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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
FIsHwAY FOR SALMON.
Fish Climb % Feet in Passing the Dam
in PiscataGua River.

F'ishways on the Pisquataqua river
are fast nearing completion and the one
built by the American Wooden company
on its Dover dam has been finished and
the water turned on. The fshWay is
said 10 be one of the finest in the state.
1t is built of reinforced concrete and viii
elevate the fish 23 feet in their passage
over the dam. "- ."'.t @'."...
The water is taken first into a con
crete fume two feet thick, and is on a
level with the water in the mill pond.
From this fume are three gates of diff
ferent elevation to take the water at
high, medium and low pitch and as it is
necessary to have the quick water at
the foot of the fishway as near the dam
as possible, the checks run cross way,
or parallel, and next to the dam itself
five in number, eight feet square and
then five in the opposite direction, and
back again, then two and one check IS
in all diScharging with quick water be-
side the log sluice.
Fish, in going up stream, always
breast the main current and will some
times hang for weeks below a dam, look
ing for place to so by. Here the quick
water from the dam and fishway is prac-
tically the same, so that the fish, NOV
ing TO and fro in the swift current,
readily find the mouth of the fishway,
and passing upward from check, IS in
all soon go over the top into the mill
pond above.
Each check also has a rest pool, or
pocket, where the current is not as swift
but forms an eddy where the fish can
rest, if necessary, before going over. The
fshway on the Piscataqua, however, will
be used only by salmon, and mostly sea
salmon, which are exceedingly lively
and can jump any ordinary dam in high
water.
Cowyard Falls, on Ship Pond stream,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

The Woman's association of the Centre
CONGREGATIONAL church will meet Friday
afternoon at $50 o'clock in the chapel,
instead of Thursday, in order that Mrs.
Ruth \. Thompson, formerly of Brattle-
boro, may be present.
Sunshine society, branch 1, will hold a
regular meeting at the town home in West
BrattlebOro Friday, Dec. 81. Members
are asked to board the car which leaves
Prospect hill at ITO o'clock. A Christ
mas program viii be given and a large
attendance is desired.
The first automobile license plate for
1921 was seen on the streets today. The
plates are of the same style as the 1920
plates with the exception that the figures
are in black on a white background
whereas the 1920 plates are in white on
black background.
Truxton Britain, Lester Haywood and
John Durham gave a dancing party last
to their young friends. Shows orchestra
of three pieces furnished music. Punch
was served. Mrs G. +. Hunter and Mrs
w. II. Haywood were the patronesses.
In the regular meeting of Dennis Re
bekah lodge last evening these officers
were elected: n. G., Mrs. G. w. Cleave-
land: rec sec. Mrs Alice Landry: fin
sec, Miss Phebe Clark treas, Mrs Ida
Gibson; trustee for three years, Mrs. Net
tie NJ AkeIey. Miss Clark will succeed
Miss Minnie Brown, who has held the
office of financial secretary of the lodge
IS years Following the work an enter
tainment, which took the form of an old
time school, was presented, Mrs. Landry
acting as teacher. The pupils gave recita-
tons and rendered vocal music. 4 hand
some Christmas tree was laden with gifts,
which were distributed to the members.
Refreshments were served.
Nearly 80 young people of the Centre
Congregational Sunday school, including
the junior and intermediate departments,
had complimentary Christmas supper
in the chapel at 6 O'Clock last evening,
followed by an entertainment in the
church auditorium. The party closed
with games in the chapel. The entertain
ment consisted of the singing of carols
and hymns, vocal solos by Miss Marguer-
tie Nixon with accompaniment by Miss
Irma Thomas, stories by Mrs. II. +.
Noodin. and flute solos by @. ii. Clapp
, accompanied on the piano by Miss Emily
| r. Clapp. An offering was taken for Ar
Imenian relief. The supper menu consisted
of escalloped potato, meat loaf, rolls
! jellies, ice-cream and cake. The tables
were appropriately decorated. The chill
! dren had a jolly time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

north of Sebac Lake, is great place for
salmon jumping and often in August and
early in September visitors travel for
miles to see them jump. The falls ara
about Is feet high, and the fish, after
circling at the foot, jump seven or eight
feet into the air, striking the falls lit
tie over half way up, and so go on over
the top. Occasionally the salmon will
not strike straight in but little side
ways when it will be thrown back, some
times on the rocks below. The writer
has counted - good jumps in II minutes
and photographed the salmon in the air
as they were heading into the falls. Sea
salmon viii often make a clean jump
Of - to Is feet over dam or fall of
water.-Kenebec Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Not n Coed Shot

