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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
NEW GAME LAWS
NOW IN FORCE
Close Season for Partridges for Two
YearS--Booklet of Laws Soon to
Be Issued by State.

Attention is called to some of. the
game laws which are now in force and
will be included in a booklet of fish
and game laws issued by the state
copies of which will be received for
distribution soon at the town clerk S
office.
No one shall take or possess par
fridge, ruffled grouse, prior to Sept.
Is, 1921, as there is a close season for
two years. Woodcock, not to exceed
four in one day or % in a season, may
be taken from Oct. | to Dec. l. The
open season for ducks and geese begins
Sept 16 and ends Jan. |. The open
season for rabbits begins Sept. Is. The
bag limit is five in one day and no one
| is allowed to have more than five in
his possession at one time.
| The open season for grey squirrels
begins Sept. Is and closes Dee. /. Not
more than five squirrels may be pos
sessed at one time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
EXHIBIT OF FISH
AT VALLEY FAIR
State Fish and Game Department to
Co-operate-Project for Stocking
with Horned Pout.

State Fish and Game Commissioner Lin
us Leavens of Montpelier has written
County Warden f. II Metcalf to cooper
ate with the management of the Valley
fair in preparing an exhibit of local fish
for Sept. 30 and Oct l.
George H. Chaffee of Middlebury, who
has had considerable experience in these
matters, is to come to Brattleboro soon
and confer with County Warden Metcalf
and Secretary II. L. Mofiitt of the fair as.
sociation, to see if arrangements can be
made for tanks, water, fish for exhibition,
etc.
If any of the local fishermen should
take a good specimen alive and practically
uniniured, he would confer a favor by
keeping the fish alive and reporting tc
Mr. Metcalf.
There is also project on foot to dc
some stocking with horned pout and Mr.
Metcalf would like to get hold of a few
specimens of large pout from the Connect
cut overhows. Horned pout are easily
kept alive, and few good specimens left
at the fire station on Elliot street coulC
be used to an advantage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
STUDENTS IN HIGH
SCHOOL NUMBER 355
School Opened Today with Largest
Registration in It's History-In-
crease in Other Schools.

Brattleboro schools opened today for
the fall term and there was the largest
registration in the history of the high
school, there being 60 more pupils than
last year, also a record attendance in
many of the grades.
In the high school the total registra-
tions numbered 335, of which 159 were
members of the freshman class. AS
usual girls outnumbered the boys al
though the percentage was not as large
as in some years, the enumeration to-
day showing 1872 girls and 143 boys. In
the junior class the girls outnumber
the boys by nearly two to one. The
registration last year totaled 275.
Aside from the two post graduate girls,
the classes are divided as follows: Sen
ior, "a girls, 20 boys; junior, AZ girls,
freshman, GA girls, 50 boys.
Although complete figures are not
available for all grades it is known
that there is large attendance in each
grade, the registrations in the two
seventh grades being the largest on
record, with "a pupils enrolled.
The free kindergarten opened this
morning with the other schools, and
! tdhlHS lne weather INTO cOnSlueTa1iOn
! there was good attendance Miss
Sylvia Crosby began work this morning
as assistant to Miss Mary Fits, il
place of Miss Nalva Roberts, who re
signed.
In ST. Michael's Parochial school thu
opening day registration was large
than last year, from 80 to 100 chill
dren attending today. More expected
tomorrow, as some of the children, es
pecially among the beginners, wer'
kept at home on account of the storm,
weather.
The Brattleboro Business Institute
opened yesterday with % enrolled from
this and surrounding towns, and other
expected within few days. This is
slightly smaller attendance than on tn
) opening day last year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
Only Three in This County
Found to Be Free
of Disease
MAY BE AVAILABLE
FOR SEED IN 1920
Mosaic and Leaf Roll Diseases Most
Prevalent u Irish Cobbler and
. Found to Be Free

