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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Today's Birthdays.

Charles Dana Gibson, celebrated artist
and illustrator. born at Roxbury, Mass,
SO years ago today.
Alice Stone Blackwell, noted American
suffrage leader, born at East Orange, n.
j.. 63 years ago today.
Rt. Rev. Rogers Israel, bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of Erie,
born at Baltimore, &C years ago today.
Mrs Charles E. Hughes, wife of the
former supreme court Justice and Repub-
tiean presidential nominee, born 81 years
ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

''Not in long time have | enjoyed
such good health or felt so wen gener-
all as I do since taking Tanlac," said w.
H. johnson, 3l9 East 43rd St, Portland,
Ore, who holds a responsible position
with the Northwest Transfer Company.
About a year ago | began suffering
from lack of appetite and stomach trou-
bile and since that time-that is, until
Tanlac set me right have felt so poorly
that / could hardly do my. work. My
food seemed to do me little good, if any,
as my digestion was bad, and lost both
weight and strength continually.
after every meal there was a dull,
nagging pain in the pit of my stomach
that kept me feeling miserable for hours
"The gas from my sour, undigested
food would bloat me up terribly and my
nerves were SO upset that | would lie
awake half the night unable to sleep.
was constantly having binding dizzy
spells and could not bend over and
straighten up quickly but what every
thing seemed as dark as night to me.
Il was telling a friend one day how
bad | felt and he advised me to try Tan
Z lac and | just want to say he couldn't
have done me a greater kindness.
! Il have picked up all of Is pounds in
weight, my appetite is fine and although
! am eating just anything I want my
tomach never gives me particle of trou-
bic. My sleep is sound and restful and
my strength and energy have been so
renewed that my work is no longer a
burden to me-
Tanlae is sold in Brattleboro by the
Brattleboro Drug Co., in South London
derry by George G. Smith, in jamaica
by RI. Daggett. in Townshend by Car.
roll Z. Robinson, and in West Townshend
by Grout g. Dean.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers: -
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co, l.. W
Cleaveland s. L. Purinton (Esteyville)
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
stand, George ]. Bower, South Main st
Fort Drummer district.
West Bratt1eboro, ]. L.. Stockwell.
East Dummerston, M. z. Brown.
Putney, NJ. G. Williams.
Newfane, N NJ. Batchelder.
West Townshend, c. Fl. circuit.
Jamaica, R. J. Daggett
South Londonderry, F. H. Tyler.
South Vernon, E. p. Buffum.
Northfeld, Mass, Thompson Bros. e
West Chesterfield, N. H, Mrs. w. Streeter
Hinsdale, ". H., w. H. Lyman;
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
Greenfield, Mass, c. A. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
WILL EXHIBIT 15-cENT SUITS.
Government to Start Exhibition Toul
of German-Made Goods.

WASHINGTON, Sept 14-Paper
suits imported from Germany by the
department. of commerce will go on
an exhibition tour of the country
starting Wednesday. representatives
of the bureau of foreign and domes-
tic commerce in the principal cities
of the country are to show the suits
which cost from Is cents to 1855 to
manufacturers and clothing firms.
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New
York are to be the first three cities
where the paper clothes are to be ex-
hibited.
Samples of the paper suits were inn
ported because of the inquiries arising
from reports that German and Austrian
manufacturers were selling them in
England, Italy and Turkey in compe.
tition with cloth suits from other
countries
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Little Benny S
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

