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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19
MONTPELIER
Martin Spellacy Died Last Night-Fu-
neral Saturday Morning.


The death of Martin Spellacy, a vel
known granitecutter, occurred Wednes
day evening at his home, SO North street
at the aged of 46 years. He had beer
in i'll health for some time but was con,
fined to his bed only few weeks He
was born in County Glare, Ireland, Oct
10, 1870, the son of Timothy and Bird.
get (Dugan) Spellacy. He came to Mont,
pelier when boy and with the excep-
ton of a few years when he was EN-
ployed by the Perry Granite Co. at Wat
erbury had resided in Montpelier prac-
tically all his life. He was twice mar
ried, his first wife passing away about
eight years ago, and he was married in
July, 1870 to Teresa Healy of Water
bury. Six children also survive, Agnes,
Timothy, Harold, Harrington, Elizabeth
and Martin Spellacy. The deceased was
an attendant of St Augustine's Catholic
church and was a member of the indie
pendent Order of Foresters. The funeral
will be held from st. Augustine's church
Saturday morning at 0 o'clock, with bur
ial in st. Andrews cemetery at Water
bury.
A jury in city court yesterday after
noon found Mrs. Hannah Gallagher gull
ty of breach of the city ordinance re-
lating to obstructing a highway and
Judge E. NJ. Harvey imposed a fine of
500 and costs. of $3443. Upon the pay
ment of costs the fine was suspended and
the respondent was placed on probation.
Trial of the case occupied practically the
entire day although the examination of
witnesses did not commence until late in
the forenoon. Several testified to hav-
ing been stopped by Mrs. Gallagher from
turning their teams around at the top
of the street upon which Mrs. Gallagher
resides and others testified that until the
respondent moved into the house they
We're never troubled, it being the con-
tention of the city that the disputed
land is part of the highway. The case
was given the jury at o'clock and about
thirty minutes later the verdict was re-
turned. The case will not go any higher,
counsel for the respondent waving ex-
ceptions before the fine was imposed.
Coach Dole is giving the high school
football squad a hard practice this week
in preparation for the st. Adams high
game Saturday at St Adams, the most
important game on the local schedule.
Last year Montpelier and St. Adams
claimed the championship of the state,
but efforts to arrange third game were
unavaling, each team having been VIC
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19

y Special conelave of st. Aide
l. mar commandery, No. IL, X.
~ T., Thursday evening, Oct. 10,
az n at 1880 o'clock Work: r. G.
~ degree. Per order Frank l..
AaslAS Small, f. c.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19

awhat do you think of the political
situationi"
Don't bother me just now" replied
Senator Sorghum. I've got to get out
and talk. This Is no time to think. -
Washington star.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19
Card of Thanks.

! wish to thank my neighbors and
friends for their many acts Of kindness
and expressions OF sympathy during my
recent bereavement. also for the beauti-
full floral tributes.
n N Ct,,-.f.H
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19
BARRE DAILY TIMES
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1916.
The Weather

Rain tonight and Friday; warmer to.
night in interior; strong southeast TO
south winds; probably gales.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19

o. n. Shurtlef.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19
TO LEAVE MORRISvILLE.
Rev. R. D. Cranmer is Going to Cleve.
land Church.

Morrisville Oct. l9.-Rev. r. d. Gran
mer, for four years pastor of the Univer.
salist church here, will present his resig-
nation this evening to take effect No
vember Is. AT that time he will go to
Cleveland, O., having accepted call to
the Universalist church in that city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19

