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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
likIMENTS AND
PLASTERS DISCARDED
Cream OF Mustard Used in Place Of
Plasters or Liniments and
Does NOT Riiefer

Thousands are taking advantage Of the
generous offer made by The Cream of
Mustard Company of South NorwaIk.
Conn, by sending for jar of Cream of
Mustard which is the most powerful ex-
ternal preparation compounded. 1t is far
superior to mustard plasters. turpentine.
lard or any liniment on the market. It
relieves congestion Inflammation and pain
almost instantly. 1t takes the place of
plasters or liniments for colds, pains and
aches.
1t has produced wonderful results with
thousands afflicted with sore throat, tor
silitis, stiff neck, neuralgia, congestion.
rheumatism, sprains. sore muscles, bruises
colds in the chest, bronchitis, Group, head
ache, iumbago, pains and aches of the
back or joints and chlblains.
Every household should have a Jar OF
Cream of Mustard IN the medicine chest
Tor emergency. Ask your druggist. 25c
and soc Jars; hospital size $3.50.
The Cream of Mustard Co., South Nor
walk, Conn.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
BE PRETTY! TURN
GRAY HAIR DARK
Look young! Nobody can tell II you
use Grandmother simple recipe
Of Sage Tea and Sulphur.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray. Years ago the only way to
get this mixture was to make 1t at
home, which is mussy and troublesome.
Nowadays, by asking at any drug store
for "Wyeth $ Sage and Sulphur Com
pound" you will get large bottle. of
this famous old recipe, improved by
the addition of other ingredients, at a
small cost.
Don't stay gray! Try it! No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as it does it so naturally
and evenly. You dampen a sponge or
soft brush with it and draw this
through you hair, taking one small
strand at a time; by morning the gray
hair disappears, and after another APP
plication or two. your hair becomes
beautifully dark, glossy and attractive
Wyeth s Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is delightful toilet requisite
for those who desire dark hair and a
youthful appearance. 1t is not in
tended for the cure, mitigation or pre-
vention of disease.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
NEW DRAFT QUOTA PLAN.
House Accepts Provision Which Elimi
mates Volunteer Credits.

WASHINGTON, May 10.-The house
yesterday adopted the conference re-
port on the bill to base draft quotas
on the number of men in class !, accept
ing the elimination of its amendment
authorizing credits on quotas for volun-
teers. The report awaits action in the
senate.
President Wilson earlier had written
Chairman Dent of the military commit
tee saying he was in error when he re-
Gently advised the committee he thought
the volunteer credit plan proper He
said he had not fully analvzed the ques-
tion at the time.
Because of a senate amendment ex
empting ministerial and medical stu
dents, the house sent back to the con
ferces the conference report on the bill
providing for the registration of youths
attaining the age of p since June 5.
The vote on the rejection of the sen
ate amendment was Isl to lis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10

left wheel and mudguard OF the car
going north, driven by D. A. Mosher,
appeared to be that Driver Reed turned
back towards the centre of the road be
fore he had quite cleared the rear of
the Mosher car, which he supposed he
had fully passed. 1t appeared that
both drivers were entirely competent
men, that neither was going at exces-
slve speed and that neither of them
use liquor.
Both cars were running to the right
of the center of the road before the
collision, but were perhaps not as far
to the right as their drivers calculated
The course of the car going north did
not appear to have been altered at all
by its impact with the other car, 1t
kept on its course few yards until
swung to the right and stopped by its
driver. The car going south was swing
| ing somewhat to the left at the
point Of collision. 1t then went prac
tically parallel to the centre of the
road as it hit the other car and thel
swung quite sharply to the left ant
continued to the river, some go feet
! Driver Reed testified that he could no.
! pooSIpIN turn the car u the Glpn
again, for some reason. The wheel wa
presumably knocked to the left by tn
collision and held there by the fende
or some part of the mechanism Whel
the car was taken from the river thi
left front wheel was badly broken. bu
the break was attributed to the div
ing of the car into the river, the whee
striking a rock at the bottom of til
stream.
Driver Reed said he could not CIV
any cause for the sollision He sur
, posed he had passed the other car a
, right when it occurred. The lights c
the Mosher ear were ordinary light
, and did not blind him. Driver Mosht
, had no trouble and did not expect
! collision. After it occurred he stoppe
and seeing no lights wondered whel
! the other car was. Hearing cries |
t and others with him hurried back, OF
r of them going into the river and &c
c ting one of the girls out who was save
They also helped Reed, who had e,
hausted himself. trying to get the 9th,
= girls.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
TORNADO HITS IOWA.
One Known to Be Dead, Many Injured
and Much Damage Done.

