fundamental conditions are favorable
for a continuation of the upward
movement in business. In practically
every industry and business the ac-
tlvlty is marked, orders are piling in,
labor is steadily employed, earnings
are more substantial than has been
the case within recent years.
1T is difficult, - said the First Ma
tional Bank of Boston last week. ssto
single out industries in which there is
lack of business. - 1t is easy to point
out scores of industries working at
top-noteh capacity, with everything
booming, and with even bigger bust.
ness ahead.
Iron and steel producers are rushed
with enormous demands, though the
January production of pig iron was al
most double the production a year ago.
Railroads are buying equipment in IN
creasing volume; railroad earnings
steadily improve The lumber trade is
active IN response to a big revival in
building Notwithstanding increased
eighty per cent in December. Shoe fac
tories, cotton and wooden mills are
running at full speed. Bank clearings
have enormously ncreased-twenty-
five per cent in January over the cor
responding periods in 1914 and 1913.
Expert trade is the greatest in the
history of American commerce.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
MUST MOVE HIGH TENSION.
Burlington Traction Co. Line Too Near
Western Union Lines

After two hearings on the complaint
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany that the high tension wires of
the Burlington Traction Company, be-
tween Burlington and Ferrisburg, are
carried too close to the telegraph com
pany's lines, the public service com
mission has ordered the traction com
pany to keep its wires 80 feet distant
from the telegraph lines. The traction
company is given until July l to obey
the order and after that date if the
order is not complied with the traction
company is forbidden to transmit high
tension current over this section OF
line which is about Is miles in length
The commission finds that the con
struction and location of the high ten
sion line with respect to the telegraph
lines violate approved practise in that
the current from the high tension wires
Is liable TO become imposed upon the
telegraph wires, and that the situation
constitutes q condition of great hazard.
The commission has issued certif-
cate authorizing the Montpelier and
Barre light & Power company to issue
$4,000 in bonds to apply on the pur-
chase by that corporation of the Water
bury Light & Power company which is
now operated by the Montpelier and
Barre concern under a lease
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Woman III Six Years Shoots Herself.

Mrs. Clay Foss, 40, committed sui
eide Sunday evening in her home in
Hyde Park, shooting herself with a %
calibre rife while her husband sat asleep
nearby. Mrs. Foss had been in poor
health for the past six years. She slipped
from her bed, unheard by her husband
and going into an adjoining room took
some cartridges from shelf and loaded
the rifle, which was fastened ON the
wall. Getting into bed again and sitting
up, she placed the muzzle against her
temple and discharged the weapon The
ball passed through her head, narrowly
missing Mr.. Foss and lodged in the
wall. Mr.. Foss was ava kened, but was
unable to tell what aroused him Smell
ing smoke, he went into the kitchen and
when he returned discovered the rifle
across his wife S lap. Mrs. Foss died
about 30 minutes later. Besides her
husband, she leaves two boys, one aged
seven years, and an infant three weeks
old. She was the youngest of a family
of five children of Judson Jones of
HYDE Park
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
WHY PRINCE ALBERT WINS.
Patented Process Is Responsible for Its
International Popularity.

Smokers so much appreciate the
flavor and GOODNESS and aroma of Prince
Albert pipe and cigarette tobacco that
they often marvel that this one brand
could be so different from all others.
The answer to this question is to be
found on the reverse side of every
Prince Albert package, where you will
read: Process Patented July Both,
1907. = That tells the whole story.
Prince Albert is made by a patented
process that cuts out the bite and parch,
which makes the tobacco so mighty
agreeable and satisfying to men of ev-
cry taste of every civilized nation on
the globe.
Smokers should realize that this pat
ented process cost three years continu-
Gus work and study and fortune in
money to perfect. But the result has
proven to be worth all that was expend-
ed upon it, because it has set free men
who believed they never could enjoy a
pipe or a maxim s cigarette.
Prince Albert makes it possible for
every man to smoke pipe or to roll
his own cigarettes. And, no matter how
tender the tongue, Prince Albert cannot
bite or pareh. That is cut out by the
patented process, leaving for the smoker
only the joys of the fragrant tobacco.
It is a fact that since Prince Albert
arrived just about six years ago.
it has made three men smoke pipes
where one smoked a pipe before,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

e D o d Il o A d s
Z Howard L.Rdnn


Good roads are something which
everybody wants for nothing. AS there
IS nothing free in this country except
elbow-room and the grip, the good
roads movement is having hard work
breaking any of the speed records.
The good roads agitation always
shows more rapid pulse in the win
ter time, and converts a great number
of people who object to travelling over
highways that look like an Alpine
mountain range. But man has a short
and brittle memory, and when summer
comes and the roads lie down fiat
again public enthusiasm also lies down
and buttons the flap on its coin pocket.
There are more good roads enthusi-
asts during the rainy season than at
any other time of the year, and if a
vote ON bond issue could be taken
Immediately after a three-day cloud
burst, the polls would be more congest-
ed than the tables at lucent supper.
The present method of making good
roads is to plow them down the centre
with a sixteen-inch cultivator and
decorate the road-bed with sod. This
provides smooth, resilient surface
which can be Travelled in perfect safe
ty by the stilt-walking crane or an au-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