TO RENT-Furnishcd rooms for light house
keeping Ms. H. S Miles. SO Merchant street.
phone 22s-l2 1s4tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-19
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED Bright young man to work in
meat and grocery store; one who can cut meat
some preferred H. J. Smith & Co. 3e7 North
Main street ls4tf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24

edge free; and in return at the end
OF the course, the student has both
theory and experience.
Los Angeles is doing much the same
thing in her cooperative plan. The
Los Angeles merchants send the heads
OF their different departments over
to the school building, where they
give lectures on practical salesman
ship. The advice given to the stu
dents is prepared with great care to
be lucid and definite. A moving pic
ture to accompany each talk points
out in detail the exact differences be-
tween good and bad salesmanship. Be-
sides these lectures, the merchants
take limited number of young men
and women into their stores for short
periods of practice in real business.
In Philadelphia nine big department
stores and other business houses are
establishing and maintaining schools
at their own expense in their own
buildings. They have entered into an
agreement to this effect with the SUI
perintendent of public schools, and
their curriculum will conform as near
ly as possible to that of the regular
school system. All children between
the ages of fourteen and sixteen will
be given a chance to go on with their
education as if they had never left
school. This scheme will benefit about
1900 working children. In some OF
the establishments it is already in OPP
GRAFTON" the others will begin it as
soon as possible after January first.
New York already has vocational
work introduced into its schools on a
fairly wide scale. An arrangement by
which it may best be turned to prac-
tical account is just being put on q
working basis, however. School en-
ployment agencies represent New
YOrk's solution of the problem of
placing Vocationally trained youth
where their' training will do most
good. The employment agencies are
The link between school and busi-
ness. They place the boy who has
learned plumbing with a plumber in
stead of letting him drift into the first
opening that offers; the girl who made
good marks in sewing is put with a
dressmaker instead of going behind
the counter
The cooperative idea is spreading
all over the country. In Kearney, n
| J., the businessmen complained that
the school training was mot suffi-
| ciently practical. The school super
! tendent replied by sending a set OF
| questions to the businessmen of Kear.
ney, asking them to be specific. They
were requested to show definitely al
| Just what points the school system was
| not practical, and to make suggestions
| for remedying the faults. The sug-
gestions came fast enough, and a
number of changes are being made
| in the curriculum as result.
Even the newsboy is coming under
the beneficient influence of co-opera-
| tive education. A western newspaper
includes a well-equipped school fol
newsboys in its new building just
erected The school is under the di-
rection of teacher recommended by
the board of education, who plans the
instruction so as to meet the indivi-
dual needs and tastes of each boy
The work is carried on without in
terfering with the boys regular tasks
in the least.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
DELIGHTFUL WEATHER

TNHE kind of weather we are now
enjoying is too good to last
but it should be accepted with
rejoicing as a foretaste of what is in
store for us. The winter seems
scarcely to have started and already
the grounding is stirring in his den
there is a new note of joy in the chirp
of the sparrow and Spring is just
around the corner. Another month OF
wintry blasts and snow, with an inter
mingling of such fine days as those
that have made life worth living the
past half-week, and the blue birds will
again be with us and lovers of out
doors will be turning to thoughts OF
gardening, of golf. of angling and the
thousand and one dear, delightful
open-air sports and recreations that
the rigors of cold weather have caused
us to temporarily lay aside.
It's good thing to look ahead in
this way. 1t helps one over the hard
spots. Fortunate is he who can make
flowers bloom and balmly breezes blow
beside his warm fireside when snow
is falling without and biting winds are
bowling about the chimney top.
Thanks, Mr.. Weatherman, for this
opportunity to glimpse the pleasant
prospects ahead in reality as we'll as
in fancy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
THE NEW EDUCATION
BY Frederic J. Haskin

