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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
WEST DUMMERSTON.
Library Benefit Melted SIS.

The benefit for the Lydia Taft Pratt
library Friday, October 81, was a
greater success than any one had an
ticipated, netting about SIS. Every
one seemed to enjoy the chicken pie
supper served by the ladies. Unfor-
tunately there was not chicken-pie
enough for those who came late. Anoth-
er year they will be prepared for a
larger crowd.
Following the supper all assembled
IN the hall, and drawing was taken
for the bedquilt, for which numbered
holders had previously been sold. Mrs.
Young of West Dummerston held No.
So, which was the corresponding num-
Der drawn by Mr.. Tenney. Therefore
Mrs Young had the quilt.
Two years ago Dr. Grace w Bur
nett wrote history of Mrs. Lydia
Taft Pratt g early life and read it at
the "beneft' which was given then
This year this history written in verse
by DR.. Grace Burnett was read by c.
B. Crowell of Brattleboro
If Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Pratt were
here nothing would please them more
than to know that the Lydia Taft Pratt
library is growing.
Following is the evenings program;
Address of welcome, Miss Taft; poem
Early Life of Lydia Taft Pratt. b.
DR.. Grace W. Burnett, C. B. Crowell;
song, Won t You Come to Dolly Z
Party?, five little girls; recitation
White Azalcas, Miss Farnum; song
Love s Old Sweet Song, G. F. Brigham
Miss Ring, Miss Grace Phillips, Miss
Alice Ring, Miss Edith Phillips, with
guitar accompaniment; recitation. Why
the Dogs Nose is Always Cold by
Lord Byron, Miss Taft; song, Tom Bi g
Bee River, by S. L. Steele, Miss Ring
Miss Grace Phillips, Miss Alice Ring
Miss Edith Phillips, with guitar; song
Asleep in the Deep, Wilfred NORM, Mis-;
Dewitt piano accompanist; recitation
Forest Hymn, by William Cullen Bry
ant, Miss Taft; song, Dixie S Land, by
Dan Emmett, Miss Ring, with guitar
song, End of a Perfect Day, Miss Elsi,
Clark, Miss Bernice Clark, piano &C
companist; duet, Ching-aL Ling, ar
ranged by Louis Tocaben, Miss Taft
Miss Ring, in Spanish costume witt
/ guitar. There was dancing until Iii:
| p. IN. to victrola music.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
GRAFTON.

S. A. Leonard is at home from his
duties at Newfane.
Mrs. David Hakey returned from
Bellows Falls Sunday.
Miss Harriet n. Locke of Rrattle-
boro spent Sunday with Mrs. r. w.
Barlow.
Mrs. E. C. Brown came Saturday to
stay with Mrs. II. A. Alexander for an
indefinite time.
Ernest Lawrence and family have
gone to Saxtons River for the winter
The Tavern will be closed until their
return.
The headstone for Rev. E. J. Ward
was placed in the village cemetery last
week. His two sons have added 5000
to the cemetery fund.
The board of civil authority will
meet in the town clerk 5 office in Graf
ton Saturday from to 5 clock for
the revision of the check list. Every
voter should see that his name is on
the list.
A very pleasant reception was given
at the Baptist vestry Tuesday evening
The room was beautifully decorated for
the occasion. Mr.. and Mrs. F. O. Mer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
LANDGROVE.

Ernest Fisher of Manchester was in
town Sunday.
Isaac Rush has bought the place for
meFlv occupied by George B. Shaw.
David Melendy is putting a new
roof on the house of W. II. Chadwick.
Frank Howard of Ludlow is trapping
in this locality and boarding at NJ. d.
Bates's
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wolcott, n. L.
Wolcott and Henry Abbott were in
Dandy Saturday.
The Christmas tree cutters have fin
ished their work here for the present
and gone to Windham.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Beers visited
his sister, Mrs. 2. +. Bowen, in Dorset
Saturday, returning Monday.
A. A. Towslee and Arthur Bates
went TO Chester last week Wednesday
after shingles for the church.
Mr. and Mrs George c. Thomson
went on a pleasure trip to Pawlet and
Granville Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Ahial Crandall visited her par
ents, Mi. and Mrs Ozro BufTum, in
Manchester Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. +. A. Rush returned from the
hospital in Rutland last week Thurs.
day somewhat improved in health.
l.. j. Woodward returned Monday
from a visit of several weeks with
relatives in Boston, Maiden and other
places in Massachusetts.
j. L. Thomson, A. A. Towslee, Frank
Marden and Ahial Crandall went to
Ludlow last week Thursday evening to
attend the potato demonstration meet
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Sheldon, who
had been visiting Mrs. Sheldon S par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Barton, two
weeks, returned to their home in Men
don Friday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
NO ENEMY KILLED BoELKE.
Death Due to Collision with German
Aeroplane.

