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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
TODAY'S DISPATCHES !
COME BY TELEGRAPH
Reyersion to the Primitive
Method Not Relished by
Local Subscribers, of
Whom There Are Now
Nearly 1,9O0-HistOry of
the Telephone in This
Town 6

Stiffness like that of funeral per-
vades the Brattleboro Office of the New
England Telephone & Telegraph Co.
today. An occasional click of the
switchboard mechanism is heard, but
so many people have been informed
that there is no service that attempts
to get telephone connection is now
practically limited to emergency calls.
F At o'clock this morning the strike
of the telephone operators began, and
since then the transmission of messages,
with the exception of the telegraph, has
been by the primitive method of walk
ing.
Brattlebero liasn't been obliged to re-
sort to that method since 1881, when
the local exchange was established. and
Brattleboro doesn't like it. 1t is to
be presumed, however, that present con-
ditions viii not exist for long.
Manager R. j. Eldridge thus far has
received no instructions as to any at
tempt to maintain service, and it is not
easy to see what he could do There
are several women and girls in Brattle-
boro who have had experience in tele
phone operating, but it is not known
whether any of them could be secured
to help out in this emergency.
When the time came for the day
operators to return to work this morn
| ing the only ones to arrive were the
chief operator and the information
operator. AT that time the public in
general did not know what arrange
ments had been made over night or
whether there was to be a strike or
not, consequently there were good
F., number of early calls.
The two operators and the manager
| answered a few of them, but it was not
long before subscribers were told that
there was no service, because of short
| age of help, and thereafter calls fell
of rapidly. Calls which it was learned
were emergency were put through, but
practically there has been no service
To-day.
| Business concerns of course miss the
| service most of all, including The Re
former. Gathering news without the
Telephone is slow process, and not
|
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
Red Mem S Hall

Regular meeting of Brattleboro camp,
No. 1887, NJ W. A., Tuesday evening,
April Is, at s o'clock District Deputy
George f. Baldwin will be present to ad-
dress the meeting. Let us have full
attendance
Thursday, April IL, s p. m.-Speeial
meeting Of Pocahontas Council, No. 4, ID
of r. Adoption degree. Corn and veni-
son. q good attendance is desired.
Dance will be held every Saturda!
night.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
WORK ON GARAGE
WELL UNDER WAY
Building to Be Erected by K. E. Mosh-
er on Flat Street to Be One Story
With Yellow Brick Front.

Stone masons today completed the
front foundation wall for X. L. Mosher's
new garage office and show room which
he win build east of his garage ON Flat
street. The excavation and construction
work is being done by Pellett & Skinner.
Mr. Mosher will build only one-story
building at present, but it will have a
basement and will be about 80 feet wide
by IS feet long. The front will be of
yellow pressed brick to match the front
of the present garage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15

Tuesday, April l5-Annual meeting of
Bingham chapter, No. 80, o. L. 5. Busi-
ness: Election Of officers. A full attend
ance is desired. Supper will be served at
6.l5. The ladies' are requested to come
early in the afternoon and bring their
thimbles
The ladies of Bingham chapter. No. 80
o. Il. S., will hold food sale Saturday
April 10, from , to $50 O'Clock in the
store north of the Western Union tele
graph Office.
Monday, April 2l, 40 p. m.-Specia
communication Brattleboro lodge
Work: Master Mason degree. Suppe,
will be served at $50.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
BIG NEW ENGLAND
TELEPHONE STRIKE
STARTED 7 O'CLOCK
GOVERNMENT WILL FIGHT.
Instructs Telephone Manager to
Replace the Strikers.

WASHINGTON, April 10
Holding that the telephone strike
is without justification, the post
office department today instructed
the manager of the company at
Boston to replace the strikers or
take any other steps necessary to
maintain the service unimpaired.
Officials said the department had
expressed its willingness to bar
gain collectively with the en-
ployes, its position being entirely
harmonious with the principles
laid down by the war labor board.
The employees, it was said, refused
to present a schedule of increases
desired and the department had
nothing on which to act.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
ALL RIGHT IN RUSSIA.
New American Commander Sends En-
couraging Report.

WASHINGTON. April l5.-Briga-
dier General Wilds p Richardson, new
commander of the American forces in
North Russia, reports military situa-
tion satisfactory in his first official
despatch since landing on Murmansk
coast. The message was dated April
13 or about two weeks after mutinous
conduct of Company | 339th Infantry
which refused to go to front from
Arehangel.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
THREE ASSASSINATIONS.
Communists Reported to Have Killed
Three Officials at Budapest.

