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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
ENSLEY PLANS ID
 RAISE MORE FOOD Meeting Yesterday After noon OverfIOws Church.
 Judge Fort Speaks

At an overflow meeting held Sunday
 afternoon at the Ensley Presbyterian
 church, ways and means for increasing
 the food crop of the community were
 discussed.
 Among the speakers were Judge Viii
 liam E. Fort and MT. Logan. All churches of Ensley were represented and
 plans were completed for an organiza- ton of members. R. E. Tidwell was
 chosen chairman and the Rev. J. w. Fulford, secretary.
 A meeting has been called for Tuesday night at o'clock at the city hall of Ensley, when a permanent organization will be effected. Representatives of as churches are invited to attend without further notification.
 The funeral of Mrs. Harry Ellis of Wy lam will be held at the Wylam Metho- dist church at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The remains will leave the residence, 440g Fifth avenue, at ? o'clock. Interment will
 be made in the Oakland cemetery.
 She is survived by her husband, two
 sons, Albert and Wesley Ellis, her father, Nathaniel Bruckshaw, two sis- ters, Mrs. N, Wood and Mrs. James Eb bage, and two brothers, J. B. Bruckshaw
 and Harry Bruckshaw
 Mrs. Ellis has been a worker in the Vivian Methodist church for nearly 50 years and was one of the most faithful teachers in the Sunday school She has done 8 great work in the upbuilding of the Vivian Methodist Sunday school and is much loved by the entire church. The following have been requested to serve as pallbearers:
 Active: Charles Guthrie, J. H. Moore Matthews OXley, James Whisper, William Sargent and Steve Moxley. Honorary: Joseph Martin, w. J. Stacey, R. l.. Glas- gow, John Guthrie, Thomas R. Walker, John E. Nolan, w. w. Hill, Dr. H. A. Riviere, Andrew Lusk, r. A. Shoemaker, William Laycock and George Surtees
 Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. I. K. Waller pastor of the Wy lam Methodist church, assisted by Dr. l.. c. Branscomb of Birmingham and the
 Rev. John Miner of the Wylam Pres byterian church.
 Funeral services of Hattie Honeycutt, aged years, who died Saturday night at the family residence in Vivian, will be conducted from the Wylam Baptist church at 9:30 o'clock this morning. h. torment will follow in Oakland cemetery, The deceased is survived by her mother, several brothers and sisters. Funeral services over the remains of Tom Smith, aged 61. who. died Saturday
 night at his late residence, 222S Twenty third street, will be held from the resi- dence at o'clock this afternoon. The services will be conducted by the pastor of the First Christian church of Ensley. The deceased is survived by his widow, two sons c. T. Smith of Little Rock and A. D. R. Smith of Ensley and two daughters, Miss Hallie Smith and Miss Alma Smith of Ensley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Ten Thousand School
 Children Will Parade

Huntsville. April 15- (Special.) County Superintendent S. R. Butler and City Superintendent R. c. John ston are planning a monster school parade here Saturday, April 21. It is the plan to have every school and community in Madison county, togeth- CT with all the schools of the city, rep resented. With the 3-mill election com ing on Monday it will be easy to show by means of the parade the great need of better school facilities
 It is possible that 10000 children will participate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Dies From Injuries

Tuscaloosa, April 15.-(Special) ) Henry Reed. aged 40, died Sunday as result of injuries received at the plant of the Central Foundry company at Holt Saturday night. Reed was struck in the head by a flask weighing sew eral hundred pounds and his skull fractured. A large piece of the skull was removed in an operation here in an effort to save his life. The funeral will be held at Hopewell Monday. He is survived by widow and family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
U. s. Treasury Condition

