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The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
EurODeaf, War News

Two days of continuous fighting be-
tween Ypres and Armentieres resulted
I'm loss to the Germans of 5000 men
says the war correspondent of La Lib
erte of Paris.
The Germans have opened their at
tack on the allied forces in Greece
with a vigorous bombardment of the
frontier positions. German artillery at
Lake Doiran is bombarding the allied
lines, says an Athens dispatch to the
Paris Journal.
The new Japanese lirer Yasaka
Maru was sunk in the Mediterranean
by a submarine with 120 passengers
and a crew of 160. 1t was sent to the
bottom without warning, according to
a report received in London from Port
Said. All of those on board, including
one American, w. ]. Leigh, were
saved i. The liner carried $12,5O0.00
in gold.
An Austrian aeroplane flew to with
in a little more than three miles nf
Saloniki and dropped bombs near a
village in the vicinity, according to
Havas reports from Saloniki, received
by way of Athens.
Berlin reports of the capture from
the French of the summit of Hart
mannsweiler Kopf in the Vosges with
1853 men is confirmed in part by an
official statement from Paris. The
French admit retreat.
The Turco-German drive against
Egypt has begun, according to advices
to the Exchange Telegraph company
at London from Constantinople.
Three hundred thousand Turks and
10000 Germans and Arab irregulars
are taking part in the campaign.
Heavy fighting continues at Hart
mans Weilerkopf in southern Alsace.
The French official statement issued
at Paris admits the Germans have
gained a footing in trenches captured
and held by advanced detachments.
One thousand three hundred German
prisoners were taken at this point.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Iurist Victim of Cancer.

Hinckley. Judge P. H. Stolberg
Of the 18th district court of Mime
sofa died here of cancer of the stom-
ach.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Domestic

Fire, believed to be of incendiary
origin, caused small damage on the
British sugar steamer Inchmoor as she
lay moored south of Brooklyn.
Two policemen shot and killed three
brothers at Freelanspur, ILL.,, when they
resisted arrest on a charge of drunk,
enness The dead are: John, William
and Frank Wilkas.
Terminals are so choked with grain
that railroads through western Canada
have restricted shipments to such an
extent as to be virtually a grain en-
barge, says dispatch from Washing.
ton.
Wong Yuen Yung, a cousin of Pres
ident Yuan Shi-kai of China, was shot
and killed In the Chinese quarter at
San Francisco. Yung had been on a
secret mission. His assailant escaped
Three indictments against alleged
German plotter3 were returned by the
federal grand jury. Paul Koenig and
Richard Leyendecker are charged
with conspiring in the United States
land canal. Edmund Justice Is charged
with conspiraiLg in the United States
to secure military information regard
ing Canadian munitions. All were re
leased on bonds Of 100000.
James Delaney and Lee Derby were
killed when an automobile in which
they were riding with Amberse Lentch
was struck by Chicago & Northwest
ern passenger train at Humboldt, la
fused to set aside the probate Of the
will of Mrs. Frank Leslie in which
she disposed of an estate of $1,74S,
$50. more than 81 100000 of which goe.
to the woman suffrage cause. He de
nounced allegations that Mrs. Leslie:
mother was a Louisiana negress slave
One of the weirdest storms the Eas
has seen in many years-rain, hail an(
snow accompanied by thunder ant
lightning and gale that reached /:
maximum velocity of 80 miles an houl
descended from the northwest.
caused six deaths in New York.
When the Faneuil hall conferenc,
on eliminating economic causes of tn,
war is held at Boston January 10
number of plans aiming at permanen
peace will be discussed. One of then
will be the proposal for an interna
tional trade flag.
Stock certificates and coupon rail
road bonds of $75O,000 stolen from
registered mail pouch at Wilmington
Del, were found by detectives dis
covered in an old stove at 214 Orang
street. Practically all securities wer,
recovered
Approximately $1,500,000.O0O (pa
yalue) of American securities, whicl
were foreign owned when the Euro
pean war started, have been absorbe,
in the United States during the last L
months, financial experts said at Ne1
York
The Pittsburgh Bank of Savings
one Of the best-known institutions Il
the city. was closed by order of tn
Pennsylvania banking department an
G. H. Getty. bank examiner. has bee
appointed temporary receiver. Depos
Its we're $10.946,713.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
DRITIsH CABINET REPORTED
BADLY SPLIT ON THIS PROB
LEM-BALFOUR SUPPORTED
IN OPPOSITION TO PLAN.
LLOYD-GEORGE THREATENS
TO RESIGN IN THE CRISIS
May Become Prime Minister-General
Election Predicted by Newspapers
in observation-disclosures Pa
pers See Possibility Of Sew
eral Cabinet designations.

