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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-13
PATRIOTISM SPIRIT
RULES AT GONZAGA
Commencement Exercises Tonight
viii Have War Tinge.

Patriotism will be the keynote and
the spirit OF the commencement ex
ercises to be held at Gonzaga Col
lege in college hall this evening.
The music, songs and speeches will
all be Of the patriotic variety and
the graduating of some OF the stu
dents in the high school course In
the army uniforms OF the service in
which they are enlisted will make
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-13
TO DO THEIR BIT
AS BOY FARMERS
Working Reserve Organized
and Plans Perfected.
D. c. YOUTH BACK TO SOIL
Plan to Register At 0nce-COn-
sent Of Parents Is Necessary.

The boys of Washington are going
to be a big help to Uncle Sam in his
effort to crush German autocracy
and democratize the world.
Representatives OF the public
schools. Juvenile Court, Boy Scouts,
and other boy organizations met yes
terday afternoon at the Y. NJ. c. A. to
assist William E. Hall, national d.
rector of the United States boys
working reserve, recently organized
by the Department or Labor. to mooi-
lie an army OF local boys between
the ages OF eighteen and twenty-one
to work on farms and in other ways
assist in the compaign against labor
shortage.
H. c. Davis, secretary OF George
washington University, acted as tenn
porEry chairman of the meeting, and
appointed the following COMMITTEES on
organization: Henry p. Blair. former
president Of the Board of Education,
chairman: Judge J. Wilmer Latimer,
Of the Juvenile Court, and E. L.
Thurston. Superintendent OF Schools:
l.. w. DeGast, boys secretary OF the
Y. NJ. c. A, was appointed District
registration officer.
Plan Repatriation.
This committee will meet in the
near future to devise ways and means
OF registering the boys living in the
District and enrolling them in COM
pany or squad units. Each company
or squad will have a leader or d.
rector.
Director Hall outlined the plan OF
work proposed by the new organiza-
ton, and announced that the short
age in farm labor is now estimated
at between two and three pillions.
The only available labor recruits are
among the boys under military serv-
ice age, he said. Mr.. Hall said that
there are about 100000 boys be-
tween the ages OF eighteen and TWEEN
ty-one in the country.
The Boys Working Reserve will CO.
operate with the Department Of Ag-
riculture. The national committee OF
the reserve is composed OF governors
Of several of the States and leaders
or the great national boy organiZa-
lions.
Among those present at yesterdays
meeting were Mr.. Blair. Mr.. Thurston,
William H. De Lacy. z. B. Fuller. Ed
win Williamson, Judge Latimer. F. c.
Daniel, NJ W. Baldwin, William
Knowles Cooper. John E. Laskey, ]. W.
Patton, the Rev. DR.. Samuel w.
Greene, Prof. H. E. Day. A. F. Ander-
son, S. d. Hardy, L. W. De Cast, and
H. c. Davis.
Parents Consent Needed.
Each boy who joins the reserve
will have to obtain the consent OF his
parents and must be free from com
municable diseases. He must take the
oath OF allegiance to the Constitution
OF the United States. At the end of
the year, the boy who has worked
Loyalty and faithfully, will receive a
bronze bar to be attached to his badge
OF membership, upon which Is inscrib-
e,l .'Honorable Service. lO17"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-13

time when a butcher occupied ne
premises. Miss Humiston is not sure
and will insist upon an examinations
OF the bones by a scientific expert
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16

shipping board is bigger. Congress has authorized it to spend s1,S00,- 100000. The Pennsylvania railroad is worth less than half as much.
 Besides the 426 ships it has com mandeered, the board is building, through its Fleet Corporation, SS4 ships on it's own contracts. Of these 551 are of steel construction, 375 of wood and 5S composite.
 In the four months ending March 1, 1918, the Fleet Corporation ex- poets to complete 100000 tons of shipping. That is as great a ton mage as the Hamburg American line possessed the year before the war and the Hamburg American line was the wonder of the shipping world. The total program of the corporation calls for 140s ships, of a deadweight tonnage of S,363,S06, all to be completed by January l, 1919.
 Eight Hamburg American lines, all built in the space of two years. That with the work of the destroyers- is Uncle Sans answer to the sub marine challenge
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16

