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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
MOTORCYCLE FOR
/ PARCEL DELIVERY
Machine Arrives at Brattleboro Post
ofice-Will Be Operated by Carrier
Edwin F. Lindsey.

Parcel post delivery by motorcycle is
to be instituted in Brattleboro, one mo-
torcycle being used for the present. An
Indian machine has arrived at the post
office, but the side car has not yet arrived
A man from the Hendee Mfg. Co. oi
Springfield, Mass, will come here to sci
up the machine, and it will be run by
the parcel post carrier, Edwin L. Lindsey
who has been using horse
Announcement was made recently that
the postoffce department would install
motorcycle parcel post delivery and Post
master NJ. j. Moran made application fol
machine, with the result as stated TIL,
extent to which the motorcycle can b,
mined.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

BOSTON, Sept. 16-Oficers of the
fire department will not join in sym
pathetic strike to aid the policemen.
This was announced today after meet
ing of the directors of the officers club
which represents Is per cent of the fire
fighting force of the city. The vote
was unanimous. At the same time Fire
Commissioner Murphy announced that
he had reason TO believe that the fire.
men as a whole would remain loyal to
the city.
On the whole, the second week of the
strike opened with no material change
in the situation The policemen s
union and those trade unions which
have already endorsed the strike ap
peared to be marking time until thu
full strength of the sympathetic vot,
which is being taken among the affil
lated locals can be determined or unit
it is decided that court action should b
the next move.
Commissioner Curtis of the polic'
department whose acts have been en-
dorsed by Governor Coolidge indieate
that the authorities were busily engage
in the reconstruction of a police organ
ization but at the same time .diligentl
preparing to meet any emergencies.
While nearly 100 unions were sal
to have voted on the question of sym
pathetic action with several large local
expected to ballot today, the agits
tion for a general strike appeared to b
considerably lessened. Final actio
on the proposal is not looked for befoI
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

the regular meeting of the Central La
Dor union next Sunday at which time
a special committee which is receiving
reports of the individual locals will
submit it's report.
The attitude of organized labor to-
ward the striking policemen is being
deliberately determined. The carmen s
union, united Hebrew trades and bar
tender S organization have pledged sup
port The action of the carmen was
taken before the strike. The allied
trades council representing printers,
stereotypers, linotype operators, news
writers, mailers, wagon drivers and
others employed by teamsters an
nounced today that the council had en-
dorsed the labor strike and instructed
the secretary to call upon all the unions
to take an immediate vote on the mat
ter of supporting the police. com
mittee was appointed at a meeting of
the council to protest against certain
press reports which were described as
unfair TO organized labor.
The telephone operators began voting
at 10 o'clock this morning and the polls
will be open until 10 O'Clock tonight
Their ballots, according to an official
of the union. carried the question
Whether we viii participate i'll a gen.
eral strike if such action becomes nee
essary to support the affiliation of the
| policemen's union with the American
| federation of labor 1t was authori
| tatively stated that the girls had been
! assured that a decision to call genera
| 81 r.,o,,l1 ha do only tbn aH.
vice of President Gompers and that il
would be Il mature decision that provid
ed for the safeguarding of their in
terests so far as this was possible.
Some officials of the telephone girls
Organization did not hesitate to sa1
that the girls would favor a walk-out
More conservative leaders said the,
would make no statement beyond wha
had been said to the girls themselve
until the vote was counted.
kilograms of commendation for hi
stand in the police situation were re
ceived by Governor Coolidge today from
Governor Clement of Vermont and iron
Lieut. Col Theodore Roosevelt. Gov
enor Clement s message said:
q admire the stand you have take1
in regard to the Boston police. Some
body must stand firm against lawles
agitation of all kinds if our form o
government is to continue in this lane
2 You are undertaking a great servic
1 not only to the city of Boston and t
q the commonwealth of Massachusett;
but to the country at large. Stand fast
: Success to- you.
Guy, Oyster, secretary to Samut
Gompers, president of the America
federation of labor said today that h
n had virtually finished his investigation
o of conditions here and would leave tc
| night for Washington to report to h
f chief. Except for the statement ''
k do not think conditions in Boston hay
n reached the general strike stage yet,
n Secretary Oyster would not discuss h
o findings.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
SHIPMENT
At POSTOFF|CE
First Order, Amounting to
Nine Tons, Being
Distributed
CONTAINS BEST
KNOWN BRANDS
Price Less Than wholesale y Second
Order Is Sent and Third Is Being
Made Up-Back Part of Office Re-
sembIes Wholesale Grocery.

