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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-01
In the Days News.

John c. Rooms, who today retires
from the position of first assistant
postmaster general of the United
States, entered the postal service q
quarter of a century ago as a railway
mail clerk at a salary OF $1,000 a year.
His ability and efficiency attracted the
transferred to Washington and made a
post office inspector. Postmaster General
Hitchcock promoted him to the position
of chief of salaries and allowances and
Postmaster General Burleson promoted
him to be chief inspector of the post
office department. Five years ago he
was nominated by President Wilson as
first assistant postmaster general.
Thus, he had the rare record of holding
over from a Republican administration
and raised to the highest appointive
post in the department by the succeed
ing administration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-01
Today's Events

Celebration of Dominion day through
out Canada.
Twenty five years ago today died Har
riet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle
Toms Cabin.
A new administrative code, reorganiz-
ing the state government of Ohio, is to
come into effect today
General John J. Pershing today viii
assume supreme command of all the
military forces of the United States.
A ten per cent reduction in standard
passenger railway fares is to become
effective today throughout eastern Can
ada 4...-
The nineteenth biennial meeting of
the National Congregational Council is
to begin its sessions today at Los An
geles.
The President and Mrs Harding are
to leave Washington today to spend
the Fourth at the home of Senator Ere
linghuysen of New Jersey.
The annual encampment of the Ore
gon division of the American Legion is
to be entertained at Eugene during the
two days beginning today.
Louisiana IS new state constitution
the first basic law in the framing OF
which women have had hand, Is tt
come into operation today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-01
The Meddler
aft the coat fits you. put il on"

So far as this particular locality is con-
cerned there can be no complaint in re-
gard to the amount of rain that has fallen
the past week unless it is on the score of
too much in too short a time Since Sun
day morning the painting earth has had
plenty of opportunity to drink its fill. In
fact, the amount of rainfall has been so
much in excess of what the ground could
absorb that highways throughout the
town have suffered considerably from the
washing of surplus surface water. Just
how general the recent rains have been
throughout New England the Meddler
doesn't know but he has an idea that this
corner of Vermont got more than many
places to the north and south. Sunday S
heavy showers. for example, were not
felt farther north than Putney, while an
item in a Fitchburg. Mass, paper of
Wednesday complained because but Is
inches of rain had fallen in that city up
to 10 a. IN. that day despite the fact that
the clouds seemed ION the verge of break
ing wide open at times
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-01

Speaking of forests, The Meddler has
it on what seems to be pretty good au-
thority that the Champlain Realty Co.
will cut little or no pulpwood in the West
river valley for the next two years While
suspension of activity on the part of this
concern will have its effect on business
in several towns there are not few
persons who will be glad to sec a post
ponement of the operations that have
denuded so many acres of forest land
within the past few years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-01

So far as local damage to streets is
concerned it may be considered small in
comparison to the benefit that the rain
has brought the crops. Hay, to be sure,
is too near ripe to get much help and
the local strawberry crop is beyond the
point of stimulation, but they are excep-
tions to the general rule. In addition 20
helping gardens and fields the rain re-
moved a menace to the forest areas here
abouts and no doubt saved the lives of
myriads of small trout in the streams
throughout the county.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
SEIZE STRONG BEER.
Dry Agents Get 5000 Quarts of Nine Per
Cent at Toledo.

TOLEDO. o., Nov 2s-Nearly 1900
quart bottles of Canadian per cent
beer were confiseated by police and pros
hibition enforcement officers, here early
yesterday morning, an hour after the
cargo had been hauled into the Ironville
slip in Maumee bay.
A lake-going yacht was also seized to-
gether with an automobile said by the
police to belong to George Dittman, an
alleged rum runner. The crew of the
yacht escaped
Several hours after the seizure Ditt-
van was arrested and held without bail.
He i believed by the police to have been
head of the smugglers.
~ Dittman was arrested in connection
with the murder of Arthur Janisse of.
Nyandottes Mich, a .Tum-runner, in the
Detroit river on the night of April q.
last. Two others also were arrested for
the alleged murder, but all were ac-t
quilted in the circuit court at Detroit.
Janisse was shot four times in the
breast and an anchor tied around his
neck. His body was found, several days
later at the bottom of theriver.s es
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
WANT NEW ENGLAND
ROADS INCLUDED
Agricuituralisfs Ask That 10 Per Cent
Freight Reduction Extend to
This Section.
VA HINGT0N


