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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15

is in response to an effort on the part
of the postoffice department to slightly
better the postal service on the West
River line under the handicap of closed
through pouches TO the terminals and
no mail clerk. |
Miss Marian Cummings spent last
week with friends i'll Brattleboro.
A union prayer meeting will be held
in the Baptist ch.rch Thursday evening
OF this week.
Mrs w. w Holbrook is recovering
from an illness caused by severe at
| tack of acute Indigestion.
Mrs. IL. j. Heath went Saturday TO
| Brattleboro to spend the weekend with
her daughter, Miss Eunice Heath.
| Mrs S. L. Vincent will have charge OF
| Sunday evening and the topic will be,
| New Work Our Committees Can Do.
] Rev BIB
| w. NJ Sparks was able to open his
barber shop Saturday night after being
confined to his house week with an
attack of @allstones.
Mrs. Bertha Whitaker returned re-
Gently from Dummerston hill where she
visited and cared for her mother, Mrs.
James Betterley, who is recovering
| from an illness.
The heaviest snow storm so far this
! winter came Friday, from 10 to u in
/ ches falling during the night and day.
4 lie snow was llgnL ana duIOtnODllts
| Rad no difficulty in making a path
through the drifts.
Mrs. Atherton Hale of Claremont, y.
H.. is a guest at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs H s. Kidder. Mr..
| Hale expects soon to finish his contract
work at Claremont and to Join his wife
| here for a vacation.
Herbert Benson was called home from
| Londonderry Wednesday by the serious
! illness of his wife She is at present
doing as we'll as possible. Mrs. Dora
Benson of Brattleboro and her mother,
| Mrs. Frank Palmer, are caring for her.
An all-day meeting Of the Hadassah
| league viii be held at the Baptist vestry
Friday of this week. Mrs. Alma Cum
Inings and Mrs. James Perkins will serve
dinner at noon. A large attendance is
desired as there is special sewing to be
done.
At the Baptist church Sunday, Feb. ID,
i Rev. c. W. Bishop made the service
| commemorative of President Lincoln,
/ giving brief account of his life and
! dwelling upon the characteristics which
7 made him so much loved. The, pulpit
was draped with the American flag.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
SAVED DAYLIGHT IN 1913.
Hartford Records Show Bell Ringers
Awakened Citizens Before Dawn.

uARItORD, Conn, Feb. l5-Dav-
light saving was in operation in Hart
ford in 1913, seven years after its set
tlement, according to an old record un-
covered by Corporation Counsel Walter
:. Schut. who was looking UP data for
map of the official boundary line of n
certain section of this city.
+. Perry Close of the city engineer
ing department, who is an advocate of
daylight saving. and who is doing the
map for Mr. Schultz, points out that
Page 80 of copy No. l of the Hartford
Town records, reveals that a general
town meeting in Hartford Oct "a. 1913.
voted that there should be a bell rung
by the watch every morning an hour
before daybreak, and that they are APP
pointed BY the constable for that pur-
pose shall begin at the bridge and so
ring the bell all the way forth and
back; Master Moodys (WyllvshilD to
John Pretts. and that they shall be in
every house one up and some lights
within quarter of an hour after
the end of the bell ringing, if they can
or else then to be up with lights afore-
mentioned half an hour before daylight
and for default herein is to forfeit one
shilling and six pence to be to him that
finds him faulty and six pence to the
town
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
Surprised ON s7th Anniversary.

Madam Susan Willard was given the
nrst genuine surprise party of her life
thursday afternoon, Feb. 10. when the
young women who are workers i'm the
mllt owned BY her son, c. II. Willard,
appeared at the house laden with fruits.
confectionery and other gifts to bring
her good wishes and congratulations on
her slth birthday anniversary Among
the quits was a handsome birthday cake
holding is lighted candles. the number
being a graceful compliment to the
youthful spirit of Madam Willard which
was termed equal to that of sweet .l6. .
Charming original verses for the occa-
sion were written and read BY Miss
Emma Bushnell
Madam Willard is the widow of War
rem H. Willard, whom she married Sept.
10. 1854. She has been a lifelong resi-
dent Of this town. being born in the
place now owned bv W. F. Cate. Her
maiden name was Susan Dunton. Her
life has been one of cheerful helpfulnesS
She has retained all faculties 10 an up-
usual degree and enjoys helping with
I he work of the house. also does cOnsid-
cradle sewing, etc. She is fond of read
ing and has a clear, keen judgment as
to the worth while in literature She
maintains Il live interest in church and
public affairs of the day.
The little celebration arranged for
her birthday anniversary gave her much
pleasure Her home for many years has
been with her son and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs {. IF Willard.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
IRISH PRISONERS
BADLY TREATED
Sim Fem Organ Says They Are Given
Insufficient Food and
Clothing

