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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09
ORLEANS LOCAL MENTION
H. B. .Moulton of Lisbon is in tov

III. B. Moulton of Lisbon is in town.
Mrs. Bertha Billiard is on the sick
list.
John Parker was in town last
week.
George Rowell of Hanover spent
Sunday at home.
William Austin was a visitor in
Lyndonville Saturday.
Miss Ruth Newton is spending a
few days in Sheffield.
Miss Beatrice Badger spent Sun
day in ST. Johnsbury.
A. M. Clough of Irasburg was a
visitor in town last week.
Preston Skinner is home after a
few weeks spent in Boston.
Glenn Dodge is able to be out
again after a weeks Illness.
Harold Mcnamara is working for
Whipple, French & Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Gay have re
turned from trip to Virginia.
Hale Mason was a business visitor
in Barnet and Lisbon last week.
A. B. CobIeigh of Derby was a
business visitor in town Monday.
Leon Turnbull was in Montpelier
Monday and Tuesday on business.
Bert Gauvin is slowly recovering
from an attack of rheumatic fever.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Sisco have NOV
ed into their home on Maple street.
/ Miss Victoria Flanders of Newport
i spent Sunday with friends in town.
+ Victor Hunter is attending store
| for f. M Allchurch while he is away
/ Mrs. Jennie Herbert of St. Johns
bury visited friends in town last
week.
Mr. and Mrs Hugh Buchanan have
started on two weeks business triI
by auto.
/ Mrs Emma Perley and Miss Els
Their were in Newport Monday OF
business.
Miss Ina Elliott was in town ovel
Sunday visiting her sister, Mrs. Ha
eel Skinner.
Lyndol Waterman of Stansteat
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs
Harry Bassett.
Miss Ruth Trip of Lyndonvill
spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs
Minnie Twombly.
Mrs. w. S. Shaw of White Rive
junction is spending a few days her
with Lieut.. Shaw.
The Odd Girls met with Mrs. F. A
Donaldson Monday evening. A pleas
! ant time was enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman House an
: Gerald French of Beebe spent Sun
day at c.. D. French's.
+, Mrs, James NJ. Elan and son Q
] WINNIPEG. were the guests of Mrs Z
r. Peabody over Sunday.
Fred Lothrop and family fror
Lebanon. n. f., were guests at tn
Nalfey House over Sunday.
Nrs. G. J. Brooks and son, Mardel
Of Portland, Me, were guests Of Mr..
i. E. Spafford over Sunday.
) Karl Webster is recovering frol
scarlet fever at White River Junctio
where he has been stationed.
Mrs. Fabian Reed and baby of S
; Johnsbury are visiting her parents
Mr.. and Mrs George Adams.
Fred Allchurch. Charles Steven
) Foster Kinney and Charles Tapli
; spent Tuesday at Long pond fishing
; Colby Stoddard returned to his O.
fee Tuesday morning after an al
) sence of two weeks caused by lines
! The Mothers club met with Mr.
, Charles Townsend Tuesday evenin,
/. This was the annual meeting Of tt
J club
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Peabody's big weekend sale adver-
tisement is on the opposite page.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Mrs. w. S. Shaw of White Rive
Junction is spending a few days her
with Lieut. Shaw
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

The Odd Girls met with Mrs. F. a.
Donaldson Monday evening. A pleas
ant time was enjoyed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Mr.. and Mrs Lyman House aad
Gerald French Of Beebe spent Sun
dav at c.. d. French's.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Miss Ruth Trip of Lyndonville
spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs.
Minnie Twombly
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

f, Mrs. James M Elan and son c
Winnipeg. were the guests of Mrs. T
r. Peabody over Sunday.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Fred Lothrop and family from
Lebanon. n. f., were guests At the
valley House over Sunday.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Lyndol Waterman of Stanstead
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs
Harry Bassett.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Irs. G. J. Brooks and son, Marder
Of Portland, Me-, were guests Of Mrs
L. K. Spafford over Sunday
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09

