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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
MRS. LEONARD HAS
GAINED 29 POUNDS
Wants to Tell Everyone
About Wonderful Bene-
fits She Received
From TanIac

when l began taking Tanlac three
months ago | was a nervous wreck and
weighed only l04 pounds, but / now
weigh 1873 pounds and have never felt
better in my life" was the remarkable
statement made by Mrs Bethel r. Leon
ard, 3 Wilmont street, Portland, Ne.
while discussing the merits of the medi-
cine few evenings ago.
Could sit here all night she added.
'and talk about the good Tanlac has done
me and not tell it all. Five years ago L
commenced suffering from what was
called complication of troubles, but as
no one seemed to understand my case or
know what to do for me, | kept going
down hill. / spent some time in a hos
pital, was under special treatment for
two years and did everything possible.
but | kept getting worse. Nv nerves
troubled me more than anything else.
and it was almost impossible for me to
get any sleep at all, for / would Just roll
and toss from one side of the bed to the
other all night long and if | did happen
TO drop off to sleep | would wake up
with a start almost frightened to death
Why even the ringing of the front door
bell so completely upset me I had to
have it taken off, and there were DAYS
when the talking and noise around the
house would almost drive me distracted.
My appetite was extremely poor, and [
did not eat enough it would seem for a
baby-a Slice of toast and cup of tea be
ing hearty meal for me at any time. 1t
had been five years since / have been
able to do my homework. for it was all
l could do to even walk across the floor
or stand on my feet. / had terrible pains
all over my body all the time and some
times these pains were so bad it seemed
like every bone in my body was splitting
i'll two. and my head would ache so
thought lots Of times it would burst open
Il decided to AIRY Tanlac after seeing
where it was benefting so many other
| people, and to my JOY began to improve
| on the very first bottle / have taken six
| bottles in all and the benefits | have re-
| seived are more than remarkable My
nerves are in such perfect condition
can hardly believe | am the same person.
| Why, Just the other night | chaperoned
200 school children and the noise made
| by them never disturbed me in the least
! have had the front door bell put back
and YOU could ring it off without its up
seltlh9 me, anu sleep why can sleep
the whole night through without ever
waking up and some one has to call me
every morning. The pains have all gone
out of my body, don't know what it is
to have headache and my appetite is
so good | eat enough for two people and
still | am hungry all the time. Tanlac
has proven wonderful blessing to me-
Tanlac is sold in Brattleboro by the
Brattleboro Drug Co, and in South Lon
| donderry by Geo. G. Smith.-Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE

Ne and Skinny Martin took wawk
throo the park Satidday AFTERNOON Jest
to take a swawk. and we saw buntch
a little kids standing neer the en-
trants as if they was waiting for sum
body, Skinny Martin saving, Hello kids.
watts you waiting for? and one of. the
little kids sed, We're waiting for
fletcher, She going to tell us about
different trees and things
G, Skinny, lets US pertend to tell
them l whispered back, G, all rite.
And he sed to the little kids, Come on.
kids, we II start to tell you a vile.
there aint mulch about trees we don't
know, is there. Benny2
There amt hardly enything, sed
And we started to wawk up to the
di6rrent looking trees and the kids
wawked in back of US, and | pointed
to a tree, saying, Do you know wat
kind of a tree that is. kids?
No, sed all the kids, and 1 sed
That 5 a pinwheel tree, once every
hour it says, Pinwheel, pinwheel, PIN
wheel, and 3 leefs drop off of it. Me
Jest making it up but the kids wunted
to wait and see, and | sed we dident
have time, and we went over to an
other tree, Skinny saying, Do you know
wat kind of a tree that is, kids?
No, sed the kids, and Skinny sed
That's munkey rentch tree, it takes
1000 yers to grow and ony about a
second to stop. And we went up to
another one, me saying, Hers a CRATE
tree, kids, do you know wat it is9
and they sed No, and ] sed Its
pickle tree, there amt eny on now, but
wen there is you half to pick them off,
and that's wat makes them pickles.
And we started to wawk to another
tree and jest then a short lady with
long feet came running up, saying,
Children wat do you meen ty this. did
MT L tell you to wait at the en-
trants2 and one of the kids sed.
These boys have bin telling us. fletcher.
they've bin telling us about the munkey
rentch tree and the pickle tree and
everything.
Wat nonsents, how dare you deform
the minds of these little children wen
they're in the formative stateP sed the
short lady with lifelong feet.
We dident know they was. sed
Skinny. And we quick wawked away
as if we jest remembered Engagement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Ski-Joy.
burlington News.

