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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
VICTIM OF NEW POLICY.
Belgian Relief Ship Sunk in "Unre
stricted Warfare Campaign.

LONDON, Feb. 2.-Official informa-
ton received concerning the sinking
of the steamer Euphrates shows that
the probable first victim of the new
submarine pohcy of the central powers
was a Belgian relief ship The Eu-
pirates had carried a cargo of relief
aupplies from the United States and
was homeward bound in ballast when
she was torpedoed. Several members
OF the crew have been rescued and
have reached an outlying port The
sinking of the Belgian steamer En-
pirates was reported by Lloyd's yes
terdav.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
FOUR BRITISH SHIPS HELD UP.
Waiting NJ Portland, Me, without
Definite Sailing Orders.

PORTLAND, Me, Feb. Pour
British steamers are in port here with.
out definite sailing orders. They are
the Athena. Cassandra, IIeadlcy aud
Ariosto. The Cassandra was due to
leave this week with foodstuifs. and
munitions.
The White Star. Dominion liner
Northland sailed Yesterday for Liver.
pool, via Halifax. She carried a few
passengers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
MARRIAGES.

In Brattleboro, Feb. !, by Carl S.
Hopkins, Esq, Thomas Joseph Nor
rison and Miss Emma Catherine Baden,
both of Westfeld, Mass.
In Brattleboro, Jan. % by Rev.
James 7. Rand, Joseph Jurko and Miss
Toefila Kobus, beth of Brattleboro
In Brattleboro, Jan. 90 by Rev.
James p. Rand Alfred LaFountain and
Miss Della Root, both of Brattleboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
VICTIMS OF SUBMARINES.
Three Vessels Reported Sunk-Two Be
longed to Norwegians.

LONDON, Feb. 2.-Thc Norwegian
steamer Portia has been sunk, Lloyd s
announces. The crew was landed. The
steamer Ravensbourne has been sunk,
LLOYD s also announces. Three mem
bers of the crew were lost. The Nor
wegian steamer Hecla is also reported
sunk.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
SENATE TO VOTE MONDAY.
Immediate Reconsideration of Immi-
grafton Bill Blocked.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Immediate
reconsideration of the immigration
bill passed on the President 5 veto by
the house last night was blocked in the
senate today by Senator Reed of Mis-
souri,, but agreement was reached to
proceed 70 vote on the repassage Of
the measure at p. m. next Monday
The revolving hywheel gathers no
flies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
BIRTHS.

In Wlnnepeg, Manitoba, Jan. %, a
daughter, Flora Bernice, to Leslie and
Maud Henderson, Stafford, grand
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs J. G.. Stat
ford Of Brattleboro
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Two cases of chickcn-pox have been
reported in the family of Frank Cut
Ter of Myrtle street
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
AGAINST. CONNOLLY.
Telegraph Operators Deny That They
Sent the Leak Message

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-When the
congressional leak inquiry committee
adjourned today to meet in Washing
ton tomorrow morning the testimony
of +. A. Connolly. the Washington
broker, regarding his sending re-
sumo of President Wilson s peace
note to +. F. Hutton & Co. New York
brokers, had been disputed by every
telegraph operator in Hutton s EN-.
plov. who Sherman L. Whipple said
sage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02

man is by the degree of elevation of
his chin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
DEATHS.

In Westfeld, Mass, Feb. /, John d.
Houghtaling, 50, formerly Of Brattle-
boro
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02

The manicure girl believes in the
hand of fate, nor does she despisc the
finger of scorn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02

Even the pessimst can see the bright
side of silver dollar
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02

Invisible patches should be used in
fixing up quarrels.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
7. R. & P.
IS READY
TO SELL!

