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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
SLID UNDER STREET CAR.
Youngster Wash t Hurt, but Passengers
Were Scared-A Fortunate Combina-
ton of circumstances.

The youngsters are taking advantage
of the excellent coasting and the fact
that the village officials have not yet
posted their annual notices prohibit
ing coasting of most of the streets.
One of them frightened people on a
trolley car at 1880 O'Clock Friday
by sliding down South Main street
hill and across the car track so close
to the slow moving car as it climbed
the grade near the new Holstein-Frie-
sian building that he appeared to coast
directly under the front fender. The
ear was barely moving at the time be-
cause of the blind corner at that point,
the up grade and the snow on the track
and that alone prevented a bad acct
dent.
The youngster got out from under the
front of the car, picked up his sled and
Topped down on it to continue his slide
as far as Milestone bridge. He was
not nearly SO much disturbed over the
occurrence as were the motorman and
those of the passengers who saw it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
WARDSBOR0
LUTHER wHITcoMB DEAD.
Lifelong Resident of County Repre-.
sented Town in LEGISLATURE.

Luther Whitcomb, who passed the
oath milestone of his life Nov. II, who
bore his years with serenity and who
was respected by the entire community,
died Tuesday afternoon in the home
of his daughtef and her husband, Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Briggs. He had
been failing several weeks and the end
was not unexpected. The funeral was
held yesterday in the Methodist church.
Luther ALBANIAN Whitcomb held q
prominent place in the esteem of his
townspeoplc. Pleasing in personality
kindly toward all mankind, a man OF
unquestioned character and principles
his record is clean and like an open
book. He received the unanimous vote
of the Republicans Of the town for rep
resentative in the legislature in 1894
serving on the public buildings commit
tee, and for more than 30 years was 9
steward of the Methodist church and Q
trustee of its funds. He had been &
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
AUCTIONEER
A. W. J. wilkins, Brattleboro, Vt
Wide Experience. Terms Reason abb
Telephone Connection
DAIRYMEN S MEETING
Annual Gathering in Burlington Jan.
Gil To Feature JERSEYS.

A thousand dairymen are planning to
attend the annual meeting of the Yer
mont association to be held in Bur
lington Tuesday to Thursday, Jan.
Gil.
"This will be Jersey year. said
Fred H. Pickford of Bradford, the see
rotary of the association, who was IN
Burlington recently making preliminary
arrangements for the gathering
Headquarters will be established at
Hotel Vermont and meetings and eN-
hibits will be al the Armory on Main
street.
II. C. Brooks of st. Adams is presi-
dent and NJ. A. Adams treasurer of the
association, which is one of the largest
in the country. .,
Last year we featured Guernseys,
said Mr.. Pickford, "and next year fiol-
stems will have their innings.
"This specializing on one breed OF
cattle calls especial attention to the
qualities of the breed and to the en-
tent of the dairies in Vermont and 1t
brings something definite for those who
are especially interested in certain
types of cows.
Speaking of the program to be car
RED OUT, MT. flchlolu hdnl'" ""''i' 3
the strong speakers already secured
o. b. Lane, who was with the united
States department of agriculture tol
some wears. now with the Suphice
Dairy Co. of Philadelphia; John Or
cutt of the Boston chamber of com
mercc, well known in Burlington; +.
F. showers of Wisconsin, an excep-
tional man; Carl X. Nroonan, assist,
ant secretary of the department of
agriculture. Mr.. Van Alstine of Kin
derbrook, n. Y, Il notable wellknown
expert; state Commissioner 7. 5,
Bingham of St. Adams, and several
men from Vermont State Agricultural
college.
The annual banquet will be held on
Thursday night with Congressman f. l..
Greene as toastmaster, and strong
list of after dinner speakers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
HEAVY TIMBER CUT.
Big Business Expected in the Vermont
Forests This Season.

The amount of timber cut in Vermont
this winter will be much larger than in
several years according to the managers
of two large lumber companies
This, it is believed, will be brought
about by the steadily increasing prices
of lumber, hard wood flooring, white
pine and spruce having already ad,
vanced and other grades being expected
to advance in price in the spring.
The Burlington companies are still
laboring under the difficulty of scrur-
ing raw material from Canada, this
having been brought about by the ear
embargo.
1t is expected that the cut this win
ter will include both hard and soft
wood and that the lumber will be used
largely at home. Shipments have been
greatly hampered by the car shortage
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
100000 Acres of Peanuts.

