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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
TALKOFTHE TOWN

Your choice of all trimmed hats at
sl.9s. Mrs. Shepard Goa Inc.
Roy Bugbee commenced two weeks
vacation from his duties in the postoffice
yesterday.
Foster Slayton of East street left
yesterday for East Montpelier, where he
expects to secure employment,
Miss Eda Conf OF Westerly, r. J., i
visiting for few days at the home Of
Mrs. Mary Corti of Blackwell street.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p Abbott returned
Yesterday from Greensboro, where they
have been camping during the past six
weeks.
William Avery of Highland avenue
left yesterday afternoon for St. Adams.
where be is visiting his daughter, Mrs.
Frank l.. Place.
Clarence Bartlett and Charles 0'Keefe
left this morning by automobile for Mt
Mansfield, where they will camp over
the week end
Mrs. Alice Noonan of Cliff street re-
turned yesterday from Lynn, MASS,
where she has been visiting with rela-
tives during the past week.
Those having newspapers or maya
zines for the Universalist church will
leave them at the rear entrance to the
church some time this month. Anyone
wishing them called for, phone l50.-ad
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Noonan, Mr. and
Mrs. f. J. Batchelder, Mr.. and Mrs. A,
D. Young, Mrs. A X. Inglis, Miss FL
len Ingis and Mrs Blanche Perrin of
plainfeld left this morning for Groton
pond, where they will camp for week
1T Camp Batchelder
L. A. Prindle & Co. are now located
n their new store in the Worthen block, |
corner Main street and Keith avenue,
with full line OF Andes stoves and
-anges. Agent for all kinds of stove re-
pairs Call in and get prices. Tel.
,D5-W.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
TALK OFTHET TOWN
Slin.non wells at Fits.

Slip-pon wells at Fits
| A. w. Mcneil of Hill street began ,
vacation of two weeks from the Day
light store to-day.
Office hours at city court during thu
months of August and September arr
from 9 a. m. till noon.
John c. Sargent of Ludlow, formel
attorney general of Vermont, visited
friends in the city yesterday and to
day
Mrs. A. Villa of Berlin street is making
good recovery from an operation foi
appendicitis to which she recently sub
mitted at the City hospital.
The body of Mrs. Harlow Folsom
whose death occurred at her home in
Marshfield Wednesday evening, was
brought to Barre this forenoon for in
terment in Hope cemetery.
George L. Bates Of Orange street, who
is taking vacation from his duties in
the office of the Smith, Whitcomb &
Cook Co, left last evening for Calais,
where with Mrs. Bates and their guests,
Mr.. and Mrs #. X. Freedom of MARI
boro, Mass, and Mr. and Mrs. L. Il. Rob-
inson of Somerville, Mass, he is to re-
main in camp at Camp Comfort for a
time.
Late this afternoon there will be an
exodus of Barre granite men leaving for
Philadelphia to attend the annual con-
vention of the National Retailers asso-
citation, which opens Monday. Quarters
and manufacturers are to take personal
charge Of exhibits consisting of monu-
ments and designs The delegation, mum
bering nearly 80, viii leave over the Cen
trail Vermont railroad at 5:45, arriving
in Philadelphia Sunday noon Additions
TO the list OF men and women from Barre,
Mortified and Waterbury
printed earlier in the week include the
following names; A. j. Young, George
F.. Bond, George S. DeMerrell, Donald
Smith, Fred Grearson of Barre and
D. Janion MacNichol of Boston.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
Special Wash Goods
Values

On one of our back tables
we have a lot of Wash Mate
rails in a variety of the sea-
sons most popular cloths, in
both Stripes and Figures.
Some very good Skirt Stripes
in this lot. These are 36
inches wide and the price is
only 29c per yard.
At 29c per yard is a lot of
thin Figured Materials in the
seasons best cloths.
On one of our center tables
is a lot Of materials in Silver.
bloom, Basket Weaves, Gabar-
dimes, Reps and Piques, in
qualities that sold at Toe and
85c per yard. On this table
to close at only 49c per yard.
These are cloths that are
the seasons best at the reg
ular prices. Now all on this
table at ACC per yard.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
New Arrival of Waists

