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long hours from sunrise to sunset, but they arranged to do what they could. They came out to work in the morning, and in some cases in the afternoons ana worked until dark. Three or four profess sional men would tell farmer that 1T he could cut his wheat they would pc there in the evening to shock 1t. one harvester, for instance, ran his reapers and binders all day, and at in the aft ernoon an automobile or so, each con- taining four lawyers or bankers, would arrive They would put the sheaves into shocks, and by rushing the work would accomplish twice as much as the ordl- nary force. Instances of this nature were common throughout the wheat belt, ano the men who worked were of every class and condition. heard of one banker, who had salary of $10,0O0 a year. He does not boast of that, but he has been going around showing the blisters on hls hands from his work in the harvest field and the little wage check he got there at the rate of $4 a day. Many of these men were paid by the hour. The work of the harvest fields is now largely done by the hour, the farmers paying 45 or 50 cents for each hour worked. In this way the ten hour-a-day controversy does not arise, and the men get paid for the time they work.
 After the wheat harvest began the de- partment of labor had a director general stationed in the west wiSo took charge of the labor supply. This man had daily reports as to the harvest conditions of every district, and he sent bodies of men on telegraphic notice to the localities and to the exact farms where they were needed The agents throughout the coun- try would telegraph him the time their wheat would be ready to cut and the extra men needed The director of the labor department would at once ship the men and the business was so organized that almost every farm had all it could use In fact, the harvesting of the crop was a fine example of modern efficiency organization, and it was earned on with but little friction, notwithstanding t5e enormous territory covered and that the
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laborers had to be moved from place to place.
 By the time this letter is published a large nart of this labor will be gathering the eo-n crop. Some of the corn will To o-t hv machinery, but vast deal of 1t will be husked from the stalks as it staIIus i'll the held. The men who do this are experts at the work. They have wagons especially prepared for the pur- pose, one wall of the bed of the wagon being built as guard board high up so as to catch the ears when thrown in. Each husker takes two rows at a time, his wagon going along with him. A good man can husk 80 bushels per day, and instances of 100 bushels are not uncom- 5lsyu There is a record of one man husking 145 bushels a day and putting the corn in the crib These huskers work so that there is no waste effort. It takes just three motions to get every ear ot corn into the wagon. First the man grabs the ear, second he pulls down the husk and third breaks the ear off and throws 1t into the wagon The ears fly from the stalks at the rate of one a second, and you can hear the thud, thud of them striking the guard board as regularly as the second hand of clock goes round the dial The corn of this year will be more than OoOo0O,0o0 of bushels, and a vast deal of it will be cropped in this way.
 The departments of agriculture and la bor are rapidly mobilzing the farm work of the country. The department of agri- culture makes no bones of saying that every loafer must be put to work in the fields
 I have before me 2 bulletin recently issued by that department. It calls for more hands on the farm, saying
 that the loafers are aiding the enemy and that they should be made to go to work or to Jail.
 nhis bulletin was issued by Secre- tary Houston In the midst of the wheat harvest It is worthy of being
 kept in force all the year round It reads as follows
 Work or fightl'
 The government makes that manda-
 tory upon every man within the draft age. s
 Self respect makes it mandatory upon every man of every age. lf perchance, there are any idlera
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and loafers continuing to lead lives of uselessness in your town. despite war needs for man power yGI can do a great deai to cause them to change their course You can make a complaint to the sheriff lor chief of police or any officer, charging them withi vagrancy If the vagrancy laws are not being strictly and unrelent1 ingly enforced in Nour community yours is one of the veery few places in the isnited States where these laws are not being enforced. You can help 10 see thlt they are en- forced. You can see that the loafers in your section get iob or go tc 5ail Every loafer put to work releases a man who may help on the farm
 Farmers need hands. Soldiers must food unless they have nelp. The loafer is aiding the enemy whether lie means 10 do so or not. The nan so dead or spirit as not to realize his patriotic oblig ation must be forced to see it. Give the loafers of your town a straight frons-the- shoul- der understanding of their alterna- tives. This is no time for word minc- ing or baby talk
 Make him go to work pr go to jail''
 The government has done great deal to increase the farm labor by bringing boys and women into the service. I am told that the farmerettes are making good and that they are saving the day in many communities. They have done an enormous work in the gathering of the fruit crop, and their systematic organ ization scattered through the farm dis trict has been of great value.
 The boys of the country have been or ganized by the labor department into what is known as the boys working re-
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Unfortunate Expression

