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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
CARRIES VOICE 900 MILES.
Radio Telephoning Proving Real Sue

NEW YORK, Feb "A low powered
wireless apparatus at the De Forest lab
oratories, Ossining, using but ne-third
of a kilowatt of power, has been in com.
munication by voice with Chicago and
towns of Ohio, western New York and
South Carolina since JAN |, when expert
'ments with improved wireless telephone
apparatus were begun. Announcement of
the achievement, which it is believed,
guarantee practical air voice communi-
cation for a 300-mile radius and often
fer greater distances, was made by Rob-
ert r. Gowen, an engineer of the De For
est Radio company, last night.
The new apparatus is a development
of radio telephoning which came into use
toward the close of the war, when port
able wireless telephones were introduced
to army and navy service, enabling ex-
'perts 10 talk to the earth from airplanes
in flight and from ship to ship at sea.
After the war new devices heightened
the zone in which conversations could be
carried on by wireless to between 20 and
$50 miles. The experiments of Mr. Gowen
are regarded as promising a big CONNER
cial future for the wireless telephone
1.-THE tests were made, Mr.. Gowen said,
against unfavorable conditions, with in
reference from many wireless stations
and under severe static conditions.
Mr.. Gowen said the principal features
Of the new radiophone are an improved
TYPE of modulating circuit and the use of
| a new type of glass for the wireless au-
dion. The effect of the new circuit is to
make the transmission clearer, while the
new glass develops higher wireless power,
although requiring no greater voltage.
All of the experiments were conducted
! on the low wave length prescribed by the
| government for amateurs. 1t was found
that one-third kilowatt of input energy
in a single tube was required to get into
communication with Chicago. Mr.. Gowen
said he was certain conversations could
be carried on without difficulty by ali
over a 300-mile radius by means of his
apparatus, and he thought 90O-mile ra-
dius could be achieved.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
chlorinated Highballs for Soldiers.

Last summer the Polish army called
upon the American Red Cross for as
sistance in improving health conditions
in its camps and military centers. As
a first step in starting health improve
ments the Red Cross pointed out the
advantages of the Lyster bag" the
doughboys life saver''-for the puri-
fication of drinking water, a sanitary
measure not previously employed in the
Polish army. Following the sugges-
lions of the Red Cross, Polish chemists
made tests of the action of the Lyster
bag, and endorsed it highly. As a re-
suit the minister of health ordered 20
600 of these bags, together with the
necessary ampoules of calcium hypo-
chlorite, for use in army camps and at
civilian refugee centers. And now the
q chlorinated highball' long familiar
with the A. f. f., promises to be the
popular beverage in Poland. Slow evap-
Grafton through the canvas when the
bag is hung out of doors, keeps the wa
ter cool, and the tube of calcium by
poehlorite broken into it makes it safe
| for drinking.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Robert Wheeler is i'll in her home
on Pearl street. Miss Kate Wheeler is
caring for her.
Mrs. L. r. II. Wagner went this
morning to Boston to visit two weeks
with relatives.
Clifford Rate of Hartford Conn,
who has been seriously i'll with pneu
monia, is gaining.
Mrs. Carl S. Hopkins is i'll in her
home on Western avenue with an at
tack of tonsihtis.
J. E. Mann returned Saturday from
New York, where he had been during
the week on business.
Miss Minnie Long went Saturday to
Springfield, Mass, to visit over the
weekend with relatives.
Miss Anna Canon of Bellows Falls
visited from Saturday until this after
noon with friends in town.
Dorothy, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter C. Halliday, who has been i'll
with pneumonia, is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur p Simonds
spent yesterday in Springfield, (Vt,)
with Mr.. and Mrs. George Whitney.
Miss Helen Martin returned Friday
to New York, after a vacation of two
weeks at her home on Linden street.
Mrs E. C. Harrington went today to
New York From there she will 90 to
Baltimore to spend two weeks with rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold F. MofIitt moved
today from H. c. Squires's house in West
Brattleboro to the Manley apartments
on High street.
Dennison Cowles and L. L. Durham will
leave Wednesday for Jacksonville, Fla
going by steamer. They expect to be
away about two weeks.
Edward j. Foley, clerk in Houghton
& Simond : store, returned this morn
| ing from biS home in Bellows Falls
| where he spent the week end
Roy B. Miner moved his household
goods Saturday from the Marley apart
ments and put them into storage il
his fathers house on Vine street.
Paul Bernard, student in the New
ton, who has been spending weel
here with his parents. Rev. and Mrs
w. c. Bernard, will return Wednesday
to Boston.
| Miss Rose Batchelder went this morn
, ing to Winchester. n. H.. to attenC
the funeral of her father, Edgar Batch
elder. who died suddenly Thursday il
| Winchester, where he lived in the hom
of another daughter.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
SCIENCE OF DOORS
Certain Metals and Earths Give Dis
tinctive Emanations

