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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-10-01
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NEWS BY COUNTIES

few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Arthur Kinworthy Joseph w. Calhoun
has returned from Boston, where he has
been visiting his sons, James and Mathew
Calhoun.-Miss Estelle Lavonche has
gone to Litchiield, Conn. where she has
taken q ro~'" c> miIlin-
cry o5mu AIelO H'uuoD %,'rrn Iamn.
Hinky nave returned to Hydeville
after a few days in town.-Mr
and Mrs. T. r. Morgan of Hudson
F'nlls, n. Y, are in town.--Dr. Earl Cush-
man, who has spent few weeks with
mis- parents, has returned to Brooklyn,
n. Y-Mss Ida s. Waugh and Mrs.
Charles a. Lyman have returned from
Swanton-Bert Gipson has returned to
Terre Haute, Ind, after visit to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B NJ Gibson
Mrs. Carrie Severance and son. Tyrel,
who have been in town to visit her
brother, w. A. Tyrel. and family OF
North Pleasant street, have returned to
Proctor-Mrs. r. L. Brough has returned
from New York.-Miss Rcrnce Kidder.
who has been i'll with pneumonia, has so
far recovered as to he able to be out
The high school football team is prac-
llNlHB tdtu udN on tnp SCHOOL GROUNDS
Basil Kodjbanof, who has been here
with his family at the home of her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. T. NJ. Chapman has
returned to New York city. His fam
lily will remain for a while longer-Eli
Fortier has purchased from Mrs Mary
Boylan her house and lot on South Main
street-Mr. and Mrs A. c. Tabor have
returned from Burlington
The Rev. George p. Isley n. D.. Mr.
and Mrs S. A. Isley. Mrs |. l.. Rogers
and Mrs. II. l.. Averill have gone TO
Brattleboro to attend the meeting Of the
Vermont Baptist state convention
John II. Sargent announces that the re-
port that he has withdrawn from the
contest for town representative from
Middlebury is not correct. but that on
the contrary he Is a candidate for this
position and intends to stay I'm the fight
Mrs W. A. Atwell and son, Hollis
have returned after brief stay at their
former home at Brandon-Miss Mercedes
Nisun of Brldport. who has for some
time been visiting friends in town went
Monday to East Berkshire, where she
has engaged to teach school for the COM
Continued
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BIC CROWD HEARS
CHARLES A. PROUTY
At SAINT Al B A N S.
Nearly Every Town in Franklin
Co. Represented in Gather
;ng-Candidate Warm
ly Received.

st Alhans. Sept. 3N.-An audience that
filled the city hall to its capacity greeted
the Hon. Charles \ Prouty here this
evening in his independent campaign for
seat In the United States Senate.
In the big crowd there were represen-
tations from nearly every town In the
county, a special train having been run
from Richford to meet the demand. The
St Adams Brigade band furnished music
Judge Proutv was introduced by the
Rev. w +. Jackson, meeting with an
enthusiastic reception. His address was
frequently interrupted with hearty ap-
plause, After making plain his position
on various issues Mr., Prouty spoke in
substance as follows:
If anything further i, needed to show
the real attitude of Mr. DILLINGHAM; to-
ward the regulation Of railroads 1t Is
found in his vote upon tho Panama canal
bill
New England always has been, now is
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REPUBLICANS WILL
ON THEIR
CAMPAIGN IN OPEN
Chairman Wilson Announces
That the Party Will Fight
to Win, but to Win
Fairly.

Chelsea, Sept. COS. c Wilson, Chairman
of the republican State committee to-day
issued the following statement:
Now that all the political parties &c
the State haV" had their conventions and
have completed their organization. it
seems proper briefly to oIt,,ne the plans
of the campaign from the republican
standpoint, together with the views Of
the State committee es to the situation.
Let me say first tha so far ;.G the Re-
publican party Is concerned this campaien n
will be right out in the open We are
going into the contest to win. but the
State committee is united in determn-
alton to show all Vermont that while We
are ready to give our best service to our
party, we can also avoid some methods
of political warfare that at times have
been employed by every party. \ lust
cause does not require Questionable
means for its advancement.
The Republican party in Vermont has
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OF
VERMONT OPENS
ITS 124TH YEAR