BERLIN, Nov. 4. - The accident
which resulted in the death of Captain
Boelke, Germany's premier aviator,
was due to a collision with a German
and not an enemy aeroplane.
Although Captain Boelke s machine
was seriously damaged at an altitude
of 1000 meters, he retained control of
il until he was 500 meters above the
ground, where he encountered a sud
den gust of wind and the machine got
out of hand and crashed to earth. Ac-
cording to a comrade of Captain
Boelke who spoke Tuesday at the fun
eral service of the dead aviator at
Cambria, the body showed no bullet
wounds. and death was due to a frac-
tured skull.
Captain Boelke's body was sent to
the home of his family at Dessau, An
halt, Tuesday after brief but impress
sive funeral services, which were at
tended by Crown Prince Rupprecht
and Generals Won Below, Won Mar
sehall, Sixt Won Arnim, and many other
high officers and thousands of soldiers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
LOOK AT AjCHILD'S
TONGUE WHEN CROSS,
FEVERISH AND SICK
Take no chances Move poisons from
liver and bowels at

Mothers can rest easy after giving
California Syrup of Figs because in
a few hours all the clogged-up waste,
sour bile and fermenting food gently
moves out of the bowels, and you have
a well, playful child again. Children
simply will not take the time from
play to empty their bowels, and they
become tightly packed, liver gets slug
gish and stomach disordered.
When cross, feverish, restless, see if
tongue is coated, then give this deli
cious "fruit laxative.' Children love
it, and il can not cause injury. No diff
ference what ails your little one-if
full of cold, or a sore throat, diarrhoea,
stomach ache, bad breath, remember, a
gentle "inside cleansing should al
ways be the first treatment given. Full
directions for babies, children of all
ages and grown-ups on each bottle.
Beware Of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask
your druggist for a 50-cent bottle Of
"California Syrup of Figs then look
carefully and see that it is made by the
''Calfornia Fig Syrup Company We
make no smaller size. Hand back with
contempt any other fig syrup.-Advt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
BOY KILLED AND
HIS MOTHER INJURED
Runaway Team Crashed into a Tree on
Elm Street in Claremont, N. H.,
Yesterday

CLAREMONT, n. H., Now ed
ward Fleury, 10 years of age, was
instantly killed, and his mother, Mrs
Esdres Fleury of Grand View, was bad
ly injured shortly after u clock yes
terdav noon in a runaway accident on
Elm street.
Mrs. Fleury and her sol were driving
down West Terrace street, according to
reports, when the horse became unman-
ageable as Mrs. Fleurv raised her UNI
brella. The frightened animal dashed
down West Terrace "Id around the cor
ner into Elm street, heading toward the
lower village. There is large tree on
the lawn of the w. p Walker home, and
the horse headed straight for this. The
body of the wagon collided forcibly
with the tree, and young Fleury was
hurled violently out, striking his head
against the trunk.
Passers-by, including the homeward
going noon crowds from the shops,
FASTENED to remove the young man from
the wreckage of the wagon, but death
had apparently ensued almost at once.
Mrs. Fleury was badly shaken up and
somewhat bruised, and sustained a
broken arm as well.
Young Fleury had for some time this
summer been employed in the foundry
of the Sullivan shop. He is survived
| by a brother and two sisters, i'll addi-
tion to his parents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
Rivers of Gasoline.

