davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
For GOOD Spelling.
Randolph Herald.l

The spelling contests that have been
conducted as preliminaries to the final
state spell" held in connection with the
annual convention of state teachers IN
the fall, show that the interest in this
work of the elementary schools continues
undated. More notable even is the dem
onstration that improved efficiency has
resulted from these statewide spelling
tournaments, which have continued for
several years past under the direction of
j. ID. Whittier, supervisor of elementary
schools. At more than one of the county
competitions it has been found extremely
difficult to seat the contestants from the
list of words prepared by the state de-
partment. The benefits of this contest
are general and not confined to the few
good spoilers. 1t invokes a process of
selection beginning in all the elementary
public schools of the state. with the slim
illus of competition to promote the inter
est among the whole body of pupils. If
all cannot go on to the end all can try.
and profit thereby The town trials. fol-
lowed by those of the county. narrow
the candidates for state honors. The
final selection, conveying the coveted and
hard striven for title of state champion
speller, is one TO be treasured. Spelling
is by no means a lost art; or il lost it
has been regained. As a matter of fact,
spelling is probably better done at the
present time than ever before, tradition
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
Did Vermont Have No Candidatea
lNeW NOrk ZINC.

If one OF our states is to have poet
laureate, natural expectation is that he
would be a native, or, at the very least,
a. longtime resident of that state. 1t is
more than a little curious, and an in
element to considerable thought. there
fore. that the Vermont State League of
Women's clubs, in annual convention this
week, selected Robert Frost TO be Ner-
mont's official representative of the
Muses.
To he sure. the choice is a credit to
the critical judgment of these women,
for the man they cheese to be their lau-
reate is real poet, and one of appre-
cable size, and they hardly could have
gone nearer without faring worse. But
Mr.. Frost was born in California, and
his college days were passed partly at
Dartmouth and partly at Harvard. He
was a farmer for while, or Who's Who
says so, though one wonders, and then,
after teaching in severel New Hampshire
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
MERGER DANGERS

The federal trade commission is doing
well to keep an eye on the steel merg-
ers that have been filling so large a
place in the business news. 1t has an
nounced that it viii test the legality of
the Observation-Disclosures merger and
the proposed Midvale-Republic-In
merger, and any other that may de-
yelop. The commission expresses its fear
that competition will be hindered by the
new combinations.
Competition is to be preserved. by
all means, as long as competition re-
mains the rule Of business. But it is an
open question whether there is really
any competition left now in the steel
business. The United States Steel corpo-
ration has only about half the market
But if this biggest of trusts and its
supposedly independent rivals have
really been competing, there is not much
evidence of it in recent history
The trust has made no effort to ruin
its competitors by low prices 1t has
not had to. Usually the independents
have cheerfully followed the trust prices,
instead of trying to undercut them. Dur
ing the boom they often charged more
than the trust. and got it, on the ground
of quicker delivery.
Possibly the federal trade commission
aims to restore, rather than preserve,
competition. If so, it is worthy en-
terprise.
More important, perhaps, than any
thing that could be done along that line
at this stage of the proceedings, would
be to make sure that in the new mergers
there shall be no stock-watering, under
any guise, for future investors to alb
sorb and the public to pay for. The
public is now paying dividends on half
a billion dollars worth of stock that was
worthless when the big steel trust was
organized and has been made good by
surplus profits from prices that need
never have been charged, except for
such watering. Stock representing no
real values, when once validated, must
draw dividends and remain public bur-
den indefinitely.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
Today S Events