Miss Ina Elliott was in town over
Sunday visiting her sister, Mrs. Ha-
eel Skinner.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
0IDIER HIT BY
ERASER CAUSES
ARREST OF man
Judge Wilder Releases Cul-
prit, Employe Of Police
Commissioner

s'If I were Mr.. Stanley, I think I
would be glad to know that this sort
of, discipline prevailed in his factory %
The foregoing comment made by
Judge Frank Wilder, following the
hearing of testimony in the case of
Harry Mariners, a draughtsman in
the American & British plant who
was arrested after an eraser which he
had thrown struck a soldier doing
guard duty at the factory of which
John c. Stanley, police commissioner,
is the president
It appeared from the tstimony that
fellow employees of Marthers had been
teasinr him by throwing a rubber
eraser at him. Exasperated, Marthers.
who lives at 413 Warren street, threw
the rubber out of an open winow to
get rid of it.
It struck the soldier who complain
ed to the sergeant. The latter and a
corporal entered the factory and de-
manded to know who had thrown the
eraser out of the window. Marthers
stepped forward and admitted he was
the guilty person. He apologized and
stated he had no intention of hitting
any one with the rubber and regretted
what had happened.
The soldier evidently felt his dig
nifty had been hurt and he insisted on
Mariners being arrested, Special Po-
liceman Fox at the plant summoning
the draughtsman to court Judge
Frank Wilder took the view that Mar
sters had no intention of hitting the
soldier and nolled the case on pay
ment of costs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
OUTLOOK FOR CROPS In
ENGLAND IS NO BETTER
Than THAT In AMERICA
PIC RAISING IN
CITY LIMITS is
new SUGGESTION
Food Conservation Experts
May Seek to Have Re-
strictiOns Modified

Facing a shortage of meat that in
the minds Of many experienced agri-
culturists is far more serious than
the potato situation, food mobilization
experts in this country and New Ha-
ven are seriously considering COM
bined effort to stimulate pig-rais-
ing.
The Yale National bank at New
Raven has gone SO far as to advance
free of all encumbrance to approved
boys, funds with which to buy and
raise pigs.
The Fairfield County Farm bureau
has already discussed a similar prop
osition at its meetings with no adefin-
ite plan under consi deration at this
time.
It is likely that within the next few
days the matter will be placed be-
fore the board of health that certain
restrictions prohibitory to pig raising
in Bridgeport and its outskirts may
be modified.
With the price of pork highly in
fated and the prospect of its advanc-
ing still higher as the shortage of
beef becomes apparent, the profit in
pig raising under certain conditions
is predicted as far above that of agri-
cultural profits.
In Bridgeport where garbage is
contracted for by collecting COM
pany, 1t lis impossible to sell 1t to
farmers and large quantity of val
liable food matter to hogs is being
utilized in commercial ventures
Should restrictions be lifted on rails
ing pigs at least in the less thick1y
settled outskirts of the city it is be-
Eeved that home owners will find the
raising Of at least one pig from the
table leavings most profitable and will
also aid the farmer in disposing of
much Of the otherwise wasted corn
product to a profit at the close of the
season.
1t is pointed out by experts here
that with comparatively little care one
pig may be raised by a boy to a profit
{ of between SIS and $40.
In the event of severe shortage OF
meat during the coming winter, a
pig, properly dressed, salted and
smoked would provide largely for the
family sustenance during the winter
and spring, as nothing is wasted in
home dressing Of that animal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
NEW YORK HAS
GREAT HOLIDAY
FOR VISITORS
Proceeds of Opera Perform
ance, Probably 100000,
for War Charity.
ROOSEVELT HAS LONG
TALK WITH JOFFRE
Program of Many Activities
Occupies Second Day of
Visitors.

