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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
MAILHOLT GIVEN
PRISON SENTENCE
Not Less than Two Months for Taking
Mrs. Belair's Automobile With
out Leave-Car Recovered.

In Windham county court, yesterday
Ludgus Mailhoit, who was brought here
Tuesday night from Utica, n. Y, on
requisition papers by Sheriff Frank L.
Wellman, pleaded guilty to having
taken an automobile from Mrs. Kenelia
Belair of this place without leave.
Judge Sherman r. Moulton of Burling-
ton sentenced Mailhoit to not less than
two months nor more than three months
In the House of Correction. The car
was found in Utica and brought back.
State Attorney E. w. Gibson ap-
peared for the prosecution.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
ALLEGED DEsERTER
IS RELEASED.

BOSTON, Sept. %. Philip l.
Rome of Worcester, found guolty of
desertion from the army by court
marshal which sentenced him to
year in military prison, was re
leased by Judge Morton in the fed
eral district court today on the
ground that he had never legally
indueted into the service.
Rome had been assigned a num-
Der in the first stages of the draft
in 1917, but left for South Ameri
ca on business before he was called.
Subsequent orders from his draft
board to report for examination
went unanswered and when he was
arrested on his return to his home
several months ago he said he had
not received any notice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Centre Congregational Church

Thursday, Sept. 90, $50 p. M An
nual meeting of the Woman s associa-
tion in the chapel Tea will be served.
All ladies of the parish are urged to
come.
Friday, Sept. "a, 7.30 p. m.-Church
night. Topic for discussion, Spiritual
Power and Its Secret.
Saturday, Sept -"The Clean" of
the Congregational Sunday school will
hold sale of children's out grown cloth
ing and household articles in the vacant
store at Is High street.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Price Reductions of 10 to 20
Per Cent Are An
nOunced
COTTON STAPLES
MOST AFFECTED
Cotton Manufacturers Claim Federal
Taxation Is Responsible for Con-
tinued High Prices Employers
Privilege Tax Suggested.

CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-Price reductions
of 10 to 90 per cent in several lines OF
merchandise were announced today by
the Sears, Roebuck Co., and Montgom-
cry, Ward & Co., mail order houses. Cot
ton staples, such as muslin, cambria,
sbeeting and poplin, lead the list in
amounts of reduction Cuts also were
made in mems and women's ready-to-
wear clothing and shoes.
Recent price reductions of 20 to 25 per
cent announced by textile manufactur-
ers will be reflected in the prices Of
mems clothing next spring, Eli Strouse
president of the National clothing Man
ufaGturer's association, declared at the
association convention yesterday.
Food prices as a whole were not
affected, although sugar was quoted at
$l7.95 a hundred pounds and the repre-
sentatives of one company predicted it
would drop to $3.50 to $40 after the
canning season. One of the companies
reported heavy sale of sewing machines.
which it was said indicated more women
were making family clothing at home.
Managers of one large hotel and three
chain restaurants were summoned to
city hall today to explain their restau-
rant prices to the council commission
on living costs. simultaneously Russell
Toole, secretary of the city food bureau,
urged all downtown workers to carry
their own lunches until prices come down
and announced that milk would be deliv-
cred to the city hall and sold direct to
employees for 10 cents pint. Inyestiga-
tion of restaurant prices showed profits
of several hundred per cent, Mr.. Toole
said.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Indications Point to First
Class Show October
5 and 6
NEW CLASSES AND
MORE PREMIUMS
Space Rented for Concessions Already
Equals That of Last Year - Dog
Show Second Day - Large Showing
of Oxen and Steers Assured.

