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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-08-20
Short News Stories of Interest
PUps by Censor
yhoqua and Vicinity
HAD THEIR USUAL GOOD TIME
Esofea Band Tournament and Picnic
Was a Success

1t furnished country and town folk a pleas
ant day on sward and in wooded lot, the an
nual Esofea band picnic. which has become a
time looked forward to. This year was no ex-
eeption, falling on last Sunday. Although all
morning light showers fell and weather was
generally threatening in the afternoon a gath
ering OF several thousand people were on the
grounds The program was full and interest
ing with sharply contested ball game be-
tween Bl0omingdale and Esofea clubs, the
former winning TO s. Captain Buffers ad-
dress covered hour and a half, in which
he quite infinitely covered the war situation
as he personally viewed it. His recital cover
ed a wide range in battle scenes, description
Of the country. people of France and their
customs, the fellowship of soldiers of contend
ing armies, the celebration on armistice day
The talk was in Captain Buffers Characters
tic entertaining vein and was wonderfully well
received and appreciated.
The big crowd was well entertained by ESQ.,
fea band. which has made marked improve
ment under Otto G. Brown as director. A
number of the local band bSys were present
and Joined in the musical feast. Then there
were feed and refreshment stands and amuse-
ments plenty.
County Agent Graf was to have talked on
agricultural subjects in the morning, but bad
weather interviewed.
1t is understood that the band realized
nice snug profit from the picnic, which will
be used to further perfection and equipment.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-08-20

Lieutenant Frank Gore returned home with
his discharge from military service. He was
the first of the Viola boys to be sent ever
there and considerable service in France
Viola News.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-08-20

Kushier. a2lf.
WANTED-A woman to do general Rouse
w'srk. Mrs.GeoC.WheeIer. Viroqua, 81, A-z
WANTED-Anyone having . nkn's bicycle
IN fairly good condition. and wishing 10 sell
the same, please call Phone 37s, viroaua.
WANHED--By a boy willing 70 work for
an sdues ton, a place where he can pay fer
H. Ostrem's store, Vffoqua. a4-2-s
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-08-20

The two lieutenant sons Of W. I. Griffin Of
Viola. Lee II. and Lester are home. The form
er has resumed his position with the CHM
book company travelling representative.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-08-20

Former Chairman Conrad of Clinton town,
is happy that his second son. Henry is out Of
work Henry was on the Mexican border for
year.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-08-20
lost AND FnuNn

FOR SALE or T'RADE-Ths wsIstsn6urs
Hotel. for fsrse; Inquire Of August wsist-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
A CHILD HATES OIL,
CALOMEL, PILLS FOR
LIVER AND BOWELS
Give California Syrup of Figs" If
cross, sick, feverish,
constipated.

Look back at your childhood DAYS.
Remember the ''dose" mother insisted
!on-castor oil, calomel, eatharties. How
you hated them, how you fought against
them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don I realize what they
do. The children s revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little .insides', are
injured by them.
If your child s stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative' handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweeten
| the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
| Ask your druggist for bottle
of California Syrup Of Figs,
which has full directions for babies,
children of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly ON each bottle. Beware of coun-
terfeits sold here. See that it is made
by California Fig Syrup Company =
Refuse any other kind with contempt.
I-Advt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
TUESDAY, JANUARY Z, 1919.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

It is hard to realize that death has
come to Theodore Roosevelt He was
such vigorous person, so much alive
that he seemed almost as one for whom
death was something extremely remote
even if certainty. No American
of his time has filed a larger place in
the public eye, or has had larger in
fiuenee in moulding American life and
thought. His has been a voice, which
though not always needed, has ever
had to be reekoned with His coun-
sells, his advice, his policies of admin
istration, while president of the United
States were the true expression of his
character His personality breathed
force and vigor in action His physical
frame fifty embodied the spirit with
in. and bespoke the superabundant vi
tally of the man.
Theodore Roosevelt liked contact
with actual things. He liked the
struggle, the controversy, the conflict
of ideas, and never once did he shun
the combat His positives were ex-
tremely positive and naturally met
with their opposites. He was the cen
ter of many oppositions, delivered
many hard blows and took them. The
controversies will not follow him to
the other side of the grave. Valiantly
he fought throughout his career fol
what he deemed to be the right, and il
he made mistakes. even his most de
termined opponents who thought he
was mistaken, could not charge him
with fighting in an underhand way.
Theodore Roosevelt was American te
the core, jealous of the honor and glory
of his country, proud of its position
among the nations of the earth, anC
the stoutest champion of his time Of
all those courses of national actor
which would maintain the power of The
republic, and keep it true to the tradi
ton of its founders. He was a trut
American. He has served his country
we'll His forceful personality impressed
itself upon his age. His death viii b
mourned by all the people.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
News From Our Neighbors.

