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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
5000 FOR A HALF STAMP.
Record Price for One of First Govern
ment Issue.

Stamp collectors were much inter
ested in the sale for 5000 yesterday of
a United States postage stamp of the
first series issued by the postofice de-
partment A New York capitalist was
the purchaser and the price was a rec
ord, says the New York World.
The stamp was found recently among
package of dusty documents in the
government archives at Washington.
1t was issued in 1917, after the dis
continuance of the practice of individ-
ual postmasters printing their own
franking labels, and is tencent blue.
on blush paper, bearing a portrait of
Washington.
Ordinarily this is not an uncommon
stamp, but this specimen was one is
sued as a half stamp and preparing
only five cents postage. 1t had been
cut horizontally and consequently paid
postage to only half its face value, thus
enhancing its philatelic worth many
times over.
/ At the Collectors club, No. 80 East
\ Fortv-second street, New York, it was
said last night the price paid for this
stamp is the highest on record Among
\ the nearest approaches to this figure
/ last Apfll Tor one OF UHe famous mis-
sionary stamps of Hawaii, issued IL
1851.
Two stamps were also sold at The
! Collectors club last April which
brought $500 and $40 respectively
But they were not of the government
issue, but had been issued by the post
master of Brattleboro, Vt, III 1916
Their value was enhanced by the fac
that they were both cancelled on th'
original envelopes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
"CASCARETSv BEST If
HEADACHY, BILIOUS,
SICK, CONSTIPATED
Best for liver and bowels, bad breath,
bad colds, sour stomach.
Get a 10 cont boy.

Get a l0.ccnt box.
Sick headache, biiousness, coated
tongue, head and nose clogged up with
81 cold--alwavs trace this TO torpid
liver; delayed, fcrmenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter eloggcd in the in.
testines, instead Of being cast out Of
The system is re.absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue il causes conges.
tion and that dull, throbbing, sickening
headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach. remove the sour, undigested
food aud foul gases, take the excess
lille from the liver and carry out all
the constipatcd waste matters and poi
sons In the bowels.
a Cascarct tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you slcep-a l0-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet breath right, com
plcxion rosy and your liver and bowels
regular for mopths.-Advt.
gentle cleansing, too.--Advt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
"TIZ" FOR ACHING,
SORE, TIRED FEET
Use TIE for tender, puffed-up, burn
ing, calloused feet and
cornS

People who are forced to stand on
their feet all day know what sore, ten.
der, sweat, burning feet mean. They
use "Tiz, and "Tiz' cures their
feet right up. 1t keeps feet in per.
feet condition. "Tiz' is the only
remedy in the world that draws out all
the poisonous exudatons which pull
up th2 feet and cause tend r, sore,
tired, aching feet. 1t instantly stops
the pain in corns, callouses and bun
ions. It's simply glorious. All! how
comfortable your feet feel after using
"Tiz. You II never limp or draw u
your face in pain. Your shoes won't
tighten and hurt your feet.
Get a 25-cent box of FtTiz' now
from any druggist. Just think! {
whole year : foot comfort for only >:
cents.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
Automobile Legal Associa-
ton Will Furnish Them
to Towns
NEW ENGLAND HAS
MANY BAD TURNS
Association, Which Represents About
$4,000 Car Owners, Wishes to Lessen
Danger of Accidents at Sharp Turns.
Two Sets of Signs Prepared.


