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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
COULD READ OWN WRITING.
So DIR. Jones Filled the Prescriptions
When Druggist Died.

Old DIR. Jones. who once practiced
medicine in Il New Jersey town. was
known everywhere as a VIGOROUSLY bad
speller. He slipped up on the simplest
words, and people wondered how he man
aged TO write prescriptions. especially
in medical Latin. so that they could be
read and understood. Though the
Doe ar he was called. could not spell
he was, nevertheless. accounted q good
physician and his patients swore f4y
him. He sent his prescriptions regularly
to certain druggist in the town be-
cause this man was the only druggist
who could read them. How the druggist
succeeded in doing so it was a mystery
to every one.
Everything went we'll for a long time
then one day the druggist was taken i'll
and died. His funeral was largely at
tended and DIR. Jones was one of the
principal mourners. What will become
.of the Doc" now? Who will he get
II read his prescriptions? were questions
on very ones lips. 1t was pretty gen
orally agreed that the future looked
black for the physician, but this man
who spelled rheumatism ''rumatiz' was
not to be discouraged. The day after
the obsequies of the druggist the follow
ing announcement, printed in longhand
appeared in the window of the phar7n-
acy: 'Dr. Jones has bought this drag
store. He will continue the bisness and
fill prescriptions hisself. New York
| Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
PONZI PLEADS GUILTY.
CONTINUED from rage ID

the prisoner could have fed with millions
had he wished TO defraud. ponzi thought
he was on the way to make millions for
his investors and himself. counsel said
Judge Hale interjected a question at
this point: rs there anything you can
say by which the court can conclude that
it was not a wild scheme?'
Il don't believe the defendant consid-
cred it a wild scheme said Air. Coakley
He believed if he had not been arrested
he would have paid dollar for dollar and
made millions"
United States Attorney Daniel ]. Gala
CHER, arguing for the government, urged
imposition of the maximum sentence. He
said
1T is true Mr.. Ponzi did collect about
S10.000,000. 1t is also true that he paid
back about $S,000,000, leaving a differ
ence of about $2,000,0O0 between what he
took and what he returned. This man is
a strange mixture of childishness and dtl-
plicity. In a way he committed a gov
eminent to a scheme he must have known
was fraudulent. The postal department
regards this case as the most fragrant one
of its kind, for Ponzi made the govern
ment an acquiescent observer of his
scheme"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30

sonal study of immigration conditions
at the port of New York.
The proposal to suspend temporarily
immigration to this country from every
where in the world not only would al
lay the fears of labor and the public gem
orally which have been aroused by re
ports of the great horde of immigrants
about TO invade this country from Europe
and the Near East, but it would give to
the state department a breathing spell
in dealing with the japanese Immigration
and alien land question which has as
sulped serious proportions since the APP
prcEal by the people of California of the
anti alien landholding law. LI.Ia5 IL
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
DOCKET FOR APRIL TERM.
CONTINUED from Page H.

