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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-09

Like many other states upon
the declaration of war Connecti-
cut was prompt in calling out her
national guard tn protect bridges
over waterways. The call was
made at the direction of the Com
manding General of the Eastern
Department of thu Army, al
though the expense of maintain
ing the men on duty was borne
by the state, there being no fed
eral appropriation for that pur-
pose. If the state guard had not
been available the work would
have devolved upon federal
troops, and the expense, there
fore, represents a just claim upon
the treasury. In order to secure
a reimbursement for his state,
Representative James P. Glynn
of Connecticut has introduced a
bill proposing to appropriate the
amount which was expended by
the state for the emergency,
Other states have similar claims
pending, and Mr.. Glynn will see
to it that his measure receives
same favorable status which will
probably be accorded the others.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-09
Service.
Clark S. Wheeler, Director.
Plant for Second War
Crops.

There is still time for planting
seeds of a variety of vegetables
which will mature before frost
arrives. These can be grown in
spaces vacated by others just
harvested. They will mature at
an excellent period for best sue
cess in storing them for winter
use.
Early varieties of beets and
carrots can be sown now with
every assurance of being brought
to maturity. Turnips for winter
use can be sown during August.
There is yet time for bush beans.
Lettuce and radish seed can be
sown to fill up various spots in
the garden not now producing.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-09
All Aboard for Wash
ington.

.
Four boys and two girls from
Darke county will be aboard the
Corn Boys special train to Wash
ington and eastern cities this
fall. They will be the boys and
girls who have proved themselves
most proficient in increasing and
conserving the food supply of
this county-the biggest job they
have undertaken thus far in their
lives.
Every boy in the county has a
chance to win the trips offered
by the County Agricultural Soci-
ETY., E. A. Grubbs and Wenrick
& Mote of Greenville for the lar
gest yield of corn on an acre at
the least cost per bushel. The
business men of Greenville are
financing a trip to he won by the
champion pig grower of the coun-
ty.
The boys of Brown, Greerville
and Van Buren townships have
an extra chance to win since the
Kuntz & Wright Lumber Co. of
Greenville is offering another
trip which can be won only by a
boy of those townships.
Every girl in the county is eli
gible to the trip offered by the
County Agricultural Society and
the business men of Greenville
for the best average on the fol-
lowing display which is to be
made at the county fair on Aug
ust 27 to 81: (1) One loaf white
bread, (2) one pint can each of
tomatoes, beans and corn. (3)
three pint cans of fruit, ca two
glasses of jelly. and (5) one glass
of strawberry preserves or rhu-
barb conserve. This work will
all be entered by number, not by
name, and will be judged by a rep
reseutatlve from the Ohio State
University, College of Agricul-
ture.
Any girl who would like to
make this trip and take advan-
tage of the educational opportun-
tiles offered by such travel should
see at once County Superintend-
ent C. A. Wilt, Secretary J. E..
Folkerth, both of Greenville, or
write W. H. Palmer, Stat Lead
er Boys and Girls Club Work,
Agricultural College, Columbus,
for additional information.
Agricultural College Extension
Service.
Clark S. Wheeler, Director.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-09
Chill dren Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
G ASTO RIA
FOR SALE

Good Bed Room Set, Sewing Ma
chine, Guitar, Heating Stove, etc.
Call at Journal Office or $40 West
Main street, Greenville. 0.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-09
Getty 5ourg.

