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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27

bert G. Barber of Bratteboro, alleging
that the dam would damage the plant.
ifs property.
The complaint was served on the New
England Power Co. and allied corpora
tons by United States Marshal Arthur
T.. Carpenter of this place. In view of
this litigation, which is still pending, 1t
is assumed that the New England Power
Co. brought about the transfer of the
railroad property.
The defendants in the injunction suit
are the New England Power Co., the
New England Co., the Power Constfuc-
ton Co., the Wilmington Power & Pa
per Co.. and the Decrfeld River Power
Co. With the ownership of the road in
friendly hands the next logical step in
the litigation would be discontinuancc
of the injunction suit.
In the injunction petition it was asked
that the court restrain the defendants
from constructing and maintaining q dam
on any part of the plaintiffs railroad or
property or trespassing upon or flooding
the plaintiffs right of way.
1t was asserted by the complainan;S
| that the defendants, under a claim of
constitutional right, planned to move the
railroad and build dam 200 feet high
across the railroad and set the water OF
the Deerfield river back over the main
| line tracks about II miles. some parts OF
which would be under water to depth
of 100 feet In some places it was
planned to move the track more than 8
mile from its present location.
! The dam would flood out the present
Nottingham station and Mountain Mills
station, the complainants said, and il
was claimed that the business that
| would be done on the contemplated new
location would not pay for operating.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27
HO0SAC TUNNEL
RAILROAD SOLD
Shortess and Associates Take
Wilmington Line
Removes Obstacle to Nottingham Dam
Kellas and Associates, Former Owners,
Had Asked Injunction.

Rumors of the sale of the Hoosac
Tunnel < Wilmington railroad were
confirmed Saturday by Attorney Harold f.
Whitney, Of counsel for the New Eng
land Power Co.. who said that the prop
crty had passed from John +. Kellas Of
Albany, n. T., and associates to Will
liam G. Shortess Of New York and as
sociatcs. Mr.. Shortess and associates
own the old James Ramage Paper Go.
Of Monroe Bridge. Mass, and the old
National Metal Edge Boy Co. of Reads
boro. The new owners, Mr.. Whitney
says, will operate the road for the BEN
eft of the public and all the interests
of the Decrfield valley.
What the new owners paid for the
property is not made public, but from
other sources it is learned that the gov
eminent valuation of the Hoosac Tun-
mel & Wilmington railroad Is S625, 900.
The price paid doubtless was less than
that sum.
1t will be recalled that last October
litigation involving the New England
Power Co.'S Nottingham dam project
was started in the United States court
for the district of Vermont by the
Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Railroad
Co., a petition for an injunction to pre-
vent the building of the dam being
brought The petition was signed by
John =. Kellas of Albany, who was
president of the railroad, Leroy NJ. Kel-
las of Malone, n. Y, the presidents son,
who was treasurer, and Attorney Her.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27

10 degrees below any low temperature for
the last two years, but there have beef.
only five colder mornings in the last ~
years The coolest morning in the last 13
years was Jan. 2, 1918, when the Their
mometer registered ~ degrees below zero.
The coolest temperature last year was 10
below on Jan. ID. There was 20-de-
grees drop in temperature between mid
night Monday and sunrise next morning,
which is a very unusual fall for so short
a period of time.
Non-standard thermometers in town
registered varying temperatures accord
ing to location, one thermometer in West
Brattleboro showing "a below zero.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Former Brattleboro Young Man Married
in Oklahoma City

The marriage OF Capt. Robert Chand.
Ter Knowlton of Fort Riley, Kan, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge l.. Knowlton Of
this town, and Miss Marguerite Isabel
Nelson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
J. Nelson of Oklahoma City, took place
in that city Dec. 90. Rev. J. e. Huff,
pastor of the Olivet Baptist church, Off
ciatcd. They will make their home in
Fort Riley
Capt. Knowlton graduated from the
Brattlcboro high school in 1911 and from
Norwich university in 1916, and after
wards taught year at the university.
He had position with the Legs Con
struction company at Springfield, Mass,
until the beginning of the World war,
when he accepted a commission in the
United States regular army in October,
1917. lie served overseas nearly two
years. He has been stationed ut Fort
Riley since the armistice was signed and
received the appointment of captain sew
cral months ago.
Mrs. Knowlton graduated last June
from Kansas university and since that
time has taught in the senior high school
at Junction City, Kan.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27
EDWIN Il. ELLIS DIES.
Father Of Irving c. Ellis Of Brattleboro
Long i'm Granite Business.