DUBLIN, Feb. 1J.-Severe criticism
of the treatment of prisoners confined
at the Ballykinlar internment camp on
Dundrum bay. County Down, is pub
lished by the Irish Bulletin, a Sim Fein
publication. 1t is asserted that Sir Ha-
mar Greenwood's statement in the house
of commons that the informed men would
be accorded treatment similar to that
normally given prisoners of war is far
from correct.
The prisoners are given wholly i'll
sufficient food and many of them go hun
food they are unable to make the most
of, as they do all their own cooking and
are allowed less than half the supply
of coal necessary"
There is no hot water in the camp
no wash-house, and no drying room, the
article continues, and it is therefore nee
eSSary for the prisoners to do their wash.
ing as best they can in cold water and
dry their laundry wherever they can.
Many of the prisoners" the state
ment goes on, are practically bare
footed" saying that no arrangements
have been made for supplying them with
boots or even for repairing those they
have.
1t is charged that, while the prisoners
are permitted to receive parcels, al
most invariably part of the contents is
pilfered by the English troops in the
camp" The prisoners suffer intensely
from cold and undertaking, il is stated
Every batch of prisoners who have
arrived at the camp during the last
month";" the article goes on. "have com.
planned of their treatment en- route. One
batch of 20 men left certain camp neal
Dublin on Sunday evening and did not
arrive in Ballykinlar until Tuesday eve.
ming. During this time they received
practically no food, the military guard
having forgotten the prisoners rations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
AUTO INN" is RAIDED.
Federal Officers Find Liquor at Wilbra-
ham, Mass, Resort.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Feb. ID
The Auto inn," a well known resort for
motorists near Nine Mile pond in North
Wilbraham, conducted by two local men,
Jeremiah b. Donovan and jeremiah j.
Sullivan. was raided at 4 yesterday aft
crnoon by United States Revenue, Officers
Maurice J. CrOnin and Edward \. Keefe.
\ pint of gin, pint of cOlOred spirits
and small quantity of whiSkey was
seized. Donovan was released on his own
rCcOgniZance and will appear this after
noon, as will Stanley Somerville a Ne
gro waiter, of this city. Both are held
tor violation of the Volstead act
Preparation for the raid was made
Sunday. when the inn was visited and
evidence of illegal liquor selling secured,
Yesterday the officers went to the place
and found the prOprietors absent. The
Negro chef and Stanley Somerville. and
several other Negro walters We're there,
however.
y whiskey and ginger ale highball
were ordered. At first the waiter pro-
tested that there was no liquor to be
had. He then recognized one of the Off
GERS as one he had served the previous
day, and declared that they could have
anything they wanted. The drinks were
served.
The officers then uncovered their
badges. The chef was questioned with
Somerville and they said that Mr.. Don.
oVan was in Springfield but would be
back in an hour. The place was searched
under warrant. and in the kitchen, be-
tween the range and the window, the
li"uor was found.
Mr.. Donovan arrived soon after and
assumed full responsibility for the charge
and for the appearance in court of Som.
crvllle, who was them released They
will appear before Commissioner Rice
tins afternoon. The evidence was brought
TO this city.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
T0WNSIfEND.
Sudden Death of Miss NJ. \. Hobert.