The possibility of developing science
of odors' is discussed by DR.. Alexander
Graham Bell in Peoples Magazine
Discussion of an agency apparently so
slight as an echo brings up the idea of
what man may do by developing the
science of odors BY measuring heat, the
-sesntists developed the science of thermo-
dyhamics. Now, if You want to evolve a
new science, measure a smell, or reflect it,
/. Find out what an odor is-whether it
lis an emanation and therefore subject to
being weighed, or vibration and there
fore capable of being reflected Odors are
becoming more and more important in the
world of scientific experiment and in
medicine the need of more knowledge
will bring forth more knowledge, as surely
as the sun shines.
Here as in the other things we've been
talking about, the question is not viii
it be done?" but, Who will do it,"
Eve are accustomed to saying, Why
THAT doors twice as strong as this one!'
But how strong is any odor? The answer
| to that query will make somebody famous
Already smell has made one man ia
nous, for that matter.
On one occasion a very distinguished
chemist discovered that the sub
stance known as tellurium has a smell
| all its own. Having once caught smell o
| that odor, you can never mistake 1t
| On one occasion a very distinguished
| chemist was experimenting for the purpose
Of trying to get something out Of the vast
| products from the manufacture of sui
phuric acid. At certain point he noticed
| the smell Of tellurium
And. although he did not recover tell
urium from the waste with which he wa
busy, he did discover a new substance
which he called selenium. That discover.
enabled Willoughby Smith to avoid
deal of hard work which would have beer
Necessary in laying the first trans-Atlanti
telegraph cable. And May, his assistant
as a result of that work, found the grea
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
Army Hospitals to be Held.

In accordance with the wishes of the
military authorities, and as part of the
peace program of the American Red
Cross, base hospitals organized by the
Red Cross for the army will be held in
tact against future emergencies
floods, earthquakes, epidemics, and of
course. should it ever come again, war
There are fifty of the hospitals locat-
ed at important points throughout the
country. Their personnel is recruited
from the stats of the hospitals in their
vicinity. The army is cooperating
with the Red Cross by providing each
base hospital with unit of equipment
in accordance with military standards
stored in a government storehouse as
near as possible to the city in which
the base hospital is situated. Red Cross
chapters, Also, are assisting in the re-
organization of these hospitals fol-
peace times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
REPRESENTATIVE
SHOOTS NEIGHBOR
w. o. Hale of Midd1esex Shoots Lester
o. Morse-Bad Blood Over Land
Boundary

MONTPELIER, Vt, Feb. George
o. Hale, a well-known Middlesex far
mer and representative of his town in
the legislature in 1919, shot and killed
II. Lester Morse, another farmer, about
1:30 o o'clock yesterday afternoon near
Hale s sugar house in a back pasture.
Hale went Immediately to the house
of Donald Monroe, where he telephoned
to Sheriff Frank H. Tracy and asked
him to come with a doctor Hale told
the authorities that Morse who had
threatened his life previously, so that
he went armed when he went into his
back pastures, started for him with a
pitchfork and that he shot him in self
defense.
There has been trouble between Hale
and Morse over the boundaries of a
pasture containing 90 acres. Last fall
Hale won a lawsuit in county court
against Morse, being awarded YER
diet of $25, thus establishing his owner
ship of the premises.
Since then Morse has torn down no.
trespassing signs and last Saturday
erected on Hale S land a wire fence
which Hale was cutting down when
Morse appeared on the scene with the
pitchfOrk. Notwithstanding Hale s
warning to stop, Morse kept coming
and then Hale discharged the gun. The
bullet passed through Morse S breast,
killing him almost instantly.
States Attorney Earl R. Davis went
to the scene Immediately to conduct an
investigation.
Hale also summoned his lawyer, Jul
Jus n Wilcox, who was present when
Hale told his story. Hale was brought
here last evening by Sheriff Tracy ant
detained pending the hearing. States
Attorney Davis win ask Judge Butler
to summon a special session of The
grand jury Immediately to consider the
case. Morse, who was married, liveC
with his aged mother Mrs. Lucy Morse
She saw her son fall and when Hale
drove away she went out and covered
her son s body with shawl Morse ha(
a pitchfork in his hand when the au
thorities viewed the body. which late,
was brought to undertaking rooms il
I this city.
Hale is IS years of age and has hel,
the offices of selectman, road commits
sioner and justice of the peace
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
COST OF STOPPING A TRAIN
Stopping and Starting Ranges From Sc
Cents to 81 In Extra Coal

