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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04
BRATTLEB0R0 LOCAL

Painters began work yesterday re-dec-
Grating the interior of the corridor of the
town hall building.
The meeting of the Swedish Luther
league which was to be held tomorrow
evening has been postponed.
Brattleboro Jews are observing the
Jewish New Year, which was yesterday
and today, and are doing no work.
The annual Red Tag day for the bene-
fit of the Brattleboro rest room will be
observed next week Saturday, Oct. 10.
There will be a meeting of the council
of Achievement club leaders at l.3O
O'Clock this evening in the Chamber OF
Commerce rooms.
The work of pouring cement for a new
sidewalk from the Princess theater on
Elliot. street to the stone retaining wall
on Church street was begun today. a
new walk also will be laid in front of the
so-called Waterman house and the Bet
.terley garage on Elliot street.
About 30 couples attended the dance
in Odd Fellows temple last evening the
proceeds of which are to be devoted to
the lungmotor fund. Up to noon today
$91 had been cleared, including the con-
tributiOns which had been made in adj
dition to the sale of dance tickets. How
the balance of 500 will be raised has not
been decided definitely. 1t is hoped that
further contributions will be received
within the next few days.
Yesterdays Springfield Union con
tanned the following item under Holyok'
date line: stephen Clifford, aged q
years, of 105 Pleasant street, was strucl
by an automobile about $50 o'clock to
night Sunday at Pleasant and Allyn
streets. He had just alighted from 1
trolley car when he was struck by al
automobile owned and operated by W.
Carney of p Thomas street, Brattleboro
Clifford received a cash over one eye ant
was severely shaken up. He was at
tended by DIR. j. l.. Bliss and removed tt
his home"
Autumn frolic by the Rebekahs, Ode
| Fellows Temple, Oct. is; booths
| chicken-pie supper, entertainment, dance
Adv. Is.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Miss Julie Brown of Linden street is in
Greenfield today on business.
Ernest Hoffses went this morning toE
Rockland, Me-, to visit relatives.
Miss Margaret S. Dunklee began work
today in Dr.4L. S. Edwards's dental Office.
Miss Irene Coombs began work yester-
day in the office at the S. A. Smith Mfg.
Co.
Mrs. Il. L.Tracy of ST. Adams is a
guest at the English Tea rooms on Linden
street.
Royal E. Parkhurst and family enter
tanned guests from New York state over
Sunday. ..=
Miss Ruth Alexander viii finish work
Saturday in the Offices of the Holstein-
| FrieSan association. .
Miss Margaret Mcguire resumed work
| yesterday in j. Il. Mann's drygoods store,
after a weeks vacation.
Helen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. w. X.
Miles, has returned from Barre, where
she spent six weeks with relatives.
Dr. and Mrs L. S. Edwards returned
| last night from a weeks automobile trip
to Baltimore and Cumberland, Md.
Mrs. f. J. Taggart and daughter,
| Muriel, of Greenfield are visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Brown.
Mrs Cornelius Billings has closed her
4 summer nome OH AIneS NH, WHERE oHt
/ spent the summer, and returned yester-
4 day to her home in New York.
i Morgan Sherman was in town over last
night on his way to Greenfield. He had
been spending a vacation of two weeks in
the northern part of the state.
/ Rev. f. w. Sharp, formerly a resident
lof BrattleborO, returned to st. JOhnsbury
last week from attending the World s
| Methodist conference in London.
Robert H. Cosgrove, vice president of
the Vermont Loan & Trust Co, left
today for his home in Lewiston, Mont,
after several days in town on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Hubbell and son of
Bennington, who had been visiting here
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. G..
Hubbell, returned yesterday to their home.
Mrs. William Agan and two children of
Springfield, Mass, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. J. Snyder. They were guests
today of Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Strouse of
Hinsdale.
! Mrs. Marion Cutler Brooks, formerly of
| BrattleborO, who had been living in Gal
1 lup, New Mexico, where she had posi-
! ton as teacher in the schools, recently
moved to Ell Paso, Texas.
Miss Grace d. Young, student nurse at
the Melrose hospital, who has been Sc
riously i'll in the hospital and under the
care of a professional nurse from Spring
field, Mass, is slightly better.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. f. Martin of Portland,
| Me, who had been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
H. c. Shaw of Maple street, left this
morning for New York to spend a few
| days before returning to Portland
! Don Salisbury of Berkshire, who had
/ been visiting in the home of his sister,
Mrs. f. l.. Mitchell of Grove street, re-
turned today TO his home accompanied
~ Mrs. Mitchell, who will visit III Berk-
shire.
| Miss WynOna sherman of Springfield,
Mass, whose father, DIR. Elmer T. Sher-
man, formerly was a Brattleboro resident,
graduated this week from the Forsythe
School for Dental Hygienists, in Boston.
She will remain at the dental infirmary
for children a few weeks and then return
to Springfield to be associated with her
father as dental hygienist.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04
VERMONT NEWS.

