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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
HOLD IL FOR MURDER.
Prominent Citizens to BE Taken Before
Grand Jury

ARDAIORE, Okla. Dee -. - Eleven
prominent citizens of Ardmore were held
for the grand jury yesterday on a charge
OF murder at the end of their preliminary
hearing in connection with the shooting
to death of three men when alleged
masked raiders attacked the home of Joe
Carroll alleged bootlegger- near Wilson.
Okla. recently
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
Masonic Temple

Thursday. Dec 29-Stated communica-
tion of Brattleboro lodge, No. 102. Work
L. e. degree.
Friday. Dec. 30-SpeciaI communica-
tion of Brattleborn lodge, No. 102. Work
NJ. NJ degree.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
Odd Fellows Temple

Thursday. Dec %. ut S p. m.-Elec-
tion of officers by Wantastiquet lodge. \
large attendance desired.
Sign up now for the bowling tourna-
mani
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
BIG BANDIT GANG
ROBS DISTILLERY
Rcportc- To Have Taken $50, 0,0Oe Worth
o. HGltle5 In Bond Whiskey
81 Eminence, lay.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Dec 2S (Asso-
ciated Press -- Twenty-Five bandits
swooped down upon the Blue Ribbon dis
tillcry at EmincuCn. Ky. early today.
locked five guards in the Office of the plant
and stole bottled in bond whiskey valued
at $4,000. according TO report to Louis
vile police All of the robbers were
masked.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
DI MNIERS STnN-

4 commouion service viii be held in
the church Sunday morning. conducted
by II. Il. Teller of Brattleboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
First Baptist Church

Friday. 71J p. m.-AIeeting of Pruden-
tial Committee; 7.30-RcguIar church
coNcnant meeting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
Knights of Columbus Hall

Wednesday, Dec IS. 7.30 D. m.-Regu-
lar meeting of Protective Grange. Birth
day treat. A large attendance is desired.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
Methodist Episcopal Church

The Ladies' Aid society will meet in
the League room for a regular business
meeting Wednesday afternoon, Dec. %,
at o'clock.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28

TWputy-~iN women hold positions ON
public welfare and other
important state boards in New Mexico.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28
THE WEATHER.

Fair and Warmer Tonight Warmer
and Probably Snow Tomorrow
WASHINGTON. Dec. -. - The
weather forecast. Generally fair with
slowly rising temperature tonight Thurs
day unsettled and warmer. probably
SNOW. Diminishing northwest Winds
shifting to south by Thursday
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28

Michigan. in the early seventies. was
one Of the first states to appoint a woman
10 fill the office Of state librarian
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-28

Court Grants Senator Reeds Request For
Private Records Of Boston Licensing
EesYG-s4u,s sed PeIIetier Made False
Statement In Shute-Braekett Affair.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

"Not In a long time have enjoyed
such good health or felt so well gen.
orally as l do since taking Tanlac,"
said w. III. johnson, $40 East 43rd
ST., Portland, Ore, who holds a re-
sponsible position with the Northwest
Transfer Company. :.
about a year ago ! began suffer-
ing from lack of appetite and stomach
trouble and since that time-that is.
until Tanlac set me right have felt
so poorly that I could hardly do my
work. Ny food seemed 10 do me little
good, if any, as my digestion was bad,
and I lost both weight and strength
continually.
AFTER every meal there was a duh,
nagging pain in the pit of my stomach
that kept me feeling miserable for
hours.
"The gas from my sour, undigested
food would bloat me up terribly and
my nerves were so upset that would
lie awake half the night unable to
sleep. / was constantly having blind
ing dizzy spells and could not bend
over and straighten up quickly but
what everything seemed as dark as
night to me.
81 was telling friend one day how
bad I felt and he advised me to try
Tanlac and just want to say he
couldn't have done me greater kind
ness.
81 have picked up all of fifteen
pounds in weight, my appetite is fine,
and although I am eating just any,
thing / want my stomach never gives
me a particle of trouble. My sleep
is sound and restful and my strength
and energy have been so renewed that
my work is no longer burden to me-
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere.-Adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Mrs. Hicks Relieved
By Four EatOniCS

II have taken four Eatonic tablets
and they relieved me of sour stomach.
recommend it to everybody" says
Mrs. G. r. Hicks.
lie stomach is not digesting your
food: If you have sourness, bloating,
food repeating, indigestion or acid
stomach, Eatonic will remove the
cause by taking up and carrying out
the acidity and gases. bringing quick
relief and healthy digestion. Why suf-
fer stomach trouble? Why not keep
your digestion normal and enjoy good
health? An Eatonic taken after each
meal win prevent discomfort and pain.
Make the test today and see how
quickly this wonderful remedy acts.
1t comes in handy tablet form. Carry
Ii with you. A big box costs only q
trifie with your druggists guarantee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Pure, Rich Blood Will Keep
Your Body Vigorous and Healthy

precaution to keep the system in a
vigorous condition so as to more
easily resist disease to which every
one is subject. S. s. S. is without
an equal as general tonic and sys-
TEN builder. 1t improves the appe-
tite and gives new strength and VIZ
tally to both old and young.
Full information and valuable lit
era.ure can be had by writing to
Swift Specific Co.. 156 Swift Lab
oratorY. Atlanta. Ga.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

