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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
Addison


DR.. William Stickney Of Rutland
has been ordered to Fort Upton, va
plank, L. l., where he is to be chief
Of surgical service in the camp hos
pital with rank of lieutenant.
Edward S. Higgins, game warden
of Bennington county since 1911 and
during the past year superintendent
of the Bennington field hatchery, died
suddenly at his home in Bennington
recently.
Arthur N. Chamberlin, c. Douglas
Woodhouse, Charles P Smith, Jr.
Oliver M. Smart, all Of Burlington
and Robert M. Briggs Of Hartford
have been appointed by the war de.
partment as candidates for aerial OBJ.
servers. The appointments were
made on the recommendation OF
President Benton of the University
of Vermont. &,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
Foreign

Dispatches from London state that
the paramount need of the Entente AL.
lies is for more tonnage for the in
creased shipping needs.
An American flag presented by Red
Cross workers, is hoisted over the
ruins of Verdun (France) City Hall.
Public school pupils who were work
ing on farms in Boston will be al
lowed to continue their labors through
the harvest period.
A trainload of POI French officers
and men arrived from Lyons recently.
or this number not fewer than 1855
were out of their minds.
Germany is refusing to give Holland
coal. The belief Is that Germany wants
to force Holland to give her loan.
Five women we're wounded by bombs
dropped on hospital at Dunkirk.
The Berne Bund says that the post
poned Socialist conference at Stock
nom will eventually be held in
Switzerland at a place and time to be
determined.
The Russian death Battalion" com.
posed of women, forced the Teutons
back in a southerly direction.
A Mexican transport capsized in the
Gulf of California and 200 Mexican sol.
diers were drowned,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
MERITS OF THE GOOsEBERRY
OF Hand and Not ExceIled for
Jams and JelIies.

No fruit is more deserving of recog~
milton than the gooseberry. Possess
ing peculiar merits all it's own, the
gooseberry must be known to be ap.
preciated and understood. AS a fruit
TO be eaten out Of hand when ripe, it
is most delicious, and it's suitability
for preserves, jams, jellies and buffers
Is not excelled by any other fruit.
Plant a few bushes in the garden or
truck patch where they can be cult
waited and cared for and not in some
neglected corner where they are left
to the mercies of the thick grasses,
weeds and insect pests. Spray, cult
vate and fertilize them and they will
amply repay the care bestowed upon
them.
Three years ago I set 25 two-year-.
old Houghton plants, says a writer Ia
Farm and Home. The next year thes
bore 45 quarts of fine berries and last
year they produced 119 quarts. l have
grown plants that have produced
half-bushel each. A market at 10 cents
a quart is not hard to find, which gives
some idea of the productiveness and
revenue-producing qualities of this
fruit. If the grower lives in a COM
munity of English people he need not
worry about market, for the fruit
rs favorite of the Britishers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21

All whiskey and gin distilleries in
the United States-so far as the
making of drinks is concerned-have
quit business.
All whiskey distilleries in the United
States were closed, according to
provision of the Food law, leaving
supply on hand of 300,0O0,O0O gallons.
President Wilson has been designat-
ed the worlds greatest humanitarian
by the Humanitarian Cult and a gold
medal has been awarded to him.
Three persons were killed and twen-
ty-one injured in an explosion in the
frankfort Arsenal declared to be &C
cidental. Damage was 100000.
Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S.
c., presents a sea of canvas, all OF
the 2,400 troops being sheltered in
tents.
1t was estimated by competent au-
thorities that between 80 and 40 per
cent. of New York City's 5000 saloons
will go out of business by October l.,
The new Federal tax and other wal
measures affecting the liquor trade will
force them to close their doors as their
present licenses expire.
Labor Alliance meeting in Minneap-
oils decides to form branches through
out country to counteract pacitist tend
encies.
National live stock representatives
urge cheaper interest rates on loans
to cattle raisers as one means OF re-
ducing the high living cost to con-
sumers.
Defying his opponents to do their
worst, Mayor Thompson denied that
his actions had been traitorous and an
nounced that he had no intention OF re-
signing
Herbert c. Hoover, food administra'
tor, told the National Live Stock Con-
ference that price fixing for meat AMI
dairy products had no place in the gov
ernment's food control arrangements.
Philadelphia school officials dropped
six teachers who refused to become
naturalized.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
POINTS FOR APPLE STORAGE
Practical Suggestions Offered by Hor~
ticutural Department OF Iowa
State College.

