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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-10

me some irecrackers. With you a
Merry Christmas, your little friend,
Byron Lowry, Cantonment, Fla.
Dear Santa Claus-How are you
Santa. Whens Christmas comes will
you bring me a doll and a buggy car
riage to roll the doll in and bring
me stove to play with, and bring
me a ride horse to play with and so
I can play; good bye, from Sadie
Palmer.
Dear Santa Claus-I am a little
girl, was years old the 9th of last
month. l am in the third grade and
attend the Sacred Heart school.
Please bring me nice, large doll and
pair of skates and box of pretty
little handkerchiefs. l have one lit
tie sister and two little brothers.
Please don't forget to bring them
some nice toys, and please bring us
all some fruit, nuts and candy. Please
don't forget mama, papa, auntie and
uncle and my dear school teacher.
Wishing you and Mrs. Santa Mer-
ny Christmas and happy New Year
I am as ever, your little devoted
friend, Annie Belle Wise, "a North
Tenth avenue.
Dear Santa Claus-I am little
girl just 5 years old and want you
to bring me sailor boy doll, tea set
and piano, and this is all l want for
this time as l have got little bro
Their year old and he wants wag-
on, drum and horn and nuts, candy
and fruit, and l forgot to tell you to
bring me some too. Wishing you and
Mrs. Santa a Merry Christmas and a
happy New Year, your little friend,
Marguerite Dykes, 6 North Tenth
avenue.
Dear Santa am little boy four
years and half old; will you please
bring me a little suit of cloth and a
hat and little pair of shoes and
some shirts and some fruit and lit
tie horn and little mule that can
boiler and wink his ear, and some
stockings and some candy and some
nuts. / wish you Merry Christmas
and happy New Year. So will
close; good bye from your friend,
Arthur Crittion. 610 West Laura
street.
Dear Santa Claus-I am a little
boy years and l want to tell you
just what I want, watch and gold
chain to go with it. And nice book
to read and some fire crackers and
some marbles; also some fruit and
candy and my mother something nice
too. From your friend Tommie
Lewis, 1909 East Gadsden.
Dear Santa Claus-I will write
and tell you what want. l want
you to bring me. am little boy
10 years old. go to school and
am in the fourth grade. want you
to bring me nice, bicycle and a
pair of skates. Bring me some nuts
and candy and fruit; bring papa a
nice pair of socks, mama a nice pair
of gloves. have little sister 8
years old. Bring her nice warm
cap and tea set. Hoping you q mer-
ry Christmas and happy New Year,
from your friend, Allen Morgan. $50
East Gregory.
Dear Santa Claus-I am little
girl years old. / will write you
what want you to bring me. L
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-10
Letters to
SANTA Claus

Dear Santa Claus-I saw your let
ter in the Pensacola Journal asking
the little children to send IN their
letters and say what they want. l
would like to have a pair of roller
skates, please. Your friend, Gasque
Purvis, 907 North Guillemarde.
Dear Santa Claus-I am little
girl years old. | viii write and
tell you what ! want you to bring
me. / want a nice big doll and a
carriage and doll bed and a rain
coat and teaset and some mats and
fruit and candy and bring papa a
necktie and bring grandma and
grandpa something nice. Hoping
you a merry Christmas and merry
New Year from your little friend,
Myrtle C. Etter Redd, live at $50
East Gregory.
Dear Santa Claus-I am a little
orphan boy and have not any papa
and / am very poor and want you
to bring me little wagon and some
candy and nuts and apples and ba-
nanas and oranges. ! am 6 years of
age and have been very good since
last Christmas. live at POI South
Tenth avenue. Little Edward Stan
ton.
My dear Santa Claus-I am a lit
tie boy years Of age. / live at 621
West Intendencia street. have a
father in Pensacola, w. E. King, but
he does not remember me on Christ
mas at all, so l will ask you please
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-10
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-10

Dear Santa Claus-I am glad the
Journal will give my message to
you. am little girl 6 years old
and wish you would bring me a pair
of skates, little doll chair for my
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-10

Dear Santa Claus-I am e little
girl 8 years old. l will write you
what l want you to bring me. l
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
LEG AMPUTATED
ABOVE THE KNEE
Emery A. Melendy Undergoes Opera
tion-Probably Will Be Able to
Walk Better than for 80 Years.