Of 10 potato fields in Windham coun-
ty which were entered for seed certii-
cation, County Agricultural Agent Way
land p. Frost of this place states that
only three have survived the inspection,
potato diseases being sufficiently prev
alent in the seven other fields to rule
the seed out of the diseased free class.
As a result, if farmers in the county
avail themselves of the certified seed
raised in the county this season, Irish
Cobblsrs will be the foundation for
large proportion Of the 1920 potato crop
in Windham county, with the World 5
Fair variety in second place.
The three fields from which certified
seed viii be available are an acre of
Cobblers. which show disease of less
than 10 per cent, grown by j. A. San
ford of Putney; two acres of Cobblers
grown by C. S. Streeter of Wardsboro;
and an acre of World IS Fair grown by
George Stickney of Saxtons River The
entire product of seed from these fields
| could be disposed of easily in the Long
Island seed potato market for a price
] we'll in advance of the local table stock
/ quotation, but the Farm Bureau is en-
and planted next season in this county.
The 10 fields which entered the con-
test were among the best fields in the
county, and the fact that only three OF
them passed the seed tests for disease
free foliage shows conclusiveIy that po-
tato foliage diseases have become Sc
we're menace in Windham county.
Diseases which were most common in
the rejected fields were mosaic and leaf
roll, and some fields showed infections
of the mosaic disease as high as 100
/ per cent Either of these diseases,
4 when found in hill of potatoes, can
be traced as the cause of reduction
of the yield of marketable potatoes in
that hill to so or 60 per cent.
4 Although the Farm Bureau is max
ing arrangements with the Eastern
States Farmers Exchange of Spring
field. Mass, whereby certified seed po-
tatoes will be available from outside
the county next spring, persons desir-
ing to replace their seed with a better
quality. of potatoes for next year 's
planting would do well in the opinion
of the county agent, to look to the pos
sibility of buying from one of the three
growers who have grown certified seed
this season within the county.
The county agent says that many
farmers still believe that the poor po
tato crops in 1918 and 1919 were due
to the moon or adverse weather eondi
tions. but the comparative yields from
. the diseased and non-diseased plants in
the fields inspected are regarded by
state authorities as conclusive evidence
of the fact that poor potato yields are
due mainly to diseased seed Windham
county farmers should realize the impor-
tance of combating the potato diseases
which can be eliminated only by oh
tanning disease-fres seed, and the prod
D net of the three fields which hav,
I passed the seed certification require
a ments ought all to be planted in Wind
p ham county in 1920
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
JAPANESE OPIUM
SENT INTO MEXICO
Violation of the Mexican Laws-Large
Part of Drug Struggled Into
United States.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 3.-A shipment
of crude opium consigned as japanese
cigars was imported into Mexico
through Salina Cruz ON March 80, 1917,
from Kobe, Japan, according to declara-
tions made by W Z. Hermann, described
by the papers here as German bank
er,'' in deposition made in court, fol-
lowing a vigorous antl-oplum campaign by
the press.
Except for a raid by police and health
officials and the legal inquiry in which
Hermann figured, the opium expose has
not been pressed in the courts. Although
Hermann, in his deposition, did not
give the size of the shipment imported
in 1917, the newspapers declare it totalled
5000 Kilograms and that, at present pric-
es, was valued at 3,500,000 pesos. In the
raid crude opium valued at $4,000 pesos
was seized it is said and thousands of
tiny empty tins, supposedly used for re-
failing the prepared drug, were found.
According to the newspapers, the profits
of the opium trade, on the one shipment
referred to, ran into millions of pesos
1t is said that an involved system OF
smuggling resulted in most of the narcotic
being sold in the United States. 1t was
shipped as cigars sent over the line
in automobiles equipped with double gaso
line tanks and carried across in hanc
baggage by band of Germans according
| to revelations here
Since the Mexican law does not prohibi
importations of opium, the federal depart
ment of health being concerned only il
its sale, the drug dealers confined thei
operations to sales by devious methods il
| the United States Branches of the or
ganization are said to have operated a
Nuevo Laredo, Mex, New York and Sal
| Francisco.
During their campaign against the traf
fc, the papers printed charges and name
of personages as though libel laws did no
! exist
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
SEES NO TRUCE
IN LABOR WAR
President of New York
State Federation of La
Dor Repudiates Plan
WILL FIRE THE
MEN ASKING IT
Declares They Overstepped Commit
tees Powers in Making Such Rec
ommendation- Have Already Been
Expelled from Garment Cutters Union

