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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
PLATT CASE FEE
CALLED EXCESSIVE
Redmond Saws $4,000 Was too Much
TO Charge in Case Growing Out of
Dummerston Accident.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Sept 10.-Addi-
tionaI witnesses were examined yesterday
in superior court at the hearing before
Judge Sherman II. MOulton in the case
brought by Mrs. +. :. Platt, formerly OF
Rutland to recover part of the $1,000 fee
charged by the law firm of Dunnett,
Shields 4 COnant when they obtained a
S23. 800 settlement from the Boston \
Maine railroad following the death of her
husband in a railroad accident at Dunn
merStOn.
The morning was spent by prospective
witnesses examining by themselves the
papers and correspondence in the case.
Attorney John w. Redmond of New
port the first witness. was kept on the
stand over an hour. He is the first of
the distinguished attorneys to admit that
the fee was excessive. In crosS-examlna'
ton By Attorney John G.. Sargent there
were several rather lively tits.
Mr. Redmond stated that the 30 days
DAYS preparation of the case was not
worth more than $1,000 and said he did
not know of any lawyers in Vermont who
charged in excess of 500 a day for theil
services. Asked if he knew what the gen
eral custom was among the lawyers OF
Windsor. Windham and Rutland countie'
for charges in negligence cases, he said
he did not. nor did he know what Attor
ney Sargent's charges were in important
cases LIE
Attorney" NJ. {. wcbber of Rutland
placed the amount that the st. Johnsbury
firm might have charged the highest OF
any of the witnesses. telling the court thu
services of the attorneys in this case were
WIFI h from S6.9at9,to STslp0.. i5sI isah
She case will be concluded today wheI
several more lawyers will. take the stand
Hypothetical questions Occupying severa
!typewritten pages are an interesting
| feature in the case.
In the cross-examination, Mr.. Redmond
admitted that the award in the Plat cas-,
is the largest ever given by a Vernon
| jury.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
WILLIAMSBURG HAS
$4,000 FIRE LOSS
Barre City Fire Department Saves Bust
ness Section of Town Threatened
by Flames.

WILLIAAISTOWN, Sept 10-Two
houses. store and tenement. barn. Il
storehouse and an ice house were de
,,troyed by fire yesterday with n loss of
about $4,000. The Barre fire depart
ment was sent to the town and saved
other property. The fire at first threat
encd to wipe out the entire business sec
ton. The use of a WatrouS fire engine
by which the water was taken from a
brook was an important factor in check
ing the fire.
The property destroyed includes the
barn of II. H. Martin. in which. the fire
started. also a two-story building used by
Mr. Martin as meatmarket, with loss
of $4,000 The house of Mrs. G. u.
Seivright was damaged to the extent of
81 200. while a like loss was experienced
by Is. G. Hoyt. The ice house was owned
by Mr. Martin. and the store by III. s.
Drury.
The occupants of the houses and the
tenement lost much of their clothing and
Mr. Hoyt lost a new automobile. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
The home of William CompO, about a
mile from the village, was destroyed yes
terday by fire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

Do Not Understand Why Irish ut Home
Desire Membership - Washington OIL
ficials Anxious to See Settlement be
tween England and Ireland.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
(Special Despatch to The Reformer.)
Copyright 1921.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1O.-Eamonn
DeValera's insistence that the British
grant Ireland a membership i'll the
league of nations as one of the guaran-
fee, Of autonomy has caused much sur
prise here where the news was regarded
as having a special bearing upon Amer
ica's political situation.
The general impression here has been
that the Irish were unaIterably opposed
to the league of nations and that the
Americans of Irish descent who in the
last campaign left the Democratic party
in large numbers because of its eSpousal
of the league were in absolute harmony
with the wishes of the league in Ire
land. In the state of Massachusetts the
Irish were so powerful in the Democratic
party that an attempt to endorse the
league at a state convention resulted
in the absence of most of the Democratic
leaders. To the WilSonian argument
that the league of nations would protect
Ireland's territorial integrity whenever
she obtained independence. the answer
was made that the league covenant would
put Ireland in chains and force Amer
lea to help Great Britain in the event
of war between Ireland and England.
Article 10 was held to be a means of
compelling the United States to side with
I h., ho
of the leagues friends that the protec-
.tion of territorial integrity meant
against external aggression only.
Officials Keep Quiet
The news conveyed here from London
by the Associated Press that Eamonn DE
Valera wants to be assured that Great
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
SaTTH HALIFAX.

