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The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Board Paroles Slayer of Brother.

parole was issued by the Board of
Pardons to William Claire, sentenced
Jan. 6, 1911, from Clear Greek coun-
ty, to term of from twenty to TWEEN
ty-five years on a charge of murder.
1t was alleged that Claire killed his
brother, Charles, in a drunken row at
their home in Silver Plume by throw
ing an open knife at him, which
pierced his heart.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
FENCES VERSUS
SMOKES FOR SAMMiES
(By c. f Brown

Wy H. II RiOWAI
lion. Edward u Taylor came to
town to tell the people all about the
war in Europe. He came because
he Was so worried for fear the peo-
ple did not know :he facts You went
because you wanted the facts. pre-
sumo you got your ears full
Now don't forget that right over
there where he told you about there
are thousands of soldiers begging for
smoke. IIund -rds of you went and
heard the talk Tor nothing, while
went to Grand Junction ind paid tin
dollars" to hear a worse one. The
nGtn ! heard never even smelled pow
der. That's going some. amt H.?
After the very able lecture you
went home self satisfied you got some
thing for nothing. Stingy cuss.
When you put on your smoking jack
ct and got your skinny shins close to
the fire and lit one CT those cheap
cigars that makes good wife wish
you were taking your everlasting
smoke, did you think of the poor
Sammies. over there? Fighting for
you and making it possible to skin
the public six days week, get free
lecture on the European war at night,
go to church on Sunday and sing:
Onward. Christian Soldiers No.
you sat down and looked the gift
horse in the mouth" and said. We'll.
it wasn't just as | expected u hear.
and outside of that they might have
passed the cigars
Some of you say "Oh, have a
boy at the front. That don't bar
YOU. Other people are helping your
boy. so you have no argument there.
Now. have a Ladies' Home Journal
heart to heart talk with your better
self and say Il got a dandy good
lecture for nothing: | am going to
put cheap valuation on it; | will
Just call it dollars worth and give
il to the smoke fund. - Don't be
like the Jew that got his four cents
back ] have no fences to buiid md
| am not selling silk hose-just hust-
ling smokes for the Sammies
c. r. BROWN.
p. S.-Do you think because you
gave two bits last month that 1t vill
keep them in smokes for the balance
of the war? Kick through again
We sell no life memberships or TWEEN
ty year endowments
BROWN.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Forest Reserve Receipts $500, 900.

Approximately 100000 horses, cat
tie and sheep were grazed on the ma
tional forest reserves in the Colorado
district during 1917, and the receipts
were $500, ,573.43. of which $105,2O0.70
was returned to the several states In
which the reserves are situated.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
o. 9. G. w. to Operate Trains.

The Colorado Public Utilities Com
mission ordered the Denver, Boulder
& Western railroad to continue the op-
GRAFTON of the line until briefs of op
posing counsel could be filed and the
commission had an opportunity to de-
eide whether the railroad shall cease
operation.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Protest Cotton Seed Embargo.

Protest to the national food admin
istration against the embargo placed
by Texas upon expectation OF cotton
seed cake from that state was made
by the live stock survey board of the
Colorado Council of Defense Oh the
ground that i: is unfair to Colorado
cattle growers.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Coal Price Protest Filed.

lengthy protest has been filed
with w. ]. Galligan. federal fuel -ad-
ministrator for Colorado. by the citi-
zens of Canon City and Florence
against the exorbitant price of coal
in those two cities and other small
towns
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Probe In Coal Weights Ordered.

The attorney general announced
that he had started an investigation to
cover Denver and all parts of the state
into the alleged practice of short
weight in coal and coke by certain re.
tail dealers.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28

left Monday for their home I'm Wish.
ita, Kansas. after spending some
months here.
There was a good program at the
school house Saturday evening, also
music by Miss Ada Gardener and
short talks by Prof. Bailey and ]. w.
McKinnon.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Special Week for Cattle Shipments.

The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has been asked by the live stock sur
vey board of the Colorado Council of
Defense to set aside a week or ten
days in which no dead" freight will
be moved and all motive power used
TO ship out cattle before winter wealth
er begins
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Money From Interest on Bonds.

Denver people received $4,000
from the government representing the
interest due on Liberty bonds for
which they have completed payment,
according to estimates made by Den.
yer banks.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Increase Storage Facilities.