When impurities creep into your
blood the first symptoms are usu-
ally a loss of appetite, followed by
a gradual lessening of energy, the
system becomes weaker day by
day, until you feel yourself on the
verge of breakdown.
Nearly everybody needs few
bottles of S. S. S.. the great vege-
table blood remedy, to cleanse out
all impurities about twice a year.
It is an excellent idea to take this
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh
Those subject to frequent colds in the
head" will find that the use of HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the
system, cleanse the Blood and render
them less liable to colds. Repeated at
lacks OF Acute Catarrh may lead to
Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is
taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys.
tenn, thus reducing the Inflammation and
restoring normal conditions.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
l.. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
GeometricaI Mind.

Charley, DEAR" said young Mrs,
Torkins, 81 see that they are talking
about a whisky ring"
What of it?'
II was just wondering"
go on. Let's hear the worst"
Il was wondering whether they use
the word ring because of the way
liquor sometimes makes a man walk
In circles"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
WOMEN! USE DIAMOND DYES"
Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists
Coats. Stockings, Draperies-
Everything.

Each package of Diamond Dyes"
contains easy directions for dyeing any
article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or
Llixed goods. Beware Poor dye
streaks. spots, fades, and ruins mate
rial by giving 1t "dyed-lo0k." Buy
Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has
Color Card.-Adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Manitowoc-The village OF Reeds
Vile. Manitowoc county. is probably
the smallest community in the state
engaged in an advertising campaign.
Business men have issued an eight
page pocket directory filled with in
formation for the stranger. A slogan.
Reedsville Today, Land of the Cow and
Glover, has been adopted, and a de-
scriptive section of the book tells what
the community has to offer along dairy
lines. The village boasts population
of 600.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

For each 100 pounds of digestibl'
nutrients consumed, the dairy GOV
Yields about six times as much edIh'
solids in her milk as the beef stee
or mutton sheep in its carcass.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Hit by Train. cIInas to Pilot.

Waukegan. Ill.-Wairer Scott of
Chicago was struck by a Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul train at Rondout,
III. He grasped the icy pilot and, in
spite of the zero weather, chung to his
position until the train reached Lib
ertyville. three miles away. He was
merely bruised!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
VIM Accents Go Mad.

Tall Man Ito ticket AGENT Don't
you ever get tired answering a lot of
fool questions?
Agent-No, sir; that's my business.
What did you want TO know?
Tall Man-That's it!-New York
Central Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Heavenly Inspiration.

The film corporation was on the
verge of bankruptcy. Try as it might.
it could not sell its pictures.
Then one day the president con-
cetved i brilliant idea, and soon he was
using a scoop shovel to handle his
money.
Instead of selling the pictures he
made, he charged So admission TO his
studio to see them made.-Film Fun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Can't please a Woman.

"Was the operation successfulYN
asked one physician of another.
ut was brilliantly SO in the facts
it demonstrated. Only one person did
not seem pleased with the results" re-
turned the second physician.
"And who was that?' inquired the
first.
1.-THE patients widow"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Laying hens should be provided with
an abundance of ground oyster shell
and grit, which should be kept before
the fowls all the time in self-feedins
hoppers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Wherein He's Wise.

It often happens that the wisest Of
men runs into problems he knows
nothing about. but as a rule he proves
his wisdom by calling in an expert,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

VIZ H. JOHNSON, Of Portland,
w. Ore, who Says no one could
have done him any greater kind
ness than the friend who advised
him 70 try Tanlac. - Gains fifteen
pounds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Quiet.

Anything doing in the
trenches today?" Corporal-"No, it
was so quiet you could hear a shell
Drop"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

The man who owns photograph
and a parrot can get along without a
wife-and he might have to.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Be a Barber.

