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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-07-13
WILDWOOD, n. J.
CAPE MAY
COUNTY DIRECTORY

Justice of Supreme Court-Charles
G. Black, Democrat. Term expires
1921
Circuit Judge-Howard Carlow, D..
1920.
Law Judge-Henry H. Eldredge, D.
1921.
Prosecutor of Pleas-Eugene G. Cole,
Republican, 1922.
Sherif-Robert s. Miller, r. 1919.
Commensurate Lake, Ocean City,
1916; B. G. Ingersoll, Wildwood, 1917;
DIR. Wilson A. Lake, Erma, 1918.
County Clerk-A. Carlton Hildreth,
Republican, January, 1920.
Surrogate-Edward L. Rice, D., No
vember, 1917.
State Senator-LewisT T. Stevens, r.,
1919.
Assemblyman-Corsville E.Stille, r.
County Superintendent of Schools
Aaron w Hand, r., October, 1920.
lClIlS Vi 0Oulb"0GCO1u uCoOdH III
April, September and December.
Board OF Chosen FreehoIders
Terms expire January LIST
Directof-Henry 8. Rutherford.
Vice Director-Gus Hilton.
CIerk-Frank w. lFowkes, Sea Isle
City.
Collector-Joseph l. cull, Ocean City
Solcitor-Joseph Douglass, CapeMay
Court House.
Road Supervisor-Daniel Schellen-
ger, Erma.
Sea Isle City-Theodore E. DeBow,
1920; James F. Eustace, 1917.
Upper Township-Hope w. Candy,
Tuckahoe, 1916.
Wildwood-Charles w. Saul, 1918;
Augustus Hilton, 1918.
North Wildwood-John w. Young,
1917; Floyd Hewitt, 1917.
Cape May City-John T. Bennett,
1915; Henry s. Rutherford, 1918.
Dennis Township-Levi Wentzell,
Dennisville. 1916.
Lower Township-Joseph P. Mac
Kissic, Wildwood Crest, 1918.
Middle Township-Stillw Fl.
Townsend, Cape May Court House,
1920.
Ocean City-John P.Fox, 1919; John
E. Townsend, 1919.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-07-13
GOVERNMENT HOT
ON TRAIL OF SPIES
Transport Leak Stirs Secret
Service to Activity.
WATCH CABLES FOR CODES

Every Mar Called TO colors Under Sc
Iective Draft viii Find His Uniform
Ready to Be Donned Lawmakers
Hope to Quit Washington Middle of
August.
Washington. = Especial correspond
ence).-Al the energies Of the United
States secret service, under William j.
Flynn, are being directed to search out
the spysor spies wao tipped off the Gsr-
man government on the route taken by
United States soldiers for Europe.
Did an apparently innocent personal
or commercial cablegram passing be-
tween New York and a neutral Euro
pear country via London or Paris con
yey to Berlin information as to the
course taken by the naval convoy which
escorted General Pershing's fighting
men to France, thus subjecting them to
peril of attack?
The question Is receiving serious con-
sideration from administraa author
ities. No official and no n,n1tary or
naval expert knows how Berlin was
tipped off. All are apparently In agree
ment that the most likely medium of
communication between German spies
and agents in this country and Berlin
is by means of secret code combinations
employed under the guise of innocent
business or personal ~cablegrams and
passed by British and French censors
without hesitation.
An official in close touch with the sit
uation, whose name for obvious reasons
cannot he used, expressed the convic-
ton hat this route is the one which
the Germans naturally would be eX-
pected to choose.
Stop Gables to NeutraIs.
If the administration should become
convinced that American military Sc
crets are being communicated to Berlin
by such means, he said, 1t would be the
national and international obligation of
Ehe United States to stop the transmits
sion OF all cables to European neutral
countries contiguous to Germany o
within easy reach of Berlin.
Press reports from Amsterdam and
other points have frequently made ref
erence to the closing of the Holland
German frontier or the G~erman-Swiss
frontier pending troop movements.
When the frontier is closed nothing is
allowed to pass except what the mill
tary authorities specially permit.
1t may become necessary for the
United States to take drastic steps
along this line. They may not be o n
fined to cablegrams going to neutral
European countries. 1t still remains
to be demonstrated that this is the
4oute through which valuable military
information actually reaches Berlin.
Military and naval experts are agreed
that it is not possible for Germany to
receive any information by direct wire
less from This continent or South Amer
lea. Any intelligence sent across the
Atlantic, if it is to go in a hurry. there
fore must go by cable.
Widespread Spy System.
While the natural disposition In this
instance is to suspect German agents
In neutral European countries, who are
known to be numerous and influential,
it Is said by experts to be by no means
impossible that commercial or person
al messages sent from New York to
london or Paris may have been the me-
1ium. It is known that Germany main
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-07-13