In the Memorial hospital this morn
ing DR.. G. r. Anderson amputated the
right leg of Emery A. Melendy. town
representative of Londonderry and
station agent at South Londonderry. On
November / Mr. Melendy fell from a
step ladder, badly fraeturing the bones
between the knee and ankle. The bones
were so badly splintered that it was
necessary to remove them for dis
tance of an inch and half at that
time. He was brought direct from his
home to the hospital short time af
ter the accident happened
In boyhood Mr. Melendy badly in
iured the knee of the right leg, so that
he has walked with difficulty ever
since. The operation today was made
above the knee in the hope that Mr.
Melendy may eventually be able to
walk better than at any time in 80
years. 1t was stated this afternoon that
the operation had been successfully
performed and that the patient was
resting comfortably.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
PARALYSIS AT FAIR HAVEN.
Infant Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Town is the Victim.

FAIR HAVEN, Nov. 20.-What is
believed to be another case of infantile
paralysis, the fourth to develop in this
town this fall, has been discovered in
the family of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Town on Main street in the center of
the business district The patient is
Elizabeth, an infant and the Youngest
of six children. The child has been
i'll for week and has been attended
during the last few days by the family
physician
council of doctors was called. DR..
C. s. Caverly of Rutland, president of
the state board of health, being pres
ent That the child was afflicted with
infantile paralysis was the unanimous
opinion. A sample of the spinal fluid
was sent to the state laboratory at
Burlington for analysis
Four of the Town children attended
the graded schools in this village. The
town authorities have taken no action
as yet relative to closing the schools,
but will if the report from Burlington
bears out the diagnosis of the physi-
clans.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
MARINE SAVED UNCLE JOSH.
Bit of Diplomacy Prevented Domestic
Tragedy.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Nov. 90. =
A domestic tragedy that might have
led to the divorce court was narrowly
averted when rural visitor to the
Riverside fair was saved by the diplo-
macy of United States marine.
Uncle Josh had left his wife some
where in the safe and sane "stock ex-
hibit' and wandered into the forbidden
portals of "hoochy-coochy sideshow.
"Officer,' exclaimed the irate lady,
approaching Kern, "see if there ain t
an old fool in there watchin them
gals.
Unrufiled by being mistaken for a
policeman, the marine entered the
tent, gave Uncle Josh a straight man
TO man tip, and returned with a polite
=" / I'M afraid you are mistaken, mad
am
Ten minutes later the wrathful lady
discovered her husband investigating
the merits of cream separator.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
RIGHT TO BORROW
AT LOW INTEREST
Federation of Labor Wishes u, S. Pos
tai Deposits Used in Help
ing People

BALTIMORE, Nd, Nov. 20.-Congress
Will be urged to pass legislation whereby
money ON deposit in the postal savings
banks may be loaned to municipalities for
the purpose of building model homes for
its citizens, in accordance with a resolu-
tion unanimously adopted by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor convention today
An alternative suggestion contained in
the resolution is that the government shall
establish such system of credits that
the people may borrow money for long
term of years at a low rate of interest to
build their own homes
All state federations of labor and organ
ized labor everywhere were urged in an
adopted resolution to make the injunc-
ton question the paramount issue in their
future political activities until a law is
operative in every state that will "pro-
tect the rights and liberties Of all citizens
in so far as the illegal, unconstitutional
and unwarranted use and abuse Of the
writ Of injunction is concerned in trade
disputes"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
ADMITS SHOOTING RIGGIE.
Shannon Of Island Pond Held on Charge
of Manslaughter.

ISLAND POND, Nov 20. - Archie
Riggie, II, who was killed here Nov. s
during melee, was shot accidentally
by his brother-in-law Charles Shannon,
27, who confessed Saturday to State s
Attorney G. R. Powell, according to
James X. Wood, head of Boston de-
teetive agency. Shannon, when arrest
ed, declared that Arville Riggie, a
brother of the man who was killed, had
been chased home by a crowd and that
Shannon, with Riggie's S brother, had
rushed from the house to defend the
fugitive. In the mixup which followed
Shannon discharged a 22-ealibre revol-
yer several times, but did not realize
that he had hit Riggie until the crowd
had dispersed. Frightened at his act.
he disappeared for several DAYS. Sham,
on was held on charge of manslaugh-
ter, according to Detective Wood.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
BODY OF TEACHER
FOUND IN LAKE
Miss Bina M. Shorey Walked into
Shallow Water Near Athol-Wor-
ried Over Her Position,