Boxes and bags in the rear part of
the main room of the postoffice give
that room the appearance of whole
sale grocery store, and in sense that
is what it is.
The first consignment of government
focdstuffs which were bought for the
army and offered for sale at less than
wholesale market prices arrived yes
terday and was taken from the car
to the postoffiee in the afternoon.
There are nine tons of groceries in
this consignment made up of 2S3 boxes
and bags and they represent the first
order sent from the Brattleboro post
office short time ago. Delivery of
these goods to the purchasers will be
begun today.
An inspection of this shipment OF
food stuffs shows that they are com
posed of the most widely known brands
They were the best that the govern.
ment could buy and they are all in first
class condition.
Each ease of canned goods contained
certain number of cans and each bag
contains 100 pounds of rice, white beans
or -four, as the case may be- Some in;
dividuas ordered full eases or full bags
but in most instances the packages will
have to be opened at the post Office anG
the contents distributed among the
buyers in accordance with their indiv-
idual orders.
Although Postmaster M. J. Moran ha:
received no official notification it is his
understanding that the sale of food
stuffs by the government will ceas,
Sept. %. Meanwhile orders will be re
eeived at the local Office. A second or
der has been sent from the Office and (;
third will be made up soon. If ther,
| is little delay in the receipt of tn,
goods it is not to be wondered at a
/ the government is not equipped to do
! grocery business and the goods in tn
/ local office have to be handled by tn
local clerks in addition to their regula
| parcel post business, as there is no ap
preparation for hiring extra help.
Since the publication in The Reform
er of the list of goods which may b
| bought there has been added evaporat
ed apple, evaporated peaches, and evap
Grated prunes. A complete list of tn
different articles anr prices may be OF
tanned at the parcel post window in th
postoffice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
TWO OF PARTY KILLED.
Automobile Overturned With Fatal Re-
suits to Newspaper Men.

PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 16.-An au-
tomobile containing members of the
party accompanying President Wilson
on a scenic trip over the Columbia
Highway near here shortly after noon
yesterday, overturned, killing two men
and iniuring three. 1t was the first
accident of a serious nature to occur
during the President s tour of the
country.
The dead-Ben F. Allen, member of
the Presidential party and Washington
correspondent for the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
James r. Patterson, Portland, Ore.
driver of the automobile.
The injured-Stanley Reynolds
Washington correspondent for the Bal
timore Sun.
Robert r. Small. Washington CORE
spondent for the Public Ledger, Phila
| deIphia and former superintendent OF
| the Southern division of the Associated
Press.
| news writer.
Allen and Patterson We're killed out
right when the heavy automobile, bein,
turned aside to escape another automo
bile in its path, overturned, crushin.
them underneath.
The car righted itself after turning
over.
Small Reynolds and Sullivan wer
riding in the tonneau. Small, who wa
on the upper side, was thrown clea
and escaped with painful bruises an
lacerations
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
WART DISEASE
AMONG POTATOES
Representative of Plant Bureau at
Washing gton Hsre Concerning New
and Dangerous Disease.