Protests are being received in Washing
ton by the interstate commerce commits
sion and New England members Of con
gress as a result of reports current in New
England that executives of the New Eng
land railroads will not join in the contem-
plated general 10 per cent reduction in
the freight rates on farm products. New
England, assuming these reports to be
well founded, will be the only section of
the country where this reduction will not
apply. Glenn Seavy, editor of the Spring
field Homestead. is among the protestants.
John +. Benton, solicitor for the ma
ti0nal association of state public utility
COMMISSIONS, has notified the New Eng
land utility commissions Of these reports
asking for instructions. One effect of
having New England left out of the agree
ment to reduce rates would be that the
New York shipper of potatoes would get
the benefit of the reduction on products
shipped into New England, while the
Maine potato grower would not benefit on
potatoes shipped out of New England
There is ground for the belief that if the
reduction on farm products should not
apply to New England. petition viii be
flied with the interstate commerce COM
mission to have the reduction extended
into that section.
The interstate commerce commission on
Tuesday. Nov. 20, will hear arrangements
in the case of the New England railroads
for larger division with the trunk lines
on rates on property transported into and
out of New England \ majority of the
commission some time ago decided this
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
PLAN MADE IN NEW
q ENGLAND" WEEK
Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce
Thinks Trade In Home Products
Can BE Increased

BOSTON, Nov 2S.-Plans are in pro-
cess OF formation for an intensive cam
paign in behalf of New England products.
Ii Is not to be presumed that New Eng
land Is self-Sufhcient. 50 that she can
isolate herself from outside markets, but
there is a conviction among merchants
and manufacturers that she does not suti-
GENTLY assert the value of her own prod
uctS.
This matter has been discussed in COM
mittee meetings of the State Chamber of
Commerce for some time with the result
that special committee has been. desig-
mated further TO consider the advisability
of having Made in New England
week. That there may be opportunity
to mould public opinion in support of
such a week the date has been set for
some time IN the future, possibly by next
SfaH. -.
y Several organizations. as well as indi-
yidualS, have been consulted relative to
the proposition. 1t has met with favor
everywhere .. H-.-.. .r..s
4 AS outlined by Edward G. Stacy, secre-
tary of the State Chamber of Commerce,
there Is no intention. among the promoters
to urge people TO buy Made in New Eng
land products. The sole purpose is to
identify these goods. factory products and
agricultural products, so that the buyer
who desires to favor New England pro-
ducerS may be guided in his choice of
products. #.
1t is believed that campaign of edu-
cation that calls attention to New Eng
land products would result in local pref
erence for such goods when price and
quality arc on parity with goods coming
from other parts of the country. The
committee is of the opinion that when
customer goes into a store in New Eng
land to buy an article he should be in
formed in some way if that article is
made in New England
After the merchants and manufactur-
erS generally understand this idea, there
is to be Made in New England week.
or New England Products Week when
special prominence is to he given to goods
produced in this section of the country.
Four suggestions for the observance of
such a week, next fall are tentatively
submitted to the committee by Secretary
Stacy. They are as follows:
(a) Local boards of trade and cham
EcrS Of commerce arrange special pro-
grams of civic and trada events. such as
dollar DAYS, industrial exhibits, home
products dinners. etc.
tb) Trade associations make special
window. counter ali store displays or
other sales aids.
Co Manufacturers plan special adver-
Using in the newspapers and TO their
trade i'm New England
fd) Merchants make special effort 10
display New England products in their
windows, showcases and elsewhere and
give advance notice through circulars or
newspaper advertising of speciai bargains
for each day on certain New England
DrOducts
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AUTHOR OF PLAY PRESENT.
Florence Edna May Sees Fine Perform
ance of The UnIoved WIFE.