Washington, April 15.-Condition of the United States treasury: Net bal ance in geenral fund. s11 1929, ,24O; total receipts, s3,696,O54; total payments, s4.- 192,613. The deficit this fiscal year is s17S,O63.622 against deficit of $57,- 691,455 last year, exclusive of Panama canal and public debt transactions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
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farmers of the country and to all who work on the farms: The su- preme need of our own nation and of the nations with which we are cooperating is an adequate food supply, especially for the present year. is superlative. Without abundant food. alike for the armies and the peoples now at war. the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down and fail. The worlds food reserves are low. Not only during the present emergency but for sometime after peace shall have come both our own people and a large proportion of the people of Europe must rely upon the harvests in America. Upon the farmers of this country. therefore, in large measure, rests the fate of the war and the fate of the na
 tions. May the nation not count upon them to omit no step that will increase the production of their land or that will bring about the most effectual cooperation in the sale and distribution of their products? The time is short. It is of the most imperative importance that everything be done and done immediately to make sure of large harvests. I call upon young men and old alike and upon the able bodied boys of the land to accept and act upon this duty: to turn in hosts to the farms and make certain that no pains and no labor is lacking in this great matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Miss Rdnkin's First Days As COngresSWOn1dn Were
 of he NerDe- Trying Kind
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

Washington April 15. --(Special) Since the assembling of Congress in spe- cial session, Miss Jeanette Rankin, the first congresswoman to hold seat Tn that body, has been the great attrac- tion." When she first entered the House leaning like bride on the arm of re publican member, there was applause from both sides of the dividing line. Aft CT she had taken her seat, the applause continued. And then she stood upon her feet, lowing, first to her partisans, the republicans, and then to the democrats
 Thereafter, she held an impromptu re- ception. From her position in the rear of the hall, she appealed to the press gall lery in her apparent daintiness, her sub dued yet fashionable style of dress, and by virture of the fact that she was lack ing in masculine attributes, too often the only salient characteristic of the female politician
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
THAT FIRST DAY

She will never experience a more eXclt- ing day than her first as member of the House. Early in the morning, the suf- fragettes fed her. and by their pugna- cious insistence that she do the impossi- ble, that she rush, over all opposition, the Susan B. Anthony amendment through the House, thrust her onto the verge of tears. With a catch in her throat, she promised to do what she could. But it is evident that she realized
 the she couldn't discharge the full obli- gation which the suffragettes had im- posed upon her
 And then she entered the House amid prolonged applause. And then followed
 the spectacular fight in which the demo-
 crats, sweeping aside the opposition of an equal number of republicans, organ
 zed the House. Miss Rankin, during that fight, hewed to the line in partisanship. She supported MT. Mann for speaker despite the fact that MT. Mann had pre- viously said that women should remain at home where they belong" She did not vary her course through the day. For
 the position of clerk, doorkeeper and ser
 geant-at arms, she voted the straight re-
 publican ticket. She was a partisan and
 would take her gall. however bitter that
 gall might be.
 And then to clap the climax of day of sensational diversion, she sat beneath
 the message of the President which
 marked the transition of this republican government from a state of neutrality
 to A state of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
THE BITTER FIGHT

The first days ordeal MISS Rankin bore bravely. And then followed that of the second The House debated the war resolution from 10 o'clock one morning until 8 o'clock, the following morning. It was a wonderful day from the viewpoint of any observer It was especially epochal from the viewpoint of woman who was at that time, at any rate, an unwilling participant. It is entirely reasonable to believe that Miss Rankin would gladly, for the moment, have exchanged posi- tions with any woman whom possibly she had previously regarded as "contented" and In a mental sense, unfortunate.
 From the hour that Representative Flood in the early morning, presented the subject of debate, until adjournment, there was a panorama of unusual cpl sodes, each more exciting than the oth- CT. The woman heard strong men, vfrrle American citizens preaching peace. She heard Uncle Joe' Cannon, famous oc- togenarian, rebuke the pacifists, and ex- claim: q am a quarter German, a quar- ter English, a quarter Scotch and a quarter, French. Despite that fact, I am a full quartered American citizen, jeal- ous of the honor and rights of my coun- trV'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
EVIDENT FACT

