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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
Wild Animals Trust This Man.

In the interesting people department
| Of the May American Magazine appears
an article about Sol A. Stephan, who
is doing splendid work at the Cincin-
matt geological garden. He knows how
10 perform a surgical operation on a
tiger cure a hippopotamus and take care
of all kinds of wild animals. His work
requires rare kind of wisdom and abil-
ity. Following is an extract from the
article about him
For thirty-five years Sol Stephan has
presided over the Cincinnati geological
garden, and has been, therefore, foster
father to every sort of wild animal
which has ever been seen in a zoo on
this continent.
"Stsnd beside the cage Of fierce
and monstrous lion suffering with an in
growing claw. an abscess or decayed
tooth Could you suggest a safe aud ef-
fectiye method of operationl Sol builds
a false back for the cage, ten men pull
il forward with ropes. il constructs the
lion until he cannot stir, and the trick
is accomplished.
Gould YOU extend the life Of the last
passenger pigeon in the world from a
normal period Of about eight years to
an actual life of twenty years and
seven months? Sol stephan did IL; and
he is now caring for a pair of European
storks which have been his charges for
over nineteen years. and for three Caro-
lima parakeets. the last survivors of
their race in the world, each OF which Is
over thirty wears Of age and one of
which Is completely bald, 50 long hss she
lived beyond her allotted span Of sum
mers
Colonel stephan raises every year
several Young lions, tigers. leopards. I
buffalo. camels. llsmas, kangaroos, and |
Of the young Of smaller beasts.
birds and reptiles; but the prondeSt mo /
nents 81 his life are when he cares az 1
he flower Of the Cincinnati roo. the 4
perfect Young giraffe, Daisy,
which be raised from birth. You can
cunt on the fingers Of one hand al the
yiratfe infants which the zoos Of this
ontincr. have ever seen. and none but
Daisy has lived more than a fortnight
.fter birth. Daisy is now four years
~ and the admiration Of every Wild
nimal lover" u
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
WATERBURY.

Miss Stella Huntley. who is IN at the
home of her parents on Perry hill with
tubercular trouble. is not as we'll
Good news Of the condition of Harold
Stranahan az the Pittsford sanatorium
are received.
Mrs =. q. Shattuck and Miss Mildred
Shattuek OF Burlington were overSun-
day guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. y. Camp
bell Harold Campbell was also home
from Norwich university.
Mrs. y. v. Campbell, Mrs. y. r. Demer-
it, Mrs. r. l.. Knight. Mrs r p. Atkins
and Mrs. {. G. Warren attended the
meeting Of Marquis de Iayafette chap
ter. u. A. r., W Montpelier Saturday.
Mrs Harold Atkins and children. Breta
and Royal. are spending week with
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. J. y. Haskins,
in Montpelier.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
CABOT.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Nelson Friday, April 80.

A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert Nelson Friday, April 3d.
Hermon Rowland of Springfield, Mass.
spent few days at his fathers recent
| ly.
Stanley Kenerson is working in Wood
stock for an indefinite time.
! The ladies of the Woman's club who
circulated the 365 day bags a year age
for the benefit OF the library ask that
| they be returned before May II. Please
! send them to the lady from whom you
received them, or to Mrs. Gertrude Wells
! II there are those who did not receive
one of the bags and would like to CON
tribute to this library building fund it
would be gratefully received.
Delegates to the county Sunday school
convention to be held at NTiddlesex were
chosen at the Congregati church last
Sunday were Miss Alice Paine, Miss
Maidene Walbridge and Mrs. f. a. Mer.
rift.
Joe Brothers and Martin Clark OF
Woodbury. were business visitors in town
recently.
Next Sunday will be observed as
Mothers Sunday at the Congregational
church. An appropriate sermon by Rev
Mr.. Hale will be delivered. All mothers
are especially invited.
Rev. and Mrs. F. II. Roberts were de-
tanned from commencing their Iabors
with the Methodist Episcopal church
last Sunday. At last reports they were
both i'll at Brattleboro.
j. +. Mcintyre of Burlington was a
business visitor in town recently.
William Wellington of Belmont. Mass.
was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Rog
ers over Sunday.
DR.. VI. ID. Warren started Sunday
night for the Panama exposition. He
will be accompanied by his sister. They
will visit the doctors daughter, Mrs
Ralph Marsh. in Wallingford, Conn.
while on their way.
Miss Cleora Harvey was in Hardwick
recently.
Rev. G. II. Wright occupied the pulpit
at the Methodist Episcopal church last
Sunday.
Mrs. Clarence Martin of Plainfeld
spent Sunday at the home of her ia
Their Aaron Witham.
Miss Nettie Gilman has finished her |
studies at Cabot high school on account |
Of a nervous trouble and is working at
James Gilman's In Hardwick.
Henry Fifield of East Montpelier Wis
tied friends in town Sunday.
Mrs. Mears OF Marshfeld is caring for |
Mrs. Herbert Nelson and infant daugh
ter.
Fred Ladeau went TO Sherbrook Sat
lrday night TO visit his children.
Mr.. Stmson has moved his family /
from the plains 10 the Preston place.
situated on the Inc between Marshield
md Cabot
Mrs. :. c. Noodry accompanied Mrs.
Walter Ford 10 the Mary Fletcher hos
lital Saturday
d. A. Perry Of Barre was a business
fisitor in town Thursday.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Angus Smith Monday. May 5. Congrat
llations from friends.
Mr.. and 1rs. T. G. Could took their
Youngest son. Richard. TO the Mary
fletcher hospital last week. where be
'ss operated on for abscess near the
rain.
Tho village schools opened last week
n Monday. with u pupils in the gram
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mar department, taught by Miss T.. Owl
nell. and 80 in the Primary department,
.