Hogan was troubled with moths and
decided to ask the druggist the best way
to get rid of them. The druggist told him
to take home p cents worth of camph0r
balls, and that would kill them. Two DAVIS
after Hogan was passing by the druggist,
who asked him, how did he make out.
What" he said, how did 1 make out :?
Why, man, sat up all night and | missed
every one of them. Sing Sing Bulletin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
ROOF TREES OF CEYLON.
Provide Food, Drink, Furniture and a
Source of Income.

To the native of CeylOn. the graceful
cocO-palmS that line the shores where
red famingOs file are far more precious
than the rare woods and spices. the fra
grant tea or the bright jewels for which
CeylOn is famous. Over the bed ON which
Ee is born and over the grave in which
he is buried is hung a cluster of cOcOnut
b oSSOmS to charm away evil spirits.
This one tree furnishes practically all
ne needs for life. The fruit provides
him with food and oil, and the sap.
with 'jaggery' or cOcOnut sugar. The
milk of the green nut is a healthful
refreshing drink. The juice of the I'M
opened flower he makes into a delight
ful wine; distilled. the wine becomes
arrack. a powerful spirit. From the
makes ropes. fSh-nets and mating; his
baby sleeps in a cradle of coir-rOpe. The
she'll of the nut, he fashions into drink
ing-vesSelS and spoons. and the fragments
left over serve as fuel He plaits the
leaves into dishes and into thatch for his
dwelling. The dried leaves serve as
torches; with the stalks he fences his
garden. He hOllOwS out the trunk of
the tree into q canoe that, buOyed by an
ingenious Outrigging of poles, goes swiftly
through the toughest seas. He builds
his house Of cocOnut wood. and when he
dies, he is laid away in a coffin followed
from the friendly tree. CeylOn yields
more than a billion cOcOnHtG wear
Five million gallons of coc0nut oil. TO-
900 tons of coir, nearly 100000 hun
dred-weight of copra and 10000 600
pounds Of the dried meat of the nut, are
c"norted annually. But fully three
htthS Of the crop is consumed by Ceylon' )
four millions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

A massive chair. made of copper,
(which natives believe was given by the
hate Queen Victoria to an Ashanti
lChieftain and used by him as throne,
has been discovered in the midst of a
jungle far from human habttation in
the Gold Coast colony of Africa.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Women Succeed as Eorssters

I'm the conventions and gatherings
OF persons identified with the lumber
industry which have taken place re-
Gently women have played an impor-
tant part. They are said to make ex-
cellent foresters where the pursuit is
congenial
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
ARMED GUARDS
FIGHT INCENDIARIES
Drive Two Men From Hotel They Al
tempt to Burn-PrObably In
Arson Ring.

UNIONTOWN. Pa, Dec. %
Armed guards early today prevented an
attempt to burn the Junction House at
Star Junction near here and drove off
two men who had fired quantity of
inAammable material placed in room
on the first floor. Hotel guests awak-
encd by the shots, joined in the chase
but tho men escaped.
This incident was taken by state ana
county officers as additional proof that
tbe two men under arrest here in con-
ncction with the widespread incendiar-
ism of the past few months We're not
leaders in the arson ring, which already
has cost Fayette county residents close
to 81 UOO. 900
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Fishy.

-Exasperated though she was with
her husband for showing himself I'm
firm of purpose" we don't believe Lady
Macbeth called her husband "a poor
fish"-though a country newspaper
quotes her as exclaiming: "Infirm old
porpoise, give me the dagger !'-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
ACCEPT WAGE REDUCTION.
Textile Unions of Fall River Vote to
Work for Less Money.

FALL RIVER. Mass. Dee. 90
The six textile unions of the American
Federation of Textile Operatives at
meetings iaSt hig f oa g"tea TO accept Inc
" announced by the manufacturers, eff
fec+ive Jan. 8. 1921.
The action of the unions affects an
proximate1v $4,000 employees in 10
Gotten cloth and warn mills in this city.
The unions of the loom fixers and
the slasher tenders voted unanimously TO
accept the REDUCTION and the Carders
and Weavers' onions accepted under
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Painting on Spider Web.

