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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

Last week the Sheppard bill,
which provides for the cooperation
between the government and states
in the protection Of maternity and
infancy, and which the federation
has so ardently approved, was passed
by the senate with only seven dis
senting votes. The opponents OF the
measure were Borah, Idaho; Moses,
New Hampshire; Warren, Wyoming;
Broussard, Louisiana; King, Utah;
Reed, Missouri; and Watson,
Georgia. The need of the protee-
ton which this bill will afford is
very apparent when I'VE realize that
statistics for the United States show
that in 1919 about 100000 babies
died before they reached the age OF
one year and in the same year about
10000 mothers died from child
birth. 1t is estimated that proper
care before, during and after con-
inement would save the lives Of
two thirds of the mothers who die
in childbirth and one half of the ba-
bies who die before they are one
year old. This means that the fed
eral government and the states work
ing together will save at least H.
600 mothers and 100, 900 babies.
Phamplet for Cluhwomen's Use
Expenditures and Revenues Of
Federal Government" is the title OF
a phamplet prepared by the late e.
B. Rose, Phi. d., Bureau of Stand
ards, Washington which Is, accord
ing to Miss Ida Hafford, director Of
Federation Headquarters, full OF
valuable material of interest to club
women"
The phamplet may be secured
from the American Academy of Poll
tical and Social Science, Philadel-
phia.
Library in Every County
The establishment of a library in
every county in every state in the
Union is the aim of Miss Mary Tit
comb, Hagerston, Md. chairman of
the Library Extension Division of
the Department of Applied Educa-
ton of the G. F. W. G. Miss Tit
comb now has ready for distribution
to those interested a leaflet on Lii
brary Extension prepared by her
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Rev. and Mrs. c. E. Mason Home
From California.
(Report by request Of the Repupil'

(Report by request of the Repuph-|
CAM
The main purpose of our visit toI
California was to attend at Los|
Angels as delegates, the Congrega-|
tional National Council and the Ma
tional Women's Foreign and home
Missionary SOCIETIES respectively
This UNCONVENTIONAL assembly came
as a great privilege to the PACING
and Rocky Mountain states, having
been held SO far west but once pc
fore in Portland, Oregon. The turn
of the tides carries 1t for it's next
session two years hence to Spring
field, Massachusetts, on the AL
lantic. Time and space forbid any
attempt in this article to report the
weeks proceedings of this national
body, variously described as one OF
power and wisdom, "a broad
visioned Council", "a competent
Council.
We were royalty entertained at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Shultz, together with a minister
from st. Louis, Mo-, and another
from Pueblo, Colo. The Council also
afforded the opportunity OF meeting
many old time friends from several
states. l was surprised to meet SO
many college men from my alma
mater, Bates college, in Maine. An
alumni dinner was arranged, in
Guiding the wives, and the college
days were lived over again in stories
and incidents.
The Council celebrated h e
Fourth by an automobile ride to
Pomona college, at Claremont, 35
miles distant, the Los Angeles peo-
pie providing the free ride. The
drivers frequently turned from the
main drive to show sights of inter
est. The ride took us through the
millionaire residential section, and
all the way along the foot of the
Sierra Madre mountains. We saw
Mount Low observatory on one OF
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

especially for club women's use and
which considers the following
points:
A County Library as a Means of
Economy: A County Library as a
Giver of Expert Service; How a
County Library can be operated;
Rural Delivery of Books from House
to House; recommendations and CO.
operation of the American Library
Association; How the club women
can help; How the local Librarian
can help.
Clubwomen and others interested
in establishing county Libraries are
asked to communicate with Miss
Titeomb, Hagerstown, Md.
An Hawaiian Club
1t will interest Idaho club women
to read of a club out in Hawaii
which was organized two years ago
at the instigation of Mrs. T. B. Lin
ton. a former member of the Column
bian club of Boise. The club has $50
members composed of Portuguese.
Japanese, Chinese and Hawaiins as
well as "Haolo" a Hawaiian term
designating all whites.
The clubs first work was to es-
tablish a county library ard it's eff
forts have resulted in a legislative
appropriation of $40, 200 for a Maui
County library and another appro-
priation of $4,000 from the county
commissioners, which will be used
for a library home until a new build
ing can be bought. The club has a
domestic. department and serves at
club meetings a rs cent luncheon.
It also has a history department. a
music department, and a dramatic
department all of which are doing
valuable work in their own fields.
Change of Address
The address of Mrs. Ira Couch
Wood. chairman of the Division of
Child Welfare Of the General Fed
Grafton is changed to S4S N. Dear
horn st. Chicago.
Club Elections
Kimberley Wayside Club
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
NOTICE.

ro parents, Guardians and Others
IN Gilmore County, Idaho:
THE following are the provisions
of The school law of Idaho, Session
r lsrys 1911, designed for those who
are inclined to unjustly deprive
their children of the advantages Of a
fair common school education;
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
The Congregational Church.