70 per cent of their normal supply in each month, and if cars are available they will have 70 per cent in Decem- Der. Owing to car shortages, the shortage has been most acute in the northeast and about 200 cars are to- day blockaded from that region.
 'This 70 per cent is twice the French ration. In the meantime we have given France a good part of the 30 per cent and are proud of it. This supply to France was given deliberately and the American people were told of it at the time. We have also agreed to draw 10000 tons for our friends in Canada. have yet to meet an American citizen who would have had it otherwise.
 AS to the food administration stop ping the sources of supply. The fact that all available supplies have been brought here that ships and cars could bring, and that it has already been eaten is sufficient answer.
 MT. Spreckels knows the bitterness of the ten-year fights between pro- ducers and refiners-between different refiners-and if he looks back over the last three months he will observe a de- sire of many of these elements to use the food administration as a club to settle their long standing bitterness.
 'If Mr. Spreckels will tell us where there is any sugar today that ships can be obtained to carry or cars can be obtained to deliver, it will be deliv- cred at once with the same resolution that we have requisitioned or distrib- uted over sixty million pounds of em- l bargoed sugar since October 1. IT the meantime the 900,000 tons of sugal l in Java is as remote as cheese out o1 | the moon-unless we wish to take bread ships from our own soldiers an( the allies to prived ourselves witt l candy"
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16
DECLARES FOOD
 ADMINISTRATION
 CAUSE IF SHORTAGE
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel


 WASHINGTON, Dec. Exchanges made by Claus Spreckels, president of the Federal Sugar Refining company, before a senate Investigating commit tee that the food administration is re- spOnsible for sugar shortage, drew from Food Administrator Hoover to- night a vigorous attack on MT. Sprek- els.
 Open intimation is made by Mr. Hoover that MT. Spreckels testimony was inspired by the fact that the food administration cut profits in sugar transactions.
 Tt requires no proof from me-" said MT. Hoover, ito establish that MT. Spreckels, a leading sugar refiner, is sore at the food administration and would like to see it destroyed. I real ize that MT. Spreckels' balance sheet will not look so good next year as last, for refiners' profits have been regu- lated. Furthermore, his balance sheet would have looked better this year if the price of last August had not been reduced and held fast in the face of a partial shortage that promised a fair opportunity for 30-cent sugar and much increased profits.
 MT. Spreckels, therefore, has reason to feel badly. There are other citizens who will feel the same way, and no doubt can entertain the public by as saulting the food administration. While many feel badly, still the vast major ity of men and women of our business community and of our farmers are sacrificing their profits daily to the na tion's necessities without complaint for many are sacrificing more than their money-their sons.
 We have had two months of partial sugar hortage-October and Novem- ber-and will also have December be- fore relief from the new crop. The American people have had 500,000 tons of sugar in these two months-that is
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16

ton ship is small, yet some 45o freight cars must be emptied into her before she is loaded, and 450 freight cars make a train about three miles and a half long.
 In the preceding three weeks of November, 19 other new ships were completed for the corporation. They ranged in size from 2,900 to 10,475 tons. They were a few of the ships being built in American yards on private account that were command eered on August 4 for the govern ment.
 Altogether 426 ships have been communicated in order that work on them might be hastened. Of these 33 have been finished. They are full sized ships averaging 7,S0O tons.
 Most of the communicated ships are in an advanced stage of con- struction. Scarcely a day passes that does not see at least one of them added to the shipping resources of the allies.
 The first of the 375 wooden ships contracted for by the fleet corpora tion was only a few days behind the first of the steel ships in talk ing the water.
 As soon as a ship is finished the fleet corporation turns it over to the parent organization. the shipping board. It does not build ships itself, but it draws up plans. lets contracts and watches and hastens construc- ton. When it has done it's work, the board takes control of the com pleted ship. Many ships it turns over to the navy or to the army | Others go to the Italian and French governments. to transport much needed munitions and supplies tC
 their troops. Other ships still are
 entrusted to private shipping com panies to be operated by them under an arrangement assuring exces: profits to the board
 l The billion dollar steel trust 1. no longer the biggest business. Tn,
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16

William Miles recently gave the first of a series of readings from the works of Charles Dickens to assist the Dick ems Fellowship in an effort to produce the whole of the novels in Brailie type TOT the use of the blind
 Shortly before the out)'aaS Of the war fund was started for the put- pose and by the end of August 995
 S475) was collected and sen to the National Institute for the Blind to put
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16
FIRST IF GREAT STEEL FLEET |S
 NOW IN WATERS

