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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-18
ESCORT TO GOV. HARTNESS.
(Continued from Page II

an exhibition on the rife range, where
the chief executive fired a few shots from
the machine gun. The Stokes mortar
was In action and details relative to IT
were explained to the governor, who
seemed deeply interested in this bit of
yer and automatic pistol practice was
given, besides the firing of few shots
from the Browning machine gun.
Following the short stay at the range,
the governor. accompanied by his staff
and various officers in the 1T2d Infan-
try, made a thorough inspection of the
camp. which was as neat and trim as
the most exacting housewife would wish
her home to be- The bearing of the sol
diers, Vermont's own, was that of vet
Grams of many years service under milf
tary routine, and the governor COM
mented favorably on this particular phase
of his inspection. Governor Hartness,
with Adjt-Gen. Herbert i. Johnson,
lunched at noon with Col II. l.. Newbold,
commanding officer at the post.
At $50 in the afternoon, the official
review was held on the parade grounds.
The regiment had been placed in position
when the governor and his staff, together
with other reviewing officers. arrived at
the north end of the grounds and took up
their stations facing the troops. The
governor had as his orderly Sgt.-Maj.
ing a salute by the entire regiment, ac-
corded the governor and the reviewing
officers, the commander-in-chief of the
regiment, with Secretary of Civil and
Military Affairs Henry b. Shaw and
Adjt.-Gen. Herbert T. Johnson, reviewed
the troops in the governors car. The
regiment was then brought in hollow
square with the governor and reviewing
officers in the center. The presentation
of service bars and stripes was then made
by Governor Hartness.
The following officers and men were
given bars for service in the Vermont
National Guard: For - years service.
Lieut.-Col. John w. Tinker; for 10
years service, Captain Stewart, Com
pany ID, Capt. George A. Stack. Company
Il, Private John w. Daley, Company II,
and Staff Sergeant James V. Aiken, 9.
NJ. G., Y. n. G.; for FIVE years service,
list Lit. Earl f. Daniels, Company d. 1st
1t Louis A. Pranchaud, Company A,
Staff Sergeant Marshall Gallagher o.
NJ. C., Y. \. g., Sergeant Clarence W.
Hastings. Company f, Sergeant Paul NJ.
Provost, Company Il, Private Wallace ] .
Bissonette. Company X Sergeant George
W. Nilsson, Company l., Sergeant Ralph
A. Lawlis, Company NJ, Private Abner
Lord, service company, Sergeant Edward
\. Hughes, Headquarters company, ID
battalion. and Sergeant Richard G..
chamberlain, Company L.
Following the presentation of medals
and review of the troops the regimental
parade took place. This closed the cere-
monies of the afternoon and a band con
cert in the evening was the last event of
Governors day.
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WINDHAM.

NJ. III. Ingalls's Mountain Grove farm
is now filled practically to capacity with
summer guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron ingalls, Of New
Bedford, Mass, came Thursday for a
visit at NJ H. Ingalls's. They came in
their new Gray touring car
The moving picture, Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse, drew large number
from town to South Londonderry
Wednesday and Thursday evening.
g. Fl. Joslin held an auction Saturday.
selling most of his farming tools and part
of his furniture. On Monday he moved
with his family to Walpole. \. H.. where
ne has bought a small truck and poultry
farm. He plans to keep about 700 hens.
DIR. and Mrs. George Mack of Pleas
antville, \. Y, and Miss Muriel Grout
called on Mrs. Hattie p. Jones and
family. Mrs. Mack, formerly Miss Faith
Butler, has spent several summers here
with her aunt, Mrs. Jones.
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Last Report Not so Hopeful.

