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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
RRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Mrs. George Burnett entertained sew
eral friends at a silver social Tuesday
evening for the benefit of the Red Cross.
The Oakdale Book club held their an
nual meeting Tuesday night in the
home of Mrs. Jesse c. johnson of Forest
street. These officers were elected:
Pres, Mrs. J. c. Johnson; sec. and treas,
Mrs. George NJ. Clay; book committee,
Mrs. viii B. Smith, Mrs. Francis W.
Nichols, Mrs. Alfred B. Jordan.
An automobile accident in which two
cars were damaged occurred on the cor
ner of Main and Bridge streets Monday
afternoon. The cars were owned by FL
lot Moore, q Amherst street, Worcester
and j. P. Bradley of Brattleboro, Vt.
Both cars were held up several hours for
repairs before leaving town - Greenfield
Recorder.
The first meeting of the season of
the Brattleboro Woman S club was held
yesterday afternoon in the Unitarian
parish house with a large attendance.
After reading Of minutes Of board meet
ings during the summer and some bust
ness Prof. G. X. Cherrie, who accom-
panied ex-President Theodore Roose-
Welt on his famous expedition to South
America, gave an address, illustrated by
ma Y cOlored slides, on his recent eX-
ploring trip to Peru. He spoke of what
he saw in a very interesting way and the
pictures made his talk still more vivid
The next meeting Of the club will be
held in the same place Oct. II.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
ARGUMENTS BEGUN
IN WILL CONTEST
Taking of Testimony Finished This
Forenoon and Two Arguments
Goes to Jury Late Today.

In the Walker will case in county court
at Newfane yesterday afternoon Robert
G. Clark. treasurer OF the Home for the
Aged, which is cOntesting the will, testi-
fed that inmates were admitted to the
home on the basis of insurance mortal
ity tables. but that the income from the
inmates and from securities held by the
institution were not sufficient to main
tain it.
Mrs. Susie (Walkerl Randall testified
that she never talked with her father
about making his will
Treasurer c. a. Harris of the Brattle-
boro Savings bank showed that in 1909
Mrs Randall had deposit of Sl,040,
which in 1914 had been reduced to about
$500
This morning s. w Edgett and +. G.
Crosby told Of talking with Mr. Walker
in 1918. about securing options to do
prospecting for minerals on his farm
and said he was entirely rational and
wanted to talk with the children first.
Attorney w. r. Daley opened the ar
gument for the Randalls and Attorney
John y Harvey for the Home for the
Aged This afternoon at , o'clock At
torncv Frank +. Barber began the clos
ing argument for the Home, to be fol-
lowed by Attorney R. G. Bacon for the
proponents. The jury probably will get
the case late this afternoon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
PERSONAL.

Mrs F. B. Pier went yesterday to
join Judge Pier for a few days stay
Mrs julius j. E,stey went yesterday to
Hartford, Conn, to visit until tonight
E. j. Currier and family moved yes
terday from Westminster West to B. O.
Ware S house on Forest street.
Frank W. Putnam of Los Angeles,
Cal. IS spending several weeks with his
brother, Fred w. Putnam, and family.
W. H. Taft and Miss Maria Taft Of
Taftsville visited their sister, Mrs. l..
W Hawley, and family Tuesday night
and Wednesday.
Miss Hortense Hall will return today
to the home of Mr.. and Mrs L. w Haw-
ley from Meriden, Conn, where she Wis
tied about three weeks
Leland Rounds. who has been en-
ployed by the J1olstein- Friesian asso-
/ citation, received notice yesterday that
he had been drafted for the National
army in New York city and left today
for the purpose Of taking the examina-
itions. He has been living at II Walnut
street
Rev and Mrs f. s. Hewitt went this
morning to Waterbury (Nt.) to attend
the state conference of Advent Chris
tan churches, which will open this eve.
ming with an address by Rev Mr. Hew
lit. Mrs. Hewitt is on the program fol
Saturday with talk on the efficient
Sunday school. Mrs. Hewitt will return
home Monday, but Mr.. Hewitt will
spend the week with relatives in Bur
lington and Rutland. The local Advent
Christian church will be supplied tn,
coming Sunday by Rev. L. F. Baker OF
! Newfane.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
nNsWER TO WHO'S HOOVER?
Wonderful Mining Engineer Who Fed
the Starving People of Belgium


