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THE BltATTLEBORO DAILY REFORMER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 191G
Poasiter
Flour at wholesale has
already advanced about
$1.50 a barrel. Today the
retail price stands lower
than the wholesale.
We should advise the
consumer to buy immediate
ly from their regular source j
of supply, and save at least
$2.00 per barrel over the
prospective winter price.
E. CROSBY & CO.
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Kxcept Sunday at
the American Building Annex.
Alain Street.
Brattleboro. Vermont.
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Tbt Reformer.
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TODAY !
PrincessTheatre
PRESENTS
Blanche Sweet
AND
Thomas Meighan
THE PARAMOUNT FRODUCTION
HieSotirers
The story of the eternal conflict
between the Kunsian secret police
and the league of Revolutionists.
AND
Billie Burke
-IN-
The Fourth Kpinnde of
Gloria's Romance
The Social Voitex
Matinee 2.30 Evening 7.1"-8.43
Admission Adults 10c
Children 5c
TOMORROW
TRIANGLE DAY
Dorothy Gish and Wallace Reid
in the Triangle Feature Drama
Old Heidelberg
AND
Joe Jackson
in the Triangle Feature Comedy
Gypsy Joe
Music by Leitsinger's Orchestra in Evening
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
It Is the aim of the management tn
securs efficient service In the delivery
of the paper each night, and it solicits
the co-operation of subscribers to that
end. rroir.pt reports should be given of
each failure to receive the paper on the
morning following the oinlsshm, in per
son. by telephone or postal card, thus
enabling the cause of the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
me proper remedy immediately applied.
It Is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
Member of the Associated Press.
Ths Reformer is on ale every evening
Hf nit: nujuwing newj aeaiera;
Brattleboro, Uratt.eboro News Co.
Park 1'ruC Stor. ('. W. PleavaliiTiA T-k
i:. I'utlrr - . (Kfteyville), Brooks
1 1 iiiftr i na: mni-y .
West Brattltboro, J. L. Etockwell.
East Dummerstcn, M. E. Brown.
Putney, M. G. Williams.
Newfane, N. M. Batcheldsr.
Townshend, C. W. Cutler.
West Townshend, C. H. Grout
Jamaica, H. J. Daggett.
South Londonderry, F. II. Tyler.
South Vernon, K. B. Buffum.
West Chesterfield, N. H., Mrs. W
Streeter.
Hinsdale, N. H., W. II. Lyman.
Bellows Falls, Vt., Pepot Restaurant
I'ort' iliTin Bertolinn, K. C.Winnewisser.
Windsor, Vt., Windsor Restaurant
TIiri.'sliAY, Al'ClST ::. I'.Ui'.
Willi j r i' i' .niuiiiul 7 :i hu.-ht l V(
-hall .-.inn be i';il!ir. on Saturday nio,f.
!Vr a mikiII sirloin of liean-.
Whore arc the town rcjiri'M'iitat iv
ra n.liilato .' Tin- lime is fast approarh
when through the ;i ima i it s nomi
nation will lie :na le fur ra mlMat.es to
l.e ufe.l t i in November.
U'.i-ia will y.ui more out of tin
!jie:,t (iriiilict than any other nation
li fart it is the country that has atu-
i loji.'ieM wane the war is 111
pi... Lies-. Prohibition lias caused tht
".reatc-t change, and this lias Keen sup
plemented by the forced development
of new industries.
Tin' Manchester I'nion. the leadiii"
newspaper of New Hampshire, is right
there with the hemes in its issue of
! August 2, when one of the features
if its editorial pa ye is "The Harden
er's ' ah ndar for .lime.'' Almost as up
to date as the merchant who used to
advertise sleigh In lis in duly ami grass
seed in danuarv.
listed in the work which Mrs. John 13.
Chase has organized and directed with
remarkable success. The boys and girls
of Lyndonville sold over 3,000 worth
of maple sugar products last spring,
and this is only one of many branches
of productive work in which thev are
euirag
ed.
For many years King Sin; was notori
ous as about the worst penal institution
man could be committed to. tlreat
rogress in the direction of treating the
men like human beings who have gone
wrong instead of beasts that need con
finement and harsh treatment, has been
made by Warden Osborne and Dr.
Kirschwav. One of the first improve
ments Mr. Osborne expects to introduce,
now that lie lias been reinstated as head
of the institution, is the examination of
L'very prisoner by an expert in mental
liseases, in order to ascertain what spe
cial treatment is required to remove the
criminal tendency. The Rockefeller
Foundation is to finance the experiment.