From Pearson's S Weekly.
 Although our new war secretary, Lord Milner. cannot exactly be said to shine as a humorist, he can enjoy good story against himself, as witness the fololw- ing. which he is fond of relating.
 Some years ago, fresh from his south African triumphs, he addressed an au- dience of undergraduates at his old uni- versity.
 We must remember not merely the beauty of the individual colleges. put the beauty of Oxford as whole And what whole it is.'' ts
 Here. here" yelled the varsity men Yes. what hole.' they groaned. What a beasly hole."
 Then it dawned upon Lord Mines that this was a sentiment he would rather have expressed differently.
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PRESBYTERIAN


 Independent church-Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, pastor. Morning services at II o'clock at Temple Emanu-El, sub ject, "The Jeremiahs." Evening serv- ices at 8 o'clock at the Strand theatre, instead of the Lyric theatre, which is undergoing repairs, subject The White Mark
 Fifth Avenue church-Rev. J. M. Broadly, pastor. Morning service at Il o'clock, subject. Suffering Individ- ually for the Good of Others" Sunday school at 9:30 o'clock.
 First church. Morning services at Il o'clock, conducted by the Rev. William McDougall, subject, Helping Jesus Raise the Dead" No evening service.
 Inglenook church--Rev. R. P. Taylor, pastor. Morning services at II o'clock and evening services at o'clock.
 METHODIST
 First church, corner of Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street, north-Dr George R. stuart, pastor, Rev. Carl c. Gregory. associate pastor. Morning service at Il o'clock, subject, twill Christianity Fail? Where and W1hy?" Evening service at o'clock, subject "The Hypocrite. Thief, Traitor"
 Fountain Heights church--Rev. Will liam Graham Echols. pastor. Morning service at II o'clock. subject, "Reason- ing With Cod" Evening service al o'clock. subject, "Cirowth." Sunday school at 930 o'clock. Forney ". Bran don. superintendent. Brotherhood class at as3o o'clock, A. M Reese. teacher
 Trinity church-Rev. David K. Pe- gues, pastor Morning service at II o'clock subject, "The Central Act In Religion Evening services at s o'clock. subject. Blessed Forgetful- ness"
 Highlands church-Rev. F. E. Wells. pastor. Morning services at II. o'clock, subject "The Fact of God" Evening s services at s o'clock subject, Putting Firse Things First. sunday school at s:30 o'clock. J. B. Dryer superinten- dent
 simpson church. seventh avenue and Twenty firth street, mort h -- Rev. James B. Crippen, pastor. Morning service at II o'clock, subject. Dis cerning Versus Judging. Evenirls services at 7.s0 o'clock, subject "Stumbling Blocks sunday school tt 9:30 o'clock.
 Fairview church--Eev. A. H. Majors pastor Evangelistc services at II o'clock and o'clock
 l Walker Memorial church--Rev. A. M Freeman. pastor, Morning services al l II o'clock, subject. "The Teachine Church" Evening services at the | West End Tabernacle. I EPISCOPAL l Church of the Advent, Sixth avenue and Twentieth street north. Rev M $. Barn we'll rector. Sixteenth sunday aftel 1 Trinity. Morning prayer and sermon a' 1 Il o'clock Holy communion at 7:S o clock and Sunday school at aSO o'clock
 St Audrew'S Cshurch--IEleventh ayenu(
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uNIuERcAIIST

Church of the Messiah 22O91a Third ave nue. Rev. Robert Garner and Rev Ricn- ard M. Smith, pastors.s Services at 5 :ao o'clock conducted by Rev. Garner supJec'. "Salvation and the Moral Man" Class
 meeting. conference and Sunday school at 2:30 o'clock.
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AITRITRIAN

Altrurian Church-414 Farley huilding. pr. l.. A. Fealy. pastor. Morning serv- ices at II o'clock. subject "It Is the Spirit that Quickeneth. the Flesh Profiteth Nothing.
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BAPTIST

Ruhama Church-East Lake station. Rev. H. H. Hibbs. pastor. Morning serv-s ice at II o'clock, subject. Ahap and Ell jah: Ahab said to Elijah. Hast Thou Found Me Thine Enemy? Evenns services at & o'clock. subject, ''The He brews in a Strait Betwixt Pharoah and Jehovah, Which Will They Choose?' sun day school at 9:s0 o'clock. Special musi-. cal programme rendered by Mrs. A. II. Olive, musical director of Howard college
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LUTHERAN