Although they shot off a 40-foot bank
and landed in the Waterbury river in
Stowe Sunday afternoon, six occupants of
an automobile not only emerged alive but
only slightly hurt. The car contained
Mr. and Mrs. Charles N Bennett of
Montpelier, Miss Ruth Bennett. two small
children, and Mr.. Guernsey, who is 50
years old. The steering gear is said to
have broken as the car reached a sharp
curve. Mr.. Bennett had a shoulder dis
located and a cutson his left knee. Mrs.
Bennett received a scalp wound and the
others had minor injuries. Miss Ruth
Bennett, who was driving, was unhurt.
Mr.. Guernsey was dazed by the fall and
his head was held above the water by Mrs.
Bennett, though the party was not in
danger from drowning as the water is
only four feet deep at that point. The
car was badly damaged.
All efforts to apprehend Ernest Ven
nette, the boy desperate. who escaped
from the county Jail in Hyde Park, had
failed yesterday and no clues as to his
whereabouts have been obtained. This is
the third time he has escaped from officers
since his arrest last week. The boy made
his escape by means of a ventilating shaft
5 by II inches, 30 small that when they
built the Jail it was not deemed necessary
TO place grating over it. When Ven
nette arrived at the Jail he was in a
pretty sOiled condition and Sheriff Ste
ems sent him upstairs to take a bath. The
sheriff held Vennette's clothes and let him
have some of his to wear. Vennette
dropped from the upper floor to the base
ment through small hole. He then
made his way through the ventilating
shaft to a place underneath n porch.
The ventilating shaft is near the cellar
ceiling and nobody but an athlete could
have made it. He broke through the
wooden lattice work and in broad daylight
got out of town dressed in the sheriff $
trousers which are very much too large.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04


Brattleboro high plays Vermont acad-
envy in SaxtOns River this week Satur-
day.
st. Albas high went on a rampage Sat
urday when they faced the Newport high
school team, and ran away with the game
by a 62-0 score. This would seem to in
dictate that there were some other strong
aggregatiOns in the northern part of the
state besides the Rutland and Spaulding
teams.
Goddard seminary defeated the Middle
bury college second team Saturday on
Porter field by a 10 score. The game
was loosely. played, the only touchdown
of the game being made on the recovery
of a NIiddebury tumble. Cyran. the
Chicopee star of three years ago, starred
for Goddard while Deitchman starred
for Middlebury.
On Sept. 9th Springfield, Vt. high
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04

Autumn frolic by the Rebekahs, Odd
Fellows Temple, Oct. IS; booths,
chicken-pie supper, entertainment, dance.
Adv. 1873
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04
NOTICE
To Ice Consumers

Our lee supply is practically exhausted
and this is to ask. all our patrons to con-
serve their ice and do with as little as
possible. All those who can do without
will confer a favor on us, and on people
who must have it. by disseminating its use
the remainder of the season.
We have bought several carloads from
wholesale dealers and are informed by
them today that their supply is very nearly
all gone and that there is doubt about their
supplying us more than another week or
50 as there is no ice they can buy any
where.
We can probably supply our regular
customers from two to four weeks longer,
but after that unless people conserve or
do without now, ice will be practically an
unknown article.
Crystal Springs Ice, Wood
and Trucking Co.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04
THE BRArT1EBoRo DAILY REFoRn1ER. TUESDAY; OCTOBER

and Vermont academy fought to a score
less tie. Last Saturday, Springfield was
showed under by the locals by $40
count, while Vermont academy was los
ing to the Rutland Champs by a 800
score. If statistics are worth anything
at all they indicate that the scoring
power of the Brattleboro and Rutland
teams as well nigh equal at this stage of
tbe sea son
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04

of The RefOrmer bulletin board on
which will be posted the result of
each game by innings and detailed
report of every play that produced
run.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04