Mrs. T. H. Parker visited at John
Logan S in Greenfield last week.
The pablo schools were, closed Tues
day in observance of Washington :
birthday.
Mrs. Horace Sibley and son, Paul. of
Wendell spent the weekend in East
Mortified.
The Boys Brigade delegates to the
!. Nj. Z. A. conference in Newton the
past week viii give a report at the
Thursday evening prayer meeting this
week.
At Mrs. w. G. Robert on the even
ing of Washington s birthday Co
lonial party was held. Miss Ellen
Howard s Sunday school class gave
the party to the class of Miss Del
phine Lazelle.
The annual dinner of the Mortified
Automobile club will be served in
Monat Hotel the evening of Wednes-
day, March /. All citizens are invited.
Those who will attend should notify
f. w. Williams or S. E. Walker.
Rollin c. Ward camp, Sons of Vet
Grams, held Joint celebration of the
birthdays of Lincoln and Washington
Tuesday evening in Sons of Veterans
hall. +. II. Brown of Greenfield gave
an entertaining historical address.
library club will be organized
Saturday of this week at Dickinson IL
brary at 10 a. m. All primary and
grammar school children are invited to
JOIN the club, which will be in charge
of Mrs. F. Amber Weleh and Miss
Ellen Howard
William K Cooper, secretary of the
I. Nj. c. A. of Washington. d. c..
preached at Mount Hermon Sunday
and in Sage chapel in the evening. On
Saturday afternoon at the SATURDAY
club Prof. Benjamin 7. Marshall of
Dartmouth college will speak on Some
Necessary Steps in Christian Thought
and Action.
The water supply committee of the
state legislature will give a hearing in
the town hall Wednesday evening. A
number of citizens have signed pc
tition for the establishment of = fire
district, which means the taking over
and owning by the town of the prop
erty of the Mortified Water company,
The hearing viii be held at SIS and
the committee will Investigate the
water supply Thursday morning.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
Up-to-Date Packing.
(Rutland News.)

c. L. Witherell of Middlebury, own
er Of the Belmont Farm orchards, is
one of the Vermont apple growers who
IS evidently up to date and making the
most of his opportunities. It seems
that he is packing his apples, which
are extra fine fruit-but just such fruit
as any other Vermont orchard man
could produce-in most attractive
way. He is wrapping each apple neat
iy in tissue paper and shipping them
IN boxes just as far western growers
put up their apples and citrus fruits.
As a consequence, by means of adver-
Using and solicitation, he is delivering
his product in the cities at fancy
prices. Mr.. Witherell is getting three
dollars, delivered, for what is called a
bushel box of first grade apples, and
what he is doing any other progressive
and enterprising Vermont fruit raiser
may do
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

tomoblle which cuts through the fields.
1t is not at all difficult to convert the
owner of new automobile to the good
roads theory if he is caught at the
moment when he is trying to worm his
way through a fresh sod Improvement,
two miles and a half long and run
ming from fence to fence.
This life is full of strange inconsis-
teneies. People complain about the
money wasted on chewing gum, false
hair and skin foods, but it ism It the
price of a haircut to the sums wasted
IN patching roads that refuse to stay
patched. The automobile is the evan
9elist of the good roads movement.
Every sale of five-passenger touring
car with tires subject to sudden and
disheartening puncture means better
roads and more of them. Therefore
we should all buy touring ears and
cease to knock the good roads advo-
cate.
Good roads are more conducive to
human happiness than good digestion
You can coddle your digestion til
matted milk, but there is nothing that
will convert a COW path into a hard
surfaced highway except brains plus
money.
as Newspaper Seryice1
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Samuel Clark of Springfield, Ohio
came yesterday to visit his brother, DR..
G. 5. Clark
p. w. Chase and family are i'll with
grip. w. d. Newton and family OF
Ames hill also are i'll with grip.
The Social club met recently with
Mrs. D. w Harris. 1t was planned to
have covered dish party at he next
meeting.
Mrs. c. 1. Stafford returned Yesterday
from Athol, Mass, where she had been
visiting for a few days with her sis
ter, Mrs. Howe.
Miss Viola Burns OF Fair Haven ie-
turned TO her home yesterday. after
having spent few days here with her
sister, Miss Eileen Burns.
Mrs. Miller of FTtchburg. Mass. who
had spent several DAYS with her mother.
Mrs. Hannah Bullock, returned TO her
home yesterday afternoon.
The Christian Endeavor society of
the congregational church will hold q
social Thursday evening in the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson.
All those goingin the big team to the
Christian Endeavor social in the home
of Arthur Miller are asked to meet at
Stockwell store at 7.15 promptly.
Mrs. Mary Spigla of South Main
street was discharged from the Melrosc
hospital Saturday. Mr.. Chaplin was dis
charged from the hospital Monday and
returned TO his home in Putney. H.
Frank Richardson has Just completed
adding another. story to his house ana
building an eight foot verasada around
the house. He also has built a wood
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