With the grinding of brakes the train
comes to a sudden stop. The conductor
explains: " Nothing wrong. Just sig
nal set against us. Did you ever stop
and to think that it costs money to
stop and start a train?
A series of experiments in order to
determine this cost Were made in 1905
by ]. A. Peabody. signal engineer on
the Chicago & Northwestern, and. al
though labor and material costs have
jumped about 100 per cent since the
time this estimate was made, the figures
are still very interesting.
Mr.. Peabody took into account the
extra wear on tires and brakes shoes,
the extra coal required to work the air
pump in replacing expended air, and
the increased wear and tear on engine
and coaches. AS the result of his ex-
periments he estimated that the cost of
stopping and starting and accelerating
train ranged from 50 cents for a six
car passenger train at As miles an hour
to ST for an S0-car freight train of q
600 tons at % miles an hour. The ex-
ira coal required amounted in number
of instances to some 10 per cent. of the
coal used.
Where two roads crossed with an av.
erage of 10 trains a day passing over
each road, the loss to both roads from
enforced stoppages to let trains pass
was found to be $4,000 year.-Elect
| rical experiments.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
Sporting Notes.

Dartmouth college viii meet the Uni
versity of Washington at football in
Seattle November 81 Darwin Meisnest,
graduate manager of the university
announced Saturday.
Ray Fisher of the Cincinnati Reds,
now coaching the Middlebury college
basketball team, will be at Springfield
(Mass.) college Tuesday and Wednes-
day of this week to give series of lee
lures on pitching TO the students On
Wednesday afternoon at AIS, he will
give lecture on the world IS series to
the Springfield Society of Physical Ed
ucation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
WINS GAME BY FORFEIT.
Principals Award Turner'S Falls-Brattle-
boro Game to Brattleboro.

Brattleboro high school wins the game
from Turner's Falls which was to have
been played here Friday, JAN 30, by for
fixture because of the decision of Turn
ers Falls to cancel the game. This was
decided upon by the vote of the princi-
pals of the league Saturday at their meet
ing in Greenfield. Brattleboro, thus hav-
ing won three games and lost two has
an average of 800. On Wednesday of
this week Brattleboro meets a strong OPP
ponent in the Deerfield academy team at
Deerfield.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
SPORTING
RATES TEAM WINS
POOL TOURNAMENT
Defeats Haus's Team on Knights of
Columbus Tables-Losers Will
Pay for Supper for Players.

Team 2, captained by Alphonse Rate
will enjoy supper, to be paid for by
team /, captained by Edmund Haus, as
the result Of the pool tournament of the
Knights of Columbus which closed with
the playing of one match last week, the
only other game called for OH the schedule
having been cancelled. Team had to-
tai of 3l5 points to ,26l for team /, or
lead of "a points. In the match last
week John Fitzgerald of team made 80
points to 81 for Joseph 'Trahan of team 2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
SANDERS'S TEAM GAINS.
Increases Lead Over Shaw's Team in Odd
Fellows Pool Tournament.

Only two pool games were played last
week in the tournament on the Odd Eel
lows tables, the men on Sanderss team
winning both and bringing their total
up to l,080 to 995 for Captain Shaw's
team and giving the Sanders men lead
of IS points. Following are the scores
of the two matches, Captain Sanders's
mman being named first in each pair
r. Gustafson so, Benjamin Akley A; c.
A. Mitchell 80, g. Atkinson 30.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02

influence light had on 1seleniHm ,in. respect
to its electrical resistance. After that,
Doctor Adams. of Kings College, England.
made further discoveries about selenium
and light; and after that again, l came
along and, by studying all that was known
on the subject succeeded in making a sun
beam carry sound invented the photo
phone, which enabled people to talk on a
beam of light instead of line of wire. .
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
PERSONAL.