Subject of the sermon Sunday
morning at 1920, God of Heaven
and Earth.
Eve, S:15, Union services at the
Methodist church.
Sunday school at the regular
hour, Has.
Union midweek meeting Wednes-
day eve, S:15, at the Congregational
church. A cordial invitation to all
services.
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Catholic Church

Regular services on the first and
third Sundays of every month. EARLY
mass at $50 a. m. High mass at
1890 a.. m. Sunday school at 3 p. m.
Evening service at 5. Mass on week
REV. F. L. LOBELL, Pastor.
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SUNDAY SERVICES
.nav Adventist

Services in basement of Methodist
church every Sabbath Saturday.
Sabbath school at 1890. Bible study
at 1880. Prayer meeting Thursday
evening at s o'clock.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
M. E. Church.
A. w. JAMES, Pastor.

1920 Sunday school.
1870 Public Worship. Sermon
by the Pastor.
8:15 p. M. Union Church service
at this church, Rev. G. e. Mason
will be the evening speaker.
Fourth quarterly conference Mon
day Aug. Is, at 1890 P. M. Let
all official members be present.
Supt. Ewing of Boise will be present.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
BAPTIST Church,

1920 Sunday school.
1870 Morning service.
500 Evening service.
A welcome is extended to all to
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Harris and
family Of Ontario. oregon, have been
visiting this week with Mrs. Harris
sister. Mrs. w. II. Wilson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
SUICIDE DUE
TO ILL HEALTH
Husband of Former Brattleboro Woman
Victim of Nervous Breakdown
Home Was i'm EIgin Ill

News of the suicide of Charles c. Elliott
OF Elgln, ILL.,, whose wife was Miss Emma
Dickinson of Brattleboro, Is contained in
the Jan. 10 issue of the Elgin Daily News.
copies OF which have been received in
town. The story follows:
Charles 1. Elliott, a veteran employe
OF the Elgn National Watch Co. and for
several Years manager of the material de
partment, took his own life By. hanging
last night as the result of a nervous break
down. He was tifty-tlve years old His
body was found this morning mot far from
the Ransom sanitarium at Roscoe, near
Rockford, where he Il patient, after
a search that had continued for several
hours. Elliott had been missing since early
last evening
Mr.. Elliott had been ailing for the last
several years aud for the last few months
had been desDondent He had never made
any. threats 10 take his own life, hospital
attendants and his family stated His
taking Of his own life came as a shock to
his relatives and friends.
Since 1916 when he was i'll with typhoid
during the epidemic in Elgin, Mr.. Elliott
had been in i'll health While still in the
employ OF the company he was sent to Cal
ifornia last February and to the sanitar-
UNI near Rockford last fall. At times at
the sanitarium he had declared that he
wanted to be with bis wife and daughter
in Elgin.
b.. Last night Elliott took milk. pail and
said he was going after the milk at the
farm of |. A. Strawn, not far distant
When he did not return it was thought
that he had wandered away. A search
failed to find him. This morning search
ing party began the hunt aud after fol
lowing the course of a creek some dis
lance found his body hanging from tree.
He had climbed into the tree and jumped
down to hang himself He had evidently
been :, dead Tor hours when found this
morning at, 10 o'clock Investigation failed
to show where ,he -hpd secured the rope.
Charles G. Elicit was fifty-fve years
old and had resided at, sal Center street,
Flgin. He was horn in 0berlin, Ohio, in
December. 1865. He started as an employe
of the Elgin watch factory when fifteen
years old and had been resident OF FL
-ain practically all of his life When he be-
gan work in 1879 as an GRAND boy he
started a career that, made him manager
of the material department of the factory
Only for short periods of time was he EN-
ployed elsewhere than in the factory. For
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
3,473,466 IDLE IN
LARGE CITIES
Michigan Shows Biggest
Shrinkage in Employment
During the Year
COMPARISON WITH
z @ ONE YEAR AGO
Figures Given Out by Employment Serv-
ice of Department of Labor Indicate
Decided Shrinkage Over January, 1920
New England Statistics.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 26-The number
of persons employed in industry in this
country the first of this month numbered
! 3,473, 1865 less than the number employed
year ago, the department of labor's en-
ployment service announced last night on
the basis of a first nationwide survey
Just completed by special staff of IN
vestigators.
Director John B. Densmore said this
| figure did not necessarily represent num-
| Der OF persons actually employed as it was
quite possible that some of the work
ers had found employment in agricultural
or other pursuits not covered by the sur
vey.
! On the other hand. some officials be
heved the army of unemployed possibly
was larger than the figures given. as no
| effort was being made To ascertain the re
ductlon IN the number of persons en-
| ployed in pursuits other than those classed
under the head of mechanical industry
The employment services figures rep
resented reduction of 1863 per cent in
| the number OF workers employed i'm in
dustries as compared with January a year
ago and 1t was announced that they were
based on the cOncensus of figures from
neutral bodies, state labor departments,
state commissioners of manufacturers,
state and municipal employment services,
workmen's compensation bureaus, EN-
ployers and employees organizations and
all other sources competent to furnish au-
thoritative information. -
Michigan led the states in proportional
reduction with 81 per cent and Ohio and
Indiana followed with a reduction in en-
ployment of 80 per cent each. Next came
Illinois with A per cent: Connecticut
wit oh,
per cent; Wisconsin, 81 per cent: New
\ ork, % per cent: and New Jersey with
y per cent. Percentages for the other
states were not given.
The largest percentage Of reduction in
specific industries 90 per cent, was in
and this was taken to account largely for
the great reduction in employment III
Michigan. This industry, the employment
service announcement said. employed
about 8 per cent of the total workers IN
all industries i'm the country a year ago.
Second in rank in the reduction Of en-
ployes was the building trades with APP
proximately - per cent Last January
about IL per cent of the total industrial
workers was employed in this industry. 4.
''A rediictioh OF 35.5 per ceat tvas 'hbted
in the textile and related Industries %
pei. cent in leather anti5sTts- products and
p per cent, in lumber and house turnl-
ture The reduction in metals and pro
duets. machinery, electrical goods and
foundry products was - Sc per cent; IN
packing and food products 10 per cent and
in clay, glass. cement and stone products
10 per cent. -r .
Surveys made in lS2 cities. the employ
ment service said. showed that numerical
ly the greatest reduction was in New
York city where 234.243 were reported dis
charged
The reduction in New England industrial
ceuters, including Boston. totaled $50, lJ6
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
indiscreet Speech.