Painting on spider web Is done in
Norway and the pictures are framed
like any other drawing. The webs EN-
ployed, which are of very dense
weave are found only in few localities
difficult of access and the supply OF
them is limited.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
RECEPTION TO MRS. COOLIDGE.
Prominent Women of Massachusetts,
Honor Her at Copley- Plaza

BOSTON, Dee %. Prominent
women of Massachusetts and other New
England states attended a reception
given by the Observation-Disclosures
Daughters in honor of Mrs. Calvin Cool
idge, wife of Governor Coolidge. at the
COpley- Plaza hotel yesterday afternoon.
Five hundred guests took advantage of
the opportunity to tender their respects
before her departure for Washington.
With Mrs. Coolidge in the receiving
line were representatives of leading
womens organizations, including Mrs.
Nelson ". Howard, president of the
Observation-Disclosures Daughters Mrs.
Carl T. AIillken. wife of Governor Mil
Iiken of Maine; Mrs. Seth Lowe Martin,
president of the Wednesday Morning
club: Mrs. Herbert 30 ReRR. Yafe of
Admiral Dunn, commaQdgnt 9f the first
naval district; Mrs. David {. Shanks
wife of Major Genrral Z fSkdnksed com
mander of the hUst army corps area;
Mrs. 4. \. Fales, Mrs. Myron Whit
man. Mrs. Frederick Merrill. Mrs.
Ralph Flanders. Mrs. Charles Sumner
Bird. Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, Mrs. VIII
liam Lowell Putnam. Mrs. John +. Os-
born. and many other prominent women.
Tea was poured by Mrs. Elmer Jared
Bliss, Mrs. Holman Day, Mrs. Harry
Lord, and Mrs, Sydney Wyman. A
corps of younger members of the club.
headed by Mrs. Harry Bagley, served
as ushers. A musical program was given
by Mrs. Alice Huston Stevens, soprano
soloist, and the Lucille Quimby trio.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Registering Thermometer.

For industries where temperature
records are of value an inventor has
devised a registering thermometer that
can be connected to and operated by
IN alarm clock.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

protest. The Spinners' union indicated
that it's members thought the reduction
too great. The Yarn Finishers' union
accepted by a close vote.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Most Patient Woman

Jud Tunkins says the most patient
and forbearing woman he knows Of is
the piano player who puts in the en-
tire day playing request numbers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

Lady Diana Manners, who has signed a
contract to appear in a series of motion
pictures, is the Youngest of trio of IA.
nous and talented beauties-daughter of
the duke of Rutland. Before he succeeded
to the dukedom her father. then Captain
John Manners, spent a year or more in
America with his family, and the eldest
of the three daughters was born while
the family was living at Las Vegas, n.
NJ
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

In the west of England it is considered
very unlucky to bring birds eggs into the
house.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

FOR HHE REFORMED
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02

were on the job and politely, If not
very warmly, received the visitors
with open arms, or should we have
said swinging arms? That is what
happened at least in Saturdays game.
While swinging they connected with
the ball and won the game, 5 to 9.
Rogan pitched for the locals, Dismukes
and Williams for the visitors. Pluvious
prevented a Sunday game. On Mon
day, however, these two teams pulled
n of the best games that has ever
been zen in the part. 1t was a pitch.
ers' duel from the first innings be-
tween Currie for the home boys and
Johnson for the A. B. Cs. The mara
thon race extended into darkness with
Is periods at the clip of one and one
on the scoring. Fans agree that it
was the premier contest of the season,
interesting features considered. The
Monarchs annexed Tuesdays game by
the score of 8 to L. Crawford hurled
for the locals and Willioms and Tay-
lOr for the visitors. The teams are
scheduled for a game today and a
doubleheader for Sunday. Sundays
games have a special attraction in the
fact that Currie will again oppose
Johnson on the mound for supremacy
in one of the games.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02

