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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
SUES BROTHER. GETS s4,7s7.
Jury Awards Miss Shea Wages for 500
Weeks and Interest Thereon.

BOSTON. April "a jury awarded
Miss Mary +. Shea S4,797.76 in the SUI
perior court Cambridge, yesterday in
her suit against her brother, jeremiah
Shea, a Maiden contractor. for 500
weeks wages. at So a week, as his
hUusekeeper. She testified that follow
ing his wife 5 death in May, 1902. her
brother wrote her in Ireland, where she
was living with her parents, and asked
her to come and take care of him and
his four children. who were between
IL and ID years old.
She became his housekeeper July 90
1902. She MIXED the COW and sold the
milk. took care of the chickens. and
brought up his children. She left him
Nov. :, 1917, after he had said he in
tended to marry. She had been paid
total of $2SS, and asked for the remain
der due her. He offered her $500. She
had an auditor compute the amount
owed her, which. il was testified, was
s. 437 The iurv awarded her this sum.
together with the interest thereon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
HOME GARDENS ENCOURAGED.
Elementary Agriculture Taught in Jer-
sey Grammar Schools.

The teaching of elementary agriculture
to children is being introduced in the
grammar schools in many. suburban dis
trictS in New Jersey. At West Orange,
where work of this kind has just been
started. a practical farmer has been en-
gagged to instruct the pupils. Instructions
will be given for the first year only to
pupils in the fifth and sixth grades. but
Superintendent of Schools s. c. Strong.
who with the aid of the board of educa-
ton formulated a course of study. hopes
TO increase the scope of the work during
the second year.
\ practical farmer and experienced
teacher. who has been secured by the
West Orange authorities to conduct the
course will meet each class once a week
and give lectures that viii tell the chill
dren something about where and how the
farmer produces food for the nation. He
will stress home gardening and in order
that the children shall acquire a practical
knowledge of garden culture he will urge
each child TO plant and care for a home
garden and will visit homes from time to
time to help with the work.
Courses of this kind are rapidly gain
ing favor with the teachers in the schools.
according to the New Jersey state depart
ment of public education. In a report on
the subject the department writes:
instructions in agriculture in the ele-
mentary schools is not one of the So-called
new lads IN education. 1t has been tried
out in many places and has proved to be
a success. provided the man employed to
conduct the work knows how to interest
children in living things. In reality this
kind of instruction is nature study. and
what is more, it is nature study of the
best kind. The children not only learn
about nature, but they learn how nature
in the great growing living plants and
animals of the farm provides us with our
daily food supply.
School teachers at times critcise such
work because they say it takes too much
of the school time of the children. Such
criticisms are made without giving the
matter much thought, however for with
the plan followed out at West Orange
only one school period each week is de-
voted to the work. The other time de-
voted to the instruction is after school
and during the summer vacation. time
that the child can well afford to devote
to such work"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
TO PROMOTE FOREIGN TRADE.
National Convention i'm Philadelphia
Next Month to Discuss Means.

PHILADELPHIA, April ). - Ways
of developing foreign markets for Amer
lean goods and setting idle industrial
plants to work and ships in motion are
among the subjects for discussion at the
national foreign trade convention to be
held here May 10, IL and II. Between
four and five thousand delegates, repre-
sentins the industrial, agricultural, com
mercial, financial and shipping inter
eSts Of the nation, are expected to at
tend. Many of the governments for
eign trade advisers, some of whom will
come from their posts abroad, are on the
program for addresses.
Greater Prosperity Through Greater
Foreign Trade. was the slogan sounded
by James A. Farrell, president of the
United States Steel corporation, in is
suing the call for the convention. while
Financing and Expanding Foreign
Trade was announced as the basic theme
for the meeting.
One of the big problems to be dis
cussed, it was stated, is how to sell
abroad the estimated 20 per cent sur
plus of American production over do
nestle consumption. This, it was as
serted, spells the difference between
prosperity for the American farmer,
manufacturer, shipper and worker, and
business stagnation and unemployment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
WANTS PART OF TEXAS.
Arkansas Thinks Slice 80 Miles Long
Should BE Hers.

