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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-28
PERSONAL.

Miss Lena NJ Walker is at her home
in Spruce on account of the illness Of
her step-father, John O. Stone.
Miss Mary Brown has returned to her
home on South Main street after several
weeks srent in the home of TIP. Nolan
in Springfield, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry c. laundry and
son are moving from Harr. ". Bruce I
house at 80 Green street to 7. Elem
ing S house at 30 Oak street.
Miss Florida Nichols was given gen
uinc surprise last evening at her HON,
on Bonnyvale road in West BrattleborC
by about 50 of her associates in -ht
Holstein Friesian office. The occasion
took the form of miscellaneous show
er. A musical program was enjoyed
and refreshments of ice cream and cak
were served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-28
DEFENDS TURKEYS COURSE.
Opposes No Solution Which Is Compat-
ible with Vital Interests.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. %. Turkey 5
entry into the war was justified by
Talaat Bey, the grand vizier, in a long
speech closing the congress of the par
ty Of union and progress, according to
a despatch from Constantinople. Re
ferring to the Pope's peace note
Talaat Bey declared Turkey adhered to
the principle of arbitration regarding
disarmament. He said: eve shall OPP
pose no solution which is compatible
with our vital interests. He con-
, cluded By saying that no one could say
when peace would come, but it was oh
vious that the end was approaching.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-28
ATTACK BROKEN UP.
British Successfully Defended New Pc
siticns Against Germans.

LONDON, Sept. 2S.-Another Ger
man counter attack was made last night
against the new British positions near
Zonnebeke. The attack was broken up
by the British5 the war office an
nounceS. /,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-28
BIRTHS.

In Brattleboro, Sept. 90, son, Ken
meth Winfield, to Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Bo-
gle.
In New London, Conn, Sept. %, a
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas II.
Sisk
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-28
MARRIAGES.

In Newfane, Sept. 26, by Rev F. NJ
Wiswal, Earl B. Hamlin of Newfane and
Miss Edna Marsh of Townshend
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-28
DEATHS.

In Newfane, Sept. 25, Mrs Abbie Fran
ces Rice, So, widow of Bradford Rice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-28

BIZ imful of Beauty, Style and Comfort
New Mixture Skirts in snappy styles, brown and
blue, trimmed with large buttons,
$3.50 TO $3.50
Velour Check Skirts in blue and brown, all wool,
ST value, at Observation-Disclosures. S59S
Plated Skirts, an entirely new style and very at
tractive, serge and poplin, Price ..... $3.50
S4.9S and 1898
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
&e NlekvMe
Week\Y SlmAet
Chicago's Motto

| will, thus spake Chicago.
Will, my motto is. I'll start great
1nstltutions-I'l do a lot of biz
Ill build some mighty retail
stores and then I'll advertise
that I've got all the bargains
here from hades to the skies. I'll
blow my horn forever-I'll run a
mighty bluff-I'll hypnotize
whole neighborhoods and sell
'em lots of stuff. I'll give 'em
off-brand merchandise and sec
ond grades I'll buy to peddle out
to folks who think that rubber
boots are pie. I'll define the
country merchant as a gentle.
meek-eyed CRATER, who sells his
goods at double price, and fills
his sleeves with laughfer-and
thus I'll stir up prejudice and
start an awful scrap that ought
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
y Short Oak Ahout Some SN\Ngs ot
Sutevest TO You and Youv NelSMhors

and around the town does not in
crease in value as it should in
crease. The town-row is town
killer. 1t kills interest in town
affairs-it kills town pride-it
kills enthusiasm. No town can
stand still. 1t must go forward
or backward. Some towns seem
to be standing still-but they're
not. They're slipping-slipping
and the years will tell. When
somebody starts a town-row, it's
time to start a campaign of COM
mercial evangelism. It's time to
get the band QUITO hold a pic
mic or hum-bug circus, or some
thing. It's time to start a COM
munity revival. It's time to get
a few community back-sliders on
the front bench and make some
converts. And then, when they
turn over a new leaf, it's time to
make them show their faith by
their works. It's time to make
them boost-make them testify
for their town. Make boosters
of the knockers-that's the best
way to settle a town-row.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

