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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05
OF STATE
S. S. CONVENTION
Full Schedule of addresses and
Business Arranged
Meetings Open Thursday Morn
ins, October t9, and Close
Friday Evenina

The Vermont State Sunday School
Association representing the Baptist,
Methodist and Congregational churches,
announces this week the full program
of its annual convention with which
Middlebury is to be honored this month.
The principal mass meetings will be
held in the Congregational church,
while the committee meetings will be
held in the Methodist and Baptist
churches
The convention will open at l0:30
on Thursday morning, October l8, and
will close with the l05th Anniversary of
the Vermont Bible society, on Friday
evening.
Among the noted speakers from out
side of the state who are expected
for this convention are Mr.. W. c..
Pearce of Chicago, ILL.,. the Adult and
Field Supt. of the international Sun
day School Association. Mr.. Wallace
|. Woodin, of Hartford, Conn, the
general secretary of the Congregational
School association; Mrs. Lucy Stock
Chaplin, of Hartford, the elementary
superintendent of the Connecticut as
sociation; Prof. Edward P. st. John, of
Boston University, Department of Re-
Iigious Education.
Some of the best known workers
from Vermont will also be present,
among them being Rev. William Shaw,
Phi. D., ;of St. Johnsbury, the district
superintendent of the st. Johnsbury
districts of the Vermont Methodist con-
ference; Rev. C. C. Merrill, of Bur
lington, the secretary of the Congrega-
tional state conference; Rev. w. A.
Dawson, D. D., of Burlington, secre-
tary of the Vermont Baptist conven-
ton; Rev. Edward M. Fuller for many
years :the general secretary of the
State Sunday School association and
now pastor of the Richford Baptist
church; Miss Marion F. Stickney of
Barre, elementary superintendent OF
the state association; Rev. j. W. Ches-
bro, of Bellows Falls, the secondary
division of the association, and others,
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05
AU REVOIR TO 40
MORE COUNTY BOYS
Assembly, Parade, and Banquet all
a Success Again
Jail, Says Or.Thomas,f for Whoever
Gave Boys Liquor

For the second time Addison County
has done herself proud in giving her de-
parting soldiers for the new army an
ovation which fits such an historic oc-
casion, Forty-nine men left here We'd
nesday morning, following the depar-
ture Of tifty-fiye men two weeks ago.
The ordeal of good.byes is nearly over,
there are only 10 more men needed to
fill the county's quota of 1913, and few
alternates to fill the places of some men
rejected at the final physical examin-
alton in camp.
The second "Send.off" was favored
with perfect weather, like the first, and
brought together throng of over two
thousand people, both on Tuesday night
and on Wednesday morning There
were many features which made the
occasion slightly different than on the
first farewell, but none the less memor-
able.
Packed closely in Addison House Park,
an orderly assembly probably represen-
tative of every town in the county
stood in close attention to the patriotic
ceremonies Of Tuesday evening. Cap
tain George W. Stone of Vergennes
added a military dash to the proceed
ings by appearing with his company d
of home guards, and acted as an escort
of the new members. ..of the national
Army. The latter formed in line at the
Court House in command of chairman
Allan 7. Calhoun of the local Selection
Board and headed by Ithe Vergennes
guard, the Middlebury Band and the
in charge. They marched
around the park. Lewis E. Hope of
appointed by Mr., Calhoun
as officer in charge until the boys ar
rive in camp, bore the fine silk flag
presented by Judge and Mrs. John e,
Weeks. The junior officers among the
new army boys were Ralph c. Sweet of
Lincoln and William j. Hurd of Addison,
Small boys gave color to the process
sion with red fire torches. Between
rows of thckly packed automobiles and
through the throng afoot the Home
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05
COUNTY TO JOIN IN
FOOD SAVING PLAN
Every One To Sign Pledge Week
of October 2l
Committees Named for Every
Town In Addison County