derry, who married Edwin NJ Hartwell of
Arlington Feb. -, 1901, has filed a di-
vorce petition alleging desertion and intol-
cradle severity. They lived together in
Windham. Peru. Weston and other places
until July il, 1912.
Ella Barnes of Guilford has filed a petit
ton against Truman Barnes of Colrain
Mass. alleging intolerable severity. deser.
ton and refusal to support. They wer,
married III Gardner. Mass, Jan. %. 1913
and lived together until Aug. l. 1920
Barnes is ordered to pay SO week tenn
porary alimony.
Merton NJ Murdoch of Nottingham al
leges desertion and intolerable severity
in a divorce petition against Lillian VI
08yder) Murdoch. They were married il
North Adams, Mass Dec 4. 1906. and
lived together until April -. 1916.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Joseph Ashley and family have moved
from Organ street to Estey street.
Miss Rose Pellerin has returned from
a visit of several days in Montpelier.
H H. Dutton of Grafton has begun
work for the John f. Smith & Co. garage.
Robert H Deville of Troy, n. y, was
a visitor in town over the weekend with
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Dickinson OF
Williamsville are spending the day IN
Brattlcboro.
Mrs. Carl A. Mitchell, who had been
i'll several weeks following an operation,
is out again.
Mrs. Vernon Morrill, of Bridgewater is
visiting her sister, Mrs. b. Il. White OF
Linden street
G. L. Durham left Saturday for bust
ness trip for the Durham Brothers COM
pany to Milwaukee, Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs, John D. Austin of Win
throp, Mass, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Martin Austin of Chaplin street.
Mrs. James p. Elmer spent the holiday
in Bellows Falls with her son, DR.. Ray
mond Elmer, and Mrs. Elmer.
Miss Rena Scanlon, who visited last
week with relatives in Northampton,
Mass, returned home Yesterday.
w. J.. Hunt and Mrs. Helen futile are
in Gardner, Mass. today on business foT
the Goodnow, Pearson x Hunt store.
George r. Croll has closed his garage
on Canal street for the winter and has
begun work for the Estey Organ company
Mrs. Clifford Chickering and daughter
of Chesterfield, n. H., are visitors here
today with her sister, Mrs. a. c. Rate
of Prospect street.
Mrs. Robert l.. Fits has gone to her
former home in Lancaster. Pa, to remain
until after Christmas. Mr.. Fits will go
there to spend the holidays.
John Smith has returned from Worces-
ter, whore he went to spend the holiday
with relatives. Mrs. Smith and son,
John, viii remain there for longer stay
Mrs. Alice Baird and Mrs. Mae Benson
returned Sunday night from Hartford.
Conn, where they spent several days in
the home Of their sister, Mrs Howard
Sharp.
Mrs Jennie Wilson left today fol-
Springfield. Mass, to visit a few days
before going to New York to stay in.
definitely with her son and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Wallace Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Martin of Port
land, Me. who came to spend the Thanks
giving holidays in the home of Mrs. Mar
tins sister, Mrs. II. c. Shaw of Maple
street, have returned to their home.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

Beginning tomorrow an additional one
half of one per cent will be added tC
the tax bills remaining unpaid, making
one and one-half per cent.
The Fort Dummer Cotton Mills viii
reopen Monday on a 37-hour a week
schedule, after being closed 10 days on
account of a shortage of orders.
The Carly-On club of st. AIichaels
Episcopal church held a covered dish
party with Miss Violet Fidler on Brook
street last evening. Twelve members
We're present.
The entertainment committee of the
Brattleboro Business and Professional
Women's clubs has made arrangements
with Friendship circle for supper to be
served in Odd Fellows hall Tuesday eve
ming. Dec Z. when Miss Lena Madesin
Phillips of New York will speak, and q
vote will be taken regarding club rooms
for the use Of members.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
SHARP BREAK IN MEATS.
Middle West And Boston Markets At
fecfed-RacOn 30 Cents.


BOSTON, Nov 3O.-Sharp reductions
in retail meat prices, reported from the
Middle West yesterday, were said by To-
cal dealers to be in line with a general
downward trend which has been felt in
Boston for several days.
Further reductions an beef and fresh
pork products became effectiYt this morn
ing in a number of establishments
Overnight price cuts announced by
dealers range from three to 10 cents. To
days prices, compared with those quoted
last week, show even heavier reductions.
In one establishment, whose prices may
be taken as an index OF retail market con
ditions in Boston, the president OF the
company yesterday compared the price
list for today with that of last week.
Pork roast is to be 81 cents, as com
pared with 30 cents yesterday and IS
cents last Friday. Pork chops, selling to-
day for 10 cents. were 60 a few days ago.
Top of the round steak is listed for 80
cents today; it was 4S cents yesterday
and 50 cents last week. Cuts of rump
steak, which were 50 cents yesterday,
this dealer said, will be 20 today
Though smoked hams have shown a
gradual decline and are now quoted at
- cents, the reduction has not kept pace
with that of fresh meats.
Bacon was found last evening to be re
falling in the Boston market district
around SO cents. This shows little change
over the price last week. The report
from the West was of a reduction in the
price of bacon from rs to 30 cents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
MAY STOP IMMIGRATION.
Disposition On Part of Some To Wait
For General Revision of Law.

