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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
FORTY-SIX TO TAKE
PART IN TRACK MEET
First Event on Fair Grounds Tomorrow
to Start at 2.30-Order of Events
and Officials.

Forty-six schoolboy athletes are
scheduled to participate in the track
meet which starts promptly at 230
o o'clock tomorrow afternoon on the Val
ley fair grounds. In addition to ID
representatives of the local high school
there will be delegation of 10 each
from st. Johnsburv and Keene, seven
from Rutland and four from Windsor.
The order of events is as follows:
1O0-yard dash, broad jump, ss0-yard
run, 220-yard low hurdles, 12-pound
shot-put, high jump, 220-yard dash, ham
mer-throw, l20-yard high hurdles, iave-
lin throw, discus throw, mile run, pole
vault, 440-yard dash.
The officials will be as follows: Ref
cree. f. B. Smith; starter, Herbert E..
Stiegler; judges at finish and assistant
field judges, Charles E. Hadley, Willis
o. Smith, Frederick w. Porter; field
! judges and assistant track judges, FL
wyn- C. Cage HaFe4a-4-0Brr-n and
] Leon r. McKusick; timers, W. E. Hub
bard, Harvey R. Kingsley, G. f. Sher-
man; clerk of the course, Hugh o.
Stowell; assistant clerk, Ray B.
Switzer; announcer, Horton D. Walker
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
RED CROSS FUND
REACHES S165,3S4
Chairman Benson Much Pleased With
Progress to Date-Towns in All
Counties Go Over Top.

At noon today the reports of the
state Red Cross fund drive as made to
State Chairman Oscar F. Benson of this
town aggregated $165,3s4 This leaves
about $4,000 to be raised by Monday
night. Mr.. Benson is much pleased
with the progress being made and says
that from all of the counties come re-
ports of additional towns going over
the top. A special donation of $3.50
has been received from Mt. Sinai Tenn
pie, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, of
Montpelier and a special contribution
of 300 from Swift & Co
In Windham county $s34.52 more was
secured yesterday. The towns in this
county exceeding their quota are Brat
tleboro, Newfane, Putney, Rockingham,
Wilmington and Windham.
The figures by counties with the ex-
ception of Grand Isle, follow: Addison,
$1,000; Bennington, 1000; Caledonia
$4,000; Chittenden, $24,3S4; Essex
$3.50; Franklin, $9,500; Lamoille
So ,992; Orange. $4,000; Orleans, $4,710;
Rutland $4,000; Washington, $4,000;
Windham $l0,s99; Windsor, 1900.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
SECRETARY DALTON
TO SPEAK MONDAY
State Board Of Health Official to Talk
Relative to Children's Year-46
Examined Yesterday.

DR.. Charles F. Dalton. secretary of
the state board of health, will speak
in Brattleboro Monday evening relative
to Children S year, movement in the
work of which the weighing and exam
ining of children is now going on at the
Mutual Aid association headquarters.
The meeting will be public, and the
place will be announced. 1t is expected
that DR.. Johnson, who is engaged in the
rural dental work, also will speak
Yesterday 46 children were examined
and in only few instances were the
children asked to be sent to physicians
or dentists. Those in charge of the
work were much pleased with the fine
lot of children presented. Persons who
have not kept their appointments in
this matter will be given another oppor
| tunity later.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
CLOSING EXERCISES
LARGELY ATTENDED
Children at Austine Institution for Deaf
Render Pleasing Progranl-Med-
ais Are Presented.

The closing exercises held at the Aus
tine Institution for the deaf yesterday
afternoon were attended by a large and
appreciative audience. The school will
be in session three weeks longer, during
which time examinations will be held
The exercises yesterday. which were un-
der the direction of Miss NJ. Dorothy
Taft and Miss Marion I. Davis, teach
ers, consisted of physical gymnastics,
Swedish gymnatics, aesthetic dances in
costume, patriotic march in costums and
wand drill. There were seven numbers
on the program and all were well exc
cuted and highly enjoyed by the audi
ence. Prizes were awarded, the judges
being Mrs. G. G. Fits, Miss Florence
NJ. Wellman and DR.. w. H. Lane. Hen
ry Bond, one of the trustees, made the
presentation of the medals.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
SUGAR SHORTAGE
IS PREDICTED
Local Food Administrator
Sends Notice to Retail
Dealers
CERTIFICATES
TO BE FILLED OUT
Persons May Not Have More Than 25
Pounds On Hand at Any One Time
Record of Purchases to Be Kept by
State Administrator.