London, Dec. 29.-Conscription may
prove the rock on which the Asquith
ministry will finally be wrecked, the
press intimates.
The cabinet council after what is
described as heated session, ad-
journed with the conscription question
unsettled.
The cabinet is reported badly split
on this problem. The Daily Mail says
that Andrew Bonar Law, secretary for
the colonies, and Lord Kitchener. the
war minister, have not definitely align
ed themselves, while A. J. Balfour first
lord of the admiralty, is supported by
q majority of the MINISTERS in oppos-
ing conscription.
But David Lloyd d-George, The Mar
quis of Lansdowne, Earl Curzon, Sir
Frederick Smith, j. Austin Chamber
lain, Walter Hume Long and the Earl
of Selbourne advocate immediate com.
pulsion.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31

Emperor William of Germany has
slight Inflammation of the cellular
system. His indisposition is slight.
The kaisers illness is described in an
official message from Berlin as "Zell-
gewebentzuendung."
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31

Governor Dunno OF Illinois has par
doned James Ryan and Barney Bert
sche. whose testimony convicted Chi
cago policemen in the graft trials.
The United States may be in the
midst of war at any minute. and II
this country does enter the war we
want to do ell we can to help our
neighbor." said Joseph Choate at a
luncheon in New York given by the
Pilgrims in hoLor of Sir Robert Laird
Borden. premier of Canada. Y
Hit by passenger train on grade
crossing at Doylestown, Wis.,. Emil
Erdman was killed and his son Louis,
his wife and baby were severely in
jured.
Robert L. Knox, surveyor of customs
for the port of New Orleans and prom
inent Louisiana attorney. shot and
killed Ben Foster, an attorney Of Hat.
tiesburg. Miss. and Alex Franko, an
attorney of Natchitoches, La, in the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad
depot at Baton Rouge. La.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Washington

The Panama canal failed to pay in.
terest on the investment of 1857, ,O00.,
600, and also to pay it's cost of main.
tenance. These facts are disclosed In
/, the annual report of the governor OF
the Canal Zone, Maj. Gen. George w.
| Goethals, which was made public at
Washington.
The postal service has doubled In
the last twelve years and during the
last fiscal year audited transactions
reached the $4,000, 100000 mark for
the first time, according to the annual
report of Charles A. Kram, auditor for
the post Office department, made pub
lie at Washington.
Since the European war began
Great Britain has built as many ships
Of war of all classes as the United
States now possesses. This informa-
tion has reached the navy department
at Washington.
An additional 1900 officers and men
are needed by the marine corps for
adequate performance of it's manifold
duties, in the opinion of Maj Gen.
George Barnett, commandant, as ex-
pressed in his annual report, made
public at Washington.
Great Britain has suspended the is
suance of permits for shipment of hos
pital supplies of any description from
the United States to Germany, Austria
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. This
became known at Washington.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
LIoyd-George May Resign.

Lloyd-George is reported to have
threatened to resign unless Premier
Asquith strictly adheres to his pledge
to apply immediate compulsion to un-
married "slackers."
A cabinet crisis or general election
are predicted by most of the news
papers. Lloyd-George is expected to
become prime minister IL Asquith' s
resignation is forced
The Morning Post, equally with the
Times and the Daily Mail-all con-
scriptionist papers-sees the possibil-
ity of several cabinet designations or
the other alternative, a general elec-
tion.
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Personal

Melvine Hall, member of the Amer
lean ambulance corps in France, was
killed by a German shell in the
Vosges region. He was son of DR..
Lewis p Hall, professor at Univer-
sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Lloyd M. Bingham, husband Of
Amelia Bingham, the actress, and off,
cial entertainer of the Ford peace
party, died of pneumonia while aboard
the Oscar II. Ford and Nine. Schwim-
mer are both i'll at Christiania and the
expedition may be abandoned.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31

General Won Emmich, conqueror of
Liege and commander of the Tenth
German corps, is dead of arterioscler-
osis at Hanover, says the Overseas
agency.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Building RS!d Fire Hazard.