Zion Lutheran Church-Corner or Ave- nue B and Nineteenth street Rev. II. Reuter-, pastor. Morning services at 10:So o'clock. subject "Love Thy Neighbor." Sunday school at o'clock.
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The situation was serious. The food administration here at Washington de- manded the wheat and there was chance that the war might be ~st by the lack of this food supply. The great government departments had reported as to the crop and also as to the lack of labor, and it was known that new industrial army must be created or the wheat would rot in the fields. The mat
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EPISCOPAL

Church of the Advent, Sixth avenue and Twentieth street north. Rev. M. $. Barn we'll rector Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Morning prayer and sermon at Il o'clock Holy communion at 7:30 o clock and Sunday school at 9:SO o'clock.
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SERVICES AT THE CHURCHES

and Twelfth street, Souln' ISeN. JosoPli T. Ware, rector. Morning prayer and sermon at Il o'clock, subject. "The Els sence of Christianity" No evening serv- ices during September Sunday school at 9:30 o'clock.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 First Church of Christ, Scientist-Elev- enth avenue and Twenty-first street, south Leicester Lemont Jackson first reader. Services at Il o'clock and o'clock, subject, Substance" Sunday school at 9:30 O clock Testimonial meet ing Wednesday evening at o'clock
 Second Church of Christ, Scientlst-Ca- ble hall, ISIS Second avenue. Morning services at Il o'clock and evening services at o'clock, subject, Substance" Sun- day school at 9;3O o'clock. Testimonial meeting Wednesday evening at o'clock.
 CHRISTIAN
 First Church-Fifth avenue and Twen- ty- first street. north. Rev. Robert N. Simpson, pastor. Morning services at II o'clock, subject, Bitter Waters" Even ing services at o'clock. subject. The Decisive Alliance in the War"
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Walker Memorial church--Rev. A. M. Freeman pastor. Morning services at II o'clock, subject, 'The Teaching Church. Evening services at the West End Tabernacle
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Highlands church-Rev. F. B. Wells. pastor Morning services at II o'clock. subject ''The Fact of God" Evening services at o'clock, subject Putting Firsc Things First" sunday school at 9:30 o'clock, J. B. Dryer, superinten- dent
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Fairview church-Rev A H. Majors. pastor. Evangelistic services at II o'clock and o'clock.
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simpson church. seventh avenue and Twenty-fifth street, mort h --- Rev. James B. Crippen, pastor Morning service at II o'clock subject. Dis cerning Versus Judging Evening services at 7:30 o'clock, subject, stumbling Blocks" sunday school Ut 9;30 o'clock.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-05
If BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat less meat and take glass of
Salts to flush the Kidneys
Drink plenty Of water.

Uric acid in meat cxcitcs the kidneys,
they become overworked; get sluggish,
ache, aud feel like Jumps Of lead. The
urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is
irritated, and YOU may be obliged TO
seek relief two or three times during
the night. When the kidneys clog you
must help them flush of the body $
urin0us waste or YOU N be sick per.
son shortly. At first you feel a dull
misery ia the kidney region, you suffer
from baekachc, sick headache, dizzi-
ness, stomach gets sour, tongue coated
mud YOU feel rheumatic twinges when
the weather is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots OF water;
also get from any pharmacist four ounces
Of Jad Salts; take n tablespoonful
iu glass Of water before breakfast for
q few days and your kidneys will then
act Gue. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been used
for generations 10 clean clogged kid
ucys and stimulate them TO normal ac.
tivity, also 10 neutralize the acids in
urine, so II no longer is a source of irri-
tati0n, thus ending bladder weakness.
lad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in
lure; makes n delightful efferveseent
Hthia.water drink which everyone
should take now aud then to keep the
kidneys clean and active. Druggists
here say they sell lots Of lad Salts TO
folks who believe in overcoming kidney
trouble while il is only troublc.-Adyt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-05
YEAR BOOK ISSUED
BY WOMAN'S CLUB
Seasons Program Ending with Annual
Meeting in May-Epidemic In
terferes with First Meetings.

