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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-04
WEST TOwNsHEND.

Mrs. Ida Mattocks was in Brattleboro
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris ODonnell of
Brattleboro were weekend visitors at L.
j. Harris's.
Rev. George H. Damon and family
came to the pGr-onage last week to do
the haying.
Mrs. Henry Hamilton of Jamaica was
a recent visitor at the home of Charles
w. Dunbar.
Christian Endeayor meeting Sunday
evening at 7.30 conservation meeting.
c. Ii. Grout leader
Mr. and Mrs George II. Pierce and
Miss Marcia Howe of Brattleboro were
at her bungalow a few days.
Miss Nella Clark of New York city is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs Emma
Clark, at the home of A. L. Howe
Mr. and Mrs Harry G. Proctor and
daughter, Harriet of Revere Mass. are
spending their second summer at Green
dale farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Warner and
Miss Dorothea of Boston are spending
some time at A. L. Howes Mr. Warner
returned to Boston after staying few
days.
c. L. Page of Chicago has been in town
week visiting his sister, Mrs. A. w
Kidder, and calling on old friends Mr..
Page had not been here before for 1G
years.
The Christian Endeavor society had an
ice-cream and cake sale Thursday after
noon and evening. During the evening a
pleasing program was carried out. con
sisting of songs, marches and games The
advertising contest caused much interest
and merriment About 70 were present
and $12 was added to the treasury.
At the last business meeting of the
Christian Endeavor society the following
officers were elected for six months
President. Harry Styles; vice president
Mrs Ernest Wood corresponding sec
rotary. Mrs. c. w. Dunbar; secretary
Mrs. George Buckley; treasurer, Mrs
G. II. Grout; lookout committee. Mrs
G. II. Grout, Mrs. C.. w Dunbar, Mrs
G. o. Kimball; prayer meeting, Mrs.
Harry Styles. c. W. Dunbar. c.. O. Kim
| ball; missionary. Rev. g. II. Damon
Isabel Buckley, Mrs. Leslie Rhodes so
cial, Mrs. c. NJ. Dean, Mrs. Ernest
Wood, Florence Herrick; supper, Mrs.
Harry Styles, Florence Worden. Edith
burlington, Lillian Worden, Bernice
IIadlock music Mrs. Leslie Rhodes
Gladys Chapen. Mrs. c. w. Dunbar:
temperance. c. W. Dunbar, Leslie
Rhodes Mark Chapen; flowers, Bernice
Hadlock. Forrest Hewett, Lillian Wor-
den Inez Buckley.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-04
NEW GRADING FOR POTATOES.
Certified Seed Growers Favor Change,
in Regulations.

RUTLAND, Aug. "A resolution,
favoring the amendment of grading regu-
lations of certified seed to include the
latest revision of United States grade
No. I, with the maximum size limit of
II ounces for the long and 10 ounces
for the round type of potato. was
adopted by the Vermont Certified Seed
Potato Growers association at its third
annual meeting in the town hall in Ira
Wednesday.
The tuber-raisers also passed a resO-
luton favoring legislation which would
provide for the payment of Il fee by the
grower to defray the expense of inspec-
ton, and there was a lengthy discussion
as to the desirability of having a greater
number of inspectors so that all the po-
tato fields could be inspected in the early
StaTes of growth.
The association elected l.. H. Ball of
Randolph Center. l.. X. 0sgood of Rut-
land and Harold G. Richardson of Rox-
bury directors and this board will later
name the officers.
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WEST NORTHFIELD. MASS.