- N~~N~~-T
In visiting the Valley fair grounds
this week a Rcformer representative
was interested to note that Superin-
tendent H R. Brown had the grounds
and buildings practically ready for the
35th annual Valley fair Oct. 5 and 6.
Extensive repairs to fences and
buildings have been made; the new
barn A is completed and ready for oc
cupancy; the picket fence extending
from the grand stand to the former
barn A has been rebuilt.
Walter c. Halliday, who has charge
of Floral hall, already has rented as
much space as was used last year. E.
II. Chapman, manager of concessions,
has rented all the space used for farm
machinery under Floral hall and for the
midway he already has rented as much
space as was occupied last year for
amusement attractions. Lunches and
oyster stews will be available at stands
which will be conducted by the Brat
tleboro Woman s club, women of the
Episcopal church and women of the
Universalist church.
Some new classes have been added to
the fair this year. One of these is for
! draft oxen under 2,700 pounds to be
driven by boys, and several entries in
this class already have been booked,
the object of this special feature being
/ to promote interest among the young
sters and have them ready to make the
department a success in future years.
Another new class is that for matched
work horses. A dog show for the sec
ond day, which also is new feature
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
SEVERAL HOUSING
BILLS ARE READY
New York Proposes to Exempt New
Buildings and Mortgages From
Taxation.

ALBANY, n. Y, Sept. ga hear
on housing legislation pending before
the special session of the legislature
attracted a throng to the capitol to-
day. Legislative leaders have virtually
agreed on bills for the following pur-
poses: Exempting new buildings from
taxation for 10 years; exempting mort
cages from the state income tax; estab-
fishing city housing boards; granting
municipalities permission to invest in
state land bank bonds, and preventing
wholesale eviction on Oct /.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Makes Break When Out
With Attendant and
Runs Into Water
LIFE EXTINCT WHEN
BODY is RECOVERED
Patrick O 'Brien Came Here Two Weeks
Ago from North WaIpole Suffering
from Melancholia with Suicidal Ten
denotes


from Melancholia with Suicidal Ten
denotes.
Seized with sudden impulse to
throw himself into the water, Patrick
O Brien, a patient at the Brattleboro
Retreat. ran away from his attendant
on the Retreat farm this forenoon and
dashed into the overflow from the Con-
necticut and West rivers on the Re-
treat meadow and lost his life by
drowning.
O'Brien was a resident of North
Walpole, n H., and came to the Re-
treat about two weeks ago, suffering
from melaneholia with suicidal ten
denotes. He had not been at all vio-
lent since coming here and had been
past the meadow several times with an
attendant.
This forenoon he enjoyed smoke
and asked to take a walk, so he and
an attendant and two other patients
went north on Linden street. On reach
ing the farm O'Brien suddenly made a
break for the water. followed by the
attendant. The latter could not swim
but he followed the patient as far out
in the water as he could He was un.
able to overtake o 'Brien, who begar
swimming under water.
Numerous people gathered around
and tried to locate O'Brien in tn,
weeds and underground. They used !;
boat, but were unable to find him fol
some time. When taken out of tn,
water he apparently was dead, but tn,
institution secured a pulmotor from
the Twin State Gas & Electric Co. anJ
tried artificial respiration, but withou
success.
0'Brien was 30 years old. He leave
sister in North Walpole
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Warning at Providence.

PROVIDENCE, Sept. ga postcard
warning of the demolition of the Turks
Head building, large office building here,
tomorrow at midnight was received by
the superintendent of the structure to-
day. 1t was signed with the initials
"A w. t. N and had a crude skull and
cross bones drawn in front of the sigma
ture. The card was mailed in this city.
1t was delivered to the police, who say
they viii take every precaution to pre-
vent the destruction of the property.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23

MAPLEWOOD \. H., The present
system of federal taxation was declared
to have created an "intoerable situa-
ton and to be responsible for the con
tinued high prices of many articles by
speakers at the opening session today
of the semi-annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Cotton Manufac-
turers. Suggested substitutes included
an employers privilege tax outlined by
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Five Times as Many Head
per Square Mile as i'm
Minnesota
NEW ENGLAND TO
HAVE FIELD MAN
Idea that Middle West Leads Rest of
Country in Number of Holsteins and
General Breed Activities Erroneous
Breeders Meetings Planned.

There is surprise in store for those
Holstein breeders who read these lines,
and it should be pleasing and encourag-
ing surprise.
All too prevalent is the idea that the
middle western part of the United States
leads all Others in the number of Hol-
stein -Friesian and in general breed ac-
tivities This is not so, and it is dis
tinctly up to the eastern breeders to see
that the truth is made plain for the en-
lightenment of all interested, and espe-
eially for the encouragement of eastern
breeders.
The census which has just been made
the returns of which are on file at the
Continued on Page A.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Robbed Capture Robber.

