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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-29
MORE LETTERS FROM FRANCE.
Continued from Page One).
July %. 1917.

July 20, 1917.
My dear Mother:
Have received two more letters
from you, also one from Myrtle. Am
getting mail pretty regular now. The
last letter was written the day we
landed so am sure you must have
received some of my letters. Have
received letters from others and an
other from Mrs. Rand.
We are still in the same place we
were when last wrote. Hot days
and cold nights, so that two blankets
hardly keep a fellow warm. 1t takes
three or four weeks for letters TO
reach me but that is better than at
first, which was six weeks and I think
from now on three weeks viii be the
average. We do not get many news
papers here and those are several
weeks old / am all right and feel
ing well so don't worry about me.
Somehow, it doesn't seem possible
that / am so far from the States and
home.
VIII get my mail quicker if you
send it TO this address,
Pvt. Wayne W. French,
5th Section, Headquarters Co.,
9Th Regiment,
u. s. Marine Corps, A. z. F.,
Via New York, n. Y.
Somewhere in France.
Aug. 5, 1917.
My dear Mother:
There is not much I can write, but
I can let you know I am well and al
right It has rained here for several
days, so there has been no drill, which
makes time pass slowly. Have not
heard from you for a week, but we
are expecting some mail in a day or
two. No doubt there viii be some
for me. It has been two months since
we left Philadelphia, but it seems
longer.
There are rumors of peace now,
however, they are only rumors. Any
way we can hope and pray it viii
soon come.
/ suppose 1 would not know about
it if some of my friends who have en-
listed were over here. We get the
news from the States through Amer
lean papers printed in Paris.
Nothing more to write.
Love,
Wayne.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-29
curing : ~sickp Thermometer.

To reunite the particles of mercury
or other liquid which have become sep
arated In a thermometer raise it to the
level Of the extended arm. the bulb out
ward, and jolt the tube with q quick
downward stroke. Repeat this, not too
vigorously. until the liquid returns 70
tn proper position.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-29

Among those who have attended
Sherbrooke fair this week are Mrs.
John Austin, Mrs. Mary Metcah,
Preston and Earl Simino and Ray
mond Aiken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Leyenberger
and children, who have spent the past
month with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Tinker, left for their home in
Floral Park, N. T., Monday.
A large company of the neighbors
and friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. j.
Shepherd met at their home on Mon
day evening to remind them of their
goth wedding anniversary. A social
evening was spent, cake and coffee
were served and purse of money
was presented to Mr.. and Mrs. Shep-
herd as token of esteem.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Sunday, September I'd.
Regular preaching service in the
morning at 10:45.
Theme for the morning, "The Sec
ond Coming of Christ"
Sunday school at 1910.
Junior League at $50.
Thursday evening at tbs, Epworth
League Prayer meeting.
IRASBURG RED CROSS.
The Red Cross Benefit given the
other night by Miss Doris Sears and
her friends was a great success in
every way 1t was certainly one of
the best entertainments held In this
town for long time. Miss Wilcox
proved to be violinist of great abili-
ty. Miss Colcord never sang better
than on this occasion, and this is say
ing a good deal. Mr. Cleveland not
only read with his usual ability but
also sang several baritone solos which
were very fine. Miss Verna Sears is
fine pianist and able accompanist,
and Miss Doris Sears is becoming re-
markably efficient with her cello. A
large company were present and
proved by their hearty applause their
pleasure and appreciation of the en-
tire program. Thirty-one dollars and
ninety cents was thus added to the
Red Cross fund of this branch for the
purchase of supplies. Thanks to the
talent and all who assisted.
A recent communication from Bur-
Hngton informs US that very soon
warm clothing will be needed in large
QudQIlJ1SS IOT our troops III rance.
By October 1st the men will need
wooden socks, sweaters, wristlets and
scarfs. Vermont's share of each of
these four garments is $500. Every
body who can knit is urged to do so
for the men who are fighting in
France for US. Don't be a Stacker.
Our own boys from Vermont and
from Orleans county are on their way
to France, and others will soon fol-
low. Is it nothing to you? It would
be if your boy was among the num-
Der. We are constantly being urged
to send hospital garments to Boston
for the base hospitals, also surgical
dressings of all kinds. Why will you
delay doing your bit of sewing until
you see the casualty list of Vermont
boys in the daily paper after some
battle in which the American troops
have been engaged, or until you hear
of an American graveyard in Elan
ders where is now a Canadian grave
yard with its thousands of dead he
roes Come out to the meetings on
Wednesday afternoons and put in a
good afternoons work on hospital
garments. Offer to take home work
to finish.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-29

