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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10

New Yorh.-There is always ten
dency on the part of both monarchical
and republican people to have the
head of the government name certain
materials and co1ors.
1t is not a new thing in the history
of fashion. 1t has been done ever
since kings and queens, princes and
potentates, have represented the peo-
pie, or ruled over them, according to
the form of government.
Part of the subservience of people
to their kings was once shown in the
fact that every fashion, in detail and
in whole. was instige ed by some spe-
cia1 occurrence that affected royalty,
or was named, in a capricious mo-
ment, by royalty hself
The Glamour of Name.
In London, in sparsely scattered
parts of the vest of Europe, the amer
lean traveller has always been con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
SENDS HELMET TO KANSAS.
Council Grove Soldier Takes Hun
HeadDiece From Prisoner.

Council Grove, Kan, July 10.-The
first German helmet to be shown in
this city was received today by G. w.
Simpson from his son, Lieut.. Morris
B. Simpson, NJ. D., who is now in
France with the British forces. Lieu
tenant Simpson took the helmet from
a wounded German prisoner under his
care. The stains and scratches upon
t. is peculiar headgear bore evidence
of severe usage. The trophy weighs
three pounds and four ounces. While
Lieutenant Simpson is serving under
the United States enlistment he says
he wears the British helmet as he pre-
fers it to those furnished the Ameri-
can soldiers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
Q(7 :. DRESS y /; }! S.
lN 0QuNI 81 1r,,-e Rite n house


There Is New Blue in America
Which Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Has
Named Liberty" and 1t is Used
Alone and Also I'm Combination With
Other COIOrS,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
SUES COPAR PETROLEUM
Stakeholder Says Topeka Concern
Tried to Dispose of His Stock.

James Friedman. a stockholder of
the company, has filed a suit in the
district court asking that a receiver be
named for the CCpan Petroleum ON
pany. of Topeka, capitalized at s64, 900
Friedman says that the company.
without authority. made two separate
1evies on its shares He, claims this
was done in order to get him to dis
pose of his stock. which amounts to
1000 shares, to Lebow Bros. of Tulsa.
Friedman also says that altho the
company is required to maintain . an
eral and ,Xeeutive offices in Kansas,
interests outside the state now control
the concern.
The Cape to-Cairo Railway has been
opened to Bukama on the Nile.
Hawaii was once a part of the Asiatie
continent, says a learned Investigator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10

Hawaii was once a part of the Asiatie
continent, says a learned Investigator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10

The Cape-to-Cairo Railway has been
opened to Bukama on the Nile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
DEDICATION OF HOME SEPTEMBE

Visitors Fron Twenty States Be Present
Many Cities VIII Participate Drill Contest
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
COMPANY NOT RECOGNIZED.
Insurance Commissioner Brown Warns
Against Rhode Island Concern

MONTPELIER, Jan. 3O.-The follow
ing letter has been sent by Insurance
Commissioner j. g. Brown to the owners
of automobiles. which is OF no small in
terest to these persns:
To the Owners Automobiles in Yer
mont:
The attention of automobile owners in
Vermont is called To the circular being
sent out by the automobile Mutual In
surance Company Of America" home Of
flee at Providence, r. l.. offering to insure
automobiles and claiming "constitu-
tional right to insure automobiles in
every state.
This department desires TO call Your
attention to the fact that the Automo-
bile Insurance company mentioned j. not
recognized by this department, and the
company has not qualified to do business
in this state
All owners Of automobiles are eau.
toned with reference to accepting in~llr-
ance in this company covering any of
their property. To such As are not know
ing A. TO the effect OF their accepting n
contract of insurance in a company OF
this character, would say that should a
loss occur and any disagreement arise Il,
TO the amount OF the loss or the pay
mcnt of the loss. IL resident Of Vermont
can bring no action in any court in thi,
state to compel such q company to pay
the loss
Any action brought against this com
pany would necessarily have TO Is
brought in the state OF Rhode Island
and the expense of recovery of the los
might amount to more than the tota
amount involved
The laws OF Vermont require that
company shall have certain financial
standing before il can be licensed to d
, business in this state, and such compan,
shall deposit with the secretary of stat
of Vermont power of attorney ap
pointing the secretary OF state its au
thorized attorney to receive services o
process.
This enables any resident of Vernon
to bring an action against any REGULAR
licensed company in their own county
and unless a company has a tinancia
statement enabling it to be licensed an
Is licensed in this state, this department
would caution you against accepting an
contract Of insurance similar to that pre-
posed by the Automobile Mutual In-uI
ancc company.
JOSEPH g. BROWN,
COMMISSIONS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

