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Douglas Island news., 1916-03-08
Strike on U. s. Railroad

Public opinion is generally against the action taken by the labOrers work
 ing on the U. s. government railroad in Alaska in declaring strike February 9th at the demand of a newly organized Federal Union. If the facts are as stated by the Associated Press dis
 patch, the men are receiving 371l cents per hour aud are demanding 50 ceDts per hour, with an eight.hour day. Itis also that the minimum wage has been 8 cents an hour, It certainly appears as if tbe men are trying to block prog
 ress of the road by demanding an un. heard.o rate per hour for this class of labor. The prices of groceries and supplies at Anchorage are the same as at Seattle and there is no reason for hampering the commission by trying to create inflated or sensational mining boom prices. The men make a grave misstatement when they attempt to show what private railroads paid for construction, particularly when they say that the rate was 50 cents per hour. The longest railroad built in Alaska is the Copper River & Northwestern rail. way. In 1906 that company paid 30 cents per hour and in the following year paid 35 cents per hour, the latter rate being maintained throughout the
Douglas Island news., 1916-03-08

period of construction, and uO feature of the construction on the government road will approach in difficulty the work on the Copper Riverline. In this case the Iaborers seem to be taking an unfair advantage of the government engineers and their demands should not be granted.-Railway and Marine Navs
Douglas Island news., 1916-03-08
Humor in Ads

The following examples of more or less authentic classified advertisements says Printers' Ink, are taken from the Christmas number of the Advertisers Weekly Londonl.
 The late Hugh Stower Brown, of Liv erpool, man of extraordinary girth tells us in his autobiography that go- ing to Wigsn to preach he found the following rural advertisement, due to the keeuness of bill sticking rivalry:
 "Hugh Stowel Brown of Liverpool the largest cheese in the world, eight feet in girth and weighing 300 pounds, will be exhibited at the Goose and Gridiron. Admission penny"
 A chiropodist announces that he has removed corns from the crowned heads of Europe.
 An employer of labor concludes his advertisement for assistants with the significant nota bene:
 "None need apply who are in the habit of being poorly on Monday morn ings."
 "Two sisters want washing" rau an advertisement for several weeks, until some one wrote and asked why in the name of decency they didn't get washed at once.
 An advertiser says he has a cottage to let containing eight rooms and an acre of land.
 And business woman in the country who evidently knows more about man aging hotel than she knows about the English language, announces: "Tbis hotel will be kept by the widow of the former landlord, Mir. Brown, who died last summer on new and approved plan"
Douglas Island news., 1916-03-08

"What did Rastus git married for?" "Lawd only knows, chile. He keeps right on workin'.
Douglas Island news., 1916-03-08

A stork can stand a long time on one leg, but then, SO can a faRpole.
Douglas Island news., 1916-03-08

"SITKA HOT SPRINGS" Accom- modatious, American or European plan For terms apply to Dr. L. F. Goddard Sanitarium Alaska.-Advertisement.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
RANDOLPH

| Mrs. n. c. Greene was summoned tc
Gardner, Mass, Saturday by the death OF
cousin, f. Pierce Foster, whose funeral
was held Sunday.
c. w. A. Putnam went to Montpelier
Saturday for several days stay with
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Eugene Emery of Barnard came
Friday for few days stay in town with
friends.
Mrs. R. G. Kellogg has been in Plain.
field for nearly Il week, visiting her son,
Clement Kellogg and family.
Rev. G. F. Crawford preached his last
sermon at the Methodist church here on
Sunday, and Wednesday will go to Mid
dlesex, n. Y, to take church there.
The local church has not supply but
is expecting that the district superintend-
ent, E. w. Sharpe, will find one in the
near future.
G. A. Chedel returned Saturday from
a two weeks business trip to Boston and
other cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Skinner have re-
turned to their home in Boston after
passing a week with Mrs. Lucinda Cleve-
land.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
ORANGE

