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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
A Piece of Good Fortune.

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
RIGHT NOW!
BY
Edith Barnard Deiano
of the VipiIsntes.

If your neighbor's house is burning,
and the sparks are falling on your
shingled roof, are you interested in the
fire?
If the boy next door has a sore
throat, and there's a lot Of scarlet
fever about, and you have four chill
dren Of your own, does it mean any
thing to you?
If the man who owns the farm just
won't spray his apple trees, what do
you care?
If folks in the house back of yours
persist In leaving the lid of their gar
bage pail the nasty pestilent flies bred
there never come over to your house,
do they?
NOW-fire and fever, famine, pes
thence, and that which is worse than
murder are YOUR NE1GHBOR. Oh
yes they are! You can't say that they
are across the water, in Europe, where
, they are too far off to harm you or
yours. They are here, right here in
your country. Your neighbours fire
smoked before it blazed, the boy next
door had scarlet fever for days before
it "broke OUT on him; the unsprayed
apple trees and the uncovered garbage
pail were getting in their deadly work
for days before you knew anything
about them. The danger that this war
is spreading throughout every corner
Of the world is not over there, but
here, HERE and NOW. Much Of the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24

danger you know; much you do not
know. There are enemies, germ car
riers, where you think it is impossible
for them to be. You may rub your
elbows with them On your way to
work. You may sit next to them in
street cars. They may be your GUS
toners, your tradespeOple. your very
neighbors; but they are spreading by
ways that are open and that kill quick
~ and by ways that are secret and
that stab in the dark the most dread
full disease that has ever been on this
earth-WAR. You know what war
does; there Is not man, nor woman,
nor child in all this broad land who
will not be hurt by this war if it is
permitted to repeat itself. War has
got to be ended, ended soon, and ended
forever; and there is only one way to
do it. One way, that is, for you and
for me, who cannot place our bodies
where they will stand between our
flowed ones and the shot and steel Of
war. You and I have got to do our
part by providing the means with
which war can be stopped and shall
be stopped. You and T. who cannot
fight, have got to provide money, just
money, SO that others can do our fight
ing for U.S. And the fighting Of this
war is the one big final housekeeping
Of the world; even the germ carriers
have got to be routed out and cleaned
up.
Housecleaning costs money. So does
sickness. But cleanliness and health
are worth paying for. They are good
investments. You do not hesitate to
pay for fire insurance, to call in the
doctor, to keep your home premises
clean and to do what you can to see
that the people around you do the
same. It's worth it.
Right now, you have got to insure
your children's children against disas-
ter worse than fire. Buy a Liberty
Bond and let our soldiers be your
properly equipped firemen..
!, Right now you have got to call in a
doctor. Buy a Liberty Bond and let
Uncle Sam choke Off the germ carrying
spies and seditionists here at home,
and clean them up wherever they are
working throughout the world.
Right now you have got to force
y
doesn't live only in the Germany
which produced his poison-to clean
his premises Of something that is more
dangerous than scale or dry rot or
borers or moths Or anything else that
the world has ever had to deal with
Buy a Liberty Bond and help rid the
world forever of this CHASTITY pesti-
Ience of war.
Right now is the time to make safe
your homes and all that you wish
Home to stand for; the life and health
Sof you and your children; the security
of your incomes; the UNFOLDING of the
ideals without which you wouldn't
care to live. There is only one way in
which you and can do it, but that
way is going to bring us in mighty
good interest. It's the best investment
you'll ever make, or anybody else.
1x1 Liberty Bond-RIRHT NoWl
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24

submarine sped on it's deadly way,
robbed us of our peace of mind.
"Now in this annus mirabilis, this
wonderful year of 1917, when the
soul of the nation has spoken, when
we have turned our backs upon ease
and comfort, and a security at once
threatened and ignoble, we are pre-
with solemn piety and purpose. We
have not so loved our lives as to lose
them. We have refused to acquiesce
in wrongdoing. We have accepted
our share of responsibility for the
well-being of the civilized world"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
Food Pledge Campaign Thoughts.

