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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
Much Nonsense in ventilations Name

This community wastes thousands OF
tons Of coal IN the name of ventilation
The opened window viii air out cham
Der which is no longer occupied Just as
completely in l. minutes as il will in
as many hours, We should also remen-
her that our heating plans are chains
II which the weakening Of one link re-
duees the strength of every other. In
steam heated establishments one wide
omen room Will react on the furnaces
below, requiring more coal. or else low
"rIng the temperature of the rest OF
the area under the same heating svs
ten
The letters which we have printed in
our nail bag from intelligent observers
SCIENTISTS travellers and others. ought
to convince US that this is no time for
cold &lT boxes with outside opening
unless, rcrehancc. our aim to be heat
up AL outdoors The air in the
cellar ought to make the Journey
round the house. back and forth. inst
as does the water in our steam pipos
rom them we get no ventilation. We
have to depend on what leaks in around
windows and doors. or on what we VOL
unfairly admit Why not do the same
thlh@ with the furnace-hcated house?
The trouble is that we do not a. :,
rule, know whether a room is yentil
ated, and that We Jump to the conrlu.
SION that room is a.uffv" and needs
fresh air when we happen to be foo
warm, We see this in all public places
me woman who comes in with n fnr
ha
1hln2 opened at once. The street urchiu
without overcoat, and with wet feet
prefers everything as near closed as he
can get 1t. lie perceives no lack Of
ventilation, and his senses are keen
Nor has the fur-coated person any test
ing device at hand TO disprove the
boy s confidence
Our architects and scientists have
told us III the Mail Bag from time 70
time of the follies Of our present svs-
tenn OF heating schoolhouses, in com
phance with unintelligentlv made stat
ntes- All along the line we have NJ
IoWed our laws and practices to grow
out OF fancied search for ventilation
when we have no popularity employed
means Of testing that thing. In prac
tlce we throw away heat when we DER
/ e@lFe we have too much of it, and then
we burn more coal to offset what we
/ nave thrown away.
This nonsense we have been able -
AFFORD IN the past. Today we are ampu-
tatlng the legs of children in orphan
asyluma left without coal, while this
waste continues. People who have the
money and the good fortune to possess
coal are the usual offenders. In the
name of ventilation, they throw away
large part of the product of the fur
mace, and then pass resolutions in aid
| Of the less fortunate members Of tho
community who would like to keen
warm.-Boston Herald
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The interior of A. T. Miller : candy
store in the Brooks House block, which
was badly damaged by fire and water
on the night of Feb. >, is undergoing
extensive repairs, including new steel
ceilings, hardwood floor and new dee
oration. Mr.. Miller does not expect to
lac ready to open the store for business
Tor 10 days more.
\ prayer service viii be held at the
home Of tho late Isaiah G.. Streeter on
Main street Thursday at - clock. The
funeral services Will be held in tho
BAPTIST church in North Hinsdale at .
o clock. Roy. Clark r. Brownell. pas
tor of the First Baptist church Of this
place, viii otticiate. The burial viii tako
place in the North Hinsdale cemetery.
In n meeting Of the executive com
mittee of the Patriotic league held in
the civil service room at the federal
hnilding last evening various plans for
the young women $ rally to be held in
Inc high school room Tuesday evening,
Fob. Is, were discussed. Miss Anna NJ
lark Of New York viii he the speaker
Further details of the rally win be an
nounccd later.
\ oliver social win be held for the
benefit of the Red Cross at the home
# Mrs. Frank Strong on Fairview
street ut o'clock Wednesday after
noon. \ short program viii be given
and Hoover refreshments will be
served. The drawing of numbers to
decide the ownership Of the Red Cross
bedquilt also will take place. All who
are Interested are invited.
"Iudian day has become an annu.
nj national event, and, as in the past
viii be celebrated on Washington :
Birthday. Feb -. 1t has marked for
q long period of years the formal open
ing of the motorcycye season. 1t is
the big gct-together meeting of the
motorcycve enthusiasts all over the
country G. S. Squires. local distribu-
tor for Indian motorcycles and bicycles
will keep open house throughout the
lay at his place of business on tn,
corner of Canal and Elm streets.
Edward II. Sauires of Brattleborc
and Miss Mildred Augusta Halliday
laughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Le1lie Halla
lay of Dummerston were married yes.
erdaT afternoon at 3 O'Clock at the
come of the bride. Rev. l.. 8. Boards
ley, pastor Of the Dummarston church.
performed the ceremony, a single ring
service being used. The bride wore
taupc travelling suit with black vel
vet hat Mrs. Squires for the past six
months has been employed in the home
Of Arthur r. Roberts on Walnut street
They will make their home In Marl
boro, where Mr.. Squires is engaged III
farming.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
WIITPE THE PAPER GOES
What Would Eono Be Without Con
gre3s. 0nal Record? Asts Editor.