Wash Waists in all the diff
ferent styles and materials
have been more popular this
season than for many seasons
past.
Waists are now selling at
the old prices, and the values
were never better for the price
asked.
We have just received a
new lot of India Silk Wash
Waists. These are made from
a fine quality Wash Silk in
plain colors, in plain colors
with colored collars, and in a
variety of different colored
stripes.
This line is selling at only
$500 each and will wash even
better than a cotton.
At SIPS and S1.O0 are some
new Waist values in White
Voiles.
See our new $500 Wolfe
Waists.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
A. P. ABBOTT co.
A. P. ABBOTT co.
A. P. ABBOTT co.
Don't Wait for the Call, Be Prepared

We
a
odd lots and broken wash goods These will surely
a wan tsuchm chandne to Iout h seaon
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
Almost-Not Quite

"He did everything but take care of his
crops, Is a common remark. Don't be like
that Don't have all the expense hard work
and care and then fail on the home stretch.
Buy your Silo, Corn Harvester. Grain Thresh-
er, Bean Harvester and Bean Thresher NOW.
You gain nothing by waiting but you take a
big chance Of losing more than yoa can at
ford. Pirces are steadily advancing and de-
livery is becoming more uncertain. Early
buying is safe buying.
A. w. ALLEN co.
Distributors for Washington and orsnse Co
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
Special Skirt Values

We are cleaning up a lot of
odd Skirts at prices that will
mean a good saving to you.
At S3.9S are eight Skirts in
a good quality of Striped Silk
Taffeta. They are made in
the seasons best styles, that
sold as a special at S5.9s; what
are left to close at S3.9S.
At S3.9S we have a few
bright colored Jersey Skirts;
are the seasons best values in
style and quality, to close at
$3.9S.
At S7.9S we are offering
four very fine quality Silk
Jersey Skirts, in Pink, Blues
and Green. Are a Skirt that
sold at S14.00 each. To close
at S7.9S.
At one-third off from the
regular prices are a lot of odd
White Wash Skirts.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-11
Dresses at Half Price

Your choice at one-half price
from this lot of about four
dozen of the seasons best
Dress values. Under the pres
ent high price conditions of all
merchandise, these values viii
surely appeal to many.
The cloths alone would cost
more than we are asking for
the whole Dress. If you need
a thin Dress, you cannot af-
ford to pass these values by.
These Dress values are in
qualities that sold at from
1898 to $3.50, in the seasons
best styles and extra values.
The cloth alone at a mark
down price would cost you
more than we are asking for
the finished Dress.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-02

to run it, but my repair bill for four
years has been less than 500, and the
same gears--except one small pinion
are still on the engine. 1t has
never had a bearing taken up i'll the
motor for two years, and outside OF
ignition trouble once in long while
has practically given no trouble. |
believe | plow for IS cents an acre.
and | will say that this engine as now
made burns Kerosene successfully
and would cut this cost almost in two.
Besides this, it gets my work done at
the time | want it done-when I'm
crowded it works seventeen hours
day; and, best of all, Pm working my
ground to the depth | want to with
out running the horses. The engine
| have, of course, is not perfect, but
it has been a good one, and from my
observations at Fremont and else
where this make is far superior to
anything on the market and I'm we'll
satisfied. My advice to a farmer
would be to buy a standard tractor
of not too small a power and leave
the freak tractors alone, and see that
the one you buy burns kerosene sue
cessfully and has a perfectly bal
anced motor. Then take care of it
as you would a horse and you will
have good rig.-W. L. Orr, Harri-
son County, Iowa.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-02

