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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
ONLY TREATMENT
THAT GAVE RELIEF
Suffered Three Years Before
Finding "FTuit-a-tiYes"
CENTRAL WHARF,, BOSroN, Mas

CENTRAL WHARF, BosToS, Mass.
"For three years, l was troubled
with Constipation, accompanied by
Dizziness and Violent Headaches.
/ took medicines and laxatiyes, but
without permanent relief.
Last October, / heard Of "Fruit-a-
tiycs" or FyaH Li9cy Ia5lcA. /
used one box and the results were SO
pronounced that ! bought two dozen
boxes.
/ continued using "Fruit-a-tives"
until the twenty four boxes we're
finished, when my physical condition
was perfect. JAS. j. ROYALL.
zoe. a box, 6 for $3.50, trial size CSC.
At dealers or from FRCIT-A-TINES
Limited, OGDENSBURG, N.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
FINAL STANDING
OF VICTORY TEAMS
Boys and Girls of Brattleboro, Number
ing 528, Pledge 50, 429-Individual
Record of Teams.

FINAL tabulations this morning OF
the Victory Boys and Victory Girls cam
paign show an enrolment of $50 bows
and POS girls, pledging 81 ,037 and 81 1872
respectively The town was divided into
seven districts and St. Michael's parish
making total of eight teams.
Following is complete list OF teams
together with the color assigned them
the number of pledges for each, and the
amount pledged:
St Michael's Cadets, l37 pledges, $633
High street, blue, 90 pledges. S447
Prospect Hill, orange, so pledges, 1871.
West Brattleboro, pink, IS pledges.
S26S.50.
Western avenue, purple, 81 pledges,
5000.
Elliot street, green, As pledges, 1928.
Esteyville, yellow. 46 pledges, S207 so.
Fort Drummer, red, Is pledges, S75.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISEASE

No organs of the human body are so i'm
portant to health and long life as the kidneys.
When they slow up and commence to lag in
their duties, look out Danger is in sight
Find out what the trouble is--without DELAY.
Whenever you feel nervous, weak dizzy suf-
fer from sleeplessness, or have pains in.- the
back or difficulty in passing urine-wake up at
once. Your kidneys need help. These are
signs to warn you that your kidneys are not
performing their functions properly. They
are only half doing their work and are al
lowing impurities to accumulate and be con.
yerted into uric acid and other posons, which
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21

are causing you distress and will destroy YOU
unless they are driven from your system
. Get some GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Cap
sules at once. They are an old, tried prepa-
ration used all over the world for centuries
They contain only ld-fashioned, soothing oils
combined with strength giving and system
cleansing herbs, we'll known and used by phy-
HARLEM Oil Capsules are imported direct
from the Laboratories in Holland They are
convenient to take, and will either give
Ask for them at any drug store, but be sure
to get the original imported GOLD MEDAL
brand. Accept substitutes. In sealed pack
ages. Three sizes.-Ady.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
HALIFAX.

Merton Scott shot five-point buck
Tuesday. 1t weighed l50 pounds.
The Scott family have had large
Center cemetery.
il. NJ. Ward, Mr. Garceau, and A. B.
Hall returned, TO Boston by automobile,
Tuesday, after SpeRting FIVE days at
the deer park.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
Arraigned at Montnelier

George Greenslit of Warren was ar
raigncd at Montpelier yesterday on an IN
dlctmcnt charging mansIaughter in con
nection with the shooting of Oscar O.
Heath. also Of Warren. last month. lie
was ordered held in $4,000 bonds for trial
later. GreenSlit is alleged to have shot
Heath when he discovered him leaving
the Greenslit yard with an armful Of
wood
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
PLACED IN RESERVE.
Men Released from Navy Will Want
Some Connection With 1t.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-Nearly
all officers and men released under the
navy rehabilitation plan, secretary
Daniels said today, would be placed in
reserve so as to be available in case
Of emergency. He expressed belief
that every man now in the navy would
desire to maintain some connection
with the establishment Where men
desired TO sever all connection, he add
ed, some method would be found for
their discharge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
MORE RESTRICTION OFF.
Ban on Telephones and Telephone Lines
is Withdrawn.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21-Restric-
ton upon the installation of new tele-
phone lines, which were limited on
Aug. Is to such new appliances as
would be helpful in the prosecution of
war, were withdrawn today by Post
master General Burleson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21

