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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
WlTERBURY
Little Nelson Martin Lost One Finger in
Saw at Mill


Nelson, the little seven.year. sol
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Martin, al
North Duxbury, met with painful acci
dent at the upper Elliott mill recently
Although the mill was not running, FREQ
Davis had gone to the same to saw some
slabs. The child had been about the
mill but was supposed TO have gone
home when, as Mr. Davis pushed the
slab saw, he saw the little hand appear
and only for Mr. Davis presence of mind
to push the child back with his left hand
was the childs hand probably saved
from being severed. As il was, the third
finger had to be amputated the little
finger was badly cut and the top of the
hand badly lacerated.
! The funeral of Miss Josie Melissa Del
hanty was held from the home of Mr.,
and Mrs c. c. Warren Wednesday after
noon, large number of relatives and
friends attending Rev. Verne L. Smith
ofiicated and Il. G. Miller sang Carrie
Jacobs Bonds when God Puts Out the
Light" Burial was in the village ceme
terry, the bearers being cousins, Rufus
Preston and Ray Davis OF Duxbury and
Harold Hayden and Roy McCloud Of
Bolton.
Orlo Greeley of Windsor and Mrs.
Martha Greeley Chandler of WATERFORD,
Me-, have been visiting their sister, Mrs.
Frank Dibbell.
John Healey remains seriously i'll.
A son was born Tuesday TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilmore Baldwin of North Dux-
bury.
Another lucky hunter was Lewis ker
am of Burlington, who shot fine buck
on Scrabble hill in Duxbury.
The ladies union had very pleasant
afternoon Tuesday with Mrs. c. B.
Adams. Musical selections were rem
dered piano duet by Pauline Ayers
and Ruth Graves and a group of songs
by Carl Clair, Mrs. Boi-ourt accompany
ing. Mrs Clifton OClair also gave
reading.
This evening in the Methodist Episco-
pal church Senator William p Dilling
ham win address joint meeting OF the
mems club and mems brotherhood. Pre-
ceding the address the campfire girls will |
serve an oyster supper. The members of |
both troops of boy scouts who have reg |
istered are invited to be present and will |
be the guests of the men. The music
is in charge of L, G. Miller
The ladies' union hold their annual I
supper Nov. 20.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock
here will be meeting OF the Village
Improvement association at the library (
'or the purpose of taking action ON the
proposed purchase of chairs for the use
If the public in library hall. Election
If officers.
At the Methodist Episcopal church
Sunday, Rev " L. Smith, pastor of the
tolerated churches. announces series Of
hree sermons on, The Worlds Greatest
daxims" The first will be given Sun
lay morning "The Maxim of Socrates
n the evening the pastor gives a drama
ermon, THE Runaway Slave"
Rev Robert Dewey celebrates mass at
tpwe at o'clock Sunday morning
iigh mass and sermon at st. Andrews
hurch at 1890 The rosary, prayer for ;
eace and the blessed sacrament at 40 !,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
SHOREHAM MAN VICTIMIZED.
Loaned a Stranger Thirty Dollars in
Boston.

Boston, Nov lG.-It cost William Bru-
no of Shoreham, Vt, $50 to hold bundle
and "phony" check for little while.
lie met an afable stranger in North
station just after the Vermont train
pulled into the big town. They walked
up Canal street together. The stranger
was well groomed and a right good talk
er, and Bruno thought the friendship
would last for life
At the psychological moment the
stranger said he had bill to pay in
a building they were passing, then dis
covered he was $3.50 shy of the amount.
He produced a check for large amount.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
Pulverized Limestone for Agricultural
Use.

Pulyerized limestone continues to be
in favor as soil sweetener or fertiliz-
err according to reports from producers
to G. F. Loughlin, of the United States
geological survey, department of the in
terror Since the figures of production
were first compiled in 1911 the industry
has steadily increased, and the output
for 1916 of l066,376 short tons, valued
at S1,l46,5S2, represents a gain of 5l2
per cent in quantity and 400 per cent in
value for the six years. The increase
for 1916 compared with 1915 was about
% per cent in quantity and 2S per cent
in value.
The states contributing 70 per cent of
the quantity and Is per cent Of the value
Of puIverized stone to the trade in 1916
were as follows:
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
Advice upon What to Eat
How Much TO Eat
(By DIR. /. II. Watson.l