we VIII consume, in this country, this
year almost 2,0OO,O00,000 gallons of
gasoline; which is the equivalent of a
stream SIX feet wide and one foot deep
flowing at the rate of one mile an hour.
FIVE years ago gasoline retailed at So
cents III England and from 40 to -
cents on the continent, and there are
those who even predict 40-cent gasoline
here some day. Recent improvements in
refining have considerably increased the
percentage of gasoline extracted, and
inventors are confident of perfectino
carburetOrs which will use kerosene !:
but for the present we are confronted
with a decrease in the gasoline content
of the older oil wells, and an insufficient
capacity in the refining plants. Our ex-
ports, however, of gasoline in 1915 were
considerably less than in 1914, al
though more crude oil was sent abroad.
There is also strong probability that,
with the reconstruction and resumption
OF business abroad at the close of the
war, consumption there will be much
greater than now. Horses Will be scarce
and time will be everything, and the
motor car and truck will receive a great
impetus. just how long the present
oil wells will continue to produce, or
when and where new oil fields will be
discovered, no one can say with Ger
tainty. Before that day arrives, how
ever, it is fair to expect that chemists
will have found some substitute, or in
ventors a method of making one gallon
do the work of more.-H. II. Windsor,
in the September Popular Mechanics
| Magazine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
WEST WARDSBORO.

Leonard Newell and friend Of Whining
ton We're at L. o. Newells Sunday
Mrs Boynton of South Londonderry is
at Mrs f. o. Robinson's for few days.
Mrs. Luana White has gone to the Cen.
ter to be housekeeper for Dorr Wake
field
Rev f. w. Johnson attended the min
listers meeting in South Windham Tues
day
Moses Sheldon, who was in this place a
few days last week, has returned to his
home IN Dorset
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
PACK APPLES IN sAWDUST.
Experiments at University of Vermont
Show How 20 Store Fruit.

The University of Vermont in bulletin
No. 1856, on Farm Apple Storage, sum
marizes the problem as follows:
Trials have been conducted to ascertain
the value OF different mechanical media in
preserving apples. Mill sawdust, leaves,
chopped hay, paper wrappers and sand
have been used. Shrinkage and decay
losses have been determined, and estimates
made as to appearance and flavor Only
the mill sawdust and cork sawdust seem TO
possess value. All the media kept the
apples cooler than when no media were
used; but shrinkage, decay and flavor I'M
palrment were more fatal than the Their
mometer Mil sawdust from resinous
woods imparts an undesirable flavor to APP
pies, but hardwood sawdust does not in
jure their flavor
/ Four kinds Of protective dips We're en-
ployed to determine their influence on the
preservation of apples, copper sulphate,
bordeaux mixtures, limewater and parattin
being used as immersion fluids preliminary
TO storage. Bordeaux was most effective
in retarding decay and preserving the
flavor
Apples keep best by first immersina
them in bordeaux and then packing them
in hardwood sawdust, Vet apples that arc
merely dipped in bordeaux keep nearly as
long as those treated, and subsequently
packed in sawdust, and their favor is il
anything, better. The structure of the
flesh and skin of an apple have much IL
do with its keeping qualities The bas,
keeping varieties have firm flesh, com
pact tissue and thick and highly impet-
vious skin
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
All Remaining 1916 Issues Free.

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
TO RUN BOOZE SPECIALS.
Railroad to Put Two Trains into Oak
1and-CharleSton Service.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Nov. 4. =
orders ISSUED by the chesapeake q
two special trains on which persons
carrying legally labeled liquor viii be
permitted to travel. The trains will
move each Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday between Ashland, KY, and
charleston. Each passenger may carry
one suit case filed with liquor, the ease
to be no longer than "a by Is by eight
inches. Persons will not be permitted
to transport liquor on regular trains, 4
regulation which has been in force fo1
some time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
FIRE AT WINDSOR.
House and Barn on Ayers Estate De-
stroyed-Loss $4,000.

WINDSOR, Nov. 4. - Fire which
broke out shortly after Z o'clock Thurs.
day evening in the barn owned by Mrs
Belle Ayers's estate to the north of this
town, spread to the house and resulted
in the destruction of both buildings
with loss of about $4,000.
The fire, the origin of which is un.
known, was discovered shortly after il
had broken out, and the alarm was rung
in. The fire department, however, found
itself unable to cope with the situation
by reason of the fact that the buildings
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04

were too far beyond the hydrant system
to make use of the town s water sup
ply. The flames spread rapidly, and in
short time the buildings were in ruins.
One horse and one cow were burned
to death in the barn. The greater
part of the household furniture was re-
moved from the house before it burned.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N. II.
Grange Fair Decided Success.

