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Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-16

you men make a lot of work"
What is the matter, love?"
You keep me busy sewing buttons on
your vest
well. dear, you feed me so WELL" was
the diplomatic husbands response"
willie Courier-Journal
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-16

What did your wife do when she found
those poker chips in your overcoat pocket?"
''She took the matter very coolly. She
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-16

The World-Herald printed the word
Hun" in heading again this week My!
but they are getting reckless in the build
ing across the street.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
DOUBT ABOUT COAL
FOR BARBER BUILDING
Local Fuel Committee VIII Provide Sup
ply if Possible-Mr. Barber Has
Taken Possession.

Herbert G. Barber has formally taken
possession of the new Barber building,
this action having been hastened by the
bankruptcy proceedings against the con
tractors, F. ". & J. a Dakin, and will
open the building to tenants Just as soon
az he can settle the matter of a coal sup
ply. When this will be depends alto
gether on developments in the local fuel
situation.
= The secretary of the local fuel COM
mittee, in reply to an inquiry this morn
ing about the coal for the Barber build
ing, said:
This application has just come to the
committee and if it is possible to secure
coal for Mr. Barber without taking it
from the limited supply available for do
mestic purposes the coal Will be fur
nished. As there is not now enough coal
in Brattleboro to supply houses and build
Ings that are already occupied, coal can
not be allotted to the Barber building
more than Is actually needed to keep the
plumbing from freezing. unless an addl-
tional supply for that purpose can be Sc
cured elsewhere The committee hopes to
be able to secure sufficient supply to take
care of this new demand properly. Tn
fortunately there are great many towns
and cities in New England and elsewhere
whose landlords are unable to get coal to
keep office buildings warm even though
they are and have been occupied all win
ter by tenants
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
NO SERVICE ON
WEST RIVER ROAD
Engine Trouble Put Yesterdays Seized.
ule to the Bad-Passengers Spent
Night in Station.

Engine trouble put the West river
train schedule on the blink Yesterday.
interfering more seriously with the
service on that branch than govern
ment control is ever likely to do The
locomotive on the train due from South
Londonderry at S.45 yesterday morn
ing broke down first with the result
that the train didn't arrive until
p. m. This of course brought about a
delay in the starting of the morning
train north, and an accident to the mo-
tive power on that completed the tie
up.
No passenger train went north on the
West River branch last evening and a
number of prospective passengers were
obliged to spend the night in town
Those who went to the Brooks House
for accommodation found that hostel
ry 'full up. Some of them were
able to find accommodations in other
quarters while a few spent the night
in the waiting room of the local sta
ton 1t is expected that service on the
West River line will be resumed today
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
Special Notice by Attorney
General Gregory of De-
partment of Justice
PATRIOTIC DUTY
IN WAR EMERGENCY
Ought Not to Accept Private Employ
ment, Even at Higher Salary
Would Strike Blow at Efficiency of
the Country.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ll.-0tficers and
employees of the department of justice
were urged by Attorney General Gregory,
in a notice posted today in all offices, not
to leave the government service for pri-
vate employment, even at higher sal
ary,. until the war emergency passed.
Every efficient employe of the govern
ment who leaves its service and goes in
to that of private individual weakens
to that extent the power of the govern
ment under existing conditions, lie said
Il earnestly hope that none of the EN-.
ployes of this department will take ad-
vantage of any such offer until the time
has come when they can do so without
striking a blow at the efficiency OF the
country"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Eva MacKnight, stenographer
for the Dunham Brothers company, who
had been i'll a week, is out again today.
Rodney P. Wheeler is i'll with tonsili
tbs in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
c. Brown of Bullock street, where Mr..
and Mrs. Wheeler are spending the win
ter.
Mrs. Jessie Sturtevant, department
senior vice president of the Woman IS
Relief corps, who had been a guest of
Mrs. Eugene Clark, returned this morn
ing to her home in ST. Adams.
Robert Brew, stationed at Camp Dew
ems, Aver, Mass, is spending a few
days here with his sisters, Mrs. W. R.
Daley and Miss Jane Brew He will
go tomorrow to his home in Hoosick
Falls, n. Y, and will report back at
the Camp Tuesday.
Harvey W. Sanders, who was EN-.
ployed by the Estey Organ company
over 30 years, has finished work there
and will go Monday to Greenfield, where
he has a position with Wells Brothers
Mr.. Sanders had been at one time in
charge of the action department at
Estey s, which position he held over 1o
years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
0. F. BAILEY DIES
IN CANAL ST. HOME
Long Time Resident Was Expert Tuner
and Formerly Wel-Known as a
Musician

