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The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
CAPTURE LENS
COAL FIELDS
BY BRITISH
IS IMMINENT
whether FRENCH ARE TO
MAKE AN OFFENSIVE AT THIS
TIME is NOT KNOWN

While General Haig is closing in
so closely upon Lens that the cap
ture by British of this important CEN
ter and their adjacent coal fields
seem imminent there is a question as
to whether the British operation will
be accompanied by a French offen-
sive on like scale. While Haig and
Petain have been jockeying for posi-
tions along the Aisne and Champagne
fronts. particularly the former, it
seems the German activities are ef-
forts to choke any possible general
movement by the French. Petain's
occasional strokes give the impress
sion that he is merely trying to pre-
serve his vantage points with the
idea of resuming the offensive at
some future time Evidently the AL
lies intend to have convocated the
Greek Parliament of May 1915 which
was controlled by Venezelists has ma
jority favorable to the entente.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
ECONOMY OF EFFORTS
(Board of Health BulletinD

(Board of Health Bulletin)
Economic administration-to gain
the greatest efficiency from the ex-
pendture of money and efforts the
key note of modern business success.
Florida's State Board of Health,
just now under new administration
and directed by men of energy who
are experienced in health and SANTA
ton is planning to apply business
methods to the conservation and util-
i2ation of all the resources at its
command.
Between the great national health
organizations and the various state
boards of health, the relations differ
from those which exist between the
political governments of the nation
of the states. In the administration
of health matters the National Public
Health services exercises an advisory
place, assuming executive authority
only in interstate affairs and along
the national borders. Other organi.
cations of national scope, such as the
National Anti-Tuberculosis Society,
Rockefeller Foundation and others. de.
vote their energies and vast financial
resources to the investigation of dis
ease causes and treatment, and the
results of their work are available
free of cost to all health bodies which
are clothed with the actual executive
administration of public health.
Florida's health board, with a rec
Grd of nearly thirty years of pioneer
work in combating disease within and
from without its borders, is clothed
with executive power only when con-
ditions in any section get beyond the
control of local authorities. II has
also executive authority in health
and sanitary matters in such sections
as are not protected by local boards
of health.
IL must be apparent that such In.
dependent effort. exercised without
intelligent correlation, is likely to be
wasteful, because overlapping and
duplication may and do make it un-
Continued on Page 81
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
66 TEACHERS PASS
EXAMINATION
AT BARLOW

The grading committee Monday
finished its work of grading and tab.
ulating the results of the recent ex.
aminations for teachers certificates.
Professor l.. T.. Bennett of Barlow,
Miss Tomlinson of Lakeland, and Mr..
Moore of Mulberry, passed upon the
papers. Following is a complete list
of those qualifying for the various
certificates:
First Grade Certificates: Roy H.
Paxson, S. Aline Smith, Ella Lurleen
Bridges, Fac Cole, Mrs. b. f. Hol-
land, Mrs. G. ID. Tyree, Fanny O.
Smith. John j. Hileman, r. s.
Knowles, w. w. Virgins, Mrs Isa-
belle Glover. Mrs. Amy Holden, Es-
telle Butler A. NJ. Durrance, Har-
riett Shaver.
Second Grade Certificates: Ethel
Cook. Mrs. Pearl Dickinson, Lula
Leggett, r. l.. Durrance, Margaret e.
Koehler. Nella Jeffrys, Mrs. John Nc
Lean. Mrs. II. r.. Gresham Eta Co
Wan, Ruth Marshall, Cora M. Man
sell, r. Bland Hudgins, Mary King.
Clifford s. Urwiller, Edna Ford, Mrs.
r. S. Moseey, Minnie Bates, Fannie
Addison, Mrs. A. c. Roller, Lydia
Robertson, Nellie May Hoard, ]. w.
Watson. Mrs. F. A. Gresham, Beulah
l.. Long. Roella Gain, Laurel Urwil-
Ter, Christine Colson, Ottie Colson,,
Fred NJ. Ivey. NJ. Dewitt Jackson. T.
A. Gresham.
Third Grade Certificates: Eliza.
beth Meharg. Mrs. w r. White. Henry
Fortner, Jappie Robertson, IneZ
Clark, Vivian B. Shockley, Ethel Will
hite. Myrtle MrRae, Ada Martin,
Fora Henderson. BERTHE Robertson,
Maud Dickinson. Mary Addison,
Kathleen Hoard Nellie Morris, T. L.
Watson, Macie Ward, Mabel o.
Brown, Mary Singleton, Ollie Smith.
Barlow Courier Informant
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
Recruiting Is Slow; Now
Over $4,000 Men Short
OF The Desired Number