Florence Edna May. the author of the
new three-act play, The Unloved Wife,
attended the performance of the play in
the Auditorium Friday night, having
come here from Stanford, Conn, where a
second company was started Thanksgiv-
ing day. She saw a first class perform
ance by a cast that was uniformly strong,
with no weak spots. The audience was of
fair size, which doubtless would have
been larger had not many people gotten
the impression that The Unloved Wife
was sex play.
1t was a clean, well-written drama with
a good sprinLNing of comedy, and made
strong appeal TO the audience Gordon
Hamilton. who took the part Of Mr.
John Pennington, the jealous husband,
was the leading man and his acting was
notably fine. Miss Luella Arnold as Mrs
Marion Courtney. a butterfly mother,
also did some high class work. Walter
foulter as Jim Plunkett, the boy next
door, furnished the principal comedy lines
and was funny all the way through
Other characters. all of whom were pleas
ing were Miss Leah Hatch and Miss Mar
garet Selkirk as Cicely and Phoebe Court
ney, daughters of Mrs Courtney. Fred f.
Strong and Mrs. Elizabeth Leroy as the
grandparents of Pennington. and Joseph
V. PAUL as Jim Walton, from New Nogb-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
Truck DRIVERS NAY sTRrKEs
Boston Men Demand 45-H0ur Week Be
ginning January 1.

BOSTON Nov. c2S.-The local union
of the international brotherhood ofs team
STEERS, with a membership Of 5000 truck
drivers, yesterday authorized its confer
ence committee to call a strike if neceS-
sary in contending for nine-hour day
and Il ive-day week in negotiations with
employers for a new working agreement
beginning Jan l. next.
The union demands nG change in wages
The employers have proposed wage cut
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT $3.50

Jointed Sleeping Doll,
fancy dressed; Peterkin
Blue Bird Doll; Fancy
Dressed Doll etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
Education Not Complete.

A man was lamenting his wffe's ex-
travagance- more in sadness than
in anger. ''Her parents were thrifty
folk" he explained, land they failed
TO teach her proper business principles.
She was taught only to save her money
never how to spend it intelllgently."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28

case against the New England lines, but
the commission recently granted the petit
ton of counsel for the New England rail-
roads for re-argument of the issues in
VOWED.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT $3.9S

Fancy Dressed Jointed
Doll, moving eyes and fine
wig, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT $1,000

Boy Walking Doll - Full
painted adtocolite body, "a
inches high. Amy child can
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT $3.50

27-inch Baby Doll, well
dressed in' good material,
etc. .-. g..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT Csc

Dolls with movable arms;
dressed in pink and blue.
Celluloid Dolls, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT $3.50

20-inch Dolls, dressed in
fancy silk and muslin
dresses. etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT S2.9S

Peterkin Blue Bird Doll;
Baby Dressed Doll, 14-inch
Little Mary Mixup; Talking
Dolls; Dressed Doll, with
hair, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT $500

22-inch Dressed Doll with
hair, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT soc
AT S1.OO

Large. Pat-a-Cake Doll;
Topsy Turvy Doll; Red
Riding Doll; Girl Doll, I'M
breakable; Boy Doll, un-
breakable, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
See Display I'm Our Window
AT Sits

Girl Doll with hair; Boy
Doll in knickers with hat;
Girl Doll, fancy dress;
Romper Doll, with hat, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28

Of So a week, ean 11-hour day instead Of
the present l6-hour day elimination Of ;
holiday pay and reduction in overtime
nav, Il
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT S1.9S