Edwin =. Fills, 65, of Mortified (vt.) !,
father of Irving G. Ellis of Brattleboro
died Friday afternoon after long illness.
Mr.. Ellis was one of the pioneer gran.
lite men Of Mortified and was member
of the T.. b. Ellis Granite company, which
conducted large business in that town,
having some of the largest building con-
tracts in that locality. This company was
later sold to the Woodbury. Granite COM
pany, which continued the business for a
time. Since then the greater amount of
the work of cutting has been done in
Bethel and Hardwick where the quarries
are located. Mr.. Ellis was very well
known among the granite men in North
field and vicinity. He had been in failing
health for many years.
Edwin Baruch Ellis, son of Baruch and
Lydia (Smart) Ellis, was born in Pros
pect, Me-, Sept. >, 1856. He married Jan.
1, 1880, Josephine Coombs of Bucksport,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27
AIDS CHURCH AND CEMETERY.
Mrs. Helen M. Phillips Of Putney Wills
$500 to Bondville Church and $500 for
(lire of Land,

At hearing on the will of the late
Mrs. Helen NJ. Phillips of Putncy in the
probate court in Bellows Falls Attorney
Herbert G. Barber Of Brattleboro was
appointed executor by Judge W. A. Ora
ham, Mr.. Barber having been named in
the will. Mrs. Phillips was the widow
of George II. Phillips and was fatally
burned in her home in Putney short
time ago.
The will gives to the Mount Pleasant
Cemetery association in Putney 5000 to
be held in trust and deposited in some
savings hank in Windham county, the
income therefrom to be expended an
nually in the proper care of the tesla
tors burial lot and the monument and
markers thereon. 1t gives to the Meth.
odist Episcopal church in Bondvillc
5000. to be known as the George II. and
Helen NJ. Phillips Fund, to be invested
and the income to be used for supporting
the preaching of the Methodist faith III
Bondvillc.
The rest of the estate is given to rela
tives. with the exception that a bequest
is made to Mr.. Barber
Fish-tails, cleansed, deodorized, ant
dried, are novel trimming for women's
hats, now being tried by milliners.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27
STRIKERS TICKET DEFEATED.
CONTINUED from Page A.

derwood by the Bellows Falls municipal
court and fined, while trustee of the
village and one of those in charge of the
police department that for this assault
n civil action was brought against Cray
which went to the supreme court, judg-
meu- Of 81, 800 and costs being rendered
against Cray. The cileD ar characterized
CRAY as unfit to enforce the law and
asked whether he would protect the men
at work in the mills or would laugh at
violence.
Mr.. Cray. who headed the Citizens
ticket. issued reply Saturday afternoon
in which he said that he had been vic.
tim of lawyers. He said in effect that
a man by the name of Graham had fooled
the state of Vermont and cost the state
money and by inference he drew n para
llel to include Bellows Falls man Of the
same name.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27
COLDEST IN TWO YEARS.
T.. X. Vaughan's Standard Instrument
Showed 20 Below Zero-Five Colder
Mornings i'm Is Years.

Tuesday morning surely was wonder,
full morning flor polar bears and the coal
mem, but the ordinary mortals who ven
tured forth into the outside air were no.
ticeably absorbed in the work of keeping
their ears and pedal extremeties warm.
Even asbestos overcoats would have been
in style that morning. There was, how
ever, a good reason for all this, as Ferris
r. Vaughans standard thermometer on
High street registered 90 degrees below
zero, the coolest morning in the last two
years.
Not only was the mornings low mark
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27

Indications are that many real estate
and property owners of st. Adams are not
satisfied with the recent appraisal made
by the city listers. The lobby leading to
the listers office was crowded all day
Monday with persons aggrieved because
of the appraisals. a hearing was held
at which many women attended. Each
taxpayer had opportunity to state his case
in private.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27