Ossian +. Bailey, 76, died at S.45 last
evening in his home at 10S Canal street,
after a week s illness, although he had
been confined to his bed only four davs
Mr.. Bailey had been afflicted number
of years with hardening of the arteries,
resulting at the last in a serious heart
atfliction.
He was born in Grafton Nov. II, 1S41,
son of Samuel Shepard and Mary (Con-
anti Bailey and was one of four chill
dren. His father was wooden manu-
facturer and as a young man Mr.. Bailey
was employed with him in his native
town. The fact that he possessed de-
cided musical temperament led Mr.. Bal
ley to come to Brattleboro as a young
man to learn the tuner s trade in the
Estey organ factory. He became a rare
ly expert worker in this line and was
employed many years in the Estev and
Carpenter factories. Mr.. Bailey was a
violinist in the well-remembered Phil
harmonic orchestra a number of years
and was also musician in the Brattle-
boro Brass band when George Clark
was leader, and went with that organ
ization to the state musters yearly.
Mr.. Bailey married Nancy A. Car
ithltf oI hdIibbIU, oct. >, 1000. 1nree
children were born, all of whom survive.
They are, Miss Addie NJ. Bailey and
Nelma NJ, wife of Frank C. Streeter,
both of Brattleboro, and o. F. Bailey,
ir., of st. Paul, MINI. He also leaves
his wife and two sisters. Mrs. G. NJ.
Taylor of Brattleboro and Mrs. NJ. f.
| Fairbanks of Grafton. There are three
granddaughters, Eleanor Streeter Ma
rion, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Streeter.
and wife of Alcide' Marion; Hazel E.,
and Virginia n. Bailey, daughters of
Mr.. and Mrs. o. F. Bailey, ir, of St.
Paul and one great granddaughter, Exil-
da Marion daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Alcide Marion.
Mr.. Bailey possessed a genial, kind
" nature, and maintained throughout
life keen interest in politics, current
affairs, music and had a great fondness
for baseball and other outdoor sports.
BY reason Of i'll health he had lived a
retired life IN recent years.
The funeral viii be held at his home
on Canal street tomorrow afternoon at
2.30 o'clock. Rev. D. f. Trout, pastor
of the First Universalist church, will of
ficiate. The body viii be placed in the
receiving vault at Prospect Hill eeme-
terry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
REPORT ON SINKING
OF THE JACOB JONES
Lieut.. Commander Bagley Gives Un-
stinted Praise to Behavior of Of
fcers and Men.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-Secretary
Daniels made public today summary
of the official report OF Lieut. Com
mander David w. Bagley on the 9ink-
ing by German submarine of the
American destroyer Jacob Jones on
lee. s, when two officers and Ct men
lost their lives.
Commander Bagley gives unstinted
ralse to the behavior of officers and
men and especially commends by name
10 of them
The submarine, the report says, was
not sighted until - minutes aft.
err the destroyer had gone down,
but the torpedo was sighted half a
mile from the ship and Lieut. S. F.
Kalk, officer of the deck, who after
wards died from exposure, Immediately
ordered a maneuver to avoid being
struck. 1he torpedo, however, was
too, near to allow the destroyer to clear
1t and 1t struck sluarely with a heavy
explosion.
/ The ship quickly settled by the
stern and the engine room was soon
Hooded. Most of the men not killed
| by the explosion got clear of the ship
and reached RATS or wreckage. Eight
minutes after the torpedo struck the
Jones sank. Efforts were made to col
| icct the survivors in a motor dorv
and then the nearest land was sought
to obtain aid for the remaining sur.
vlvcrs on the RATS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
BRATTLEBOROLOCAL.