Skinny Martin was setting on his
frunt steps this AFTERNOON and wen |
came up he quick stuck sumthing in
his back pockit, me thinking, G, maple
sugar candy.
Being one of my most favorite kinds,
and | sat there vile tawking about
diffrent things but not maple sugar,
and after vile I sed,, Hay, Skinny
Watl sed Skinny Martin, and l sed,
Do you like maple sugar2
No, its too sweet, wy sed Skinny,
and / sed, o, Jest because. And pritty
soon | sed, Well if you had hunk of
maple sugar candy rite now woulde1t
you even eat it2
No, / wouldent take the trubble, wy7
sed Skinny.
o, l don't know, wei if you had a
hunk would you give it to me sooner
than go to all the trubble of eating
its l sed.
Sure / would, WYE sed Skinny, and
sertch you rite now to see if you got
eny9
Ill leave you sertch me for sent, 1
amt going to leeve enybody sertch me
for nuthing, sed Skinny.
And L gave aim sent, on account
of sent being cheap for. maple sugar
candy nowadays, and L started to
sertch him, leeving the back pockit till
last as if it was al my own ideer with
out me having saw him stick enything
in it, and all he had in his side pockits
was string and buttons and cork and
stuff, and all he had in his back pockit
was round leather pockit book the
color of maple sugar candy, me think
ing Aw heck, darn it, G.
And Skinny put the sent in the pock-
it book alongside of more sents, and
/ had CRATE ideer, saying, Hay, Skin
ny, do you wunt to sertch me for a
sente
No, sed Skinny.
Wieh he dident.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

A resident of Ohio in conversation
regarding the presidential situation
says Harding's victory in that state is
certain; everyone has respect for him
and considers him the only man for
the chief executive chair. Predic-
tions of an editor of prominent Bal
timore, Nd, newspaper made several
weeks ago were that although Mary
land was a Democratic state it I'M
doubtedly would give almost united
support to Harding-that the Demo
cratic party was rapidly weakening on
the presidential prospects.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS,

II Is the aim of the management TO secure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation OF
be given of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, IN
person, by telephone or postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
edy Immediately applied. IL is only by thi:
method that the publisher can secure the de
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
WOMEN WATCH THE CLOCK

in our stores and factories for that
blessed hour when the days work ends.
The reason is readily seen, as the nature
of their duties too often drifts them into
the horrors of all kinds of organic trou-
bles peculiar to women, causing back
ache, headaches, nervousness and irrita-
bility. Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, simple remedy, made from
roots and herbs, may be relied upon to
overcome these troubles.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
No MORE RATS

or mice, after you use RAT-SNAP,
It's sure rodent killer. Try a
Pkg. and prove it. Rats. killed with
RAT-SNAP leave no smell. Cats or
dogs won't touch it. Guaranteed.
35c size Il cake) enough for
Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar.
65c size e cakes) for Chicken
House, coops, or small buildings.
slips size Is cakes) enough for all
farm and out buildings, storage
buildings, or factory buildings.
Sold and Guaranteed by
BRATTLEBoRo DRUG co.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Maine-there she stands.
Coolidge All Right.
Manchester Union.l

Don It make any mistake about Gov
ernor Coolidge s oratorical powers A
notion is abroad that his remarks read
better than they listen.' Several
thousand Manchester people can testify
today that they ''listen'' all right The
next vice president is not an orator of
the spellbinder type, but he is clear,
forceful, and convincing public speaker
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Remember the Ounce of Prevention.
BARRE Times !

Expression of opinion by the United
States public health service that re-
eurrenee of influenza in epidemic form
is not expected this fall should not pre-
vent anyone from taking ordinary pre-
cautions against the development of
the disease. knowledge of the terrible
conditions of two years ago ought to
serve as a powerful warning.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
indian Textile workers. :.

In North America alone there are
) -four distinct types of spinning to be
found and some half dozen types Of
weaving In use by the Indian textile
workers. Also they have most inter-
estiDg devices for warpIDg. for shred
ding. for pattern king. snd, In atidi-
ton. countless secrets for dyeing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

brew, stole from the Homes corpora
tom Could anyone, unless possibly
an editor with a chronic thirst, con-
strue that to mean that the home brew
instead of the dynamite was stolen7
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

A jury composed of women is sit
ting on a case in an Indiana court to
day, while over in New Hampshire the
attorney general has ruled that ac-
cording to the common law equal suf-
frage does not make women eligible
to serve as jurors. Which state is
right7
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
One More Reason.
(Montpelier Argus

Socialist leaders have not placed Yer
mont on the Socialistic map as they do
not expect to get the Socialistic ticket
on the Vermont ballot. Another rea-
son why you should come to Vermont
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

The Boston Transcript comes for
ward with the suggestion that the
marriage ceremony be amended by in
serting after the word ID" obey" a
clause reading: Reserving the right to
vote in accordance with my political
convictions. Would you call this the
twentieth amendments
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Some Look as IL They Had.