The poisons in man are taken care Of,
if man will do his part. The liver and
kidneys act as the sewage disposal plants
which separate and throw of the poison
Gus accumulations, if given half a chance.
But many of us should not eat meat
more than once a day. Eat vegetables,
and what may be called "roughage,r to
stimulate bowel action. such as baked
potato with the hard skin, graham, rye.
or whole wheat bread, onions, turnips
carrots, even the much sandered cabbage
and sauerkraut Stimulate the liver into
a thorough housekeeping at least once
a week, by taking a purely vegetable lax
alive made up and extracted from May
apple. leaves of aloe, root of jalap, into a
Pleasant Pellet, first made by Dr. II. Y.
Pierce nearly fifty years ago, and sold
by nearly every druggist in the country
To keep the kidneys clean, drink plenty
of water between meals; also, ii YOU
wish to escape half he ills" which cause
early deaths from kidney disease, aifec-
tions of the heart, rheumatism and govt
drink a pint of hot water a half hour be-
fore meals This with regular outdoor
exercise, sensible food, and occasionally
Anuric double strength before meals
for a few weeks al time, aud there j
no reason why a man or woman should
not live to be a hundred This Anuric
stimulates the kidneys causing them 20
brow out the poisonous uric acid which [
-auses Us to have pains in the back, lum-
Dago, rheumatism and govt
Anurie can be obtained az almost an
yood drug stores. Il always benefits and
'ften cures the cause OF kidney disease. 1
: well as rheumatism and gout.-Ady. /
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
WILLTIfMSTOWN
Mrs. Willard Sprague Funeral Held
Wednesday, Always Lived Here.

The funeral services of Mrs Willard
Sprague were held Wednesday, Nov. Ia,
at the Congregational church at Will
Jamestown, Rev. John Irons officiating
The pail bearers were Il. NJ. Jeffords, G.
"A. Briggs, G. w. Seaver and William
Morrison. Those attending from dis
lance were Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Lyford
from East Montpelier, Mr. and Mrs Bert
Ben Mrs. Il. NJ Daniels and Frank
l.. Sprague from South Woodbury.. Mrs.
Bernice s. Ladeau from Plainfield and
Mrs. Karl Hunt from Barre.
The deceased was born in Williams
town Sept s, 1874, the daughter OF Iy.
man and Pamela (Stebbins) Capron. She
was married Sept Is, 1866, to Willard
Sprague. All her life was spent in this
town and the last 40 years ON the home
farm.
At an early age she united with the
Congregational church of this place. of
which she continued a faithful member.
Although the closing years of her life
were spent in physical darkness, her faith,
in God remained firm and her allegiance
true to the end. Now she is at rest and
although her loss il mourned and her
presence missed in the home, we trust
that in eternity we shall meet our loved
ones, and that those eyes closed to earth
ly friends shall see her Redeemer face
to face.
Those surviving her are her husband.
Willard Sprague; her daughter, Mrs. n.
II. Wiggin; three grandchildren, Eldon
p, Barnard A. and Laura VI. Wiggin a
sister, Mrs. John A. Perry, all of Will |
Jamestown, and niece, Mrs. Bernice S.
Ladeau of Plainfield.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
Try This, Slackers.

"0n what ground did you claim ex-
emption?"
Il am conscientious objector. be.
iieve that if they We're called for, a mill
lion men would spring to arms in sin
gle night, and ] object to being dragged
to arms in the daytime, Kansas City
Star
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
Quantity

Twenty,three other states contributed
to the total The average price per ton
was Sl08 in 1916, two cents less than
in 1918.
In some localities the pulverized ma
terial is by-produet of the crushed
stone and building stone industries; in
others the limestone is ground for this
purposesentirely
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
BETHEL
Clayton Sawyer Injured in Runaway
Accident.