Ultra women use the same piece OF
tussore for their %parasols, wrist bags
dog bag and hats. You can't miss be
ing smart if you choose a big PLAID
and then hush it In a kilt that only
gives flashes of black when you mo
Billie for action.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-07-13

News Snapshots o 1 sa bana g S OF d A%I the ea m%%%a @S @m%" A@g% ~s f%@ @ of snm m% % Tn%@
Of the Week but the conveying wnn had succeeded in Mhs @eu boat and soaring off the others
our ships would nm Erda renewed hunt for German spies here The celebration Of the Fourth took on deeply
patriotic h Cdma Roosevelt and seraay of War Baker aMrwd large gatherings on Ammhmnkm
The bh@hp Idaho was launched Sim Fem prisoners released by Great Brmm treated enthusiasm on heir
return to dublin but hMhp party showed no ncmhton to Join the national conventions settle the home rule qs
am Rumos@ revolt In Spain and nep dabeo shg of King Alfonso XIII came from London and Paa Kingdom
Gould eldest son of GemnJ Gould VAST married Miss Annmzam Lmi an Italian artist and Nmm oNauem
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
EAST BARRE

Howard Norris has been i'll the pas
few days with the prevailing distemper
Mrs. Fred Lord came home Thursday
last from the Barre City hospital, where
she was recently operated on for appen
dicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Lovely of Lebanon
n. H.. visited few days the past week
Mt the home of Mrs. Lovely's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. +. L. Tucker.
The woman's auxiliary of the Congre.
gational church will hold a special meet.
ing Tuesday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. Axvery.
Mrs. Wallace Jones has been visiting
friends and relatives in Hardwick and
Morrisville for several weeks.
A daughter was born Sunday to Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Bison.
Miss Flossie Jones has gone to Hyde
Park to the home of her brother, who is
i'll.
DIR. r. NJ. AIinard is i'll at his home.
Mrs. McAllister of Washington is caring
for him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
Armour Makes His Men Love Him.

J. o. Armour, the well known packer Of
Chicago. takes a great personal interest
in his men. and they reflect that interest
In an article written by Merle Crowel
for the February American Magazine
this is said
al. o. takes an intimate interest in
the daily life Of his men away from the
office. Subordinates in other cities dc
not escape him. He knows Just how
many children most of his branch man
ayers have, where they are being edueat-
ed and how they are getting along.
His memory is prodigious, lie asks
questions continuously and seems to re-
tain everything he hears.
'When his men go on the pension roll
on account of illness or old age. it often
happens that their pensions are not large
enough to pay medical bills or other ex-
ira expenses and support their families
in comfort. In such cases u. o. makes
up a plentiful balance from his personal
accountant there is only the instinct
of the men to tell them whence comes the
surplus. Usually when Mr.. Armour hears
of new baby arriving in the family of
one of his employees he replenishes the
fathers pocketbook with a suitable sized
check Incidentally. he has had more
youngsters named after him than falls
often to the lot of presidential candi
date
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
HANCOCK

Mrs. Caroline Marsh is i'll with the
grip.
Amos Markham of Bristol was in town
last week.
Mrs. Walter Scott has presented the
library the book, war in Cuba" or "The
Great Struggle for Freedom
Pearl, little son Of Mr., and Mrs. Lew
Perry of Granville, has been with his
grandmother a few days while having his
hand treated. He broke off the end OF
a darning needle in his hand. Drs Hun
tington and Merriam removed the NEE
die and a piece of yarn attached and
the little fellow is doing well
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Manning cele-
brated the 25th anniversary of their mar
rage by gathering of 60 of their
friends and neighbors last Friday even
ing. Time passed pleasantly with music
and singing. Refreshments of oysters,
cake, sandwiches and coffee were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Manning were presented
some articles of silver, also $3.50 in
money, after which the company dis
persed, wishing them many happy re-
turns of the day.
viii Blair is working at Hotel Me-
Craze in Rochester,
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Perry and chill
dren OF West Rochester were recent
guests of Mrs. Lucy Perry.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
GRAZING FEES INCREASE.
There is Gain of rs Per Cent in Ma.
tional Forests.