Herbert G.. Hoover. food dictator of |
the United States ministering angel. 80 /
who saved hundreds of thousands of I
BelgianS from starvation. who raised /
more than SljO,000 0u0 for that purpose.
is one of the great personalities of war
time, though not engaged in any mill
tary work.
ldolized by the people of Belgium I
admired in England to such an extent
that he might be made an English peer
if he would change his allegiance, and
hcld in high regard even by the Ger
mans. Hoover prefers to remain plain
American citizen, and is giving his ex-
pert services to the government without
compensation now that the increase
and conservation Of the food supply
has become a pressing problem in this
country.
Hoover has made his reputation and
his fortune. At the age of 90 he was
drawing salary of $4,000, the largest
salary ever paid to a man of that age,
and he has become ono Of the world S
recognized authorities in mining en-
gincc.ing. He is known IN engineering
circles all over the world He has
worked in this country, in South Africa,
Australia. Russia and China, but outside
his own special activities he was but
lttlc known to the world until the
great war burst on Europe.
So tho question, Who IS Hoovcr?"
has often been asked.
T The really picturesque part of his
career is his rise from a poor student
working his way through the Leland
stanford University Of California to
his place as one of the world S great
/ engineers. But the war made him
known to the world at large.
i Herbert G.. Hoover was born i'm Iowa
IN 1874. passed his boyhood in that state
and Oregon, and worked his way
through school, entering the school Of
mines at Stanford university at the ace
of II. He supported himself and was
able 20 aid other students, graduated
AT . and Immediately went out with
the geological survey. After a year of
that work he was appointed assistant
manager Of two large Australian mines.
In that he was so successful that he was
selected by a great British mining firm
rs their chief of staff in western Aus
tralia.
After three years i'm that position he
took charge Of the Chinese government 4
bureau Of mines and year later was
made manager of Belgian corpora
ton in that country. In the Boxer re-
bcllion he handled a machine gun. but
that was only an interlude. When that
was subdued the British frm made him
partner and general director Of their
mining work. That was when he was
2S years old
lie went to London to live, bet though
That has been his home for nearly %
years his work has taken him all over
the world. He is well known in Russia
France, Australia, China and England
so il was comparatively easy for him tc
raise funds for his relief work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
FROM IOWA TO LONDON.
How Dr. Jenkins Became Pastor of the
City Temple.

Dr. Burris jenkins tells Of finding a
from Cedar Rapids Iowa, IN
charge Of the most important Nonconfolm-
ist pulpit in the worid-that Of the City
Temple, London. How did it happen that
London should have gone to Iowa for a
preacher:
1t is Il lesson that any young fellow
starting in any line of business might well
consider Briefly, Joseph Fort Newton,
in his small Cedar Rapids pulpit, was
preaching the sort Of sermons that an
audience anywhere in the world would
welcome So it fell out that when by
chance he was asked to send sermon
for publication in London church paper,
lit attracted attention, and he was asked
for more These sermons, preached for a
Cedar Rapids congregation, got him the
place in London because they were good
sermons.
That is just about what happens when
any young man gets on in the world He
does his small job so intelligently and 50
well that he is promoted to a bigger job
in the same institution or is called to some
other institution If Mr.. Newton had been
Ioating in his work at Cedar Rapids because
the pulpit there was not the most con
spicuous in the country he never would
have been invited to the City Temple
| The man who neglects the small job
doesn't usually get chance at anything
better-kansas City Star
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
When We Moved.