If the contention Of the state of Ar
kansas that it should be given title to
not only the il-bearing bed of the Red
lying between the Louisiana boundary
and the 100 degree of longitude and
north of tne 32d degree of latitude Is
sustained by the United States supreme
court, it would mean the slicing off of
the richest and most populous part of
this state The legal claim to this big
part of Texas by the state of Arkansas
was made by the filing few days ago
by the state of a motion in the United
States supreme court for permission to
intervene in the case pending by which
the state of Oklahoma is seeking to es-
tablish title to the south bank of the
Red river
The filing of this motion by the at
torney general of Arkansas came as a
complete surprise to the legal lauthOri-
ties of this state. During all the years
that have elapsed since Texas gained
its independence from Mexico and was
later admitted to the Union as a state
no intimation was ever heard in Texas
that Arkansas claimed title TO any of
the territory of this commonwealth, it
is stated
According to the boundary line as
described in the motion filed in the SUI
preme court by Arkansas the part of
Texas involved in the claim is about 80
miles wide and 600 miles long the long
way running east and west. 1t includes
Dallas, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls,
Sherman, Denison, Abilene and all
those smaller towns north of Corsicana.
The population of the disputed area is
about 100000 people. it is stated.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
BANK PRESIDENT AT 81.
Gordon L. Willis of Pittsfeld Young
est President in Massachusetts,.

PITTSFIELD Mass. April 5.-Gor-
don L. Willis of 10 Wendell avenue,
cashier of the Third National bank of
this city. has been elected president of
the Hampshire County Trust Co. at
Northampton. He is 81 years old and
is the Youngest bank president in Mas
sachusetts. He will begin his new du-
ties April II.
Mr.. Willis succeeds the late Freder-
ick A. Macumber as president. He is a
former member of the first corps Cadets
of Boston. During the war he was in
command as first lieutenant of the state
guard company at Medford. He was at
the officers training camp at Camp Lee,
Va. when the armistice was signed. In
1912 and 1913 he was at the business
mems training camp at Plattsburgh He
is member of the Bank Officers assO-
citation. the National Bank Cashiers as
ISOLATION and the American Institute of
Banking at Boston.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
CITIES OF THE FUTURE.
Ideal Conditions Predicted with Per-
haps no Income Tax.

Recently a man specializing on the
future said Chicago 100 years from now
would contain as many people as Eng
land. and that all cities would show
tremendous increase in size. 1t is
rather fearful to think of cities being
much larger than they are now, but by
2G22 many improvements will bring
compensation. We shall arrive by cleo
trio train or airplane. Our ears and
eyes will not be filled with cinders from
locomotives. The railroad station sur
loundings will be as attractive as a
park Trolley cars and buses viii move
silently and there will be seats for all,
with fiye-cent fares.
Factories will be running with indus
try. but there will be no smoke belching
forth from the chimneys. There viii be
no dust swirling in the streets The
air Will be as fresh as in the country.
The buildings viii be really heated in
winter and artifcially cooled in sum
mer. There will be more parks, more
municipal golf grounds and baseball
diamonds and swimming pools There
will be no slums; ice cream sodas will
be 10 cents. Perhaps there will be no
income tax blanks to fill out.-Worces-
ter Telegram.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
RUNAWAY PASTOR FINED $500.
Rev. Densel Pleads Guilty Under the
Mann Act