WASHINGTON. Aug. Is ASSOCIATED
Press President Harding was told
today by Senator Watson, Republican,
of Indiana. one of his advisors in the
rail strike. that long-distance telephone
conversation with brotherhood chiefs
and representatives of the railway eX-
ecutiyes in New York had disclosed both
sides hopeful of settlement of the
strike at today's meeting.
Senator Watson had another long
distance conversation with Mr.. Cuyler
after the brotherhood and executive
committees went into conference and
was Informed hv Mr.. Cuyler. he said,
that prospects for settlement were not
so bright as they appeared prior to the
conference The chairman Of the exec
utives was understood to have informed
the senator that brotherhood chiefs re
TURNING to the conference after night
discussion with leaders of the shopmen
were showing less of an inclination to
accept the compromise proposal on SEN
iOritV
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Mrs. Joseph AIazelli was in Readsboro
Tuesday.
Levi McChesney was business visitor
in Troy. y. Y. Tuesday.
Earl Parsons has returned home after
spending several weeks in Cavendish.
Mrs. Flora Cobb of Orange. Mass. is
spending a few days visiting relatives
here.
f. n. Griffin and family from Pitts
field. Mass, are visiting relatives in
town.
Charles Allen was business visitor
in Monroe Bridge. Mass, on Monday OF
this week.
Miss Ella sherman came Wednesday
night to visit in the home of her sister,
Mrs. 5. l.. Hill of High street.
Floyd Davis and family were guests
Of Mr. Davis parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T..
NJ Davis in Brattleboro, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy l.. Griffin of New
York city are occupying Nj. r. Barber $
cottage at Lake Raponda for three weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs H. L. Chase of North
Adams Mass, are guests of her sisters,
Mrs. Effie BOYD and Mrs. Marcus Busby
for the week.
Pastor L. W. Champney with a party
of boys from the Baptist church enjoyed
hike to and a days outing at Lake
Raponda Monday.
stephen l.. Bond has sold his farm
near the top of Castle hill to Charles
Johnson and viii go to live with Mrs.
Bonds parents Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Haynes.
At the clinic held at the high school
building Tuesday of last week FOR opera
tions on throats and adenoids eleven
children were treated.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Wood and daugh-
ters. Frances and Eleanor, left early
Monday morning for an automobile trip
to the northern part of the state, return
ing Wednesday night.
The Universalist Ladies' Aid society
held their annual sale at Memorial hall
on Thursday of last week and made sew
eral hundred dollars TO help defray the
expenses of the church.
Miss Elsie Blanchard went TO her
home in Readsboro Saturday and at
tended the centennial celebration IN
Monroe Saturday and Sunday, returning
to her work here Monday.
William w Follett attended the COM
munity picnic held at Maple Shade Farm
in Monroe Mass, on Tuesday, as part
of the centennial celebration. that town
being his former home for a time.
Mrs Sherwin Hill went to Monroe,
Mass Saturday to attend the centennial
celebration of the Incorporation OF the
town which was her native place. The
celebration continued for four days
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MARLBORO.

Mrs. Addie Tyler of Brattleboro is
spending few days with her many
friends here
Mr.. and Mrs. Dodge and child of Dunn
merston are visitors with Mr.. and Mrs.
W. Ii. Gibbs.
Mrs. Helen Warren Anger. who spent
several days with Mr.. and Mrs. Warren.
returned to Brattleboro Saturday of last
week
Master Glenn Braman received a seri-
Gus cut on his leg Wednesday afternoon.
He was taken to Memorial hospital for
treatment
Miss Lois Whitney, who recently re-
turned from the North Adams summer
school has been engaged for the Higley
hill school.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Partridge and
daughter, Nina, and Douglas Kenney. all
OF Worcester, Mass, are the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Clark
The people Of Ames hill, assisted by
musicians from Brattleboro, will give a
concert in connection with the ladies'
auxiliary sale at the church on Wednes-
day evening, Aug. %.
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WOOL FIRST CLOTHING FIBRE.
That and Flax Most Ancient of Textile
F'ibres-Great Antiquity.

