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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
26 WOUNDED IN
FIGHT At JAIL
Mob Makes Unsuccessful
Attempt to Lynch Negro
at Knoxville
SCHOOL TEACHER
IS ASSAULTED
General Exchange of Shots When Crowd
Crosses Dead Line of Jailer - Most of
Wounded Were OnloOkers Hit BY Bull
lets Fired Above Heads of Mob.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 20.-Quiet
prevailed in the vicinity of the Knox
county Jail today following the clash
last night between a guard of deputies
ands state troops and a crowd demand
ing Negro held in connection with a
criminal assault on a county school
teacher. Twenty-siX persons were
wounded, six of them seriously.
\ general exchange of shots occurred
when members of the crowd composed
of more than 200 men and boys crossed
a dead line beyond which Sheriff Cate
had given warning that they should not
pass. Although the deputies who were
joined by half dozen troops in the
firing discharged their shotgms above
the heads of the crowds, the bullets
wounded more than score of persons,
who were viewing the threatened Jail
assault from the court house yard
above
According to Sheriff Cate the first
shot was fired from the crowd, where
upon one of the deputies discharged his
shotgun above the heads of the crowd.
The shooting became general when
members of the mob responded with
several revolver shots. None of the Jail
guards was wounded.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
TOWN DIVIDED
FOR TICKET SALES
Chautauqua Here Week from Today =
BrattIeboro Woman Who Heard
Misses HOyf. Commends Them.

just one week from TODAY Chautau-
qua will open IN Brattleboro for a week
| or the best programs ever given by the
| Swarthmore Chautauqua association,
including musical events, lectures, a
comedy drama, junior Chautauuua
play and other features
Practically all of the season tickets
are now in the hands of the ticket sell
lers, about 40 of whom are at work.
some of whom ALREADY are reporting
good sales. The town has been divided
into sections and each canvasser has
been given small territory. For the
convenience OF people who may not be
seen at their homes tickets have been
placed in the following business places:
lhompsons Jewelry store, Baldwin s
Boot Shop, Bushnel's grocery store,
Lowell 4 Telfer's hardware store, and
the town clerk s office.
As usual Il feature of the week which
viii interest the children will be the
Junior Chautauqua, which will meet
Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27, after the
first program, and each week day fore
noon thereafter, for Ine rehearsal of
their play, Junior Holidays, which will
be presented the afternoon of the clos
ing day OF Chautauqua. Sept 2
The special attention of the local COM
mlttee has been called this week to the
musical artists who are to provide en-
tertainment for the second day. Mon
Its- VI lSStS 'tidce ana FRANCIS HOyt and
Harry Wilhelm. The Misses Hoyt, who
are Vermont girls, were heard in CON
cert in a New York theater last win
ter by Brattleboro woman, who saws
that their work is one of the highest
order and to hear their program alone
would be worth the price of the season
ticket, They win appear in impersona-
tions, action songs, ballads. duets and
solos. Mr.. Wilhelm. who comes as pi
Hnlst, and accompanlst for the Misses
Howl. was on last years program and
viii be remembered here for his excel
lent piano work and work with the mu
sic box. The Misses Hoyt were the first
company sent 10 France to entertain
tue soldiers when Director Pearson of
the Chautauqua association had charge
of the soldiers entertainment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
PART OF MISSING
ARTICLES FOUND
Sheriff Wellman Arrests Two Halifax
Young Men in COnnecticut-Gray
Goddard Also Brought Back.

Sheriff Frank L. Wellman of Brattle-
boro and Special Deputy Earl Collins of
Halifax. who has been on strike duty in
Bellows Falls. returned here last night
with three men whom the sheriff arrested
in Connecticut and who are now in the
Brattleboro lookup awaiting a hearing
in the municipal court this afternoon.
Gray f. Goddard. formerly of Brat
tleboro. was arrested in Taunton. Conn.
on the charge of failing to- support his
wife and two children. He has been
working for an ice company. ~a
The two other prisoners are Donald
Carr and Robert Allen, both young men
who few DAYS ago went to Rainbow.
Conn. near Hartford to work. They
are charged with stealing articles from
several automobiles which were left
standing near the Halifax church while
prayer meeting was in progress Sunday
night. revolver. fashlight. tools and
various other articles were taken from
the cars. The officers visited the rooms
of the young men in Rainbow yesterday
and found some of the missing articles
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
FIND BLACK HAND
BURYING GROUND
Police Told 1t Is Near Detroit-Inform-
ant Says More Than One Body
Is Buried There.