There was young fellow from Palmer,
Who thought he would fain be farmer;
When attempting to hoe,
He cut off his toe,
So he thought he would have to wear ar
mort.
Springfield Union.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
ALL-STARS BY FOUR POINTS.
Pushed Hard by Feds in Bowling Match
on Laundry's Alleys.

The Feds were beaten by the All Stars
lats night on Laundry's alleys by four
points. Don Wilder had high single of
IS and d. Brennan had high total of 262
The scores:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
HELPFUL HAIR HINTS
Worthy the Attention of Everyone Who
Would Avoid Dandrrff, Itching
Scalp, Gray Hairs and Badness.

What will stop my hair coming out9"
Reply: Partisan Sage liquid form) is the
best remedy for hair and scalp troubles
SAID to prevent badness, grayness and
dandruff:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21

Before going to bed. I always rub a
little Partisan Sage into my scalp" says
woman whose luxurious, soft and fluffy
hair is greatly admired. This stops itch
ing scalp, keeps the hair from falling ont
and makes 1t easy to dress attractively.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21

Beautiful, soft, glossy. lustross hair for
those who use Partisan Sage It's mex
pensive and sold by Wilfred f. Root and
good druggists everywhere, with guaran-
tee of satisfaction or money refunded.
ADV
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-21
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

