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:iTIE BRATTLEBORO DAILY REFORMER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5.' 1921. BRATTLEBORO LOCAL" -jtaTietw-iMMMW' 4lnir - courses. The Hoover fund for hungry children in Eu- ' :. t l v.. - w..l -.n-j.i-a1 rope, was .en nvuvu u.v uvn .pitvv uu ' liiundi-ed iieople were furnished with a , i i . -.i. vi.,; pleasant form of harmless amusement on TV thTlX,. ,M,iUl a bleak winter Sunday evening. The only taken to t c Uehue j (.onccivable regret would sewn to be that up,! the entertainments were not held in tne i ,,vi,k afternoon so that "conscientious oDjcc- i t inn i ui ii mat, 1-uuiiu.T v . i de- I hi In i toluiove, a i,, W.'st liruttlelioio this forenoon, having Uen kicked in the chest by a horse ow iy the lit-. K JhattleUoro lu'ireai. --vi , ,.,,,l.,i that Sundav eve I I. ...t tirvirsi :1T tlie i- - , i iivii ii". t. . . . v. i.I.ki -.it . ......l t hit -i Kii' ipiiai, inn i " , " iil-.ted lal examination aiu not nuw n' ... . iiiiis audiences in the churches were ..in- 1 diioii were broken. Mr . -. -idinn- to a witness, was beating the ani mal. which tired of the treatment let 1m. th hind ieet tly. .. . -11 it 4.1. ...l.v.irt ..- t ril I ft. rl. t mp- riin luere art- iuum1 w wv raiij hk- VKUKTAM.K PRICES DOWN i tend entertainment on Sunday. The grim 1IU 1 if 11 .1. Il.-I. 1 il. n.,..tnA .sliaoOW or i i luuiiiu ivoek aim nit- uiint inihience of a Puritan ancestry imbue them with itreiudices that are hard to overcome. Let lis inuuire into the mat- fpi- with calni ltiind and see if Sunday movies are inconsistent with other ofeu- I nations that are universally tolerated ir?M J-" i,; a" 'ght to sit at home and look Producers Are Only (Jetting About Cents a Hu.shel.lor louuwrs. WASHINGTON, Feb. --'n """'at a book of pictures while the ldiono winter ha been to a great exient hk. n- h js ploying whUe it is wrong to look ible for low returns to P10"1"-"" "i i at the sajne Pictures upon a RCieen while '"' !.'.., ..1. ......... no 1.a lem ivir- t : reducers o ' fruits and vegetaDies oe.iur "k Vl " : an orchestra plays the same music as the t ie acciiinuiaieu wi i 10noerann r hauling, the bureau of markets saiu in a. Js j(. a, ht for Moh(r" aTH i. port la-t night. Prices srarieu j io .1 . . t, otllpr household servants to spend continued moving downwaro " Sundav forenoon cookinx-uu a gluttonous agreeably close to the vauisuuig I1 'V-J Sundav dinner, while it is sinful for them the report added. Late, winif ;r nnti s 11 " to attend an illustiattnl. concert on the six month s depression ai us . iuwri. ! t;..st ,iav 0f the week? said, and wholesale prices nave iouna new Js k bt tQ ri(le on thp ra;iways and low levels. . so encourage the traction company em Dealers hold pernaps one s mu ui , .,lovPS to . fracture the Sabbath,, while it potato stocks remaining and rne iann-r . wronK to look at moving, pictures V have the rest, the reiort conunuwi. aim M Father , and Mrs. Mother, would at present tlie p:iaio niai'sei lu.uiim iiiL' sections are close to demoralization von rather have your IS-year-old boy pass 1 , t . . Cmidiii? l Tin! ttrr ytit" r ? n rf- In the west, the report said in uis-. ,.nn.iv nalace. lru- store or loatins cussing Ilie poiaio Miuaiiuu, I'"" paid to glowers is down close to feeding value, around 1 cents per bushel, but growers are still selling to some extent be cause of doubt about, the profits of feed jus livestock or because they must have a little monev. About the top price by the car load for growers is ." cents in eastern sec tions, and nobody veiy anxious to buy at that. Citv prices for large lots range from -1 to" SIX) per 100 pounds." The situation generally is the same, the report added, in the .-ease of. cabbage, onions and apples. TO KOMI! -NEW -YORK. Germans Had Airship to Carry' 20 Tons, Says Mitchell. . WASHINGTON, Feb. ". Germany had designed . an airship with sufficient power to carry - ions oi utoiuu: materials and intended to use this craft to destrov New York, testified livig.-Uen. William Mitchell before the house uuval affair .