ucated to this by drastic measures. and
we are now organized to meet the prob
lem, so that i'll the future, we plan to
distribute the burden more evenly over
the winter. In the meanwhile, we must
adjust ourselves to the situation. and do
our utmost to help make up the def
icit. -
In closing, Mr. Hartman pointed
out That the chamber has actively as
sisted the New England fuel admins
tration, and that while the work of the
organization does not appear on the
surface Of things, its efforts are con
stantlv being extended toward aiding
the work Of relief; at the present time
analyzing statistics for Mr. Storrow
and making, in conjunction with the
committee on public safety, a remark
able industrial survey of New Eng
land S war work, the results of which
will be announced to the public at an
early date.
President II. !. Hartman is one of
the men who put through the Connect
cut river dam project at Vernon and
the other electrical power Developments
affiliated herewith, and be Is well
known in Brattleboro
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
VERMONT CORPORATIONS.
George P. Moore Co., st, Johnsbury, and
Norton Hardware Co., Fair Haven.

MONTPELIER, Jan. 30.---The George
p. Moore COMPANY, inc, of 81. Johns
bury has died Articles Of corporation
in the secretary Of state $ office to do
coal, wood, Ice. grain, flour, merehan-
disc, insurance brokerage stock, bonds
and real estate business in Vermont.
They filed the articles some weeks ago
but had to amend them because they
covered too much of field TO secure
lieeaae. The capital stock is $4,000
signed hy George +. Moore and Ellis
W. Moore Of St Johnsbury, and G. Il
Moore of Boston.
The Norton Hardware company of
Fair Haven has filed articles in the
same office TO conduct a hardware store
III Fair Haven, with a capital stock Of
100000. The subscribers are b. H. Nor
ton, F. '. DAWSON and t. W. Ray
mond -
The IIuile company of Springfield
| has applied for authority to change its
name to the Bradford Oil Co., inc,
| Springfield, such vote having recently
been taken at a meeting of the stock
! holders .-- .. .-....
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
VERNON.

Miss Frances Powers is i'll with chick
cn-poA.
The Ladies, circle Will hold its next
meeting Feb. 20.
The library will be open Saturday sFeb.
>. in the afternoon. ....
There viii be regular meeting OF Yer
non Grange Saturday, Feb. ,.
Mrs A. l.. Miller spent a few days last
week with relatives in Dummerston.
Mrs. H. A. Staten left Monday for Los
Angeles, Calf, for a visit with her uncle
Charles johnson.
The town officers will meet at the Sc
lectmen's room on Saturday, Feb. ?, AT
10 a. m. to settle accounts of the year
The Crystal Springs Ice Co. of Brattle-
boro is moving l5-ton transformer from
the railroad station to the Connecticut
River Power Co.'S plant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