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Long returned
TO Holyokp Saturday
John ChildS and son of Deerfeld were
q1Iests of p. f. Harris from Friday to
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs c. +. Harris of Crescent
CITY. Fla. We're recent guests of his SIS
ter. Mrs @ II. Woodland.
Mrs. Allie Mitchell and son, Verne,
listed her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Nav end Levi Mitchell last week.
Mrs. Raymond Starkey of Shelburne
FAILS returned to her home Monday
after weeks stay with her parents.
Recent guests at Mrs Nellie Barry's
were Miss Mary Cronin and niece. Mar
garct. Miss Mary Fristic of New York.
Anna Fristic OF Westfield. Mass. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Harris and 50
IF South Decrfieid.
The Harris reunion was held at the
home of NJ c. Harris Labor day. One
hundred and twenty-five were present
from North ADAMS. Furnace. South
Tteerfield. Colerain. Stamford and VII
nlington. 1t was voted to hold the next
reunion at George Peterkin's at South
Dpprfield. Labor day 1922. 4 bounti.
FIJI lunch was served and baseball and
other games were played which made n
day Of great pleasure to all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

Britain will grant Ireland membership
in the league of nations as well as the
dominion conferences on the same basis
rs Canada. New Zealand, Australia and
South Africa is interpreted variously
here Government officials of course, are
loath to discuss the Irish situation. This
correspondent for example inquired of the
department of state if the United States
government were using its good effects
either unofficially or officially, formally
or informally. in the threatening situa-
ton between England and Ireland and
the answer came back no
There is no evidence that the Harding
administration intends to become in
volved in any way in the dispute. The
reasons for this attitude are presumed
to be a feeling that the whole thing Il
domestic issue as between different parts
of British empire and that the American
government could not afford to do any
thing which might cause ofcnSe to the
British government in London. Presi-
dent Wilson took a different view of his
prerogative. He went so far as to dis
cuSS the Importance of an Irish settle
ment when Arthur Balfour arrived here
in the spring of 1917 as the head of the
British war mission. In Paris he en-
deavored to secure an audience for three
American delegates from an Irish or
ganization who wanted to lay the Irish
question before the peace conference.
The British finally refused the audience
but it * n fact that the Washington gov
crnment used the occasion to discuss with
the British the vital need for a settle
ment of the Irish issue.
Anxious to See Peace
But while nothing is being done by the
Harding administration it ~ a fact that
everybody views with grave concern the
, possibility of a rupture between Eng
land and ireland and the hope is unof-
! ficially expressed that the latest propos-
al. of the British government viii lead
to a peace conference at which the mat
ter can be settled satisfactorily to both
SIDES. 1t. il. realized that if Civil war
l'fS renewed in ireland. the British dele
gates to the coming conference on arm
ament in Washington may encounter hos
tile outburSts on the part of Americans
| of Irish descent. some of whom have not
| heSitated i'm the past to picket both the
| White House and the British embassy,
| On the other hand a friendly settlement
! of the Irish controversy bringing Ire
! land into the league of nations may turn
| some Americans who have been against
| the league into a more friendly frame of
mind toward that organization and re
move one Of the pillars of political
strength of the ''irrecOncilablcs" move
ment which has thus far kept America
e from membership IN the Geneva organi-
/ zatlon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
EAST DOVER.