DETROIT, Aug 20.-Farm land on
the northeastern outskirts of Detroit was
used as the burial ground for a number of
victims here of Sicilian feudS during the
last few years, according to a story given
a deputy sheriff by a Sicilian whose name
the police are Withholding. The authori-
ties are accepting the statement with re-
serve, pending a report from Detective
Lieut.. Bert Mcpherson, who left here
Thursday night for New York to question
Bartolow FontanO. held there following
his statement that an organized gang was
responsible for numerous slayings here
and in other cities.
Should McPherSon's investigation and
questioning give any foundation to the
informer's story, search will be made for
bodies in the locations named, it was
stated 80
Farm land in the neighborhood of the
Seven Mile road and Grptoit avenue is
known to us as the "burying ground of
the black hand" the informer is quoted
as saying. "There is more than one man
buried there, who disappeared and about
whom the police know nothing
Police records here show that a num-
Der of Sicilians have disappeared follow
ing what were believed to be feud kill
ings, but it was generally believed they
left the city, fearing arrest in connection
with the crimes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
BURIAL SERVICE
FOR G. III. DAVENPORT
About % Relatives and Friends Assem-
bic in Prospect Hill Cemetery
Rev. z. II. Wood Officiates.

The body of Charles H. Davenport.
formerly proprietor of The Reformer
when it was weekly newspaper. who
died Aug. 1G. in Ithaca. y. Y. was bur-
led in the Davenport family lot in Pros
pect Hill cemetery at 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Twenty-Five or more friends
and relatives attended the committal
service. which was conducted by Rev.
Edwin 7. Wood, pastor of the First Uni
versalist church. There were beautiful
floral remembranceS n
Rev. Mr.. Wood spoke of Mr.. Daven-
mort as a man gifted with a superior in
tellect, one whose adherence to princi-
pies as he conceived them typified low
atty in the highest degree. a man whose
ability was recognized in the field of
Journalism and whose influence would
remain in the lives of many, even though
they failed 10 realize the fact.
Besides Mr. Davenport's daughter.
Mrs. Janet Monroe of ithaca. who came
with the body. Mrs. Mary d, Wentworth
of North Adams. Mass. William A
Davenport and family and Mrs. s. NJ.
Anderson of Greenfield. Mass. and Ed
gar H. Davenport and family of West
Brattleboro were among those attending
the service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
STRIKERS COII,,IE
TO BRATTLEBORO
Additional Precautions to
Prevent Damage to
BOOms Taken
VIGILANCE NOT
TO BE RELAXED
Machinery About Ready at Rossing Mill
to Begin Removing Logs from River
Some Bellows Falls Paper Mills, Not
International to Open.

Extra precautions were taken last
night to prevent damage to the booms
and property of the Champlain Realty
Go. here and at Hinsda1e, as a few of
the strikers at Bellows Falls were recog
nized here. Anyone attempting to tam
per with the bOoms would have been given
a warm reception, and it is not proposed
by the company to relax vigilance. As
slstant Manager a. H. Stackpole of the
Realty Co. was here yesterday, also at the
rossing mill in Hinsdale, where it is ex-
pected the machinery will be ready eafly
the coming week for removing from the
river the logs which are being fioated
down from Bellows Falls
Sheriff E. II. Lord of Cheshire county.
n. H., was in North Walpole yesterday
looking over the situation.
Eight fOremen of the International
Paper company at Bellows Falls left yes
terday for New York. They will be sent
to other mills of the corporation. The
lofemen are not union members and are
unaffected by the strike
Moore & Thompson. ReIlows Fails
paper concern, expects to reopen shortly
as the result of the award of the arhi
tratlon board of the paper industry Tues
day at New York, when it was agreed
that l6 % to 20 per cent cut in wages
was just. Employees of Moore & ThoIn1,-
son refused similar cut a month ago.
The ClaremOnt Paper company also
expects TO reopen as the result of tbe
award, although only one of their en-
pIoyes appeared when the mill opened
Monday morning
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
CHANGERS OF NOTE
ADDRESS MEETING
Field Day Of Connecticut Valley Pomona
Grange Attended by 500 Mt Mt.
HermOn-Cups Awarded
Especial to The Reformcr.l J