some criticism has been directed at
tA2 government because at q time OF
.loFtage in the print paper supplv it
is itself buying hundred miilioa
pounds for its own use during the res
emit yea
Surely such criticism does not TAX.
into account the useful purposes t.
which tLe government will devote thi-
paper. 1t will print the congressional
record on ii, for one thing. and wha4
would home be without the congress
2lonal record, or at least, the par $
thereof which congressman frank t.
their districts, in whish IT appears that
the honorable member hold tho bor.n
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
MR.. CEc 2GE w. PRoUTY.
Funeral Of Former Guilford Woman
Held Here This Afternoon.

The funeral Of Mrs. George W
Prouty, -, formerly of Guilford, was
held this afternoon at ! o'clock in
Moran & Rohde $ undertaking rooms
Rev. -. r. Trout. pastor of the First
tnivcrsalist church, oiliciated. The
bearers were Mrs. Prou'vs two broth
crs, Baxter II Worden and Worthy
Wordeu. her nephew. Roy Ingraham of
Guilfurd, and 4. T.. Thurbcr of Brat
tlchoro. cousin. The body was placed
in the maua3crm 1T Morningside Gem
ctprv. 90 bc haritl later in the fanil J..
lot IN GuiIforl.
Those attending from ont of town
were her daughter and husband. Mr..
and Mrs. Hugo Kahl of PittsNurg. Pa
Mrs Charles Fairbanks of Ciarcmout.
y. H., Baxter Wordcn of Warwick
Mass. Mrs. Phoebe Walcott and
Charles Slocumb of Greenfield. There
was also n large attendance of friends
from Guilford.
Mrs. Susan A. prouty, widow of
George ". prouty, formerly Of Gull.
ford, died Saturday, Feb. lG, in Pitts
burg in the homo OF her daughter. Mrs
kahl, where she had made her home
the past eight years. Mrs Prouty had
been i'll nearly four years with arterio
sclerosis. She suffered a severe stroke
of apoplaXy Thursday, followed by
cerebral hemorIhagc, from which sac
never rcgaiucd consciousness.
She was born in Guilford, Sept. 10
$50, daughter of Marcus and Nancy
Ward Wurdgu, and was one Of four
children She married George W
ifoutg of Marlboro. March -. lsG2.
Rev. y. f. Dearborn ot West Brattlo.
b0ro performed the ceremony. Mr..
ProBty died July -, 1905 Two clil.
drcn were born 90 Mr. and Mrs. Prouty,
Bcrsic, who died in 1899 ut the age of
10 years, and Abbir Josephine. wife
of Hugo kahl of Pittsburg. She also
leaves tive brothers, Baxter II. Wordcu
of Warwick, Mass, and Worthy G.
Horlrn, who lives on the home farm
in Guilforl.
MIRO. Pr1Itv was greatly interested
IN the Jnivcyalist church in Guilford
Center, was secretary and treasurer of
tho society for many years and az
earnest worker in the church, TO which
she farc literally of her time and mon.
~. She was a woman Of sterling auql
uios and made many ficnds. bv whom
she will be kindly remembered.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
PRIoRIT1Es IN Financing
United States Must, If Necessary. Alb
serb Capital Available