derful photoplay. Despite the fact
that 1.-THE Homesteader'' and within
Our Gates" we're accorded first DO.
sition by critical movie fans, the lat
est special superfeature-THE BRUTE
is in a class by itself.
II will be recalled by the Kansas
City Negro citizens that the picture
within Our Gates" was stopped while
on a weeks run at the Lincoln Thea
ter, playing to immense crowds which
packed from Forest Avenue to the
Paseo and necessitated two box offices
for the sale of tickets. The Censor
Board caused the withdrawal Of the
pictures on complaint of the Kansas
City Star which thought that the
of the Negro was too well pre-
scented in the interest of justice.
1.-THE Brute" is a different type of
story and does not dwell upon race
problems. 1t tells Of the entering,
through money, of an underworld
character into the life of an innocent
girl; how the gambler gained his point
by the use of his ill-gotten wealth
by playing upon the cupidity of the
girls aunt and guardian, whose ambi-
ton to see her niece do we'll in the
matrimonial field blinds her to every
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02
A BASEBALL STAR THAT SHINES
BOLDLY.

We pointed out in the first part CT
the season what baseball NEAR to the
Negro athlete. 1t menas first an op-
pOrtunity to work at his chosen sport
and receive a r~emunerative salary for
so doing. / tell you that is working
awfully fine, Comes George Carr, the
Monarch's most able coverer of the
initial sack, a graduate from the high
school in Pasadena. Calf. Carr rep
resents the ambitious youth, who be-
lieves in seasoning even his efforts
Fat professional baseball with intelli-
gent thinking. He is from one OF the
best families of those parts.
Carr's athletic prowess has been
thoroughly demonstrated out in Cali
fornia, having been one of the chief
assets to the Los Angeles White Sox,
a fast going aggregation of players.
Here is indeed some record: Played
"a games; at bat. 1862 times; 60 hits,
8 home runs, II two-base hits; stole
"a bases. Carr has certainly been a
wonderful asset to the Monarchs, COM
ing to this team and relieving a very
bad situation. hits first-sacker may
be said to belong to the protective
association-at least hat is what ne
does to the sack, protects it.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02

thing else until it is too late. In the
carrying out of the story a great fight
in the ring is staged with Sam Lang
ford and Marty Cutler as the princi-
pals.
The work Of the principals-Eve-
lyn Preer, A. B. DeComathierre, Susie
Sutton and Lawrence Chenault-dem.
onstrates hat we do not have to go
outside of the Negro race for screen
artists of ability. With the proper d.
rection, such as we see in this super
feature, there is no limitation to the
advance our race can make In the
screen world. While the story cannot
be called a preachment, Mr.. Micheaux
has written something here that car
ries a valuable moral lesson to the
Negro.
The picture will begin it's run at the
Lincoln Theater Sunday. October 3,
with its usual 8 O'Clock matinee and
continue for a solid weeks run. Being
a story of the Negro, written by an
author of our race, acted by the most
notable actors of u race, the mem
see the picture which will go down in
OF IIBI lou pInoqs 9oeI mo 10 sIeq
u history as one of u greatest
classics.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02
SESSUE

Those who follow the trend of the
%"reei' world with any degree of per.
s~istency have probably viewed Sessue
Hayakawa, the eminent Japanese film
istsr, in some of the numerous photo
plays that feature him. This artists
work is all that could be asked from
a highly scientific standpoint. The
natural orientalism about his pictur-
izatious always has a striking effect
on the observer. For high vivid tenn
perment as can be displayed in picture
one thinks of this screen star as al
WAYS signally attractive.
But what about his patriotism?
What about his golden race? These
two questions might appear irrelevant,
yet, rightly appreciated it is to the
opposite, very relevant.
While the plays that feature Haya-
kawa are vehicles that are all cum
ningly contrived to show the inferior
ity of the yellow race. Have you
noticed this? Have you noticed that
the characters Hayakawa plays never
marry the white woman? Have you
noticed hat the lines" usually infer
that though the woman may naturally
love the admirable qualities in the
darker man, they are %eternally (and
rightly barred from-the social grace
of marriage by the caste of color?
This is the terrible idea that the gold
en- face artist must reflect and teach
in his acting. Now Sessue Hayakawa
is bound to- realize how far-Beaching
this propaganda of the white race will
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02