Millions of women and children IN
Europe-our allies-can be saved
from bitter hunger if you will eat
one slice less of wheat bread each
day.
If you think it better to whip Ger
many in Europe, rather than fight
her here, help feed our allies and
keep them in the fight. Sign up as a
member of the Food Administration.
war if, through unwillingness to
practice small economies, it fails to
save the food necessary to keep our
allies in the fight until victoryis won.
If American women fail to- DO their
part in this war, it will be their first
failure. President Wilson says the
most vital part they can play is to
enroll as members of the Food Ad-
ministration and "cheerfully accept
it's direction and advice"
The women and children of our al
lies in Europe know hunger in it's
most bitter forms. There is no rea-
son that the women and children of
America should be hungry. They
may eat abundantly-but wisely and
without waste-and still save the
women and children Of our allies
from the extremes of hunger. That's
why every woman is urged to enroll
as a member of the Food Administer
ton.
The skyscraper goes up stone by
stone, brick by brick, foot by foot,
day by day, slowly There is no 9th
err way to build it. Europe's war food
shortage must be made up by individ-
uaI Americans through saving bit by
bit, ounce by ounce, day by day, per-
sistently. There is no other way to
do it.
Millions of European farmers have
left their fields to fight for the safe
ty of America and the world. Those
fields therefore haven't been produc-
ing much Ours have. Europe's
food has got to come from some
where. America is the place. It's
little enough to ask the individual
American to conserve what our fields
produce, so that our European breth-
rem can have plenty and keep up the
fight. Save your bit!
Your plans for dinner, Mrs. House
wife, are just as important in their
way as General Haig's plans for a
night attack Haig aims to get the
maximum of results with the mini
mum of material. He uses plenty,
but he doesn't waste any. So should
you. That's the way you and Haig
will win this war.
The boy you cheered when he
marched away will stand knee deep
in trench mud; he will face poison
gas and deadly flame. He will en-
dure all the terrors of modern battle.
That's his bit Your bit, perhaps, is
to save one slice of bread a day in
order that he may not fight in vain.
And just as you say that you will
not change your style of living a
starving baby dies in France.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
With the Magazines
What the War Has Done to One Man

A writer in the November Ameri-
can Magazine says:
"The war has put into my soul
something that it has never harbored
since the day when I took my first
step alone-Fear. Fear of what
might happen to this country has
turned me from a mild pacifst into
a violent advocate of preparedness.
Fear of what might happen to bust
ness made me lose more chances in
these three years than ever before in
my life. And recently there was adj
ded another fear, the fear of Death.
"The fear of God, I remember
hearing once in church is the begin
ming of wisdom. Perhaps that is true.
Perhaps l needed this war to jog me
out of my comfortable, unquestioning
rut and make me think why I am
here, and where 1 am going and what
it is all about. Perhaps the whole
world needed it. Who can say?"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
LOWELL

Nathan Jones has moved his fami-
1y to North Troy.
F. G. Kinsley was in Hyde Park on
business Tuesday.
Mr.. Buzzell of Troy is plastering
the new community house.
Mrs. I. Stephenson is putting in a
line of millinery and dry goods.
Miss Gladys Tillotson, who is
teaching in Troy, was home over Sum
day.
Howard Pope was home a short
time Saturday from the Aver, Mass,
camp.
Clarence Coolbeth cut his foot
rather badly in the lumber woods last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Webster have
gone to North Troy, where Mr.. Web
ster has work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Sylvester of
Sutton visited his parents several
days last week.
A. I. Stebbins and son, Hazen, and
Mr. and Mrs. Albion Stebbins were in
Orleans Thursday.
Israel Sylvester broke the large
bone in his arm at the bobbin mill
Tuesday of last week.
Chellis Kinsley went to Brightlook
hospital, ST. Johnsbury Thursday to
have his tonsils removed.
Mr.. and Mrs A I. Stebbins, Mr..
and Mrs. Albion Stebbins and Hazen
motored to Jeffersonville Sunday.
Ben Sylvester spent the weekend
in town, visiting his parents and sis
tiers, returning to Aver, Mass, Sun
day.
D. P. Narramore of St. Adams was
in town one day last week. Mrs.
Narramore and children are spending
some time with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. !. Stephenson.
DR.. William Shaw, district super
intendent, will preach at the M. E.
church Friday and Saturday evenings
at 7.3O and at the regular services
Sunday. Mrs. Manuel, soloist.
Monday evening, Oct. 10Th, at 8
O'Clock there will be an entertain
ment. Mrs. Florence Bryant Manuel
of Newport, R. l., will render vocal
and whistling solos and Miss Mar
jorie Elllins will give readings.
Mrs. Carter, Mrs. L. A. Sanborn,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. C. Durivage, H. A.
Parker and C. E Curtis attended the
food conservation meeting at New
port Thursday, which was very inter-
esting and much enjoyed by all
FALLING TREE KILLS MARTIN.
Frank Martin, aged SO years, was
instantly killed shortly before noon
Saturday while chopping in the wood
lot on his farm about a mile and a
half from this village on the Bur-
1ington road. Mr.. Martin had just
finished chopping a tree and as it
started to fall he started to run but
his foot caught in a root and he fell.
The tree fell on his neck, breaking it
and crushing in the skull. His
brother-in-law, E. B. Coolidge, and r.
Powers were with him. Funeral
Tuesday at 1 o'clock, Miss !. S. Nor
gan officiating. Mr.. Martin is sur
vived by his wife.
WESTFIELD
Forty new books have been added
to the town library.
Mrs. Homer Hitchcock was very i'll
last week, but is now recovering
slowly.
Clyde Morey and Mrs. Dora Hen
dirk visited at Dana Beams in Cam
bridge Friday and Saturday.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
Popular Government.