X. G. Westoyer, representing the
plant disease survey of the plant bu-
reau in Washington, d. c., was here yes
terday and this forenoon with regard
to the wart disease of potatoes, new
and dangerous disease. No infestations
thus far have been found in the county.
As the disease does not affect the tops,
or foliage, growers are urged to watch
closely for the disease when planting
or, digging and to report at once, send
ing specimens of suspicious cases to the
county agent, the pathologist at the
state experiment station or the plant
disease survey, plant bureau, Washing
ton, d. c.
A brief, but comprehensive descrip-
tion of the disease, as furnished by Mr..
Westover, is published herewith in the
belief that such publicity may be of
assistance in locating any possible in
festation in this section:
/ The eountry's potato crop, aggregat-
ing 400, 100000 bushels in 1918, is en-
dangered by new and serious disease
called wart disease of potato (Irishl
known to be in several sections of PEN
sylvania and West Virginia and pos
lsibly in other parts of the country
| The disease caused severe stringencies
| in Europe and in 1912 the United States
placed an embargo on all importztions
| of foreign grown stock as a measure of
security to our industry However, it
is known that cargoes entered several
of our principal eastern seaports imme-
diately before the embargo went into ef-
feet. These shipments have been traerd
as far as possible with negative results
yet the disease occurs in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia which necessarily
puts the entire country under suspi-
cion.
The disease necessitates a rigid quar-
antine of infested areas for an indefn-
lite period of time as preventative
measure against further infestation 1t
is earnestly requested that ell potato
; users cooperate with the department
in its discovery by carefully inspect
ing all potato stock, since the first in
festation probably originated from
table stock. A special appeal is made
to those living in thickly populated
communities.
The disease is readily recognized by
rough spongy outgrowth VARYING from
the size of pea to that of the tuber
itself being produced on the tuber, es
peeially at the eyes or at injured places
At first these outgrowths are ligh
brown but with age become black aus
readily decay, causing a soil infesta
. ton which has been known to last fo
= years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
First Baptist Church

Wednesday. Sept. II, 7 p. m.-The
annual Baraca corn roast will be held
on creamery flats, of Western avenue.
All members of the church and congre-
cation are invited. Corn, bacon, cof-
fec Gall prepared) and marshmallows
will be furnished. Please bring any
other food YOU may want, also a cup
and spoon. If it rains the roast will be
postponed one night, or as long as
necessary. Come and we will give you
a good time.
Thursday, Sept. Is, p.m.-Regulai
meeting Of the Woman's society will b,
held in the chapel Miss May Houston O
Boston, district secretary for New Eng
land of the Woman's Home Missionary
society, will speak A large attendance
Is urged
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
PRESIDENT HEADED
FOR CALIFORNIA
No Stop Scheduled for His Train To
day-Will Reach San Francisco
Tomorrow Morning.

on BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON'S
TRAIN, Sept 10 Heading southwark for
San Francesca President Wilson today he
gan a six days visit to California in the
interest of the peace treaty. On the long
est leg of his western tour his train had
no stop scheduled during the entire day
Ind he improved the opportunity to rest
from his speech-making campaign in the
Northwest He will arrive in San Fran
cisco tomorrow morning, completing the
/ first half of his 10000 mile swing around
| the circuit
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
Commissioner and Engin-
eer to Prepare Statement
as to Main st.
QUESTION COMING UP
AT MARCH MEETING
Street to Be Repaired Before Valley
Fair if Weather Gives Opportunity
-selectmen Also Convinced New
Bridge Should Be Built.

Bridge Should Be Built.
Brattleboro voters will have an oppor-
tunity at the next regular town meeting
in March to express their views concern
ing what ought to be done to make the
roadway on Main street permanent.
This question has been agitated for
some time in the public press, on street
curbs and in official circles, and in order
to bring the matter to head the select
men have decided to have estimates of
the cost of paving the street made for
the consideration of the public.
As soon as the weather becomes favor
and Civil Engineer James E. Helyar will
make measurements of the street from
the junction of Elliot street north, prob
ably TO the Wells fountain. They will
then make estimates as to the cost of paw
ing with several different materials and
will make the figures public SO that the
people may be making up their minds
what they want to have done
1t is the intention of the selectmen to
have an article covering the subject in
serted in the warrant for the next March
meeting.
| Road Commissioner DUDE plans to make
| temporary repairs TO the street before
the Valley fair if the weather allows him
to do so.
The selectmen are thoroughly convinced
| that a new bridge ought to be built across
the mouth of West river. but they have
not decided upon any plan of action rela-
tive thereto.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
Centre Congregational Church