The Bureau of Education is in
vestigating the experiences of a large
number of young men and women who
have left school for business in the
last five years. A set of questions has
been sent to city and county school su-
perintendents in dozen States. The
ofhcials will collect answers from the
former pupils, showing what line of
work each took up on leaving school,
the changes made, the wages received
and the chances for advancement.
This investigation by the govern
ment is only one detail in a nation
wide movement toward a FAR closer
relation between school and business
| life.
The introduction of vocational
courses in high schools and gram
mar schools was a step in the right
direction; much of the instruction,
however, has proved to be superficial
when put to the test. The courses
were too highly specialized. To have
shops fitted up for cabinet king
and electrical fitting when most boys
start in a general business of some
kind as office boy or clerk, is a bad
investment To teach a class of girls
fine needlework when many of them
will stand behind a counter all day
and be too tired at night to darn their
own stockings, is wasted effort.
1t is well enough to teach cabinet
making to future cabinet makers, and
plumbing to future plumbers, but the
great majority of young people enter
neither a trade or a profession, but
simply one of the innumerable CON-
mercial establishments that are lump
ed under the general Shead of busi-
ness. What they need, and what up
to now they could not get outside OF
special school, is a business educa-
ton.
The new system, which is being put
into operation in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Los Angeles and a num-
.ber of smaller cities, keeps the en-
ployer' point of view in mind through
out the course. Business houses OF
all sorts are cooperating with the
schools. Students are given a chance
to practice their future work in some
store while they go to school; and
working boys and girls are given q
chance to go to school while they
work. The result is a grammar OF
high school graduate who can ster
into life and earn his salary from the
| first week.
Boston was the first city to establish
| cooperative education work. Girls
employed in certain stores were giver
| a chance to attend classes in the pub
/ lie schools Now q director of prac.
tical salesmanship has been appoint
ed. She has co-ordinated the CONNER
cial courses of five high schools with
the work of seven big department
stores She is familiar both with the
conditions in each of these stores and
with the talents and training of al
her students. Under her direction
/ students are assigned weekly practice
periods in salesmanship, during which
they go into one of the big stores ano
do the actual work of clerk. This
system is found to benefit both the
student and the store. The novices
have theoretical drill in salesmanshit
which many old clerks lack. The
store gets the benefit of their knowl'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
TRADE WITH ORIENT
ISt. louis Republlc. !


The American businessman and the
business theorist have had much to say
recently concerning trade with the
Orient" In nearly every instance the
meaning of this phrase is trade with
China and Japan. There has been
little said of possible Improvement oi
trade with the English speaking Anti
podes. with the whole of that rapidly
deyeloping Continent of Australia.
Yet, according to the Honorable r. 10.
Quinn, deputy trade commissioner of
New South Wales, in American INDUS
tries, the imports of Australia last year
amounted to $433,750,000, and that in
the nine months ending september 80
1915, Australia bought $40,027.OSS worth
of goods in the United States. In this
same period Japan, reckoned a good
customer of America. bought S32,O1O,-
sos Australia bought two and one
half times as much as China in the
same period. Trade with Australia has
doubled since 1918, despite the fact that
permanent steamship service be-
tween American and Australian ports
is lacking.
Naturally, a great deal of this in
crease must be traced to the war. 1t
will increase as long as the war con-
tinues. After the war ends? That is
another matter; yet 1t is reasonable to
suppose that with any sort of trade
organization American manufacturers
should be able to hold a great amount
of permanent business in an English
speaking country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24

ing OF the towns and cities to be Wis.,
tied. it is certain to inure to the benefit
of Harrisburg and all its neighbors
when the facts which relate TO the
growth of Central Pennsylvania are
better understood. This city is not
only n leader in civic matters and in
modern development; 1t maintains a
conspicuous place in the industrial and
railroad and commercial world. And
the fact that it is the capital of the
Commonwealth places it in class of
its own so far as the other cities of the
State are concerned.
The tour in February is arousing
much interest along the way and it is
expected that great good will come
from the swing around the circle. 1t
is probable also that this tour will fur
ther develop the orators of the Cham
ber of Commerce and afford an oppor-
tunity to spread abroad knowledge of
the good things of Harrisburg and its
environment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
HNRRIsBuRG,s NEIGHBoRs

