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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-06
THE MuLT1TuDE's MANIFESTO

is worth more than the opinion OF
kings, and il is written that the multi
tude has acclaimed life insurance a
blessing TO all mankind. National Life
Ins. Co. of VT Mutual EARLE S.
KINSI.EY, General Agent, Rutland,
vt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-06
WESTMINSTER.

Mr. Farmer condition remains about
the same
o. P. Fullam returned to his work
in Springfield Monday.
Walter Baldwin of Springfield has
been spending few days in town.
Teachers in town are taking cen
sus of scholars under six years of age.
Frank Pettigrew is spending the
| week with his nephew, Eugene Robbins,
in Putney.
Miss Wakefield, county nurse, of
Brattleboro, has been appointed inspec-
tor of schools.
| Mrs. George Stone is seriously ILL.,
1 Her two children are boarding with
Mrs William Rowley
| Mr. and Mrs George P Wright have
returned from Pasadena, Cal, where
they spent the winter.
Kenneth Birch. former Kurn Hat
tin boy, has secured employment on the
| Emerson farm in Walpole
Judge Daniel Kellogg, who spent the
winter in California, is with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. George C. Wright.
| d. p Wright is the second GARNER to
employ bevy of birls from the new
department of agriculture to help on
his land.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilman Kimball, aft
II spending the winter with Mrs. Kim
ball S brother Norman, have returned
to their home farm.
Miss Maxine Buck has a position il
Mason s music store in Bellows Falls
/ IT
! of music in Boston.
Former friends of f. ]. Blanchard
will be interested to know that he ha
entered the L. S. service and is now OF
J the steamship Iroquois
Children s Sunday viii be observe,
. next Sunday morning at the usual hon
of worship. There will be speeia
| program and baptism of children.
? Mrs, Clinton Parvin and son o
? BFadentown, Florida. arrived Saturda
/ to spend the summer with Mrs. Par
0 wins parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Ware
Letters have been received of re
cent date from Sergeant Irving Lobe
who is at the front. His statement
n hearten his friends by the optimisti
j | views he is taking of the situation.
Remember the regular meeting c
$ Boyden Grange, No. 157, Friday ev,
9 ming Program; Response to roll cal
! precepts from Grange obligation
Is What are you going to do about it?
Clarence Wright. who has been
! the front the past six months, has n
,s eeived his service stripe. He writes
q receiving the last consignment of box
. from home, which contained some of tt
genuine Vermont maple sugar.
A special meeting of the Red Gro
s was held Tuesday evening in the low
Grange hall, where the society is no
holding its meetings. 1t is intendt
Id TO keep the room open one evening
the week to accommodate those WI
cannot attend afternoons.
Mrs. Lucretia Metcalf who lives
- this village has three grandchildren, :
!. from the family of her son, Ralph
- Hinsdale, n. H., who are now in t
i, | United States service. Ruth enlist
- as a Red Cross nurse. Roy went in
the service about the same time al
>, now their brother Ralph, has be
,a1led. Not only fathers and mothe
Ct are giving of their hfe's blood
their country but generation fartl
back must needs be counted in
the sacrifice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-06
Word From Bre'r Williams.

Oars land huff ter feed de worl'.
but don't miss de feet dat it needs
coaxin'. After you git in good workin'
humor you got ter make de land feel
good Hits de only way ter have a
happy time all 'roun'.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-06
. Figures incomplete.

The May deliveries from American
shipyards comprise SO requisitioned steel
vessels, for contract steel and one con
tract wooden ship. In the last six days
of the month there were delivered Ia
steel and one wooden ship totalling 81
760 tons. The best previous week was
that ending May 4, when the deliveries
totalled S0.3S0 tons.
The greatest production in any previ-
Gus month in American shipyards was
in March, when q steel ships totalling
1851 tons were delivered. Thus over
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-06

tends sending the survivors home on
troop transport in the near future.
None of the survivors were seriously
injured. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-06

Dundee manufacturers are about to give
UP the use of earthenware, glass jars anc
tins, for a stout cardboard container.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
BY Claude G. Miller.