Miss Nellie Bannon Of Boston visited
at Barney Dyer's the first Of the
week
Mr.. and Mrs. Conroy Brown Of
MansonviIle, p. O., and Mr.. and Mrs
Wood of North Troy spent Sunday
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
A. Brown.
The Red Cross viii give an enter
tainment Thursday evening at the MI.
E. church. There viii be an address
musical and literary program viii be
carried out. All come and help the
Red Cross.
Harry Sager died Thursday at the
hospital at ST. Johnsbury following
an operation, and the funeral was
Saturday at the home of his mother,
Mrs Alonzo Fisher, Rev. w. A.
Craig officiating, and burial was at
Hyde Park.
FAMILY REUNION.
The eighth annual reunion of the
Joseph Doying family was held at the
home of G. F. Carter in Albany, on
Thursday. An unusually large num-
Der attended, rs being present, and
an exceedingly pleasant time was en-
joyed by all. Among those attending
were relatives from Laconia, Pike and
Nashua, n. H., Shipton, P O., Med
ford, Mass, and Barton, Sheffield,
Wolcott, Woodbury., Greensboro, Iras-
burg, Cabot, Barre, Craftsbury, ST.
Johnsbury, Montpelier, Brattleboro
and Albany. Theoldest present was
Simon Richardson of Brattleboro, 81
years old, and the youngest was Eu-
nice Whitcomb, seven months, of Al
bany.
Games were played, refreshments
served and Mrs. G. H. Richardson
gave very interesting report of the
information gathered to date regard
ing the Doying family.
The officers elected were: Presi-
dent, Fl. O. Shute; vice president, r.
]. Doying; secretary, Mrs H. 0.
Shute; assistant secretary, Mrs. T. 0.
Doying. Committee for writing up
the history of the Doying family,
Mrs. G. III. Richardson, Mrs. Mitchell
Leonard, Mrs. J. G.. Ladeau.
But one death has occurred among
the relatives since the last previous
reunion. that of Martin V. 3. Carter,
husband of Calista J. Doying Carter,
on Nov. 2, 1916.
The next reunion is to be held Aug.
3, 1913, at the home of G. T. Carter,
in Albany.
SOUTH ALBANY
The picnic social given by the East
and South Albany branch of the Red
Cross and held at South Albany, was
decided success. Rev Mr.. Kelley of
Irasburg gave a very appropriate adj
dress which was enjoyed by all. Din
Il L Il.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-29
XESTFIELD

Miss Hazel Gilpin is visiting her
brother, Wallace, In Barton.
The village and rural schools IN
town viii begin Tuesday, Sept. 4th.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-29

potato crop was not thrown early on
the market would be about 81 a bush
el.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
HAIG'S BIG GUNS GET BUSY
Pour Raking Fire Into German Lines
Near the Sea.

Pour Raking Fire Into German Lines
Near the Sea.
London, Aug. S.-Windows cat
tered throughout Tuesday night in
the little town of South End, on the
Thames. Houses of weak or ancient
frame work shook in their founda-
tons. For from the distance, far across
the channel, came the dull echo of an
unceasing boom, noise much like
that which awoke the people of Lon
don recently when Haig's men
stormcd the Messines ridge.
Yesterday they learned the cause of
the distant roar. Haig's guns were
busy again. The British command
er's own day bulletin said nothing oil
the terrific raking to which all night
long his most formidable cannon
had subjected the Teuton lines right
near the sea, northeast of Newport,
the lines that guard the bases OF the
U-boat pest" But from Berlin
came an carly official announcement
telling Of a British bombardment of
drum fire intensity" followed by in
fantry thrusts. at intervals yester-
day the thunder REQUIRED like Il
bitter mockery Of the Kaiser's te!c-
gram to Hindenburg. the British guns
are keeping up their nerve-shatter-
in" destructive fire. At any moment
the drive along the coast is expected
to spring back into full fury. if it
has not, indeed, already recon-
ricnced
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
Psychological Bureau