d. NJ Hale was in Springfield. Mass,
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Yeaw motored to
Albany. \. Y, Monday.
Mrs. Diantha Niles spent a few days
this week with relatives in Halifax.
Marion Gould entertained about 80
Young people at a corn roast ut her home
recently.
GLADYS Harris of West Brattleboro and
Naudc Moore of Williamsville visited
Ellen Brown last week
Miss Leone s. Turner of Brattleboro
visited over Labor day with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. III. Turner.
Miss Marjorie Sargent of East Green
wich. II. l., visited her cousin, Mrs. Fred
Holland, and family this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. f. Allen of New York
city came Monday to spend week with
! their niece, Mrs. Loren Allen.
/ Mrs. c. L. Prouty is working in \. \.
Sherman's store in Williamsville during
1.-THE absence of Frank Stratton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Holland and son
I William. spent Labor day with then
daughter Mrs. Aldace wilson. and famllA
in Athol. Mass.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Turner wen
I; Wednesday to Newport, \. H., to spend {
few DAYS in the home of Mr.. Turner
daughter. Mrs. Walter Halliday.
Rev. and Mrs. c. O. Durham and daugh
ter. Ida, went Tuesday to attend tn
meeting held at Saxtons River. Gordon
Durham il staying at Wilbur Stowe
while his parents are away.
Marion Gould ard Olive Mundell re
turned Wednesday TO Brattleboro hIgI
school. Eleanor Holland TO Wilmington
high school and Floyd Sherman to Lelan
and Gray seminary iAgTownshend. aftee
spending their summer ssscation at thei
homes here.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
FOUND GUILTY OF ARSON.
Hardwick Man Gets Four Years for Part
in Conspiracy.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Sept. 1O.-Aftor
two hours deliberation. the jury brought
in verdict of guilty in the case of state
against Albert Parmenter of Hardwick,
charged with inducing Warren Perham, his
hired man. TO burn Parmenter's Hardwick
farm buildings on Aug. >. with the inten-
ton of defrauding the Vermont Mutual
Insurance company of Montpelier.
The fire was set II hours before the pol
icy expired and the property was insured
for $4,000.
Perham, who confessed to the crime
two weeks ago and is now serving 10
year sentence, was the principal witness
for the state.
, Judge Wilson sentenced Parmenter to
states prison for term of not less than
four-nor more than eight years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
SENATE COMMITTEE CUTS TAX.
VIII Provide 500, 100000 Less Than
House Revenue Bill.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 10.-A mini
mum total tax of &3,2O0,000.000 for this
fiscal year is the aim for the Republican
members of the senate finance committee
i'm revising the house tax bill. Chairman
PenroSe said yesterday. after a confer
ence of majority committeeman.
This is approximately S100.000,O0O
less than treasury experts have figured
the house measure would yield. but Is
the total which Secretary Mellon has
told the committee will be necessary for
the conduct of the government, provided
the economics in departmental expendi-
lures agreed upon at the White House
! conference last month are effected.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
CHEAPER ELECTRICITY.
Greenfield Residents To Get Reduction
of Cent October Is.

GREENFIELD. Mass. Sept 10
The Greenfield Electric Light and Power
90, announces a change in its rate for
the first - kilowatt hours of lighting cur
rent. The rate has been reduced to II
cents. 1t was formerly IL cents This
rate viii be effective in all buildings after
October IL. All other rates will re
main the same.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
INDICT WOMAN OFFICIAL.
EHio Crrmmitt and Four Men Charged
With Making False Election Returns.

WHEELING. W. Va. Sept. 10-For
he first time since woman suffrage was
granted in West Virginia. a woman cleo
ion official has been indicted. charged
With making false returns. The Ohio
county grand jury. investigating the re
,ent city elections Yesterday returned
indictments against Fife CrumIhitt and
'our men who served as clerks at n yot
ng place.
States attorneys charge that the wo-
nan censnired with the four men to help
sleet certain candidates.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
VERMONT NEWS.

One of the new employees in the VII.
der paper mills of the International Pa
per Co was drowned in the Connecti-
cut river Sunday afternoon The body
was found and taken in charge by tn"
Lebanon, \. IT,, authorities.
Lewis Case of Rutland died at the
Gill Odd Fellows home in Ludlow OF
MONDAY. vt the time of his death h
was the oldes; living member 81 En-
raka lodge of Nasnns of Fair Haven.
where he lived before moving to Rut.
land.
Over POO Bellows Falls children We're
given an auto ride last week to South
Acworth. \. H.. as fitting ending to
tho playground fun of rnc summer. Be
cause part of the promised cas- did not
arnear. nearly 100 youngsters had to be
left behind.
\ report was received at the state
forestry Office Yesterday forenoon that
y fra WAS raging on Spruce mountain
IN Washington county, having been set
about O'Clock that morning from
something inflammable which was
tironned from q passing train. \ crew
&c about o50 men fought the fire all DAY
opd bv night bad It lmcer control. The
fire was near valuable timber property
VI. p. RASMUSSEN. who has been farm
~ agelnert demonsfrato or connected
with the extension service of the Uni
vn,.sitv nf Vermont since the spring o.
100 Is leaving his position the first Of
Getobar 60 re urn to Cornell university
Of whit9, he Is a graduate, to do pos
l1radlata work for doctor s degree II
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

