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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-12-13
BETTYS LIFE SAVED BY
USE OF RED CROSS SEALS
She Was Taught How to Care For Her.
self After Her Mother Had Died.

self After Her Mother Had Died.
"She was real pretty, and so full of
fun that the dimples were always
showing in her round, red cheeks
The visiting nurse of the Anu-Tuber-
culosis Society was talking. "Her
eyes were big and brown and nut-col-
ored hair curled naturally In little
ringlets over her forehead and ears.
She was just eighteen when we first
met her and so neat and attractive
that one would think she belonged to
the well-to-do class Of working people,
but when we followed her to her home
one day we confronted startling facts.
"The red in her cheeks was the flush
of unnatural inward fever, the high
spirits were "a pififul antidote. H1cpiti-
less conditions, and the big brown
eyes saw only squalor when they were
not fixed upon typewriting machine
or closed persistently to any view but
an imaginary bright one.
1.-THE room we entered was gen.
eral living space, used also as an eat
ing, cooking and sleeping apartment.
There was but one bed, and Betty
had to sleep in it with her mother,
who was too weak to sit up. An open
cuspidor sat where it would be con-
veniently near the bed, which placed
it by the stove, where their food was
cooked. The mother, who was suffer
ing in an advanced stage of tuber-
culosis, did not like cold air, and her
querulous demands caused Betty to
keep the door and windows closed
"'Well,' said cheerful Betty, with
laugh, that isn't so bad as not hav-
ing any windows or doors to close, is
it? Things might be worse
"Tnfinitely worse said l. You
might even take a notion to stuff the
windows and doors with rags to cut
out what oxygen comes in through the
cracks
Red Cross Christmas Seals, with
their CHEEKY message of hope, gave
Betty chance to get well after her
mother died. Is it worth while to save
the Bettys? Buy your share today
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-12-13
News and Citizen
Il. LEWIS, tditor and Manager

Little Roumania now has time to pom
der the danger Of going out OF ones class
in war, as well as in other things.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-12-13
Christmas Shopping

Oar village stores are now fully pre-
pared for the Christmas shopper and
local merchants are hopeful that the
provisions they have made in this direc
ton will not be unheeded by the public.
A Christmas shopper can do better
early. The prices are just as reasonable
and especially so at time when prices
are growing higher almost every week
Then one has the opportunity of full
assortment and articles are not picked
over as they are in the latter days of the
Christmas rush.
Now is a good time to shop-get in the
stores early and get the choice bits. You
will save money and time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-12-13
THE MODERN TEST
OF EFFICIENCY
Is Fully Met by Hoods SarsaparilIa
and Peptiron Pills.

Because of what 1t contains. Of the
way it is made and of the record it
has achieved, Hoods Sarsaparilla is
warmly recommended to you for
rheumatism, catarrh, scrofula, eczema
and other troubles arising from i'm
pure blood or low state of the system.
In cases that are radically anemic
and nervous-marked by paleness,
thin flesh, sleeplessness, nerve-ex-
haustion, the power Of Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is greatly increased by Pept-
iron Pills, the new pepsin, nux and
iron tonic These two medicines make
the strongest combination course Of
treatment for the blood and nerves Of
which we have any knowledge
Thousands of families are taking
these medicines. Let your family take
them too. Get them now.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-12-13

1t is an aphorism that anybody can
run newspaper, but that it takes a
genius to conduct successfully hotel.
This being true, then, George O. Boldt
was a transcendent genius in his parti-
cular field, for as proprietor of the great
New York inns he was probably the
greatest hotel keeper in the world.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-12-13
A Piano For Christmas

We shall offer in addition to our Piano
Club, very fac $500 Upright Piano
in Mahogany Case for the small sum of
5000. This is peach of bargain, and
the payments are very easy. Write for
catalog and full particulars to Geo. d.
Jarvis & Son, Burlington, VT, So. Wi
uooski Aye-Ady.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-12-13

Mrs. Joan Cuneo has over 300 pigeons
at her Applecrest farm in Wilmington,
aS0 of which are Plymouth Rock homers
Ind the rest Belgian Carneaux.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Not a Single Clue :.
Sheds Light On Mystery

