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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

Turing the past few years has done
away with many of the picturesque
institutions of the country says the
Rutland Herald Of this number is
he tin peddler who jolted along up to
he front of the house twice a year to
gather in the old rags, paper and bot
les which were dug out of their hiding
places To the youngster of that
time, especially those of the farm, the
arrival of the tin peddler was an event
IF the season and one waited with
bated breath to see within the pom
ferrous old cart where reposed the lat
st styles in cookie cutters, tin dip
pers, tin baking dishes of all sizes dear
to heart of the official cook of the
family, stacks of shining milk pans in
which to "set" the milk, swimmers for
taking off the cream and a tumble of
cups, kettles and pals. The tin ped
dler knew his customers along his route
and had a friendly visit while weigh
ing the contents of the rag bags. The
Junk dealer still makes his rounds but
he generally arrives in battered old
express wagon or a dingy automobile in
stead of a wagon of vivid hue. 1t is
the passing of an old-time rural insti-
tuition
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
One Box of "FRUlT. A.TIvES" or
"Fruis Liver Tablets" Brought Relief

Old Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y.
ST was bothered with Constipation,
Liver Trouble and Indigestion for
three years and tried all kinds of
medicine with no relief.
/ was so bad l would have dull,
heavy feeling in the pit of my
stomach generally about three or
four hours after eating.
/ saw advertised in the "Troy Tines
Fruit a. tives' and sent to r. w.
Seymour's drug store in Chatham
and bought two soc. boxes. Before
/ had finished one box, | was relieved
and now have no more trouble. I
can eat anything desire.
/ would advise anyone in the same
condition as I was, to take fruit
a-tives'; it is God-send, and would
not be without 'Fruit-a tives' in the
mousse.
WILLIAM GALE SHEPHERD.
SOC. a box, 6 for $3.50, trial size 25c.
at dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES
Limited, OGDENSBURG, N. Y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
Todav,s Anniversaries.

i816-NIrs. Dorothea Jordan, famous
actress of the English stage,
died at St Cloud Born near
Waterford, Ireland, in 1862.
1s20-John w Garrett, banker, rail
road president and philanthro-
pist, born in Baltimore. Died
there Sept %, 1884.
lS45-British parliament passed an act
for the establishment of non-sec-
tartan colleges in Ireland.
lS53-Conference of European powers
at Vienna to settle the differences
between Turkey and Russia
ls6S-The Rupert's land act authorized
the acquisition by the dominion
of the Northwest territories.
lSS6-Police fired on mobs engaged in
rioting in Belfast.
}S95-Mark A. Howe, first Episcopal
bishop of Central Pennsylvania,
died at Bristol, r. /. Born there
April ), 1908.
ls99-Kate Chase Sprague, society
leader and friend and adviser of
many public men, died in Wash
ington, d. c. Born in 1910.
1918 Postmaster General Burleson
took over all telegraph and tel
ephone wires in the United
States
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
A Suspicious Quartette.

The Rutland Herald thinks it an out
rage that an automobile containing
Mayor J. Holmes Jackson, Judge
Charles H. Darling, District Attorney
" A. Billiard and Judge Jed p. Ladd
should be held up by customs officers.
Possibly it was an outrage that such
dignitaries should be held up but the
combination was enough to make any
officer suspicious Any of the four
would pass alone, but that quartette
would arouse suspicion around the Ca
madam border. The customs officers
We're perfectly within their rights.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
In Union. -
(Bellows Falls Times. J

NDellOWS rams LINES
1t is not voicing heresy to say that
the southern end of Windham county
seems to hold the balance of political
power. Brattleboro and suburbs appear
to observers at this end of the county
TO WELD an undue influence when polit-
zeal honors are ready for distribution.
Since 1912 no Bellows Falls man has
held the office of state s attorney for
Windham county. This year two local
men are announced primary candidates
for the Republican nomination to that
office. Voters hereabout have an oppor-
tunity to vote for local men for an Of
flee to which residence in Bellows Falls
would appear to be a bar, Judging from
the results of the past few years.
There was time when this town had
political recognition in abundance Now
what is obtained must be hard won.
Citizens can correct the condition by
weighing carefully the qualifications Of
local men. They will not be found less
capable than those of different geo
graphical situation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
CLIPPINGS
With Now Comment and Then
Only Caption.