Arrangements are being perfected for
Addison County to do her part in the
big nationwide drive to secure sigma
lures to food conservation pledges dur
ing the week beginning October 81.
Mrs, j, E. Weeks, chairman of the
Vermont Division of the Woman's Com
mittee of the Council of National De-
fence, has organized the work in every
county in the state, and at a meeting
for Addison County held here Monday
evening representative men and women
in every town in the county were
chosen as teams for the big drive.
The purpose will be not only to get
every housewife in the county to sign a
general pledge for food conservation,
but to get the men to sign also. The
pledge commits no one to any specific
promise other than patriotic co-opera-
tion in food saving.
Mrs. Weeks, Mrs. j. A. Fletcher,
President John M. Thomas, who has
been appointed by the Public Safety
Committee as one of the leaders in the
movement, A. j. Blackmer and E. M.
Saunders met Monday night and nomi-
mated the following teams to prosecute
the campaign.
Addison; Mrs. Charles Reed,,L C.
Seeger,
Bridport: Mrs, j. Lee Palmer, Bert
Preble.
Bristol: Mrs. R. DEMO, F. R. Dicker-
man.
Cornwall: Mrs, C. H. Lane, A. w.
Foote.
Ferrisburg: Mrs. Charles Chapman,
L. A. Avery - -
Goshen: H. D. Jones, (woman mem
Der not yet appointed).
Granville: Mrs. l.. j. Brooks, A. A.
Briggs.
ber not yet appointed).
Leicester: Mrs. Alice Jennings Fiske,
Carl Barker.
Lincoln: George A. Thayer, woman
member not yet appointed)
Middlebury; Mrs. l.. ]. Hathaway,
A. j. Blackmer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05
To Happy Hunting Grounds

"Silk"-known to hundreds of
patrons of the Addison House as
John Higgins famous hunting
dog, is dead. Higgins had shot
over her for the past twelve years,
and over her great aunt, "Old Silk"
for twelve years before that.
Silk" had been failing for some
time from an obstruction of the in
testines, and on Thursday of last
week her master consented to the
ending of her suffering. Before she
was carried away in her basket to be
chloroformed, she "shook hands"
with her master for the last time,
aifectionately but feebly wagging
her tail. A casket was made for her
and she was buried under the trees
in one of her favorite hunting
grounds.
Famous as a zone man dog, Silk
would never go into hunting field
without her master, while most
pointers are ready to follow any man
in hunting togs. Higgins had raised
her from puppy, she having come
from Lad Kent, Snap Shot and Sen
sation stock. "a noted strain of
twenty years ago. She was dog Of
good disposition, always quiet in the
woods and never lost her head.
Higgins had shot hundreds of birds
over her, and despairs of ever find
ing her peer in hunting dog.
Will "Silk" be missed? Stand for
time in the lobby of The Addison
and hear old patrons ask; Where's
Silk"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05
OUR BOYS RIDE
WOODEN HORSES
Roy Harris Writes An Interesting
Letter of Camp Life
Describes The City Of Men =
Dressed-Allke-Soms Addison
County Boys Get Transfers
BY Roy D, Harris

Camp Dovcns, Mass, Oct, ], 1917
Another week has passed by here at
Camp Dcycns, the city Of men dressed
alike. Perhaps u little description of
this camp would not be out Of place
The Army Young Men s Christian AS
sociation has issued a little booklet,
Camp Dcyens" which gives some very
interesting facts, + will quote some of
the figures from this booklet to give you
better idea of the place whore the boys
from New England and the Eastern part
of New York State are located
Camp Devens is two miles in length
and one and one-half miles in breadth
covering an area of 10000 acres, On
this reservation there are some sixteen
hundred buildings. About the camp there
is twenty miles Of road laid and much
Of the road is good crushed stone auto
road. The permanent road is not all
put in yet, The steam rollers are busy
every day of the week. In order to
light the camp some four hundred miles
of electric wiring has been installed,
Sixty miles of heating pipes have been
laid and the heating plants in different
parts of the camp are being completed.
To build this city of barracks thirty.
four million square feet of lumber was
used.
have heard several stories from back
home about the hardshps we were under.
going here, about one of the Middlebury
hoys having two colts to break and
about another having a horse to clean of
which was so large that he had to stand
on box to do it. Well if you want to
believe such stories YOU can but if YOU
want to find out the trutI just take n
run down here some Sunday and we will
show you the horses. Each battery has
two and they are real wooden horses.
That s all we need so far.
The boys are all well and are counting
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05
Flyer Now Leaves 5:55

The Winter Schedule of Rutland Rail
road trains which took effect October /,
changes the time of the northbound flyer
from 5:44 to 555 p. M, leaving Middle
bury. There is no other change in the
new schedule.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-10-05
MIDI PLAYS AMHERST TOMORROW
1t is First Time Amherst Boys
Have Come Here

