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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
KNITTING THINGS FOR SOLDIERS
Rests Vocal Cords of Lot of Women
SAYS Writer.

Knitting has come to be quite as
much Of II feature of war as the tramp
of martial feet
Not since the tumbrels filed with
victims for the guillotine rumbled
through the streets Of Paris while the
knitting women gazed on unperturb2d
has there been such universal knit
ting, unknitting and reknitting as at
present is raging throughout the civil
lied countries of the world.
Socks, shirts, sweaters, mufilers and
a thousand other articles of wear are
being knit and sent to the Red Cross
aud other organizations.
And by the same token several of
these thousands are being unrayeled by
a staff of workers kept for that pur-
they set out to be.
This should not discourage women
| willing to give their time to such work
however, for as long as the Red Cross
workers are able to tell whether a
piece of knitting is meant to be a sock
a sweater or a muller they would rath
cr do the work over again than not tC
get it at all.
| tDuthS STEIN ~ cause lut Hiuoi iipu-
BILE, and it easily will be understood that
a very small knot in the sole of socl
might cause more than a little annoy
ance to a man who had to march /.
miles a day III it with some IS pounds
| IF equipment on his back.
1t is advisable for amateurs, If they
do not label the finished product to at
tend some of the Red Cross classes ant
| get the instruction which will insure
their work not having to be done owe
again.
Some of the slips in knitting ar
probably caused by excitement. Won
en- nowadays are knitting everywher
and under all conditions. In the auto
mobiles i'll Fifth avenue one may Sc
hem busily working on socks or muf
ders. In restaurants, waiting for thel
order to be served, many women pre-
} duce the familiar needles and var
from stylish looking handbag an
, set. to work.
In the trains and even i'll theater
between the acts the same holds trut
1t is not extraordinary that in the e.
citement of lodging the traffic jam
Fifth avenue a few stitches might h
/ dropped.
Recently four women i'll Long |
land railroad train were rather hca
s. edly discussing the proper way to nal
| a certain stitch. The respective pri
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
LOST $4,000 MEN.
British Estimate of German Casualties
on Western Front.

FRENCH FRONT, July (Correspon-
dence Of Associated Press. )-Severc
Inroads have been made on the strength
Of the German troops holding the line on
the Fiauco-British front during the at
tack delivered IN the months Of April.
MAY and June An estimate made on
well established averages demonstrates
that their losses must approximate 80,
coo mon
Before tho spring operations Of the
French and British began the German
front had been divided into two sectors
entirely independent of each other. One
faced the French between the Disc and
the Swiss frontier aud was under the com
mand of the crown prince The other
confronted the British from the North
sea to the Disc and was commanded by
! the Bavarian crown prince.
At the beginning of the Franco-'ritisll
oflensivcs the Germans had at their dis
posa on the whole front stretching from
the North sea to Switzerland l47 divis
ions, Of which lOj were actually on the
front line and Il in the rear These re
serve divisions were about equally dis
tributed in the northern and southern
sectors. The situation on the Russian
front permitted the Germans to detacl
some of their active divisions from tina
side and at the same time they formed sew
cral new divisions which they brought t.
the French front so that on June ~ TIN
number Of their divisions facing tn
French and British was 80, in spite q
the fact that they had replaced the actlv
divisions brought from this side
The strength Of the German forces o
the Franco.l'rtish front cannot, however
he calculated exactly from the number q
their divisions for no fewer than IL Q
the ljj have been thrown into the bat
ties at various times and % Of them hay
been twice engaged, thus totaling in rea
ity l3j divisions which have been i
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
j. E. MANN
LONDONDERRY.

Miss Evelyn Wade of New York is
home Tor few days
Frank Davis has gone 60 Massachusetts
for u weeks stay
Mrs Cordclia Sutton is home from New
York for the summer
Clyde Wright has bought a home in
Chester and is moving there.
MIR aud Mr. John Tprbcll of Chicopcc
Falls, Ma~a, were guests of G. NJ. Eamcs
Sunday
The Londonderry baseball team went
10 inwnshcud Saturday and were de-
fcutcd 10 l.
Levi IIulcomb of Mt Holly was guest
al \ " Nndc last week Miss Nerna
Wade and Russell Warner returned with
him fur icw days
Ray Holt and family of Manchester are
with his father on the Chadwick place.
Frank Holt aud son. Hollis, also were
week end visitors there.
MIR and Mrs Kirk iTcwcs and two
daughters of Chester and Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence TIcwc- of Winhall were guest,
Of Mr. and Mrs Madison Faruum Sunday
George Williams and family. Fred vii
lams and family. Adrian Williams and
family aud Mrs Hattie Barney are taking
q two wcrkt vucation on Lake Cham
plain.
Nr and NIrs Rudolph Murkette anc
their mothers of Bridgeport. Conn. arr
guest. ii MIR and Mrs Herbert Williams
the week. and Mr. and Mrs Charles Vial
ol Gardner Mass, are expected Saturday
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
A Doubtful Compliment.