In report just made public r. w.
Hargardine, State Fire Marshal. has
indicated he might order the Bethel
hotel, in st. Paul, torn down as the
result of an inspection. Before act.
ing further he will ask the Attorney
General if il will be legal to order the
place vacated in ten days, to protect
people that might be in the place, and
then have it torn down later. The
hotel was inspected by Mr. Ha.gar.
dine, w. G. Nee. hotel inspector, and
A. J. Myler, city fire marshal
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31

The Pittsburgh Bank of Savings,
one of the best-known institutions in
the city. was closed by order of the
Pennsylvania banking department and
G.. HI. Getty, bank examiner, has been
appointed temporary receiver. Depos-
Its were $10.946,713.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31

Approximately $1.500.000.00O (par
value) of American securities. which
were foreign owned when the Euro
pean war started, have been absorbed
in the United States during the last 16
months, financial experts said at New
York.
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Matbewson Aided Dartmouth

Dartmouth College is a contingent
beneficiary of trust funds amounting
to more than 100000 under the will
of Charles F. Mathewson.
In the will he creates a trust fund
of $4,000 for his mother, Mrs. Anne
liza S. Mathewson, and his sister, Miss
Lille B. Mathewson of Maiden, Mass,
and for many years residents of st.
Johnsbury. On the death of the sur
vivor, one-half of the trust is to go
to the son of the testator or the sons
issue. In case there is no issue this
half goes to Dartmouth College. The
other half of the trust is to go to a
niece of Mr.. Mathewson, Miss Erlyan
Waite, daughter of C.. e. Waite of
Cliff street, and to her issue. If no
issue survives the niece, this half also
is to go to Dartmouth.
A bequest of $4,000 to the tesla
tors wife, and at her death to her
son, will revert to Dartmouth if the
son leaves no children.
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Danville
Notes On Church and Personal Events
of the Past Week.

Notes On Onurcn anu L crSOnal Events
of the Past Week.
| (Mrs. C. w. Bartlett, Correspondent
There was a large attendance at
both morning and evening services
at the Congregational church Easter
Sunday. The choir rendered the
Easter music with great excellence.
The G. e. Society conduct the ser
vice at the church this evening in
the absence of the pastor, who is at
| tending a conference of Congrega-
tional ministers and laymen at St.
Johnsbury.
Mrs. William Day and son Milton
of Northampton, Mass, are visiting
her sister, Mrs. w. H. Cass, and fam
lily.
Adelaide Badger and brother,
Glenn of Hyde Park, visited their
aunt, Mrs. Ella Badger, over Sun
day.
Miss Berube of st. Johnsbury Cen
ter is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harold
Scott.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will hold their regular So
cial Thursday, April 8.
Miss Sadie Hooker of st. Johns
bury is assisting in the care of Miss
Lorinda Hardy, who is quite i'll with
the grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Henderson
have moved from Mrs. Jane Steady's
tenement into Mrs. Colby's house.
Mrs Asa Sergeant spent a part
of last week with friends at st.
Johnsbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Morse and
children of Lyndon spent the week
end with his mother, Mrs. Bell Morse
The 500 Club was entertained by
Mrs. c. e. Libbey last Monday eve
ming.
Miss Margaret Clark of St. Johns
bury visited her uncle, Walter Hatch
and family over Sunday.
Mrs. Jennie Walsh spent Sunday
with Miss Mary Shorey at ST. Johns
bury.
George Fisher has returned from
Lowell, Mass.
Maynal Hatch is at home from
Lowell, Mass, for a short vacation
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Hatch.
Harmony Music Club will meet with.
Mrs. Leila Wesson Friday afternoon
when the study of Jennie Lind and
Handel will be taken up. At the
roll call the members will respond
with their favorite hymn and the
composer If possible.
The mid-week service of the Meth
odist church will be held this We'd
nesday evening with Mrs. Helen Bur-
dick.
Miss Waugh of Barre has been Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Rideout.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Currier of st.
Johnsbury were in town over Sun
day.
Danville Green Pythian Sisters will
hold a meeting Tuesday evening,
April 10. There will be work and
light refreshments will be served.
Miss Kate Currier returns this
week to New York City after spend
ing her Easter vacation at her home
here.
Washburn Lodge, No. 90, F. and
A. M, will hold a special meeting
at the Masonic Hall Thursday eve
ming, April 8, for the comforting of
the first degree on two candidates.
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his barn. He crushed two fingers
quite badly and hurt his leg.
Arthur Chappell slipped on the ice
one day last week and seriously hurt
his shoulder. The doctor found no
bones broken but he is confined to
his bed and is at his brother Ezra's-
At this writing he is as comfortable
as can be. expected.
The w. c. T. u. will meet with
Mrs. Charles Fletcher Tuesday after
noon, April 18th, at $3.50, the topic
being "Our Part to Bring About Pro-
hibition." The roll call will be an
swered by quotations from living
statesman" Every one invited that
is interested in the temperance cause.
Mrs. Mary Abar is now gaining
and her many friends hope for a
speedy recovery.
Mrs. Edith Abar and both little
girls have been sick the past week.
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Red school-House Association.