EAST NORTHFIELD, Mass. Aug. 20
connecticut VALLEY Pamona Grange
held its annual field day at Mount Her
mon school Friday In the forenoon ath-
letic sports were held on Chambers
held, IN which n large number of boys
and girls participated. The boy taking
the most points was Henry Lawrence
OF Montague. who was awarded a sill
Yer cup. Gladys Greene of Riverside
won the most points for the girls and
received silver cup. Paul +. Alger of
Greenfield, manager of the country, clubs
for BOYS and girls, had charge of the
sports, assisted by Raymond Clamp of
Northheld. The cups were presented by
the state Grange
BY noon several hundred Grangers and
friends had arrived. Picnic luncheon
was had on the lawn with hot coffee
the school buildings and the celebrated
herd of registered HolsteR cattle.
he program in the afternoon was
held in Camp hail. which was full to
oveTttowmg. 81. W. StetSon of Green
field, master of the Connecticut Valley
Pomona Grange, gave an address, of we'-
come and introduced Leslie r. Smith,
master Of the state Grange. who pre,
sided. The speakers of the afternoon
were men of note and ability i'm agricul-
tural affairs. w. !. Thompson, master
OF tie Maine state Grange. spoke on
Advantages of Country Life i'm New
England. He was followed bv DR.. A.
W. Gilbert. the Massachusetts commits
sioner of agriculture. and by L. r. Par
ker, state leader of county agents.
One of the features of the program
was community sing in charge of
Past Master f. c. Chapman. with a
solo by Mrs. G.. W. Denning of Mount
Hermon. and selections of song and ~
ano by the son and daughter of Mr.
Smith, the master of Pomona GRANGE
The excellent weather and road cond;-
tions brought crowd of about 500 and
helped to make the gathering a success. |
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
TO HAVE
OLD HOME DAY
and Plans for Parade. Sports.
Clam Bake and Play.

Putney Grange is rapidly formulating
plans for its fair TO be held Thursday.
Sept. -. and which will take the form
of Old Home day.
The plans as outlined contemplate
parade. sports. and clam bake. the eve
ming to be devoted to a dramatic play
The Grange is holding out the latch
string of the town and the committee as
SureS everyone that there will be some
thing doing all the time. and urges peo-
pie to attend the event, renew old ac-
quaintances with friends, neighbors and
Schoomates
Arrangements for the fair are in
charge of committee composed of the
master, George Gassett. the secretary.
Mrs. Alta Phillips, and A VI. Corser.
George Aiken, II. o. Cobb and Miss Alta
Cooley. ~ ..= ....... .. .-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
HORSE SALE NETS $4,000.
Twenty -Four Yearlings of Xalapa Farm
Under Hammer at Spa.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, n. Y. Aug
20.-Exccllent prices were obtained here
last night at the last of the yearling
sales. Twenty four head, all the prop
erty of the Xalapa farm. went under the
hammer. bringing in a total of S11O. 900
and making the fine average of 81. 4.591
per head. The crowd was large and bid
ding spirited.
The top price of the sales was brought
by AIary'S Last. bay colt by Hourless
Mary Davis, for which A. i. Goldsbor.
ough, acting in behalf of Charles A.
Stoneham, paid S14500 The second
best price of the night was disbursed by
&. z. Harlan for a black colt BY Star
Shott- Elmaha. which went for So. 100.
Mrs. s. D. Riddle paid $4,000 for a
black colt by HourlesS :Pamphyle, while
a similar sum was given by Mr. Colds
borough on behalf of Mr.. StOneham for
q brown colt by Ogden Scenery. These
four head alone thus brought $4,000,
itself a record for this season.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
RUM SMUGGLERS FINED.
Three of Seven Plead Guilty i'm Cleveland
Court

CLEVELAND. Aug. 20.-Three of the
seven men arrested Thursday morning in
connection with the seizure of the Cana
dian liquor carrying yacht Venice pleaded
guilty in Police Judge AIcMahon's court
yesterday and were fined
The men fined were Ivy Burney and
Charles Clanciolo, both of Cleveland. and
Capt. William l.. Curry. Toronto. Can
ada. master of the Venice. Burney was
hned $1,000 when he admitted being the
consignee of the 96 cases of liquor on the
yacht; Curry was fined $500 under the
state law for transporting liquor. and
Ciancolo. driver of the truck into which
the liquor from the Yacht was being
loaded, was fined $500.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
INTEREST GROWS
IN APPLE CULTURE.
Prof. Cummings of Uniyer-
sity of Vermont Wis
its County
GRADUAL EXTENSION
OF WORK EXPECTED
Apple Culture in County at Present Time
Confined Largely to Few Sections
Serious Damage to This Years Crop
by Recent Storm.