-committee, yesterday.. This ship was the L-72 and was completed ami readv to make the trip when the armistice was signed. It was taken over as a trophy bv Franee. "I believe it could have attacked New York citv with success," said General Mitchell." "It was designed to tly at a height, of T.O.ooO feet, thus making it vir tually immune fiom attacks by airplanes on its trip here. "It was equipped with electrical de vices that kept its engines warm at the high altitude. Its crew was protected with electrically heated clothes and sup plied with oxygen from tanks. The big ship was built to carry 2o tons of explo sives." General Mitchell said that the army is now designing similar ships capable of thir.g at the ;',0.0OO feet altitude. upon the streets than sitting quietly in movine picture house listening to good music? 'Would you rather have your VOUH2 daughter put in the afternoon pa radiue up and down i'hurch street to ex cite the remarks of sidewalk loafers or would voii prefer having her going with her eirl chums to the movies? Is it right to play golf on Sunday or go motoring or walking and wrong to witness movinir pictures.' The question at present is one which is receiving much attention all over the countrv and as such deserves considera tion. Proponents of blue laws or similar Sunday legislation will of course be op posed to any such idea as Sunday movies, but 'on the other hand there are large numbers of people who are opitosed to I?lue Law Sundays. And there the matter stands. It is a question and undoubtedly iteontrovertable, hccau.se ot which it is worthy of thought WIRES IN RE LEAST Cl'TV Attempt Made to Prevent Circulation of Sir Edward Carson's Speech. 1SHLFAST. Ireland. Feb. .". Attempt to isolate P.elfast from the rest of Ire land was made last night, telegraph and telephone wires being cut in every Kree I ion. It was believed that the object of the attempt was to prevent the cir- dil.iion throughout Ireland of the ad l.. ss niiide by Sir Edward Carson at the l ister Unionist council meeting here. 'I he address, however, had already been telegraphed. Communication between V.eHnst Dublin and Londonderry was affected. .MYSTERIES OF REVELATIONS. Vermont. Sermon Series at First Raptist Church Kegimiing Tomorrow Evening. At the First Raptist church tomorrow ivenimr Rev. Clark T. P.rownell will preach the first sermon in a series on The Mysteries of the Rook of Revelations. The series, numbering seven sermons, will be conducted on succeeding Sunday venings. The topics of the entire series are as follows: The Seven Candlesticks, The Seven Seals. The Seven Trumpets. The Woman and the Reast. The Seven P.owls. The Great Judgment, and The New Jerusalem. Puts Vermont On An - Equal. (St. Albans Messenger.) .. . It is difficult to understand why the bill creating a commission on foreign v and domestic commerce should have eneoun tered any opposition in the house at Montr.elier. It probably wouldn't hav had the word "commission" not been at tadied to it. There are some men who have an unreasoned hatred of that word. This bill does not carry an appropria tion with it. Its puriose is to give commission which already exists a 1 ual status, the same as similar coninns sions from the other New England state have, so that Vermont, in the important conferences dealing with the common in terests of .New r.ngland. will le on an equality with the other states. It is gratifying to those who look for a co-ordinate - development of ermontj that the vote resulted as it did for it shows that the members from the agricul tural towns, or a goodly number of them, are anxious to work in the harness with the industrial representatives. The fait is. it is only by this kind of team work that Vermont can go for ward. The in ban representative must be willing to give his assistance to all proper measures benefiting agriculture while the rural member must be willing to give support to proper measures which aim to build up our industrial centers. Not only this but Vermont must work with the other New England states in order to safeguard and protect her own interests. It was a son of Vermont, Cal vin Coolidce, who emphasized, as gov ernor of Massachusetts, the necessity of New England team work and who caused these state commissions to be