Clayton Sawyer of South Royalton is
confined for a few days at the home OF
his employer, A. N. Washburn, with
comparatively slight injury to one lee
instead of the serious injury that might
have been expected. After leaving load
of goods from the mill at the Central
Vermont railway freighthouse for ship
ment Wednesday about O'Clock, he was
driving Mr. Washburn's new gray team
home for the night when the horses be-
came frightened at some boys playing
with leaves in the street and began a
brisk run homeward. The driver would
have held them but bit in the mouth
of the near horse broke and the result
was collision with the electric light
pole at the fork of the streets near the
Bethel garage. The pole, which was
much decayed, collapsed, carrying down
ward a large number of high power wires,
and one horse was in position of safety
on either side. The driver was thrown
out but was not permanently injured.
The broken pole was raised again and
propped up pending transfer of the wires
to stout new pole which was set up
to-day. The team was one which Mr..
Washburn acquired recently.
The Y. NJ c. A. war work campaign
got a good start yesterday when pupils
of Whitcomb high school subscribed ex-
actly $3.50, in $3.50 amounts Other stu
dents will subscribe to-day.
The annual fair of the Universalist
ladies' union got well under way yester-
dav. The town hall, where it was held,
was brilliantly decorated with the ma
t.ional colors The booths, attractively
displaying a variety of wares, were cared
for as follows: lee cream, Mrs. Robert |
Noble; fancy goods, Mrs. F. E. Wallace;
candy, Miss Mary Cushing; aprons, Mrs. i
o. d. Greene; fish pond, Miss Ruth Leon
ard A chicken-pie supper was we'll pat
ronized and much enjoyed from $3.50 to
7 o'clock,
The Bethel garage, a 80 by 80, one
story brick building, will be enlarged this
fall by the addition of second story,
for storage purposes, to be constructed
of lumber, with steel sheathing. w. T..
Huggard of Brookfield, owner of the
building, has given the contract for the
addition to F. W. Sault of Randolph,
The garage is carried on by F. A. Bur
ridge. Entrance to the second story will
be by means of runways from the side
street.
Miss Lena Allen of Bradford and Fran
cis Pratt of Boston are guests at L. ID.
Gilson's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
1000 PERSONS KILLED nv
FIGHTING IN MOSCOW?
Dispatches from Russo Swedish Frontier
Tell Of Heavy Slaughter of
Civilians.

London, Nov l6.--Two thousand per
sons had been killed in street fighting in
Moscow up TO noon Tuesday, according
to reports brought in by travellers arriv-
ing at the Russo Swedish frontier, as
forwarded in press dispatches from
Stockholm.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16

Bruno was willing to help friend, so
gave the stranger $50. The stranger
let Bruno hold the check and a bundle,
Bruno probably would be still standing
outside the building if cop hadn't ar
rived and asked a few pertinent ques
tions.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
Car of Thanks.

we wish TO express our heartfelt
thanks to all the neighbors and friend,
Tor their help and expression of sym
pathy IN our recent bereavement.
Willard Sprague,
Mr.. and Mrs \. H. Wiggin
and familK
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16

To members and friends of the Meth,
odist church: Rev, William Shaw. our
district superintendent, will be in town
on Saturday evening to hold the third
quarterly conference The ladies of the
church will serve hash supper from 6
o'clock until s, after which DR.. Shaw
will give an address. Everyone cordially
invited
Methodist Divine worship next
Lords day At the morning service Rev.
William Shaw, the new district sllper-
intendent, will preach. AT the end Of
the service the sacrament of the Lords
supper will be administered. Sunday
school at noon. Union evening service in
Congregational church at 1870.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
GRANITEVILLE.

Dance in Lassaso's hall Saturday even
ing, Nov. II, three piece orchestra Ad
soc Ladies free adv
The Sentinel=record., 1917-06-08
DIFFERENCES IS OVER
 STEEL AND WOODEN SHIPS
Statement Is Given Out by Goethals Assistants, Who Are the Engineers Of the Shipping Roard-Goethals Is Charged With Trying to Limit Mum Der of Wooden Ships.

