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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE
By LEE PAPE

Pop was up in the setting room smoak
ing a segar with a band on it smelling as
if the band was jest put on to detrsek
your attention away from the smell, and
ma was darning holes III stockings and
was laying on the floor looking up at
the ceiling and wondering if it would
be too mulch werk 10 be a crate man
wen | grew up, and scd, Pop?
All present or accounted for, sed pop.
Being wat they say in the army, and |
j could get all the way thru college by
the time | was about II?
Wy not, wy not? sed pop, they say
Rudyard Kipling spoke languages wen
he was 8 munths old and cried because
they wouldent let him lern another, so
wy not
Well, do YOU think | could be a crate
POLITICIAN and have my pickture in all
the papers and have people cheering me
and ditfrent things about yeer after
left college? | sed.
Stranger things than that have hap
pened, they say wen Chaunsey Depew
was weeks old he use to deliver ora
tons that kepp both his parents up all
mite, sed pop.
AND | looked up at the ceiling vile
longer and thei | sed, Well, do you
think II | tried hard enuff | could be
elected president of this country wen |
was about 10?
Nuthing is impossible, they say Kaiser
Wilhelm Of Germinny was air to the
throne at the age of one day, sed pop.
Willynm, how can you put sutch Ulcers
in the boys he'd? sed ma
I'm not, my deer, he's putting taem in
mine, sed pop, however, parents place
Is in the home. and boys place is out
IN the street with the other boys-Benny
is werd to the future president suffi-
cient?
Yes sir, | sed
And | went ont to see who was out
witch Pubs Simkins and Leroy Shoostei
and Ed Wernick was, saying they was
jest going to ring the bell for me, being
a coineidents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co, c. w.
Cleveland, s. l.. Purinton (Esteyville), Brooks
House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot Newsstand,
George Bower, Riverview street (Fort
Drummer district.
West Brattleboro, J. /. Stockwell
East Dummerston, NJ. (. Brown.
Putney, NJ. G. Williams.
Newfane, n. NJ Batcheder.
Townshend, c. w. Cutler.
West Townshend, c. IL. Grout.
Jamaica, X. ]. Daggett.
South Londonderry, f. II. Tyler
South Vernon, f. B. Bufum.
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, 1919-03-13

1t locks as though the ExKaiser is
inhumanities through legal technical
ity 1t is said there is no information
al law against war and any law ere
ated at this time would be retroactive
in effect if applied to the former Ger
man emperor. To live morally con
demned by civilization and loathed by
his former subjects whom he deserted
hang man or firing squad could in
fict But there would be no living
down the verdict of the rope or the
gun and we wish they might he al
lowed to act in William s case.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

States as mediator in the dis
pute among the Central American
republics.
l915-The allied fleet resumed the at
tack on the Dardanellcs forts.
l9l6-Rome reported notable gains for
the Italian forces on Corso Plat
eau
l917-The remnant of the government
forces and officials in Petrograd
surrendered to the revomtionists.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
Good Advice.

Advice which is easy to follow is
not always the advice 1t pays II take.
There are some people who keep on
asking counsel till they get that which
calls for no especial effort. and then
hail The civer as the wisest on their
list of acquaintances. Eut good al
vice. like good medicine, may be bitter
to the taste, and the best friend is NOT
always the one who tells US the thing
we like TO hear-Girl's Companion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
Today's Anniversaries.

1S21-Yictor Emmanuel of SARDINIA was
compelled to abdicate in favor
of his brother.
1S4S-Insurrection in Vienna. and
flight of Prince Metternieh.
1S69-James Guthrie, President
Pierce s secretary of the treas
ury, died in Louisville. Born at
Bardstown, Ky, Dee. 5, 1892.
1S71-The Black Sea conference abro-
gated the restrictions placed on
Russia in 1886.
1900-The British under Lord Roberts
occupied Bloemfontein.
19l0-The president of Nicaragua de-
elned 10 accept the United
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
One Year Ago Today in the war.

Richthofen, German aviator, achiev-
ed his sixty-ffth victory.
Five persons killed and nine in
jured in German air raid on London.
German troops took possession OF
Odessa, Russia IS chief Black sea port.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

The building of four-foot fence
around the witness stand in a New
York court room to prevent Mrs. Deity
Inch from making too generous display
of her ankles before the jury makes
one wonder just how tall Mrs. Inch IS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

Governor Coolidge Of Massachusetts
has designated the week of April q
as be-kind- to animals week. The Yer
mont legislature ought to have waited
until then, or later, before enaetine
the new dog lava measure whose
supposed encouragement to sheep rails
ing will amount 10 nothing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

1t 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 10 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
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, 1919-03-13
Easy Enough.

