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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-10
January
Clearance
Staple Piece Goods and
Notions

One lot Kimono Crepe, good assortment colors;
Doc sellers; Sale price, rd------------------45c
One lot Madras Shrting, all new patterns
S5c sellers; Sale price. -----------55c
Bridal Long Cloth, sc inches wide:
Bridal Long Cloth, 40c ller--25c
Bridal Long Cloth 40c seller yard,----------35c
Bridal Long Cloth Csc seller; yard---45c
All Table Linen and Napkins----A Regular Price
SOC grade Kimono Outing Flannels, yard -25c
One special lot Draperies --Half Price
Ali Bath Mats, Sale price---- -One-FOurth Off
One lot Bath Towels, extra large size, regular
Sl.5O seller; Sale price eeach9 90c
Percales dark and light colors, SOC sellers:
Sale price, yard ----------------
Ardmore and Amoskeag Outings, extra heavy;
Sale price, yard -------------15c
Fruit OF the Loom Domestic, SOC seller; Sale
price, yard ------- 25c
Hope Beached Domestic, extra special at, yardl5c
One lot extra good Gngham, yard--25c
Saxon Sheets, S1x90-$3!00 value $1S5
Vigilant Sheets, 81x90; $3.50 value-----$l.40
$4.O0 Silk Hose, black and white Sale price$275
$3.50 and $3.50 White and Fancy Silk Hose$39S
$500 and $3.50 Silk Hose, in black, white
grey and brown; Sale price e S195
One lot Ladies' and Chidren's Cotton Hose
35c sellers; Sale price--
All other regular stock Hose One Fourth Off
All Ladies' Lace Colars--- One Fourth Off
Ladies Hand Bags ---------- One Fourth Off
All Ladies' Gloves ------20 Per Cent Discount
All Fancy Ribbons ---------------OneF Fourth Off
All LaceS in sale e---------------One Fourth Off
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
CONTINUED on Page 81
MANY REQUESTS BY
S. T. DAVENPORT
Various County Towns Given Funds in
Trust for Poor and Schools and
County Law Library.

BY the will of Stephen T. Davenport of
Greenfield Mass, formerly of Brattleboro.
filed for probate. numerous bequeStS are
made to relatives in various sums of
money and the public bequeStS include
500 to the town of Halifax. S415 10 the
town of Wilmington. 5000 to the town of
Whately. Mass. and 5000 each to the
towns of Somerset. Dover and Whiting
ham. each i'm trust to be invested with
income to be used in defraying expenses
of the poor and of the schools of the said
places. with the gift to be known in each
place as THE Stephen T. Davenport poor
and school fund"
To the town of Leyden he leaves 81 100
in trust with fund to be known as The
Oliver Davenport, Colin y, and Stephen
n Davenport poor and school fund
To A. \. Butterfield. ]. l.. Martin and
II. ID. Ryder of Nottingham. BFattleborO
and Rockingham $3.50 is left in trust the
income to be used by them in purchasing
books and furnishing a law library for
benefit of Windham county at the place
of holding county court to be known as
The Stephen L. Davenport law library
fund"
A bequest of 500 is made to the Ma
tiOnal Spiritualst association of Wash
ington. ID. C., and to the Banner of Light
Publishing company of Boston 5000 in
trust to be invested by said company with
the income to be used in distribution of
sample copies to worthy persons. to be
known as the Stephen T. Davenport
fund" The sum of $50 is bequeathel
TO the Massachusetts Spiritualist associa-
ton The will was executed in 1899, with
codicil affixed in 1902 William A. Dav-
enport. son of the testator, is named as
executor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
LATE w. I'll. YAWKEY
LEFT S11,097,024
Attempt Made for Settlement of Estate
Special Guardian Asked for
Adopted Son.

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-ApplicatiOn
was made yesterday to the surrogates'
court for judicial settlement of the estate
of William II. Yawkey, lumber and oil
dealer and former owner of the Detroit
Baseball club, who died March ,. 1919.
Though his fortune was estimated at the
time of his death at S40.000.00O. yester-
days application and the earlier transfer
tax appraisal showed it was S11.09I.024
Six million dollars of this is in bonds of
municipalities and counties in southern
and western states. issued for school. high
way and water works construction pur-
poses. ...
Mr. Yawkey's widow received Ss60.000
in cash and S2,912. .339 in securities as
legatee of one-half the residuary estate.
The remaining half was set aside for the
baseball mans adopted son. Thomas 4.
Yavskey, who is now is he aIfd his fos-
ter mother live at u East Eighty seventh
street. The petition seeking judicial set
tlement asks for the appointment of Mich
olas A. Donnelly, lawyer. as special
guardian for the Young man. There also
were trust funds of S500,000 each for
this adopted son and for niece. Emma
Yawkey Gardiner of Toledo, Ohio. The
accounting shows a distribution of
$130,000 to six of Mr.. Yawkey's employees.
including $4,000 to Joseph NJ. Low of
Forest Hills, L. 1.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
ANNOYANCE BY
PETTY THIEVING
Residents of Western Avenue Section
Lose Butter. Lard. Eggs. Chickens
and Other Edibles.