President Benton in Address to Students Declares
That United States Should Disband It's
Army, Abandon Every Fort and Sweep It's
Navy from the High Seas as an Example for
All Civilized Nations to Follow.
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In the classified advertising columns
every "ad" occupies n preferred position
lust as your name, properly classified
in the city OF telephone directory, occu-
pies . preferred position.
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England announces that roodsrufrs con.
signed to neutral countries accessible to
Germany will not be permitted to enter
unless neutral government assures Eng
land that food is not destined for Ger
MANY.
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FRENCH MEET REVERsEs
Russians Continue Advance
through Galicia-Battle on
the Niemen Is Furious Fight
Germans Have Begun At
tack on Forts of Antwerp.

London, Sept. 30 1901 p. m.--Thc nine
,ocnth day of the battle of the Aisne
inds the allied armies pushing with all
The strength they can bring to bear in
their effort to outfank the German right
wing and force It back from it's line
If communications through Belgium
There is evidence that this movement
Is beginning to tell and that unless somc-
hing Unforeseen happens, this portion
of the German army must fall back to
another defensive line
The French official report issued this
afternoon saws that the action continues
10 develop to the northwest; SO that the
French left must now be pushing toward
Cambria. as Yesterday It was in tho
neighborhood of Albert.
Even further north than this the
French cavalry are operating and last
week a German force which was sent
to Orchics, sixteen miles southeast OF
Lille to punish franctlreurs for an alleged
attack on a German hospital at that
place. met with superior forces and had
10 fall back.
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FAIL TO CHECK ALLIES.

The Germans. too. admit that they
lave been unable to arrest the French
advances against their right. and also
that the allies have advanced on their
light front Indeed, there seems to be
some agreement in the official reports
" the belligerents on the events in
this part of the battlefield
The German reports refer to an ad e
rance of the allies, while the French
communication says that vigorous
attack made by the Germans on Tracy
e-Mont, northeast of the forest Of
\igue, was rcpulsed with heavy los
,cs, OF course, these reports may re-
'or to different incidents but they
nevertheless agree that the advantage
with the allies.
In the center. from Rheims to the
Mouse. the armies appear still to be
'aitinE for the outcome of the fight
ng on tn" wings. as there has been
a lull in the battle there.
Between the Argonne and the Mouse.
md again in Woevre. there has been
more severe lighting and the French
'lam to have made slight progress,
and 10 have advanced at several
points. especially to the east of st
Michel
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British embassy has notified all consuls
to register no objection to transfer of
American-owned vessels from British to
American flag
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NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF.

AS "A result OF European war over 1000
women employed in clerical positions in
Boston offices have been thrown out OF
employment. Financial district Is hit
hardest.
1t is rumored that Germany has already
paid to Grand Duchy of Luxemburg $780,
900 as partial compensation for damage re-
suting from violation Of its neutrality.
Organization of Texas Gulf Coast Ranch
ers has 100000 head OF cattle ready for
slaughter. 1t is planned to sell them Al
rect to retailer and consumer In New York
ma rt"ts
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FRENCH ARE REPuLSED.