Miss Grace Leach, teacher in Bellows
Falls, visited at her home on Prospect
street over Sunday
Miss Mary Doyle resumed work this
morning in Houghton & Simond S office,
after having been confined to her home
a week by illness.
Miss Rose Bristol, who had been i'll
several weeks following an operation for
appendicitis, reumed work this moring
for the Hooker, Corser & Mitchell com
pany.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
CUT LEAD OF TEAM B.
Team A Men Win Four of Five Pool
Matches in Wheel Club Tournament.

Five pool games were played in the
Vermont Wheel club tournament last
week, cutting the lead of team B to 1877
points over team A. The scores are !:
Feam 3 672, team A 505 All but one of
he games were won by the team A men.
Following are the scores of the matches,
he team a man being named first in each
pair; G. M. Voetsch 100, L. w. Dimes so !;
F. H. Harris 100, c. d. Bly, IS; f. A.
Dimes 100, f. w. Richardson So; Victor
space 81, J. P. Estey 100.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
BOWLING TOURNEY
WON BY CHASE MEN
Score SITS to 5,e26 for Capt Austin S
Team at Close Of Wheel Club
Matches-Lead Of 152.

Bowling in the Vermont Wheel club
tournament ended last week, leaving Cap
tain Chase's men leaders in the contest by
l52 pins, the total pinfall being SITS
to 1926 for Captain Austin's team. The
single-string scores are not available for
the last three matches in the tournament
but the three-string totals follow, Cap
tain Chases man being named first in
each pair: Crowell 1884, Spencer 1874;
Abbott $50, Pentland lSl; Kennedy 252,
|Filion 206.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
MAsoNs LAND ON TOP.
Defeat Independents 1,347 to 1926
Tracy High Man.

A team of independents met Ma
sonic team on the latter's bowling al
leys Thursday evening, and lost three
points to The Masonic aggregation who
rolled total score Of ! BAT to 1926
for the Independents. Tracy of the
Masons knocked down 100 pins in a
single string, which was the record
for the match and Cakes of the In
totaled 294, which was the
highest for three strings Following
|are the scores:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
HITS PINS FOR 12e.
Miller Lacks Two of Duplicating Ma
sonic Single String Record.

Three points in the bowling match
pm the Masonic alleys Friday evening
were won by team G, which rolled to-
bal score of 1871 to 1921 for team
y. Miller of the latter team. rolled
he highest single string and high
hree string total, 1876 and 303 re-
Fpectively coming within two pins of
he single string record for the alleys
his season, l2S pins having fallen for
Marks on Nov. 20. Following are the
HpnraS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02

No artist has ever seen one of his
paintings on the walls of the Louvre,
in Paris. 1t is the rule that no picture
shall be there displayed until the artist
has been dead at least ten years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02
Invention of Roller Coaster.

The fact that he was deprived of the
fun of sliding downhill when boy led
to the invention of the roller coaster
by L. n. Thompson, later famous as
the founder of Luna park.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-02

Thibet, of which SO little is known
by the outside world, is nevertheless
larger than France, Spain and Germany
combined; and has a population of six
millions. 60 - ,-7@4a-s
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-08
CONTEST TO MALI

Says the Christian Science Monitor,
some OF tho people who really be-
lieNo that a man or woman has n right
10 indulge In Intoxicating liquors are
trying TO make capital out Of the fact
thht' when tho prohibition commits
sioher was asked. the other day, when
the United States would be actually
hno completely dry he replied that nos.
hnly II would not he until another ren-
Grafton has grown up unaccustonTed 10
liquor People who wish 10 make much
Tor the liquor cause out Of this answer
are welcome to try. They win have
small comfort in the attempt The very
Signinoancc OF the suggestion that bovs
ana girls are now living who will. undor
the prohibition law. grow 10 maturity
without having had an opportunity
legally TO take drink Of intoxIcatung
liquor or 10 enter a saloon. makes !,
worth while 10 wait a generation ,or
the dry era, II such wait nrovcs
Inevitable"
Perhaps the foregoing reflection, ,ro
source Of qualification 20 tbcs. In
whom has heon bred a conter,rt o.,
the law, but they Indicate nothir, ,.o,,,
SURPRISING, II was realized that tborc
NNNlk us VINO WOULD take
risks OF iail sentences IN order 10 wiring
a few dollars from old soaks who fancy
they cannot live without booze. hut
thcre are fewer Of those posscssors o,
uepraNed nppetltes every wear. Also
'htro are moro OF the caterers 10 then,
VINO are finding Jordan a hard road to
travel
Intoxicating liquors are gradually
passing out ~ tho lives and habits OF
the people The saloon Is rapidly being
forgotten The PSYCHOLOGY 81 the pco-
PIE is adapting itself 20 tho now order.
Mnrahn jostS, Incident TO the ruuor
habit arc not 40 common now. Thov
win become rnrcr stnl While We woit
for the arrival Of absolute drvucss ,yc
can observe constant progress IN that
direction As the Monitor ohservcs tho
result is worth waiting FOR II IL con.
tinually nearer than before
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-08
STOPPING to Conquer.