Manager Bean of the Tacoma
Railway & Power Co. wants the
city of Tacoma to purchase his
street car system.
Mayor Fawcett declared Mon.
| day that Bean had visited him
Saturday and had made that
statement that it would only be a
short time before some sort OF
deal would be arranged for the
city to take over the company S
lines.
Fawcett told of the interview
with Bean after letter had been
read from City Attorney Harmon
to the city council, in which Har-
mon announced thai the city had
a full legal right to purchase,
condemn and purchase, or other
wise take over the entire street
railway system.
Broached 1t Before.
"The owners of the T. X. & p.
Co. want the city to buy the lines,
said Mayor Fawcett. THE ques-
ton is coming up stronger than
ever at this time because of the
strike here.
Bean came to me six months
ago and sadi that within four
months he would be around with
proposition for selling the sys-
tenn to the city. He didn't come
until Saturday, and he didn't have
any definite proposition to make.
But he told me that it would
not be long before some sort OF
proposition would be offered.
Wants Low Figure.
81 don't know whether the city
council would consider taking
over the street railway system,
unless a very low figure were
quoted. Because the Tacoma sys-
tenn is in pretty bad shape. The
council has never discussed the
question as a whole
Fawcett said that purchase
could be made by issuing utility
bonds. He said that he believed
the street car lines in Tacoma
would be municipality owned with
in a short time, but that he feared
the company would want an exor-
bitant price.
"The T. r. & P. Co. pays
taxes on $1,50O,0 worth OF
property" said the mayor. But
when 1t comes to fixing rates, 1T
quotes its property as being worth
$6,5O0,000. OF course the ST.
100000 taxable property is only
so per cent the real value, &C
/, cording to law, so the company
must figure that 1t is worth at
least three million. told Bean
that | wouldn't ever agree to pay
cent over a million and one-half
for his whole system
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

Five Tacoma mills which either
have established the eight-hour day
or have promised it to their en-
ployes beginning Aug. /, were
operating in Tacoma Monday.
They were the Danaher Lumber
Co., the Wheeler-Osgood Co., the
Keystone Lumber Co., the Local
Lumber Co., and the new Isley
Lumber Co. on the tide flats.
All other Tacoma lumber mills
were closed tight.
The Danaher Lumber Co. re-
sumed operations Monday morn
ing, having established the eight
hour day and signed a contract
with the timberworkers' union,
employing only union men. En-
ployes of the Keystone, Local and
Isley plants resumed work with
the promise of an eight-hour day
beginning Aug. /. The Wheeler
Osgood Co. plant has been run
ming continuously.
There were indications that Ia
coma millmen who have joined in
the fight against the eight-hour
day are weakening, following a
meeting of mill owners held Sun
day.
They had refused to meet with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
HARMON FOR
AN 8-HR. DAY

F. S. Harmon, president of F.
S. Harmon & Co., wholesale furni-
ture, announced Monday morning
that beginning Aug. 1 the COM
pany will voluntarily establish the
leight-hour day for employees thru
out the entire plant.
I'VE have recognized that the
Ieight-hour day is inevitable in in
dustry eand we wanted to be
among the first to establish II for
our employees" said Harmon.
The move was made by the COM
Ipany, according to Harmon, with
lout any demands having been
made upon 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
,ARBITRA re-!

to pass ON the fundamental
question of the mems right to
organize.
Ills offer was hopeful for
the general public in only
two particulars:
First, that IL did infer
there was some basis for
argument on the question
Of unionizing. Always be-
fore he and his fellow
Some a. Webster managers
had insisted they never, new
er would recognize u union,
so there!
Second, that he should he
willing TO arbitrate at all.
The plan for arbitration as
laid down by state law is fair
to both parties.
II the Tacoma Railway Il
Power Go. has any wish to
demonstrate to the public
that IL recognizes it's fran
chises as binding, that II Is
I'm fact "a public service corr
pOrstion, that IL does know
this nation is at war for
world-demOcracy, and that il
does not still cherish the
idea ii Is bigger than the
whole city Of Tacoma, let il
say yes to this offer of its
former employees.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
rR. &P. IMPORTS 100 MEN!
Trade Husbands; Everyb0dy'S Happy
Children Also Figure In Switch

These two children were born Tur-
cotte--lrene and Vernon.
The former Mrs. Tureotte, now
Mrs. Jordan by virtue of her divorce
and her marriage to the husband of
her close friend, keeps Irene.
Turcotte, with the new Mrs. Tur-
cote, formerly Mrs. Jordan, keeps
the boy Vernon.
In the unscrambling OF this matri-
monial omelet, affecting four adults
and four children, each parent keeps
one natural child and gains in ex-
change for the other step-child.
Each child keeps one natural parent,
and exchanges the other for a foster
parent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
new SHIP PLANT
TO EMPLOY 1900

and will construct 20 in Tacoma
and 20 on the Atlantic coast. 1t
will employ 1900 men here.
City councilmen promised
Campbell that shipping charges
over the new tideflats street rail-
way line would be the same as
those of steam railroads, and said
that passenger fares across the
fltas would not exceed Is cents
a round trip.
The Foundation company has
practically settled upon the land
for its plant here, Campbell said.
He was pleased with the city's en-
ergy in supplying street railway
transportation to the factory dis
trict and assured the council that
there was little doubt but that the
new plant would be located here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