st. Michael's Parochial school will
reopen Monday, Jan. IA, for the win.
ter term.
The women of the Unitarian church
will serve supper in the parish house
Thursday, Jan. IL, at 0 clock.
The women of Bingham chapter, O.
L. s., are urged to come to the meeting
tonight at the temple promptly as or
ders have been received from Red Cross
headquarters that there will be change
in the work.
All the government witnesses in the
Rev. Clarence H. Waldron case in the
United States district court here, while
waiting to be called to the stand are
making good use of their time by as
sisting in Red Cross work. The men,
as well as the women, are making them
selves useful by winding yarn and per
forming cheerfully any task that may
be given them by the women of the
local branch.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11

Czernin, the Austro- Hungarian foreign
minister, at full sitting of the peace
conference at Brest-Litovsk on Thurs
day, said that as Russia s allies had
not replied to the invitation to parti-
eipate i'll the negotiations it is now a
question of separate peace between
Russia and the central powers.
Tie gave reasons for not wishing to
transfer the negotiations to neutral ter
litory and said that if the Russians
were animated by the same intention
as the central powers the results of the
negotiations would be satisfactory. If
not the responsibility for war would
fall exclusively on the Russians.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
SOME SEATS STILL LEFT.
Program for Meistersingers Concert in
Auditorium Tonight.

There are still some seats left for
the concert TO be given in the Audito-
rum this evening by The Meistersing-
ers Of Boston, all the proceeds of which
are to be turned over to the local chap
ter of the Red Cross The program is
as follows:
Soldiers Chorus (from FAUST Gounod
Peculiar People-In the Family
John Thomas
apsehce = .....-.......... Hatton
Only Dream. De koven
Mr.. Cole
Monastery Bells
Lefebvre- Wely. ar. by Lewis
Peculiar People-In Music
John Thomas
(a) Beauteous Night (from Tales of
Hoffman, .. Offenbach
(b) Wake, Miss Indy. ...... Warner
->Nptuhe ...---... Gordon
Mr.. Steele
Peculiar People-In Politics
John Thomas
Sweet and Low
Old Songs In the Cleaning Arranged
Old Kentucky Home
Mr. BOYD
han, Native land (from Aida Verdi
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
HELPING CIVILIANS.
American Rcd Cross to Spend 40.
100000 Francs in France.

PARIS, Jan. ll.-Forty million
francs will be spent by the Ameri-
can Red Cross in aiding French ci-
villains during the next five months.
These estimates cover immediate re-
quirements already approved and do
not include 100000 francs used
for civilian aid up to the end of
November.
A report which Maj. Grayson NJ.
7, Murphy, retiring European com
missioner of the Red Cross, is tax
ing to Washington will show tina,
10000 refugees brought by way of
switzerland from northern France
are now being cared for each month
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
NO SERVICE MEN.
Those Eligible to Bear Arms Not
Employed in Y. M. G. A. Work.

PARIS, Jan. 1.-THE American
army and navy Y. NJ. c. A. in
France issued a statement today
that it is not accepting for its serv-
ice any men who are eligible for
military service.
All men now in the Y. NJ. C. A.
service who are subject to the draft
have been requested, with the ap-
proval of the American army au-
thorities, to remain at their posts
until their draft numbers are called.
All eventually will be replaced by
men over draft age or those re-
jected for military service. 1t is
said that only 10 per cent OF the
present Y. NJ. c. A. personnel in
France consists of men subject to
the draft and that nearly so per
cent of those eligible who arrived
during the first six months the or
ganization was established here. al
ready have enlisted.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
BIGAMIST SENTENCED.
Carl Bill CT Lyndon to Spend Year Be
hind Bars at Windsor.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Jan. 11-Carl H.
Bill of Lyndon pleaded guilty in Gale
donna county court yesterday to bigamy
and will spend not less than one year
and not more than IS months in Wind
sor. He was arrested Jan. at Lyn-
donville, where he was living with wife
No. 2. 1t was shown that the man,
before marrying the second time, be-
lleved his first wife, who is living in
New Hampshire, had secured a divorce
For this reason his sentence was light.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
TO TAKE OIL LANDS.
Bill Prepared by Navy Department In
troduced by Sen. Swanson.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia bill
prepared By tho navy department to
authorize the government to take pos
5ession, either by contract, lease or 9TH
erwise, upon the issuance of an execu-
tive order of all oil lands set aside as
naval reserves in California and Wy
oming was today introduced by Sena-
tor Swanson of the naval committee
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
FREIGHT MOVING CAMPAIGN.
New Haven System to Make Special
Efforts to Clear the Tracks.

