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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
PREPARATIONS FOR
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Fair in Festival Hall Tomorrow After
noon and Entertainment with
Operetta in Evening

The annual fair of St Miehael's Roman
Catholic parish and entertainment bv chill
dTen OF the parish will be held tomorrow
afternoon and evening, st. Patrick's dav.
IN Festival hall. The hall will be open in
the afternoon for the sale of fancy and
useful articles at the different booths and
there will eb fshpond for children.
he entertainment in the evening will
begin at s O'Clock The first number Of
the program will be The Dance of the
Flowers by Anna Fleming and Gladys
Russell. When We Were Little Girls will
be gwen by the intermediate girls. A
reading and drill entitled A Good I'm.
brella will be given by the intermediate
boys, followed by a motion song. Dolly.
Dolly. by Our Babies
The concluding number will be an
operetta, The Wild Rose, with the follow
ing cast of characters
Rose McCloud, popular society belle,
Mary Kennedy; Mary Forsythe Rose !
secretary and friend Helen Mann. Mrs
Pussy, her housekeeper. Marion LONG.
Lady Grey, an ecentric playwright. Mary
Danyew; Miss Wnteup and Miss Putem-
down, reporters; katherine Garrity and
Katherine Denning; Dora, Flora, Molly
and Polly, debutantes, Alice Manning.
Marguerite Haus, Mary Pellerin and Anna
lemlng; Miss Talkalot, suffragette, Isa-
belle Cavanaugh; Mrs Doingood, charity
worker, Charlotte O'Connen; Madame
Sewseams, dressmaker, Evelyn Austin
Madame teathertop, milincr, Mary
Grady; Madame Smellsweet, perfumer.
Elsie Danyew; Bobby, the buttons. GLADYS
Russell; city people and country people !:
maids, intermediate girls: military drill.
senior boys; captain, Justin Moran: lead
er, Daniel Curtin.
The plot of the operetta is as follows
Rose McCloud, the most popular Young
society belle of her time. is bored with
her artificial existence An endless round
OF festivities and a maddening procession
OF debutantes, newspaper interviewers.
charity and reform leaders seeking her
financial support, dressmakers, milliners.
etc, drive her to distraction. Having
achieved great success in society theatri-
Gals, she decides to go on the stage, and is
deslrous OF obtaining the leading role in a
play by Lady Grey, an eccentric play
wright Much to her amazement and dis
appointment, Lady Grey fatty refuses to
consider her for the part and will not even
grant her an interview, thinking her far
too frivolous for the work. In utter dis
gust she decides to leave the city sur
roundlngs, which have become so hateful.
and go to the country under an assumed
name.
The second act takes place in the coun-
try establishment, where, thoroughly en-
joying the simple life, she succeeds in ont
whiting an unlimited and undesired throng
OF city admirers who have tracked her to
her country home and come to pay her
adulation. Meanwhile she makes friends
with fine old country lady, who lives
next door and who turns out to be LADY
Grey. When the latter discovers the true
identity of Rose she promises her the de-
sired role in the play, and all ends happily
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
CARRIERS KEEPING
VARIETY OF RECORDS
Counting Mail, Weighing Parcels, Keep
ing Account of Time in ONCE and
Other Details.

The carriers connected with the local
postoifice are having an especially busy
week. Besides the hard going which
makes it difficult for them to cover their
routes, they are keeping count of all the
mail they handle, besides various other
records. The separate records they are
keeping this week include the number of
letters carried, the number of cards. the
number of parcels under four pounds
weight, the number over four pounds
weight, the number of trips omitted. the
number curtailed, the total number of let
ters returned to the postoffice for lack of
time to deliver them, the total weight of
all mail delivered, the weights of the heavi-
est and the lghtest loads. the number OF
trips made, the amount of time spent in
the office routing the mail, and the total
time consumed by each carrier on govern
ment work during the week.
All OF this is required by the postal de-
partment in order that the authorities in
Washington may determine the actual need
for any additional carrier service that
might be asked for by the local Office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
BRANDEIS WAS GIVEN
A FEE OF S225, 900
Got Over Ten Per Cent of the Sum Re
covered from the Organizers of
Copper Company.