If the Stone a. Webster
street railway companies of
Tacoma and Seattle are sim
cerc in their expressed de-
sire to arbitrate the differ
cnces with their men, THEY
WILL CEPT THE
UNIONS OFFER TO PRO
CEED UNDER THE MA
CHINERY PROVIDED BY
THE STATE LAW.
No impartial citizen will
regard seriously the COM
pany's scheme for arbitra-
ton, as announced Sunday.
President Leonard named
the jury panel, then mag
unanimously allowed the strik-
ers the privilege of select
ing four Ga number that
would require n three
fourths vote TO decide n
question: to try the case.
Any person familiar with
the persons he suggested
would see at a glance that
no one could possibly pick
three men from the list who
would he at all inclined to
grant any labor union IA
square deal.
Then ON top of that, Leon
ard wanted this hand-picked
jury of his to have the right
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

the strikers Monday, however.
The Buffelin Lumber Co., which
was partially closed by strike of
employees in the veneer and sash
and door plants, was completely
shut down Monday morning when
the sawmill men walked out.
That lumber companies will
have difficulty in disposing of the
lumber piled up in the yards was
indicated when union longshore-
men refused to work on the load
ing of ship that arrived at the
Puget Sound Lumber Co. Monday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

Assurance that another i'm
mense shipbuilding plant would
come to Tacoma If tideflats trans
portation were provided quickly,
was given to the city council Mon
day by A. !. Campbell, Pacific
coast manager of the Foundation
of New York. In COM
pany with Chester Thorne, Mr..
Campbell visited the council in
Mayor Fawcett's private office.
The Foundation company has
contracts to build 40 wooden ves-
sells for the French government,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
Step Back
Into Your
Childhood

Backward, turn backward,
o Time, in your flight!
Make me child again, just
for tonight
1t sounds like a useless
prayer; but it isn't. The
Times knows the way back
to childhood and will fur
nish a guide each evening
for two weeks, beginning to-
day.
Read the first installment
of that famous old classic.
alice in Wonderland" to-
day, and you will read every
one of them during the
week, and as you meet
your old friends the Cry
phon. the Mock Turtle, the
March Hare, the Halter and
the rest you will step back
again into the magic days
of childhood, with the added
Joy of an appreciation of the
beauty and delicate satire of
the immortal book of Lewis
Carroll, which you did not
have when you first read It.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
IT'S A MARRIAGE OMELET!
Montana Couple Swaps
Mates and Children in
a Unique Matrimonial
Deal That Is Made in
Spi. it of Good Will.
(Special to The Times.)

tSpeC1aI 10 Inc l1meS.D
HAVRE, Mont, July 30.-Usu-
ally when man falls in love with
another mans wife there's a shoot
ing affray.
And again, when woman gets
to liking another w0man's hus-
band better than her own there's
the deuce to pay.
But not so here!
When Mrs. II. w. Turcotte, wife
of a leading lIavre lawyer, felt she
loved the husband of Mrs. Henry
Jordan better than her own mate
she didn't hide the matter.
So They Snapped.
Nor did Mrs. Henry Jordan
when she fell in love with Mr..
TurcOtte.
Nor did Mr.. Turcotte when ne
took to liking Mrs. Jordan.
Nor did Mr.. Jordan when he
became fonder of Mrs. Turcotte
than of his own wife.
Their way out of an I'M
usual love tangle was to trade
wives and husbands. Mrs.
Jordan agreed 20 swap her
husband to Mrs. 1lIrcotte in
exchange for Mr.. TurcOtte.
The husbands were willing
enough to be traded. In fact
they were well along on
plan to trade wives with each
other.
So instead of any killings and
unwritter law defenses, or suits
for alienation of affection, the Jor-
dams and Turcottes agreed to get
divorces.
Stand Up Together.
DEGREES were granetd them at
Boulder Hot Springs.
Then the formc' Mrs. Jordan
became the new Mrs. Turcotte,
and the former Mrs. Turcotte be-
came the new Mrs. Jordan.
The two couples stood up to-
gether at the ceremony and the
friendliest relations exist be. geen
them. Now they are living again
as nighbors in all good fellow
ship.
Before the divorces the Jordans
and Turcottes were next door
neighbors. 1t was then that the
husbands and their wives con-
cluded they were wrongly mated
and decided to back out of their
matrimonial alliances and start
anew.
Switch Children.
Both couples had children, each
a boy and girl.
After the matrimonial swap
one couple took the two boys,
and the other took the two
girls. This gives each father
and mother one own child
and a step-child.
Vernon Turcotte and Woodrow
Jordan now live with Turcotte
and his wife, who was Mrs. Jor-
dan. Amelia Jordan and Irene
Turcotte now are sisters in the
new Jordan family.
Both families are we'll to do.
Turcotte is widely known attor-
ney, and Jordan is prosperous
merchant.
The children seem satisfied with
the new arrangement.
I'm pleased" says the new
Mrs. Jordan.
So am l" asserts the new Mrs.
Turcotte.
We, too" chorus the traded
husbands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
SLIDES DOWN SNOW
FIELD; SAVES LIFE

