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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24
Potato Market Report.

I. 5. bureau of markets, Boston Of
flee, issued following report:
Boston-Receipts moderate, market
steady, Names and Brunswicks, Cob
blers and Mountains, number ones,
$40 $3.50 New Yorks. Mountains,
number ones, few sales, $240-$2.45.
New York; Receipts moderate, mar
ket steady Maine Round Whites, 165
pounds, number one, $4.15$435; Mich
igan Round Whites, $50 pounds. 1926
$3.50; New York Round Whites, bulk,
number one, -. 1882 20.
Pressure Isle, Oct. 22-Moderate de-
mand, market slightly stronger, ware
house, cash to grower, bulk, per bar
rel, Mountains and Cobblers, $2.70-$3.00,
few $3.10-$3.15. Car loads bulk, Noun
tains, number ones, mostly $190, few
$1.95.
+. S. BRIGHAM,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
st. Adams, Oct %.
Clocks are like physicians in that they
disagree.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24
Bring Your
Prescriptions
Here

If you want them filed with the purest
and freshest drugs, and with the great
est care and accuracy-flled precisely
as your physician orders them filled,
to produce the exact effects he desires.
We are proud OF the record we have
made in our prescription department.
And yet we fill prescriptions at very
reasonable prices, and fill them quickly,
too.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24
WEST BRATTLEBOR0
COMPOUND FRACTURE OF ARM.
Perry Wilder, 4, Badly Hurt at Play,
Bones tanning Through Flesh.


Bones tanning Through Flesh.
Perry Wilder, 4, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Wilder is in the Melrose hospital
with compound fracture of his right
arm, the result of being thrown from
an express cart while at play yester-
day. AT the time of the accident he
was riding on top of box, which had
been placed in the wagon, and his
cousin, Ralph Perry, was drawing him.
They came down the street by Stock
wells store and started TO turn the
corner into Charles Higley' yard, when
il is thought they turned too short and
Perry was thrown out. The bones were
protruding through the flesh DR..
T.. X. Lynch reduced the fracture. II
will be necessary for the child to re-
main at the hospital several days.
| Miss Minnie Hamilton is i'll with in
! fluenza.
Mrs. Emma Niles has come here to
| spend some time with her sister, Mrs.
Alice Richmond.
Mrs. David T. Perry is recovering
from severe cold which kept her con
! fined to the bed several days.
Several women met yesterday after
noon in the community sewing room
in the stoekwell building to work on
Red Cross work.
/ d. W. Harris began work this week
for Attorney Frank H. Barber on his
farm buildings, repairing and altering
them. He also viii build piggery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Prefontaine
went Sunday morning to visit theil
son, Guy prefontaine, and family il
Connecticut. They returned Monday
night.
Purle L. Convey has bought the Sabir
NJ. Yeaw house on Highland street il
the east village and will move there
with his family about the middle Of
next month,
Miss Maxine Stellman is reeoverin,
from an illness with influenza. Mrs
W. f. Stellman is now i'll with the SAM
disease Her mother, Mrs Miller, i
caring for her
Mrs. George Howe Of Athol, Mass
is visiting here with her sister, Mr.,
: John Stafford, and in the home of he
brother. Perry Davis. Mr.. Davis, VIII
is i'll with influenza remains about tn
: same.
. Miss Ruth Prentiss came this morl
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24

Hair mattress, lady s desk, Office desk
chair, office arm chairs, mahogany
stand, half-size iron bed, commodes,
dressmaker's adjustable form--in per
feet condition. Salesroom, Elliot street,
corner Elm street POI
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24
VERMONT NEWS.
Plan for Good Highways.


