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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-14
pEARING A SECOND L1EurENAN.

The Congressional Record has announc-
ed the nomination Of Arthur Allen Dear
ing to be provisional second lieutenant
of field artillery Of the regular army.
Mr.. bearing is native of Bethel and
He is a graduate Of Norwich University
and for a few months has been in the
employ of munition plant at Newark
N l.
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UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

list OF unclaimed letters in the Bur
lington posto1flce for the week ending
June 2, 1917:
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WINOOSKI LIST

Frank A. burst. Miss Stella Goodrich.
Mildred Greene. Matilda Greenwood,
Charles Lasor. Mr.. Minnie. Mailetts Bay
road. "Levie farm" Maud Miller, Blanch
Phillips. Alessandro Pluchinotta, Michel
G. Rogdaxis. Ruth RogsrA. Mrs. Ida
Savoy. L. II. Stechou. Joe Yanuow.
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MEMS LIST.

Mgr. Acme Mfg. Co. (0, Louis w. Bar.
rows. F. J. Dunbar E. c. Howard. VIM.
c. Hurlburt. r. A. Jones. Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Lyman. Lincoln club. William La.
fountain. John A. Murray. DR.. d. G..
Mclvor, Frank Newman. G. H. Putnam.
+. r. Sherburn. A. h. Smith. Rev. Jas
Thompson. Eugene Warner. Chester NJ.
Wilson.
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WOMEN'S LIST.

Mrs. Mather Bolton. Mrs. Lizzie Balm
Miss Addie S. Cook, Mrs. Lewis FRANKIE
Mrs. Annie Green, Miss Pearl w. Ken
nedy. Miss Mary Leonard, Mrs. Lucy Pain
Miss Marion Pushie. Mrs. Lewis Rus
sell Mrs. Curtis Sturtevant. Mrs. p. j
Trombly. Miss Amelia Williams
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REPORT NOT so BAD.
vermont's Hay Crop to be Short-FiE.
ures for United States.

Crop estimates as Of June for the
State, contained in the monthly report of
the United States department Of agricul-
ture. give Vermont less hay than year
ago, with prices higher for field crops
generally.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
MEMBERS OF MEDICAL
CORPS PASS THROUGH
About 200 Persons Go to Railroad Sta
tion Thinking Vermont Troops
Were to Be On Train.

About 200 persons went to the rail
road station last night to see troop
train from Fort Ethan Allen, expect
ing that large part of the Vermont
regiment would be on board and that
probably some of the Company / men
would be seen. The train came about
9.l5, but it did not carry Vermont sol
diers Instead there were on board a
large number of members of the medical
corps of the army bound for points in
Alabama. Tennessee and Louisiana.
The misunderstanding came from the
fact that it was known that part OF
the Vermont regiment had received or
ders to move.
Thomas Hopkins. for years well
known Brattleboro boy, was in the con-
tingent Hopkins enlisted in the regu-
lar army in Greenfield, Mass, three
months ago and was at once assigned to
duty with the medical staff of the See
ond cavalry James Horan, formerly
of the Keene and BrattlebOro teams in
the Twin State league, and Donnelly
who used to play with Brattleboro IL
the league. also were in the contingent
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
BOX COMPANY SUES
TIBBETTS AND TAFT
Greenfield Concern Seeks to Recover
$1,000 from Newfane and Town
shend Men in Lumber Case.

A suit for 81, 800, brought by the New
England Box Co., whose head office is
IN Greenfield, Mass, against John c.
Tibbetts of Newfane and J. C. Taft of
Townshend. has just been filed in the
county clerks Office Harvey & Whit
ney are counsel for the plaintiff and At
torney A. f. Schwenk for the defend
ants.
The plaintiff claims that the de-
PENDANTS agreed to furnish 800, 900 feet
Of white pine lumber Mt $40 a thousand
of certain dimensions, to be delivered
at ears in Newfane and Townshend
when dry enough to ship. 1t is alleged
that they failed to carry out the agree,
ment.
/ Messrs. Tibbetts and Taft admit that
/ they signifed their willingness to fur
niSh the amount of lumber stated, whicl
was wanted for the box factory in Ash
uelot, y. H., but that when the con
| tract came its conditions were sucl
that they declined to sign it. 1t is
county court case.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
COMMITTEE SENDS
OUT MANY LETTERS
Attention Called to Great Need of Re
lief in Armenia and Syria-Mass
Meeting Sunday Night.