An immense increase in storage IA
cilities must be had by Colorado next
year, in the opinion of Governor Gun
ter and the Colorado Council of De-
fense, and they will consider plans to
obtain the increase.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28
Battery A Ready for Service.

The boys of former Battery "a"
from Fort Collins look in the pink of
condition and are happy and eager for
service with not single complaint to
make" DR.. Charles A. Lory has re-
ported to Governor Guuter. DR.. Lory
visited the battery at Camp Mills dur
ing his recent trip to Washington.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Duke of Hotch-
kiss. are visiting relatives at Creede
for few days. From, there Mr..
Duke will go to Fort Riley. where he
will enter the officers training camp
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28


Miss Lola Vickory is visiting friends
at Brush during the holiday season.
months.
J. W storment left Saturday morn
ing for Salem. Illinois. TO spend the
next two or three weeks with his
mother, Mrs. Jane Storment.
Mis- Agnes Walker who Is teaching
at Sunkist. is here for the vacation
time visiting her parents on Garnet
mesa.
Mrs. F. B. Acker and her daugh-
ters enjoyed Christmas visit from
Mr.. and Mrs. r. s. Bobbitt. of Hotch-
kiss.
Miss Mildred Burch. Domestic sci
ence teacher at Montrose. passed
through Delta Saturday on her way to
Aspen for the vacation.
Miss Azalea Penticuff student
at the Gunnison normal. is home and
enjoying part of her vacation in bed
with a severe attack OF stomach trou
BILE.
Mrs. C. Wackes and two children
spent the Christmas season with her
father and mother at Loveland and
before returning will visit her brother
at Windsor.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28

Miss Clara Hofer. student at the
Delta business college. will spend her
vacation with the home folks at Pao-
mia.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28

Mrs. Helmke is enjoying a visit
from her son. Willard. who is in
structor in the high school at Victor.
The Delta independent., 1917-12-28

Miss Lola Vickory is visiting friends
at Brush during the holiday season.
months
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
IN PIONEER DAYS

the attachment placed on them by j.
l. Roop. Messrs. H. S. Parkin and
Peter Shier are Mr.. Stetson's bonds
men.
John Haley is still in the hospital
at Bismarck. In recent letter he
says: Il am improving and getting
stronger, but cannot stand on my feet
yet. My nurses help me into large
rocker each day, for change, and so
that ! may write little if l am 50
inclined. had horror of the hos
pital at first; but, as mother has been
one of my nurses feel quite at home
now, and am sure the sisters do all
in their power to make it pleasant
for me"
Hampton Correspondence
The rattle of the moving machine
is the popular sound nowadays.
Ed. Lawler has been very busy with
his reaper of late.
VIM. Badger shipped lot Of cattle
to Chicago on the fourth of this monti,
and is now taking in the big fair, but
will be back at his Hampton ranch in
a few days.
Little Joe Gayton is still quite sick
with his throat and jaw. The doctor
says the trouble was caused by
tooth.
Messrs. Turner, Lawler and Winning
were recent visitors to the Capital
City.
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
From the Record, August 1S, 1893:
In Town and Out

Harvest in the Williamsport neigh
borhood is nearing completion. Head
ers are doing the work.
Mr.. w. T. Jagd, of Cherry Grvoe,
home for coupleof weeks, and will
remain for week longer.
Notwithstanding the small crop of
wheat in the Williamsport country this
season, the prospects are good for a
big crop of weddings this fall.
Messrs. Shier and Parkin were WIS.,
tors to the county seat Saturday. Mr.
Parkin was feeling much depressed
over recently received news of the
death Of q favorite aunt IN Pennsyl-
vania.
Messrs. Mutchler and Jones were
in town one day this week, on their
way to the harvest fields further east.
Also Charley Burtts and Joseph Lin
der, of the Upper Beaver Creek coun-
try. going farther east for the same
purpose.
There was fair sized crowd in at
tendance at the races at Steele last
Thursday. Most of the prizes were
taken by Bismarck horses. Treasurer
Lee, School Supt. Andrus and Capt.
and Fred Cotton were those from EN-
mons who attended.
Mr.. Stetson succeeded in getting
his horses released from the grip of
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES.

