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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-25
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
GIVE UP MASS ATTACKS.
Frightful Losses of Germans Compels
Change of Tactics.

Losses inflicted by the British haveI
caused Gen. Ludendorf to change his
tactics, and he has ordered that no more
masscd attacks be made by the Ger.
mans. The correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail at British headquarters
in France reports that Gen. Ludendorf,
in an order dated March 80, said: 1.-THE
idea of forcing success by the employ
ment of masses must be abolished abb
solutely. 1t only leads to unnecessary
losses. The effective use of weapons,
not of numbers, gives the decision"
The German method of advance
since the order, says the correspond
emit, has been TO push forward small
bodies of troops with light machine
guns. Sometimes they are caught in
masses when concentrating for an at
tack, but generally they trickle to-
ward us in numbers of little streams. "
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
THE PUTNEY COLUMN
Cast for Helping Hand Play.

The following is the cast for the Help
ing Hand society play, Fun on the
Bingville Branch, which will be pre-.
sented Wednesday evening, May /, for
the benefit of the Red Cross: Con-
duetor, Wayland Hardy; brakeman,
David lIannum; news boy, Floyd
Brooks, Mrs. Mistake, on wrong train,
Miss Annis; Mr.. and Mrs. Alger and
baby, Rag Austin and Mildred Brooks;
Mr.. and Mrs. Levagagi and Tony, Mary
and Peter, George Wood, Miss Follett,
(childrcn) Leon Brooks, Ruby Martin
and Alden Hanum; Mrs. Pussy, n rich
woman, Miss Follett; Robert, a nephew
anxious to please, Francis Goodrich;
Name Jones and Liz Smith, Bowery
girls, Dorothea TTutchins and Mary
Poland; Mrs Muligan and four. chill.
dren, Miss Turner, Pearl and Mildred
johnson, Leon Brooks and Alden
ITanum; Rubc Hickey and Sal Softer
going to circus, Floyd Fuller and Mrs.
Leon Fuller; Edythe Ray and Pauline
Porter, high school girls Nina Wood
and Mildred Brooks; Mrs. Cross, very
cross. Miss, Ward; Frances, small
daughter. Irene Bingham; Alvsc Park
or, MaYsc Parker: matinee girls, Miss
Annis and Dorothy Wood; Silas Noscr,
the man with a nose, Elmer Gassctt;
John Jackson, who asks questions,
Charles ITanum; Mrs. Marston John
son, Nina Wood; Michael Murphy, po-
lite very polite, \, d. TAYLOR Israel
Levitsky, Roger Aiken; MIR. Austin,
clerk, Henry Phelps; EraStus Jones
taking first ride, Carol Murch; Samuel
Cohen, elderly jew, Roger Aiken; Mrs.
Precise and Mrs. Manncrly, prim ladies',
Mrs. Goodrich and Katherine Howe;
Mr.. Smarty. trying to be funny, Allen
Wood
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26

Mr. Fuller will move his family here
in the near future.
The Boy Scouts have completed
their "good turn" to the government
by securing applications from those
who gave their pledges at the public
meeting, and on Saturday will begin
their activities by house-to-h house
canvass, not by districts but in free
to.all campaign If you have not yet
purchased Liberty bond do so when
the Scouts call.
Mrs. Malnda harrington was well
remembered on her saith birthday an
niversary by a shower of postcards,
several booklets, candy, cake, esc.,
showing that her friends had not for
gotten her in her advanced years. She
is able to keep house for herself and
her grandson, Harold harrington, who
has always lived with her.
David Frost, who makes his home at
r. +. Picrce's has been entertaining
his brother, Fred Frost of Somersworth,
n. H., who with his wife is staying
with her parents at Mount Hermon.
The hotel at Somersworth, of which
Mr. Frost has been manager, has been
closed on account of the death of the
man who owned it, and will remain
closed until the estate is settled.
At the meeting of the Red Cross
Tuesday afternoon George Wales of
Bellows Falls addressed the ladies', en-
phaszing the needs of the surgical
dressings, and steps will be taken to
have the nurse furnished by the state
chapter come to teach the process that
it may be done cxpeditiously and ac.
ccptahy. When this is accomplished
all who can will be expected to take
hold and help, and more money must be
raised to meet the expense of buying
the gauze from which these dressings
are made These dressings may be
the means Of saving the lives Of boys
from our own town, county or state.
1t may mean your boy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
FoRECLosE MORTGAGES.
Action Against Well-Known Lake Dun
more Hotel Property.