Statements to the effect that there
true, according to Jean j. Vanderveer,
local food administrator. Persons who
figure that they will be able to get all
the sugar they want for canning pur-
poses this fall are liable to be disap-
pointed The federal food administra
tor for Vermont, Frank II. Brooks of
Montpelier, will keep a record of sugar
bought for canning and preserving, and
for that purpose blank certificates have
been printed which purchasers are re-
quired to fill out, showing how much
sugar they used last year for canning
and how much they desire the coming
| season.
! Mr.. Vanderveer today sent to retail
grocers in the Brattleboro district the
following letter:
To the Retail Grocery Trade
/ Information has come through the fed
eral food administration that we shall have
barely enough sugar to carry over the
| peak OF the canning season, and am IN
structed to caution In regard to ndis-
crminate sugar sales The limits of 5
pounds to a customer in town and 10
pounds to those in rural communities
must be strictly adhered TO- Don't for
your own sake as we'll as for your coun-
tryas sake break this rule Don't be mis-
led by being told that there is plenty oil
sugar in the country The people in
Washington know better ---
Il Those who require sugar for canning
should be cautioned against overbuying
and even with certificate they are moi
allowed to buy more than 25 pounds mol
! have more than that amount hand a
, any one time These certificates are to b.
sent to Montpelier. where they will b.
recorded and charged against you as wei
E as the town in which you do business. Al
| advertisement will appear in Saturday
Reformer calling public attention to thi
: rule. a number of the certificates ar
sent herewith More will be furnished
r you need them
n IT you sell to any customer more tha
. is allowed without a certificate, YOU ar
= breaking federal law
4 A person who goes to different store
o and buys the maximum amount from eac
r will be found out, if you do your duty
regard to sales
Very truly yours,
JEAN J. VANDERyEER,
Local Food Administrator
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
WILL NOT FLINCH
IN THE FIGHTING
Italy Can Be Depended Upon to Stand
Shoulder to Shoulder With the
Other Allies.

LONDON, May A.-Italy will not finch
from the task of fighting shoulder to
shoulder with her allies for satisfying
and promoting the civilization of the
world, declared the Marquis Imperiali, the
Italian ambassador, in answer to toast
at the luncheon given at Mansion House
to celebrate the anniversary of Italy's en-
try into the war Italy, he added, was a
warm advocate of the principle of ma
tionality and would fight for it to the
bitter end.
Lord Robert Cecil, minister of block
ade, who spoke for Foreign Secretary
Balfour, said that Italy had come out Of
the trials of the war with clearer unity
and self-confdence and, if possible, greater
courage than she had before. Italy had
shown herself ready to extend to the
Poles, Czecho-Slavs, Rumanians and Jugo-
Slavs the principle on which her own uni
| fication was founded and on which she
might go forward to greater future
Lord Robert had always felt that there
was no inconsistency between the aspira
tions of Italy and those of the Jugo-Slavs
The principal way to regard the problem
was not for the dismemberment of Aus
tria- Hungary, but for the liberation O.
the populations subject to her rule
This must be done by some great fed
Grafton to uphold the principles on which
an European policy must be founded. Fo
any future settlement the world must no
look to courts or cabinets but to nation
and populations On that and that alon
depended the whole scheme of league o
nations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
Wife's First Notification
Came Through Yester.
days RefOrmer
NEWS BY LETTER
RECEIVED TO-DAY
Went from Brattleboro to North Ad-
ans to Work in Greylock Mills and
Enlisted from There Last June
Wife and Son Live Here.