mar department, taught by Miss T.. Owl
nell. and 80 in the primary department
| taught by Miss Judith Haines.
| George Houghton and daughter, Thel.
ma, were the guests of friends in New
Hampshire Wednesday and Thursday.
Misses Margaret and Edith Martin of
Marshfield are boarding at Merrill Davi-
sons and attending school at Lower
Cabot.
Urban Drown OF Hardwck was q
guest at Lyman Coughs recently.
Miss Susie Nelson has returned home
from working at Mr.. Collins in Green's
boro.
Mrs. A. P. Burnham has returned
is in poor health.
Arthur Wales of St Johnsbury was at
his fathers Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. Foster were guests
of friends in North Calais Saturday and
Sunday.
j. Barnett and Eugene Putnam have
been working the village roads the past
week. They expect to start work on
the town roads Wednesday, if the wealth
or is favorable.
Harry Cole of Hardwick was bust
ness visitor in town Thursday.
Walter Ford and DIR. L. W. Burbank
went TO Burlington Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Unwin of Marsh
field were guests at Leslie fuckers the
first of the week.
Aurelean Clark was a business visitor
in Montpelier Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Marsh of Calais was a
visitor at her fathers, J. G. Pike, on
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nat Keith of Barre were
in town Thursday.
Mrs. Walter Myers and daughter,
Alene. were in Barre Saturday.
Chandler Heath and Harold Swasey Of
Danville were in town Thursday on
business.
During the electrical storm of Sunday |
night, April %, lightning struck the
barn Of r. F. Barrett in Cabot Plains. |
doing considerable damage. but did not
set it on fire A calf, standing near one
II the timbers which was shattered. was
apparently all right Monday morning.
W. I. Stone and son, Archie, have pur-
biased the farm OF J. I. Stone on the
southwest hill. This farm has been
known as the Stone farm about 100
years.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
What the Average Golfer Spends,

In the May American Magazine Jerome
y. IraVers, four times amateur coli
champion OF America. writes remark
ably interesting article entitled "Tbe
High Cost of Golfing." full of striking
facts about the game. In the follow,
ing extract taken from his article he
tells what golf costs the average play
er:
around the New York and Chicago
districts, where over $50 clubs are rep
resented, the average dues are 500 y
year, with the average initiation fee at
500. But a fair average over the on
tire golfing realm would be- considerably
less. say about one-half.
we will say, then. that Jones takes
up golf enters club. paws a $50 initis-
tion fee, $50 annual dues. buys the need.
ed seven clubs and plays twice a week
Saturdays and Sundays. for eight months
of the wear.
III he plays twice a week for eigbt
months he will travel the course about
% times, which will require on an aver
age about three dozen golf balls. or one
TO every 80 holes. Please remember
that m al this we are taking up the
average ease.l So Jones must nav Al
least $50 for the number Of balls h.
uses. Ills car fare viii h. ~ least 800
And to this must he added q csddie
charge Of 40 cents a round, or about sgs
for the season.
80 AZ the end Of the first wear Mr.
William Jones. average citizen and aver
aRe golfer, playing IN the average town
ran figure mp his expenses a. follow,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
A SURE ENOUGH SUCCESS.
Was William Hodges "The Road TO Hap
piness" Last Evening.