The Brattleboro committee for Arme-
nian and Syrian relief, which is ar
ranging for mass meeting in the Au
ditorium Sunday evening, to be ad-
dressed by Ralph Harlow of Boston, is
sending out large number of letters
relative to the pressing need of relief
funds. The following is copy:
American consuls and missionaries
are cabling for immediate help to save
two million destitute and starving refu-
gees in Western Asia. Two cablegrams
just received are typical of many:
= Relief funds finished. Need un-
preeedented. Require 100000 this
month
Request committee to assume re-
spOnsibility for ten thousand fatherless
children at rate of three dollars per
month per child.
1.-THE committee has no funds with
which to meet the above requests. Six
million dollars monthly are needed to
provide only ten cents per day for food
and all life's necessities for each of
these helpless dependents, chiefly wom-
en- and children.
Z" Every dollar contributed goes TO re-
lief The expense of collection and dis
bursement is met privately. We have
positive proof that all aid IS effectively
distributed, and that the entrance OF
this country into the war will not stoI
relief work
= Ever increasing multitudes, aggre
eating hundreds of thousands, within
the advancing lines of our allies, th'
Russians and British, are wholly de
pendent upon us for the necessities o.
life.
With Belgium provided for by gov
ernment, private benevolence thus re
leased should contribute the simples
: necessities of life for the starving WON
en- and children of Bible lands.
"Quick, generous and sustained ac
/ tion alone can save the survivors,.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
PRIORITY OF CLAIM
TO FARM INVOLVED
Chancery Hearing Before A. P. Car
penter, Special Master, Over Stow
ell Property in Londonderry.

A hearing was held before Arthur p.
Carpenter, special master, yesterday in
his office in the chaneery case of Gibson
and Daley, Brattleboro attorneys, and At
torney Goodwin of New York against Car
men NJ. Stowell of New York, formerly OF
Londonderry, and others, involving the
title to real estate in Londonderry. Mr..
and Mrs. Stowell went to that town and
bought a farm Mr.. Stowell left his wife
and two children, and litigation followed.
She boarded at Riverside Inn, conducted
by ID. A. Boynton, over year. She at
tached the farm, which was sold and was
hid in for Gibson and Daley by ". ID.
Smith on account of fees. Mr. Boynton
brought an action to recover for board
and attached the farm. The question OF
who has the prior claim is before the court
! H. J.. Skeels of Ludlow and O. II. Clay
ton of South Londonderry appeared foI
! Mrs Stowell and DR.. X. Charlton OF
Springfield Mass, who has quitclain
to the property. Attorney Harrit
b. Chase of Brattleboro and Attorney j
G. Martin of Brookline appeared for Mr.
Boynton Attorney r. c. Bacon rep
resented Gibson and Daley.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
Several Thousand Survivors
Of Civil War i'm the Ranks
Again Today
ROUTE SHORTER THAN
IN PREVIOUS YEARS
Parade Reviewed by Commander in
Chief Patterson at Boston Common,
Gov. Mccall at the State House and
Mayor Curley at City Hall.

BOSTON, Aug, n Several thousand
men IN blue, survivors OF thr army which
fought ior the union more than hall
century ago, marched with brave steps
through Boston strec.s to-day.
The route. starting beside the public
garden and leading mp Beacon hill to the
state house. thence past city hall for dip
INTO the business district and back along
the common 20 rark square, was the short
est ever selected Tor the annual parade for
the national encampment of the G.. \. X.
The veterans were favored by clear
sky. moderate temperature and refreshing
hieelcs The chief marshal was J Pay
ION Bradley al this city. In the line
were the departments of the G. y. X. IN
order OF seniority of organization, the
national officers and past commanders-in
chief in automobiles. the Sons of Veterans
former prisoners Of war, naval veterans
and rear guard of disabled veterans il
ears. Commander-in-Ch Chief Wm. j. Pat
tcrson reviewed the parade from tho
grandstand on the fremont side Of tho
common. Gov Mccall at the state honsD
and Mayor Curlcy at City hall.
About 5000 blue.coated. gray haired
men were in line as compared with near
" 10000 who formed the parade al
the last reunion held in this city. Many
of the veterans of so years and over
rode in automobiles, but there were hun
dfeds Of nearly that age who marched
over the entire route.
Sons of Veterans acted ns escorts fo'
the Grand Armg men. Most Of then
wore the uniform of their organization
but there were few in service KHAKI
of the present war. The Nebraska me-
attracted attention as they swung pas
one of the reviewing stands by singin,
1--WE II hang the Kaiser to a Sour Appl
Tree. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
SECRETARY SHARP
OFF FOR CHICAGO
Brattleboro Man to Have Part in Pro
gram of Convention of Methodists
Of Nation-W Wide Scope.