The ski Is the poetry, for which the
prose Is the snowshoe. Noiseless, swift.
sometimes all-too willing the ski glides
and rushes where the snowshoe can only
tread, crunching, crashing, step by step.
The ski is an inspired bit Of ash or hick-
DRY in the same class as the pernambuco
OF the temperamenta, violin bow or the
mahogany of the space annihilating pro-
pellor of the airplane
Like Switzerland and Norway. Yer
mont Is intended by Nature to be a ski
land. From the easy ascents and the
mild descents of the tumbling, rolling
country in the valleys of the Connecticut
river and Lake Champlain, where Yer
mont merely plays at mountain making
to the arduous ascents and the exciting
descents of the master heights of the
Green Mountain Range the state invites
both the beginner and the veteran to in
dulge to the full in the enjoyment of the
king of winter sports.
Omnipresent hills and mountains. the
blessing of SHOWS that seems almost
eternal, certain beneficent limitation
in the number of commercial amusements
and artificial excitements in villages and
cities make skijoy for the Vermonter a
pleasure which is both natural right
and a personal obligation. Though she
cannot snowshoe until the snow wakes
deep, the Vermont girl can ski on a
heavy frost. While the Vermont boy who
is professionally equipped must carry the
massive heavy snowshovel in one hand
he has the light hearted ski in the other
To the Vermonter right-shod, right
minded, fond winter seems all too short
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Vermont's Congressmen.
Boston Herad.)

Vermont need not worry about losing
one of its two representatives as a result
OF the congressional reapportionment
that VIII follow the 1920 census. Even
though it shows little or no gain in pop
ulatlon-and it is too early to assume
that such will be the case-the chances
are altogether in favor of its retention
OF It's present representation in congress.
Ihe practice of the past hat century has
made the slowest growing state the tide
marx In working out the reapportion
ment-that is, the slowest growing state
among those that have more than one
representative. Forty years ago Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont each lost
one representative. No other states lost
at that time and at each reapportion-
ment since then many states have gained,
but none has lost.
In earlier years there were numerous
changes. AT one time, about a, century
ago, Maine had eight representatives and
New Hampshire and Vermont have had
as nigh as SIX each, but as the new states
came IN and grew fast in population the
older and more slowly growing states be-
gan TO lose representation. Then came
the policy earlier referred to, even though
1T has meant larger and larger house.
The removal of the desks from the cham
Der allows still further increase. speak
ing wholly from the physical side. The
well known arguments against a house
as large AS the present one, not to men
ton a house substantially larger, will
hafdiy prevail against the dissemination
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
DESERVE MORE CREDIT.

f. L. Ingalls,, state club leader. in a
letter to the editor calls attention to
an erroneous idea given in the recent
Reformer editorial in which it was
stated that the 10000 Vermont
boys and girls enrolled in bows
and girls clubs had produced the
past season farm and garden pro
ducts valued at $39,629.32. He saws.
The value of products given, cost
and profit, are figures submitted by the
1862 boys and girls who made definite
report. This number was confused with
the 10000 boys and girls who enrolled.
The averages per individual club mem
Der should be for value of product $3l.-
40; average cost $18.40; average profit
$500. On the same basis, if the en-
tire number enrolled, which to be ex-
act was lilly, had done as well, the
total value of products in 1919 through
out the, state would represent $780,
073.S0; total cost 1904, $3.50; total pro
fit $144,421.00, This latter, of course
is somewhat of guess, but the former
figures 1 consider very fair, for we have
back of them definite report upon rec
ord kept by each Individual
Mr.. ingalls, statement is published in
justice to the boys and girls and be-
cause it makes still more emphatic the
claim that the boys and girls of Yer
mont are proving very useful and i'm
portant in the production of life neces-
stiles.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

The yearly fight for free seeds for
the congressman of the country to be-
stow upon their constituents has been
won again and $780, 900 will be APP
propriated for the purpose An at
tempt to have them distributed by the
department of agriculture instead of
the senators and representatives was
defeated. Does this mean that these
men think that few garden seeds can
control a mans vote?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

to crowd a small state. The apportion-
ment committee, with both parties and
all sections represented, is sure to be
made up of very human and practical
gentlemen.
The unit Of representation viii not be
made half the population of the slowest
growing state with two members, but it
will be made small enough so that ma
fraction thereof will allow that state to
to retain the two members. There will be
discussions and worrying and appeals and
perhaps threats, but that viii be the out
come-unless precedent is utterly upset
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
TodaY's Anniversaries