The new yearbooks of the Brattleboro
Woman 3 club, which contain the cal
cndar of the activities of the club for
the season of 19l8-19 have been dis
tributed The cover is of elephant grey
with duh gold monogram and rs tied
with duh gold cord.
The book contains "a pages and in
cludes a list of presidents from the
time of organization, the present of
fieers, directors, committees, treasurer s
report, club annals. meetings, announce
ments, object, list of honorary, resi-
dent active, nonresident active and as
sociate members and those who have
died in the past year.
Following is the calendar for the sea
son: Oct. ., Federation reports, clee-
tion of president, music; Oct. l6, Y. M.
G. A. Work in France, Rev. X. K. Mar
win, Franklin, Mass; Nov. 6, afternoon
of music. in charge of Mrs. Francis p.
Blake; Nov. 20, The Spiritual Issues
of the War, Rev Howard j. Chidley,
Winchester, Mass; Dee 4, Club and
Federation News, Mrs Gilbert f. Da-
Wis, president of the state federation,
Windsor, supper, music; Dee. Is, Wild
OW cPOS, MISS ElltGDte NOOuy DOS'
ton: Jan s, musicale, Watahwaso Com
pany, Princess Watahwaso and artists
Boston; Jan. %, Poetry of the War,
Rev. Richard H. Clapp, Brattleboro
Feb. -, The Food Situation, Frank
II. Brooks, federal food administrator
for Vermont; Feb. 10, Practical Food
Demonstration, Miss Bertha A. Holden
home economies specialist of University
of Vermont; March. IS, Education day
in charge of education committee;
March 26, Ny Home in the Field OF
Honor, La Baronne Huard (Frances
Wilson Huard); April 2, Daughters
day, informal ballot; April 10, Chill
dren's day, Stage Children of New Eng
land, Boston; May !, annual meeting.
On account of the influenza epidemic
and the closing of all public gathering:
the first two meetings were not carried
out on the dates specified. Rev. X. h
Marvin will speak in the Auditorium
this evening His early appearance here
after the resumption of public activi
| ties is due to the fact that he plans Il
enter a chaplains school soon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-05
GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.
Saturday, Nov 0, Set Apart for OBJ
servance as Gas Mask Day.

Governor Graham has issued the fol
lowing proclamation:
|. Horace F. Graham, Governor,
designate Saturday, November Q, Gas
Mask Dav and request all citizens of
Vermont to cooperate with their local
chapters of the American Red Cross in
collecting fruit pits and nutshcllS TO
produce carbon of superior quality,
which serves as an absorbent of poi
sonOus gases / urge that special eff
fort be made TO collect pits from peach
es, plumS. cherries, aprieots, prunes,
dates, olives and TO gather from the
woods and stocks on hand all hickory
nuts, walnutS and butternuts, either
the whole nut or the shell, but not the
husk. Other materials must not be in
cluded. Loss of life by gas is greater
than by the guns of the enemy. The
torture from gas is ineomparably worse
than the pain from bullets. A million
pounds of fruit pits or nutshells are
needed daily to protect our soldiers and
nurses on the battle fronts.
Red Cross chapters have shipping in
| struetions, and it is suggested that all
stores, schools and postOfiices provide
! receptacleS for these pits and shells
| lie us continue each day to save them
for the humane protection, Of our ar
mics and fheir fighting effectiveness
| Protect the dollars you give for wal
relief by furnishing every field Secrc
tary and Salvation Army lass with tho
best gas mask. Gather butternuts and
you will have the gas mask in n nut
| shell.
Given under my hand and the Grea
Seal of the state, at Montpelier, thi
fourth day of November, A. ID. 1918
HORACE F. GRAHAM,
Governor.
BY the Governor: Harvey F. GoodclI
secretary of civil and military affairs
} The Brattleboro committee announce
that pits and shells may be left at III
Dewitt Grocery Co.'S warehouse on Fla
street or at the Brooks House
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-05
WORK THAT MUST WAIT.
War Industries Board Makes Public List
of Non-Essentials.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The war in
dustries board has made public list of
II types of non-war construction projects
which, it holds, can most easily be post
poned for the period of the war. They
are:
Churches. schools. hotels. office build
ings, bank buildings, public buildings,
moving picture houses, theatres and
other amusement places; apartment
buildings, non-war factories, mills. etc
commercial enterprises and store build
ings gas and electric light, plants, grain
elevators, water works improvements
sewerage systems, garages and gasoline
stations, sidewalks and park improve
ments.
1T is imperative" said the war indus
tries boards announcement, that there
| should be not the slightest slackening il
the work of war industries. There i:
such serious shortage in labor and irol
and steel that great cnrtailment of new
construction is necessary in order tha'
the bare needs of our war requirement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-05
GOODBY,
WOMEN'S
TROUBLES