L. Is. MOul anu Levi mllIiiSii'
both earnest Sunday school work
ers, attended a Sunday school
convention, held yesterday after
noon at Lightsville.
Rev. l.. E. Carr is now enjoy
ing a months vacation from our
: Presbyterian pulpit.
J. E. Miller and wife have va
Gated the Hotel Palmer and re-
moved to their own property in
he east end of our village.
On next Sunday morning a con-
verted Jew will preach in our M.
E. church. / bespeak a goodly
attendance. In the evening of
the same day preaching services
will be rendered in the same
church by the pastor.
e.. ]. Miller and family began
an outing today for the week at
Orchard Island in Logan county.
They will doubtless have a good
ime and enjoy a freedom from
the ordinary avocations of life
and return invigorated from the
relaxation enjoyed.
Samuel Finnel is so far recov-
cred from his illness as to be able
to get out and enjoy the open air
and sunshine.
Mrs. J. H. Kniesley was a WIS.,
itor at Columbus, the guest of
Mrs. P. B. Moul, for several days.
Our M. E. Sunday school had
an attendance yesterday of 80.
1t seems the management of
our Great Darke County Fair is
taking note of the Importance of
the Sunday school cause and has
decided to furnish an opportuni-
ty for the schools to do the same
thing and win a prize Of $50.
Prizes of SIS. $40 and SIS are Of
fered tu the schools whose at
tendance on Wednesday, Aug
ust 20, will be the greatest on
that day, which has been desig-
mated Sunday School Day of the
fair, to be figured on a percent
age basis, provided the attend
ance is not less than 35 from the
competing schools. Tickets will
be distributed next Sunday and
the attendance of that day will
be the basis for calculation of the
per cents which determine the
winning schools. The distribut-
ed tickets given out next Sunday
will admit all holders under 16
years free to the fair and all
tickets returned to the secretary
of the board, whether by pupils
under or above 16 years, will be
counted in awarding the prizes.
This seems to ye scribe is a mat
ter worth competition and it is
hoped all schools will enter the
contest with a determination to
win a prize. The school of which
the writer is a member can sure
ly win one and possibly the high
est prize. Let due effort be made.
Aug. 6. XOB
CASTORIA
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-09
Political Gossip from
Washington.

report recently made to the Chi
nese government by Professor H.
H. Johnson, Agronomist of the
Texas Experiment Station, now
on leave of absence as cotton ex-
pert to China, he says:
1T is not a possibility but a
probability that this country
(China) will eventually become
one of the dominating factor's in
the worlds supply of cotton.
China could feed her population
and at the same time devote as
much land to cotton production
as would be necessary to double
the crop of the one state of Tex
as, which runs from 5000, 900 to
5. 100000 bales annually. With
the advantages which China has
in the way of labor supply, her
widely distributed system of ir-
rigation. methods of fertilization
and intensive systems of cultiva-
ton which prevail in some dis
tricts, China should be able to
produce two bales of cotton on
the same amount of land as is re-
quired to produce one bale in A
merica. The American farmer
pays from $1.25 to $3.50 gold per
day for his labor supply, while
the Chinese farmer has an un-
limited supply of labor for about
one-tenth of that cost"
A few days ago Senator Smith
of South Carolina said in the Sen
ate: TT is not very greatly to the
credit of America that in spite of
the monopoly of the production
of the raw material of cotton two
thirds of the raw material is con-
verted into the finished product
abroad and sold in disastrous COM
petition with the production of
our mills in every country in the
world"
Yet Senator Smith, since he
entered the Senate, has been an
ardent apostle of that other great
South Carolina free trader, Sen
ator Hayne, who epitomized the
tariff doctrine of the cotton grow
ing South when he declared, in
1881; eff trade was free the
goods manufactured in this coun-
try would be imported from Eng
land and paid for in our cotton,
but in cutting off the imports,
you, of course, to the same eX-
tent diminish our exports.'' -
All reports go to show that
China is awakening to the i'm
portance OF her position as a po-
tential contender in the cotton
market of the world. Not only
that, but, with the aid of foreign
capital, principally Japanese, she
is making forward strides as a
manufacturer of cotton goods.
The development which has gone
on during the past three years
points all too plainly to the fact
| that we are losing the Oriental
market in cotton goods. Let us
anticipate the time when Chinese
cotton is ousting the product OF
the South from European mar.
kets, and the American mills, il
permitted to operate at full ca.
nacitY. become the best nurchas.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-09
CREENvILLE, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1917

new he breaches, and which
would give the Orient free hand
in our domestic market in cotton
goods?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
AMERICA MUST SPEED UP SHIPS.
Admiral BowleS Says Victory Depends
on Building Them.

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 1.-THE
United States must speed up its ship
building program or lose the war and
all that depends on it, in the opinion
of Rear Admiral Francis t. Bowles,
vino spoke as the representative of the
emergency fleet corporation before the
chamber Of commerce here. Admiral
Bowlcs intimated that a draft might
be rcsorted to to obtain shipbuilding
workmcn and mechanics.
IF we cannot produce the ships we
need, he said "bv the spirit of our
democracy we shall have to obtain this
vital result otherwise.
admiral Bowles declared that the
people i'll this country must be brought
to realization of the fact that with
out ships the armies now III process of
formation would be helpless. lie called
attention to the fact that without YES
sells our fighting men could not 90
abroad or subsist after arriving in
France and the other fighting zones.
ShiFbuilding, said Admiral
Bowlcs, must be regarded as primal
patriotic duty.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
LEGAL NAME IS THEDA BARA.
Court Permits Theodosa Goodman to
Adopt Her Movie Cognomen.

