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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

1estidday our frunt hail was fun OF
mud rite after | had came in without
wiping my shoes, proving / must of did
1t, making ma so mad all aftirnoon that
she was still mad at mite and wouldent
leeve me go out, pop saying, Now moth
er, now mother, be broad minded, boys
will be boys.
And dert viii be dert, scd ma.
That's rite, boys will be boys and dert
will be dert and never the twain shall
part, be broad minded, mother, sed pop.
Ii you had had to eileen it up you would
ent feel so broad minded about it, sed ma.
Meening the dert in the hall, and pop
sed, Serteny l would, we must remember,
mother, we use to be boys once ourselves,
figuratively speaking, and if we are not
broad minded in our treatment of Benny
how do YOU Suppose lie viii treet his own
boy in after yeers wen he has one of his
own?
| hope be will treet him to a good
spanking if he tracks the hall all up with
mud, sed ma, and | sed, No nam, no
nam, I'm never going to spank him or
keep him in mites or enything.
Well, well, lissen to the broad minded
little chip of the broad minded old block,
sed pop, and ma sed, 1t sounds very won
derhll, very wonderful indeed, | must say.
and if lie has meershum pipe wen he
grows up, and his little boy drops it and
brakes it III half, ! wonder how bhoad
minded he will be about that?
Watts that? wy drag in a meershum
pipe? sed pop. Me thinking, G, gosh
holey smoaks And ma sed, If you viii
look on top Of your chiffoneer you will
! find some very intristing looking peeces
Meening of a pipe, and pop sed, Benny
if you broke my meershum pipe
No sir, it fell out of my hands vile
was trying to blow soap bubbles with
it and broak itself, it dident fall very
hard, pop, I've dropped it harder than
that lots of times and it never broak,
sed
zee gods, sed pop, and ma sed, You
can go out and play now, Benny You
lucky boy to have sutch broad minded
papa.
Wich I quick started to do, and POI
sed, Not so fast there, you COMPOUNDED
pipe reeller, waite. WITCH l did, and por
/ looked at ma, and ma sed, Hee hee, and
pop sed, Go ahed out of my site.
Not saying it very broad minded but
me not caring howe he sed it jest SO he
sed it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
The Ideal Highway.
Rutland Herald.)

It may interest autoists-within and
without the state-to learn that at the
present writing the roads on the east
side of the Green Mountains are re-
ported as ideal. A Rutland professional
man, who left the city Friday for a
trip nearly to the Canadian border and
who returned SUNDAY evening by way
of Mortified, Randolph, Bethel and
Stockbridge, reports that the highways
were never better, that they need not
be better, that the gravel roads through
the section travelled were like "velvet.
This merely emphasizes what TIL. Her
aid often contended, that a properly
graded and drained gravel road, when
kept in repair, is an ideal highway.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT.

All the world will rejoice in the sue
cessful single flight of the English avi-
ators, Capt. Aleoek and Lieut.. Brown,
across the Atlantic ocean, because it is
more than a national accomplishment, it
is world accomplishment.
These men have demonstrated that
such long flights are humanity possible
and have greatly enlarged the field of
human endeavor. Their machine also
demonstrated that the construction of
airplanes for such gigantic tasks is q
mechanical possibility. The only prob
lem now is to create machinery SC
mechanically perfect that over ocear
flights may become reasonably safe.
There will be no shortage of men fol-
this work as soon as it can be made
reasonably mechanically safe. The de
vclopment of safe machines is likely t.
come with surprising speed. 1t is les:
than twenty years ago the first automo
! bile was driven from the Pacific to The
Atlantic coast and that undertaking wa
accompanied by hazards that few mel
at that time dared assume Now trans
continental pleasure tours are common
There will be the same development il
over sea flights following the pioneerin,
accomplishment of English and Ameri
! can airmen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

With the growing need of advertising
farm products and of identifying farms
in connection with community enter
prises a state agricultural college sug-
gests that farms should have distinctive
names. 1t points out that the identities
of persons and even of farm animals
is recognized by names and that farm
stcads inclusive of the whole are equally
deserving. The practice is growing of
giving farmsteads individual names
which will add distinction to the farm
itself and define it as a home and as a
business organization instead of an un.
named piece of land that does not de-
serve description.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
TUESDAY, JUNE Il, 1919.
THE GRAHAM CASE.