Texas boasts of 100000 acres plant
ed to peanuts. And that is pretty
good start But the state of Madras,
British India, with territory OF
1900 square miles and a population OF
,1ss,Os6, had planted in peanuts in
1915 about 100000 acres, and the TO-
tai yield is estimated at $4,000 tons
which sold for $6,49 to $ll,S4 per can
dy, $500 pounds.) 1t will be seen that
the East Indian got no such prices for his
crop as the Texas farmer is securing
A large part of his crop went to France
and freights to France have been very
high. which accounts in measure tol
the low prce.-lIouston Post.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
Sees Transformation of Vermont.

George Frederick Wells, a graduate
of the University of Vermont, and for
merly general secretary of the move
ment to combine churches in several
Vermont towns, has written an article
for the Boston Transcript about con-
ditions in Vermont in which he says:
"The state is in a condition of rapid
almost violent, industrial and social
change. There are now six times as
many towns in Vermont having a popu-
lation of 1000 or more than in 1850
The exact proportion is six to 81. The
urban and suburban population is grow
ing more rapidly than the rural popula-
ton is decreasing. While rural towns
are becoming suburban and urban, and
many of the hill towns are becoming
depleted of population and are growing
to forests, in the intermediate class OF
towns farming is becoming so much
more scientific and intensive that the
sum total of farm products was never
greater than now, and there is constant
increase.
People are just beginning to know
how to adjust themselves to the natural
resources and to the new industrial civ
ilization which begins to pulsate in the
Green mountain valleys as in the rest
of the world. New railroads and troll
ley lines, rural telephones and free mai
routes, the cooperative creamery, the
town system of schools providing mum
erous excellent public town higl
schools, the Grange and other farmers
organizations, thriving summer hotels
improved highways, and various othel
agencies are making of Vermont new
state. -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
CANCER NOT CONTAGIOUS.
Neither Is 1t Hereditary, Says Insur-
ance Expert-8O,0 900 Deaths in Year
from Disease.

Two years study of original insur
ance statistics indicate cancer is mel
Their hereditary nor contagious, accord
ing to a paper presented to the Assoc
citation of Life Insurance Presidents
in New York Friday by President
Arthur Hunter of the Actuarial So
ciety of America
After referring to the annual toll of
eighty thousand deaths from cancer in
the United States. Mr.. Hunter said:
"No sooner do we become interested
in the wide prevalence of a disease like
cancer, than we begin to wonder wheth-
er is is contagious or hereditary. Such
questions must be in the minds of hun
dreds of thousands of relatives of per
sons who have died from this disease
and of others who are suffering from
| it.
"There seems little to support the
view that cancer is the result of con
| tagion. Twenty thousand applications
| for insurance were reviewed and 1t was
| found that in 4SS cases one only Of the
parents of the applicant was stated to
have died from cancer and in four
cases both parents were stated to have
| died of that disease. There were ~
times as many cases in which one par
eut had died of cancer as of those in
which both parents had died of that
disease. There could hardly be n strong
err test than the case of husband and
wife. -
AS to heredity, Mr.. Hunter said;
"My first investigation consisted OF
cases of persons insured in six compa
| io1 Of n.
Ger prior to date of application for in
surance. OF 427 grandparents of the
insured, the cause of death was giver
in 234 eases of which two were from
cancer; the cause of death was state,
in 1S4 of these as old age the aver
age age at death Of which was 50. II
~ of the grandparents the cause OF
death was not known but the age was
given. the average being 62; in 10
eases neither the age nor the cause OF
death was known. 1t is reasonable t.
conclude that if only two died of can
: Ger out of 234 parents of persons wh'
, died of cancer, that disease is not he
reditary.
"The possibility of heredity in can
Ger has generally been studied by eX
periments on animals. In the case o
human beings there has been no pre-
vious attempt, so far as ! am aware, t.
investigate the problem in familie
F where there has evidently been can
} Ger strain, if such II thing exists. II
, the present investigation, one of tn
groups consisted of cases in which bot
q of the parents had died from cancer
and in another of the groups, parent
! and a brother or sister of the policy
/ holder had died from that disease. l
A might be expected, therefore, that i
!, cancer were hereditary, it would b
t shown very clearly in the family rec
ords of these persons but this has no
i appeared.
: HMen and women who are in anXiet
of mind on account of the appearance
of cancer in their ancestry or immedi
ate family, may dismiss such anxietie
as there is no statistical evidence a
the present time that the disease o
5 cancer is transmitted by inheritance
mankind -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22