PREPARATIONS are now going
forward for the 1916 trade eXcur-
sion of the Chamber of Commerce.
This tour will include all the principal
towns between this city and Altoona
as we'll as Bellefonte, Lock Haven and
Williamsport. 1t will cover two days
and it is expected the special train will
carry nearly 200 of the livest wires
in the local business community. A
number of guests will accompany the
members and it is expected that the
trip will still further cement the good
feeling which already subsists between
Harrisburg and the Central Pennsyl-
vania towns.
A definite program is being arranged
for every stop on the itinerary and
nothing is being left to chance. 1t is
going to be fine get-together excur-
sion in which the greetings of Harris
burg will be extended to the towns
that are TO be visited in this unique
manner.
As the capital of the Commonwealth
this city is becoming more and more a
Pennsylvania. It is natural that this
should he so owing to the fact that
Harrisburg is the very hub of the
great transportation systems of the
State. More than twenty-five years
ago distinguished churchman, dis
cussing the location of the Gettysburg
Seminary. made the prediction that
this city would become one of the
larger of the inland cities of the United
States and that it would be wise to
consider the location OF the more i'm
portant educational institutions at or
near Harrisburg. Several times within
the past ten or fifteen years boards of
trustees of a number of important
educational institutions have consid-
cred transplanting colleges and semi
naries to this city. but owing to the
influence of vested interests elsewhere
the change of location has always been
deferred. 1t is certain. however, that
with the realization of the unusual
transportation facilities here, and the
ease with which large numbers of
people may enter and leave Harrisburg
from all parts of the State, this
city must become a still greater dis
tributing center than it is at present
and a more inviting place for all man.
ner of enterprise, industrial and other
wise.
While the Chamber, of Commerce
tour is in no wise a PROSECUTING expe-
dition, the purpose of the excursion
being simply to enlarge the good feel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
THE CALL TO HARMONY

TVERY Republican and inde-
IL pendent voter in Pennsylvania
with Republican leanings must
subscribe to the call of Independent
leaders in Philadelphia for a get
together" movement there that will
result in a sweeping Republican VIC
tory next Fall and the utter reputation
of the present misfit administration at
Washington. But it is to be greatly
regretted that such a call should be
made the subject of a political brawl
that promises to give harmony about
as much chance in Philadelphia as the
dove of peace has at present on the
battle front in Flanders.
Republicans in Pennsylvania at large
are heartily sick of the everlasting
pickering and quarreling of those in
command at Philadelphia. They are
disgusted with local leaderships that
place personal ambitions and business
| considerations above the good of the
party as a whole. If peaceful settle
ment of petty differences in the Quaker
City is impossible. then let the fist fight
take place there and there alone. The
Republicans of the State outside the
one small corner that constitutes Phila-
delphia county want none of it. They
have but one hope and ambition at this
time, and that is party unity, to the
end that all Republicans and all inde-
pendents may be brought together
under the common banner of vigorous
protest against the maladministration
of national affairs at Washington.
They look with ill-favor indeed upon
anything and anybody that stands in
the way of a sweeping Republican
victory next Fall.
PENNSYLVANIA Republicans will lend
a helping hand wherever it is needed
! W any man VI pOuS VI lIlel SilCeISlN
endeavoring to bring about harmony
in Philadelphia, but they will not for
a'moment countenance any effort that
looks toward extending the Philadel-
phia brawl to the State at large. They
have seen the evil results of such a
course in the past and they will have
none of it at this time. If Philadel-
phia hopes to continue to WELD its
old-time influence in the Legislature
when it convenes next time, it would
do well to give the voters at large
some indication of its fitness for lead
ership at this critical time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
WOMEN READY
TCleveland Plain Dealer. I

The assistant secretary of the War
Department believes the report that
the women of America are against
preparedness is false. And the assist
ant secretary probably knows as much
about it as do those who are keeping
the report in circulation.
Who has either the authority or the
information to speak for American
womanhood on this subject? Certain
ly no poll of opinion has been taken
it is doubtful If any reliable plan could
be devised to accomplish the purpose.
The cpmmonest version of the mat
ter has been that the women in the
suffrage States, who at the next cleo
tion will cast hundreds of thousands of
votes, were rather definitely opposed
to any policy of more adequate ma
tional defense. One organization of
women in the State of Washington has
gone on record in favor of prepared
ness.
1t would. in truth. be strange il
women in the Pacific Coast States
were to look with Indifference on
government proposals to increase the
nations powers of resistance. 1t is
doubtful, too, if women voters in in
land States are even approximately n
unit for or against preparedness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
IMMORAL SHOWS
TIME suit brought against the man.
agement of the Orpheum theater