This Office has just received large
quantities of the new supplies thu
:" to b. 'se ~ see, i. lr 81 hools
Ainy chang 5 are ar il ali .
i'rns. tel f.:.s %. .;s:,.;. r.,.;r:s
=. The ~. sa'.c Of Study is very
nit trent = ih. III The w..A I,
cL'lined ~ y.,: r ssui. o wirry
t.: former u: it Il q. Isl Vas ih,
nc nth. ~; an m -. vement ir
that 1t gives ~. t.:cher ur.un.u. I,
freedom anil IL. '',,.. the arrange
ment Of the ,cnool p. ....n
The new teachers register is IN.
creased in size and detail and SO ar.
ranged as to conform to the many de-
tails of the reports that must neces.
sarily be obtained from the teacher.
The 1917 School Manual is very
simple and easily understood. We
hope that every school officer and
teacher will become thoroughly famil-
lar with the rules contained in this
pamphlet, and our number of stand.
ardized schools greatly increased next
year. We will be pleased to mail one
these to you for the asking.
Another very interesting and in
structive pamphlet gotten up by our
State Superintendent N. C. Macdon-
aid is entitled "The Problem of Rural
School Betterment. It contains q
series of articles on the policy and
program of the State Department OF
Education, Standardization and Con-
solidation of Rural Schools, and the
chief duties of teachers, school officers
and superintendent. Ask for one
when you are in the Office, or we will
mail you one on request.
Copies of these pamphlets have al.
ready been mailed to the presidents
and clerks of the school districts.
The following teachers appeared
for teachers examinations August
9th and 10th: Helen E. Baker, Grace
Lingenfelter, Frances Cameron, Ce.
lestia M. Earleywine, Lincoln Krick
Thessel Grover, Millie Paine, Rose
Appert, Beatrice Reamann, Theresa
Grunefelder, Caroline Grunefelder
Anna Grunefelder, Emma Grunefeldel
Idah Nelson and Mamie Haggard.
Fees to the amount of $22 90 were
collected this quarter, of which $11 .OC
we're turned over to the county treas.
nrer to be placed in the teachers in.
stitute fund, and $11 90 was sent tc
the Department Of Public Instruction
Money sent to the state department
is used to pay examiners for looking
over teachers examination papers.
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
Needs of the Child.

The child needs the kinds Of food
that make blood. bone and muscle so
he should always have cereal for
breakfast. Cornmeal is excellent and
oats are favOrites with nation noted
for its good health. the Scotch. Here
Is what the doctor says about milk !:
"Th: T,: child may not ike m!'k-hhee
should be encouraged to try it in vnrl-
Gus ways. The growing child needs
milk. all Of it, and the skinned vari-
ETY. does not answer the purpose at
all. The fat plays an important part
In the development Of the little body"
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
1ov15.:&Sostpu.
VANCE
sxNoPsls.

CHATTER I-I1cy. carteret boards the
9eemsr Alsatia. 1t Liverpool for New
Amelia Bsgsarstah. widow. discovers that
the younger woman u running away from
something OF somebody.
CHAPTER II-Lncy 10 seasick. Nrs.
Beggafstan sooe . valuable brooch that
father On her afteentk birt6d.y. fSe rSe
widow shows the brooch to ouoin. an .e1s
secret service man. who identinS Il a
part Of the stolen Joachim colieettS6, and
Hn Hn ieo1M;psrhtn1 comp h1!In aot.s they a9e that Lucy
abnerd the Alsatia-
CHAPTER III-Lydia ditcovers that
her father y aboard and. telling Mrs
BeSgafStan that she has run away to 70
to him; starts out to hnd him.
CHAPTER Iy-6he finds her father
with Mrs. Merriiees. to whom he 10 en-
Gaged. and confides to Peter Trait that
she fears she = In the way.
CHAPTER N-Craven explains to Ly-
1ia his apparent neglect Of her and tells
her that he 10 In the British secret diplo-
matte service.
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
No Bullet Holes There.

The state seal OF South Carolina
bears the figure Of IN erect palm tree.
This commentaries the repulse Of
British feet from TT. Moultrie on June
28. 1770. by a force OF about so men.
They were behind primitive fOrtiti-
cation mnde OF palmetto logs. The r.
sistance Of this wood Is much like that
Of cork. The wood does not split nn't
the perforation made by bullet closes
again.
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
Why the Dull Man 10 Cruel.