NEW YORK, Nov 17.-Thcodosa
Goodman, who petitioned the court as
IAN actress who has become celebrated
through her own efforts, was given the
legal right Yesterday to use the name
Theda Bara, both on and off the stage.
The change Of name was general in
the family of the famous motion pic.
ture Vampire. Her father, mother,
two sisters and a brother also became
Baras instead of Goodmans.
The petition stated that Miss Bara
was lover . years of age and that
She was born in Cincinnati. Her faith
CT is native of Chorscl, Poland, while
her mother was born in La Chaux De
Fouds, Switzerland, the daughter of
Francois Bara De Coppet. It was ex-
planned that Bara sis an old family
name
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
BRATTLEBOROLOCAL.

There will be a meeting of the Mary
Geddis class Monday evening in the
home of Mrs L. Z. Colby, 81 Western
avenue.
Robert Jones, a student in the Brat
tleboro high school, who boards with
Miss Edna Wheeler, shot a deer in ia
maica this week.
About 50 children of the junior de-
partment of the Centre Congregational
Sunday school gathered in the chapel
from ! to clock yesterday and en-
ioved the numerous games and supper
which had been provided for them.
Robert Jones of West Townsnend,
student in the Brattleboro high school,
who is employed afternoons and Satur-
days in Houghton & Simonds s store,
went last night to his home and tele-
phoned this morning to the store TO the
effect that he shot buck weighing 200
pounds about clock this morning.
Twenty five friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward +. Ferren gave them a sur
prise last evening in their home at 9
Church place. In behalf of the guests,
Percy Goodwin presented them set
of sterling silver teaspoons, to which
Mr.. Ferren responded appreciatiyelv.
Games were played during the evening
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry BiXbv rem
dered several musical selections, which
were much enjoyed. There was also
music on the victrola. Refreshments
of ice cream and cake were served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
ADJUSTMENTS.
GOOD GRACIOUS ANNABELLE.
Original New York Cast to Present
Play Here Friday Night.

Good Gracious Annabelle the now
famous comedy which will be present
Cd at the Auditorium Friday night,
Nov. %. became a sensation the night
il was produced in New Y ork and dur
ing the year il played at the Republic
theatre the management estimated that
nearly half again as many people as.
did see it. would have had the capac-
itv of the theatre been greater
Good Gracious Annabelle IS from the
pen of Clare Hummer who will be re-
membcred as the author and composer
of the still popular classic ballad
Dearie, and the play will be presented
here by the well known producer Ar
thur Hopkins. who has under his man
agemcnt' William Gillette, Billie Burke,
Marie Doro. and the new Plymouth
theatre, New York. The piece is one
of the most pretentious comedies en-
tour. carrying a very large cast and
two special carloads of scenery de-
signed by the well known artist, Robert
Edward Jones. -3" III ,'74
Good Gracious. is a familiar
phrase all over the world. II PLAYS
an important part III the newest.
brightest. and breezieSt comedy. Good
Gracious Amabclle. New York. Chi
cago and Boston, where it played for
| many months placed an emphatic stamp
Of approval on clever Annabelle, and
it is now playing in London, where il
has already reached its second year,
with no abatement III popularity. Pro
ductions are shortly TO he made in
| Paris, South America and Australia.
| Good Gracious Annabelle is really a
comedy OF character, its people are
all 50 definitely marked. and the play
/ srarkles with smartness and humor
The original east and production used
| in Boston and New York viii be shown
| III Brattleboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
WEST BRAT7LEBORO