NEW YORK. April 5.-The Rev
Cornelius Densel, former pastor of the
New Netherlands Reformed Church of
Passaic, who took Miss Trina Hanen-
berg. a member of the congregation. on
a trip to Buffalo and remained away
from his congregation and family for
five months, was fined 5000 by Federal
Judge Lynch in Newark Monday when
he pleaded guilty to a charge of violat-
ing the Mann act.
Barney Larkey, counsel for Densel.
pleaded with the court for leniency. He
declared that the clergyman is a broken
man, physically and financially.
Since his suspension by the consistory
of the church, Mr.. Larkey said. Densel
had been working as a cook and a bar
Der, but is not employed now.
In imposing sentence. Judge Lynch
said he was Of the opinion that both
the clergyman and the woman were cul-
pable
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
REPORT WHARTON EXPELLED.
Pauline Virginia Clarke. Suicide,
Claimed She Was Engaged to Him.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April g.
Bayard Wharton. senior at Harvard
college, was requested to withdraw from
the college after meeting of the adj
ministrative board yesterday, it was
learned authenticity, but not officially,
last night. College officials refused to
deny or affirm the report. saying that
relations between the student and the
college were confidential.
Wharton. the son of a Philadelphia
banker. was guest at the party at
which Pauline Virginia Clarke Divorce,
drank poison and died soon after hav-
ing announced her engagement to Whar-
ton.
Otto Halder Larsen, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology senior, who
was also at the party. ended his life by
taking poison from the same vial used
by Miss Clarke. His body was found
two days after her death, and he left
note in which he said he had supplied
her with the poison.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
GET NAIL OUT OF RIYER.
Wreci5ing Crew Works Two Days to Re.
cover Bag at ThompsOnvilIe.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. April 5

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. April 5. - 4
wrccking crew of the New York. New
Haven and Hartford Railroad recovered
a mail pouch containing valuable mail
which was left in an inlet in the Con-
necticut river near ThompsOnville.
Conn, last Saturday The Tag and con
tents were delivered to Postmaster
James T. Murray of Thompsonville.
In throwing off the pouch at Ihomp-
sonville station, the railway mail clerk
on train 81 misiudged the distance and
threw the bag into the river. The
wrecking crew worked two days before
locating the bag
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
BIRTHS.

In Brattleboro. April 3. a daughter
Rebecca May, to Charles and Eva
(CirceD Ainsworth.
In Mortified, Mass, April ,, a daugh-
ter to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ross.
In Nottingham, March 90, son.
Frederick Atherton. to Warren Atherton
Hale and Sylvia (kidderl Hale. grand
son to Mr. and Mrs. w. NJ Hale of
Vernon and Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Kid
der of Townshend
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
Tnrnentining the Pine.

Successive seasons of turpentining
cause no lowering in strength or resin
content of pine trees, states the forest
products laboratory of Wisconsin. The
crude turpentine, says the Scientific
American. is the result of wound slim
illus, and comes only from living cells
in the sap wood region of the tap bore
The heart wood, which consists of dead
cells contains no sap.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
Holding Your Breath.

The normal adult can hold his
breath from 40 to 40 seconds but this
time can be increased considerably by
training, as in the case of divers
An individuals breath-holding capa-
city, says Popular Science, is affected
so markedly by disease of the heart or
air passages that it is used in France
as a diagnosis for bronchitis or tubercu-
losis. 1t is a well known fact that suf-
fcrers from these diseases can rarely
hold their breath more than 20 seconds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
ZION STANDS BY BLUE LAWS.
VOiva's Followers Defeat Liberals in
township Elections.

ZION. III. april j.-Stricter blue
law enforcement with continuation Of
bans on smoking, dancing, swearing and
gambling, and a censorship of women S
clothes was Endorsed by the voters of
Benton Township, which includes Zion,
yesterday.
The liberals were defeated by ma
jority of 700 votes at the polls when the
TheOcratic party, endorsed by Wilbur
Glenn Voliva. overseer of Zion, elected
all its candidates.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
HOLDUP MEN GET $4,000.
But Drop 1t and Flee from Chicago
Railroad Station.