WASHINGTON. y. c, Nov. 3U.-
Congress may suspend temporarily all
immigration to the United States except
Of persons who have close relatives hf4e.
the suspension to remain in effect un,il
such time as careful consideration can
be given to the entire problem and q ur-
tailed revision of the present imIuigra'
ton laws brought about.
This idea is being fostered primarily
by Chairman Johnson Of the house com
mittcc on immigration, and is understood
to have at least qualified support al
ready from other leaders of the house and
senate, including Senator Sterling IS.
d.. a member of the senate immigration
committee, who has completed a per
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
WEST HALIFAX.

There are many cases of whooping
cough about the town, but it seems to be
Of mid form.
DR.. Cram Of Colerain called on his pa
tients. Mrs. F. II. Niles and Mrs. Clar-
ence Clark, this week.
The many friends Of Miss Mary Sum
ner will be pleased to know that she is
ON the road to recovery.
/. l.. Hall has a fine pair of twin three
year-old steers that he refused 275 for
the other day. They cannot be beaten.
Dalrymnle and Robertson have sold
their goods and rented their store to Ev-
erett May. possession being given this
week.
Miss Muriel A. Hall and Miss Grace
Person, who were home for Thanksgiv-
ing with their parents. have returned to
the Brattleboro high school.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
WEST DTMMERSTON.

Robert Thayer of Beverly, Mass, is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
Thayer.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Taft visited rela-
tives in Baldwinsyille over the Thanks
giving holiday.
Miss Helen Ring, nurse at the Melrose
hospital, visited few days in the home
Of her mother, Mrs. NJ. Ring. last week.
Mrs. Marie Holman has finished work
as housekeeper for S. S. Washer, and viii
return to her home in Jacksonville.
Joseph LaMothe is at his home here for
few days being obliged to give I'D bis
work in Brattleboro for the present on
account of illness
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
FINED 50. 500 EACH.
Two Brighton Men Pay For Selling 30
Barrels of MhiskeY l.

BOSTON. Nov. 30.-The mystery
surrounding the disappearance of 20
barrels of whiskey from storehouse of
Michael H. Glynn in the Brighton dis
tIict several months ago was answered
by Glynn today when he pleaded guilty
to violating the Volstead act Associated
with Glynn in his plea of guilty were
jeremiah Sullivan and two other men
Glynn and Sullivan We're fined $500
each as principals in the transfer and
sale of the whiskey and the others 800
each as accomplices.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
LOWER MEAT IN PORTLAND.
Bacon Drops to 80 Cents-Lower Grain
Prices Have Effect.

PORTLAND, Me. Nov. 30.-Lower
meat prices were announced today by
Wholesale dealers. The greatest reduction
is in pork. loin being reported at 26 cents
as compared with 80 cents few days ago.
Bacon has dropped from 33 to 30 cents.
Salt pork is quoted at reduction of 81 a
barrel. Lamb and mutton also are lower.
SIackPned demand and lower grain prices
are said to be responsible for the reduc-
tiOu
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
Won On Its Merits.
lRutland IIerald. J

The victory of Rutland,s high school
football team over Brattleboro's was
clean-cut, decisive and won absolutely
on its merits. The young athletes of the
local temple of learning concluded their
seaSon-repIete as it was with fine
playing-with a triumph over their
traditional foes that closely ap-
preached the sensational. They have
very evidently been taught to tackle hard
hit the line low and fight
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
The eusheI as a weiaht.

bushel is now regarded as def
mite weight rather than a measure of
cubic contents. Various products,
however. have different weights to the
bushel. Wheat. according to the bu-
reau of crop estimates. weighs go
pounds to the bushel -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
GOES TO CHICAGO FOR TRIAL.
Union Official Charged With Conspiracy
To Dynamite Buildings.