WASHINGTON. March 16.-Charles
5. Smith, president of the Old Domin-
ion Copper company of New jersey,
told yesterday to the senate judiciary
subcommittee investigating the fit
ness of Louis d. Brandies to be a
supreme court justice, that Mr.. Bran
deis had received between 1925, 1000
ana S230,000 secret profits obtained
by A. $. Bigelow and others in or
ganizing the company.
As one of the two trustees an
pointed to distribute to stockholders
who went into the Old Dominion Cop
per company Of Maine, any recovery
to which they might be ent tied.
Smith said he had been paid to date
$4,000.
Mr.. Smith said as to the fees
Brandeis should be paid, it was agreed
TO recommend to the board of di-
reetors that they should pay Brandies
$1,000 year, and in addition not less
than ten per cent of any amount re-
covered. The directors approved the
arrangement. The fees of the trus-
tees were fixed at five per cent of the
amount recovered, Smith said.
Tell us what you did to earn the
$4,000, said Senator Works.
We have received S1,s00.000 and
were required to keep it until il could
be distributed, replied Smith 1--WE
issued trust receipts and during the
fourteen years the suit was in prog
ress we kept books of the transfer of
the receipts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
WITHIN REASONABLE TIME.

The public service commission of
Vermont on Sept. Is, 1916, made the
following order relative to the
equipment of the local trolley road:
Tt is ordered that the use of the
two closed cars now operated by the
Brattleboro Street Railway company
known as Nos. and be discon-
tinued in the regular service and ex-
cepting as emergency requires their
use, and that said Brattleboro
Street Railway company place in
operation the new car above men
toned (No. 81 and within a reason
able time procure and place in oper
alton another new closed car, In
place of said cars Nos. and 81
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
TAX COMMISSIONER
MEETS THE LISTERS
Charles A. Plumley Holds Conference
with Them In Festival Hall-Mat-
ters of Importance Considered.

The annual conference of the listers
of Windham county with Tax Commits
sioner Charles A. Plumley of Mortified.
as required by the statutes, opened
this afternoon at l clock in Festival
hall. The storm prevented many, who
otherwise would have been there, from
attending the meeting, only a few over
30 being present as against an attend
anee of 80 last year.
Mr.. Plumley first made reference to
the bulletin he sent recently to every
lister and which was printed in The
Reformer. He then distributed print
ed slips calling attention to errors in
that bulletin. This was worded:
Please note that the following cor
rections should be made in the bulletin
as printed,-viz:
Page 2, section 4, line s, strike out
the words "the debts claimed and es-
tablished by
Page "a, fourth paragraph, line s.
should read eff a taxpayer owes. ;,
Page 25, line s, after the word
F" the, insert exempt;' should read
."t the exempt personal, ETC.
Page 25, line % and %, strike out
'subd. (b) of Sec. 3 of No. 34 of 1915. >
and insert in lieu thereof .'Sec. of
No. 81 of 19l5.''
In his talk he called attention to the
changes In the taxation laws made by
the legislatures of 1908, 1910. 1912 and
1915 and emphasized especially that it
is the Indebtedness on which per cent
or over is paid that entities the tax
payer to an offset. Five per cent does
not.
He referred to No. IS of the laws of
1915 which facilitates the collection of
poll taxes and to No. 81 providing for
special deputies to determine the val
ne of power plants, mills, dams and
other special forms of taxable proper
ty.
He distributed examples in taxation
to the listers, worked out in detail,
which cover many of the principal
problems the listers encounter in their
work and which viii simplify their
work if they follow the methods shown.
Amos j. Eaton of South Royalton, a
member of the state forestry board.
spoke on forestry taxation and illus
trated his talk with diagrams.
The following were the listers pres
ent as shown by their signatures on
cards distributed among them:
c. G. Miller and W. c. Ober of
Westminster, Edwin L. Rix of Dummer-
ston, III. f. Sparks and w. NJ. Win
chester of Newfane, f. II. Stilwell.
Rockingham; f. b. Batchelder, Town
shend; F. A. Betterley and Abram J.
Currier, Brattleboro; E. f. Knapp.
Townshend; +. o. Gould, Wardsboro;
n. t. Peirce, jamaica; Earl H. Lackey.
Winhall; w. s. Allen and R. H. Wheel
er, Jamaica; Lncius f. Benson, Win
hall; Z. S. Bellows and L. f. Titus.
Wilmington; George f. Osgood, A. G.
Wellman and Hoyt Marsh of Brookline :
Carl I. Reed, Dummerston; d. NJ. Da-
mon and c. F. Simonds, Rockingham
r. G. Loomis, Putney; F. W. Stoddard
and Ernest w. Dunklee, Vernon; F. Y.
Wilbur and Nj. A. Walker. Grafton ;
Charles f. Lazelle, II. NJ. Brown and
J. c. Brown, Dover; \. r. Davis,
Grafton; Ozias NJ. George, Rocking
ham.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16