The Golf Fan.
He's just like you and me (sometimes)
a being nearly normal;
He eats and drinks, and reads and
thinks, and falls for functions
formal;
He spends an evening at the play, he
rides and shoots and motors;
Election time finds him in prime and
mixing with the voters;
He likes to tell a story or joke that IS
new and funny,
And does his work without shirk and
makes a lot of money
That is, when winter time is here and
blizzard winds are blowing;
In summer, though, you hardly know,
but think his mind is going:
He talks about the niblick,
He talks about the brassey;
He talks about the cleek and
The course that IS soft and grassy
He talks about the midiron,
He talks about the bunkers;
He talks about the stars and
He talks about the fiunkers;
He talks about the clubhouse,
He talks about the lockers;
He talks about the good sports,
He talks about the knockers
And green's and tees,
And weeds and trees,
And clubs and dues,
And caps and shoes,
And flags and balls,
And hazards, walls,
Addresses, stances,
Drives and chances,
And slices, rounds,
And pulls and grounds,
And curves and flights,
And lengths and heights,
And strokes and grips,
And experts tips,
And mashies, puts,
AMI other nuts,
And turf and swings,
And all the things
Perched in his brain
That seem insane.
It's just enthusiasm
We can forgive his spasm-
In fact we re glad he has 'em
And don t think him a bore
But all his talk is rot
When weather's awful hot,
And rattles just like shot
Poured on cellar door.
Ex.-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
What A Jury Thinks About.
lHartford Courant.


a Vermont man is on trial upon the
charge of numbering his wife, the cir
cumstance being such that the jury
must either acquit him or else find him
guilty of murder in the first degree.
there being no chance, if the printed
accounts of the trial are correct, for q
compromise verdict.
Vermont watches its iuries with much
care, and. when court adjourned at /
O clock Saturday afternoon until l p.
m. yesterday, the twelve men were not
permitted to return to their homes but
were kept in the county seat in charge
of deputies If they could agree to do
anything it was well and the first prob
lem was whether or not they would at
tend church. Some of them desired to
do so. according to the deputies. but
one or two of them wore no collars and
several failed to bring a change of
clothing when they came to court. the
result being that the jury decided not
to attend church accompanied by chap
erones.
Manchester, VT. offered few other at
fractions on Sunday, but at last the
jury found something which appealed
TO it and which did not demand coll
lars or Sunday suits and this possibility
was accepted. The twelve Jurors with
their attendants walked five miles to
inspect a herd of cows Nothing in
the Vermont statutes prohibited this
and each one of the twelve men was
either willing or anxious to see what
they may have called, the " critters. -
It was an eminently peaceful form of
recreation for the day of rest and glad
ness and the jury enjoyed it so far as
we know. We wonder if any other New
England jury of late years has spent
a day in that manner. III,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
Little Benny S
Note Book
THE PARK AVE. NEWS.
BY LEE PAPE.


Weather. Continuous.
Exter. Sam Cross Back frum the Coun-
try! Sam Cross reterned frum his unkles
farm last Wensday mulch disappointed,
saying COW milk is not as cold as milk
IN the city and eggs are about the same
size
Sissiety. Miss Mary Watkins and Miss
Loretta Mincer was praetieing how to
faint gracefully in Miss Watkinses back
yard last Sundey AFTERNOON and they fell
agenst the rose buhses and damaged
them all up and blamed it on each othereto
Miss Watkinses mother, and now they
don't speek to each other.
POME BY SKINNY MARTIN
O JOY
| feel like happy angel,
Like squirrels a running up poles,
And all for the simple reason
That my shoes have rubber soes.
Intristing Facks About Intristing People.
Leroy Shoosters face looks kind of lone
some on account of . frunt teeth being
out.
Wy suffer frum run down heels? We
viii take your shoes to the shoemakers
and back vile you wait SCENTS for mems
shoes and 8 sents for ladies, according to
weight.
lost and Found. Nuthing. naH
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
SATURDAY, JULY 81, 1920.
MR.. AGAN's FALSE POSITION.