Petty thieving has been causing con-
siderable annoyance of late to residents
of Western avenue. Crosby street and
that section of the town. and it would not
be surprising if shots were heard most
any night in that locality. as people will
not continue indefinitely to raise chick
ems and buy butter. lard, eggs and other
edibles for the benefit of others
At one home three pounds of butter
were taken at one time from refrigera-
tor on the yeranda. while at the same
house five-pound pail of lard was taken
another night
From the cellar of an adjoining home
10 or II dozen Of eggs were removed from
eggs were carried away at one time or
whether the thief made two or more visits
TO the cellar is not known as several
days had elapsed between the housewives
visits to her egg jar.
As resident of West BrattlebOro was
returning home by automobile through
Western avenue recently in the small
hours of the night his attention was at
tracted toward a house, away from the
rear OF which a man was disappearing.
carrying with him a sack. The man in
the machine aroused the man at the house
and reported what he had seen. Nothing
seemed to be missing, however, but in
the morning visit to the henhOuse told
the story of what had happened, for three
birds had disappeared.
Other residents of the High Lawn road
section have been awakened during the
night with feeling that strangers were
lurking about the premises. thinking that
they heard footsteps on their own veran-
das or at the home of neighbors.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
BICHLORIDE FATAL
TO LITTLE Girl
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton c,
Beliveau-Ate Part of Tablet Found
i'm Bureau Drawer.

Evelyn May Is months old, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton e. Beliveau.
died yesterday afternoon in the Memorial
hospital of bichloride poisoning, the re-
suit of eating a small part of a tablet
which she found in a bureau drawer
Wednesday evening She was taken with
violent screaming and vomiting. and Mrs.
Bert Sargent who lives in the same house
with Mr., and Mrs. Beliveau. ran TO their
assistance and gave the child a dose of
ipecac DIR. Fremont Hamilton and DIR.
C. Il. Aldrich We're called and removed
the girl to the Memorial hospital, where
everything was done to save her life A
stomach pump was used, but because
of the excessive vomiting the girl was in
an exhausted condition and was unable to
rally.
She was born in Brattleboro JAN 81,
1920. daughter of Clayton c. and Hazel
CLARK Beliveau. The funeral will be
held in the home on Central street tomor-
row afternoon at , o'clock. Rev. Edwin
p. Wood. pastor of the First TTniva~SaliSt
church. will oficiate. The buril will take
place in Morningside cemetery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
CORRUPTION Barred
IN SOLDIERS HOME
Parasites Prey on Men at Johnson City
Tenn.-Use of Drugs and
Whiskey Common.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5-Conditions
at the johnson City (Tenn) Old Soldiers
Home where former service men are re-
ceiving hospital treatment, are so deplor-
able that unless congress acts Immediately
the casualties there will be proportionately
higher than occurred in the World war,
Director Forbes of the bureau of war
risk insurance declared yesterday before
a senate committee.
Agents of the bureau have just com
pleted a secret investigation of the insti-
tuition in which are quartered nearly $50
former service men. and who. Col. Forbes
declared, were living under astounding
conditions of vice, corruption and immor-
atty.
The war risk head brought as witness
the investigation and who lived for week
as a patient at the home McInereny
told the committee of having bought NOR
phine, moonShine whiSkey and extract of
ginger containing 81 per cent alcohol on
the home reservation declared that intoX-
ication was common among the former
service men. and asserted that immoral
women Overrun the grounds on which the
institution is located. ..s
The witness said he had encountered
many patients who carried guns and de
fed the guards to take the firearms away.
There was absolutely no discipline, he
added. and the patients ran the place to
the extent of forcing the executive officers
to withdraw the guards from the dining
room" Loaded dice and marked cards,
he declared, were supplied by parasites
from the outside and the patients
drained" of the money given them by
the government.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
PILGRIMAGE TO OLD
CHURCH SUNDAY
Rev. DIR. A. Y. Conrad of Boston Il
Preach Sermon in Rockingham
-Judge Fish to Give Address.