One OF Lee Shubert's most captivating
stage productions charmed large audi
ence In the Barre opera house last even.
ing, when William Hodge Appeared in
| "The Road to Happiness" a piece in
which that delightful character actors
| delneation OF an extraordinary country
man equals, II II does not excel, his
similar representations in Mrs. Wigs Of
the Cabbage Patch and "The Man from
Home Rarely has Barre audience
expressed so much delight over piece
of "rhe Road to Happiness sort. De.
spite its repletion of touching scenes, it
smacks OF an adventure in contentment,
and so. indeed, did many of those who
followed the casual Mr. Hodge through
his role of Jim Whitman find it unfail.
ingly.
"1he Road to Happiness might have
led through any New England village
Not every community has a Jim Whit
man, but there are potential Jims apen-
ty, II one but looks, and as for hard
hearted Benjamin Hardcastles, their ilk
is not SO obscure. Shrewd tablods of
philosophy interlarded Mr.. Hodges stage
vain, pu. Ut tht Hlusl pdrt tneIe was
predominance of humor, which disap-
peared with marvellous rapidity when
Hodge addressed himself to more tender
topics than that of disseminating quaint
and cryptic funnygrams.
Endowed with unusual capabilities is
the cast which surrounds Mr. Hodge.
Scott Cooper, as Benjamin Hardcastle,
that relic of New England feudalsm, the
village tyrant was obstreperous to the
last degree and was just the kind of a
shining target that any heavy should
be for Mr.. Hodges whitening humor.
Ida Vernon as Mrs. Whitman. Hazel Sex
ton Gertrude Hitz, Marie Haynes, 10.
seph Rieder, Taylor Carroll A. l.. Evans
and Howard Morgan were others who
helped admirably to sustain his star
ship.
Of the horse Senator, the dog and the
hen and the canary, the company's live
stock, as Mr.. Hodge described them in
naive little curtain speech at the end of !
the third act, much might be said. In |
piece that lacks nothing as to detail in |
the finesse of its scenic investiturc, those |
animated thespians of feathers and fur |
everything but dialogue.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
A New Defense Against the Submarine.

in the April American Magazine Cleve-
land Moffett gives highly interesting
account of a remarkable new invention
made by Prof. r. A. Fessenden. 1t is a
submarine signal apparatus which, at
tached to vessels under the water line,
enables a ships officer to have exact in
formation as to the presence of other
ships, icebergs, rocks, and so on. The
effect of the invention is to reduce dan
gers from COLLISIONS, and it is an in
vention which also practically renders
ships immune from submarine attacks
in naval warfare. In the following ex-
tract taken from the article appears an
account of recent demonstration:
"A new demonstration of this modi
fled oscillator was made in Massachu-
sets bay toward the end of January,
1914. An old wooden wrecking tug, the
Susie D. was equipped with steam
turbine and generator for furnishing cur
rent TO the new oscillator, also with
derrick and boom for lowering the heavy
apparatus into the sea. A switchboard
was set up on deck and, when every
thing was ready and the weather favor
q bile, the Susie D. was moored fast to
the Boston lightship at the mouth OF the
harbor. Then powerful ocean-going
lug. the 'Neponset,' with Professor Fcs
sender and Mr.. j. r, Perkins, vice. presi-
dent of the company, and assistants
aboard steamed out into the ocean to
sec how far away they could pick up the
signals with their microphone receiving
apparatus. 1t was after twelve O'Clock
when they started, and the understand
ing was that Mr.. Naux, the sending OPP
orator on the Susie D. would keep his
oscillstor footing twice minute for five
hours.
Two miles out the 'Neponset' stopped
her engines and the microphones were
lowered into the sea. Ii was impossible !
10 listen while the tug was moving be- |
,ause of the slap of the waves and the !
interference of foreign noises. As the
BOAT came to rest, Professor Fessenden |
slipped on the telephone head set and
listened.
"'Toooooooot loot came the signal
md again after half minute, foot
cot .tooooooooot-
"'Finel' besmed the inventor. He's
sending D. We. It's clear as a bell'
AT four miles they stopped again and
istened. then at six miles. then at eight,
then at sixteen and finally at twenty
i've miles. Each time the signals from
he Susie D. were heard distinctly.
Every one of the party heard them,
there was no doubt Of H.
sat sixteen miles and az twenty
iye miles said Mr.. Perkins. relating the
experience. the signals we're so plain
hat YOU could hear them with the tele-
,hone receiver foot away from your
ar
Suddenly = squall and snow storm
,ame mp. hut the tug pushed on until
hey heard the Peaked Hin bell buoy
sounding on their starbosrd. and this Is
.hirty-one miles from tho Boston light
ship. In ahirl Of snowhakes they
stopped and listened for the last time
he five hours was nearly mp and night
sas coming on-apd here again they
.aught the submarine tootings Of the
Susie D. little fainter bat quite Hn-
'Thirty-one miles BY water
= ireiess-
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
Mutt & Jeff in Mexico NAV IA.