This looks like another step in the
recognition ot the lact that prisons
should be schools of citizenship rather
than schools of crime.
ADVICE CONCERNING EPIDEMIC.
Health Officer Says Children Should Ee
Kept Scattered.
Fditor of The Reformer:
In view of the fact that infantile
paralysis is spreading and appearing
in new places nearlv overv ilnv a fW
words of caution and advice to par
ents ami others in charge of children
cannot he amiss. As it is thought the
germ of the disease can be carried by
jx-ople who are not themselves alllicted
with it. nit rents should not -illow i.ir
children to go to moving picture shows
sociaiues, picnics, church services, Sun
day school, or any other public gather
in jr. Children should be kent s,.;itter..l
as much as possible, and to do this it
can he no great hardship tor children
to be kept at home until the epidemic
is cnecKoi.
L. R 'HA I'M AX
Windham, An-. 3 Health Ollicer.
PROFIT IN INSURANCE.
War Risk Bureau Has Earned Over Two
Million Dollars.
WASHINGTON, Aug. :!. Over $--(HiOUilO
in profits have been earned l.v
the federal war risk insurance bureau,
according to an announcement made bv
Secretary of the Treasurv AlcAdoo. Tht
bureau has been in existence one vear
and 11 months. It will exi.ire bv limi
tation on September 2 next, aiid Mr.
McAdoo expressed the hope that con
gress would see tit to extend the life of
the bureau until the present European
war is over. The secretary's official
statement said:
"Secretary McAdoo made public a
.summary or the operations of the bu
reau of war risk insurance which, with
a protit ot more than 2 .oiio.ooo to t)i
federal jrovernment in less than two
years, lias been of incalculable benefit to
the business of the country, affording
war risk insurance where it was uiiob
tainalde from other sources, or obtain
able at hiih and prohibitiT rates, am
greatly intlueiuing war risk insurance
rates generally to a reasonable am
equitable basis.
'Froni September 2, 1014, the date
or its establishment, to .July l'.tlo
the liureau issued 1. ...!) nolicies cover
ing a total amount of $l.'SS!:.,,:i) on
American cargoes and ships carrving
non-contraband goods all over th
world."
, " J Nil Mil' , -.Msy-tSl IIII.IIIMIIIIIH - !i, 'v. J
m-- ' m i iii mini b iii urn i in, i
We call for your family washing.
We wash all your clothes.
iron all of your flat pieces.
We iry the remaining pieces.
We return your wash promptly.
We charge for all this only 3
cents per jound, provided your
wash weighs 25 pounds or over.
If you have not already received
one of our new family wash lists,
call for on at once, as yoa cannot
afford to have your washing dono
elsewhere.
Washing taken Xtcnday returned
by Wednesday. Washings taken
Tuesday returned by Thursday,
ashinjrs taken later than Tuesday,
returned at our convenience.
Brattleboro Steam Laundry
W. K. BPAEKE, Prop.
Phone 72 S Flt It.
The showers of Monday brought re
lief to wide sections by clearing away
the pall of smoke from the great forest
(ires in Canada, which had made rath
er depressing weather conditions several
days. The change in temperature was
welcome, and there is hope that this sec
tion will not produce another such ex
tended period of excessive heat and hu
mid it v.
A strike of biii.oiin members of four
brotherhoods who are employed in the
operating of -J-J."! railroads of the coun
try would be a national calamity. The
public at large would suffer more than
the companies or the railroad me.i. The
threatening condition calls attentio.i
again to the .iced of soaio form of com
pulsory arbitration when the tie-up of
public utilities is imminent.
The states which have sent no
troops to the Mexican border are West
j Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro
I lina, Ceorgia. Florida, Alabama, Miss
issippi. Tennessee and Kentucky. These
states are hundred of miles nearer the
Rio 'irande than the New England
states and they are the part of the
country that has received special con
sideration from the administration.
The answer undoubtedly is that they
were not prepared.
SCOTT FARM
E. C. TENNEY, Manager
PURE VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP
Blue Ribbon Guernsey Butter
VISITORS WELCOME AT ALL TIMES
TEL.227-Y
Ladies' and Gent's Clothes
Repaired, Cleaned and Pressed
Ideal Dry Cleaning Co.