Consumers in the United
States may imagine that they
are now paying high prices for
foodstuffs, but according to
letter recently received from
Sweden, a neutral country, by
an employe of a large wholesale
grocery house, people in this
country are fortunate IN that
they are not compelled to pay
prices which now obtain there
for the necessities of life.
The letter states that flour
sells at $40 a barrel at retail,
green coffee at $3.50 a pound,
eggs at 81 so for 20, and other
commodities IN proportion. A
family of six or seven persons
IS allotted not more than ten
poundS OF hour Tor whole week
the letter says. A list showing
the prices of several staple foods
in Sweden gives the following:
Salt pork, per. lb., Sl.25; fresh
meat, per lb., $l.65; fresh milk,
per quart. 20; soft soap, .7OS
green peas, per qt., so; sugar
ID. .35. The letter says that
although these prices are prac-
tically prohibitive to the great
mass of people of Sweden, it
was predicted they would look
cheap when compared with
prices that we're expected to
prevail by January 1st.-The
Bull Dog.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

Only the most intimate friends
of Mrs. A. Edwards knew that
she was sick, so that when 1t be-
came known on Saturday morn
ing that she had died, great was
the surprise. She was a quiet,
retiring, Christian lady, whose
devotion to her family was a
leading characteristic. But she
is gone. Another name is strick-
en- from the ever lessening roll
of our older citizens, and a soli-
tary man in the sunset of life,
and a lo1ely home, are left to ale
test how sadly they will miss
her. 1t must be so; these ten
der human ties cannot be sever
ed without pang. Yet in such
4 death there is no cause for
grief. Her work was done, and
we'll done. She was nearing her
golden wedding day, and wearIed
with life's duties and cares,
weary of suffering and waiting,
she lay down to rest.
Miss Della Cook was born
October 80, 1843, in Johnson
courty, Indiana. She was mar
ried to A. Edwards October 20,
1867, and died December %,
1916, at their home in Guymon,
aged 73 years month and 20
days. To this union eight child
ren were born, four of whom are
living: Mrs. E. A. Twist of
Meade, Kansas; Mrs. Nellie
Jones of Pueblo, Colorado; Mrs.
Hattie FRITZ of Guymon; B. F.
Edwards. OF layton, Texas.
These were all permitted to be
| present, besides Mr.. Edwards
sister from Liberal, Kansas.
The funeral was conducted 10
the First Baptist church of Guy.
mon by the pastor, Rev. A. V.
Pendleton. Mrs. Edwards was
a member of the Range Baptist
church at Range, Oklahoma,
| where she, with her husband,
joined in 1902. Our sympathy
goes out to the grief stricken
husband and chlldreu.-Guymor
Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards for
merly resided IN Meade.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

to kill the country towns and
wipe 'em off the map. And when
I've cinched the business-when
I've gobbled all the wealth, I'll
ride around in limousines to cul-
tivate my health. l will, thus
spake Chicago will, Chicago
cried-then she limbered up her
little scheme-and the small
towns up and died. And now
she rolls in splendor and makes
a gorgeous showing, while folks
who killed their own home bergs
dig up to keep her going.
Copyright 1919
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
A Town-Row Costs Money

Few country towns can afford
a town-row. A town-row costs
money. 1t costs money every
week in the year. The mer-
chants, with their heads full OF
wrangles, do not give their
stores, or their customers, the
attention they should receive.
With no cooperation among the
dealers, the home market is not
protected. The farmers, though
loyal to their home town, are
forced to take their produce to
other points to get fair prices
also, at these places they do
more or less trading. The town.
row costs the merchants money
because they do less business.
1t costs the farmers money be-
cause they do not have so good
a chance to buy and sell profit
ably at home. 1t costs the town
money, because, with less busi-
ness, the pay roll is reduced. 1t
costs the community money, be-
cause, when the town is not
growing, property in the town
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

Some 400 general admission
tickets have been sold on the ad.
vertising progrs m for the play,
ga Modern Woodman" to be
given by local talent at the opera
house Friday January 1s. Those
wishing to make selection of re.
served seats should be on band
next Wednesday morning, Jan.
uary II, at Marshall's as pack
ed house Is anticipated.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
Hugoton Doctor Wants Auto Re
pairmen Licensed