The national conclave of Mystic Shrin-
ers opened at San Francisco today.
The Democratic state committee of
Pennsylvania holds its biennial meeting
at Harrisburg today.
A Peace Progress and Prosperity
Festival will be launched in Boise, Ida,
today and continued through the week.
The ninth annual convention of the
Canadian Good Roads association meets
at Victoria, B. c., today for a session of
four days.
Secretary Hoover is scheduled to ad-
dress the Controllers congress of the
National Retail Dry Goods association,
which meets in New York city today.
The case of Mrs Ruth Seymour Nc
Cav of Bristol, r. l., charged with poi
soning her crippled stepdaughters, is
docketed for trial today at Providence.
A general meeting of the American
Steamship Owners association is to be
held today in New York city to consider
the ship subsidy bill and other important
matters.
A bitter fight between radicals and
conservatives for control of the Ameri-
can federation of Labor is expected to
come to head at the annual convention
of the federation which begins in Gin
cinnati today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

schools. he finally landed at last as pro-
fessor of English literature in Amherst.
His home is set down as Franconia. n.
H.. but he does have a summer place in
South SALISBURY, VT, and that seems
to be his only connection with the Green
mountain state.
But it is all right The poems in
North of Boston might every one of them
have had their scenes laid in Vermont, or
in any other New England state, for
that matter, and in them, at least as well
as ever before, was expressed the New
England spirit-or what was the New
England spirit while New England was
inhabited by more than a sprinkling of
New Englanders 1t is different now
with the larger part of the population
only people who live there, but perhaps
the difference is less in Vermont than in
any of the other states still called New
England, and that, too, helps to explain
why the Vermont women chose Mr.. Frost
to sing for them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

In one Of the cities that have been
having most trouble with the regulation
of automobile traffic, the city council APP
pointed a special committee to revise
the traffic ordinance. The committee in
cluded the chief of police, the police
prosecutor, the chief justice of the mu-
nicipal court, the city law director, and
representatives of the local automobile
club, and so ought to know what it is
about This committee has submitted,
as its principal recommendation, the
suggestion that in cases of traffic law
violations, the automobiles belonging to
the offenders be impounded in a city
garage for given period and the own
ers be obliged to pay storage charges.
There would be additional punishment of
the driver in any case warranting it, but
the procedure in normal cases would be
to arrest and imprison the car rather
than the driver. This does look like a
sensible solution, for the general run of
traffic offenses. To almost any auto
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
In the DAYS News

Twenty five years old today is the
Lady Victoria Mary Cambridge, whom
rumor has picked as the prospective
bride of the Prince of Wales. Her lady
ship, who in the course of events may
come to sit upon the throne of Eng
land, is numbered among the most init
mate friends of Princess Mary, the sister
of the Prince of Wales. She is the third
child of the Marquis of Cambridge, Earl
of Ethan and Viscount NorthallertOn
in the County of York. Her full name
is Victoria Constance Mary, and she was
born June II, 1897. Her father is gov
ernor and constable of Windsor Castle
and personal A. d. c. to King George.
The mother of Lady Victoria Mary was
Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor, a
daughter of the Duke of Westminster,
one of the wealthiest members of the
British peerage
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

satisfactorily completed until he receives
a fair price for it. Here is an oppor-
tunity for constructive service by the
farm bureau and the marketing agent Of
the state department of agriculture. I'm
der proper leadership, rural people must
visualize the possibilitiesA of co-opera-
ton in this field. translating thought
into action by establishing mills where
lumber for their own use can be sawed
at price which is not confscatory, and
where the potential wealth of their
acres can be made available for them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

Viscountess RhOndda, who has been
refused a seat in the house of lords, born
50 years ago today.
Charles l.. McNary, United States
senator from Oregon, born near Salem
Ore, As years ago today.
Lady Victoria Mary Cambridge. who
may become the bride of the Prince of
Wales, born % years ago today.
Laurits S. Swenson, United States
minister to Norway, born in Nicollet
county, Mimi, 81 years ago today.
Prof William r. Shepherd of Column
bia university, recently decorated by the
king of Spain, born at Charleston, S. c.,
81 years ago today.
Robert A. Cooper, late governor of
South Carolina, now a member of the
federal reserve board, born in Laurens
county, S. c.. rs years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