BOSTON, Feb. 26.-With a view to
eliminating a great many of the dan
ger points or the New England high
ways and at the same time aiming to
safeguard pedestrians and aid the thou
sands of motorists who traverse these
highways in all seasons of the year,
the Automobile Legal association has
planned novel sign campaign on a
wide scope.
This campaign has been started aft
er the most careful and exhaustive
study of danger points = on the roads,
by Chief Engineer Sidney S. Won
Loescke, head of the association s de
partment of highways
At considerable expense, the A. l..
a. has had prepared two sets of signs.
One has red background with the
word danger painted in white let,
ters to be erected at dangerous curves
on the highways and street inteTsee-
/ tons to warn motorists and pedestri.
ans. The other sign, on the same col,
or scheme, has the word "School' on
/ il. This sign will be placed on roads
/ approaching school houses. Both sets
/ of signs are eight by % inches and
/ they will be given free of charge &c
4 any towns in New England provided
! the towns will erect them.
The roads throughout New England
/ probably possess more dangerous curve:
and street intersections than any othei
section of the country. Unfortunately
up TO the present time, there has been
I fl4h ,F \
places. Each community has had it
own system of placing signs and as ;
result MANY dangerous curves are eithe
without any warning sign whatever O
the other extreme is reached and curve
that are comparatively wide and clea
are marked " Dangerous. Psvchol
ogv teaches us that if the above meth
cd is followed and signs are placed il
a haphazard manner, they will fail t
associate themselves in one 5 mind witt
danger and are thus Ineffective.
II In it's desire to lessen the DANCE
OF accidents, the \. l.. \, which rep
rescuts some $4,000 motorists in NeN
England, is prepared TO cooperate wit
town officials who desire these sign.
Ii is suggested that the parents an
: teachers impress upon children the ne
/ ceSSity Of using care in crossing or play
ing upon streets For, while the ave
age motorist realizes that children al
apt to overlook the possibility of dan
| ger and therefore takes due precautiol
he cannot but feel that he is being IN
duly imposed upon when he is require
to ruin tires and the mechanism of h
ear, because of the sudden stops he
| required to make through the absolut
| recllessness of some children who a
/ tually see how close they can come
i being run over.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The storm this morning with the bad
walking was the reason for the sound
ing of the signal for a single session
of the public schools today.
In the Odd Fellows bowling league
this week a game is scheduled Tues
day evening between teams f and G.
Teams Z and D will meet Wednesday
evening and Friday evening teams G
and A will battle.
The engine drawing the morning
train from South Londonderry this
morning broke down north of tha West
river bridge, but was able to haul
the train to the station. The train
did not leave on the return trip until
11.45 o clock.
Fort drummer colony of Pilgrim
Fathers will hold a regular business
meeting at the home of the secretary
Mrs. w. F. Mixer, at l07 Western ave.
nue., this evening. 1t IS hoped that
every member will be present to com.
plete arrangements for the sale and
supper Friday night i'll Grand Army
hall.
The Twin State Gas & Electric Co
mas ndt trouble III securing the Ofla
mental posts to install in front of tho
temporary offices of the corporation
street, is better and is able to be on,
on the Hooker property, but expect!
to have them in position this week
The company is to erect the posts K
display form of ornamental stree
lights recommended for adoption b,
the village.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
MRS. GEORGE WELLS DEAD.
Native of England and Resident Of
Brattleboro 80 Years.

Mrs Annie Elizabeth (Bewsey) Wells,
IS, wife of George Wells of 20 Green
street, died in her home Sunday after
noon at 1890 clock, following a long
period of i'll health. Death was due to
cardiac asthma.
Mrs Wells was born in Plymouth,
England, August 81, 1S4l, the only
daughter of Joseph and Charlotte (Sher-
ry) Bewsey. She was married there
March s, 1868, to Mr.. Wells, the cere
mony being performed in the Kingston
Episcopal church, the oldest church in
Portsmouth.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26

There were two Browns in the vii
lage, both fishermen. One lost his wife
and the other his boat at about the
same time. The vicar wife called
as she supposed, upon the widower, but
really called upon the Brown whose
boat had gone down.
81 am so sorry to hear of your great
loss, she said.
sob, it ain t much matter, was tho
philosophical reply; "she WASH t up tC
much.
/" Indeed. said the surprised lady
eyes, continued Brown, "she was
riekety old thing. l offered her tC
my mate, but he wouldn't have her
We had my eye on another for some
| time.
! And then the Seandalized lady fed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
THE RETREAT HEARING.
Attorney Gibson Says Newspaper Re
ports Do An Injustice.

Editor of The Reformer:
| want to enter protest against
the newspaper accounts of the Retreat
investigation hearings. In many il
stances they are inaccurate and give a
wholly false impression of the results
so far Your account IN Saturday s
issue does the Retreat al injury and
is unfair to those good citizens who
have in many instances given the
best efforts of their lifetime to the
service of caring for unfortunates.
All that the Retreat asks is that the
truth may appear. 1t is appearing al
the hearing, but some Of the news
papers are feeding garbled and untruc
accounts to the public for some pur
pose | fail to comprehend.
Nav | therefore ask in the interest
of plain Justice and fair play, in the
interest of a local institution which i
doing more public good than can b.
fully appreciated, in the interest o.
those men who have labored unselfish
" to make the Brattleboro Retraa
rank with the best institutions of it
kind in New England that yeu send +;
representative to report the proceed
ings who will report the facts as the,
actually appear.
Very truly yours
Z. w. GIBSON.
Brattleboro. Feb %. 1917.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
ADJUSTMENTS
Motion Picture Attractions.