Raymond Burehard Taylor, 16-year-
old ,,ov of Cherokee. Tenn. is believed to
be the youngest regular Sunday school
SUPERINTENDENT. in the world.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

Forrest C~issey of The Saturday Eve
ing Post. who is in the state to OBJ
ain material for specjal articles for
he wall-kuown weekly left Friday morn
rr With Inspector GTiggs o. the auto
sobile depart ment on trip down
hrouqh Randolph Gulf and to Ran
'oiph Cester. Mr.. Crissey had made the
zip before but the scenery impressed
dm as being so gorgeous that he wished
. 90 ara;8 that he might obtain sew
raj views of the more wonderful snots.
Te will make the return trim to Mont
oliar bv wav of the WiHiamstown
ulf Mr. Crissey Is very enthusiastic
bout Vermont and he" wonderful SEEN
ry and all Ecrmonters are pleased that
writer of Mr. Cr;Ssey 5 cahhre finds
material here which causes him to en-
hltSe --------
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

A serious fire broke out yester-
lumber company on Bald mountain and
N which a large amount of pulp wood
1ad been cut and is awaiting shipment.
every man who could be spared from
Noodford Hollow and from the differ
mt camps hurried to the scene to help
heck the spread of the fire. 1t was re
ported that the FIRE had found its way
nto the piled pulp wood and that serl-
,is loss was probable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

IDENTITIES Ralnh II. White and Edward
;hauahau and State 5 Attorney George
T.. Mathers went Yesterday afternoon to
nc ton of Woodford mountain and de
troyed about 50 gallons of corn mash
discovered Thursday by the deputies
when they raided the house occupied BY
label Boutin. The officers We're unable
0 discover a still, but they found a gal
on iur of moonshiuc whislzey. The
roran was ar-aigned before Municipal
udgc William J. Meaeher, pleaded
utility to the charge of having intoxi-
,a.ing liquor in her possession and was
ned $500 with costs of sd. Being with
ut funds she was committed to the
'oupty jail
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
Automobile Service
Ice Cream - Soda - Candy
Run on Eastern Standard Time

Run on Eastern Standard Time
NORTHFIELD and BRATTLEBORO
Daily Except Sunday
Leave p. NJ
NOrthfieId, Georges Pharmacy, 1910
East Mortified, C. p. BufTum's
store 1S'OU
Store e................ 1855
Central Park ............ 1855
Vernon Store ............... 1850
Arrive BrattlebOrO .....,.s 100
Leave
BrattlebOrO, Roots Pharmacy 400
Vernon Store ..... 42O
Central Park .......... 40
South Vernon, E. B. Buffum's
StOre $40
East NOrthfleld, C. L. BuffumS
Store Observation-Disclosures. $50
Arrive Mortified . 500
Order Book at Roots Pharmacy,
BrattlebOrO, VT.
ARTHUR LYMAN-NOrthfeld. Mass.
Telephone 11A-2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10

a;s special line, and to do half time
work in connection with the extension
ervice of that institution. His family
will accompany him to ithaca.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
SURPRISED AT
IRISH ATTITUDE
Insistence That Ireland
Have Membership In the
League Not Understood
IRISH IN AMERICA
OPPOSED TO 1T

DO Not Understand Why Irish ut Home
Desire Membership - Washington o.
ficiaIs Anxious to See Settlement Be
tween England and Ireland.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
Commissioner DIX
GIVES ROAD POLICY
Tells Vermont Hotel Men
Hard Surface Roads
~ Are Needed
GRAVEL ROADS TOO
COSTLY TO MAINTAIN

VIII Spend $4,000 In Draining Some OF
Worst Stretches of Highway - Hotel
Men Favor Winter Sports and Advcr-
Using.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
Officials Keep Quiet

The news conveyed here from London
by the Associated Press that Eamonn De
Valera wants to be assured that Great
The New York herald., 1921-02-26
EVENTS TO-DAY.