New York, May 10-The French
war commission visiting New York
faced a formidable program today,
calling for the presence of it's dis
tinguished members from $3.50 o'clock
this morning until midnight and car
rylng them from Prospect park in
Brooklyn to Grants stomb on River
side Drive. The unveiling of statue
to Lafayette, a luncheon by the Mer-
chants association, the comforting of
degrees att Columbia and visit by
Marshal Joffre to the tomb of Grant
were the chief functions claiming the
attendance of the mission.
New York today renewed the well
come extended to Marshal Joffre and
M. Viviani in such unsurpassed
warmth yesterday. Never before had
this chief city of America accorded
any one man or group Of men the well
come that broke into a tremendous
demonstration whenever the victor OF
the Marine and his distinguished asso-
ciates appeared where the people
could get a glimpse of them in passing
through the gaily decorated streets
In numbers New York showed the
magnitude of its appreciation of the
lOealS OF une man and thousands OF
persons were banked along the route
taken by the visiting mission from
Battery Park to the city hall, along
lower Broadway and Fifth avenue un-
mindful of the cold wind and inter-
mittent rain to see Joffre and to do
him honor.
Tonight members of the mission
will attend reception in the public
library under the auspices of the
French societies of New York. Fol-
lowing the party will be escorted to
the Metropolitan opera house for the
gala performance and reception. From
the sale of seats fund of $50, 600 has
been raised and it was estimated to-
day that this would be increased to
100000 to be presented to Marshal
Joffre for his favorite war charities,
the commission for relief in Belgium
and the Society for the Relief of
French War Orphans. The fund
known as the Joffre check, will rep-
resent the largest sum ever raised
by a benefit performance at the Met
ropolitan opera house. More than
half of the 100000 realized yesterday
came from the sale of 35 boxes at ST.
900 each. The check will be pre-
CONTINUED on Page 2.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
PHONES POLICE
He HAS KILLED
4; HANGS SELF
Young Kentucky Farmer
Stays Parents, Brother
and Latter's Wife

Elkton, KY, May 10-Frank Mil
len, a young farmer, early today kill
ed his father, Charles Millen; his
mother, Mrs. Betty Millen; his broth
er, Elmore, and his brothers wife,
Amy, with an axe. and hanged him
self.
ioung Millen notified the authori-
ties here by telephone that he had
slain the members of his family and
was about to take his own life.
The whole family is dead but me,
he told Coroner Bartlett. over the
wire, .sand I will be dead when yon
get here"
The coroner. sheriff and chief OF
police hurried to the Millen home,
about three miles away, where they
found the slayer's body hanging from
a rafter of a rear porch and the bod
les of the others lying about.
Continued sickness, it was said, had
unbalanced young Millen's mind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
FOUR PERISH As
new HAVEN TUG
SINKS IN SOUND
Towboat James H. Hogan
Capsizes in Heavy Sea Off
So West Light.
KEEPER PULLS TWO
OF CREW FROM SEA
Craft Formerly Familiar
Sight to Bridgeport
Harbor Men.

New Haven, May 10-Four men
perished when the tug James H. Ho-
gan, outward bound for Branford with
the coal laden barge Kingston in tow,
capsized and sank in a heavy sea off
the Southwest light today. The dead
were:
Emil johnson, captain; William R.
Hunt1ey, engineer; Ned Wesson or
Weston, fireman, and jeremiah Sulli-
van, deck hand.
The men grasped life preservers as
the boat went over and jumped into
the water. trying to make shore or the
barge. Two of them sank and the
other two died after being taken out
of the water by the keeper of. the
light, who put out to the struggling
men in a small boat
The Hogan, which was a boat of
81 feet in length, a breadth of IA feet
and a tonnage of 80 gross, was built
in Jersey City, N. j., in 1885, She
was owned by the New Haven Towing
CO., in connection with the James Nc
Williams blue Line
AT one time the Hogan was a IA
miliar boat in Bridgeport harber but
with the introduction Of higher pow
cred boats on the line. was reserved
for towing purposes in and about New
Haven.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
MARINE GUNNER
LOST AS TANKER
SHIP is BURNED
Details of Destruction of
British Ship Sebastian
Are Suppressed

