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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
Good Men, Good Work.
LNnrrrnnes Enternriscl

Frederick II. Babbitt of Bellows
Falls has been a live president of the
Greater Vermont Association and it is
good thing that he was reelected
to the position. 1t also seems to us
that word of appreciation for the
excellent work being done by James
Taylor, as secretary of the Greater
Vermont Association, is not out of
place at this time. lie is working
with the unselfish, untiring zeal that
goes with the perfect devotion to a
good cause, and is stirring up enthu-
siasm and creating interest in matters
pertaining to the welfare of Yer
mont.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
Poor Postal Service.

(Nergenncs Enterprise.)
The Hartford Courant has recently
turned its broadsidcs against the motto
riously poor postal service of the
present day. Its criticisms are well
founded, as all of Us know. There are
some things, however, that are rath-
cr difficult to explain. y newspaper
mailed from Brattlcboro Friday to an
address in Boston or in the suburban
districts of Boston is usually deliv-
cred on Monday. some times on Tues
day. while paper mailed to 4 suburb
of Philadelphia at exactly the same
time is delivered promptly Saturday
decentralization Reformer.
There is nothing difficult to explain
when it is remembered that poor pos
tai service and a Democratic admins
tration 90 together. Thousands of eff
ficient employees are turned out to
give place to inefficient but "descrv.
ing Democrats. No doubt the empty
federal treasury has something to dc
with it. y government run on theory
and not on business principles must be
disappointing to nation which has
been accustomed to something better
If the people of this country want
good service rather than the present
chaotic condition of public business
they can remedy it by going to tn,
polls in November and voting for 4;
change in administration
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
Member of the Associated Press.

The Reformer is on sale every evening
by the following news dealers.
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co
Park Drug Store, Z. w. Cleaveland. d
r. Cutler * Co (Esteyville), Brooks
House Pharmacy.
West Brattleboro, ]. l.. Stockweu.
East Dummerstcn, NJ. f. Brown.
PEtney, NJ. G. Williams
Newfane, n. NJ Batchelder.
ToWnshend, c. W. Cutler
West Townshend, c.. Fl. Grout.
jamaica. Y. ]. Daggett.
South Londonderry, T. H. Tyler.
South Vernon, Il. b. BufruIn
West Chesterfield, N. H., Mrs. w
Streeter
tIlnsdale, ". H., w. II. Lyman.
Bellows Falls, VT, Depot Restaurant
Bertoiinu q Bertolino, +. .Winnewisser.
Windsor, VI, Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
Vermont Allotment.
Barre Times.)

Vermont S allotment of the national
good roads money is $22,S44 for the
New Hampshire s. considerably larger
than Rhode Island s and quite a bit
less than Maine s, Massachusetts, S or
Connecticut's. AS compared with the
amount which the state of Vermont
and the towns are putting into the
good roads movement, the national aid
is small indeed; but it will lend its
help toward a splendid purpose
Moreover, the amount will be much
larger in succeeding years, as the to
tai federal appropriation increases 10y
$5,000,000 each year during the next
four years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
Keep the Primary in Mind.
(Rutland Herald.

With the time limit narrowing for
filing candidates. a fortnight is bound
to bring a big crop of names of men
who aspire to a seat in the general as
sembly. The Brattleboro Reformer has
warned those with political ambitions
in Windham county that they may find
themselves marooned = if they do not
keep in mind the requirements of the
new primary law. Eleventh hour an
nouncements will doubtless be made
by many aspirants but the men who
seek the support of their townsmen or
of the men of their county are inAicat-
ing their intentions to the end that
they may get an idea of their strength
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
MONDAY, JULY 81, 1916.
TWO YEARS OF WORLD WAR.