DR.. H. p. GREENE, Physician and Surgeon
Office, Bank block Hours: 90 to 10 a m
20 ;, and TO p. N. Residence, So Green
ST. Telephone Connection
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boring farmers, 50 that the total num-
ber Of returns requested for this later
survey will be more than 100000.
To draw into the net for food infor-
nation the 100000 households that
make up the United States is a rather
Of the food drive again demonstrate
their soundness and capacity. AS 1t is
impossible to approach each one of the
22,O00,000 households. $4,000 families
representative of the entire population
sas to place of residence, family in
come and occupation are to be studied
in detail and estimates derived from
these figures that will cover with a
fair degree Of accuracy the entire
country.
The aim Of the household survey is to
get a fairly accurate idea of the food
Elementary to certain data sent in
from cold storage concerns and making
complete retdrnS as to quantity of pre-
served meats, eggs, fruits and veseta-
bles in the country Secondariiy, the
schedule finds out how much of certain
staple commodities are being used. and
checks up by means Of inquiries on
comparative amounts Of certain foods
consumed this year and last on the
ability of the average American family
to follow out certain conservation food
measures which have been recon-
mended.
A vital and unique phase of the
household survey is the inquiry into
milk production, and the various ways
in which this valuable food product is
utilized Such an investigation has
never been made before. and in the light
big cities, where babies are starving for
lack of it, it Is expected to lead to in
teresting results.
The schedule to be filed out by house
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came furious at the idea that anybody
should enter his door and ask him to
stop work and make out an account of
stock. His. views of the impertinence
of such a proceeding were expressed in
terms too picturesque for print. Finally
of Agriculture resorted to stern meas
ures. He called in the local police
officer, took formal possession Of the
store, closing the doors to business un-
til the job of stock taking was finished.
Much more trouble has been en-
countered from the failure Of small
storekeepers to understand the details
of what was required of them than
from any lack Of disposition to furnish
data. They have been petrified at the
idea Of making sworn statement to
the United States government, and this
has caused hesitation and delay. Many
amusing mistakes have been made by
aliens. through failure to understand
English words, one Syrian fruit dealer
entering under the item vegetable
X \
The last trench to be taken in this
food drive covers stocks on farms and
in individual households. The bureau
Of crop estimates. with it's existing
army of crop reporters, whose routine
work fits them to discharge this special
task quickly and well, gets a pretty
comprehensive line on farm stocks. For
the preliminary survey returns were
requested from the usual state, county
and 10000 township reporters of the
bureau. but for the more comprehen-
sive survey ten additional schedules
are being sent to each Of these report
ers for distribution among their neigh
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food pledge week the number of cards
signed was gratifying and the canning
campaign appealed to hundreds of the
natives. Government officials who have
recently toured the country express
satisfaction that the people are thor
oughly awake to the fact that this is
a day Of small economies in order that
the great things may be accomplished.
It may be spoonful less of sugar in
the coffee or a lowering of temperature
in the heating of the house, but 1t all
helps to get thelmen to the front, and
cooperation will win the war.
It II estimated that for every man
who fights there are about twenty men
behind the lines to provide the sup
plies needed to carry on the war. With
ont these twenty men the man with
the gun would have to quit.
With an approximate estimate Of 22.-
900. 600 homes in the United States. the
fnSusnce OF community center activt-
ties is almost boundless in its ramiflca-
tions. These forums of the people are
helping to unity the country for carry
ing on the war to a successful flush by
individually interesting the fathers and
mothers Of America in all those eco
nomic and social problems that are
o part of the daily life Of the citizens
whof will furnish q majority of the
aghfing men for the armies Of America
The Secretary Of the Treasury says
IL Wnr must be won by the savings Of
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ing of time. transportation. quality of
produce and price.
DR.. Jackson, who is an advocate OF
buying clubs instead of cooperative
stores, because he believes the people of
America are not yet prepared for CO.
and Denmark support, says the United
States is too rich and the inhabitants
have been too prosperous. Beginnings
must be made along different lines and
ticed by some of the older countries. He
believes the war has made the time
ripe for the country and town people to
get together in community Of interest.
each enjoying the confidence Of the other
and all helping to solve the new condi-
tions confronting them.
DR.. Jackson, through the Wilson Nor
NAL Community Center, District of Co
lumbia, is inaugurattng buying club,
which, while it has small beginnings. is
ually educating its members until it can
branch out and embrace many of the
commodities daily used by the people
in order to conserve food for the troops
To jolly the buying club along bit
one Of the first things for which a large
order was given to the farmers nearby,
was 200 turkeys for Christmas consump-
tion. These big. fine birds were deliv-
cred to the club at the Normal School
at the retail price of 35 cents pound
DR.. Jackson doubtless went on the
theory that the way to mans favor
was through his stomach. and after OBJ
serving the joyful part Of living as
afforded by the club he would be will
ing to join in the more sordid econo-
mics.
For months DR.. Jackson has been
working on the milk problem in the capi-
tai, trying to get milk to the consumer
same time do all justice to the milk man.
He had visions of the deprivation Of
thousands Of babies and children
throughout the country who were suf-
fertng from the high price of milk md
who were being picked OF like blossoms
by the frost because Of lack Of nourtsh-
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Canadian Woman Tells of War Spirit of Country