That men, arms and food are go- ng 10 be carried to Europe for the war time and carried in tremendous quantities. is indicated by advices received by the Arizona State Coun- .II of Defense
 On the last Saturday in November an event of great military import Rnce occurred in Seattle. A ship Has launched, a big S,S00-ton merch- snt ship of standardized steel con- struction, with a speed of II knots au hour. It was finished just 78 days after the laying of the keel, snd was the first ship to be com 7lctcd on contract let by the gov 'rnmcnt's Emergency Fleet corpora lion.
 tor she--is only one of 54 ves- sels of exactly her size that are under contract In comparison with Inc new Y. $. s. Leviathan an $500
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16
The German Statement

An official communication from gen. eral headquarters making reference to the front of Crown Prince Rup- precht in Flanders, says;
 For over four weeks the British have discontinued their attacks in Flanders. Their violent offensive had for it's objective possession of the Flanders coast and destruction of our submarine bases, may there
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16

,n hand "stereos" of tho "Old Curiosity Shop and Great Expectations" Up to that time only ''Pickwick," "A Tale of Two Cities" David Copperfield," Christmas Books and Doctor Mari gold" were in circulation among the bind.
 Queen Alexandra has given her pat ronage to the series of recitals. which will be continued in other parts of London and in provincial towns.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16
May Release Russians

PETROGRAD, Dec. 15.-In view of the announcement that the British government is prepared to re-examine the question of the detention of M. Tchitcherin and M. Pretoff, Russian citizens under arrest in England, with a view to their return to Rus sia, Leon Trotzky, Bolsheviki foreign minister, has ordered that British subjects shall be free to leave Rus sia. The British ambassador having expressed the hope that during next week he would be able to authorize the entry into England of diplomatic couriers of the Workmen's and Sol diers' government, the foreign min ister also has authorized the free passage of a British courier into Russia
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Friday, Dec. 14.-The total man power in Austria -Hungary's ar mics, the latest enemies of America, now has reached 1,170 battalions of infantry, 240 squaorons of cavalry, 2,950 field guns, 1,500 light howitzers and 922 heavy guns, according to ap- proximately exact figures obtained to- day by the correspondent.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-16
EX-CZAR ESCAPES
 FROM SIBERIA SAYS
 PETROGRAD REPORT

(Continued from Page Onel
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
ESTATE OF JEFFERSON slavery

State OF Vermont. District Of Washington, as
The Honorable Probate Court for the District
Aforesaid:
To the heirs and all persons interested In
the estate OF jefferson Slavery. late of Marsh
field in said district, deceased GREETING:
WHEREAS. application hath been made 10
this court in writing, by the administrators,
praying for license and authority to sell all OF
real estate Of said deceased. to wit Situated
in the town of Marshfeld. in said district in
GLIDING the homestead right and the interest
OF the widow therein, representing 20 said
court that II would be beneficial TO the heirs
deceased, TO sell snid real estate and convert
the same into money.
And bringing into court the consent and APP
probation. in writing. of all the heirs to said
estate residing In this state and setting forth
the situation of the real estate.
WHEREUPON, the said CONT appointed and
assignd the eth day of December 1917, at the
probate Office In Montpelier. in said district,
to hear and decide upon said application and
petition and ordered public notice thereof to be
given to all persons interested therein. by pub
fishing said order together with the time and
place of nearing three weeks successfully in
the Barre Daily Times. newspaper which cir
culates in the neighborhooI of those persons
In said estate. all of which publica-
tons shall De previous to the day assigned
for hea ring.
THEREFORE, you are hereby notified TO
appear before said court. at the time and
place assigned. then and there in said court to
make your objections to the granting of such
license, IL you see cause.
Given under my hand at Montpelier in said
district, this 9Th day Of December, 1917.
FRANK j. MARTIN. Judge.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