Washington, ID. c., Feb 5.--An in
crease of rs per cent in the grazing fees
on all national forests, instead OF 80 l-3
per cent as was originally contemplated
will be made for the season of 1917. ac-
cording to the plan announced by Secre-
tary Houston to-day. Subsequent in
creases will be based on study of the
local conditions on the individual for
ests and will vary in accordance with
the facts thus obtained.
"The timber, grazing, water power
and other resources OF the national for
ests which are used for commercial pur-
poses should be charged for at a rate
which represents their fair value" said
Secretary Houston. III a charge only
sufficient to cover the cost of admins
tration were made, all OF the profit from
the commercial use of the national for
ests would go to comparatively few
individuals instead of to all the people
to whom they belongf and who are en-
titled to share their benefits The
charge for grazing should be based upon
the real value of the forage on the ma
tional forest ranges, as determined by a
careful survey of all the facts and not
by competitive bids, as required in tim
Der sales.
Whether or not the fees charged at
present represent fair value of the for
age is the question to be decided. The
facts before me clearly indicate that the
present charge does not represent the
full value OF grazing privileges on the
national forests"
Modification of the original plan was
decided upon, the secretary said, because
of the possibility of variation in the
real value of grazing on different for
ests or in different localities, and be-
cause in few instances the full pro-
posed increase might not be justified. A
specific study, he stated, will be made
of the existing conditions upon each
of the national forests. Upon the basis
of the facts thsu obtained, additional in
creases will be made when the real value
of the forage upon any forest is found
TO be more than the amount charged.
No additional increase will be made be-
fore March |, 1918.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
WOODBURY.

| Mrs. Jennie Hamel is at Clarence Dwi
nell's in East Calais for few days.
Morton and Owen Atkinson left Sat.
urday for Springfield, Vt.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ellsworth Carr were in
North Calais Friday to attend the flu
neral of Mrs. Cars father, Emerson
Thunston.
Ellsworth Bates has gone to Spring
field, where he has employment.
Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Dana were in Cabot
Friday evening to attend the installation
OF officers of the Masonic and Eastern
Star orders.
Horton Smith of Montpelier was a
week end visitor at Walter Davis.
Little Harry Davis, who has been quite
sick with the grip, is convalescing.
Fred Weeks left last Monday for
Barre.
Mrs. Mildred Bates has the humps.
Pupils in the NJ. +. Sunday school hav-
ing a perfect. attendance during the
month of January were: Everett Aims
worth, Shirley Ainsworth, Mildred Aims
worth, Jettie Baldwin, Barbara Doty,
Frank Hood, Forrest Hull, Stanley Moore.
Average attendance, 25.
A number here are i'll with the prevail
ing distemper.
Mrs. George Parker returned Tuesday
from a weeks visit with relatives in
Calais.
Nelson Barnet visited his parents in
Walden over the week end
Mrs, H. f. Webber is visiting her eous-
in, Mrs. Edith Beard, in North Calais for
a few days.
Rev. 0. l.. Barnard returned home Mon
day from a two weeks stay in Brom.
field.
f. f. Baldwin met with painful ac-
cident Jan. 27 while at work on the dark
quarry, when a stone fell against him.
Although no bones were broken, he was
quite badly bruised and will be laid up
for some time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
EAST MONTPELIER

East Montpelier grange held its regu'
lar meeting Wednesday night, Jan. 81
with the following program: Rollcall, an
swered by "What inducements can we
offer to increase the attendance of our
members who stay at homer; discus
sion. Have the farmers who specialize
any advantage over those who do not -;
vocal solo, Miss Elva Townsend; talk on
legislative topics, Harry Daniels. The
printed programs for the year are now
ready for distribution. The next regular
meeting will be held Feb. 81. with a pro-
gram appropriate for wsshingtou's and
Lincoln's birthdays.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05