A bill in chancery has been
instituted in Rutland county court
by Ira w. Shapiro Of Boston
alid Frank W. Williams of Brandon
to foreclosc mortgages on the we'll
known Lake Dunmorc Hotel property,
formerly the Mountain Spring Hotel at
Lake Dunmore.
The hotel, which has been in the
hands Of receiver, is very well known.
The defendants mentioned by each
orator are the Lake Dunmore Hotel and
Realty company Of Brandon, Sherry y
Co. of New York city, and r. ii. Duck
WITT of Philadelphia. Mr.. shapiro claims
II mortgage Of $l7 900 on the property
given in 1911 has been transferred to
him. Mr.. Williams is Interested in Il
So, 900 note There is second mortgage
Of sig 1000 claimed to be held by Mr..
Duckwitz.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
NUX IRON PEpSIN and
SARSAPARlLLA - Effective Spring
Medicine Combination.

AS comprised in Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and Peptiron, taken in conjunc-
lion, these valuable remedies possess
unequalled value for the quick relief
of a long trail Of ailments COM
mon in the Spring season. You know
well the great tonic properties Of
iron. They are much increased and
improved in this combination
Hoods Sarsaparilla before meals
and Peptiron after.
In these days of rushing and push
ing, beyond the endurance Of even
the most robust, nearly every man
and woman needs this blood-purify-
ing, cleansing, up-building in the
Spring. If it is not supplied, the
depletion of the blood and the
broken-down nerves may soon give
way to permanent ill-health.
If a cathartic is needed, as where
there is biliousness or constipation,
Hoods Pills should be taken. They
are purely vegetable, do not irritate,
and work all right with Hoods Sar-
saparilla and Peptiron.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26

Will Durham is i'll with grip.
Mrs. Arthur Harlow is i'll with grip.
The three Pebble children have
whooping cough.
The Saxtons River Valley Pomona
Grange will meet Saturday, May 4, aft
ernoon and evening, with the Grafton
Grange.
The Junior Christian Endeavor so
ciety met with Elizabeth Goodcll, Sat
urday afternoon. There was a large at
tendance.
Miss Bessie Mason of Medford, Mass,
spent last week with her aunt, Mrs.
Ormsby, who gave party for her
Wednesday evening.
George Campbell motored from
Schenectady, n. Y, Friday and visited
until Monday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Campbell.
Judge A. F.. Schwenk and friends
came in his automobile from Brattle-
boro Wednesday in quest Of the spec
killed. beauties of the brooks.
Schools were closed Thursday after
noon and both teachers went to Brat
tleboro to hear County Agent A. w
Sweeton $ talk about school gardens.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tucker and Mr.
and Mrs Streeter Of Brattleboro came
sunday by automobile and spent tho
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hafl6W,
H. Brown has moved his family and
household goods from Vernon to Mir
Parmelee IS house, recently occupied by
l.. NJ. Sanborn. Mr.. Brown will work
for Mr., Parmclec.
Fifteen dollars was raised last week
Mt the Christian Endcavor meeting, al
the store and in other ways Tor the
Pocket Testament league campaign
This will buy SO testaments for the
soldiers.
Charles Minard of Boston came
Thursday and visited over Patriots day
and Sunday with Duane Taylor and his
brother, Seymour Minard On Saturday
they had the body of their mother re
moved from the tomb and buried al
Saxtons River,
Miss Hazel Sanborn was pleasantly
surprised at her home last Friday eve
ming by party of is young friends
II was to celebrate her 18th birthday
anniversary. Games were played an1
refreshments of cake, coffee and pop
corn were served.
The next regular meeting of Maple
Grove Grange will be held Thursday
evening, May 2. There viii be a rol
call and each member il asked to re
spond to the question, What is the
greatest need in this farming communi
| tv. Refreshments Of Liberty sweet
will. be furnished by the young men.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
SHARON HOME ROBBED.
Ernest T. Kimball Is Under Arrest on
the Accusation.