Glass just starting at reduced price. Tools
Furnished. Enroll now. Int Barber College,
Is No. End St, Minneapolis. Minn.-Adv
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

At the age of thirty-seven a man be-
gins to be calm. He thinks, what's the
use?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Talk is cheap, but not when you are
hiring lawyer to do 1t for you.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

The size of trouble depends on
whether it is coming or going.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Remove Stains on Marble.
Benzine viii remove stains
marble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03
Glenwood city : Mrs. S. Hedmark

Glenwood City = Mrs. S. Hedmark
township of Forest, st. Croix county,
celebrated her one hundred-first birth
day. She was born in Norway in 1920,
and came to this country in 1870. She
is still active and takes care of her
own room in the home of her daugh
ter. Mrs. A. G.. Anderson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Many sermons are aimed at the
pockeIbook instead of the heart.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Eau Claire-A carload Of band in
struments-. valued at close to $4,000
was received by the First Cavalry
band, Wisconsin National guard, COM
prising the musical outfit provided by
Uncle Sam for the organization. Theo-
dore Steinmetz, director of the Eau
Claire Liberty band, is head Of the
cavalry band.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Rough and Ready.
MY husband can't see you. He's
writing upstairs under inspiration"
"Um. Ask him if he's inspired
enough to pay his BILL"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-03-03

Those Dear Girls.
"She says her face is her Fortuna
"Indeedi / thought 1t was the COM
plexion specialists"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17

/ knew there was only one window
In the majors den room, and that
was nearly opposite the screened door
way. SO i ducked back into the
dining room and took stand where
could see the one window through
the door-curtain network of bamboo
beads was so excited that caught
only snatches of what Mrs. Sheia was
saying to the boss, but the bits that
heard were q good deal to the point.
mo, mean it. Graham -. it is as
told you at first /. :, there is no
standing room for either of us on
that ground :. and you must not
come here again when you know that
l am alone. =. No, Jimmie isn't
enough!"
l wrenched the half-worEing ear
sense aside and jammed it into my
eyes, concentrating hard on the win
dow at which l expected every second
to see a mans face. If the man was
a murderer, l thought l could beat
him to it.
The suspense didn't last very long.
A hand came up first to push the
window vines aside. 1t was white
hand, long and slender, more like a
woman's than a mans. Then against
the glass l saw the face. and it gave
me such a turn that l thought 1 must
be going batty.
Instead of the ugly mug of one of
Clanahan's gunner, the haggard face
framed in the window SASH was face
that had seen once-and only once
before; on certain Sunday night in
the Billiard when the loose-lipped
mouth belonging to it had been bab-
bling drunken curses at the night
clerk. The man at the window was
the dissipated young rounder who had
been pointed out as the nephew of
President Dunton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17
CHAPTER x
rhe Man at the Window

OF course, the first thing 1 did, the
morning after that adventure in the
coal yard, was to tell the boss all
about it, and was just foxy enough
to do it when Mr.. Ripley was present.
Mr.. Norcross didn't say much; and,
for, that matter, neither did the law
yer, though he did ask the boss a
question or two about the real facts
In the Midland right-of-way squabble.
But l noticed, after that, that cur
man Tarbell was continually turning
up at all sorts of times, and in all
sorts of odd places, so 1 took it that
Ripley had given him his tip, and
that he was sort of safeguarding Mr..
Norcross on the quiet, though l am
sure the boss didn't know anything
about that part of 1.-THE was such a
square fighter himself that he prob
ably wouldn't have stood for it if he
had.
Meanwhile, things grew warmer and
warmer in the tussle we were making
to pull the old Short Line out of the
mud; warmer in number of ways,
because, in addition to the fight for
the public confidence, we began just
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17

your administration a failure, 1t woN't
hesitate to get rid of you in the easiest
way that offers"
There was silence in the majors
den for a minute or so, and then the
boss said:
"As usual, you know more than you
are willing to tell me-"
Perhaps not" was the prompt an
swer. perhaps am only the on
looker-who can usually see things
rather better than the persons actual
ly involved. Hitherto l have urged
YOU to be bold. and then again to be
bold. Now / am begging you to be
prudent"
''In what way?"
Careful for yourself For example:
you walked out here this evening;
don't do that any more. Come in a
falkland don't come alone"
couldn't see his frown of disagree
ment. but l knew we'll enough it was
there.
There spoke the woman in you,"
he said "If Should show the white
feather that way, they'd have some ex-
cuse for pOtting me-"
There was a silence again. and I
got up quietly and crossed the dining
room to the big recessed window where
l stood looking out into the darkness
of the tree-shaded lawn. 1t was pretty
evident that Mrs. Sheila kEew heap
more than she was telling the boss,
just as he had said, and l couldn't
help wondering how she came to know
it. What she said about the increased
number of wrecks looked like pointer.
Was she in touch with the enemy in
some way?
Then my mind went back in flash
to what Maisie Ann had told me- Was
the husband who ought to be dead, and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17
THE FACE AT THE WINDOW.


