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The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
LOOKOUT TOWER FOR
 SUMMIT MT. SPOKANE

SPOKANE, Feb. 23. - A lookout tower Is to be erected on the summit of Mount Spokane, under plans made by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Civic organizations will bear the actual cost of erection of the tower, and the central labor council has vol unteered to furnish labor without charge.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
TO REGULATE FISH
 OF WASHINGTON STATE

SEATTLE, Feb. 23 New rules governing the taking of food fish in the waters of the state were com pleted by the Washington State Fisheries Board, which says hat under the existing laws the supply appears to be becoming rapidly de- pleted. Eight fish preserves were established and open seasons indi- cated.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
LEGION COMMANDER i;
 ASKS FOR TOLERANCE

INDIANOPOLIS, Feb. 23.-National Commander McNider, of the Ameri- can Legion, in letter to the editor of "The Protestant" made a plea for religious tolerance and declared he was protestant and attended the protestant church but as member of many Masonic bodies had great admiration for the Roman Catholic church.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
HAS GRASP ON SITUATION

SEATTLE, Feb. g. Harold N. Moore. secretary of the retail trade bu- reau of the Chamber of Commerce, Is back from trip to Washington, D. c. He said that in conversation with Mrs. Harding she indicated she would ac- company the President on his Alas ka trip this summer, According to Moore the first lady of the land said: "I want the Mayflower sent through the canal so we can go aboard at Seattle for the Alaska trip, You know I helped my husband in his newspaper office and we know what need there is for new sources of print paper and that Alaska offers a great field"
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
LABOR BOARD MAKES
 WAGE CUT

CHICAGO, Feb. 23.-The railway labor board made another pay slash affecting 10000 firemen and oilers. when they announced that rules. effective March 1, would eliminate extra pay until after the tenth hour and setting up "split trick of eight hours within the spread of twelve hours without overtime.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
SUICIDES AFTER HIS
 RELEASE FROM JAIL

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23: - Charles Guy, A Pasadena business man who was arrested yesterday, charged with obtaining money un- der false pretenses, who was later released on bail, jumped or fell from the eighth floor of the Mary land hotel and was instantly killed.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
RICHARD INDICTED
 -: ABDUCTION CHARGE,

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-The supreme court grand jury has indicted Tex Rickard on the charge of abduct1ng Anna Hesse and Nellie Galko, young girls. His bail was raised from s10,- 900 to $25,O00. He had previously been charged with the criminal as- sault of two other girls.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
KENT IS WINNER OF DOG DERBY IN IDAHO

ASHTON, Idaho, Feb. 23. Tud Kent, the winner of last years dog derby here, won today's race in two hours and thirty-five minutes which was much slower than last years time.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
DOUBT FIELDS STORY

NEW YORK, Feb. 23. - Federal narcotic agents said Harry M. Fields, prisoner of the Detroit police who claims he can furnish leading clues 10 the Taylor mystery, had a long record here as a pickpocket, drug addict and stool pigeon, and they
 placed little credence in his story.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
ALLECE BREACH OF
 PROMISE SUIT FRAMEUP

JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 23.-Govern- or Russell, in a special message to the legislature, charged certain fire insurance interests with the responsi- bility for a s100 900 breach of promise suit brought by Frances Birkheads who alleged seduction.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
INVITED TO LONDON
 CONFERENCE

LONDON, Fb. 23. - The British Government has invited the Irish signatories to the Angla-1rish treaty to come to London for an early con- ference of the whole Irish situation Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
TRIAL BEEN RESUMED

AGAINST OsENcHA!E
 JOS Ar,GEI sES, Feb. 23.-rhe Ob- snchain murder trial was resumed this morning after a weeks recess due to Illness of attorneys. witness 80 and jurymen.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
SAYS p,RlGlBLE WAS ALL RIGHT
UNIVERSITY TO ERECT
 $80o,ooo STADIUM

BERKELEY, Feb. 23.-The Board of Regents of the University of Cal ifornia have decided to proceed with plans calling for a stadium seating 75,O00 people and to cost $S0O,000.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
LINDEBERC CASE TO
 COME UP SATURDAY

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23.-.A con- tinuance until Saturday was ordered in the hearing of the Jafet Lfndeberg habeas corpus application preventing his extradition to Tacoma.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
FRISCO FLYER WILL
 DIE FROM INJURIES