Walter H. Cheney came today from
Newfane to remain. over Sunday in
town.
Fred Smith and team are at work
this week grading about f. +. Covey 5
new bungalow.
Mrs. Luke Weatherhead. who is i'll
and confined to the bed, is slightly
more comfortable
Mrs. Charles Pettee has returned
from Dorchester Mass. where she
spent a few days with Mr.. Pettee
Artaur Bailey of Springfield, Mass.
formerly Of this village, is expected
this week to work for John Gallup,
black smith
Miss Marion Murphy of Brattleboro
continues to gain each day since her
operation for appendicitis in the Mel
rose hospital
Earl Hadlock of Western avenue re
sumed work Friday for the Vermont
Printing company, after an illness Of
setrral days.
Mrs. George Prouty, Elisha Prouty
and Elijah Prouty have had THEM
houses wired for electric lights f, NJ
Goodenough installed the lights
Mr. and Mrs. Cortcs Farnum have
moved this week from the w II. Alex
andcr house to John l.. Barney 5 house
in the tenement vacated by Fred
Fletcher and family.
4 very pleasing occasion was thc
meeting last evening of the Ladies
| Aid society of the Baptist church, with
the men invited. at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. John Mckay, whose hospital
lily was greatly enjoyed. There were
% present. The evening was spent
pleasantly with games and plenty OF
music interSpersed Refreshments OF
sandwiches, cake and coffee wert
| SERVED
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
CHURCH NOTICES.

It. Michael 5 Roman Catholic church
Masses at $50 and la.30 a. m Beuc-
dietiou NJ 30. SUNDAY school at Oak
Grove ut @ clock.
Unitarian church. Rev. f.. .. :. Os-
good pastor. Service Sunday morning
at 1880. Subject of sermon. Noblcsse
Oblisc, sunday school at ll.45. All
are welcome at both services
Advent Christian church. Rev. f. :.
Hewitt. pastor. Morning worship at
1913. Sermon by pastor. Subject. The
Reward of the Righteous. Sunday
school at -. Young People : LOYAL
Workers meeting at q o clock Eve
ming prayer service ut 80 Thursday
evening.
First Church Of Christ. Scientist.
Emerson building. Elliot street. Sun
daT service at 1915 Il. ~ Subject,
MortalS and lmmortals. Wednesday
evening testimonial meeting at 40.
Reading room open daily, except sun
DAYS and legal holidays, from , to )
@ clock. All are welcome
Gniyersalist church, Rev. D. T.. Trout
minister. LNinn worship 1890 Il. m.
with actmoa by the pastor. Subject
'NIe on III framing. spiritual
Athletics. The choir will be assisted
/ by Alison Dugan, violin. Bible school
4 Lilo Il. m. Boys day will be oh
served. Y. Z. G. L service 80 p. m.
I N charge Of Miss Alta Eames. Topic.
1 Post Office Mission Work. =
Methodist church, Rev. Douglas G.
Guest pastor. Sunday services: 1926
q. m, sermon by the pastor. Topic
Christ s Poverty Our Riches; Ills a. m.
session of Sunday school, $50 p. m.
meeting of Epworth league Topic, This
is the Day of All Days. Leader, Miss G
\. Bel; 80 p. m, regular Sunday even
ing church service with sermon by tn,
pastor. Topic, Preaching in the Olc
Home Church. Regular church praver
meeting Friday evening at 80 in tn,
vcstrv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
LIEUT.. M. H. GLEASON
WRITES HIS FATHER
Wardsboro Boy Tells of Sights in
France-German Prisoners Appear
Surprised at Americans.
Especial to The Reformer.)


WARDSBORO, Nov. Il.
John Z. Gleason of this place, former
" of Brattleboro, has just received
a letter from his son, Lieut.. Martin II.
Gleason, who is in France. Lieut.. Glea-
SON is in the 101st ammunition train
Goth division, American expeditionary
force. He writes as follows:
. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Oct. O.
dear Father
"When / say somewhere in France
YOU know as much about where / am
as | do myself All I know is that
we have been moved three different
times and then pulled in here at 2.3o
a. m. this morning. 1t. is the best
camp we have been III and everything
is going fine.
81 do not know how long it will be
before we 90 up to the line but as is
only natural | am anxious to get start
ed. Am keeping very well indeed and
am as hard as nails.
1.-The trip has been very interesting
indeed, and | enjoyed it to the utmost
All the things which seem so queer to
us YOU see in actual practice here
little horsees in big wagons; men and
bows in wooden shoes which sound like
a runaway horse as they 90 along the
street; quaint little shops in narrow
streets with all sorts Of queer things
to sell, and they are cheap, too. Things
are much cheaper here than in America
i'll spite of the war
- AS one travels through the country
it looks a whole lot like Vermont or
Massachusetts, except that instead Of
| having cows III the pasture one sees
only bulls
"Milk is delivered in little cans
from house to house. The boy goes
along and draws out the amount de
| sired.
1.-The queerest thing of all is the rail
roads. The largest engine | nave seen
is not as large as the one running up
| home from Brattleboro. They are set
up on high wheels and the cars are
about the size of a good big dumpcart
Passenger ears are divided into little
compartments. Instead of having an
aisle up and down the centre they are
| divided into first, second and Third
class. with varying degrees of comfort.
1.-The weather here is not very pleas
ant, as il rains nearly every day.
| There are some German prisoners
here who look at US as if they were
really surprised to find US civilized PEG
pie instead of savages. They are all
very happy and seem to enjoy them
! selves.
well ! am well and happy so far
and see no reason why ! should not re
main so. When l get back | can tell
YOU all this a good deal better than |
can write II, SO viii wait until then
Let me hear from YOU as often as you
can. | may get il, but the chances
Iare that | will not.
with love to all
MARTIN"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
SURGICAL DRESSINGS WORK.
Dressings Are as Much for American
Soldiers as Any Others.