No mOnarchial throne presses these
states together, no iron chain Of mill
tary power encircles them; they live
and stand under a government popular
in it's form, representative in it's char
acter, founded upon principles of
equality, and so constructed, we hope,
as to last fOrever-Danie1 Webster.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
Thanksgiving Will Be Different TIL
Year

An editorial in the November
Woman's Home Companion says:
"For the first time since Austria
struck the match which fired Europe,
Americans can eat their Thanksgiv-
ing dinner with proud hearts and sac
rifcial joy.
'The three last Thanksgiving days
were full of turkey and plum pudding
but empty of noble gladness and Sc
renity.
eve could not unconcernedly eat
our fill when thousands of our fellow
creatures were starving. We could
not thank God, with the Pharisee,
that we were not as the rest of men,
because the vision of those men-our
brothers-lying with stiffening
wounds on the battlefield, or sinking
into the whirl of waters while the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
Why Boys Love Dogs.

There never was a great boy story
written without a dog in it.
Boys and dogs have the same prob
lems-the same troubles to overcome
Serious minded people think that all
boys are full of mischief, and that all
dogs are unmitigated nuisances. Thus
boys and dogs have much in common,
and one of their chief occupations is
keeping out of the way of people who
don't like them. 1t is too bad that
Booth Tarkington's "Penrod Scho-
field'' arrived so long after Mark
Twain's ''Tom Sawyer" Tom and
Penrod would have been great chums.
Then throw in "Huck Finn" for good
measure and the picture is complete.
The Penrod stories in Cosmopoli-
tan are touching the high water mark
of boy literature, and Periods dog,
Duke" is sure enough boys dog
with about as much pedigree as a
field mouse.
In November Cosmopolitan Tark-
ington tells how Penrod and his side
partner Sam named Sans dog Wal
ter-John Carmichael-a sufficiently
gaudy appellation for any mongrel.
Anyway, if you love boys and dogs
don't miss single Penrod yarn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-24
UP THE MISSISQUOI

