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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-06

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Exhibit H. Six OF corn-Flnt Dent Evergreen Golden
G en Contest CONTEST Best Best ysId Of asId beans
d Ion Best yield Ct held corn from one-eghth
Alice j. Morse, Florence Holden Jessie I Ransom
Es H Bs:' sa a3' 18's;o; any s Ee. 1sfs;
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al Axh standard varieties Of Poutr, be entered
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Exhibit s Best f9wlsone male females
LeadeFsFM Cram Richard 0' Smith, sfp' Arthur Barrett
HOUSEHOLD
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I=5 i Va VA COOKIES co Gf5 cake
Division Made by girl over 10 years OF age
Pf hsas aR by so aad Ws5 Rs; n
Canning
Exhibits to contain three varieties jar each,
Hs$;$' S%sss'sb'es
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Under each exhibit
S SS' S5i s5s: %:s,
Exhibit /. Birds
List OF birds observed
Six divisions, grades " through preparatory, if
Suihoient number
Contest-Best bird house
Leaders lIeorglanna Mexican Elsie NJ. Phillips,
tneine Webster Mrs.
Exhibit 4 Wild Flowers and Trees
s s' iy E'a ' s1ss snf through ssss4
sufficient enter
Contest L. Collection of wild flowers. greatest
Contest H s; ;;s s. : ::5 $::s
Leaders-Minnie Rawson Gertrude Marton Eme-
line Webster, Mrs Metcalf.
LeaderMary d. Henslaw School
Nellie J. Fem, Main Street Building
(Ieorglanna Mexican, Canal Street Building
Rachel M Packard Oak Grove Building
Mary M Croker Primaries
Alice j. Morse West Bratteboro
Florence M Holden Centervile
WAR
Each grade, with the teacher leader
SCORING AND PRIZES
M special prize will be awarded the girl winning the
highest number -o -
For each points
points
For each third points
For each accepted exhibit, 10 points
zes will be awarded be decided later
= special prize will be awarded boy in the
opinion the inspectors has done the gardening his crops
through the season. - - - Ofs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-06

Cincinnati, 3 II
Harmon, Steele and Blackwell
Schneider and Wingo. Second game.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-06

Chicago, !
St. Louis. % 3
Vaughn and Killifcr; Meadows, May
and Snyder.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-06
National League.

Saturday GanIcs.)
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-21
PROFESSOR T. A. HARMON.

We are inclined to think that the buzz around the ears of Pro-
fessor I. A. Harmon is nothing but a tempest in a teapot. 1t doesn't
matter whether the gentleman was speaking for the governor or
whether he wasn't when he referred to a possible special session Of
the legislature. Should the governor call such a session, the public
will believe that the professor knew what he was talking about.
Ii the governor fails to call one, the inference will be that the pro-
Ifessor was merely trying to get a little cheap notoriety-and got it!
There IS no dispute, however, regarding another phase of the
professors address before the South Dakota Press Association at
Mitchell Two reputable members thereof unite in saying that he
/" also launched an attack upon the Nonparisan League, The stalson
rs somewhat significant, perhaps-but never mind about it now. Tt
= also" may be the cause of uproar in the political press.
1T we properly locate" Professor Harmon, he is at the head
of the public schools at Yankton. As such, he has the moral and
legal and constitutional right to- entertain any sort of views that
he chooses to form-but as such, too. one would naturally assume.
that he'd try to keep out of difficulties instead Of deliberately walk
ing INTO them, for experience has amply demonstrated that the one
thing IN life which a fellow is bound to find when looking for it is
trouble.
1t knows but very little about the organization-but it knows the
sample of the whole, then Professor Har4nons attack was as I'M
Justlfabe as it would have been had he assailed the lawyers, or the
doctors, or the merchants, or some religious denomination.
1t is sassuredy not good business policy for the professional or
business men OF such an agricultural state as South Dakota to pre-
clptate or encourage open political warfare between the rural com
munltles and the towns and villages. If they should determine to
unite their forces in such a contest, tn. farmers of South Dakota
could simply "eat 'em up aiye.,'
Occupying a position which involves a measure Of discretion.
because the superintendent Of the public schools Of any city or state
should command the respect of all classes in order to do full justice
TO the. work for which the public pays him, Professor Harmon has
not added to his reputation as an educator by also launching an
attack upon the farmers.
We are sorry-not for the farmers-but for the professor.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-21