At recent meeting of the direc-
tors for the Red School-House Asso-
citation, it was voted to erect within
the remodeled building a memorial
fireplace and to request each mem
Der of the association, who felt so in
clined, to furnish and deliver on the
site of the new building at South
Wheelock, stone taken from their
farms or their fathers farms, and to
request that the stones be used in
the construction of the memorial fire.
place. Members may obtain further
information or make known their
wishes and Intentions regarding this
matter to John Buckley of South
Wheelock or Gordon Goss of St.
Johnsbury
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friends in East Hardwick few days
last week.
Mrs. Carol Hubbell and two chill
dren of New York are visiting at Nye
Hubbell's.
Ethel Drew spent the week end
with Clara Clifford.
The sociable at the vestry Wednes-
day evening was well attended. The
singing by Walter Blodgett and Ly-
man Morrill, is worthy of mention.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Sc
vigny Sunday were: Emma Sevigny
and Albert Parros of East st. Johns
bury, Mrs. Erma Bissiere and son
Alfred, Miss c. Thibodeau, A. j.
Blanchette, M. A. Marcorn, Rosana
Sevigny, Joseph Fourier, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Emmons and daughter, all
of st. Johnsbury and Thomas Four
nier of West Danville.
(Intended for last week.
Howard Clifford has made two gal
Ions of maple syrup from 15 trees.
The Sunday school contest is gain
ing fast. There are new ones COM
ing in every Sunday.
Frances Clement returned to her
school Tuesday from her vacation.
Florence Clifford is at G. G. Mas
sey's for a few weeks.
Mrs. George Stanton and son,
Isaac, are sick. Marion Stanton is
better.
Corliss Morrill, and son, Lyman,
were at Charles Clifford's Sunday.
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CROSSINGS TO GO
Continued from PAGE ID

figuring on a 15-ton bridge and Mr..
Perham on a seven ton bridge.
George w. Caldbeck presented the
resolution instructing the selectmen
to close a contract with the Boston
and Maine railroad to make the
changes and appeal to the public ser
vice commission for an order for
the work and appropriating enough
money for the town to pay 20 per
cent of the cost.
DIR. Aldrich spoke briefly, saying
that he was in favor of the proposed
change on the east side Of the river
but did not like that on the west
side. He wanted the two PROPOSE
lions separated. 1t was thought,
however, that a part change would
release the railroad from any obliga-
ton in the matter.
Alexander Dunnett said the town
must meet the situation in some way
and he considered Mr.. Williams as a
very competent man and he favored
his solution Of the proposition. The
town might rebuild the Bacon bridge
for about $4,000 but it would leave
three dangerous crossings which
would have to be cared for some
time. Engineer Williams plan for
about the same money would elimi-
nate two or the crossings and he be-
lieved the wise thing was to adopt
the Williams plan.
George Roberts made a short pro-
test against giving the automobiles
a better road than was proposed for
a horse. The vote was then taken
and the resolution strongly adopted.
Freeman /. Pierce reported for the
committee that had investigated con-
ditions at the Center and said most
of the damage was done by water,
rather than ice. The greatest depth
of water in any house was three feet
and four inches in Charles Bonnett's
house. The houses would have to
be repapered, the furniture and pi-
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The College Club.