Mrs. James G. p. Lighthall of Brat;le-
boro, whose husband, Corporal Lighthall
of the first company, l06th Z. s Infantry,
was named in the casualty list yesterday
as having been killed in action, received
her first information that her husband
had been killed when she read the
despatch from Cohoes, n. Y, in The Re
former yesterday afternoon.
This morning, however, Mrs. Lighthall
received letter from her husbands Sis
ter, Evelyn, wife of Eugene Hubert of Co
hoes, n Y, stating that the latter had
just been notified from the adjutant gen.
erals Office of the death of Corporal
Lighthall, which the telegram said oc-
Cured April 2S.
A coincidence, although it bears no re-
lation to the fact of his death, is that
yesterday Mrs Lighthall wrote to the ad-
jutant general TO inquire relative to let
ters expected from Corporal Lighthall
which had not arrived. She says she has
received only one letter from him since
he left last November, and that came in
January She feels certain that he wrote
other letters to her which have gone
astray Her allotment of his pay has
been coming regularly, but in the absence
OF letters she had not learned of his pro-
motion from private to corporal.
| Corporal Lighthall was born in Cohoes,
\. Y, Aug. II, 1896. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Lighthau. His father, who
is a plumber, and the deceased's sister
live in Cohoes and brother, Rossiter
Lighthall, lives in New York state. Cor
poral Lighthall was named for the late
| James Gordon Bennett one of whosc
yachts won race the day Lighthall was
| born.
He came to Brattleboro in 1914 and was
employed as a ring spinner in the Fort
Dummer cotton mill On Nov. 20, 1915
he and Miss Elizabeth Lawless of Brat
tleboro were married by Rev James p.
Rand in st. Michael's Roman Catholic
church She is daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Lawless, who came from
North Adams, Mass, and live at IA Hunt
avenue. To them a son, George A, was
born, who is now about two years old.
Mrs. Lawless will be % years old mex.
fall.
Over year ago the young man went to
North Adams and secured a position in
the Greyiocis mills, and on June of last
year he enlisted in North Adams, goinc
from there to Fort Ethan Allen, thence te
Syracuse. n. Y, leaving for France ii
, November as private in the first com
pany, 10Th L. s. Infantry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
PATRIOTIC LEAGUE
DISCUSSES PLANS
Miss Mary r. Cabot Explains Meaning
Of League Pledge-ATrangemen
for Furnishing Quarters.

In meeting of the Patriotic league
last evening in the high school room sew
eral matters of interest were discussed
including plans for furnishing club rooms
in the Hooker house, which has been of
fered for their use, and the feasibility of
adopting a plan of monthly dues, which
would be very small, the proceeds to be
used for the upkeep of the rooms, No
decision was made regarding the fees, but
this matter will be taken up again at some
future meeting
Miss Mary r. Cabot gave the girls an
interesting talk on the meaning of the
league pledge urging them to make them
selves fit to meet the returning American
soldiers when they return home that the
soldiers may not find the girls in the same
frivolous turn of mind which has SO long
been their custom, but that the girls may
have seen their opportunity for the great.
er and broader things in life and have
grasped it.
| Mrs. Harold w. Mason was elected
chairman of a house committee to make
| arrangements for furnishing the rooms
and today she has named the following
assistants: Miss Beatrice j. Yearly, Miss
| Harriet Mellen, Miss Grace Holbrool
| Miss Emily Shea, Miss Marjorie White
and Miss Gretchen Goldsmith. This com
| mittee will be glad to be notified if any
one has any piece of furniture which the,
will donate for the rooms. The committe,
also will be glad to have young womei
come to the rooms at 9 O'Clock on Memo
rial day morning, wearing their worl
clothes, as it is essential that things b
put in readiness at once for the activitie
of the community canning club and t
have the rooms ready for the furnishing
as soon as they can be collected.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
Next Few Weeks Will Be
Race Between Hindenburg
and Pres. Wilson
DECLARATION BY
BRITISH PREMIER
American Aid Not One Fifth Of the
Strength Added to Fighting Strength
Enemy Has Received as Result Of the
Russian Collapse.