You see it's just like this. every
bodys doing their bit from George
down to the toothbrush. so de-
cided to help.
Tee, Hee! | knew you'd never
guess, it's the most original idea!
l decided to start moving bust
ness! Yes, sir. You see couldn't
get in the army-curly hair and a
few other defects. so the moving
business is my bit. l decided to
start my Office On the corner Of
Eighth and Main, but the honorable
officer said I'd better never cause
his mother-in-law'd be along in a
few minutes and she had false
teeth-of course that hasn't thing
to do with it but 1t fits into the
story kind of nice, and that's all
that's necessary.
Well, l needed helper, some
body almost as big as | was-and
somebody that could move and had
money.
| got him! He had four dollar
bill and he consented! | rented a
wagon-four dollars down and a
dollar an hour-later had tc take
it back because a woman tod me
she wouldn't move in a HEARSE
if she was dead!
That's funny. amt it? Yes, it
amt, that is, it wasn't. So l got a
moving van with a pair of horses
with some strings to them which l
was forced to pull in order to make
them turn corners and walk back
wards and several other things.
The helper was some helper. He
was SO lazy he wouldn't scratch his
head and the reason he got in the
wagon IS because he fell off the seat
backwards ana was too lazy to
crawl back up. But he was pictur-
esque and l thought that the people
would think he was something
painted on the scenery for an adj
vertisement as the easy way to
move furniture.
Well, job No. l came just before
Job No. 2 and :our days after !
started to work,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

A woman on Twenty-tirst street
wanted a flock of canaries moved
and everything.
The fact is, | don't like canaries
never did! That's all!
She forgot to tell me where to
take them so took them for a ride.
Down A street and back Main. I'll
almost caused a riot. but got
along alr.ght-that is
Well you see it was this way, to
make short story two pages long
err, | seen a young lady. OF course
if it had been some other young
man He'd have driven on but Pm
gentleman! | stopped.
Now stopping in ITSELF has moth
ing to do with the story, only to
tell you stopped. It's none Of your
business about the young lady only
to say why l stopped and because
of the young lady and my stopping
and Ford behind me, that didn't
stop. but busted up eight or ten
crates of my canary flock. feel
that | must stop to tell you all
about it.
The Ford didn't stop till he saw
he couldn't go on through between
the horses so he stopped and
backed up. Then he went on and
never stopt.
BY this time SO many canaries
were fitting about Main street |
wondered why | stopped for and
left.
That's all-again.
Now, you know some women are
aweful, simply terrific. Things are
always raining on their hope boxes
and upsetting their Van Camps.
I've seen some women that looked
as though only two things ever
suited them, one was when the
the other was When
eagle-on-t he-dol!ar squawked, and
the other was when it rained on
some one else's business.
Well that's what kind of woman
the woman was whose canaries !
took a ride. This woman had lost
all her gifts of happiness and was
trying to finish up life by sitting
on other peoples good wishes, and
blamed if she didn't sit on mine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

HE can't get one past you. You're
the son Of an American. now show
him how you'd treat the kaiser"
With a sudden wrench. the pitch
er sent a swift inshoot, but with
equal swiftness Bill Hadley made a
downward swing with the bat, and
the ball went bouncing easily and
gently forward as it lazily rolled
about four yards from the wild-eyed
pitcher.
A punt! The on-lookers gasped in
amazement, but before the pitch
er's tingling fingers had clutched
the ball, Jimmie G. was over half
way to the home plate, and scarce
!y had the seething mass of yelling
boys reached their full volume of
noise when streak of white
crossed the cloud of dust, and the
catcher had caught the ball only
an instant after Jimmie G. had
reached the home plate, safe.
Say Bill, that was pretty good
game, wasn't it," commented jim
mic G.. as he wiped the sweat off
of his forehead with his sleeve, af-
ter everything was over and the
two boys were ambling homeward
but that punt of your sure did sur
prise everybody. How'd you do
it,"
well, jim. I'll tell YOU an
swered Bill slowly, after mo.
ments pause. you know when !
was up there at bat the last time
Well. somebody yelled that l was
the son of an American, and Jim,
just thought then, that even if
I'm not over there in the trenches
yet, | might as well practice up
making things | do get something
right now. So | guess | did.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