Washington, June 81. With re-
Crultng week half gone the
War Department officials estimated
the regular army is more than fifty
thousand men short of war strength.
Ii is apparent there has been no gen
rral response to the Presidents call
for 20, 900 volunteers by Friday
night. Officials. however, hope for
a greater activity in the next three
days. Nine States have their quota,
cisht are below 75 per cent, twenty
ar, below 80 per cent and six are
below 25 per cent Georgia has 81
per cent; Florida, 60, and South
Carolina, %
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
DNT|NCFNT OF AMERICAN
FORCES Reach FRANCE: ARF
fRAN1|CAL[I CHFFRFD RY
FRENCH; SOON GO TO FRONT
GeoRGlA-FLoRIDA SAW.
MILL ASSOCIATION WILL
FILL BIG ARMY ORDER

The Jacksonville Metropolis of Sat.
Sawmills of members of the Geor-
gia-Florida Sawmill Association will
wlthn the next nintey days cut and
delver approximately 7O,OOO.OOO feet
of yellow pine lumber at cantonment
sites for the construction of army
barracks.
The mills already are making de-
llveries. according to NJ. l.. Fleishel.
VINO was Yesterday made chairman of
the Georgia Florida Yellow Pine En-
ergency Bureau, which was organ
lzcd at a special meeting of members
of the sawmill organizations. The
meeting was held in the writing room
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
Aid OF Sisters
Is Desired
By Red Cross

Baltimore. June 27.-To offset the
malicious rumor circulated that the
American Red Cross is discriminat-
ing against the nursing by the Sis
terhoods OF the Catholic church Car
dinal Gibbons took up the matter
with the Red Cross. In pointed let
ter to the Cardinal. Eliot Wadsworth,
acting chairman of the Red Cross
stated there was to be no discrimi-
nation. He said the Sisterhoods
were allowed to wear their particular
garb during the Spanish American
war and quoted Red Cross rule show
ing the aid of the Sisterhoods Is de-
sired.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

Linden, announced a few days ago
that the increased influx, and the bod
lily condition of persons entering the
country, had necessitated more dras-
tic sanitary measures Barracks are
TO be erected at five different points
of the frontier. where all Germans
entering the country, of whom the
great majority are deserters, will be
disinfected, while camp is to be
erected for the accommodation of dan
gerous or undesirable elements
among deserters. AS regards the ma
tional danger. the Minister for War.
Major-General n. Bosboom, endeav-
ored to reassure public opinion in par
Lament few days ago by declaring
that, If Holland became involved in
the war, 1t would be made evident
that the government was far more
conversant with the position as re-
CARDS foreigners. and had taken far
more adequate precautionary meas
ures, than most people thought
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
IRON PREPARING TO
ENTERTAIN $4,000 OF BEST
PEOPLE ON EARTH
Is Not Expected to Materially
'duce the Attendance Upon the
Great FraternaI Gathering

bston, June 25.-Applications for
)mmodations at the local hotels
pate that the war is not going to
the BEST People on Earth :
! coming to Boston in full force
3ttend the national convention or
Benevolent and protective Order
lks next month. The Committee
fharge of arrangements are pre-
fg for the entertainment of So
members of the order and an
number of other visitors during
fention week.
consideration of conditions aris-
Prom the war it has been deemed
opriate to eliminate some of the
Facular features of the program.
other features will be carried out
Rual, however, and the social en-
ihment will be provided on an
ually elaborate scale.
stead of $4,000 parade the Elks
devote the money to a special
uction of "Caliban" in the Har-
Stadium, and the money will be
ted to the American Red Cross.
OF the chief items of business to
ansacted by the convention will
perfection of plants to raise a
o'OoO fund to be devoted to pa
purposes. The fund will be
by voluntary assessment of the
oers throughout the country.
program completed for the
OF business and festivities is as
MS
'urday, July reception and
ration day! Regular and speci'
Hihs arriving from every State in
Mon will be met at the stations
eception committees from the
oil Greater Boston, and the del
escorted to the hotels in auto
les.
uay-Religious services at Trim
uurch at p. m. with address,
aaer D. Mann, rector, and the
John Dysart, grand chaplain
ting.
Huay-Harbor ride for members
'rand Lodge and ladies. Open
eFeises of the convention at
Oat Temple, at p. M, with ad'
OIL welcome by Governor NC
Sla Mayor Curley.
suay-Historic Day. Automobile
Ct the Paul Revere route, start
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
OOPS NOW
y IN FRANCE ARE
REGULARS
EAGER TO GET TO FIGHTING
ARBOR FILLED WITH CON.
OYS
(By Associated Press. }