apiKiinted. Vermont would have taken a backw ard step had this commission lill 1 1; not received the approval of the house, and it will take a backward step if the senate does not concur in the house action. The Cliangin (St. Albans Messenger.) During the past few years there has been more or less discussion, in the state press and in private conversation among individuals and groups of the changing complexion of farm life in Vermont. It has been lamented that the old Vermont type is disappearing from our count ry- wde and that foreigners are tiling the vacancies so far as they are being filled at all. The federal census statistics on agri culture in Vermont present an oppor tunity to test the theories that have been advanced durinz the past decade. These figures ' substantiate the contention ot those who hare claimed that-the Ver monter is disappearing and that his place is being taken by the alien. In the first place the number of farms has decreased in the past 10 years by .i..4. J hat m itself is significant. Now. the w is one calss of people who above all others are coming in to the state. They are near-by foreigners ; they are Canadians from the province of Ouebec. lhe counties alons the northern tier have long been aware of this Canadian invasion for they , have een some of the very ' best farm lands in the entire- state bought atid occupied by these newcomers who have shown an exceptionable industry and thritt m quickly discharging the financial obliga tions incident to the purchase of our farms. Perhaps the people down state have not realized what this invasion has meant because the Canadian has not penetrated that tar although his prog ress is yearly further south of the bound ary line, lhey have only to study th census figures to come to a full realiza tion of the extent of the displacement of the old Vermont families from the farm which often had been in the family ios session for genrations While the number of farms in the en tire state has decreased from J12.700 in P.tlO to 20,.07." in RVJO, the number of Canadian farm owners here has increased from 2,4iY. to To express this in percentage of the ratio of Canadian- owned farms to the total number of farms in the state one would say that of the total Canadians owned seven plus per cent in 1!I10 aud nine plus in !'.(. While the number of native-born on the farms have shown a loss and while the number of farms has decreased, the Can adians have shown a considerable in- J crease. i The only other foreigners to show an increase are the Swedes but their num ber is small. In fact, while the Canadi ans owned nine per cent plus of the to tal farms all other foreigners are cred ited w-ith only three per cent plus. Other foreign farmers except the Canadian and the Swede have shown not only relative but actual losses, the most marked being among the Irish born, of whom there were not half as manv in 11 CO as in 1010. Anyone who is interested in this would do well to look at the figures of farm wncrship in GrsrfKr-Tsle, Franklin. Or leans and Essex counties, keeping in mind the truth that foreign owners in these counties are almost without excep tion Canadians, and Canadians- from Quebec who have come into the state in ecent years. Then they win realize what, from the stamlioint of statistics, is coins on. Rut the standpoints other than statis tics are the imjxirtaut ones, lhis inva sion cannot help but bring a change in manners and customs. it involves a change in the environment, in the very atmosphere. Without trying to draw any moral, here is a condition that hculd be seriouslv pondered over. It is evident if the invasion continues we shall, with the passing of a few decades, have a new Vermont. Rut will it be the kind of New Vermont so many of us have been looking forward to tor so many years .' ' .,...,,..,mm,.,..HiiimmH iMii'TiiiMiMiBQ't ATOM'S fli:n i-mHHiMiMrMmuiiiMim!mMmiwirm!'