ley were dismissed on motion of Dis
trict Attorney Swami.
Macaulev was arrested in ST. Louis
early III January, 1917, while he was
accompanied by his wife and two sons
en- route to Texas. His arrest was
brought about by the Burns agency in
the Missouri metropolis working in con-
nection with the New York police All
protests of the accused man to the St.
Louis authorities were unavailing.
They had him 'mugged, in police
parlance, and immediately sent his pic
ture on here.
THAT s the man who gave us the
bad checks, declared five or six differ
ent clerks of establishments that had
been swindled during the Christmas
holidays.
And the Burns agency and the po-
lice echoed, I'VE have got Christmas
Koough with the goods at last
\ few days later New York detec-
tive was sent to st. Louis with papers
to bring the alleged smooth forger to
this city, he having been indicted py
the grand Jury i'll the meantime. Ma
cauley fought extradition, but lost He
was brought to New York and Febru-
airy arra gned before General Sessions
Judge Mcintyre, who held him in S1O,-
600 bail.
Then began his legal fight i'll which
both he and his attorney declare ne
spent more than $4,000 to prove he
was not the notorious 'EChristmas
Keough, the swindler who had for
years been cleaning up in different
cities all over the United States and
getting away with it. The fact that
keough usually worked only during
the Christmas holiday season, or at least
did an extra business during this pc
Rod, accounts for his mic kname of
Christmas Keough. He first came
under the suspicion of the police as
Keough, though his aliases were varied
and many.
While Macaulev has succeeded in
convincing the authorities he was what
he claimed TO be, and was given his lib
erty, it is limited that there is another
sequel to the story which will be told
when the real ''Christmas Kcoug,
! has been captured.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Willard ). Richardson underwent
minor operation i'll the Melrose hospi-
tai Monday and is as comfortable rs
could be expected.
Members of the Woman S association
of the Congregational church are re
minded of the meeting tomorrow aft
ernoon at the home of Miss NJ. l.. Sted-
man, when arrangements for concerted
Red Cross work will he discussed.
Mrs. Nathaniel {. Sawyer, whose son
Ned and wife of Niagara Falls were So
riously injured there by their automobile
colliding with truck team several weeks
ago, is advised Of their discharge from
the hospital with an expectation of final
recovery. Mr.. Sawyer formerly lived in
Brattleboro, where he attended the pub
lie schools
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
HOUGHTONVILLE.

''''''' wa III "e9lei N"luaE'
Miss Stafford Is boarding at +. ii.
ooer > f.. .-..t ...
MIR: and Mrs.. Curtis Tuttte sand Bon
tree spent Sunday in Grafton.
F. d. Blood expects 10 have telephone
installed this week in his home
L1,,-d parh,,+; 10. lo,,o,,,4 .,,;.
s,aarc ~ >, Ca,,iJ !, Wy;ad. f''''
80 y
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
Long to Hear "Choo, Choo. ;

Editor of The Rcformer:-
Your touching little poem, Won t Be
Home Till Spring, in recent issue
shows how YOU feel down there This
is the way we feel:
Yes, the West River towns havy snow
drifts high,
All along our faithful c. Y.
\ train, snowplow, bye and bye,
That 5 what we want to see.
Two long, weary weeks ago
News came to us from Chester
That a snowplow was coming from
down below.
Listen, They came three miles. then
they left her.
So, now. indeed, we are waiting fol
spring,
And, believe me, this last i true:
We long to hear the air brakes sing
And the engine cough "Choo choo.
W. l.. {.
South Londonderry. Jan %.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
BRATTLEBOROLOCAL.

The funeral of Mrs Clifford L. Akley
OF Marlboro was held in the West Brat
tleboro Baptist church at l o'clock
yesterday, Rev. |. NJ. Compton, pas
tor, officiating. Mrs W E. Stellman
sang two selections The bearers were
members Of the family. The body was
placed in the tomb in Meeting House
Hill cemetery.
school for training women as den
tai hygienists has recently been or
gained by Harvard and Tufts colleges.
The course is tor one year and gives
training in prcphylactic measures for
the treatment Of children and as sasist-
ants in dental Offices. Dr. Frank +,
Haskins, formerly of Brattleboro, has
been appointed lecturer in pharmacol-
ogy in this school. He also is to be a
guest of the Tufts college medical
! school graduating class Feb. at its
reception and banquet at Hotel Ven
dome, where he viii be one of the
speakers. The graduating exercises fol.
low the reception and banquet at Jor
dan hall
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
HELP GET THE SPIES.