The Home Economic club will meet
Tuesday afternoon in the vestry of the
church The subject to be discussed will
be Saving strength in the farm kitchen
This meeting is in charge of Mrs. Earl
Flanders and Mrs Bert Richardson.
A very interesting grange meeting was
held last Friday night, with a rather
small attendance. A program consist
ing OF short stories, Rotations and dis
eussions was given, and one candidate
voted on. The next meeting will be an
open meeting, of which more notice viii
be given later.
Among those on the sick list lately are
Ethel Swift, Charles Curtis and Ivis
Chamberlin. Nearly all of these are re-
ported to be on the gain.
Orange grange will hold its annual fair
Nov and s. The general committee
in charge of this fair are Mrs. Edwin
Peake, Mrs. Ada Whitcomb, John Emer-
son and Harry Blake. The following COM
mittee have been appointed: Candy, No
vember 7, Muriel Chamberlin and Thel
MAJ Gauthier; November s, Edna Beard
and Bernice Flanders; fancy work, No
vember Z, Lillian Morehouse and Mrs.
Charles Hayward; November s, Myrtle
Flanders and Wis Chamberlin; aprons,
November 7, Mrs. Warren Morehouse and
Alyce Tucker; November 8, Mrs. Flora
johnson and Mrs. Royal Flanders; sup
per, November 7, Lillian Richardson and
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
Filtration Dates Back to 1929.
THIS STOPS HAIR
FROM FALLING OUT

Ever try to count the dead fallen hairs in
your comb and brush? They are nature
advance warning Of future badness and proof
that the dangerous little dandruff germ is busy
on your scalp.
DR.. Sangerbund, the famous Paris specialist
first discovered that dandruff and failing hair
caused by mcrobe. Then came the dis
covery of the value of the real Partisan Sage
liquid form in destroying the dandruf germ
and promptly preventing the further loss Of
hair. The effect of only three days use of
Partisan Sage is simply marvellous, and the
American people have awakened to the
fact that dandruf is just as unnecessary as IL
Is unhealthy, and that they can be quickly rid
of it and save their hair BY using a few
ounces of Partisan Sage
Partisan Sage is sold for not more than so
cents large bottle at drug and toilet ecun-
tiers everywhere. 1t is an ideal, daintily per
fumed liquid. free from grease and sickness,
and will surely cause hair to grow soft, lus-
trcus and really seem twice as abundant
The Red Cross Pharmacy always have a large
supply. and guarantee it to you.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
ROCHESTER

Herman Kent who was recently mar
ried to Miss McCarty OF New Hampshire
visited his parents with his bride last
week
| Mrs. Ellen Pierce has gone to Boston
/ to spend the winter.
Edison Hubbard ras started for his home
in South Pasadena, Cal, but will stop
on the way to visit his sister in Massa-
chusetts.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cross of Brandon
have been recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Sturtevant.
Miss Dorothy Campbell has gone to
Bradford academy to attend school.
Rev. and Mrs. George Howe of Ran
dolph have been visiting Mrs. Emily
Stockwell.
Mrs. Jane Martin passed her SD birth
day anniversary at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Edna Stockwell.
Mr. and Mrs. James Chatfee of Mil
waukee, Wis, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. A. Chaffee
Mr.. and Mrs. Blanchard and Miss Jes-
sic Campbell of Burlington were week
end visitors of Mr., and Mrs. Wallace
Campbell.
Cleon Abbott was home from Windsor
for the week end.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
GRANITEVILLE

NJ. A. Corbett left last night for an in
definite stay in Boston.
Misses Henrietta and Kathryn Hayes
who have been the guests of Miss Ger
trude Ryan, have returned to their HON,
in Burlington.
Miss Yvonne Longchamp has returned
from a six weeks stay in Lowell, Mass,
and Nashua, n. H.
Hugh Murray has returned to New
Haven, Conn. after spending few weeks
at his home here.
Miss Margaret Keefe of New Haven
Conn, a former resident of this place, is
visiting friends here.
Miss Yvonne Norm left last Thursday
for the Fanny Allen hospital, Winooski
where she will enter the nurses training
school.
Anton Tumas has gone to Hyde Park,
Mass, where he has employment.
William Mcleod held an auction sale
of his goods at the restaurant last Thurs
day and has now moved into the house
he recently purchased of Fred Sutton.
Regular meeting of branch No. ~. @.
W. /. L. of n. A., will be held in Miles
hall Wednesday evening Oct. IL. at 7
p. m. Balloting for |. U. president A
good attendance is desired p. j. Finni-
gan, Sec.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
He Trusts Animals More Than Humans

Billy Snyder, the head keeper at Cen.
trail park zoo, New York, says in the
October American Magazine that he
would rather trust animals than humans,
and the writer of the article about him
says:
"'Pd trust animals farther than hui
mans Billy Snyder says-snd if YOU
could see him manicuring the toe nails
OF lion, pulling tooth for hippo or
doing any such delicate job Won would
pretty nearly realize that he loves ami
mails and that he is ready to climb out of
bed at any hour to attend to one of his
pets that happens to have the bellvsche
from eating too many PEANUTS or dain-
ties that the visitors may bring. Don't
forget, too. that he loves children and
every kiddie that lives anywhere near
Central park. New York City. where he
is the head keeper of th7 big zoo, knows
Billy Snyder. for he lets them hold the
pretty little lion or tiger cubs. ride on
the elephant. M do something equally ex-
citing every once in a while. Billy shy
der is king. with animals and children
for his subjects, and they all swear by
him loyalty"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
BETHEL

