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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14

pany hv mail. have an appointment
III fifteen minutes. and if | have to
walk ! VIII he frightfolly late
4 young man sitting III the seat in
front Of the distressed damsel spoke
up:
Pardon me, miss, he said, "may
l pay your farc?"
I'D be awfully obliged" she said
SO the fare was paid. The polite
Young man wouldn' t even give the girl
his name and address and soon left the
ear.
AS the car started again he whistled
to the conductor, and when he got that
functionary S attention, ostentatiously
he extracted from the cuff of his trou-
sers the lost twenty-five cents, held it
triumphantly aloft, and FASTENED grim
ming down side street.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14
Drew a Blank.

y fuesy old gentleman entered a
certain restaurant in a town near Lon
don some time after the lunch hour
and called out:
Waiter, Roast beef, please"
Sorry, sir. Roast beef s off, sir,
replied the waiter.
Well, fetch me a chop and chips
then,'
Chops is also off, sir
Have you got any steak or sau
sages p
Ne. sir, sorry. Them also off. -
Hang it all, man, everything seem!
to be off here, getting impatient
and sarcastic. Bring me the roof
I'll cat that.
Scan t even do that, answered thu
waiter apologetically. You see, sir
we had the Zepps last night, and tn,
roof is off. too, STRAY Stories.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14
Tit for Tat.

Near Shanghai, an English sailor on
his way to the foreigner s burial
ground to lay a wreath on the grave Of
u comradc met native with a pot OF
rice
"IIcllo. john" he hailed Where
are YOU going with that 'ere2@
81 takee put on glave-glaye of my
licn said the Chinaman.
IIo, ho!' laughed the sailor. q And
when do sou expect your friend tC
come up and eat it,
All time samec your flien come W
and smellec your flowers, said John.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14
NORTHFIELD, MASS.

Donald and Dean Williams have
measles.
Arthur s. Warren is in the employ
of G.. n Kidder
Miss Hazel Holton is home from the
Franklin county hospital iii Greenfield
for two weeks.
William Tanski will leave the employ
of C. C. Stearns Tuesday and 20 to
AIillers Falls, where he has position
The Polyanna club is making ar
engagements for its annual fair on the
lawns of the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
IR. Moody in June. The proceeds 90 to
the upkeep of the Mt. Hermon hospital.
Rev. G. J.. Thompson preached on
Jesus, the Farmer, Sunday morning. At
the evening meeting Of the Young
Peoples union Rev. Horace r. Hub
bard of Hubbardston was the speak
er.
Mrs Horace Sibley of Erving, for
.merlv of this town, spoke to the stu
dents in Sage chapel Friday morning
Mrs Sibley is a graduate of the sem
mary and her husband is pastor of the
Erving church.
The senior class of Mortified semi
nary will hold class day exercises
Tuesday. Miss Lillian Mcdonald i,
president and Miss Wcidman teacher
The place where the exercises are held
is known to these two only.
! Newton Howard, son of Mr.. ant
Mrs. E. T. Howard, has enlisted in tho
officers reserve corps. He underwent
a minor operation in Schenectady las
week and on his recovery expects t,
be accepted at Plattsburg, n. Y.
Mrs Ambcrt e. Moody gave a re
lception Saturday afternoon III homo
of her guest, Miss Amy McKowan o
Japan, who is home on furlough TIL
young women OF the town were invit
ed to meet Miss Mckowan from 3.3
to $50.
Mothers day was observed in III
Congregational church Sunday. Al
mothers were invited to the junior 4,
partmcnt Of the Sunday school, .
which w. c. Roberts is the superb
tendent Appropriate exercises wer
= held and each mother received a whit
carnation.
Rev. ". Il. Boomer left last wee
for Dallas, Texas, to attend meeting
Of the General Assembly OF the PrcSb.
terrain church. lie expects to be ava
month and or his return viii Wis
in Missouri, Washington and New Yor
Mr.. Boomer is the commissioner of til
, Presbytcry Of Chile, South America,
the assembly.
. John Phelps left Sunday night f
: Plattsburg. n. y, to train in the Of
I GERS reserve corps Roy Woodard h;
e enlisted and viii 20 to Fort Etha
: Allen to traia Raymond and RalL
: spencer formerly OF this town, now
+ Greenfield, have enlisted and viii
to Fort Ethan Allen. They are gran
r sons OF Mr.. and Mrs Hamilton of Ea
. Mortified.
: Mrs 7. X. Callende: has been pla
: ming for several months to visit h
son and wife, DR.. and Mrs. George
: Calender. in Honolulu, but railroa
strikes and war conditions have int
= fered. She aow expects to leave Mort
field MAY % for San Francisco al
will sail for the Hawaiian islands NJ;
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14
Celery.