chicks will hatch in ample time to allow
their maturity before cold weather. The
pullets from these broods should lay
during the late fall or early winter
when eggs are scareest
The setting schedule outlined also will
permit the development of early spring
"friers." The young chicks will be de-
veloped to the point where they may be
turned. out on the ground by the time
vegetation is out, and so may augment
their feed with green stuff. The smaller
breeds OF chickens can be Matched later
than those which are larger and slower
to develop.
One difficulty in setting eggs in spring
at selected ds.es if the natural system
; of incubation is followed is in finding
/ broody hens at the proper time. If nat
ural incubation is depended upon ex-
clusiyely it probably will be best for the
poultry raiser to disregard dates and
make settings whenever broody hens are
available A good nest for setting is
made of wood, Is inches square and
about 10 inches high, with top. The
front is open except for board SIX
inches high. Three or four inches of
damp earth should be placed in such
nest and on this straw, hay, or chat
should be firmly packed. The hens
should be busted thoroughly with insect
powder. 1t is good plan, also to sprin-
kle little of the powder in the nests.
The suggested schedule can be :ol-
lowed exactly if an incubator is used.
The machine should be operated IN Q
warm room, preferably cellar, as pro-
lection against outside temperature
changes. 1t should be disinfccted thor
oughly before being used, with a solu-
tion of reliable coal-tar disinfectaut.
Instead of using such a solution small
receptacle containing one-half ounce Of
perma nganate of potash on which one
half ounce of formalin has been poured
may be shut up in the incubator The
resulting gas will thoroughly disinfect
the machine After disinfection the in
cubator should be run empty for several
days to get it into good operating condi-
tion. After the eggs are in place the
temperature should be held at from
10l1s degrees to l02 degrees f. The
first week, lo2 to l03 degrees the second
week, and at 1903 degrees the third week,
The eggs usually are turned for the
first time at the end of the second
week and twice daily through the eight
senth or nineteenth day. The eggs are
cooled outside the Matching chamber
once daily after the seventh and up to
the nineteenth day. Moisture should
be furnished in artificial incubation in
the south, in high attitudes, and when
the incubator room is dry. This may
be done by sprinkling the eggs with
warm water or by placing wet sponge
or pan of water under the egg tray.
During the Matching period carefully
fill the lamp and trim the wick each
day. 1t is best to trim the wick by
scraping off the burnt portion rather
than by cutting the wick. The lamp
should not be filled entirely. After the
amp is filed il should be closely OBJ
served for time to make sure that the
lame does not get too high.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05

suited the report adds, in 10 banks with
capital of S765,00O deciding that the
business did not offer sufficient induce
ment for them to remain in it longer.
Compilation of clearing house figures
for the entire country, embracing lib
clearing houses, places the aggregate
| transactions for the year at the huge to-
tai of S24l ,407 ,54l 900, an increase during
the year of $7s,233,404, 900. There were
decreases in seven associations, aggregat-
ing 42,947 900 chief of which was the
decrease in the association at Albany,
n. Y, of S3l 1885, 900. New York leads in
increases, the total increase for the year
being $50 1888 ,00l 900. Other notable in
creases were Philadelphia. $1,000 III 900;
Chicago, SO, 725,2s5,000; Boston, $685.
10000, and st. Louis, 81 ,064,l77 900.
The popular belief that the United
States is the richest country in the
world, measured by the per capita money
in the bank, is dispelled by a comparison
with records of other countries. A COM
piIation shows that the per capita de-
post in the United States was S50.42,
while in New Zealand it was S9l.4l and
in Australia reached Sl0697.
Salaries paid bank presidents, the re-
port states, averaged 81 00s.4l year for
institutions with a capital under $4,000.
Bank presidents of institutions having a
capital OF S5,000,000 or more, however,
received annual salaries averaging S44,-
AL. The average salary OF all officers
and employees of national banks, however,
was 81 ,33l.sS, or sll099 per employee
Banks having from sl,000000 to So
100000 capital, the report states, paid
their presidents salaries averaging S22,
ASP year.
I'm view of the very moderate com
pensation paid to the average bank
clerk" the report states, "this office takes
the liberty OF recommending to national
banks that they give special considera-
ton to the question of furnishing their
clerks and other employees receiving small
salaries life insurance policies equal to
their salary for one year; SO that in the
event of death the families of the en-
ployees may at least be temporarily pro-
vided for"
Disclosures of the various bank calls
during the year and analysis of the fig
ues thus obtained are again given in de-
tail in the report.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
Moving Entire Hamlet Minus People.

