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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17

How large a mass of trained men Hol
land could Iiow place in the field is east
ly diseernible. There is first the army
that was modified in the days of the
wars outbreak, probably not far short of
a quarter of million men, and now all
at home on indefinite leave. Then there
is the new army, now under arms, of a
like size Moreover there is very con
siderable body of men who, prior to 1911,
had finished their period of Is years in
militia. Landwhe and Landsturm, but
who are subject to call should occasion
require.
This should bring the number Of
trained men available to half a million
men and possibly well over that mum
ber constituting a far more formidable
and probably better trained fighting
force than the Netherlands has ever be-
fore possessed in her history
In equipment, too. the Netherlands
army has made great strides during the
past three years. The ammunition in
dustry has been re-organized and enor-
mously extended. The artillery arm, in
which the country was VIGOROUSLY weak,
has been reinforced in so far as material
was obtainable. Some guns are on or
der The delivery of anti-aircraft guns
l. also in course OF execution.
Serious efforts are being exerted TO
improve Hollands aerial service. A re-
is contemplated that is es-
timated to cost between 81 100000 aud
81 10000 The new scheme provides for
- airplane divisions comprising fifty
eight battle planes and Cd scouting
planes
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17
HOLLAND PREPARES
FORMIDABLE ARMY
Have Been Persistently Striving
to Build Up Their Military
Strength.

The Hague. Netherlands, Dec. 49,
Correspondence of the Associated Press }
Only some two days march north of
the battle area in Flanders stands FOR
midable army, intact fresh and vigorous.
that has not yet fired shot in the great
war Ii is the army of the Netherlands.
That army is ever growing. The work
OF training began feverishly back in Au
gust, 1914. and il has been carried on
without a break ever since in all parts
of the country. A special law was passed
some years since greatly widening the
circle of those liable to service, with the
result that all the men under arms on
August |, 1914, now have been relieved
by newly trained men and sent home.
though they can be recalled to the colors
Immediately should occasion arise
That the country's military leaders
have no intention to rest on their oars
after the achievement is shown by bin
that has just reached Parliament for
denomination of all men of the land
sturm born since 1855 who had been re-
jected for one reason or another. This
measure is expected to yield q very sub
stantial amount of fresh human mate
rial
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17
TALK OFTHE TOWN

Old silver and gold wanted Highest
price paid. Z. Burr.
| Violins and fittings for presents at
! Gould's, SO Spaulding street.
| Anyone who has not received his
Christmas club check is requested to call
at the Barre Savings Bank & Trust Co
The condition of Michael BuZzi oi
Summer street, who has been seriously
i'll for several weeks, is improving stead
lily.
Parlor golf game, "the king of indoor
sports" an ideal Christmas gift. Regu-
lar price 81. Special fot this week, SOC.
The Homer Fits Co.
Administrator sale of stock and tools,
hay, grain and produce. The Wells es-
tate, East Montpelier, Tuesday, at 10 a.
m. The biggest sale of the season. d. A.
Perry, auctioneer.
Mrs V. Bruno and Mrs Annie CALI
left the city last evening for Batavia,
n, Y. where they we're called by the
death of their brother, Alexander Corti, a
former resident of Barre, who passed
away Sunday morning.
The sale at East Montpelier Saturday
for Gordon Robinson was well attended.
Small Jersey cows averaged S4S.30 each;
pair of horses, $780, harnesses, $57; hay
at barn, Sl2 oats, Sic; potatoes, 1925;
corn on the cob, $l.75 d, A. Perry. auc-
tioneer
Ice harvesters working under the direc-
ton of Contractor J. c. DeBrune began
their lsbors on the Jockey Hollow mill
pond this morning. The first crop is be-
ing harvested earlier than in recent years
because of the fine quality of ice now
available.
Edward Rollins Of Brooklyn street,
who received serious injuries when he
fell on the stairs in the Gordon block
some time ago, is able to be out of doors,
a badly crippled leg binders
him considerably in walking
Gordon Eager of Prospect street com
pleted his duties at the Barre Steam
Laundry Saturday evening, after being
employed there during the past few |
months. He is succeeded by James Dan |
els of North Main street. who com I
nenced his duties there this morning
j. f. Lambert of l07 Summer street 1
eft this morning for Newport. r. IL
where he is to begin his duties as an APP /
prentice seaman Mr. Lambert. who en-
listed NJ the Burlington naval station
ast week, has been employed as a gran
te cutter. He Is a graduate of Goddard 4
eminary, where he completed the com l
nercial course IN 1915 At the annual
Meeting Of the commercial alumni asso-
iation in June Mr. Lambert was elected
resident, an Office which he held at the
ime Of his departure.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17
TALK OFTHETOWN