An important conference of the of
ficers of the patrol committee of the
state, recently organized in the inter
ests of good roads, was held Monday
afternoon at the state headquarters in
Manchester. Frank NJ Wilson of Rut-
land, treasurer of the committee, was
present. j. B. Wilbur of Manchester,
chairman, presided. A program of or
ganization of the state for a broad
movement was gone into in detail and it
was decided to organize important cen
ters of the state to secure a huge petit
ton to be handed to the legislature
when 1t assemblies in January, with the
object of securing adequate action on
the good roads platform and other fea-
lures which have been advocated by
the patrol committees. The petition
viii be unique, being in the form of
postal cards which will be sent broad
cast throughout the state for signatures.
Rutland has named delegates to repre-
sent the patrol committee at the legis-
lature. G. f. Bradford, president of
the Rutland Business Mems association,
is chairman of the delegation and he
will be in charge of the organization of
Rutland to cooperate with the patrol
committee in its plans.
An unheeded warning not to go in
front Of the barrel of a loaded 12-gaugc
shotgun slung over the knees Of Law
renee Riley, aged 16, caused the death
of Clement Patrick Kennedy, the -
year-old son of John H. Kennedy of
Burlington, Wednesday afternoon.
Young Kennedy, in company with sew
eral other companions, was hunting for
small game. In getting up the boy s
coat in some manner caught in the trig-
ger of the gun held by Riley and as
| he stepped forward the trigger was
pulled, the force of the step discharg
! ing the shell. The shot entered his right
hip, plowed through the abdomen and
punctured the intestines, and stomach
He lived but short time.
! Friends of f. +. Campbell Of Water
bury have received news that he ha!
been appointed by the Y. NJ. C. A. a.
one of its representatives IN France anC
that he will leave shortly for that coun
try Mr. Campbell is in the real estat,
and insurance business in Waterbury
A fatal accident occurred II SwantoI
| Sunday afternoon when Hectic
Suprenault, aged 10, son of A. Supre
nault, was accidentally Shot by Albert
Young Chevalier aimed at mark witt
his % calibre Stevens rifle.
Thieves are again operating at va
rious camps over the notch" in Mendol
which are the property Of Rutland PEG
ME These cottages and ShackS have bee
broken into on number of occasions
Several guns, as well as a field glass, tn
whole valued at upwards of 500, wer
taken-this time the thieves rename
in one cottage long enough to mix
batch of griddle cakes, which, for som
reason, they did not cook.
The pastor of the Congregations
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24

Springs beneath the seat of a Penn
sylvania inventors rocking chair. can be
connected to Il washing machine to oper-
ate it as person seated in the chair
rocks
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24

Neither Boosting nor extreme modesty
gets a man anywhere
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24

church, Woodstock, Rev r. W. Bar
stow, having been appointed chaplain
in the army, the church has extended a
cordial invitation to the Christian
church of that town to unite with it in
services from Oct. /, 1918, until May l,
1919, the pastor of the Christian church,
Rev. Alva II. Morrill,, to be the pastor
of the united congregation. The invi
tation was unanimously accepted.
70 General Pershing is dedicated
Dorothy Garfield Fishers new book,
Home Fires in France. Mrs. Fisher,
whose home is in Arlington, is new en-
tering her third year of civilian relief
work in France, where she has been
actively identified with Miss Winifred
Holt in aiding soldiers. blinded in bat
tie. She has just opened her Red Cross
Home for Delicate Children and has in
preparation Il similar institution for ttl-
bercular children.
Commissioner of Education NJ B.
Hillegas has sent a letter to the
superintendent of schools relative to
speeding up the school work rather
than the frightening of the school
year through June to make up the time
| lost this month with the grip malady;
and he advises that the work, when
/ school opens, be commenced as in last
year, SO that confusion may be avoid
ed and the selection of subjects occur
to help speed up the work.
]. Frank Burke of West Rutland and
Of Company |, 47th infantry, A. e. F.,
has been promoted from first lieutenant
to captain. Capt. Burke is one of the
best known and most popular young
men of Vermont who has gone over
seas. While a student at the high
school he was very prominent in ath-
| letics, being member of the baseball
football and basketball teams He grad
uated from Vermont university in 1917
| and while there was prominent in ath-
letics.
Last Sundays batch of correspondence
from Frank Sibley, the well known war
correspondent whose letters appear reg
ularly III the Boston Globe, includes CON
spicuous mention of a Barre boy. Lieut.
Neal ". Hooker. son of Mr. and Mrs
b. W. Hooker of Barre The story con.
Germs an encircling movement around the
town of st. Hilaire, and Lieut.. Hooker
was an officer in one of the parties which
deployed.
Guy A. Lamson, district deputy Crane
master Of the fifth Masonic district. ha.
received notice from the grand lodg,
officers tEat because of the prevailing
epidemic ana the need of conservation
of fuel, foodst ctf~, money, and energy
toward winning TIM, great war, there vii
be no district meeting held in Vernon
/ this year
e Joseph Adams, Il son of Mrs Charlie
E Patrick of. Hardwick, accidentlv sho
l and killed himself Wednesday with
1 32-caliber rifle he recently bought, Will
e target shooting near his home.
Ebcn c. Gitchell of Montpelie
/ bought the Peoples church on North
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24