Newport, R. T., MAY 10.-The British
oil tank motor ship Sebastian, which
was towed iby an American gunboat
to a New England port with fire rag
ing fercely in her hold, sank today
Thomas Jones', a marine gunner at
tached to a government vessel which
had the Sebastian in tow, was lost.
Conmandant Bryan Of the Second
naval district announced that the ship
went to the bottom at a point south
west of the Nantucket Shoal light
Ship. Mo information as to how the
gunner lost his life was made public
Soon after the Sebastian sent out S. o.
S. calls on Tuesday night several ves-
sells proceeded to her assistance, and a
transatlantic liner stood by until a
patrol boat took the crew off yesterday
morning.
The Sebastian, bound from New
York for Cardiff, was of 1,S46 net ton
mage She was commanded by Capt
Falconer and her home port was Lon
DON,
Because of the strict censorship the
cause of the fire was not revealed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
US. TO FINANCE.
BELGIAN RELIEF
BY COMMISSION
4
Hoover Will Continue to Di
rect Work From Wash
ington Office

Washington, May 10-Instead of the
81 ,000, 900 month that Ameri-
cans as individuals have been contri-
buting to Belgian relief, hereafter
s7,500,000 for Belgium and $4,000, 900
for northern France will be provided
monthly by the United States govern
ment for use of the American Belgian
relief commission. The sum Of $75,-
100000, enough for six months, has
been loaned to the French and Bel
gian governments Jointly, to be spent
for food to go to the populations of
each country under rule of the Ger
mans
More may be provided later, and all
food distribution will be in the hands
of Dutch and Spanish agents, under
direction of the commission, whose
director, Herbert C. Hoover, will
maintain headquarters in Washington.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
Historic Structure Badly
Damaged by Blaze That
Firemen Fight for More
Than An Hour-Relics
Soon Removed.
Structure Was Wired Heav-
lily for Decoration in Hon
or of Visiting Commits
sioners, Defective Insula:
tion Suspected.

New York, May 10-Fire breaking
out in the old City Hall shortly after
noon today did great damage to the
structure and caused beyond the
financial loss, much irreparable injury
to historical relics in the structure.
Discovered at 12:45, the flames were
not under control until an hour later.
The fire broke out in the cupola. At
1:45, when the cupola had been gutted
and the historic. clock destroyed, the
firemen had the blaze under control.
The building had been wired
heavily for decorations in honor of the
visiting commissioners of France and
England, and it Is suspected that de-
fective insulation may have caused the
fire.
The city hall was erected more
than 100 years ago and is regarded
as one of the most beautiful pieces
of architecture in the country. 4 It
contains many priceless relics of his
toricaI significance to the city and the
nation. The architect was John Nc
Comb. Construction began in 1903
and it was completed in 1912.
The American flag flying from the
flag pole surmounting the cupola was
rescued. On the floor just beneath
the roof were stored many historical
relics, including paintings of great
value and furniture which once was
used by the first United States senate.
Police and f1remen hastened to re-
move these treasures to a place of
safety.
Huge crowds gathered in City Hall
plaza and in Park Row and Broad
way completely blocking traffic.
All the declarations in honor of the
French and British ENJOYS were ruin
ed by water.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
Senator Foraker, a
Who Nominated
Mckinley, Is Dead

Cincinnati. May 10-Joseph Ben
sor Foraker, former United States
senator from Ohio, lawyer, orator,
soldier and citizen. died at his home
here today, aged 10.
Mr.. Foraker had been in poor
health since his retirement from the
senate in 1909, but it was not until
two weeks ago that he was forced
to his bed and his condition was rot
regarded as critical until last night.
Mr.. Foraker was twice elected and
twice defeated in contests for the gov
ernorship of Ohio, while he served
two terms in the United States senate
from 1897 to 1909. He had the hon
or of presenting the name of William
Mckinley to the Republican national
convention in 1896 and 1900.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
Cash READY FOR
DEPENDENT FOLK.
OF SOLDIER MEN
Charities Department Here
to Make Payments to
Four Families.