Jerre Christie is away for a visit to
Saratoga. We listen.-Glover.
Mr.. Chattin has finished d. ]. Eel
cher S woodpile and has did fine job.
-Felcherville.
Robert Archer has been off duty for
a few days entertaining Jobs com
forters.-East Charleston.
Fred j. Carpenter has been spending
some time in Montpelier lately. l won.
der why?.-Laporte Road.
Mark Kellogg traded cars recently
He now owns the real thing, q Tin
Lizzie. Garfield Road.
|. A dance was held at Sheddsville last
Friday night but the girls were scarce
so the boys say.-West Windsor.
Miss Essie Caple happened to al
accident at a party at Mr.. Wiseman's
Saturday night by falling and hurting
her foot.-Calico Rock.
Dennis Gould of Waterloo Iowa il
visiting his aunt Mrs. H. H. Hicks. HI
has been an engineer for 45 years ant
never had an accident John is going Il
take him down to Gasset s someday Il
see the cars.-Perkinsville.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Betty Held Her Breath.

sailor boy suits. There were toy guns
and whistles and all sorts of toy anil
mails.
There We're dolls all beautifully
dressed with china faces and china
bodies. And there were some with rag
bodies but china faces. and there were
others-oh. there were so many of all
sorts she simply couldn't look at them
all.
She felt dizzy looking at so many
And she saw Santa Claus, his red coat
lying on a chair near by, working for
all he was worth, making toy after
toy, painting one, putting it together.
fixing it so it would be all right.
There he was, his white beard hang
| ing way down on his chest and his
| eyes-well, she had never seen such
eyes before.
| They were laughing! Yes, actually
| laughing. She saw those blue eyes of
his twinkle and-she saw them laugh.
| Oh, how happy he looked. And yet
| how busy he was. He no sooner fin
| ished one toy than he made another.
Graciousi How quickly he worked.
Now he was maling-what was it
could it be!
Betty held her breath. This was al
most too exciting!
Yes, he was actually making a doll
| the very sort she wanted, nice
rag doll with a painted face-a doll
| to hug and love. Oh, how she would
love that doll Santa, Claus was MAX
/ ing.
And then it seemed as though the
| shop We're far away and the toys grew
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

less and less clear, and the last she
saw was an arm of a rag doll being
finished while Santa smiled as though
to say:
you'll do. little doll. you'll do"
And then she heard her mother call
ing her TO get up. ITS late" her
mother said.
''Oh, mother. I had such a dream.
dreamt ] saw Santa Claus in his shop.
Oh, he was the most beautiful old man
ever saw in all my life-and oh,
mother, his eyes How they laughed,
And he was making-think, mother.
he was making rag doll. The very
sort of a doll l hope he will give me
for Christmas. And l saw the whole
shop and all the toys-and everything
Oh, l hope Santa brings me a rag
doll"
Now the dream king had sent this
dream to Betty, and it was as real as
a dream can be. But it was absolute
ly real that Santa Claus was making
a rag doll and that that rag doll was
going to be found Christmas morning
in Betty's stocking, for the dream king
had told Santa Claus it was what she
| wanted and that was why Santa Claus
had smiled so when he had finished
| the dolly-because he knew how the
dolly was going to please Betty
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Siberian Population.

From the Youths Companion)
Although the populated area Of Siberia
is only a belt along the Trans-Siberian
railway, that belt is six thousand miles
long and contains nearly twenty million
people. Before the war Siberian foreign
trade was largely in the hands of German
houses, which undoubtedly will make des
perate efforts to regain it when the re
turn of normal conditions has brought
back the demand for general merchandise
rolling stock and agricultural machinery
But in spite of the geographical proxim
ity of German Eastern Siberia, when it
railway service has been re-organizec
will be most easily reached by way o
Vladivostok. The commercial opportunit!
is one that America cannot afford to ne
glect.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
EV| MDySg[N|Nl|
k,l AIN1 TALE
La 81 kACN @AIlaM QyER
BETTY'S CHRISTMAS DREAM.