SAN JOSE, Cal, Feb. 23.-"Jin1" Jenkins, the San Francisco flyer, iS not expected to live as the result of a fall of 27OO feet when his para chute failed to open at the air circus
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
Harvey Sulliuan Confirmed i
 As United St,tes Mn cshal

in a similar capacity under President Taft from 1909 to 1903, when he was succeeded by F. R. Brenneman. who will now turn the office back to him, after eight years of service. It is un- derstood Chief Deputy J. H. D. Bouse. who also served under former Marshal Sullivan, has decided to quit Alaska an,s expects to shortly leave for his home in California. Whatever changes will be made in the personnel of sub ordinates is matter entirely up to MT. Sullivan.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23

over tho Copper River railway, taking in the glacier and if possible go as far as Kennecott; or have the party return
 from Fairbanks over the government trail to Chitina, and by rail to Cor dova, here to be picked up by the Mayflower.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23

Wash si,t stockings in warm prank woter They will last much longer t"rr '' -Nn' with soap.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
SAYS LOSS OF ROMA DUE TO ACCIDENT

NORFOLK, Feb. 23.-The state ment of Major General Mason M. Patrick. head of the army air serv- ice, that he believed the destruction of the Roma was due to an accident to the conrols regulating the altitude of the craft, is the only official state ment made so far by the investigat- ors.
 SAYS D,RIGlBLE WAS ALL RIGHT
 NEWPORT NEWS, Feb. 23.-Col. A. S. Fisher, chief of the Langley field, issued a statement in which he sai there was nothing wrong with the Roma when she left here on her last flight"
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
COMMISSION OF REPUBLICANS
 NAMED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-President Harding's appointment of four re- publicans and no Democrats oa tho allied debt refunding commission, was attacked by the Democrats and defended by the Republicans In . lively tilt in the Senate, when the appointee were reported faverably on by the Senate finance committee. They are Secretaries Hughes. and Hoover, Senator Shoot of Utah and Representatives Burton of Ohio.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
ATTACKS APPOINTMENTS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2'.-Senator Walsh, of Montana, introduced & res- olution providing for a Senate judic- fal committee to investigate the eligibility of Senator Smoot and Representative Burton to serve on the Allied Debt Funding Commission.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-23
FISH QUOTATIONS

KETCHIKAN, Feb. 2s.-Fresh hali- but. 13c and 6c. No other offered.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04

Moran and Robbins have been prime
factors in helping Brattleboro high school
win the state championship meets in Bur
lngton the past three years, also all
other meets in which Brattleboro high
has participated during that time, and in
some of the meets the scores of these two
athletes have been more than the total
score of the second team.
Although the team will miss Moran it
has some good performers left, and Coach
Diedrich Stote expects to put a winning
aggregation in the field the coming year
Mcrccrsburg academy is one of the
best known preparatory schools in the
country and has wide reputation both
as to scholarship and as to athletic
prowcss. Moran plans to stay there two
years. His decision to make the change
came through conference with an instruc-
tor at Camp Namaschaug at Spofford
lake.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
JOY AT FINISH OF TUNNEL.
Officers and Head Men at Big Davis
Bridge Dam Site Make Merry with
Banquet and Music.

The woods encircling the camps at
Davis Bridge resounded Saturday eve
ming with music and revelry AS the of
ficers and head men of all The construc-
ton companies. who built the tunnel in
connection with the project for big
earth dam by the New England Power
Co., made merry mt II banquet celebrat-
ing the greatest engineering feat ever
undertaken in the Deerliell valley.
An orchestra from Bennington, was
called in to help celebrate the completion
/ of the gigantic engineering task. The
people of the countryside for miles
around made merry in public and pri-
vate receptions, in honor of the moment
| Gus occasion.
Seven days in the week for seyeIa
months. ilen and machinery have beer
toiling in their efforts to finish the giant
work in schedule time. The huge tun
mel. measuring 500 feet in length anC
% feet in diameter, will divert thu
course of the Deerfeld river at the sitt
of the immense dirt dam. This tunne
viii take care of all the water in tn
river so that excavation can be mad
in the river bed in order to remove al
loose dirt. and to work in a considerable
solid mud core.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
SHELLEY OUT For SENATE.
Newfane Man Says lie Would Not Try
TO Serve More Than One Term if
EInptn1

