The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-08
DESIRED TO RAISE
$3.50 SATURDAY
Canvass Will Be Made for
Relief of Armenians
and Syrians
SHORT TALKS TO BE
MADE TOMORROW

List of Those Appointed as Canvassers
VIII Meet in Congregational Church
at O'Clock Tomorrow Afternoon to
Receive Instructions.
In order to provide food, clothing and
other necessities Of life during the win
ter months for nearly 100000 destitute
Armenians and Svrians in western Asia
requires a minimum total Of 100000, 600.
OF this amount the carefully computed
lproportionatc share that normally
should be contributed from BrattIeboro
| IS 81 $50.
This mav seem large, but should every
city and town in the United States con
tribute its full share rs suggested the
total would give TO each dependent man.
woman and child pittance of less than
| eight cents a day TO meet the winter S
needs at famine prices Every dollar
lacking means untold suffering and pos
sihlc death which il is within our power
| to prevent
y canvass Of Brattleboro Is to be
made Saturday under the auspices Of the
| Iphilanthrophv committee of the Wo-
man 5 club and the local Armcn;an and
/ Syrian relief committee, III an effort TO
raise Brattleboro 5 apportionment.
| CanvasserS have been appointed, and
| all OF them are urged to meet in the
| Congregational church tomorrow after
noon al / o clock to hear the needs pre-
sented and to receive pledge cards and
instructions for carrying out their work
/ There will be short talks by members
Of the local committee, Horton D. Walk
er, Edgar b. Smith and Rev. Richard
! II. Clapp.
! The canvassers. who will work under
| the directions of Mrs. James NJ. Adams
Of the Woman : club committee, are as
/ follows
/ Western avenue, Mrs. Ebert Simmons
and Miss Caroline Hamlin
/ Oak Grove, Miss Harriet T. Arnold
| Walnut street, Mrs. Harrie B. Chase.
! Birge street and Pine street, Miss
| Dorothy Dugan.
Oak street, Miss Jessie Ransom.
| Maple street, Miss Mary Baker.
Cedar street, Miss Jane Daley.
| Spruce street, Mrs. A. l.. pettee.
Chestnut Hill, Mrs. Howard c. Rice
| High Lawn road. Miss Caroline Ham
lin
West Brattleboro, Miss Susie Clark.
! South Main street and Clark street,
Miss Alice Waterman
/ Putnev road, Miss Clara Perry.
Chestnut street, Mrs. F. S. Hewitt.
/ Thomas, Central and Pearl streets,
Miss Miriam Howard
! Washington street, Miss Ruth Rob
bins.
Highland street, Mrs. Arthur Rohde
/ Flat and Frost streets, Miss Elizabeth
Spencer
Whipplc, Bullock and School streets,
Miss Croker
Forest street, Mrs +. W Nichols
/! Main street (east side), Miss Eleanor
Clay and Miss Leila Barber.
! Main street west side), Miss Ruth
Childs and Miss Dorothy Harper
High street. Miss Ethel Osgood and
Miss Rosamund Ashley.
i Elliot street, Miss Mildred Shorey.
/ Grove street, Mrs. Walter Spear.
1 Chase street Mrs F. W. Kuech.
!, Green street, Miss Louise Brockington
and Mrs. Harold f. Whitney
: Linden street, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Tucker.
!, Chaplin street, Mrs. c. A. Miles.
! Williston street, Miss Dorothy
), Schwenk
Canal street, Miss Marion Long and
Miss Marion Timer.
| Prospect street, Miss Emma Lund
berg.
Horton place and Homestead place
Miss Charlena Thomas
Harris place and Main street between
Harris place and fountain, Miss Malva
Roberts
North, Tyler and Terrace streets, Mis-!
Minnie Cooper and Miss Marion Rich
, ardson.
: Brook street, Miss Velma Foster.
Pleasant. Cherry and Cottage streets
Mrs Sewel Purinton
| After more than q year of franti,
f labor to save life and buy liberty fol
: the Armenian exilas passing through
r Alerpo to die i'll the desert, DR.. Mar
l. tin Niepage gives up hope and comes
away to plead for help from the Ger
/ man government. He tells the mos
: fearful story of cruelty that has eve
V reached American ears, and SAYS tha
d mo power but the German governmen
can stop it. He offers proof that tn
!, imperial government knows all abou
Y it through complaints of its own con
G suls, but will not act
t He tells of his comrades, German
y teachers, who were sick for days witt
the horror of the sights they saw Will
d on the highways. The educated Turk
s do not believe that their government i
e capable of such acts, and all blam
e IPrussianism