Nc. who survives with three children
Irving Z. Of Brattleboro. Mrs. l.. A. Roys
of Cambridge, Mass, and Richard @. of
Los Angeles, Calf. He also leaves one
sister and two brothers. Mr.. Ellis had
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-01-27

been employed in the granite business all
his life. The funeral was held Monday.
Queen Mary Of England is strongly OPP
posed to smoking among women.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
Man as AnirnalEPlus

THE FoRTNIGHTLY CLUB. BY
Horace G. Hutchinson. Z. p. Dutton
& Co.
|NHosE in whom the recent
rather acrimonious discussion
centering around Mr.. Bryan
has aroused a renewed interest in
biological theory and a thirst for the
latest authoritative scientific views
on the subject should find this essay
of Mr.. Hutchinson, an English
writer. timely as well as intrinsic
ally enjoyable.
Though his reflections, beginning
with the minds of animals and run
ming much of the gamut from that
point to such ultimate metaphysical
questions as the nature of God. are
presented in the form of debates and
disauisitions by a few leading mem
bers Of a philosophical club. they
form what is essentially an essay.
Mr.. Hutchinson. having written
some of the present papers origi-
nally for publication in the West
minister Gazette and the QUARTERLY
Rertelc. has decked his ideas in quo
tation marks. offered them through
the mouths Of several elderly gentle
men. some of whom are highly ar
gumentatiye and some of whom are
distinctly erudite. and displayed
them with something OF the slow.
ponderous movement of thought
(but neither the jerkiness nor the
futility) of the average extempora-
neous argument by amateurs. But
the ideas do roll forth: that is the
essential point.
Prof. Launceston. the premier
philosopher of the club. is an emf
nently scientific person who believes
in free will and God and like duan-
titles that science neither affirms nor
denies He is engaged in making
new deadly gases to kill Germans.
an object that fits in perfectly with
his notions of human destiny and
divine viii. IL is with extreme re-
luctance Cat least ostensibly) that
he is drawn into a discussion of
mind in animals and in men.
The anti-evolutionists will not find
a great deal of aid and comfort in
the beliefs of Mr.. Hutchinson (via
Prof. Launceston). though the re-
ligious principles which they imag-
inc biology 10 endanger form the
very essence of his philosophy and
or so at least a thoroughgoing phys
ical scientist would see them-color
his views of biological and psyche
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

logical fact. He believes every ra-
tional person must concede that
physically humanity was evolved
from a lower animal type. for sci
ence has virtually proved it; but he
believes just as firmly that the hu-
man mind and capacity for spiritual
experience is something that did not
come and could not have come from
any such source.
After reviewing many of the evil
dences of reason in lower animals.
the professor concludes that one of
the strongest arguments that mans
mind Is a new thing on earth and
not an outgrowth from something
older is negative one. If the germ
OF reason exists in other animals, why
has it not expressed itself? Apes
have watched men make fire and
use clubs and tools, yet never has an
ape SO much as thrown a new stick
upon a man made fire to which he
ape been known to use tool. Animals
have no ideas. They form no mental
pictures. They are, as Huxley seems
to have come near conceding, auto
mata
The notion that Nature is accus-
toned to inflicting pain upon its
| craafuraa 0pa dax-0ur;oo auo.ko.
&c. is handled with short shrift.
Nature inflicts little pain. Animals
suffer hardly at all. Their ends are
usually swift; and anyhow, since they
lack the sensitiveness and the con-
sciousness of man. they experience
nothing resembling the pain of man.
And even the future of humanity is
also to be one of mutual killing. The
human race. rapidly overpopulating
the earth. will be depleted by wars.
All this does not give the professor
the slightest qualm. For physical
death is unimportant. The purpose
Of the universe is not mainly in this
sphere at all. 1t is spiritual. 1t is
with mans soul that God is chiefly
concerned Suffering and trial and
struggle are a part of the scheme.
Real death is the failure of a soul to
achieve and renew spiritual com
munion.
A philosophy based on such a
vision of the purpose of the Creator
is difficult if not impossible of trans
lation into logical terms-and this
Mr.. Hutchinson apparently realizes.
Only experience can provide the
basis of belief.
The essay is characterized by a
clarity Of thought. a scientific back
ground. a philosophic lucidity a fine
literary SAVIOR. that make 1t a genu-
inc delight to read
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
The Book Factory
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.
PLANT OF A RADLOAF