Elsewhere we publish an able editor
ial from the Burlington Free Press re-
garding the case of State VS.. Horace F.
Graham on the docket of the Washing
ton county court since the return of an
indictment by a grand jury in December
1918, and set for trial at the March
term of that court but for some reason
continued at that time at the request
of the state prosecuting officers. There
has been much comment in the Vermont
press disappearing of the apparent at
tempt to let this and the companion case
of State VS. Dewey T. Hanley, at the
time of Indictment state purchasing
agent, remain on the docket untried.
Some erroneous statements nave been
made but without exception the news
papers of Vermont have called for JUS
tice in these eases the same as would be
melted out to wrongdoers of less degree,
and we believe have represented the SEN
timent of the average citizen of the
Estate.
None of these cases can be tried now
until the September term of Washing
ton. county court but failure to bring
them to trial then will bring the sever
est censure on the officials whose duty
| it is to prosecute them in behalf of the
state.
! Among the erroneous statements made
was the quietly circulated one that Gov
ernor P. w. Clement was unwilling the
present attorney general should employ
II. G. Barber of this town to assist him
/ in the trial of the case. The fact is
Governor Clement approved of the en-
ployment of Mr.. Barber, he being the
official who investigated the case and Sc
/ cured the Indictment of Graham and
ITanley.
/ That there has been a strong effort to
prevent these cases from being brought
TO trial is generally admitted by those
conversant with conditions. just who
is trying to defeat justice in this ease
cannot be stated but they are using
matches in q powder magazine and are
likely to give an exhibition of mangled
remains as soon as the public learns
their identity.
It may be stated as fact that the
public does not know how much money
has been stolen from the state by State
4 Auditor III. +. Graham. That a much
larger sum than reported by the ex
pert accountants has been taken is
known by one man in the state a
least and he would be willing to gC
to the auditor s books and find out the
full amount taken if the public off
Gals will authorize him to.
The trial of the case of State VS.
Williams was proper. Mr.. William:
was the only state official authorized tt
examine the accounts of the auditor anG
by mandate of law was required to re
port to the state Legislature what hi
found He was the only bulwark be
tween a dishonest auditor and tht
public. He failed to perform his duty
in this respect and was convicted by /;
jury of twelve men. By an appeal t.
the supreme court of the state Mr.
Williams is evading the penalty i'm
posed by the county court. The publ,
fails to see the justice of this. The SUI
preme court should insist upon the hear
ing of this case and giving its opinion
on it.
More might be said, but it is clear tn
| public desires justice in these cases an,
will not long condone the failure of tn
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

. Although the United States railroad
administration is endeavoring through a
nationwide advertising campaign to
stimulate pleasure travel Director Gen
cral Hines has found it necessary to
limit equipment for excursion and rec
rcation purposes so as not to interfere
with the transportation of soldiers re-
turning from overseas. Among the per
mits for special equipment cancelled, by
the way, was one for 20 coaches and
Pullmans to accommodate folks planning
to attend the Willard Dempsey prize
fight in Toledo July 4th. Persons whose
chief interest has been in divisions that
have already returned from France may
be surprised to know that the return
, troop movement is expected to reach its
height during the coming month.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co., C.. w.
Cleaveland, s. l.. Purinton (Esteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy. Aliens Depot News
stand Gilbert Pollica, 297 South Main St.
we West pI Brattieboro, J. L. stockwen.
East Dummerston, VI. F. Brown.
Putney, NJ. G.. Williams.
Newfane, N. NJ. Batchelder.
Townshend, c. w. Cutler.
West Townshend, c. H. Grout.
Jamaica, X. ]. Daggett
South Londonderry, F. Fl. Tyler.
South Vernon, +. b. Buffum.
Mortified, Mass, Thompson Bros.
West Chesterfield, N. H, Mrs. w. Streeter
Hinsdale, N. H., w. II. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
Today S Anniversaries.