Articles of association have been
filed with the secretary of state by the
Vermont Pedic association, inc, OF
White River Junction, no capital stock
for the purpose of promoting the science
of chiropody in Vermont. The articles
were signed by Mrs. j. b. Dillon of
Montpelier, Miss +. R. Marsh of st. Al
bans, f. w. Magoon of st. Johnsbury
Mrs. Elizabeth p. Bailey of Brattleboro
Mrs. H. M. Spaulding of st. Johnsbury
r. C. Carrick of Rutland, Mrs. A. f.
Grow of st. Johnsbury, Mrs. f. R. Park
hurst and NJ. R. Parkhurst of Spring
field.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
HOLIDAY CHECKS TOTAL $4,000
Brattleboro Trust Co. Sends Out About
5000 More Than Last Year-1,41
Members in Christmas Club.

The Brattleboro Trust Co. mailed
Dec. ID 1,4l2 checks to members of
the Christmas club. The checks aggre-
gated about $4,000, or about $4,000
more than the aggregate dispensed last
year. The most interesting feature of
this is the fact that there were 242
less members of the club, indicating
that those who remained in made great
er individual savings than was the case
a year ago.
AS usual the checks were of special
Christmasy kind and carried joy and
satisfaction to many homes, not only il
Brattleboro but in surrounding towns
for many members of the club are not
residents of Brattleboro.
The new club opened Dec. 20 an(
will be conducted ON the same basis a
the one Just closed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
Accidents Will Happen.

Little Willie had returned from his
first day at school, and was telling his
mother his experiences. Among other
things he said: Zone little boy came
up behind me and pushed me over, y
His mother, wishing to make as light
of the affair as possible, replied, 81
guess it was just an accident" Willie
took several minutes to think this over
then, nodding his head, exclaimed
eyes, it was an aecident-and then
made an accident happen to him and
he cried and cried, Harper s Maya
zine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
SELL RED CROSS SEALS.
Public School Children Turn In S146. 85
Main Street Grade Highest Aver
age, S1.o7.

The pupils of the public schools
turned in $l46.S5 as the result of the
annual sale of Red Cross seals Grade
) of the Main street school, Miss Mars
ton, teacher, won first prize of SO in
that building with sale that averaged
$l.07 a pupil and the second prize of -
in that building went to the sixth
grade, Miss Phil teacher, with an aver
age sale Of A. cents pupil.
In the Canal street building the
sixth grade, Miss Prouty teacher, wor
first prize with an average sale of 81
cents a pupil and the second prize went
to the fifth grade, Miss McKeon teach
cr, with an average of 23 cents a pupil
Holland Smith sold 500 seals, Fred
erick Knight 1000 and Robert Simond'
900. All three boys are of the fifth
grade of the Main street school.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
RECEPTION TO GRAHAM.
Gov. Gates Will Be Assisted in Re-
ceiving by His Daughter, ex-Gov-
errors and Wives.

GOV. Gates IS reception to incoming
Gov. Graham will take place Wednes-
day evening, Jan. 3, the opening day
of the session of the general assembly.
Miss Edith Gates, daughter of Gov
Gates, will receive with him, and sew
eral ex-governors and their wives will
be invited to places in the reception
line. Secretary of State Bailey moved
his Office effects from Essex Junction
into the state house Monday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
Don't Guess Know!