LONDON. April l5.-Communists at
Budapest have executed Arch Duke Jo-
seph, DR. Alexander Wekerle. former pre-
mier, and Baron Joseph Szteprsenyl min
ister of commerce. according to an un-
confirmed report, A Copenhagen des-
patch to the Exchange Telegraph com
pany says the report is printed by the
Acht Uhr Blatt and the Abendblatt of
Berlin says the news was received from
travellers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
Worse and Worse.

We are told that the state has ex-
pended some $4,000 in making pro-
visions for the comfort of its patients
at the Brattleboro Retreat yet it has
no particular interest in that institu-
ton. We assume that the protectors
of the public treasury down Brattle-
boro way have particular reason fol-
always keeping something in the Golfers
at Montpelier. No knowing when they
will need to make call on it them
selves
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
First Baptist Church

Wednesday, April 16, s P. m.-Meet-
ing of Men union. Speaker, Clifford
b. Potter of Springfield, Mass. Sub
iect, The League of Nations. Music.
Refreshments
Thursday, April Il, 3 p. m.-Annual
meeting and election of officers of the
Woman s society in the chapel A large
attendance is urged.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15

George Eliot, the centennial anniver
sary of whose birth is to be celebrated
this year, was the greatest woman writ
er the world has ever known. She was
the fourth member of that great tet-
rarchy of novelists, Dickens, Scott and
Thackeray being the other three, who
gave to the literature of the nineteenth
century its predominant character and
made it essentially a literature of rom
anee. SO
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
Centre Congregational Church

Special Passion Week services will
be held in the chapel Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Friday evenings and in the
church Thursday evening, at 7.30
o'clock The Thursday evening meeting
will be communion service, that be-
ing the anniversary Of the first Lord S
Supper. Friday evening Mrs. Woodin
will read The Love Watch
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
LISTERS FINISH
FARM DISTRICTS
Expense Would Be Saved Town il
Those Who Bring In Inventories
Would Do So Promptly.

The listers have finished with the
farming districts of the town, and if
those vino usually bring in their inven-
tories to the office in the town hall
building will do so promptly the town
will be saved some expense.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15

The undeniable rights of the public
in this crisis and the responsibilities
of the operators in threatening to in
terrupt vital arm of a public service
led Miss O'Connor to issue the follow
ing statement yesterday:
.sModern records are bright with
stories of what the telephone girl has
done under fire. Heroine of hundred
emergencies. fires, floods, epidemics,
perils of all sorts, she sits at her
switchboard even at the risk of her own
life and makes her contribution to the
sum total of human heroism. The spir-
it that impels her to remain at her work
is as sacred as the great tradition of
the sea which says that the captain
shall go down with his ship.
''The telephone operators of this
community have demonstrated a hum
| dred times that their devotion and
bravery and willingness to serve have
been worthy of the great public serv-
| ice which they render. The telephone
using public has not forgotten, | am
sure, that the operating forces, de
/ pleted by 90 per cent and with tele-
phone traffic abnormally increased, met
| the emergency caused by the influenza
epidemic in manner that merited and
received special commendation alike
from their superiors and the public.
"Telephone operators remained III
the telephone service during the en-
tire period of the war, untempted by
the opportunity of earning tremen
dously higher wages at other oecupa
items. Nothing can explain this save
the theory Of the universal devotion OF
the telephone operator to this service
of which she is the heart.
1 "Will the public, therefore, believe
that these telephone operators woulo
contemplate strike action were sthey
not thoroughly disheartened and dis
couraged over the prospect of obtain
. ing fair recognition otherwises
During period of eight month
:, telephone operators unions have use'
every means, exhausted. every channel
!, appealed to every power to secure
hearing on the matter of their wages
which at the present time as well a
Iduring the war remained on a pre-wa
fbasis.
.Unauestionably, they availed then
selves of the hitherto satisfactory ma
t chinery mutually established in 1913 b
s the company and the union. Finding
/ unable to function on wage question
e because the government had assume
control of the wires some months pr
vious, they presented their schedule I
ID the so-called Ryan commission, a con
4
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
PRESIDENT LEAVES
PARIS APRIL 27 OR %
Will Be Represented at Peace Confer
ence by Col. House After
That Date.