Miss Mcrcy's Doctor had called in a
renowned specialist to diagnose her i'll
noss and her lister. parthania, was very
much worried about her, says Harper S
Weekly
"l'll tell you what I'll de- Mercy she
taid I'm inst stand behind the por-
there's. and then when the doctors 20 in
~ the pHrlur I'll hear everything they
say"
Well doctor" aid the family physi-
elan, Ht the two entered the parlor after
the examination, what do YOU really
think abeut the patient -
II think said the specialist a. he sat
down IN the moot comfortable chair
that he i HE homclicst old maid I've
ever seen
All" said the family physician Just
wait till on ye seen her sister.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
CHEER. FOR ROOKIE
Encouragement in Letters From
Home Helps Fighting Men.
Officers Say Gloomy Missives Demon
alize Soldiers While Bright Ones
Give Will to Win.

Mothers! Sweethearts! Sisters
Here's a new way to DO your bit,
equally as important as knitting gray
wool socks for the recruits or cutting
bandages for the Red Cross.
write a cheerful letter to your
soldier"
Having its origin at Chickamauga,
the South's greatest war mobilization
center, this vogue, for it has found ia
vor much as the American gOdmOther
to the French soldier fad, is bounding
into popular favor. 1t is accelerated
by these advantages: it is based on
facts; it strikes at an imperative need,
and it achieves obvious results.
The facts are these: Fully so per
cent of the letters received by the
army man convey, instead of good
cheer, q tale of petty woes and imag-
mary griefs.
There's vacant chair at the ia
BILE, George"
"Poor sisters went to work to help
support us since you went away"
How we need your strong, broad
shoulders to help US bear the burden"
| Mothers sick. Fathers sprained
his little finger and poor little Johnny's
| down with the measles"
These are typical dum-dum letters
to boys in camp. Ninety per cent of
them are better left unpenned. And
herefrom springs the new service.
"Shield the boy from the trifling
cares and worries of home" urge the
officers. TELL him how proud you are
of him, how fine you know he's doing
how happy you all are.
SOLDIERS, like schoOlboyS, particu
larry the younger ones that are out in
the world alone for the first time, looi
forward to the letters from home with
eagernesS," said veteran major. III
they carry u morbid tone. he imbibes
It; drinks it to the dregs, and hroods
Either that, or as with some dispOsi
tions, he becomes reckless and care
less.
"On the other hand. a CHEEKY lette
encourages him and sends him fortl
with a will to lick a regiment single
i handed.
: Either way the effect is contagious
, "Despondent, the trooper is reduces
to one-half efficiency. His spiri
spreads to the squad. to the company
He becomes discouraged and dissatis
fed with the service. Gloom letter
are responsible for more than half tn
4 assertions"
0 So it is that the importance of
. troopers mail is recognized by arm
officers far and wide, and at Chicks
manga the new "bit" is set In motor
! 1t has already gone so far that stt
dents at the officers training camp ar
: receiving daily epistles, even from fai
: ones they do not know, each carryin
! little insertion of joy. The result
I general cheerfulness and firm endea'
!. or throughout the camp.
IL write a cheerful letter to your so
II der" is the slogan.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
WEST GUILFORD.

Mrs John ChIds OF Deerfield, Mass.
came Saturday to attend the funeral of
her schoolmate, Mrs. Mabel Prouty.
Arthur Lyndc sold four cows last
week to Henry Clark of Brattleboro and
went to Massachusetts, and bought d
purebrcd Guernsey bull
Rev Lewis g. Spooner of Dcerfield
Mass, was called here Saturday to off
ciate at the funeral of Mrs Mabel
prouty, who died in the Memorial hospi-
tai in Brattleboro last week Wednesday
He visited in the home of NJ w Lynde
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
A Stiff One.

1t was raining outside, and little in
terrogative Irma was in one of her
worst, or at least most trying, moods
Father, busily writing at his desk, had
already reprovcd her several times for
bothering him with useless questions
Il say, pa, what
Ask your mother
Honest, pa, this isn't silly one this
time"
"All right, this once. What it is?"
SWELL, if the end of the world was to
come, and the earth was destroyed while
"a man was up in an airship, where
would he land when he came down."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
Ready to Please.