Paris, Aug. 9.-Germany's latest
%institution, La Liberties correspond
ent ut Berne says, is moral or psy-
Geological bureau, with headquarters
in Berlin and agencies in all neutral
countries. The object of the bureau
and the duty of the agents is to cata-
logue continuously the precise psy-
Geological status of each of Ger
many's enemies. Each agent working
in neutral country adjoining an en-
tente country must record and forward
all available information bearing on
the morale of the entente country and
show its fluctuations.
The correspondent adds that Ger
many's hopes are concentrated not
on the success of submarine war out
on the probable moral collapse OF the
entente allies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09

Work at TIE -H:nsoia Aviation seld
and the Pelham Bay Park Marina
contonment, also stopped when the
carpenters quit.
A delegate of the Carpenters
brotherhood will issue strike or
der today to LOO carpenters who
have been working against time to
complete the national army conton-
ment at Yaphank.
An u:timatum was issued yest=r-
dav in conference between labor
leaders and representatives Of the
administration. This was, in effect,
that the government must cancel
all contracts with the so-called mush-
room contractors or general strike
will be called.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
SWA AN Bros
King and Pitt Streets alexandria, virginia
Clearance Sale Of Mems and Boys Furnish
ings at Greatly Reduced Prices.

Mems so Manhattan Union Suits, :. 500
Mems Manhattan Union Suits, sl'Io
Mems SIP Button Union Suits, 'oc
Mems 81 so One Union Suits, JOG
Mems SIPS White and Fancy Sport Shirts ioc
Mems 6Oc Knit Knee Drawers pair :. 4oc
Ten Dozen Mems 81 Fancy Shirts, each i9c
Mems Bal Knee Drawers, pair l3c
Mems SIPS Khaki ants, pair 'oc
Mems with 81, 81 and 49, pair 39c
Six regular Fancy Shirts, each I've
AensS1 Silk Shirts each Sl.i'
Mems $3.50 Silk Linen Shi each Si'1s
Mems Silk Shirts each Sl.5o
Boys Blue Overals, pair lSc
Three Boys Fancy Shirts each &c
Three dozen Rove 35c R1ouses soled each ;. :. ICE
Rows, ooc Srnn,ar Underwear each 2lc
Boys 3. " D. Shirts and Drawers each DOC
V D. Union Suits, each 7oc
Rows, 5or Snort Rouses each
Boys $l.25 Long Khaki Pants, pair s9c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
Fl. NYERLIST SATURDAY
Names of Successful Students to be
.A.1nounced-Exercises to Eclipse
Any Held at West Point.

! On next Saturday a1ternoon tae
War Department will make pubic
the names Of the students at the Of
ficers' Training Camp at Fort Myer
to whom commissions will be award
led.
The formal graduation exercises
from the camp will be held Monday
afternoon the exercises will be the
more formal, picturesque and patriot
ic than those at which the young of
ficers are graduated from West Point.
This will be the largest class OF
United States Army officers ever
graduated and the purpose of those
arranging the exercises is TO make
them worthy Of page in history.
This graduation will be unique,
for nothing of the sort has ever been
held in any country in the world.
1T viii outclass West Point gradra-
ton, for, besides the second lieuten-
ants, first lieutenants, captains and
majors will receive their commissions
directly from the President, with dip
iomatic and military representatives
of the Allied nations observing The
ceremony.
The commencement week actlvI-
ties at the camp started yesterday
with the entire camp participating
II three-day maneuver which Will
put TO practical test the quality OF
rhe young officers to meet real war
tactical problem.
Friday night Co. Charles ". Fen
ten. commandment of the training
camp. will entertain the entire Off
GERS school at smoker in the rid
ing hall. The embryo officers are
big vaudeville entertain
ment for the occasion. AS many OF
them have taken prominent parts in
college theatricals, it is predicted
that "Some show will be given
After the formal close Of the camp
next Tuesday al, those who have been
in attendance For the last thrce
months will 6c given ~ days fur
Tough with pay.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
NAY CUT PRICE OF COAL
Trade Commission Ready to. Act
As Soon as President Gives The