! mind the time we were livin down,
Far down in Macdougall street;
We thought it a coy part Of town
And the tenement nice and neat.
Twas a little place with a little rent,
For we ID little TO spend those days;
But it gave US lot of good content,
An that is thing that pays.
Then we up and moved to Thirtythird,
To a four-an 'a-bathroom fiat,
An YOU had never bit of word
For a finer home than that.
Then the children grew, an for their
An maybe bit for pride
We figured the time had come to take
An apartment on Riverside.
An now il s maids, an man to wait,
An another TO run the car;
An it : late to bed, an it's get up late,
An It's happy we think we are.
I've more II enough to make life com
plete,
But at times the thought won t down
That my heart stayed back in Mac
dougall street,
When the rest of me moved uptown.
-Flbridge Demison in Munsey S
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

Holland now has in her territory Co.
600 interned Belgian soldiers, $4,000 in
termed German soldiers and $4,000 in
termed Britishers, all of whom she must
feed, clothe and keep warm. Besides
the interned soldiers there are in the
country 100000 Belgian civilian rcfu-
gees, who fled across the border at the
outbreak of war, all of whom have to
be fed All these unwelcome visitors
add to the worries of the country that
is already between the devil and the
deep sea in the matter of importing food
supplies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
ITALIAN LOSSES SMALL.
Only Five Small Boats Sunk by Subma.
rines in the Past Week

ROME, Oct. italian shipping loss
es bv mines or submarines for the week
ending SEPT 30 in all seas were two
sailing vessels OF more than 100 tons
and three sailing vessels Of less than l00
tons. One small sailing vessel escaped
when attacked by submarine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
TWO BTEN INJURED.
Heavy Motor Truck Struck by Passen
ger Train Near the Aver Camp

AVER Mass, Oct david Craig
of Mattapan and John Welsh of Milton,
employed by the company which has the
contract for moving garbage from Camp
Devcns, were seriously injured when a
heavy motor truck was struck by a
passenger train on a branch line of the
Boston & Maine railroad a mile from
camp.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
BUSINESS IS GOOD.
Federal Reserve Board Makes An
ncuncement in It's Monthly Review.

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 - Continue
tion Of generally good business condi-
tions throughout the country was an
noWecd TO-DAY by the federal reserve
board in its monthly review.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
BIRTHS.

In Landgrove, Sept. 81, daughter to
Frank and Beatrice Slade.
In Mortified, Mass, Oct. l, daughter
to Mr. and Mrs Alfred Holton
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

To get, we must give; to accumulate,
we must scatter; to make ourselves
happy. we must make others happy
c. II. Sturgeon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

Sometimes the tears wc shed over yes
tcrday's disappointment, blind us to some
thing bright and beautiful to-day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

The weeds DESTROYED and the manure
produced by sheep on farm ordinarily
pay for the labor devoted to the flock.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

| have one vote, and 1 shall always
east that against wrong as long as
lve.-Lincoln.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

The more one uses for the benefit OF
others, the more one possesses. The more
one gives to fellow men, the more one
has Lea Tzu
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04
DEATHS.

In Ashuelot, n H. Oct >, Alice, 6
months, daughter of Frank and Bridget
billiard, granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. c. Barton of Landgrove.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

Life is an individual problem that man
must solve tor himself, William George
Jordan
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

Strive strenuously, live gently.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-04

1000 yards of 1oc Percales, splendid assort-
ment of new patterns and colors, SO : C1<s
inches wide. Sewing Week, per yard AA2~
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22
General Crowder
Has Much Experience