It is probable that wool was the first
fibre used by man for clothing. 1t Is
certain that wool shares with fax the
distinction of being the most ancient
of the textile ibres; but the origin of
both of them goes so far back into pre-
historic times that it Is impossible to
say which came first. In the beginning
men used skins to clothe their bodies,
and sheepskins no doubt were used
widely for this purpose by primitive
peoples As far as we know, the pas
toTal stage always has preceded the agri-
cultural stage in the development of
civilization. Men lived nomadic lives
and counted their wealth in fOcks and
herds for ages before they began to set
tie down and cultivate the earth. And
unqucstionabIy the woolly skins of
sheep that died or were killed for food
must have been deemed especially suit
able for clothing.
just when men first began to shear
off the wool and to spin and weave 1t
into cloth is another matter They
must have done it centuries before the
dawn of recorded history; because the
very earliest legends make reference to
the feeces of sheep, and shep originally
did not possess the woolly fleece we so
inevitably associate with them now.
Sheep in the beginning were covered
with hair and the wool was merely a
slight soft down next the skin. Appar-
emily it occurred TO some prehistoric
shepherd that sheep could be made to
grow more of this wool by special breed
ing; and as a result of this experiment
the woollv sheep was produced. It is
very likely that the impetus to develop
a woollv sheep came from previous eX-
periments in spinning and weaving the
fibre. That the production of wool for
its own sake goes back to the most an
cient times we may infer from such
early myths as that OF Jason and the
Golden Fleece.
Some idea of the antiquity of wool
as a textile fibre may be CLEANED from
the fact that when the ruins of villages
/ inhabited by the Swiss Lake dwellers,
in the stone age, were uncovered in
! 1881. fabrics made of wool were found
| there, and bodies wrapped in plated
wooden cloth have been found IN the
! barrows of the early Brit0ns 1t we
assume. as we plausibly may. that wool
! was used as a textile at a correspond
ingly early stage in the civilization OF
| Asia. we can trace it back to the very
! childhood of mankind Indeed Abel
| the son Of Adam, we are told, was a
| keeper of sheep, and whether we take
| the Bible literally or fguratively, this
| indication of the high antiquity of sheen
raising is eloquent enough.
That the ancient lsraelltes were
! great sheep ranchers Is well known
| And that they used the wool for making
| cloth IS suggested by many references
! to strengthening made in the Bible
/ For example, Genesis 3S:l2, and 3l:l9;
4 Deuteronomy 1919; / Samuel 25:4;
/ KINGS 81 Besides speaking frequently
/ of the wool of sheep as a separate, valu-
able commodity, the Bible makes more
/ direct references To its Use as a textile
! tibre.-Dry Goods Economist.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-18
WHEN HE WAS A 'HERDER."
Then the Cowboy of the West Was Not
a Cowboy.

The cowboy was not always n Cow
boy" declares Philip Ashton Rollins of
New York, who having spent his younger
days in the cattle country of the West
has now written a real history of the
westerner who did so much to develop
his country. He everywhere was
equally we'll known as 'cowpuncher,' or
puncher. punching being the accepted
term for the herding of livestock says
Rollins. In Oregon he frequently was
called 'baquero. 'buckaroo, buckhara,
or 'buckayro,' each a perversion of either
the Spanish 'yaquero, or the Spanish
'boyero and each subject to be con-
tracted into 'bucker.' In Wyoming he
preferred to be called a rider To these
various legitimate titles. conciOus slang
added bronco peeler, bronco twiSter,
and bronco buster
He was a cowboy or cOwpuncher
whether his charges were cattle or horses.
There were no such terms as horseboy or
horse puncher.
s'Thus called a cowboy when his task
was riding as an employe he lost that
title as soon as he became a ranch owner;
and. according to the kind of stock he
raised was termed a horse man or else
interchangeable, a cOwman, cattleman,
or cattle man. While a cattle man and
a cattleman were identical, a horse man
and horseman were not. OF the latter
the first raised horses, the second was
either a mounted person or one versed in
Craftsmanship.
CuriOusly, though the word 'puncher'
was created but a comparatively few dec
AIDES since its derivation is now unknown
unless it related TO the metal-pointed goad
occasionally used for stimulating cattle
when they were being urged to board rail-
way cars,
while punching was thus the accepted
term for the herding of live stock. 1t ordi-
narilv was restricted to cattle. the term
'herding being used in connection with
horses 4 cowpuncher might punch or
herd cattle. but colloquial English usu-
ally made him herd horses and would
not let him punch them.
sheep were merely herded and that
bv 'sheep-herders, never by cowboys
Every cowboy of the novel or the adj
venture story fits squarely into one of the
three species created by fctiOnists. He
is portrayed in these several species as
being necessarily clownish. reckless, exces-
sively joyful, noisy and profane or else
welfsh scheming, sullen. malevolent,
prone to ambush and murder or else
dignified. thoughtful, taciturn, ideallSuc.
with conscience and trigger-hnger ac-
curate quick, and in unison. and also ~
all these species as being assurediy
frightened with weapons, terse IN Ut
terance and picturesque in apparel.
''In reality, there were no species. there
was no type Cowboys, as Bart Smlth,
one Of them, said, were Merely folks.
just plain, everyday. bowlegged hu-
mans.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-18
JACKSONVILLE.