The last annual report of Secretary
Of the Treasury McAdoo contains the
following:
The government must, if necessary.
absorb the supply of new capital avail
able for investment in the United
during the period of the war. This
IN turn, makes it essential that unneces
sary capital expenditures should be
avoided in public and private enter
prisee. Some form of regulation of
new capital expenditures should be pro
vidcd.
In fixing the dates and amounts of
the Liberty loan issues the secretary
Of the treasury considers not only the
needs of the government, but takes in
to careful consideration the business of
the country and the financial needs of
the coutry's business.
While no specific authority has been
conferred By law upon him to pass up
on new undertakings involving large
expenditures of capital, labor or mate
rial, the secretary states that banks,
corporations, municipal and state off
ials have submitted to him plans for
new enterprises or issues of securities
and that it is apparent that the Unit
ed States government may count upon
= full measure Of cooperation on the
part of states, municipalities, and pri-
vate business, so that no issue of state
or other securities will interfere or I'M
duly compete with the Liberty loan is
sue.
The secretary has requested the fed
eral reserve board to pass upon such
proposals as may be submitted to him
and .2dvlse whether such expenditures
OF capital requiring the use of labor
and material and such issues of new
securities should be undertaken. Mate
riai and labor as well as capital are in
yolved and both public improvements
and new private enterprises, entirely
proper and commendable III time OF
peace, will, in a great measure. now be
considered in the light of and in con
nectlon with the governmental prob.
lens of finance and other military ne
ceSsitiec
The secretary urges that before max
ing contracts requiring the use of la
Dor and material and before placing
new issues of securities or agreeing to
purchase new issues of securities the
federal reserve board be conferred
with. TIL cooperation and co-ordina-
ton of state, municipal, and private
business with the business of the ma
tlonal government are important to the
success OF all and the winning Of the
10
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
Exercise That Rests the Mind

Perhaps the best way TO rest your
thought mechanism is to indulge in
muscular exercise, by which means you
concentrate your anatomical move
ments and indirectly rest your mind.
To focus the attention upon muscular
movements or upon some phase of ply
steal activity is to relax the muscles
which are concerned in the generation
of thought and ideas. Relaxation Is a
better word for some sorts of rest.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
Household Waste az Fertilizer

Chemical analyses Of the ash of
household wastes, made at the Connec.
tlcut agricultural experiment station.
show that there is marked fertilizing
value In sucn common refuse as ba-
mana skins, oraaie skins, grapefruit
skins lemon skins, apple Feelings, can
taloupe rinds, potato pcelings, pea
pods, bean strings and stems. tea
leaves, coffee grounds, egg shells.
bones, peanut shells, tobacco, fruit
stones, etc. Tho are recommended
for fertillzing home gardens.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
Preserving Old Furniture

PoeseSsors of antique furniture
should devote regular attention to it..
and especially to any Of cid oak.
which should be kept in condition by
periodical rubbnGS with flannel dipped
in mixture Cf beeSwax. oil ana Spir-
its of turpentine White painted
French furniture is best clcansed with
parallin: and after old mahogany has
been gone over with very little sweet
oil any spots or stains may usually be
worked off or blended into the wood
fiber by working an oxalic acid and
water dampencd cork over the sur
face of the blemish. The brilliancy
Of the gliding of old furniture mir
ror frames and candelabra may nearly
always be speedily restored by being
SpongeG off with sulphur which has
been boiled for fifteen minutes in com
pany with several bruised garlics, or
with a preparation of common salt,
alum and purified nitro, such as any
druggist will supply.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
BAPTIST LAYMEN
HOLD CONFERENCE
3rattloboro Men Nest State Director
in Preparation for National
100000 Canvass.

\ meeting of - Brattlcboro Baptist
laymcn was held in the Brooks House
last evening in connection with the cam
paign to raise Al ,00O.OO0 by March 81
over and above what the churches may
give on the apportionments, TO secure
% successful and undated administra-
tion of the work this year on the part
of all the Baptist national organizations.
Supper was scrvCd.
Prof Raymond Mcfarland Of Middle
bury, state director, and y. +. Rapp Of
the national headquarters were present
aud plans OF the campaign were out
lined In detail. Vermont is called upon
20 raise $1,000 and Windham county
about $1,000. Brattlcboro s share Will
be around $500.
carl S. Hopkins was made temporary
chairman, and ~ meeting will be held
soon to arrange for quick and success
full campaign.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
PERSONAL.

Claude G. Adams of Hartford, Conn.
came SATURDAY, 20 visit his parents.
Mr.. aud Mrs Charles +. Adams of the
West River road, returning to his home
in Hartford Monday.
Lewis Pike Of the T. S. S. America
came Saturday WIGHT from the naval
station IN New Work on week $ fur
Tough 90 visit his mother, Mrs Lila
Pike of Green street
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
The Town Fool.