In the Woman's Home Companion
Arnold Bennett has an interesting ar
rlcle to prove that the dull man Is
bad man. Among other indictments
he makes the following: 1.-The dull
man has no Imagination. He does not
possess the faculty of putting himself
In the other mans place. Therefore
he Is certain to blunder. to be unjust
and to be cruel. He cannot be charit-
able"
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
rue.

This thing Of being so much II.
love that you can't eat." observed ;ht
man who know. .'!s not infrequently
caused by the high price OF flowers
and theater tickets.
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16

tant glance at the treasure box, he
rose and somewhat sulkily prepared
to obey orders.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
TALK OF THE TOWN

A. ID. Reed returned to his home in
East Brookfeld last night, after bust
ness visit in the city.
Contractor James f. eastman has re-
turned TO his home in Burlington, after
passing few days in Barre on business,
DIR. A. W. Winch. who has just gradu-
ated from a Kirksville, Mo, school OF
osteopathy, arrived in the city yester'
day and will make short sojourn with
relatives in the city.
Luigi Carnetti, who has been EN-
ployed in Barre and Montpelier stone
sheds as stone cutter during the past
year, left Barre last evening for Con-
cord. n. H., where he will visit his broth
err, Joseph, for few days before going
to Quincy, Mass.
Thirty people in the cast of ''The Wish
ing Ring" were delightfully."- entertained
last evening after the second nights
show was completed, by Miss Ellen Hoar
of East street at Cafe Shepard, where
they were seated to four-course ban
quet. The party assembled at the cafe
at little past IL o'clock and did not
break up the merrymaking until along
toward ! o'clock The affair was given
by Miss Hoar to show her appreciation
Of the good work which the members OF
the cast did in their efforts to make the
show success and to help the Womans
club in the work of lettering the condi-
ton of the city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
TALK OF THE TOWN

Reduce the high cost OF living. Buy
your beef by the quarter or half quar-.
ter. G. r, Wood. Tel. 5s2W.--adv.
Rummage sale, Presbyterian church
basement, Saturday, Feb. 10. Good bar.
gains in children's, ladies' and mems
coats.-ady.
Perfection oil heaters and stoves. All
kinds of wicks. Wash boilers and wiring
ers. Special sale on Andes heaters, E. A.
Prindle, Depot square.
/. r. Miller, who has been visiting
friends in Websterville and East Barre
during the past week, passed through the
city yesterday, while en- route to his
home in Guildhall.
Harley S. Chaples of IL Upland avenue
returned home last night after a two
weeks visit in Clark's Island, Me-, where
he was called to attend the funeral of
his grandmother, Mrs. Rufus Kinney
The members of the Spaulding high
school girls basketball team left this
afternoon for Mortified, where they line
up against the Mortified high school
girls tonight. The Spaulding team has
been praeticing daily since their last de-
feat at the hand of Hartford high school
girls at White River junction, and their
followers are looking for vast improve
ment. The same girls were carried on
the trip who made the previous journey
to White River Junction.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
Father in Politics" to Be Seen at Barre
Opera House Monday Night.

Gus Hill, the father of all successful
cartoon plays, will have now one for
his millions Of patrons for the coming
season, Bringing Up Father in Politics
il the title. 1t il based on George Nc
Manus laughable series of cartoons now
running in more than five hundred news
papers throughout the United States and
Canada Just as the funny page hands
you little laugh before breakfast daily,
Father in Politics" will afford you an
evenings entertainment such as you
have not had in many years. Laughter
will be prolific from the rise TO the fall
of the curtain.
Jiggs Mahoney. Oswald, Jerry Sulli-
van, Mrs. Holmes, Billy aud Peggy and
otbers will be remembered by patrons
of the popular priced theatre and will
be still more entertaining in their new
play, Bringing Up Father in Politics" +,
will come to the opera house Monday
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10

to go feet wide and from $50 to 260 feet
long. The ore carries from Is to per
cent of tungsten trioxide. The area in
which scheelite bearing deposits have
been found forms a belt about 20 miles
long, but the prospecting now going on
will doubtless extend the dimensions of
the field.
These deposits. like those discovered in
recent years in Humboldt county, New,
are of the contact metamorphie class, a
well known source of copper and iron
but until lately not widely recognized as
possible source of tungsten.
The report, which is entitled Tungsten
Deposits OF Northwestern Inyo County,
Cal, by Adolph Knopf is issued as bull
letin 640-L and can be had free on appli-
cation to the Director, u. $. Geological
Survey, Washington, d. G.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
TALK OF THE TOWN