Gov Cox, shortly after his nomlna-
ton. made an address to the profess
sional baseball players Of Cincinnati,
making free but not very impressive use
Of their own jarEon. But his effort was
quite ccltrS,d by Senator Harding s
classical discodrse on Thursday to tho
visiting Chicago baseball club, For eX-
quiSlto hanality, for clumsy humor. for
"Boeotan grace" this takes the prize
fairly away from tho governor 1t is
safe to say that the Marion speech is
inimitahle, because nobody Of mature
years and In full possession Of hts fac
ultteS win try to initiate II.
There has been too much Of this split
ting the ears OF the RroundltngS by both
candidates, They ought 60 leave that
kh Of cheap tColng TO tho minor ora
toys sent out by their speakers bureau,
The campaign speaking has not, thus
far been ON a high level and unfor-
tuuatolN seems 20 he tending to sink
even lower, While II is true that the
country has made up its mind not to
expect great things ~ Its presidential
nominees this year Il would wish them
TO cSChow triVialtties and follies IN their
public Appearances, 20 bear IN mind
tho dignity VI their position and 10 pay
the people tho compliment OF speaking
90 them seriously ON the hiEh themes
Of tho great political debate. Candi-
dates in n democracy should always
bear IN mind Colcridgo'S distinction be-
tween 'popularlzc' and "plehincntc."
In this campaign We have already had
all the plchi0cRtiou that Is necessary
New York Times lind. pcml
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-08
A FAMOUS VICTORY.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright. 1920

Not victory
against them.
Nothing of the a victory,
general "
to boot
refer the
Teller institute. - ' - ~
Yellow fever has
s thousands
states 10y 1890 ~ NSpVP""ou
one OF It's strongholds
1913 commission Kendall Northwestern
and physicians Guayau preliminary
way for the
the blood of
senbed those OF from yellow fever.
delicate,
animal (microbe)
thS ne gave the name slim spiral maker, ~
discovery enabled him
number OF
lection" ~Ff"' ' avn "s"in'' III
xperinenters arrived
Vincent
The public has proclaimed
1872
chapter OF yellow fever o
And this victory
loo Trafalgar - ' 80 49,,
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-08
LOCAL SEA-SOLDIERS
WATCH CHINA UPRISING

Cable dispatches of another uprising
In China are being closely followed by
the sea soldiers OF the marine corps
recruiting force at 816 1-2 Market street
Their interest Is natural, for a bat
talon OF marines Is held in readiness
for just such a contingency as a lega-
ton guard at Picking, China, under the
command of Col Louis Mason Gulick.
And within the call of the wireless an
other battalion of marines can speedily
be landed from the cruisers of the At
lantic fleet and rushed to Picking or
any other point of trouble. Already a
small detachment Of the handy fighting
men have been dispatched to Tung-
Che from the legation guard, where
looting and disorder are going on, and
II necessary will bring the American
residents to Picking. A Shanghai cable
last weelS brought news that two Amer
lean marines, operating n Lewis ma
chine gun, routed band of brigands on
the outskirts OF Chunking, in Central
China.
These two men. Corp, Elmer G. Gla-
ser, OF Milwaukee, and Prvt. Earl r.
Wltheril. of Cheyenne. Wyo., got their
piece into action when the American
steamship Robert Dollar was fired on by
bandits from the banks Of the Yangtse
and from Sampans.
The marines won laureis during the
Boxar rebellion in 1900. two regiments
taking part in the capture of Tientsin
and in the march to the relief of the be-
sieged legations at Picking. and when
tho monarchist rebellion of 1916 threat
ehed to set tho east ablaze the marines
were on the job again.