The little shoe shop was hot and
overcrowded,. and the wcnsan had TO
wait In line TO be waited on. Just
ahead of her a voluble lady was dis
coursing on the subject of sensible
footwear and illustrating l2T lecture
by small. high-heeled sloe she had
picked up from the counter. Now
just look at that" she said, scornfully.
1T was never made for any human
foot. No sane woman would dream OF
wearing it," And she glanced right
eously at her own No. commonsenSe
boots. I'D like TO see itsC owner.
you can madam, If you glance behind
you. For, if you'll permit me to take
the one you have, I'll get Joe to wrap
up my pair" And the tiny little crea'
ture in pongee who reached for the
offending pump added bit yindictive-
ly: I'm still sane enough to know
my own when l see them."-New York
Evening Sun.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
ADJUSTMENTS.
Way Down East at Bellows Balls.

For sheer dramatic intensity and
beauty of environment it would not have
been deemed possible to contrive such
scenes as ID. w. Griffith has evolved in
Way Down East before that production
was brought out recently in New York.
Since then it has taken the country by
storm.
This master effort of the American
genius of the screen is booked for its
first appearance on Thursday evening.
Jan. %. at the opera house at Bellows
Falls. where il remains for three days
with matinees every afternoon and a
show at night. The story is beautiful
enlargement of the familiar play of the
same title which. was so popular a few
seasons back. Griffith has given it those
touches for which his art is famous and
has made something that is the most
talked of attraction in the theatre today
Mail orders to Hodgdon & Shaw's drug
| store. Add 10 per cent war tax.-Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
Montpeelyu. Jan. II,