TIME suit brought against the man.
agement of the Orpheum theater
on Saturday, following the ap-
pearance there of a burlesque show
that the police charge was immoral
and indecent, is in direct line with
Mayor Meals prediction promises of
clean city. 1t is question, how
ever. if the interests of the public
would not have been better protected
had the members of the company
which gave the Objectionable per-
formance been included in the war
rant.
The local management is not re-
sponsible for the character of the
bookings. The engagements are all
made in New York. Frequently it
happens that those in charge of the
theater do not know that show is
Objectionable until it is under way,
and then it is well nigh too late to
correct the trouble. Next time the
police should require that the curtain
come down and that the company
appear at the police station,
One or two raids of that kind would
put an end to immoral exhibitions oin
Harrisburg. News travels rapidly in
the Show world" and not even the
most careless of burlesque barn
stormers cares to run the risk of a
term in Jail for the sake of telling
his filthy jokes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT

In time of Bryan prepare for Krupp.
Columbia State.
Ford is no sailor. but he appears to
have qualified as a skipper.-Columbia
State.
The Golden Horn ought to come in
handy for the peace -overtures.-Co-
lumbia State.
Pan America is the disposition ex-
hibited by more than one European
Power also.-New York Evening sun.
1t begins to look as though the ulti-
mate fate of little nations Is to be fed
by the United States.-Washingto
Post.
No near-sighted traveller could tell
an election of Emperor in China from
an election of President in Mexico. -
Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

1t is Just as consistent to accuse a
person without any teeth of eating your
cake as it is to charge an armless man
with having beaten his wife. Unless,
of course, the man without the teeth
was an ostrich and had castiron diges-
tive apparatus. The wife of Jacob
Gajeiki, of Hazleton. desires divorce
from her armless husband on the
grounds that he had been beating her
frequently ever since their wedding
day in 1890.
Philadelphia boasts of thief with
a literary mind. He has long thin
scholarly looking hand, wears she'll
rimmed Spectacles, and smokes a
pipe. He stole four volumes of the
Encyclopedia Britannica from a Phila-
delphia home on the night of Decem-
Der 20, 1915, but the police have been
unable to locate him. 1t is believed
that his thirst for knowledge led him
to commit the theft.
The Mormon Church at Buck VAL
ley, which was to- have been dedicated
yesterday, was dynamited and wreck
ed on Saturday morning. Much feel
ing against the sect was said to have
been raised in the community near
McConnellsburg, by reason of the
headway which the Mormons were
making in that vicinity. Bloodhounds
were put on the trail of the dynamit-
ers.
Sylvester Rose and Elsie Helen Ar
mold, Reading girl, were married in
Cleveland four years ago by a min
lister who has since been proven fraud
ulent. So Sylvester Rose and took his
not-yet wife to this section of the
country and now they are really mar
rfed.
The condition of the Susquehanna
at Columbia is said to be dangerous If
in it's present condition it should
freeze again. The ice broke last week
when the stream had reached a height
of s feet inches and has jammed
some distance below the city.
Giving the necessity for insurance
under the new workmen's compensa-
tion law as an excuse, Johnstown's
City Council to-day refused to raise
the wages of the firemen, which re-
main the same as throughout the past
two years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor John V. Kosek, of Wilkes
Barre, who was reelected last Novem-
Der, has started to put the lid on the
gamblers.
Alexander NanRensaler is in
charge of the National Security League
work at Philadelphia.
Thomas r. Mcdowell, former
legislator, has been making a series
of good roads speeches in eastern
counties.
Alfred NJ. Collins. the new head of
the Main Line Association, is quite u
noted sportsman. He lives at Bryn
Mawr.
-Ex-Judge II. NJ. Yerkes has been
reelected president of the Bucks
County Bar Association.
Mayor Smith will be the guest of
the Walnut Street Business Mems As
sociation at Philadelphia tonight.