Tomorrow afternoon at Porterfeld at
oclock the Varsity Eleven of Middle
bury College will open the season
against the strong Amherst College
team.
Middlebury will have a fast team on
the field made up of nine veterans from
last year s.state. championship team and
a number of freshmen who have shown
up we'll in practice. The MIDI squad
has been out every afternoon since col
lege opened, and Coach Murch and
Capt. Bower have been pushing them
hard to get them in trim for the opening
fray. The boys have been working
hard and Captain Bower feels confident
that his men will go into the game full
of fight and will come out on the long
end of the score. The brunt of the
kicking will be left to Parker and KEEP
pier both of whom should cause the
Massachusetts aggregation lot of
.wolry. The following men will prob
ahIv ha uSed in the line IN.
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
WEST CORNWALL

The Misses Katherine and Dorothy Memmott have been guests of the Misses Sturges.
 Leigh Mixer is spending little time with his mother, Mrs. Geo. Miner, who has not been as we'll for few days.
 Keith Mallinson was home for the weekend.
 Sherman Bailey was also home. Being the possessor of car, he is in- dependent of railroad connections and san come from Schenectady more easily than Cornwall people can go by train tc Norfolk.
 Gould Hart was in town short time visiting on Hart Hill.
 MT. Noe was in town Saturday and Sunday.
 Many of the city people have re. turned to their winter homes.
 c. D. Morgan and family left Tues day morning.
 Miss Dorothy Garnsby was a visitor at tire Scoville farm.
 Fred Duncan, who has been in the New York Custom House nearly twenty five years called on friends and relatives during the week end.
 A specially important business meet. ing of the Grange will be held Sept. l7th and members are urgently re. quested to remember the date and be present.
 The Cornwall Fair will be Sept 2Sth and plans are being made to have fine exhibits.
 Sunday evening there is to be a very interesting illustrated lecture on the life aud times of Martin Luther. This will be in the chapel at 7:30.
 There were seventy at Church Sun. day morning, five of whom were over eighty years old. The floral decorations where Japanese Lilies.
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
SHARON

Miss Dorothy Landon of Hartford spent the weekend with her her father, w. K. Landon.
 The Schools opened for the Fall term Tuesday.
 P. Byron and Miss Agnes Byron and Masters Charles and Walter Byron have been visiting relatives in Water. bury.
 Miss Grace Lamb returned to New Haven last week after spending the summer with her parents, MT. and Mrs. A. W. Lamb.
 Miss Celia Hall of Hartford spent Labor Day with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. E. w. Klebes.
 Mrs. Williams of Schenectady is visiting her daughter Mrs. Wallace Richards.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Warner, Mrs. M. Potter and Mrs. R. Wood and daughters, Shirley and Lucilla motored from Waterbury Sunday and spent the day with MT. and Mrs. Geo. B. klebes.
 Roy Klebes of Waterbury spent the weekend with his parents, Mir. and Mrs. W. E. Klebes. -E
 Howard Pitcher of Waterbury spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Pitcher.
 Alanson Middlebrook returned to. Bridgeport Tuesday after spending the weekend and Labor Dry with his pGirnts, Mir. and Mrs. A. M d,llebrook.
 nrnbcr Of people from lere attendeu the celebration at Milltrion Labor Day.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Humeston spen the week end in Dover Plains.
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
LAkEVlLLE

Mrs. Joe Ellis and child of Newark, N. J. are visiting the family of Fred Ellis.
 Miss Hazel Thurston of Naugatuck and MT. and Mrs. Del Curtin of New York city spent portion of last week and Labor Day with their parents, Mir. and Mrs. Chas. Thurston.
 Miss Nettie Barnett returned home from her visit with friends in Blue Stone last week. Miss Clara Ellis who has been visit. ing friends and relatives in town for the past two weeks returned to her home in Wsldea on Wednesday.
 Texr 5, nda evening, Devotional Meeting of the M. F Ep4orth League will reopen. X Rally day program is being arranged by the leader, the Rev. Mir Vradenburg and the meeting will he held in the Church instead of Chapel, on Sunday evening next at 7:30.
 Mir. and Mrs. Myron Holley returned this week from a trip to Schrone Lake up near the Adirondacks.
 MT. Hiesing of New York city has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. R. w. Dufour this week.
 Fl. l.. Barnett and family made an auto trip to New Haven on Tuesday.
 O. H. Barnett of Waterbury was guest of his parents over Sunday and Monday last.
 Miss Louise Heaton has returned to her school duties in Winsted.
 ,l- c. the fall term on Monday next.
 Mir. and Mrs. Walter Silvernale and daughter Catherine of Hartford were guests of relatives in town over Labor Day.
 The Misses Mary and Emily Goderis of Hartford were guests of their parents over Labor Day.
 Miles Roberts and family of Hart. ford were visiting relatives in town over Sunday and Monday last.
 William Raynsford returned to his school duties in Winsted on Monday.
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
FOR TRAVELLERS.
How to Journey the Easiest, Pleasant
 est Way.