Newfane Man Says lie Would Not Try
TO Serve More Than One Term if
Elected.
When all the world nre ncighbors it
is fitting and proper that the people of
the grand little great state of Vermont
should know all the facts about candi-
dates. Therefore. like the sleeping
beauty" who slept 100 years, | must first
Introduce myself, being little known.
live in house by the side of the road
in the southeast corner of Vermont, 100
miles from Boston. | have never held
any office. have never been candidate
except that | have been candidate for
n seat i'm the United States senate for ~
years and am still in the field but still
lack 400 names to have my name put on
primary ballot.
What party? may be asked. Political
parties in Vermont are an uncertain
quantity. ] have always been identified
with the grand old party that rose in
protest to the old free rum party, who
for 30 years before it was prostitutcd by
local option in its conventions reaffirmed
its allegiance to the prohibitory law
Tut alas when it came to the fork of the
roadS-Right truth. temperance. indi-
vidual and civic righteousness, which is
godliness Left: lies, license, local OPP
ton. evil spirit, which is none other than
the devil.-thc party took the left. but |
have tried to bear to the right But since
the 18th amendment to the federal con
stitution put the local option party out
of commission. ! am uncertain whether
| am n regular or an Independent. The
machine party that left the track GER
tainly are not regular though they re-
tain the name.
| had a speaking acquaintance with the
late Hon. Luke =. Poland; knew the
late Hon. Kttredge Haskins through a
long term of years have known United
States Senator Carroll s. Page through
newspaper reports and the volumes of lit
crature he has sent out. indeed he once
sent me a large handsome picture of him
self. | have no money to put out and
am no orator. | have but one pledge to
make and that is if by one chance i'll a
hundred | should be elected | would not
try to hold down the job longer than one
term. Should not the required number
of good men and women of Vermont vol
untcer to put my name on the primary
ballot, votes at the election, be they few
or many, would be appreciated
WILLIAM i. SHELLEY.
Newfane. Aug. 3, 1929.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04

ucd service If this alternative is
chosen Wilmington will receive one
half of the net saving in construc
ton cost. estimated at approximate
ly 100000.
| appreciate fully that the figures
given in this letter are estimates. They
are made from the best data available
and are, l believe, conservative but
altered conditions may of course in
crease or decrease the net earnings of
the railroad and make its showing bet
ter or worse. An actual test is the
only safe guide. Accordingly. l sug-
gcst that the railroad stop at the dam
and boat line be tried for period of
two years. If at tho end of that time
the earnings statement of the railroad
shows that it is feasible to operate. the
railroad to Wilmington and the people of
the valley so desire, the Power Co. will
then extend the railroad to Wilmington
and discontinue the boat service.
Very truly yours,
II. |. HARTMAN.
BOSTON, July n, 1922.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04

Icy will be contributing to the support
of the railroad in the future; and while
the Monroe Bridge plant will continue
to operate and give a substantial ton
mage to the railroad yet it is located SO
near Hoosac tunnel that its gross pay
mcnts are relatively small. The Reads
boro Chair Co. and the Ludington Co.
are substantial industries, but are. not
large freight payers.
The above facts raise the question as
to whether the railroad will in the flu
ture have sufficient revenue to pay its
operating expenses, to say nothing of in
tcrcst on bonds or dividends on stock
The figures given below represent the
actual income of the railroad for the
years 1919. 1920 and 1921. less its re-
ccipts for the pulp mill. the New Eng
land Power co. and the Metal Edge Box
Co.. and also it's actual operating ex
pcnscs less certain estimated savings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
BOY INJURED UNDER CAR.
Taken to Memorial Hospital Following
Accident i'm DummerstOn-East Put.
ney Family Has Mishap.