David Jayne HILL Louis Marshall and DR..
Charles A. Eaton will discuss The Permn-
lean Citizenship at a luncheon at the Ma
tional Republican Club, - West Fortieth
street, 1 10 p. NJ.
Gen Lincoln c. Andrews. Frank /. Cobb
and Prof Edwin NJ. Borchard will speak on
Limitation of Armament at luncheon
OF the League of Free Nations Association.
Hotel Commodore, IL: :45 =. M.
National Efficiency Society, annual meeting.
Hotel Astor, beginning at A. M; dinner.
7P. NJ.
Orphan Asylum. Madison Square Garden. 8
L. NJ
Town Hall, 1iS West Forty-third street.
Major-Gen. John F. oRyan will speak at
dinner OF the Westchester County Amer
lean Legion, Hotel Breslin. p. M.
Peoples Hospital. dinner. Hotel Biltmore.
",rhe Use of the Automobile in Physics
at meeting Of the Physics Club OF New
York, Washington Irving High School. Irving
place and Sixteenth street, 0:30 A. M.
Dalcassian Boat Club, entertainment and
dance, Palm Garden, Lexington avenue and
Flfty-eghth street, this evening.
Teachers Union, meeting. Ethical Culture
School, . West Sixty-fourth street, +. M.
Cosmopolitan Charity League. annual en-
tertainment Wadorf-Astoria. +. NJ.
Kerry Men and Women. reception and So5
West Fifty ninth street, this evening.
Princess Cantacuzene will lecture on The
Changing Situation In Russia" at Town Hall.
1l3 West Forty-third street, II A. M.
Vitz Roy Darlington will lecture on italian
Bngravings" at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. r. NJ.
DR.. A. ~ Richards will lecture at meet
ing OF the Harvey Society in tho Academy OF
Medicine, II West Forty-third street. $3.50
PM.
Argentina" illustrated lecture by Enrique
GIL. American Museum of Natural History.
Seventy seventh street and Central Park
West. s:l5 Z. NJ.
New York Alumni Chapter OF the Inter-
collegiate Socialist Society camaraderis.
Civic Club, IA West Twelfth street, 4 z. M.
American Physical Society, conference, Co
lumbia University, all day.
New York Nautical School Alumni Associs-
ton, dinner, Hotel Commodore. II, NJ.
Rev York County Lawyers Association,
dinner, Hotel Astor. : L. NJ.
Womcn's Press Club. luncheon, Waldorf
Astoria, II A. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-02-26
Highest Bridge for u. S.
Proposed Structure i'm Colorado Will
Set New World Mark.
From The Denver Tunes

Plans and specifications have been
completed by n Denver steel company
for the construction of the highest bridge
in the world. IL will be suspension
foot and burro bridge and will span the
gateway TO South Boulder canon at FL
dorado Springs.
The bridge will be 500 feet high and
will be erected at n point still indicated
by a swinging wire between the two
cafons across which Ivy Baldwin used
tc walk for the entertainment Of tour
lists several years ago. On the north
side Of the cation the cliffs rise over a
thousand feet On the south of the
caiion Castle Rock cliff rises ESQ feet.
The bridge viii he suspended In the air
about COO feet, owing to the topography
of the cleft forming the gateway but
oven at this height Il viii eclipse any
other high bridge in the world.
Other famous suspension bridges that
viii be eclipsed by the Colorado bridge
arc the Firth OF Forth at Quecnsferry.
the Crumlin railway viaduct In South
Wales. the famous London. Niagara
Falls and Brooklyn bridges.
The New York herald., 1921-02-26

sunshine Of winter brought an. ap.
peal which has resulted in an egg pro-
duction amounting to 1,024,24 cases
during the first six weeks of 1921,
against T5S,6S2 cases during a like
period In 1920.
Naturally there has been a great in
crease in the consumption Of eggs ex-
perts putting it as high as 20 per
cent This is the natural result OF
the coincidence of lower prices and
the Lenten season. Then too eggs
are economical In comparison with
fish and meat. Eggs are a part Of the
breakfast of the bulk of our popula-
ton when their cost does not put
them beyond the reach Of the man of
modest income.
Eggs are coming to US from all
parts of the Union; China is sending
large consignments which are graded
as seconds" These are available for
cooking purposes and their presence
in the market will serve to stabilize
American prices.
Now opens the time for the fore
sighted housewife TO put aside store
of eggs for use next fall when the hen
has determined that nature has been
playing a prank on her.