Ernest T. Kimball, Sharon young
man of 20, who but few months ago
left the state prison at Windsor, where
he was a prisoner for three and a half
wears, was arrested in Derry, n. H.,
Sunday night and returned to White
River Junction by Officer Degnan.
Since his term in the state prison,
young Kimball had been living in Shar
on, his native place. He left Sharon
in hurry Saturday afternoon for
White River Junction. Soon after his
departure, it was discovered that the
Home of Mrs. Martha Scott on the
South Royalton road had been broken
into while She was out of town tempor
arily. The house had been ransacked
and particularly room that had been
occupied by Fred Wright, q Sharon res
ident. Mr.. Wright had more or less
personal property in the room includ-
ing gold coins to the amount Of $3.50
and silver pieces and bills amounting
to some 500 or moro. Inquiries by Mr..
Wright revealed that young Kimball
had been to q village store and ex-
changed gold coin for bills and mer-
chandise and the gold pieces, because
of the particular marks, he found to
be the ones taken from his room.
The case was at once reported to
Deputy Sheriff Fred o. Billings. 1t
was learned that Kimball had left town
/ for Derry and Chief of Police Degnan
followed the trail and caught the sus.
pect.
/ The prisoner was one of the boys
charged with the burning of the Yer
gennes industrial school, in which he
was an inmate when 16 years old.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26

I.L, E,.,,, :,
Ni0' ""'i" '''""' - '"'
Miss blanche Brigham was IN Ne"iah'
TUESDAY
Rev r. II. Bosworth was in Erattlc-
boro Thursday.
The Camp Fire Girls went on a hike to
Newfane Monday
Win Bruce went 90 Niller5 Falls Tuesday
TO get his automobile
Miss Fisher of Dunmcrston is n
guest of her aunt, Mrs. B. NJ Reed.
Rer, Harding of onringtold Nass was
at A N RarTv's the last Of the ,voel;
Mrs = u Ro.yortb Ief, Thursday
rnorn;rg fo, RroolIvn to visit hsr SON
w. A.. rI..l u...,...,
Conn NV" ave- y;s;,ing A. prains.o, lmytbc's
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tiei IN ,l"iN9' "io i vac p''i n "oiNi'lT
~ b 'no ''"'0 i'"l WIN ''''''' 10
w r. Adon,s +ool lo.l s. Good, o.,
Iyoraa,,o,1 Iast Er;da,. fn,. rranl1 "
Farnpm.
Several with rakes Monday gave our
village bark a decidedly improved an
pearancc
Miss Kate Truesdell of Rowe, Mass rc-
Gently visited her brother, Clarence
IIuesdell.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
SOLDIER DIED OF WOUNDS.
Private Winford Ploof Received Injury
in Action and Expired in Base Hos
pital.

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ploof of st. AL
bans have been notified of the death of
their son, Private Winford Ploof, %
years old, at base hospital in France
on April IS of wounds received in ac-
ton on April -.
Private Ploof was born in Franklin
Feb u, 1896, and the family moved to st.
Adams three years ago, being employed in
the foundry of the Central Vermont Rail
road He joined Co. b, Vermont Nation
al Guard, in 1915 and went to the Texas
border ,soWR9pe ,5hAo Vermont, regiment
was called out last spring he went with
it and later was sent to Camp Bartlett,
Westteld, Mass. Being detached from
that service he was sent abroad with
machine gun company, The last letter
received from him was dated March Is.
4 year ago he was married to Clarinda
Roberts OF Addison, and she survives him,
together with his parents and four broth
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
DIES OF sTRANGULATIoN.
Drunken Man Falls il Such a Way AS
to Result in Death.