How to Journey the Easiest, Pleasant
 est Way.
 A common purse for travelling com panions does away with much confu- sion and wearisome settling up after day of sightseeing. Every morning let each member of the party put a speci- fed amount into common purse, from which equal expenses. such as car fares, fees, lunchcons, etc, are to be paid. Personal expenditures or extras should be taken from individual purses.
 A nice way to keep neckwear, rtb- bons and such things smooth when packing in a suitcase is to put them between the different leaves of mag. azine. This takes up less room than a box fin q suit case and is very conven- lent when removed to the dresser drawer, as 1t keeps these small articles smooth and nice.
 A stiff hatbox cut to equal the depth of the hat and placed over the hat will be found to be most effectual way of preserving its freshness during tray els Underwear and other little acces. sories can be packed neatly on either sue lO prevent tue DoN ul3u nat lIoLu swaying.
 There is q nightgown designed espe. cially for travellers who must spend the night on the cars. 1t has a pocket in which toilet articles may be tucked and a big hood which may be slipped over disheveed. hair for the trip from the berth to the dressing room. ....
 A bag of white oilcloth such as is used for shelves, with drawstring at the top. is a highly prized possession when one travels. The soiled clothing is snugly and securely packed in 1t, thus preventing the contents of the trunk from being affected by it.
 Sometimes when travelling or visit ing there Is pressing need of laundry bag and none at hand. If one can procure my sort of common towel, a bag may easily be made. Fold the towel fin halves and sew up the sides to within six inches of the top. Fold the tops over outside and stitch across. leaving an inch space for the draw strings, which may be of tape, ribbon or anything that happens to be at hand. Such a bag will serve it's pur- pose and can readily be converted back to towel when the need is over
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
at Hill Hoase.

at Hill Hoase.
 Althea Pickert returned home wi her father last Wednesday and I Peterson diagnosed her illness as ind gestIon. f
 Taconic was we'll represented at tI fair in Salisbury on Saturday. Tl costumes or the children reflect, much credit upon the committee i charge. Children of this section all received due share of ribbons.
 Mir. Gordon is the new ianiotr f, the church and school house.
 Mrs. Guy Johnson is snll confin, to her bed. -
 Isaac Kelsey and family spent Sul day with his mother, near sheffield.
 Mir. Edleman is carrying one han in a sling the result of an injury.
 Mrs. W. F. Robinson is sufferin from badly sprained finger.
 Among those who entertained friend over Labor Day were: Mir. and Mir John Miller, Mrs. Holmes, Mir. Rebi lard, Mir. and Mrs. Estes and Mir. an Mrs. Toppin.
 James Carson and family motore over Mohawk Trail on Sunday.
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06

In addition to this central camp or cantonment center, there will be other locations for specific divisions of this vast array of guardsmen. There will be an aviation field of hundreds of acres; a remount station of equal area, rifle range, artillery range, this latter having as its objective Kings Mountain of revolutionary fame. It is approximately 15. miles distant from the main cantonment.
 The aviation squad will number 2,500 airmen with half that number of ma chimes. This will be stationed east of the city
 The improved section of Myers Park, the handsome and fashionable resi- dential suburb of Charlotte, will be utilized for some division of the corps.
 There will be 1200O horses in the artillery division and another site will be requisitioned for the accommoda- tion of these.
 And, then, there will be several uulufeu acres uSeQ TOT maneuVer grounds, located six miles east of the city on stretch of sandy loam that can be easily used during any period of excessive precipitation.
 To get the camp for Charlotte there has been no stintedness on the part of the progressive peopye of Charlotte l Whatever charges k1s to be met for the use of any and d.. "~ the nearly 10,- 900 acres availab1e. >,-v'- been borne by the business meg s'' charlotte who have an appreciation oi what it means to have a city of equal size to the present proportions of Charlotte in point of population spring up almost over night just on the outskirts. The construction work will have been completed at the present rate of progress by the time the last contin- gent of the 50,000 or more soldiers who are coming here will arrive. A veritable army of laborers are engaged now clearing up underbrush. burning the green trees that have been felled from historic forests, laying beds for the concrete military roads, building barracks and mess houses, leveling and filling up ditches and otherwise converting the landscape Of cotton fields and wooded lands into city for the habitation of man.
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
SALISBURY