dIdent think ma would leave me go
out after supplr Yestidday for several
reasons, the main one being because she
sed she wouldent. me thinking, G, /
know wat, III rite q pome about how
thin she S getting and everything and
she IL think I'm CRATE and leeve me go
out. On account of ma not wunting
enybody TO think she's fat, wieh she
kind of is. and | went up in my room
and rote it and took it down and ma
was Introducing Embroidery, me saying
Hay ma, | rOte a Dome about you. do
you wunt to heer it?
Wat kind of a pome ma sed sispi-
cious, and | started to reed it, being,
Ny mother don't way 200 pounds
And never did, I'm sure,
In fact you can almost see throo her
She Is so thin and pure.
She 8 more like the GRAFT than the
elefunt
And more like the minny than the vale,
She reminds you of a small peece of
cotton
But not of the intire bale.
Being all. and ma sed, Well / declare,
[ never herd of sutch a thing in all nv
life. | may be a trife plump but good
Miss knows I'm not eny suteh size as
to have comic valentines ritten on the
subieck and for 2 pins I'd give you a
good hard smack.
HAY ma, that's Supposed to be a COM
pliment on your thinness, that's wat that
is, G. ma, I sed, and ma. sed, Well no
body would ever suspect it, the deer
And / went back to my room without
asking her if she had changed her mind
about leeying me 60 out. and lissened
to the fellows yelling outside a vile and
then l did my lpssins on account of not
being able to think of enythink elts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
Toflax,s ANNIVERSARIES.

1S33-Gen. James b. Weaver, twice a
nominee for the presidency. born
at Dayton. o. Died at Des Moines,
Ia, Feb. 6, 1912.
1S4S-An expedition under Sir James
Ross sailed for the Arctic in
search of Sir John Franklin
1S64-Emperor Macmillan and Empress
Carletta entered the City of
Mexico.
1S72-The German reichstag voted to
expel the Jesuits.
1SS9-A monument to Michigan soldiers
was dedicated at Gettysburg.
1S99-Two hundred and fifty persons
killed by tornado at New Rich
mond, Wis.
1901-King Edward distributed South
African war medals to 1900
officers and men, the first to re
ceiye medal being Lord Roberts.
1920-Warren c. Harding was nomi-
mated for president by the Repub-
lican national convention at
Chicago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

The executive committee of the state
department of the American Legion has
invited Secretary of War Weeks to at
tend che annual convention to be held in
st. Johnsbury Sept. 10 and 16. If Sec
rotary Weeks is whore he would like to
be at that time, namely, at his beautiful
summer home just outside of Lancaster,
n. H., it ought not TO be difficult to
make him take the short journey across
the Connecticut.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
70 ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper. 50 cents
an inch for first insertion, 80 cents inch for
each subsequent insertion. Limited space on
hrst page at double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents a line
first insertion with 50 per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change of
copy. Minimum charge 20 cents. Cash with
order.
Reading Notices-Twenty cents per line first
insertion with so per cent discount for each
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published at foot of local
items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

The Refomer is sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleb0ro, BrattlebOro News Co., c. w.
Cleaveland, s. L. Purinton (Esteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
stand, Gilbert ]. Pollica, 2e7 South Main St.
(Fort Drummer district.
West Brattleboro, J. L. StockwelI.
East Dummerston, NJ. E. Brown.
Putney, III. G. Williams.
Newfane, N. NJ. Batchelder.
West Townshend, c. II. Grout.
Jamaica, R. J. Daggett
South Londonderry, F. H. Tyler.
South Vernon, E. B. Buffum.
Hinsdale, ". H, w. H. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
Greenfield, Mass, c. A. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
Mra Carrie Iacohs.Bond. the Ameri-

Mrs. Carrie Jacobs-Bond, the Ameri-
can woman who has made an enormous
fortune as a writer of popular songs,
was struggling widow when she. took
to song writing. She obtained the
means for publishing her first songs by
out food and warmth. Altogether she
has written more than 400 songs, and
has built UP an immense publishing
business, which her son now manages.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
Fettered by oenominationalism.
6Randolph Heral,

The principal of Leland and Gray sem
mary at TownShend has not been re-en-
gagged for the coming year because he
could not qualify under the peculiar
conditions of the $4,000 bequest ac-
cepted by the seminary from a donor
school must always be a Baptist. An
other unusual circumstance is that the
seminary, fettered by this condition in
respect to the bequest. has been leased
to the town. at a nominal rental. and
is to be conducted as a public school.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