The 18th annual pilgrimage to the Old
Rockingham Meeting House will take
place next Sunday afternoon, with serv-
ices at 4 o'clock.
Lenox Il. Bigelow will act as pre-
centor in the singing of the doxology
and Rev. w. Il. Lombard of Saxtons
River will give the invocation and lead
in the scripture reading. Following the
singing of o God. Beneath Thy Guiding
Hand. Rev. Mr.. Lombard will offer
prayer. and the hymn, O God, Our Help
in Ages Past, will be sung.
Judge Frank i. Fish of VergenneS
will give an address. followed by the
singing of the hymn. The Lord Is My
Shepherd. No Want Shall | Know
Rev. 4. Y. Conrad. ID. D.. pastor of
the Park street church. in Boston. will
preach the sermon. His subject will be
Tnshakable Validities in World OF
Storm
America will be sung as the closing
hymn, and Rev. DIR. Conrad will pro-
nounce the benedictiOn.
Souvenir programs which have been
sent out contain an insert with a half
tone picture of the old church pulpit and
some line drawings showing the archi-
lecture of the old meeting house. The
insert is furnished through the courtesy
of Lyman s. Hayes, librarian of the Old
Rockingham Town Meeting House asSo-
citation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
TWO AUTO MISHAPS
LATE LAST EVENING
Ford Owned Here Tips Over on HinsdaIe
Road-WilmingtO Hudson Dam
aged at Suspension Bridge

Two automobile accidents happened
last night as the drivers We're coming
to Brattleboro from New Hampshire. one
on the HinSdale road and one at the Yer
mont end of the suspension bridge.
A Ford owned by Earle X. Hall. who is
employed by the AIanley Brothers Co. and
is with Company / in Bellows Falls, was
being driven by his brother and ran into
the end of a culvert near the LeFay
place on the HinSdale road about 8
o'clock and was tipped over. The radia-
tor. radius rod and front axle We're
badly damaged.
About 1890 o'clock a Hudson owned
by Leonard A. Brown of Wilmington.
which was hired by two men working ON
the SearSburg power project to drive to
BrattleborO. crossing the suspension
bridge from the Chesterfield side and ran
into the anchorage 10 which the Suspen-
sion cables are fastened. The front part
of the car, including radiator, springs and
mudguardS. was damaged.
Nobody was hurt in either case. Both
cars were brought to the Manley garage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
ALL LOCAL GOLFERS
ARE ELIMINATED
State Title In Rutland Tourney
Now On.
Especial to The Reformer.)

It'll 11IAND, aug. D.
Brattleboro's representatives were elm
mated from the championship division of
the state golf tournament this morning
when in the second round of match play
Lester Mercer of Barre beat o. E. Thomp-
son and A. and A. J.. White of Ekwano1
beat ]. G.. Estey 4 and 3. Frank Croker
of Ekwanok beat j. S. Sheldon of Rut-
land , up and Sayre Mcleod. jr., of Mt.
Anthony beat Frank TausSig of Dorset
, and /.
In the consolation round of the first and
second divisions d. B. COwleS beat c. NJ.
Clark of Ekwanok 1 mp. II. L. Shields,
of Mt. Anthony beat C. J. Dexter , and
] and ]. z. Estey beat J. NJ Griswold
z and ,.
In the second round for the third 16
Woodfin of Rutland beat Britain of Brat
tleboro 4 and ,.
In the first round of match play yester-
day afternoon, j. G. Estey beat his team
Thompson disposed of c. NJ. Clark of
Ekwanok by a like score. ID. r. Cowles
was eliminated from the first division.
losing to Lester Mercer of Barre / down
in 10 holes.
In the second division J. p Estey lost
to +. /. SOwle of Waubanakee , down
and j. NJ. Griswold of the Brattleboro
club succumbed to K. f. Smith of Rut-
land , and g..
T. 7. Brittan held his place in the third
l6, defeating j. b. Caswell of Barre and
a.
The BrattlehorO team composed of 7. G..
Estey and ]. 7. Estey. ID. B. Cowles and
%. f. Thompson stood third in the Nc
Cull0ugh cup contest having a total of
3D. Ekwanok won with 1863. Mt. An
thony being second with 364. Rutland.
Burlington and Barre finished fourth.
fifth and sixth respectively.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
E:LECTROCUTED
FLEEING TAXI
Katherine Hogan, "a, Killed
In Brooklyn Subway
Station
DRIVER ARRESTED,
HOMICIDE CHARGED
Girls Companions Say He Offered Them
Free Ride, Then Demanded S2-7O-
Girls Attempted to Run Away From
Him. Jumping on Tracks.