Mr.. and Mrs. C. G., Clifford, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Harry Emery, John Keleher. join
S. Kimball and f. C. Mcintyre were
among those who saw the Boston Brook
! lyn baseball games in Boston.
Lewis b. Bates, a member of Co. f, stf
Vermont regiment, most of his lifetime q
resident of this town, who has recently
lived several years in Roxbury, is here
again boarding at Miss Mae |. Savage's
Mrs Andrew Korpela returned Satur.
iday to her home in Fitehburg, Mass.
after spending a few days at August
Haikaras Miss Emma Kaikara is visit.
/ ing in Lebanon, \. H.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winot of Roch-
ester, who have been spending several
weeks in Nova Scotia Mr.. Winot's for
mer home, have returned and are at II.
g. Barnes for visit before returning to
Rochester. Mr. Winot's health is i'm
proved greatly.
Myrtle Edmunds of Chittenden, Linus
Edmunds and Willis R. Edmun1s of Rut-
land have been visiting their mother,
Mrs. William II. Edmunds.
Harland G., Perley went yesterday to
Claremont, n H.. where he will work
and board in the family of his brother
w. f. Graham, who spent part of the
summer here. is now with his daughter,
Florence. at Monich, n Y.
Mrs. Fannie Waldo and three children
of Lebanon, n H., were at G T. Waldo's
yesterday.
Morton Flood returned Saturday from
Morrisville. ACCOMMODATING his grand
mother, Mrs Emma Flood of Bakersfield,
who had been visiting a sister in Morris
vile and is here for the winter.
Luther G. Kent, who had worked two
weeks at Strafford, began work to-day
at Windsor.
Albert II. Brown Of Waitsfeld, former
~ of this town, who is working at Wind
sor. and had been ONE for a few days
getting in crops, was with relatives here
Saturday and Sunday
George Sandspra has been unable to
serve as janitor II the schoo!house for a
week past owing to an attack OF lum-
bago +. A. Davis. r.. has beea doing
the work temporarily.
Major and Mrs. Wallace Batnhelder are
visiting relatives IN Springfield.
The Congregational ladies' vii! hold
their annual fair at the town hall Oct. II
and Is. There will be clickei IL sup
per one evening and a play the other
evening,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. r. Carr Of Pare are
1t Ralph P. Shaw's.
Robert r. Twitchell of Bellows Falls
spent last week at X. 4. Burnett's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
WASHINGTON
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ordway Given Sur.
prise on 3oth Anniversary.

| prise on 5Utn Anniversary.
The 30th wedding anniversary OF Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Ordway was observed
Sept 80. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. King in
vited Mr.. and Mrs. Ordway for a short
auto trip and practice meeting to be held
in the school house hall On their ar
rival at the hall, they learned that Mrs.
l.. 4. Nelson and Mrs. Win Bradbury
were reminding them of their anniver-
sary
About So joined in the grand march,
played by Mr.. and Mrs j. z. Lawler and
Mr.. King, led by Mr.. and Mrs. Ordway.
to tables well filled with dainty refresh
ments. The wedding cake, which was
made by a neighbor, Mrs. G. n Billings,
and was tastefully decorated with the
dates and two bouquets for the bride and
groom by Mrs. Roy Bragg, is to be kept
until the 50th anniversary. During the
evening Mr. Lawler rendered a few cor
net solos, assisted with piano accompan-
ment by Mrs. Lawler, which were great
ly enjoyed by all.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ordway were called to
the front by Rev. Mr.. Weller and with
a few very fitting words for the occa-
SIGN presented them purse OF silver.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ordway responded most
feelingly, and hoped they in time could
repay them all. There were other pieces
of silver.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
WILLIAMSBURG