AlOltpeelSu. Jdu IL.
Dear Jim ---.-,.. ..-.-
Martin Yilus amt kwite ser rukshus
az lie wuz laest sesshun., gittin married
hedder good effekt on him. Mart IL
aimen ter mack frank Green step sum
wuf ov thees days. frank haz ben hangin
round with kinder ankshus look on his
Ease, he trying ter mack good with Their
soIiers but thay haint gut mulch yuse
fer him. He ken tack moer spase an say
les sany other man that evur rit let
tur. ~&a y. ISL t5-
Jon Southick Their TELLER as rites them
bubble barreled iditoriels fer ther free
press haz ben here tryin ter striek up
seem reel estaet dele bees gotter grin
that's bout as kold az C. p. Smifs hand
shak.
Mister webb Their representatives frum
moo. York. an minister Kize Their repre-
sentativ frun Boston seem kwite hekly
feelers. IF they dew git kinder struck
up ,weel tack 1t Outen them fore Their
sesshin il thrngh, Boston an moo York
NEEDN'T thienk thay ken send emmy ov
thaYer politishuns up hear an put emmy
thing Ovur. Cess ole Ethun wud kick
gut inter Their kapital again.
Tom cheenie haZ gut hiZ rite arm
inner sling, hees shook it all out.
Seen a kinder ov a poor ragged man
hanain round tOther day, | aSted fred
KreSsy ther maier donO hoe he wuz. fred
sed .tWaz -.vvun -eve- Their jedges. He sed
as how thay hetlter go drest lick that
fer. Their staet didn't pay en- enuf to bye
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
BRATTLEB0R0 LOCAL

There will be a Five Hundred party to-
night in Odd Fellows temple.
Sunshine society, branch No. L. will
meet Friday of this week at $50 O'Clock
in the home of Mrs Jennie NJ. White of
Putney road.
Mrs Alice j Snow. formerly of Brat
tlebor0. who is spending the winter with
her daughter, Mrs. r. l.. Adams in Col
rain, Mass, was pleasantly surprised on
her 10th birthday anniversary. Jan. 22.
by receiving a postcard shower from her
many friends
The Woman's auxiliary. unit No 16 of
Brattleboro post, No. ), American Legion,
held a regular meeting in G. A. II. hall
last evening. Reports of the first
convention. held at Burlington, were
given by Mrs. o. G.. Covey. delegate. The
following officers fer the year were elect
ed President. Mrs. Roy Il. Miner; vice
pres. Mrs Ernest Barre: sec. Mrs. o.
G. Convey; treas, Mrs. NJ. J. Moran !:
chaplain. Mrs Frances Clark: color
bearer, Mrs. Chester Lane; executive
comm, Mrs. +. W. Gibson. Mrs. j. J.
Eckels. Mrs. Elbridge Knowlton; pianist,
Miss Everil Davis: substitute pianist.
Miss katherine Stockwell
The body of Charles II. Bly,. -. a Civil
war veteran and father of Cecil -. BLY,
of this town. was brought here last
night from Bennington. where he died
yesterday morning at the Soldiers Home.
where he had lived the past five years.
The funeral will be held at > o'clock to-
morrow afternoon at Bond & Sons under
taking parlors Rev. Demar r. Trout.
pastor of the First Universalist church.
will officiate. and the body will be placed
in the vault in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Mr.. Bly, was born in Springfield. Mass.
Sept 23, 1917. He was employed by the
Estey Organ Co. about 40 years. Mem
bers of the G. \. II. are requested to at
tend the funeral i'm a body.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
Pete Hopkins Writes from Montpelier

Their klose. Asted him why thay didn't
git THAR pinyuns out sooner an he sed
they hadter wurk out ter git a Twin an
hadter rite pinyunS in thare spare item.
Cess Ill vote ter given a raZe.
Thaye gutter. row started, we lfaint
gut emmy room fer metenS. Yer see
thing thay own Their staet. haev gutter
haev phase in .whiteh ter draw thayr
salrys. thaye kfowed aevrtthihg' ont ov
the kapital. Ef them felIers thing they
ken run things 'wedl shows EN- sum day.
'Sarjent Dwite Drinell and fred Cressy
an abe gFoots boy will mack galyant
charlie against than an thayle go out
heels oVur teekittle. .ftss-s.. 2, ESQ
hurb Barbur haz ben a hanging round
sum. HeeS npter Sumthin an doant
want Ad ter kno it an ar tellin him tiS
sum wun else. Sum say hees aftur AID
kudwurths job. Kinder looks that way
considerfn Their bak handed compliments
bees paSsin OF bout ther luther fellers az
haz ben menshuned ferit ole Bill joanz
SEE as how that there way hurb allays
lcts when he wants ennything an doant
want the luther fellers ter kno he wants
It. HeeS so suspishus he wunt look at
himself inner mirrer. Them barber
5ruthers wuld make good football play
irs. Twuddent dew ter letem have Their
ball fer thay Guild wurk Their bubble
krOSs fore yued kno it.
yures Truley.
PETER HOPKINS.
pS-doant- let emmy federal ossifers in
her suller. DOant give Dan Tompson
snny slider eff heese dyen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26