NEW YORK. Jan 1l-Observance of
the appeal Of Director General McAdoo
for an intensive freight moving campaign
during the week of Jan ii to 81. was
urged by President Pearson of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad
here today.
Instructions have been given to all Of
fcers and employees" he said "to do
everything possible to handle and place
cars so that the greatest assistance shall
be rendered patrons in their efforts to un-
load cars promptly. A strong pull to-
gether will do much to accomplish the
desired result"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
Red Men S Hall

Thursday, Jan 10. Meeting of Poca
hontas council. Supper at $50. Installa
tion of officers. Every member please be
present.
Regular meeting Friday evening at s
o clock Important business including
raising up of CHIEFS Lunch will be served
Dance every Saturday in Red Mems hall
sntil further notice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
Masonic Temple

\ regular eonvocation of Fort DUN
mer chapter, No. II, X. A. NJ, will be
held at Masonic temple this Thursday
evening at 40 o o'clock. Business, NJ.
NJ. NJ.
The women of Bingham chapter,
o. +. s., will meet in their rooms in
the temple Friday evening to work for
the Red Cross.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
RAILROAD MEN KILLED.
Fell from Carload Of Lumber Directly
in Front of a Locomotive.

LOWELL, Mass, Jan. n.-David C. NJ.
Russell and James Rafferty,, Boston &
Maine railroad employees, We're killed by a
passenger train at the School street
crossing here today, when carload of
lumber on siding collapsed and threw
them to the tracks directly in front of
the locomotive Two other men working
with them were seriously injured
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
REAR ADMIRAL HOWELL.
Rctircd Naval officer and Inventor OF
Weapons Dead in Warrenton.

WARRENTON, Va, Jan. l.-Rear
Admiral John Adams Howell, retired,
dled today at his home near here He
was the originator of gyroscopic steer
ing torpedoes and other naval weapons
and the author of several books lie
was born in Bath, y. Y, in 1910.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1.-THE central
powers have withdrawn their peace
terms, made public at the Brest -Litovsk
conference on pee. 25, it was an.
nounced by DR.. Won Kuehlmam, the
German foreign secretary in his speech
at the BrestLitovsk conference with
the Russians yesterday. Owing to the
non-acceptanee by all the enemy pow
ers of those terms, DR.. Won Kuehlman
Gated that the document had "become
null and void. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
Sunday Services.

1880 Il. m.-Subject Of sermon, The Muz.
zled Ok.
Has a. Bible school Classes for all.
$50 =. m.-lntermedate Christian En-
deavor society meeting.
7.30 y. m-Subject OF sermon, The Great
Hlndrancc
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
TO CLOSE THEATRES EARLY.
Fuel Administrator Storrow Refuses Il
Change His Order.

BOSTON, Jan. Thames J, Stor-
row, state fuel administrator, refused
today to exempt theatres from the ear
ly closing order which is 10 become eff
fective throughout Massac chusetts Mon
day, but granted an extension of l5
minutes for night performances. Aft
er q conference at the state lsuse the
managers of the Boston playhouses
agreed to start playhouses at 7.45 and
TO close at l015 D. m.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
PRICE OF COPPER.
Rate Fixed at % 1-3 Cents at a Con
ference in New York.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1l.-A price of
- = cents pound for copper for the
next four months was fixed today at
q conference here between federal au-
thorltle9 and copper producers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11

:, Miss Dorothy Perry, student in the
Clawson-Hamilton business college, went
today to her home in Springfield (Vt.)
TO spend the weekend. Miss Helen Spar
row, also student at the business col
lege, went today to her home in Spring
field, Mass, to remain over Sunday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
Likely to Make Declaration
If Central Powers Do Not
Accept Peace Terms
PLANS TO REJECT
OLD WORN OUT ARMY
Would Create a New and Much Smaller
one-Claim That Internal Struggles
Are Not Civil Wars, But Attempts to
Spread Glass Warfare.