Why did ycu leave your last place? =
asked the boss.
Il didn t leave it. It left me.
Rather strange, l should say.
q Not at all | worked in an ammuni
ton factory. Ladies Home Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

The bear talk of the members of tho
house on Wednesday wasn't very good
advertising for the state of Vermont.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

was vetoed about two weeks ago and is
now awaiting rccommitment to the SEN
ate.
Rollo G. Reynolds, for the last year
and half director of agriculture at the
Vail schools at Lyndonville, has resigned
his position to enter educational work
with the Young Mems Christion associ-
alton overseas He viii do educational
administrative work He expects to re-
turn IN September to take up POSTCARD
uate work at Columbia university His
successor has not yet been appointed.
Rev. Orlando F. Aiken OF Burlington
formerly pastor of the Methodist church
at Fairfax, but who is now under sus-
pension by the Vermont Methodist CON
ference, has filed in Chittenden county
court a suit to recover damages of S3009
and just costs from Frederick Bell OF
Swanton. The suit is the second legal ac-
ton in a elimination of the preferring
of charges by the Methodist conference
in connection with his pastorate in the
church at Fairfax.
nan, 1aftWeII d To-, OF Troy, y. j :,
one OF the city largest manufacturers
of shirts, collars and cuffs, have leased
| for term of years from the executor OF
| the G. II. Grimm estate. the shirt factory
| in Rutland. formerly occupied by the
Aorke Shirt company of Glens Falls. y
| y The firm expects to begin operations
| about the middle Of April or the first OF
May and win give employment to a large
number of women operatives
| The Hotel Vermont and the Van Ness
house in Burlington will make their own
| zee this summer. The plant at the Van
| Ness was installed some years ago, but
has never been used 1t is capable oi
manufacturing two tons of ice per day
in the hottest weather. At the Hote
Vermont new plant has been installed
and is already in operation The plants
at both hotels are operated by electricity
The scarcity of ice from the lake makes
/ the use OF these ice manufacturing con
Germs necessary this summer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

Rutland for the annual session May p
and %
Little Grace Robinson of Readsboro
Falls sustained a double fracture of one
leg, one break being just below the hip
and the other just below the knee, last
Sunday, by falling tree.
Willard F. Cutler of Barre town, for
many years a deputy sheriff, died Wednes-
day morning after l0-days' illness with in
fuenza and pneumonia He was well
known in the central part of the state.
He leaves wife and two sons.
The Oldsmobile company of Vermont
will assemble about 300 men in Barre
Friday for conference in connection with
the industry The men will be enter
tanned by the board of trade and Their
plans include visit to the quarries.
Mrs A. T. Smith of Springfield hearing
| her three-year old son scream, rushed up
stairs to find him in flames. The child
had been playing i'll his nightclothes, and
| it is believed he got hold of some match
es. He lived but few hours. His moth
err was badly burned in her efforts to save
| him.
Cards have been received announcing
the marriage of Miss Mary T. Abbott of
Bethel and Mai. Dwight F. Smith of the
/ United Suites marines, which occurred
| in Boston Maj, Smith received promo
ton following his leading a charge at
| Chateau Thierry as a sergeant last July.
| He is now attached to the marine bar
racks at Boston.
/ Schools in Bellows Falls are closed this
week and persons under Is years of age
prohibited from attending entertainments
on account of an outbreak of influenza.
During the past week 40 cases have been
reported to the health officer and there
are many others i'll with hard colds.
Seventy-four pupils and four teachers
were absent from the high school Mon
day.
i Leon II. Beach, for the last year di.
rector of industrial education for the state
of Vermont, has been given leave of alb
sence until July l. his services having
been requested by the government to do
| administrative work for the federal board
of vocational education at Washington
in connection with the rehabilitation OF
disabled mon.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president OF
J! the National Equal Suffrage assoc alton
speaking before the general assembly at
Montnelier Wednesday evening, declared
that Gov Clements veto of the bill al
lowing women to vote for Presidential
electors was unconstitutional She con
(! tended that legislatures alone had the
1 right to regulate the Presidential vote
and that the bill did not require the sig
nature of the state executive. The bill
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

1t viii not be popular to name
American boys William for few
years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

Wait one whole week before writing
the angry letter that you intended to
write and if YOU are still in the notion,
make it angrier
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
VERMONT NEWS.