saver and a money-maker, and now
they would not be without it for any,
thing.
Another man told us of buying a
tractor and taking it out to his farm.
He did not know much about ma
chinery and no one told him any
thing, and the agent who sold the
tractor was located at some distance
from his farm. There was slight
defect in the machine, as is OCCASION
ally found in cars and other machin-
cry. Not understanding the tractor,
the man put it right to work without
remedying this defect. 1t naturally
failed to give satisfaction and the
man who bought it believes that it
is delusion. and snare and that
any man who buys a tractor is
"stung.,"
Not long ago a farmer, referring
to the green farm hands that have
been sent into the country this year
to try to help supply the deficiency
in farm labor, said: 81 wouldn't
trust my team to one of them; they
don't know the first thing about
horses and would soon ruin them"
The same thing applies to any piece
of machinery. If the man who
doesn't know the first thing about it
tries to handle a piece of machinery
he is pretty likely either to ruin it
or to put into the repair shop. 1t
is foolish to try to run anything that
works by muscle power or by fuel
power without knowing anything
about it. A steam-driven piece of
machinery may blow up. A motor
driven machine is likely to balk.
know thyself" is good admoni-
tion. know thy trhctor" is another
one. And while you are learning the
principles of the tractor you are also
learning things that will enable you
to handle mtelligently all the other
machines you have on the farm or
may buy to place there in the future.
The day of the motorized farm has
dawned and its sun is already pretty
high. Farm help is scarce, and will be
scarcer and scarcer as the years go on,
and machinery will have to take the
place of men. Already the man who
can operate the tractor, the automo-
bile and the stationary engine is in
demand on the farm, and the time is
coming when the farm hand will find
it as necessary to know how to run
these machines as it now is to know
how to handle team. You can learn
on the new machine you buy if you
want, but it is hard on the machine.
1t is cheaper to learn on some other
persons machine and to have COM
petent instructor to show you how
and why.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-02

success this engine did not prove it.
self and gave me considerable>trouble
and found it too light in power for
my work. 1t was rated at 1920 and
had a light four-cylinder engine,
which continually gave trouble.
-Four years ago when looking
around for something to better my
self in a tractor way | finally closed
a deal for $3.50, four-cylinder trac-
tor of a standard make and brought
it out in the spring to do my early
work. 1t is light weight for its
power, weighing six tons. | put a
hve-bottom plow behind it and the
first spring did all my plowing at a
depth of seven inches. In the fall |
did the threshing in fine shape, run
ming both ends of the outfit myself,
and frequently running half day
without a stop. Then came the fall
plowing and corn shelling in the WIN
ter. The next spring | put on three
discs and put the corn ground in ex-
cellent shape, and next / rugged up
hitch and pulled five listers and listed
in all my corn at the rate of thirty
five, acres day.
l have never pulled binders be-
cause my big crop is corn, and l
didn't seem to have enough small
grain to pay. 1t would be a fine
thing where one does have the grain.
This engine has run four years.
This year | returned from the west
later than usual, hitched up the trac-
tor and had my corn crop in in good
time, and the engine worked better
than it ever had. | have never kept
an accurate record of what it costs
Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-02

I have been requested to give you
short outline of my experiences
with farm tractors. In regard to
this will say that my farm is located
on the fiat and side hills adjacent to
pretty fair-sized river and consists
of gumbo. fiji soil and some clay, so
that | have several conditions to work
under.
Several years ago I purchased a
large portable engine and small
thresher to do my own work, but |
soon had tractor made out of this
engine and it became my first trac-
tor. 1t, of course, was not a prac-
tical machine, so six years ago, when
the first very light tractor came out,
I purchased one and used it two
years. I intended to disc, harrow
list, plow and cut my grain, but as a
Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-02
GET ACQUAINTED
WITH YOUR TRACTOR
That's the Only Way You
and Your Machine Will
Get Along Together
Well.

When an automobile dealer sells
a car he sends an expert driver
out to teach the new owner
how to run it. The expert some
times spends considerable time
for several days in succession
teaching the owner how to run his
car, and for several weeks afterward
the car is apt to be a pretty constant
visitor at the garage in search of
further information. It is easy to
run into the garage for this informa-
tion and for assistance, for the car
is travelling vehicle and frequently
passes the garage on it's daily trips.
The dealer does not expect the man
who buys the car, if he has never
driven one before, to start right in
and use it without difficulty, and un-
less he is an exceptional dealer he is
glad to furnish the information and
assistance necessary to make his car
give good service.
There is about the same amount
of machinery involved in a tractor
that there is in an automobile, and
the man who sells the farmer trac-
tor should either go out into the field
and spend some time with the new
owner, as the automobile man does,
or he should satisfy himself that the
new owner is familiar with the use
of self-driven machinery. In the
hands of a man who is not acquainted
with the ways of a motor the best
machine ever made may fail. Man
has not yet learned to make machin-
cry foolproof.
One difficulty that confronts the
dealer in tractors in this respect is
that the tractor is not travelling
machine, as an automobile is. 1t
stays at home most of the time on
It's owners place, and is not con-
stantly darting in and out of the
nearest town, like the motor car.
This means that a trip to the farm is
necessary every time there is les
son to be given, and consequent
loss of considerable time on the part
Of the dealer.
Tractor Something Like Horse
If the tractor is to give the service
It is intended to give, and which it is
entirely capable Of giving when prop
erly handled, the man who buys it
must learn how to operate it without
abusing it and how to remedy the
small defects that will occur from
time to time. When the horse is
overworked, improperly fed or
poorly cared for he develops ailments
and diseases. Most of these the
farmer knows how to remedy from
experience, or, if he does not happen
to be able to put his hand on the
proper remedy for the specific trou-
Bile, one of his neighbors can usually
tell him. This is because the horse
is an ancient institution, and rules
Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-02