!t!iiminim!!!imiw :!i:!nifliii;:ii!i!!i:iii:i:!i!::!ii!!i:!min::i:iii! fe Goodnow, Pearson & Hunt j i I ' 3 jp. J Brattleboro's Department Store g Ei gi!iiiuiii!mmramiiHimuiMM What Is Just? People are perpetually squabbling about what will be , best to do. or easiest to do, or advisable to do, or profltablest to do; but they never, as far as I bear tbem talk, ever ask what It Is Just to do. And U Is the law of heaven that you shall not be able to Judge what Is wise or easy, unless you are first resolved to Judge what Is Just, and to do It. John Ruskin. Cemetery Work OF ALL KINDS The Grant Granite Co. Office in rear of new building which we are erecting at corner of South Main and Lawrence streets. BRATTLEBORO. VT. Carl A. Mitchell Exclusive Undertaking 180 Main Street 5' 4 LATCHIS THEATRE -1 TODAY PRESENTS MABEL NORMAND IN 66 What Happened tp Rpsci BAKER BARS CIVILIAN WORK. Directs None Be Employed if Officers Can Perform Their Tasks. WASHINGTON. Feb. As a part of the war department's economy pro gram Secretary Raker issued an order yesterday directing that in future no civilian he employed by any branch or agency of the department '"unless it can be shown to the secretary of war that the work involved could not or cannot lie performed by the commissioned offie now Authorized bv law." The order- adds that if through lack of training the officers already commis sioned cannot do the work immediate steps be taken to see that they are prop erly trained. MONTREAL GIRL MURDERED Police Searclung for Man Who Crushed Her Head with an Axe. MONTREAL. Feb. ."..The liolice of this citv were searchine today for the murderer of an unidentified young wom an about 20 years old whose body was found on the sidewalk of a suburb. Hei head had been crushed with an axe which lav near-by. A resident of the neigh Ixirhood said he saw the young woman full hist nieht and that a man who was with her hastened away. WIDOW OF PARNELL IS DEAD. Death Claims Romantic and IV.C.ctlc Figure of Gladstone Era. LONDON, Feb. (. Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell, widow of the great Irish Nationalist, leader, died today at her home in Brighton after a lingering ill ness. The Evening Standard says of her career: "One of the most romantic ami pathetic figures of the Gladstone era passed, away in the person of Mrs. Parnell." Absurd Old English Law. Under the English common law no one bua a right to bathe lo the sea. This was decided by the courts a hun dred years ago, and an attack on tb decision at the beginning of this cen tury failed to upset It, the higher court deciding that Id the strict legal sense one could fish In the sea but could not bathe In It. Mabel Normand cured her own blues in "What Hap pened to Rosa." Let her cure yours. She fell down a coal hole and came up a bride. Extra Edgar Comedy Ghba Trots and a Special Western Drama Mr. Earle Braman at the Organ Mr. Frank Snow, Violinist CONTINUOUS SHOW 2.30, 4.45, 6.45, 8.45 to 10.45 Children 11c, 17c Adults 22c, 28c Helping The . Small Towns. (P.ellows Falls Time...) Some are expressing reiret because the Vermont house of representatives voted Sir.0,000 of state aid for the so-called back or town roads. To this paper it eoiis more a matter of congratulation than regret. It will be a sorry day fir the state when rural cimont is left to decav. Good roads are needed in the country, in fact they are necessary for rural growth. The small towns cannot maintain these roads, the financial bur den is too great. The state should aid and aid liberally. Never heard of seconds at Wellman's did you? There ain't no such animal. H.P.WeUman Co., Inc. Members of Besse-Fofter System MONDAY ONLY PRESENTS THE UNIVERSAL-JEWEL SUPER-PRODUCTION "Breath of the Gods9' Tsuru Aoki and an All Star Cast Including Arthur Carewe, Ethel Shannon, Pat O'Malex, Stanhope Wheatcroft, J. Barney Sherry, and Many Others A great and different photodrama, staged amid the exotic beauty of the Land of the Cherry Blossom Extra The Latest News I fraja :3 fm m LATCHIS THEATRE The House of Bigger and Better Pictures Anent Sunday Movies. (Burliftgton News.) There Were two, moving picture shows oppn in Burlington last Minaay ana so iar as known no casualties resulted. The! Thomas T. Britten Fire Accident Insurance Liability Life Wilder Bldg., Brat tlcboro SAVE MONEY BY PURCHASING YOUR GROCERIES "'" '' AT THE ': A & P Fancy Potatoes, peck 3o rillsbury's ; Flour, 244-lb. sack '55 A. & P. Family Flour, 24K-lb. sack 1.50 . Peanut Butter, pound : 17 Pure Lard, pound 17 Palmolive Soap ! 3 cakes 25 Fancy Rice : 3 lbs. . 25 Nutto, "The Best Nut Butter" 30 I Jiffy Jell, per package 10 r Pat-a-Cake Flour, per package ""0 ; The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. FIVE DAYS OF Monday Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Special values in new, desirable and wanted merchandise will be placed on sale in every department in the' store beginning Monday morning Additional lots will be added on, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Each Special will be left on sale until Friday night unless it is all sold out before that time. As many of the lots are limited in quantity it will be advisable to V Watch The Reformer for Each Day's Specials anil Then Make Your Selections at Once SPECIALS ON SALE MONDAY In Our Dry Goods Department 35c Percale in light colors, black and white stripes and figures. Note this great bargain, Special for Monday 15 Infants' 50c Knit Wrappers of good quality in sizes from 3 mos. to 21. years. Just what you are looking for Special for Monday 39 Women's 39c Cotton Hose of fine quality and all perfect goods. All regular sizes and out sizes. Your choice as a Special for Mondav 25? Women's $2.98 Outing Flannel Night Robes with and' without collars; extra good heavy quality and dou ble yoke, . Special for Monday 1.9S Women's $1.00 and $1.50 Crepe and Mercerized Bloomers in white and pink for a Monday Special 75 and 1.00 Women's $1.50 Percale House Dress Aprons trimmed with blue cham bray and rickrack braid. Note this price, Special for Monday 95 $2.25 Corsets, including the Kabo Live model and Royal Worcester, with rubber top in white and pink, Special for Monday $1.S5 The Glemby Hair Net. No stronger hair net can be made. Absolutely invisible ; in black and colors, for a Monday Special, Two for 25 SPECIALS ON SALE MONDAY In Our Men's Department Men's $2.00 Blue Chambray Work Shirts with soft collar attached; breast pocket ; cut full. Sizes to 19, Special for Monday 90 Men's $1.50 Silk Four-in-Hand Ties. Stripes, dots and all-over patterns in all colors, Special for Monday $1.10 Men's $6.00 "Chalmers" Brand Wool Union Suits, long sleeves; ankle length; closed crotch. All sizes, Special for Monday $2.95 Men's $3.00 Domet Flannel Night Robes in pink and bltte patterns. Military collar; breast pocket. Sizes to 20, Special for Monday $1.50 i GTOOCl wearing; wrell made. Sizes SPECIALS ON SALE MONDAY In Our Boys' Department S3 Boys' $3.00 Knickerbocker Trousers in dark mixtures. Good wearing; well made; taped seams. All sizes, Special for Monday $1.50 Boys' 75c Black Ribbed Hose with slight imperfections. Good qual ity; good wearing hose for school or dress wear. All sizes, Special for Monday 25 Boys' $2.00 Fleece-Lined Union Suits. Long sleeves; ankle length. Extra good quality. All sizes, Special for Monday $1.00 Boys' $2.00 Domet Flannel Night Robes with regular collar and breast pocket. Pink and blue pat terns. All sizes, Special for Monday $1.15 SPECIALS ON SALE MONDAY In Our Women Ts and Children Ts Dept. Women's $1.50 Waists of white and checked yoile, lace trimmed and embroidered, Special for Monday S9 Women's 50c Black Jersey Driving Gloves, all fleece-lined. A good warm glove, Special for Monday 15 A- B ' fWppiBllli!liiyWWl'Pii!'Pf!'! 3 Women's $2.00 Petticoats of black, blue, gray, green and brown, Special for Monday $1.19 Children's $7.50 Teddy Bear Suits in pink, old rose, red and tan. Sizes 6, 8 and 10 'years, Special for Monday $6.50 mm Men's $3.50 Neglige Shirts, soft cuffs jj and no collar; wide and narrow striped patterns of all colors. Sizes jj 14 to 17, H Special for Monday $2.25 jgj Men's 25c Cotton Hose in black, blue, j gray and green. Good quality; jgj very serviceable. Sizes 911 to 11, jj Special for Monday 15 jj Men's $10.00 and $12.00 Raincoats in j light tan, medium and dark gray. jg Good weight and waterproof, jjj Sizes to 46, jj Special for Monday $4.95 jj Men's $5.00 Wool Trousers in dark Jj gray mixtures. Heavy weight; fjj to 44, Special for Monday $2.95 M Iff ted m mm Pi ...l,i.,u.a... -"ai-xnil-ia. eann uia not a icvuiuuuu nut uiu me t .. . ... : - r .