'Tt is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farms, in the shipyards. in the mines. in the factories, must be made more prolific and more eff cient than ever and that they must be more economically man. aged and better adapted to the particular requirements of our
 task than they have been, and
 what I want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country and conducting the fight
 for peace and freedom just as truly and just as effectively as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches. The industrial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be n great national, a great international. service nrmy--a not able and hOnored host engaged in
 the service of the nation and the
 world, the efficient friends and sa-
 viors of free men everywhere.
 Thousands. nay, hundreds of
 thousands of men otherwise liable
 to military service will of right
 and of necessity be excused from
 that service and assigned to the
 fundamental, sustaining world of
 the fields and factories and mines,
 and they will be as much a part
 of the great patriotic forces of the
 nation as the men under fire.
 This, let me say to the middlemen c every sort, whether they are handlin our foodstuffs or our raw materials C or the products of our mill and factories: The eyes of the countr will be especially upon you. This is you opportunity for signal service, efficien and disinterested The country expect you, as it expects all others, to foreg profits, to organize and expedit shipments of supplies of every kind, bu especially of food, with an eye to tn service you are rendering and in tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
APPEALS TO SOUTH

T particularly appeal to the farm CTS of the south to plant abundant foodstuffs as we'll as cotton. They can show their patriotism in no better CT more convincing way than by resist ing the great temptation of the pres ent price of cotton and helping, help ing upon a great scale, to feed the na tion and the peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty.
 "The government of the United States and the governments of the sey- eral states stand ready to cooperate
 They will do everything possible to assist farmers in securing an adequate supply of seed, an adequate force of laborers when they are most needed at harvest time. and the means of ex- pediting shipments of fertilizers and farm machinery, as well as of the crops themselves when harvested. The course of trade shall be as unhampered as it is possible to make it and there shall be no unwarranted manipulation of the nations food supply by those who handle it on it's way to the con- sumer This is our opportunity to dem onstrate the efficiency of a great dem- ocracy and we shall not fall short
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18
NIDDLtBURY FIRE THIS MORNING
Chimney Flames Cause $500 Loss
to House and Laundry in
Bakery Lane

The cold bakery building" in Bakery
Lane now occupied in part by George
Brousseau, and in part by the Middle
bury Steam Laundry, caught fire from a
blaze in the laundry chimney about 8
O'Clock this morning, and when dis
covered by William Collins the flames
had gained foothod on the roof The
alarm brought the fire department to
the scene in few minutes and power
ful stream of water had immediate eff
feet in controlling the flames. Several
large holes were burned in the Brous-
seau roof and some damage caused by
water, but it is estimated that the total
loss is not over $500. The Brousseau
furniture was all removed and the Gus
toners bags of laundry were taken out
in time to escape damage by water.
The property is part of the Martin
estate, but J. f. Novak had recently
taken an option on the purchase of it.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18
SUFFRAGE CLUB SUGGESTS SAVING
Hopesto Cooperate with Grooers
to Cut Delivery Expenses.

The Middlebury Suffrage Study club
at its Saturday meeting discussed ways
and means of lessening the high cost of
living. 1t was considered advisable to
cooperate with the groceries and
markets to lessen the expense of all
day deliveries. The members urged
the need OF consideration on the part of
women buyers, suggesting that orders
be given for morning delivery only. BY
thoughtfuness unreasonable demands
can be avoided 1t is believed the
merchants could sell at lower prices if
employing fewer men and that some
now employed in stores can be released
for the greatly needed outdoor work.
If a yeast cake or loaf of bread is for
gotten it is certainly unreasonable to de-
mand late, special delivery.
Many women can do their own
marketing and all can bring some small
parcels when not thought of in time for
a morning delivery.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18

Midd lebury Grange, No. 3l5, will
hold their next regular meeting May %.
1t being "Gentiemen's Night, the pro-
gram will be in charge of the following
committee: j. w. Hammond, B. A.
McQuivey, DR.. j. R. Renfrew, w. F.
Bentley, F. j. Hubbard and N. A.
Seymour.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18
JOFFRE EATS. PASSING HERE
Gets Twilight Glimpse OF Addl-
son County While Dining.