CHICAGO. April 5. - Two Negro
bandits invaded last night the cashiers
office of the Pennsylvania railroad at
the Union station, held up the cashier
and temporarily gained possession of
SIS. coo payroll few minutes later
alarmed by shouts of the cashier, they
fed. leaving the money behind them.
Meeting a special policeman on the
street. the robbers fired several shots.
while crowds of pedestrians milled
around in panic The policeman was
not hurt. The bandits escaped.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
DIR. VAN DYKE FOR SENATOR.
Democrats Think Princeton Man Could
Defeat FreIinghuysen

TRENTON. y. J.. April ). - Under
the leadership of Mayor Charles Browne
of Princeton. Mercer county, Democrats,
are seeking to have DIR. Henry van
Dyke become candidate for the party
nomination for United States senator.
They believe that he could not only
defeat State Senator Alexander Simp-
son of Hudson county for the ncrnina
ton. but that he could also win the
election over Joseph s. Frelinguysen,
the Republican incumbent. DIR. van
Dyke has not made his attitude known.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Mrs. J. Arthur Noon and daughter
Barbara. returned today to their home
in Cambridge, Mass. after visiting Mrs.
Moons parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. $. Bet
terley, at the Rite farm.
Miss Ruth E Howe. assistant in the
office Of Town Clerk {. $. Hopkins. is
i'll with tonsilitis at her home on Oak
Grove avenue. Mrs. Royal W. Smith is
assisting in the town clerks Office dur
NC Miss Howe's absence
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
$4,000 PISTOL PERMITS.
New Workers Aiming to Protect Them
selves from Robbery.

NEW YORK. April 5.-It was learned
at police headquarters yesterday that
about -. 900 pistol permits have been
issued to citizens since Jan. /. and the
number is increasing daily. Between TO-.
600 and $4,000 bankers. brokers and 9th
er Wall street men and their employees
have taken out permits to carry pistols,
and the district below the dead line is
now we'll guarded against robberies and
hold-ups The fee for a pistol permit has
been raised recently from 81 to Sl.JO.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
Local Color.

Poet-I am out here to get local color
for a pastoral poem.
Farmer reckon you're gettin' it.
mister. l painted that settee only this
mornin Boston Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
The Tragedy Ct Ankles.

"Dorn pointed at the women moving
by them, Poems in shoe-craft, trag-
edies in ankles, and melodramas in
legs he announced. From Eric
Dorm" by Ben Hecht
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
DEATHS.

In West 0rattleboro, April ) Doris
Lillian Winchester, 10.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-05
Brattleboro Pub. Co.,
Brattleboro, vt.

Then give it to some friend who doesn't take
the paper You know he will get generous
value for his $50. Tell him SO.
The National leader., 1922-02-20
Big Meeting Marks Townley Freeing
Farmer Leader Makes Speech-Arrested New Charges
as He Completes Term in Jackson County Jail

iEI5S7Ssl;'IS'gS8l CROWD that jammed
l1 the Unitarian church,
gA y Minneapolis, assembled
lNgEA VA February to hear Mr..
Towaley's first speech
following his release
from the Jackson county Jail, where he
served 9O-day sentence for attack
ing profteers during the war. Hun
dreds were turned away. The meet
ing followed dinner given to Mr..
Townley earlier in the evening by the
progressives of Minneapolis in the
Business Women's club rooms.
New charges against the farmer
leader, served on him as he stepped
The National leader., 1922-02-20
THIS KIND HELPS

A Minnesota farmer wrote his sena-
tor as follows: l
Senator Knute Nelson,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: am enclosing petition
to you containing 1913 names of people
living in and near Battle Lake. We
are asking to present a bill to con-
gress for the revival Of the govern
ment grain corporation or to support
a bill for the same if presented by
someone else. &: I'D n.
would like a reply from you at
once letting us know whether you are
in favor or against this proposition.
Respectfully yours,
! E. w. KINGSTON.
Battle Lake, Mimi.
Renew your subscription promptly.
The National leader., 1922-02-20