l775-Battle of Bunker Hill, the first not
able engagement of the American
revolution.
lS37-Gen. Strong Vincent, who saved the
Union army forces from being
flanked at Gettysburg, at the cost
of his own lie, born at Waterford,
Pa. Killed at Gettysburg, July ,,
1868.
lS50-Steamer Griffith, from Erie to Cleve-
land burned, with loss of 800 lives
lS79-AIaXimum number of lashes allowed
in the British army reduced from
so to %.
lS9i-The striking miners in Ohio, Penn.
sylvania and West Virginia decided
to return to work.
l903-Bicentenaly of John Wesley's birth
celebrated in England.
l9l5-ltalans scaled Alpine heights and
captured Austrian strongholds
l9l6-French regaincd important positions
west of Fort Vaux at Eerdun.
l9lT-Russian Duma voted in favor of an
immediate offensive in cooperation
with the entente allies
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

and early manhood Following the com
pletion of his studies in the parochial
schools he attended st. Frances college
and in 1894 was ordained a priest. For
10 years he served as pastor of various
churches in Chicago. Then, in 1908, he
was honored with appointment as aux
iliary bishop of Chicago. A year later
he became vicar-general of the archdio-
cese and continued in that position until
his selection as head of the diocese OF
Green Bay.
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TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

It is the aim of the management to secure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation OF
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be given of each failure TO receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
A Nice Little Nest Egg.

On community Sunday a collection
was taken at the morning service, the
men s meeting and the evening meet
ing. There was not an estimate made
of how much the expenses might be. but
when the bills We're all paid, Rev Mr.
Watson had one penny left.-Alstead
item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

you. We're your
admirers. We are
with you in the
sky. o d m Fri n z
you aud thinking
you're the finest
old moon tina t
ever lived"
well" sal d
Mr.. Moon chuck
ling. "'it wouldn't
be hard to be the
HneSt moon, De-
cause I'm the only
moon. so no other
could get ahead
of me-"
Now Mr.. Moon,
you know we did
MT mean 1t that
way, for we are
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
Ought to Be a Deterrent.
(Rutland Herald.)

The latest batch of convictions in
federal court at Montpelier of drug
smugglers ought to be somewhat of a
deterrent to those inclined to take a
chance of penitentiary terms if they
lose in the game of trying to beat the
Harrison law. Does all of this contra
band drug pass through Vermont or
does some of it fall into the hands of
inscriptions dope dispensers in this
state2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
CLIPPINGS
With Now a Comment and Then
Only Caption.
The Spelling School.

The Spelling School.
The ayiators fly so high
They almost seem to reach the skigh
So high they climb,
From limb to timb
They II meet the angels bigh and
bigh.-Exc.
This sort of spelling's now old stuff
A little of it 5 quite enuff.
So lest we find ourselves bore
When the muse of verse begins to
sore
Let s say goodbye and call it through
And start on something else quite
nough.
You II have no kick coming in our
Shoesl
Directly opposite post office.-Adv
in Claremont Eagle.
Well, probably not in the prevailing
tight skirts.
Fred Green tells us he was pickin
grippe strawberries June 4th.-Mt. Olive
item.
Little errors will creep in.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

state officials to remove from the state
the disgrace of further neglect to en-
force the law upon all indicted and con-
victed men connected with recent state
administrations.
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In the DAVIS News.

Rt Rev. Paul f. Rhode, who today
celebrates the silver jubilee of his ordina-
ton to the priesthood, has been bishop
of the Roman Catholic diocese of Green
Bay, Wis, since 1915. Born in Prussian
Poland in 1871, he accompanied his par
ents to America in infancy Phe family
settled in Chicago and it was in that city
that the future prefate passed his youth
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

L Al T" II n > w.
said Mr.. Moon.
grinning. 81 don't
know that / would
call m Y elf q
handsome fellow,
but | would call
myself q joll y
old fellow"
I'VE would call
you handsome"
said another star.
an fact we do
call you h q n d.
some" said a
third star.
you look so
beautiful in that
full dress suit of
yours" said q
E ON nth ct n r.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

The young aviator and his sweetheart
who were married in an airplane in Tex
as at an altitude of thousands of feet
will not be the first couple who have
had to come down to earth after mar
riage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
Lead Kindly Light.