THIS country has long been honey
combed with German spies. Every
day or two some person who passed
as a business or professional man,
and who has been well regarded, is
caught with the goods and ar
rested. Every state, every city, and
every town harbors these agents or
allies of the enemy who are mas
querading as peaceable citizens. Our
easy going, think noevil way makes
smooth sailing for pirate craft, right
into the councils of state and city,
and even our own homes. No coun-
try had ever 50 we'll organized and
numerous spy system as Germany
has maintained right here in the
United States under our verv ewes
The constantly recurring inccndiary
fires, the ingenious lies Of endless
variety, are both part of the same
underground system. The Chicago
Herald has printed, run down, aud
exploded more than one hundred of
these adroit fa1sehoods which would
| pass muster with most auditors.
| Here IS where we can all be alert
| to spot and stop this propaganda.
| The next one you hear, run it down
to its source. You will not get far
| before YOU reach someone who can t
remember who told it. ANYBODY
who is full OF information favorable
to Germany and unfavorable to our
cause, and who can remember
where and from whom he acquired
this news, will bear watching. Here
is an opportunity for boys and girls,
as well as grown-ups, to run down,
locate, and explode this work of the
propagandists.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
LONDONDERRY.

Mrs Fannie Wilkins has returned home
from Weston Island
Mrs Charles Waite is confined to her
bed with trouble with one ankle
DR. Calvin was in Mt Hermon the last
of the week to see his son, Henry, who
was i'll with tonsilitis
Miss Rachael Griswold of Claremont
y, H, and Mr.. Capen OF Winhall We're
week end guests at Madison Farnum's.
DR. Charlton OF Weston Island has had
, the misfortune to lose four horses recent
~, and some Others are sick. He thinks
! the sickness Is due to something they eat
in the hay
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
CHURCH NOTE.

Preparation for the first Friday comics
sions will be heard in ST. Michael's Ro-
man Catholic church tomorrow after
noon at $50 and in the evening at 7.30.
Holy communion will be given at 6
o'clock Friday morning, mass at o'clock.
There will be no devotions in the eve
ming. Confessions Saturday afternoon at
$50 and in the evening at 80. Masses
Sunday at $50 and 1890 Benediction
Immediately after the last mass. Sunday
school at Oak Grove at o'clock
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
WORKING DAYS AT THE
RED CROSS ROOMS
(This supersedes any previous
schedule.)

Surgical dressings will be made on
Monday afternoons, Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings and Thursday
afternoons.
Sewing on Tuesday and Friday
afternoons.
Anyone having spare hour is
asked to come in either morning or
afternoon and assist in cutting
eauze for surgical dressings.
Every patriotic woman is expected
to take some part in the Red Cross
work, for which there is such an ur.
gent call.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

Luncheon at Episcopal parish house
Saturday, Feb. ., ) to I P. m.-baked
beans, brown bread, sandwiches and hot
drinks. Five cents per order.-Adv.
2S4-2S5
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

From an Indians standpoint it
America for everybody. but the Ameri-
ear.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

The most successful life does not
think about its success or failure, but
OF is task
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

thus becomes the logical pa
per for everybody in Brattle-
bOrO to read-and almost ev-
erybOdy in BrattlebOrO does.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

reaches local subscribers
regularly each day without
regard to curtailed train
schedules Or deranged train
service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

South Londonderry. Jan. 23.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-15
Publicity for Churches.
(Benning ton Banner.)

The ministers of Middlebury protest
strongly against having to pay for the
insertion of church notices in the Mid
dleburv Register. There is some excuse
for expecting that a privilege that has
been granted for years will always con
tinue to be granted, but there Is no ex-
cuse for accepting a favor and then as
suming it to be vested right. News
papers, like churches, have to exist by
means of the income they receive and
here is no more reason why a church
should ask for free publicity than there
g for asking a minister to preach for
nothing Church notices which are of
news interest to the subscribers, how
ever, are always printed without
barge 1t ought to be possible for
editors and ministers to get together
on this ground without difficulty if
both viii be little tolerant.-Brattle-
boro Reformer.
The ministers of Middlebury and
the Register ought to have no difficulty
in coming to an understanding on a
basis similar to that in force in Ben
nington, Brattleboro, Barre and other
towns. This is in brief that the
churches pay for advertising of enter
tainments suppers OF other income pro
ducing efforts, and that the newspaper
insert as news and free of charge the
items about religious and social meet
ings and church activities from which
no income is directly derived. News
papers live chiefly on what they get
Tor advertising and they cannot exist
if they give away their space even fol
>good objects. The churches and Other
organizations like fraternal societies
public welfare aids, etc, ought to b,
the last to object to paving for pub
licitv designed to return profit to tn,
organizations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-15