during such a crisis as now eonfronts his government nendino . "a
eufh 10 normal conditions. No man has a right to seek to shirk his
war.
But there are economic conditions which cannot escape the notice
OF II average person. Without a material increase in the OUTPUT
Ine pronIs o the steel trust jumped from seventy odd millions in
l3l4 TO about half a billion last year. With no material increase in
volume OF business done, the profits of the big packers rose from a
lew mlnoh each four years ago to twenty odd millions in 1917. not
|eaptal' but largely because the interests controlling the packing in
dustry exercised the power to fix prices at both ends of the line. tbe
prices pad Tor live stock and the wholesale prices demanded Tor
meats. -
The big packers were able to provide channels whereby efforts
were made to influence even the president of the United States 10
lntereede to save their ssbacon." We may thank God, however. that
America has a president who turns a deaf ear flo the frantic nnaols
OF the prohteers for special favors.
Along similar lines the powder trust and various other trusts
nclullhg the Standard OH trust, were enabled to prey upon human
need and to traffic In human endeavor. 1t is not the small man-not
the small banker, like those in South Dakota and other oreat aoricu1
tural states, not the small manufacturers, not the small merchant.
VINO is Fronting by war; conditions. 1t is what may be termed the
Dig man n monopohstlc manufacturer, the tremendously bio fnan-
cler, tne opulent interest which is a controlling influence in our com
merclal and industrial affairs.
There IS no disposition, 50 far as we are able to discern. at least no
inclination worth while considering. to handican cantal or crinnlo
industry. We cannot get along without capital; neither can we BROS
per without labor. We must have both.
What we can get along without, however. and what the AVERAGE
We cannot afford to "conscript,, the. wealth mon
winch we must depend for success in the present gigantic STRUGGLE
n upon which we must depend for future prosperity. but we have
right to ''conscnpt,a = to take to appropriate ia nnhlic nsa tbe anY
muhauoh resulting from profteering, whether the profteers are
men Of the class to which j. Ogden Armour or John Pierpont Moraan
belong, whether Of the type of the head Of the steel trust or the chief
OF the oil trust.
The government is proceeding with remedies, to the best of it's
ablhty, but with congress frttering away much of it's time and talent
and energy, with representatives of special interests within CONGRESS
slonal circles to attempt to block remedial Legislation rooros IL
much slower than it should be.
We may as well proceed upon the theory that this unrest will
increase IN both volume and intensity until the wills complained al
are reduced to the minimum.
There isn't room in America for both the patriot and the nro.
fteer. - 80
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-21
WILSON'S -aPARTIsANsHIP.

Senator Weeks republican, of Massachusetts, declared in the
senate q few days ago that the president is responsible for injecting
craftsmanship into the pending campaign.
Perhaps the senator is right, but we think we NAV Y without
lear OF even casual contradiction, that if the republican managers
nave not been hoping that something or other would occur to afford
.Jhem some political advantage as a result Of the administrations
management e rent CT the war human nature is not what it used to be-
~ Bill stones attack upon republicans in general, and ROose-
welt IN particular, may be said to constitute the opening gun iii the
partisan battle, but no r1ght-mindedA American for a moment would
even THINK OF holding the president responsible for what the dscredit-
ed Missourian thinks or says.
Old Bill is a back number, and we fear that the senator from
massachusetts, may get into the same boat with Bill If he persists
about their opponents.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08
Rich DunOnt District
Coming Into Its Own

With the return of warmer
weather, activity in the mines of
the Dumont district has shown a
marked improvement both in the
older properties and the newer
ones, and in other enterprises.
Within a short time Dumont
will have saw-mill either in town
ar two miles up the creek. Mr..
West, who has taken over the La.
Munyon claims, has crew of men
cutting the timber for mining
purposes as we'll as for general
lumber.
j. w. Wilson, on the old Com.
monwealth mine in Ohio gulch,
has just finished cleaning up and
timbering the levels, and will
soon be able to increase the force
for the production of heavy lead
ore, earring silver and gold values.
Work on the Senator, Blue
Ridge and Millington properties
has been maintained all winter,
and the operations will be.enlarged
as spring weather approaches.
Dingle, Swanson & Co., lessees
of the Albro mine, ship regularly
fine product of smelling and
milling ores, producing large
tonnage per month, with only a
small force, and this tonnage will
be maintained for an indefinite
length of time on the ore bodies
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08

feet of drifting was done at the
1OO-foot level, of which $50 feet
was drifted west on the vein, and
100 feet east. No stopping has
been done.
Some of the richest gold ore
ever taken out of the county has
come from this shaft, assays rum.
ing as high as $4,000 per ton. All
the ore taken out in sinking the
shaft the $50 feet was saved and
averaged over eight ounces in gold
per ton, and over 100 ounces per
ton in silver.
This property was shut down
down for several years owning tc
litigation and the time required tc
secure patents. When the prop.
erty was operated, it was necessary
to haul all coal and supplies from
Idaho Springs, but the new county
road from Dumont to Alice passes
directly by the shaft house of the
mine and provides a short hauI
from the side tracks of the G. & s
railroad at Dumont.
The surface improvements or
the shaft consist of a large shaft
'hduLe, 16 40, covered with cor
rugated iron, after first being
sheathed, and with blacksmith shoI
and coal sheds under one roof
There is 55-horse-power boiler
and a 35-horse- power Ledgewood
engine. This machinery is nearly
new, having been used only one
year.
At the east end of the claim a
shaft has been sunk on the vein
a distance of IS feet. and from this
shaft ore was taken that ran from
SIS to $500 per ton.
1t is the intention of the new
company to drift from the 100
foot level in the deepest shaft and
raise thru the bottom of the So
foot shaft. There are numerous
indications of very rich bodies of
ore between the. two shafts.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08
Wanted All the SpoilS