BOSTON. Nov. 30.-The supreme
court ruled today that Edward f. Graves
of AIedford, vice president of the Inter
national Association of Cpholsterers, will
go to Chicago to stand trial on an in
dictment found by the grand jury of Cook
county charging him with conspiring to
dynamite buildings in Chicago during a
strike of upholsterers in the spring of
1920. The court dismissed a petition Of
Graves to be released on writ of habeas
COFDlIS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
GIVE UP THEIR JOBS
FOR A MONTH
Employees of Golden Rule" Clothing
Mandatory to Give Idle People
a CHANGE.

CINCINNATI, Noy. 3O,-The 500
employees of the Nash Clothing Manufac-
turing Co. in this city which is operated
on the golden rule" basis today decided
to voluntarily surrender their jobs for
month. either January or February ia
order to give work to the unernl loved
If other clothing factories They took
that action after Arthur Nash had stated
hat clothing manufacturers were clos
ing in all parts of the country and that
thousands were being thrown out of en-
ployment. -s#
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
NINE HUNTERS KILLED.
Toll of Big Game Hunting Season In
Maine This Year.

AUGUSTA. Me, Nay, 3O.-Nine per
sons were killed during the big game
limiting season which closes in this state
tonight. One was mistaken for deer.
three accidentally shot themselves, one
was accidentally shot by his wife. three
were killed by companions by accident
and one by the discharge of his gun when
his dog stepped on the trigger. The total
was the same as last season.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
CONTINUE BANK INVESTIGATION
VIII Be Some Time Before Bank Com
missioner Can Make Report

BARRE. Nov. 30-The work of
checking up the various accounts at the
Barre Savings Bank & Trust Co., is I'M
der progress by the bank commissioner
and it viii be some time before this work
will be completed Meanwhile. firms and
individuals having commercial accounts
are finding accommodations as the other
banks which were able to handle the in
creased business along with the regular
patronage,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
BIRTHS.

In Yonkers, y Y, Nov, 26, a son, Rob
ert Charles. to Mr., and Mrs. Glenn {.
Gould, formerly of Brattleboro..
In Derby, Conn. (Grifin hospital1 I.
Nov. so. a daughter, Jean Howard. TO
shelton f. and Maud Howard heneston
of Shelton, granddaughter 10 Rev. and
Mrs. L. NJ Keneston of Shelton. and Mr..
and Mrs F. NJ Howard of Derby, and
great granddaughter to Mrs Harriet
Tucker of Derby.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
Drop Milk In Detroit .

DETROIT, Nov. 30-A reduction Of
two cents quart in the retail price OF
milk was announced yesterday by the De
troit Milk Producers association. Quarts
will be sold for IA cents and pints for
eight cents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
Rread Cheaper In Portland.

PORTLAND, Ne, Nov. 3O-The price
of bread dropped one cent here yester-
dav. The retail price now Is II cents
for a pound loaf and 10 cents for loaves
of one and half pounds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
Heavy Cuts In Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Nov. 3O.-Reductions of
retail meat prices here yesterday ranged
from 3 to II cents a pound. Bacon was
cut from 46 to 35 cents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30
VERNON.

A whist party will be held in GrangC
hall Thursday evening, Dec. ,, to which
eyeryne is cordially invited. Refresh
ments will be served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30

Boston is to have eight policewomen
whose particular duty will be to Keep
the girls from flirting on BOSTON Com
mon.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
A Haunted Island