ATHOL, Mass, Nov. 20.-The BODY
of Miss Bina NJ. Shorey, the Athol
high school teacher, missing since last
Tuesday, was found in Lake Ellis
shortly after noon yesterday by fremen
who dragged the lake and discovered
it in about 80 feet of water. The dis
covery followed the finding little ear
lier in the day of her coat, hat, keys and
gloves on the bank b. E. f. Fairbanks.
Miss Shorey on last Tuesday night
had evidently gone from her rooning
place at c.. A. Perry's straight up to
Athol Highlands, through the Athol
fair grounds and walked into the wat
cr, taking off her hat and coat.
The body was viewed by the medical
examiner, DR.. ]. F. Cuddy. and re.
moved to the undertaking rooms of j
F. Higgins. Her brother and sister
who arrived Saturday night from
Maine, will take it to Cliftondale for
burial.
Miss Shorey had taught here since
last March until week ago last Fri
day when she resigned Her stay here
had been marked with slight friction in
the school for which neither she MOI
the pupils were entirely at fault and
over which she had worried. Her rel
atives said she had probably beer
driven to take her life through melan
cholia.
Miss Shorev was so years of age
Born in Albion, Me-, the daughter o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustaye B. Shorey, sh,
attended the Castine normal school an(
was a graduate of Brown university.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20

COVERED $50 MILES
WITHOUT A STOP
First Part of Her Journey Was to Hor-
nell, N. Y.-,Jame to New York from
Binghamton This Morning Used an
Old Curt;ss Machine.

NEAV YORK, Nov 20-Tbe record
breaking airplane flight of Ruth Law. be-
gun yesterday in Chicago, ended at Gov
ernors Island here today after stops AZ
Hornell and Binghamton, n Y. The final
l52 miles from Binghamton to this CITY
was covered this morning in two hours
and 20 minutes and the entire Journey.
S32 miles in an air line, in the actual fy-
ing time OF nine hours and one minute
Miss Law established a new American
nonstop record for aviation yesterday.
when she flew from Chicago to Hornell in
tlve hours and IL minutes.
The start from Chicago was made at
s.B, eastern time, and she arrived at
.2O7, covering 660 miles The flight was
made in a two-year-old l00-horse power
biplane and the stop at Hornell was made
for supplies only. Not an accident of anv
kind marred the flight
After the gasoline and oil were placed
aboard she started toward New York, tax
ing the air at 3l3.
Miss Law was numb from the cold, but
after a few minutes exercise she reeov
cred her confidence and expressed her
anxiety to continue the fight
No effort was made to make nonstop
flight from Chicago to New York, it being
arranged to land in Hornell. owing to the
fact that the gasoline storage capacity OF
the biplane is only 50 gallons.
Miss Law beat the record of Victor
Carlstrom, established few days ago, in
his fight from Chicago to Erie, by about
200 miles
The second leg of the journey brought
her to Bnghamton, where she was again
forced to descend last night by darkness.
A few minutes after landing in Bing-
hamton Miss Law said; The next time
I'm going to do it. I'm contented to
| have broken the American record this
time, but the next fight I'm going to set
a worlds record. I've never made a long
er flight than % miles before
| Last night | would have been in New
York If it had not been for the fact that
| | lost more than an hour and half at
Chicago on the very start in removing a
hot water jacket which had to be re-
placed
The wind was blowing like sin when
| rose above Chicago but soon it swung
around from north and that was the last
| help | had from the weather man. From
Chicago to Cleveland [ took the air line.
following no railroad, but steering by the
compass
Il passed directly over Cleveland. and,
maintaining an altitude which varied be-
tween 5000 and 500 feet, headed for
Erie, Pa. | didn't go over this city, but
steered to the south for Hornell. Every
thing was going smoothly, but knew that
/ was getting no help from the wind and
4 that my gas was getting low
Two miles from Hornell knew that
would have to make landing Ny gas
had given out, and there was only one
thing to do-to glide down into Hornell
and make the best landing that | could ="
Miss Law flew from Chicago to Bing-
hamton, distance by rail of 7s5 miles,
in six hours and 81 minutes. time being
deducted for the descent at Hornell
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
MRS. LUCIE A. BRACKETT.
Death Took Place in Home of Daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dennison Cowles.