An old colored man charged
with stealing chickens was ar
raigned in court and was incrim-
mating himself when the judge
said:
"You ought to have lawyer.
Where's your lawyer2"
"Ah amt got no lawyer, jedge,"
said the old man.
every we'll, then," said his
honor, "I'll assign a lawyer to de-
fend you"
"Oh, no, sub; no sub! Please
don't do datv' the darky begged.
"Why not?" asked the judge.
1T won't cost you anything. Why
don't you want a lawyer?"
well, jedge. Ah'll tell you,
suh,' said the old man, waving
his tattered old hat con6dentially.
Hits dis way. All wan tab en-.
| Joy dem chickens mahse'f."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08

200 Men Employed
Steadily at Camp Trad

The first mill of the Primos
company at Camp Trad is nearing
completion and is expected to be
in operation in about ten days.
The mill has capacity of 25O tons
daily.
While the treatment process is
kept profound secret, enough
has leaked out to indicate that
fotation is going to play a dom
inant part in the separation to be
effected. Large quantities of sui
phuric acid are being hauled to
the mine, but the purpose for
which it is to be used is also kept
secret. Two other mills of like
capacity are to be built in the near
future, giving some idea of the
large scale. on which operations are
to be conducted.
Fully 200 men are being kept
constantly employed, the greater
number being engaged in break
ing ore, which insures an ample
supply to keep the mill running
steadily.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08
City May Build lis
Own Lighting Plant

At Thursday evenings meeting
of the c.tJ council the matter of
the city building its own hydro
electric plant was brought up for
discussion, and a committee was
appointed to investigate the feas-
ibility of the project and report
back to the council at the next
meeting. The committee consists
of Aldermen James Underhill,
Sylvester Florine and AL Atkins.
A survey will be made of the
city's water right on Chicago creek
now being utilized by the Jackson
mill, The use of the city's res.
ervoir on Soda hill would also
figure into the scheme, and the
lighting plant would probably be
installed on the hill
Municipal lighting plants in
various cities in Colorado and else
where have proven highly sue
cessful and a most valuable asset
to towns resources. Satisfac-
tory results have been gained by
cities located at a distance from
the water power, and where they
were subjected to heavy invest
ment and expense for transmission.
For a city located as is Idaho
Springs, right in the mountains,
where the water power at our very
threshold is going to waste, it
would appear that the cost of in
stalling plant, and its mainten-
ance need not be great, and the
use of electricity could be made
much more general. A very low
rate for cooking and heating would
be established, and considerable
saving of high priced coal would
be effected.
In numerous cities in California,
Washington and Idaho, water pow
er has been developed to the point
that practically all the cooking is
now done by electricity generated
by the water power that formerly
went to waste. In some localities
public buildings, particularly school
buildings, are heated by munici-
pally owned electric plants.
When we harness up the water
power of our creeks we are not
wasting a single thing, for even
the water goes back into the
stream, pure and undefiled, hav-
ing served our people, and is ready
to be taken out down below to
make the valley blossom forth and
produce in abun dance.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08
You Can't Pass Up
The Income Tax Man

Somebody is going to tell on
it you don't pay your income tax.
Congress has fixed it so that some-
body must tell, whether he wants
to or not.
One section of the War Income
Tax Law, exhaustively compre.
hensive in scope, requires every
person, without exception, and
every corporation, partnership, as
sociation, and insurance company,
in whatever capacity acting, who
paid $500 or more to another per-
son, corporation, partnership, as
sociation, or insurance company,
as interest, rent, salaries, wages,
premiums, annuities. compen-
sation, remuneration, emoluments,
or other fixed or determinable
gains, profits, and income, to re-
port the name and address of the
person, corporation, ETC., to whom
the payment was made, together
with the amount of the payment,
to the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue at Washington, using a
form prescribed for the purpose {.
Form 1899, now to be had from all
collectors Offices. The forms
must be filled out and returned on
or before March l, 1918, accom-
panied by Form 1896, which is a
letter of trnnsmittal and affidavit
certifying the accuracy of Form
1899.
The income tax man will be at
the Club hotel, Idaho Springs,
February Is to 18, to assist you
in filling out your return blank.
Call on him if you want infor-
nation,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08
Following the Textbook