Mrs. Nettie Adams is visiting friends
and relatives in New Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. We're HartweH of Green
field visited her aunt, Mrs. Calisia Stowe,
Sunday.
Frank Reed and friend OF Shelhurne
Falls called on his brother, Floyd Reed,
Sunday.
Earl Esterbrooks of Wilmington was
q guest of Mr.. and Mrs, Warner Stowe
Sunday.
Alva Canedy and family of Whining
ton. were guests of his brother, Fred
Canedy, Sunday.
O. r. Butterfield of Athol. Mass, was
at his home in this place and called on
relatives Sunday.
Clarence Reed and family of Brattle-
boro called on his brother, Floyd Reed,
and family Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Corse and grand
son. Graham White. of Orange, Mass,
were guests Of Mrs. Corse's father. II. NJ.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-18

Estimated Farmers Were Saved $780,
900 Last Year-Have to Pay for Dry
ing and Cartridging - VIII Keep for
Indefinite Period
WASHINGTON, Aug. IS ASSOCIATED
Press. THE attention of farmers in all
sections of the country to the free dis
tributiOn of excess war explosions for
farm work, is called by the United
States department of agriculture. Since
last fall the department, in co-opera-
ton with the various state agricultural
colleges, has distributed 100000 pounds
of picric acid. a surplus explosive. which
Is very efficient, easy and safe to handle
The economy of this explosive is EN-
phasized by the department in a recent
circular showing that last falls distri-
button saved the farmers about 100000
over the cost of other explosives. There
are now available some 100000 pounds
of picric acid. and of this amount about
100000 are available to each of the
lake states. Michigan Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
Picric acid is a high explosive which
was used in large quantities during the
war and is now being distributed 80
farmers for agricultural purposes, says
the department. No charge is made by
the government for the explosive itself,
but as it has to be dried out and cart
ridged before it can be used for peaceful
uses the cost of this work must be paid
by the farmer.
Picric acid is comparatively safe ex-
plosivc and is used in the same way
that other agricultural explosives are
used 1t has several advantages over
commercial explosives in that it keeps
indefinitely without deteriorating. it is
not affected by heat or cold. and it does
not cause headaches or other i'll effects
when used in the open air. Because of
its greater cost of manufacture, it will
never be competitor of commercial dy-
nantes. 1t is being distributed for the
purpose of increasing interest and activ-
ity in land clearing. The details of the
method of distribution may be secured
from the various state agricultural col
legeS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-18
NATURAL HISTORY
Wonderful Habitat Groups Are Shown
in Our Museums


Today the geological museums of the
United States are developing large
habitat groups" of mammals and birds
to the utmost limits of the space avail
able for them. The two elder-brother
museums of Washington and New York
which started first. are in the lead and
at the extreme northern side of the chap
ter Of museum building in America we
see the University of Minnesota develop
ing groups at the rate of two or more
per year. even before the building to
contain them has been erected.
The drawing power of group exhibits
is thoroughly conceded by all persons in
interest, and their value in educating the
public is entirely beyond the domain of
argument Not only do they bring the
charms of wild nature within daily reach
of the cribbed and confined millions of
city jewellers who cannot go afield, but
they are permanent. In comparison
with their cumulative value their cost
is utterly trifing
1t is the rule TO furnish each group,
as far as possible, with natural accekh
sories taken from the haunts of the
animals displayed, regardless of labor
and expense. This fashion was set in
1887 when we brought on from Miles
City, Mont. enough actual sods of curly
buffalo grass, and enough clumps of real
sage-brush. to cover the entire bit of
| trail-marked buffalo range on which our
group was installed. 4 Sioux Indian
visitor once said to his friends: Il
know that they do walk around in there
at night. for there are their tracks, in
the mud by the water-hole and on the
TRAIL
Trees and branches are easily trans
ported and set up but when leaves are
| 10 be shown. and living plants, they
must be made artifcially. The desert
| antelope group in the Brooklyn museum
/ shows wonderful work in the artificial
! reproduction of the remarkable cacti and
| other strange plant products of the So
1 Moran desert as it is seen in southern
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS Magazine.
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MEET AGAIN TO SETTLE.
CONTINUED from Page ID