Trade Com mission Ready to. Act
As Soon as President Gives The
Word.
Sharp reduction in coal costs was
predicted by officials in Washington
last night as result Of the SEN
ates passage of the Food Contr"! bill
carryia. :. provision for Government
fixing OF fuel prices.
The Federal Trade Commission.
which the measure authorizes the
President to designate as u a&u.ty
to enforce the provision, is ready to
make cut Il price scale at short no.
tice. For months the commission has
gathered facts rs to production costs
ard in recent report TO Congress
pointed ont that prices were too h:@!.
Biturinous prices to the general
public were fixed ut So IN 4 recent
agreement between PRODUCES. m"lt1-
bers of the commission an! other
Government officials. This price was
to hold until final price was GcteF-
mined on. Investigation has Convinced
members Of the commission .i.Ht ti's
price is 800 high and that coal can
be sold at much lever figure and
still leave a handsome prof: Ger IN"
producer.
President Wilson probably w,ii IS
, sue an executive order at The .'c1" :e
signs TIE bill. authorizing re COM
mission 10 proceed with rri"" 6Xln@.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
DRAFT STARTS CRIME
attempt 20 Dodge Army Seen in tx.
ratio Law Breaking.

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Madison ,,.ho ,n,d dr,ft ~ 25s and
v,s n, irst man c,1Ied for ex,r,;na.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
FINDS HIS WIFE SLAIN
Val n. Brandon Discovers Body in
Annapolis Home.


Annapolis Home.
Annapolis, Md, Aug. 9.--With the
frontal bone of her skull crushed and
indicat ions that an effort had also
been made to strangle her, the body
of Mrs. Lille May Haislup Brandon
was found crumpled up on her bed
by her husband, Val n. Brandon,
when he returned to his home yes
tcrday afternoon from work as q
stcnugrapher at the naval expert
ment station.
In the murder there is mystery
such as the police of Annapolis have
not faced in years. Apparently there
was no motive for the crime, as no
indications that Mrs. Brandon had
been attacked before she was murder
ed have been found nor is there any
indication of robbery.
The murder is made all the more
mystifyin% through the fact that
while the house is one of ros OF
liimsily built frame tenements and
is Immediately adioined by similar
structure, which is occupied, no SOUND
Of struggle nor any cutlery wee
heard by the neighbors during the
dav.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09

80, dentist of Asr;rwa;:, and Miss
7Maoel Spencer, aged q, of slippery
2oci:, were injured.
The automobile containing the
four young people, who were spend
ing their vacations at Conneaut Lake
and who met for the first time, it
is said, at a dance Tuesday night,
struck a tree while running at 4
high rate of speed.
WEIGH is in serious condition at
a hospital here with wound in the
neck Miss Spencer's injuries are also
said to be serious. DR.. Brock was
only slightly injured
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
PEACE TALK HITS STOCKS.
Attitude of Government on War
Prices Also Factor in Wall
Street Slump.

Attitude OF Government on War
Prices Also Factor in Wall
Street Slump.
New York. Aug. 9.-.Tha stock
market slumped 8 to 10 points yes
terday, chiefly in war stocks, attribut-
cd to a revival Of peace rumors, the
attitude CT the government il relation
to war prices and taxes and the imam
cial prospects Of some Of the indus
trial corporations engaged in the
manufacture of war products
Much of the selling seemed co come
from professional interests Steel
shares were the weakest stocks, Eeth-
lehem. new and old, falling I to 10
points, and allied industrials, .5ppcrs.
motors and numerous specialties ) 70
) points.
Railroads were comparatively
strong for time with shippings ard
tobaccos. but surrendered their gains
in the more general liquidation. Of the
last hour, the market closing with a
weak undertone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
LABOR UPHEAYAL IN LISBON
Returning American Tells of Serious
Outbreak Which Occurred on Jul,

Returning American Tells of Serious
Outbreak Which Occurred on July
IL.
An Atlantic Port, Aug. ga de-
scription of labor upheavaI in Lis
bon, Portugal, on July II, only brief
ly limited at previously in cable dis
patches, which seemed to threaten
a revolution and resulted in the sus-
pension of constitutional guarantees.
vas brought here yesterday by Gil
bert L. Robinson, representative of
a shipping firm who arrived from Eu-
rope. He said troops were called out,
and, when a number of them were
killed by bombs thrown among them.
they charged the crowds, killing
eighty-fve civilians and arresting l.
500. This broke the backbone of the
uprising.
Mr.. Robinson said the trouble was
precipitated by the demand by all
classes of workmer for 70 per cent
wage increase to meet the high cost
of living, with a threat of a general
strike if denied. The government re-
fused to allow the enforcement of
their demands, Mr. Robinson said, and
when rioting began, called ont the
military.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
RESISTERS DEFIANT.