field street and the society will save
fuel by holding services during the win
ter in Odd Fellows hall. Mr.. Gitchell
a few months ago bought the Cotton
Manufacturing plant for So above the
mortgage.
The second death from influenza oc.
CURED at the state industrial school at
Vergennes Monday. Other patients.
numbering nearly 200, are reported as
doing well.
DR.. William Campbell died at Enos-
burg Falls Monday night of pneumonia
following influenza.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24
ONLY MEDICINE
MADE FROM FRUIT
Extraordinary Success which
"FTuit-a-tiveS" Has Achieved

One reason why 'Fruit-a-thes"
is SO extraordinarily successful in
giving reliefsto those suffering with
Constellation, Torpid Li0er, Indiges-
ton, Chronic Headaches, Neuralgia,
Kidney aid Bladder Troubles,
Rheumatism, Pain in tile Back,
Eczema and other Skin Affections,
is, because it is the only medicine in
the world made from fruit juices.
These "FrHit Liver Ia6Ietsn are
composed of the medicinal principles
found in apples, oranges, figs and
prunes, together with the. nerve
tonics and antiseptics.
SOC. box, for So 80, trial size 25c.
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES
Limited, OGDENSBURG, N. Y,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24
DoINGs OF THE VAN LOOMS
WAS EVER

THE PATa To
~ HAPPY AND
PRoSPGROOS
r1ARRlACG
MORE FILLED
WITH oBSTALLEI
AND PITFALLS
THAN THAT Of
GRAlE VAN
LOON
LIKE nAUNDER
BOLTS FROM
a GLGAR SKY
NEW DlESiCULuE
AR Sc
on c'RvEL WOSL
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24

Joseph Adams, Il son Of Mrs. Charles
Patrick of. Hardwiek, accidentlv shot
and killed himself Wednesday with a
32-caliber rifle he recently bought, while
target shooting near his home.
Ebcn c. Gitchell of Montpelier
bought the Peoples church on North
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-24

Clocks are like physicians in that they
disagree.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
VIENNA RIOTERS ATTACK
THE GERMAN EMBASSY

London, June 21.-New bread riots
started Thursday night in the Favor
item and Brigitennay districts of Wen
ma and there are now more than $780,
600 munition workers on strike in the
Austrian capital says an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Vienna An
attempt to attack the German EN-
bassy in Vienna, according to Vienna
of Munich newspapers,
were dispersed by the police There
were many arrests and some persons
were injured. There were cries Of:
Germany is starving us. Down with
Germany"
A statement issued by the Vienna
police declares that demonstrators
held up tramways, broke windows and
looted food shops and bakers carts.
At the municipal council meeting
Herr Neumann, representing the So
ciahsts, denounced the Brest Litoysk
peace as fraud and declared that the
situation was untenable.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
new WORKERS INDICTED
ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE
ARMY LIEUTENANT is INVOLVED
FOR CONSPIRACY TO OBJ.
sTRUcT RECRUITING.