Topeka, Kans.-Only state Ii
censed mechanics who have
passed a state examination
should be allowed to repair auto
mobiles, according to DR.. F. A.
Higgins of Hugoton.. And in a
letter to Governor Capper, DR..
Higgins suggests that any per-
son not licensed repairing or pre-
tending to repair an automobile
should be sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life. The Hugoton
man wants the legislature to
pass an act to this effect.
"If you want the everlasting
friendship of every Kansan that
drives an automobile" DR.. Hug
gins writes, "you will get the leg
islature this winter to pass a law
whereby any person repairing or
pretending to repair an automo-
bile will first have to pass a prop
er examination as to his prof.
cheney, and have state license
to practice on automobiles. And
make the penalty life imprison-
ment.
eve pay auto tax and so forth,
and then have our cars ruined
and pockets emptied by a set of
country yaps that never earned
over thirty cents a day in their
lives, but the minute they get on
a pair of greasy overalls and lift
up the hood of a car it is sixty
cents an hour, and the car has
everything but the smallpox. l
think l can voice the sentiment
of everyone who owns a car,
from a Pierce-Arrow to a jitney.
We need protection from fake
mechanics"
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

You are going to see consid-
cradle wailing and gnashing of
teeth if the proposed bill permit
ting assessors to examine bank
books becomes a state law. 1t
will mean that the assessors no
longer have to- take the word of
the average man on how much
he has on deposit. Peabody Ga
zette.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
Teacher Examination

The regular January teachers
examination for teachers will be
held at the Office of the County
Superintendent Friday and Sat
urday, January 26 and 81, be-
ginning at $50 a. m. :
PEARL WOOD SMITH,
County Superintendent.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

The Board of Directors will
receive sealed bids for the old
Lake View school house, up to
January 40, 1917. They reserve
he right to reject any or all bids
By order of the Board
r. S. Hartman
S. M. Bennett
Louis Voight
1-3t
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
Departed

Henry Siebenthaler, one of the
early day residents of Meade,
died at his home in Kansas City,
January 4th. He was in his
91st year. The remains were
laid to rest in Elem wood Gene
terv.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
Found a Sure Thing

I. B. wixon, Farmers Mills, N. Y,
has used Chamberlain's Tablets for
years for disorders of the stomach
and liver and says, "Chamberlain's 8
Tablets IRE the best l have ever
used" Obtainable everywhere.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Sourbeer
have returned from Council
Grove, where they we're called
on account of the death of Mrs.
Sourbeer's father.
Meade County news., 1917-01-11

AT Phelps theatre by local tall
ent Friday January 10 under the
auspices of Meade Camp No.
1873, M. W. A., ga Modern
Woodman."
Meade County news., 1917-01-11
For Sale

One shirt mangle
One fat work mangle
One engine and washing ma.
chine.
Call at Pioneer Laundry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28
On The Fields Of France

somewhere in France" will be a very
real spot for Americans hencetorWard'
With the landing Of our first troops, our
regiments of regulars, on French soil, our
entrance into the world war ceases to be
= thing of talk and the future and be-
comes vivid reality of the present. what
50 many of us have dreamed and prayed
for takes form and we can say "Ihank
God" with the emotion of a great duty at
last begun.
II is to France that our first thoughts
90 in this historic hour. There comes
fresh appreciation Of the long, stanch
fight against terrible odds that she has
carried on without pause. First came her
task at the Marine, where by sheer force OF
spirit she triumphed glorously over the
greatest material forces the world has
ever seen assembled. Then, even harder,
followed the long labor Of holding on tlll
England could come up-and now, till we
can take our place in force on the fighting
line. The cheers that greeted Pershlng
men at landing will echo throughout
France. May her soldiers understand how
proud we are to bring this aid and how
long and far, to the last measure OF our
national resources, we plan to carry our
participation thus begun.
For us Americans the presence OF ouf
troops in France means a national change
of outlook, national development, beyond
all others of our history in size and scope.
We see completed our cycle of internal
growth; no longer can we be satisfied TO
look within and ignore the world without.
As the first American bugle sounds on the
fields of France it sounds the reveille OF
new America. Its westward course has
ended. We sail outward bound on high
and new adventure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28