Notify Commissioner They VIII re
sist Attempt to Take Them before
Examining Boards.
:Luskoge6, Okla. Aug. "a iaree
group of draft resisters gathered at
scipio, Is miles north OF McAlester'
sent word last night TO r. \. AcM'i-
Ian. United States commissioner, that
thew would resist any effort to take
them before an examining board, &C
cord;ng to information received mere
by United States Marshal Enloe from
Mir. Mcmillan.
The men are armed, Commissioner
Mcmillan said. Mr. Bnloe instructed
Deputy Marshal Peters at AcAles-er
to take Is men and proceed at once
to Scipio.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
P&E!FIST SEIZED AT FRISCO.
Audience Kisses When Warrant
Served Of Orator.

San Francisco. Aug. 9.-Daniel
O'Comell. an attorney, was arrested
here late Yesterday OF q Federal var
RAM charging resistance Of The draft
law. Tie warrant was served While
he was addressing a meeting of the
"American Conference for Democracy
and Terms Of Peace.
The audience Kissed the officer who
made the arrest. Former United
States Senator John D. Works, OF
Los Angeles. arose and said:
This arrest IS d disgrace to the
American people. and Is done for the
purpose OF intimidating thinking
people.
D.. David Starr Jordan, prcmi-
nent oaciist, was III the audience.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09

a feature Of the election in Peters
burg Tuesday was the large vote
polIed for the proposed change in
the form of municipal government,
substituting the city-manager plan for
the present system. The vote stood
1861 for t., 1896 against the proposed
change. or about five for 70 ore
against. The proposition is for q
business manager and Council of
avs paid members, &c be elected s--o:::::
the city at large
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
SHOT SELF AFTER CRASH

Killing of Woman in Party Drove
Autoist to Attempt Suicide.
Meadville. Pa, Aug. 9.-That ne
became excited and did not realize
what he was doing was the explana-
ton given yesterday &c Coroner w.
E. Byham by Walter Wech. aged 10,
of Slippery Rock. who last midnight
shot himself following an automobile
accident at Conneaut Lake, near
here. in which one member of WEIGHS
party. Miss Florence Hughes, agec
p. Ct New Brighton, vas killed, and
+.wo others, Dr.. Horra-d ac,rk, agsc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-09
HALTS WORK ON CAMPS

Strike of Carpenters Threatens Con-
struction at SFipyards and Conton-
ments.
New York. Aug. 9.-The govern
ment in confronted with a general
strike of carpenters and consequent
stoppage of all work III shipyards
and on tontonments.
Thousands of carpenters stopped
work Yesterday on government con-
tracts in and around New FORK
Construction work ceased At the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, where LOCO
men, including TOO carpenters, e
fused to work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

|, tempt was made to murder the editor. and stating that the only possible yer dict was that of assault and battery, to which the defendant had already of fered to plead guilty.
 The jury's only duty, the court advised them, was to determine the punishment for the crime Should they deem a fine sufficient penalty he stated they were to fix the amount of such fine. which could range from i cent to $50. But, on the ather hand, should they see fit to im- pose a prison sentence they were to sim ply return a verdict of guilty. The sen tence, which could range for any period up to six months, would then be imposed by the court.
 Circuit Solicitor M. T. Ormond, who conducted the prosecution, first addressed the jury this afternoon for 15 minutes followed by John D. Mcqueen and Judge A. S. Vandegraaf for the defense. each speaking for the same length of time. The closing argument was made by Solicitor O 1ond and the jury left the courtroom 3;10 this afternoon, return ing IS mint $ later with the above ver- dict.
 The cases against w. Percy Williams, Prentiss Blackwell and Olin Young were settled following the Moody verdict by each of these defendants entering a plea of guilty of assault and battery and ac- cepting a fine of $5. the same as that imposed on Moody.
 The case against Moody and the others has attracted unusual attention over the entire south, due to the prominence of all parties. MT. Doty, who has been a resident of the state for the past 15 years,