One result expected of the national
dairy show at Springfield, to which ref
erence has been made, is the teaching
of New England how better to feed it.
self. This section now raises only
about quarter of its food supply and
that is altogether too little. We ought
at least to produce the half loaf. Some
foreign countries produce 90 per cent of
what they eat. The coming show will
illustrate modern agriculture and our
farmers will learn many valuable les
sons. New England farming is not at
all what it should be even if we do
raise more corn to the acre than the
most favored sections of the West.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
THE LATE LEROY L. BOND.
Former Dummerston and Vernon Man
Died in Boston Feb. II.


The body of Leroy L. Bond, 50,
brother of Henry E., Leavitt E. and
Col. G. II. Bond of Brattleboro, was
brought here Saturday from Boston,
where he died Feb. II of bronchitis.
The funeral was held in Bond & Son 5
funeral parlors at O'Clock Monday,
Rev. Delmar f. Trout of the Univer-
salist church officiating. The body was
placed in the tomb in Prospect Hill
cemetery. The burial viii take place in
the family lot in Dummerston Center
next spring.
Leroy L. Bond, son of Luke Taylor
and Elsey Stoddard Bond, was born in
Dummerston May 10, 1888. He lived in
his native town until ne answered the
call of his country, and in September
1867, he with his youngest brother,
! the Oldest and youngest in the family,
enlisted In Company /, 10th Regiment
Vermont Volunteers, whose first three
commissioned officers were Capt. Lv-
man +. Knapp of Stratton, LIST Lieut..
hlttredge Haskins of WilliamsviIle
and I'd Lient. Ira w Thomas of Peru
The company was organized in VIII
Evansville in August, 1862, and after
brief drilling joined the I'd Vermont
brigade of 5000 men at Brattleboro
and was mustered into service upon
the old camp grounds by the late Col.
William Austine in October, 1862. The
10th regiment followed the 18th. 18th.
l4th and 18th in succession out of
camp for the front and upon reaching
Washington went into camp temporari-
ly upon Capitol Hill, from there march
ing over the famous long bridge into
nd bo
site of FIT. Myer.
/ 1t was at Camp Vermont, three miles
southwest of Arlington, and vicinity
that the Brigade built forts and brick
magazines during the winter of 1862,
in defense of the city of Washington
/ Mr.. Bond was with the regiment at
Gettysburg when it made its famous
Hank movement which not only de-
moraEzed Pickett S army, but Wilcox s
as WELL and saved the day to the
Union cause. After the battle, the reg
lment followed in the wake of Lee in
| to Virginia, thence to Harper Ferry,
where the brigade, as its time had ex-
pired, took transportation home. The
men were mustered out at Brattleboro
and discharged August 10, 1868. Mr..
Bond returned to his home town
| of Dummerston and for many years
| owned the farm adjoining his father s..
l. He married Eliza Stoddard of Dunn
merston Sept. 6, 1868. At the death of
his wife, Oct. 20, 1906, he went to I've
with his eldest son, stephen, in Will
mlngton, going from there three years
later to the farm he bought in Vernon,
where he had since lived. Mr.. Bond
| went to Boston last fall to spend the
winter with his sons, Perley and Percy,
where he was at the time or MS death.
! Mr. Bond leaves eight children, %
gfandehildren and seven great-grand-
| children. The children are Mrs. Ina
Amdon and Mrs. Lula Fits of Brat
tleboro, Mrs. Elsie Phelps of Charles
town, n. H., Stephen G. of Whining
ton, Edmund NJ. of Detroit. Mrs. Mary
A Bates of Rehoboth, Mass, Perley
vile, Mass. He leaves thrse brothers.
Leavitt Z. and Henry E. of Brattle-
boro and Col. G. H. Bond of Washing
ton, D. C.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