No less dramatic and cloaked in mys-
terry than the disappearance Of Charlie
Ross. was the vanishing of little James
Douglas Glass More than a year has
passed since he toddled innocently
down some obscure pathway leading
into an. impenetrable unknown which
completely effaced every trace of him.
Nor has there come a single syllable to
cast even the faintest light upon the
unexplained fate of the five-year-old
boy.
Until a year ago the Glass family was
mich the. same as thousands Of other
American families, Charles Glass. the
father. was employed as an auditor for
the Erie railroad. His wife. Ella, kept
their little home at IL Linau place,
which was not quite paid for, and looked
after Jimmie, who was then four years
Old, and his sisters. Bertha and Baby
Madeline.
Jimmie was the first born, a serious
minded youngster, with blue eyes, tow
hair, and a stubby button Of a nose.
and who contented himself with talking
very little and seeing a great deal.
And then came the thunder-clap of
tragedy which In a single terrible mo-
meht changed the family Of Charles
Glass from average American folk to a
man and a woman with a haunting sor-
row which fortunately has been WIS.,
ited upon very few.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
BROTHERS ON BORDER,
GIRL RUNS GARAGE
Sixteen-Year-Old Steps Into Bust
ness Mems Shoes.

CARLISLE, Pa. July l6.-with five
out OF eight owners and employees of a
local garage volunteered into the United
states army and now In Texas. Miss
Myra Shearer. sixteen-year-old Carlisle
High School girl. has jumped into the
breach and for the last three weeks has
successfully handled the business end
OF garage and sales agency hitherto
conducted by Rippy and Joseph Shear
err. eldest sons OF Raymond e. Shearer,
ex-revenue collector.
With the call for troops In the Mexi-
can crisis II was found that Rippy
Shearer. who is a lieutenant in the local
military company. with his brother Joe,
his partner In the. firm OF Shearer
Brothers. and Mechanicians Samuel
Diller. John George. and Harris Peters,
the last four being enlisted. would be
called to the colors. 6hearer. sr., was
consulted. and II was found impossible
to I'LL the prospective vacancies with
competent demonstrators,
To the Amusement OF father and sons,
Miss Myra Shearer, who possesses con-
siderable skill as a driver. suggested
that she would step into her brother s
plaee and carry the sales season
through: Dad and the boys knew. that
Myra did not talk idly. The chance
was hers for the asking. as Shearer, sr..
could not divert his time from his own
extensive affairs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
PLANS TO "SHOE"
MESSENGER BOYS
Western Union to Supply Foot.
wear at Low Cost.

The hasty footed messenger IS to be
even more hasty. according to plans Of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
In this city. Officials Of this organi-
sation have made plans to supply
their messenger boys with a high
grade Of shoe at n low cost, which
will mean a great saving to the boys.
and. IL is claimed. increased effici-
ency OF service to the companys pat
rons.
The new plan of ''hoofing" the mes
sengers uniformly is the result OF a
visit OF q messenger to enc Of the
officers the other day. The officer
happened to look at his feet. and saw
that the shoes were in a badly dilap-
dated condition. Inquiries about how
much shoe leather was costing the
boys followed. and the officer found
that II amounted to a sum out OF pro-
portion to the average messengers
earnings.
He quickly evolved a plan for hav-
ing a special shoe made in large lots
for all messengers. at rates much
lower than the messengers had been
paying heretofore. The shoe will be
made only for the telegraph company.
and Is announced to be sold for Tess
than the cost to the company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Kidnapings Now
Have Become Rare

There have been less than a score
Of hona-fide kidnapings during the
past. fifty years. yet those who are
searching for lost Jimmie Glass be.
lieve that the disappearance Of the
child may be solved some day by this
answer to the riddle.
Yet taking a list Of the kidnapinc 3,
sincc the disappearance of Charlie
Iioss. in 1874, few will be found the
equal in dramatic and heart interest
OF that 81 Jimmie Glass.
or course. the mystery OF Charles
Ross will perhaps remain paramount In
puzzles OF this character. continuing as
It has for more than forty years. I'm
mediately after the Charlie Ross dis
appearance. several other OF like char
acter cropped up in succession. mere
was the disappearance in lSsz OF walter
Saunders from Atchison. Kan. who was
never heard from again. There was the
case of w. w. Dickinson. IT,, OF Wis
consin. who disappeared the same year.
to vanish completely There was Jonn-
ME Navin, OF Boston. who a year later
vanished never to reappear, and many
others.
But other apparently impenetrabie
mysteries. such as the kidnaping OF
Edward Cudahy In 1905 and Billy
Whita In 1909, we're cleared UP when
the kidnappers were caught.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
On Movie Screens
Over Whole Land