The torrentiaI rain that follows light
ming is because the air has beer
changed and cannot hold its moisture
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04
Sporting News
The World Series

BrattlebOrO baseball fans will have
an opportunity to get prompt infOr-
nation ON the Giants Yankees base
ball series which starts in New York
City tomorrow through the medium
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-04
SMITH co. BOWLERS WIN.
Beat Last & Wood Heel Co. on Elliot

Street Alleys 1,277 to 1,199.
A team of bowlers composed of en-
plOyes of the S. A. Smith Mfg. Co. met
team from the BrattleborO Last &
Wood Heel Co. on the Elliot street alleys
last evening and won four points. Every
man on the S. A. Smith team rolled a
higher total than his opponent. A. Mo-
quin of the winning team rolled the high
est single string, 104, also the highest
three-string total, which was 263. Fol-
lowing are the scores:
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
PUBLIC MORALS AT LOW EBB.'
Reign of Lawlessness Is Upon T. S.
 ]. Ham Lewis Tells Graduates.

Chicago, June 18.-Thc day is on in the United States when law has no re- spect, crime has no punishment and 8 law-abiding life has no reward, James Hamilton Lewis, former United States senator from Illinois, told the gradu- ating class of DePauw university to- night.
 "We need reorganization of so. ciety on the basis that law is the de. ciared will of ts-a people and personal honor, is the standard of private re- ward,r he said. "Now the convicted offender against law or righteous con- duct is made to feel himself martyr for his cause.
 The moral state of the public mind is dead. If we do not have resur- reotion of moral standards, all law and authority in business or society will wither and society and govern ment will go out in anarchy, to be remoulded in revolution.p
 Mir. Lewis declared that it was to the new lawyer, the scholar of science and industry, that the future must look to preserve and perpetuate the law as the guide of the race of men and religion as the guarantee of peace on earth.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
NEGRESS, 102 YEARS OLD,
 LETS TRAIN KILL HER
Little Rock Woman Sits on Tracks. and Calmly Watches Engines
 Annroach.

Little Rock, June l9.--When Engi- neer Loe Goss, at the throttle of No. ', the fast southbound Missouri Pa cifc mail train, rounded the sharp curve on the main line just beyond the county hospital, at il:S0 o'clock Saturday morning, he saw an aged negro woman sitting on the track, less than 100 yards away.
 He sounded his whistle sharply and threw his air control in the big hole, but the woman sat calmly watching the heaving bulk of the locomotive ap- proach. The brakes screeched wildly, but before the speed of the train was siackened appreciably the pilot struck the weakened, shrunlxen form of the aged woman, hurling it 20 feet into the ditch along the right-of- way. Death was instantaneous, the body being badly mangled
 She was Mary McCann, aged 102, an inmate of the county hospital, whom officials of the institution said was suffering from senile dementia.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
TROUBLE NEAR IN
 MEX. OIL FIELD
Secretary Hughes Denies U. s. Has Started Official Investigation But Admits Situation Is Critical
 and Withholds News.