Wonderful how a girl who wears a
georgette blouse, veil, a hair net
and perforated hose keeps from get
ting all tangled up in the meshes7-
Toledo Blade.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
wnat Next

A New York man suggests the idea
of training apes as boothmcks. That
might go IN New York. hut Boston
would never stnnd for such Monkey
shines.-P"ctoE Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Mrs. Reach Tells How he Got to Know
Pat-Snap.

'Have always feared rats. Lately no
ticed many on my farm. A neighbor said
e just got rid of droves with RAT-SNAP-
This started me thinking. Tried RAT
SNAP myself. 1t killed II and scared
the rest away" RAT-SNAP comes in
three sizes, 35c., 65c., $l.25. Sold and
guaranteed by Brattleboro Drug Co.
Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

Many a political candidate is going
to breathe a sigh of relief when be
finds out where the women stand on
the question in hand which seems to
have been a mystery none could
fathom. The worst of it is for them
that it is probably one. that will have
to be solved every election.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Only a Few if Any.
Boston Globe.)

Vermont has lost about $500 and the
state of Maine has gained about $4,000
population in the last 10 years. There IS
nothing to show how many of the Yer
monters decided to become Mainiacs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

Attorney General Palmer now get
ting after the raisin combination,
says a headline. This is a combination
good many have been after the past
year and they will doubtless unite in
hoping Mr.. Palmer finds good one.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Today's Anniversaries.

l759-Montcalm, whom France ranks with
ST. Louis and the Chevalier Bay
ard, died at Quebec. Born near
Mines, France, in 17I2.
l85I-James Fenimore Cooper, the first
great American novelist, died at
Cooperstown, n. Y. Born at Burl-
ington, n. ", Sept Is. 1889.
lS66-Helen Hunt Jacksons first prose
sketch, entitled "In the White
Mountains" was published.
1s70-A popular agitation for self-govern-
ment was launched in Bohemia
lssl-Nearly 100 lives lost in the wreck
of the steamer asia" on Lake HUI
ron.
ls9l-Thousands attended the funeral of
ex-President Grevy, of France, in
Paris
l9Ol-William Mckinley, twenty fifth
president of the U. s., died in Buff
falo, from the effects of shots fred
Nv an assassin. Born at Niles, o.,
Jan. 90, 1S43
l9l6-Turkish government consented to
the shipment of relief supplies
from United States to the famine
sufferers in Syria.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
POISONING ACCIDENTAL.
Conclusion of Doctors in Case of
Olive Thomas.

PARIS, Sept, 1.-THE autopsy on the
body OF Olive Thomas, the American
moving picture actress, who died in the
American hospital at Neuilly last Fri
day, was performed yesterday by Dir.
Paul, official physician of the City of
Paris, in the presence of five American
doctors. DIR. Joseph Choate, who had
charge of Miss Thomas during her ill
ness, represented her family
The doctor concluded that death was
due to poisoning through intoxication
with a sublimate,' taken accidentally
Judge Pamart granted tonight a per-
NIT for the removal of the body of Miss
Thomas, which will be shipped to Amer
lea on the first liner sailing for that
country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Member Of The Associated press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for publication of all news
dispatches credited to it and not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

total of IS automobile accidents
have reached the Office of Secretary of
State Black as the result of the week
end holiday automobile riding. None
of the accidents were fatal and only
one was in northeastern Vermont
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
VERMONT NEWS.

Clothesline thieves are making big
hauls in Burlington, the plan being to
cut the line and take that along with
the clothes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
One Year Ago Today.