A French lady Of consequence, who
had Il lawsuit, came to solicit the ia
vor of the president of the court in
which the case was to be adjudicated
The magistrate, not receiving her in
the way she expected, she was some
what chagrined, and on passing into
the antechamber, said loud enough to
be heard: ''Plague take that old ape
The next day, the lady gaining hel
cause, she ran directly to thank the
president, who merely replied:
"Know, madame, another time, thai
an old ape is always ready to please 6
vn'lnG one.i
/ - l..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
Her Finish.

ON three successive days the follow
ing items appeared in small-town pa
per:
Mrs Albert Cavil and children were
the guests of Mr.. and Mr.. William
Mcmillan fhursday
Mrs, john Nyckoli and daughter Alice
are the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Mcmillan.
Mrs, Mcmillan i on the sick list"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18

lsing box kiton to lat an aerial. experts
81 the nitcd States army haze increased
the efficiency 81 field wireless equipment
from q to rs times
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18

are putting their cigar money into yarn
and needles for their wives. = New
York Herald
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18

\ thing that some one doesn't find
fault with is seldom worth having
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
Vandalia Philosophy,

Without cooperation. without una
nimitv of purpose, things may be ae-
Icomplished, but the results will be only
partial. 1t is when all have the vision
and all work that really big things are
done. No town is going to be bigger
than the composite character of its citi-
Izenship. 1t takes big people to make a
big town. = Lily Frost in Vandalia
kan,) Leader.
You can get a lot for your money by
patronizing a real estate dealer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18

A man should be proud of his enimies
If they arc of the right sort.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-18
BIRTHS.

I'm Houghtonsville, July Q, a daughter
to Mr.. and Mrs. Walter j. Howe
Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20
Million and Half to Be ExpendedByDenn
 In Big Development
Local Mining Company Will Raise $1 5000 With Which To Push Its Work And Make Greater Explorations
 United Verde Extension Will Expend Another Huge Sum In Drilling Haulage Tunnel To The Valley of The Verde River. Ta
Jerome Verde Also Will Raise Additional Amount of Money To Garry On Its Development. DennArizona To Raise Its Capitalization From $3 800 900 To $5 000 GOO Re search On 1900 Level Will Be Resumed Very Soon.

expenditure United  hand further its bodies United Verde  phenomenal Its latest authorized expenditure provide will deliver the 1900 level of the the railroad valley below smeler of the will probably million dollars carrying out of  Mining be mine The half million dollars Jerome Verde will
 
 
  kOod according
  the body f5
 INVESTMENT. Two half million established while another million might be counted still wholly belong until established
 
  ten work carrying the instructions of
  standing Arizona employing upwards 5000 investment OO000O mechanical
 
 classification there incorporated individual in gabe but oncens
  instances Establishment
  attention the mining
  the welfare permit having handaps continued
Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20
MINES, MINING, LOCAL STOCKS AND COPPER
ZINC IS IMPORTANT
 METAL IN ALL LINES
 OF MODERN INDUSTRY
St Louis Section of w. 1. M.
 E. Will Consider Big Min ing Industry To Which That City Is Distributing Agency.

'Zinc is just now a very important metal. Of course it's use in cart ridges and shrapnel brass are just now in the pubic eye. But. its uses after the war are no less important. Brass as an engineering material for electrical machinery, journal bear ings, and plumbing fixtures takes fully 50 per cent of the production, and its use in these lines would have been inceased in the last few years but for the price. Its use for barbed wire is probably more in war time than in peace. In the composition of paints it is becoming more and more necessary. One of the forms of pigment, lithopone is the base of nearly all interior wall paints; of all sanitary enamels for bathrooms and bath-tubs. and is now in great de- mand Zinc oxide is also increasing in use for paint, and for manufac- ture of linoleum," says J. D. Robert son. chairman of the publicity com mittee of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. St. Louis section.
 When we realize that this dis trict, Missouri. Okla. Kansas and Arkansas producers now over one third of the zinc ore of the world, 1t is at once seen that a meeting where the geology, mining, concentration and smelting of this ore will be con sidered. and trips to Joplin. Missouri and Miami, Okla, made as well as to some of the modern smelters where the sulphurous gases are turn ed into sulphuric acid will not only be interesting, but at this time inn portant We want to show you the immense low grade mines of Joplin and Webb City, Mo. Some mines pro duce ores with only one per cent of zinc Likewise. we want to show you the high grade mines of Miami. Okla homa, also where some of the mines are producing ore that nets 20 per cent zinc.
 "The problems connected with tho concentration are not so simple as they once looked. It is easy to get out the first 80 per cent of the value. but the treatment of the shines is as yet problem. Much is hoped for in the comparatively new process of Notation. The precise place of the new electrolytic process of recover ing zinc is not yet known. It has proven successful in Montana. and may be equally valuable in this dis trict.
 We invite to our meeting next October all who can give intelligent answer to the question How to get the lest few per cents of zinc out of the ore?"
Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20
STEADY PROGRESS AT GREEN MONSTER
Arrangements Completed For Sinking From Bottom of The George Tunnel.
r for transatlantic service in an east.