French Seaport, June 27.-Thc
nd contingent of American
Cs have arrived. Landed amid
Tic cheers, people who lined the
IS for hours anticipating the du-
ltion of yesterdays surprise ar
The town is decorated. The
ps we're transferred to a camp
the port where Major General
1t has been installed. They prob
60 soon to a point near the
k. All are in excellent condition,
are enthusiastic over the sue
Jul trip and eager for action.
hing is expected tomorrow. The
Dor is dotted with conveys.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
OPEN SCHOOLS FOR
THE "BATTlE CRY OF
FEED'EM" SAYS cHAS.
LATHROP PACK

Washington. June 27-"The Battle
Cry of Feed'em is the slogan in ev-
erv home in the land. says Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the Ma,
tional Emerengy Good Garden Com
mission. land that slogan should be
heard in every school house in the
land
"Why not use the schools of the
country as community canning CEN
ters two or three times week? What
better place could the people of the
town or city have for meeting and
furthering the work of feeding them
selves and thereby helping the gov
ernment feed the soldiers? They are
closing now and should be used to
hold canning rallies,
Reports coming to the Commis-
sion in our nation wide survey OF the
eardenplanting situation show that
the women are planning to can ana
dry foo das never before.
"The commission stands ready 10
send free a canning or drying manu-
al for two cent stamp to pay pos
tage to any woman in the United
States Make the kitchen your ilrst
line trench and shoot the requests Tor
this expert free instruction with as
rapid fire as you please.
The women will do their bit If they
have the proper instruction in the
most up.to.date methods OF conserV-
inc the food supply The commission
will work night and day to give 1t 10
them, all they have to do is 10 ASK
for it.
P. S. Risdale, the secretary oI ~
commission, announces that the state
nv state survey is being rapidly com
nirpd from estimates Of garden plant
inc being made by newspapers
chairman of planting committees ana
chambers of commerce.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

er at the call of E. c. Harrell, secre-
tary, who had just returned from
Washington and other military CEN
ters.
Owing to the exigencies of the oc-
casion and the necessity for quick
handling of shipments, the emergen-
cy bureau was formed, with executive
authority delegated to Mr.. Fleishel.
of the Carpenter-O' Brien Company
Mr.. Harrell was named secretary.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
STAND LATIN
AMERICA WILL
TAKE IN WAR
SOON TO Be
DETERMINED
(By Associated Press

Mexico City, June 27. Latin
American diplomats said that all
Latin-American countries except
cuba and Panama have accepted Ar
gentina's invitation to the CONGRESS
at Buenos Aires at which the stand
OF Latin America oward the war will
be determined The invitation was
extended a month ago
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

great cotton and woolen mills. Sight
seeing trips to points of interest in
the Merrimac Valley Luncheon at
Vesper Country Club. Lowell, and
Lawrence Country Club, Lawrence.
Saturday Automobile trip to
swampscott. Beverly, Manchester-on
the-Sea and other North Shore re-
sorts. with luncheon at Gloucester.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

The Mongolia mad ngnt on June
/ with a submarine, firing four shots
at the torpedo In the battle neither
the liner or the submarine was in
jurcd This was also the ship on
v hich two nurses were killed by an
cN plosion of a shell during gun prac-
tice. Later in a gun fight. the Mon
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

ing from Copley Square. Elks seconu
animal trap-shooting tournament a'
pale Face shooting grounds. open
i,g business session OF the conven-
ion at fremont Temple at 10 a. m'
Special performance OF "caliOah at
Harvard Stadium, S p. N.
Wednesday-Outing and shore am
nor for members OF the order at y an,
,asket Beach. Sessions OF the urahu
1.ordge during the afternoon
Tbursday-Grand patriotic demon
s,r.tion on Boston Commons at noon
Grand Lodge session at fremont
Temple during the afternoon spec,
iaI Elks' Day celebration at Revere
Beach during afternoon and evening.
Friday-Textile Day. Excursion 70
lowell and Lawrence to inspect 'ne
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
AN American
SAILING VESSEL
IS SUNK
{ BY Associated Press. J

London, Junt 27 The American
sailing vessel Galena of thousand
tons was sunk BY a bomb June -
Oft the French coast There We're
nc casualties.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
(By Associated Press.)