Although the French staff is very
paring with its information it is evil
lent that the forces which advanced
rom Toul to oppose the Germans. who
crossed the Meuse near st. Mihiel, have
'ucceeded in getting behind the small
contingent of invaders who had sue
.essfuliy carried ont am attempt to
,end the French line at this point. Other
offensive movements by the French be-
:ween Verdun and Toul were. however.
according to the German report. re-
pulsed.
In Lorraine and in the Vosges there
las been no change i'm the situation
and here too. the armies seem to he
awaiting the result of the greater con-
lest going on further west, where,
British military experts believe. the
allies have at least firmly set the
claws of their left in the German right
under General Won Kluck.
The Russian armies continue to
sweep through Galicia and according
% report from Rome tonight that
province of the Austrian empire is
clear of Austrian troops. What is
meant is that the field armies OF Aus
tria have either gone into the for
tresses of Prezemysl and Cracow or re-
treated to the south and west.
The Russians have come across the
country in great parallel lines. and. TAX
ing PrzemysL have swept the country
clear as far as a line drawn from Douklo,
n the south, to the ncighhorhood OF
Rzeszow in the north, while other forces
have pushed their way through the
passes of the Carpathians into Hungary.
Ihey have only to go little further
% get possession of the railway that
runs from Sandec through the mountains
% Lublau, and thence through the heart
bf the country to Budapest
If they accomplish this they viii be
able to Join hands with the army which
approaching Cracow. According to
'etrograd correspondents they intend to
reat Cracow as they did Przemysl and
continue their march into Siessia In
he meantime they have for n week been
lighting the Germans along the river
Eiemen, between Kovno and Grodno, and
ave thus far held them in check while
endorsements have been reaching
hem.
The battle is described as being n
urious one, but no details have been
llowed to leak out, The German OBJ
ect In sending "A strong force In this
irection is to attempt to cut the rail-
Pay lire from Warsaw, through wilma
nd Grodno, to Petrograd.
TTACK ON FORTS OF ANT WERP.
The Germans are even buster than
ne Russians, for. besides the battles
France and Russia, they have begun
attack on the outer forts of Ant
erp. FOR two days they have been
Yelling forts at Waohcm and VaVre-St
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New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

to water though you can't make him
drink doesn't hold in regard to country
schools. You can't make a child 90 to
school when going means tramping
long distances through the snow and
mud Some of them 20, of course, if
they want book learning badly enough.
They go, get awful colds in the go ng,
and then they snflle and cough in the
boxed-up schoclroom and bestow their
germs upon all the other children.
Lack Of good highways has led to more
than one accident when railways were
near. ! have in mind one in which a
small boy, taking to the railroad track
to avoid the mud, was run down by the
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18
SCHOOL INDOcWE TO

spoilers. Farmers want GRADED schools
for their children, and rightly Many
give up their farms AMI move TO town
for the sake of thei graded school.
SO if we want to keep up our food
surply it behooves us to bring tho
gt-4ed school to .he farmhouse, and
that is just what better roads will do.
"Ot course, various factors affect
school attendance and the amount of
iliteracy among the people Of a COM
munity. But it is a pregnant fact that
in five states chosen at random for
their high percentage of improved
roads the average attendance of en-
rolled pupils is ma; and in five states
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

chosen for their VIGOROUSLY muddy,
rocky, neglected roads the average at
tendance Of enrolled pupils is 5916.
The woman's auyiliary has been look
ing up these statistics, and it finds
that in five states whore the percentage
Of improved roads is 3055 the percent
age OF illiterates born Of white native
parents is "a, while in five states
where the percentage Of improved
roads is only 1.51 the percentage Of
illiteracy among native whites is 4.75.
It certainly does look as if good roads
led to literacy.
The Dangers These Children Face.
"The adaQe that you can take a horse
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18
HOUSES WITH THE GOOD
TO

as a social centre. Community enter
tainments, amateur dramatics, dancing
classes, evening lessons in millinery
and dressmakng, musical entertain
nents all these could find a place in
he school building, and the barge that
took the children there in the morning
could carry the whole families to the
merrymaking at night. There could be
library, too. and a gymnasium and
an orchestra organized from among
the musicians of the neighborhood.
There is no limit to what such
schools dotting the country, each the
centre of a network of good roads,
would mean for the national develop
ment. Perhaps in time it would bring
us up to Japan's level in school at
tendance. have read that in the
Flowery Kingdom 80 per cent of the
children attend school nine months in
the year. In this country only trife
more than one-half of the population
OF school age are IN school, and only
six months in the year"
How will the women proceed to make
the Promised Land of good roads a
reality?
The women's department of the
American Highway Association does
not, it announces, plan any active po-
litical work. 1t realizes the intimate
connection between politics and roads,
but it will seek to sever them By the
creation Of public sentiment for hon
"st roods. It will work through ex-
isting organizations of women where
possible, and where this isn't possible
country groups will be formed. Promi-
nent women in the various counties
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