| drove up in front of the house
with my wagon still leaking cana
ries and-that's all did,
She did all the rest-she did all
the talking for us both-aA the
swearing. walking. raving and
few other things.
Some guy started saying once
that there's sunshine after every
storm, but who in thunder wants
to wait till after the storm for the
Sunshin-anyway | didn't.
So | left.
The helper, as | said before.
who was so lazy his feet grew in
circles and who slept thirty min
utes every time he yawned, also
left, but not with me, no stree!
l don't know how the moving
van got back or how the canaries
thrived, but | left!
Sure-the reason say left so
much is merely to impress that |
left left her. see?
Oh, how'd the story end?
| got another jeb-yes, honest |
did. | got a job in an Office keep
ing bookshelf, keeping books Off
the floor.
work under a guy who is a sort
of a sport and smokes Omar ci&a-
rettes-who gives the impression of
moving around on shovels and
growing a mustache.
Later | was promoted. I'm SIX
perintendent now of the Office work
like sweeping out and cleaning
out the inkwells
No, there isn't any thing like be
ing man of dinified ability and a
lack of appliance-that's me.
But | left.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
The Baseball Hero

"All right there, Jimmie. all
right now. Jimmie old boy. That
pitcher has to scratch his head ev-
cry time he wants to think, Don't
let him put anything over you. Jim
old fellow. he hasn't got sense
enough to shoot ball straight
after he does wind 1t up. Come on
now, you've got the mustard on
that bat, give them hot one. Aw.
that's only one strike. We know
you're just giving them a little
chocolate to keep them in the game.
Come on now. Jimmie, old kid,
right over the left fielder. he needs
q little exercise. Give us just one
little sky lark and then Wen all die
happy. Come on now. come-unnnh
--Oh-Aw--Gee! Don't stop. Jim.
don't stop. 1t s'a three Dagger. it's a
three Dagger for a king. go on
there. slide her in. Why you're safe,
old man, you're safe!"
1t was the ninth inning of the
match game, and the score was tied
When Jimmie had come up to bat
there already had been one out in
this last bat, but as he reached the
third base, the hopes of his class
mates knew no bounds.
The Harrison school rooters were
dancing up and down like fiendish
Indians, yelling until all words
were lost in the uproar. Then
Skinny Hall stepped up to bat, and
before the noise could change from
its joyous confusion. the pitcher
had sent the ball darting straight
ahead, Skinny had made a jerky
swing. the ball had gone glancing
upward and backward, and then
came down right in the catcher's
hands.
Striker out" called the umpire
in the dead silence which momen-
tarily followed the calamity. Then
bedlem broke out again as Bill Had
ley stepped up to bat. ominously
moving his club up and down and
glaring at the pitcher with an ex-
preston that would have made Won
Hinderburg tremble.
You've got him. Bill, you've got
him. old fellow" yelled the rooters.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
URBAN

Tommy in his third year, moved
to the country. His parents thought
that the city was no place for
growing boy, but they had not con-
suited Tommy,
"Why isn't anyone passing?" he
asked his mother again and again.
When is someone going by? No
one is going by now, either. want
to go back to New York." he con-
cludeG firmly.
Exchange
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
A EIEIY-ElETY FRESHMAN.