and a
o
in
in
The
has resigned and gone east Jimmy turns edh suspects
refusing give place to Dmue whom Duno has sent
coal yard where he overhears plot
lis enemies to mo
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17

to tell the boss the truth about Mrs.
Sheila. He kept on going to the
majors every chance he had, and
Maisie Ann was making life miserable
for me because l hadn't told him
calling me a coward and everything
under the sun. l I'D her to tell him
herself, and she retorted that knew
she couldn't: that 1t was my job and
nobody else's. We fused over it
lot; and because l most always con-
trived some excuse to chase out to the
Kendrick house at the boss heels
merely tc help Tarbell keep cases on
him-there were plenty of chances for
the fussing.
1t was on one of these chasing trips
to "Kenwood" that the roof fell in.
The major had gone out somewhere
to the theater, guess-taking his wife
and Maisie Ann. and the boss and
Mrs. Sheila were sitting together in
the majors den. with little coal
hlaze in the basket CRATE because the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17

then to have a perfect epidemic of
wrecks.
The boss turned the material trOu-
BILE over to Mr.. Van Britt and devoted
himself pretty strictly to the public
side of things. Everywhere, and on
every occasional dinners at the diff
ferent chambers of commerce, and
public banquets given to this, that, or
the other visiting big-wig-he was al
ways ready to get on his feet and tell
the people that the true prosperity of
the country carried with it the pros
perity of the railroads; that the two
things were one and inseparable; and
that, when it came right down to basic
facts, the railroads were really Il part
of the progress machinery of the coun-
try at large and should be regarded.
not as alien taX-collectOrs, but as con-
tributors to the general prosperity and
welfare.
BY this time, also, Red Tower Con-
solidated was beginning to find out
what it meant to have active COM
petition. The C. S. & w. people were
hammering their new plants into work
ing shape, and they were getting the
patronage, both of the producers and
consumers, hand over fist. Track facil-
tiles and yard service were granted
freely; and while no discrimination
was permitted as against the Red
Tower people, the friendly attitude of
the, road counted for something, as it
was bound to.
During those few prediction weeks
the New York end of us seemed to
have petered out completely. We heard
nothing more from President Dunton,
worse than an occasional wire COM
plant about the number of wrecks
we were having, though the stock
was still going down, point by point,
and, so far as man up tt could
see, we were making no attempt to
show net earnings-were turning all
our money into betterments as fast as
it came in l knew that couldn't go
on. Without furry of some sort, the
New Workers would never be able to
break even, to say nothing of profit,
and l looked every day for a howl
that would tear things straight up the
back.
While all these threads were weav-
ing along, I'm sorry to say that l
hadn't vet drummed up the courage
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17

wasn't, mixed up in it in any way?
Could it be possible that he was one
of those who were in the fight on the
other side, and that she was still keep
ing in touch with him?
Pretty soon I heard the murmur of
their voices again, but now l was so
far away from the bamboO-screened
door that couldn't hear what they
were saying. l wished they would
break it off so the boss could go. 1t
was getting late, and there had been
enough said to make me wish we
were both safely back in the hotel.
It's that way sometimes, you know, in
spite of all you can do. You hear
talk, and you can't help reading be-
tween the lines. l knew, as well as
1 knew that I was alive, that Mrs.
Sheila meant more than she had said:
perhaps more than she had dared to
say.
1t was while l was standing there
in the big window that 1 saw the man
ON the lawn. At first thought it was
Tarbell, who was never very far out
Of reach when the boss was running
loose. But the next minute l saw l
was mistaken. The man under the
trees had on a long travelling coat
that came nearly to his heels, and his
cap was the kind that has two visors,
one in front and the other behind.
Realizing that it wasn't Tarbell,
stood perfectly still. The house was
lighted with gas, and the dining-room
chandelier had been turned down, so
there was chance chat the skulker
under the trees wouldn't see me stand
ing in the corner of the box window.
To make it surer, l edged away until
the curtain hid me. was just in time.
The man had crept out of his hiding
place and was coming up to the win
dow on the outside. AS he passed
through the dim beam of light thrown
by the turned-down chandelier. l saw
that he had a pistol in his hand, or
weapon of some kind; anyway,
caught the CLINT of the gas-light on
dull steel.
llldl StlTTeu me up SOOu anu pleHly.
still had the gun l had taken out of
Fred Mays drawer; had carried it
ever since the night when it had
mighty nearly got me killed off in the
Red Tower coal yard. fished it out
and made ready, thinking. of course,
that the skulker must certainly be one
of CANADIANS gunner. l still had
that idea when l felt, rather than saw.
that the man was pulling himself up
to the window so that he could take
look into the dining room.
The look satisfied him, apparently,
for the next second l heard him drop
amcng the bushes; and when stood
up and looked out again l could just
make him out going around toward
the back of the house. l knew the
house like book, and without making
any noise about it / Slipped through
the buffers pantry and got look
out of rear window. My man was
there. and he was working his way
sort of blindly around to the den side
of the place.