DENVER, Sept. 23-PassenGers on a
Santa Fe train after being robbed early
today by single masked bandit between
two Colorado cities captured him and
delivered him to police after recovering
nearly all their valuabes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
ROBBERS RAID
COFFEE HOUSE
Seven Armed Men Get Between $1,000
and $4,000 - Train Ban
diff CaDfured
dit Captured

WATERBURY, Conn, Sept. 23.-
Seven men unmasked but armed, early
today in a coffee house of Bivino Bros
in Bank street gathered up all the money
on card tables and robbed the dozen or
more players. The police say the pro
ceeds to the robbers was between $1,000
and 5000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
MUST UNDERGO OPERATION.
De La Huerta Has Appendicitis Sick
for Some Time.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 23.-Physi-
clans attending provisional President
De La Huerta announced today they
had decided an operation for appendi-
citis was necessary to restore him TO
health. He has been i'll ever since as
suming Office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
ENTERS EASTERN STAR AT os.
Mrs. Adelaide B. Clapp Oldest Woman
Ever Initiated.

BETHEL, Conn, Sept. 23.-Mrs. Ade
laide B. Clapp, %, initiated into the Or.
der of the Eastern Star in Greenwood
chapter last night, is belieyed to be the
Oldest person ever received into the or.
der in the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
MAYOR PETERS is
WARNED OF SHOOTING
Letter Signed Red Says He Will
Be Shot Friday at Midnight
Third Warning.

BOSTON, Sept. pa third warning
of intended violence. within 4S hours was
received by Mayor Peters today. 1t was
contained in letter signed Red which
said: You will be shot Friday night at
r." The mayor last night issued a
proclamation calling upon all citizens to
report to the authorities any act or word
involving menace to public institutions
or offeials.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
THE WEATHER.
Generally Fair Tonight and Thursday
Warmer in Vermont.

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. The
weather forecast: Generally fair tonight
and Friday. Somewhat warmer in New
Hampshire and Vermont tonight Gentle
to moderate variable winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
OFFER OF SITE
FOR MEMORIAL
Dunham Tells Committee
He Will Give Good
hue Property
HOPED WORK MAY
BE BEGUN SOON
Residence on Lot Included in Gift -
Committee Appointed to Investigate
Question of Building Entirely New
or Gymnasium Alone.

Prospects for memorial community
building were frightened to a marked
degree in a meeting of the general com
mittee last evening, when George L..
Dunham rendered the gift of the So
called Goodhue property on Main street
to be used for memorial community
building purposes without discrimina-
tion. -
With the gift of the Goodhue prop
erty, which was bought last year by the
Dunham Brothefs Co. from the Centre
Congregational church at cost of $16,-
600, the memorial project has a nest
egg of more than $4,000, as $15,910.42,
the balance remaining in the War
Chest, was voted by the War Chest as
sociation last June to be used for a
memorial to all who participated in the
World war.
The committee, together with repre-
sentatives of Brattleboro post, Ameri-
can Legion, was called together by the
chairman, Mr.. Durham, last evening
in the Chamber of Commerce room. Mr.
| Durham presided and gave a summary
of the Investigations of the special
committee appointed to secure site
He then made his generous offer and
asked for frank discussion and ex
. preston of opinions. He called or
| Principal J. T. Warren of the higI
school, who spoke about the immediate
need for gymnasium in Brattlebort
and of the findings of the gymnasium
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
PRESIDENT IN CAMPAIGN.
Will Give Out Statements from White
House at Proper Time.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-President
Wilson will actively participate in the
Democratic presidential campaign when
:" the proper time comes, il was
stated today at the White House. He
probably will not make any speeches,
officials said, but viii confne himself
to statements on campaign issues, par
ticularly the league of nations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Red Men $ Hall

Thursday, Sept. %, p. Regular
meeting of Pocahontas Council, No. 4,
d. of P. A good attendance is desired.
Friday, Sept "a. p. m.-Regular
meeting of Quonekticut tribe, No. 2.
Imp'd Order of Red Men. A good attend
ance is requested Business of impor
tance will be transacted.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23