The Hartford Theological seminary
disloyalty goes on. There are now
seven students who refuse to sign the
loyalty declaration, which reads: - We,
the undersigned students of the Hart
ford Seminary foundation, wish to put
ourselves on record as unalterably op-
posed to the paeifstie propaganda con
Quoted in the Hartford Seminary foun-
dation. We hereby declare our loyalty
to the allied cause and orr purpose to
uphold it in every way that lies with
in our power" What the old school
in training preachers needs is house
cleaning. Vermont has already pointed
the way in dealing with theologians
who are not patriots
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-15
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

Eestiddav us fellows made it up to
have 2 race frum the corner to the
TELEGRAPH pole, and the one that came
in last had to 90 to the ferst man
that came down the street and tell him
he was q, Germin spy And we had the
race and | came in last on account of
getting q bad start and not feeling
mulch like running anyway, and the
ferst man that came down the street
was man with a big stummick and
his mushtash site king out in 2 little
points, and ! went up to him. saying,
Mister, I'm sorry to tell you you're a
Germin spy.
Wich ferst the man looked serprised
and then he looked mad, saving. You
impudint scoundril, Ill skin YOU alive.
Ony by that time | was pavemints
away and still running, and wen |
went hoihe for suppir pdp called me
in the parler, SAYING. Benny. ! wunt II
iuteTdoose vou to my boss, if il wasent
for Mr. Hammer | woodent have CIV
Job and YOU wood proberlv be roaming
the streets without 4 roof to put over
vour he'd.
Neening 6 man setting by the win.
with the big stummick and the ? lit
tie points on his mushtash me going
over kind Of slow and shaking hands
with him and he keep hold Of my
hand. squeezing it like enything, say
ing. How DO you do, haven't | met yor
before, sumware?
Siro No sir. | sed.
My errer, | sipnose. proberlv its be
cause I'm a Germin spv, sed Mr. Ham
mer, did Won ever know | was a Ger
min spy. Potts?
No, its news to me, Mr.. Hammer,
; must say, sep pop. And Mr., Hamme
, stayed for lsuppir. and every time h
. wunted enything he asked me to han,
it to him, saying, Young man, woo
! You ubject to passing the bred to
:. Germin spy? Young man, wood 70
consider it unpatriotick to hand
Germin spy the buttir? Did I tell 70
| was Germin spy. Potts,
Wy yes, ha. ha, bleeve YOU die
scd pop.
And Mr. Hammer stayed littl
vile after suppir, saying sumthin
about Germin spy every time
looked at me, and after he had wen
home ma said to pop, Willyun, fc
goodniss sakes. has that man got &c,
min spies on the brane2
always knew he was a bit peculia
but | never suspected there was an,
thing rong with him before, sed POI
J Ne not saying envthing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-15
THE SETTING SUN.
Why it Looks Big and Oval at This
Time

Why the setting sun as it drops close
to the horizon appears larger than usual
and oval instead Of round is explained by
". F. Badgley in Popular Astronomy
The enlargement, ne says, is generally an
optical illusion due to the disk OF the sun
appearing close TO the horizon, which we
know 10 be very far distant. When the
atmosphere is dusty and hot, however,
it acts as a magnifying glass
The oval appearance can best be under
stood by drawing small circle on sheet
Of white paper and placing reading glass
over it. When the circle is under the
center Of the lens it appears a circle, but
as the glass is moved till the circle is near
its edge the circle gradually becomes an
oval.
The sun as it nears the horizon and
appears enlarged usually becomes an oval
longer In breadth than in height, because
it is seen through the edge of an aerial
lens, writes Mr.. Badgley. ''The air, to
/ small height, is in condition to magnify
objects and has been so all day, but look
ing upward It's thin layer would have little
effect, whereas looking through it toward
the horizon, the effect would be increased
about 10 times by tire increased depth OF
"a ar looked. through ,,s.s.