General Enoch Herbert Crowder,
Judge Advocate General of the United
States Army, upon whom has fallen
the responsibility of working out. the
methods by which the national se1ec-
tive CONSUMPTION has been carried
through, is a West Point graduate of
the class of 1881. Entering the caval-
ry service, it was only a relatively
short time before his special quahflca-
tiens for service as a legal adviser Of
the Army became apparent; and
through remaining with the Army in
the field for some time, he more and
more was drafted for the special work.
In 1895 he was fully recognized as the
best-equipped man for the post OF
Judge Advocate. After service with
the volunteer forces during the war
with Spain he returned to the Regular
Army In 1901. and has since shaped
the Army policy within his special
deld. He went on special mission to
Manchuria during the Russian-Jap-
anese War, and he aided the military
forces in Cuba for a short time when
orderly Government was being set up
there. Later he went to Chill to ad-
wise In a case needing sound observa-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22
NEWPORT MAYOR
DENIES CHARGES
AGAINST TOWN
Vigorous Campaign Has
Been Conducted Against
immortality

Newport, R. T.. June 22-Mayor
Clark Burdick issued yesterday a
statement in which he took issue
with Secretary Daniels as to the in
huences by which the enlisted men
of the navy stationed here are sur
rounded. The statement reads:
1.-The sensational charges against
Newport, purporting to have been is
sued by the secretary of the. navy, are
unfounded. 1t is true that individ-
ual cases which require attention do
crop up every day, but to character
lie these as the general condition here
is absolutely unfair.
s'The situation in Newport for the
local authorities and presumably for
the navy authorities has been rem
dered extremely difficult to manage
owing to the fact that while thous-
ands of boys were sent here from all
parts of the country, the navy was
not prepared to house nor uniform
them. Many of these boys were fur
nished warm clothing by the local
chapter of the Red Cross and the citi-
zens generally took the reserve force
into. their homes.
''Our licensed liquor dealers have
endeavored to live UP to the law
and since the navy at last has prop
erly uniformed its boys I do not be-
lieve there has been any selling to
them by the dealers I'VE are having
trouble with the bottle gang, so-called-
but are doing our best to break IL
No." ,---------1
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22
SEE AIR MASTERY
IN A NEW MOTOR

Detroit, June pa super airplane
motor, designed to conquer the skies
for the Allies, help to sweep the seas
of German submarines and end the
war speedily, has been perfected by a
prominent Detroit engineer, whose
name is withheld.
The new motor is said to be the most
powerful combustible engine ever con-
trdved, and it fs necessary for the men
operating it to wear muffs to protect
their ear drums. It has been placed
before the War Department and re-
cefved the name of the United States
Aviation Motor.
It is expected the new motor will be
accepted as the United States standard
for all airplanes.
The average life of the ordinary air.
plane motor is 60 hours. AT the enid OF
that time the motor has to he rebuilt.
The United States Aviation Motor is
so constructed that it's life Is deter
mined only by the life of the airplane
itself.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

Of foreign and domestic commerce,
in an address before the National As
ISOLATION of Credit Men in convention
here yesterday.
we know" said DR.. Pratt, from
the limited amount Of news that
triclkles through the Central powers
that very ambitious plans are being
made to dominate the world trade
after the war. A speaker at an
Austrian meeting of invited manufac-
turers is quoted as stating that plans
have been perfected whereby after
the war 100, 200, 900 persons, the total
population of Germany and Austria
Hungary, will buy their supplies
from the rest of the world as a unit.
We know that the various Industries
Of Germany have been more and
more consolidated into cooperating
groups until virtually all German in
df1stry has united as an organic pro-
ducing and selling agency backed
with the full power of the great
German banks and the organization
OF the German government,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22
JITNEY MEN CONDEMN
RESTRICTIVE RULE

The Bridgeport Public Conveyance
association, at a meeting last night,
passed resolutions demanding that
unjust legislation be forcibly opposed.
The order of the common council
seeking to prevent jitneys from stop
ping within 100 feet of the intersec-
ton Of Fairfield avenue and Main
street was condemned.
The jitney drivers praised the police
and commended Capt. Charles
Wheeler for refusing to enforce the
order until given instructions by the
police commissioners. The president,
Charles Swartz. stated he felt the po-
lice commissioners would uphold the
stand of Wheeler who is opposed to
the order.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22
tsLIBERTY FETE" TO BE
HELD AT OAKHAVEN,
WRIGHT HOMESTEAD