Supt. Angus Thorn of the charities
department, received from the state
board Of control at Hartford, orders
to furnish payments of money to de-
pendents of men enlisted in the state
militia. The request of four soldiers
for allowances were all that have been
acted favorably upon so far. The
sums range from s26 to $44 a month
and will be paid weekly from funds
of the charities department. The
state will reimburse the. department
semi
Supt. Thorn stated this morning
that only in cases where the soldier is
the sole support of dependents will
allowances be granted and depend
ents of men who are members of the
United States regular army are ex-
cluded from the benefits of allow,
ances.
The allowances granted date ir
each case from the time of the enlist
ment of the niiitiaman in regular
service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
Distribution, Not
Production, Great /
Problem, Says Lubin

Rome, May 10-With last years
world food crops poor and those of
this year poorer, 1t is necessary even
if the war ends this summer or fall
for the United States to apply rigid
food war measures, according to Da-
vid LubiR of California, founder of
the International Institute of Agri-
culture here, and Lmerican represen-
tative to it. Mr. Lubin already has
submitted to President Wilson and
other officials plans for the regulation
of food distribution
The mobilization of our agricul-
tura1 resources comes next in import
ance to the handling of our army and
navy" said Mr. Lubin in outlining his
plans to the Associated Press. ''The
war problem Is not one Of production
but of distribution We have seen
how the Russian government was
overthrown because people were
starving in a country that has had
ever since the beginning Of the war
immense supplies of surplus wheat
which the closing of the Dardannelles
prevented from going to market
There III more manipulation OF
food products in the United States
than in the belligerent countries of
EuTCpSs SO the HrSI LnlnS TO DO arteT
we have quit throwing away food,
wasting 1t, and have begun to plant
locally in each state and county more
heavily, is to shut off manipulation
through an effective national food
distribution organization.
II can't say how tremendously i'm
portant is such a measure. I don't
want to see the American people
reach the point, as today has. been
reached in Germany, of having to
have the contents of their slop pals
requistioned. But we must remem-
ber that no food detail can be me-
elected. In France and England
they were too slow in seeing the i'm
portance of food-just two years toe
Glow
"Our remedy for high prices, for
speculation. and our method for pro-
viding enough food to eat, lies in the
application of the German system oi
organizing the farmers and in the
proper adaptation of our parcel posi-
for food deliveries The great strength
(Ccn1inuad ON Page ID
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10

Washington May 1o-Conferees the army bill reached
an agreement today and the will
houses for confirmation possible
The conferees made the limit
selecve draft q to 80 years. inclusive place of the p to
limits in the senate bill and 81 to 40 in the
The amendment put in by the senate permitting Col
welt to raise four divisions for in France enat
ed another authorizing the raising of three
regiments for border patrol duty.
The senate amendments prohibiting the sale of liquor at
army camps and otherwise safeguarding the morals of
troops retained.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
ADVANCE WEST POINT
CADETS ONE YEAR TO
TRAIN NEW ARMIES

Washington. May 10-The first class
at West Point will be graduated
August 80, the war department an
nounced today, and Immediately COM
missioned to supply 154 highly train
ed officers to aid in the instruction OF
the first 100000 drafted army to be
called to the colors some time in
September.
Under normal conditions the cadets
would have completed their course st
the academy in June, 1918.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
French Officers,
Prisoners, Placed
Under Aero Fire

Berlin, May 1O-Via London-An
official statement issued here today,
says:
I'm reprisal for the placing of a
German general and 15 staff officers
on French hospital ships in the Medi-
terranean the German authorities
have placed thrice this number of
French officers of corresponding rank
at points in the western Industrial dis
trict which are especially subject to
aerial attack
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
MYSTIC STRIKERS RETURN

Mystic, May 10-At a conference
this morning between employees and
Manager Charles E. Wheeler of the
Standard Machine Co. the strike exist
ing for several days to obtain a nine
hour day was settled Tie men will
resume work Friday on understanding
that they get the shorter day on June
if the concern can make its contracts
on that basis, which is deemed prob
able. About 100 men were out
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
Germans Now Hold 27
Americans Prisoners;
Probably From Raiders

Washington, May 1o-That 127
Americans still are held prisoner in
Germany, probably crews from cap
tured armed merchantmen, was re-
vealed today. at the state. department.
1t is assumed that the men were
brought to Germany by raiders oper-
ating in the South Atlantic.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-10
BERLIN REPORTS
HEAVY ARTILLERY
IN ARRASs SECTOR

Berlin, May 10, via London--A
fuetuating fight for the possession of
Bullecourt, on the French front, is in
progress, says today's army headquar-
ters statement The artillery fire in
the Aras sector is reported on the in-
crease. -. 80 =. =.