Baby Sleeping Doll, with
hair; Girl Sleeping Doll,
with hair; Jointed Doll, fan
cy dressed, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT CD En

Fancy Dressed Sleeping
Doll; Dressed Doll, unbreak-
able, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28

Quebec has two women YQters to. every
man.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT S1.25

Unbreakable Dres S c d
Girl Doll, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
BRATTLEB0R0 PERSONAL

Mr.. and Mrs Claude D. Adams of
Hartford, Conn, spent Thanksgiving with
Mr.. Adams's parents, Mr.. and Mrs c. f..
Adams of West River road
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert J. Amidon. who
came Wednesday night to visit his par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. L. W. Amidon. re-
turned to Springfield Mass, Sunday aft
CfnoOn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
DEATHS.

In Brattleboro, Nov. %, Mrs. Adelaide
Davis Reynolds. 60.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28

Chden Department have assembled endless assortment
fascinating appealing d that irresistible the little folks
dolls dolls unbeakabe dolls, stuffed dolls,
and any number of other interesting kinds.
sixteen enable offer splendid values
duplicate Chdrens Doll
ton offer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-28
AT soc

Baby Pat-a-Cake Dolls,
Dressed Dolls, 10 inches;
Dressed Dolls, IL inches;
Unbreakable Dolls, etc.
AT SOC
10-inch Baby Character
Dolls; Stuffed Dolls; I'm
breakable Dolls, etc.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-06-02
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no hen in this barnyard will have any
thing to do with them"
That night when the hens went to
bed 1t was very, very dark, and those
that had little mes cuddled them close
under their wings.
The new hens-tfley were Guinea
Hens, which, of course, you have
guessed before this-went to bed away
up in the branches of the nearby trees
as they always do, and if anything
disturbs them they quickly cry with
a loud squawk something that sounds
like go back Go back"
Bob Dog, the collie, was asleep, and
Guineas did, and In the middle Of the
night came their loud cry Of go back !
Go back I"
Don't you know any better than to
make hat silly noise In the middle
Of the night?" scolded Brown Hen.
you are rightly named clowns, but
I am sorry you are hens as we'll"
Bob Dog awoke, too, and with a
bound out Of his house he came bark
ing with all his might, and in a minute
he had by the leg a man who had come
creeping toward the henhouse to carry
off the hens in a bag.
After the excitement was over Bob
Dog told the hens what had happened
and how the new hens had given the
warning or he might never have caught
the robber.
IF 1t wasn't for that awful cry they
make" said old Yellow Hen, after a
call on the Guineas, they would be
nice companions, and they are
very genteel, l am sure"
But 1t was the cry that saved US
last night" said Mrs. Brown Hen. II
" again judge any one from
appearances"
(Copyright)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-06-02
BEST SUMMER QUARTER
OFFERED AT STATE U
Work for Teachers Certificates
Above Second Grade May
Be Obtained

State University of Montana, Mis-
soula. May 23.-All the requirements
for teachers certificates, above the
second grade, may be met by courses
which are offered at the summer
quarter of the State University which
will begin June 20 and close August
10. More than 300 are expected to
attend.
The cost of attending summer
school may be based on the following
figures: Board at Craig hall, S26
per month; room for two from SIG
to $50; all railroad fare paid to and
from the University will be refund
ed except SIS. Thus the cost for
board, room and fare may be est-
mated for the full nine weeks term.
Many lectures by specially quail
fled educators and others who will
visit the University during the sum-
mer will be features of the session.
Full particulars as to each curse
and other details of information will
be contained in a bulletin which will
be in the hands of every high school
principal and many teachers in the
state within a week, according to
Professor of Education Freeman H.
Daughters, director of the summer
quarter. A letter addressed to Di-
rector of Summer Quarter will bring
any n interested a copy.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-06-02