The board of conference claimants of
the Methodist Episcopal church is to
hold convention of nation wide scope
and interest in Chicago this week We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday. The
members of the board, together with the
representatives of endowment funds in
all the conferences in continental Ameri-
ca, are called together in the interest
.of the retired preachers, their widows
and orphans, and to discuss methods to
increase the ten million dollar fund al
ready secured, the income Of which is to
give a better support to these old vet
Grams who have given their lives in serv-
ice for the uplift of humanity, and to
safeguard the investment of this fund
The program which has been pre-
pared is of much interest in the detailed
attention to the direct work of the cam
ipaign.
Rev. +. w. sharp, field secretary for
Vermont and a delegate to this conven
tion, left Brattleboro on the early morn
ing train today for Chicago, where Ii,
has a part on the program of this sig
niticant gathering.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21

HAS HABIT OF
STEALING HORSES
Man Who Left Keene Livery Team at
Newfane Was Clifford Durant-
Has Served Several Terms.

Additional information is given in the
Keene Sentinel of yesterday afternoon
regarding the theft of horse and car
riage from Fred Nims's livery stable in
keenc, n H. The property was re
covered in Newfane yesterday by Sheriff
c. f. Mann of Brattleboro, as reported in
The Reformer The Sentinel says:
Clifford Durant, the young Cheshire
county man who is well known for his
activities in stealing horses, got a team
Thursday from che Minis stable here and
is missing although the team has been
found in Newfane, Vt.
"Durant got out OF the Concord, Mass,
reformatory a couple of months ago, hav-
ing finished term for horse stealing, He
went to Vermont after while and stole
a horse which he left at Charlestown. He
hired an automobile and was driven to
| Peterboro, where he asked the driver to
wait minute Durant never came back.
"A little while ago Durant showed up
in Surry and was brought to Keene Thurs
day. saying he was going to enlist. He
went to the Ellis greenhouse, where he
ordered a lot Of trees, giving the name OF
w w Bancroft, forester. He also
called up the Minis stable and asked that a
rig be sent down to him, saying he wa,
!: Bancroft and was going to Westmorelant
aud might be gone until Saturday. Tn,
team was sent and did not come back, bu
was located in Newfane, where Duran
left it.
/ '.Durant has been in good deal o
trouble Tor some years, having a fas
cinaton for stealing horses He has beel
in the Concord reiormatory two or thre
times and also in Jail elsewhere.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
TWO KILLED IN
BURNING AIRSHIP
Former Employe Of Brattleboro Drug
Co. and Companion Lose Lives in
Air in Buffalo, N. Y.

Richard H. Mead and Charles A. Wall,
jr. of Boston were burned to death in
Buffalo, n. Y, late yesterday when an
ing with smoke bombs caught fire in
the air. Both men were dead when the
destroyed airship fell to the ground.
Wall was civil engineer, % years
old, son of a Boston physician, in train
ing for aviation service.
Mead was an aviation instructor, who
went to Buffalo recently from the train
ing camp at Mineola, l.. /. He was %
years old. He was, employed by the
Brattleboro Drug Co. year ago last
winter and was known by many local
young people.
Wall and Mead had gone to height
of about 700 feet to make tests of the
new bomb, which had been offered to
the United States government for work
in spotting gun positions. Cireling the
field they released one of the bombs,
which burst into smoke at a safe dis
| tance below the machine. Then watch
ers on the ground saw Wall lean over
the side. a second bomb in his hand.
He dropped it. and almost Immediately
there was flash and the planes were
ablaZe.
| Mead, who was driving the airship,
Ipointed the nose downward apparently
| in an effort to get to earth while there
lyet was time to escape the flames. But
when the blazing machine dropped the
lmen were found burned beyond reeog
lnition.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
FOUR LIVES LOST
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Train Crashes Into Car or
Crossing Near North
CharlestOWn
RAWSONVILLE MAN
DIED OF INJURIES
Mrs. Emma Perkins and Mrs. Jennie
Kingsbury, Both of Claremont, Killed
Child Fatally Hurt.