Mr.. and Mrs. George Miller went
Monday to Springfield, Mass, to
spend a week with her brother, Chas.
Wells.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Jenkins and
daughter, Miss Goldie, of West
Charleston, were guests of S. l.. Hen
dirk Sunday.
Mrs. Hart Wing and two children
Max and Gladys, who have been in
North Troy for few weeks, have re-
turned to their home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Bailey, Miss
Ethel and Alton Bailey and Mrs.
Brown and two children were in
Newport and North Troy Saturday.
Homer Langevin has sold his farm
in Irasburg and moved into the house
owned by Mrs. Lora Courser. He is
working on the farm Of his father,
Paul Langevin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Curtis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Angler, Mrs. Fanny
Reed, Mrs. Dayton Harding and Miss
Theo Hendrix motored to Newport
for the day Saturday.
Senator Carroll S. Page of Hyde
Park, accompanied by members of
his family, was in town recently and
called at the home of Mrs. Ann
Wright. Mr.. Page is native OF
Westfeld.
NORTH TROY
The North Troy Palladium, manag-
ed for Is years by H. H. Butterfield,
is now managed by Arthur l.. Keeler
of Norwood, Mass. A. H. Butterfield
still owns the the paper and leases
it to Mr.. Keller. Mr.. Butterfield will
take up insurance work in order to be
out of doors and has moved to New
port.
The Blair Veneer company has
three gangs of men cutting logs for
the concern. One gang is in Jay, one
in Westfeld and one near Highwater,
P. @. The company is doing large
business with prospects of an in
creasing business in the future. The
company now owns large tracts of
timber in the valley.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-27
GRAND JURY RETURNS 5 INDICTMENTSIN BOOD.
 LING INVESTIGATION
Held Lengthy Conference With Prosecuting Attorney Duna- way-Accused Senators Grant ed Leave of Absence.

Little Rock, Feb. 27.-The investi- gating committee of the Arkansas Senate returned to its labors Tuesday morning after lengthy conference with Prosecuting Attorney M. E. Dun- away Monday afternoon. The inves- tigation will proceed along broader lines than first anticipated, and it is probable that number of members of the Senate will be summoned, if not all, to testify before Senators Adam son, Garrett and Gendall. It is stated that five indictments in the poodle in- vestigation have already been re- turned by the Pulaski county grand jury, with many more anticipated Quite few outsiders are being drawn into the controversy, and the indications are that the coming ses- sion of the Pulaski circuit court will be lengthy one, if the cases can be brought to trial at that time. Sena- tore Sims and Burgess asked an in- definite leave of absence from the Senate Monday afternoon and it was granted The accused Senators de- clared the charges against them to be infamous, in lengthy statement read before the Senate, and asked not to be adjudged guilty before the charges were proven. The accused Senators made trip to the capitol at 1 o'clock, at which time the investigat- ing committee was in session, and R. L. Rogers accompanied them as at torney. It is stated that Gen. Geo. w.. Murphy will also be associated in the defense of the Senators.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-27
HOUSE REFUSES TO PAY
 GEN. GREENE BACK SALARY

Little Rock, Feb. 27.-The House yesterday refused, by vote of 23 to 80, to make an appropriation of |s6.5OO to pay the back salary of Gen. |B. W. Greene of Little Rock for his
 services as adjutant general of the
 Arkansas National Guard from July [. 1909, to Nov 6, 1913, four years
 and four months. At the time the
 office was created, the salary was fixed at $1,5O0, and subsequently, a bill to appropriate $3,000 was vetoed by Gov. Donaghey on account of the financial conditions of the State. The
 statement was made on the floor that
 at the time the appointment was made Gen. Green agreed to serve without pay, but his friends replied
 that he reserved the right to apply to the Legislature for relief. Mir. Har- |d dage led the fight against the bill.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-27
|eIlI INTRODUCED TO
 | pI AGE POOL } MILES
 PRESCOTT SCHOOLS
p,,sb Places Measure Before
 pusm uSsomnate-Senate Passes Bill preyenting Dissertation of FIags-School Feeble Minded.

cnocial to The News.
 Little Rock, Feb. 27.-Bush intro ,,.od q bill today prohibiting the ansration aa of pool halls within three u,ilos m of the Prescott schools.
 The Senate today passed the follow ,.r hills. Preventing desecration of tbe e flag; permitting the St. Francis ,.roo hoard to issue a million and half honds. the Davis bill, creating ware house board; the Josephs bill, creat- ine a school for the feeble minded and providing for sale of state prop ortv to raise funds to erect the build mos and the university appropriation bill which passed without comment.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-27
MISSOURI PACIFIC EN-
 CINE HITS WAGON
Completely Demolishes Wagon Driven by Will Hayes, Jr.-- Driver and Horse Escape With Slight Injuries.