President and Mrs Wilson visited Sc
attic
William III. Taft and other prominent
Americans appealed to senate to ratify
the peace treaty
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

Edward Griffin, a former resident of
Hoosick Falls, N. Y, but who has lived
in Bennington during the past few
years, was sentenced yesterday to not
less than two years in the state prison
at Windsor for felonious assault.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
In the Days News.

Wesley J.. Jones, who is candidate
for denomination in the Washington
state primaries today, is now completing
his second term in the United States
senate. Having had ten years service in
the house of representatives, Mr.. Jones
entered the senate in 1900 with accurate
knowledge of conditions at the capitol
that makes for success or failure as a
lawmaker. He was born and educated
in southern Illinois, and, after gradual
ing from college and gaining admission
70 the Illinois bar, migrated, in 1899, Ia
the then territory of Washington, to
make his name and fortune. In the evo-
lution of the region from territory to
a state he had a hand, and he showed
the talent he had displayed prior to leav,
ing Illinois as an orator and leader oil
the people in political ways Within
nine years after he had settled in North
Yakima, he had become a prominent
factor in the Republican party in that
region, and been sent to congress.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

Shelton Hale, %, former Boston Post
reporter and graduate of the Harvard
law school, '16, died at Windsor Sun
day night, after an illness of six
months During the war he was con
nected with the war trade board at
Washington and afterward practiced
law in New York In 1918 he was mar
ried to Susan Evarts of Windsor, who
survives him.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

Cotton Spinning In Japan.
Cotton spinning In Japan Is regard
ed by many to be as important COM
mercially as the silk industry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

Optimistic Thought.
1t Is silly to bestow too much labor
on trifies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

Curfew rings tonight at twelve for
the straw hat.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

A large International truck, driven
by Rupert Freeman, on its way from
Windsor to Pittsfield, carrying a load
of household goods belonging to Guy
Hubert, and seven persons, narrowly
escaped plunge into the brook in
Barnard Sunday when a brake chung to
one of the rear wheels on a steep
curve, drawing the truck around to the
inside of the curve, and a stout elm
tree held it by one of the fore wheels
from making the plunge. Augustus
Freeman, Is, of Windsor, brother of
the driver of the truck, jumped and
escaped with a sprained ankle Mrs
Hubert, with her months '-old baby,
fell forward from her seat beside the
driver into the brook but suffered no
injury beyond little wetting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper, 80 cents
inch for first insertion, 80 cents an inch
for each subsequent insertion. Limited space
on first page at double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents line
first insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change OF
order.
Reading Notices-Twenty cents per line first
insertion with 50 per cent discount for each
subsequent insertion without change of copy
Reading notices are published at foot Of loca
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

w. H. JOHNSON of Portland,
Ore, who says no one could have
done him any greater kindness
chan the friend who advised him
to try Tanlac.-Gains fifteen
pounds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14

William J. O'Brien of Hartford, who
backed an automobile into a tree near
the State House in Montpelier Sunday
causing injuries to his brother, Charles,
and slight injuries to William A. Ahern
of the same town, was fined $50 and
costs of $6.05 in Montpelier court on
the charge cooperating an automobile
without a license. He didn't operate
the car very far, not more than so
feet, and all the way backwards.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-14
Chr 3rattleboro Refortaes

Entered in the postofice at Brattleboro a
second class matter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-08-05
DESTROyERS WATCH
FOR CABLE LAYERS

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-(U. P)-
United States destroyers continue pa
trolling the harbor of Miami. Flori-
da, to prevent a British ship from
ma king a cable landing there. Off
cials said President Wilson's order to
the navy department to prevent by
force if necessary the landing of Il
cable from the Barbados. British
possession, is fully supported by the
statutes The Western Unions appli-
cation for a cable landing is before
the state department, but has been
held up pending satisfactory replies
to government inquiries concerning
terms of contract between the
Western Union and British cable in
terests controlling the Barbadoes-
Brazil portion of the cable. The ques-
tion is purely domestic dispute be-
tween the government and the West
ern Union. The chartering of a Brit
iish ship 10y the Western Union for the
work is only a coincidence and has
mo International significance.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-08-05
UNION OIL WANTS
TIME EXTENSION
FOR LOCAL WORK
Council Lays Communication
on Table for Further Con-
sideration; Opening of Sewer
Bids Deferred for Week.