The first act in Mutt & Jeff in Mex
ico' is laid on the American battleship
Psychology. The final act is at Vera
Cruz, during the fall Of the famous old
fort. 1t is one round of hilarious laugh.
ter. tempered with an unusua-y pretty
bunch of choristers who can both sing
and dance. The plot tinges little of
the melodrama, with enough love inter
est to be pretty, without being "mushy"
Mutt & jeff in Mexico viii be at the
opera house next Wednesday, May ~.
Don't get the idea that "Mut & Jeff
is old or that it is deterioratng. Ii is
the one musical comedy that weathered
all theatrical storms. and will live for
years innumerable. 1t is play for the
entire family without line or situa-
ton that will bring alb lush to tn cheeks
of young or old. Secure seats early and
thereby get the best-Advt.
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04

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i.aiT-d o. Hnakf r.r sfaB IN tfr ritf h0s
rs'fnf FiaHsant sind Fansrr Tho Hfsats-s
postcards anH fruit uaTe alss rrmh 81.
TrfTiatrd. Chsrlfs Fairsner
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
TALK OF THE TOWN

Please bring articles Wednesday after
noon for the rummage sale, ii possible
Wlnifred Smith, son of Donald Smith,
was operated upon at the City hospital
this morning.
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his y merely a list ~ enc NECESSARY
charges. After the first vear the fnifis
tinn fer = removed sns TIE ross n flut.
{ rrdueed bringing the actual rsst aovrr
- en- average ~ sI80 = war. or sf.out
e for earl round PLAYED through : 49,
sun ~ Higlt murfhs There v-iU n
thousands who w5I spend firrr ~ Fattr
tiuaes thss amount sns there u7n :.
other thousands who Nfn srssrH les
but fuf EHnrrni arsraes ffsss figures
VII MT - VERY far sea-
sr~i.i -a.i rslur. q Aiaar.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
BARRE DAILY TIMES
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.
The Weather

Unsettled tonight and Wednesday
probably showers; moderate northeast
to northwinds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
Sporting Notes.

Frank T. Hogg, a guard, has been
elected the Princeton football captain
fer next year.
Clarence E. Horning, a three-year
member Of the Colgate football team
has been elected captain.
Trinity college wants to form a
league including itself, Amherst, Will
Jams, Tufts, Wesleyan and Bowdoin.
President Gaffney of the Braves has
given Fred Mitchell his unconditional
release to give him the chance to coach
the Harvard baseball squad.
The University of Virginia has a
football schedule for next fall that calls
for a game with Yale at New Haven
Oct. and one with Harvard either
Nov. 4 or is. Looks like Yale is in for
an early trimming next season.
Dr. Ben F. Roller met defeat We'd
nesday night at the hands of Alex
Aberg, champion at the Graeco- Roman
style of wrestling. Roller 5 shoulders
were pinned TO the mat after an hour
and four minutes of hard work.
Franz, Moran wants $4,000 to fight
Jim Coffey. This is more than he would
get for suing Coffey if the latter did
hit him. But why thousands for such
stuff Some day the scrappers vii
have to get inside the salary limit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
WEST WARDSBORO.