PARIS. April Is (Havas) .-Presi-
dent Wilson intends to sail for the
United States April % or %, after be
ing present at the opening meeting OF
the peace congress at Versailles, the
Echo De Paris says today. After his
departure Colonel House will act fol
him, the newspaper adds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
niversalist Church

Thursday, April II, at 3 p. m.-Reg-
ular meeting of the Mission circle with
Miss Nettie Bishop, / Putney road.
There will be a talk by the pastor. Sub
.ject, The Influence of Woman
Thursday, April II, at 7.30 p. M
Regular meeting of Daughters circle
with Miss Annie Richardson, 70 High
street
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
MAY START FLIGHT
THIS AFTERNOON
Better Weather Conditions for Trans
atlantic Fliers Reported From
New Brunswick

ST. JOHNS, n. F., April l5-Weather
conditions had improved sufficiently to-
day to lead the associates of Harry
Hawker, Australian pilot of the Sopwith
biplane team, to believe he and Com
mander Grieye, his navigator, might
start their transatlantic fight late this
afternoon. High winds have carried
away the fogs of the past As hours.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
PENNSYLVANIA
RUSSIANS ARRESTED
Police Say They Spoke Against the
United States Government and
Favored Soviet Regime.

PITTSBURG, April l5.-Eighty- -seyen
Russians We're arrested last night when
the police raided a meeting at Mekees
Rocks. The police said that remarks
were made against the government of the
United States, the speakers favoring a
soviet regime.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
Will Bring Money to Vermont.
(Roston Globe.4
Boston Globe.

Properly spent, the $1,220.0oo that
Vermont is going to put into the state 's
highways this summer will bring con-
siderably more than that into the
state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
SEC. BAKER IN PARIS.
Was Accompanied by Ambassador
Wallace.

PARIS. April 15,-secretary of War
Baker and Hugh Wallace, new ambas-
sador to France, arrived in Paris today
from Brest.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
THE WEATHER.
Probably Rain or Snow Tonight-Gentle
North Winds.

WASHINGTON. April l5.rWeather
forecast; Fair tonight and Wednesday
in Maine Probably rain or snow in
New Hampshire and Vermont. Gentle to
moderate north winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
PERSONAL.

Mrs. John NJ Stratton, who left Brat
tleboro recently and was put under bond
in Springfield, has returned.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
GERMANS PILLAGE SHIP.
Took Food Being Sent for Relief OF
Poland

PARIS, April l5.-An American steam
ship laden with food for Poland was pill
laged at Hamburg by the Germans, ac-
cording to despatch from Warsaw re-
ceived in Zurich, and transmitted to the
Echo dc Paris.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15

In Spain woman's- mantilla is held
sacred by law, and it cannot be sold for
debt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15
Odd Fellows Temple

May day dance at Odd Fellows Temple
Tickets on sale at the Temple
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-15

Continued ON Page 81
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29
WHAT HAVE YOU?

For the Forest County Booth at the
State Fair? If you have anything for
the County Booth Exhibit kindly notify
any of the committee. The material
will be shipped from Crandon Sept. 18th
and we must have your material not
later than Tuesday Sept. End. We need
all kinds of vegetables.
Remember the booth represents all
of Forest county and it is entirely up
to the citizens of this county what sort
of booth they wish. If material is
limited, the booth will be poor, but if
everybody will help in giving material,
first class booth can be prepared.
The time is short and it is up to every
enterprising citizen to come forth with
the best.
A. w. SCHMUrzER, Co. Agt.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29
TEACH CALVES TO
BECOME CLEAN COWS

If you expect to have good clean
cows you must begin teaching them
this art while they are growing.
Calf pens should always bekept clean
and by the time calf is old enough to
be tied she ought to be placed where
she will be learning to keep out of the
filth.
Many people think that calves can be
tied in any kind of corner of the barn
which happens to be vacant. One very
necessary essential is a good floor.
They ought to be put in place which
is dry and where all water will drain a.
way from them. They also should have
a liberal amount of bedding.
Last, but not least, they should be in
a place where there is plenty of light,
so that they may be able to lie down in
clean. dry place if possible.
This seems like very simple need
but it always proves that calves raised
in filth are much less likely to make
clean desirable cows than those who
having learned cleanliness from youth
up.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29
DRESS SHIELDS NOT NOTION
An Accessory That Is Entirely Indis-
pensabie to the Neat and
Careful Dresser.