DIES MONIES. Ia, May IA tornado,
which struck near Nashua, Ia, in Chick
isaw county, at 400 yesterday afternoon.
resulted in at least one death and the in
Jury of a considerable number, it was re-
ported last night The storm cut swath
seven miles long and from one-quarter
TO one-haIf mile wide Roy Husband. a
farmer living near Nashua, was killed
More than score OF persons were
pinned under d building and several are re-
ported dead as the result OF a tornado
which struck Eldridge, nine miles north
Of Davenport, Ia, last night Several
buildings are reported to be in flames. Ten
Davenport physicians and a score OF
nurses have been sent to the scene. All
wires to Eldrdgc are down
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
BRITISH GAS MOST EFFECTIVE.
Germans Unable to Obtain Rations for
Four Days.

WASHINGTON, May 1o.-The British
are using gas shells on the Western front
with excellent results, the British War
Mission announces. During the last few
days, said the statement, the British
have consistently shelled the German SUP
port trenches and tramheads with gas
shells with marked results The German
concentrations have been disturbed with
their preparations paralyzed by the ef
fectiveness Of these bombardments. Pris
oners captured May said they had
been unable to obtain rations since May
!, owing to the constant artillery fire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
A CARD
To BrattlebOrO Bows

Some THOUGHTLESS boys have
broken off the door to my spring house
and have thrown things into the spring.
/ call them thoughtless, for / dislike to
believe that any real boys Il mean the
kind who will ever make good) would
Intentionally destroy property and pol
lutte a spring of drinking water upon
which family depends. You would not
like to have your drinking water
spoiled. Please do not disturb the
spring again
(Signed) E. A. SLACK.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
PUTNEY.
Boy Scout Activities.

Regular meetings of the Scouts will
now be held Monday evenings at s
o clock in the town hall. During the
absence of the scoutmaster the troop
Will be in charge of Assistant Scout
masters Albert Lovenberg and Carroll
Murch, who will be directors of War
Savings Stamps and Scouts will report
to them
The athletic committee is organizing
q baseball team. Carroll Murch, David
Hannum and Donald Aplin comprise
the committee.
The Scouts activities in the Liberty
loan campaign amounted to $3.50 and
had all that was pledged at the public
meetings been given to the Scouts it
would have added another thousand to
the total. Only one person who signed
pledge for $50 refused to sign an APP
plication. The same person has signed
war savings stamp postcards and then
refused to buy stamps. Six of the
Scouts went over the top and will re.
celve war service medals in the fall
at the beginning of the next Liberty
loan campaign, as follows: David and
Charles Hannum, Francis Goodrich
Henry Phelps, and Elton and Rodney
Darden. Richard Aplin viii receive the
war service bar, to be attached to the
medal he won in the last campaign.
The Scouts will now work on the wal
savings stamps and thrift stamps. They
expect to place war service flag fol-
the town across Main street on Memo
rial day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
FOR SALE IN VERNON, VT.

To Settle an Estate-Two acres of
land and modern steam heated house
with barn; land lays level; some fruit
Five minutes from R. R. station, school,
etc. Apply to S. w. Edgett, Admir-. Es-
tate of Chas. f. Davis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
DON'T GAMBLE

with the happiness of your dependents
Play fair and give them the surety of
life insurance. It's your duty and
their due. National Life ms. Co. of
Vt. Mutual. EARLE S. KINSLEY,
General Agent, Rutland, Vt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10