When the laundry wagon driven by Will Hays, Jr., was attempting to cross the railroad below the freight depot this morning about 10 o'clock, it was struck by Missouri Pacific switch engine which completely de- molished it, except the covered body which was carried along on the steel rails for about forty or fifty feet and because of the fact that Hays remain ed on the body of the wagon probably saved his life. The horse was cut rather badly about the feet but other wise was uninjured.
 Witnesses of the accident say that Hays was crossing the track just as the engine was making a flying switch starting on the sidetrack below the passenger depot, the object being to place a box ear on the main track by this method, which required the en- zine to go even faster than the car after uncoupling, and it was when the engine had uncoupled from it and was on the side track going about ten miles an hour, witnesses say, that the engine struck the wagon Hays would have had time to cross safely, but the harse baked and stood stock still The engineer threw on the emergency brakes, but the speed it had gained caused it to slide forty or fifty feet, tumbling and rolling the covered body in front of it, in which Hays managed by some miracle to remain, escaping with bruises about the body.
 Read this weeks Saturday Evening Post.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-27
APPEALS CONSOLlDAT.
 ED ELECTION LAW
Cabiness Bill Passes Prohibiting Shipment of Liquor Into State Bill Introduced Penalizing Dissertation of Flag.

Little Rock, Feb. 27.-The Arkan- sas Senate on Monday afternoon pass ed the Moncref bill to repeal the con- solidated election law passed by the last Assembly. The Senators from the white belt were lined up against those where the negro predominates, and the plea of the brother from the black land was heard. He asserted that the negro is in position to dom- mate affairs in south and east Arkan- sas, and put even the courts in the hands of negroes, to say nothing of the elections. The Senators from the hills ridiculed this idea and urged economy in the holding of joint elec- tions. The proponents of the bill also insisted that state rights could not be manifested with federal control over the elections. The bill was passed, r to 15.
 The Doyle bill from the House, ap- propriating $102,000 for the continual ton of the extension work of the Uni Iversity of Arkansas, was passed over the objections of Senator Edmondson, who has fought everything that was for the interests of the University, and only Senator Owens voted with him in opposing the bill.
 Another important bill passed was the Cabiness measure to prohibit the shipment of liquors into the state, making more effective the enforce ment of the "bone dry" law. There was opposition to this on the ground that it would shut out flavoring eX- tracts. the majority of patent medi- cines. and being so drastic, would be difficult to enforce. The author of the bill fought off motion to place back on the second reading for amendment, and won out on his claim that any thing that has so much alcohol Tn 1t that it becomes a beverage instead ot medicine, should not be introduced m the state The bill passed r to II.
 Another bill passed was the Utley bill to increase the franchise tax from one fifteenth to one tenth mill on cor and including insurance companies in this class of corpora tions.
 Other bills passed were to permit the penitentiary commission to pay improvement taxes where the state farm is benefited; to empower the Log Prairie levee district to issue bonds; to make additions to the Vll- lage Creek and White River levee dis trict: to create the Little Rock to Batesville highway district; to create the Thirteenth chancery district.
 Senator Carruth introduced bill placing heavy penalty on desecra- lion of the flag. and Senator Ruff in- troduced bill to appropriate $500 annually to keep up the Arkansas room in the Confederate Museum at Richmond. Va; and the Shockley bill to create a road improvement dls- trict to build highway from Little Rock to Hot Springs through Benton, was read twice and made a special order for Tuesday morning.
 Senator Carter introduced a bill to made more definite the boundaries Of a fencing district in Chicot county.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-27
APPOINTS COMMITTEE TO
 ARRANGE CLOSING PROGRAM

Little Rock, Feb. 27.-Speaker Ca zort has appointed Representatives Josephs. McFerrin, Norheet, Johnson and Buchanan as a committee to ar range program for the closing eX- ercises of the House on Thursday, March s.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-27
SUCCEEDS
 RANEY ON BOARD CONTROL

Little Rock, Feb. 27.-Gov. c. H. BrCggh on Monday afternoon an- nOunced the appointment of c. Ash ton lncenheller of Fayetteville, as a member of the Board of Control, sue ceeding T. J. Raney of Newark, who nas been on the Board for four years, Ills tern expires March 10. Mir. Vim Cenheller is graduate of the Uni VersIty Of Arkansas, and was one of 'ne managers of Dr. Brough's cam palgn for governor. He must be con- nfmed by the Senate, but no opposi- uOn there is anticipated.
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