1t doesn't make any difference how
fashionably one is gowned nor how
expensive are ones clothes if there is
the slightest suggestion of careless
ness in the care of the clothes.
Dust in the folds or pleatings will
ruin the appearance of the most ultra
smart frock.
Stains of any character-a slight
splashing on the street crossing, the
trace of powder at the neck of the
gown. the unsightly evidence of per-
spiration-are all things that are I'M
necessary if one uses the ordinary
precautions in obviating them.
This year we find the extremes in
sleeves. Paris has abbreviated
sleeves for every gown apparently that
is to be worn in the house, but among
the multitudinous models for street
and all the occasions taking one out
of the home we find the long close
sleeves featured very extensively. With
such frocks or suits or blouses there
is only one sure road to constant
freshness and stainless beauty, and
that is by way of the well selected.
well-adjusted dress shield
1t has a very nice conference.-the
shield: it means to ward off, to de-
fend, to protect.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29
LABOR DAY PICNIC
TO Be Given by Local Timber
Workers Union.

|. The first annual picnic urder the
auspices of the local union of the In
ternational Timber Workers Union
will be given on Labor Day, Monday
Sept. 1st., in the grove back of the
new Soperton school.
Plans have been made for ore of the
biggest gatherings of the kind ever
held here.
The parade will be the main attrac-
tion during the forenoon and will be
led by the Wabeno band
There will be one or two addresses
by prominent speakers.
In the afternoon there will be all
kinds of games, races and contests.
In the evening there will be dances
in both halls. Music will be furnished
by the two home orchestras, the Pan
osh and Hub.
The Wabeno band will furnish music
during the day. Everybody is cordially
invited to come and help make the pic
mic success. Bring your lunch and
cups, coffee will be furnished free.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear There is
only one way. to cure catarrhal deafness.
and that is by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness is caused by in
famed condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is
perfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed, Deafness is the result. Unless the
Inflammation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which is
an inflamed condition Of the mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Medicine acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system.
any case Of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Medicine. Cir
culars free. All Druggists. 75c
F. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29

Dance tonight at Lewis Theatre.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29
So. AND SIS. FOR
DOG LICENSE
Wisconsin's New Dog Tax Law
Will Become Effective on
July l, 1920.

The legislature of Wisconsin has pass
ed dog license law, effective July l,
1920, requiring state and local tax of
So on male dogs anc SIS on female dogs.
The new law reads in part as follows
Every owner of dog more than six
months of age shall annually, before
the Goth day of June, obtain a license
therefor, and shall pay for such license
SO for each male dog, and SIS for each
female dog, such payments to be made
to the town, village or city in which
said dog is kept; and shall at the same
time and in addition thereto, paw to
said clerk for his service, the sum of Is
cents. The application for such license
shall be In such form as shall be pre-
scribed by the department of agricul-
ture, shall be in writing, and state
name, sex, breed, age, color and mark
ing of the dog for which the license is
sought.
The license year shall commence on
the first day of July and end on the 80
tn day of the following June. The first
license period shall begin July /, 1920.
Every owner of a dog for which IL
cense is required shall make appliea-
ton for such license before the begin
ming of license year. The owner of
any dog which shall become six months
of age within sixty days thereafter ap-
ply for and obtain license in the man
ner herein prescribed and the fee there
for shall be the same as for the full
year. All licenses shall terminate on
the Both day of June of the license
year for which they were issued. The
sale or transfer of any licensed dog
shall carry with it and transfer the IL
cense, but upon condition that the
transferee shall exhibit to the clerk of
the town, village or city in which the
transferee shall keep said dog the or
iginal license within thirty days after
such transfer and shall pay to said
clerk the sum of ten cents for entering
such transfer of record in his office.
Every assessor shall annually and
prior to the first day of July ascertain
by diligent inquiry the dogs owned har-
bored or kept within his assessment
district Every person shall answer
frankly and fully all questions which
shall be put to him by such assessor
relative to the ownership, or keeping
of dogs within the assessors district
The assessor shall prepare list con-
tanning the names and addresses of all
owners of dogs in his district, the num-
Der and sex of dogs owned, harbored
and kept Such list shall be in dupli-
cate and shall be filed with the town,
village or city clerk of the district be-
fore the thirtieth day of June in each
year. Said clerk shall Immediately file
one of said lists in his office and deliver
the other to the department of'agricul-
ture. The assessor shall receive as
compensation therefor the sum of 20
cents for each dog listed by him, to be
audited and allowed by the county
board, as other claims against the
county but to be paid solely out of the
dog license fund.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-29
Circuit Court Adjourned

The September term of Circuit Court
for Forest county has been adjourned
to October 21st. The following from
this side of the county have been drawn
for jury service: Ed La Rock, August
Newman, Frank Londo, Ed Britten, j..
HI. Hammes, A. A. Carter, VIM. Baker
and VIM. Gruman.