UNITED Press Leased Wire.I
PORTLAND, Ore, July 3d.
Thanks to the resourcefulness and
quick action of Elijah Goldman,
veteran Mount Hood guide, the
life of Hans Fuhrer, another
guide, is saved today.
Fuhrer was injured while TAX
ing party to the top of the
mountain.
goldman realizing the necessity
of immediate medical attention,
threw himself on the snow,
grabbed Fuhrer and slid across
snow fields, down the mountain.
q human sledge-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
CHARGE PLAN TO
KIDNAP ATTORNEY

PORTLAND, Ore, July 30
With Max P. Kleineau, private in
the Third Oregon regiment, and
Glen Kleineau, chauffeur, under
arrest, the police here today are
investigating an alleged attempt
to Mdnap A. e. Clark, prominent
attorney and a few years ago
candidate for senator.
Clark's divorced wife is be-
lieved to have engineered the at
tempt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
400 On
Steamer
Struck!

At ATLANTIC PORT, July
8O.-(By United Press.
An American transport with
400 men on board is re-
ported to have collidcd with
another ship in the bay here
this afternoon.
The transport is said to be
In a sinking condition.
The transport is the steamer
Saratoga, formerly in the Ware
line service. At $3.50 it was stat
ed the Saratoga was being towet
back to her dork. She collideC
with the steamer Panama.
The Saratoga is a ship of abou
10000 tons. AT the navy yard
it was said no one aboard was in
jured.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
u. S. MAY DIG
OUT CHANNEL

After a conference with city Of
ficials Monday morning, Mai. IL.
X. Dent, commanding officer of
the U.U S. army quartermaster' S
departmet in the Northwest, an
nounced that he would immediate
ly recommend to teh government
that Tacoma's city waterway be
dredged as a war measure.
The water is getting so shallow
In some parts that large liners
cannot tie up at docks during low
tide.
Mai. Dent said that II would
take three years to get an appro-
priation thru congress, but taht
he believed he could induce the
war department to use war funds
for the dredging. A strip 1000
feet long by 20 feet wide, adjacent
to the ocean docks, will be dug
out.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
CORN is LOWER

fBntted FresH SehHfd WHY
CHICAGO, July 30.--Wfth the
drouth in Kansas overcome by re-
ports Of better corn growing
weather in other sections, to-
gether with the settlement OF the
switchmen's strike. corn today
was fractionaliy lower than en-
urday's close.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
five 8-HOUR MILLS
RUNNING FULL BLAST
TACOMA'S HONOR ROLL

Here the Tacoma manufacturing which have
agreed establish eight-hou day employees in their
later than Aug. /:
Wheeer-Osgood Co., tideats.
Danaher Lumber Co., North End waterfront.
F. S. Harmon Co., 1888 Pacific
Tacoma Smelling Co.. Ruston.
Keystone Lumber Co., Center and Bailey ss
Local Lumber Co., 18th and Cushman.
Isley Lumber Co., tdeflats
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
A Coupon You Should Fill Today

Speak to your neighbor about subscribing. Give
him a months subscription as present, II you
can afford it. Call Main IL, or-here is a coupon
you may use in orderng
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

Our good friend Mr.. Lusk, of
Sunshine Station, was in the other
day bringing a suggestion for
Commissioner Atkins, who is trou-
bled to find rails for the city's
tideflats car line.
There are a lot of rails, ex-
plains Mr.. Lusk, extending from
Fern Hill south to Spanaway,
along an old right-of-way, that are
completely unused.
A street railway once operated
there, he says, but it some time
ago ceased doing business.
He proposes that the city take
up these rails and use them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