Request for an extension of time on
their franchise to build an oil depot in
this city was filed by the Union Oil
Co.. last night with the city council.
The company's franchise expires in
November but conditions, the request
says, make it impossible for construc-
ton to go on as had been planned
The communication was laid on the
table for further consideration.
Resolutions of coincidence to be
sent the wife and mother of the late
Sheriff Til Taylor were ordered drawn
by the city. Resolutions thanking
the O.-W. r. & \. and all special Off
GERS and persons who served in the
chase which resulted in the capture of
the sheriff's slayers will also be draft
ed by the council.
The opening of bids on the construc-
ton of proposed new sewers was de-
ferred for one week in order that fur
ther estimates may he received.
Licenses for peddlers which wert
taken out by two men last month witt
the understanding that they could ped
die in the business district, were re-
! funded on order of the council. The
men who bought them at IS eacf
made affadivit that they did not know
there was an ordinance against ped
ding In the business district and sai6
that they had not used the licenses il
any other portion of the city.
! CITY Engineer F. b. Hayes asked fol
! leave of absence for two weeks, be
ginning Monday, August 9, while hi
takes his vacation. He plans TO visi
various towns in the northwest an'
especially look over concrete pave
ments. The leave was granted.
Fire Chief Ringold reported a tota
fire loss for July of $4,000 and tn
humber of alarms four. Fifty gallon
of chemical were used and S40O fee
of hose laid in fighting the flames
4 on recommendation of the fire com
mittee permit was issued to McNall
& Fowler to install new lavatories i
the Beltz estate building on Mai
street at cost Of $500.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-08-05
20 AMERICANS HELD PRISONER s-
BY BOLSHEVIKS AT MOSCOW
SAY REFUGEES WHO ESCAPED

The refugees include: Arthur Prince
of Detroit. corporal in the sSNth in
fantry; Frank King, Of Colurahds, a
newspaper correspondent: Hitc /
Fay. of New York. ana Mrs. t.'tlv
Harman They are at Ter 'rld. F:n-
land. where they are being aided by
the Red Cross. Prince was taken pris-
oner by the bolsheviki in the vicinity
of Archangel. March. 1919. while a
member of the American expedition
airy force in north Russia, the state
department announced. Although
wounded twice. the bolsheviki paid no
attention to his injuries and he suf-
fered great hardships during his inn
prisonment in Russia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-08-05

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-(U. P)-
Thirty Americans are held prisoner by
the bolshevik government at Moscow
according to four other American re-
fugees who came out Of soviet Russia
recently. the state department is al
vised by its repr resentative at Nlpors
Finland. Offisiais are frankly wor-
ricd. but would not say what steps
are contemplated bv the United states
In the situation. TIE department rs
advised by the American legation at
warsaw that the armistlce negotiate
ons with the Poles will be refused by
the bolsheviki as long as there is hope
of their capturing Warsaw.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-08-05
OREGON POPULATION
IS 7S3,2S5, A GAIN
OF 1874 PER CENT
State Ranks 35th in Popula-
ton in Union; Seven People
to Square Mile in State; In
crease Was 10000.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-(A. P.)
The census of Oregon is 7SS, 2S5, an
increase of 11O.529 or 16.4 percent
over the 1910 Oregon population of
6T2,765. Oregon ranks as the S5th
most populous state. The new gain is
largest numerically in its history. The
number being almost double that of
any previous decade. In area Oregon
ranked as the ninth largest state in
1910, with a land area of 95,6O7
square miles, making its population
an average of seven per square mile.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-08-05
BERLIN THINKS FRENCH
TROOPS BEING MASSED
FOR WAR ON RUSSIANS


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