more than twenty years, you get the
idea that it isn't so bad to be shut
in as people seem to htink.
"You don't have to be shelved just
because you are Old" is her argument,
adding that if you are it is your own
fault. "You need not be unhappy even
if the world tries TO run away and
leave you," she said, "and all you
have to do under those circumstances
is to hurry as fast as you can, and at
least keep the world in sight. Neither
do you have to be left behind even if
you are shut up in hospital. Having
hands | conduct bazaar OF fancy
articles at the Woman Suffrage party
and at the Empire State Campaign
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18
This "Shut-In' Is Happy Through Suffrage

to be enfranchised in November, 1915,
whether they want it or not" she
stated unqualiiedly, and with the con-
vincing air of a cart tail or soap box
orator "Oh." she said with just bit
Of human longing, IF I had my legs
under me, how could go out and
( talk it,"
"It's a good world tn. We in,
isn't it?" she remarked, gay, and one
needn't be unhappy with so much good
cheer around. I'm only sixty-eight
years old, and it affords me a great
deal of happiness that shall live to
see my sisters enfranchised. No, it
may not be my privilege to cast bal
lot. for this automobile of mine is not
very handy to get about in"-and she
patted her chair-"but ! shall read all
about the others, and have more argu-
ments TO use in converting all these
anti-suffragists | live with" and old
Mrs. Fisher waved her hand in the di-
rection of the family, nurses and pa
tients, as if to say that her work was
waiting for her right there in the home.
"Please put it in the paper" she said,
that sold 80 40 worth of Glad Hand
penwipers for suffrage this year. and
S14 90 worth of suffrage fancy articles
at sale here, and the proceeds came
to the home.
"And don't forget to say that l al
ways wear a suffrage button. and that
| get enrolments for the Woman Suf-
frage party. Then, too, darn all the
linen for the home.
"lIow did get hurt? Well, that's
long story. | fell on the pavement at
42d st. and Madison av. in 1884, and it
was concussion of the spine. The city
paid me $4,000 damages, and every one
thought my backbone was gone to
pieces, as, indeed, it had to all appear
ances, but I've got a good deal of back
bone in my spirit" and the gentle.
white-haired worker for suffrage
laughed at her own little joke, and
everybody joined in.
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

Committee. The money paid for my
work comes here to the home, but the
message that goes out is propaganda
for suffrage"
1t requires some tact to dig a life
story out of one who takes the imper-
sonal point of view, and is not at all
concerned about personal matters.
There is nothing in Mrs. Fishers life
but suffrage and the future, and that's
what makes her such a good story.
Every one who calls at the home is
possible grist TO the iFrage mill.
Every one will talk suffrage and tell
her the latest news. or else must hear
the news from her.
Every woman in this state is going
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

- n ono in New York is looking so
" eagerly for The Sunday Trib-
L Y une 70 come out this morning
as Mrs. Sopbomia Fisher. who lives in
the Homo fo,. Ircprablcs- princi-
pollv becapse She is cxnectino 10 see
this story, sbopt herself In these davs.
when IL Is NOT such g qreat event TO
see ones own picture in the news
papers. il is still a great deal 10 have
the world reading all about you if you
are "shut-in" and YOU carry on a
business in wheel chair and think
thoughts of what is going on in the
outside world, even when the world has
rushed on without YOU. and forgotten
about YOU into the bargain.
arc q. uu .o, g.. IT. ,
uo,,l - uo.L;.- - ..,,n 70, ~.
F;sbor and tbor oddod. "suFraoo g..
NV brsiross
.... F. -. 49,. s, $50. -'o' o. '''t
frare. Propaganda worked IN into all
kinds of fancy articles. pen wipers.
fatiron holders. pin cushions needle
books. shoe bags. broom cases. Then
also there Is always the chance to con-
vert other "shut-ins." For "sbut-ins"
are often antis. And there is ALWAYS
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18
SCHOOL BeRcES. SOcH as TAS. STOP At EVERY FORM
hOuSe ANO GAeeY T4E CHILOREN 1oeND FROM SCHOOL