Washington, June 14.-Secretary Hughes informed Chairman Porter o1 the House Foreign Affairs Committee to day that the government had un. dertaken no official investigation of the condition of Mexican oil fields and that it was not advisable to make pub lie such information as it now pos sessed, (which might imply our off cial guarantee"
 Responding to request by resolu. tion for a report dealing especially with declining production and its causes, Mir. Hughes transmitted let ter from Secretary Fall declaring that Interior Department information was not of the authoritative nature requi- site to forming of "a report to Con gress and the public on a question SC critical as that of the prospective out put of oil in Mexico" d
 Altho the State Department was unable to inform the House regarding the number of wells which had gone dry, Rear Admiral Benson as chair man of the Shipping Board, forward ed report by J. A. Pheian, board expert, declaring that in the forty square miles producing area 63 of the 104 wells had ceased to produce and that salt water was rapidly fill ing those now in operation. MT Phelan stated that mot a new oil structure" had been discovered in Mexico since 1916, land the proven
 territory is, in fact, going to sal water" Tt is generally reported that some of the important fields that swelled
 Mexico's output in 1920,' Secretary Fall wrote, "are being steadily drained of their oil, altho reports differ wide ly regarding the extent of the deple. tion. Mexico contains oil reserves that have been conservatively esti- mated by this department at 4,50t million barrels but the present issue
 relates to Mexico's ability to main tain her production from this reserve at the rates established in 1920 in response to market demand
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
FLOATING STILL IS
 FOUND NEAR CONWAY
Booze Making Device. Ready for Operation, Located in Faulkner
 County Lake and Destroyed.

Conway, June 17.-Concealed in a dense canebrake. at least 100 yards from the bank of Grassy Lake, IS miles South of Conway, a well-equipt liquor making device was found by party of local officers yesterday. The still was set up on a small raft, which was chained to a cypress knee. Without the tip the of ficers received, it is I00-so-i bet that they never would have discovered 1t.
 To reach the moonshinery, officers drove to Grassy Lake in a Ford, pro- cured a boat and rowed about 75 yards until it was impossible to 10 any further via that method Then they divested themselves of most of their clothing and waded the remain der of the distance to the raft.
 There was every evidence that the moonshine plant had been in operation n short time before the officers ar- rived The 30-gallon kettle was warm. No liquor was to be found, however, but there was about 40 gall Ions of mash.
 Rather than attempt to wade the lake carrying the still, the officers broke up parts of it and threw the pieces into the lake. The mash also was dumped into the water. The raft was set free.
 No arrests were made, but the off, cers say they have a clue to the oper- ators.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
UNCLE SAM AFTER
 UNPAID TAXES
Revenue Agents to Have Busy Time Next Month in Going After Evad- ers-Expect to Collect Sew
 eral Millions.

Washington, June 2O.--Millions of dollars in delinquent and penalties, 1t is estimated. will be collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, as the result of general tax drive begin ming in July, which will reach every section of the country.
 Special attention will be directed to the collector of excise tax on sales by manufacturers, the tax on trans portation, and so-called luxury tax the tax on toilet articles and proprie- tary medicines, the soft drink tax and the admission tax.
 Preliminary to the nationwide in- vestigation to insure a proper ac- counting Commissioner of Internal Revenue David H. Blair, has instruct ed his assistant supervisors in the field to organize special squads to ean- vass for delinquents. These men will head flying squadrons" which will visit every large city in the United States. Their directions are to con- duct a thoro and effective campaign, using such methods as will bring to justice wiafus svaders and cause m embarrassment to persons who are honestly endeavoring to comply with the law.
 Thru the failure of retailers to col lect in full the tax on toilet articles and medicinal preparations, 1t is es- timated that the government is los- ing several millions of dollars annual ly
 Careful survey will be made of the stores selling toilet articles and medi- eines, and owners will be requested to instruct their employees as the laws governing the sale of such articles.
 All dealers who fail to keep proper records will be compelled to suffer penalties prescribed hv law.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
fewer Things Friendly Conferences
COURTS SHOULD PROVE SANITY OF CRIMINALS SAYS DOCTOR
lBy InternatlonaI Nsws sarv,,.,