A pretty home wedding took place
last evening when Miss Laura Phoebe
Miner, daughter of Mrs. Phoebe Miner
became the bride of Harold Lestly
Light-Springfeld Republican.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

Moral uplift in Vermont is moving
northward. Bellows Falls sternly and
firmly barred the " shimmy Dance and
now Burlington bans the one-piece bath
ing suit for either sex at the new lake
shore resort.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

Senate discussion of the peace treaty
and the league of nations promises to
continue all this week and indefinitely
thereafter The two words" indefin-
itely thereafter have such weary
sound.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
What Grandpa Thought.

Jack-Grandpa. we've been arguing
whether the clock stands or sits on
the mantel.
Crandpa-It's half past by the
clock and 1t is only a quarter to s,
therefore. | should say II lies on the
mantel."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
Opening the Alstead Auto Season.

Mrs. Kingsburv, son and wife. took
an auto ride on Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Gilman recently
enjoyed an auto ride with their neigh
bors.
Mr. and Mrs. Badger, accompanied
by the sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs
w. Richardson of Bellows Falls, autoed
to Keene on Sunday.
On Sunday, June /, Mr. and Mrs
Austin Fish had a very enjoyable ride
to Walpole-Alstead items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
Revised Songs.

For the bolsheviki:
Loaf for the night is coming,
Loaf through the morning hours
For the substi-saloon frequenter:
We shall meet but we shall miss it,
There's not even kickless beer
For everybody:
Haste thee, Peace, and bring thee
Prices as they used to be-Exc.
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Member Of The Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of all news
dispatches credited to it and not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
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fourth star.
Seems to me it is more becoming to
you than any of your other SUITS"
"Ha, ha, ha," said Mr.. Moon. 81 am
glad you like it. wear 1t every month
you know. l have only a few suits,
but l keep on wearing them year after
year, and as l have heard no COM
plants 1 suppose I will always wear
them"
You'll never hear any complaints
from u.s." said the stars together.
you see" said Mr. Moon. Il have
wardrobe back of the clouds"
WHAT" exclaimed the stars.
"a wardrobe" said Mr.. Moon.
"Tell US what that is" said the
stars. "We never heard of it before.
Is it alive? Is 1t creature? Is it
cloud? What is it?"
''Well, that is great joke" said Mr..
Moon. You don't know what a ward
robe is? Well, I'll have to tell YOU And
now that | come to think about it. it
Is really not in the least surprising
that yen do not know about u ward
robe.
You always wear the same little
costumes. They're so lovely that no
one would ever want to see any
change.
They're quite perfect-the costumes
of the stars-and / do believe that If
ever the stars came out dressed in
something else, long trailing skirts and
feathered hats for example, it would
make folks most unhappy. most"
ITO think of US wearing trailing
skirts and feathered hats" laughed
the stars.
From what you have said, though"
/ one little star added. II think that
wardrobe has something to do with
clothes. Perhaps a wardrobe makes
1.-The robes. Eh?"
That's a good guess" said Mr.
Moon, "but it isn't the right one"
! Tell US, then" said the stars.
MY wardrobe. or any ones ward
robe, is where clothes are kept. I
have wardrobe back of the clouds.
high up in the sky. Its a beautiful
gray wardrobe. very handsome.
People have wardrohes made of
wood, but that is all right for people.
The cloud workmen and the sky work
men have no wood to gather There
are no trees IL tho sky so they can
pull down trees ana make furniture.
CIV Xyarfl,oI,n Il ,u.,,la ~ clouds q {
the wardrobe Of the moon should be
made.
And in my wardrobe hanging up on
tiny clouds. instead of nails like peo-
pie use, are my different suits.
There is my suit wear when
am half moon. and there is my suit
I wear when am crescent moon
there is my suit wear when am q
tliree-Quarter sized neon. All my
suits are there.
and have few coIored suits
when I wish to look gay-red and
orange suits. Those are my suits for
: the fancy dress balls which we give
in the sky"
"Ah. Mr. Moon" said one of the
stars. 1--WE are so glad to hear about
your wardrobe. and each time we see
you we like the suit you have on al
the time best"
THAT is So" said all the stars
well. to tell the truth" said one
of the stars I'VE come out with you
so many, many nights, just to admire
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
A. Few of the 81.