NEW YORK. Aug. ). Katherine
Hogan, 24, was electrocuted by the third
rail in a Brooklyn subway today after
dashing down the tracks away from a
taxicab driver who had carried her and
two companions to the station from Man
haitian. Her companions told the po-
lice that the driver offered to carry them
without charge and that when he asked
for S270 they ran and two of them
jumped down on the tracks.
The taxi driver. arrested on a techni-
cal charge of homicide denied offering to
convey the passengers for nothing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
ALLEN GR|LLS
TUT rs TODAY
Asks Him to Explain De-
posits After Coakley's
Disbursements
DENIES BORROWING
FROM LATTER
Declares He Received $1,000 Fee for
Civil Case - Can't Explain Fathers
Possession of $4,000 When Asking
for Pension From Railroad.

BOSTON. Aug. 5-The 20-odd thous-
ands of dollars which District Attorney
Nathan \. Tufts of Middlesex county
deposited in banks at about the time in
1917 that Daniel II. Coakley was dis
bursting thousands in effecting settle
mcnt of threatened litigation against
New York picture producers was again
up for inquiry today at the trial of Tufts
before the supreme court on charges of
malefasance in office. The district attor-
ney was recalled to the stand for cross
examination. Attorney General Allen
used as leads in his inquiry the checking
accounts of Mr.. Coakley which were pro-
duced in court yesterday.
Addressing Mr. Tufts the attorney
general said:
Il call your attention to the fact that
on June Is, three days before you de-
posted S5,025 in the Exchange Trust
Co, Mr. Coakley withdrew $9,250 in bills
and on June 26, two days before you
deposited S6030, Mr.. Coakley withdrew
81 900 and $1,000 in two Withdrawals.
Does that refresh your recollection of
whether you ever borrowed any money
of Mr.. Coakley?'
Il never borrowed any money and |
never received any money from Mr..
Coakley regardless of what Withdrawals
he may have made exclaimed Mr.. Tufts.
He said that he could not locate individ-
ual amounts among ii mass OF small de-
pOsits.
Continued on Page 81
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
RUSSIAN VIEW
OF ROOSEVELT
Baron KOrff Questions His Wisdom In
Settling RussO-Japanese
War
WILLIAMSTOWN. Mas. az. ).

WILLIAMSTOWN. Mass. Aug. s.
y Russian view of Theodore Roosevelt 5
successful efforts to end the Russo-Jap-
aneSe war was given to the Institute of
Politics today by Baron Sergius Korff,
former deputy governor general of Fin
land. Without doubling RoOSevelt's sin
cerity he said We can. however. at
present question his wisdom in forcing
this peace on Russia. Not that we could
expect victory or military achieve
ment. but Japan might have learned a
lesson which would have changed much
of the succeeding events throughout the
world. Japan at the moment was at the
end of her tether. Roosevelt, in other
words. saved Japan from an economic
collapse that might have called for a con-
stitutional reform in Japan. and only
the latter could be a reliable guaranty
against the developments of Imperialism
in the Pacific
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
TROOPS TO LEAVE
BELLOWS FALLS
Go to Camp Devens TOmOr-
rOw-Strike Situa-
ton Quiet
COMPANY IGOING
BY SPECIAL TRAIN
VIII Not Pass Through BrattIebOrO. but
Go Down ON New Hampshire Side -
Sheriff's Department to Be in Charge
of Trouble Area.


Because of the fact that the annual
muster of the Ist Vermont Regiment will
begin at Camp Devens. Aver, Mass. to-
morrow, continuing to Aug. 20, and be-
cause the strike situation at Bellows
Falls has quieted down, Company / of
Brattleboro and Company \ of Rutland
win leave Bellows Falls tomorrow and
proceed to Camp Devens by order of
Adjt Gen Herbert 7. Johnson, who was
in Bellows Falls last night.
Adit Gen. Johnson issued the follow
ing statement last night following con
ference at the home of Gov. James Hart
ness in Springfield:
After a conference of several hours.
we came to the conclusion that the sit
uatioR at Bellows Falls has reached
such stage that we believe there is
no longer need to retain troops here We
have therefore ordered the two cOmpan-
les to proceed TO Camp Devens Saturday
for the annual encampment. Companies
\ and / are relieved at midnight Fri
day" -
The conference was attended, in addi-
tion to the governor and adjutant gen.
eral. by States Attorney Harold f..
Whitney and Sheriff Frank l.. Wellman
of Brattleboro. Manager George A. Che
del of the American Realty Co. and
Supt James Myers Of the international
Paper Co. plant at Bellows Falls.
1t was felt that. in asmuch as no more
men are to be brought in for the pres
ent by the American Realty Co. and
that as the men now at work are within
the area guarded by the sheriff's depart
ment and have no desire to go outside
that area. the sheriffS can furnish tho
necessary protection: in other words,
that the emergency for which the troops
were called out has passed.
Should situation develop requiring
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
HARDING VISITS
SOLDIERS HOSPITAL
Drives TO GOrham. y. H.. % Miles From
Lancaster - Trip Planned In
Washington.