Thursday, Sept. Is, 10 a. m.-Women
of the parish will meet in the chapel to
sew. Lunch win be provided at l
o clock by the hospitality committee of
the Woman S association. At 3 o clock
the annual meeting of the association
will be held with reports and election
of officers Every woman is urged to
be present for as much of the day as
possible. Silver offering.
Friday Sept 10, 73o p. m.-Churcb
night. Topic, What Do / Believe About
God? The officers and teachers and mem
bers of the prudential committee and all
others interested are invited to meet al
the close of the regular meeting to con
slider plans for the winters work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

State s Attorney E. w. Gibson will
represent the state at an inquest in Bel
lows Falls tomorrow and in South Lon
donderry Thursday.
Owing to the stormy weather the
band concert scheduled for tonight on
the common has been postponed until
some evening next week.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

Florence Nightingale, the famous
Crimean nurse, is the only woman who
has ever received the Order of Merit,
one of the most honorable distinctions
within the gift of the British sovereign.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
UniversaIist Church

Thursday Sept. Is, p. m.-Regular
meeting of the mission circle in the
church parlor with reports for the state
convention.
Thursday, Sept Is, 7.30 p m.-The
annual roll call and covered dish supper
OF the Daughters circle in the church
vestry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

. After growing for ten years, the
japanese cypress, one of the smallest
specimens of the horticulturals world.
reaches the size of a golf ball. As if
exhausted with this tremendous effort,
the next ten years sees it increase only
by a fraction, when it practically stops
growing altogether.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

Probably the first woman in America
to hold an elective school office was EN-
ma Willard, the famous educator, who
in the early part of her career was
elected superintendent of schools in the
town of Kensington, Conn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
THE WEATHER.
Partly Cloudy Tonight - Probably
Showers Tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16-The wea-
ther forecast: Partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday,. Probably showers.
Slightly warmer tonight. Gentle to
moderate winds, mostly south.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

A man usually lives with her quite
IA while before he learns that his wife
is not fooled half as often as for the
sake of preventing argument she pre-
tends to be.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
ECONOMY NEEDED.
Country Faces Deficit of Three
Billion Before July.

WASHINGTON, Sept. ia
deficit of more than three bill
lion dollars by July l, 1920. is
facing the treasury even should
congress not appropriate another
penny before that date, Sherman
Good of the appropriations COM
mittee today informed the house.
warning it that greater economy
than ever existed before must
be practiced by government de-
partments.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

The first co-educational college in the
East was Cornell, which in 1872 decid-
ed to admit women as students on the
same footing as men,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
SEVENTY FLOOD VICTIMS.
Bodies Recovered at Sinton Are
Terribly Mangled.

SINTON, Texas, Sept. 10
Seventy bodies of flood victims
mutilated beyond recognitioE
have been recovered at Sinton,
the relief headquarters for the
entire surrounding bay shore ter
ritory.
Forty bodies were found at
Westport, % at White Point,
four or five below Odem and
few at Portland. No one was
killed at Sinton, but property
damages was high.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
Red Mems S Hal

All members of Quonekticut tribe wish
ing transportation to the outing Sunday
Sept. 81, are asked to notify the commit
tee or telephone T9M
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16

Mrs M. A. Hayes of Texas has been
appointed to take charge of the offices
of the Southern Rice Growers associa-
ton in London, England.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
First Methodist Episcopal Church

The Womans Missionary society will
meet Thursday afternoon at 3 O'Clock at
the home of Mrs NJ. G.. Morrill,, l91
Canal street. Election of officers will take
place
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
POLICEMEN AND
TRADE UNIONS QUIET