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-James p. Hol-
land, president of the New York state
federation of labor has repudiated the
report of the committee appointed by
him which recommended that labor re-
frain from participating in strikes for
six months as a means for combating
industrial unrest and lowering the cost
of living Asserting that the committee
had overstepped its powers in making
the recommendation, he said he would
discharge both members, j. A. Pierce
and |. Epstein. They have both been
expelled from the garment cutters
union, according to union official for
acting in a manner detrimental to the
interests of the organization. -
William Kohn, chairman of the Ameri-
can labor party and formerly president
of the central federated union here, said
last night that he was confident" the
labor unions would pay no attention To
the report of the anti-strike program
formulated by the New York state fed,
GRAFTON of labor and that resolutions re.
pudiating it would be presented at meet.
ings of all central and local labor unions
in the state.
Speaking for the upholsterers' union
one of those which is on the verge of q
strike" said Kohn, Il viii say that it vii
go ahead with its program and that il
reflects the general sentiment among la
boring men. The unions viii demand
increases irrespective Of any group o
men getting together with the employ
ers' association and issuing an anti-strik,
manifesto.
The report Of the congress committe,
on the Borah resolution on profiteering
shows that the cost of living has gon
up from so to 100 per cent and on thi
we can base an average of 80 per cen
increase. The labor movement in gen
eral has received no increase in wage
above 80 per cent for some years an,
workers are now actually getting 60 pc
cent less in wages than they receives
four years ago. Labor unions in the fu
ture will be guided by conditions and no
by men who lead them into bondage an
who work hand in hand with the profit
eers."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
RACE HORSES ON
BIG MOTOR TRUCK
Load of Horses, Men and Equipment
Shows Adaptability of Motor
Vehicle in Transportation.

The adaptability of the motor truck
as means of transportation was IL
lustrated yesterday when large van
carrying three race horses, several men,
trio of sulkies, harness, hay, grain,
etc, went through here on its way from
the Athol fair to Rutland. One of the
horses in the van was Ben Earle, which
was defeated by Baron Alta in spe-
eial match race at Athol Monday, and
another was Radiant, winner of the
219 class the same day These horses
are scheduled to go to White River
Junction for the state fair next week,
and will then travel by auto to Green
field for the races there. previous to
coming to Brattleboro for the Valley
fair Sept. 30-Oet l. Baron Alta
zoo Ia, turned the Athol track in
200 IA in one heat of the special La
Dor day race and in view of the fact
| that this horse is entered in the free
for.all here predictions are being made
that the local track record is likely tC
| be broken.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
PHELPS RETURNS
AND is ARRESTED
Charge Against Former
Manager of Stromberg Farm-De-
MES Leaving with Woman.