Looks like anybody ought TO be sue
cessful in business when you consider
the large number of persons who try to
help him mind it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
NEW YORK BOYS REGISTERING.
Carrying Out Provision of New Mill
tarv Training Law.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Approxi-
mately 100000 boys in New York state
between 10 and IS years old, were re-
quired to register today under the pro-
vision of the state military training
law
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
First Baptist Church

Friday, p. m.-Junior Endeavor meet
ing; 7.30-Chureh PRAYER meeting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23

Theodore Fl. Price, editor of Commerce
and Finance of New York, and a gross
sale tax explained by William E. Corn
we'll of New York.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Continued from Page A.
EMERY'S CAMPAIGN
EXPENSES $1,79S.O9
Statement of Newport Candidate for
Governorship Nomination Filed To-
day with Secretary of State.
Especial to The Reformer.) J

ISptcIaI 10 Tie heIOTmeI.I
NEWPORT, Sept. %.
A statement of Col. Curtis S. Emery's
gubernatorial campaign expenses was
filed today with the secretary of state
at Montpelier. The total is $l,79S.09,
and is made up of the following items:
1867 miles travel by automo-
bile, owned and driven by
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23

The first women's political club in
the northwest having its own clubhouse
has been organized by Republican wo-
men in Minneapolis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-23
Methodist Episcopal Church

Friday, Sept. "a, at 7.30 p. m.-Pray
er meeting.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06

ton book with the names OF the per-
sons who paid that Si00O0.00. In
1878 Chas. f. Dyke, Of Crystal Lake,
H., and his uncle, C. f. Hammond,
of Crown Point, N. ", founded the
Dyke and Hammond Fund of some
s30,0O0O0 which added greatly TO the
stability of the Institution, a gift
largely prompted by their interest
in the newly emancipated colored
people.
And the last great financial ad-
vance of President Fairchild was
the erection of Lincoln Hall. He
secured the interest of Roswell
Smith, a great business man in New
York City who was the founder OF
the Century Company. Smith at
once projected a movement Of sig
nillcanee. He said II will visit
Berea College at its next commence
ment and we will have Mr.. George
w. Cable make the commencement
address" Mr.. Cable was then at the
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06

outburst Of his fame and his coming
to Berea was an event mentioned
in all the newspapers. Roswell
Smith was here at that commence
ment and signalized his coming by
giving the College individually and
alone our magnificent Lincoln Hall.
II was my privilege to meet Pres
ident Fairchild a number Of times
but he was not living when finally
came 10 Berea in 1892. Berea's do
nors had been losing their interest
and there had been no one TO set
before them the real plans and pos
sibilites Of the institution. His son,
Eugene Fairchild, was still here and
went East with me on my first ex-
petition. had some Of Berea's old
friends TO begin with and my own
friends to make as | could in this
new field.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06

his glasses TO spy out the line and
suddenly discovered Ladies' Hall. IL
is said that he dropped his notebook
in surprise with the exclamation:
Good Heavensl whoever put up
such building as that in this far
Oft wilderness must have had faith"
What must we think OF the men
who at a great distance. give their
money towards the erection of that
building and the establishing of a
school in this far Off region which
they could never hope TO see?
The Berea people put down large
subscriptions themselves. Presi-
dent Fairchild subscribed $4,000,
Samuel Hanson, John @. Fee. Father
Rogers, each si25.OO. George Can
dee, another local trustee, $4,000,
and John Hanson in work and mate
rial 100000. other Berea names
were Prof. II. +. Clark, $500, A. b.
Pratt, treasurer, $4,000, and VIM.
II. Robe 5000.
Next, friends were sought in
Louisville, where the first subscrip-
ton from the Belknap family was
secured, and in Cincinnati where
William Sumner gave 100000; in
Mansfield, o., where Matthias Day
gave 100000. In Pittsburgh where
William Thaw gave 100000. In New
York City where Darwin r. James
gave 100000, and in Morristown, N.
j. where the Graves family began
their generous donations which
finally amounted to more than SiO,-
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06