JEROME. May 19.-Sinking of a winze from the Gorge tunnel at the Green Monster. to explore a depth the big showing of disseminated chalcopyrite opened there, will be un- der way within two days. The sta tion is practically completed and the hole that is being driven from above to connect with the tunnel for ven- tilation purposes is down 61 feeH When the hole makes connection with the station, three shifts will be put on. Because of lack of ventila- tion it is now possible to work only two.
 For the present the winze will be merely a one compartment affair. It can be enlarged to two or three com partments if 1t opens the high grade ore body that is believed to lie be- low.
 It is the opinion of Dr. Wstter Harvey Weed. director and geologist of the Green Monster Company. that the Gorge tunnel passes along the peak of a great body of schist and that a great deposit of copper will be found at greater depth. It is on his recommendation that the winze is being started.
 Dr. Weed and President Neill Bal ley. who are here this week, are hardly less enthusiastic about the showing at the Gorge than about the one which has been opened at the Revenue. A cross-cut run 2l1 feet from a winze has passed through 67 feet of schist carrying pyrite, mag netite and little chalcopyrite. The magnetic is particularly strong across a width of 36 feet. It is all most exactly like the ledge recently cut in the Columbia shaft of the Je- rome Verde. That formation is com monly supposed to cap bodies of cop per ore.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20
800 STATION OF THE C& J REPORTED TO BE
 IN GOOD ORE VALUES
Wonderful Reports Had From Very Promising Jerome Property. Further Develop ment May Uncover Copper Bonanza.

JEROME, May 19s-That the 5OO- foot station of the Calumet & Jerome will be cut in ore. is the prediction of Superintendent John Rauber. made several days ago. George Avery president and general manager. and H. F. Widdecombe, resident engin- ger, agree that Rauber's prediction is likely to come true.
 Today the c. &. J. shaft is down 4O5 feet and indications for copper ore are getting better with every foot. When the shaft was started it was expected that it would be nee essary to sink 1000 feet through bar ren rock and crosscut to the west in order to find ore but the manage ment has been agreeably surprised. Apparently the shaft itself is headed straight for the ore.
 The shaft is now all in schist, with a little quartz. There are wavy lines In the schist. indicating that leach ing has taken place. A great deal of iron sulphide. speoks of chalcopyrite and bornite appear in the schist.
 Engineer Widdecombe says that the shaft has hit the peak of a great belt of schist. He thinks that the ore body is lying beside it
 A great deal of machinery has been ordered by the Calumet & Jerome company within the last few days. Two electric pumps are being built
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Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20

pared to the one to be adopted with the tunnel completed, and limited as to capacity. The tunnel outlet will cas- fly handle the ore output of the mine and will be available for other pur. poses, for the handling of water. tim Der, and for general transportation uses.
 Might Assist Neiehboring Properties.
 Should Jerome Verde be lucky enough to find ore in the vicinity of the Verde Extension this tunnel might be employed for handling its ores, the two properties now being connected underground at the 1,400 level. Exten. sion has been conducting exploring work for Jerome, as Iron Ore has men, tioned in previous issues, and recent ly cut two feet of high grade ore in a diamond drill hole put in from one side of a drift on Jerome lands locat- ed on the 1,400 level of Extension. While this find was small the grade was very high, about 30 per cent cop per. and this may lead to something
 
 bigger. Extension, it will be reme;i. bered, was discovered by following a piece of ore much less in size than that recently encountered on Jerome ground. It is going to take some time to develop this little vein, but it is also to take a year to put in the big tunnel, and if it is completed in this time good work will have to be done. We know Mir O'Rourke will make an effort to do some record driving in this big tun- nel job. and it will not surprise us to learn that he will get we'll inside the contradiction date.
 Planning for Bigger Output.
 United Verde Extension is planning for a considerable increase in output with the tunnel ready and the new shelter completed. The smelter has not yet been started but they are pre- pairing the location, grading for rail
Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20

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< * k * x * < * RECORD MADE IN SHAFT * OF THE GADSDEN COPPER

* Jack Hooper, superintendent of the Gadsden Copper Company * at Jerome, broke a worlds rec * ord in sshaft sinking last week < at Jerome when he sunk 19 * foot 8 inch shaft, in the clear, * matter of sixty-three feet in * one week.
 In sinking the shaft the com * pany is using jack-hammers and * is meeting with remarkable sue cess. Heretofore, however, the * shaft has been going down about * seven feet a week. The shaft * is down a total of 335 feet. The * shaft is in lime and has been in * that formation since the 175 # foot level.
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