Ladies and gentlemen" shouted the
long-haired one. 1--WE are here TO pro-
test against the constantly increasing
cost of living. Since the war every
thing has gone up. l defy anyone to
name a single thing that has gone
down since the war began"
How about these here ships that
have been torpedoed?" asked the town
fool from the back of the hall.-Gar-
goyle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19

hree sons OF Mrs. David johnson OF
Oaais, Me, who have been widely SEP.
grated III war service, met in London re-
Gently and surprised their mother with a
cable greeting. One son was in Lon
don hospital recovering from wounds.
another had just returned from South AZ.
rlca and Egypt, where he had been with
the British force, and the third had lust
arrived with the Canadian Expeditionary
forces
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
MARRIAGES.

IN Dummerstoa. Feb. Ii, by Rev. l..
$. Beardsley. Edward II. Squirc4 OF
Marlboro ard Miss Mildred Augusta
Halliday Of Dummerston.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
DEATHS

In West Mortified, Mass Feb. Is.
Calvin l.. Harrington, 81, formerly Of
Brattleboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19

People with peppery tempers are not
the salt of the Garth.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
Boys Clothing

MARKED DOWN FOR QUICK CLEARANCE
5000 OvercOats, in a good assortment of browns
ana grayS .....................$ $3.50
$500 Wool Mackinaws, in dark gray and brown
plalds ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $685.
$3.50 Trench Coats, in an assortment of green's
browns ana grays .................. 1915
$500 Storm and Wind-proof Mackinaws with
big, wide, convertible collars . $3.50
$3.50 Pinch-Back Suits, in the latest models: blue
serges, corduroys and mixtures 49, $685.
$1,000 High Grade Mackinaws, of the best
makes, as Patricks and Wisconsins, 1915
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19

Stagnant water becomes putrid.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18

by which Camp Dodge and many other
army communities were created, IN
precedented wages we're paid to car
penters, real and alleged. Presumably
to hurry completion of the work
at some of these places, double
pay was offered for Sunday labor,
with the approval of the ideal
istic Mr. Baker. This made it possible
for workmen to receive eight days
wages for seven days work. But in
stead of working seven days, great
many of them collected six days
wages for i've days work, absenting
themselves on two week days and
laboring more or less industriously on
Sundays.
This impractical exhibition of "hu-
manitarianism" delayed construction
defeated the very purpose for which
the bonuses was offered and increased
the cost Of the work very materially.
There is much to be said, from a
practical standpoint, against the
sweatshop and in favor of proper
working hours. conditions and wages.
But the practical reform will be
brought about through sane legisla-
ton and through ably directed trades
unions, not by impractical and short
sighted idealists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
ENGLAND'S WAR.

To those loyal but misguided
Americans who even yet permit their
minds to be poisoned by the DELHI
erately planned pro-German intimation
that England and France are sitting
back in comparative inactivity now
that America has come into the war,
Sir Auckland Geddes' appeal for a
minimum Of 100000 to 100000 re-
cruits for the British army should ap-
peal for an exercise of sanity.
Great Britain and her colonies have
given 100000 men to the fighting
forces since the war began. Now the
mother country alone is called upon
for an immediate increase of nearly
half million. all of whom must be
drawn from occupations which are
essential or semi-essential as we are
coming to use those terms in this
country.
Millions Of women in Great Britain
and in some Of her colonies are doing
work which, before the war, none of
their sex had considered possible for
them to do. Many of them live clus-
tered in cottage colonies about the
big factories where they work day
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
FAIRFIELD COUPLE
WE'D AT NOON TODAY.

Fairfield, Jan. 16.-At the home Of
the brides parents, Mr. AID Mrs. b y.
Grail, South Main street, TN Fairfield.
their daughter Helen. was married 1t
noon today to David Cassett- Tho
groom's father, Rev. d. w. C1soett,
performed the ceremony. under an ar
Dor Of ferns and flowers. The bride
was given sway by her father. Mr..
Cassett was attended by his brother,
Lyle Cassett OF Fort Dodge. Mrs. Cas-
sett was attractively gowned in kings
blue charmeuse satin.
Both young people are graduates Of
Parsons college. Mr.. Cassett with the
class Of 1915, and Mrs. Cassatt with
the class Of 1917. He Is an employee
of the First National bank, of Fair
field, and Mrs. Casse4t since her grad.
uation has been the principal OF the
Lucas High school
Following the ceremony wedding
dinner was served to the sixty guests.
The house was charInnigly decorated
with ferns and flowers The out OF
town guests were the groom's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. d. W. Cassett Of Corning,
Lyle Cassett of Fort Dodge, Mrs. Ward
Rice. Mrs. Charles Poulton and
Charles Phillips Of Ottumwa, DR.. and
Mrs. Thomas Osborne Of Mt. Pleasant,
Mrs e. e. Lncas Of Des MONIES, and
Miss Doris Richardson of Clarfnda
The bride and groom ffet for q brief
honeymoon, after which they will
make their home IN Fairfield.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
THE AWAKENING,