Formerly good celery could be grown
only by expert market gardeners, and
it was a luxury enjoyed by common
folks only on such occasions as Thanks
giving aud Christmas. Now, thanks to
the development of scientific process
known rs the "uew celery culture,
the succulent plant can be grown sat
isfactorily in any small garden with
good soil.
Growing Of celery on 4 commercial
scale is IN expensive process, requiring
transplanting and later the blanehinl
of the stalks b. shading either with
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14

and q turin < six
months of this time
was under a doc
tors care without
getting any help.
/ decided to try
Lydia f. Pinkham S
Vegetable Com :
pound and it made
me feel like a new
woman. | am en-
tirely relieved of
tn e displacement
and pariOlic Mains
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14
THREE MILES, $50 FEET.
New American Altitude Record Made
at San Diego.

san DIEGO, Cal, May H. - All
American records for altitude were
broken Saturday by Capt. w. y. Rob
crtson. .Ir., Junior military aviator at
the North Island training school, who
reached Il height of about 1900 feet.
The American record 1854 feet had
been held by Victor Carlstrom, who
was killed in a light at Newport
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14

News, Va. Capt. Robertson had as a
passenger Capt. G. X. Rhinehardt. They
used 800 horsepower battlcplane.
Zero temperature prevailed above the
l6,000-foot level and both aviators
suffered intensely.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-14
A GRADUATE
NURSE
Why She Recommends Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Chicago, III. 81 was in poor health
Tor twoyears, caused by a displacement.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
HEAR THE FAMOUS SINGER

Madam Schuman-Hienke, the noted
singer, will appear by special train
at Wenden on Sunday, September
9th, and between the hours of and
8 p. m. of that day, will sing to the
people of that locality in the open
air at the school grounds. She will
bring her own piano and pianist and
will be accompanied by other vocal
artists. Tickets will be sold at 81,
and children of school age will be
admitted free of charge. The pro-
ceeds will be devoted to the benefit
of the American Red Cross. M. NJ.
Briggs Of Wenden was here Monday
giving publicity to the event and in
viting all to attend, and all those
who possibly can should make it a
point to be there. Aside from the
fact that this entertainment is being
given for worthy cause, it will be
a rare treat, as Mrs. -Hienke
is a singer of national reputation
and 1t is seldom that like opportun-
ity presents itself.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
HE WAS WILD AND WOOILY,

A rancher down on the reserva-
tion, whose name was not learned,
brought to town and had on exhibi-
tion Monday last, in a cage, a bob
tailed kitten of the wild cat species,
which he caught on his ranch a few
GAYS ago. This little Individual had
pretty fur as woolly as he was
wild. He did not seem to relish
domesticity in general nor his sur
roundings in particular and growled
ominously, resenting all friendly
overtures on the part OF onlookers,
and giving them plainly to under
stand that they couldn't max, a
monkey of him-withal that he was
Gagged.
There were a pair of these kittens
but the other escaped with the
mother. Just what the owner in
tended to do with his captive is not
known but someone suggested that
it would make a good mascot for the
l. W. WIS.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
NO TOAD-EATERS IN PARKER,