tape, trying to fix n corn so II wouldn't hurt.
But now no one IN the world should worry, "
because the moment you put "Gets-It" on 1t
means the end of corn. There is nothing
in the world ike "Gets-It'' nothing sure
and certain--nothng that you can count on
TO take off corn or callous every TIME, and
without danger. The corn never grew that
"Gets-It' will not get. 1t never irritates the
flesh, never makes your toe sore. just two
drops of "Gets-it' and presto the corn-pain
vanishes. Shortly you can peel the corn right
off with your finger and there you are-corn-
free and happy. with the toe as smooth and
eorn-free your palm. Never happened be-
fore, did it Guess not.
Get bottle Of "Gets-lt" to-day from any
drug store. you need pay more than 25c,
or sent on receipt of price by E. Lawrence &
Co., Chicago Ill.
Sold in Barre and recommended as the
worlds best corn remedy by Cummings
Lewis.Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
ESTATE OF EVA J. JACKSON

State of Vermont, District of Randolph SIS.
The Honorabel Probate Court for the Dis
trict Aforesaid:
To all persons interested in the estate of
Eva J. Jackson. late OF Orange. in said dis
trict deceased GREETING.
WHEREAS, said court has assigned the 21st
day of December next for examining and al
lowing the account Of Martin w. chamberlin.
administrator of the estate Of said deceased
and for n decree of the residue of said estate
TO the lawful claimants of the same, and or
dcred that public notice thereof be given to all
persons interested in said estate by publishing
this order three weeks successfully previous to
the day assigned. in the Barre Daily Times. a
newspaper published at Barre City Vermont
THEREFORE. you are hereby notified to
appear at Irving l.. Slocum's residence, in
Washington in said district, on the day as
signed. then and there TO contest the allowance
of said account IL you. see cause, and to estab-
lish your right as heirs, legatees and lawful
claimants to said residue.
Given under my hand. this 2Sth day of No
vember. 1917.
GEORGE l.. STOWE. Judge
Nov30Dec7-l4
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

George Crockford of st. Johnsbury,
who has been at the front two years with
a Canadian regiment, has won the mill
tary medal for bravery under gunfre.
His brother, Harold Crockford, is now in
a hospital in France recovering from
wounds in the right hand. He left st.
Johnsbury last April to join the Cana
dian army.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
MALE HELP WANTED

: WANTED-Fifty men TO cut fee for Ward &
Son: apply 10 j. c. DeBrune or at the ice
house Monday morning tel. 65-W. 230t4s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

After Dec. 90 all Bennington dance
halls must be licensed, following action
by the trustees of that town. This is
done SO that the entertainments held
in them may be regulated by the trus-
tees.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

The Blair Veneer Co. of North Troy
has purchased the H. l.. Baker timber
land in Jay and across the Canadian line,
making 10000 acres of timber land that
the company owns in the northern part
of the state.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting 81 the stockholders a.
the Peoples National Bank Of Barre VIII be
hcid AZ the banking ROOMS in the city % Barre.
Vt. on Tuesday. January 3. 1915. a. ia o'clcck
a m for the purpose q clectinE directors FOR
the ensuing year and the transaction q any
other businass that may properly some before
said meeting.
W. c. JOHNSON. JR. Cashier
Cts Of BARR, VI, Dec. 10. 1917 227t2f
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

WANTED--A boy TO do chores could go TO
school; II. r. Davis, Mashfeld, VT 230t2'
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
ESTATE OF THOMAS C. CARswELL

State of Vermont, District of Washington. IS
The Honorable Probate Court for the District
Aforesaid
To all persons interested in the estate Of
Thomas G. Carswel late Of the city of Barre,
in said district, deceased, GREETING.
WHEREAS. said court has assigned the
Sd day of January next for examining and
allowing the account Of the administrator Of
the estate Of said deceased. and for decree
of the residue of said estate to the law
full claimants of the same, and ordered that
public notice thereof be given TO all persons in
terested in said estate by publishing this order
three weeks successfully previous to the day
assigned. in the Barre Daily Times a news
paper published at the city of Barre. in said
district
THEREFORE you are hereby notified to
appear at the probate office in Montpelier, in
said district the day assigned. then and
there to contest the allowance Of said account
# you cause. and TO establish your rignt
as heirs, lesltees and lawful claimants to said
residue.
Given under my hand, this sth day of De
cember, 1917.
MARY ]. CUTLER, Register.
Dee7-I4-2i
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
NO. 302-E-165 ACRES
All Equipped