Bombay, June 81 The Peninsu-
lar and Oriental liner Mongolia
struck a mine and sank. All were
saved but the mails are believed to
he lost.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
MANY DEsERTERS FROM
GERMAN ARMY

The Hague. Netherlands, June26-
Thousands of deserters mostly from
the German army now are swelling
the stream of refugees pouring into
Holland from adjoining countries.
Holland has become a great place of
refuge for fugitives fleeing from the
terrors of the German front, food
hardships or the German military re-
gime.
So numerous have these war refu-
gees become that weekly period-
cal, called "The Combat" has been
established at Amsterdam to carry on
revolutionary socialist propaganda
among them. A Society of Deserters
has been formed in Holland, appar-
emily by German agents in order to
discover the names of deserters and
exert pressure on their families to in
duce them to return to Germany. Re-
turning deserters no longer are shot
but are sent to the front.
The country is overrun by a small
army of spies, persons of both sexes
whose work is to spy into Dutch af-
fairs, to spy upon the belligerents
and sometimes to spy upon one an
other.
These refugees, deserters and gov
ernment agents, AIDED to escaping
prisoners of war of virtually every
Entente nationality, fugitive Poles
and other peoples of Eastern Europe,
fleeing from forced labor and other
evils have swelled the migration
flood until the problem of what dis
position to make of these foreigners
has become acute in Holland
There are many decent men among
the deserters who, made desperate by
the sufferings and slaughter at the
front, or rebelling against their gov
ernments system or policy, have
shaken the dust % their fatherland
from their feet. Quite number are
convalescent men who We're ordered
back to the front. great number
are undesirables to whom many
crimes are attributed Some become
smugglers but wholesale banishment
from the frontier regions now virtu-
ally has closed this profession to
them. Police control of them is very
inadequate.
Proud of its traditional hospitality.
Holland opened it's frontiers freely to
all comers but public opinion and the
government has discovered that there
are formidable dangers inherent In
this aggregation of immigrants.
What might not happen, Hollanders
often ask themselves. if Holland sur
denly became involved in the war
with all these vast numbers OF for
eigners spread all over the country.
many of them of the worst or at least
OF the most doubtful character?
Infectious disease repeatedly has
been introduced The great exodus
of Belgians brought typhus and dy.
sentery; Austro- Hungarian emigrants
from Galicia, on their way to join rel.
atives in America, and suspected
smugglers from that province,
brought smallpox; escaped prisoners.
of-war from infected German camps
and others occasionally introduced
disease like spotted fever and menin.
gifts In each case the disease was
quickly checked
Now, however. smallpox has a real
hold in part of Germany as well as
in countries farther east and il is
pointed out how easily this and other
SOURCES may be brought across the
/ frontier.
The Prime Minister Gort van de
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
WATCH USES OF SUGAR

Watch the use of sugar in jelly
making and save wherever possible,
saws today's bulletin from the Nation
al Emergency Food Garden Commits
sion which is cooperating with this
naper in a nation wide campaign to
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
COPPER AND LEAD
TO COME UNDER
Govt CONTROL

Washington, June 27.-Copper and
lead and their products, and lumber
and timber are additional articles to
which Government control will be ex-
tended under amendments adopted
by Senate agriculture committee.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

SEPARATE PEACE
AGAIN REJECTED
BY RUSSIANS
(By Associated Press.)

Petrograd, June 27 The resolu-
tion rejecting any move for a sep
arate peace between Germany and
Russia was adopted by the Congress
of Workmen's and Soldiers Union
deputies of all Russia
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
WOODNEN WILL
NOT SPARE
THAT TREE

London, June 27.-Ten Units of
American woodmen sent by the New
Engand States and organizations to
turn the many forests of England
into lumber have arrived on an Eng
lish steamer.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

conserve the food of the nation and
against waste. The commission will
send free its canning or drying man.
ual to any who enclose a two cent
stamp to pay postage
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
Are Regulars
(By Associated Press.)

ashington, June 27-The troops
rance are all regulars. They
act as an Independent command
in conjunction with the French.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

of the Mason Hotel and was attend.
ded by about fifty members Of the
association hurriedly brought togeth-
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27

Mongolia's Crew Absolved But Ship
Sunk Now
(By Associated Press)
Washington, June 27-The report
of the investigation of the naval gun
accident in May on the American
armed merchantmen Mongolia alb
solving the gun crew and commend
ing the Navy Department for max
ing changes in the ammunition de-
signed to prevent such accidents was
unanimously adopted by the Senate
Naval Committee
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-27
Steamer Mongolia Sunk By
Mine; All Aboard Safe;
Ship Had Exciting Career

golia sank a submarine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-05-18
BURNED PROBABLY FATALLY.
Child i'll South Main Street Tenement
Was Playing with Matches - Fire
Alarm Indicator Went Wrong.