Sheriff Frank l.. Vellman arrested
Frank E. Phelps in The home of his
mother, Mrs. Eugene lPhelps, in West
Brattleboro last night shortly after the
arrival of Phelps at his mother s home,
on charge of embezzlement. Phelps
left town the night off July II, and on
the same night Mrs Fred Carpenter of
l54 Elliot street wasI among Brattle-
boro S missing.
1t was not long after Phelps alighted
from the early evening train at the
railroad station that the sheriff received
tip that Phelps was in town, and lit
tie later the officer took him into Gus
todv.
State : Attorney E. w. Gibson was
notified and had Phelps taken to the
municipal courtroom. where bail was
fixed at $500 for the appearance of
the respondent in court next Monday
fer hearing on the question of bind
ing him over to the Windham county
court for trial.
The respondent was unable to secure
bail and the sheriff kept him in custody
This morning the officer accompanied
him to the Gustaf Stromberg farm on
Ames hill to see his wife and children
He planned then to renew his efforts tC
secure bail. but had not been released
when last heard from.
| Phelps was manager of the Strom
| berg farm when he left town in July
He is charged with embezzling $ls5 oi
| Mr.. Stromberg's money. There is ;
| question as TO who the money belonged
to. Mr.. Stromberg claims it was his
but there is case pending in the muni
cipal court brought by G. o. Abbott
Son to secure pay for groceries sold il
which the plaintiff claims the none,
belonged to Phelps. This case has beer
| tried but no decision rendered.
There is no state law under which an,
action car be brought against Phelps il
connection with Mrs. Carpenter leavin
town. Phelps denies that he left wit
Mrs. Carpenter, but local garage ma
says he took Mrs. Carpenter as pas
senger out the Guilford road, wher
Phelps got into the automobile afte
leaving the Stromberg farm truck be
side the road. The garage man says
then took the couple to Shelburne Fall,
Mass, and left them in the street.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
Hitchcock, the Democratic
Leader Declares Their
Proposals Ridiculous
UNITED STATES
WOULD BE LEFT
Favoring the Shantung Amendment
Would Make Treaty Unsatisfactory
to Other Powers-Japan Will Follow
England and France in Ratification.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Declaring the
real purpose of the foreign relations com
mittee majority in amending the peace
treaty was to kill it entirely and that
such course would be suicidal to the
United States, Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska, Democratic leader, asserted in a
senate speech today that the majority of
senator's never would accept any of the
committee changes. ''The treaty oppon-
ents,' he said, crawl on the ground with
microscope searching for pitfalls in the
league of nations and overlook substantial
benefits which the treaty would bring the
nation.
The proposal of Senator Knox of Penn,
sylvania that the treaty be rejected and
a separate peace made with Germany was
characterized by the speaker as an insane
mixture of poltroonery and folly.
by a vote of 9 to g. said Senate OF
Hitchcock, "the committee on foreign re
lations is to bring squarely before the
senate the question of defeating the pend
ing treaty Suppose the senate should
vote in favor of the ShantunG amendment
or any other what would happen?"
Either the President would refuse to g
further with the treaty or he would sub
init the amendment TO the nations associ
ated with the United States Does any
one believe they would accept it?"
II cannot conceive OF any intelligent o
candid man who would assume such
thing as a possibility. We would be me
by an instant refusal to accept amend
ment and then where would the Unite,
States find itself in this international set
tement? We would find ourselves out il
the cold Isolated from the rest of tn
world. The work of ratifying the treat
would proceed without u.s."
THE treaty itself provides that whe
three nations ip addition to German
have signed it shall go into effect,
is easy to see the enormous benefits whic
Great Britain will derive from this treaty
They win not take any chrnces, 1t
~reposterous to suppose that Japan Vi
delay it's ratification. The result is b
yond all question"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
c. ]. DUDE ENGAGED
AS COMMISSIONER
Will Succeed A. A. Wallace
in Charge of High
ways in Town
LEAVES POSITION
IN BURLINGTON
Native of Quebec and Has Had Wide
Experience in Contracting and Road
Building in Missouri and Arkansas
Will Move Family Here.

Charles J. Dube, who has had charge of
road construction in Burlington since last
June, is to be Brattleboros road commits
sioner, succeeding Road Commissioner Ar
thur A. Wallace, resigned, who is staying
through the week to do what he can to as
sist the new man. Mr. Dube is in town
and will remain, taking up the work at
once.
He was in conference with the select
men last evening, arriving here on an af-
ternoon train, and it was arranged that
he should be engaged at salary of S2 ,0of
year, he to furnish his own transporta
ton about town. Mr.. DUDE has been ar
ranging that detail today, and he said
this noon that he would take care of that
| question.
Apparently Mr. DUDE is well qualified
| for the position here. He has done wei
| in Burlington, but the position there il
involved in wrangle between opposing
| factions, to the detriment of al concerned
making the job uncertain.
Mr. DUDE is a native of Quebec, but hi
experience in road building was gainet
principally in Missouri and Arkansas III
has done both public and private work
| has done large jobs as private contract
or, and has had experience in mining
He was in the South for a time, but o.
account of malaria he returned to Que
bee. and before coming to Vermont h
had charge of important construction wor
in the city of Quebec.
! Like other expert road makers, Nj
Duba says that too much water is ruinou
to roads, and one way in which the lii
of the roads can be prolonged, he says
is to keep them clean and to that exten
avoid the necessity of watering Drain
age is of great Importance, as water stant
ing in puddles destroys the material wit
which it is III contact.
Mr. DUDE has had little opportunity [
look over the Brattleboro roads, as
has rained ever since he came here, bt
he recognized at once the necessity
) fixing up Main street, as other commi
/ sioners have. He is of the opinion tn;
the holes in the street can be patche
: with asphalt at little expense so that Il
, street will give good service for some tim
If he can do that the job will go loI
way toward establishing his reputatic
here
His family consists of wife and eigl
children, all living at home, and they vi
come here a little later
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
ORDERS 200 TONS
OF SUGAR SOLD
Federal Attorney at Chicago Sure He
Has a Clear Case of
Profiteering.

