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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-23
EAST BARNET
School Records and Flower Exhibits
Local Happenings

Local happenings
! Mrs. G.. w. Tilton, Correspondent
Schools closed here last Wednes-
day In the primary there was a rec
ord breaking attendance. Out of II
scholars II received rolls of perfect
attendance. Those who received such
rolls were: Florence Cheney, Mar
guerite Amell, Eugene Hall, Edwin
lCaprom. DiInas Milligan, Donald Mil
lligan, Lois Burbank, Wendall Roy,
Stuart Elliott, Edward Niblock, Irene
Kay,
Stuart Elliott did not miss a word
in spelling during the term. This
school leads the others in the town
of Barnet for gathering the greatest
number of flowers, 1916 species OF
flowers were gathered, "a of which
were gathered by Wendall Roy, thus
winning the flower calendar. In the
grammar room, Leona Caprom and
Matt Burbank did not miss a day dur
ing the term. One hundred and sew
enty-one flowers were gathered, Matt
Burbank winning the flower calen-
dar
Miss Blanche Liberty of st. Johns
bury visited her sister, Anna Liberty,
/ Wednesday.
Mrs. Orilla Capron has been sick
for the past week. Mrs. Kate Oder
kirk of Danville visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Capron the last of the week.
Seaman Amell of Fairlee is visiting
relatives here.
Seven dollars and fifty cents was
/ taken at the ice cream sale Friday
for the benefit of the sidewalks.
Mrs Woodward of st. Johnsbury
visited Mrs. Gertrude Walker Sun
day.
Mrs. Frank Jenney of st. Johns
Niblock Wednesday.
Thursday morning during the
thunder storm, the lightning struck
the telephone wires at George Rich
I ardson's house, causing considerable
damage.
Quite a number from here attended
the graduation exercises at Barnet,
Thursday afternoon.
Miss Marion Weeks of Woodsville,
N. H., has come to stay with her
grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Dickinson, for while. Lewis
Shonyo of LyndonviIle visited at Dick
inson's Sunday.
Mrs. Rosa Pettis and Mrs. Shanty
of Barnet visited Mrs. Guy Gilbert
Sunday.
Miss Hazel Kay of Barnet visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kay,
one day last week.
R. B. Gammell and G. w. Tilton
attended the Memorial services OF the
K. P.'s Sunday at Monroe Plain.
Eugene Kendall spent Saturday in
st. Johnsbury.
Miss Mia Olcutt has finished her
school here and returned to her home
tin st. Johnsbury Thursday.
Harvey Burbank and family and
Mrs. Bryant are spending their va
cations at their cottage at Cole
Pond, Walden.
Miss Portia McGill took an auto
mobile trip to Willoughby Lake Sun
day.
Mrs. Robert Kendall of .McIndoes
visited Mrs E. E. Roy Thursday.
Frank Bailey's school closed last
Friday and he is home for his va
cation.
Mrs. Leslie Frazier of Monroe Wis
tied her parents Mr.. and Mrs. J. X.
Moore Friday.
Floyd Harding visited at J. G..
Roys Wednesday and Thursday OF
last week.
Mrs. Wood visited her daughter,
Mrs Blaine at West Barnet part of
last week.
Mrs. Andrew Menard and son Earl
visited at Monroe last week.
Ice cream will be for sale at Ray
WEIGHS Friday afternoon and eve
ming, June %, the proceeds to go
for sidewalks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-23
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
ESTATE OF ADELAIDE FRANCES
HEATING

The undersigned. having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Caledonia. Commissioners TO receive,
examine and adjust the claims and demands
of all persons against the estate of Adelaide
Frances Heating, late Of Boston, Mass, in
said District, deceased, and all claims exhib-
tied In Offset thereto, hereby give notice that
will meet for the purpose aforesaid, at the
office of n. r. Balch. in the town OF st.
Johnsbury, in said District, on the 10
day of Julv and 18th day of December
next, from o O'Clock a. m. until O'Clock
p. m, on each of said days and that six
months from the 18th day of June
A. d. 1915, is the time limited by said Court
for said creditors to present their claims TO
us for examination and allowance.
Dated at st. Johnsbury this 22nd day OF
June, A. ID. 1915.
HERBERT T.. BALCH,
EDWIN c. POTTER.
Commissioners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-23
Association Notes.