New York. June 21.-'Lieutenant
Oswald L. Simpson, of the quarter
masters department was arraigned
in federal court late today on an in
dictment charging him with being
concerned in conspiracy to violate
the espionage law by obstructing re
cruiting Named with Simpson in the
indictment are Frank s. O'Neill. a
lawyer and former state boxing com
missioner, Lieutenant Leland A.
Mitchell and two other civilians.
Samuel Reichsbach and Edward H.
Cole. Mitchell and Cole have not yet
been arrested,
O'Neill and Reischbach we're taken
into custody several days ago and
released on $4,000 bond Bail for
Simpson was fixed at $4,000 and he
was released on his own recognizance
until Monday. The indictment
charges Reischbach and Cole repre-
scented to residents of the East Side
who had sons subject to the draft,
that OlNeil for sum of money could
so arrange it that men called for
service would be excused
A second indictment was returned
against ONein, Reischbach and Cole.
charging them with having conspired
to bride army officers to influence
their official actions,
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
PERMISSION GRANTED TO
USE LOW GRADE COTTON

Washington, June 21.-The use of
low grade cottons by manufacturers
will be permitted hereafter by the
government in the filling OF war ord
ers, George r. Ames, chief OF the cot
ton and cotton product section Of the
war industries board today advised
Senator Smith, OF South Carolina
Changes in government specifications
regulating the awarding Of war con
tracts for the army and navy are be
ing made to comply with the new ord
er. Under the governments existing
specifications only high grade cotton
was used, the senator said, which re
suited in prices for the lower grades
being unnecessarily forced down
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
RAILWAYS UNDER GOVERNMENT
ARE FINANCIAL FAILURE

Chicago, June 2l-The railways of
the United States after four months
of federal operation show a deficit of
S250, 100000, according to computa
Tons announced today by the bu-
Ieau of railway news and statistics
of Chicago, These figures, il was as
serted, were compiled from the
monthly returns of the roads to the
Interstate commerce commission aad
are said to reveal that the net oper
ating revenue for the first third of
the 1918 was less than 100000, 00o
against rental due of more than
100000 600.
The net operating income of the
roads for January, February, March
and April, 1918, after dedueting taxes.
was given as Sl57,075. ops, decrease
Of $123.204 1872, when compared with
the corresponding months of 1917
These figures were said to cover an
average of 2G1.75i miles operated
against an average OF only 252.g5t
of class one taken over by the gov
eminent
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
AUSTRIAN AIRPLANES CARRY
FOOD TO THE ARMY

Rome June 2l-Austrian aero
planes were compelled to carry pro-
visions to the Austrian troops that
succeeded in crossing the Fiave river
and were in danger of starving ow-
ing to the flood which carried away
their pontoon bridges between Zen
son and Musile, according to a dis
patch received here by the Giornale
de Italia. In spite of the difficulties
hat he is encountering General
Wurm, the enemy commander is at.
tempting to press on, but all Of his
efforts in the face of the resistance
presented by the Italian soldiers.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
-FOUR ESCAPE FROM
BERLIN IN AERUPLANE
MEN DECLARED CONDITIONS
WERE so BAD THEY WERE
DETERMINED TO GET AWAY.

Copenhagen. June 2t-Four resi-
dents OF Berlin escaped from Germany
Thursday In two aeroplanes and sue
ceeded In landing safely in Denmark
The occupants Of the aeroplanes de-
clared they fled from Berlin because
chimes which are of the albatross type,
left Berlin early Thursday morning
The irregular flight was observed and
guardships along the coast were warn
ed. When the machines reached the
Baltic the guardsbips opened fire and
it was at first enormously reported
that one of the aeroplans had been
brought down. One of the two oc-
cupants of the first machine was DR.
Nicholai, forlnedly professor of
physiology at the Berlin university. He
lis the author If book that denounced
Prussian militarism and had been
punished with Imprisonment because
of it's publication. The second ma
chine landed in the neighborhood of
Rudkoebing with its two German
deserters This machine had been de-
layed by making a landing on an
island to repair a slight defect in the
engine.
The Rudkoeping correspondent Of
the National Tiedente quotes the crew
Of the second machine as saying that
they had been at the battle front and
were expected to return there. They
declared that they perferred death
rather than to go back The two men
wore infantry unifarms and one of
them had the iron cross.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
BREAD RATION IN VlNENNA
TO BE REDUCED ONE-HALF