Mr.. Graham was born in Greensboro.
Vt, Jan. 8, 1884. He graduated from
Hardwiek academy and from the Al
bany law school in 1907. beginning the
practice of law in Bellows Falls the
same year. He has been very success
full in his professional work. In his
home community he has served as au-
ditor for the town of Rockingham and
the village of Bellows Fslls and as
town grand juror. He was secretary
of civil and military affairs under Gov.
Fletcher and as representative from
Rockingham was one of the leaders in
the last legislature, serving as chair
man of the judiciary committee.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
Torpedo Missed Fabre Liner
Patria by a Margin of
Only 20 Feet
TWENTY AMERICAN
LIVES ENDANGERED
There Were 900 Passengers on the Yes
sel-Consul General Arnold, Who In
tended to Report to Washingto Died
on Arrival at Lisbon.

NEW YORK, March 16-While car
rying 20 Americans among her 900
passengers the Fabre liner, Patria, a
French steamer, was attacked without
warning by submarine off the coast
of Funis, according to the story told
by her captain on the Patria s arrival
here from Palermo today. 4 torpedo
fired by the submersible, he said, passed
20 feet astern of the liner.
Olney Arnold of Providence, r. T.,
American consul general at Cairo,
Egypt, was passenger on the ship
from Naples to Lisbon
He told Capt. Deschelles that he
would forward a full report of the
attack TO the United States govern
ment. 1t was news. however. to Capt.
Deschelles that cable dispatches have
since reported that Mr.. Arnold, who
was returning home, died at Lisbon
the day after his arrival
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16

The storm yesterday succeeded !,
tying up traffic on the highways and
byways of this part of Vermont more
ehectually than any previous storm of
the winter. Only a little over eiobt
inches OF snow fell. but the trouhIe
was caused by the high wind which
Whlrled the light snow into drifts that
packed in every hollow.
FRANK, .. johnson, one of the ruraI
carriers, reported that he covered ves-
terday the smallest part of his route
that ne ever covered on one trim in his
experience of about 10 wears. II ,,-as
impossible for him to make headvvay
AGAINST the wind and through the
All Of the rural carriers reporte5
great difficulty in making progress ana
every one of them had to eurtail his
route The Wilmington stage driver
got IN from Wilmington a little after
eiock yesterday noon, about two
Bours late, and the Jacksonville stage.
uue ABOUT 10 O'Clock in the morning.
reached the postoffice at 1. Neither a.
tempted to make the return trin yes-
terday, but started back this mornipg
The trolley service was fairly con-
tlnuous and in the afternoon and even
ing the ears ran most of the time on
schedule or very near it. The earlv
trips tins morning were made accord
ing TO schedule.
The 4-23 train from the north ves.ar
day afternoon was one hour and * min
utes late and the $50 afternoon train
from the south did not get in until
nearly $50 O'Clock, but these two
trans were the most affected bv The
weather, allowing that the .sowl !,
southbound early in the mornino w.
late as it usually is.
The roads where the wind had ,
sweep Yesterday and last night are ali
badly drifted today and in some of +ba
outlying districts it will be a dav or
TWO before anything resembling or5;.
nary conditions for travel win be an.
proximated.
The eight and one-quarter inches 80
snow that fell Yesterday made a to.aI
OF q inches for the month of March ~
date and total of 75 81 inches for
the winter, according to the records
Kept by Ferris R. Vaughan.
One man who is EMPLOYED in the v;l.
iage and who lives out some distance
teiePhoned his employer TODAY that he
would not be down to work TODAY be.
cause he had not yet gotten home from
yesterdays s work. A'
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
MURDERED IN CAMP.
Body of George Herbert Found in Iso-
lated Spot in Maine.

MILO, Maine, March 16-The body
OF George Herbert, . victim of mur-
der, was brought here today from his
camp at Five Islands on Schoodic lake
near Lake View plantation. The skull
was crushed by some blunt instrument.
Herbert, 1t was said, usually kept a
substantial sum of money at his camp
lie was 90 years of age and was re
tired
Blood marks We're plainly visible
around the walls and the camp had
been thoroughly rummaged, the beds
for money. Officials are convinced
Herbert made desperate fight before
he was killed. The left side of the
skull was broken in and the ear was
deeply cut.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
ANNIVERSARY OF
WOMAN'S CLUB
seven Of Nine Presidents Rece,ved
Members - Greetings and Boxes
Of Oranges from Mrs. Teuple.

The Woman s club observed its oot-
anniversary yesterday with a uood
NUMBER present, considering the storm
ana IT was a very ENJOYABLE affair
seven OF the nine presidents received
the club members, charter member
serving as ushers. The first president
and founder of the club, Mrs. Levi ID
Tempe, now of Upland, California
sent letter which was read. also t,vn
boxes OF oranges grown in her own
grove, whrh were given ont TO the
members The children OF the free
klndergarten, which Mrs. Temple vvas
uihehtal IN forming, shared in the
stit OF oranges. The next president.
MISS = susan r. Clark who served so ef-
helently in that office for six vaar.
was unable TO be present. bnt So,
greetings Brief remarks were made
by the other past presidents in the fol
lowing order: Mrs. j. +. Elmer. Mrs
=: H. Thompson, Mrs. G. T.. Warner
Mrs. Y. G. Fits, Mrs. r. b. smith and
Mrs ~ &. Dewitt, who were introduced
by the present president. Mrs. r.
Swift. =
Letters We're read from all the char
ter members who are now out of +o,gn
including Mrs. Eva Gowing Rinlev ~
Wakefield, Mass. Mrs. Frank i Pee
man of Taunton, Mass. Mrs. Hollis a
Squlers of Amherst, Mass. and Mrs. a
r. X Jenne of Hartford. Conn.
Pleasing refreshments, including sal
al, rolls. coffee and a birthday cake
with 20 candles, were served. in charge
al Mrs. Murray NJ. Tucker. chairman
OF the social committee. The two vice
presidents, Mrs. Henry r. Brown and
Mrs. Ethel Osgood. poured. Dugau's
orchestra furnished music.
The charter members now in tho
club are Mrs. G.. B. Lamson, Mrs. G.. y
Barber, Mrs. o. j. Pratt, Mrs. ]. c.
DeMitt and Miss Jessie L. Gregg. AT
Ter the meeting telegram expressing
greetings and thanks for her off was
sent to Mrs. Temple.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
ARMY
PUSHING FORWARD
Column Of 5000 Men, Representing All Arms of
Service, Began Invasion of Mexico from CoIum-
bus Strict Censorship Enforced Recruits
FIoCking to Many Stations

COLUMBUS, New Mexico, March 1G,
by mail to FL Paso-The American expe-
dition which entered Mexico yesterday
spent an uneventfu night, camped but a
short distance across the American line.
Brigadier General John j. Pershing,
commander Of the expedition, accompanied
the force as far as the border and then
returned and with another part of the
troops entered Mexico TO the flank of the
main army
Despite the rigorous censorship which
closed all telephone and telegraph wires to
military movements it became known that
the number which entered Mexico is about
5000 Aeroplanes are believed to have
passed in with the expedition on motor
trucks. Flying conditions, owing to the
clearness Of the atmosphere, were ideal
When Gen. Pershing gave the orders to
march at 10 OF clock yesterday morning the
soldiers swept forward with a shout
Cowboys of the ranches enrolled as
scouts, and the cavalry led the way Two
infantry regiments and some field artillery
and wagon trains followed. The departure
was as busincss-lille as a practice march A
long, hazy line of alkali dust standing out
against tho dull white of the plains and
the blazing light Of the sun marked their
progress toward the border
Gen. Slocum met Col. Davila OF the Mex
lean forces, who promised that no resist
ance would be made to crossing the bor-
der
The entire Mexican population in Palo-
mas, soldiers and civilians, with one OK
ception, cleared away when the Americans
passed through the town.
The censor has asked all correspondents
filing by mail not to disclose military move
ments or details as to the numbers Of
troops, saying that to make public ques-
tions Of such military Importance might
mean loss OF American lives
This applies only to mail matter, as only
the general facts of the crossing have been
allowed to go over the telegraph wires,
which are under military control.
The column leaving Columbus was thor
oughly equipped for all conditions that
might arise and represented all arms of
the service.
Col. George a. Dodd, heading a smaller
column that entered Mexico some distance
west Of Columbus, also is moving in a
southerly direction, and these two forces
should be within touch of each other be
fore the end of the week BY that time it
is expected an infantry support will hold
the lines of communication along which
motor trucks for the transportation OF
ammunition and supplies will be operated
Villa, since the pursuit OF the American
army started, apparently has passed be
yond the American Mormon colony at
Casas Grandes Reliable dispatches today
indicated that the 800 Americans there
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
TRAIN sNowBoUND.
Many Passengers on Cars Stuck in
Drifts Near Millerton, N. Y.

i WINSTED, Conn, March 16-A pas
senger train eastbound on the Central
New England railways is snowbound with
its passengers at Hustled, near AIillerton,
N. y, according to information received
here today. The train ran into a deep
drift last night and in its effort to get
through two of its coaches were deraied
A snow plow sent from Afillerton to re-
heve the passenger train was also stalled
near Hustled High winds are piling the
snow in deep drifts and traffic through
Hustled on the Central New England and
New York, New Haven & Hartford lines
is considerably hampered.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
WALKER ORDERED
TO SUPPORT CHILD
Must Pay Probation Officer $3.50 a
Week - Arrested by Sheriff on
Charge of Support.

Clinton Walker was arrested vester-
day III Windsor by Sheriff c. Z. Mann
on warrant charging him with non
support of q daughter who is making
her home with family in Brattleboro'
It is claimed that when he arranged
for her TO live with the family he ar
ranged to pay So a week for her board
but failed to keep in any degree his
agreement.
This morning in the municipal court
before Judge Frank E. Barber he was
ordered to pay $3.50 week to the
probation officer, beginning March 20
until and including July |. Bail in the
cum of 500 was fixed as a guarantee
hat he would carry out the orders OF
the court.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16

J. P. Morgan g. Co. Arranging for the
Flotation Of S75oO0.ooo.

NEW YORK, March 16.-A group of
American bankers, headed by j. P.
Morgan & Co., were negotiating with
the Canadian government for the fiota-
ton of new Canadian loan, accord
ing to statement issued by the Nor
gan firm today. The amount has not
been finally determined, but it was in
timated that it would be in the neigh
borhood of $4,000, 900.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
Centre Congregational Church

Tonight ut $50 - First session of
the Christian Endeavor mission study
class with the Misses Mellen, % Wal
nut street.
Thursday, March 16, $50 to 8 p. m
Sewing meeting in the Centre
church house for all women Of the
parish. The curtains for the parson,
age will be finished.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16

BERLIN, March 16, via London
A number of unsuccessful attacks have
been made by the French on the Ger
man main line south of St. Souplet in the
Champagne region, German army head
quarters announce today. The Ger
mans took two officers and $50 men
prisoners and captured 20 machine
guns
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
SUBMARINE LAUNCHED.
Lilo the Fourth Submersible Built for
U. s. Navy at Quincy.

QUINCY, Mass, March IS. = The
submarine Lilo, the fourth submersible
built for the United States navy by the
Fore River Shipbuilding corporation,
was launched today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
Not Enough to Do Any Harm.

Is the water you get at your
boarding house pure?''
No. We frequently find traces of
coffee and other substances in it. -
Stray Stories.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16
THE WEATHER.
Fair Tonight, But colder-Friday Fair
Not So Cold.

WASHINGTON, March 16. = Th,
weather forecast: Fair tonight excep
snow in central and eastern Maine
Colder Friday fair, not so cold. Strons
northwest winds diminishing by Frida,,
morning.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-16

Simon Dana, Maine Indian. says he
has eight porcupines trained to shoot
their quilts into a tub on his premis-
es each morning. 1t must be so. for
Dana can exhibit the quills. He sells
them for toothpicks.