The state department of the G.. \. r.,
with its auxiliary orders, win meet in
Rutland for the annual session May p
and %
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
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.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

Little Grace Robinson of Readsbor
Falls sustained double fracture of on
leg, one break being just below the hi
and the other just below the knee, las
Sunday, by falling tree.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

now awaiting recommitment to the sen,
ate.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

Willard r. Cutler of Barre town, for
many years deputy sheriff, died Wednes-
day morning after l0-days' illness with in
fucnza and pneumonia. He was well
known in the central part of the state.
He leaves wife and two sons.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13

The Oldsmobile company of Vermont
will assemble about 200 men in Barre
Friday for conference in connection with
the industry The men will be enter
tanned by the board of trade and Their
plans include a visit to the quarries.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

down there In the lobby. and the lady
came in. walked in out OF the dining
room She tripped and fell down, and
three or four picked her up.
Q. Do you know how she came to
fall2 a She came in there and
dropped her purse and reached over
to get II, and It looked like she was
little top heavy
Another Soldier Talks.
J. H Pinkerton OF motor truck com
pany p, testified that he and Corp.
Stout Of the same company were at
the StOckmen's hotel the night OF jan
uary 10. and occupied room No. 1.
Q. Who was the first person that
came 70 your room? A I believe It
was a woman. sir.
Q. Did you see any bell boys7 A.
Yes, sir.
Q. Did you have any conversation
with them? A Yes. sir.
O. Did you get the women through
that conversations A Sir. I don't
know.
Q. What was the bell boys num-
ber7 a Sir, I don't know.
Q. Was he black or white7 A
White.
Q. Did he ask you or you ask him?
A. We first asked him about the
place. and he said ne would get US
one.
Q. How long before he got you
one? A. About an hour.
Q. Do you know the woman's name
that came to your room? A. No. sir.
Q. How many women came to your
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08
Try Making Your DUN
Cough Remedy
You can save about g, and have
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made kind. Easily done.

If YOU combined the curative proper
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there is in this simple homemade
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IN a few minutes.
Get from any druggist 21s ounces
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This Pinex and Syrup preparation
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A DAVIS use will usually overcome
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Pinex is a most valuable coneeu-
trated compound of genuine Norway
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To avoid disappointment, ask your
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refunded The Pinex Co.. Ft, Wayne.
Ind
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

@ What did you register as? A
Lieut. Sheehan.
@ Is that alIg A. And wife
G. Do you know the name Of the
glrl you had2 A. I know her first
name u was Nay.
@ Do you know II her last name
was Carison2 A / don't believe she
tod me her last name
Did Not Recall Name.
G. Do sou recall the last name II
she told you2 A. No, sir
@ What time did you leave theref
A stayed until next day.
@ Did you ger any liquor up IN
your room2 A Not that ! know Of
may have
@ Did you give . check on either
one OF these occasions when you paid
-or the lcuor2 A. Yes, sir
g How much was the check for?
A. Seven dollars
@ Have you that returned chsckf
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08
MORNING SESSION HAS
FEW THRILLING MOMENTS

Saturday mornings session had none
OF the thrills OF the first four hours
Of the hearing and consisted Of argu-
nents Of counsel and the decision OF
the commissioner holding Chips and
Diminishing Campbell
Fryer In the course OF his argument
said:
The evidence presents what looks
IKE an old fashioned honk -a-tonk.
with dancing and liquor below and
rooms upstairs With the shirt tail
Darades that were going on there on
the 23d day of January, IL shows that
the proprietors OF the Stockmen's no.
tel were wilfully, knowingly and IN
lawfully permitting a prostitute. to-
wit, one May Carlson and others to
remain on the premises for the pur-
pose OF prostitution"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08
raj
As 10 Their Hair.

Z room2 a I don't know; there were
several
As 10 Their Hair.
O. What was the color OF their
hair.-the first woman that came, or
was she bald headed? A. She was
brown haired.
Q. What was the color Of the next
ones hair3 A. Blond
@ How many women did you have
there? A. There were four.
Q. Did you have anything 70 drink
during the time the first women
came? A. Sir, I don't drink myself.
Q. You stayed In room No. /? A.
Yes. sir.
Q. Did the women stay with you?
A. No. sir: we were up all night. We
left at o'clock.
@ When did you next come back2
A The next night
Q. Did you go 70 any room the first
thing2 A Yes. sir.
O. What room was that7 A. 4s. I
think.
Q. Who was in 4s7 A. There was
a woman.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