If the city council had laid its plans
carefully it could not by any POSSIBLE
ity have made a worse botch of the
rate negotiations" than it has
achieved. Having shut their eyes and
voted to permit the Railway and Light
company to go as far as it liked with
its increases, the city officials discover
after almost two months that they
should have called in someone with a
knowledge OF rates and asked for an
impartial analysis Of the mass Of fig
ures which the company's representa-
tives laid down on the council table
when they announced that they must
have increased rates.
Mr.. Fuller, in defending his course,
made a point Of the presentation OF
all the figures the company had avail.
able. There is no doubt that he did
present them, but he omitted to hand
to the council, at the same time, the
intellect required to understand them.
Meanwhile, the Official cerebrations
were occupied with the thought OF
saving-not money but votes. And so
the company's ordinance was adopted,
the way was opened not only for the
advance that was made but for any
that may be desired in the future.
Then came the awakening, and now
the council is told by City Engineer
Brown, the one man in the entire ad-
ministration capable of discussing
rates, that the company's own figures
do not Justify 80 great raise.
In the meantime the community has
seen through the camoufage of penny
politics and realized that in the end
the whole public must pay the whole
increase no matter how the distribu-
ton may look on paper. Also, the
fact is quite evident from City Engi:
neer Browns computations that the
company's reduction of net profit is
almost entirely chargeable to the
street car system, that the steam heat
ing plant would continue an indus
trious money maker at the old rates
and that only a minor increase Is
justified for electric current.
So the council is in the awkward
position of reversing its former action
inviting a lawsuit and assuming the
defensive attitude instead of making
a sensible demand to be shown the
propriety of high rates before assent
ing to them.
It goes without saying that the COM
pany will attempt, at least, to con-
tinue to charge its present rates until
the courts issue an order against
them. Indeed, that is what Mr.. Fuller
intimated when he made his flying
visit to Ottumwa last week. These
rates took some $1,000 or $1,000 out Of
the pockets Of Ottumwa people in De.
cember. The sum probably will be
about the same for January, and it
may be several months before proper
charges can be established, all due to
the city councils blindness, inef
ficiency and penny politics.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
4 Little Traveller
(Contfrned Prom Junior Page)

VoHttnued From Junior Page)
Finally Captain McDougal awoke
and looked at the sun. "My bad" said
he, II believe we shall have to put OF
our trip to the island. I do not see
anything to do but get out the oars
and row home"
"All right, let's do it," agreed John,
SO glad to think he would soon be
with his mother. He wondered what
; they would have for supper; he won
dered If hts dog would be glad to see
him when he reached home; he won
dered If the boys would gather around:
to hear about his adventure; he won
dered II his father would tell a SAIL
boat story beginning, "Once, when
was a boy"
It developed that Captain McDougal
even with Johns help. was unable to
find the oars and decided that he had
left them in the boat house,
There they we're, five miles from
Mackinac island, two miles from Old
Mackinaw, and not a ripple on the
water. Captain McDougal couldn't
even guess what the wind would do.
when the breeze does spring up"
said he, we'll reach the island In
less than an hour" Then John con-
fessed that he would rather go home.
He walked off and sat in the bow Of
the boat so the captain wouldn't SEQ
tears in his eyes.
1t was sunset before the wind re-
turned, and when it did blov-what
do you think! 1t was a strong wind
from the wrong directton-that Is. the
captain said It was the wrong dtrec-
ton became It was blowing hard
straight toward Old MackinaV-so
home sped the sailors
Johns father and mother we're sur
prised when, at eight O'Clock tha4
evening In walked their small son with
his little bundle on q stick over his
shoulder. The boy was hungry.
II EN- not going on another voyage
without you this year" John promised
his mother when she tucked him In
bed that night; and he didn't, but
gladly travelled in the soap-box the rest
Of that season.