The fortunes and discomforts of weak, lame
and aching back, swollen and bloated feet and
limbs, weakness lassitude, dizziness, nausea,
that tired wornout feeling, nervousness. sleep
lessness, as rule have their origin in kid
ney trouble. not female complaints" These
general symptoms of kidney and bladder dis
well known-So is the remedy.
Next time you feel twinge of pain in the
ton, insomnia, irritation in the bladder or
pain in the lons and lower abdomen. you will
find quick and sure relief in GOLD MEDAL
HaarIem Oil Capsules. This old and tried
remedy for kidney disease and allied derange-
ments has stood the test for hundreds of years.
1t does the work. Pains and troubles vanish
and life and health will as you
continue their When completely restored
TO your usual vigor, continue taking capsule
or two each day; they will keep you feeling
fine and prevent a return of your trouble.
l. GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules are
imported direct from the laboratories at Haar-
lem, Holland. Get them from your druggist.
Do not take a substitute. In sealed boxes,
three szes-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-05
Potato Market Report,

IT, S. Bureau of Markets issued the
following report today: hoA>
BOSTON Receipts 8 Heavy, prices
slightly lower. Maine Mountains, sacks,
No. Is. 81. 35 -S2.45.
NEW YORK Receipts heavy, market
dull. Names, l65 lbs, Round Whites
No. Is. S4.l5-$4.25; Michigan Round
Whites, $50 lbs, $3.50; Jersey Giants
$50 BIS. No. Is, $3.50 1918; New York
Round Whites, No. Is, 50. 1925.
PRESQUE ISLE-Growers holding foI
higher prices. Slow ademand. Quality
generally good. Warehouse. cash tC
growers, bulk. per barrel Mountain Cob
blers. No Is. $500 $40. Carloads, bulk
Mountains. No. Is, 0-Sl.90; sacked
50 90 - 10.
f. S. BRIGHAM.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
St Adams. Nov. 4.
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PERSONAL.

Private Gray Goddard is here from
Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, to visit
his parents.
Miss Ethel Sexton visited in West
Dummerston over Sunday with Mrs.
Richard Parks.
Miss Onalee Lang of Waverly, N y,
is a guect of Miss Lillian Lawton of
Linden street.
Miss Agnes Balfour, nurse, was taken
last evening to the emergency hospital
i'll with, influenza.
Private Frank A. Dimes is here from
Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, to visit at
his home on Clark street.
Mrs. G. H. Babbitt and daughter
Frances, of Bellows Falls are guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. l.. Durham.
c.. S. Wilson and family of 81 South
Main street moved to Bellows Falls Sat
urday, where he has employment.
Private Harold Shea of Camp Dew.
ems. Aver, Mass, is spending a short
furlough at his home on Grove street
Mrs. B. E. Clarke, who has been i'll
with erysipelas in the home of heI
daughter, Mrs. c.. A. Wright, is out
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Belknap and two
children of Island Pond are visiting
here with his mother, Mrs Peter S
Chase.
Mrs Fred Waite and daughter
Louise, viii move soon from Putney
road to one of A. B. Clapp's houses OIL
| Eels court.
| Miss Mollie Donahue of Rutland, who
| had been here since Friday with hel
sister, Mrs. ID. Frank Shea, returned to
day TO her home.
Treasurer Charles A. Bovden was a.
his desk at the Brattleboro Trust Co
yesterday, after few days illness il
his home on Linden street.
Mrs Charles Cook has received new.
of the serious illness of her sister, Mis-
Elizabeth Sullivan, in New York. Mis-
Sullivan is a professional nurse.
Carl f. Harris, who has been il
Greenfield since last June, was a CUES
of Mrs. Evelyn Perham of 40 Ellio
street from Saturday TO Sunday.
Mrs. W. B. Smith and son, Holland
returned from East Dover, where the,
had been visiting several days in tn
home of Mrs. Smiths cousin, Fred Hol
land
Mrs. L. NJ. Carpenter returned thi
morning from a twosweeks visit a
her former home in Cambridge, " Y
and with an aunt in Manchester, thi
state
Mrs. Amy Weedena returned Monda
to her home in Aston, Mass, after Wis
iting here week, with her daughter:
Mrs. j. l.. Stewart and Mrs. Abbot
Richmond
Charles A. Wright, who has been en-
ployed the past two years at the Brad
ley farm, has finished work there an
gone to Portsmouth, N IT., where h
has position in the shipyard. Mrs.
Wright viii go TO her home in Sout
Vernon, Mass, for the present. The
will store their furniture