All arrangements have been COM
pIeted for the Liberty fete, which will
be held at Oakhaven, the home of
MRS. J. o. Wright, in Fairfield, Satur-
day afternoon, June %, for the bene-
fit of the school garden work which
has been undertaken by the Fairfield
Garden club. The concert of patriotic
music by a string quartette promises
to be Of great interest. There will be
a table where military novelties will
be sold, and quaint baskets made by
Indians. garden baskets filled with
garden implements, besides cake and
candy to be sold. and other refresh
ments The fete promises to be a
great success from every point of
view.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

Zone of the most important and
effective steps that the Entente pow
ers and this country can take is to
so organize our facilities for extend
ing credit that never in the future
shall smaller and weaker countries be
forced to depend ON a power SO dan
gerous to their freedom.
Americas opportunity in this
great time Of stress and sacrifice is to
render every service in her power to
those less fortunate and less able
than herself. to facilitate the way Of
those who come to her with their or
ders, to extend her economic and IN
dustriaI resources as well as her mill
itary powers to those who need and
merit them"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent q Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

"Who steals my purse"
Phyllis began.
(" Steals trash,' we know"
Sneered q mere man.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

CoIlector-.But you said you would
pay me If came today" Mr.. Bildew
well, my friend, you know how 1t
is-the best of us sometimes say thdngs
that we are sorry for.
Transcript.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

The Swiss Parliament will meet
June 20 to elect a successor to A.
Hoffman, who was forced to resign as
chief of the political department be-
cause of his part in the German In
trigue aimed at a separate peace with
Russia,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

"was there any soreness after the
doctor vaccinated you ?" A triffe.
thought he charged me entirely too
much '-Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22
U. S. CREDIT TO
SMALL NATIONS
IS NECESSARY
VIII Aid Fight Against
German Domination of
World Trade.

Kansas City, Mo-, Juno 22-Exten-
sion OF credit to small and weak
countries II one OF the most powerful
influences that the United States and
hsr aA1Ges may deveiop against Ger
.uzauy- and Ausfr1a, said DR.. Edward
- -, ss1sgeac ~. fsdseal- bureau
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22
SHEAR NONSENSE

sswho steals my purse
Steals trash,' quoth he.
(He'd just come from
The store, you see.)
youngstown Telegram.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

ton and wise handling. But none OF
his prior tasks have compared Win
the one he has just carried out. NOW
follows the even huger task OF analysis
and compilation of the returns.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-22

DIR. John M. Lee of Rochester was
elected president Of the American In
kstitute OF Homeopathy.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-05-13
THE PRODUCTION OF PORK.

Since hogs afford the quickest
means OF increasing our meat sup
ply. continued and extended efforts OF
public spirited bankers in furtherins
the organization Of pig clubs by ad-
yancing TO club members the money
needed for the purchase of purebred
SOW pigs is doubly desirable at this
time, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Pig clubs have increased very rap
idly during the past seven years the
specialists point out. In 1910 there
we're flity-nine members in the United
States; today the number exceeds
10000, found principally in Arkansas,
Alabama, California, North Carolina,
Louisiana, Georgia, Texas. oregon,
Okla homa. Nebraska. Kentucky. Indi-
ana and Massachusetts. These states
contained 21.6T3 members last year,
but pig clubs are being formed rapid
Iy in other states The demand for
gifts and bred gifts by club members
is unprecedented, even at the high
prices at which they are held.
Financial assistance to the pig club
members has been tho means of In
Producing purobred hogs in places
where otherwise this might have been
impossible, and has helped to build
up the agriculture Of the communities
which the banks serve. These clubs
stand not alone for greater pork pro-
duction. By increasing the amount
OF live stock they encourage the pro
duction of much of the food on the
farm, and as their activities are CO.
incident with or follow club work in
the growing of corn and forage crops,
they are part of system that favors
a sound diversity in agriculture and
a rotation of crops that will main
tain the fertility OF the soil.