ATOT content with absorbing a great
deal of scientific attention, spir-
itualism is invading the field of
the spring novel. "Stafford's Island"
by Florence Olmstead (Scribner's), Is
tingcd with mystical atmosphere
throughout. Ghosts and psychic cur
rents recur periodically and assist ma
terially in bringing the romance to
happy fruition.
The spiritualist background and the
descriptions of the beauties of the
island are perhaps the best part of the
novel; for the plot is both thin and
commonplace. A beautiful girl is
brought up by a Grabbed grandfather
in mysterious solitude on an island off
the Southern coast. A young man is
washed ashore in storm, and he and
the girl Immediately experience a SEN
sation of mutual attraction. 1t turns
out that the young man is descendant
of the eccentric painter who ran away
with grandfather's wife. The old gem
tlenan promptly orders him out of the
house, but fortuitously drops dead at
this critical moment, thereby remov-
ing the only obstacle to the happiness
of the young couple.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
THE NEW
INDUSTRIAL
UNREST
by Roy
Stanuurd Baker

eFor twenty-six years-from
the Pullman and Railway
strike in 1894, until to-day
Mr.. Baker has been in close
touch with the industrial situ-
alton.
Gas Commissioner of the
United States Government he
studied the labor and radical
movements of Great Britain,
France and Italy.
eHe testified before the In
dustrial Commission. The
Shop Councils system, which
it strongly recommended, is
fully developed in this book.
His conclusions are built
upon the experiences OF prac-
teal, { orw ar d-looking men.
$500 at all bookstores.
[l
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Garden City New York
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

pulses better than his wife-and in the
end the two fall in love with each other.
This is the sort Of situation to which
the young world, with its Unsuitable
questionings. would characteristically
address itself. The richest material Of
the modern novel is the individuals
clashes with the social code 1t is in
the accuracy with which it registers
the impact, in the extent of the OBJ
servaton of it, that the modern novel
is most often justified. But Mrs. An
struther shrinks from the dilemma she
has herself created, and speedily takes
refuge in literary device. She ar
ranges a fatal malady for the wife
which leaves the lovers free to go to
each other with perfect propricty.
The Husband' wears all the aspects
of the free and questioning modern
novel, and yet at every exposed point
it makes straight for the shelter Of
some good, oldfashioned literary con-
vention. The result Of this compromise
is that "The Husband' has the air of
not having come to life. 1t gives the
impression that Mrs. Anstruther lacked
the emotional or literary conviction
with which to evoke her characters into
actual being
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

on Turgeniev, Dostoyevsky, Andreyev
and Gorky are especially Illuminating
Hc quotes magnificent and we'll de-
served tribute to Gorky from r.
Grgoryev:
"Gorky is all Of the people; he
is elemental, he is vast, he is a con-
tlnuatlon OF the people just as the
people are continuation of Gorky
None in present-day Russian literature
has more right to be called the writer
of the people. This not because the
people are the subjec, Of Gorky's ar
tistic work: many have treated the
same subject. This is because Gorky's
writings are not pictures of the people,
but their self-revelation. Gorky was
destined to he vessel for the best
thoughts Of the people, their sorrows
and joys, their strivings and ascen-
sions.'
The author shows how the develop
ment of Russian literature was to
some extent conditioned by political
and economic circumstances. The
"nobleman's nests" the large country
mansions which figure so largely in
the stories of Turgeniev. gradually
fall into disrepair as Russia becomes
more and more an industrial country,
and the old landed aristocrats are
crowded out by the rising class of
commercial magnates. At the same
time there is literary trahsition;
books become more rapid in tempo;
the life Of the town and city receives
more attention; the revolutionary
spirit becomes more and more marked.
In the great waves Of popular uprising
that broke unsuccessfully in 1904-'05
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Prosaic Poetry
Free Verse that Misses the
Cadence of Poetry

"HE recoil from poetry that was
ellipical and fanciful is little
too violent, or it would not have
landed us into so rigid and literal an
expression as "Diantha Goes the
Primrose Way" by Adelaide Manola
Hughes. The painters scorn Of pic
lures that tell story fortunately has
no equivalent in poetry. Even by the
most revolutionary standards of the
modern impressionist in verse series
of poems may still go to form con-
nected narrative. D. H. Lawrence has
done it magnifcently in Look! We
Have Come Through" wherein by Sc
ries of vivid flashes there emerges the
story Of man who drew a woman to
him away from her husband and chill
dren, and the travail cf their search
for reaiization through the inhibitions
that inclese them. But poetry, being a