Mrs, Henry Smith was in Springfield
Wednesday.
T. B. BufTum has been in New Lon
don and New York the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Copperthwaite
were in Ludlow for the weekend.
Miss Ruth French of Springfield called
on her father. Dexter French, this week.
Mrs. Baker, who was housekeeDer for
Mr.. Briggs, has returned to Springfield.
Mrs. Ellen Stebbins of Springfield is
with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Bolton.
Mrs. H V Martineau has been enter
tanning her mother, Mrs. Bacon of Bran
don.
Elizabeth Royce of Chesterfield is
with her sister, Mrs. Fred Aldrich. for
a while.
Mrs. Leslie Allen Of Brattleboro. and
daughter were with her parents for the
weekend
Mrs Lester Hill and Clara and Les
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-04
MAY CENSOR LITERATURE.
Publishers and Authors Favor Elimina
ton of Salacity.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Committees
representing organizations of publishers
and authors will meet Immediately after
the vacation season to discuss a plan for
the voluntary censorship of manuscripts,
based on the voluntary censorship
adopted for the stage, according to John
). Sumner, secretary of the New York
Society for the Suppression of Vice
Many New York publishers have
promised in letters and personal inter
views to support such a plan, and com
mittee representing the Authors League
of America and another committee repre-
senting the official organization of the
publishers, are studying the plan.
The province of literature may be pre-
sided over by proconsul, like Angus
tus Thomas, VIII III. Hays or Judge
Lands, if the plan under discussion is
carried into execution. Many of the pub
fishers desire TO have the whole publish.
ing business placed under the control OF
a committee on ethics, with a possible
arbiter or dictator at the head, as in
baseball, the films and the stage These
publishers are anxious to prevent their
business from suffering further of the
disrepute which had been brought on it.
Mr.. Sumner said, by a recent series OF
novels in the extreme manner of authors
of the younger school," Publications
of alleged quack psychO-analysts pur-
porting to discuss psychO-analysis, but
really putting forth flood of immortality
under the name of science, have also in.
spired certain publishers to seek a
method of purifying their industry
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WEST DUNIMERsTON.

Mrs. Lewis Combs spent Sunday in
town.
Earl Parsons Of Wilmington is visiting
at Delbert Robbins's.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. f. Putnam and
family motored Monday to Keene, n. II.
Harry Hanson, William Roark, George
Roark, Mr. Mclaughlin spent the week
end at their home in Barre
James Clark, jr., is having new
piazza built on the ell of his house. Car
penters from Brattleboro are doing the
work
Mr. and Mrs Stewart Chaplin and
three children, Mrs. Fred Tier and sons.
Miss Ruth Baldwin and Miss Elsie Clark
are spending two weeks camping on the
ground where Green Mountain camp
was held.
Mrs. 2. Connarn, and Mrs. Thomas
O'Brien and two daughters went with
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley T. Richardson and
daughter to the home of John w. Con-
narn in Manchester, n. H.. travelling by
automobile.
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From Private Secretary TO Bar.

BOSTON. Aug Miss Theresa w.
Nelligan, long private secretary to John
A. Sullivan. the city's exec corporation
counsel and ex-chairman of the finance
commission, was notified yesterday aft
ernoon by the state bar examiners that
she had successfully passed the recent
test and is admitted to practice at the
bar.
Miss Nelligan was graduated in June
at Portia Law school, having found
time to take the three-year evening
course there, fill her exacting position in
Mr.. Sullivan's Office and keep up, too. a
round of activities in church and social
fields. She will keep her present post.
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GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER v