Yet even after Jimmy's face had gazed
out from the screen upon ever chang
ing audiences in practically every ham
let Of the country, the mystery remain
ed as deep as ever.
In the meantime. tho Erie road by
whom Jimyny's father is employed took
a hand In the chase. The road granted
Charles Glass leave of absence when
ever he desired to start fresh on the
countrywide search for his son. and
gladly furnished both him and his VIII"
with transportation wherever they
might wish to 40.
About that time a woman called ut
the store of a shoe merchant In Nor
man. Okla. ACCOMPANIED by q slip Of
boz whom she offered for adoption.
The merchant took the child. The
mother promised later to return but did
not.
! t-As time went ON. the shoe man be-
| came convinced that his ward was none
| other than missing Jimmie Glass. had
him phctogra phed and sent the picture
TO the Glass family in Jersey City.
When the photograph was submitted
TO the photographer who had often
made likenesses of the missing boy. he
declared that the youngster out In Ok
| lahoma and the one who had dlsap-
| peared In Greeley were one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Not Jimmie, Mother
Il Forced to Admit

HE was younger than Jimmie. per-
haps his hair was lighter. He had not
the marks my daughter had learned TO
know almost by touch as she gave him
his bath. Its not Jimmie" my daugh-
ter said. and turned away with a sob.
THE mountaineers did not like that
They had made up their minds II had to
be Jimmie. They almost forced us TO
take that strange child away with us.
We had rs uct trouble getting back
from there as from the Judge in Okla
homa.''
The latest of the clues-that whicl,
came from Gainesville. Ga. late In
April. Just after the Borrowing mother
had returned from her fruitless quest
in the Kentucky mountains. AMI sent
l,er out again upon the trail whicii
wiz probably never end so long us
Jimmie elias remains unbound, and
the little mother Ia still alive-proved
as barren as all the rest.
I've hope Il will not re the last -
| declared Mrs. Glass after she had
returned To her home. bearing anoth :
or disappointment. God knows we
are willing and anxious to hear any
thing which may possibly lead us 81
tho boy: and we are not going to get
Iiscouraprd
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Jimmie Glass Story
Like That of Ross

But the mystery OF lost Jimmie Glass
resembles the still unfanthomed mystery
of Charlie Ross. more than It resembles
any other.
On July /, 1874. Charlie Ross and his
brother. Walter. children Of Christian
X. Ross, were playing In front OF their
Germantown. Pa, home.
Two roughly dressed men, passing IN
a wagon, asked the boys to take a ride.
Both eagerly consented.
The men drove the boys eight or nine
miles into the country. lnere they set
Walter down and told him to run home,
as they drove OF with four-year-old
Charlie Ross. ...'
Three days later, Philadelphia was set
ablaze by the knowledge that the child
had been kidnaped. The nrst intima-
ton that the public had of what was
later to become one of the deepest mys-
teries. was contained In an advertise
ment printed July 8. In the Philadelphia
Public Ledger. The advertisement o.
fered a Suitable reward" for the re-
turn of a small boy about four years
old. light complexion and light curly
hair"
| The day after the appearance of the
advertisement. until which time abso-
lutely no clue had been found to the
fate OF Charlie. the grief stricken father
received. a letter informing him that hts
son had been kidnapped. would be re-
turned upon payment Of Q large ran
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Gypsy Band Trailed
In Hope Of Success

Shortly after Jimmie Glass disappear
ed. word came to his people that a
gypsy band near Yonkers had with
them a blond child about four years
old. Immediately his mother. and her
aunt started for the spot. With con-
stables they trailed the gypsy van,
and early one morning stopped 1t un,ler
threat Of the officers weapons. But
when the little flaxen-haired fellow was
produced. he was not Jimmy Glass.
Then someone in a motion picture
theater saw a little fellow appear on
the screcn-a kiddie with long wavy
hair and a stub nose. who looked for
all the world like the published photo
graph of the missing boy. And al
though the little movie actor was in
the cast under the name Of James
Eagles. a search to Locale him began.
James Eagles again proved a disap-
polntment. but the search through the
motion picture world. aroused an in
terest in the hunt among the film pro-
ducers. and they agreed to display pho
tographs Of Jimmy Glass. his descrip-
ton. and the rewards which have been
offered for his discovery. including one
of $500 which his aged grandparents
have publis shed,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Child Always Spoke of
Himself A. "Jimmie"

The child. however, always spoke OF
himself as Jimmie. and this circum-
stance also strengthened the mothers
belief tina; n, Lac, she was about to md
OF the (, uitless trip into the Kentucky
mountains. Mrs. Englebrecht. the aged
grandmother of the vanished boy. said
recently:
with very Ettle hope. we started for
kentucky. Wher our train reached
Nicholasville at night. we found the
whole town had turned out with Lam
terms to see US. A path was cleared
through the crowd, and we entered au-
tomobii,s. After journeying eight miles
we took a blackboard along a mountain
road Just wide enough for II to pass.
Mountain women astride Of unsaddled
mules. and guiding them by their spare
names. lined the roadside and fell In be-
hind US.
Finally. we came TO. q mountain
cabin. W: aliEhted and entered. Inn
i.lediately the mountain women set up
Il terrible waiiing. Mrs. Glass told me
aftcrwnri that. hysterical as che felt,
she almos. laughed at them. When We
got In We saw bv dim lamplight q little
blond 90, wrapped in rags. He lay
asleep on a Ialie, bed. and for n mo-
ment in the Swallowed cabin. amid tho
wailing oil women and the slight. peace
full breathing OF the sleeping boy. we
thought It might be our son. And then
we knew II was not
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Father Took Jimmie
With Him On Vacation

Early in May of last year Charles
Glass. threatened with nervous break
down. decided to take his vacation ear
lier than usual. And so his wife bun
died up the three Riddles. and the
Glasses left Jersey City for Greeley.
Pa. a hamlet of about 100 people. who
live In bit Of a woodland clearing five
miles from Lackawaxen.
There on May II. 1915. Glass took
rooms for himself and his family In
the Faust farmhouse, where he had
stopped many summers before, and on
May ~. young Glass settled down to
enjoy his vacation with his Riddles.
On that day. he took a walk with his
young auditor. and his man-child re-
turned to the farmhouse. little Jimmie's
mother set out Tor the postofce. ar
eighth OF a mile away to mail posta
cards to her mother Mrs. John E
Engiebrecht. who lives above the
Glasses In Jersey City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Child Left Alone
For Only Few Minutes

While his wife was Walking toward
the posioffico which is n''full view Of
the front porch of the farmhouse.
Charles Gloss entered the front room of
the Faust home. which was being used
as a small store for the sale Of postal
cards. stamps. and stationery.
Little Jimmie. -fair-cheeked and clad
in the tan overslls of which he was SO
proud. he left sitting cross-legged on a
little grass plot separated from the
roadway by a hedge. 1nasmuch as the
child raTe.y romped, and would never
even leave the front porch of his Jer-
sey City home by himself. preferring to
SIT still ami observe rather than explore.
his father felt no hesitancy In leaving
him. Glass completed his purchases in
the store IN less than ave minutes. Yet
when he returned to the porch the grass
plot was uEtenaGted.
Charles Glass. as yet undisturbed,
called his ;irst-born's name. The only
reply came from farmland, blowing
In the. rear NJ the Faust home. who
shouted that "thc little boy went to-
ward Jhe posionice."
Confidan. tFat his son had met his
mother ard sisters. Charles 0sAks start
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Mothers Search Again
Meets Disappointment

And So after having learned that the
Oklahoma child bore physical marks
tallying closely with minor blemishes
npon her son, Mrs. Glass. hope again
high in her heart. started West.
But again she was doomed n disaL-
pointment, for although the child was
remarkably like her own. she knew
that her trip had been frnitless.
A Judge before wnon, the matter went
at first Insisted that the mother did not
know her own offspring. ard was about
to use every means to make Mrs. Glass
accept the Oklahoma child. according
to the story told by the mother. when
the woman who had abandoned the
child appeared. The real mother de-
clared that she had left the child be-
cause IT, father had abandoned her and
she had no way to care for 1t.
A little moro than a month ago, the
mother who still hopes that her boy
viii some day return, to her. received
leaked out OF a Kentucky mountain set.
Element called Fink, four miles back in
the hills from Nicholasville.
At Pink lived Mrs. Martha Miller, a
''poer white who believed that the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16

four-year old boy who was left with
her by q woman attired In mans CLOTH
Ing was Jinmy Glass. go
Persons in Nicholasville agreed with
Mrs. Miller, The physician who eS-
anined the boy declared that he was
Jimmie Glass. The photos rapAicr who
took the picture OF him which Mrs.
Glass received said he was the missing
child. The mother kissed the photo
graph when II arrived and pressed II
almost iiercely against her. breast-as
two other waits whom she found to be
other mothers children. ~
Meanwhile the little Yellow-haired
boy In Mrs. Millcr's cabin cried for
mother" and Madeline and Aunt
Emma" Mrs. Glass daughter 10 called
Madeline; the woman has a rister
named Emma.
According to the story Mrs Miles
told. a month after Jimmie Glass dis.
appeared last sumner two men and Q
woman came to the cabin she wa llv-
With them was the child. The boy
was crying. Ifc seemed frightened
One Of the men, anaeres. at his walls
struck him.
Mrs. Miller says that the woman In
mans clothing wheeled upon him.
Hit that boz again" she threatened
and III send you to jail. you kid
Then she turned to the amazed Mrs
Miller and explained that she wished
to leave the child. The woman pro.
the trio caused her to comply. "1ioll,
was left on her hands and tho thres
disa ppeared
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
HedrtbrOken Mother
Still ScOurs u. S. tor
Little" Jinln1ie' Glass
Police Headquarters Bulletin Board Displays Like
ness of Youngster Who Disappeared More Than
Year Ago-Every Clue When Run Down
~ Proves in Vain.

On the bulletin board Police Headquarters two ikeneses OF
ioueaod have One Of them shows him sturdy
little fellow, smiling against background Of snowcov-
In the other appears seousmnded youngster,
gazing from his big eager eyes the wonder mists of childhood
Above the pictures legend Five Hundred Dollars Re-
ward NO Questions Asked"
To side Of the likeness Of swarthy Italian
murderer other Of muchwanted for
GER him many handbs each bearing the mug Of
criminal and the heterogeneous collection
runs the gamut of lawlessnes wife deseron killing
THE BOY IS JIMMIE GLASS;
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
Search For Lost
Boy Starts At Once


Isn't he with your" the mother in
ouired. anxiety dawning In her eyes.
when her husband replied that he did
not know where the child was
Down the roadway, ran the distracted
woman calling, jimmie! Jimmie! It's
mamma. Answer her."
But Jim.i,ie Glass was gone. Into the
tangles Of the woodlands which sur
round Greeley Perhaps. Into the
Gepths OF the waters wnich curl over
the Fausr dam? Into the well back Of
the farmhouse
Any one Of these things was tragic
ally possible. and so. Whine detachments
Of consta Dulary secured the woodlands
others. aroused by the mystery. dyna-
in,ted the Faust dam and emptied the
deep, black well.
And at the end Of It all, II the wood
lands knew aught Of the toddling steps
|pf' a, baby man-child; II the deeps Of
II the black NAV of the well has swan
lowed a struggling child. each kept it's
secret unprofaned. Not the tiniest trace
remained to blaze the pathway that
Jimmy Glass had trod.
The hours grew into DAYS. and still
the search around Greeley continued.
while p dragnct OF cn.u..,a w.. s..-,
sent broadcast over the land by the
police. At last convinced that the
apce did not lie about the little pehnsyl-
vania hamlet. the heart-broken mother
and her stricken husband returned to
Jersey City.
But only to take the trail anew. this
time In widening circles. which
have led them with false clues zig
tagging across the continent and back
again; to San Francisco. to Oklahoma.
to South Carolina, into the Kentucky
mountains. and then. on the latest trip
to Gainesville. Ga, until more than
5000 weary miles. each one Of them
marking a separate glow OF hope. OF
pang Of heartbreak for the little moth
err. lie along the way.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-16
The Roll of Honor

List Of Recruits for District National Guard
Sunday July 1e, for the Preceding "a Hours.]
William j.. Epps, 400 Davis avenue, Richmond.
Brady H. Kane, 1891 Sixth street southwest
Samuel Stevenson, 1922 Harrison avenue southeast.
Harry Hunter, 1903 D street northwest
Charles B. Brightwell, 81 Stanton road Anacostia.
William F. Mace, zoos First street northeast
William H. Hilbert, Alexandria