There seems to be a misunderstood
ing in the minds of some women as to
the work done by the National Surgi-
cal Dressings committee, which meets
in the Red Cross rooms Monday after
moons. While the dressings made by
this branch of the Red Cross are for
use in French hospitals they are as
much for American soldiers as any
others. the difference in form being
merely to conform TO the customs of
the institutions for which they are in
tended.
The work is distinctly a part of the
American Red Cross activities and
should be supported just as regularly
as any other part. More women are
needed for this work every Monday
afternoon, and il is hoped that all who
are able will consider il their duty
to help.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
BELLOWS FALLS.

Mrs. Thomas +. O'Brieu, who is the
local committee on American Defense,
conducted q benefit for this society in
the Grand moving picture theatre
Thursday evening. The amount cleared
above all expenses was 1880. Mrs
o 'Bricn personally sold in advance
1000 tickets The play shown at the
thcater was A Man Without Coun-
try.
The quarters on SaXtons River
street used for nurses home were
opened yesterday for public inspection
and the 800 or more callers were wei
coined by the hospital directors. Mrs.
+. J. Perry and Mrs. J. c. Day, who
were members of the committee on fur
nishing the home This home now ac-
commodities Il nurses and there is
room for 20 if necessary. All nurses
IN the home are connected with tae
Rockingham hospital.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
MARLBORO.
Serious Auto Accident.

Guy Prentise and son met with a Sc
rious accident Sunday morning. Mr..
Prentiss had just returned with his
family to this town from Milton (Vt.)
where he had resided several years,
Sunday morning his son, Robert, TAX
ing the auto, started for Brattlcboro
to get his sister, Miss Dorothy Prem
tiss, who is serving as nurse in the
Memorial hospital.
At the foot of the hill opposite Or
ange Higley' the car tipped over, Sc.
riously injuring the young man, but es-
Gaping from the car he worked his way
to Mr.. Higley's and sent for his ia
thcr, who on his arrival righted III
the car and started for DR.. Hunter Hc
had gone but few rods when the can
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
Motion Picture Offerings.

To-day Antonio Moreno viii be seen
at the Princess theatre in the Vita
graph feature production, A Son of the
Hills. also good comedy feature.
On Monday Wallace Reid in the Para
mount production. The Hostage, will be
an attraction. also Burton Holmes
travel picture.
The Empire presents Coin Straight,
two-act western drama; Perils Of the
Secret Service. in two acts; Double
Topped Trunk, a drama, and Poor Pet
or PiouS, comedy. On Monday Will
liam Fox will present Miriam Cooper
in The Silent Lie, a five-act drama.
The Ford Educational also will be IN
attraction.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-17
GREEN RIVER.

II. L. White is spending few days
ut his farm in Halifax.
Mr.. and Mrs A. c. Perry. Luther
and Elizabeth Perry of West Hart
ford came by automobile to visit their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. ). Gallup,
Sunday.
Arthur Worden and James Stevens
motorcd over the Mohawk trail to
North Adams last week and visited
friends and relatives III Stamford and
Bennington.
Miss Ruth Page has returned to her
home in Bristol after several months
visit at Arthur Wordep s. Arthur
Chapman accompanied her and will re-
main for weeks visit.
Bert Davis, manager Of the Robert
son farm, was very seriously injured
Saturday, being badly gored by one
of the animals in field. Dr. Hunter
Of West Brattleboro was called. Mr.,
Davis IS as comfortable as could be
expected.