County Agent Stimson is now
spraying oat pieces to kill kale and
the work is successful.
The frost killed IS per cent and in
some places so per cent of the fruit
buds in the county.
The secretary has received from
w. B. Martin $51.20 paid by 10
Peacham farmers toward the support
of the work of the county agent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-23

The 25 cent piece was made
famous by the American Liver
Tablets, the perfect laxative.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-23

Ad-readers know that this is
particularly interesting month with
the stores-that, for clearance and
other urgent purposes, merchants Of
ten sacrifice profits at this season.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-23
CONCORD

The food sale of the L. B. S. ad-
vertised for June %, has been post
poned to Saturday, June 26.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-23

A classified advertisement is a
'peace-scout," and will report to you
promptly what are your opportunities
for work, or for selling.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-12

men were shot. In one household
alone the father and mother (names
given) were shot, the daughter cied
after being repeatedly outraged, and
the son was wounded.
I'm Soumagne and Micheroux very
many civilians were summarily shot.
In a field belonging to a man named
b sc or 81 were put to death.
A German officer said: You have
shot at us One of the villagers ask
ed to be allowed to speak, and said:
If you think these people fired, kill
me, but let them go The answer was
three volleys. The survivors were
bayoneted. Their corpses were seen
in the field that night by another wit
ness. One at least had been mutilated.
These were not the only victims in
Soumagne. The eyewitness of the
massacre saw, OF his way home, TWEEN
ty bodies, one hat of a young girl of
IL. Another witness saw nineteen
corpses in a meadow.
AT Heurle lie Roman all the male
inhabitants, including some bedridden
old men were imprisoned in the
church. The b~urgomaster's brother
and the priest were ~bayonetted. The
village of Wise was completely de-
stroyed. Officers directed the incen-
diaries, who worked methodically with
%benzine. Antiques and china were re-
moved from the houses, betore their
destruction, by officers. who guarded
the plumber, revolver in hand.
Diary Tells of Debauchery
Entries in a German diary show
that on August 10 the German soldiers
gave themselves up to debauchery in
the streets Of Liege, and on the night
of the goth a massacre took place in
the streets. Y X Though the cause
of the massacre is in dispute, the re-
suits are known with certainty. The
Rue DIES Pitteurs and houses in the
Place de IUniversite and the Quai des
Pecheurs were Systematically fired
with benzine; and many inhabitants
were burned alive in their houses,
their efforts to escape being prevented
by rifle fire. Twenty people were shot
while trying to escape. before the eyes
of one of the witnesses The Liege Fire
Brigade turned out out was not allow
ed to e~Xtinguish the fire. Its carts,
however, were usefully employed in
removing heaps of civilian corpses to
the Town Hall"
400 Massacred
Taking up the valleys of the Mouse
and Sambre, the report gives lengthy
details of terrible conditions described
by witnesses at Andenne. and says:
About 400 people lost their lives
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-12
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
WANTONLY SLAIN
CONTINUED from First Page.l

provision had been made for sys-
tematic incendiarlsm at the very
outbreak of the war, and tina the
burning and destruction we're fire.
quent where no military necessity
could be alleged, being indeed part
of n system of general t~crroriza-
ton.
"Fourth-That the rules and
usageS of war were frequently
broken, particularly by the using
of civilians, including women and
children, as a shield for advancing
forces exposed to fire, to a less de-
gree by killing the wounded and
prisoners, and in the frequent
abuse of the Red Cross and the
White Flag.
Murder, Lust and PilIage
Sensible as they are of the gravity
of these conclusions, the committee
conceive that they would be doing less
than their duty IL they failed to re-
cord them as fully established by the
evidence. Murder, lust and pillage
prevailed over many parts of Belgium
on a scale unparalleled in any war be-
tween civilized nations during the last
three centuries.
"'Our function is ended when we
have stated what the evidence estab-
fishes, but we may be permitted to ex-
press our belief hat these disclosures
VIII not have been made in vain il
they touch and rouse the conscience of
mankind and we venture to hope that
as o as the present war is over. the
nations of the world in council will
consider what means can be provided
and sanctions devised to prevent the
recurrence of such horrors as our gem
Grafton is To- witnessing
Conditions at Liege
Taking up the conditions at Liege.
% .sWaSa - H.
the report gives a narrowing recital
of occurrences at various points in the
devastated territory. At Havre ON
August 4, the report says, the murder
of an innocent fugitive civilian was
a prelude to the burning and pillage
of the town and of other villages of
both sexes and to the organized mill
tary execution of patches of selected
males. Thus some fifty men escap-
ing from burning houses were seized.
taken outside the town and shot. AT
Melen, a hamlet west of Havre, forty
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-12

Taking up the valleys of the Mouse
and Sambre, the report gives lengthy
details of terrible conditions described
by witnesses at Andenne, and says:
About 400 people lost their lives
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-12
sAxoNIA SAFE AT NEW YORK
BY Associated Press
= ri s