The residents of the village were sur
prlsed and shocked Saturday morning by
the news that Miss Myra Abby Hobert,
TO- had died at about l. O'Clock Friday
night from stroke of ap0plexy. Al
though Miss Hobcrt's health had been
frail the past 20 years she had been as
usual this Winter and was in good spir-
its. Her sister. Miss Amelia l. IIobert.
has been making her home WITH her the
past year and has given her loving care
and companionShip.
Miss Myra Hobert was born in Peru
April %, 1852, daughter of George ).
and Hannah tBatchelder) Hobert. At
the age OF SIX years she moved with her
parents TO Londonderry and after her
mothers death came with her father in
1870 TO the house in this village, where
she had since lived She attended CheS-
ter high school several terms and after
ward taught school a few years. She
took up the study of short hand at one
time and was an expert typewriter oper-
ator. Miss Hobert Joined the Congrega-
tional church at Londonderry at the age
OF IL and afterward united with the
church IN this village where she had re-
manned a member though her health pre-
vented her attending the services for
some years. She also was a member OF
the W omenS Missionary society at ono
time. She had good judgment and knowl-
edge of literature and took great pleasure
in reading.
Besides her sister Miss Amelia Ho,
bert, who will make her home here for
the present. she leaves two sisters, Mrs
Etta IL. Ward of Greenfield, Mass. and
Mrs. Alice +. Everitt of Redfeld. S. d.
and brother, Walter L. Hobert of Min.
neapolis, MINI.
The funeral was held at the home
Monday afternoon at 80 o'clock. Rev
K. ii. Bosworth of the Congregational
church officiated.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
Coodnow, Pearson& Hunt
Brattleboros Department Store

CLEARANCE SALE
It's not an ordinary affair. We're taking big
losses to offer prices that cannot and will not be
so low again this year.
Don't wait for something more interesting
to happen-it can't. We haven't hesitated to cut
our prices to point much below cost. Why
portunity now offered in our
Downstairs Dry Goods Store
SITS Bed Sheets, 72x9O. These are the Fairfield
sheets and good quality,
Clearance Sale Price S1.25
75c Minerva Yarn, in big assortment of colors
This is very popular yarn,
Clearance Sale Price $50
WOmen's $500 Muslin Chemises, very dainty and
made of fine nainsook ..-.
Clearance Sale Price S1.5O
s2.25 C-B Corsets, extra quality, all sizes and
every pair guaranteed,
$500 Bed ComfOrters, in medium dark coors;
good quality, all stitched,
Clearance Sale Price 1913
Children's S1.OO FIeeced Vests and Pants, all
sizes to IA years, Clearance Sale Price $50
25c Fruit of the Loom Cotton, 36 inches WIDE and
also BelwOOd Cambria. Your choice
Clearance Sale Price 19c
soc Big Bath Towels, all white and some with
blue borders, Clearance Sale Price $50
Women's $500 House Dresses, with pockets,
trimmed collar and belt. Made of fine per-
GALE Clearance Sale Price $1.25
Infants SOC Knit Bands and Wrappers, sizes
months to years. great bargain, "
Clearance Sale Price $50
Women's SOC Fine Cotton Hose in black and
brown and some with white feet Your choice
Clearance Sale Price $50
Children's SOC Hose at Half Price for this sale.
All sizes and all perfect,
Clearance Sale Price Csc
SOC Fine Long Cloth, SO inches wide Extra fine
quality, channels finish,
Clearance Sale Price 29G
A New Lot of Fine Ginghams in fancy paids-
same as sold few months ago at Acc,
Clearance Sale Price 1910
75c Fancy Cretonne in four styles from which to
select; all very pretty designs,
Clearance Sale Price 45c
s1.5O Suskana Silk Faille, in twelve different col
ors, including black, navy and brown,
Clearance Sale Price Csc
S1.75 Navy Blue Serge, all wool, SO inches wide.
Very fine quality serge. Navy only
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
WOMAN LAWYER IN CHINA.
Mrs. McCauley First of Her Sex to
Practice in That Country.

SHANGHAI, Jan. l. Correspond
once of The Associated Press Mrs
Helen NIcCauley. bride of Lieut. c. Nc
Caulev. commanding the American gun
tinction of being the first woman given
the privilege of practicing law in China
She was admitted to the bar by Judge
C. s. Lobingier in the United States
court for China at Shanghai in Decem-
Der. Mrs. McCauley was formerly Miss
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15

Helen Leary of Austin, Tex. where she
served for a period in the legal depart
ment of the Austin Associated Charities
following her graduation from the law
department of the University of Texas
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15

is in response to an effort on the part
of the postoffice department to slightly
better the postal service on the West
River line under the handicap of closed
through pouches to the terminals and
no mail clerk
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
SuperfuOus.
BARRE Times.

mont Legislature felt himself called up
on to make the declaration that he was
not being paid by any outside interest
to advocate the viewpoint of an outside
interest. The declaration ought to
have been superfous under the legisla-
tors oath of office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
Postal Service Improvement.

a closed pouch i being sent from the
postofiice here to West Townshend on
the evening mail train and Il return
pouch il received from theeWest Towns
hend Office on the morning train. This
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-15
WESTMINSTER.
Rev. f. w. wild Resigns.

Rev. f. w. Wild has accepted a call
to another church. His resignation was
read from the pulpit Sunday morning
and was accepted.
The church committee consisting of
w. +. Ranney George G. Wright and
Rollo Metcalf. has called an eccleSiasti-
cal council to meet in the church
Wednesday, Feb. %, at p. m, TO act
en- the matter of diSSolving the pastoral
relations. The churches end persons in
vited are: Bellows Balls, SaxtOns River.
Westminster West. Putney. Dummers-
ton, Newfane. Brattleboro Centre, West
BrattlebOro. BrattleborO Swedish. Rev.
Arthur w. Bailey of the Second church
Of Holyoke, Mass, and Rev. Henry G..
Megathlin of WalpOle. y. H. Each
church invited is asked to send pastor
and delegate.
The Social Bible class meets with Miss
Florence Metcalf this afternoon.
Charles Underwood of New York is
visiting his brother. Joseph Underwood.
The Mothers club will meet Wednes-
day afternoon with Mrs. Ernest Wright.
Mrs. Carrie Nutting has returned
from visiting friends in Boston and
Lowell
On Wednesday evening. Feb I6. Boy
den Grange will give a dance in West
minister town hall. An oyster supper
will be served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Farr will ceIe-
brate their 10Th wedding anniversary
Saturday, Feb. 10. The relatives are to
be entertained in their home during the
afternoon and in the evening all their
friends will be welcomed in the church
parlors.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
INSURE AIR PASSENGERS.

Air-fight insurance at lastl In
spite of the fact that England and
the continent have had flight insur-
ance for number of years, it was
only recently that American air
plane voyagers were able to obtain
insurance covering their flights.
Now an air passenger may insure
his life and limb at the rate of SIS
a day, remarks the Detroit Times.
In connection with the insurance
phase of aeronautics many pilots are
taking out policies and it has be-
come the ordinary thing for the pas
sengers to spend the additional SIS
for policy when flying long dis
tances.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24

Has the price of wheat gone
down. Do you know the whole
sale price of lenses and frames
has dropped about 30 per cent ?
Are you paying exhorbitant
prices to any inexperienced
young man that year ago last
July was doing manual labor and
had never attended an optical
college and did not know one lens
from another at that time? Or
maybe you would like to have
your eyes or body treated by a
young woman that is a graduate
of a correspondence school that
gives about a three months
course? When you read an adj
warning you against buying
cheap glasses at reasonable
prices and the firm advertising
this is an old reliable optical es-
tablishment, take warning, when
same is written by this class of
spectacle vendors, who travel
about the country, do not main
tain an office and sometimes ped
die glasses from house to house.
Do not swallow hook, line and
pole. Maybe someone is trying
to bunco you out of $15 or 500
for pair of glasses worth about
So. We will not be responsible |
for glasses sold by anyone claim
ing they have or have had head
quarters with the Jones Optical
Co. Ask them how much exper-
fence they have had; do they
maintain an office; is their out
fit worth $75 or $4,000 or more?
If your glasses do not fit, are
they in a position to return the
money paid for them, and have
they returned the money to those
they did not fit and wanted their
money back? and how long they
have been in the business, and |
what they were doing in July, I
1920 Would glasses bought of |!
such spectacle vendors be worth I
one fourth as much as those pur-
chased through a reliable optical
company? We may have taught
them some of the fundamentals
of optics and let them use our
good name to get started, but
when the kicks started looming
in we have done the best wei
could and tried to square them.
even refitting and giving new
lenses away free in some cases.
Notice-Dr A. E. Jones is the
only authorized representative of
the Jones Optical Co. in the state
of Idaho. Deep toric lenses,
shell-tex frames, or eye glasses.
SPECIAL $3.50. Toric kryptox.
$15 Buy direct, cut out the mid
die man and save 500.
COMING AGAIN SOON, watch
for date. 26w2
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
ROOF OF INGENIOUS DESIGN
Wealthy Partisan Has Pneumatic
Cover for Thester, Which Can
Be Removed and Replaced.