1735-Daniel Boone, famous pioneer
and Indian fighter, born in
Bucks County, Pa Died in Mis-
souri,, Sept %, 1920.
1836-Incorporation of Mount Holyoke
Seminary, one of the first in
stitutions in America for the
higher education of women.
1856-Caroline Lee Hentz, one Of the
first successful American women
novelists, died at Mariana,
Fla. Born at Lancaster, Mass,
in 1900.
18s9-Nornan C. Coleman of Missouri
was appointed first secretary of
agriculture Of the United States.
1S90-Lord Randolph Churchill intro
duced a bill in the British par
lament to regulate the liquor
traffic.
1895-Gen. Montgomery D. Corse, no
ted Confederate commander
died at Alexandria. Va. Born
there, March IA, 1916.
1896-The French Government notified
the Powers that it had taken fl
nal possession of Madagascar.
1919. The women members of the
Prince of Wales at the Murat
Mansion in Paris.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

the order having been instituted at
Minneapolis, Feb. II, 1870.
Republicans of Oklahoma are to hold
their state convention today for the
election of delegates to the national
convention at Chicago next June.
The first trade conference between
Mexico and the United States is sched-
uled to open in Mexico City today under
the auspices of the American Chamber
of Commerce of Mexico.
For the first time women are inclu-
ded in the annual assay commission
to test the weight and fneness of the
coins minted by the United States in
1919. The women members of the
commission are Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks
of Chicago and Mrs. Is. B. Munford of
Richmond, Va.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

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 News,
stand, Gilbert Pollica, 2I South Main St.
(Fort Drummer district.
West Brattleboro, J. l. Stockvsll
East Dummerston, NJ E. Brown
Putney, NJ G. Williams
Newfane, N NJ Batchelder
West Townshend C. Grout
Jamaica, R. ] Daggett
South Londonderry, F n Tyler
South Vernon, E B Buffura
West Chesterfield, n H., Mrs W srrseter.
Hinsdale, N. a., w Fl Lyman
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co
Greenfield Mass. Have
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
A Loss to the State.
Rutland News. J


No community in the state has lost
more able men at the zenith of their
business and professional careers than
has Brattleboro. The untimely death
of Julius Harry Estey, officer of the
best known industry of the village,
grandson of its founder and always,
like his father, prominently identi-
fed with the National Guard and
other patriotic and preparedness pro
grams, is distinct void in that
community. It is certainly a mis-
fortune to the entire state that man of
Captain Estey's qualities should be taken
at the mid day of life-as it was when
such men as Robert C. Bacon, Clarke C.
Fits, and others of the same town,
were similarly gathered by the Grim
Reaper.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

Five more people are said to have
been poisoned by eating canned ripe
olives and the brand used in this case
has been found to be the same as that
which caused the death of IA persons
IN Detroit recently. Now that the
brand is known isn't there some way
of having this product taken off the
market before other folks become vic.
tins?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

One by one the various towns of the
state are raising the salaries of their
teachers Bellows Falls reports this
week vote to increase such salaries
5000 each. Others must fall in line
or their schools will be minus instruc-
tors. School teachers must live and
pay their bills and their work seems
quite as important as that of some I'M
skilled laborer who demands 81 an hour.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

The Dartmouth carnival Of, winter
sports which takes place the last three
days of this week will not want for
snow, this year to make it success.
Two years ago there was practically
none and snow was carted in to cover
the toboggan slides, but this year ii
Is more likely to be carted out
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Todav's Birthdays.

Rear Admiral James II. Glennon. t.
S. n, born at French Gulf, Calf, 63
years ago today.
Give Day, professor of economic
history at Yale University, born at
Hartford, Ct, 40 years ago today.
Thomas A. Edison, the world 5 fore
most inventor in the field of electricity,
born at Milan, Ohio, IS years ago to-
day.
John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor
of Boston and representative in con
gress, born in Boston, 81 years ago to-
day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Bull LY!
If Bilious, ConStipated
or Headachy, take
"CaScaretS"

Feel grand! Clean up inside Your
system is filled with liver and bowel
poison which keeps your skin sallow,
your stomach upset, your head foggy and
aching. Your meals are turning into
poison and you cannot feel right. Don't
stay bilious or constipated. Feel SPLEEN
did always by taking Cascarets occa-
sionalIy. They act without gripping or
Inconvenience. They never sicken you
like Calomel, Salts, Oil or nasty, harsh
Pills They cost so little too-Cascarets
work while you sleep-Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

II 10 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 morning. 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. II 10 only by this
method that the publisher can secure tie de-
sired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
An Oxford Tragedy.