NTtVTWT 10 ~ TFFVET"TW
New York. May 1.-THE Cunard
liner Saxonia reached this port to-
day from Liverpool. having sighted
the Lusitania at 2.45 O'clock in the
afternoon of May 5, two days before
Lusitania was sunk. Until the
Sandy Hook pilot boarded the Saxonia
her passengers knew nothing of the
Lusitania's fate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-12
FIVE DEAD IN EXPLOSION
By Associated Press

Paris, May IA Havas dispatch
from Athens says: "a floating mine
which exploded near Moudros (Island
of Lemnos) killed five persons, ac-
cording to an official dispatch from
Lemnos."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-12
Cumberland Valley Railroad
TIME B
In Effect May "a, 1914.

III IItNI NIUN ~ IVITs
TRAINS leave Harrisburg.
For Winchester and Martinsburg at
5.03. s7:50 a. m, $40 p. m.
For Hagerstown, Chambersburg. Car
Isle. Mechanicsburg and intermediate
stations at 5:oS; s1;eS, |11;SS a. M.
Additional trains for Carlisle and
Mechanicsburg at 9:4S a. mr 2:1S; 1921.
$40, $3.50 a. m.
+11:53 a. M. 2;1s, "3:40, 5:32 and $3.50
p. M.
sDaily. All other trains daily except
Sunday. H. A. RIDDLE,
J. II. TONGE. G. P. A.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
PERSONALS.

Mrs. Warren Holiday is visiting
relatives and friends in Quincy for a
few days.
William woolIey and daughter
Helen. attended the fair at Burling-
ton yesterday.
MI. and Mrs. Harry frost Of OF
tumwa are visiting at the home Of
Mrs. d. F. Miller.
Miss Leila Davis OF Decatur, H.. Is
visiting at the home Of w. J. Davies,
1921 Blondeau street.
Mrs. S. w. Norton and daughter
Katherine of Kansas City. are visit
ing with Mrs. Norton's parents Mr.
and Mrs. C. H Rollins. T20 Blondeau
Adolph NJ Klein. a Cleveland at
torney and brother OF Louis e. Klein
OF this city. stopped I'm Keokuk a
short time today while enroute to
Chicago from New Orleans.
Mrs. w. n. Langworthy and daugh-
tiers Ruth and Sadie, who have been
visiting for the past ten days at the
home of the formers brother August
Mass. returned to their home In MIN
neapolis Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Edscorn and
daughters of st. Louis will arrive
Sunday morning on the steamer Du-
buuue for weeks visit at the home
OF his mother Mrs. NJ. Edscorn, Four
teenth and Blondeau streets.
Fort Madison Democrat. Aug. -:
Sheriff John Scott. Recorder Ed
Vaughan and Deputy Clerk Albert
voliers OF Keokuk were in Fort Madi-
son today attending the meeting Of
county officials at the court house.
Mr.. and Mrs Aug. r. BeckEan and
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Schaefer left this
morning for trip through Colorado
and California. Mr.. Schaefer will, at
tend the convention of the National
Federation Of Postofiice Clerks while
1 in San Francisco. IS
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
PERSONALS.

Mr.. and Mrs Frank E. Williams of
Chicago, former residents OF Keokuk,
arrived In the city last evening and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
PERSONALS.

Miss Emma Hubert of 1908 High
street. left tonight for Chicago for a
two weeks vacation trip.
Mrs. Frank Price OF Mt. Pleasant
is visiting with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. l. c. Reeves.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Rix have
returned from Bever Island where
they have been for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Elder have re-
turned from White Plains, n. Y,
where they visited their daughter.
Miss Grace Fleming departed for
her home in Rock Island after plea
SAINT visit with her aunt Mrs. J. G.
Blake.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
CITY NEWS.
Let Abel wire your house. Phon,