Today the Princess theatre presents
Sessue Iiayakawa in the Paramount
production The Soul of Kura San; and
Burton Holmes travel picture To-
morrow, Gail Kainc and CARLYLE Black
well in the new Brady Made feature,
Dangerous Ground; also Francis X.
Bushman and Beverly Bayne in The
Great Secret, are to be shown.
The Empire today presents june Ca
price and Harry billiard in Little Miss
Happiness, a William Fox drama of
country life. Tomorrow, Jane Grey in
The Flower of Fate, fvc7aet drama
also Jackie Saunders and Roland Bot
tomley in The Grip of Evil, master
plot showing the real side of human.
ity, in two acts, are the features.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
Just Greed.

Slack up Brother, what s your hurry,
That so recklessly you scurry
With your elbows jabbing sidewise
And your glance fixed straight ahead !?
Is a minute s time so precious
That YOU needs must be ungracious
And go tramping on your fellows,
Like hungry quadru2ed?
Can t you spare a nod of greeting,
Pass the time of day on meeting,
Swap a joke or laugh little
When your noighbor drifts along?
Is the dollar SO enticing,
Is success so all sufficing
That you can t devote a second
To brother in the throng2
Do You know your destination?
1t lis a quiet little station
Where ambition never troubles
And the dollar never lingles;
Where there is no useless striving,
Sordid scheming or contriving,
And the richest man s possession
Is little grassy plot.
Why be ever keen for speeding
On trail so surely leading
To that lonely little village
Where we all must come at last9
Slack up, Brother, what s your hurry
That so recklessly you scurry?
You may head a slow procession
Ere another year is past.
Composed by the late Nelson l.
Johnson shortly before his death May
80 1916.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-26
ALLEN V. COX DIES
SUDDENLY OF SHOCK
Long Time Business Man on Main
Street - Served in Civil War
Helped Build Frigate Merrimac.

Allen Vale Cox, 10, for nearly sc
years a resident of Brattlcboro and
for 40 years continuously in the tin
ware, plumbing and heating business
until he retired in 1913, died sudden
ly yesterday afternoon in his home on
High Lawn road. Death was due tc
a shock. A sister, Mrs. Lena T. Dus
tin, died il Brattleboro last week
Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
Beautiful Spring Cretonnes
For Rriohfenino In the Home

have lust been unpacked and many OF them will 60 sale
morning for the first time No words can give you
aadequae description of these dapey materials they
come variety of beautiful patterns and colorings
here and there about the house will add wonder
fully appearance for Inauguration SO inches wide
and priced per yard, 15c, 25c 29c and 49c
Fourth Floor-Lansburgh & Bro.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

clean and at first glance lookin thru
en- Dad mite of mistook a crow
for a robin
Be that as it may when we ar
rove at the offs it was ackshuallv
colder inside than it was out so we
opend up the doors and winders to
let in the bammy air and setting
down we TUX our pen in hand and
desided we would dash off a eddy
toriul on "Bootifool Spring Has
Camep'
Well we haddent skeercelv got
started dashing off this eddytoritil
and became absorbed with our sub
jock as we mite say until we be-
come conscious that we was grow
ing little mite chilly but we went
rite on writing for a spell longer &
then all of a suddint we woke up
to the fackt that it had crowd cold
turrible suddint and that the sky
was overcast and that the wind
was BLOWN a gale and that the air
was full of fine snow like grains of
sand which was siftin thru the
doors and winders of the Boogle
offs which like a blamed fool we
had went and left openl
We closed EN- as soon as we
could and bilt tip a ragin fire in the
stove but it crowd colder outside
every minnit and it TUX us feedin
that gorEamned stove with wood
until nearly noon afore we got the
offs warm enuff to remain inside
of without freezin todeth Mean
while the thermometer sunk
down to 10 degrees below zero and
as we write these sorrorful words
we have whot is praps one of the
worst colds in our head that ht1
man beit1k or en1ything that amt
burning ever had in its head and
witch we wouldn't wish on a snake
even if it had bit usl
When we set down at our desk
this morning with the blizzard still
ragin without the offs and also
without cessation we happend to
see layin on the desk rite under our
nose two or three pages of our own
writing and when we pickd it up to
ascertain if possibil what it was we
had been writing about and reul-
lied that what we belt in our hands
was the beginning of a eddytoriul
on "Bootifool Spring Has Came
it made us so dingbusted mad that
we throwd the pages on the floor
and junpd up and down on EN-
and used langwidge rnbeconing to
a gentleman and a skollar jest to
show our contempt for stitch suddin
changes of wetlier which we have
in our midst.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