81 want a DOLL" a little girl named
Betty said. 81 want a doll-not one
which can talk and say mamma and
papa, for / have had one of those.
But l want a doll which won't
break, a nice rag dolly which 1 can
love and hug and take to bed with me
at night"
So Betty talked for day after day
as soon as the cold weather came and
she began to think of the Christmas
season which was to come so soon.
''Oh, l do want d dolly" she said.
And she thought about having a dolly
so much and wanting one so much that
one night she dreamed about it.
1t was some little time before Christ
mas, and she dreamed that she was
up in Santa Claus workshop There
she saw tables and tables and tables
with half-made toys upon them. She
saw huge barrels and packing cases
and toys being taken away. She saw
Santa Claus huge pack which he wore
upon his back on Christmas eve as he
went to visit all the boys and girls in
the world
She saw toys which were all fin
ished and were standing up by each
other in rows, which hadn't been put
away for the great Christmas eve and
Christmas season yet. There were
Teddy Bears and woolly lambs, little
pink rag pigs and there were trains
of cars and boats and airplanes.
There were games and balls and
tops. There were soldier suits and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Meant BIG Excitement.

Henry was learning to read and
liked to practice. He lived near u
theater, which he sometimes visited
when it was open for cleaning Re
turning one day after. roaming about
the building, he told his parents:
There's going to be a big excite
ment in the theater tonight
"What makes you think sol" they
asked.
1T says so over the door-e-x-i-t."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

The other mite | had suteh fearse
tooth axe in one tooth it felt as if all the
other teeth was catching it, waking up
with it and not being able to so to sleep
agen from it, and | went down stairs in
my pidjammers and who was wawking
up and down the 2nd story hall in his
pidjammers but pop. holding his face
with one hand and going, Owtch, o good
mite, owtch.
G, pop, have you got one two? | sed.
One too sed pop, I've got one 8, 8, 10,
IL and II. owteh, ootch, holey smokes.
this is fearse.
bet it amt eny fearses than mine, pop,
sed. And / started to wawk up and
down the hall with him, both holding our
face in our pidjammers.
Do you, think this will make it eny bet
ter. pop? sed, and he sed, 1t cant make
mine eny verse, that's a sintch.
1t cant make mine eny, either, i sed.
Wieh it couldent, and we kepp on wawk-
ing, me saying, watts yours feel like, pop,
does it feel like hammer hanmering:
and pop saying, No, it. feels more like q
| pile driver shooting up town, and me
saying, mine feels more ike hammer
hammering. And we kepp on wawkine
| up and down the hall in our pidjammers
| making noises, pop saying, III take yoi
| over to the dentist the ferst thing in tn,
morning and well have them out together
| and if the blame things hert after tina
| they can't bert enybody but themselves
| And after a vile we both went back Il
bed and in the morning my face felt like
it genrelly feels, and pop was in the bath
room shaving his face, me saying, How
is it now pop?
Never better, never as good, hows
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

The Reformer Is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co.. C. w.
Gleavel2nd, s. L. Purinton (Esteyville). Brooks
George J.. Bower. Riverview Street Fort
Drummer district.
West Brattleboro, ]. L. Stockwell
East Dummersten, NJ. E. Brown.
Putney, M G. Williams.
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Townshend, c. w. Cutler
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South Vernon, E. B. Buffum.
Mortified, Mass, Thompson Bros.
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Hinsdale, n. H., w. II. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

1t is a question whether there viii
be enough German cannon to go around
as decorations of public places if all
the United States ask for as many as
Vermont, which requests %. If the ma
terial in airplanes was as enduring as
that of cannon we might expect that
some of those which the Germans are
now turning over to the Allies would
later occupy such places of honor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
MUSIEROLE--QU|CK
RELIEF! NO blister!
1t Soothes and Relieves Like a
Mustard Plaster Without
the Burn or Sting

Musterole is a clean, white ointment,
made with the oil of mustard. 1t does ali
the work of the old-fashioned mustard
plaster-does it better and does not bis
ter. You do not have to bother with a
cloth. You simply rub it on-and usually
the pain IS gonel
Many doctors and nurses use Muster
ole and recommend it to their patients.
They will gladly tell you what relief it
gives from sore throat, bronchitis, Group.
stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion.
pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains
and aches of the back CT joints, sprains.
sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted
feet, colds of the chest lit often pre-
vents pneumonia.
SOC and Coo jars; hospital size $3.50.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
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 to that end. Prompt reports should
on the moEning following the omission, in
person, by telephone or 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 secure the de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
That New Year Uplift in Barre.