tBy International News service.)
 Chicago, June 17.---A criminal should be presumed insane until proven sane.
 This psychoanalytical contention. jdst made public by Dr. William N :. Hicksen, head of the psychopathic la- boratory of the municipal court, has aroused storm Of discussions among lawyers, alienisrs and jurists.
 Dr. Hicksen has recommended that his contention be made part of the criminal code, with as much weight as the basic presumption, "a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
 Dr. Hicksen in his report holds that it is entirely wrong under the present procedure to place the bur den of proving insanity upon the de- fense in such cases where sanity of the defendant is questioned. He con- tends that the burden of proving the defendant sane should rest on the prosecution.
 the complete inefficacy and break down of our present ideas and meth ods of handling crimes--a complete realization that our present methods are futile, costly, demoralizing and inhuman both to the public and to de- linquents," he said.
 Almost all our murderers and most of our suicides give plenty of warn- ing. Now that we know that typi- cal criminal is a mental defective ours is the fault if We de not segregate him
 Dr. Hicksen then declared that the criminal court code was at fault in presuming criminals sane.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
HOOVER HAS A COUSIN" TOO. Secretary's Kentucky Relative in
 Chicago Jail on Bigamy Charge.

Chicago, June 17.--Raymond Lee Hoover of Louisville, Ky, who claims to be first cousin to Secretary Her bert Hoover, sir" awoke in the county jail, following charges of bigarny brought by Mrs. Pearl Holbert Hoover, his second wife
 Hoover awoke in the same cell re- gently occupied by Cousin" Everett Harding. Jail officials said they igz tended reserving the place for "cors- insv of statesmen.
 Hoover, 33, is alleged to have been married three times His latest mat rimonial adventure was yesterday, when he married Hattie Algrim. Hoover declared his second marriage was flake" He admitted having q 10-year-old daughter by his first mar riage.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
.SUB" FOR STACKER

Philadelphia, June 20.-The man who took Grover Cleveland Bergdolrs place when the convcted stacker, now a fugitive in Germany, failed to an- swer the call, died hero in the Ar gonne forest after being cited by the commanding general of his brigade for bravery in action in one of the noteworthy battles of the World war. He was Russell c. Cross of this city, a private in Company E, 328th Infan- try. who was killed by bullets from a machine gun nest which later was captured by Company c of the same regiment, headed by Corporal Alvin c. York of Tennessee.
 This was revealed last night by the Overbrook Post of the American Legion after an investigation. The post announced it will change it's name to that of the fallen hero, and is planning memorial to Gross, sswho was forced into service ahead of his turn by the stacker, Bergdoll." 1"
 Gross, who was g years old, was the first man called by the draft board after Bergdoll had failed to re- spond
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
10 LYNCHED AT
 PENITENTIARY GATES
Avenged Terrible Crime Against |oung Mississippi Wife and
 Mother at Jackson.

kson, Miss, June 20.--Louis krly, an 18-year-old negro con- Fas lynched late this afternoon gate of the state convict farm nkin county, several miles from lty.
 nberly was a trusty who worked q the residence of assistant Ser =RerryhiII This morning about |ck while Mrs. Berryhill was at alone with her little five-year- the negro attacked her, Ing her on the head, rendering Unconscious, and tied her and |in that condition, criminally as- g her. Sometime afterward her nd found her still unconscious, Eter two physicians had worked pver her for two hours she re- consciousness and tofu of the ' of the convict, who had es- negro trusty convicts caught
 erly several miles from the |nnd brought him back. As a i of precaution, travelling Ser
 Sam Nunnery was ordered to
 Nimberly to Jackson and place q the Kinds county jail, and it Fhile attempting to do this that B overpowered by a mob and his !er hanged.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
HONOR MUST HAVE TRAVELLED A BIT RECENTLY

z|adelphia, June 20.--Steaiing a <n freight train is no crime at Resent rate of railroad fares, ac- ag to Judge Deitz, of the local z Judiciary.
 n Drew--not the actor, but 3 <nati boy, and Roy Chapman of IEo, were brought into his court, had been found in a freight car
 Pennsylvania railroad yards.
 young man told the magistrate Fere trying to get from Chicago
 W York to find work. They
 much money, So when the op- zity to hop freight came they took it.
 on't blame you" said his honor, Hopping a freight train, at the < rate of railroad fares. To buy et from Chicago to New York you'd have to be either ship lveter or a bootlegger."
 sstrate Dietz then handed them 1r and a half to get something
 and advised them to try to get 4~ York by one of the many
 making daily trips along the <n highway