DR.. Lynde will not be present at his
usual place of business for time. DR..
w. X. Mackay will occupy the office dur
ing the formers absence. Tel. 366-M, or
hs3- w.
Adjustors representing the McAllister
& Kent agency began their examination
of the stock and fixtures in the New
England Fruit store this morning, the
business having been suspended as the
result of the fire Wednesday
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17
Granite Cutters International Associa.
ton Of America.

4 regular meeting Of the Barre branch
il the G. G. l. A. Of A will be held in the
opera house
Una ruinione regolare dell uniune degli
scalpeliini branch d Barre avra' lougo
nclla opera house
On Monday evening. December IL, ~
{ o'clock. Election 81 officers.
J. -. VIII. Secretary.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17
TALK OFTHE TOWN

All stores, members of the Barre Re
tail Merchants association, Inc, will re
main open evenings until Christmas.
TO save money, buy that piano now.
You will be obliged to pay more little
later. Go to Gould's, IS Spaulding street.
+. u. Bessey, who has been located in
Barre for several months as the pur-
chasing agent of middle west concern,
left Saturday for GAINESVILLE, o., to spend
the holidays.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
JURY CASES
Two Negroes and Negress Arrested
Yesterday Afternoon for V'olat-
inp the Prohibition Law.

A one-legged negro named James
Sullivan, another of the same race
known as William Fyfer, and Ora
Dove, a negress, were arrested yes
terday afternoon by Officer Reed on
the charge of violating the profibl-
ton law. Nine bottles of whisky
were taken from the trio. 1t is sup
posed they intended to engage IN
business with soldiers encamped near
Alexandria. The prisoners were COR
Quoted to the bar of the Police Court
this morning, and after the test!-
mony of the officer had been taken
they were ordered to be held for the
action of the grand jury.
Henry Twyman, colored, had been
arrested on the charge of assaultias
James Brown, colored. The latter
failed to appear, but the officer who
arrested Twyman testified that he,
was drunk when taken in custody.
He was fined SIS, and not having the
necessary wherewithal he will serve
the next twenty days in Jail.
A resident of the southeastern sec
ton of the city was charged with al
lowing his horse to run at large. He
was dismis. i upon promising to
keep the animal upon his own pre-
mises in future.
The police report that one hundred
pounds of copper wire were removed
last night from poles of the Postal
Te,egrapk company near Bayleys
cross roads, a short distance west OF
this city. 1t is said that thieves re-
Gently removed copper wire from
poles of the, Western Union Tele'
graph Company.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
WORKING FOR RED CROSS
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Setting Good
Example Before the Women of
The Country in Making Garments

Four dozen pairs of pajamas, and
an equal number of sheets and pill
low-cases, the work of Mrs, Wood
row Wilson and Miss Helen Wood
row Bones for the American Red
Cross, during the past month, nave
been divided equally and distributed
to the Red Cross societies of Eng
land, France, Italy and Canada.
Mrs. Wilson and Miss Bones have
been devoting much time to sewing
for the Red Cross and their example
has been followed by women high in
official and diplomatic circles. Mrs.
Thomas R. Mrshall, wife of the Vice
President, organized the wives of the
senators, and they have been meet
ing weekly to sew for the Red Cross.
Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, wife of the
Secretary of the Interior, organized
the women of the Interior Depart
ment for the same purpose, while
Mrs. David F. Houston, wife of the
Secretary of Agriculture is working
along other lines of Red Cross Work.
In a letter to the British Red
Gross Society regarding, Mrs. Will
sons handiwork,. Eliot Wadsworth'
Acting Chairman of the Central Com
mittee, wrote as follows:
"We are sending you under sepa..
rate cover bundle containing one
dozen pillow-cases, three pairs OF
naiamas. and half dozen sheets
These supplies have been made By
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mis-
Helen Woodrow Bones. Mrs. Wilson
and Miss Bones work with their owl
hands on Red Cross supplies ant
have sent to the American Red Cros'
for distribution the product of thei
first months work, which Is yer!
material in quantity.
The American Red Cross sends thu
special shipment to the British Re-
Gross at the request of Mrs. Wilson
TO evidence her active and most prac
;cal interest in the work of mere
:. and relief carried on by Red Cros
: societies. sssWe trust that the ship
:: ment will reach you safely, as
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
Steamer Northland Accompanied by
Naval Vessels While Coming up
the Bay Last Night.