American Highway Association. lhls
auxiliary will have a conference No
vember 10 at Atlanta, in connection
with the road congress that is to be
held there the week of November 9.
Mrs. Robert Baker, OF Washington, is
chairman of the auxiliary, and Miss
Mabel Boardman, head Of the National
Red Cross Miss Julia Lathrop, chief
of the Chidren's Bureau, and Miss Jane
Adams, Of Hull House, Chicago, are
among its members. A plan for the or
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

ready about two thousand OF these con-
solidated schools, and this number
could easily be doubled many times
over. Experience has shown that eight
hundred children can be educated in
one OF these consolidated schools at
smaller expense than can eight hun
dred children in eight small one-room
schools, and as TO the better quality Of
the education there can be no question.
The Poor Little Red SchoolhOuse."
"The little red schoolhouse may be
picturesque in poetry, but in real life
it is smelly and i'll ventilated, full Of
wood smoke and bad discipline and
productive Of chilblains and imperfect
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

train. Have we not all read of casual
ties to children attempting to cross
railway trestles because they made so
much easier walking than the country
roads?
The Greatest Need Of the Nation.
ayes. good roads and consolidated
country schools are the greatest need
Of this nation; and remember the big
school at the junction would also serve
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18

ganization Of the women Of the coun-
try into country groups to boom road
improvement will be presented at the
conference. If the plan carries and
becomes a reality, county politicians
won't love the women. Among other
suggested changes it eliminates graft
The roads that will De built will be
honest roads.
To Mrs. Baker, as to many other
women, the child is the lever on which
this effort turns.
A Powerful "Back to Land" Movement.
81 wish" she said the other day,
that ! had the time and language in
which to describe all that the woman S
auxiliary, or woman's department, as il
is called in the American Highway As
sociation, opes from the future OF
this work. We see in it nothing les.
than a permanent check to the trenC
that is depicting the farms and over.
/ crowding the cities, II back to tn,
land movement that will revolutioniz,
business and social conditions.
"In my vision of the future Sc,
thousands of school barges gliding
over well graded roads, carrying thu
country children to comfortable, larg,
schools, consolidated schools, situate,
at convenient functions. There are al
New-York tribune., 1914-10-18
BY ELEANOR BOOTH SIMMONS.

T0R many years the bad roads in
the country districts of the
United States have been by
word. The men made the roads. They
voted and expended the money fol-
their building and maintenance; they
did such work as was done. The wom-
en- put up with the roads the men gave
them. The women knew, all the time,
that good roads meant more to the
farmers wife than TO the farmer even;
for the mother is concerned about the
children's education, and impossible
roads mean no school to the farmers
boy and girl.
The farmers wife suffers at least as
much as the farmer does when the mud
prevents the marketing of crops, and
she suffers more from the loneliness
bad roads compel, for the men always
manage to get together somehow, but
the isolated farmers wife is absolute
ly shut out from social pleasures. The
large percentage of these women in the
insane asylums, especially in the more
thinly settled states, bears witness to
the effect such loneliness has.
The farmers wives have been patient
in this matter Of the roads. For one
thing, they were too busy cooking for
hsrvesters and feeding chickens and
milking and churning and sewing over
alls to think of anything else, and then
they had always supposed that roads
and such matters were mems business.
But nov they are waking up to real
ization of the fact that since roads
mean so much to them they ought to
take hand in the making OF roads.
City Women, Too, Are Helping.
The city women are helping the
country women, for with the great in
crease in the number Of automobiles
and with many women running their
own machines, she who dwells in the
city is vitally interested in road i'm
provement, Club women everywhere
are banding together in a good roads
movement, especially those who, like
the members of the National Congress
of Mothers, are concerned above every
thing else for the welfare of children.
And the slogan of these women is:
"RoadS that will enable every coun-
try child to 90 to school on his, or her,
roller skates"
That, of course, is an ideal which
will not be realized for some time. The
more conservative promoters of this
movement will be satisfied If, with
much labor, they can achieve roads
over which csrryalls or school barge'
can pass, picking up children from the
farms and taking them to the neares
school. A high ideal does no harm
but knowing something of the Difficult
ties-politicai and otherwise-tha
have beset the path of the roadmaker
they do not in their hearts expect to'
much.
The most significant outgrowth o
woman's new interest in roads is th
creation of woman's auxiliary in tn,