Peace negotiations between Russia
and the central powers will be con
tinucd at Brest Litovsk, according to
information in Amsterdam, apparently
despite vigorous protest by Leon
Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign minis.
ter who heads the Russian delegation.
Premier Leninc, before leaving Petro-
grad ostensibly for Finland, but prob
ably for Stockholm, for conferences
with Austrian and German Socialists,
declared that if the central powers did
not accept Russian peace terms the
Bolshcviki would declare war against
Germany.
British troops in the lprcs area have
executed successfully tLrce raids into
the German lines. Many casualties
were inflicted and prisoners were taken.
On the remainder Of the front In
France the artillery on both sides is
active. Tho artillery fighting on the
Northern Italian front is less intense.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
TEUToNS IN RETREAT.
Forced Cut of Trenches on the italian
Mountain Front.

ROME, Jan. l.-Austro- German
forces yesterday were forced to evacu-
ate some trench sections near Cavazu-
Hurina on the Italian mountain front,
the war Office announces today The
retreatlng Teoutons were caught under
the Italian fire and suffered considera-
bic losses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
TO HELP CUBANS.
New York Bankers to Help Finance
the Next Sugar Crop.

NEW YORK, Jan. IA plan under.
which New York banking interests would
finance the next Cuban sugar crop, in
volvlng an expenditure of sum as high
as sl5O,0OO000, is under consideration
here, it was learned today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
SURE OF THEIR JOBS.
Civil Service Extended to Government
Shipping Commissioners

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-Shipping
commissioners at New York, Boston,
Seattle and New Orleans today were
put under the civil service by Presi-
dent Wilson on recommendation of Sec
rotary Redfeld They were the only
ono5 in the government service not in
the classified list.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
First Baptist Church

Friday, Jan. II. : p. m.-Regular
prayer meeting Of the church. The
meeting is called earlier in order to al.
low any who wish to attend the Red
Cross benefit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
Centre Congregational Church
Notice.


The annual meeting of the Centre
congregational church will be held in
the chapel Friday evening, Jan. Il,
1918, at O'Clock, to transact the fol.
lowing business:
Article !. To hear the reports of
officers and organizations of the church
for the past year
Article ,. To elect all officers re
quircd by the bylaws
Article 3. To transact any other
business that legally may come before
the meeting.
WALTER a. GILBERT, Clerk.
Brattlcboro, VT, Jan. &, 1913.
Friday, Jan. II. G.l5 p. m Annual sup
per for members Of the church and parisl
IN the chapel Tickets 25c
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
THE WEATHER.
Increasing. Clcudiness. Tonight-snow
Saturday-Ncrtherly Winds

WASHINGTON,J Jan. 11.-Theweath-
er forecast: Increasing cloudiness to-
night Saturday snow. North to
northeast winds, increasing Saturday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11

LONDON, Jan. 1l.-Conirming pre-
vious reports that the Bolshcviki are
preparing 90 rc.establish the fighting
power Of the army against a possible
final break in the negotiations with the
central powers the Petrograd CORES
pondcnt Of the Daily News SAYS that
they are not attempting 10 rc-animatc
The old worn out army, but to create a
new and much smaller one. I'm refer.
ence to the civil wars in different
parts of RuS'ia the correspondent SAYS
they are not wars, by one part of Rus.
sia against another, but attempts TO
spread class warfare in those parts
where the proletariat has not obtained
the upper hands.
AMSTERDAM. Lan- LII cnnnt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
Unitarian and Uniyersalist Churches
Sunday, Jan. Is.

Sunday, JAN Is.
Union services in Unitarian church.
1890 a. m Divine worship with sermon
by Rev T. O. j. Osgood Subject,
Miracle and Word.
l2ho m. Union sunday school service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
In Odd Fellows Temple

Friday, Jan. ll.-Regular dance. Lv-
mans orchestra will furnish music.
Regular meeting Of Wantastiquet lodge
No ), next Monday evening
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11

AMSTERDAM, Jan. II. - Count