Q. We're you Instructed 10 get the
bootleEger or the big fellow? A. The
big fellow
G. State what your instructions
we're in regard TO going and getting
these places2 A Get them: buy the
whisky and turn them in Always get
the man at the head that was running
the place. Work from the bottom to
the top.
Q. Did you make anything on this
transaction yourself? A No. SIR.
@ Spent the money that was given
you and brought the stuff back to the
office and made report to them? A.
Yes, sir
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

q What did you register as? a
Lieut.. Sheehan-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08
Learn Shorthand, | Week

You viii be amazed a. the quickness
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conversation. speeches. orders, etc, as
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Az, Station F. New York. n. 7. Just
write for this and see what you get
Astonish everybody with your ability
and earn more money.-AdY.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08
RACKING COLDS.
HACKING COUGHS
Quickly relieved BY Dr.. Bells Pine
Tar-Honey

When you once try this highly
efficient remedy you viii realize that
st last you have found a reliable cor
receive for colds coughs, grippe.
asthma, bronchitis.
The soothing, healing bzlsams
promptly relieve irritation, breathing
becomes easier. phlegm loosens, fever
lsh flushes die down.
Dr.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey IS very
econ ouical-it takes little TO produce
gratifying results Druggists every
where 30c, soc and $3.50.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

look at these two plates and use
your own reasoning, The roofless
has suetiOns on both sides ~, soft
rubber next 20 sore gums. Designed
to be put IN Immediately after ex-
traction II does not touch the
hard bone IN the roof Of the mouth,
therefore, It settles with the gums
and makes its own bed. No fun
roof plate can compare with the fit
Of this plate, as it settles into It's
bed, lighter, more tongue room,
clearer speech.
Or. Williams has been making this
plate Tor ten years, and is thor
oughly familiar with its constr1c-
tiou. Made only BY rs in Fl Paso.
NOTE OUR LOWEST PRICES
~ rates ------------....-S10 up
Gold Crowns (best made) ...-....sS
Bridge work, per tooth. IS
FILINGS ---------..........S1 up
an classes Of dentistry at proper
Tomato prices.
J. HOD WILLIAMS, M.D-D.D.S.
Painless Williams, The Peoples
Dentist
Cor. II Paso and san Antonio Sta,
over American National Bank.
Across Street From Entrance Hotel
Del N0rte.
Feze PSI. Hours 500 to $50.
Sunday 3 70 II. Sat. Evening"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

A. Yes, sir.
Q. How long have you been q
ranger2 A Seven years.
@. Were you at the stockmen's
hotel during the month OF January
last7 A. Yes. sir.
Q. When did you first come there?
A I think about the 18th.
Q. What room did you get7 A
think I first had room 4S and then
Q. The night Of the 18th did you
go right to your roOm2 A Yes.
had just come out Of the hospital. the
Hotel Dieu.
Q. Did any one come to your room
the night Of the 17th2 A No. sir;
II was the 18th.
Q. Who came theref A ! don't
know; II was a lady.
Q. How was she dressed? A In
a kimono. She said she had about a
half pint OF whisky, and said I heard
you are an old COW puncher; ] UNDER
stand you are sick"
Q. Did you take a drink? A. No.
sir
Q. Was anything else said7 A
She Just sat down there and started
a conversation.
Q. What else? A. I told her she
had better get out Of there; that I
had Just got out OF the hospital
She Had Shoes On.
Q. How was she dressed2 A. She
had on sort OF night shoes. the best I
can remember.
G. Was there any other occasion
that anything happened? A. I don't
know as there was. There was a lot
OF running up and down there.
Q. What did you hear2 A A little
later on, there was some one-I don't
know who-several therein the
room below me that was drunk, rails
ing hell I don't know who they
were.
Q. Women7 A There was 4
woman's voice IN there.
Q. Were you present when
woman fell7 A. In the lobby. yes.
Q. What night was that? A I
guess It was about the goth, don't
remember the night was standing
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08

Mss Sue Groeneweg. OF Rotterdam. re-
Gently elected a member Of the Dutch
parliament. Is the first woman n that
country 70 b thus honored.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-08
SPICY TESTIMONY ENUVENS THE
ST0CKMEN'S HOTEL HEARING

There We're Women There; Undress Parades Whisky
Was In Call; Soused Female Fell In the Lobby; Army
Officer Got Into Fight Ranger Had Unbidden
Nocturnal Guest There Were Some Nights There.