a growing interest in apple culture
has developed in Windham county re-
Gently and has resulted in a visit TO the
county by Prof. VI. 3. Cummings, spe-
claliSt in horticulture at the University
of Vermont in Burlington, covering the
past few days.
Prof. Cummings gave an interesting
talk at the Farm Bureau field day in
Jacksonville Tuesday. and this has been
followed by visits to old orchards. the
selection of sites for new ones, a meet
ing to discuss apple-raising and a sum-
sher pruning demonstration. -.r
The demonstration was held Thursday
at Gerald AdamS'S farm in Marlboro. 10
growers and prospective growers wit
Messing the work. How to prune so as
to get good color in fruit also was
shown. Prof. Cummings looked over
ground on which one farmer contem-
plates setting out an orchard next spring
and gave suggestions to others on fer
tlIIZlng and handling orchards {.
TN Wednesday evening Prof. Cum-
mngs. County Agent X. Wilton Harvey
and Miss Viola NJ. Cameron. county club
agent, attended a meeting in the church
VeStry IN Marlboro. when Prof. Chm
mlngS took up the question of renOvating
ana caring for old orchards. speaking in
particular of grating. fertiliZing. Snray-
ing and other work. The interest of those
present was manifest by the number of
questions asked, which were answered
by Prof. Cummings The meeting was
attended by % interested persons. Miss
Cameron spoke briefly. telling what she
would like TO do in the way of club work.
County Agent Harvey said today that
farmer IN Athens was contemplating
setting out gOOd-siZed apDle orchard
convinced that it would be a profitable
Investment
Up to the present time apple culture in
Wlndham county has been confined prin-
eipaily to several orchards in the south
west part of the county. a few near West
BrattlebOrO and in Westminster, but in
dlcatlonS point now to a gradual broad
ening of the territory -.,--. .---.-. .
While only comparatively small
crop was expected this year because of
the fact that it is the of season, some
trees were bearing well when hit bv the
hau storm of month ago. which dam
aged the crop seriously except for the
fruit on the northeast side of the trees.
Dana III. Stafford. who has an orchard
OF 1000 trees on Guilford street. had
been looking for crop of from I75 to|
700 barrels. but this viii be reduced ma
terially. f. l.. Hildreth reports practi
callv total loss of what promised to be
a 2oO-barrel crop from his orchard of
300 trees. +. r. Barrows. whose or
chard numbers from 5000 to 1000 trees
lost about a third of his crop. 4
The hail storm did not strike the or
chards in the southwest part of the
county or in Westminster
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
REPUBLICAN WHIP
SUMMONS SENATOR
Full Working Quorum De-
manded In Senate for
Few Days
RECESS PROGRAM
IS NOT CHANGED
Lodge Says Farm Legislation Must Pass
House Before ReceSs-Pr0bable Agree
ment on Anti-Beer BiII-RepOrt Ex-
pected This Afternoon.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2o-All absent
Republican senators were Summoned
back to Washington today by Senator
Curtis of Kansas, the Republican whip.
He explained that no change in the
brief recess legislative program tenta-
lively agreed upon Was contemplated,
hut that it was necessary that I'VE have
a full working quorum
Senator Lodge, the Republican leader,
announced early in the week that there
would be no recess until the farm leg
islation now before the. house had been
enacted
Senate and house conferees were re
ported last night to be virtually agreed
on contested points in the anti-beer bill
and hopeful of final enactment of the
measure prior to the recess set for next
Wednesday,
While the conferees declined to in
dicate the nature of the agreement, their
practical adjustment of differences was
taken to mean at least partial rejec-
tlon of the Stanley amendment, de-
signed to protect the home against in
discriminate search for liquor, in view
Of the known desire of REPRESENTATIVE
Nolstead, head of the house managers,
to throw the beer bin overheard
rather than accept the amendment as
originally drawn, and passed unani-
nously by the senate.
That part of the Stanley proposal re-
latIng to search of man 5 dwelling
was said to have been retained, how
ever, Mr.. Nolsteads chief objection TO
it as a whole was based on the ground
that to require a warrant to search an
automobile, or other property, would
make rigid enforcement of national pro
l, H. ION
When Senator Sterling, Republican. of
South Dakota, left his office for the
nieht he announced that there was
strong probability of agreement. Later
he conferred with Mr. Nolstead, who de
clared that unless there were unex-
neeted overnight developments the con-
.srRnce -epofs= YFould b. reat, s1i5,.
signed today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
TRIES
TO BLUFF ULSTER
Threatens Boycott of Ulster Goods If
1T Does Not Yield to
Dali Eireann.