A Dutch minister of Little Falls,
n. j., was recently hanged in eftigy by
townsmen, who, through ignorance, be
licved that Dutch and German origins
were the same.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
EXECUTORS SALE
l VIII Sell at Public Auction
Saturday, May II, 1918

at l O'Clock p. m,
on the premises of the late ]. B. Reed
in East Dummerston the following per
sonal property:
Oldfashioned secretary, over 100
years old; two bureaus, whatnot, stands,
tables, chairs, two clocks, coal stove,
wood stove, oil stoves, three feather
beds, pillows, bed lounge, chest of ear
penter $ tools, wheelbarrow, fodder cut
ter, garden pillow, ladders, hand sled.
six hens, lot of stove wood. and lot
Of other things too numerous to men
ton.
Adm f. MILLER, Executor.
A w. j. wilkins, Auctioneer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10


work in Maine and New York confer
cnces, and now accepts the call from
the New York conference.
Mr.. and Mrs George Marlboro were in
Claremont, n. H, Wednesday.
In the Central school the children arc
rehearsing for the pre-Memorial day eX
ercises.
Miss Sarah Andrews and her sister,
Miss Mary are at the summer home of
Miss Andrews.
The postponed meeting of the Fort
nightly club will be held with Mrs.
Hewitt Thursday afternoon.
Henry Smith has rented the tenement
vacated by the Koshinskys in Irving
| Ketchum's house and Will move there
soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Allen of North
ampton announce the marriage engage
ment of their daughter, Florence Edith,
to Private Mcrwin A Pond of Camp
| Devens
The Ladies Aid society of the Bap-
fist church Will hold a meeting Wednes-
day afternoon, May Is, when it is
hoped the new pastor : wife will be
present to meet the ladies.
Mrs Mary f. Washburn has received
word from her son, DIR. William Wash
burn, of his safe arrival in France. He
is with a hospital unit in the medical
corps from San Francisco.
Miss Edith Bughee : again at her post
OF duty as stenograpaer at the " a. Cole
Paper Co.'S office, after having been
quarantined with scarlet fever. Miss
Winnifred Bugbee also has returned to
her work after the same enforced vaca
ton
The annual meeting Of the Mount
Pleasant Cemetery association will bt
held in the town hall Monday evening
at O'Clock All who are interested
which means all who own lots or car
Z represent the family who are owners arc
4 requested to be present
The Helping Hand society is making al
outing flannel quilt for the Red Cross anC
the blocks ate four inches square. The!
arc in need OF more material, Have You
= some pieces you could give them? Darl
= as well as light colors are wanted. Leav
Z at Red Cross rooms or with Mrs. Leol
i Fuller, who has charge of the girls work
4 Potato week is being observed unde
! the direction of the farm association al
u pointed for tins town, who are Mrs. IL
w. Frost Of East Putney and Mrs w A
Page of West hill There is an exhibi
l. OF food in which potato Is forming prir
cipal part, in the store window OF s. !
r Davis. a local merchant There is calt
PIC, bread, mullins, cookies doughnut'
! escalloped potato, etc, IN the exhibit, a
II so a bushe of seed potatoes which wi
It all be sold for the benefit of the Re
n Cross. There are the recipes OF the al
" ticles made, which may be copied
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
HELP WANTED-Female

In a sanitary, wellconductcd rubber
footwear factory which runs the year
round.
Fa1h1litS 'wfshitig'to locate in pleas
ant city situated on Long Island sound
can be given work in various depart
ments.
Fine opportunity for girls as rubber
shoe makers, Good pay while learning
and rapid increase to those who are ca
pable, and no machinery used in this
department.
The Young Women 5 Christian Asso-
citation, 10 minutes distance, will re
ceive girls to board.
For particulars write to
F. r. JUDSoN, Employment Mgr,
The Candee & Co.,
214 East Street New Haven, Conn
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10

Methodist churches, and began his la
bors there April %. His household
goods were shipped this week. This
circuit consists Of three churches, with
Sunday schools and Epworth league
work. Mr.. Russell has for some time
been urged to again take up active
work in Maine and New York confer
cnces, and now accepts the call from
the New York conference.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10

WANTED-Housekeeper on farm, II.
II. Hall, North Hinsdale, n. II. 5661-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
Rev. Mr.. Russell Accepts Passionate.