The Children's Parade, which was to have taken place Saturday, was necessarily abandoned, and in its stead, tableaux were given in the Library.
 The exhibition Of vegetables, can. ming and sewing done by the children of the Town, was far beyond the expec tations of the people and drew a large crowd, as did also the Local Moving Pictures for the benefit of the Surgical Dressings
 Miss Ella Decker, Marion Lynch ard friend of Brooklyn, and Miss Katherine Snyder of New York have heen visiting at W. P. Bishops.
 W. P. Stone is spending a few days in Hartford and vicinity.
 I. K. Fulton and family have return' ed from Stony Creek.
 Mrs. Wm. Conklin with Mrs. k. J. Stuart, of Lakeville, went to Branford for two weeks, on Wednesday; Miss O. E. Conkiln motored down with them for the day.
 Charles Eve,ts mud family, of Bridge, port, spent the week erd at W. P. Everts.
 E. O. Warn, and family of Scranton, Pennsylvania, have been spending a few days with Rev. Lyman Warner. Mrs. W. l.. Ashe, of santa Barbara, Cal. is at the White Hart Inn. Mrs. Ashe was formerly Miss Catherine Johnson, of Salisbury.
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
Autumn CoIors.

The powers that be who determine what woman will wear next season have put their heads together fin Paris and decided upon the new autumn col ors. Would you like to know what they are to be? Yellow, 1t seems, is left out entirely, and green, so fashion. able thisyesr, will have fewadherents. There are purplish blues, nickel and gun metal grays and several charming reds, including fuchsia, geranium and brick red. Browns will be exclusively fashionable, with gamut from bisque to chocolate. The great feature in this respect, however, will be chame. leon, each chameleon shade combining two others in shot effect
Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
CHARLOTTE HOME OF CAMP GREENE.
Historic Town in Piedmont Section of North Carolina One of Most Favored Cities of the South-Climate Water and Surroundings Unequaled-Ideal Location
 For Cantonment

Charlotte, the city which Is to be the transient home of the New Eng land troops. is a historic community, celebrated for the most part by req son of the fact that 1t was here that the First Declaration of Independence was executed. Patriots of Mecklen- burg, the county of which Charlotte Is the seat, gathered on spot now the central site of the city, marked by the intersection of its two principal streets, and without awaiting the later action in Philadelphia, signed docu- ment in behalf of British independence, which has become historic, on May 2Oth, 1776. This date is annually eel ebrated by the State, with Charlotte staging it's most monumental pageant. Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, Vice. President Marshall and President Will son have all been the distinguished guests of honor on the occasions of these celebrations, President Wilson having made the principal address and being the central figure in the celebra- tion on May 20th, 1916.
 Charlotte Is, moreover, the metro polls of North Carolina. Its population is 5O,000 and it is the most favored of all Carolina cities in many activities, notably that of cotton manufacturing Within a radius of 50 miles of Char lotte are 400 cotton mills with a pay roll of $30000.000 year and having over 400 900 employees. Its own prin- cipal industry is cotton manufacture and the manufacture of by-products of cotton It is the main distributing cen ter of the Carolinas being State head quarters for more automobile distrib- uting agencies than any other city in the two States. Its skyscrapers are office buildings tenanted by represen- tatives of Northern and Eastern firms and corporations whose range of ac. tivities is over Meth and South Caro- lima. the Southern branches of these institutions being centered here.
 The aggregate cost of the canton ment when it shall have been made ready for the troops will be between s2,0O0,000 and $2,500,000. There will be an aggregate of nearly 2,000 buildings of wooden construction, Tn addition to thousands of tents. The wooden struc. lures are barracks, mess halls, hospi tals, officers headquarters and every other essential of a city for an army numbering 50, 900 men.