Lester f. Howe, little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester Howe of East putney. is in
the Memorial hospital suffering with
conclusion of the brain. caused by being
pinned under the family automobile
when it overturned late Sunday after
noon near the sharp curve in the road
near the Walter L. Walker place in
Dummerston.
The family, which consists of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howe and two children, had been
on Black mountain berrying and were
on their way home when the accident
happened. Mr.. Howe drove down the
steep bill past H. ~. Aiillor,s place., us
ing his emergency brake because his
service brakes failed to work. He
thought he had descended far enough to
be safe but as he tried to make the
sharp corner of the road he was unable
TO turn the steering gear either way.
The car left the road and overturned.
Mr.. Howe was able to eXtricate him
self from beneath the car, but was UNI
able TO raise the machine from the boy
who was pinned under the back of the
front seat. He went for help to the
Walker and Miller homes, but those
families were away. He returned to the
| car and finally succeeded in getting the
child out. Mrs. Howe and little daugh.
| ter were not injured.
Ransom b. Laughton. who approached
| the scen6 of the accident Just as the
child was removed. took the family tC
| the hospital. where DR.. G. II. Anderson
attended tho boy. who is about two
wears old Mr.. Howe works for Henry
w. Frost in East Putney.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
so Years Ago
Happenings Of July, 1879,
Taken from the Files Of
The Phoenix
1t is expected that Greeley flag will
be flung TO the breeze Saturday.

1t is expected that Greeley flag will
be flung TO the breeze Saturday.
The Brattleboro Manufacturing COM
pany are at present engaged in making
chamber sets for the wholesale trade.
About 30 men are now employed
II
That drinking foutain at the junction
of High and Main streets has been in po-
stion for some days and seems to be well
patronizcd. If it would only run ice
water!
The Jersey heifer presented to the
Unitarian fair by Mr.. Bradley, and
which remained undisposcd of, was won
ut the final drawing by Mrs Addison
Hall, realizing to the society S126.
q
Col. George w. Hooker. brother-in-law
of the late James Fisk, Jr.. has become
resident of Bennington and gone into
company with II. w. Putnam in manu-
featuring improved tacks for carpet use.
The Connecticut River railroad sold
over 900 excursion tickets to Montreal
during the last ten days.
=
The New England Furniture com
pany's shop at Centerville is nearly com
pleted and ready for the machinery. The
les in height. \ Leffel turbine wheel
of 30 horse power has been put in and
things begin to wear a decided business
aspect.
About tn usual number of people are
taking their summer trips to the noun
tains. the springs and the seaside. Judge
Tyler and G. y. Davenport, Esq, have
Just returned from lIewitt's Point on
the Massachusetts coast, though the
Judges family will remain few weeks
longer. Alfred Wright and family re-
turned on Saturday from sojourn at
Nantasket beach and Mr.. Ranger arrived
on Tuesday from his annual trip to Can
ada.
West Brattlcboro: ]. p. Goodenough
| has a cow of native breed which hasn't
had Il calf for five years, but during that
| time. since the first six months, has aver
aged six quarts of milk a day. Isn't this
an unusual circumstance?
8
Snxtons River: The people of Sax
| tons River have increased their subscrip-
! tion for the proposed Baptist academy at
this place over 1000. 1t is intended to
carry the whole amount up to $4,000.
| g
| Dummcrston: Lewis Randall shot a
hedgehog last Monday which weighed
| 17M pounds.
| IL
Jamaica: A man in this town, within
the last six years has had born to him
by his first wife. pair of twin daughters
she diving. and by II second wife. one pail
of twin boys and another pair of twiI
MISUNDERSTANDING three pairs of twins
by two mothers.
II
day. fred n gun loaded with peas a
neighbor's horsh, not expecting it to d.
any damage. but to his surprise thu
charge took effect and horse fell dead.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
NEW VALLEY FAIR FEATURE.
Young Peoples Recreation Center to BE
Known as IIappyland-Will Have
playground Facilities.

A new feature at this years Valley
Fair. which will be held Sept. 26 and
p, will be a Young peoples recreation
center to he known as Happvland. This
center will be in the pine grove on the
grounds and will be in charge of Com
munitv Service Director F. *. Brown.
In this grove all playground facilities
lctic contests of all kinds for boys and
girls. There also will be baby show and
parade. ribbons being given for the best
babies. Daylight fireworks, Punch and
Judy games. band pieces and vaudeville
acts will be in the Hannvland pro"ram
for each morning and afternoon of the
fair.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
WOULD PUT IN BOAT LINE.
Continued from Page l. J