II you stand with The Times for the best inter-
ests of the working people of Western Washington
YOU should make it your business to see that the
paper obtains the widest possible reading.
Have the carrier boy deliver il at your door,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
BRITISH CRUISER
SUNK; 80 PERISH

tuhitcd Press feased Wtre-s
LONDON, July 30.-The Brit
ish cruiser Ariadne has been tor
pedoed and sunk, with a loss of
3S of those on board, the admi-
rally announced today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

A great deal of talk about
"blinding the foe" with
American aeroplanes; but
there is as good a chance that
congress will talk the foe to
death.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

We know certain gasolinish per-
sons who hope that Stone & Web
ster and all their underlings re-
main indefinitely just as stiff
necked as they have been.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

Greetings, has your wife
canned to your sugar-buying
limit?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

What has become of the old
fashioned man who said the Jit
would never come back?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

Our new ally, King of Siam,
Is named Vagiravudh, and is
said to be a real lively per-
son, dOmesticaIly speaking.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

1t appears that the rear admiral
Caps the shipping board climax.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

Victor Caruso was drafted
in Chicago. Some record!
The second number i'm Gary,
ILL.,, was held by Ava Hart.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30
TODAY,s CLEARINGs

Clearings ...,.......$383,3 43.76
Balances .......... 4S,066.00
Transactions ........ 942,616.39
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-30

The Times Pink is the only
late afternoon paper printed in
Tacoma. All the cream of the
days events up to the white
editions press time, plus the
late news, the baseball and the
other Pink features.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-17
EXAMINING PAPERS
OF GERMAN PARTY
Ship With Won Bernstorff on Board May
Make Protracted Stay at
Halifax.

HALIFAX, n s., Feb. II. - The
task of examining the credentials Of
the various members OF the German par
liner Frederick VIII from New York
to Copenhagen was begun today by
corps Of Canadian immigration and Gus
toms officers. The ship last night was
taken TO a secluded portion of Halifax
harbor for this purpose.
\ small army of officials boarded the
steamship this morning and the length
of the vessel 5 stay here viii depend on
whether they find everything Satisfac-
tory with the papers of the German par
ty which includes Count Won Bernstorff
former German ambassador to the Unit
ed States The most careful secrecy
prevails as to the operations of the Of
tcialS. but the personnel of the investl-
eating force of immigration officials,
translatOrs and women examiners indi-
Gated that the work was to be careful
and thorough.
Reports tnat it was possible that Hans
Taucher and Wolf Won Igel, who figured
in the revelations connected with the
alleged plot to destroy the Welland ca
nal and are reported on the vessel, might
be removed by the British naval au
thorities were without confirmation this
morning.
One of the immigration officers said
no orders had been issued for the re
moval of any persons from the ship al
present and any action would be taker
only after the party's credentials had
been examined.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-17
OBSERVES s7TH ANNIVERSARY.
Mrs Harriet L. Bancroft Receives Flow
ers and Other Gifts

Mrs Harriet L. Bancroft, observed
her S7th birthday anniversary quietly
yesterday III her home at 10 Western
avenue, where she keeps house for her
son, Carmi H. Bancroft, who is employed
by the Estey Organ company. Several
friends and neighbors called on her and
she received numerous postcards and
gifts of flowers and other articles. Her
daughter, Mrs. George Hall of American
Falls, Idaho, has been her guest several
days. Mrs. Hall and Carmi H Bancroft
are the only surviving children. A son,
Norris f. Bancroft, who died in the Sol
diers Home III Boise City, Idaho, few
years ago, was the youngest soldier TO
bear arms III the Civil war in defense
of the Union.
Mrs. Bancroft was born in Woodstock
Feb. 16, 1890, daughter of Deacon
Simeon Mott. She was married, Feb. S,
1855, to Allen Bancroft of Harrisville,
\. Fl. Later they lived in Chesterfield
=. H. After coming to Brattleboro Mr.
Bancroft was for some years manager
of the Rice farm. He died % years
age. Mrs Bancroft came here from
Claremont, n. H., four years ago tc
keep house for her son. She is in good
health and active for one of her years
and is member of the Centre Congre
gational church. She has one sister
Mrs. Augusta Gile, in Claremont.