THE housekeeper's room had
heard something of the news by
this time, and Audrey had had
a busy time explaining to other mem
bers of the staff exactly What he
had said, and what she had sid. The
details were not quite established
yet, but this much at least was GER
tain: that Mr.. Marks brother had
shot himself and spirited Mr.. Mark
away. and that Audrey had seen at
once that he was that sort of man
when she opened the door to him.
Elsie had a contribution of her own
to make. She had actually heard
Mr.. Mark in the office. threatening
his brother.
He said, heard him say it with
my own ears, It's my turn now,' he
said. triumphant-like."
well. if you think that's a threat,
dear. you're very particular. / must
say"
But Audrey remembered Elsle's
words when she was in front of In
spector Birch. She gave her own
evidence with the readiness of one
who had already repeated it several
times.
Then you didn't see Mr.. Mark at
alp"
mo. sir; he must have come in
before and gone UP to his room.''
well. 1 think that's all that l
want TO know. Now what about the
other servants?"
Elsie heard the master and Mr..
Robert talking together" said Au-
drey eagerly. He was saying-Mr.
Mark. l mean"
''Ahl Who is Elsie. by the way?"
''One of the housemaids. Shall /
send her to you, sir?''
Please"
2 All that interested Inspector Birch
was that Elsie was passing through
the hall. and heard voices in the
office.
And stopped to listen?'
Certainly not said Elsie with
dignity. Il was just passing through
the hall, just as you might have been
yourself. and not supposing they
was talking secrets. didn't think TO
stop my ears. as no doubt I ought to
have done" And she shifted slightly
Come, come.' said the inspector
soothingly. Now then, what was 1t
SOd AAC1l u. ~ AGAAAClAAbCA Tue
exact words"
Something about working In a
passage. thought Elsie.
HIN. Working a passage over
could that have been it?''
That's right, SIR said Elsie
eagerly. He'd worked his passage
over
"weI1?"
''And then Mr.. Mark said loudly
sort of umphant-like-It's my
turn now. You wait
Triumphantly?"
'As much as to say his chance
had come"
And that's all you heard?"
That's all. sir-not standing there
listening, but just passing through
the hall, as it might be any time"
Eyes Well. that's really very i'm
portant, Elsie. Thank YOU"
Elsie gave him a smile. and re-
turned eagerly to the kitchen.
Meanwhile Antony had been ex-
,,
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sat down on bench in view OF the
office windows.
Now then" he said. Tets 60
through Cayley's mind carefully. and
see what we GET
Cayley had been In the hall when
Robert was shown into the Office.
/ The servant goes off to look for
Mark, and CayIey goes on with his
| book. Mark comes down the stairs,
warps Cayley to stand by in case
| he is wanted. and goes to meet his
brother. What does Cayley expect?
| Possibly that he won't be wanted
after all: possibly that his advice
may be wanted in the matter, say,
of paying Roberts debts. or getting
him a passage back to Australia;
possibly that his physical assistance
may be wanted to get an obstreper-
Gus Robert out OF the house. Well,
he sits there for moment, and then
goes into the library. Suddenly he
hears pistol-shot. For the moment
he would Lardly realize what it was.
He listens. Perhaps it wasn't a
pistol-shot after all. After a mo-
ment or two he goes to the library
door again. The profound silence
makes him uneasy now. No harm
in going into the office just to re-
assure himself. So he tries the door
and finds it locked
What are his emotions now7
Alarm, uncertainty. Something is
happening. Incredible though it
seems, it must have been a pistol
shot. He is banging at the door and
calling out to Mark, and there is no
answer. Alarm-yes. But alarm
for whose safety? Marks, obviously.
Robert is a stranger; Mark is an
intimate friend. Robert has written
letter that morning, the letter of a
man in a dangerous temper. Robert
is the tough customer; Mark the
highly civilized gentleman. If there
has been a quarrel, it is Robert who
has shot Mark. He bangs at the
door again.
OF course. to Antony, coming sud
denly upon this scene, Cayley's con-
duct had seemed rather absurd. but
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-04
TOBACCO MEN ORGANIZE.
Secret Ballot for District Directors to
Be Sent Out.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Aug. A.
The Connecticut Valley Tobacco associa-
ton was formally organized at a meet
ing If the organization committee yes,
terday afternoon at it's headquarters, II
Central Row, Hartford. Plans for the
election by secret ballot of one director
for each of the p districts in the associ-
alton were outlined at the meeting and
the election is expected to be completed
by Aug. %.
Each of the 800 members of the new
association will early next week be
mailed list of the members in his dis
trict. any one of which he may nominate
for director. The nominations VIII then
be mailed back to Hartford.
The three nominees receiving the high
est number of votes in each district will
be placed on the ballot and returned to
each member of the association III this
district for a final vote for one man as
director.
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ter. ir.. have been visiting her sister
in Worcester.
Mrs. VIII Scarboro and children of
Palmer have been visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Mcnamara.
Angie and Florence Albino of Spring
field. who have been with their uncle,
Joseph Peach. and family month. have
returned home.
Will Goodchild and family, who have
been at Swanzey pond a month. were at
+. G. Courser's Sunday on their way
home to Hartford, Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Holton went to Ches-
ter. VT, Sunday and to Lowell Lake. The
two daughters, who have been there
visiting. returned with them.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Strange and Mr..
and Mrs Charles Bower of Springfield
have been visiting at f. B. Holton's.
Miss ] 9uise Brennan of Cambridge,
Mass. is a guest there now.
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ploring a little on his own. There
was a point which was puzzling him.
He went through the hall to the
front Of the house and stood at the
open door. He and Cayley had run
round the house to the left. Surely
it would have been quicker to have
run round to the right? Undoubtedly
they went the longest way round.
''Why?" he asked himself. 'Was
It to give Mark more time in which
to escape? Only, in that case-why
run? Also, how did Cayley know
then that it was Mark who was try
ing to escape? If he had guessed
that one had shot the other. it was
much more likely that Robert had
shot Mark. Indeed, he had admitted
that this was what he thought. The
first thing he had said when he
turned the body over was, Thank
God! I was afraid it was Mark But
why should he want to give Robert
time in which to get away? And
again-why run. If he did want to
give him timer"
Antony went out OF the house
again TO the lawns at the back. and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-04
THE MODERN MOTHER