LONDON, May 24-"We are on the
eve of great attack" said Premier
Lloyd George in an address today at
Edinburg. Those who know best what
the prospects are feel most confident
about the result. In April said the
Premier, "the output of shipping for the
first time exceeded the losses
''The next few weeks will be a race
between Hindenburg and President Will
son" said Mr.. Lloyd George.
The Germans are straining every
muscle TO reach the goal first. On the
eve Of American help becoming available
for the allies, can honestly say" the
premier declared, that the government
has neglected no possible means for find
ing out whether there is any honorable
outlet out of this wal"
lie said that after all her exertion
America did not have what was equiva-
lent TO one-fifth Of the fighting strength
which the enemy had received owing to
the collapse of Russia. He added that il
took time to frame and equip armies and
that Americas help could not be reck
oned on for some time. Mr.. Lloyd George
read a report he had just received from
the admiralty in which it was said:
"As regards the meeting Of enemy sub
marines that is going on satisfactorily
He said the naval staff was confident thai
the allies daily were sinking more sub
marines than the enemy was able to build
AS means Of inAicting injuries the sub
marine was still formidable, but as a dan
ger which might mean the winning or los
ing Of the war, he declared, the allie
could rule it out. The allies as a who'll
were constructing merchant ships taste
than the Germans could destroy them.
Speaking at luncheon Mr.. Lloy,
George said there was no doubt tha
there had been a conspiracy for a grea
uprising in Ireland. He stated he hac
seen the evidence. The leaders of tn
Nationalist party, he added, have moth
ing TO do with il.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
Omversalist Church
Sunday, May %.

Sunday, May 25.
1870 a. m.-Divine worship with Me-
mortal day sermon by the pastor
The choir will be assisted by Al
son Dugan, violin. Offertory solo
by Miss Hutchins, with violin OBJ
ligato.
11.45 a. m.-Sunday school session.
200 p. m.-At Vernon, a Memorial
day service with the Mortified
and Vernon veterans in attend
ance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
JAPS TO BOLIVIA.
Important Development in Emigra-
tion to So. America Foreshadowed.

LONDON, May PA Bolivian
plenipotentiary, Munoz Reyes, has
arrived in Toxic to arrange for
japanese emigration on large scale
to Bolivia, says despatch from
Toxic to the Daily Mail dated May
Is. The emissary mission is to ar
range for the settlement as a first
step of 10000 Japanese farmers in
Bolivia to work vast tracts of un-
cultivated land. The Mail cor
respondent adds that an important
development in japanese emigra-
tion to South America is foreshad-
owed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
Red Mems Hall

Friday. May "a, 8 p. m.-SpeciA meet
ing of Quonekticut tribe, No. 2, /. o. r.
NJ. A large attendance is requested as
arrangements will be completed for Red
Mems Memorial day, Sunday, May 26,
also G. A. R. Memorial day parade, May
30. in which Quonekicut tribe has been
invited to take part
Dances will be held in Red Men q
hall every Saturday until further no.
tice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
FAvORS BIG ARMY
Senate Military Committee Resolution
Declares for an Increase
of 100000 Men.

WASHINGTON, w May 24-The senate
military committee today unanimously
went on record in favor of large expan-
sion OF the American army 1t ordered a
favorable report on resolution by Sen
ator Reed of Missouri declaring for an in.
crease Of 5000 ,0eO men.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
TO BE COURT MARTIALED.
Two of the Sinn Feiners Charged with
Carrying Explosives.

LONDON, May 24.-Walter Hume
Long, secretary for the colonies, who is
chairman of the committee drafting the
Irish home rule bill, arrived last night
in Dublin. Several more arrests have
been made in the country districts. Two
of the men arrested Sunday, Collins and
Mullin, will be court martialed on
charges of having illegal possession of
explosives.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
RAPIDLY GAINING.
Expected That Red Cross Fund Will
Be Oversubscribed.

WASHINGTON, May 24.-Three-
quarters of the hundred million dol
lar second war fund of the Red Cross
was found to be subscribed when the
totals were made this morning at
the national headquarters and OPP
timism was felt that there would be
a large over-subscription before the
drive ends. The early total today
was $74, ,269,S25.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
GERMAN REVOLT
Soldiers in Russia Refused to Go to
Western Front-Fifty Executed,
1000 Imprisoned.

WASHINGTON, May PA German
division at Dvinsk, Russia, ordered from
the east to the western front, refused to
proceed and so men were executed and
1000 imprisoned, said Russian wireless
despatch today to the state department
Other German troops in the vicinity have
joined in demonstrations in favor of the
division.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
CATCHING THE sLACKERs.
Draft Evaders ALI Over New England
Are Being Rounded UP.