The Burlington Chamber of Commerce
has started commendable move in
inviting the four Republican candidates
for the nomination for governor to ad-
dress that body. The first candidate
to appear before them and express his
political views. was Frank Agun of
Ludlow, the avowed wet candidate of
Vermont Mr.. Agan was refreshingly
frank in his expressions. He stated
that the liquor issue is to be fought
oct on wet and dry lines in every town
in Vermont in the coming election and
the people would ask whether or not
the candidates for the legislature stood
for the local option law. He also de
clared the Volstead act should be re-
placed by another enforcement act
which would fix the line. defining in
toxicating liquors at Eve per cent.
In both statements Mr.. Agan holds
out to the voters favoring wet regime
in Vermont impossible inducements.
The state of Vermont by no possible
means could bring about local option
in this state. The federal constitution
has removed that question from every
state in the union For Vermont to at
tempt it would be as ridiculous as Gov
ernor Edwards of New Jersey and the
legislature of Massachusetts, have been
in this matter.
Nor can congress pass a law legaliz-
ing liquors containing five per cent
of alcohol, because congress, like
the rest of the country, is subject
to the federal constitution which now
contains the eighteenth amendment.
Until the federal constitution is
changed no such law could be put in
force in this country. The only OBJ
lection to present limitation of one
half of one per cent of alcohol in bev-
erages is it does not allow enough al
cohol to produce any exhiliaration in
beverages and exhiliaration is nothing
but intoxication The only reason men
want more alcohol in their beverages
is they want more exhiliaration-more
intoxication, many of them complete
intoxication or drunkenness. Under the
present constitution of the country
they cannot get it and to hold before
them. the glittering promises of a wet
candidate closely resembles an attempt
to swindle
1t must be that even the wettest vo-
ters of Vermont possess enough intelli-
gence to realize the falseness of such
issues in state campaign certainly
the thoughtful and law abiding people
of the state will. In claiming support
for the Office of governor of Vermont
on such principles man is simply fout-
inc the law of the land. To such per
sons we could repeat the statement of
Governor Coolidge that cone with the
law is a majority"
1t is true that the people of the
land if they desire can bring about
a change of the federal constitution
that will allow five per cent drinks,
but voting for a governor of Vermont
as wet candidate viii never do it.
Mr.. Agan, as a candidate, has assumed
false position and there is little pros
pect of securing an honest, law abid-
ing governor from false candidate.
GtTha TT T. Of r., that has deyeloped
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

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stand, George 7. Bower, South Main St.
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
A Few Dog Day Losses.

Wednesday noon, one small
Hudson Bay sable neckpiece with head,
in taxi between White Star Line dock
and Ritz-Carlton hotel.
LOST-Between 5th Ave. and Madison,
Goth ST.. or 10 East Goth, twoskin
mink neckpiece. Communicate by mail,
Mr. Field.
LOST-Three- skin sable scarf, July %,
between Pennsylvania hotel and Lex
ington Ave, and saith ST., 5000 reward.
LOST-Brown fur two-animal neck
piece at the Lyceum Theater, Thursday
afternoon; reward $25. Return to Mr..
Post Hotel Plaza.
N. Y. Times of July 81.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
Today's Birthdays.

Sidney j. Cats, the present governor
Of Florida, born at Pleasant Hill, Ala,
- years ago today.
Edward n. Hurley, former chairman
IT the Federal Shipping board, born at
Galesburg, ILL.,, SO years ago today.
Maj Gen. William A. Mann, who
took the Rainbow division to France,
born in Pennsylvania, 66 years ago to-
day.
Arthur n. Nehf, pitcher of the New
York American league baseball team,
born at Terre Haute, Ind, % years ago
today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

It 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. It is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
The Closing Habit.

(St. Johnsbury Caledonian Record
With the st. Johnsbury stores closing
every Wednesday afternoon, the BARRIERS
Thursday afternoons and the banks ev-
cry Saturday afternoon, Deacon Jones
says that some of the good people of st.
Johnsbury seem to have the impression
that the churches are closed every Sun
dav
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
The Same Old Story.

A. w. Burchard says that if you
want to drop a little change in the
blindmen's hat, look up Flautt or RAFT
niger as they need $264. IA to make up
the deficit for the Chautauqua.-Auro-
ra Advertiser.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

Well, we re using little too much
poetry this time, but just to please an
old friend we III use this contribution:
Let US then be up and brewing
With heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing
The best method up to date.
H. O. 2. s.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
It is Still Being Done in Some Places

NV, but luck was with us Tuesday,
Along pretty early in the morning Pole
Moore drove up and called us out and
gave us a sack of eating apples. lit
tie later E. A. Sutton came in with a
sack of fine large Bell of Georgia peaches
all ripe and delicious and said he
thought of the ''poor" editor when he
was picking them.-Siloam Springs
Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

Planks and timbers said to be from
the hull of the good ship Mayhower
have been discovered in England. 1t
is a wonder there was anything left
after carrying across all the ancestors
and antique furniture said to- have
come over that way.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

Berry pickers in some of the remote
pastures in the state have been re-
minded that black bears have taste
for the fruit too. The right of way has
generally been given to bruin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper, 50 cents
an 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 50 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 discount for each
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published at foot of local
items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
An Arkansas Honeymoon.