"a acres of tilage. 80 Of which is level and the
balance is rolling. but easily worked and very
productive; balance pasture and woodland I;
well fenced good fruit orchard about 400
sugor trees, all equipped hard End soft wood
enough for place and to sell plenty
good barn room practically new s-room
house never-failing spring water running 20
house and barn: telepohne, r. F. d., only 5
miles 70 good r. r. town with this farm you
get good cows, young cattle, extra good
pair horses, brood SOW, shoat, 40 hens and 10
chickens. more than enough crops to carry
stock through the winter. lot of very good
farming tools, including gasoline engine. grain
separator. blower. saw rig so eds. stove wood,
also y interest in heavily timbered i0-aere
lot that joins the farm. all for $4,000; owner
will reserve the half interest in wood lot II
buyer does not want IL consider this
very good buy at this price. Won't you let
us show 1t to you
THE J. J. DASHNER & SON
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
HaxplauJ pt,ifdiug RorrD
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
ANNUAL MEETING

TIE annual meeting q the Granite Mutuai
Insurance Co q BARR vermont will D. held
A. the hone ussce cf said company. In the cifg
81 Barre. VI. on Weducstzys January 2, 1875.
81 % orlack 4. m. for the uarpose q slectiuG
airrrtors Tor fhe year snsuiuE ard Tire transsc-
lion e any other bushes uhich n1ay property
cone before said ueeiinE-
zlgfI7 r. =. ROBINSON. Sccr-tsrg-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

of Burlington, wearing the same suit of
clothes in which he was married. The
wedding took place in Berlin Corners.
The suit is of real worsted and well pre-
served, having been made by Rufus Xix
er in Montpelier. The boots worn at the
wedding have also been kept.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

Notwithstanding the bad weather of
last Sunday, one man walked IA miles
to attend services at the Methodist
church in Morrisville, and Others drove
five or six miles through the storm. The
reporter for that church stated in Nor.
risville papers that most of those living
at distance came to church, while those
living nearby stayed at home.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
MISCELLANEOUS FARMS
FOR SALE
16O-Acre Equipped Farm $4,000
a Cows, Horses, Hay and

potatoes, corn, beans. apples, vegetables hens,
heifers. dry wood in she'd mower, rake, pillow,
harrow, cultivator, cart, tools, harnesses and
some household furniture included. If taken
now, by aged owner left alone 80 acres till
age, 20-cow PASTURE 100 apple trees owner
estimates 1000 cords hardwood and 100000 IT.
timber: near agreeable neighbors good school,
only miles to village. 2-story, s-room house
water at sink. in good repair overlooking vii
lage; soft. cellar barn; $4,000 takes every
thing. half down and easy terms for details
see page Strout's Catalogue 1921 bargains
dozen states, f.. A. STROUT FARM AGENCY,
Dept. 2729. 294 Washington street. Boston,
Mass. 23lti'
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

WANTED - Pupil nurses at the Taunton
State Hospital also attendants, male and fe-
male: for particulars address DR.. Arthur V.
Goss, superintendent Of the Taunton State
Hospital. Taunton. Mass I4Z1
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

THE d. A, PERRY REAL ESTATE AGENC'
Rowland Buildin, Barre. VT
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
Life Insurance for Women

ut same rates and with all advantages
men have. This is AS it should be. Per
nit us TO give full information. Nation.
al Life Ins. Co., of Vt. (Mutual.) 5. ).
Ballard. general agent, Rialto building,
Montpelier, W.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

The Chrysotile Asbestos company at
Lowell has gone into Insolvency and an
suction later will dispose of property
stored there.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

Mrs. Jason Dole of Mortified has com
pleted her 3sth pair of socks for the Red
Cross and is now knitting her 39th pair
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

The Times viii publish Wants Lost and
Found. For Sale, To Let, etc. short advertise
ments at the rate Of four lines for twenty-five
cents for the first insertion and five cents for
each subsequent insertion
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14

George A. Sweeney, an ice dealer in
st. Adams, has commenced cutting ice
on the bay. 1t is about seven inches
thick.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-14
"I'll Show You How
COrns Peel OFF,"

Ever Peel Banana Skin? That's 1t!
Il should worry about those eorns--l just
put some '6ets-It on" Cons used to poster
the world into frenzy, enduring pain. dig
ging, slicing toes. tinkering with plastes and