A session of the circular conference vii
be held in the Congregational church or
Tuesday, beginning at 10:45 a. m. and
attended by delegates from Randolph
Braintree and Brookheld. Speakers will
include Principal G. Leland Green of Ran
dolph Center, William Taylor of Brook
field, G. w. Keeling of Williamstown,
John A. Lawrence of Chelsea and Miss
Estella Dickinson of East Braintree. The
meeting will continue till mid-afternoon.
On account of the state convention of
the Womans Christian Temperance UNI
ion, which is to be held in Barre, Oct,
10, III, and IL, the meeting of the local
w. G. T. u. will be omitted, hoping that
a number of the members will take adj
vantage of the nearness of the conven-
ton and go. There is program full
to overlooking of good things for every
l"white ribboner."
The dressmaking class under the direc-
ton of the Village Improvement society,
will be held in the parlor of the Congre-
Igational church with Mrs. Fannie Dow
as instructor The tuition will be 81 so
for ten lessons. Several have already
registered with Miss Mile j. Drury and
the class open next week.
Alfred Blaine, now employed as tele
graph operator at Milton, has lately
made a brief visit to his mother and
other relatives in town.
There is to be an auction sale of per-
sonal property belonging to Alven NJ.
Smith and Walter T.. Granger at the
town hall on Saturday, Oct. IA, with Hi
ram S. Drury as auctioneer
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley T. Martin went
to Bakersfield Saturday afternoon to Wis |
it their children, Ruth and Richard Mar
tin, students at Brigham academy in that
town.
Glen MeAllister and Walter Simons
went to Boston Saturday to take in the
opening game of the worlds series.
John b. Goodrich accompanied by his
wife and daughter, Celia, was in town
Sunday on his way home from Newport,
where the party had been to visit Julian
Goodrich and family.
DR.. and Mrs. J. p Clifford of Randolph
were in town Sunday and made a brief
stop at George T. Colbys. They were
accompanied by Mrs. Celia Clifford, who
called on her sister, Mrs. Fanny n. Will
Der.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyle II. Morse and Mrs.
c. n Morse went to Rochester the sth
to visit Miss Bernice Morse, former
teacher here and now employed in the
graded schools of that town.
The grange fair was the center of at.
traction on Friday and Saturday of last
week, and was largely attended, especial |
" on the last day A full report will be +
given later.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
WOMAN ALL RUN DOWN
Made Strong and Well by vinoI

Waynesboro, PA was all run down
after hard spell of bronchitis so it was
hard for me to keep about. had pains
in my chest and took cold easily. A
friend asked me to try Vinol did and
it built me up SOL am strong and well,
and am able to do my Homework which
had not done for three months before
taking Vi8Ol."-Mrs. Y. R. Horbough,
Waynesboro, Pa.
Vinol creates an appetite. aids diges-
ton. makes pure blood and creates
strength. Your money back if it fails.
Red Cross Pharmacy, Floyd G. Russell,
Prop, Barre; also at the leading drug
store in all Vermont towns.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09

food medicine which makes flesh and strength
without using alcohol or dangerous drugs
and is therefore, safe for children as we'll as
older people. Every druggist carries Father
Johns Medicine in stock. Many families
keep it on hand constantly
As guarantee that all of the facts re-
garding the origin of Father Johns Medi-
cine, as stated above, are absolutely true, the
manufacturers of Father Johns Medicine will
give $25,ooo.oo to any charity, if it can be
shown otherwise.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09

alton in Washington, d. c.. in 1858. This
was of the "sedimentation" type. which
depends upon the force of gravity to car
ry down and deposit the clay and silt.
Similar plants were installed in Louis
vile, Ky, in 1879; Council Bluffs, Iowa,
| in 1888; Dallas, Tex, in 1899; and Oma-
ha, Neb., and Oshkosh, Wis, in 1890.
In the Omaha plant sedimentation was
combined with coagulation, the latter
process consisting in the introduction
into the water of some chemical, usually
sulphate of alumna, through the action
of which the impurities are carried to
the bottom. The first plant employing
mechanical filtration was installed at
Oshkosh Wis, in 1890. This process,
like that of slow sand filtration, depends
upon freeing the water from impurities
by strainng it through sand, but the
straining is accelerated by the use of
agitating or stirring machinery. From
1892 to 1899, inclusive publication
plants, each involving one or more of
these four processes-slow sand filtra
ton, sedimentation, coagulation, and
mechanical filtration-were installed in
10 other cities of more than 100000 in
ha bitants.
Chemical Sterilization.
In 1900 plant for the publication of
water by chemical sterilization was built
at Mobile, Ala. This process consists in
the addition to the water of various
chemicals which either kill the bacteria
or make it possible to remove them by
subsistence or filtration. From 1905 to
1914, inclusive, chemical sterilization
plants were built in 40 other cities of
over 10000, and at the present time more
than half of the municipality owned wat
er-supply systems having purifca ton
plants are using this method, either ex-
clusively or in combination with one or |
more of the other processes.
OF the 70 cities employing publication
systems, so obtain their water supply, |
wholly or in part, from rivers and other /
streams, IL from lakes, and one-Lincoln,
Neb.-from Wells.
Cost of Water-Supply Plants.
The growing solicitude for the purity |
and adequacy of the water supply is fur
ther indicated by the very considerable
increase which has taken place during
recent years in the money invested
in municipal wster-supply plants. The
total capital invested in these plants in
1904, in the los cities of over 10000
which owned, either wholly or in part,
and operated their water systems, and
for which data are available, was, in
round numbers, s5l3 100000, representing
a per capita investment of approximately
500. In the fiscal year l9l4-l5, the num-
Der of such cities owning their plants
lad increase to l55, the total investment
% Sl,O7l 900, 900, and the per capita in
sestment during the ii years thus
amounted to 81 per cent.
While it is, of course, quite true that
IN adequate supply of pure water can be
provided for one city at far less per
apita cost than for another, by reason
# differences in the construction prob
ems involved in the nature of the sources
rom which the water is obtained, the ;
act of prime significance brought out
" the report is that an efficient system
5 now regarded by most cities as AMI :
necessity and hence is ac-
uired, regardless of the cost.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09