for his care and use have been
handed down from generation to
generation until they are almost sec
ond nature to us.
With the tractor it is different. It
is new and its diseases and ailments
are new. We must know how the
machine is made before we know how
to use it properly, or take care Of it
properly, or cure it when it devel-
ops ailments, just as we must know
something of the construction of the
horse to understand his care.
At the present time there are just
two ways of which we know for the
farmer to learn these facts. One we
have mentioned before at various
times, and that is that the local
dealer who is really "onto his job"
should understand thoroughly the
working and construction of the ma
chine he sells and be sure that he ex-
plains carefully and demonstrates
every possible detail to his customers.
This will insure his machines giving
satisfaction.
Another possibility is the tractor
school, where details of mechanical
operation and instruction are COM
prehensively taught. When possible
for the man who owns a motor car,
a tractor or an engine Of any kind
to take a course in one of these
schools, it is an excellent thing.
There is no education a farmer can
give his boy when he has finished the
grade schools that will prove more
valuable to him than one of these
courses of instruction.
In most neighborhoods there is
some young man or boy who is in
clined to be especially interested in
mechanics. If he could be given
such instruction he might become Of
great value to the whole neighbor-
hood by helping the neighbors, acting
as machinery surgeon" for a
stated sum per call, and it would be
an excellent way of keeping some of
the bright, intelligent boys away
from the cities, where the love of
machinery is apt to lead them.
High Cost of Ignorance
At all events, when one buys a
tractor or any other machine, he
should learn just as much as he pos
sibly can about operating it. A per-
fectly good machine may be ruined
by running it for time without oil
in some vital part or by allowing a
burr to come off and let something
drop into the moving parts. Not
very long ago man with whom we
are well acquainted had loose burr
on his car and it dropped into the
engine. Before he could stop his car
he had suffered damage to it that
cost over $50 to repair. This only
goes to show what neglect and igno-
rance of the Importance Of various
things about piece of machinery
can do to it. ....
A man told US recently of his ex-
perience in buying a tractor. His
son has been working in the factory
where this machine was made for
several months and understood its
workings perfectly. When bought,
put on the farm and given this boy
to run, he handled it perfectly well,
and they found that it was a time
Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-02
had Manners.

Mrs, Nexdore--Prof. Adaga called at our
house yesterday and my daughter played
the plano for him. He Just rayed over
her playing.
Mrs, Peprey--How rude! why couldn't he
conceal his feelings tho way the rest Of
us do?--Cathoiic Standard and Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-17
Ministers Differ in
Opinions on Value of
Evangelistic Campaign

There is a wide variance of opinion
among ministers of the city regarding
the value of paid evangelistic cam
paigns, which have been conducted in
several of the churches during the
last three months.
The Rev. William n. Yates, pastor
of the Fourth Street Church of God,
favors each preacher holding his own
services. Among pastors supporting
the paid evangelists are the Rev.
George +. Schaum, pastor of Harris
Street United Evangelical Church; the
Rev. ]. A. Lyter, pastor of the Derry
Street United Brethren Church, and
the Rev. +. A. G. Bossler, pastor OF
the State Street United Brethren
Church.
The individual evangelistic campaign
for each church seems to have the
favor of most of the pastors. This
plan is. supported by the Rev. A. 5.
Williams, pastor of the Camp Curtin
Memorial Methodist Church; the Rev.
DR.. George Edward Hawes, pastor of
Market Square Presbyterian Church;
the Rev. w. II. Dallman, pastor of
Market Street Baptist Church; the
Rev. John Henry Miller, pastor of the
Holy Communion Lutheran Church.
and the Rev. A. NJ. Stamets, pastor OF
Augsburg Lutheran Church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-17