In his book, From Gallipoli to
Bagdad." Padre" William Ewing
tells the story of burly Irishman
brought into the field hospital suf-
fering from many wounds.
What are YOU" asked the ser
geant.
Squire. I'm half Irish," replied
the man
"And what is the other haf?"
Holes and bandages. "Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
Quite old.

A newly rich woman. who was
anxious to make favorable i'm
preston on her neighbOrs decided
to show her collection Of antiques
to the bishop when he called. The
time came and one by one she dis
played the whole collection, giving
him the history of each piece. FL
nally she came to the most priced
article in the lot
There" she said, pointing i'm
pressively to an old yellow teapot,
that was used at the Boston Tea
party"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
MEANT HIMSELF.

A well-known Englishman was
calling on an editor, when he arose
abruptly and said: But must not
further take the time of a busy
man"
Not at ALL" said the editor. 81
am always pleased"
ooh, l was referring to myself"
was the rejoinder.-Transcript.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
TOO MUCH

Papa" said little Robin, 81 want
to sell one of my goats. 1t is too
much for my other goat to pull the
wagon and me and the goat l want
to sell up the hill"
Exchange
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
A SENTENCE

In one of the navy schools a
young instructor was attempting to
teach English to gruff old sailor,
What is a sentence" he asked.
Solitary confinement, bread and
water" was the grim reply.
Everybody
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
-..LhY1

Lady (asking for the third time):
"Have we reached No. 234 YETI"
Conductor: Eyes, mum. Here
you are" (Stops bus.)
Lady: ooh. didn't want to get
out. l only wanted to show my
little Fido where he was born. -
Punch.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

Patient: Doctor. why does a
small cavity seem so large to the
tongue?"
Dentist: "Just the natural ten
dency OF the tongue to exaggerate.
| suppOse.-The Waterman Exam
iner.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
THE COLLEGE BOY.

'Twere naught to him to have his
name
Enrolled on Learning's scroll
To him the pinnacle of fame
Would be to kick a goal.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
GOING SOM

Doctor: What? Troubled with
sleeplessness? Eat something be-
fore going to bed"
Patient: why doctor, you told
me once never to eat anything be-
fore going to bed"
Doctor: Pooh! Pooh! That was
last January. Science has made
rapid strides since then"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

An Irish guardsman, billeted in
a certain town. was complaining
bitterly about his hard bed
do you know" retorted the land
lady dramatically. that the Duke
of Wellington slept in that same
bed?"
"Oh. did he?" retorted the
guardsman. well. no wonder he
was called the Iron duke. "-Lone
Scout Magazine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

The man who talks all day and
snores all night is domestic
tragedy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07
NOT so HARD.

Sillicus: THE way of the trans
gressor is hard"
Cynicus: "Oh. well. he can gen.
orally afford pneumatic tires"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

A contented mind is a continued
feast, out it does not appease the
appetite. -.-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07

Pessimists have been converted
to optimism through the simple
faith of a child.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
The Reasons for the Club

To provide a way for those of moderate and
even small means to bank their money.
To teach the saving habit to those who have
never learned it.
TO give young folks practical education about
money---by showing them that if they give up the
little things they want today, they get the big
things later.
TO give all Bank connection and show YOU
how our Bank can be of service to them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
Largest Payment First and Decrease Payments
Who Gets the Money You Earn?

1t isn't the money you make that counts, but
what yoa SAVE. If one makes $40, 900 year
and spends it all, he hasn't got much the
who only makes $1,000 a year and saves and Banks
81 900.
Nor is it the big things you buy that takes your
money it is the small amounts that You let slip
through your fingers that eat up your earnings
Why not plug up those leaks and join Christmas
Banking Club? You'll be lots happier in watching
your balance grow and your money will be safe from
fire, burglars or your own temptations to spend it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
FOR OLD AND YOUNG