I'm addition to its weaving Brus-
sells gained renown for its lace-mak-
ing, and its needle made laces still
find their way all yer the civilized
world, including a considerable guam
tity to the United States. The fenin-
inc culture of feudal times sought
to express in the delicate designs of
llmy fabric what men wrought in
the lace-like architecture of its ca
thedrals.
Damp Cellars Enhance Miss Ameri-
cas- Charm
Geography reinforced tempera-
ment, in this instance. 1t is not
stretching a point to say that Miss
America strolls along Fifth Avenue,
on a sunny day, with a bit of lace
giving piquant touch to her tailored
costume, because it is damp and
dank in Belgium. The mere neces-
sity for keeping ones hands busy on
a day when rain ~engenders ennui
played a part. Moreover the process
of retting flax, to separate fibre from
core, requires the conditions of mois-
ture which can easily be had in a
Belgian cellar.
"In the time of Louis XIV France
was the rival of the Lowlands in lace
making, and so acute did the jeal-
ousy become that in 1870 thousands
of crowns worth of Flanders lace
was burned by the hangman.
Women's Fingers Avert Industrial
Disaster
"After the blight of Phillips des-
potic rule, lace-making was the only
industry that survived. Women's
fingers, it has been said, then saved
Flanders from utter ruin. Even be-
fore 1914 visitors to Brussels were
impressed by the participation of
women in many occupations reserved
to men in other lands-a condition
attained by ome with their
skill in the textile arts as the initial
leverage.
"The irst-time visitor to Brussels
may find himself beguiled to an 'ex-
hibition' of fabrics in some private
home; only to learn that the 'exhibi-
is a display of laces for sale.
The chances are he will find a bar
gain that will alleviate any irritation
At this ingenious form of salesman
Again he may be surprised to
earn that the compact, neighborly
Brussels ranks with Boston in popu-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-06-02
Modern Lessons In
GEOGRAPHY

Brussels fame rests partly on
popular misapprehensions," says a
bulletin of the National Geographic
Society concerning the city where
the International Financial Congress
now is meeting.
"lts name is linked with q carpet
that is not made there, and also with
a cathedral which, properly speaking,
is not a cathedral at all, but a church
that of st. Gudule.
"But even after deducting this
much credit from Brussels credit,
enough remains to give it a foremost
place among world capitals. We're
the romantic adventures of the city
cast into a movie scenario, the title
might accurately be From Swamp
Dwelling to Petit Paris
From Swamp Dwelling to Civic
Beauty
"The seventh century village on
the Senne, near the center of what
now is Belgium was called Brues-
ellie, literally swamp dwelling with
descriptive intent. The genius of a
people for making much of meager
physical circumstances fully warrants
the nickname often given the modern
city of parks, ~boulevards, art CALLER
les and a famous university.
-.
"At the historic Brussels Confer
ence in 1874 the city had a Fremont
ton of its tragic experience in 1914.
The worlds great powers, and many
lesser ones, met there to discuss more
human usages in war. Prussia up
held the principle that citizens of a
ONE or children-who
resisted invasion of an enemy there
by rendered themselves liable to pre-
cisely the same treatment as their
armed soldiery. England sided with
the smaller nations in Directing to
this proposal. Only thirty years lat
sr Germany illustrated her theory by
her atrocities in Brussels.
Mounted Victims Heads to Make a
Holiday
Suffering was no new experience
Brussels. More than three cen
uries earlier its great square had
cen Count Egmont and Count Horn
walk to the scaffold, as the former
ecited the fifty-first Psalm, and a
title later both heads were display
d to the assembled multitude on |
spikes. More gruesome still, {
9th heads finally were boxed and !,
ent to Philip II of Spain so that !
atter-day Herod might exult at an !
Their victory over his northern sub =,
scts. ;
Though the Brussels carpet of +
lodern times is not made in Bel ;,
ium, Brussels was paid a deserved
ibute in its naming, for when it
rst was manufactured at Wilton, t.
ngland, the product was patterned u
tier the tapestries for which Brus- b
is was famous for centuries. f