A teacher asked her class to
write an essay on London. She
was surprised to read the follow
ing in one attempt:
"The people of London are noted
for their stupidity"
The young author was asked
how he got that idea.
"Please, MISS" was the reply,
''it says in the text. books the pop
ulation of London is very dense" Z"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08
East Feels War More
Than We In the West

Numerous complications result
ing from the war, particularly the
shortage of fuel, has completely
demoralized things in the east, re-
ports Rens E. Schirmer, manager
of the Argo company, who returned
from Boston last Saturday.
Mr.. Schirmer says the people
in the east are making many sacri-
fees with the one determination to
bring a hasty and triumphant end
to the war.
The east has experienced the
most severe winter in all history
For the first time in many years
Boston harbor is frozen Overland
two-horse sleds are used in driving
to and from the numerous islands
in the harbor. In large Office
building Mr.. Schirmer visited,
only one of FIVE elevators was
running, and that only until 3
o'clock. Every effort is being
made to save coal. Cord wood is
used in some Office buildings.
Every other street light in Boston
is dark, no electric signs are
turned on, and show windows in
big stores are dark.
Chicago has had more snow than
for years, and it was piled ten feet
deep in the streets where it had
been shoveled from sidewalks,
says Mr.. Schirmer. He found
travel very difficult, with trains
annulled unexpectedly and with
out notice. Very few dining cars
are being used, and the service
is poor. Coffee with cream is 25
cents on a diner. The hotels serve
no cream except on special order.
Mr.. Schirmer had no white bread
from the time he left Denver until
his return ten days later. Graham
and coarse breads are used ex-
clusively.
Sugar is sold in one and two-
pound lots, depending on the size
of the family. In Boston Mr..
Schirmer's relatives we're com.
PEELED to buy coal in lOO-pound
lots and take it home themselves.
Camp Evans at Aver, Mass, had
been housing $1,000 soldiers, but
SO many have been sent to the
other side that but 10000 remain.
Mr.. Schirmer says it is remark
able how speedily and completely
the army cantonments have been
built, with comfortable buildings.
water, lights, sewers and thorofares.
Think of a city of twenty times
the population of Idaho Springs
being built in few months time.
Mr.. Schirmer's brother, Capt.
Walter Schirmer, is in the medical
department of Camp Aver, and
expects to be ordered to the other
side at any time.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08

now opened up and availa bic.
Eastern parties have been in
vestigating the merits of the Col
den Hope group of claims near
the Alexander mine on Mill creek,
and severals claims on the south
side of Albro mountain.
The Silver King mine up North
Spring gulch has large ore bodies
carrying lead, silver, gold and
copper values, which will he
milled at the Bolthoff mill as
soon as completed.
The Dumont mill, owned and
operated by the Dumont Mining
and Milling company, will be ready
to resume milling operations on
syndicate and custom ores by
March l. They have installed ad-
ditional up-to-date equipment
which will facilitate a high per-
centage of saving on all ores treat.
ed, from any district in the county.
John Nelson, on his isproperty in
Dry gulch, has developed good
grade of ore in the adit level, this
level being what is considered the
lowest extension of the Albro lode.
Herman Derring, in Dry gulch,
and John Anderson, owning the
Sumner mine, which lies between
the Pioneer and Chicago Belle
group, in Ulster County gulch,
are both opening very promising
prospects.
J. w. Smith, on the Portland on
Albro mountain, and Mr.. Mans.
field on the Green Carbonate,
which lies east of Ohio gulch, are
both extracting ore to ship later
on when the roads are free from
snow.
Babcock & Endy, in this same
territory, are opening up new
locations.
Continuous work has been main
tanned on the Chapman Wilson
mine at the head of Washington
gulch, near the Bonanza group on
the Spring gulch side.
AS it now appears, several new
enterprises, working new and old
properties, will soon become active
in the gold-copper district north Of
town, embracing Dry gulcb,
Pioneer or Ulster County gulch,
Washington gulch, North Spring
gulch, and as far north as Fall
river.
In this district are such we'll
known mines as the Chicago Belle,
Gold Chest, Jack-Rabbit, Great
Britain, Firemen & Conductors
M. &. M. Co, and others not as
we'll developed.
The new tunnel level on the
Syndicate mine of the Dumont
company, being driven by Nc
Donald, is now in approximately
IS feet, and is entering the ore
body exposed in the level above.
but 100 feet lower, and from re-
cent samples it is indicated that
this new level will prove the per-
sistency of the higher values
opened last summer, going as high
as 4S ounces in gold and 100 ounces
in silver. The Syndicate-Golde
Rule lode is cut by the McClelland
tunnel at about 1000 feet in depth.
Babcock & Co. have a lease on
a block of ground in the lower
west Syndicate tunnel, and have
already made onessshipment of ore.