For two weary years the great war
has gone on increasing in destructive
ness and death, increasing also in the
mad zeal with which it is waged on
both sides. To those not engaged in
the conflict it looks today as if the
I Germanic allies were facing inevitable
defeat. They have won victories and
1 thcy may win more victories. Their
lines of intrcnchmcnt are located out
side their own boundaries they
struck swiftly and at first everything
ON the battlefrouts went as the
Kaiser had hoped.
The first military disappointment to
Germany was the failure to reach Par
il. But the Russian forces were com
PEELED to retire from Poland and
many miles into their own territory
for the Cars army was lacking in
guns and ammunition. This retreat
lent optimism to the Tcutonic pco-
pies. They erected a gigantic statue
of Won Hindenbcrg. their triumphant
general. But the Russians had not
been defeated. They were merely
pausing to take breath. to prepare
their military equipment and to drill
more soldiers.
The British and the French made a
dismal and costly failure of their cam
paign for the Dardancllcs and Con-
stantinoplc. Austria overwhelmed
Serbia and practically annihilated the
Serbian army. Bulgaria was induced
TO cast its lot with Germany, Austria
Hungary and Turkey.
But in the meantime, the entente
allies were learning to fight. Their
fear of the German war machine was
diminishing as one after another of
the German instruments was matched
by an equal or greater weapon. Great
Britain, not deserted by its colonies
but supported by them with splendid
loyalty, was gathering an army and
vast quantities of supplies. France
was saying little but working with
amazing energy to stem the tide of
German invasion.
At length the Germans plunged il
the direction of Vcrdun Despite tn,
enormous sacrifice of human life, they
welded blow on blow. They gained
little ground and little more, but
always at the cost of thousands OF
their own men. Nor have they ceased
their struggle to reach Ncrdun, though
it must be with faint hope Of sue
cess.
With the Verdm campaign still il
| progress, France and Great Britain
began their long-awaitcd drive. TIL,
allies are showing today that the,
can push back the Germans The sue
cesses of the British north of tn,
Sommc river and of the French soutl
] of that river have been continuous
= On the eastern front, the Gar 5 armie
have been coming back with rcnewc,
strength against Austria. They hav
advanced into Turkey through tn
D rear entrancc-the Caucasus noun
tains-and there they have taken fou
of the main fortresses guarding tn
lOttoman empire on the east. TIL
Turks are fleeing in CONSERVATION
and Turkey is likely at any hour t
, sue for separate peace.
Notwithstanding the submarines o
Germany, and the other ships of fol
10 midable size that Germany ha
boasted, Great Britain has never 70
ID a moment lost control of the seas, nc
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31

Pennsylvania mines last year yielded
246, 797 ,7S4 tons of coal.
Almost every known variety of iron
or is found in Newfoundland
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31

low buzzing which sounded rather nico
and sleepy. Yes, White Spot was
feeling sleepy himself. He would like
to see this Family in the nest who
were so very quiet.
How do you do said White Spot,
as he stuck his paw inside the nest.
1 don't want to make you get up but
l thought I'd like to make your ac-
quaintance.' And he poked up his
ears and brushed his White Spot to
make sure he was looking well.
'Buzz-Buzz-Buzz, get away from
here, or We'll bite you, yes we will
and sting you, yes we will
And out from that nest which q
moment before had been so quiet came
an enormous family of Yellow Jack
cts which are first cousins of the
Wasps and Hornets.
I'm get good bite of that White
Spot in the center of his forehead
buZZed one of the leaders of the Vel
low Jackets, and he alighted on White
Spots forehead just between his eyes
'Oh-Oh-horrors, troubles. cruel
adventures shouted White Spot as
the Yellow Jackets stung him with
might aud main. And then how the
Rabbit ran. He went as only one of
his Family can, and when he reached
homo his head was terribly swollen.
Ills Mother bandagcd it as the
Fairy Queen had once told her to
with good soft mud and she changed
| bandages every half hour.
! THE next day White Spot was feel
ing much better. but he had forgotten
! all about his Dinner Party-in fact
he had completely forgotten all about
the Glover he had dropped when the
Yellow Jackets stung him.
He was sitting up in the woods by
an old stump which his Mother called
| her Summer Garden-because she
used to sit there Summer afternoons.
/ Soon, what should he see but all his
Rabbit Friends coming to call on him.
And sure enough they We're carrying
the wonderful Glover he had left be-
hind.
bit loot, when the howdo-yOudo's
| bad been said. that you had planned
to have this Clover for Dinner Party
today and that you were going to ask
US. SO we've asked ourselves, and
brought the Glover you had to leave
when that bad accident happened to
you
But how did you ever get II when
those awful Creatures have their
home so nearbyY
why this same Fairy told US she'd
sent the Yellow Jackets away from
our WoodS-So we went-and here we
are
And a merry Dinner Party they
had after all"
Pennsylvania mines last year yielded
246, 797 ,1S4 tons of coal.
Almost every known variety of iron
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31