done and several of EN- froze to deth
Bill amt mulch of carpenter.
Mrs. Ben Wade of here had company
Mrs. Sine Virgins of Pea Ridge to
remain few days and Mrs. Ben ex-
coosed herself and dresd up in her
best and when she come down stairs
Mrs Slime said she haddent had no
dinner so Mrs Ben hustled out into the
kitchink and amongst other things
opend can of tomaters and being
nervus the can slipd and the tomaters
splashd all over Mrs. Bens best dress
to the rtunashion of same. Mrs. Ben
says in her opinyun folks who you
don't care nothink about has a awful
lot of gall to come in on you unex-
pecEted and plant theirse1fs for a sew
eral days VISIT.
LATE Henderson desires US to
nounce in the Boog1e that he has
seckond hand horse that he will sell
-cheep. Good reasons give for selling
so cheep. IF its the horse we think it
is the reason LATE desires to sell it is
becuz he caikilates If he don't dispose
of it soon it will die on his hands.
Jabe Parker reed 2 copies of the
Boogle by mistake last wk and Jabe
wishes us to thank you for conferrine
stitch a favor on him being as he read
one and give tother one away where
it would do the most good Jabe
hopes you as edditor of the Boogle.
will often make mistakes like this.
Miss Jane Truman has bad cold
on her chest. If all reports be true
which we hear Jane we persoom Won
ketchd that cold one mite last when
you was out sleighin with Hen Wins
low. Hen. you ort to set up closter to
Jane and perteckt her. from the winter
ish blasts when you go out sfeddin
with her instid of heink so shv and
bashfu1 NOW-AND- THEN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
EDDYTORIUL ON "BLIZ-
Yards"

Evry reader of the Boogle will
doubtless rekall what a turrib1e Mise
bammy, mild springish day last
Toosday was in Bingville & vicin-
itty.
We diddent- reulise it was so
warm until we stepped outen our
back kitching door after we had ct
our brekfust muffled up to the ears
with our bearskin coat and COON
skin cap to stitch a extent that Our
nose was the only Dorshion of our
Ease that was visible to the naked
eye being as we thort of course
that sinst the ternometter has been
ushually from 10 to Is degrees be-
low zero every morning recently
this partickler morning wouldn't be
no eXcepshion to the rule.
Well. as we say we stepped outen
the house to walk to the Boogle
offs expeckting to be almost froze
todeth afore we arrived there when
to our intents Amusement and SUR
prise we found that the air was
mild and almost sumnerish as we
mite say without eggsaggeratink.
so we unbuttond our fur coat and
lifted our earrings on our cap and
enjoyd the nildness of the wether
to large extent.
On our way to the offs we hap
pend to meet several of our most
respeckted citizens inclooding Eph
Higgins, postmaster, and Anne Hill
yer. our talented loryer, legal lite,
J. of the P ct cettery, to both of
who we remarked on the mildness
of the wether and Epl and Anne
both concurred in Our opinyun.
We also happend to meet old Dad
Henderson who thinks he is the
greatest wetler profet IN Bingville
(brt who ANTI and Dad stopd us
and said that he calkilated spring
had came judging from the change
in the temperchoor and also becuz
he had saw a robin redbreast in a
appel tree back of his house thru
the winderz as he was eating brek-
fust in the kitchink.
OF cotrse we diddent dispoot
Dad being as he allus flies up and
gifts mad whenever hes dispooted
but we don't take no stock in his
statement that he seen a robin. Stitch
statement as that is ridicklus and
absurd in the extreanl. What DAD
probly seen was a peewee or {
ground sparrer-or it even mite oil
been a crow becuz Dads wife Mehi.
label amt emmy too tidy and hel
kitchink winders amt what {
| woman would call over brite ane
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