The Rutland Herald claims to have
heard many suggestions that Frank w.
Agan of Ludlow be drafted as a candi-
date for the gubernatoriaI nomination
but doesn't take much stock in the sug-
gestion of the Burlington Clipper that
he enter the field as third party can
didate
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
10 NE SUBSCRIBERS

It is the aim of the management TO assure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation of
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be given of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone or postal card, thus en-
abling the calse of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

mobilist, losing the pse of his car is
more serious than paying a fine, and
should have a correspondingly whole
some effect in encouraging careful driy-
irky
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

Curious sartorial fact: Suspenders
are coming in again-for men-just
when anybody would suppose the women
were going to wear 'em. if anybody did.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

It's false economy to use a havoring
extract of questionable quality and run
the risk of spelling a dessert, when
Bakers Certified Extracts are SO readily
e.-AdVertisement
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
BEAUTIES OF NATURE

this Ies ode He's lovely things,
he
With Wheel 10
this landscape makes feel like with
wheat
the utool
the landscape with his shouldn't watch the
shouldn't think things but play the drivers
creakng should his highest AIM
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
One Year Ago Today.

Several lives lost in an oil tank fire
at Salt Lake City.
Treaty agreement made Belgium the
protector of Luxemburg.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

People talk more about the weather
than any other subject, and know less
about it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

Copyright by George Matthew Adam.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

Entered in the postofie at Brattleboro as
second class matter.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
Stanford High Boys
Win From Hobson,
but Girls Beaten
Special to The Tribune.

| Special to The Tribune.
Stanford, Jan. 22-The boys
basketball team from Hobson high
school was defeated by Stanford high
Saturday evening. A to 20. A pre-
liminary game played between the
girls teams resulted in victory for
Hobson, 8 to z. This is the second
time these teams have met and the
general result was the same each
time.
There was unusual interest in the
games due to the rivalry between the
two towns. but there has been the
most sportsmanlike relation between
the teams. The Stanford crowd was
large and enthusiastic, and the games
| were both. exciting. Even though the
score of the boys game was not close,
it was holly contested.
The lineup and score of boys game !:
Stanford (44) Position Hobson (20)
Willis ...... forward. 49,. Korrell
Brownlee 49,. forward. Waite
Nobel (c)..... center. $3.50: White
Stucky guard. Buckingham
Riach ......... guard. OBrlen
Field baskets--Willis 2; Brownlee,
5; Nickerson, 4; Nobel, 10; korrell
2; Waite. 2; White, 1; Buckingham, !.
Free throws-Nebel. 2; White. 4.
Observation-Disclosures for Willis;
Burlington for O'Brien.
Referee-Haryey.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
Wheatland County
Sportsrnen Organize
Special TO The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Harlowton, Jan. 22.-Local sports.
men have organized the Wheatland
County Sportsmen's club. 1t is branch
of the state organization and Nj. >.
Carpenter, state secretary, was pres
ent at the organization. 1t is fostered
by the members of the Rifle club and
the old Anglers association and starts
out with membership of 100. There
were over 800 hunting licenses issued
in this county last year and the holder
of every license will be asked to join.
Rene Labrie, well known stockman
and hunter, is president and William
Dysart is secretary treasurer The
association will stock the streams Of
this county. see that game laws are
enforced and introduce pheasants and
other game birds.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
Poplar Eastern Star
and Masons Install
at Joint Ceremony
Special to The Tribune.