(1 ELLIOT STREET. BRATTLEBORO
Tel S63-M Parisian MeUiod
According to the latest computa
tion. Kussia lias captured a total of
:;.")i ,i ii u prisoners during the present
offensive movement against the Teu
tonic allies. Taking these figures as a
basis for their computation, Russian
oiliiers estimate the Teutonic losses in
that campaign so far as being close to
uo.uihi. The calculation is reasonable,
and it gives some idea of the wearing
away process to which the Cerman and
Austrian armies are being subjected o:i
all the fronts.
K. L. Tngalls. state club leader of
the Vermont college of agriculture,
states that there are over 4,000 bovs
and girls in the stf.te carrying on
some definite club -work, and over
L',000 are enrolled in clubs. This sounds
encouraging,' but the showing is not
large considering the important work
being done at Lyndoiu ille, where all
of the 1,00 school children are eu-
WESTMINSTER WEST.
The Ladies Aid societv met Thins
day for supper with Mrs. Frank liar
low.
Hazel Townsend of Putney was i
guest this week at Mrs. .Jerome
Holder's-.
Mis. Harry Sparks and little daugh
ter, .Myrtle, ot lownsliend are visit in
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Hoi
den.
Miss Carrie Houghton of Springfield
Mass., is spending a two weeks' vaea
tion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs
JSert Houghton.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard 1). Way of
Hartford. Conn., came Saturdav in
their automobile to visit Mr. and Mrs
Seymour Minard.
Hugh Houghton, who lias been work
ing for Harrow & Akin in Putnev
since school closed, has returned honu
for the remainder of the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Houghton and
fainilv of Burlington and Mrs. Donne
and daughter of Springfield (Vt.) were
guests lnesday ot Mrs. Walte
Harlow, coming in their automobile.
Mr. and Mrs,. Frank Sawyer and
babv of Pes Moines, Iowa, who are
visiting in WaJpole, N. IL, and Miss
Margaret and Miss Sarah Wright of
Westminster were guests one dav last
week of their aunt, Mrs. Walter liar
low, coming in an automobile.
Mrs. (Jeorge Campbell, wlio was vis
iting here from Schenectad v, N. Y
was called to Xewburch, New York
last week Mondav because of the seri
ous illness of her mother. Mr. Cami
bell, who remained here, received word
of hor death and went to Newbiirgh
murstiav. I neir manv iriemis here ex
tend sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Camp
bell in their bereavement.
The memliers of the baseball nine
will give a farcical trial entitled The
Croat Pumpkin Case of duff ve. Muff
at the town hall next Friday eveuin"
August 11. There will Je tiiano ami
violin solos also readings bv Orac
Harlow of . Cambridge, Mass. After the
play there will be a sale of ice cream
and cake and home made candv. Tiie
proceeds will be used toward payin
the expenses of the baseball team.
WEST HALIFAX.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cooke of Urattle-
horo were at his fathers Sunday.
Mrs. Brings, housekeeper for Judji
Worden, is very ill and under the doctor
care.
Mr. and Mrs. Olney Croshier of Shel
burne 1-alls were at her father's. Jud
IWorden's, Sunday.
-Mrs. -iaiile I'ratt ot Somerville, Mass
and Mis. W. E. Piatt were at 1). 1)
Pratt's the first of the week.
ARRANGING AN ECONOMICAL VACATION
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POLITICAL ADVERTISING.
POLITICAL ADVERTISING.
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BILLIARDS
Billiards is a pleasing substitute for
the two-mile run which has uractical-
y the same eft'ect upon the legs, caus
ing them to droop wearily toward the
southwest and wabble in their orbit
like a shootinir star. It is a verv
es-of
neanntui torm ot exercise, and is
pccially recommended for the use
exhausted business men wlio are t
ins; to work in enoiiiih ambition
rv-to
tacKie t lie lawn mower.
There was a time when billiards was
looked upon by the clergy as a snare of
the devil, but. since it has been intro-
luced to the V. M. '. A.s and the par
lors of the church it is considered no
more harmful than the annual raffle
for the pipe-orean fund. Some mothers
uid fathers go so far as to sav that
thev would rather have their bovs idav
billiards in the i-liun h than in some
basement pool hall with a blind id" in
nnection, thus establishing proof of
the doctrine of total depravitv. If
very church in the country had a bil
iard room for its bovs. presided over
bv one of the brethern who at some
time or other was a foui -teen-carat bov
himstff, there would be fewer poker
lines running at full blast in the lum
ber yards and along the river banks of
our small towns.