Arrangements have already been
made for the repetition next summer
and autumn of the highly successful
Plattsburg experiment of last wear. both
there and at other garrisoned posts of
the United States army. Major Gen.
Wood regards the training camp as a
permanent feature of our new prepa, ed
ness College men, both graduates a1l
undergraduates, in large numbers have
signifed their intention to subject
themselves this year to three weeks or
q month of military training. Repre-
sentative Kahn of California has he
come such an enthusiastic supporter of
the training camp idea that he pur-
poses to urge the extension of the svs-
tenn on the house military committee as
a substitute for the discarded continen-
tai army plan of ex-Secretarv Gar
rison. The committee, however. will
probably disapprove of any other sub
stltute for that plan except its pro-
posed . liberalization = of the militia.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Kahn may be able
successfully to spread his idea through
out the West. Training camps can be
instituted without the express authority
OF congress, and the more we have of
/ them the better. They cannot fail to
have wholesome influence ON all who
participate III them. A month of hard
soldering every year for 100000 men
IN tins country would soon give us citi-
zen soldiers of good quality.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
new HERBAL BALM
MAKES LIFE WORTH while
FOR SHIN SUFFERERS

One will have to admit the fact that the
11borigines, were. wonderfully successful in
offsPng a0En t5 s sdy and and
skin diseases among the Arapahoes by Dodge
shows that the tribe used a basan, obtained
from the trees IN that vicinity brought to
them from the coast Indians, which produced
wonderful results in what Is known scabies
or itch and also weeping eczema. D'EXMA
been wonderful
Try this wonderful new herbal skin balm.
Apply D'EXMA to Eczema; to old running
sores; to leg ulcers; 10 ringworrn, piles, to
all blemishes. and eruptions OF the skin. 1t
puriiles and heals. No skin disease can live
where D'EXAiA is used.
We are the only druggists in this town
tro:.l whom D'EXMA, the great herbal balm,
can be secured. Ask US today.
BROOKS HOUSE PHARMACY
G. z. GRAHAM, 40 Main Street
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

singular coincidence is noted in
the death of Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Allbe
of Bellows Falls, who celebrated the
10th anniversary of their wedding Dec.
80. Mrs. Allbe died Friday and her
husband lived but little more than AZ
hours after his faithful companion ex-
PRED. Mr.. Allbe was the dean of the
Vermont bar, having been admitted to
practice in 1913.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

shed. d. w. Harris had charge OF the
work
About 30 couples attended the old
folks dance in Academy hall last even
ing. II was one of the most successful
dances of the season. Music was fur
nished by Ed. Johnson, violin; b. F.
Leitzinger, drum; and Mrs. w. f. Stell-
man, piano. W. A. Harris prompted.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t 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
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
Usher can secure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

The first use of the treadmill was in
China, where it did service in remote
times in irrigating the land. 1t was
introduced into England prisons in
1917 as means of punishment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
Profit of 1900 Per Cent on Dive.

\ Bennington mill several years ago
ordered large shipment of dye from
abroad and on its arrival it was found
to be black, instead of the color order
ed. After some controversy, the Ben
nington firm kept the barrel, putting
1t IN storage, where it had ever since
remained. Within a month, a travel
ing representative of a dye concern,
visiting Bennington, learned of the
barrel in storage and purchased it.
The Bennington firm paid at the rate of
s33 per loo pounds for what the barrel
contained, when times were normal, but
the wholesale dyehouse which just pur-
chased it paid at the rate of 5000 per
100 pounds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

Frank P. Denning, aged SO years, died
suddenly yesterday while fishing
through the ice on Lake Champlain near
Burlington. Acute indigestion was the
cause.
There was a $25, 700 fire early Tuesday
morning in the plant of the Burlington
Rendering company. The fire caught
between a steam pipe and the wall A
large quantity of fertilizer material was
damaged, and the building was partially
burned
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
The Following Sixteen
06) States Tried Prohi-
bition, But Have Since
Returned to License and
Regulation.
Table Gives Dates When Prohibition
Law Was Adopted and Repealed.

Table Gives Dates When Prohibition
Law Was Adopted and Repealed.
South Dakota-1S89-1S96.
Nebras ka-lS55 (soon repealed-1SS0
second attempt defeated).
lowa-lSS4 abandoned in few
years..
Illinois-1s55 repealed in same
year,.
mdiana-1S55 (soon abandoaed), -
1852 (second attempt defeated).
Ohio-lS55 (repealed in same year)
Nov. 3, 1914 (second attempt defeat
ed).
Acknowledgment Prohibition Law
i'm 1912.
New York-1Sj4-1S56
Nermont-1Sj2-1 1908.
Massachusetts - S55-1S70-1Ss9 (sec-
ond attempt defeated).
-lS54-1S72-1SS9 (sec-
ond attempt defeated).
Rhode lsland-lS53-1S63- 1856 1899.
Maryland-ls55 repealed in same
ycar).
Delaware-lS55-1S57
MISUNDERSTANDING (second
proposal defeated).
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23

enjoying the delights of our good cook
ing, is often seen at our restaurant.
People say our service and cooking is
so good they like to bring their friends
We strive always to please our custom
ers, and our food the best the market
affords, which combined with our quick
and courteous service, makes our res
taurant the most popular one in town.
The ALBANY
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-23
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