railroads and steamships here, are delayed
10y the traffic tangles along the waterfrot.
How much the nations handling OF war
supplies is being interfered with 1t IS I'M
possible to estimate, but some interference
there assuredly is, and as the handling OF
munitions and supplies for Europe, with
the consequent demands on railroads and
steamship lines increases, this handicap IS
bound to grow.
No local action, no treatment of the
problem by individual boroughs, can solve
this problem. The city must be treated as
a unit in working out remedies. That
means. if it means anything, that the only
body competent to take up the problem
would be a commission appointed by the
municipal authorities, empowered to IN
vestiCate the traffic situation in all us
phases and to make recommendations
which would not be patchwork to meet
local difficulties, but a comprehensive
remedial plan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28
Dangers to Women
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your mastery editorial regarding the
Cruger case should go far toward changing
conditions menacing our young women of New
York As your spondent, Henry T.
Berry. so ably expresses it, there should be a
body of women appointed to protect women
and 10 run down these moral lepers who prey
upon unsuspecting womankind.
To Mrs Humston's proverbial intuition and
untrng effort be all praise. She certainly
deserves the sincere gratitude that is due her
In my humble opinion. women are better
equipped to prevent the preparation of these
henous crimes than men because Of their in
stinctive knowledge OF the dangers that exist;
and who OF us, in the performance of our
duties in the business world or elsewhere
unless magnificently sheltered. has not run
across the grossest insult-insult that has
come through no invitation of our own?
know whereof I speak. One will hear some
body give forth the absurd statement that
women may 60 about their business unmo-
Tested if they know how to take care of them
selves. Well, there is always somebody will
ing to see whether they can or not.
Miss NJ. MATTHEWS.
New York, June 20, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28
Russian Pacihsts and Others

fFrOfn Inc tlctclCni LcdGcrl
Looking back over the last three years,
lacking three months since the world
plunged into war, is it not clear that the ex
IRENE pacifists Of this country, the men who
tried by every means in their power to pre-
vent any preparation for war and played the
German Emperors game for him TO the limit
of their ability, were as blind and nearly as
dangerous as the Russian revolutionists who
want TO carry the overturning Of the coun-
try they have brought to the verge Of ruin
on and on until chaos must result and Ger
many be freed from all necessity OF con-
sidering Russia as one of her foes?
And every campaign in the United States
brings out a food of street corner oratory
as mad as the widest notions Of the Rus
sian fanatics who would stop the war by a
few kind words and trust Germany for the
future Of Europe left helpless against n
military autocracy II is impossible 70 60
beyond the folles proclaimed every day by
certain publications in the United States as
the cure for all ills.
The vital difference is that here the crack
Drained and utterly impractical dreamers are
always in minority so small that il is,
never dangerous. because Americans are too
intelligent 70 tolerate anything else than
majority rule and respect for the law. In
Russia. unhappily. there is neither American
education, American common sense nor
American obedience 10 the rule Of the ma
jority expressed by ballots, not by bullets
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28
A Riverside Boulevard
How to Please All Elements in the
West Side Controversy