ST, ALBANS, April 25.--s.ato's AT
torney w. r. McFcctcrs was in Richford
Tuesday to hold an inquest into the
death Of Ernest Monteith Of that p.aac,
whose dead body was found beside tho
Canadian Pacific railroad track ycstcr.
day, There seems to be 10 au ,piciou Of
foul play. Apparently the man was in
toXicatcd and fell, his head b,iug bent
forward in such II way as TO cause Stran-
gulation. He was 40 years old and I'M
married.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
KILLED IN RUNAWAY.
Eugene Poro of Burlington Struck
Clrbstone IN Fall.

BURLINGTON, April 5.--Eugenc
Poro, known as Jerry Poro, Of 25S
North Bend street, was almost instant
ly killed Tuesday evening at the june
tion of North Union street and North
Winooski avenue when he vas thrown
from his buggy as his horse boltcd. He
was still breathing when officer Brodic
reached his side, but he suceumbed in
few minutes, his skull having been
crushed as he was thrown AGAINST the
curbStone. Mr.. Poro was A. wears old.
He leaves four sisters.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
BIG SHIP ovERfdUJRRNs. 1910"
Strange Accident to American Liner St.
Paul at Her Pier Today-Six Men
Drowned.

The American line steamship St Paul
overturned at her pier yesterday after
coming from nearby dock.
1t is believed that nearly all persons
who were on board, between 500 and
500 workmen, escaped, but as the YES
sci was two-thrds submerged with her
bow on the bottom and her stern high
in the air the military authorities were
unwilling TO announce that no one per
ished. 1t was thought that some men
might have been caught in the inter
Tor of the ship and drowned. Whether
the sea cocks were left open or wheth-
cr tAc ballast shifted remains to be de
termined. Many workmen appeared to
have been imprisoned in the hold.
Observers from the tops of the
buildings overlooking the pier saw res
cuers cutting holes in the part of the
hold above water, letting down ladders
and bringing up men who had been i'm
prisoned.
Police and fireboats prevented the APP.
proach of all other crafts. 1t was re-
ported that soon after the St. Paul
overturned fire in an unsubmerged part
of the vessel was eXtinguished by fire
boats.
AT least six men were drowned and
a number were missing, according to
some of the workmen who were allowed
to leave the pier Five of the dead
were luborers and one was q member of
the crew.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
DUMMERSTON.

Ross Eddy of Springfield, Mass, is work
ing for W. a. Miller. -. Pc.
Robert +. Walker of Springfield. Mass,
spent sunday at the Walker farm.
Friends OF Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Newton
gave them farewell party in their home
Monday evening,
Much interest is shown in the Farmers
society which was organized in the North
district by A. W. Swecton. There are now
% members
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
Harold Sleeper Wounded in France.

In the list of casualties of the l04th
regiment in France is the name of
Corporal Harold h. Sleeper of Chicopcc
Falls, Mass He is a son of the late
Joseph sleeper and was born in Put
ney and is q nephew of Mrs. A. NJ.
Corser. His aunt, Mrs. Fred Scott of
Chicopcc Falls, took him when a small
boy and brought him up, and he has
had a responsible position in one of
The shops there. He went to the border
during the Mexican trouble.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
HENRY.