uals, through their contacts, and the
glowing incidents that beset them.
Then why can't We get more out of
life than we do? Because we are
continually ignoring the voice Of
truth and fact. In the rural quiet or
the wakeful city, every incident has
a meaning of its own. Every word.
wise or foolish, tends to wisdom for
the truly receptive. Every happening
is instructive if we will only see. l..
for one. love this unsought contact
with the world. 1t means so much, it
is humanity. humanity with its diver
sified, conglomerated units. Only yes
terday, passing a "public haunt" |
saw a prosy policeman stop a still
more prosy Ford an dtake a friendly
ride with the driver. 1t occurred to
me that he had "reQuisitioned" this
citizens property to convey his Off.
cial person to another part of the city.
This incident, not only recalled to me
the recent war when governments re-
Questioned both men and property, but
gave me a real concrete meaning of
the word itself. | saw | learned.
Again, likewise, | crumpled a piece of
paper and threw it on the floor. My
attention was held, however, when |
noticed it begin to unfold or expand.
1t occurred to me quite forcibly that
here was the "Reactionary'; that any
thing moved or altered contrary to
some natural law will react in some
way as this crumpled paper reacted.
Now let us recapitulate; Shakespeare
said something about sermons in
stones and Good in everything-we
agree with him.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02

makes his characters decry, If you
would learn Truth, look about you any
where. Keep your ear open to the SER
mons that daily incidents bring you,
and you will see Good triumphant in
spite of all, instead of merely disclos-
ing itself in sylvan places. However,
Shakespeare was showing you the ad-
vantages of solitude, or freedom from
the turbulent urban evils. in this we
are not fussing with him. But II the
king of human geniuses has stamped
his name ~eternally upon the develop
ing mind of the world, it is owing,
not to any mere contemplative charac'
ter, but from his real blooded individ-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02

periority real to a too receptive audi
encf. He is further bound to know
what a direct effect 1t will have upon
the Japanese Question; or giving ere.
dence in several ways to the alleged
yellow Menace" or centering the
American mind unfavorably upon the
"Japs" in California.
Now we observe, since Hayakawa is
bound to know these things. we are
not irrelevant when we ask of his pa.
triotism and his race loyalty. We arc
painfully surprised to find one so able
in his profession feeding the gods of
prejudice and race discrimination
against his own. "Ta ia" is the near.
est approach we can make to an orr
entail equivalent meaning Good Bye!
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02
BULLETIN NO. 2.

Extra. Extra
Jo%intkeeper arrested by Government
Officials.
We notice the attempts of the for
eign element to intrude their PERM
cious dives upon the three best bust
ness blocks in town among Negroes
This should be stopped. The Negro
business people have a right to protest
the existence of such places in their
midst. And they should take the prop
er steps at once to oust these demons
and to prevent others of their ilk from
locating i'll these parts. William
Wright, the well known promoter of
parks and amusements. was the active
complainant in the above cas-.
Wright, if you were ever wrong you
were certainly right in this matter.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02

The following Bulletins appeared on
the League Enterprise Windows:
Extra. So Negroes may Know,
1t is rumored that there is a bad
joint conducted by an Italian at the
Northwest corner of 18th and High
land avenue. Witness can prove that
the Italian has offered insults to wom-
en- and young school girls, not only
in the place, but when passing by.
The place is being investigated by
the police.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02
FOOD o FANS.

After the Monarchs finally wrestled
the series from the little men from
the Cuban Isle they had not time to
get their breath ere the fighting Al
phabets swooped down upon them for
a grand tussle. However. the locals
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02
NEGRO PRODUCTION BEGINS
BIG RUN NEXT WEEK,

"The Brute" Proves the Biggest and
Best Of the Colored Productions.
The thousands of people who view
ed the latest of Oscar Micheaux's
productions, THE BRUTE" which
had a record breaking run in the col
ored theaters of Chicago and Detroit,
was 4 unit in their praise of this won
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02
.=..>Aes '''N'.
aIIsu- eRVTHlNe."

-e It," Mr.. Shakespeare
.omp ai of his characters revert
he me philosophic woods where
inspired to agree on the fol
-lg: And this our life. exempt
:. 3m public haunt, finds tongues in
trees, books in the running brooks.
in stones. and good in every
thing" The only suggestion we would
dare make to the universal bard is
that the same sermons, the same
books, and the same good are reflected
in the very public haunts that he
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-02
A MODERN

apologies to C~hakspeare)
An 18th Streeter, coming out of 4
pool hall, and shivering under the pres.
ent cool weather: "To, be or not to
be; shall l change clothes or clim-
ates?"