ident of the Association of Railway Ex-
ecutiyes. read:
a conference was held this after
noon between committee of the car
riers and the heads of the five train serv-
ice organizations. who wished it to be
distinctly understood that the- ap-
peared as mediators of their own mo-
ton.
"A discussion of the present railroad
situation. so far as it relates to the shop
crafts, took place The questions in
volyed were discussed with the honest
desire to arrive at a solution of the
problem if possible.
no definite conclusion was arrived
at and the conference adjourned until
tomorrow morning.
Bert NJ Jewell, head of the railway
labor department of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. who arrived in this
city yesterday to be on hand in case the
eOnfeTees wished him, issued a state
ment at the uptown hotel at which the
labor leaders have established headduar-
tiers.
"The settlement of the coal strike
viii to large degree determine the set
Element of the railroad strike" said
Jewell. THE resumption of coal mining
and the vastly increased demand for
coal resulting from depleted stocks will
the next few weeks than ever before in
history
This means a record breaking de-
mand for cars" continued the Jewell
statement. In the face of this demand
there is at. the present time record
breaking shortage of good order equip
ment. The railroads will be required by
urgent necessity to repair their coal cars
in the shortest possible time.
This win bring the most insistent
kind of pressure upon the roads to get
a maximum number of skilled mechan-
les into their shops. 1t is safe to say
there will be places for one and one
half times the normal number of men
in coal car repair shops.
The abnormal number of cars now
out of service will raise the weekly
shortage for coal transportation close
to 100000 cars. This means that 80 per
cent of the coal mined will be~withheld
from the consumer through lack of
transportation facilities, the maximum
mine production is about 100000 tons
week. The average coal car capacity
is about As tons"
a shortage of 100000 cars viii there
fore prevent 100000 tons of coal a
week from reaching the consumer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-18
WILMINGTON.
decentralization Wedding.

\ quiet wedding, brief mention of
which was made in last weeks issue of
The Phoenix. took place at the rectory
Of st. Mary Cathedral in Burlington at
. O'Clock in the afternoon, Aug. >, when
Miss Mary Almira Buffum. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur NJ. Buffum of Will
mington, was united in marriage to Ele-
Gda n. Maynard. son of Mrs. Elumina
Maynard of Burlington, by Rev. j. f.
ellis, double ring service being used.
Miss Ruby :. Ellis, r. n of Burlington
was n clasSmate of the bride at the Mary
Fletcher hospital acted as brides maid
and Lyman Maynard or Harding, Mass,
brother of the groom was best man.
The bride was attractively gowned in
travelling suit of midnight blue tricotine
and wore a hat of black panne velvet
faced with Alice blue velvet and carried
a bouquet of Ophelia roses. The brides
maid also wore a suit of dark blue trico-
tine with a black lace hat and carried
Opheha roses. After the ceremony the
friends of the happy couple gathered at
the home of the groem's mother for an
informal reception where they presented
many beautiful gifts of silver. cut glass,
china and linen, to the bride and groom.
Out of town guests at the wedding were
Mrs Arthur Buffum and Mrs. Lewis
Moore of Wilmington, Miss Anna May
nard and Lyman Maynard of Harding,
Mass. and Miss Ruby Ellis of Randolph.
Mrs. Maynard was graduate OF w IL
mington high school, class of 1916. and
won one of the free scholarships to at
tend the University of Vermont, which
she did for time. She then took a
course in the Mary Fletcher Hospital
training school, graduating with her
class in 1921. During the past winter
she held the position of night superin-
tendent at St Adams HOSPITAL. Mr.. May
nard is a veteran of the World war and
an active worker in the American Legion,
being employed by the United States gov
ernment as sign painter in Burlington.
Mr. and Mrs Maynard are spending two
months honeymoon. camping at Queen
City park and will reside in Burlington.
Mrs. Maynard has many friends in Will
mington who wish her much JOY in her
married life.