Among the Chelsea and Yershre visit
ors in the city yesterday were Dean Gil
man, George L. Harvey and Thomas Nc
Clair
John Philip Of Mortified arrived in
the city to-day and will spend the week
end at the home of his mother, Mrs Jane
Philip of 95 Currier street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold n. Keith of 10
Nelson street, Montpelier are the par
ents of daughter born Friday, Feb. s,
at Heaton hospital Mr.. Keith was for
merly employed in Barre as collector
for the Consolidated Lighting Co.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
GRANITE FIRM INCORPORATES.
Phillips & Slack of Mortified Have
Stock of $4,000.

Articles of association have been filed
with the secretary of state by the Phil.
lips & Slack Co, Inc. OF Northfeld, which
company capitalizes for $4,000. The
company will do general granite bust.
ness. The business is carried on under
the same name at Northfield at the pres
ent time, except that it is not ineorpor-
ated.
The first Baptist church of Starksboro,
Inc, also has been Incorporated. The
subscribers include Cornelius Iadoo,
Wallace n. Hill, +. X. Hackett and elev-
en- others.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
What She Went For.

Mr. Flatbush Where have you been
Mrs. Flatbush--To the movies.
How was it,"
mo good"
Didn't enjoy it?"
Il should say not. The woman next
to me was asleep nearly all the time,
and ! had no one to talk to- Yonkers
Statesman.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
Avviso.

Tutti eittadini di lingua Italiana some
pregati di intervenire al meeting che
terra Lunedi sera IL Febbraio allie p. m
mel local. del Citizen club per decidere
l'atteggiamonto piu conveniente della CO.
lonia diff ronte allie prossime elezioni am
menistrative.
II Comitato.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
TALK OF THE TOWN

Grace NJ. Morse, teacher of piano,
phone 666-W.
Calder q Richardson will bug block OF
second growth wood, dry or green.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
Not in the Inventory.

did Jobson's purchase include also
the good will of the business -
There wasn't any good win. 1t was
coal dealer that Jobson bought out"
Boston Transcript
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
Memo COrsets

Just before you go to your
dressmaker for your first fit
ting, be sure that your Corset
is the style you want a new
dress fitted to.
Your Corset is the most es-
sential part of your whole
clothing outfit. You should
take care that it is right
right for style, quality, price
and comfort.
Memo Corsets have the larg-
est sale of any Corset in this
country. Exacting ladies can
tell you why. One pair will
put you in that class.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10

We have just taken on one
of the best Taffetas that we
can buy. This is a pure Silk
Taffeta, so highly advertised
in all leading periodicals. It's
the Money-bak Silk Taffeta in
Black and Colors. Ask to see
why it is better.
Over So different colors in
our Yard-Wide Silk Messaline,
the largest assortment of col
ors that you will see this sea-
son.
Crepe de Chine and Georg-
cite Crepe in all colors and in
best quality. This is a beauti-
full line.
New assortment of Silk
Poplins in all the new shades.
These bought before the last
two price advances. If you
have materials to match and
your dealer doesn't happen to
have the right shade, just
send to us: only a few hours,
then you will have it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10

For children, misses and Young la
dies, we would not think of stocking
any other make but Ferris Waists.
They have better style, they are bet
ter made, and the price many times
is less and never any more.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
Ferris Waists

Lots of ladies use Ferris
Waists. They all know what
they are like.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10
go. Observation-Disclosures
A. P. ABBOTT & co.
A. P. ABBOTT & co.
Styles of Tomorrow Here Today


We double the Our
trade something worth their and
see It's OF ebesl lines in Vernon today.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10

Ferris Waists for young folks, 25c
to SOC, for older folks, soc TO
S1.5O each. Order by mail-state
size.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-10

Here are some special Skirt
values that are being picked
up very fast. They are a lot
of odd Skirts in the best of
materials, and the Skirts are
all in very good style. These
are Skirts that sold at from
$500 to $1,000, now to clean
up stock at only one-half the
original price.