Let Abel wire your house. Pnone
We have sold out our stock o.
PAINT and have quit the paint bushes
L Taber Lumber Co.
king Plumbing Co for electric
fans. See their line.
LIN consideration OF 81. 450. Maude
Walters, ct al. have conveyed to Flora
4 E. Teeters lot In block 157.
Let Abel wire your house. Phone
4 Sc
1 Keokuk lodge No. IS. l. o. O. F.
meets every Monday night, at 7:aJ
O'Clock Visiting brothers invited to
/ attend.
The eighth installment of 'sThe
Goddess appears in this issue Of The
Gate City Be sure and read this in
/ teresting story.
| Buy electric fans at King Plumb
/ ing Co.'S Phone 2TI
"A widows pension has been
granted to Mrs. Viola loops. Her
husband was confined to the state
hospital for insane at Mt. Pleasant.
recently.
Let Abel wire your house. Phone
! Redeemer English Lutheran
church Place of worship is the Baker
Mission chapel on Twelfth between
Timea and Dies Moines streets. "
Engel, pastor. 5I3 South Eleventh
street.-Morning services at 10:45.
Sunday school at $50 a. m. Evening
services at eight o'clock.
Keep cool with one of King Plumb
ing Co.'S electric fans
Premium lists of the West Point
fair are being distributed. John Wall
jasper is the secretary again this
year. The coming event will be the
forty-third in the hizto-y CT West
Point. the dates benz September 81
%. % and "a. A Ia-re number OF
Keokuk people will attend the fair.
Let Abel wire your house. Phone
S..
One OF the team of horses attach
ed TO the Azinger ice wagon was
struck yesterday afternoon by an
automobile. The horse was cut about
the head The team was on the right
side OF the street, but the automobile
driver, it was said, was coming down
on the wrong side OF the street and
ran too close to the horse.
Get our prices on electric fans
King Plumbing Co, 422 Blondeau
street. Phone 271
An extension meeting will be held
at Warsaw this evening under thu
auspices of the local Y. NJ G. A.. and
in conjunction with FIVE churches Of
that city. The meeting will be held
in the park and j. o. Boyd viii deliver
the address Music will be rendered
bv the Warsaw orchestra and local
sloisss.
The Mississippi River Power corr
pany is still engaged in the work of
re-surfacing and repairing the roal
from East Fort Madison to Pontoosuc,
an operation that is employing many
men and teams and will consume sew
eral weeks OF hard work The river
bank along the road is being rip-rap-
ped and placed into shape to protect
the road at all times.
Let Abel wire your house. Phone
SIS.
A Keokuk firm successful. In
competition with several of the best
decorating concerns of Chicago and
the east, the contract for decorating
the Fl. Madison Savings bank has
been awarded to the Duncan-Sche1l
Co.., OF this city The bank Will en-
large their present quarters and in
stall modern fixtures, furniture and
decorations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
SLIPPED OFF STEP;
FRACTURING LIMB
Mrs. Chris Metternich sustains Ser
lou. Injury Last Night while
Watering Her Flowers.

While watering her flowers last
night at her residence. S1S North
Twelfth street, Mrs. Chris Metternich,
ST., stepped OF a short step in such a
manner that she fractured her leg
She was removed to st. Joseph's hos
pitla. The fracture is serious one,
being in the large bone between the
hip and the knee. Mrs: Metterniclz
is over sixty years of age, and the at
tending physician states that her In
Jury is a serious one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
FUNERAL NOTICE.

FTNNERTY-Funera services for
the late Mrs Peter Finnerty will be
held from st. Peters Catholic church
Monday afternoon at one o'clock.
Friends of the family invited.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to return our sincere
thanks to our neighbors and friends
for kindness and sympathy shown us
in the loss of our mother. Mrs Sarah
Gorgas.
JACOB GoRGAs AND FAMILY.
The Dickinson press., 1915-04-03

Leave the room"~no, by the hall
door. We are going back upstairs.
] obey him, and at the door he
switches of the lights. How ] stand
It I do not know. /. go upstairs me!
chemically into my own room-1 and
this masked man. !:
""Take of the kimono and slip,
pers!' he orders. I do that. Get into
bed!' he growls. I crawl in %fearfully.
For q moment he looks about-then
goes out-with q look back as he
goes. Oh! Oh! That hand-which
he raises at me-THAT HAND!'
The poor girl was sitting bolt up.
right, staring straight at the hall,
door, as we watched and listened,
fascinated. - 49,. .
Kennedy was bending over, sooth-:
ing her. She gave evidence of com"
ing out from the effect of the drug.
/ noticed that Bennett had sud.
denly moved a step in the direction
of the door at which she stared.
"By heavens!" he muttered, star
ing, too. Look" T.
We did look. A letter was slowly
being inserted under the door. "
took a quick step forward. That
moment l felt a rough tug at my
The Dickinson press., 1915-04-03