IdborS among the people and every
where he went he would recommend
the medicine to his Pensioners.
People soon acquired the habit of
going to the old drug store and asking
for Father Johns" medicine. In this
way the medicine was named by the
people and because of the results which
it accomplished, it soon became the
family remedy in countless homes.
From this small beginning more
than sixty years ago. Father Johns
Medicine has become more and more
widely known, until today it is the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
rs PER CENT. BIG CITIES
OWN WATER SUPPLY
From 1908 There Has Been a Great De-
crease in Death Rate Due to Ty-
phoid Fever in Them.

report under the title General Stat
istics of Cities, 1915" recently ISSUED
by the census bureau, brings out in a
striking manner the progress made by
many American cities during little
more than decade in respect to the i'm
provement of their water supply. OF the
204 cities having more than 10000 in
habtants in the fiscal year l9l4-l5, l55
or rs per cent, owned their water-sup-
ply systems. Seventy three of these cit
les were operating publication plants in
that year, and of this number 81 had
either built or improved and enlarged
their plants since 1908.
During this same period there has been
throughout the country remarkable de-
crease in the death rate due to typhoid
fever. Although this decrease has taken
place in both urban and rural localities,
it is noteworthy that in most of the large
cities which have recently built or i'm
proved and enlarged their publication
plants the decline has been greater-in
some cases very much greater-than the
average decline elsewhere. For exam
pie, in Cleveland, the typhoid death rate
feH from Ill per 100000 population in
lHuo u OIL III 1917 III IHliduclpuidy iloIi
1928 to TO; in Pittsburg from 1927 to
Is; in Cincinnati, from 42.2 to 90; in
Chicago, from 1925 to Go; in st. Louis,
from 52.6 to IL; in Washington, D. c.,
from 4S.5 to l1.9; in Minneapolis, from
ALL to 1875; and in New York from III
to 63.
Filtration Dates Back to 1929.
The history OF the publication of wat
err for public use dates from 1929, when
some filter beds were used in connection
with the water supply of London Eng
land; but the discovery that slow sand
filtration not only removed inorganic
matter, turbidity, color, taste, odor, etc.
acting as straner-but also removed
nearly all the bacteria, was not made I'M
til about so years later.
The first publication plant construct
ed in the United States was put in oper-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09

Agnes Emerson; November s, Alta and
Pearl Richardson.
The Pomona grange meeting will be
held at Orange next Wednesday, with the
afternoon session open to the public An
interesting program has been prepared
and it is hoped there will be large at
tendance. All grangers are requested to
bring whole food for the dinner which
will be served at noon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-09
Value PROVED BY 60YEARS' SUCCESS
How Father Johns Medicine Got Its Name-FaCts That
Everybody Ought To Know

In the early days of Lowell, Mass, one Of
the most prominent figures in the life of the
city was Rev. Father John OBrien, of St.
Patricl's Parish.
Through overwork and devotion to his
parishioners, Father John, as he was Affection
ately called by all who knew him, became very
much run down and was attacked by serious
cold and throat trouble. His illness did not
yield to the ordinary remedies. Finally he
secured from learned doctor, prescription
which he took to the old drug store of