Several boys found a toad out on
the fiat east of the Santa Fe rail-
road one day last week that was
some toad to be sure, for it was
about eight inches in length by five
in width and weighed about five
pounds. Thinking they had found a
frOg-a real "grenouille Francaise"
the lads hastened with it to Mrs.
O'COnnor's restaurant and tried to
sell it to that lady as a choice morsel
for her epicurean boarders. But
the sight of the repulsive-looking
creature was enough to give one the
'creeps" and put his teeth on edge,
so the boys were politely told that
there were no tOad-eaters" in Par
ker (thOugh some say that's a
mlstake) and were given just time
enough to take their toad in making
their getaway.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
EUGENE S. IVES CALLED BY

Eugene Semmes Ives of Tucson,
one of the best known attorneys and
politicians in the southwest, died last
Saturday of apoplexy at the home Of
his daughter at Mist, on Happy
Creek, Merced county, California, a
picturesque resort in the High Sier-
ras. Mr.. Ives was stricken Wednes-
day while in the Yosemite valley and
was Immediately removed to the
home at Mist.
He was one of the general counsel
for the Southern Pacific and among
the most prominent figures in Arizo-
ma public affairs.
Mr. Ives since 1895 has been a
prominent figure in Arizona politics,
latterly distinguished as leading
democratic counsel in the hard
fought contest brought by former
Governor Hunt against the election
of Governor Campbell, in this case
exhibiting at their best his high
qualities as a lawyer. He made a
stronge effort to secure his party's
nomination to the United States
senate.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
ARIZONA'S CONTRIBUTION.

A recent issue of the Daily Mining
and Financial Record contained a
list of dividends paid stockholders
by the mining companies which made
public their earnings.
This list is, of course, but partial.
and many well known corporations,
some of them operating in Arizona,
are not included. Neither does this
list contain any record of placer
mines, or of the vast amount Of min
eral values taken out by private in
dividuals and unincorporated com
panies.
Making no allowance . for these
highly important omissions, which
might readily amount to 25- per ceut
of the total, it appears that the com
panies making public statements
have disbursed to their stockholders
very close to $1,700,O00,0OC, and
that, of this total, Arizona mines
have paid $1s7,1S2,626, or almost
exactly IL per cent.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
MEETING Of
STOCKHOLDERS
OF ADJUSTMENT COMPANY WILL
BE HELD MONDAY-REPORT
TO BE PRESENTED, DIRECTORS
ELECTED-OTHER BUSINESS.

The first annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Commercial Bank
of Parker Adjustment company will
be held next Monday. The meeting
is scheduled for 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, and will be held in the
new hotel building.
At this meeting the officers OF the
adjustment company will present
their first report, showing the condi-
tion of affairs at the present time
A board of five directors will be elect
ed to serve for the ensuing year.
The present board of directors has
accomplished a great deal since the
incorporation of the company, and
has succeeded in Strengthening out
many difficult problems confronting
the corporation at the time of organ
iZatiOn.
While none of the members of the
board of directors are keen for re-
election, it is the general opinion of
the largest creditors of the defunct
bank that the same board should
continue in Office for the ensuing
year. One great advantage the pres
ent board would have over a new
board is the experience the members
have already acquired in the work
which confronts the management of
the adjustment company.
The report that will be presented
to the stockholders next Monday will
show the company to be in very
good condition, with prospects of
realizing very large percentage to
the creditors of the defunct CONNER
cial Bank
Arrangements have been practi-
cally completed to finish the new
hotel, and 1t is expected that work
on the building will be resumed in
about one week.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
WOULD SUSPEND ASSESSMENT
WORK.

Senate joint resolution No. 178,
which passed the senate on July 8,
and which has been favorably re-
ported to the house with amend
ments, copies of which were recently
sent out by Senator Carl Hayden,
would suspend the annual assessment
work on mining claims during the
year 1917, upon the condition that
each locator shall file a notice with
the county recorder, asking for the
benefits of the new act
The report of the committee shows
that the secretary of the interior is
opposed to a general suspension Of
assessment work during the war, al
though he has finally concluded to
approve an exemption for the pres
ant year The members of congress
from the eastern states, according
to the senator's statement, are usual
ly inclined to follow the recommen-
iations of the secretary but without
his WhOle-hearted support 1t Will be
lifficult to pass the bill, There is
1 general understanding that moth
ing but emergency legislation which
IS absolutely essential to the conduct
Of the war with Germany shall be
considered at this time, so that there
IS much uncertainty about obtain
ng a vote on the bill
If the resolution is to be passed at
I'll, it should become law before the
lst of October, he says, and believes
hat the owners of mining claims
will be safe in waiting to COM
nence their assessment work until
hat date, but no longer
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
WATER WORKS IN GOOD SHAPE,