In the heart Of fashionable
quarter of Par S, surrounded by six
story mastery eces Of architectural
art, stands merchant princes pa
iatial home, half hidden in the YER
dure of its wooded garden that
stretches luxurionsly before it, with
the flower beds among the trees and
an ample yelyety lawn. Every night,
during the summer, this little oasis
of yerdure is transformed into a
luxurious theater, with raised stage
and comfortably upholstered arm
chairs arrayed in rows in the man
FER Of an auditorium, all shrouded
and sheltered beneath a transitory
floating roof. Thistle roof
which disappears with the dawn Of
day, and shrinks to such proper
tons that it can be disposed of in
small truck, is the outstanding fea-
ture of the interesting arrangement
that transforms nightly an open
garden into closed theater. This
is made possible by the fact that
the roof is pneumatic-is, in fact,
only slightly heavier than the at
mosphere 1t is composed Of a large
alright silk envelope so shaped that
when inflated it forms itself into an
arch, like the groined roof of
vault, long enough and wide enough
TO cover both auditorium and stage.
1t requires very little support and
with guys and light cables it is re-
tanned in place.-Henry S. White,
III Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
How Not to Take Cold.

Some persons are subject tc
frequent colds, while others sell
dom, if ever, have a cold. You
will find that the latter take good
care of themselves. They take j
shower or cold sponge bath every
day in a warm room, avoid over
heated rooms, sleep with a win
dow open or partly onpen, avoid
excesses, over sweating, becom-
ing over heated and then chilled
and getting wet feet. Then, when
hey feel the first indication of a.
cold, they take Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy without delay and
It is soon over.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
FAIR EXCHANGE
a New Back for an Old One. How
Il Can Be Done In Nexperce.

" YAH 9S 9%ttS W. bNV@P@t@~s
The back aches ut times with O
dull indescribable feeling, making
you weary and restless; piercing
pains shoot across the region OF the
kidneys, and again the loins are SO
lame that to stoop is agony. No use
TO rub or apply plaster to the back
il the kidneys are weak. You cam
not reach the cause. Nezperce resi-
dents would do well to profit by the
following example.
Mrs. w. @. Bartlett, ZIG s. jack
son St.. Moscow, Idaho. says: Some
time ago my kidneys were out of or
der and showed different signs Of
weakness. MY back was lame and
sore and there were pains through
my kidneys. A box of Doan's Kidney
Pills soon strengthened my kidneys
and rid me of the complaint"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Bartlett had. Milsurn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
INTERNAL RucTIoNs.

My neighbours little boy was in
vited away for Christmas. he had
turkey and goose for dinner, and
for supper he had chicken and corn.
That evening when he had come
home he got sick. His mother asked
him what the matter was and he
answered: ooh, mamma, the chick
en- and the goose and the turkey are
fighting over that corn."-Ex-
change.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
HARD WATER GOOD FOR TEETH
Kind of Drinking Supply Has to Do
4 With Keeping Grinders In
Condition.

Lime salts, so necessary to the
body, are found in certain waters,
which are designated as 'hard'
when the content of calcium ex-
ceeds minimum. Recently, re-
ports the Journal Of the American
Medical Association, the pharma-
cologist, Fl. III. Meyer of Vienna, a
careful scientific observer, has pre-
scented statistics regarding the mill
tary fitness of young men from diff
ferent regions in Europe considered
in relation to the quality of the wa
ter supplies at their homes. His
data are interpreted to indicate a
smaller incidence of diseased teeth
and larger proportion of persons
with healthy teeth in areas where
harder potable waters are used.
Meyer even ventures the state
ment that, in general, the percent
age of young men fit for service in
the armies was larger in calcareous
regions that in those in which other
formations prevail. He also cites
specific instances of "deteriora-
ton" in the quality of the recruits
at Gotha after the population was
compelled to change its supply of
drinking water from one Of hard
quality to softened water.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
RED TAPE IN SPAIN.

In order to obtain an auto license
in Spain a married woman must
have the approval of her husband,
in addition to a certificate of good
conduct from the mayor and evil
dence of the ability to read, write,
hear, see and general good health,
besides the approval of an inspector
concerning the mechanical ability to
drive.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-11-24
A Timely Suggestion,

This is the season Of the veal
when the prudent and careful
housewife replenishes her supply
of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy,
1t is almost certain to be needed
before the winter is over and re-
seults are much more prompt and
satisfactory when it is kept at
hand and given as the first indi-
cation of a cold appears and be-
fore it has become settled in the
system. There is no danger in
giving it to children as it con-
tains no opium or other harmful
drug.