eldest son suddenly put what was in our
hearts into words when he turned to ma
and asked, Mother, when VIII L be
eighteen?
I wondered how the mothers could let
their sons go, and / was glad that my
Jack was only seventeen. 1t was the
Lusitania that brought me to see the
whole truth about this war. Then per-
ceived that we were waging war on the
very prince of darkness, and / realized
that 1t would be better thousand times
to be dead than to live under the rule OF
persons whose hearts were SO utterly
black, and whose reasoning was so bru-
tai. grew to feel that no one could die
better than in defending civilization
from this ghastly thing which was
throwing it's dark shadow over her.
"It was when the news came of the
defeat of the British at the Dardanelles
that my boy showed that he had become
a man by saying L want to help the
British empire while there is a British
empire
my boy is still alive, although he has
had many narrow escapes. He is a prf-
vate in the Princess Pats and he car
ries my picture in his hat and reads my
letter over again just before going in
IA very large percentage of the Red
Cross and patriotic fund giving entail
ed real unselfishness. Clerks, store girls.
elevator boys, maids and many other
by the thousand to give certain pro-
portion of their monthly earnings. and
they have kept these pledges Loyalty.
Even the children have contributed
largely Of their candy money to their
Red Gross mite boxes. training them
selves in lessons of thrift and self-sac-
rifice as they do SO.
"Of course the Canadian women have
knitted. They knitted before the war.
and they have knitted hundredfold
ha r6a ic
logical reason. for women knitting as
well as the soldiers need for the wool
ems. And I have seen our women stand
up under such deep losses as you would
hardly believe. have in mind one par
ticular old friend. She lost her three
sons in the war. Saddened, yes; broken,
no! Soon after her last boy fell she
found a great big lone ranchman from
the north country who had no one to
cry over him when he went away She
found him solitary at our station when
we were seeing our friends OFF, and
she adopted him as a war SON on the
spot. The boy was grateful. and this
woman is easing her heart in some
every week and by sending him parcels.
So by reason of her bereaved heart
there is one lad over there who will
not have that look in his eyes when
the home mails come to the trenches
which saddened my English friend more
than any other sight she beheld on the
battlefields of Europe"
Mrs. McClung is regarded as Canada's
strongest advocate for woman suffrage,
and. possibly more than any other one
Individual in Canada. she was respon-s
sible for the coming in Of the western
women on the great wave of suffrage
by which the Canadian women won the
federal vote for the mothers. wives ana
sisters Of soldiers. She II an author Of
books and many magazine ardelaA
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F1HAT community center and buy
ing clubs are rapidly helping to
solve the high cost of living is
not only being demonstrated in
the capital through the government de-
partments, and the cities, towns and
rural districts of the country, but in
far-away Alaska, where Uncle Sam has
taken community buying into his own
hands and given an impetus to thrift
and better living.
What was begun as an experiment in
Alaska has turned out to be success
ful business enterprise, in which all
the natives in the particular section of
the country in which it is carried on
participate. In the village of Atka the
income has increased 150 per cent, be-
cause of the establishment of its CO.
operative store. Furthermore, the CO.
operative stores in the territory owned
by the natives and managed by them
under the supervision of a teacher of
q United States public school have been
effective agencies for the advancement
in civilization. Through community
center work under the direction of the
federal bureau of education the inhabi-
tants have become interested in patrio-
tic work of different kinds and during
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N Englishwoman