PLANT OF A RADIOAF
After reading "The Complete Radio Book" bg Raymo
Francis Yates and Louis Gerard Pacent.)
I've just been perusing "The Radio Book"
And, oh what annoyance it brings,
For mine is dome that is hardly at home
In the realm of mechanical things
My neighbor, who boasts of radio SET
Insists that the volume is clear,
And doubtless it is, but if anyoned quiz
Me I'd funk rather badly fear
For batteries, buzzers, condensers and loops
Look alike to my mite of brain;
And as for vibrators and exc alternatorS
They leave me a-writhng in pan
And then there spark-cos detectors and arcs
To give an additional pang;
And, on, when start on the broadcasting part
l go down for the count with bang
And then, if my memory serve there are valves
And since I'm mental trapezian
They puzzled me so that got vertigo
And, fear me- a valvuar lesoni
That isn't enough to perplex you remark?
Perhaps; but l also might add
There are violet rays to bewilder and daze
And drive poor simpleton mad
And filament rheostats, sders and gears
Rechargers and vacuum tubes
That await to destroy the composure and ioy
Of mechanic'ly ignorant boobs.
Oh, radiomaniaes, purchase the book
And read every sentence with glee
But kindly don't quote from the same to this pote
For radio isn't for mel
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
OUR OWN LONDON CORRE-
SPONDENT.

The author-publisher is a rare
breed in America, b not so in these
parts. Ye correspondent met ]. D.
Beresford first as a scribe of some
little reputation-then as a member
OF the Collins publishing staff. Then
ye correspondent bumped into
Michael Sadleir. one OF the livest OF
the young writer's hereabouts. at a
dinner Of the Society of Bookmen.
He was present as representative
OF Constable's. And f. v. Lucas
occupies a desk at Methuen's. Just
EosS the street from the Century
Company's Tea Rooms in Essex
street, where ye correspondent sits
smoking a pipe and watching huge
piles of Lord Haldane's books on
Einstein and Mr.. Burroughs's books
on Tarzan carted about Sir Alger-
mons prosperous looking trade room.
And then there's John Buchan.
whom ye correspondent met as a
director OF Thomas Nelson's. The
author OF "Greenmantle" lives at
Oxford. a little matter OF two hours
outside London. and comes in almost
daily TO job that amt no sinecure.
In his spare time he writes his his
tory of the war and goes hunting
But think OF all the time he saves
by avoiding tea fights
At this. point Walter de la Mare
arises TO remark that for two years
he read manuscript for Heinemann.
MurieI Stuart. a very respectable
ooetesS and Tennyson Jesse, an
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Spirit messages. especially when
they come collect. are an expensive
proposition. for heaven is a good way
off: but when we want something
badly We are willing to so to any
expense and we have, through the
Psychic Cable Company. requested
Suzanne. Don Marquis's famed flame
haired flame. to send US. collect, a
rimed review of "Sonnets to a Red
Haired Lady" the poets well known
tribute to the-one might almost
say-coIorful lady. We have on our
desk spirit message from Suzanne
to the effect that she win send us
the review in time for publication in
next weeks issue of The Book Fac
tory.
W with costly London letters
reviews sent from Spiritiand at
staggering rates. the operating ex
-penses OF The Book Factory are be-
coming enormous: but we shall con-
tinue our present policy OF giving
our readers the best regardless of
the cost.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

equally respectable short story
writer-or should we say writer-ess?
are now reading for Heinemann's.
But while we're on the subject of
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

publishers readers we ought to men
ton the dean of them all, Edward
Garnett, who accepted the first
novels Of John Galsworthy, W. H.
Hudson and Joseph Conrad. and who
is a damn fine writer in his own way.
One of the real privileges of being
in this gloomy city these days is the
institution of Friday lunch at the
Mont Blanc. where he holds forth
Ye correspondent disagrees with him
impudently on most literary ques-
tions-largely for the look of mar
velously whitening scorn that flashes
over the mditre's lively face when
some worm of a second rate pub,
Usher or fourth rate scribe turns on
the sacred reputation of Stephen
Crane. After them there Friday
moons. we correspondent is sure 60
ing to try Mr.. Garnett's Friday
Nights" JOE LONDON.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