Wednesday evening, Mr. and Mrs E.
NJ Piekel had as callers his brother,
Cecil. and wife, and Harper and son,
Winston, who is nicely recovering from
his auto accident-West Charlestown
item
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
With Our Deep sympathy.

.on Eve of His Departure. Great
Lakes Bulletin.
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change all the chromos in the parlol
Saturday she had him fairly reeling.

Miss Ethel Lander of Monette and
John Tooker of Phelps were married last
Thursday at the home of the bride s
mother, Mrs. G. s. Lander-Phelps
item.
Tulip, who cannot be repressed, re-
marks that she is glad that John
Tooker' as long as he was bound to
Lander
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

Although Great Britain gets the cred
it for the first nonstop transatlantic
fight the pilot of the machine was an
American.
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Today's Birthdays.

Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy, U. S. A.. the
man who said: Americans cannot re.
treat born at Newcastle, Ind, IS years
ago today
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, wife OF
the former secretary of state, born at
Perry, III, 50 years ago today.
Adolphus Frederick, former grand duke
Of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, born SO years ago
today.
DR.. Thomas W. Nadel, president OF
Drury college, born at Milroy, Ind, Al
years ago today
Edward j. Berwind, noted New York
capitalist and railroad magnate, born at
Philadelphia, II years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

Ezra SAYS that once in a while he tells
his wife the absolute truth about some
thing just to get her all mixed up.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17

"The one-man ear was making its
wav bounding along, swaying, roaring
and shaking its name as usual Even
tually the monster Gained down suffi-
GENTLY to permit the god of the machine
to open-the- door and let down the step
in sequence, just as we have written it.
and young woman started to alight. -
What? In Brattteboro? o no!
This narrative ism t about Brattleboro
at all; it happened in Hartford, Conn.
OF course if you aren't interested we
won t continue.
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your real admirers. we arei"
And aIr. Moon smiled and said, Il
know Ii, my true, loyal little Star
friends"
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Aunt Sarah says she can't under
stand how this awful Bookkeeping can
be carried on when everybody is wear
ing low shoes nowadays
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One Year Ago Today in the War.

The Bulgarian cabinet resigned
American casualty list to date totaled
S,l73
Germans made unsuccessful attempt to
construct footbridge across the Marine.
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WANTED-Man with Ford car who
has mechanical turn and understands
cows.-Adv. in the Fresno Republican.
Anyone who can drive a Ford ought
to be able to drive q cow.
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DADDYJFVfN|NQH
FAIRY TALE FL
MR.. MOONS ADMIRERS.
6y hary Graham !! Bonner u',!!s!

You do look so handsome these
nights" said one of the stars
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''Flivverish.''

W. II. Blake has purchased Ford
automobile.
Leighton Ford is suffering from a
sprained ankle.
George Stafford has sold his Ford tour
ing ear to Ruel Ford
Mrs. John Ford and little son Mil
lard were guests of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Pinkham Thursday.
Mrs. George Pinkham and little
grandson, Leslie, were guests of Mrs.
John Ford and family Friday.-Marion-
vile items.
Ezra says he generally enjoys moving
pictures but when friend wife had him
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-17
Getting Ready for in

Getting Ready for July /.
W. d. Bull has bought the gasoline
launch called the water Wagon" 1t
has capacity of 40 persons.-Hyde-
vile item.