In 1869 appeared President Henry
II. Fairchild. He came from 0berlin
with the plans of Ladies Hall in his
pocket, and his twenty years admin
istratiOn began with the erection Of
that great building and was crowned
by the erection Of the chapel, after
wards burned, and Lincoln Hall.
President Fairchild was assisted
in raising money by his sons,
Charles 4. Fairchild and Eugene +.
Fairchild, and we have still some of
their old subscription books which
give the names and signatures Of
early donors.
The erection of Ladies' Hall was
an undertaking which at once gave
distinction TO Berea. That it should
plan and expect such building was
the sign of courage and faith. The
story is told of the surveyor who
laid out the line of railroad through
this place. From some point south
of Richmond he was looking through
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06
OUR DONORS


Berea sets aside one day in the year
10 commemorate the people whose
gifts have made our work possible.
In order TO be great, an institution
must have idealists and founders TO
plan il; and IL must have teachers
and scholars and patient admins
traitors TO carry it on; and IL must
have students TO receive and scat
ter IFS Instructions: IL must have
some parents TO encourage and sup
port. And IL must have donors who
provide the large resources neces-
sary for effective education.
OF all these five kinds Of pro-
moters the donors are perhaps the
least prominent. The names of some
OF them are familiar because con-
nected with buildings or funds, but
the donors themselves are seldom
seen on our campus. They rarely
have the reward Of looking at the
work in progress, and we shall not
realize who they are unless we take
time on a day like this.
The first idealist on our campus
was John @. Fee, and when he
thought of a school in connection
with the Union Church on the Berea
Ridge he had to look afar for teach
ers and the money with which to
pay them. That was back in the
nfties and our country was a very
different country from the one we
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06

Then came the period in which
Rogers was the responsible promoter
of Berea. He had an acquaintance
among the supporters Of Oberlin and
among the anti-slavery people of the
North. In his time Berea's work
for the freedmen was prominent.
The slaves had been emancipated
and Berea undertook to train up
teachers of their own race. IL was
in view OF this work that Professor
Rogers secured from the Freed
mems Bureau an appropriation Of
siO.OO0.O0 for the erection of Howard
Hall, which is our oldest building.
This was named after General Oliver
o. Howard, the famous one-armed
Christian general, and his friend
ship for Berea continued as long as
he lived.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06

know today. The North and South
were sharply divided by the issue
of slavery, and the public men
whose names figured in the news
papers were altogether differen,
from the public men whom we know.
There was a well organized move
ment for the abolition OF slavery.
In the South that movement was
quite largely suppressed. The anti
slavery kentuckians like James G.
Brney were mostly driven out Of
the state, and John g. Fee could not
have stayed in Berea If it had not
been for the protection OF General
Cassius VI. Clay, who was a resident
Of this county.
Mr. Fee started To find friends and
supporters among the Northern abo-
olitionists. He went TO 0berlin TO
find his teachers, and he went far
Their east TO find the needed money.
He told me himself of the first gift
he secured. IL was from Garrett
Smith, one Of the first rich men in
our country. a man who inherited
a large amount of land in Northern
New York, and devoted himself very
largely to doing good with his
income. Garrett Smith was an
abolitionist and was glad to
make the acquaintance Of a
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-06

Southern abolitionist. when Fee
explained his plan Of an anti
slavery church and school in
kentucky, Garrett Smith said: you
cannot do such a thing in a slave
state" Brother Fee said: II am
going TO try" Garrett Smith said:
Here is 5000 TO help you try"
Garrett Smith subsequently gave
several thousand dollars. And his
daughter has been a contributor
until her death in 1911.
Fee had another source Of intro
duction among donors at the North.
He had been a student at Lane
Theological seminary in Cincinnati.
The president Of that institution was
man of great force and energy, Ly-
man Beecher. Besides his thousands
of converts and his hundreds Of stu
dents, Lyman Beecher distinguished
himself by bringing up a family OF
geniuses. His daughter, Harriet
Beccher stowe, was the author of
Uncle Toms Cabin, and two sons,
Henry Ward and Thomas X. were
preachers of worldwide fame.
When Brother Fee went east TO
find friends, Henry Ward Beecher
welcomed him at his great church
in Brooklyn, and a number Of fam
lilies whose support was then enlist
ed have continued that support
down to the present day.