Tommy Stahl and wife returned from
a honeymoon trip to the State Meeting
of the Telephone association at Hot
Springs, after which they chased around
to Little Rock, and on to Kansas City
or St. Louis, where Tom had a little
business to look after, and report fine
Springs Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

Perhaps a Kansan s method of get.
ting along with Dog day weather is
as good as any. Just hang the almanac
and the Thermometer on the porch and
let them fight it out between themselves.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
A Good Guess.


VI sfItIU OIIIUI.J
OF course, one never can tell, but max
ing all reasonable allowances, and assum-
ing that Calvin Coolidge refrains from
scandalous speech or conduct from now
until Nov. ,, it is almost safe to say that
Vermont will go Republican this year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

"The railroads will get $1,4O0000,-
600 in increased freight charges.
Well, what is mere billion or two7
1t is only about $14 apiece.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
A Fruitful Visit.

Asa Apple left Wednesday morning
for Fitzhugh. where he will spend his
vacation helping his uncle, j. W. Apple,
-Lonoke County News.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

Bryan says he is a Democrat still
\ Democratic still would be more pop
ular, Williap.-Burlingt News.
He might try being a still Democrat
for awhile, too.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
Member of The Associated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of all news
desDatches 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, 1920-07-31
One Year Ago Today.

German national assembly approved
he new German constitution.
The railroad brotherhoods threatened
10 strike unless food costs are reduced.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
After Vacation Is Over.

1t may be a mansion,
1t may be a dump;
1t may be farm,
With an old oaken pump.
1t may be palace, Ell
1t may be fiat;
1t may be the room
Where you hang up your hat.
1t may be house,
With holes in the floor,
Or marble hotel
With coon at the door;
1t may be exclusive,
Or simple, or swell,
A wee bit of heaven,
Or one little-well,
Just kindly remember,
Wherever you roam,
Shakespeare was right, kid,
There's no place like home.
-Vacationist.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

The twin daughters of MIR. and Mrs
Ed Swanson celebrated their sixth birth
dav Thursday afternoon. Fifteen little
fiends, all girls but two, came from DE
Kalb.-Sycamore Republican.
And after mother called the compositor
had his vacation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

Japan plans to spend enormous sums
during the next few years in the con
Istruction of deep sea harbor for Toxic
to afford facilities for large vessels which
now have to dock at Yokohama Is miles
aWay
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
Entertaining The Guests.
randolph HERALD

In the Pettibone trial at Manchester
in-the-mountains, the summer colony has
something staged for it that beats the
seashore serpent to a FRAGILE.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
With Moving Pictures, Perhaps?

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Screen are enter
tanning relatives from New York this
week..Plvmouth, Conn, item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

No, Tulip, Miss Banta, who has been
visiting in Rowe, isn't a chicken.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

July of 1920 goes down in history
without hot wave to her credit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
Today S Events

Centenary of the birth of John w.
Garrett, eminent Baltimore capitalist
and philanthropist.
A sharp increase in telegraph rates
is to be put into effect Throughout
Great Britain and Ireland at midnight
tonight.
Delegates to the Imperial Press con
ference, soon to assemble at Ottawa, are
20 be entertained today at Frederic
ton. n. Il.
The departure of the American del
egates to the meeting of the Interna-
tional Council of Women at Christiania
which was to have taken place today,
has been deferred until next Saturday,
International unity, peace and the
league of nations and the high cost of
living are prominent among the sub
iects on the agenda of the tenth con.
gress of the Second Internationale
which is scheduled to begin its ses-
sions today at Geneva, Switzerland
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

The owl is regarded as a bird of i'll
omen by the Maoris of New z aelad.n
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31
I'm The Days News. y

Senior Don Ignaeio Calderon, who is
about to retire from his post of Boliv-
ian minister at Washington, is the dean
Of the South American diplomatists in
service in the United States; in fact,
but one other diplomatist of all those
accredited to the United States has oc-
cupied his post longer than he-the am
bassador of France. Mr.. Calderon was
born in La Paz. the Bolivian capital,
- years ago today and was educated
in his native country and in Europe
He made his first visit to the United
States as a special representative of
Bolivia to the Philadelphia centennial
exposition in 1876. In 1904 he returned
as his country s representative in Wash
ington and his service has been I'M
broken since then. For years he has
labored indefatigablv and successfully
% make Bolivia better known in the
United States and to enlist American
iance in the development of the vast
natural resources of his country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-31

1.-THE H. c. of L. that has developed