C. E. IS ACTIVE
Youthful Branch of State
Christian Endeavor Union
Making Strides

intermediate Christian Endeavor-
ers of the State c. L. Union are in
the front line of real activities at the
present time.
Miss Margaret A. Spencer, of Pitts
burgh, is the iive-wire superintend-
ent. She is doing successful work and
already has a good record of results
accomplished. She is member OF
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church,
Pittsburgh and has been an active
Endeavorer since fourteen years OF
age. She has been interested in
Junior and Intermediate work for
u number of years.
She served as Intermediate super
intendent in the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, at the same time acting as
secretary, after which she became su-
perintendent of the Allegheny County
intermediate Department. For seven
years she served as Junior superin-
tendent in the Tabernacle Church,
during which time she was elected to
the office of the Junior and Intermedi-
ate uperintendency of the Central
Branch, serving three years. During
the term of four and one-half years
she served as intermediate superin-
tendent of Allegheny county. Sew
eral months ago she resigned that
office to take up the work of the
State Intern ediate Department.
Miss Spencer has compiled n rec
ord of 1876 Intermediate societies in
the State, with many counties not
heard from. When reports are all
in, she says, Pennsylvania will stand
next to California in its intermediate
Department. Watch this department
grow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-17
DARING TO STAND ALONE
Terse Comments on the Uniform Prayer Meeting Topic
of the Young Peoples Societies Christian En-
deavor, Etc.-FOr March IS: "The Curse of
Cowardice" John 18:l5-27
BY William II. Ellis

None of the pains that can come to
body or mind is equal to the blisteringr
haunting consciousness that one has
failed to play the man. To know ones
self a coward is infinitely worse than
to know ones self dead. my only
fear. is fear" said much-tired man,
looking out on life. ''I am afraid of
being afraid. That some physical
weakness may impair my courage is
really the onlyill in life thatI dread.
For l know that cowardice is the worst
of evils"
Anything short of duty is coward
ice.
"Be brave!
The coward lives and dies an abject
The fearful is a tyrant, fool and
omnipotence is only with the brave"
Sinking, cowardly Christians have
never had a part in Gods great VIC
tories. They look on from afar, and
talk about what might have been
and point out the mistakes in the
ing, courageous, and faith-flled Chris
tians is it granted to win glorious
triumphs for God.
Fear fails, but faith conquers.
There are two kinds of people on
earth to-day,
Just two kinds of people, no mere, L
say,
Not the saint and the sinner. 70" tits
we'll understood
The good are half bad and the bad
are half good;
Not the rich and the poor, for to
count mans wealth
2 You must know first the state of his
conscience and health;
Not the humble and proud, for in life's
little span
Who puts on vain airs is not counted
a man;
Not the happy and sad, for the swift
flying years
Bring each man his laughter. and each
man his tears
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-17


appointment of a new district super
intendent for the Harrisburg district
The Rev. A. s. Fasick, of Carlisle,
can no longer remain in this position.
as he has served for the last six years
the maximum term, according to the
law of the conference.
The Rev. Mr.. Fasck will be assign
ed to a pastoral charge somewhere in
the conference. The other big change
for Harrisburg will be the transferring
of the Rev. DIR. John Fox, at present
pastor of the Grace Methodist Church,
from the Central Pennsylvania confer
ence to the Philadelphia conference.
The successor to DIR. Fox will proba
bly, be announced within the next few
days. Several other ministers in this
vicinity may also be sent to other
charges.
HarrisburRer to Preside
The annual sessions of the Laymen's
Association of the Central Pennsylva-
MIA Conference of the Methodist
Churches will be held in Lewistown, in
cosnectiohu with the annual confer
ence.
J. r. Rote, of Harrisburg, is presi-
dent of the association. An address
will be made by Judge Henry Wade
Rodgers, of the United States Circuit
Court, of New York city, on Lay Com
mission on Unification of American
Methodsm." The Rev. Harry J. Rines,
pastor of the Oak Street Church, Bing-
hamton, n. Y. will give a stereopticon
lecture.