Washington, June Differences over the governments wooden ship building program came to a head to. uisht when F \ Rustic, assistant gen eral manager of the emergency fleet corporation and his assistant r. C. Huntington Clark, issued statements virtually charging Major General George w. Goethals, general manager of the corporation, with halting build ing of the vessels by prescribing an impossible form of contract.
 The statements reyal that the fleet corporation has 1usc received offers from ten firms 10 build 496 wooden ships within twelve months or 78G within eighteen months. General Goethals has turned the proposals down because the builders wish to construct the ships on a cost plus ten per cent profit basis instead of con tracting for a flat price for the ships.
 Mir. Eustis and Mir Clark and the mining engineers who originated the wooden ship building plan adopted by NAtO hAAbpAhS uudiu anu itSdiutu DN General Goethals as impracticable
 After taking charge of the building program General Goethals turned 10 steel construction and limited the wooden program to not more than 250 ships in eighteen months. MT. Eusts and MT. Clark contend the corporation can build two thousand wooden ships within that time without interfering with the steel building.
 General Goethals could not be seen tonight for comment on the state ments.
 Chairman Denman of tle shipping board, who has been represented as opposing General Goethals plan to re strict wooden building. said. None of the members of the shipping board had any knowledge of the statement attributed to the engineers, MT. Eus- tis and Dr. Clark, intimating a re- fusal by General Goethals to build as many wooden ships as he might, nor had they the slightest intimation that they were to be issued. General Goethals as head of the emergency fleet corporation, in the service of which they have been acting. has en. tire responsibility for the ship build. ing program, wood and steel.
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Fifth Tornado Sweeps
 Oklahoma in q Week
Fifty Buildings in Perry Okla, Were BlOWn Away or Demolished
 Yesterday.

Oklahoma City, Okla. June 7.- Fifty buildings. including many of the largest structures of the business dis triet of Perry, Okla, north of here, were blown away or demolished by a tornado which struck the town at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, Several farm houses and barns in he path of the storm also were wrecked Although several persons are reported to have been injured all are expected to re- cover The damage is estimated at Sl50,000. The tornado was the fifth In Oklahoma during the past week.
 The tornado was as freakish as it vas destructive being preceded by a severe rain and hail storm, something that se 'dQm precedes e tornado. Win dows in the buildings were broken by the hail. which were as big as hen eggs
 Many of the smaller buildings were blown away. while ue more suhstan ta structures were unroofed From the business section the toruado pro
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REDUCTION N OFFICERS
 TRAINING CAMPS
OFFICIALS HOPE BY REDUCING NUMBER TO BRING OLDER
 MEN INTO ORGANIZATION.

Washington. June 7-Only about fifteen thousand men will be trained in the second series of eight officers training camps 10 be held from August 7 to September 26, Adiutant Geleral Mccain announced today. Forty thou sand entered the first series of camps. bur the war department has reduced the number for the fall encampments in the hope of organizing older men.
 The department today also an- nounced the quota allowed each state n the camps Application blanks may be obtained after June l5 from local boards, who later will he appointed to serve in each locality, or from the commanding generals of the six mili- tary department and applications must be sent 10 these examining head quarters before June l5. The quota Southwest states and places Of examining stations are as follows:
 Arkansas, PIP Fort Logan ii Roots.
 Louisiana. 2SS, Jackson Barracks, New Orleans
 Kansas, 2SS, Fort Riley.
 Texas. GS8, Fort sam Houston
 Oklahoma 33G Fort Sill.
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Springfield. Mo-, June 7.>The op- timism with which the announcement that four persons connected with the Kidnapping of II months old Lloyd Rect son of J. IT, Rect the young re tired banker of Surngfield, had been arrested at Sunbury, Pa, suffered a setback tonight when it was revealed that the arrested persons had no con. nection with the childs disappearance and had been released from custody
 other arrests were made here to- day however, and while the au hori- ties have made no announcement con corning those taken it still was be- lieyed the mystery finally was nearing a close and that the infant son would be returned to it's parents
 Another day had failed 10 establish any connecting link between the plots for which seven persons were arrested here yesterday and last night and that of The Rect kidnapping lt was charged that the seven known Co be under arrest here were implicated in plans to kldnap e A Clement Spring.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-06-08