The pumping plant of the Parker
Improvement company, after having
been ION the blink" for nearly two
months during which time Parker
was dryer than eternal drouth or a
Death Valley bone, is now in fine
5hape and throwing water enough
TO drown all the sorrows of the
universe. The plant was on the
verge of collapse from general de-
bility, wrought through hard and
injudicious usage, and attempts to
get proper action out of it were
futile until the services of Joseph
Lamoureux an old-timer on the Job,
were secured. The master hand
soon solved the vexatious problem
and the water gushed forth as plen-
tifully as it did when Moses "smote
the rock" and appeased the thirsty
Jews. The ice-making plant will
be the next to receive attention, and
it is believed that in a short time
the plant will be ready to turn out
more ice, and of superior quality,
than it ever did before.
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
HE REFUSED EASY MONEY.

John E. Bush, the ferryman of the
'arker Cutoff, had a boat he .was
lesirous of selling and the price he
put upon it was $40. cash money
Wednesday forenoon two strangers
Examined the craft, inquired the
)rice and went away, saying they
would take the matter under advise
nent and should they decide to take
t they would return later. Shortly
ifter they had gone two other
strangers called upon Mr. Bush for
he same purpose and after looking
)ver the boat, paid the price and took
he craft. They rowed it a short
distance up stream and moored it in
sheltered cove where they thought
lobody would find it, while they
anne to town to make arrangements
or journey down the river. They
lad no more than left the place
When the first two men, who had by
his time decided to make the pur-
hase, by some strange freak of
hance found the boat, and, rowing
down to Bush's place offered to pay
he price for it he had asked. To
heir astOnishment the man who
Cutoff Parker refused their
Tough, telling them that the boat
vas already sold to other parties.
Now John could have made easy
money but he refused to,thus demon
'trating beyond doubt or cavil that
Parker has a truly honest man.
'trike the harps, Celestial choir, and
iound the G strings to long paeans
If welcoming song, for John is too
'quare for this onery world and
Parker will, on the last day, need at
least one representative on high!
Let cherubs dust for him golden
hair and upon it place a cushion of
.oftest feathers tilched from seraph
wings; fit crown to his majestic
brow and let old Saint Peter watt
him a pass of free admissiCn II to
wide-open, golden town!
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
KA|SER'S DOOM
STUDENTS SAY
IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE AND
THAT HIS CAREER OF MAD
NESS WILL SOON COME TO AN
END-PEACE APPROACHING.

those who are given to delving in
the bible for explanations Of What Is
and what is 10 be, take comfort of
',1e:r deductiorT in regard to the war.
.ty profess 10 lint in Revelations OF
st. John key to the riddle of time
and circumstances as it affects the
great war. They say that there is
but one conclusion to be drawn from
the word of st. John, and that is
that the days of the kaiser are num-
bered
These wise men of the Word point
to Chapter 13 of Revelations in proof
that the kaiser has nearly run his
career of madness and that peace is
approaching
Here is WISDOM" says the Book.
He that hath understanding, let him
count the number of the beast; for it
is the number of the man; and his
number is six hundred and sixty and
six.
OF that the interpreters have the
identity of the kaiser. Six is the key
number, and there are six letters in
kaiser. More, K is II in the alpha
bet, A 1, l 8, S 10, E and r IS. Add
the key number to these in turn
116, Is, 90, 1876, Sc and 1856. The
sum of these numbers is G6S. And
that is the number of the man, as
given in Revelations.
'And | saw beast coming out of
the sea-" says Revelations, chapter
13, having ten horns and seven
heads, and on his horns ten diadems,
and upon his heads names of BIAS
phemy. And there was given
to him mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies and there
was given unto him authority to
continue 40 and two months.
And he opened his mouth for
blasphemies against God, to BIAS
pheme his name, and his tabernacle,
even them that dwell in the heavens.
If any man is for captivity, into cap
tivity he goeth; if any man shall kill
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
CONTINUED on Page ~
WOMEN ARE EAGER TO SERVE.

Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, wife Of
the president of the National City
Bank in New York, has been extreme
ly active in war relief work, both as
worker herself and as director of
the thousand and one new occupa-
tions that are open to women at this
time.
Writing in the September issue of
Harper's Bazaar, now ready. Mrs.
Vanderlip makes this statement
Women are eager to serve They
have always served at home Now
our government needs their work
outside their homes. They will be
ready for every sacrifice. I believe
that the idea of democracy with its
promise of opportunity for every
child, is a clear and definite belief
in the minds of women, and that we
are ready to give to our utmost to
create world democracy"
Among the great things done by
women thus far, Mrs. Vanderlip
mentions the development of the Red
Cross, the Increase and Conservation
of the Food Supply, the taking of
the Military Census of Resources,
and helping to raise our recent Lib
erty Loan. -,
The Parker post., 1917-09-01
TRAVELLER DIES
FROM THIRST
UNKNOWN AGED MAN MEETS
DEATH ON DESERT BETWEEN
EHRENBERG AND QUARTZ
SITE.
Especial to The POST }

QUARTZSITE, Aug. 29-On the
26th of this month the present care
taker of the Cinnabar mine property,
Ed. J. Koehl, reported to your cor
respondent that there was a dead
man lying in the road about two
Canyon, in badly decomposed con-
dition. After going to Quartzsite
to get jury for the inquest l start
ed for the canyon by auto via Ehren-
berg road, some 35 miles by that
route. On finding the body it prov
ed to be an old man between 65 and
70 years of age, weight about 1875
or 1876 pounds, No. or shoe, with
dark coat and vest ON, greyish, bad
ly worn hat. A faded shoulder bag,
with clothes brush, table spoon and
two or three pieces of dried out cac-
tus as it's contents were beside the
body. A small syrup can of the Log
Cabin style-perhaps one quart it
would hOld-seemed to be his only
water vessel, and that was empty.
His tracks led for 16 miles from the
Colorado river where the man had
showed up at the ferry some weeks
ago. His body was in half prop
ped position against a rock, with
the feet extending into the road.
In one pocket I found a purse and
comb, the purse containing 81 cents
in nickels and dimes and a penny.
In another inside vest pocket | dis
covered a wallet of papers, among
which were 204 mining shares in
the ShOshone Mine & Trading COM
pany, Vancouver, 3. c., concern.
These shares were in the name of r.
c. Foster. Some postal cards from
California Div. Soldiers Home were
addressed to William Rosecranz,
which notified that party that his
leave Of absence expired on April,
1917. There was also another pos
tai addressed to Henry Grauchn. All
OF which made the coroner's jury
very uncertain as to the deceased's
name. The body was in such fear
full state that it had to be handled
with rake and shovel in order to get
it on canvas and then into the
grave-in fact, the clothes were all
that held the thing together.
On the 14th of August, your cor
respondent in company with w E
Scott, Harry Fuller and Fred V.
Kuehn, had buried Thomas McGraw,
caretaker of the Cinnabar mine and
Old-time miner in Mohave and Yuma
counties, in the same canyon, about
two miles above the spot where we
buried this man on the 9th.
The last man we buried in this
canyon, Judging from what people
told us on the river, was old and
feeble and a very slow walker, so
it must have taken him fully one
and one-half days to make these 16
miles into the Interior and we will
leave it to the reader on the desert
how long that insignificant quart
of water lasted this poor old fellow,
and how much suffering he went
through during those 16 miles Had
he been able to go two miles fur
ther he would have walked into food
and water
A G. GROSSMAN.