Two persons were killed outright and
two Others including Loren w Coleman
of Rawsonville fatally hurt about $50
O'Clock yesterday afternoon when the
Boston & Maine railroad train No 81, due
in Brattleboro at 4.32, crashed into an
Charlestown, \. H.
The persons killed were Mrs. Emma
Perkins, 30, and Mrs Jennie NJ. Kings
bury, 2S, both of Claremont, \. H, whose
heads were severed from their bodies
Mrs Kingsbury's son. Lawrence 10 years
/ old. received fracture of the skull and
internal injuries and died last evening
| in the Rockingham hospital in Bellows
Falls Loren W Coleman of Rawson-
vile, who was driving the car, also died
of his injuries in the Rockingham hospi
tai soon after his arrival there. Favette
| kingsbury, brotherin-law of Mrs. Kings
bury. was taken to the hospital with
serious injuries. but the hospital phvsi-
Icians said today that he probably would
recover. Armentus kingSbury, whose
wife was killed and whose son was fatally
, hurt, escaped with cut on one cheek
1t appears that the automobile had
been driven on to the southbound track
and was waiting for a northbound freight
To pass the crossing. Evidently the south
. bound passenger train was not sighted
| by the party until too late
| The locomotive struck the automobile
in the middle, demolishing it and crush
, ing the two women. The others were
, thrown clear
: The crossing is protected by bel
, alarm. but is considered a. a very danger
: Gus one. 1t is situated between Charles
town and North Charlestown
Mrs. Perkins left with Mrs kingsbury
her son and brother in law Saturday, 90
ing to Springfield (Ntl where the Kings
burys were left to visit friends Mrs
Perkins continued in her automobile t,
Manchester. where it is said her ca
plunged down an embankment Sunda,
l. afternoon.
Yesterday morning she engaged Mr.
Coleman 10 take her TO Claremont by wa,
of Springfield, where the kingsburys wer
taken in to return with her
After the accident the three iniure
u persons were taken to the hospital an
Is the bodies OF the two women were take
IS to the railroad station at Claremont t
ID await an autopsy by Coroner Cain q
a Newport.
ID Loren w Coleman is a son of til
W late William f. Coleman who represcnte
the town of Jamaica in the legislatur
four years ago. The family is we
known throughout that section Lore
W. Coleman and his brother, Penni
bought of Judge Fred B. Pier, now {
y Brattleboro, the water power lumber mi
in Rawsonvilie which was operated ft
i, years by Judge Pier. OF late Loren Col
" man owned the mill alone, his broth'
- having gone on to the home farm. Z
> leaves wife, who was Mildred Negus
a Wilmington.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
CASE OF INFANTILE
PARALYSIS APPARENT
So Diagnosed by DR.. Hunter and DR..
Tucker-Laura Reynolds Hex
pert Has Been Asked for.

pr &. b. Hunter reported a suspicious
case this morning to Health Officer
Henry Tucker, who pronounced it to be Il
ease Of infantile paralysis. The patient is
Laura, the eight yearol daughter of
George w Reynolds of Chestnut street.
Dr. Tucker has reported the ease TO the
state board OF health and requested that
an expert be sent here at once to examine
the child. The little girl was taken i'll
last Wednesday with what was supposed
to be an attack of Indigestion caused by
eating green apples, and since that time
there has been a gradual paralysis of the
right leg. The child has not been away
from home and il is not known that She
has come in contact with anyone who has
been exposed to poliomyelitis,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
CANADIANS AGAIN
IN TERRIFIC BATTLE
Met the Germans Hand to Hand When
Each Side Had Planned a Sur
prise Attack.

LONDON, August 2l.-Canadian troops
around Lens launched another attack on
the western environs of French mining
city at 4.30 this morning, reports the
Reuter- correspondent from the British
headquarters in France. The attack de
veloped into one of the most desperate
hand to hand battles of the war When
the Canadians went over the top they
saw masses of gray figures advancing to
ward them in the thick haze. Both sides
had planned the attack at the same mo-
ment Fifteen minutes after the clasl
came the Germans were making their last
tand ON the parapet OF their trenches.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
Detachment of 1, 0OLeaving
Ft. Ethan Allen Today
For Service
MAI. COOLEY AND
CAPT. GIBSON REMAIN
Orders Received by Col. Thomas Indi-
cate That Regiment Will Cease to Ex-
ist as Distinct State Unit-Veter-
ans to Make Up Part of 26th Division.