Marshall JolIre, who was commander
in-chef Of the French armies during
the early part of the war and who is
called the hero of the Marne, ate part
Of his dinner in Middlebury last Sunday
evening, just so much of it as he
might have gulped down while a Rut.
land railroad special was whisking him
between the town limits, According tc
Clifford N. Hayden, night operator at
the railroad station, the special passed
on high gear and il was quite impossible
to get even a motion picture of Marshall
Johre; but James Howarth, who was
among those on the platform, is
authority for the statement that the
distinguished visitor was in the act of
eating as he passed, Howarth said he
recognized well the features Of the
famous soldier as he had seen him in so
many pictures, and said Joirre was at
a table in the dining car probably with
Vice.Admiral Chocheprat, the other
member of the French war mission, re-
turning from Montreal. Howarth could
not observe what it was the famous
soldier was eating, but the identidca-
ton of railway foodstulrs is sometimes
difficult at even closer range. 1t is
probable, however, that Joifre drank
his demi-tasse in Middebury, for re.
ports from Burlington are that he
started his dinner upon leaving the
Queen City. One excuse he may have
had for lingering even that long over "a
railway meal is the fact that he was
meanwhile catching twilight glimpse
Of Addison County.
Owing to the secrecy with which the
party travelled the only ovation which
the great general received on his way
from Montreal to Washington was in
Rutland, where there was an advance
notice of Joffre's coming, and about
5000 people crowded the Rutland
station to greet him while his train was
changing engines. The band played the
Marseillaise and the Star Spangled
Banner and the general shook hands
with Mayor Brislin, and with Leon
Hugne, a veteran of the African wars,
in whom Joifre took much interest
When the train pulled out the crowd
packing the train shed tried its French
by shouting "Vive Marechal Jotfre."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18
SAFETY COMMITTEE is CHOSEN
Twenty-Five Citizens Named
To.Meet Tomorrow Niaht.

The Public Safety Committee which
the war meeting on May 3 voted to
create, on motion of Judge John +.
Weeks, has been named. The terms
of the motion were that Messrs. Cady
and Ira H. LaFleur, who are members
of Governor Graham's Public Safety
Committee should associate with them
selves twenty-three others to constitute
a committee Of twenty-five, and that
the first seven members 80 appointed
should constitute the executive COM
mittee of the larger body. Messrs. Cady
and LaFleur have chosen the members
and have called a meeting in Mr..
LaFleurs office tomorrow Saturday
evening at 1870. The committee is as
follows:
Willis N. Cady, Ira H. LaFleur, John
E. Weeks, A. w. Dickens, George
N. Shambo, Raymond Mcfarland, P. f.
Mellen, constituting the executive COM
mittee; John M. Thomas, W. W.
MacGiton, Dennis H. McHugh, Thomas
F. Burns, H, M. Balm, E. B. Cornwall,
j. Earl Dewey, C. w. Tisdale, j. A.
Douglas, Den Cloyes, Robert Pinney,
Edward Higgins, George H. Chaffee,
A. N. Brown, Edward P. Seymour, C.
A. Lyman, F. G. Brookins and Floyd
Reese.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18
HOW COUNTY MAY GET
HOME DEMONSTRATOR
Agent Carrigan Outlines Plans for
Housewives Organization
Weybridge, Vergennes and Orwell
to Have Meetings Next Week
Every Community Should
Cooperate.