The sensible thing for all parents do is join Christ
and also put every member Of the family into it. This will e
money and how to bank money and HAVE MONEY Maybe
them may dav them up business or buy them home
often have YOU wished that your parents had taught
banking YOUR money You would be wel-o today. Don't
with YOUR children.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-26
CHINESE GIRLS TO NURSE
u. SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
The Misses Francis of Trinidad Trained in Bellevue Hospital
Ne,v York, Viii Help Allied Cause

nOROTHY and Maude Francis. young
all the way from Trinidad to study
nursing in an American training school,
have offered their services to the Amer
lean Red Cross to nurse Americans In
France. Anxious to do their best for
the Allied cause, these young women
overcame the traditional Chinese oppo-
sition to women leaving home and came
to America to become trained nurses.
Every one. the British as well as the
American doctors and merchants and
business men Of all countries said
Dorothy Francis. told me that the
American trained nurse was the most
efficient of her profession; that the
hospitals. the training schools. the op-
portunities for experience for trained
nurses. as found in America, were
equaled In no other country" '.
Miss Francis has Just completed the
three-year course in nurses training
after a trip to Trinidad to visit her
mother. will enroll with the Red Cross
nursing service. Her younger sister
has two years of training still ahead
of her, but says IL the war lasts that
long she, too. will enter upon Red Cross
work.
Miss Francis sailed for New York
three years ago without knowing ans
one, only the address of a trainine
school for nurses in Brooklyn. When
told that she was apt to be refused ad.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-26
Letter to Sons Fiancee

Letter to Sons Fiancee
Dear Cynthia-I have a friend. a mother.
young lady ''over there" She is an Ameri-
csn but the mother has never met her. He
0oe9 not give her name. but he wishes his
mother to write few lines to this young
laGr tnclosing them in her letter to him
VIII you kindly suggest the proper wording
sor letter to this young girl in France?
FRIEND.
n suppose the boy forgot all about the
fhct that his fiancee had a name and it
really is too bad he did, isn't it? You feel
more at home to be able to call a person
something.
Under the circumstances the mother
might write note something on this
order. and we'll call her son Charlie"
In the letter:
My Dear
You see i cannot call you by name.
Tor Charlie was so much in love with
you he forgot to tell me your name when
he wrote of his happiness. l am anx-
ious to meet you. for l naturally want to
see the girl my boy loves. 1t is a COM
fort to know that you are on the same
s'de of the water with him and IL he
should be hurt could go to him, which
his poor old mother could not 60. You
will be welcome addition to the family
dear. and ] hope 1t will not have 10 ne
long before we can welcome you home
with Charlie. Write to me.
CHARLES MOTHER.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-26
|2aEN n SOLDIER BOY SLEPT
ON HIS MOTHERS SHOULDER
,XGs On a Train and He Vas Little Ashamed When He
Yoke Up but There Was Never Queen With Her Crown
Prouder Than the Woman Who Guarded Him

brought no tears to those well-bred
eyes. Maudlin. perhaps the lady with
the lorgnette would have called 1t. But
1t comes high to ride in parlor car
these days, and riding in a day coach
a nation learns something. Learns
that underneath when we do not
bother to be proud we are all the
same.
THE conductor In that train was
i very tender when he took the
tickets from that mothers hand. IL
would At in with the picture to say
there were tears in his eyes as ne
passed on to the next seat. But this
would not be true. Yet as he lifted
his eyes from the puncher and went
on, I think there was a look on his
face that comes only to a man when
he has stood for a moment In the
presence of something bigger than
himself. You see, a conductor has
the chance to watch many a soldier
boy asleep. But this was different.
He knew. we all knew. what the
mother must have been thinking.
There was no alternative but for her
to dream back to the days when his
tired little head had sought her be-
cause it was the only resting place a
baby knows.
And those on the train that thought
deepest knew that God in this war.
time has spanned bars of steel between
the heart OF mothers and sons. They
are the tenderest and at the same
the strongest links that ever
can know. No matter what
a man has been to his mother, no
matter what mother has been to
her son. all is forgotten. Wartime has
taught them to begin over!