Thirteen hundred men and officers of
the First Vermont regiment, formerly
National Guard, leave Fort Ethan Al
len today under orders from the war
department On account of the request
of the fedora. government that ne news
of troop movements be published the
objective point of the Vermont detach-
ment cannot be divulged, but it is no
secret that the orders under which they
are moving bring them one step nearer
active war service
| Furthermore, these orders indicate
that the First Vermont will be divided
into four distinct organizations, each
of them in separate branch of the
service. 1t is understood that 40 men
from each company, including the vet
Grams of the Mexican border, will go to
make up a part of the Goth division
Their selection has not been announced
although that of the officers has been
Imade. Captain Gibson of Company L
will remain at Fort Ethan Allen: First
Lieut.. R. B. Miner will be detailed with
Ian ammunition train detachment and
lSeeond Lieut.. C. A. Pellet with ma
chine gun troop. Capt Cady and First
Lieut.. Shaw of the Bellows Falls com
lpany (E) are detailed to remain, while
Second Lieut.. Bricklev is assigned to
the ammunition detachment. All of the
commissioned officers of Company X of
Springfield will remain at the fort. II
! is understood that Maj. j. NJ. Ashley is
the only officer with rank above that of
captain to leave the fort This means
THAT Mai. W O. Cooley of this town is
to remain.
| While the officers and the men are
enthusiastic over the prospect of a
; change with increased chances of get
ting into active service it is neverthe
: less apparent that many are down.
east over the splitting up of the First
Vermont. The transfer of 300 men
: land % officers will leave the Vermont
regiment with a nucleus of 30 officers
: and 700 men on which to start recruit
} ing for a regiment. which under the new
war strength, viii require $500 men.
' Some say that perhaps this can never
a be done and that those who remain at
+, the state reservation would simply be
Il used to complete the ranks of some 9th
E. er organization and that Vermont s
famous national guard regiment will be
but Il memory.
Relatives from many Company | boys
\ had messages from them by telephone
YESTERDAY and the report has been eur
rent on the street today that those de
tailed to leave Fort Ethan Allen viii
/ pass through Brattleboro some time thi.
afternoon or evening. .
-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
SMOKE BOMB KILLS AIRMEN.
EXplodes in Air During Demonstration
and Fires Plane

BUFFALO, Aug. 21.-R. II. Mead,
Curtiss Aeroplane company instructor,
and Charles WALL Buffalo, civilian pas
senger, were killed yesterday when a
smoke bomb they were trying out ex-
ploded when their plane was 200 feet
in the air and set fire to the machine
which dived to the ground. When re-
covered the bodies We're burned to q
crisp. II is not known if the men were
killed by the fall or burned to death
under the wreckage.
The bomb, it is reported, had beer
offered to the government and Mr.. Wal
was making a demonstration demanded
by the war department when the acci
dent happened.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21

CAMBRIDGE. MASS. Aug. 2l Oliver
Moulton Chadwick, reported missing in
Paris dispatches to-day, won the dis
tinction at Harvard in 1910 and 1911 as
hockey player and also as a hammer
throwcr and hurdlcr On the hockey team
he was regarded as the most effective goal
tender 1T the university. lie took an
active pant in the track meets and was
coach Of the freshman track team one
season. lie graduated in 1911 College
friends Of Chadwick said they had known
that he was in the aerial service in France
hut had not received word OF his recent
| flying activities
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
GERMAN LOSSES HEAVY.
Beaten Back in Attempts to Get Positions
from French at Verdun.

PARIS, August 2l-Counter attacks
Iof extreme violence We're made by the
Germans last night in an effort to recap
ture positions taken in the French often
sive on the Nerdun front. The war office
back with heavy losses The number OF
prisoners exceeds 5000 The German at
tacks were especially severe at Avocomt
woods and north of CouriereS. Attacks
also were made by the Germans without
success on the Aisne front near CernS
and Iiurtcbsc
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
VILLAGES CAPTURED.
Austro- German Forces Make Vigorous
Attack on Rumanian Front.

PETROGRAD, Monday, Aug. 20, to
Austro-G German forces are making Wig
orous attacks on the southern Rumanian
front. The war Office announcement of
today says that stubborn resistance is
being offered by the Russians and Ru-
manians, who, however, were forced
back at several points on the Caucasian
front, where the Russians recently took
the offensive. A further large advance
has been made, series of villages being
captured.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-21
HOOK WORM INFECTION.
Disease Prevalent Among the Troops Re-
Gently Modified for Service.

BOSTON, August 2l.-Discovery of
hook worm infection in AZ out of IS mill
tia recruits recently modified for war
service has caused public health service
authorities to recommend prompt exam
ination of all units OF the National Guard
and National Army at present organized,
Especially those from the warmer por-
tions in the country. Prevalence of hook
worm was found by DIR. c. H. Wardell
Stiles of the public health service at a
government reservation where he was
making experiments.