While endeavoring to see how busy the
thermometer was the other night, Henry
Hannaford slipped and fell, breaking
three ribs. Mrs Hazen Hannaford has
been sick in bed for several days, and
Miss Maud Chamberlain, who has been
keeping house and ministering to the
wants of the invalids, has returned to
her home with bad attack of the
Item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

A news story of the week is that of a
Philadelphia man who, while fishing in
New Jersey last Sunday was nearly
crushed in the coils of l4-foot eel.
Isn't it little early for fish stories or
IS this warning for Sunday fisher
men?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
The End of a Perfect Dav.

by Request OF --.
After the day was over.
Maggie took out her glass eye;
Laid her false teeth in cold water,
Put away her bottle of dye.
She threw her cork leg in the corner,
Her switch went the other way.
Not much was left of friend Maggie
At the end of a perfect day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

while those of a Brattleboro man at
only little more than third of that
sum were accepted as being more eff
GENTLY compiled. Why go outside the
state for eficiency7 1t can in most
cases be found within our own boun,
daries.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
| oday's Events

Centenary of the birth of Theodore
o, Hara, author of the famous poem,
The Bivouac of the Dead. -
Hunter College, the women s college
of the College of the City of New York.
today begins a celebration of its semi
centennial
Governor Davis has called a special
session of the Idaho legislature to meet
today to act on the federal woman
suffrage amendment
Alexander NJ. Deckery, former gov
ernor of Missouri and later assistant
postmaster general, celebrates his sew
enty-fifth birthday today.
Pythians of Minnesota celebrate their
golden jubilee today, the first lodge Of
To Heal a Cough
IT, L. n
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Those Wireless Waves.

Friends of Mrs. w L. Browne are
glad to see her out on the piazza on
sunny afternoons. She is always glad to
have her friends and acquaintance wave
to her, but it is impossible for her to
answer when spoken to from the street.
Troy item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Probably Couldn't "Bara."

I never saw Theda Bara in my life,
except on the SCREEN" Thomas Bod<in
sad here. today, denying reports that he
was married to the actress in Pittsburgh
Friday.-Holyoke Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper, 50 cents
an inch for FIRST insertion, Is cents a. inch
for each subsequent insertion. Limited space
on first page at double rates
Classified advertisements-Five cents a line
first insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change Of
copy Minimum charge 20 cents Cash with
order
Reading Notices-Twenty cents per line first
insertion with 50 per cent discotInt for erch
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published at foot of local
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
A Potluck Menu

The patternmakers' wives had pot
luck supper, which included their hus-
bands, at the home of Mrs Tracy Die
trieh on East Mulberry Greet, Wednes-
day.-Bryan, o., Democrat.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

Chicago reports potato peeler's I'M
ION which is demanding Sc and three
meals for every eight hour day. There s
one way to break this strike-every
man can be his own potato peeler.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
One Year Ago Today In The war

The German national assembly at
Weimar adopted a provisional consti-
tuition for the new German Republic
and elected Friedrich Ebert as Pres
ident
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Knitting the Rnnes2

Lee Elliot went down to see Gardner
Lucas Saturday, found him quite com
Portable, had no operation, only used the
needles, but thought would have to try
something else Monday Felcherville
item
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
1 Cannot Sing the Old SONGS

Take down the shovel for the snow;
Hang up the fiddle and the bow,
There's lot more work for poor Uncle
Ned
And other poor devils here below.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

Roy Fenton and Rose PEBBLES attended
the pie supper at Jackson school. Won
der what is so attractive down there
Aurora item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Member Of The Associated Press.

The Associated Press 10 exclusively en-
titled to the for publication of all news
dispatches credited to it and not otherwise
'ited in this paper and also the local news
published herein
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
What Kind of Bait, Please?

That story from Portland of desper.
ate battle between an eagle and dog is
reminiscent of the good old times in
Maine, when trout were liable to bite
deputy sherifrs ON sight.-Manchest
Union
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

WANTED-Woman to sew buttons on
the fourth fioor.-.Adv. in Elk.
Many man has sowed collar buttons
on the bedroom floor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
A Mere Supposition.

From reports we think Faye PEBBLES
Is still a Sunday evening caller at Ira
Bryant 's.-County Line news.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

That $1,000 worth of figures con
nected withe7the Graham ease which
the expert New York accountants
charged up to the state were wasted
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

That Henry De Kay has just been sen
fenced to five years in the Providence,
K. ]. jail strikes us as rotten luck for
Henry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

John Barleycorn seems to have left his
estate to his two close relatives Patent
Medicine and Hair Tonic.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

Paris says the wasp-waist is coming
back. Does this mean that fellow gets
stung II he puts his arm around one?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
Preparedness in Aurora.

VIII Stauffer took half day off and
cleaned out his cistern last week. He has
an idea that he can fill it with elder
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

berry juice if it happens to be dry"
season.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11
CLIPPING
With Now a Comment and Then
Only Caption.
A True Story.

A True Story.
The column man worked hard and long;
He wrote all through the night;
At dawn he had verse and said,
I've just begun to write"
He put it in the column,
This little midnight song.
His readers said: s"You think you write
But you've just begun to wrong"
After all our Leap Year expectations
they say that peaches are going to be
an utter failure this year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-11

Wonders Never Cease in this Neighbor-
hood,