The steamer Northland, CT the
Norfolk and Washington Line, which
reached this port at six o'clock this
morning, was conveyed by United
States men-of-war part of the way
up the Chesapeake Bay early last
night on account Of a submarine scare
in Hampton Reads carly in the even
ing. A dispatch from Fortress Mon
roe says:
Hampton Roads was given a real
submarine scare last night by re
port brought to the commandant of
Fort Monroe that two Incoming YES
sells had sighted periscope IN
Chesapeake Bay 5 miles off the fort.
Immediate precautions were taken,
and at a late hour last night naval
vessels still were securing the lower
bay seeking al enemy. Merchant ves
sells about to sail were held up, and
the Washington and Baltimore
steamers Wee escorted from the
Roads and part Of their way up the
bay by warships.
Col. Foote, commandant Of the
fort, would not comment upon the
scare beyond saying that while the
reports might not prove to be well
founded, no chances would be taken.
Neither the War Department nor
the Navy Department received a re-
port last night on the Hampton
Roads submarine scare.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
BODY UNIDENTIFIED.

Bodv Found in Potomac at Ship
ward in Charge of Washington Au-
thoritieS.
Efforts on the part Of the WASH
ington police to establish the iden-i
titv of the white man found drowned
at the shipyard in this city yeSter!
day, had proved futile up to an early.
hour this morning Rumors. that
the body. which had presumably
been in the water for 'months, was
decapitated when found, were DIS
proved by the authorities last night
following further c%ainiration Of the
corpse.
The police are Of the opinion that
the condition Of the mans head,
which gives the appearance of hav-
ing been badly battered. was caused
by the body running against some
object while in the water.
The body is that Of man OF
about } feet 10 inches in height and
weighing about $50 pounds. The
CORPSE was clothed IN dark colored
shirt and trousers and did net haT-a
on either Shoes or socks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
SLACKERS SENTENCED.
GIVEN Year and a Day in Chicago
House of Correction. -.


Freeport, H., July 6.-Opponents
of military service who defied the
Federal registration law here last
month were meted heavy punish
ment and scathing rebukes here to-
dav by Judge X. NJ Lands in the
United States district court. OF
12l men arrested in Rockford dur
ing the antidraft disturbances there
III were sentenced to serve one
year and day in the Chicago house
of correction, two escaped with 30
dav sentences, one with 60 days and
another with 90 days.
Hard labor" was specified in pro
nouncing sentence and court at
taches said it was because the prls'
oners would live under more rigorou:
conditions in the Chicago corrective
institution that they were sentenced
there rather than to a Federal peni
tentiary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
PORTRAIT UNVEILED
Andrew Jackson Masonic Lodge
Adorns its Rooms With Handsome
Oil Portrait of Grand Master Field

A large number Or the Masonic
fraternity of the city were in at
tendance at Andrew Jackson Lodge
last night at the unveiling Of a
handsome oil painting of Henry X.
Field, past master of the lodge and
grand master of the state OF Viz
rinia. William L. Allen unveiled the
picture and made the presentation
address on the part of the commit
tee in charge composed of }. +.
Tjmberman, James F. Alexander and
Mr.. Allen. Worshipful Master
Walter S. Nicklin accepted the por-
trait in a brief speech on behalf OF
the lodge, and addresses were also
made by the Rev. E. V. Register and
James F. Alexander. Mr.. Field re-
sponded to the addresses in very
appreciative and earnest manner
The portrait was painted by artist
IL. H. Gebhard, of Washington, ana
is most excellcntly done. 1t has oeen
hung in a conspicuous place on the
walls of the lodge room.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Wom-
ans Missionary Union, Potomac AS
sociation, will be held at Middleburg,
July IS and 10, beginning Wednesday
at IL a. m. All Woman's Mission
airy Societies and Young Woman's
Auxiliaries are entitled to two dele
gates, the Girls Auxiliaries, Royal
Ambassadors and Sunbeam Bands
(adult), and delegate. Delegate ane
visitors should notify, at once, Miss
Ellen Skinner, Chairman Hospitality
Committee, The Plains. Va, how
many to expect and whether they
wish to be met at The Plains. Mrs
J. P. Thomas, Va. w. M. U. Cor
Sec'y, hopes to attend the meeting
It is hoped that every church in tn
Association will be represented.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
TROUBLE IN AUSTRIA
bohemia Troops Join Armies OF
New Russia.