| The Co-Brass Lumber village, which
| fourished for many years on the western
| slope of Bolton mountain, is being taken
ITO Burlington pieeemeal. The Is or 100
persons who composed the population are
scattered, most of them to the large
towns. some to farms, etc The big lum-
Der mill. the general store, a boarding
house OF 20 rooms, blacksmith shop, a
wheelwright. shop-all the stores and in
dustries that go to make up tiny noun
tain village are demolished, and the ma
terial that composed them has been sold
or carted Off, or soon will be.
The company is big concern, which
cut its own timber for use in its facto-
ries down in Connecticut, Slowly the
timber line receded until the company
found it no longer profitable to pursue it
across the cleared tracts and the second
growth. That was about five years ago.
The entire little community, composed
mostly of hard working Irish folk. there
upon moved, and the ring of the axe and
the buzz of the saw were heard no more
in the woods.
F. H. Brown of Burlington bought the
whole community for few hundreds and
leveled the buildings to the ground. The
work was finished recently The history
of the place had been so brief that many
of the boards and timbers OF the mill
looked like new The mill was built of
the best Vermont spruce, and more than
800 pounds of bolts were used to put
the planks and beams together. Nails
there were almost none.
Eventually nearly all of the lumber
will find its way into Burlington, it is
expected. And it comes at an opportune
time, too fer building, is going to be ae-
tive there this snrinn
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
SPRING POULTRY WORK.
Government Experts Issue Some Timely
Advice.

The poultry raiser on farm or in city,
who wishes to produce fall and winter
eggs with by product of spring ''friers'
should begin now to plan for the early
setting of eggs, say poultry specialists
of the t. S. department of agriculture.
In the states of the extreme south set
tngs should be made from the first to
the middle of February; in the central
group OF states, from the early part TO
the last of February; and in the north
ern states, from the latter part of Feb
ruary TO the early part of April. With
settings timed on the schedule the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-05
RANDOLPH
Funeral of Frank A. Phillips Was in
Charge of the Masons.

The funeral of the late Frank A. Phil
lips was held in the Bethany church OF
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock and was
attended by many Of his old friends ane
neighbors. Rev. Fraser MetzgeT officiat
ed and the Masonic fraternity had charge
of the service. The ritual of the order
was given at the church, j. G. Sherburne
officiating, assisted by others OF the
lodge. The bearers were W. c. Emerson
Harry Chase, L. G. Erskine and A. Nj
Hubbard. There were present IRON out
of town T. s. Whitcomb of Bellows Falls
Lynn Chadwick of Bethel, Harry Ford, a
nephew of the deceased, OF Burlington,
| Miss Hope Lane of Montpelier and the
son, Harry Phillips, and wife from Wash
| ipgton, D. C. The weather was so Sc
we're that all the service was rendered at
the church. There were beautiful gifts
of flowers from the different organiza-
| tions in which the deceased was MEM
/ Der, all testifying to the esteem in which
| he was held by large circle OF friends.
On Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Phillips
left for their home in Washington,
The funeral of the four -year-old son of
MT. ana MIS-, huSstll DuIIiuHt was Hciu
from the Catholic church Saturday morn
ing, the priest from Mortified officiating
in the absence of Rev. Father NJ. s.
ODonnell and interment was made in the
Catholic cemetery.
Rev. S. G. Suitor was able to occupy
his pulpit at the Methodist church Sun
day morning after an illness of several
days. In the evening Mrs. Annette
Parmelee of Enosburg Falls, who was
the guest of Mrs. p. G. Dodge, gave a
talk before good audience upon "Wom-
EN- of the Bible"
G. Il. Lazell, for many months great
sufferer, is not as well at present and
seems to be steadily failing.
1t was expected that Supt. Sturtevant
would speak Tuesday night before the
parent teacher meeting, but he is con
fined to the house by illness at his home
in South Royalton, so there will be
slight change in the program.
DR.. and Mrs. +. O. Blanchard have re-
turned from a several days stay in Bos-
ton and are now at their home for the
present.
Miss Helen Wedgewood has been pass
ing several days with relatives and
friends in Manchester, N. H.
Mrs Julia Pierce, state president of
the Equal Suffrage association, after
passing the night here with friends, re-
turned to her home in Rochester Satur
day. Mrs Pierce was here to attend and
preside at the meeting Friday night, held
in the auditorium of the high school
building, when Mrs. Parmelee spoke upon
"Woman's Place" before good audience.
A pleasing program was given before the
lecture, which consisted of piano solo
by Miss Julia Cummings, monologue !
by Miss Victoria Morse, solo by Mrs. |
f. J. 0'Brien, accompanied by Mrs. Julia
The audience was very APP
preciat tive.