EDO you remember what Smiths telephone num-
Der isl"
"It seems to me it is 1921"
"No that doesn't sound like it think it is 2631-
I'll try that"
So the call was made without referring to the di-
rectory which lay beside the questiOner And the
wrong connection made, because the right num-
Der was not what either of the speakers guessedit
was 1861.
This illustrates one frequent cause Of wrong num-
bers namely the ransposition Of digits in the guess
ing of numbers 1t is easy to do this that we ask
operators to repeat each call distinctly, that
they may be corrected in any due to misunder
standing.
There should be guessing when a telephone
number is wanted There are only two ways to get
the correct number: way is by looking in the d-
rectory. If, on looking in the directory you cannot
find the name of the person with whom you wish to
speak, then you should ask for the Information Oper
ator at the desired exchange, and she will give you
the number from her records.
A9M NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE
- An" Ts!: :!:::::: . : ssa''"'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
Those 1rritated Western States.

On the train going west last sum
mer the little old lady beside me be-
came drcadfully bored by the unend-
ing acres of alfalfa that we passed,
"'Now, amt this land the limit, " she
finally observed; cali they can raise
is alpaca, and they have to irritate
that!'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22

Four hundred and ten miles of the
main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul railroad have been cleo
trfed, The energy is furnished by the
Montana Power company and is prac-
tically all hydroelectric.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22

This o designed
operation between the its subscribers There
ties to telephone cathe person calling the called and the
The quality
mined by the spirit in which all three work together rather than by
these three
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22

What is probably the largest rug ever
shipped to the United States is on exhibit
ton in st. Louis The rug measures
24x39 feet, weighs more than 1900 pounds,
and was woven in a single piece in Glas-
gov, Scotland
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22

A water-cooled motorcycle engine has
been invented by an Englishman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-22
BUSINESS CARDS.


W. R. MOVES, NJ. D.
Specialist Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat. OF.
fee hours, 9-12 a. m, 1.5 p. m, Wednesday
and Saturday evenings, 1880. Sunday and
other evenings by appointment. American
Building. Brattleboro. Appointments for
glasses fitting made by mail or telephone
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-10-27
Jewish National Fund.

The donations towards the JNF
during the month of August were
frs. 1O3,9308o. The lands named
below contributed:
North America frs. 32001.23, Aus
tria (including the occupied dis
tricts) frs. 2922222, Germany Gin
GLIDING occupied districts) frs.
11170.37, Argentine frs. 9513.58,
Hungary frs. 35o2.96, Holland frs.
3225.93, England frs. 2980.25, Bull
garia frs. 2S913o, Roumania frs.
2414S1, South Africa frs. 1019.75,
Singapore frs. 1007.41, south Slavon
ic lands frs. 9358O, Portugal frs
925.93, China frs. 891.3o, New Zea-
land frs. 51728, Egypt frs. 471.61,
Belgium frs. 451.85, Russia frs. 400,
and Italy frs. 327.1o.
In the sum attributed to Holland
is included the first instalment of
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-10-27
| | |

the reserve in Africa George, form
erly in the Natal mounted constabul-
airy and now in the New Zealand en-
gineers; Henry, Norfolks; Samuel,
formerly in the yeomanry and now in
the London rifle brigade; John, Rand
rifles british East Africa) and Mark
Queenslanders (made sergeant on the
feld). George and Mark went through
the Gallipoli campaign.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-10-27
No Fasting in Jerusalem on
Yom Kippur.

Fearing that fasting by Jews on
Yom Kippur in Palestine would,
through weakening their bodies, make
them more susceptible to typhus fever
or cholera, epidemics of which are
ravaging the country, the Palestinian
Rabbis have issued a decree forbid
ding Jews in Palestine to fast on the
Day of Atonement this year. After
a conference the rabbis issued state
ment declaring that it would be con-
trary to the laws Of Judea or of ma
ture to ask the Jews of Palestine to
fast
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-10-27

Through the efforts of Rabbi F.
K. Hirsch, of Athens, Ca, the "Mer-
chant of Venice" has been eliminated
from the high school curriculum and
another Shakespearean play substi-
tuted
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-10-27
October II, 1916
NEW YORK JEWS RAISE $780,
900 IN TEN DAYS FOR
CHARITY.
Bazaar-less Campaign for Two Mil
lion Dollars Successful.