Billiaids is played by poking ivory
balls around on a table and trying to
making them connect with one eye
screwed into an nuonizinc souint. There
is only one kind of physical exercise
which calls more muscles of the body
info play than billiards, and that is
sawing wood, but owing to the scarcity
of cord wood men are driven to play
ing billiards. Most men would prefer
to saw a cord of wood before breakfast
and their wives would prefer to have
them, but our standing timber is too
precious to be thus wasted.
While science helps a man tn plav
billiards, it is not positively necessary.
A rangy, muscular player who has
horseshoes bulging tout of both hip
pockets and enjoys a stand-in with
Providence is more dangerous to meet
than a fat man who is on roller skates
for the first time. Thousands of men
are playing billiards every day, when
they ought to be shooting craps for a
living.
Billiards is like the patent medicine
which is per cent alcohol it is all
right except when used as a beverage.
The man who learns how to gallop
around a billiard table for an hour
and then remembers that he has a busi
ness to look after will have something
to leave hi family besides sad regrets
and a mortgaged future.
Protected by The Adnms Newspaper Service
B4DDY'S WQm
m
0 MARY
GRAHAM
BONNER
FAIRYLAND BALL.
"For days around this Ball I am
going to tell you about," commenced
Dmldy, "there was talk of nothing else
in Fairyland. The little Elves would
meet the Brownies and would ask
thorn if they had their costumes all
ready for the big event. The Fairies
would meet the Butterflies and ask
them if tliey were getting ready for
the Party. For the Butterflies had
Jieen invited, and the Party was being
given by the Fairy Queen.
"The Fairy Queen had told all her
Guests that they could ask each other
If they were getting ready for the
Party, but they must not ask what
anyone's costume was to be for there
were to be any number of surprise
at this Ball.
"The Fairy Queen sat on a throne
made of bright pink Phlox and her
gown was of bright pink, too. Her
wand was of silver and pink, and her
wings matched, of course.
"Opposite the Fairy Queen was a
"tand made of Moss and tall Ferns.
But there didn't seem to be a sign of
They Got Marvelous Presents Out of
the Bag.
anyone on the stand. As the Guests
began to come in they all wondered
what it was for.
" 'Take your Partners for the first
Dance,' cried the Fairy Queen.
"And then the Ferns on the Moss
stand began to move, and right out in
the front of the stand stepped the
Fairy Ybab with her orchestra of Fai
ries and little Wood Creatures. They
were all dressed in gowns of Ferns,
and the Fairy Ybab waved a long, big
Fern for the others to keep time by.
"But I must tell you about the cos
tumes, for ther were so beautiful. The
Brownies all came wearing little suits
of green and tall green hats. Every- j
one was so surprised to see them in j
j?roen for, of course, they seldom wear
any color but their favorite brown. j
"The Elves w ore costumes made of j
pine needles, and they made almost j
the greatest impression of all. The;
Fairies wore every color you can pos- j
sibly think of, so Fairyland was ablaze;
with color.
"Last of all came the Butterflies in
their very, very best. And you know
the best suits and dresses of the But
terflies are about as handsome as any
you can find. !
"They all danced for a very long
time until at last the Fairy Queen
called out. 'Supper is ready, and we're
going to have it around the Throne.
Come gather around!'
"All the Guests hurried to the Fairy
Queen's Throne but before they had
a chance to get there all of a sud
den what should they see before them
but tables countless tables which
were nothing else but the Toadstool
family who had lent themselves for
the occasion.
"Around the tables all the Elves
and Brownies, and Fairies sat on still
smaller Toadstools which made excel
lent seats. The Butterflies sat on the
Tables where they were not the least
scrap in the way, and they liked to
flitter forth from one Toadstool to an
other and taste the different Flowers,
the Fairy Queen had scattered about.
"Y'es, there was delicious Flower
honey for the Butterflies, and every
time they flew from one Toadstool to
another the Fairy Queen would wave
her wand and fresh Flowers would fall
down just like a storm of Flowers.
"For dessert the Butterflies had won
derful honey from Wild ltoses. And
the rest of the guests had all the
goodies they wanted but at the very
end of the Supper, the Fairy Queen
said :
"'Xow for the Grab Bag!'
"Just then an enormous black Bird
flew down, carrying a bag many times
larger than he was, and after dropping
it in a corner of the wooded grove, he
flew about over it, blowing and puffing
for all be was worth. The Bag seemed
to get bigger every minute.