Walter Robinson of Brattleboro was
in town over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. jerry Foley we've in
Dover several days last week
Warren Lazelle of East Dover was
at the Green Mountain House Sunday.
Floyd Robinson spent several DAYS
last week with friends in East Dover.
George w. Briggs, town treasurer,
will be in this place for the receipt of
taxes Saturday, Dee. II.
Mr. Soules, a government official, in
spected and tested weights and meas
ures at the village store Tuesday.
John White went to Bellows Falls
last week with the household goods OF
Harry Wilbur and Mrs. Kitty Smith of
Wardsboro.
Rev. +. W. Johnson went to Stratton
Wednesday to officiate at the funeral
of Frank SYLVESTER, who died in the
home of his daughter, Mrs Lyman Da-
wilson.
The Sunday school has voted to have
a Christmas tree as usual in the church.
The program both musical and literary,
is in charge of Rev. and Mrs. f. w.
Johnson. Further announcement will be
made.
George w Briggs, town treasurer,
will be in this place Saturday, Dec. Il,
for the receipt of taxes. Taxpayers
are reminded that the discount on
taxes will be off only three days later,
Dee. IA.
The Ladies Social circle will hold
its annual Christmas sale Friday, Dec.
II, in the vestry. A supper of
sandwiches, coffee, doughnuts and cake
will be served. The sale will be in the
| evening.
The men working for the Last Block
| Go. on the Waite farm finished cutting
logs there Wednesday. On Thursday
| they began work on the Beers timber
i lot, They will board at the Curt.
Pierce place with Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie:
/ Hall.
1 AS Leland Newell was walking home
from the seminary in Townshend Sat
urday afternoon he shot a deer on Eas
Il hill in Wardsboro. He walked to tn,
4 village, where he summoned his father
E. o. Newell, by telephone, who me
him and carried home the trophy.
Baptist church, Rev. E. w. johnson
pastor. Morning worship at 10.45. Sub
iect, Daniel s Visions-No. .; IL m
Bible school. Glasses for all. Snbiec
for adult class, The Openings of Exc
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dus; p. M, Wardsboro Center, with
Mrs. Brigham. Prayer meeting and BIZ
bic class. All invited; 7.30 p. m, even
ing service. Subject, Confident of Sue
cess.
Tie w. c. L. U. met in the parson-
age Friday afternoon, uniting its meet
ing with that of the Woman s Mission
circle. The circle has been reorganized
with Mrs. E. W. johnson as president
and Mrs. =. A. Perry secretary and
treasurer. The meeting was very in
teresting, seven women being present
and an interesting program being pre-
pared.
Twelve members of the Ladies So
cial circle met with Mrs. f. o. Robin
son Thursday afternoon to work for the
Christmas sale and to plan for that oc-
casiOn. A delicious luncheon was
served at o clock by the hostess. An
invitation was accepted to meet with
Mrs. J. A. Streeter and Miss Alice at
the Green Mountain House for the
next regular meeting on the afternoon
of Dee. 80.
Several families living near the Ho-
tel meadow were much interested Fri
day afternoon by watching fine buck
as he came down the hill, across the
meadow, back of the hotel, across the
road to the moving of E. o. Robinson,
where he drank from a stream, then
walked leisurely up to an apple tree
around which he broused scarcely more
than one rod from the postoffice door
So tame did he seem that Mrs. Robin
son remarked that had she opened the
door she thought he would have walked
in. Finally, undisturbed, he retraced his
steps and climbed the hill out of sight
Within half an hour strange dos
came over the route, which probably
was the cause of the unusual incident
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10

rized peat
This makes il as easy rs growing
mustard and cress i'll a box.
1t is certain that when we have
learnt more concerning bacteria we
shall be on the eve of great discoveries.
Soil lives, just as do the plants that
are born out of it. There are 100000
bacteria in every grain of fertile soil,
and by separating the good from the
bad, modern science is working TO Sc
cure the very highest results.
One of the principal virtues of bac-
teriarized peat, from the drawing room
point of view, is that it has no smell
Still, if a garden patch is available, ii
would be preferable to grow the pota
toes out of doors.-Answers
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
Springfield Republican Man Imagines
There is Interest in League.

Somebody down in the sporting de
partment of the Springfield Republi-
can must be suffering with severe
headache after grinding out half
column of dope teeming with the
statements that the Twin State coun-
try is agitated most to death over the
question of what places will comprise
the 1916 circuit of that league.
From the same source it is learned
that Bellows Falls, Keene and Glare
mont are the "hot beds of baseball
sentiment; that Brattleboro after be
ing out a year cannot help but make
the plunge again ana there viii be
nothing to do but touch up the
Island grounds after the spring high
water preferred respectfully to the
Island Park Coz; that Northampton
is about ripe for another year of the
league; that Greenfield bows to no
other place in baseball enthusiasm,
and finally that Lebanon, \. H., is
likely to join the league and that it is
not an out of the way place.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
Potatoes in the Parlor.

hobby sounds rather quaint, but Pro
fessor Bottomlev, who has wrested q
new secret out of natures soil, suggests
that the notion is not all absurd
He has discovered that ordinary peat
treated with bacteria forms supsti-
tute for manure which is so times more
valuable. Potatoes dealt with by this
process grow in seven and half weeks
Iail that IS necessary being to water the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-10
Sporting NesOs
MAKES SEASON BEST SCORE.
Team G. Rolled 1911, Beating Team A
-Spaulding Wins Honors.

Team C of the Masonic bowling
league turned in last night the best
team total of the season to date,
knocking down pins to the tune of
1871 to 1904 by team A. Spauldir4g
distinguished himself by rolling high
single of 100 and high total Of go,
the latter the best individual total SO
far this season. The winners rolled
very consistently in all three strings.
The scores: