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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-04-12
Special Town Meeting

The Citizens Of St. Johngbury who are
legal voters in Town Meeting on School
matters are hereby notified and warned TO
meet at the Town Hall in the Village of St.
Johnsbury. In said town on
Tuesday Eve. April Is, 1915
at Eight O'Clock to transact the following
business:
To listen TO the report of the Town School
Board IN reference to a resolution adopted
at the Annual Town Meeting held March
7th. 1916.
To take action thereon.
Dated at St Johnsbury, VT, this tn day
of April, A. ID. 1916.
A. r. LAWRENCE, Selectmen of
BERT A. FARNHAM, the Town of
FRANK N. CARR, st. Johnsbury
Town Clerks Office,
Town st. Johnsbury, VT
The foregoing warrant for Special Town
Meeting was received and recorded this 18th
day of April, A. ID. 1916.
Attest. CHAS. 9. BRALEY,
Town Clerk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
After the Great War

from les 10
1--WE hive the wealth of the World
centered here now. 1t is going to. take
some good solid American thought to
keep what we have got after the war
for every nation under the sun will
be scrambling for the gold we have
garnered. About our only hope will be
conservatism"
These are the words attributed to
one of the most sagacious financiers
of the rising generation, Mr., Percy A.
Rockefeller of New York. Every states
man, every banker, every ruler in the
world, is perpleXed not only as to
the outcome, but as to the result, of
the war as affecting the contendin g
and neutral nations. The greatest of
the neutral nations, the United States,
has profited by the war to a much lar
ger degree than any other country.
Our inflow of gold has reached stag
gering aggregate, exceeding that OF
nearly all of Europe combined.
In Mr. Rockefeller's words: MANY
men thought this country had reached
the height of her financial power a
year ago, but look at this year! 1t
has exceeded our widest dreams, and
now I am prepared to look for just as
many undreamed-o things for future
years" At the close of the conflict, be
ish their gold reserves. They must
draw upon the enormous supply cen
tered here. They can oily have our
gold in payment for their commodi-
ties, hence the belief that this will be
the dumping ground for the products
of all the world. The prospect has SO
alarmed the administration that, in
spite of his opposition to the protec-
tive policy, President Wilson has ia
vored the enactment of a law that will
protect us from the bumpers" of for
eign goods.
The trade agreement between the al
lies, to favor commercial dealings with
each other after the war, is looked
upon as a menace to the United States,
but we do not regard this seriously, for
as has we'll been said: WAR is made
between states, but trade between indi-
viduals." The warning nations will
need our raw products such as cot
ton, copper and food supplies and
they will buy them of US If our prices
are the most satisfactory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
100000 CARS MADE
in FIRST z MONTHS
Dodge Bros. Establish Re-
markable Record for Prog
ress in Short Period

Dodge Brothers recently turned out
car No. 100000, and the event was cele-
bra ted at the big plant in Detroit by TAX
ing motion pictures of the final assembly
ii tle car.
Dc4ge Brothers have been reticent in
making public production figures, and
with the exception of those in the trade
who were close to the situation, hardly
anyone realized that this concern had had
such an astonishing growth. Dodge
Brothers produced their first car on a
commercial basis on December 4, 1914. and
by reaching 10000 now in less than two
years they establish an entirely new rec
ord in the motor car industry.
The concern is now producing on a
large scale and the 60-odd acres Of floor
space of the plant are being added to
by the construction of new buildings.
The evidence of the great growth of
the company is further emphasized by
the fact that when the drawings for
position in the automobile shows of 1916
at New York and Chicago were made
recently, Dodge Brothers were found in
fourth place in the industry in volume
of business. This was an advance In one
year from eighth place to fourth place.
Car No 100000 is going to have quite
an eventful time. 1t was shipped to the
Henshaw Motor company of Boston,
which had applied for the car months
ago. There will be a public reception at
which many officials will welcome the
car, and 1t will be escorted about the
city by the first Dodge Brothers car re-
ceiyed in Boston. 1t Is the latter which
has earned the name of Preparedness
Car" by it's trips through New England
in the interest of proper preparedness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
Counting in the Sudan

From the Philadelphia inquirer
Some customs prevailing in certain parts
of the Sudan have been entertainlngly de-
scribed in a series of letters which an
English traveller, minister of education
wrote to his wife who visited America
last winter.
He came across certain tribes where
the women, he says, seem to nave
passed the limits Of even American Wom-
en- and he naively adds that but FOR
the distance from Cairo and the wlldness
of the country, he would willingly pass
several months in the midst IF these good
folk in order to learn the meaning OF
virtue in both the ancient and the mod
ern sense of the world.
Zone girl may have as many as from
seven to 10 wooers, who court and hift
with her for whole year in the sight
of her parents. They not only visit her
in the daytime, but remain at night near
her dwelling to mount guard outside her
room, going so far even as to keep watch
within her room in order to be at her
service in case she should awake.
'If she asks for water, as many Gala
bashes of water are offere dto her as
there are lovers in attendance. Should
she desire to pay calls on her friends, the
whole of her lovers offer to carry her
palanquin, and again it is the aspirants to
her hand who undertake to anoint her
with butter every morning. The period
of courtship lasts for q year. at the end
OF which period the beauty must make
her choice. When she does SO the unsuc-
cessful wooers go off to repeat their per-
Torrance with another girl
These maidens are black and, nomi-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
METROPOLITAN STAR
BUYS NEW MITCHELL

The celebrated Metropolitan Grand
Opera star, Anna Bitziu. after owning and
driving one of the famous National mod
els, The Six of 49," for over nine months,
has just purchased new Mitchell Ian
dau- Brougham for her personal use
After an experience of nine months
with that famous, easy riding six of
49, through the strenuous grand opera
season, with nerves on edge and forced
to make every minutes leisure count in
rest, in order to recuperate, Miss Fftziu
has just bought another Mitchell, for on
her early drives through the invigora s.
ing morning air and on her hurry trips
from theatre to home, she finds the same
restful comfort in her Mitchell Six as
at home tucked away in the luxurious
ress of her own divan.
Jostlings, bumps and continual jar
ring does not tend to either soothe tired
muscles or quiet high strung nerves, but
Miss Fitziu says John w. Bate is not
only a great automobile engineer and
designer. but a regular nerve specialist
and doctor of the first water because
he has provided a model automobile that
over the fiercest streets excells the COM
fort of the Pullman that never leaves
the rails.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
Screw Held Up a City's Business

From the Popular Science Monthly.
A dininutive. screw worked loose in one
of the big steel safes in the treasury de-
partment of Cincinnati recently and
dropped into the mechanism operating the
combination. Thereafter there was trou-
BILE. The screw took it's tumble on a
Thursday night and it was not until the
following Tuesday that the safe was
opened. On Friday morning, when 500
people were standing in line waiting for
SIS, 900 in pay envelopes reposing behind
16 inches of steel, the paymaster discov-
red that something was wrong. He asked
the people to wait until he found Jimmy
Valentine
After several men who admitted that
they knew uncanny things about opening
safes were tested out. the big safe was
just as obdurate as ever, and the line OF
watchful waiting ones was dismissed.
Friday night the safe was ordered
drilled open. A crew of four men worked
from that time until Tuesday morning be-
fore they undd the mischief caused by
that one little screw when it dropped out
of it's allotted place The additional work
cost the city SIS, besides the patience OF
500 citizens.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
LOUISIANA MAY USE
PRISONERS ON ROADS
New Orleans Association of Commerce Heartily in Favor OF U.s.
ing State Convicts Public Highways

dence which comes to every man earn
ing an honest living. He also advo-
Gates the payment of wage Tor the
work, in order that the prisoner may
contribute to the support of his fam
lily.
The national committee on prisons
believes that road work when right
ly developed is an industry in which
prisoners can be worked for wage with
great success. If the road work is
developed under a state highway COM
mission which hires the labor OF the
prisoners from the state prison de-
partment and pays to the department
what it would pay for similar free
labor the payment of wage becomes
practicable.
In Iowa prisoners are paid a straight
wage and pay for their boarding ano
lodging. The balance may be sent te
their dependents. If they desire. I'm
der the system suggested above the
road work can be developed even mors
effectively.
The national committee on prisons
welcomes the agitation in Louisiana
and trusts that state will be the mex
to organize convict road work on
right basis and with an adequate wage
to the prisoners
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05

The employment of Louisiana prfs-
oners upon the public roads is being
agitated by the New Orleans Associa-
stion of Commerce
Louisiana prisoners were employed
with some success on the public roads
from 1909 to 1911. but were withdrawn
in order that their labor might be
used in building levees to protect low
lying lands from floods. The state has
taken a progressive attitude in regard
to convict labor. the constitution pro-
hibiting the leasing of convict labor
and prisoners working only upon pub
lie works and farms.
The Association of Commerce be-
lives the road work offers special OPP
portunity for the prisoners. In re-
cent letter to the national committee
on prisons Walter Parker. the general
manager of the association. expresses
the belief that every able bodied man
sent to the penal institutions could be
utilized in building and repairing the
highways. Mr.. Parker points out that
the work is far from degrading, Dat
on the contrary invests man with
a feeling of self-respect and conn.,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
GOSSIP AMONG THE AUTO SELLERS AND OWNERS

and the other he turned over to his
corps Of expert mechanics with instruc-
tons to tear it DOWN He wanted to
see it 'unassembled' as well as assem-
bled' The big car was taken all to pieces
while he personally directed the work
of dissection and when 1t was all over
when the parts were scattered about
his service station-he completed his work
of inspection and pronounced the car the
greatest ever. The other car, given q
road test of several days, showed all
and more than was claimed for it, and
his decision was made without further
hesitancy
He said: We were not looking to add
to the line of cars we are now handling
but couldn't resist the opportunity TO
take on the Hal To me it marks a new
epoch in motor building. 1t is a ~
cylinder job with all the lightness that
goes with six "
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
TURN HAIR DARK
WITH SAGE TEA
If Mixed With Sulphur 1t
Darkens So Naturally No
body Can Tell

The old time mixture OF Sage Tea and
Sulphur for darkeaing gray, streaked
and faded hair is grandmothers recipe,
and folks are again using it to keep
their hair a good, even color, which is
quite sensible as we are living in an
age when youthful appearance is of
the greatest advantage
Nowadays, though, we don't have the
troublesome task of gathering the sage
and the mussy mixing at home. All
drug stores sell the ready-to-use pro-
duct improved by the addition of other
ingredients, called "Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound for about so cents
a bottle 1t is very popular because no.
body can discover it has been applied.
Simply moisten your comb or a soft
brush with it and draw this through
YOUR hair taking one small strand at a
time; by morning the gray hair disap-
pears but what delights the ladies with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound,
is that besides beautifully darkening
the hair after few applications, it also
produces that soft lustre and appear
ance of abundance which is so attract
i've. This ready-to-use preparation is a
delightful toilet requisite for those who
desire more youthful appearance. It
is not intended for the cure. mitigation
or prevention of disease.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
The ShaYeteria

From the Popular Science Monthly.
On Fifth avenue in Chicago is the
first "shaveteria' ever built. You serve
yourself to a shave there, just as you
serve yourself with food at a cafe
terra.
When you are in hurry for shave,
and you know that you could do it
twice as quickly as it could be done in
a BARRIERS chair, you step into the
shaveteria. Down one side of the room
are clean tile floored, we'll lighted
booths. Each is provided with porce-
lain lavatory. hot and cold running
water and all things necessary.
You do not have to wait. You step
right in and do the job up yourself.
British Honduras is a natural green :
house. where almost anything will
grow. but there is little or no agri-
cultural industry. the natives import
ing nearly all their food.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05

nally, at least, Mahomedans, but In the
matter of right and liberties they nave
little to learn, The Shilluks of the White
Nile. on the other hand, are as far as
possible from being Mahomedans, yet
their women have similar privileges
whit the Shilluks it is the women that
rule the household, the young women
themselves that choose their husbands
and that, once married. assume the post
of command. The strongest and most
hot-headed man dare not beat his wlfe'
for he would be looked down upon i'm
mediately and would be unable to find q
second wife to succeed his first. No mis-
sionary effort affects the Shilluk woman,
ii is practically impossible to convert her
either to Christianity or to Islamism for
she is the guardian and depository of the
Shilluk traditions, religion and historical
customs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
ROBERT v. MICKAM
GOES WITH LIBERTY
Well known Publicist En-
gagged By Liberty Company
as Advertising Manager

Percy owen of the Liberty Motor Car
company has announced the appointment
of Robert w. Mickam as advertising man
ager of that company.
80 rapid has been the development of
our business that we have had to hustle
TO expand our organization to keep pace
with it," says Mr.. Owen. Particularly
heavy have been the demands upon the
sales and advertising departments.
only recently it was found necessary
to add E. J. Kilborn as general sales
manager to our executive staff. Those
acquainted with the industry know Mr..
Kilborn to be one of the strongest and
.ablest sales executives in the automobile
world.
.Now to handle the L9nerty advertising
drive and to Sound out our sales organ
ization we have secured the services Of
Mr.. Mickam.
while Liberty sales to date have sur
passed our most sanguine expectations
and while we have built up one of the
strongest selling forces or leading dealers
in the industry, we are building for the
future. We believe that the addition of
Mr. Kilborn and Mr.. Mickam to the
Liberty organization will still further in
sure US sales organization that will
be on it's toes every minute and one
that will keep our manufacturing de-
partment at top speed to turn out enough
Liberty cars to meet the countrywide
demand.
Mr. Mickam for the last two years
has been advertising manager of the Ford
Motor company of Canada, Limited. Be-
hot ha u-nS in Charge of the adj
vertising department of the Ford Motor
company in Detroit, ana previous to that
was formerly one of the best known news
paper writer's of western Michigan, and
at one time was connected with the Glen
Buck Advertising agency of Chicago"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
Why a Weather Bureau?

From the Popular Science monthly.
This question is likely to be asked
in more or less querulous tonse, When-
ever the local weather prediction Tails
as it often does The inquirer over
looks the fact that the weather bu-
reau has much more important things
to foretell than ordinary changes OF
weather It predicts with certainty
great windstorms, destructive floods
severe freezes and other atmospheric
visitations that sendanger life and prop
erty on a large scale and collects eli
matte statistics for scientific agricul-
ture.
Mendoza, Argentina, has $4,000 peo-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05
HAL REPRESENTATIVE
TALKS OF NEW A12"
Southern Sales Representa-
tive EdsalI Here in Inter-
est of Hal Company

1.-TWO WEEKS ago the Hal Motor Car
company offered the Hal agency to a
large automobile dealer in Atlanta, Ca"
said ]. E. C. Edsall, sales representative.
HE had not considered handling any
other make of car up to that time, but
heard so much about the actual perform
ance and material put into this new
"12," that he was forced to give 1t some
consideration. In order to test out the
car, he had two shipped to him from
the factory.
Zone he put to most rigorous test,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05

A fast Santa Fe train was brought to
a sudden stop just north of Udall, kan,
by two jerks of the cord connected
with the air brakes. The conductor ran
forward to investigate and found that
an elephant In the baggage car had
his trunk over the cord. He wouldn't
let go and the cord had to be cut pm
each side of the trunk before the air
could be released and the train could
proceed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-05

Any one who, when a child, was sent to
the store for pigeons milk may con-
sole himself with the knowledge that the
practical joke was on the practical per-
son. For pigeons milk is not myth
but a common term for a liquid secreted
by these domestcated birds. 1t is made
in the parental crop from half-digested
grain and fed to the young, when come
in pairs two or three times a year.
The Monte Vista journal., 1916-12-09
26th day of December, A. D. 1916

and succeeding days. 10 o'clock the forenoon OF
day. the following described real and other
said county, and State Of Colorado which the the
been paid shall be necessary the herein below
interest and penalties to-wE
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-27
Lures TO lmproVidence.

No better argument can be offered
In behalf OF the passage OF the Moon
Hutchinson bill to suppress trading
stamps than the decision of the su
preme court of the United States
affirming the constitutionality of sim
liar legislation says the Atlanta Con
stjtution
The decision handed down by the
United States supreme court on March
6. OF this year. regarding trading
stamps and coupons. says;
Advertising is merely identid
cation and description, apprais
ng OF quality and place. IL has
no other object than 70 draw at
tontion TO the article to be sod
and the acquisition OF the a,ticlo
to be sold constitutes the only
inducement to its purchase The
schemes OF complSinants have no
such direction and cnects They
rely upon something else than
the article sold They tempt by
promise OF greater value than
that article and apparently not
represented in its price, and il
hence may be thought that thus
by au appeal 20 eupldity lure to
improyidence. The court. there
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-27
A Woman's View.

In Philadelphia the other day a
woman stood up in the presence of
400 other women and said to them
Until those of the gentler sex mus
ter the courage of men, who wear al
most whatever clothes they like and
till remain fashionably dressed, they
need not seek the ballot; for judging
by the weakness they show in the
matter OF buying clothes they will
make Il sorry showing in assisting in
the enactment Of cital laws" The
speaker was Miss Edith M. Burtis,
president Of the Philadelphia Women
Writers club and what she said is re,
5reshing to husbands and fathers who
have seen wives and daughters dis
card perfectly good clothing after a
few woarings, merely because, how.
ever stylish il might have been a
month or six weeks before, Il has been
condemned as being out 81 atyla. It
would certainly cut the high cost OF
living In most American Families il
the women folks would wea. iACii
clothes proportionately as long timJ
rs the men folks wear theirs. And d
lot of mental and physical anguish
would be avoided if women who are
plump did not try 10 conform them
| selves to styles that favor the lone
slender type, and if slim women did
not try to conform themselves TO the
styles that favor billowy curves. Sa
vannah News.
All that the Philadelphia woman
said may be true. and all that the Sa
vannah paper says may be true. We
| are not taking issue with either OF
! them. but il is also true that woman
IS going to continue to dress as Dame
Fashionai dictates just as long as she
is able to do SO, and all the talk that
may be INDUCED in is not going to
cause her to make 4 change.
As matter of fact men and women
beth expect it of her; they don't ex
pcet anything else. They know it is
The average woman's great pleasure
10 attire herself in pretty clothes, and
hey don't care to see her attired 9th.
erWiSc
sim. as We said before, we are not
gong 10 take issue with the Philadel-
phia woman nor the Savannah paper.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-27

fore, reaches the conclusion that
a state may regulate or prohibit
the use OF premium plans. under
ifs police power. If In the judg-
ment Of the legislature regula-
ton is desirable"
"C5mIlanan,a" here referred 10
are the trading stamps and coupon
companies-they have carried the
case to the supreme court.
The decision uses the significant OK
Dressions, rely upon something
else tempt BY a promise, 4"
apparently not represented in its
price" by this appeal" ito
cupidity" lure to improvi-
dence."
Anything that will lure to i'm
providence" should be permanently
and definitely eliminated by our legis.
lature. and it happens that it is the
intention TO eliminate trading stamps
and coupons at this session.
Lotteries and games Of chance have
long since been barred by law. How
ever, it seems that one of their near
Misunderstanding stamps and coupons
has been overlooked up TO this time.
But 1t is never too late to correct an
evil.
Every section of the state is vitality
interested. Our prosperity depends
upon the success Of our manufactur-
ers and merchants and they must be
wisely and legitimately protected from
unfair competition competition
brought about by the means of large
out-oftown corporations blocking the
channels of output for Georgia mer-
chandise
Georgia merchants and Georgia
manufacturers are looking to this
legislature to relieve them of the m
fair competition that lures to inproy.
idcnco."