BELFAST, Ireland, Aug. 20 (Asso-
ciated Press Interviews printed here
attributed to Alderman MacDonagh of
Dublin of the Dali Eireann labor depart
ment declare the economic pressure
against Ulster designed to bring northern
Ireland peaceably to what the Sim Fein
would regard as a more reasonable atti-
tude will result in the complete shutting
off shortly of the movement of goods from
Belfast for southern Ireland
THE boycott will grow more rigid
every day and very soon we may look
forward to the complete stOppage of all
goods out of Belfast and the tainted
area Alderman McDonagh is quoted as
saying. This will give Belfast a kind
of partition it does not want
"One of its most rabid politicians has
stated in a speech that Belfast is the
Gibraltar of England in Ireland so
long as this attitude is INDUCED in it will
be the duty of all Irish people to make
Belfast as barren as the rock of Gibral-
tar"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
DAUGHERTY ASKS
Is MORE JUDGES
Increase of 500 Per Cent In Criminal
Business Since Prohibition
Came sr.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2O-Creation
of Is new federal court judgeShips at
large as the most practical and econOmi-
cal method of clearing the dockets of ac.
cumulated litigation all over the country
was recommended to President Harding
and congress, yesterday by Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty.
Mr.. Daugherty said an increase of 500
per cent in the criminal court business
since 1912 has been largely the result of
prohibition laws. He said that for sew
cral years no very substantial decrease in
this class of cases can be expected.
President Harding will indorse the
draft of legislation submitted with the
attorney generals recommendation.
There are now 141 GOO cases pending
in the federal courts of the United
States. an increase of 22256 cases since
last year
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASES.
Crisis in French Provinces Completely
OvereOme-Unem in Paris

PARIS, Aug. O.LJrnemploymant in
France continues to deerease and as far
as the provinces are concerned. the re-
cent crisis appears to have been com
pletely overcome
Ihe latest figures show that the totsl
number nun OF unemployed in France is Al,
BOO anu out of that number 31.429 belong
to Paris and the department of tba Sa;nas
leaving only 16,137 UNEMPLOYED for the
rest of France. - ''io
Compared with the census figures. the
number of unemployed in France
amounts to only L per cent of the pop,,-
lation INC Popu-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
DEMOCRATIC RALLY
SET FOR OCTOBER
National Committee Will BE Called Into
Session - First Active Move
BY Party

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-George
White, chairman of the Democratic ma
tiOnal committee. came to Washington
yesterday and said he would call meet
ing of the committee in October.
This is the first definite move the Dem
ocrats viii have made toward rallying
their scattered forces since the election
last November. 1t will be for the purpose
of preparation for the election of Novem-
Der next. most of them local. and to lay
definite lines for the congressional eiec-
tions of the November following. which
they figure viii be the first real test of
the tide. t.
But the meeting of the committee hy no
means will be a quiet affair. 1t will be
the renewal of the fight staged in Wash
ington early in the spring. when an effort
was made by some of the followers of
William G.. McAdoo to wrest the chair
manship of the committee from James NJ
Cox, presidential candidate, who desig-
mated Mr.. White for the craftsmanship.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
SECOND STRAWBERRY CROP.
Several Baskets offered in WestfieId
Markets

WESTFIELD, Mass, Aug. 2O.-Con-
tinued hot weather has made possible
a second crop of Strawberries in this
section. few OF the baskets have
the Coughlin farm in Wyben, several
baskets of berries have been picked
this week and have been placed on the
market at 80 cents a basket Mrs. w.
:. Ayers, wife of the pastor of the Ban
tist church here, picked a pint of ber-
rIes in the garden in the rear of the
church parsonage in Holland avenue
this week. Other strawberry raisers
here have found evidence of a ripening
second crop on their plants.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-20
FURTHER LIQUIDATION.
Prices Forced Down at Opening of Stock
Market Today.

WALL STREET, New York. Aug. 20.
oils. equipment and motors
gave way under further liquidation at
the opening of today's stock market At
lantic Gulf. common and preferred fell
/ and u respectively.
More low records were established in
the course of today's dull stock market
Features comprised Pierce Arrow. COM
mon and preferred. Chandler. Westing-
house, United States Rubber. and Ameri-
can Linseed at extreme losses of from l
to points