New York, Oct 4.-More than
100000 has been raised in ten days
by the Federation for the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies of
New York City, which has for its OBJ
ject the Capitalization of the collec-
ton of funds for Jewish philanthropic
institutions.
The method of collecting funds
without the aid of balls, charity baz-
aars or entertainments thus far has
proven a great success, and at the
present rate the sum of 100000, for
which the present campaign has been
started, will be reached by December
first.
Jacob Werthei1n, chairman Of the
committee on canvass, made the fol-
lowing statement:
Every Jew in New York who can
give $40 or more to charity may be-
come a member, and the federation
will apportion all moneys received in
accordance with the wishes Of the con-
tributors. We hope before the cam
paign is over to have more than 1OO,
600 contributors. .
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-10-27
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

receipts from the Campaign" of the
Netherlands Zionist League. From
the 10th to the 18th Of August,
groups of Zionists, especially stu
dents and young business men, trav-
eled through the various provinces
of the Netherlands and held Zionist
meetings in almost all towns with
Jewish population. The campaign
ers visited first of all the houses of
Jews and then invited them to attend
the meetings. 10000 copies of the
Campaign Number of the GOODS
chen Wachter,' published for this
event, we're distributed in all Jew
ish circles. The results, material
and otherwise of the campaign, are
right satisfying. Some new mem
bers were won and the contributions
collected amounted to almost frs.
5000, the greater part of which is in
tended for the Cooperative Fund.
Mr.. Lewis Jones, native of Lon
don, and one of the oldest tradesmen
in Hunstanton, where he had lived
about fifty years, died there recently.
He left a widow, seven sons and two
daughters. Six Of the sons are in the
British army, viz, Edward, who went
through the Boer war and is now on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Traffic on |. K. T. Lines
Heavier, ShOntS Hopes

Traffic on all the lines was heavier
yesterday than on any other day since
the strike was declared.
Theodore p. Shonts announced that
in few days the lnterborough hoped
TO be running all its surface lines at
normal capacity.
ave have 200 motormen in our
school," he said, land they will be
ready for service in week or so. That
will mean 200 more cars. We have no
fear Of the result of general strike.
We have a supply of coal sufficient TO
last two weeks and have contracted
for the delivery Of all we shall need"
The green cars Of the New York Rail-
ways Company made $50 more trips
than on Thursday, the greatest num-
Der of cars being operated at o'clock,
when 572, or 80 per cent OF the total
number, were in service. The average
traffic for the day was reported at 40
per cent Of normal.
At 8 o'clock at night the police re-
ported s cars running on each Of the
ilGth, l25th, Twenty-third and Four
teenth Street crosstown lines. Six
were running on Eighty-sixth Street
and on Forty-second Street.
The subway was operating 1874 trains
at 5 o'clock and the elevated lines 239.
At o'clock the police reported ll6
subway trains and 231 on the a." The
twenty-six cars being operated over
the Third Avenue surface system at
that hour were all in the barns by s.
The New York and Queens lines OPP
Grated ll5 cars until after $3.50. At
4 o'clock the Union Railways was run
ming 1875 cars. Seven were still being
operated at 6 o'clock. but these were
all in the barns b. 10.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
SLAYER WHO ESCAPED
SING SING MURDERED
Brother of Girl Victim Is Sought
by Police.

Rochester, Sept 22.-Roeco Scale.
one Of the first white slavers to 10
convicted in this country under 80
Mann act, who escaped from Sing Sii
prison in June, 1915, by swimming L,
Hudson, was found murdered, with b.
throat cut, in q lonely spot near ~
Straits Of Mackinaw at Sault ste. a''
RE, Ontario, on August %, according
to information received here to-day
Pasquale Bagnato, brother Of cs'
Of three girls whom Scalzo lured %
this country from Italy, swore st TIE
time Scalzo was convicted tina; he would
kill him.
Bagnato, the police say, has FED
from Sault Ste. Marie across the 'oF'
der into the United States, and ss'''a
is being made for him.
Scalzo, posing as rich importer, m
duced three girls TO come to Rochester
and kept them imprisoned for many
months in his palstial apartments ID
St. Paul Street before one Of them mah'
aged TO get a letter 70 her oroInd'
Scalzo was sentenced TO serve ten yesls'
but escaped after serving only tlIss
and fed TO Toronto. where he narrow.
escaped arrest. The authorizes '0'
track Of him then.
Bagnato, the police say followed n .a
from town 10 town, waiting for MS W
portunity 10 wreak vengeance.