No vaudeville, no can-can or no bluff
at the New Years eve dance IN Barre.
New Year S eve was remarkably
quiet so far as the police were con-
ieerned, and the comparatively few con
vivial celebrators abroad in the late
watches of the old year and the morn
ing hours of the new gave them little
trouble-Barre items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Florida newspapers are predicting a
record tourist trade this winter and
railroad depot officials say the incom-
ing travel is at least 80 per cent great
err than last year. This would go to
show that it is not wholly the wish TO
get away from the extreme cold wealth
err, which would have been very rea-
sonable one last year, but is due more
to that desire for change and travel
which most Americans have but were
unable to crafty last year owing to
war conditions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Nobody has yet stated on authority
what the language of the peace con-
gress is to be. Undoubtedly the Ian
guage known to the greatest number of
the delegates is French. Advocates of
a universal language like esperanto
will have another strong argument as
to the need of such language.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Eta Newman Cold, the name of
colored lady appearing in the Connee
tieut news last week, is family sug
gestive of cannibalistic ancestry,
though we have always understood
they didn't eat 'em cold.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

past; work for every man that wants
work, and work for all women, too, who
wish to remain in the fields of indus
try" If Mr.. Gompers would control
the epidemic of strikes which seems to
have spread from coast to coast we
should most thoroughly believe all he
has to say.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

The picture in the news of the ex-
imperial chancellor Won Hertling who
died Saturday is one we should select
as being that of meek and subdued
parson from small country town in
stead of high and mighty Hun Off
eial.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Many people in the United States
had the same idea as one of the re-
Gently returned soldiers who said: "We
started in thinking we might have TO
spend the rest of our lives whipping
the Germans; but just as we got 10
going strong the job was all over. y =
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

A Maine farmer is selling eggs by
the pound and illustrates his point by
showing a difference in weight of eight
ounces in two cartons, each containing
a dozen eggs, which would seem to
prove that selling by weight was the
fair way especially for the customer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

In looking through several 1919 al
manacs, we discover the valuable in
formation that we may expect rather
hot weather with some thunder in
July and cold weather with some snow
in January.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Ford cars enjoy great popularity in
Mexico and the native Mexican who is
Economically inclined gives the name
+" Forsito" to his car, meaning a dear
little ear This is an Improvement on
the much overworked appellation of
Lizzie
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Subscriptions Must Be
Paid in Advance

The War Industries Board, in its efforts
to conserve the paper supply, has ruled that
newspapers must stop all subscriptions
IMMEDIATELY UPON EXPIRATION.
This means that subscribers must keep
their subscriptions PAID IN ADVANCE
in order to be certain of getting The Re-
former regularly. Notice of expiration Of
subscription Is always sent In advance; do
not neglect II and then blame the publisher
for what Is your own fault.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
One Guess Sufficient.

eff the Kaiser should Die Tonight,
Where Would He Be Tomorrow This
is the subject for study at the X. of ?.
hall Sunday night, Jan. 5, at 7.45, by
Rev Mr.. Hartwell-Barre Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Something Like 1t.

Il once knew a man who went hungry
in order to buy feed for his horse"
Il can understand his sentiments
Many's the time l have cut down on meat
and potatoes in order to buy gasoline -
Washington Star.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Canada's Big Canal.

The Welland canal, in Canada, carries
navigation around Niagara Falls and con-
meets Lake Erie and Ontario. 1t is 81
miles long, was built by Canada and
was opened in 1888 and cost about $780,
100000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

yours? sed pop, and ! sed, Fine, wat
time we going to the dentists?
Perhaps we better waite a little vile
for feer of worrying your mother, sed
pop, III let you know wen I'm reddy.
Wieh he hasent vet.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Samuel Gompers says that "every
sign points to prosperous conditions in
this country such as we never have
known before; of an industrial boom
that viii eclipse everything in the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Uh Huhi

Miss Minnie Fortune is ill at her
home on Maple street-Holyoke item.
Isn't it a peculiar misfortune that
Miss Fortune should have the i'll for
tune TO be an i'll Fortune?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Getting the Habit in Fairfield.

s. f. Pope's men installed COM
plete bath outfit for Mrs. Horrigan at
East Fairfield this week-Jefferson
vile item
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Member of The Associated Press

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of ali 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, 1919-01-07
5 Woods Tel. 331-w-st. Adams Mes

WANTED-Fast man on pies. Tel
Tel. AS, Ayer.-Fitchburg Sentinel.
We know him. Bring on the pies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
"Better Babiesn in ouechee.

Roswell, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Orwell
Harlow celebrated his first birthday
by going to Woodstock TO be photo
graphed The photograph shows a re-
markably handsome ehild.-Queehee
Iitem.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
A Weak End.

f. NJ. Kneeland suffered severe
spinal trouble over Sunday.-Jefferson
vile item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Grace Church has gone to Highgate.
-Middlebury item.
Since the White house went to Eur
ope nothing surprises us.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07
Peace With Victory.

Miss Peace Reed and Ray Victory of
Rutland spent New Year s at Pinehurst
place-Hydeville item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

You can never know from the setting oil
the table how good the meal will be.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-07

Snceze if you must
To clear your head
But use your hank
lie, sir, she said.
Hush, little flu germ
Don t you cry.
You IL raise the devil
By and hy.-Ex.