a conner becuz he diddent know which
way to go to git to the open worter
and if he happend to go the rong
way he wouldn't newer git there bu:
would work hisself still farther under
the ice and drownd like a rat in a
trap!
But Providents must of been with
Hold becuz. whilst he was scramblin
around he happend to slide out from
under the edge of the ice and his head
bobbed out. Soon as he seen where
he was Hold grabd holt of the edge
of the ice expeckting to pull hisself
out onto the solid ice but he was dis
appinted in his expecktashions becuz his
clothes was so worterlogged and
heavy and he was so mum and cold by
this time that he haddent the strentii
to do so and to make matters worse
Rufe Brown wassent there to help him
being as Rufe was away with a load
of ice on the team.
Well there Hold hung to the edge of
the ice with his strenth slowly ebbing
away. He hollerd as loud as he could
boiler but he said his teeth was chat
term so and he was so -scairt that he
don't calkilate his voice kerried moren
10 or Is #. After he fad hollerd
awhil Hold begin to pray. from de-
liverents and to he forgive for his sins
so that if he had to pass on he would
excape perdishion. Then Hold says
that when he got to thinkin over how
turrib1e numb and cold he was and how
good some beet would feel to him he
t1lort a blast or two of Perdishion
would be very welcome TO him and
save him from freezin to deth so he
stopd prayin and begin to cuss Fate.
as you mite say.
Well, Jest as Hold was about to let
go and sink to the bottom of the Pond
along back come Rufe with the TEEN
and when he seen the perdiakament
Hold was in he run and grabd him and
puld him out onto the ice and thus
saved his worthless life for him.
Hold says he cant understand yet
and praps it wont newer be plain to
him as long as he lives jest how he
happend to do stitch a fool thing as
to saw clean around hisse1f with that
ice saw so as to leave hisself standin
on the cake he cut away. Hold says
he knows bettern to do fool trick
like that and the only way he can acct
for doink it is that he must of been
thinkin of something else more i'm
portant.
Be that as il may Hold says that it
will be colder day than it was last
Wensday afore he does emmy ice cuttin
agin. Soon as he got puld outep the
worter by Rufe Hold run up to Rufe's
house with his clothes freezin on him
stiffern boards and when Mrs. Rufe
give him some of Rufes old clothes to
put on whilst his bride behint the
stove Rufe made up his mind to re-
sign from being a ice carpenter which
he done soon as his clothes was dry.
When Rufe come to the house for
dinner Hold notihde Rufe that he had
quit the Job so ~Rufe paid him in full
and Hold walkd home to Bingville that
same afternoon glad to be in the land
of the Twin
Let this be a sollum warning to other
fools not to do stitch ridicklus thing
as to cut off the cake of ice they be
standin on at the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
y other 0aY
when lUe diddent
haze nothink

better to do we askd ourse1f the fol
lering questshion: Why don't we get
more advg. in the Bugle?" We
paused quite spell for a reply. but
we diddent git enny-in short we
couldn't anser the questshion to our
own satisfackshion so we thort IL
would be a good idee to ask you
about it.
Do you reulise as you read these
lines that the Bug1e is the best adve
medium in this end of the CO. or In
emmy other end of the CO. for that
matter? If not then Won ort to wake
up to the opportoonitties we offer
Are you in bizness2 Then why in
Sam Hill don't you advertise your
blzness? Do you want to get out of
bizness? Then advertise your biz
ness for sale? Don't you have no
bizness and want some bizness?
Then advertise for some bizness. Do
the Boogle for help.
Also don't forgit that the ackshual
number of Bugles we print catch wk
don't represent our total circu1a shion
by no means. Our reglar & total cir
culashion is menny times that menny
being S so menny of our subscribers
nabers and trends borrows the Bu-
giles to read, ruthern subscribe for it
theirse1fs and pay for it outen their
own pocket This is a bad thing for
US but good thing for our adver-
tisers becuz it gives US a enormus
circulation. 1t also gives us pain
in our pocketbook and makes us
tired. Emmy titewad who borrows
his nabers Bug1e is so stingy that he
would begrudge a duck drink outen
the oshean.
Advg in the Buglei 1t will pay
you big-and also keep us from star
wing to deth! Do it now before it is
too late and thus help along a worthy
cause that needs help.
Eddutor Bugk
BINCVILLE.