faces problems far beyond those of her
forbears. She herself must be a much
more complete person, combining in one
individual the duties of nurse, cook,
teacher and moral instructor 1t is no
wonder that many conscientious women
break under the strain, and that others
drag out a miserable existence; always
tired, and yet unable to take days va
cation. Such women will find themselves
benefited and their burdens made easier
by the use of Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, which was made for suf-
fering women, and does not fail to re-
lieve Standardization
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MORE MOTOR PRICE CUTS.
Chandler and Cleveland Join Others Re
Gently Reduced.

NEW YORK, Aug. More automo-
bile price reductions We're announced
yesterday. the Chandler and Cleveland
cars joining the revised price class
started early in the week by the reduc-
lions on four of the General Motors cars.
The reductions on the Chandler, which
go into effect at once, range from $50
to $500.
On the Cleveland small reductions are
made ranging from SO to $50, the latter
being on the roadster
Earlier in the week. to meet the Gen
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eral Motors reductions on the Buick,
Chevrolet, Oakland and Oldsmobile, the
Studebaker and Nash made reductions
on all models The Studebaker cut prices
on Is models, all skies, ranging from $40
to $500, while the Nash reductions on u
models ran from $50 to $500, including
tours and skies.
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CARRIES BULLET SECRETLY.
Four Year-OId Accidentally Shot by
Older Brother and Doesn't Tell.

WALPOLE, y. H. Aug. 4.-Richard
Benson. Z, and his brother John, f.
found a 32-caiibre revolver in their Wal
pole home Saturday while their mother
was away While fooling with it. Rich
ards finger came in contact with the
trigger and John was shot. the bullet
hitting rib above the heart and glanc-
ing off. Several hours later the boys
walked to Westminster to meet their
mother She did not know of the injury
until that night when she addressed
John. The boy was taken to the hOspi-
tai, as blood poisoning was feared.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY

Within two minutes after
ROBERT ABLETT, ne'er-do-w well
brother of
MARK ALBEIT. bachelor proprietor
of The Red House, had arrived
and been ushcred into Mark S
office. a shot was heard.
ANTONY GILLINGHAM. a friend
of
BILL BEVERLEY, che of Marks
guests, arrived at that moment
to find Marks companion,
MATT CAYLEY, pounding on the
locked door of the Office and de-
handing admittance. The two
men entered the Office by a win
dow and on the floor found the
body of Robert with bullet
through the head. Mark was no.
where to be found. Investigation
by Inspector Birch showed that
Mark had learned with consider
able disgust and annoyance of the
coming of Robert. Cayley re-
fused to believe that Mark had
deliberately murdered Robert.
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JUDGES DAUGHTER A LAWYER.
Admitted to Bar in Maine-AIiss Nelli
gan Admitted at Boston.