Rev. NJ. w. Russell has accepted the
pastorate of the Monkton circuit Of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10

WANTED-Experieneed cook. Mrs.
George F.. Crowell Brattleboro. Aft
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10

WANTED-Chairs to cane G. w
Hudson, 4 Spring St 56-67-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-10
WANTED.

wANTED-Waitfess at Hoadley's
Cafe. 4S-tf
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-12-20
SERVICE
PUT ON WAR BASIS

When it became essential to organ
ize the agricultural forces of the
United States on a war basis and to
instruct both city and country people
now best to increase, utilize, and con-
serve the limited food supply, it was
Immediately recognized that the CO.
operative extension system, with its
combination of Federal and State ad-
ministrative officers and specialists
with county agents, farm bureaus, and
other local organizations, provided a
very effective means for nation wide
dissemination of the needed facts, as
well as for practical demonstrations
| Of the measures required to increase
agricultural production and to secure
the most economical utilization of the
products of the farms.
The war found American agricul-
ture prepared with an extension Or
ganization we'll begun, and imme-
date steps were taken to put the ex-
tension service on a war basis. On
April l, 1917, the extension workers
in the United States numbered 2,149,
of which 1,461 We're county agents,
545 home demonstration agents, and
143 club workers. On July l, 1918,
the total number had increased to g.
ZIG, including 1901 in county agent
work, 2,0S4 in home demonstration
work, and l,181 boys and girls club
workers.
County Agent Work in South
An important part of the food pro-
duction campaign was to, increase
livestock production. In this, as in the
other work of the campaign, all of the
divisions of the extension service have
taken prominent part. During the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1918,
county agents in the fifteen Southern
States conducted feeding demonstra-
tons with 1883 beef cattle. Through
their efforts 58,007 beef cattle were
brought into the territory for feed
ing purposes. They conducted 30,041 |
demonstrations in the feeding and
management Of swine, assisted in
building 2.256 dipping watts which were
needed in the eradication of the cattle
fever tick and which played an i'm
portant part in making this year a
record in stamping out the parasite
in Southern States. Through the
efforts of the county agents in the
South 5,517 silos were built. They
instructed 56,031 farmers in the bet
Ter care of farm manure, thus pre-
venting waste of valuable source
Of soil fertility. By cooperating
with county agents in the drouth-
stricken areas of Texas the Southern
county agents assisted in transporting
100000 head of cattle from sections
n the Southeastern States where feed
md pasture were plentiful.
The boys club workers in the South
I'm States organized 2,96S calf clubs,
1876 pig clubs, and 1883 poultry !
lubs. Through these clubs the future
armers of the South are being taught
he best methods of well-balanced
ystem of farming.
County Agent Work in North
and West |
The county agents in the SO North
I'm and Western States supervised
with 149,820 head Of
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-12-20
PAT SCORES AGAIN

British papers are fond of printing
jokes in which representatives of all
the divisions of the United Kingdom
and sometimes a man from Wales
bear a part. Needless to say, the
1rishman rarely comes off second
best, whenever quickness of wit is re-
quired.
Pat was serving in the army, and
his two companions happened to be an
Englishman and a Scotsman. These
two gave their Irish friend a lively
time with their jokes and teasing.
One day Pat was called away, and
left his coat hanging on nail The
Englishman and the Scotsman, seeing
some white paint near, seized the OPP
portunity of painting a donkey's head
en- the back of Pats coat.
The lrishman soon returned, and,
looking first at his coat and then fix
ing his eye on his friends, said slowly,
"Begorra, and which one of you two
has been wipin' your face on my
coat ?"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-12-20