Don't blame the American newspa-
Pers if articles in the news columns
are contradictory. The dispatches
from the different capitals abroad are
widely at variance and it is the duty
of publishers to reproduce them for
what they are worth. Last week one
statement was to the effect that the
Russians had driven all of the Turk.
out of Armenia, and the next brought
story to the effect that the Turks
had just slaughtered 100000 resident,
of Armenia.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t Is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service In the delivery
OF the paper each night, and 1t sollcits
the cooperation OF subscribers to that
end. Prompt reports should be given OF
each failure to receive the paper on the
morning following the omission, III per
son. by telephone or postal card, thus
enabling the cause OF the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
the proper remedy Immediately applied.
II is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run OF paper.
so cents an inch for first insertion: %
cents an inch for each subsequent inser
ton. Limited space on first page at
double rates
Space rates on application
Classified advertisements Five cents
a line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
without change OF copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line
first insertion with so per cent discoun
for each subsequent insertion without
change Of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
''TATERS.''

The National Geographic Magazine
to the world has never been properly
recognized. Ever since the discovery
and conquest of that country by Pi-
zarro, history has been filed with the
glamOr of the accumulated gold that
the great Spanish freebooter carried
back to Europe. But along with that
gold he carried a humble vegetable
which was worth imcomparably more
1t was the potato, which had long
been the basis of the Peruvian diet
Its ready adaptation to the soil of the
Old World is seen in the fact that
even the knowledge of its origin seems
to have been quickly lost, and the
world now knows it as the "Irish 20
tato'
That tuberous treasure has many {
time saved Ireland from starvation
Last year it saved Germany from starry
ing, when her grain crops failed /
is today, next to bread, the mos
common article of diet of hundreds O
millions. 1t has been worth not only
more than the gold of the Incas, blu
more than all the gold of all tn
world. And even in SO great a gold
producing country as the Unite
States, the gold we dig out of tn
ground today is worth only one-thir
as much as our humble "taters."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
Senator Carroll S. Page deliv-
cred a speech in the United
States Senate on Monday, July
"a, 1916.

y Nermonter present. writing home his impressions of
the speech says
Amidst atmosphere of serenity and camnes not TN
like the peace that hover the Bull Run schoolhoue
in vacation time, Mr. Page OF Vermont today July 24
1870 delivered his address vocational educational
ing. emphasize the peace and quiet of the occasion No
present This is not quite literally But
| went into the Capitol this morning of my friends
said: Your favorite statesman is speaking.
"IIe began speaking at 10 o'clock went into the Sen
ate 1910. This the situation then. I found the
press gallery altogether empty.
SIN SENATORS BESIDES THE DISTINGUISHED
SPEAKER WERE PRESENT.
"Of these five busy studying bills and papers in
preparation for the days The other not engaged
with papers OF any sort quietly i'll his seat-aseep
think. Mr.. Page droned away in a monotone. Nobody
could hear him and the attendance showed quite clearly
nobody wanted to- must add that | left the gallery
| Senator Dillingham; the chamber fortified with
palm leaf fan.
1T struck that did require political or moral
courage deliver speech vocational education at this
time. that it will not require self sacrifice or
large expenditure Mr. Pages part have the speech
printed and widely distributed. guess that his
constituents far interested in his vote on rural
credits.
MIR. Page athered vocational training bill in the Sen
ate Mr.. Lever favored bill on the subject the
House. The Lever bill is given credit of being BY far
better measure The House passed il. Senator Hoke
Smith giant physically and mentally power in the Sen
ate practically took the Lever bill his effort CAJS
ING THE PAGE BILL TO FALL IN THE DISCARD
The Ncrmonter in Washington who heard Senator
Pages speech writes further the situation He saws that
calendar but that it will not be acted this session
WHY, THEN, a SPEECH on THE BILL. BY SENA-
TOR PAGE AT THIS TIME FOR ANY OTHER RFA-
son THAN FOR DISTRIBUTION TO TIE NOT-
ERS OF VERMONT FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN VERMONT DE
SIRE TO KNOW WHAT SENATOR PAGE HAS
STOOD FOR AND WHAT HE HAS CREATED IN
THE WAY OF PROGRESSIVE CONSTRUCTIVE
LEGISLATION THE EIGHT YEARS HE HAS BEEN.
\ SENATOR.
Will Mr.. Page Answer?
The Allen M. Fletcher Senatorial Club
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31

Emotional insanity is only another
name for fighting mad.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-08-11
Born. Friday, to Mr.. and Mrs. L