PORTLAND. Me-, Aug. Miss
Helen Hanson of Calais, daughter of
Judge George NJ Hanson of the Maine
supreme court, and Miss Lima Black of
this city are among the n candidates
who passed the Maine bar examinations
here this week
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-04

G. r. ANDERSON, Surgeon and Physician.
Surgery a speciality. Office and residence,
Brooks House, 128 Main St. Hours: After
moons, 80 TO 3, evenings, to 8, except Tues
days and Fridays. Sundays by appointment
only. Phone DO
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-04
Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance Company
MONTPELIER. VERMONT

Members of this Company are hereby
notified that. for the fiscal year ended
July 81, 1922, the Directors have levied
Assessments as follows
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DR.. a. P. GREENE, Physician and Surgeon.
Office, Bank block. Hours: $50 TO 3, and to
2. m. Residence, SO Green St. Telephone
connection. Mornings and Sundays by ap'
mir time Mt only
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DR.. GRACE W. BURNETT, Physician and
Surgeon. Market Block. Elliot St. Office
hours; $50 to $50 q. m; 80 to go, and TO
o. m. Telephone Jaw,
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EDWARD R. LYNCH, M. d. Surgery . spe
cislty. Office, Park Building. Phone, SO
Hours: I to 4 p. -, to 9 p. m. Residence
Putney Road. Phone, III. Sundays By ap-
poiutment only.
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c. r. ALDRIcH, NJ. d. Hours: 1880 70 $50
z to 8. Office phone, l65-WI house. I6s-R
X-rav work a specialtY.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

". ]. KANE, n. D., Physician and Surgeon.
Office, Room 10, Ullery building. Hours: $50
to go; 100 to 100; to 8. Office phone 42s-W.
Residence. Is Frost St, 'phone. 42q-R.
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SUBSCRIBE FOR THE REFORMET
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W. R. EoYES, NJ. D., Physician and Surgeon,
Eye, Ear, N9se and Throat. Glasses fitted. Hrs
e-l2. LOS. W ID and Sat Eve Am Rlda
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DIR. A. i. MILLER, Hooker block, BrattIe-
Eggo. Ofice hours: 8 70 9. 70 2. go to 8.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

P,sydell. Al 1 am slyly quoting
Scott to fortify my story, so Scott
in a note, quotes a distinguished
lawyer friend who told Scott OF a
Lord Advocate who, while too drunk
TO get out of his chair. drew an ap-
peal which Scott's informant de-
clared was "a chef d'oeuvre in which
there was not necessity to correct
five words" .a
As no attempt is made here to set
down incidents chronologicaIly.
will bracket that shipwreck story
with another in which prettier life
saving chapter can be told. 1t was
some months later that flash
came into the newspaper Offices of
a wreck on the sandy beach about
as far north of San Francisco as
the other was south. This was a
British tramp from the Columbia
River bound for Liverpool, loaded
with Oregon products, chiefly canned
salmon. On a little railroad run
ming from Sausalito, suburb across
the Golden Gate. another reporter
and / went by train to station at
the foot of Mount Tamalpais, thence
by blackboard across a flank of the
mountain to the ocean beach.
Not an official of any kind. not
even an insurance adjuster. pre-
ceded us to where we found the great
black hull of the ship heavily listed
and rigid in the sand, where a gale
and a high tide had carried her DUR
ing a heavy fog. She had broksa
in two. and the beach was dotted
with cases of salmon. The only
house we saw was that of n SwiaQ
dairyman, and there, too, we learned
our story. One life only had been
saved; a cabin boy who had beeA
found unconscious and bruised
among the dead; found by the daughe
ter of the dairyman. The girl did
not want to see us or that we should
see her sailor boy, so the father said
in answer to our inquiries But
there was our story! We had little
trouble in convincing the proud
father that his daughters patient
search, when the few frightened
ranchrnen early gathered at the
scene Of the wreck had abandoned
search, deserved public recognitioIk
and that what we would write about
her would be good reading for her,
her parents and her children when
she should have them.
Sometimes there is as much rOs
nance in scene as even a reporter,
IL he is looking for romance, would
like to have. We were shown into
a bedroom. plainly company roomv
reserved. IT may be, for Sunday vis+
it's of prosperous Swiss merchau4
who purchased dairy products. II
softly by low sun dimmed by tho
fog overhanging the sea- The girA
was pretty. yes. undeniably pretty-@
as she should be-and the Engiisf
lad was a handsome chap-as ~
ConfinNed on FoHoscin0 Pd0A