from the Monroe Bridge Paper Co., the
Metal Edge Box Co., the pulp mill at
Mountain Mills and the construction
work of the New England Power Co.
Fire has recently destroyed the plant
formerly owned by the Metal Edge Box
Co.; there is less than four years avail
able supply of spruce in the valley for
the use of the Mountain Mills plant
thus neccssitating its closing down even
if it were not to be flowed out by the
new dam and upon the completion of
the new dam and the power plant con.
nected with the same, the New England
Power Co. will have substantially com
plcted the hydraulic development of the
Deerfield river north of Hoosac tunnel.
Consequently but one of the four larg-
est freight-paying industries in the val
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
L0WDEN HONORED
BY BUSINESS men
Hundred at Luncheon for Hol-
stein Head
He and Governor HARNESS Speak--High
Praise for Secretary +. l.. HOughton
Of IIoIstcip- Friesian Association,

Vermont has always exerted great
influence over the country in the past
and is still cxerting a great influence
agriculture is just as essential to Yer
mont as to the states of the Middle
West; and we cant isolate ourselves
from the world just as the state can't
isolate itself from the nation. These
were the high points touched upon by
President Frank o. Lowden of the IIol-
stcin-FricsiaH Association of America
and formerly governor of Illinois in an
address here Saturday afternoon before
over 100 business and professional men
from this town and vicinity. The adj
dress of Nermont's distinguished visitor
was tingcd with an earnestness that not
only held the interest of everyone pres
ent, but reflected also much serious
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
HOw's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Medicine.
Halls Catarrh Medicine has been taken by
satarrh sufferers for the past thirty-hve years
and has become known as the most reliable
remedy for Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Medicine
acts through the Blood on the Mucous surfaces
expelling the Poison from the Blood and heal
ing the diseased portions. =, :,
After you have taken Halls Catarrh Medi'
cine for short time you will see a great I'M
provement in your general health start TAX
ing Halls Catarrh Medicine at once and get
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
EUGENE MORAN TO LEAVE.

Brattlcboro High School to Lose Captain
and for Three Years Star Performer OF
lis Track Ttcam.
Through a decision of Eugene Moran
to enter Mcrccrsburg academy, MERGERS
burg Pa. Brattleboro high school loses
the star performer on It's track team and
the man who was elected to captain the
team the coming year. Moran finished his
junior year last June. At that time Fred
Robbins, Moran's nearest competitor fol
high school track honors, graduated. leav-
ing Moran easily the principal prospec
tive point winner for his senior year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
DEATH RECALLS VISIT.

DIR. Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor Of
Telephone, Gave Address to Austine
Pupils in 1914.
The death of DR.. Alexander G. Bell,
inventor of the Bell telephone, brings TO
the minds of many Brattleboro persons
Mr.. Bells visit to this town in June,
closing exercises of the Austne Institu-
ton. On that occasion he was intro
duced by the late DIR. Henry ID. Holton
president of the institution, who said
DR.. Bell was the inventor of the tele.
phone, an early teacher of speech to
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04

deaf mutcs and the founder of the Ameri.
can Association to Promote Teaching. of
Speech to the Deaf DR.. Bell skctched
the history of the teaching of the blind
and deaf from it's earliest days. In refer
ring to the chairman's introduction DIR.
Bell said his telephone invention had
been the result of years of exertion in
teaching the deaf to speak in the Horace
Mann school.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
FREIGHT CARS BUMP.
Drawback Fails to Hold and Coal Car
Is Pushed on Siding, Overturnine
Large Tank of Tar.

Large Tank of Tar.
An accident which fortunately had no
serious results happened in the local rail
road yard Tuesday when the draw
back between the switch engine and IA
train of freight cars failed to hold the
cars. gaining momentum, crashed into
two cars being unloaded on the siding
back of the Twin State Gas & Electric
company's plant on Bridge street. The
brakes of the two cars. one of which
was coal ear being unloaded BY two
showed them 20 feet. The forward car
on the siding struck a large tank con
tanning tar in the rear of the plant and
carried it 10 feet. ovcrturnng it. The
coal car also was pushed off the end of
the track and the forward truck buried
itself in the dirt. The two workmen in
the car were not injured.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-04
Qualified.

SIN this part" said the movie direc-
tor. lyon have to do a number of funny
falls. How are you on fallsT
81 rank next to Niagara" the 'appli-
cant replied confidently.-Boston Trans
cript.