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. With regard 10 the proposed extern
sion Of the tracks Of the New YORK Oeh,ra'
Railroad along Riverside Park, beg 70 one'
suggestion supplementary to that OF
Messrs. Flagg and Swartwout OF the Ne"
York Chapter of the American Institute OF
Architects. who have proposed that the cover
ing Of the tracks be not disguised oy grad
inc but accented as an opportunity for a
Io,,o, eroce with boulevard overlooking the
river.
The idea is good in its frankness, but does
not in nv opinion, 60 far enough. The true
solution would seem to be to put the west
side of the tracks up to the bulkhead line;
that is. as far into the river as possible, with
a footway at the waters edge and the boule-
ward next to it, People love to get as near
10 the river as possible especially if they
can look down on il.
Under this scheme there would be sue
cession of arches necessary for light and
ventilation for the tracks along the bulkhead
line. saw fifteen or eighteen feet high or
more. Such a height would not seriously
cut off the view of the river from the drive,
and the tracks could be below water level If
necessary. Seen from the river and the Jer-
sey shore. such sea wall would be a very
handsome thing if designed by competent
architect. The ends of bridges on the axial
lines of streets to carry the foot traffic over
the boulevard could be treated with archi-
lecture and sculpture.
Ii this plan were adopted no serious inter
ference with Riverside Park would be neces
sary; the most beautiful parts would remain
practically intact, as they should be, for there
are things in Riverside Park too good to lose
and practically irrepaceable if lost. The
park would be a complete unit, contained by
Riverside Drive on the east and the boule-
ward and footway over the tracks on the
west. n simple and reasonable composition
with no gigantic mole run. il.-concealed, run
ming through II. Filling to extend the park
up 70 the railroad structure could 20 on a,
material was available. but no filing Of any
extent would have to be done by the railroad.
The rights of the city in it's waterfron.
could be protected by special legislation, if
necessary.
The construction of the sea wall would be
difficult, but the cost would be Offset, in part
at least, by there being no need to destroy
and restore Riverside Park, and would be
many times Offset by the assuaging of public
resentment at the attempted damage TO the
park.
| might point out that this scheme, if car
ried out, would go as near to pleasing every
body as is humanity possible. All sides would
feel that they had won their point. The city
administration and the railroad would have
gained their needed right of way along the
river, and the people would have saved their
park, for which they have so well contended.
HAROLD A. CAPARN.
New York, June 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28
Farming with Government Aid
Brooklyn, June 20, 1917.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: As the manager Of one Of the large
Plantations in Virginia, would like to ex-
press my opinion on the subject Of the food
question The cry has gone up in the cities
for meatless days wheatless bread and gen
oral economy in the consumption of all food
stuffs. Should the following conditions be
made laws, the food in the country would be
sufficient for all time:
/. Guarantee to the farmer minimum
price for all he produced
.. Advance sufficient funds for the plant
ing. cultivating and harvesting of his crops,
and also necessary money for the purchasing
OF livestock
8. Commander all idle farm lands, placing
On these farms reputable farmers, the gov
eminent being responsible for them.
A. The government agreeing TO exempt from
CONSUMPTION all farmhands who do an honest
days work, making the employer responsible
for their worth.
Should these ideas be incorporated into
laws. the production Of all foodstuffs in this
country would be sufficient for all the needs
of the United States with large surplus to
send TO our friends across the water
FARM MANAGER.
Charlottesville, Va, June %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28
Our Belgian Visitors

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: earnestly hope that everything pos
siblc will be done to testify to the Belgian
visitors our great admiration and deep SYM
pathy for the heroic people they represent.
Their stand against the giant power Of Ger
many saved France, giving her time to rally
in her defence. If Belgium could have known
what she was to bring upon herself she might
we'll have hesitated and quailed. But she did
not know; she could not know that this war
vas to be waged in defiance of all law and
military usage, with truly fendish cruelty,
with tortures of mind and body unspeakable.
Belgans can never be repaid. They have
gained an undying name: they have earned
our everlasting gratitude, but generations
must pass before the memory Of what they
have suffered shall be dimmed and softened
by years of happier times.
NJ. l.. HENRY.
Morristown. y. j., June %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-28
General Lees Strategy

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Referring 20 the article by verne.
Radcliffe, on General Lees Strategy
Antie,am, published in your issue OF 1ua,
Q. and the comment thereon by Gene''
Horatio c. King OF June IL. beg 20 say we.
by the report of the committee on the conaUe.
Of the war it will be seen that. instead "
that battle being victory for Lee, Il was
reverse. While at home convalescing IRON.
the amputation of the left arm. as the res'',
Of a gunshot wound received at Antie'Am'
read carefully the report, and among o'h.'
things. the official report Of General Lee,
which he said he expected TO be at'aeAeO
next morning, prepared for it, did not get w
and so crossed the Potomac; that on %,
night OF the 18th, General Burnside asheS
permission OF General Mcclellan 70 RESUME
the battle next morning, and he would be re
sponsible for the result If he (MeOleilsa'
would give him five thousand fresh UooP''
Mcclellan told him TO send an AID 10 h,s
headquarters, and remain over night, ana -
he decided TO permit him TO make the st'a'A
he would send orders 20 do so and the itesa
troops. The troops were sent. but witnou'
orders TO make the attack.
In the forenoon Of September IS. whh'
Burnside with his staff returning rom
the front, he was hailed by some Of our oo!s
waiting on the roadside. and asked where 'n'
rebels were. lie angrily replied, "Vone "
the devil across the Potomac"
WILLIAM (WM) RILEY, -.
Formerly Private Company G, bist ~
Vols, Inf. Sheppard Rihes)
Yonkers, N. T., June 10. 1917. ~