says Mr.. Patterson,s message. Some ma
tions cannot sell their surplus of agricul-
-ture, industries and minerals. Other ma
tions greatly need them. Plenty of idle
ships to carry them. Millions of people
out of employment.
Nations are stih spending money for
war like drunken sailors. The world S
busiess has no directing head. 1t needs
an association of nations whose object is
to do good to all the people, to stop war
and fight with brains, not with bullets;
to stop Bolshevisn, to extend information
al credit, to prevent disease. Civilization
is at stake. Wake up, American, before
it is too late!''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
THINKS TWO BILLS. s.. !.
SHOULD BE KILLED
Mr.. Dewitt Opposes Giving State Au.
thority to Raise Listers Appraisal.
and Salary Increase
Editor of. The Reformer:

Editor of The Reformer:
There are two proposed bills to come
before the present Vermont legislature
which 1t seems to me should fail of be-
coming a part of the statutes. .s-
The proposition TO invest the state with
authority to raise the listers appraisal of
real estate ought to receive scant consid-
Grafton from the lawmakers.
Having already taken from the road
commissioners of the towns the control of
the roads, and from the school directors
the control of the schools the process OF
Capitalization is to go merrlly 'on by de-
privine the listers of the power to fix the
assessed valuation OF real estate.
70 be sure the local assessors ought to
be better qualified to Judge the value of
real estate in. their. own towns than any
state board. bit the state needs more
cash, must have it. to raise salaries and
other Increasing overhead charges. Prac-
tically every. source OF revenue has been
exhausted, the ways and means committee
of the house are at their wits end at
tempting to provide for the next two
years, and SO this scheme TO wiring a few
more dollars out of the towns, already
stagoering under the burden of taxation.
The bill to increase the salaries OF the
supreme and superior court Judges should
be defeated. There is no valid reason why
Judge should be in preferred class IN
the matter of salary. -7T-7st @ss4 s'.'''@r = 49,
It is legislation of this nature that adds
to 1.-THE SOCIALIST and Tadlcdl party RANKS,
for t. Judge cannot SUPPORT his family,
put something aside, and maintain the dig
nifty Of his office on Sl2 a day. how Is Ire
citizen drawing s. day going to turn the
trick? ~
Ii. these judges receive an increase, there
arc many other state officials. whose du-
ties require ability and brains. that, are
entitled to like Treatment, and without
doubt the fact will occur to them, result
inr, in more bills of the same sort.
I As for the judges. one seldom resigns,
and when dea tlf causes a vacancy on the
bench. able lawyers bob UP as candidates
all over the state. anxious for the Job at
the present salalE. -
Only dozen years ago the expences for
the biennial term amounted to less than
million dollars. Tire estimated cost Tor
the present biennial period, with prac-
tically tile same population to serve, IS
over six million.
The cost Of state government has IN
creased odt of all proportion to the cost
of living. .. .----.---, .--.--,.-.,-1-
we ought as, a state. and as individuals
for that matter to learn, once again to be
content with the simple and wholesome
things that made up our. lives IN the old
DAYS before we became engaged IN TINS
mad race after money.
- Yours truly, -. .
..r. FRANK A. DEWITT.
Newfane. Vt, Jan. 25, 1921.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-26
WEST BRATTLEBOR0

+. r.. Manu- is gaining SLOWLY from an
illness which has kept him confined to his
home the past two weeks. i ~. FL. . .
Mrs, Charles Kaye of Brattleboro is
spending several days in Guilford with
her. sister. Mrs. Albert D.. Jacobs. 49, .
Walter Sylvester. who recently bought
the. 4. Y. ID. Piper house on Western
avenue plans to move there early in the
spring. 5s
Mrs Ida Winters is gaining from an
illness. of several weeks and is still stay
ing in Athol in the home of her son, AZ
thur Winters, and family. -.
Carroll Harris, son of Mr.. and Mrs
George q. Harris, who had been i'll several
weeks With pneumonia in the home OF
T. Fletcher on Elliot street. has returned
to his home and is slowly convalescing.
Mrs Thomas Lyonnais has been dis
charged from the ,NIelrose hospital ano
gone to her home in Greenfield. Mrs
Theresa pelegrino, who had been conval
escihg in. the hospital. following a serious
operation several weeks ago. was dis
charged Yesterday and went to her home
on South Main street.