The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-03
MONTPELIER
Five Young Men Complete Their Naval
EnlistmentS.


Recruiting Officer Charles Mitchell sent
This morning to Burlington five young
men to complete their enlistments. They
were L. j. Limogue and w. j. johnson
of this city, who are new ones and VINO
enlist as apprentice seamen; Il. II. LON
bard and Perley Jerd, who have been ex-
amined and who to-day completed their
papers. The fifth one was G. III. Tyler OF
,Jonesville. who had been examined last
week. but who went to his home to spend
Thanksgiving before signing his papers
r. A. Rowland, director of the war saw
ings campaign for Vermont, left SatT-
day night for Boston, where he attends
The conference relative to the campaign
which started to day and at which Frank
A. Vanderlip of the National City bank
of New York, one of those in charge OF
the work, is to be present and explain
the work as the government wants 1t
done. Mr. Rowland, like the other state
directors is experiencing trouble in Sc
curing the information in printed form
TO distribute among the citizenship. This
il due probably to the flooded condition
of the government printing plant. Mr..
Rowland. when he left here had few
more county directors to name. Some
of those whom he had selected could not
take care of the work with their other
duties He expects when he returns to
have considerable data to be released for
publication
County Clerk L. c. Moody, up to this
morning, had issued four permits to per
sons to handle explosives under the new
regulations provided by the government.
These were to persons who have been
handling that line for some years. Sew
eral have called for information and data
that must be given in order to secure
license. They will probably take out
licenses little later,
State Bank Inspector Frank c. Will
liams left this morning for Burlington
in connection with his department. Mr..
Williams has nearly ready for mailing
TO the banks of the state information rel
alive to the new thrift campaign, setting
forth why his department urges the
banks to cooperate in the sale of the
war saving stamps. He hopes that the
federal government will allot a reason
able amount to Vermont, say something
like $4,000. 900 and believes that if some
thing near that figure is allotted that
Vermont will take care of the campaign.
Much more than that sum would embar
rass the situation exceedingly and tie
mp finance to some extent in taking care
OF the loans needed in the state
Station Agent j. p Galleher of the
Central Vermont railway this morning
gave out figures showing large sale of
revenue stamps in the local office dur
ing the month of November. These sales
were made for the stamps that We're at
taehed to the mileage books and tickets
sold in the local office. The revenue
amounts to 800, which shows that the
station probably had one of the largest
sales of tickets of any for the company
in Vermont.
Chief of Police p. J. DonnellY Saturday
afternoon took in custody Mrs. Holmes
of Mortified upon information from
Chief Donahue of Mortified, that the
woman was wanted for taking pair of
glasses from jeweIer in Mortified one
day last week. The woman returned the
glasses to Chief Donnolly, who is sending
them to Chief Donahue at Mortified.
Mrs. Holmes was gowned similarly to
Red Cross nurses only that she wore
shade of blue instead of a white dress |
while on her white headpiece was blue |
cross instead of a red one, like those /,
worn by Red Cross nurses. The woman |
was later released.
Miss Ellen NJ Bailey, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert II. Bailey of Wells River, '