Bohemia Troops Join Armies OF
New Russia.
From high Italian sources today
comes important information to the
effect that a new peace moTemeat
by Germany is in the air. AT the
same time, through Like sources
comes information that bohemian
troops in large numbers have joined
the Russian forces and are serving
under Brusiloff.
The significance of the fact that
Bohemian troops are with BrusIIoh'
as viewed in allied diplomatic quar-
ters here, is great. 1t means that
powerful forces IN the Austrian en-
plre are turning against the pro-
German coterie which Is keeping
Austria-Hungary in the war, and
that process of disintegratlon Is on.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.
Senator Mapp Would Give Officers
Right to Search Personal Baggage
In Trains and Autos.

Norfolk. Va, July 6.-Advocacy
of a prohibition amendment to the
State Constitution and of national
prohibition, and clause urging all
temperance people to support prohl-
bition candidates for such State Of
fees as have to do with making and
enforcing laws were the high lights
of the report of the legislative COM
mittee of the State Anti-Saloon
League made to the last session OF
the league convention yesterday
morning by Dr. James Cannon, Jr.:
chairman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
REGATTA TOMORROW
Everything in Readiness for Midsum-
. 8 mer m Affair of Boat Club-Regular
& Regatta in August. I.

s Arrangements have been com
pleted for the midsummer regatta
of the Old Dominion Boat Club which
3 will be held in front of the boat
house on the river tomorrow after
!. noon from three to six o'clock. Re.
freshments will be served in the af-
ternoon and in the evening the
ladies' auxiliary will give dance
j Following a meeting held last nigh:
/ at the clubhouse program OF ten
events has been announced as fol-
lows:
Single, canoes, double canoes,
canoe fours, single outriggers, double
S.outriggers, fancy diving, SO yard
swimming race, A"centipede" race, &C.
monstration of life-saving methods,
canoe fitting.
George R. Dickson and Miss c.
Desio, of Washington, will give a
demonstration of life saving methods.
Mr.. Dickson is president Of the In
: dependent Life-Saving Corps, OF
Washington, a unit of the Life Saw
ing Corps of the American Red Cross,
and is instructor of the unit recently
organized by the OLD Dominion Boat
Club. Miss Desio is one of the ex-
pert swimmers of the District or
ganization.
The referee of the regatta will be
\ E. E. Carver, and the clerk of the
+ course, A. C. Moss. Judges have been
selected as follows: Capt. Albert
Bryan, C. Aubrey Callahan, A. G..
4 Uhler, L. E. Uhler, George E. War
field.
At the meeting of the club last
night it was decided to hold the re-
gular annual regatta in the latter
!. part of August. At the annual re-
katta of the boat club races will be
gAaeed between the local cluo and out
side sporting organizations, but the
affair tomorrow will be purely local.
rs ,Other. business transacted at the
meeting last night included the cleo
ton to the regular membership OF
Attorney H. Noel Garner ana
Chester Pierce. Several other apph-
cations were received which will be
passed on after the period OF post
inc has expired. The following were
elected members of the ladies auxl-
l;ary: Mrs. A. H. Oliver. Mrs. George
r. Hill, Miss Blanche Stansbury'
Miss Ada Garrett, Miss Mary Hunt
Roberts, Mrs. E. A. German, Miss
z Regina German.
The club now has membership OIL
50 senior members, II jur'ors mem
hers, so honorary members and one
life members, and: 40 members OF
ladies' auxiliary, a total OF ICY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
LIQUOR BULLETIN
Post office Department Issues: Thirty
Four Page Booklet