a N Englishwoman who had
IN worked in the training camps
~ of the allies and who had been
q S at their trenches said that she
had become accustomed to every sight
the front had to offer but one. That
one thing which she could not behold
unmoved, possibly because she was
helpless to assist, was the look on a
soldiers face when the mail came in
from home and there was no letter for
him.
This was one of the messages given
to her sisters in the United States by
Mrs. Nellie L. McClung of Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, called by many the
most outstanding figure in Cana
dian northwest has produced, by many
more it's best loved woman. and since
the war one of the most active and
effective workers across the northern
border. She is now in the United
States to exchange ideas with her
southern sisters in regard to war work.
When the war came to Canada in
1914 Mrs. McClung was foremost in or
ganizing Red Cross societies through
out the northwest and in stimulating
endeavor for the swelling of Canadas
to make life endurable for those left
behind In her personal effort Mrs.
McClung has been untfring In giving
aid where it has been most needed.
The Canadian northwest poured out
her men in 1914 and 1915. This left
many of the women alone on their re-
mote ranches and farms. One quiet
work undertaken for many months by
Mrs. McClung was to visit the markets
of Alberta's capital each market day
and learn from the women how 1t Jared
with them in the absence of their men,
and many a girl and many a woman
has been helped in many acceptable
ways by her practical counsel and as
sistance.
1.-The women of Canada have taken hold
of their war work in the most method.
cal manner possible. with wonderful
lapping," said Mrs. McClung in re-
cent conversation. I'm my opinion the
greatest work accomplished by the Red
Cross has been the bringing into CO.
operation of many of the inharmontous
elements which without doubt existed
in Canada before the war. You may
not realize 1t, but we have been g. di-
vided people in Canada, with one-th1rd
of our whole population unable to speak
the English language. The cry of the
Red Cross in Canada to every foreign
and native element has been. come over
and help u.s. and the response In pa
triotic work and In the unifying OF
spirit has done more to bridge the
any other agency in the previous his
tory Of Canada.
sThe great lesson of this war 10 the
new tnternationalisn. We are not cttt-
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Food stocks on the shelves and IN the
bins Of the family pantry.
Here are some facts regarding the
mailing end of this stock-taking job.
Comprehensive lists compiled by the
bureau of markets within the past two
years enable Uncle Sam to get into
communication with 525. 900 food manu-
facturers and dealers. This mailing
list includes $4,000 grain, -four and feed
dealers. 1900 brewers. 500 distillers.
$500 Gamers of fruits. vegetables.
meats and sea foods: 1.400 refiners and
dealers in edible oils, 1900 sugar and
sirup refiners. $4,000 wholesale and re-
tail bakers, 1.04o f1sh-freezing plants
and dried and salt fish packers, 1900
manufacturing and wholesale confec-
tioners. 3.100 slaughterers and meat
packers, 5000 wholesale poultry. but
ter, egg and cheese dealers, $500 cream
cries, 400 condenSerS, and so on through
the whole gamut of the hundred or
more classified food trades.
The owner or manager of each con-
Germ to which schedules are sent must
report the entire holdings of the prod
ucts listed in terms of the unit speci-
fed in the quantity column Of the sched-
ule. The schedule should be filled out
and mailed'to the chief of the bureau Of
of receipt. Extensions have been grant
ed those who have applied for them, as
they not only meet the emergencies of
the various business concerns, but en-
able the bureau to spread the immense
volume of tabulating a little more
evenly over the allotted time.
Trucks bring the mail from the post
office. The first rough count of the in
coming mail is by weight. each pound
averaging thirty schedules. The letters
are opened by machinery and then as
sorted. the days mail sometimes rising as
high as $4,000 schedules. Each report is
checked off on the master mailing list
a small army of editors then. take the
schedules in hand and decipher illegible
handwriting. or convert quantities of food
stocks reported in wrong units into the
units required by the schedule. The
grist is then run through verifying, tabu-
lattng and filing machines. and three
months after the first requests for in
formation have been sent out from head
quarters the facts have been returned.
tabulated, filed and verified and the
amount Of each commodity held by food
dealers Of each class for each state and
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killed-she loses from her life the spirit
of youth. She can no longer be de-
ceived into believing that all is well with
the world. Women are the last reserves
of the nation. The have never yet ex-
erted their full influence. They have
Jagged behind the men in their develop
ment. But the women are being awak-
ened and a mighty influence for good,
for kindness, for human safety is be-
ing felt in human affairs. If the wom-
en- as the last reserves cannot save the
world we are lost. for we cannot call
the angels down.
The news that we were in war came
to US on the day it was proclaimed in
Britain, August 4, 1914, We were at our
lakeside cottage at the time. but We
knew that that newspaper item constf-
tuted a summons to US to be up and
doing. so we closed our cottage and left
for the capital at once. Before the turn
in the sunlit road hid our summer home
from view we all turned and looked back.
we felt that we had come
to the end Of very pleasant chapter In
our life as a family; something had
como to disturb the peaceful round:
drum was beating and nfe
calling. Not . word was spolzsn. but my