LANCASTER, n. H.. Aug. 5.-Presi-
dent Harding interrupted his vacation at
the top of Mount Prospect today to go
on an errand of mercy TO the army tu-
bercular hospital at Gorham, - miles
away. Since he entered the presidency
Mr. Harding many times has expressed
particular interest in the welfare of hos
pitalized soldiers and on several Occa-
s;ions he has visited army hospitals TO
look over conditions and show personally
his concern over the care of the i'll and
disabled.
1t is understood he planned today's
trip before he left Washington for New
Hampshire The visit will occupy most
of the day. although the party may stop
during the afternoon for round of golf.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
POSTPONE FIGHT
SEVERAL WEEKS
Carpenter Still Suffers From injury
Inflicted BY Dempsey at
Jersey City

NEW YORK. Aug. 5.-The Carpenter
Gibbons fight. planned here for the first
part of October, has been postponed sew
eral weeks because of the injury which
the Frenchman received when he was de-
feated by Jack Dempsey in Jersey City
July > The fight now is scheduled for
late in October or the first part of No
vember in Madison Square Garden.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
Methodist Episcopal Church

The prayer meeting this evening will be
a service of preparation for the commun-
ion service on Sunday. The pastor will
speak on What the Lords Supper May
Mean to Us. Yestry, 7.3O.
Sunday morning there will be a baptis-
NAL service and reception of members in
connection with the regular service.
Rev. Thomas w. Owens, a recent pas
tor of the First Methodist church of
Brattleboro. now pastor of the Pine street
Methodist church of Portland. Me-. will
be present to preach to his former congre-
CATION and lead in the sacrament of the
Lords Supper Sunday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
CARUsO LEFT TWO WILLS.
Usufruct of Property Left to Widow in
Latest One.

LONDON. Aug. 5.-Enric0 Caruso left
two wills, according to a Central News
dispatch. yesterday from Rome quoting
the famous singers legal advisers. One
of the wills was made in New York in
1919 and the other was executed at Sor-
rento this year. according to the dispatch
BY the terms of the latter document
the dispatch said. the usufruct of his es-
tate is left to his widow, who is to care for
Caruso's stepmother, and upon the wild
ow's death the property is to be divided
among the children and the brother of the
deceased
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
NEW COMMERCIAL
TEACHER SECURED
Miss Antoinette B. Jette of Chieopee Ac-
cepts App0intment-All Vacancies
Are Now Filled

Miss Antoinette B. Jette of Chicopee,
Mass, has been appointed by the pruden-
tial committee as teacher of stenography
and bookkeeping in the commercial de
partment of the high school and. has ac-
cepted the position.
Miss Jette is a graduate of the Chico
pee high school and of the Bay Path
institute of Springfield. Mass. During
the past two years she has taught accept
ably in the high school of Brimfield. Mass,
giving instruction in commercial subjects
All vacancies. both in the high school
and grades, are now filed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05

CONTINUED on Page 81
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
KILLIFER TRIES TO
PUT CUBS IN FRONT
New Manager of Chicago Team Declines
to Further Forecast
His Plans

CHICAGO, Aug. >. - Manager Bill
Killifer, who yesterday assumed the lead
ership over the Chicago Cubs. succeeding
John j Eyers, declined today to forecast
his plans for the future of his team
further than to say that he would do the
best he could to put the Cubs in front
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
ROBBERS GET $50, 900.
Two Bandits Hold Up Express Messenger
on h & o. Road

GREENVILLE. H., Aug. 5.-Fifty
thousand dollars was believed TO have
been obtained by two bandits who boarded
a Baltimore x Ohio passenger train at
Beecher City last night, held up the ex-
press messenger and escaped at Altamont
with all the sealed express packages.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-05
SELL THEIR CLUBHOUSE.
Edison Employees Organization Loses Its
Membership.

NEW YORK, Aug. Sits member
ship having dwindled from 900. to 30.
less than enough for quorum to elect
this years officers, the Thomas A. Edi-
son Association. Inc, composed of en-
pl0ves of the Edison interests. yesterday
sold its clubhouse in West Orange, \.
].
1t was stated that the reduction in
membership in the association was due
largely TO. the fact that the force at the
Edison plant at West Orange has been
reduced from 5000 to 1000 employees.