CHICAGO, Sept. 3.-United States Dis
trict Attorney Clyne today ordered 300
tons of sugar, seized yesterday by federal
agents, put on the market for sale at a
price lower than 3 cents pound. The
sugar was sold by J. Aaron Co. of New
York to local firm for SI3 hundred
pounds, but Mr.. Clyne said he would or
der refund of the purchase price and
force the Aaron Co. to sell at u lower
figure.
Our evidence shows that the Aaron
Co. purchased the sugar at $500 hun
dred pounds" said Mr.. Clyne. I'VE hold
that this is a pure case of profteering
and have so informed the district attor-
ney of New York city"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
KING GIVES UP ESTATES.
Italian Ruler to Turn All Crown Prop
critics Over to Peasants.

ROME, Sept. 3.-King Victor En-
manuel has decided to surrender all the
crown properties in favor of the peas
ants and for national work for former
soldiers. Premier Nitti win make this
announcement soon.
The crown properties of Italy are
larger than those of any country,
since the House of Savoy inherited the
properties of the rulers of the IL states
into which Italy was divided before the
kingdom became united.
During the war the king gave over
his splendid royal palace at Caserta, the
Castel Moscali Di Piedmont, for the
use of his soldiers. His intention now
is that the vast lands which he pos
sesses shall go to the peasants, while
his palaces, castles and other buildings
shall be utilized for philanthropic pur-
poses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03

Maj jGen. Sir Hubert Cough formerly
commander of the British 5th army on
the western front, is the allied represen-
tative in the Russian Baltic region Brit
sh warships have been reported bonn
harding Kronstadt, the fortified naval
outpost of Petrograd, on more than one
occasion recently and last week it was
reported that a large British squadron
had passed the East Prussan coast bound
toward the Gulf Of Finland 1t was said
he warships were believed to be re-en
forcements for an approaching genera
offensive against the Bolsheviki il
Mort hern Russia
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
PRESIDENT GIVES
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
Called Senator Hitchcock to White
House Before Departing on His
Speaking Tour on Treaty.

WASHINGTON, Sept. Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, the leading adj
ministration spokesman in the senate
was invited to the White House today
for a final conference before President
Wilson starts tonight on his speaking
tour to the Pacific coast in the interest
of the peace treaty.
1t was understood that the President
desires 30 discuss with Senator Hitch
cock plans for the conduct during hi.
absence of the administration fight il
the senate for ratification of the treaty
and The league Of rations covcnan
without change.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
BRAVES CANCEL
THEIR GAME HERE
Rain in New York Yesterday Made It
Necessary for Them to Be There
for Game Today

Figuratively speaking, the rain threw
wrench into the machinery and pre-
vented the Boston National league base
ball team, the Braves, from coming here
today to play the Athletics at Island
Park. 1t rained in New York yester-
day, where the Braves were scheduled
to meet the Giants, so the game there
was postponed to today, forcing a can
collation. of the Brattleboro trip. They
did not play in New York today, how
ever, as a despatch this afternoon says
today's game was postponed on account
of rain.
If they had not cancelled the trip
here they could not have played as the
weather has been rainy ever since not
ice of the cancellation came to Manager
Thomas A. Austin, !jr., shortly before G
clock last evening. 1t was a great
| disappointment to hundreds, who had
| bought tickets or intended to do so, and
especially to Manager Austin, who haG
| put i'll large amount of work in stag
| ing what promised to be big event
in local baseball annals.
/ From 600 to 700 tickets had beer
sold and as soon as arrangements cal
| be made Manager Austin will announc,
| when and where the money will be re
funded The Braves were guaranteed
$3.50 if they played here.
The despatch caneelling the game wa
from Secretary Edwin L. Riley of tn
Braves and came from New York t.
L Manager Austin. 1t read:
4 "Today game postponed to Wed
4 nesday account of rain. Therefore con
Il slider rame at Rrattlehoro eaneaIIad
Sorry we could not go there
An expense of about $75 had bee
incurred.