Poplar, Jan. 22-Officers were In
stalled by the Northern Light lodge
No. 20, A. F. and A. NJ. and the
Aurora chapter No. Al Order of East
ern Star at joint ceremonies. Fol-
lowing are the Masonic officers:
81. NJ. Cosier, worshipful master; G. T..
Smith, senior warden; W. E. Meidel,
Junior warden; w. L. Tidland. treas
urer; III. G. Walker, secretary; Art
Nelson, senior deacon; Bob White,
junior deacon; r. J. Peacore, senior
steward; John kim, junior steward; ].
Harry Walker, chaplain; J. F. Smith.
tyler. New officers of the Eastern
Star are: Lizzie Smith, worthy mat
ron; u. ]. Peacore, worthy patron;
Sophie NJ. Cairncross, associate
matron: Edna e. Patch, secretary; IL.
M. Cosier, treasurer; Florence Work
man, conductress; Mary J. Smith, as
sociate .conductress; J. NJ. Larson,
marshal; Lois L. Meidel chaplain;
Maude Alger, Ada; Artie Peacore,
Ruth; Augusta Craig, Esther; Alberta
Fulkerson. Martha; Edythe J.. Lidland,
Electa; J. Harry Walker, warder;
Howard Alger, sentinel; Gertrude G.
Cosier, organist.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
New Lumber Camp
Will Be Opened at
Wildwood Siding
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune
Belt, Jan. 22-E. w. Burnett OF
Belt has left for Wildwood siding near
Neihart to open new numbering camp
there Mr. Burnett has contract
with Lewistown firm to get out sew
eral thousand lath bolts. He also has
contracts calling for several loads Of
mine props which he will get out. ut
once. For the past few weeks Mr..
Burnett has had camp at Tyler
spur and has several cars of c.r1wood
banked on the track, one car having
been shipped to Conrad on Tuesday.
Mr.. Burnett plans to put in power
saw at the new location where fine
piece of timber has been uncovered.
Several men and teams will be given
employment for the rest of the win
ter at the camp.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
Northeastern Schools
Organize District
Special to The Tribune

Special to The Tribune.
Culbertson, Jan. 22-At a meeting
held at Culbertson recently the North
eastern interscholastic district was or
ganized for the promotion of inter
scholastic activities among the high
schools of the district. AS a result of
this the towns in the district were list
ed in the following order: Malta. SEQ
hey, Poplar, Glasgow, Outlook, Plenty
wood, Medicine Lake, Culbertson. Saco,
Wolf Point The following officers
were elected for the coming year:
Frank Livingston, Wolf Point, presi-
dent: E. NJ. Hogge. Plentywood, secre-
tary: f. o. Mcdowell. Malta, first vice
president; Annabell Acker, Malta, Sec
ond vice president.
The district basketball tournam ent
will be held at Malta.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
Protect Landscape
From Sign Boards
Plea of Road Men

Billings. Jan. 22.-Legislation to
preserve Montana landscape beauties
is asked in a resolution adopted at Il
meeting here of the Custer Battlefield
Hiway association The resolution de-
plores the practice of using scenic
features along roads for commercial
advertising. Another resolution adopt
ed calls for the construction with gov
Glacier National park along the Great
Northern right-of- way to Bolton. to
connect the Custer Battlefield Hiway
with other national highways extending
to the coast.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
Foresters Organize
Basketball Quintet
CAPITOL ORCHESTRA

ST AIMS court No. 926, Of the
Catholic Order of Foresters, has or
ganized a basketball team. Several Of
the players formerly were members of
the local high school quintets. The
necessary equipment has been pur-
chased and challenges sent to num-
Der Of teams i'll the city. Ability and
practice will make the team one that
is fully capable of contending with any,
the sponsors stated. A series Of in
teresting, fast games is being ar
ranged for
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
OF LOCAL INTEREST

Mr. and Mrs. F. o. Bosworth OF
Lewistown will return to their home
Monday after spending the weekend in
this city.
The Rev. ]. c. Gress Of Lewistown
who occupied the pulpit at the First
Baptist church in this city Sunday
will return to his home today.
Miss Clara B. Harner passed through
Great Falls Sunday, on her way to
Button. where she is teaching school,
after visiting over the weekend at
her home ID Belt.
Word has been received in this city
that John Wilson of Great Falls re-
Gently enlisted in the 18th tank bat
talon of the army at Camp Benning.
Ga. His enlistment is for period
of three years.