Elsa Semararo, 4, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Scmararo of South Main
street, was burned probably fatally
yesterday afternoon while PLAYING
with matches. Her father is a barber.
who conducts a small shop and store
combined. His wife helps him. The
child was alone in the tenement over
the store when her screams were heard.
Both parents rushed to the tenc-
mcnt, to find the little, girl S clothing
i'll flames. Both were badly burned
about the hands in trying to tear the
clothing from the girl S body. Joseph
Trahan, barber employed by j. il.
Allen and who lives nearby, joined in
the fight to save the child S life and al
so was burned.
DR.. f.. r.. Lynch rushed the child to
the Melrose hospital, where it was said
that she was burned about her face,
body, hands and feet.
Box l3 was sounded and registered
i'll the fire station -, which is the box
at the corner of Oak Grove avenue and
Canal street. Without noticing that
the box had not been opened the fire
men on their arrival at box II saw
heavy smoke issuing from a chimnev
on FalWleW avenue and went there
Box l3 was pulled again as the appar-
atus stopped at the scene of the sup
posed fire and Chauffeur Charles Stock
well counted the alarm to learn that
it was box u, and not box l. that had
been sounded. On the second alarm
Driver Henry Pcllerin pulled out with
the horsedrawn combination wagon AM
also went wrong, the indicator again
registering -.
There was no work for the frcmcl
when they arrived and there would moi
have been had they gone directly It
the fire. 1t is said to have been the
first time the indicator has failed t,
register the correct number.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-05-18
FALL KILLS WATCHMAN.
Royal Sleeper's Body Found at Foot of
Stairway at Fort Drummer Mills-At-
tack of Vertigo.

Royal Sleeper So, night Waterman
for four Years at the Fort hummer
mills, was found dead Sunday morn
ing by Day Waterman Best who went
to relieve him at $50 o'clock. The
body was living at the foot of the iron
stairway leading from the first to the
second floor and was head down. Death
was due to injuries to the head. DR..
Henry Tucker, health officer, who was
called, said that Mr.. Sleeper had been
subject to attacks of vertigo or dizzi-
ness, and that in his opinion he suffered
an attack while descending the stairs
and fell. receiving in that way the in
.iuricS which caused his death. The
Waterman 5 clock on the second floor
showed that Mr.. Sleeper visited it at
y o'clock that morning.
Mr.. Sleeper was born in Chelsea
(Nt.) and had been a resident of Brat
tlchoro l. years. He was an attendant
lat the Brattlcboro Retreat at one time.
He also cared for the late j. Stuart
Pratt several wears. He leaves one
son. Warren Sleeper Of Albany, \. V.
a travelling salesman.
The funeral was held Tuesday after
noon at the Advent Christian church,
Rev. f. $. Hewitt, pastor and Rev. Viii
liam f. BisScll of West Townshcnd
officiating. The bearers were LuciuS
Moore, Hollis Burnett, George Bond
and Il. d. Cutler. The body was placed
in the tomb Mt MorningSide cemetery,
and today will be taken to Chelsea for
burial
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-05-18
MISS WELLINGTON CLERK.
Named by Municipal Judge Addison T.
oudworth-served in Same Capacity
for Judge Barber

Judge Addison T.. Cudworth Of South
Londonderry, the newly appointed
judge of the municipal court for the
village of Brattleboro, was here Thurs,
day, May 10, and appointed Miss
Ethel A. Millington clerk of the court.
Miss Millington was the efficient clerk
of the court under Judge Cudworth IS
predecessor, Frank L. Barbar.
Judge Cudworth has made no per-
manent arrangement yet for court
room, but for the present he will have
the one which Judge Barber has used.
Tie intends TO secure larger qumtors il
possible.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-18
CLOSE CALL FORM
FIRE WEDNESDAY

A near fire started Wednesday
morning in shed back of the cottage
occupied by T. r. Grayson west of the
Home Lumber yard. A workman
burning trash let the fire get into
the dry grass near the house and
after all danger was thought to be
over blaze again broke out in the
shed. 1t was beaten out by f. G.
Ticknor and Prof. Cushman before
any danger was done.