New York. June 7.-ln one of the most elaborately planned and dar- ingly executed maneuvers of the war Sir Douglas Haig's forces have dealt a mighty blow against the German line in Belgium and have been re. warded with notable gains in the cap. ture of more than five thousand pris- oners and numerous guns of various s-se5T. In addition they Inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans
 Over a front of more than nine miles. extending from the region of Ypres sOuthward, nearly to Armen- tieres, the British started their drive early Thursday morning and at night. fall had everywhere advanced their line capturing villages and numerous points of vantage, among the latter the Messines-Wytchaete ridge, which commands the surrounding plains for miles and which for two and one-halt years has been a troublesome salient
 The villages rf Messines and Wyt- schaets fell into the hands of The British during the attack and the British even pressed on eastward from Wytschaete and occupied the village of Osttaverne
 Probably never before in the his tory was an attacks launched with greater precision When the time for the attack came the British loosed mines containing one million pounds of high explosives in front Of the German positions the detonation be. ing heard l30 miles away in England
 With consternation reigning among the Germans and under a curtain of fire English, Irish, New Zealanders and Australian infantry men started across the open The Germans offer ed only slight resistance and every where were beaten off Except for a German attack against the French northwest of St Quentin, which the French troops repulsed, quiet prevails everywhere on the French front Thursday except along the Chemin
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AN AMERICAN WARSHiP
 C0NVOYED THE COLLIER
Provisioning of Uncle sam's Army Is
 Looked After Before the Troops Are
 Sent to Take Their Place on the
 Battle Front. 8i

Paris, June The ministry Of marine announced tonight that Ameri can warships have anchored off the French coast
 An American transport containing wheat for American '8roorb whhh Ate to come later has crlssed the .'- lantic ander the protection of an American warship, the Matin an nounces The transport is now being unloaded at French port the news paper says.
 Preparations are being made for re oeption Of American troops A num- Der of bases similar to those .f the British army have been organized.
 Camps have been laid out for in fantry and artillery and aviation parks have been established for American aviators. None of the American officers are bringing their families
 The Matin says the arrival of rhe transport means that the provisioning of the army is well under way before the arrival of the tr. ops and that ac- ccrdngly the American forces will make no call on the French stock for food
 The announcement adds
 The French navy greets with joy on their arrival these new brothers in arms, who under the flag of the great American republic have come participate until final victory in the struggle against the common enemy"
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MANY CLAIMS OF
 EXEMPTIONS ARE MADE
Until Exemption Regulations Have Been Promulgated lt Will Be lmpos- sible to Say How Many of These WilI Be Marked of the Military Roll.

Washington, June Registration returns came in slowly today and to. night from Tuesdays great military census, preveEtidg anything approach. ing a conclusive estimate as to the number of men actually enrolled. An ofticia. statement today, however. said such partial returns as were at hand indicated that the l0,200.000 estimate Of the census bureau for the number of men within the prescribed ages would not be equalled.
 A feature Of the few returns Is high percentage of the claims of exemption. averaging approximately 50 per cent of the total regidrtion DOfflcials pointed out, however, that this did not mean actual exemptions as the Indicat- ed figures include aIl married men and those in executive, judicial or legisIa. tive offices. Until exemption regnias lions have been promulgated 1t will be impossible to say how many of these will be included in those to be marked off the military rolls.
 The one conclusive result of the reg lstration that cannot be altered in the slightest degree by any possible vari- ation from the estimate is that mil lions Of young Americans have put in their names calming no exemption and stating no reason for release from war service.
 In regard to the married men. Sec retary Baker said today that in ail the letters he has received on the sub
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Des Danes where the artillery activ fly was violent
 Considerable fighting continues be tween the Ausrians and Italians in the Carso region Along the Vipacco valley the Italians delivered thrusts which were repulsed while near Jamiano the Austrians have made further gains, according 10 Vienna Rome, however. asserts that the Aus. ,rian attacks failed in the latter re- zion as likewise did an offensive in force en the Trentino front
 Great preparations are being made in France for the arrival of American troops Already an American trans. port containing food for them has ar Fiyed in a French port ard Amerieah Harships are anchored off the French coast
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RACE RIOT IN ST. LOUIS
 PRISON WORKHOUsE.

s. Louis June 7-Sticks, stones and shot guns loaded with buckshot figured in battle between 23t work. house prisoners and five guards late this afternoon in which one white prisoner and eleven negroes were i'm jured
 The prisoners divided about evenly white and black were working in a quarry near the river The trouble started as nearly as can be ascer- tained when a white man slyly cas, Q rock at a negro and knocked him down The guards were unable to stop the battle by beating the pris. oners with clubs, but when they brought sawed off shotguns into play order was soon restored