Ing me that you don't want me to con-
tinue investigating your fathers death,
and not to try to see you again
about"
He stopped. I could hear the reply.
"Why-no-Mr. Kennedy, I have
written you no letter."
The look of mingled relief and sur.
prise that crossed Craig's face spoke
volumes.
miss Dodge" he almost shouted,
this is a new trick Of the 'Clutching
Hand I'LL be right over"
Craig hung up the receiver and
turned from the telephone. Evidently
he wa thinking deeply. Suddenly his
face seemed to light up. He made up
his mind to something, and a moment
later he opened the cabinet-that in
exhaustible storehduse from which he
seemed to draw weird and curious in
Btruments that met the ever new prob
lens which his strange profession
brought to him.
I watched curiously. He took out a
bottle and what looked like a little
hypodermic syringe, thrust them into
his pocket and, for once, oblivious to
my very existence, deliberately walked
out Of the laboratory.
/ did not propose to be thus cava-
lierly dismissed. / suppose it would
have looked ridiculous to a third par
ty, but I followed him as hastily as If
he had tried to shut the door on his
own shadow.
We arrived at the corner above the
Dodge house just in time to see anoth.
er NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
"And, Perry" we heard Elaine say,
as We were ushered in, someone has
even forged my name-the handwrit-
Ing and everything-telling Mr.. Ken.
nedy to drop the case-and I never
knew"
She stopped as we entered.
ssThat'e the Nmit!s exclaimed BEN.
IL tF =r+
The Dickinson press., 1915-04-03

AS ! came up the path to the chem.
lstry bulldog I saw through the win.
dow that, in spite Of his getting there
early, he was finding it difficult to keep
his mind on his work. It was the first
tins l had ever known anything to
Interfere with science in his life. :
WELL" I exclaimed as l entered.
you are the early bird. Did you have
any breakfasts" -
l tossed down the letters. He did
not reply. So I became absorbed In
the morning paper. Still, l. did not
neglect to watch him covertly out Of
the corner OF my eye. Quickly he ran
over the letters, instead of taking
them, n by one, in his usual method
ical way. I quite complimented my
superior acumen. He selected the.
dainty note.
A moment Craig looked at It in an.
ticipstion, then tore it open eagerly.
| was still watching his face over the
top Of the paper and was surprised to;
see that it showed, first, amazement,
then pain, as though something had
hurt him. .. 80
He read it again-then looked
straight ahead. as If in a daze.
Suddenly he jumped up, bringing his
tightly clenched fist down with a loud
clap into the palm Of his hand.
by heaven!" he exclaimed, IL
will"
He strobe hastily to the telephone.
Almost angrily he seized the receiver
and asked for a number. :
"Wh.wdat's the matter, Craig!" I
blurted out eagerly. =
AS he waited for the number. he
threw the letter over to me. 1 took
1t and read: ,
Professor Craig Kennedy,
1.-THE University, The Heights, City.
Dear Sir: .
Il have come to the conclusion that
your work is a hindrance rather than
an assistance in ~clearing up my
fathers death, and I hereby beg to
state that your services are no longer
required. This is a final decision, and
beg that you will not try to see me
again regarding the matter.
very truly yours,
ELAINE DODGE" ::
If it had been a bomb I could not
have been more surprised.
l could not make it out.
Kennedy impatiently worked the re-
ceiver up and down, repeating the
number. "Hello-hello," he repeated.
'Yes-hello. Is Miss-oh-good morn.
Ing, Miss Dodge"
He was h%urrying along as if to give
her no chance to cut him off. II have
just received a letter, Miss Dodge, tell
The Dickinson press., 1915-04-03

By a small administration of the drug,
which will injure you in no way, Miss
Dodge, / think I can bring back the
memory Of all that occurred to you
last night. Will you allow me?"
Mercy, mol" protested her Aunt 10.
sephine, who had entered the room.
II want the experiment to be tried"
Elaine said quietly.
A moment later Kennedy had placed
her on a couch in the corner of the
room.
"Now, Mrs. Dodge" he said, please
bring me a basin and a towel"
Aunt Josephine. reconciled, brought
them. Kennedy dropped an antisep.
tic tablet into the water and care.
fully sterilized Elaine's arm just above
the spot where the red mark showed.
Then he drew the hypodermic from
his pocket-carefully sterilized it.
also; and filling it with scopolamin
from the bottle.
"Just a moment, Miss Dodge" ha
encouraged, as he jabbed the needle
into her arm.
|. She did not vince. t.
please lie back on the couch" he
directed. Then turning to us he add
ed, 1T takes some time for this to
work. Our criminal got. over this fact
and prevented an cutlery by using
ethyl chloride first Let me recon
struct the scene" ~
AS we watched Elaine going under
slowly Craig talked.
"That night" he said, "warily. the
masked criminal Of the 'Clutchfng
Hand bent over, his arm crooked,
might have. been seer down below us
In the ally. Up here, Miss Dodge,
worn out by the strain Of her fathers
death. let us say, was nervously try.
ing to read, to do anything that would
take her mind OF the tragedy. Per.
haps she fell asleep.