Born Friday, to Mr.. and Mrs. l..
Woodwork south of Owosso, a son.
Mrs }. L. Steinbower and daughter
Miss Bertha, are visiting relatives in
Lima, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. VI. Lsmpkin arrived
home Wednesday evening from visit
in Portland, Maine.
W. A. Seegmiller will address the
Holstein and Milk producers associa.
tions at McCurdy park on Saturday,
August 10 upon the subject. "Co.opera.
ton and Effective Organization.
Slight amendments to the Owosso
traffic ordinance were passed by the
Commission Monday. All vehicles
parked in the down town business dis
trict must be headed in the direction of
the moving traffic on the side Of the
street they stop In the central blocks
on Washington, Main and Exchange.
vehicles must park at 45 degree angle.
In other parts not to exceed 80 degrees.
Mr. and Mrs. Mellick North Water
street, entertained the following rela-
tives over Saturday and Sunday: Mrs.
Chas. E. Brown and two children, of
Shortsville, N. Y; MIR. and Mrs. Sum-
ner H. Pierson, Mr.. and Mrs. E. J.
Pierson and two children, Mr. and Mrs
George Enders, all of Goodrich, Mich.
aud Miss May Pierson, trained nurse,
of Ann Arbor.
The funeral services for Mrs. Eulala
McElravy, wife of John McElravy, who
died Monday, Aug. 6, and who had
been in poor health for several years,
were held at the NJ. E church at
Bancroft, Wednesday. Besides her hus.
band. she is survived by four children.
Mrs Vida Olmstead of Bancroft. Roy
of New Lisbon, Wis, and Thurlow and
Thelma at home; she also leaves sis.
ter, Mrs. VIM. Derham of Corunna,
and four brothers, Eugene Sutton of
Caledonia, Del Sutton of Chicago, Frank
Sutton of Bancroft and Jake Sutton of
Owosso. .s-a--..
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-08-11

Born Monday, to Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
Il. Parker, North Ball street. son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Josselyn and
daughter, Ellen Louise, have gone to
Chicago to reside.
/ Miss Otillia Tick is in Detroit this
week, the guest of Miss Emma Wonna.
colt, formerly of this city.
Eugene E Bentley of Rochester N. Y.
formerly of Owosso, is the guest of his
brothers, A. NJ. and j. M. Bentley and
his sister Mrs Ida Pierpont.
Attorney Ellis F. Wilson has return.
ed from Camden N Y, where he was
called by the sickness and death of his
mother, Mrs. 81. G. Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Carr and
daughter Miss Geraldine, of South
Shiawassee street, went to Toledo. Ohio,
Monday to be the guests of relatives
Miss Marguerite Adams has gone to
Detroit to be the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Frank Phillips. Miss Adams ex.
poets to make her home there soon.
Members of the thirty.third Michigan
Infantry given discharge under the de-
pepdents ruling include Cook Reuben
Beehler Jr. and Corporal Amos F. Col.
lis both of Owosso
Miss Jeane Hurst of the Normal eel
lege at Richmond, KY, formerly
teacher in the Owosso high school is a
guest of her brothers, James and Wat.
son Hurst, North Ball street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Conley, MIR.
and Mrs. Frank Mccartney, Mrs T. ]. 4
Scroggie. Mrs A. Watts and Misses
Beatrice and Bernice Scroggie went to
Little Cry stal Wednesday to spend
week
l.. A. Burhans, assistant secretary of.
the Shiawassee County Fair Associa-
ton, has opened an Office at liz North
Ball street, and will be there uutil the 4
Sunday just before the fair, to receive
entries and to handle other fair bust +
ness.
Advertised letters at the Owosso post
Office for the week ending Aug. 5, 1915: |
s. r. Clark, Miss E. Finley. Ross Horn,
E. W. Johnson, Miss Hettie McGrath,
Mrs Cora Morse, Mrs. Bertha Quick, |
Florence Rhodes. Frank Sedore, Mrs |
Deb Terry. Mrs. Ruth Van Colen, Miss
Sa1ie Wrightman 2.
Mrs Amelia Whitman of Bancroft
has begun suit for divorce against Hi
ram Whitman charging cruelty. She
says that almost continuously since
their marriage in 1882, he has sworn at
her, calling her ugly names, and had
drank great deal. becoming intoxi.
Gated at least once a week. The Whit.
mans have two grown children.
r. F. Young, the aged Corunna resi-
dent, taken into custody week ago has
been adjudged insane and taken to the
state hospital at Pontiac. He has i'm
proved considerably while confined in
the county Jail and it is believed that
he will yield TO treatment at Pontiac.
A Ford automobile driven by Mrs.
W. Jones. ran into ditch near Cor
unna, Sunday, and turned over slightly
injuring Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Alton
Schott. The hus stands who were riding
in the car escaped injury. The car was
badly damaged and the party were
brought to Owosso by T.. E. Stebbins.
George johnson, aged ID years, died
Sunday at his home three miles north
west of Perry after a long illness with
cancer. He was we'll known veteran
Of the civil war and is survived by his
widow and three sons, Edward of Lam
sing, Arthur of Perry and Frank of
The funeral was held
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-08-11


III Albert E. Sleeper should
get your vote at the primary:
Il Because
Il He's a Mich gan man
grown from a New England
boy.
II He has western vision and
strength to do big things;
and
II Yankee common sense and
thrift.
II Where he's known he is
the trusted friend and financial
advisor of the community.
II If you want to know about
him ask the boys he's helped
through school, the people
whose homes he's saved from
foreclosure, the business men
he's rted-and those he's
carried through financial
troubles.
II They are as one for
Uncle Bert PA hours a
day. Ask them.
II Also remember he cleaned
up the Glazier mess in the
State Treasury.
Il He kept each dollar where
it belonged.
lie made the depository
banks give bonds to secure
Our money.
II He issued public statements
so you and | could tell what
money we had in Lansing.
II The people of the Thumb
Country are for Sleeper, not
because he lives there, but
because they know the man.
his friendlIness, his common
sense, his integrity, his ability. |
II Vote for him Aug. %.
II You will be glad you did
when you know him Be-
sides, he's a winner.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-08-11

=, WANTED-75 Men at Once.
q Painters
Chassis Assent lers
Machinists
Body Builders
Testers
Stock Chasers
General Laborers.
Steady work year around.
Can use inexperienced help and will
guarantee advancement If found capa.
BILE and industrious. No labor troubles.
REPUBLIC MOTOR Co., Alma, Mich.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-12-29
December %, 1916.

Czernauer, who had served in the artil-
lery at Libau-they would stand by him.
But these, he felt, were only few
And if there were five or six hundred
Arabs, as the escort commander had
mentioned what chance of success was
there? How many of the others could
be depended on? He looked down the
line. The caravan had broken it's trail
formation and was gathering in little
groups. He could hear the f1utter of
conversation They were already becom-
ing alarmed Would they stand by?
he wondered He would take the chance
He beckoned to Lajeunesse.
Have the rifles and clips handed out"
he ordered Keep the women back
there and bring up the men and camels
Hurry! There's no time to lose"
Lajeunesse slipped off quietly Lahada
saw Carcassonne and Sassoo follow him.
The major was getting impatient
well. l suppose you're for going back
Don't you think you'd better hurry and
get moving?"
Somebody brushed in front of Lahada's
mare and stood in front of him. "You
dog!" he heard. "You dog!"
He looked down. The old Rabbi Ben
Israel, from Saragossa, whose clothes
of western black struck Lahada as so in
congruous, was facing the Bashi-Bazouk
In the dim, thin light of the dawn his
height appeared enormous. His long,
white beard quivered. His lean hand
was stretched out toward the Turkish
soldier
The group around Lahada had dis
mounted. Their faces were becoming
more distinct. Toward the east the
sickly yellow of the sky was turning to
bright mauves and puppies. Lahada felt
there was no time to lose. So long as
the major and his adjutant were with
them they were safe, he felt. Once they
had gone out of range the attack would
begin. He dismounted.
"Stretch out your camels in a row."
he said to the group. Face them to-
ward the village and make them kneel
down."
The men began leading the beasts
away; Lahada could see. There had been
no questions or objections thank Heav-
en- for that! He listened for moment
to the quivering tinkle of the animals
bells as they were led forward and to
the fierce-breathed oaths of the men as
they forced them forward or to their
knees, and to the sharp, staccato crack
of the whips on their leathern f1anks
Above it all the voice of the old rabbi
rang out like gong.
GO back, you traitor and son of
traitors! Go back, you towards, if you
want to! We are going forward. And
what stands in our way shall go out of
it. Even you and your men, if they at
tempt to withstand us!'
Carcassonne and Lajeunesse were
handing out the rifles now The men
were taking them mechanically. Back on
the trail he could hear the steady rumble
OF carts retreating. He pushed forward
to where the major was, with the old
rabbi confronting him like an accusing
oh>k