Mrs. Lucie A. (Taylor) Brackett, IS,
widow of Dana Fitch Brackett, died
Sunday evening at 10 clock in the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Dennison
Cowles, at Z Brook street. She had
been in failing health since the death
of her son, Wilford H. Bracket, last
July and for nine weeks had been con
fined to her bed
Mrs. Bracket was born May 20,
1888, in Guilford, daughter of Joseph
Green and Belinda Weatherhead Tay-
lor. She attended the schools of Gull
ford, Glenwood seminary in West
Brattleboro and Q private seminary in
Westminster, Mass. She taught school
in Guilford and later in Brattleboro.
She married, Sept. II, 1860, Dana
Fitch Bracket and soon after their
marriage they moved to Brattleboro,
where Mr.. Brackett, for many years a
foreman in the Estey organ plant, died
Oct. 20, 1907. Three children were
born to them, a son, who died in in
fancy, Wilford H. Bracket, cashier of
the Peoples National bank, who died
July 9 of this year, and Lucie l., wife
of Dennison Cowles She leaves also
three grandchildren, in whom she al
ways took great interest. They are
Adele A. and Dennison Brackett
Cowles and Roger Arnold Bracket, all
of Brattleboro.
Mrs. Bracket united with the Uni
versalist church June 81, 1872, and
while her health permitted was active
in the work of the church and a teach
er in the Sunday school.
Mrs. Bracket found much pleasure
i'll flowers and in birds which came to
her window in large numbers to be fed
She was a woman of sterling qualities
bright, animated and CHEEKY, a sincere,
sympathetic and dependable friend
who held in an unusual degree the af-
feetion of all who knew her intimately
The funeral services will be private
Rev. E. Q. S. Osgood, pastor of the
Unitarian church officiating. The
burial will take place in Prospect hill
cemetery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
State Charged Guilford Man
With killing Deer in
Closed Season
DEFENSE CALLS
BUT ONE WITNESS
Hardware Dealer Says Cord with
Which Deer Was Tied Is Staple Ar
tlcle Sold at All Hardware Stores
and Bought by All Glasses.

1he Jufymen who heard SATURDAY. in
the municipal court room the evidence
IN the ease of the state against Ernest
Parmenter of Guilford, charged with
Killing deer before the opening of the
season, reported after two hours delib-
Grafton that it was impossible for them
to agree. They were discharged.
When the afternoon session opened.
NJ. L. Bennett, who was hunting with
Arthur Baker, road commissioner of
Gullford, and who discovered the dead
buck and dead doe, was put on the
stand for the state. He testified to
finding the earcasses and to their con-
ditlon. He also told of having aided
IN the search of the Parmenter house
and of finding hair stuck on a leg
OF the kitchen table. He had saved the
hair at the request of Frank L. Well.
man, deputy fish and game warden,
carrying it in a case in which were
goggles, such as railroad men and mo-
torists wear.
He was cross examined at length by
Attorney A. F. Schwenk for the re-
| spondent. Mr.. Sehwenk spent consid-
erable time in learning exactly where
the hair was found and how it was
| preserved
DR.. Herbert W. Taylor, of the Brat
| tleboro Retreat staff, testified that he
| had examined under a powerful micro
scope two hairs brought to him by
State s Attorney O. B. Hughes and
| Deputy Warden Wellman and had COM
! pared them with hairs taken from the
| carcass of a deer and found them iden-
teal. He had compared them with
hairs taken from fox pelt and found
them very different. On cross examina-
! tion he could not swear that they were
not hairs from another animal, such as
| a coon or a skunk.
! The defense called only one witness,
Rollin Il. Brown of the hardware firm
of Lowell Brown. He testified that
the cord which had been put in evi-
dence by the state as having been
found in the hunting coat of the re-
spondent and which corres2onded to
piece of cord found tied about one of
the legs of the deer, was staple arti-
Gle sold in all hardware stores and was
bought unfortunately by all classes
of people for various purposes.
After the jurymen had once reported
that they could not agree the court
sent them back to try again, with the
same result.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
HUNTING ACCIDENT A FAKE.
Residents of Essex Hunt Two DAYS for
Arthur Gibson.