The Grange fair Friday was de-
cided success. The Grange room was
filled with vegetables, fruit, plants,
canned goods, cookery and work by the
school children. The fancy table CON
tanned articles by William Clarke and
several aged ladies, also Mary Webb
of Chesterfield Center. There were three
kittens by Mrs. c. H. Robinson, pair
of Rhode Island Reds by Merle Cob
leigh, pair of White Wyandotts by
Mary Cobleigh and a plate OF 10 Rose
Comb Rhode Island Red eggs by Cora
Chamberlain. The judges were Mr..
and Mrs. Will Hannum, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Robbins and Mr. and Mrs. Grin
d. Farr Of Brattleboro. In the evening
the farce, Double Crossed, though short
drew full house. 1t was very well rem
dered and enjoyed by all and was fol
lowed by dancing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
DOlNGS OF TIE VAN LOOMS

HAVING MADE a DUE
Explanation REC ARptNc
JOHN BraPh<,NS WE
OAN NOW RESOHE MRER
We LEFT CEE VITA Our
LIVE, NOBLE AND wEALT,AS
LOVER OF CRAZE NaR.
VAN DER NvURST
LETS SEG MA aAo
JoS TOLD GRACE THAT
VAN pE4o -NNURST WAS
ASNVAT NC EGR ~ TnE
ARLCE
OUR FN!5 ND MAS
evident. CONS XutTA
- .-NEb DuRpoSE ~
MS n1iAb iE NOT WIN
SNoUIO WE WASTE TINE
AND SPAS VITA Ann
WHAT - TAiS pURpoSE'
Az S.E SHALL SEE
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04

rifcld and Mr.. and Mrs Ned Wright
assisted in receiving. Refreshments
were served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04

The snail has long tongue which is
coiled so that it uses only part at one
time. The tongue is covered with tiny
teeth.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04

Mrs. S. C. Bothwell's cousin, Elmer
son Opdyke, and wife and daughter OF
Bryan, Ohio, visited her last week. They
attended the dairy show at Springfield
Mass, before coming here, and when
they went Mrs. Boutwell, accompanied
them to Northamr ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04

'FoT the land $ sake-use Bawker S
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and
those who till II.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
History Of the
National Banking System

of n
the smaller
have representation
city banks which entirely solvent but could
as to what ought to be done This National Monetary Commission
dch OF Rhode Island has been called names and assaulted
Ieaclony Wall
mended
still
and the Adrich
municipal
that it makeslift failed
THE VERMONT NATIONAL BANK
Banking Series No. Is.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04

France has 100000 womeu domestic ser
wants
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
A FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Moran & Rohde

Embalmers and Funeral Directors
s4MNnnuARha Es6tsy Main ST., Brattleboro
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-04
IN THE HOUR OF DEATH

we still have to keep our minds on
things transient. Death claims all, but
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-10

insulted and outraged in that manner even
during the lawless and hideous era Of Re
construction.
Federal soldiers with guns in their hands,
confronted Benz. H. Hill when he made his
famous Davis Hall speech, and the fierce at
tack which he made upon the Radical Re-
publicans in that Speech in his Bush Arbor
speech, and in his 'Notes on the Situation"
were bitterly resented by the North, but no
threat was ever made to seize him and take
him among his enemies for trial in a Northern
court
When the Government prosecuted the Ku
Klux, the defendants were not removed from
the States.
What chance would the Red Shirts of Gen
eral Gary. General Butler, General Hampton
and Ben Tillman have had, if they had been
indicted in Maine or Illinois?
What chance would Generals Forrest,
Toombs, and DuBose have had, if they had
been prosecuted in Pennsylvania?
Governor Harris remembers that frightful
period in Southern history; and he knows
full we'll that General Gordon Howell Cobb,
Ben Hill, Linton Stephens, Bob Aston, Gen
eral Ranse Wright and other stalwart Geor-
gians could not have driven out the negro and
the Carpet Dagger in 1868, if the Carpet
baggers could have prosecuted those Geor-
gians in the Northern states.
Lamar and WalthaIl would have hen
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-10