The post Office department mas Is
sued liquor bulletin No. 2, Z4-page
booklet showing the territory to
which it. will be unlawful, ON and
after July /, next, under Section D
of the Post Office Appropriation Act
approved March 3, 1917, to transmit
through the mails matter containing
orders for Intoxicating liquor. This
bulletin supersedes the bulletin is
sued May 14th by the department,
which was preliminary and included
only a portion of the territory af-
fected by the act, many of the States
affected by the act having failed at
that date; to furnish information to
the department.
Twenty-three states are wholly al
fected by the act, and matter con-
tanning either advertisements OF
solicitations for orders for intoxlcat-
mo LIQUOR were unavailable, on and
after July /, when addressed to any
of the following: Alabama, Arizona
Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho
Iowa: Kansas, Maine, Mississippi
Nebraska, North Carolina, North pa'
kota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Is
land, South Carolina, South, Dakota
Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Wash
ineton, and West Virginia.
The following States are partial
| " affected by the Act, and the bulie'
tin shows in detail the territory b!
cities, towns, or other political sub
divisions affected: California Con
necticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Mary
land, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, New York, Ohio, ane
Texas,
The following are affected by the
Federal Act at future dates as fol
|lows: Alaska, January l, 1918; In
diana, April 8, 1918; Michigan apr
80, 1918; Montana, December 81
1918, and Utah, August l, 1877.
The following are not affected b.
the Federal Act: District of Colum
bia, Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois
Wisconsin, Kentucky, Porto Rico
missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and Wyoming.
Ethyl alcohol is regarded as al
Intoxicating hquo. within the mean
ling of the act, but methyl alcohol
wood alcohol, and denatured alco,
lhol are not so regarded. No rulin
lis made as to the status of medicin
or tonics containing alcohol.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
NAVAL SHIPS CONVOYSNAY CLOSE THE SCHOOL
Rallowell Building On North Alfred
Street Will Have Seen its Day BY
the End Of the Year.

Eleven of the twelve members OF
the City School Board attended the
regular monthly meeting last night.
Most of the business transacted was
of general nature. The board
postponed The election of 4 principal
for the high school until the next
meeting. Messrs. Ray, Of Norfolk,
Aybuckle. OF North Carolina, and
Gillian and Summers. high school
teachers, are candidates fo rthe 30
sition
During the session it was gener-
ally agreed that if some movement
was not inaugurated at once for the
erection OF building in which to
house colored children it would be
necessary To close the school on north
Alfred street, as the structure is
beyond repair
The attention of the City Council
was called tc the serious conditions
confronting the School Board some
time ago. and although certain susr
gestions concerning the purchase OF a
lot have since been made. nothing
definite has bee done towards re-
lieving present conditions. Accord
ing to the law, when a building be-
comes unsanitary, unsuitable or dan
gerous for public school purposes,
the school in such structures must
be closed until other accommoda-
tions shall have been prepared.
The history Of the buildings used
FOR colored school purposes has often
been told in the Gazette. The build
jng on north Alfred street and the
structure which up to year or two
arc stood on south Pitt street were
erected by the government during
the civi! war. They were tempo
rarv structures from the first, and
after the public school system be-
came operative in the early seven
ties the buildings were turned over
% the city of Alexandria. The
ssr.fctvre on north Alfred st-eet is
known as the Hallowell School, and
that on south Pitt street was the
Snowdcn School. The latter was
destroyed by fire recently. Thous-
ands Of dollars have been spent i'll
repairs during the past forty-odd
years.
Two vacancies were announced IN
the corps Of teachers. in',the' graded,
schools-NIiss Elizabeth Louise Rup-s
pert. Of the West End School, hav-
ing resigned. and Miss Margaret
Arrhambeault, recently elected
teacher, subsequently declined the
position. Miss Elizabeth Smith. OF
Loudoun, and Miss Port!a Moran, OF
Manassas. were elected to fill these
vacancies. c. Madison Ray. Of Nor
folk. was elected teacher in the
nigh school.
Bessie Riddick and James Howard
were elected teachers IN The coiored
bows school. The other teachers
in the tolored schools were re-
elected. =.
The board adjourned after having
hecn N session about two hours and
a half.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-06
COAL MEN co FREE.
indictments Against West virginia
And Ohio Bituminous Operators
Dismissed.

New York, July 6.-lndictments
were dismissed yesterday by Fede- s6Is
raj Judge Grubb in the case: OF VIII, T.
lam Leckie, of Welch, w: Va :ana nd
Robert G. Patterson, of Dayton w.
on trial with q number OF other semi
.bituminous coal operators on a
charge of restraining trade and tlx-
ING. prices. The indictment was also
dismissed in the case of ne 5. >.
PattersonsP Posahorttas Company and
the Weyanoke Coal and Coke Com
pany, in which Patterson is interested
Judge Grub, in dismissing J he
indictments, said he believed the
government should do more thar
show that sales. agents OF the de'
PENDANTS and their companies COM
mitted certain acts.
at has not been snown that theS'
men or their companies autnofize'
the agents to act for them in any al
legged conspiracy" he said.