Awaiting Full Strength of
the Sympathetic Strike
Commissioner Curtis Is
Busy Reconstructing Po-
lice Organization - Agi-
tatiOn for General Strike
Is Decreasing No Ac-
ton Expected This Week
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-16
BOSTON FZRE1MEN WILL NOT STRIKE; ag
ISSUE OF POLICEMEN BELONGING TO. /.
UNION BEING FOUGHT OUT AT MACON

Directors of the Officers
Club of Boston Firemen
Have Voted Unanimously
Against a Sympathetic
Strike = Commissioner
Murphy Believes the
Firemen Will Remain
Loyal to the City
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
Battery Shortage
Called Inevitable
To Meet Situation Owners Are
To Be Educated to Better
Care for Plants

A national campaign Of education to
car owners regarding the care and
maintenance of storage batteries is
the idea suggested by F. A. Wilson
Lawrenson, vice-president of the Prest-
O-Lite Company Of indianapolis, for
meeting an inevitable shortage of stor-
age batteries during 1920. More than
100000 new cars are scheduled
for production which, added to the
present total of more than 100000
cars using storage batteries, sets a
mark that battery makers cannot
reach. All leading makers will double
their output Of storage batteries for
1920, but the total will fall short of
requirements.
To anticipate this situation the
Prest-OLitc Company will conduct
such an educational campaign through
each Of its 5000 service stations, and
Mr. Lawrenson has called ten conven-
tons to be held in different parts Of
the country in November to establish
the plan. The company has organized a
special staff of field engineers to visit
all service stations and improve the
Standards Of testing. repairing and re-
charging batteries. 1t is Mr.. Lawren-
sons Delief that fully so per cent can
be added TO the life Of present batter
les by these methods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
To New Haven
Via Danbury
For the Came
Longer Alternate Route Sug-
gested by American Auto
mobile Association Will
Avoid Post Road Block

Interest in tho Yale Princeton foot
ball game at the Yale Bowl next Sat
urday will mean, no doubt, q contin-
uous line Of motor cars on the Bos-
ton Post Road, which runs via Larch-
mont, Mamaroneck, Port Chester, STAN.
ford, Norwalk, Fairfield, Bridgeport
and Milford into New Haven. The run
OF seventy-five miles. which ordinarily
takes two and one-half hours, will
likely require at least four hours on
the morning Of the game The Touring
Bureau of the American Automobile
Association, at COL Fifth Avenue, sug-
gests an alternate route, TWENTY-FIVE
miles longer, will be free from con-
gestion.
Leaving New York via Fifth Ave
nue. or the EaA Drive in Central Park
run north from 10th Street, on Sew
enth Avenue, bearing left and right
into Macombs Place and thence across
the 16bth Street Bridge over the Har-
lem River. Continue north Oh jerome
Avenue to East l67th Street, and turn
right uphill and then left into the
grand Concourse, nearly to Mosholu
PARKWAY, where bear left and right,
iollowing under the elevated structure
to Woodlawn Cemetery.
From this point follow Central Ave
nue., now in excellent condition, all the
way to White Plains. One block be-
fore Main Street in White Plains turn
lett on Hamilton Avenue. Continue to
Broadway, where jog left and right
into Lake Street. Then follow an ex-
celient winding road around the south
end OF kensico Reservoir to Armonk
where turn right at the church and
Bedford.
Here bear left and then right along
stone wall. avoiding road on the
Keep on uphill and follow yery FOOD
road to the village of Cross River;
here turn right, run half mile and
turn right again, from which point a
winding road is followed through
South Salem and Ridgefield, entering
Danbury via Park Avenue and West
Street, sixty-four miles from New
York.
At Main Street in Danbury turn left,
and shortly beyond turn right into
White Street. An excellent macadam
road is then followed through Newton
and Sandy Hook to the southern ont
skirts Of Southbury, where take right
fork through Southport and Oxford to
Seymour. Here turn left into Main
Street, then right into Day Street and
follow macadam road straight to the
Yale Bowl, thirty-six miles. Maps
showing both these routes may be had
at the headn,arters ~ The