MR. MOVES HANGS UP HIS
CLARINET AND PLAYS THE
ORGAN.
After one has grown accustomed to
Alfred Noyes's swift-moving song
meters the stately pentameters of
his new book, Watchers of the Sky"
"a poetical history OF astronomy
seem a bit strange. Lilt-loving
Swinburnean that we are. we prefer
the Alfred Noyes of the gallopingly
lyrical Come down to Kew in lilac
time" but that is no reason why 1t
should not be recorded that Watch
ers Of the Sky is a good piece of
work.
We are, surprised that Mr.. Sherlock
Holmes has not suggested 20 Mr..
Conan Doyle that one way to enter
the door to Ghostland would be to
employ-and we hope the suggestion
won't give any one a spooky feel
ing-a skeleton key.
TITULAR MOUTHFULS.
X.
In spring 1 balk at erudition,
But if (and but on this condition)
Your beams highbrowily adventury
Read Professor s.. A. Korff's Rus
sid's Foreign Relations During
the Last Hall Century"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-21
SUPREME COURT
OF APPEALS

TN" S"prem" C~nr, 90 appeal, was
occupied the cntir" I'm, ycs,a- i.y
~ hearing ;.rgumoit. in the cas-
81 Flair VS. R"r"r's Administrators.
ct ais. from the court ct noano,.,
This cas-" involves tn" validity TO -
great many pieces OF property in
IA" city ct E"arut. The arsumeu.
viii h" continued ;oda!
IN" nest cas-" on docket is tnat ol
1.ll"y, IS ais. vs. Drt.0heiI"-. st .ls.
The civil Gochc, ncxt ON cali. foi.
lows:
Robertson - virginia National
"~nh: w. NJ Mcmillan y SON. lnc..
vs. =. +. I.oth. ct ais. William \.
hurcNhard Co. - f. i Lo;h ct
ais: Guiicord Marble ana Tie com
rauN. vs.. T. J.. l.oth 90, ais. fam
met Fire Roofing Company ys =.
,. Loth 81 ais. %orfolk Wire ANA
IRON works. Inc. vs. r. y Ioth. q,
ais; S!tt"rding-C arueal- Davis Co
Inc IS. j. +. luth. ct ais " T.
Na"on"H. -. y T.. 10Th :, ais: Fer
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,"r, - ho"d"aS Wood IS Atlantic
Co"s, Realty Company.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-21
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-21
RALSTOH DECLINES
POsTMAsTER's OFFICE
Staun,om Hears Fulwilcr Nav
BE Receptive Candidate
for Job.

Especial l" The T!mcs-D soa,oh.l
sTAuNToN. w. nov 20 char,ca
b Ea.s;on. secrct4ry OF ,ha cham
bcr OF Commerce and secretary OF
the Staun,ou Fair Association and
tho Virginia state Fair Association.
today received or.c!r notification Of
his anpo.nrmcu; as S'aunton's post
master. However, h." has rejected
,he honor. which carries 4 salary OF
$500
Air EAzion Is Republican and
AIs appointments came !; j. Thought.
a''er party leaders her. ard In Rich
uoud yer" unable ,o decide between
joseph kivlI.;h"u ana Edward J..
Collins, two aspiraujs
II j. not known wn.re the ,nst-
oolc, plum will now f,l hut IN tn.
meantime samuel NJ. Donald. D"nlu-
cratic incumbent continues to serve.
although has tcrm al office expired
last August
Some political discovers bel!ev.
that Robert y Fulwiler. OF Klein
moud. frrm"r'y Republican leader
nero. aud at present Federal prchibi-
t.ru Commissioned Tor Virginia. viii
cudcavor 10 secure TIA" nomination rs
postmaster here & II" Is unsuccessful
IN transferring prohibition hcndguar-
tors to stanton.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-21
DRUGGIST MAKES
GREAT DISCOVERY
FOR INDIGESTION

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