Paris, June 21.--A dispatch to the
Temps from Geneva says
''The Austrian government has de-
cided to put Vienna and other large
cities on half the present bread ra-
ton to amelorate conditions in Gal
icia, and Bohemia. These conditions
are so bad, the Temps quotes the
Vienna Neuw Erie Presse as saying
that the railroad and other strikes
can only be ayerted by such a meas
re. The Vienna newspapers adds
that the cities, though badly off, are
still in better condition than the
country, where there is virtually no
bread
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
BERLIN OFFICIAL REPORT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE one.

ers were taken by the Germans, says
the communication the text of which
followers.
The enemy has kept up violen
reconnirtering TRUSTS along the whole
of the front They have been repuls
ed everywhere.
Northwest of Merris and north OF
Albert, British patrol attacks broke
down with sanguinary losses Local
French attacks southwest of Noyon
and by Americons northwest of Cha
teau Thierry broke down. The French
and Americans suffered heavy losses
and some prisoners remained in our
hands
Southwest OF Rheims Italian pris-
oneTs were taken.
Large and clearly marked hospita
buildings in the valley of the Vesle
between Breuil and Montigny, which
formerly were used by the French
recently have leen the detectives CT
the enemy air raids"
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
BERLIN DENIES Won
HoLLWEe is ILL

London, June PA Central News
dispatch from Copenhagen quoting
she Wolff Bureau, the German semi
official news agency, says DR. Won
Bethmaun Hollweg, formerly imperial
German chancellor, is quite well. The
report that Dr. Won Bethmann Holl-
veg had suffered an apopleptie stroke
the agency denies as unfounded.
An Amsterdam dispatch June 20
said Dr. Won Bethmann .Hollweg was
eravely Ill., according to the Cologne
Volks Zeitung The dispatch added
that the former imperial German
chancellor recently had suffered
stroke OF paralysis,
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
AuSTRtANS PREPARING TO
BEGIN NEW OFFENSIVE

Italian Headquarters IN Northern
Italy. Thursday June 20--lt is con
sidered only a question OF a brief lapse
of time before the Austrlans viii be
gin another offensive. It is said that
this time they viii probably conccn-
trate their efforts instead OF scatter
ing them as they did a week aeo N hen
they followed the German pRn of at-
tempting 20 make big offensive over
a long line before revealing their point
Of attack The reported presence Of
Emperor Charles on bhe nallaa ftpnt
is considered enc oi the slsas leadiue
60 lhe belief that the Ausulaas win
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
AMERICAN GAS MORE
POISONOUS THAN GERMAN

Washington. June 81 America is
preparing to hurl back upon Germany
one of the horrors to which the latter
first subjected the poison gas
in a form more horrible than any
Germany has produced according TO
Lieutenant Coloyel Raymond f. Bacon
OF the ordnance department speaking
at a dinner here tonight.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
LIEUTENANT KILLED BY
FALL OF HIS HORSE

Atlanta, Ga, June 21-,First Lieu
tenant William S Nichols, Of the
medical corps, stationed at Fort Nc
Pherson, near here, was instantly
killed late today when his horse fell
over an embankment when the OIL
Ger attempted to stop the runaway
horse of nurse with whom he was
riding. Lieutenant Nichols was
thrown against tree. His neck was
broken. The nurse. whose name was
not learned, was uninjured I.ieuten-
ant Nichols came here from Cleve-
land, Ohio. where he practiced medi-
cine, His father. it was stated at
the post, is a minister at Guthrie
Okla
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-06-22
AMBULANCE WORKERS
ELECTRlFY ITALIANS

Italian Headquarters In Northern
Italy, June 2O.-Thursday.-C
menting on the Piave battle and the
work along the firing lines by ambu-
lances inscribed the gift OF Ameri-
can people" ArnaldO Fracaroli, cor
respondent of the Corriere Della
Sera, of Milan, says
zone of the most admirable cpl
sodes | witnessed was the courage Of
these young Americans doing their
duty amid the intense shell fire This
is indeed authentic living poetry"