AVER, Mass, May 24.-Twenty
slackers, including two circus employees,
picked up today at Springfield, were
brought to Camp Devens under guard
today and put in the army. Draft evad-
ers are being rounded up all over New
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
THE WEATHER.
Fair Tonight Saturday Partly Cloudy
Warmer in the Interior.

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The wealth
er forecasts: Fair tonight. Saturday
partly cloudy. Slightly warmer in in
terror. Gentle to moderate shifting
winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
OVER 60 PER CENT.
New England Has Raised $4, ,3O2, 900 for
the Red Cross Fund

BOSTON, May 24.-New England to-
day had raised more than 60 per cent OF
the $7000,000 allotment for the Ameri-
can Red Cross war fund Over night
reports received at headquarters showed
a gain of 1901, 900 and lifted the total
to $4,302,00
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
First Baptist Church

Friday, 4l5 p m, Junior Christian En-.
deavor. All boys and girls from to IA
invited
Friday, 7.3o-Regular prayer meeting Of
the church.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
EVAN WILLIAMS DEAD.
Noted Tenor Was Ill Only Week with
Blood Poisoning.

AKRON, Ohio, May 24.-Evan Will
liams, noted tenor, died today after a
weeks illness. Death was due to blood
poisoning.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Cornelius Billings of New York
is a guest of Major and Mrs. F. w.
Childs of Terrace street
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
Centre Congregational Church

Friday, May "a, 730 p. m.Church
night Midweek meeting of the church.
The pastor will review the second part of
DR. Patton's book, The Lure of Africa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
NEW FOE FACING
AMERICAN BOYS
German Troops Sent to An
other Area and Bavarian
Reserves Take Place
RAIDS BY ENEMY
STOPPED BY BRITISH
French Report Success Last Night
Escadrille of Picked American Pilots
to Defend Paris Against Future Air
Raids

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Thursday, by The Associated
Press.-German troops which faced the
Americans along the Toul sector several
weeks have been withdrawn and sent to
the battle area of Northern France. They
have been replaced by the Sth Bavarian
reserves.
THE day has been quiet on all points
occupied by our troops says the official
statement issued tonight from American
headquarters.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24

LONDON, May 24.-As a result of a
raid carried out by the enemy yesterday
north of Hill No 70 north of Lens a few
of our men are missing" says today 5
official statement. Early last night the
enemy attempted another raid on ons of
our posts in Aveluy wood, but was driven
off. We carried out a successful raid
shortly after midnight southwest of La
Bassee and captured few prisoners"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24
Masonic Temple

Friday, May 24.-Knitting club will
meet with Mrs. Fremont Hamilton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24

PARIS, May 24-French troops last
night carried out raids along several parts
of the front, notably southeast of Couchy
on the Asne front in the Champagne and
In the Vosges today's war office report
states. German raids attempted west of
Noyon on the main battlefront and south
east of Mesnil-St Georges were failures.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24

PARIS, Thursday.-An American esca-
drille composed of aviators chosen from
among the best American pilots in the
future will help to defend Paris against
enemy air raids. Offer of this help was
made spontaneously by the chief OF the
American aviation service and accepted
by the French government.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-24

For the race of life, self-starter
is mighty good thing.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-06

der to he accepted. and they become
painstaking. Their RESPONSIVENESS and
ingenuity are stimulated and In their
efforts to raise money have revealed
their enterprise and thrift. Parents
know that all these are the things that
make for success and happiness. We
know the patriotism may be taken for
granted, that II lies In the hearts OF
nearly all Americans. bur the war has
seen II translated into service--to the
great benefit OF the children. Let as
hope that the activities OF the Junior
Red Cross will be kept up after the
war Is over.
Fringe has invaded the precinct OF
sweaters. Often II Is found on the
sides OF the large sailor collar. and II
made OF the same wool rs the sweates
or wool OF contrasting color. One siih
sweater that can he made By any cleves
knitter has black and white fringe ail
around large shawl collar. around
the bottom Of the sweater and around
the lower edge OF the cuffs. Tasseis
which are only q short concentrated
bit Of fringe. are used frequently q,
the ends of sashes on the new sweat
ers. or they are placed at the corners
Of the sailor collar to hold the points
In place and to add an Interesting dec
orative touch.