Dear Dad:
l received your letter and mothers s
yesterday. Was glad to have you
write Things over here are going
along as usual. There isn't very much
excitement for two nights now. The
Germans came over on raids five nights
in succession. They use pretty power
full explosives in their bombs. You
haven't any idea how powerful one is
until YOU see the effects of one on the
stone houses here in France. A house
of our size over home would be torn
/ all to pieces, They dropped some
bombs near us the other night and this
fellow to see the damage it did. 1t
sure did tear things up some.
They have made some big raids on
Paris lately. Paris and London seem
to be their objective. l am wonder,
ing what the effect will be when the
allies can bomb Berlin. | think it
would have good effect Oh the morale
of the Germans. | think that we are
going to get them before 1919 The
Germans are no fools, though. Have
seen Il lot of German prisoners and
they all seem to be well educated. They
say they are glad that they have been
captured.
They have quite lot of hard wood
here. A little while ago | went
through Il big forest Of beech all good
lumber, too There is quite lot of
hard pine and sycamore. Holly grows
here in large quantities with berries
on it such as we see at Christmas
time.
The people here are already planting
their gardens and sowing wheat. They
have good plows They most all run
on two wheels, similar to our sulky
plows except that there il no seat to
ride on. Their haTows are not as good
as ours, merely spike-tooth harrows
They use from four to six horses when
they plow. They hitch them all ahead
of each other and most always drive
them with II whip as we would steers
You see lot Of blind horses around
here, just because they drive them
with a whip and hit them over Their
heads or anywhere. They have some
of the finest draft horses I've ever
seen. Most of them are the Belgian
horses, weighing anywhere from 400
TO 1000 pounds
The soil here is clay soil and only
a few inches deep. l have seen all the
different parts of France except the
very southern part, | guess, France
is not as fertile as England in my way
Of thinking. All the trouble with Eng
land is that She keeps so many trees
and hedges growing around the Guilt
waited meadows that the ground of
course loses Il lot of the goodness tc
the shrubbery.
You see when we landed in England
we landed in Liverpool, and came
straight TO southampton through Bir
mingham. We saw a lot of cattle in
|, England, mostly Durham and Jersey
We came across the channel on a horse
boat. | don think l want more than
one more trip across the Atlantic A.
you know, we were IA days on the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-04-26
WESTMINSTER WEST
THERMOMETERS GOOD FIGHTERS.
sergt. Henry Harlow Writes from
France-Tells About Farming.

Seret. Henry Harlow of the 9Th com
pany, 101st ammunition train, formerly
of Brattleboro and son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Harlow of Westminster
West, has written two letters lately,
the first dated March II and the sec.
ond March u, in France. They are
as follows:
Dear Dad:
Have Just been outdoors and 7 could
hear an airplane so probably will
have to go up to the dugout FOR n
raid. They come nearly every night
now. Last Friday night they came
over here at s O'Clock and kept COM
ing around until after midnight so we
didn't have much rest that night. The
next night they came around again aud
dropped two or three bombs, and you
can't imagine how powerful one of
those bombs is until you hear one
strike and feel the whole building
shake from the conclusion. They only
stayed about Is or 90 minutes that
night. Last night they came again
and dropped three or four more bombs.
When they come over the searchlight
plays on them and then the anti. air
craft guns open up on them, besides
the machine guns.
tell you life is getting interesting
over here and isn't half as dead as 1t
was. You can hear the machines com
ing; the German machine is a broken
whirr while the French machine is an
al ln H. ;oIt
was in bed and | could hear the
whirr, whirr, whirr of the machine and
then came the order for lights out,
Right after that, bang! went u big
anti-aircraft gun and then you could
hear the pit-a-pat of the machine guns
They kept this up for four hours and
then l went to sleep. In the morning
we picked up pieces Of shrapnel from
the guns.
ran across Will Dean 8 son from
Saxtons River this morning. He had
been III the hospital, having beer
2assed few days ago, but was gettins
along fine. All of the Vermont boys
are right up To the standard as fight
there that they don t need 10 worry
about the NcrmonterS
expect that you have got n Tot OF
snow over there. 1t was 50 hot hert
in the sun today that it was really un
comfortable. Have picked a few dan
delions. Are you going to sugar thi
year? l guess it will be pretty hare
getting around in the woods.
There is q place here where thu
French will take you up in an air
plane. l haven't been over there yet
but some of the fellows have been VI
In one. A French aviator took one fel
low up who said he WASH t afraid
When he got up about 5000 feet h
shot down at, y terrific speed ant
looped the bop twice with him an,
! then did nose dive. When that, fel
| low got out of tthe machine he4wa
scared stiff and said he guessed h
wouldn't 60 up again We can Sc
planes most any time sailing around
Saw an air fight this morning. The,
we're up so high you could hardly Sc
them. Love TO all.
HENRY.