live stock. Realizing the Importance
of conserving succulent feed, especial
ly for dairy cows, the county agents in
several States carried on definite cam
palgns to encourage farmers to build
silos, which resulted in 7,245 silos be-
ing erected. Silo building campaigns
were carried on most intensively by
the county agents in Indiana, Wis
conSin, Iowa and Pennsylvania. Re-
ports received from county agents in
| dicated that nearly third of mil
lion acres Of silage corn was grown
last year at their suggestion in the
Northern and Western States.
The production of more and better
live stock with less expensive feed and
greater profit to the producers has
received considerable attention in
nearly all counties. During 1917 the
agents in the Northern and Western
States assisted in the organization of
160 livestock breeders associations to
encourage the use of better sires, AMI
1872 cow-testing associations to .elimi-
nate Improbable cows and bring about
more economical feeding. Through
these associations and those organized
with the assistance of agents in previ-
Gus years, 127,835 cows were under
test, resulting in at least STA cows
being discarded as improbable. Pri-
marily through these organizations
1896 farmers were induced to adopt
balanced rations for their herds, and
the following number of head or reg
istered stock were secured at sugges-
ton of agents: Bulls, 1926; cows, A.
836; rams, 1869; and bears, 1874.
The agent also brought about the
transfer to other herds of 1870 valu-
able registered sires by means of in
formation given to individual farmers
or through exchange lists published
by the farm bureau.
In order to increase the production
OF live stock in the Northern and |
Western States to meet the war needs, |
farmers were encouraged by personal |
conferences, at meetings, and through |
circular letters and newspaper arti-
cles to raise more live stock, result
ing in more than 10000 additional
head of cattle, more than 100000 ad-
iitional hogs, and 1921 sheep being
raised or placed on farms. In some
States special effort was made to
save calves from being slaughtered
Tor veal, resulting in 1O,499 additional
calves being raised. This work was
carried on most extensively in Wis
,onsin, from which 2,459 head of
'alves from high grade or registered
took were shipped for breeding stock
o Missouri, Wyoming, and other
Western and Southern States, due to
his campaign.
Aid in Control of Diseases
The control of live stock diseases
vas considered fully as important as
growing more live stock, and the
gents in the Northern and Western
states were instrumental in having
6,392 animals, principally cows, test
ID for tuberculosis; 197,508 animals
we're vaccinated for blackleg, and 1885,
sc hogs were vaccinated for cholera
y farmers or veterinarians at the
uggestion of agents, or by agents,
or the purpose of demonstrating
Methods.
There are 1864 counties in the SO
Iorthern and Western States, and of
hese 1852 counties, or SO per cent
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-12-20
A FIRST REQUISITE

One of the most urgent problems
demanding attention at the present
moment is the adjustment between
capital and labor. 1t is a problem
which is calling for solution in prac-
tically every civilized country, and ev-
cry civilized nation will solve it, in
detail, in its own particular way. In
these circumstances it is particular
ly welcome to find, amongst those
who will undoubtedly take a lead in
its solution, a declination to rush in
to detailed programs, and a determin-
alton not to fall into the trap of en-
visaging the complete millennial
state" These persons realize that
progress is in itself "a lamp unto the
feet, and that it always casts it's
light at least one step ahead.
The great demand is to discover the
first requisite and, this once admit
ted and established, to make advance
from that point. 1t is just these con-
siderations which render the recent
courageous statement by Lord Robert
Cecil on the subject especially well
come. Lord Robert has sought for
and has found the great first requi-
site, which he describes as "thc union
of classes" And he goes on to en-
large upon that text by pointing out
the undeniable fact that no nation can
afford to sacrifice any one class with
out loss to the community as whole.
Lord Robert. however, does not leave
the matter here. Given that dominat-
ing demand of good will, he goes on
to outline broad constructive the
ory, and declares that, in his opinion,
the best hope in the solution of the
labor problem is to "follow the analo-
gy of the land question" He points
out how the land question has been /,
solved, again and again, by making |
the population owners. or part own |
ers, of the land. and he would apply |
this theory to all industries. He does |
not, for moment, take refuge in such |
a half-measure as divisional profits, |
which he dismisses as but one stage ,
n the right direction. "If the worker /
$ to be really part owner" he says.
he must have a share not only of
he profits, but in the property and
At the same time" he
ldds, "the capitalist is entitled to his
hare, too, and to deny this would be
IN approach toward Bolshevism."
Lord Roberts opinion, of course,
pens vast field for discussion. What
makes his proposal so distinctly valu-
bile at this time is that it insists up
n the dispensable requisite of good
will, and indicates the desirability of
aving constructive policy. in some
MEASURE already tested, policy which
oes not embrace merely this class or
hat class, but all classes Christian
;cience Monitor. /,