law, than it is for New York to so feebly
enforce HER laws, that men can be hired to
commit murder, at from five dollars up?
Only a few days ago, a New York girl
admitted that she hired couple of men to
murder woman whom she desired to get out
of the way.
Would society have suffered serious In
jury it a mob had taken hold of that beastly
Catholic priest, Schmidt, and put him to
death, when his awful crime against his con
cublne, Anna Aumuller, had been judicially
ascertained?
A more horrible murder was never com
mltted, since Cain killed his brother; yet for
three years that blood stained priest has made
mockery of the laws of New York
Was it triumph for justice, when Gov
ernor Dix pardoned Albert Patrick, who had
been legally convicted of the poisoning of old
man Rice, to get his money?
Did the Supreme Court of Missouri strike
noble blow for justice, when it reversed the
conviction of the St. Louis boodlers, who had
been legally tried and condemned, but whose
sentences were annulled, because of the omis-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-10
Is Georgia the Worst OF All the States =?
Vol. I.3, No. Z

THE Montgomery Advertiser is greatly
disturbed by the lynchings which have
taken place in Georgia.
Which ones?
Was it any worse for the people of our
State to lynch negroes who brutally murdered
a sheriff, than it was for the Alabama people
to lynch negroes who were accused of poison
ing mule?
Naturally, we think more OF our sheriffs
than we do Of our mules.
Of course, if different rule prevails on
the other side Of the Chattahoochee, it isn't
our fault.
Is Alabama afflicted with peculiarly bad
Lot Of sheriffs, or is she blessed with an espe-
clally fine brand Of mules?
Why this invidious discrimination in favor
OF the animal which has no pride Of ancestry
and no hope Of posterity?"
According to the best Of my recollection,
Alabama has had her fair share of lynch
Law, and we Georgians have always been
willing to assume that the coons strung up
by Alabama deserved what they got
Is it worse for the State Of Georgia to
lynch negro for numbering an officer of the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-10

equally helpless in Mississippi Morgan, in
Alabama; Harris in Tennessee; Ransom and
Vance, III North Carolina; the Lees and their
supporters, in Virginia.
Where would the States be, if they surrender
their jurisdiction over their citizens, allowing
the Federal Government to drag into other
States, alleged 'moonshiners," defaultcrs,
rioters, bank wreckcrs, cheats and swndlers,
yiolators Of the Sherman law, of the income
tax law, of the Internal Revenue law. of the
mailing laws, Of the libel laws, and so on?
1t would be anarchy in judicial procedure.
Did the Government try to snatch the ac-
cused Night Riders of Tennessee into Della
ware?
Are robbers of the mails tried in New Eng
land for crimes committed in the West?
Are Southern moonshiners taken to Mich
igan?
Are the white slavers of the North brought
South for trial?
Such a system would lead to monstrous
abuses, and it would annihilate historic pre-
cedents as we'll as personal security
Governor Harris, being a good lawyer,
knows that the conspiracy law cannot be APP
piled to an editor, or to a publishing COM
pany, whose subscribers are not its agents,
and which has no news-d dealing, or distribute
ing agency outside the State.
The Governor is no doubt familiar with
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sion Of the article ''the" before the words,
estate of Missouri" in the Indictment?
Did the Supreme Court of the United
States deepen our respect for law, when it
interpolated the word unreasonable" into the
Statute which said "all combinations in re-
straint of trade" were criminal?
When the law was ON its passage, al effort
was made to insert the word unreasonable"
before the word ''combnation,' but Congress
rejected the amendment.
In spite of the official record. showing what
Congress meant by the law, the Jesuit who
now controls the Court deliberately inter-
polated the rejected word into the Statute,
and thus gave liberty, immunity and legality
to the Big Rich criminals whom Congress
was trying to reach and punish.
Has anybody's respect for law been in
creased by the Juggling of the Diggs-Cam
minetti case, where two white men Of Cali
fornia were accused of debauching two school
girls, taking them into Colorado, to live with
them?
These men have been convicted, the Circuit
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