In pursuance of plans for extending
the Addison County Farmers Assoca-
ton so that Home Demonstration
Agent may be employed in the county,
County Agent Carrigan has outlined
some of the necessary things for organ
'ization. The demand for the home
demonstrator is coming from all quar-
ters, he says, and federal aid is pract-
cally assured provided there is a large
membership Of women in the associa-
ton, and provided there are funds avail
able to meet part of the salary and the
entire expenses of such an agent
The first thing necessary is to organ
ize the village and farm housewives
into Home Demonstration Depart
ment of the Addison County Farmers
Association, The plan Of organizing is
as follows:
(D Call a meeting Of the women of
each community of the County.
(2) Present at these community
meetings a plan of organization and let
the women electa temporary community
committee.
(3) The duties of this temporary
community committee will be: (a) 70
become acquainted with the work of the
Home Demonstration Agent; (b) To
acquaint the women Of the community
with the nature of the work Of the
Home Demonstration agent and to
solicit membership dues for that com
munity for the Addison County Farm
er's Association.
(4) Some time previous to July lst,
1917, County Wide Meeting of the
Home Demonstration Department of
Continued on Page 81
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18
TO CONSIDER DASHBOARD CASE
Special Village Meeting Called for
Next Friday EVening.

The famous dashboard case" flashes
into view again on petition of a number
Of legal voters for a special village
meeting to consider this ancient contro-
versy. A notice posted by Town Clerk
j M M.Burke calls for the special meet
ing at the town hall next Friday even
ing at o clock "ro see what action, If
any, the voters will take relative to the
disposal of the so.caled dashboard case
This case habits origin back in 1893
when owners of waterrights at the falls
in Middlebury village put dashboard
to raise the water in Otter Creek, which
allowed the water to set back and flood
farm lands all the way up the river
to Salisbury. After seven years of dis
pute about the matter the farmers
whose property had been damaged
marched in force to the village on the
morning OF July 5, 1900 and with axes
and crow bars destroyed theflashboard.
The action was Intellectual, however,
for the water interests replaced the
dashboard and thus forced the farmers
to a legal fight, The first special mas
ter in chancery to take testimony in the
case was eX-Judge Jonathan Ross, who
was appointed in 1901 He died before
a decision was reached, and the case
passed to Special Master Baker of Rut-
land, who also died before deciding the
In 1907 the case came into the
hands Of Judge Darling and the elapse
Of another ten years without a decision
has been a source of irritation to both
sides in the controversy, since both
have spent thousands Of dollars in the
Iegal fight.
What action the village may be asked
to take at next Fridays meeting is not
forecast in the petition for the meeting,
but all voters are urged to be present
to consider the matter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-18
FEWER CHURCHES AND
BIGGER ONES" URGED
Rev, c. c, Merrill Pleads at COngre-
gatiOnaI Conference for Union.
Rev, n. C. Newell and Dr.. John M,
Thomas Also Make important
Addresses,

Practically every Congregational
church in Addison County was repre-
sented at some of the sessions of the
State Congregational Conference and
the annual meeting Of the Vermont
Domestic Missionary Society in Bran
don this week. From Middebury twelve
went to Brandon, including the Rev.
Henry Newell, pastor of the church,
and President Thomas Of the College,
who were among the speakers,
One Of the most important items of
business transacted at Brandon was the
decision to federate the work of the
Conference and that of the Domestic
Missionary Society, by placing both
under single directorate. The Mis-
sionary society is to keep its own cor
porate existence but its board Of direc-
tors will also serve the conference in
the same capacity. 1t is believed this
viii make the work more efficient so
that the organizations will not work at
cross purposes.
A still more progressive note was
truck at the conference by the Rev.
Charles c. Merrill of st, Johnsbury,
associate secretary Of the Vermont
Domestic Missionary Society in point
ng out the waste of efficiency in having
100 many churches in a small com
munity, and urging union.
"There ought to be" he said ga more
definite application of the principle Of
cooperation We are not out to Congre-
gationalize the state, but to Christian.2e
it. The goal ought to be one Protest
ant church in the small communities
of from 300 to 1000 people. That
would mean fewer churches, but
stronger ones, and fewer ministers,
but stronger ones. Where there is
need for two or more churches let
there be much mutual planning for the
covering of the entire field. 1t is not
enough that two ministers get on well
together; they ought to plan their
work so as to reach the entire com
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