BURLINGTON, VT, Nov. 20. = The
story of Arthur Gibson of Manchester,
n. H., who while hunting deer in Es-
sex was supposed to have been acci-
dentally shot and then lost in the for
est, turns out to be fake. The yarn
was invented by Gibson himself.
The story that he had been discov-
cred wounded in the hip by Walter Web
ster of Charlotte, who had trudged to
the nearest farm for help, started the
whole countryside to searching for the
supposed victim. The hunt occupied
Friday afternoon until dark and part
of Saturday without result.
Webster said he had never heard of
Gibson, who has left this region after
seeing how his hoax worked.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
Experts Predict Advance of
Entente Forces Along
Road to Prilep
CRITICAL CONDITION
AGAIN IN GREECE
Demand by Entente for Turning Over
Of Virtually All Arms and Artillery
of Greek Camp-Villages Occupied
Beyond Monastir.

The capture OF Monastir By Gen. Sar
rails army in Macedonia is looked upon
by entente writer's as Of notable political
Importance, but opinion appears to be di-
vided as to whether it will be followed
by artillery developments Of sweeping
character
Events Of the next day or two are ex-
pected to show whether the captors of
the Macedonian capital will require a pc
Rod OF rest before starting new advance
or whether the pursuit OF the retreating
Gcrman.Bulgarian force is to be pressed
despite adverse weather conditions.
Some experts predict an advance by the
entente forces along the road to PriIep, to
be followed by thrust from Prilep to-
ward Negotin on the Nardar with the OBJ
ject Of outtlanking the Bulgarians and
opening up the frontier passes northwest
OF Saloniki.
The situation in Greece apparently has
reached another of it's critical stages, fol-
lowing the demand by the entente for the
turning over OF virtually all the arms and
artillery OF the Greek army. 1t is report
ed today in a news agency despatch from
Athens that the ministers Of the central
powers have been ordered by the entente
authorities 10 leave Greece by Wedncs-
day
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
BATTLE OF SOMME
AT A STANDSTILL
Now Agency in Berlin Says General
Battle Has Eeen Split into
Isolated Attacks.

BERLIN. by wireless. Nov. 20.-The
military critic Of the Over Seas News
agency writes; The great thrust on the
Somme has come TO complete standstill.
Last week the general battle was split
into isolated attacks The small local
successes OF the enemy could not be de-
ycloped and for the most part were nulli-
fed by counter attacks The fact that for
several weeks the same villages have been
mentioned again and again in the official
German report and those Of the entente is
the best proof that the general battle on
the SOmmc has come to a standstill -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
MEXICAN WRECK
COST ISL LIVES
Four Cars Roll Over Cliff on the Vera
Cruz Line-No Americans Lost,
Laredo Reports.

LAREDO, Texas, Nov. 20. - One
hundred and ffty-nine persons were
killed and many injured in a railroad
wreck on the lnter-Oceanic line to Vera
Cruz, between Dehesa and San Miguel
near Jalapa, on Nov. l., according to
reliable reports received here.
The wreck is said to have been due
to the engineer running at too high a
rate of speed over a dangerous part OF
the road.
According to this message, all but
one Of the five cars of the train left the
track and rolled over a cliff. The pas
sengers were literally ground to pieces
No Americans were among the dead, it
was said.
Among the killed are said to have
been a widow and her seven small chil.
dren.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
SCOUT COUNCIL
MAY BE FORMED
Meeting to Be Held Tonight in Epis-
copal Churcfl-Necessary Papers
Already Are on Hand.

There is expectation that the meeting
called for this evening at 7.45 O'Clock in
the choir room of the Episcopal church to
discuss the formation of local council
OF Boy Scouts will be largely attended A
number OF men known to be interested
in work interesting to boys have been
invited informally to attend and others
have signifed their intention of being
present. The invitation is general to ali
who are interested in matters pertaining
to boys. All members of the clergy of the
town are interested in the movement. The
necessary papers are on hand in the event
that 1t is decided to organize such coun-
cil at the meeting this evening
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
WOMAN FOUND IN
BED UNCONSCIOUS
Had Been There Probably More than
"a Hours = Sustained Shock -
Fires Out and Clock Stopped.

Mrs. Maria Hadley, an aged West
Brattleboro woman, suffered a shock
probably in the night Friday in her
home in l. E. Bond S house She was
taken yesterday morning to the Mel
rose hospital, where her condition re-
mains unchanged, her speech being af-
fected and she being in a semi-con
scious state. Mrs. Hadley recently re
turned from a visit of several weeks at
George Washer s and was apparently
in her usual health. She was last seen
Friday. Yesterday morning, as Mr..
Bond had not remembered seeing her
during the day Saturday, he went to
her rooms and found her in bed un-
conscious. Her fires We're out and the
clock had stopped. 1t is assumed that
she retired Friday evening as well as
usual.