5 l oWnley t ree1ng
on New Charges
in Jackson County Jail
from the jackson jail, did not lessen
the enthusiasm of the progressives
and independent voters, men and wom-
en-, who turned out for the meeting.
In fact, it is believed that the new
warrant of arrest was intended as
much as anything to put damper on
this meeting, which was announced a
few days before Townley's release.
The new charges were made the fol-
lowing day, probably as much to off,
set the effect of his first speech after
his release, as to discredit him, if pos
sible, to Offset his great gain in popu-
lar favor through his persecution in
Jackson county. .4"E:. +
If the new warrant was intended to
keep him away from the meeting, it
failed, for the Jackson county authori-
ties did not hold him. on the new
charge, but allowed him to go on his
own recognizance, to report at Fargo,
N. D., after the meeting.
The new charge is that Mr.. Town
ley "counseled, advised and encourag-
ed" one J. J. Hastings, formerly vice
president of the Scandinavian-Ameri-
can bank at Fargo, to commit embez-
element of $4,000. Hastings had
formerly worked for the Nonpartisan
league, but for several months before
he became an officer of the bank had
not been employed by the League. He
had raised some money among farm
ers and others and bought the control
of the bank.
Mr.. Townley was not then and never
was an officer, director or employe
of the bank, and never made any per-
sonal loans of it, although the League
in North Dakota had done some of it's
business; through the bank Hastings
is charged with embezzling $4,000 Of
the banks funds, and was arrested in
California. The charge against Town
ley simply charges him with having
told" Hastings to steal. He is not
even charged with conspiring with
Hastings to commit the alleged crime.
The charge against Townley is in
definite, failing to state how he could
or did persuade supposedly respon-
sible bank official to steal money, and
it is not stated what the money was
used for. Mr.. Townley has gone to
North Dakota to demand a full airing
of the charge and an immediate sift-
ing of the matter to the bottom. Be-
fore: leaving Minneapolis he said:
'The charge surprised me complete
ly. do not understand it. l never
r. advised Hastings or any one else to
misappropriate money and do not
know what is referred to, as the
charge does not say. It is simply
political deal to discredit the Nonpar-
tisan league, if possible. I shall face
my accusers and fight it out. They
evidently want charge hanging over:
me during the political campaign this
spring and summer in North Dakota,
but I shall endeavor to get the matter
cleared up before then"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-27
II. S. INSPECTOR VISITS.

Mr.. Edwin Twitmeyer, official in
spector of the high schools of the
state of Washington, made a visit to
the Leavenworth high school last Fri
day. After inspection he spoke to the
student body for half an hour.
Mr.. Twitmeyer, besides having
served as principal a long term of
years in Seattle and Belingham, has
acted for the past twelve years in his
present capacity. His total expert
ence in secondary school work covers
a period of thirty years; and so crit
iscisms. both favorable and unfavor-
able, carry a great amount of weight
with city and state authorities. The
generalization of the high schools of
the state is based upon his recon-
mendations.
1t will no doubt be of interest to
patrons that Mr.. Twitmyer had no
fault to find with the local schools.
On the other hand he expressed him
self as highly gratifed by facilities in
the way of equipment, the staff of ex-
perienced instructors. and the general
atmosphere of the school. He said
that the high school bulletin pub
lished last summer and mailed out to
local students was the best that had
been gotten out in the history of the
state; that no better kept office and
records could be found in the city
schools of the state than he found
kept by the local superintendent; and
that, everything considered, the Leav-
enworth high school ranked as one of
the best to be found.
In the course of his remarks to the
students, the inspector read a very in
teresting and encouraging baseball
story entitled, Don't Die on Third"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-27
MASQUE BALL
FIRMN'S HALL
OCT. 18TH

The Annual Ball of the G.. |. A. to
the B. of L. E. will be given at the
Leavenworth Firemens Hall on the
evening of October rs. Good music
will be provided and prizes will be
given. Admission will be S1.1O for
dancers and 25c for spectators and
children. 43-3t
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-27
CELEBRATE FORTY-FIRST
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY,

Friday evening, Oct. goth, at TIC
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Norris
ll33 Front ST., Mr.. and Mrs. Petel
Lucier We're entertained at six o.
clock dinner the occasion being then
4lst wedding anniversary. Sixteen
guests were present. The evening
was spent in games and singing and
congratulating the guests of honor
who were presented with an appropri-
ate gift.