"'Enough!' said the Fairy Queen
and the black Bird stopped blowing
into the Bag, and flew over to a saucer
of Worms and a dish of fresh Watei
the Fairy Queen had ready for hlir
behind her throne.
"Then she waved her wand and tolc
all her Guests to try for the grab bag
Such fun as they all had, and they got
marvelous presents out of the Bag
For the Butterflies there were Baskets
made of Flowers holding very rart
honey which was the biggest surprise
of all."
Before laying the blame on another,
It is well to question ourselves as to
our own share of responsibility for
what has gone wTouar.
Vermonters Resent Outside
Interferences With Sena
torial Situation!
In an unsigned advertisement, Senator Page devotes
a large amount of space to something that SPEAKKR
CHAMP CLARK said at a NATIONAL PRESS CLUP.
P.ANOL'ET.
Air. Clark is the Democratic speaker of a Democratic
house of representatives, and in 1!F2 was candidate for
the Democratic nomination for President.
In another large advertisement, similarly unsigned.
Senator Page gives valuable space to an article which ap
peared in the POSTON WEEKLY P.LLLET1N OF
LEATHER AND SHOE NEWS some time ago.
This pulJication is closely identified with THE
LEATHER AND SHOE TRUST and its articles are pub
lished on a strictly business basis.
In the same manner, a diligent friend of Senator Page
in Montpelicr publishes a letter received from SENATOR
HENRY CAP.OT LODGE, which refers in a courteous
but extremely cautious manner to .the service of Vermont's
junior senator in the national senate.
WHY SHOULD -THE OPINIONS OF CHAMP
CLARK INFLUENCE THE DECISION OF VER
MONT VOTERS AS TO THE PEST MAN TO REP
RESENT THEM IN THE UNITED STATES SEN
ATE? WHAT I IAS THE N YTTONAL SHOE AND
LEATHER TRUST To DO WITH VERMONT POLI
TICS? SINCE WHEN HAS IT PECOME NECESSARY
FOR VERMONTERS TO CO OUTSIDE THE STATE
AND FIND OUT WHAT SENATOR LODGE WANTS
THEM TO DO IN RELATION TO ELECTING A
UNITED STATES SENATOR?
The history of all political contests in Vermont has
been that THE INTERFERENCE OF OUTSIDERS
with the particular special affairs of the state HAS P.EEN
DEEPLY RESENTED.
How do Vermonters like the idea of having their sen
ators selected by men and forces outside the Mate, -uch as
Champ Clark, democratic leader ?
The Shoe and Leather Trust?
Henry Cabot Lodge ?
The history of Vermont radiates with examples of in
dependence. Since the days of Ethan Allen, Vermonters
have conducted their own public affairs according to their
own lights.
ARE WE TO TAKE OUR OPINIONS FR( M MIS
SOURI. FROM THE SHOE AND LEATHER TRUST,
FROM MASSACHUSETTS. OR WILL WE FORM
OUR OWN?
What Vermonters want to know is WHAT SENA
TOR PAGE HAS DONE TO ENTITLE HIM TO RE
ELECTION. WILL SJiWITOR PACR AXSWER or
will Champ Clark, or Henry Cabot Lodge, or the Shoe and
Leather trust answer for him?
Thousands of people in Vermont desire to
know what Senator Page has stood for and
what he has created in the way of progressive
constructive legislation the eight years he has
been a senator.
Will Mr. Page Answer?
The Allen M. Fletcher Senatorial Club
NORTIIFIELD, VERMONT
EVERY FAMILY IN THIS ADVANCED AGE OF- SANITATION
SHOULD HAVE
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WE ARE HEADQUARTERS. One especially nice package for home
use is five cups in a sealed package retails for 5c. See them in our
window.
WILFRED F. ROOT
Pharmacist Truss Fitter
For Sale Cheap
At the High School Building
SECOND-HAND SCHOOL DESKS
AND SEATS of various sizes.
Apply to
S. P. EAMES, 21 Crove St.
"THE ORDINARY INDIVIDUAL
not only has nothing put away for hU
lid lut ho has not hint; iut avar
for week after nt-xt." Kmtownwnts
save a ii. I protect. Insure while iasur
alle. National Life Jn.s.. Co of Yjt
(Mutual.) - -ALBERT C. LAIRD, Spe
cial Agent, 8 Crosby Block.
Spirella Corsets
Mrs. . F, Mixer, 'Phone 383
107 Western Ave., BrtttUboro, Vt.