The April meeting of the College
Club of st. Johnsbury will be held
at Brantview on Saturday, April 10,
at 3. P. M. Mrs. Joseph Fairbanks
will be the hostess and it is hoped
that each member will be present and
prepared to give some item of news
from her own or other colleges in
response to roll call of the colleges
represented by the membership
There are now 81 members in the
club and this social meeting will give
all good opportunity to get better
acquainted and talk over the rapid
progress which is being made by our
colleges.
ALICE w. WILCOX, President.
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WEST BURKE
Officers Elected by the MasOns-
Death of John Cole.


(.Mrs. H. L. Walter, Correspondent
At the annual meeting of Caledo-
mia Lodge, No. SO, F. and A. M,
the following officers were elected
and installed. J. L. Labierty, w. M;
J. W.; W. G. Cheney, treasurer; AL
yah Moulton, secretary; r. J. Magill,
S. D.; e. w. Walter, J. D.; J. A. Ma
gill, S. S.; J. w. Mathews, j. s.; o.
G. Woodruff, chaplain; l.. G. Roundy,
marshall, and William Jennie, tyler.
John Cole died Monday morning
at his, home on School street. The
funeral is held Wednesday at
o'clock at the church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Fogg and Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Buck and little son,
Raymond, visited Mrs. Jennie Batch
elder Sunday.
Miss Mural Abbott spent Sunday
with friends in Newport.
Miss Doris Smalley returned to
her home in Montpelier Monday af-
ter weeks visit with her mother,
Mrs. Wayne Stoddard.
Miss Anna Angel, who has been
attending school at Barre, is at home.
Mrs. Charles Ames has been en-
tertaining her sister and friends
from Canada
DR.. Welch's family are all suf-
fering with the grip.
Mrs. F. T. Porter is suffering with
the grip.
Charles Ball and wife from East
Burke were Sunday visitors at e. w.
Chappell's.
L. G. Roundy, Burke's representa-
tive, returned from Montpelier Sat
urday for good and reports every
thing good for two years more.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Spencer from
East Haven spent Sunday at Charles
Cheney's.
Mr.. Spencer and son, Alton, re-
turned from Montpelier Saturday
where Alton, boy of 10 years has
acted as page, and brings home a
purse of 5000.
Alvah Moulton is sick with the
cold and grip. Charles Fogg, who
has been sick with the grip, il bet
ter.
L. o. Leonard met with quite an
accident Sunday while working In
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Goodrich Cord Tires Smash
Nonstop Record

Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires
have broken another record.
The latest feat of these cord con-
Hstruction tires is the carrying of a
Maxwell, which set new record of
3O5 miles without a stop at the San
Diego races in January. More re-
markable still, the car that made the
record on Silverstowns had a gallon
of gasoline left in it's tank at the
end of the race.
Billy Carlson, the speed boy who
made the nonstop record on Silver
towns, says it was the cord construc-
ton Of his tires which enabled him
to 60 sos miles without a stop, and
which also enabled him to make the
record with a gallon to spare.
The remarkable resiliency and lack
of resistance to the road, which are
qualities produced by the cord con-
struction, make these tires develop
more power at the wheel. Averages
from countless tests have shown that
these tires increase engine efficiency
Is per cent and reduce gasoline con-
sumption 25 per cent.
Carlson's feat at San Diego beats
records set by Ed. Pullen in a Mercer
at Elgin last August, and by Barney
Oldfield in a Maxwell at the Corona
races last November. The previous
record was sol miles without stop.
The wonderful durability and enor-
nous strength of Goodrich Silver
town Cord tires was shown in the
San Diego race when three cars start
ed with Goodrich Silvertown Tire
equipment and not one Of them had
to make tire change.
The Point Iona course at San
Diego is a tough one, with many
sharp turns, which put extra strains
on tires.
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amos repaired. Harry Carr had lost
five of the 10 head of live stock
drowned. The committee estimated
the total damage at $1,10O.
G.. w. Caldbeck said he was OPP
posed to the town assuming obliga-
tions of this sort and Moderator
Searles said he had grave doubts of
the power of the town to appropriate
money for such a purpose. 1t GER
tainly could not be done if a single
voter objected. 1t was moved and
voted that the article be laid on the
table and the meeting adjourned.