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THE BR ATTLEBORO DAILY REFORMER. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1023. The Annual Deadlock Children Should Gargle Fabliahed Every Evening Except Sunday at The American Building Annas Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. Addreaa All Communication te Th Reformer. with Kinox morning and night to avoid school-day dangers of contagion and infection.

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Three Month One Dollar and a Hali Six Month Three Dollar. One Year Six Dollar. THE USEFUL AUNT. As I take my daily ramble countless women nre in sight I behold them loaf and gambol, in their gorgeous robes bedight countless dames are gallivanting on their errands fierce and vain, but my aunt is busy planting rhubarb bushes in the rain. Idle women, idly blowing coin for which their husbands scratch dizzy females shopward going, with a piece of yarn to match; silly women bearing poodles worthless as a tinker's whoop; but my aunt is ranking noodles for a bowl of wholesome soup.

Oh, I watch the women drilling to some social jamboree, and I see them make a killing at Pink or Yellow Tea and I turn with admiration to my aunt, who's baking pies, and she says, with animation, Industry is always wise. I behold the women yawning in the hotuloir and the den, hully-efaecing and doggoning, bored to death and. back again; they are doing nothing useful, they accomplish nothing sane--; but my aunt is planting juiceful rhubarb bushes in the rain. Oh. my hunt is never weeping, never weary of the grind, and her household cares are keeping rust and mildew from her mind.

She is blithe and glad and chipper, she is healthy, keen and spry, and she soaks me with the dipper when I swipe a chunk of pie. Atlas Auto Bus Let us sell you a 15-v passenger closed auto bus. This car is in good running order and would be just the thing for a hotel, camp or person desirous of doing a jitney business. It could easily be turned into a truck if desired. It has a new battery this season.

Come down to the De-Witt Garage and look it over. De itt Grocery Co. Brattleboro, Vermont The Associated Pres. i. exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news despatches credited to it and not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.

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In a fall to the ground he sustained a fractured arm and a bruised foot. He was taken to the Bennington hospital. Charles Lee Tracy, well-known piano teacher, has been engaged to head instruction on the piano at Goddard seminary in Barre for the coming your. Mr. Tracy has been at the head of the piano department of the University of Vermont summer school for several years and is directing.

a large number of piano teachers in the state. TO THE SUBSCRIBERS It 1 the aim of the management to aurr efficient service in the delivery of the paper each night, and it solicits the co-operation 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 enabling the cause of the error to be promptly amd accurately discovered and the proper remedy immediately applied. It is only ly th' method that the publisher can secure the desired service. Calvin Coolidge tody rounds out his second week as; President of the United States.

Seventy-five years ago today Albany, N. was visited by one of the most disastrous fires in its history. The annual midsummer meeting of the West (oast Lumbermens association will be held today at Longview, Wash. The Central States Fair and Exposition, one of the largest exhibitions of its kind in the Middle West, will be opened today at Aurora, 111. Senators LaFollette of Wisconsin.

Mc-Kellar of Tennessee. McKinley of Illinois, Robinson of Arkansas, and Swanson of Virginia will be among the representatives of the 1nited States at the annual meeting of the Inter Allied iariiameutary union, which is ro begin its sessions today at Geneva, Switzerland. f'ev-cv, The Reformer 1 on sale every avenlng by the following new dealers: Brattleboro, Brattleboro New Pliny W. Burrows, S. L.

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Kays. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17. 1923 Copyright by George Matthew Adams OXFORD GLASSES STYLISH AND COMFORTABLE Theres a sweeping grace and touch of individuality to Oxfords. such as no other eye glass mountings possess. They are light, not easily broken and can be closed into a compact space when not in use.

Many Attractive Styles in Gold, Silver and Tortoise Shell In The Days News. Major James F. Coupal of the Army Medical corps, whose selection as personal physician to President Coolidge is i forecasted, is a New Englander who was ions, and so the complainants will prob- whlcatwl in the Everett (Mass.) public ably find that their grounds for complaint schools and later attended the Tufts Med- are largelv imaginary, as seems to be ical school, receiving his medical degree ill 1913. lie began his professional ca The Meddler nor may any be erected directly opposite any residence without the owner's consent. No sign may be erected nearer the street than the established building line and not nearer than the front of the adjoining buildings.

It is a move in the right direction and many will say the rulings are not drastic enough. If the coat fits you. put it on. the case locally note, however, lias brought out the fact that, a parking time limit in Greenfield's business section may become necessary before long. It is interesting to that the discussion (or as a practicing physician in Boston land his fnilitary career as a captain and assistant surgeon in a Massachusetts militia regiment.

Dr. Coupal went, over seas with the Twenty-sixth division, and served on the western front for two years. He was promoted to major and retained that rank when lie returned. On his return lie was made head curator of the Army and Medical museum in Washington and has since continued to reside in the national capital. fact that towns are accidents on bridges and it might be wise for 'Ml 1 0PTOMETRISTS BRA TTL EBORO VT.

WILMINGTON. Mr. and Mrs. W. L.

Erhard of Boston, who formerly lived in town and are well known here, have been in town for a short stay. John J. Watts and A. J. Sackett of New York and H.

B. Hanger of Richmond, Ky have been rn town a few days. Recent registrations at Childs Tavern include: Mrs. H. F.

Newell and Mrs. Arthur Farnum of Newfane, L. D. Boyd of Holland, Dr. and Mrs.

Boyd, Dr. F. L. Ray and and Mrs. Henry A.

AA'ilson of Harrison, a family party, for a few days; Miss Sarah J. Bullock of Arlington. for the month Miss Annie E. Richardson of Brattleboro for a week James Riley of New Brunswick, N. for a few days with his family, who are there for the summer; Misses Ellen Frances and Elizabeth M.

O'Keefe of Greenfield. for a few days E. I). Newcomb and Miss Alice Sinead of Greenfield, for a few days with relatives Mrs. Fannie Hilling of Chicago, for the month; Mr.

and Mrs. W. L. Green, Miss Katherine Whalen of Middletown, and Miss Alice Carroll of Hartford. for a few days; Miss Mabel A.

Harrington of Cambridge, for a vacation the two Misses Clay of Brooklyn, N. for the month; Miss F. C. Travis of Peckskill, N. for her vacation; Mr.

and Mrs. Lee D. Mellett of Winchester, for two weeks Misses Anna and Ellen Koonz of Shelburne Falls, for a week Miss It uth Brown of Williamstown, for three weeks: Miss Dorothy Davies of North Adams, and Miss Grace R. Covert of Branford, for their vacations; Miss Helen T. Warner.

M. of Hartford. and Miss Mary A. Gaffney of Seymour, for a week: Mrs. B.

E. Tyler for It) days; Miss Elizabeth Newcomb and Miss Fonetta A. Newcomb of Greenfield. for two weeks; Mrs. C.

W. Ross. Mrs. John Hopson and Miss Agnes Davidson of New Haven, for two weeks; Arthur AN ight of Boston for two weeks with his wife Mrs. Alice It.

Preg and Miss A'eroniea Ireg of AVintlirop, Misses Marion A. Vissnll and Julia Vis-sail of AAinthrop. and Miss Mary Brennan of Boston for two weeks; Airs. Sylvia Thatcher and Miss Cynthia Arnold of North Adams. for a vacation: A.

(. Potter and soil, S. W. Potter, of North Adams. for a few (lays; Dr.

and Airs. H. B. Lambert of Bridgeport. for a two-weeks vacation: Dr.

and Mrs. Frank Qiiacken-bush and daughter. Aliss Cvnthia Quack-eribusb. of Northport, L. far a vacation; Aliss Emma E.

Phillips of Brooklyn. N. for August. Of the large number of wayside stands which have been installed along the highways for the purpose of displaying and selling fruits, vegetables and other goods supposed to attract the passing motorist, few are really attractive. Most of them are plastered with cheap, high-colored advertising signs telling the traveler to drink this or that or chew the other thing.

Many have rubbish piles at the sides or rear which show on approach. The fruit is seldom protected from dust and Hies. Business may be good at all of them, but the little stand located on a shaded grass plot which shows at a glance cleanliness and a little thought for appearance should make the greater bid for trade. CHEAPER GAS. The governor of South Dakota could not understand why, when gasoline was worth 14 cents a gallon at wholesale, it should bring 20 cents at retail, so he established a public station retailing it for 10 cents, with a view to extending the cut rate over the state if necessary.

Straightway people in Minneapolis began wondering why they should pay 23 or 24 cents retail for "gas when it was worth only about half that much wholesale. Public authorities in Illinois. Kentucky, Pennsylvania and other states began to take notice. The Standard Oil Co. proceeded to meet, the governors price in rebellious South Dakota and Texas, selling the fuel in the latter state as low as 11 cents a gallon.

The movement spread quickly. And the end is not yet. It seems clear that in recent months, if not over a longer period, file American public has been gouged in gasoline prices, by a sort of tacit agreement on the part of the gentlemen controlling the industry. There has been enormous overproduction of petroleum and its products, with lower prices for the crude oil but with the consumer failing to get the advantage. The turning of petroleum into gasoline.

kerosene, beyond the needs of the market, is wasteful and reprehensible. but as long as it is done the consumer should get his fair share of the benefits, along with the reckless exploiters of the new oil fields. He will pay dearly enough when those fields are played out. Todays Anniversaries. 1037 Robert Blake, the famous English admiral of She commonwealth, died at sea.

Born in 1398. 1714 George arrived in England to take his place on the throne. 1808 Wellington defeated the French at battle of Roleia. the first action fought by the British in the Peninsula war. 1817 Gen.

Andrew Pickens, one of the great southern commanders in the Revolution, died at Pendleton. 8. C. Born at Paxton. Sept.

19. 1 739. 1820 The trial of Queen Caroline was begun in London. 184(5 Commodore Stockton was proclaimed governor of California. 1873 William M.

Meredith, celebrated lawyer and a member of President Taylor's cabinet, died in Philadelphia. Born there. June 8. 1799. 1919 The former German emperor bought the Doom estate near In view of the liable in case of approaches thereto the selectmen to cast an eye over the fences that guard the approach to the north end of the bridge across West river.

Although not as old as the bridge itself these fences seem hardly strong enough to be of much value in case an automobile should strike them. And in view of the width of the road at this par- ticular point, and the amount of traffic ver it, a collision between automobile md fence is by no means improbable. No one who visits the new Presbrey-Leland granite cutting plant can help 'eing impressed- by the extent Qf the investment the company has made in Brat-rleboro. nor can he have much doubt that he business will soon take its place iinong the town's chief industries. How toon that will be depends on how rapidly the company is able to find homes its employes.

More houses are going up in Brattleboro at present than have been erected in any year for a decade but the demand is still far ahead of the apparent supply. In the light of this condition it is hoped that the Brattleboro Building association will experience little difficulty in securing the capital necessary for the erection of at least double the number dwellings it already has under way. Imagine, if you can, the feelings of the Pittsburgh man who found that his. housekeeper had sold to a rag man for 2" cents on an old suit used as a secret hiding place for his bank roll which had reached the goodly proportions of $1,700. It is quite probable that the housekeeper needs sympathy, too.

The Meddler hasn't any disposition to argue the justification of the increased price of milk and cream that has been put in effect this week by local dealers, but he can hardly understand how it can be laid to the increased cost of feed when it- is a fact that practically all dairy rations are lower in price now than they were last winter. It might, however, be due to the increased cost of feeding, the extreme dry weather of the present summer having curtailed pasturage to a point where an unusual amount of feeding has been necessary at this time of year. Dealers in dairy rations say this condition is reflected in an1 unusually active market for this time of year. Two sorts of reaction are gener-j ally noted in case of a price increase of this kind. One is fairly summed up in the words of an indignant consumer Well, for the love of Mike, whos going, to hand it to us next?" The other is the1 more tolerant stand taken by the man who says: "If the milk folks honestly need more to make a fair profit I am willing to contribute my share.

The chances are that while the former attitude is the one most often noted, the latter actually is held by a greater number of folks. A closed car was-seen driving through Main street the other day. On the back seat a well known man was sitting on the very edge of the cushion with his eyes tightly closed. hen asked later to explain his attitude he said I was trying to eliminate as much of the appearance and discomfort of Main street as possible and to get what joy I could out of thinking that the special committee appointed at the last special town meeting is at work on the problem of a new surface. A great many other folks are in much the same condition.

They will smooth their trips through Main street, as much as they can be smoothed, by reflecting that the end of the present state of affairs is approaching. The Meddler is glad to note that the committee is to investigate various sorts of surface. He has an idea, however, that wlmn initial cost, repairs, excavation, nre taken into consideration they will get around to advocate some type of cement construction. At any rate, a big major- An automobilist has been sued for smashing a locomotive, and now we shall expect to hear any day of a pedestrian being sued for running over a motor car. One Year Ago Today.

Four convicts kidnapped the warden of the South Dakota penitentiary at Sioux Falls and made their escape. Are you through as a inanuf acturer-or were you fully protected? When fire sweeps through a factory destroying material, equipment and buildings, there is always that all-important question. Was it fully insured? No insurance or partial insurance may mean that the owners career as a manufacturer is finished. H. E.

Taylor Son Now that the historic Washington elm is dead, the people who claim that trees have souls can picture it meeting the Washington cherry tree. Nothing brings the neighbors to the windows like having a load of coal put in. Todays Birthdays. Sir Eric Drummond, the first secretary of the league xif nations. Ixrn 47 years ago today.

Admiral EdMrd W. Eberle. U. S. the new chief of naval operations, horn at Denton.

Texas, 39 years ago today. Charles F. Rand, chairman of the American Engineering Foundation, horn at Canaan. Maine, 07 years ago today. Benjamin G.

Humphreys, representative in congress of the Third Mississippi district, born in Claiborne county. 38 years ago today. Richmond P. Hobson, former naval officer and congressman, now heading an international movement to suppress the "dope traffic, born tit Greensboro, 33 years agoi today. ittle si Beniiys Tote BooK by IQ VERMONT NEWS.

(OtberjjJVilmington News on Page 11.) EAST DOVER. Schools in town- will begin Aug. 27. Airs. Run Adams is spending the week with relatives in AVardsboro.

Aliss Eleanor Drury is ill. Dr. S. F. Dunn of AAilmington attends Aliss Hazel Aletcalf returned home Sunday from a week's stay at Spofford lake.

Aliss Fannie Burrili of Providence I. is spending the week with her sister. Mrs. O. C.

Bolster. Mrs. AA E. AVaterbury and two daughters. Gladys and Grace, are spending the week at Block Island.

Mrs. AI. Aloore and three children are visiting relatives in Brattleboro. Ver-non and Bellows Falls this week. Mrs.

Bertha Turner and son, Aforse, of Brooklyn. are visiting in the home of her uncle, Fred Ryther. Mr. and Airs. Albert Howe of Greenfield.

are spending the week at their summer cottHge in Dover Center. Air. and Mrs. Clifford Laseile of Brattleboro are spending this week of their vacation at Snow and C. H.

Rev. and Airs. C. O. Dunham and two euildren returned to their home here Tuesday after spending a few weeks at (he North 6eld meting.

Air. and Airs. Robert Lazelle and son, Carlton, and AAnrren Lazelle of Brattle-boro were guests of their parents. Air. and Mrs.

Charles Lazelle, Sunday. Aiken and son. Ralph, of Brattleboro, visited in the home of Airs. Aiken's father. Charles Turner, and at Snow Bros', returning home Sunday evening.

IIARI) COAL MONOPOLISTS. The anthracite coal operators constitute a real monopoly, in fact if not in law. The anthracite coal miners constitute a labor monopoly. Each is inclined to be as high-handed as any other monopoly which ever held a grip on a standard commodity in this country. Sometimes these two monopolies fight each other, and then the public suffers from lack of coal.

Sometimes they adopt the shrewder policy of working together, like business rivals, under an arrangement that insures the miners high wages and the operators high profits. Then the public suffers from exorbitant prices. Usually the latter policy has worked better than the former, as far as the industry itself is concerned, because the public would rather pay high prices for hard coal go without it altogether. That policy may be adopted noyt', with everyone clamoring for a settlement. It is a natural and obvious thing for the press and government to take anthracite capital and labor, bump their heads together and order them to come to agreement.

But in the long run some more satisfactory solution will have to be found, insuring reasonable prices as well as continuous operation. Fred Feernot and the Tuff Guy. Scene, Fred Feernot wawking along. Tuff guy. Hay, who are you looking at? Fred Feernot.

Nobody. Wy? Fred W. Putnam Insurance Agency, Inc. State Agents The Travelers Insurance Company Life, Accident, Health and Liability Insurance. Surety Bonds of All Kinds.

20 American Building FRED W. PUTNAM, Pres. A. L. MAYNARD.

Treas. Tramps are believed to he responsible for the burning of a barn near Montpelier on the East Montpelier road. It contained 25 tons of hay. The loss is estimated to be nearly $800. Bold Park Pollard.

(Boston Herald.) The hard-boiled politician's idea of a man with absolutely nothing to look for-jward to is a Vermont Democratic candidate for the United States senate on a wet platform. The state has done some queer things in it time, but not to the Republican party. If such a candidate were elected, the mountains would be humiliated to the lowlands, and sap would stop flowing in the spring. It speaks well, however, for the courage of the Coolidge family that the gentleman who has announced his startling candidacy is own cousin to the President. Park Pollard has as good a New England ring as Calvin Coolidge, but it looks at this distance as if the political acumen were on the Coolidge and Republican side of the family.

Newspaper readers might be pardoned in inferring from the newspapers of the last week that Vermont is inhabited mainly by relatives of the President. Their solid vote in itself would be enough to thwart Mr. Pollard. His platform isnot so bad. in some respects.

We may agree with him that the 800 must and mustnt laws passed by -fie last, legislature were several too many, and that you cannot legislate morality into people: but what has that to do with Vermont politics? If the state were not senatorially Republican, it would not he Vermont Tuff guy. Dont you call me nobody itv of the voters seem to favor cement or III nock you flat and you 11 see so in preference to granite blocks or vitri- looking down insted of laying down fied probably of sky beer looking up. Do you wunt a file? Fred Feernot. I never fite without cause. Tuff guy.

is that so. you big lob sided cross eyed parrit toed nock need stiff. Hows that for a cause? Fred Feernot. Sticks and stones may brake my bones but names can never Greenfield seems to be going through lprt me- But dont you insult a lady. brick, and the committee will bear in mind that their recommendations will have to receive the approval the voters before there is any actual relief from the present state of affairs.

Mrs. J-. W. Simpson of New York city has given $500 to Crnftsburv academy as a fund for student prizes in rhetorical work and has promised a like aqjount in addition if the academy supplements that amount. Rev.

Herbert T. Coontz. pastor of the First Methodist church in Newport, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Methodist church in Arlington Heights. Mass. Mr.

Coontz had been in Newport five and one-half years. AN. G. Hastings, commissioner of forestry, has completed a tour of 300 miles through A'ermont in the interests of a sub-station for experimental purposes in A'ermont in the forestry department and co-operation with the federal government on such work. It is likely that such a sub-station will be Lacking in Oratory.

(Bennington Banner.) The Democrats have selected Park 11. Pollard of Cavendish as their candidate. I ollard is a level-headed man who has made a good record in the legislature but is not a public speaker and therefore Ins campaign i not likely to he one of oratory. thats all I got to say Tuff guy. Aw shut up.

111 insult as meny as I feel like. Ileer comes one now. Hay, lady, ware did you get that ha Lady. Sutch impewdence Fred Feernot. You better be earefill.

you cant say I dident warn you. Tuff guy. Sit on a tack, will you? Heer comes another one. Hay lady, have you got a wooden leg or do you jest natcherly wawk funny? Lady. The ideer Fred Feernot.

Im not going to stand by and sec innocent ladies insulted. Take that and that and that and that and that and that and that and that. Tuff guy. Owteh, stop, owteh, owteh, thats enuff, owteh, thats too mutch, owteh, help. I ipologize, wat a ser-prize.

Tawk about stars Fred Feernot. Thats mild to wat I do wen I reely get mad. The end. much the sajne sort of an agitation over traffic rules as Brattleboro experienced earlier in the season. Several weeks ago the selectmen of that town closed the upper end of Bank Row east of the common to all traffic except that going north and Court street west of thp common was restricted to traffic going south.

So far as transient traffic is concerned this arrangement has worked excellently, as local drivers have had occasion to notice. There has been criticism, however, from proprietors of business places on the east side of Bank Row on the ground that auto drivers wishing to stop in front of these establishments are obliged to drive down Court street and round the lower end of the common. While listening respectfully to all complaints the A Simple Statement of Truth. (Boston Globe.) Park Pollard, cousin of President Coolidge. who has been nominated unanimously by the Vermont Democratic conference as candidate for United States senator and who says that he favors the amendment of the Volstead act.

will he elected if he can get a majority of the votes of the Vermonters. WOOD Buy your wood from the new mill at Centerville Now filling orders. Tel. 284-X Learn to live within your income. Some day you may have to live without it.

Young men and young women should invest part of their earnings in Old Age Endowment insurance. It guarantees a life income. Consult us. National Life Ins. Co.

of Vt. (Mutual.) F. C. DINES. Special Agent, Brattleboro, Vt.

The state of Massachusetts is struggling with the outdoor advertising problem. It has a statute which, if enforced, should control to a considerable extent roadside advertising. In that state a person or corporation intending to engage in advertising by means of outdoor signs must first obtain a license and pay $30 a year for it. Sketches of the exact location of each sign must he filed. No sign may be erected in a residential district without the written consent of a majority of the property owners within 100 feet in any direction of the street, Patrick Sweeney.

50, of Castleton. who is employed as a workman by the Staso Alilling Co. in that town, sustained severe bruises about the head and shoulders and also slight injuries to his Npinal column AAednesday afternoon when a derrick wheel fell and hit him on the hack of the head. The wheel weighs nearly 1,000 pounds. Some Take Them Without Permission.

(Barre Times.) If any other evidence were needed to demonstrate that Isivs should not lie al-lowed the use of firearms, that Woods- proof. OV ouht I'e tlie final Vermont, There She Stands. (Boston Herald.) A Brattleboro pullet has laid sixteen eggs in twenty days. You simply cannot keep a good state down. AAilliam Hogan of Rutland, a lin4nan.