The horticultural department Of the
Iowa Agricultural college offers the
following suggestions for keeping ap-
pies on the farm:
81. Keep only sound fruit, discard
ing all apples too green or too ripe.
'2. Store in a well insulated room,
or by burying in chaff, straw or dirt,
although the latter often imparts to
them an earthly flavor.
"3. Try to maintain q temperature
which approaches the freezing point
as nearly as possible, but do not let
the fruit freeze. Certain solid apples,
such as the Newton or Spitzburgh, are
not injured by freezing, If allowed to
remain In that condition until used,
and then thawed out gradually.
"A. During the fall, keep the room
cool by opening the windows at night
and closing them during the day.
IS. For best keeping, apples require
much moisture in the air (about 80
per cent?, but it should not be allowed
to condense on the fruit.
IT. Keep the room perfectly venti-
lated.
''8. For fancy fruit, it may pay to
wrap each apple in tissue paper"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
I Gernan-Hrnerican War

The Prussian government is manu-
featuring sentiment against the seed
Of democracy in President Wilson's
note, even children being modified to
send messages of loyalty to the Kaiser
and opposing the Reichstag majority.
Two American soldiers, members or
an engineering unit engaged In rail-
way construction near the firing line
in France, have been injured by shell
fragments, according to the first
casualty list.
The War Department announces the
killing of First Lieutenant William L.
Fitzsimmons, adjutant to the colonel
commanding the Harvard Hospital, In
an aerial raid.
The House of Representatives passed
the bill authorizing the issue of war
bonds to the amount Of $11,53S, 945,O 0O
without rollcall or dissenting vote.
Ralph De Palma, the auto racer, re-
ceived orders from Washing to report
for service. He is to be an inspector
Of aviation motors.
General Pershing takes up residence
in American camp in France and finish
ing touches are being put on United
States forces preparatory to sending
them to trenches. He praised condi-
ton of troops.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
FlotSam and Ietsam of Live In.
tereSt Caught From the Wires
and Boiled Down.
GREAT CONFLICT EPITOMIzED
Important Happenings In the Forty.
eight States Of the Unlon-Occur-
rences at the caPitaI-Latest
Gable CONVERSATIONS.
War Bulletins

Baron Lowen, Swedish Minister
to Argentina, was exonerated by his
Foreign Office of blame in the send.
ing of unneutral messages.
Mr.. Kerensky has declared state
of war; in Petrograd and has deposed
General Korniloff as commander in
chief because the latter demanded that
all military and civil power be turned
over to him for the purpose Of form
ing new government. This was con-
Bidered an act of rebellion. General
Lukomsky refused to take command,
and then General Klemkovsky was ap-
pointed to succeed General Korni-
loft.
Five times German forces on the
right bank of the Meuse surge forward
to recover positions lost to French,
and five times the lines break and
scatter when they come in contact
with the French gunnery.
One German feet has appeared in
the Gulf of Riga and another at the
entrance to the Gulf of Finland; the
Riga front has been broken OIL width
of forty miles, Petrograd announces,
the railway to Venden being cut.
German attacks on the Aisne re-
pulsed by the French. Two British
assaults in Flanders break down be-
fore German resistance.
Austrians take Monte Gabrielle,
northeast of Gorilla and position on
Bainsizza Plateau. Big battle on
Carso, Austrians launching heavy
counter offensive.
Capture of Monte San Gabriel was
officially announced by the Italian War
Office. Italian troops have been work
ing their way up the slopes for several
days. The Austrian garrison fought
stubbornly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
Sporting

Columbia and other coaches are
placing some hope in the prospect that
the military authorities will send en-
listed college men under age back to
complete their courses Such action is
contemplated at Washington.
AS usual the Carlisle Indians are
the first on the job. They have al
ready started their fall football
practice and prospects for a better
season than last are encouraging be-
cause of the presence Of number
of husky bucks in the squad
G. w. Lofts Papp easily won the
s2O,350 Futurity from eleven high class
two-year-olds at the Belmont Park race
track. Eight thousand witnessed sport.
Francis Ouimet and Jesse Guilford
defeated Jerome D. Travers and Os-
valid Kirkby in seventy-two hole golf
match, which was concluded at
Baltrusrol.
Boston fans insist that the Western
teams are not overanxious to beat the
White Sox. They are bitter against
the Yankees, who were pie for Conf
skey's men in Chicago and then took
three out of four in Boston.
Jack Barry says that the Red Sox
still have a good chance to win the
American League pennant.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
General

That the late l.. B. Martindale, presi-
dent of the Chemical National Bank,
New York, has stolen 100000 by forg-
cry, covering sixteen :'ears, was de-
clared by John Shelton Williams. Con.
troller of the Currency.
President and Mrs. Wilson varied
their holiday cruise on board the May.
flower by calling on Colonel and Mrs.
IL. M. House, at Magnolia, Mass. They
played golf and motored for two hours
along the shore near Gloucester, Mass.
Maine rejected woman suffrage. by
a vote of two to one at special cleo.
ton little interest was shown.
The inquiry into the mysterious
death of Mrs. Maude A. King in North
Carolina shifted to New York. where
1t is understood an effort will be
made to determine whether the dead
woman was the victim of a conspir.
acy to obtain her fortune.
The Senate Public Lands Committee
reported favorably on the plan of Sen.
ator Walsh to open for use 100000
acres of oil lands in California
Frost in the Northwest gave a lift to
the corn market at Chicago.
The Senate passed the bill repatri.
ating all Americans in the Allies
armies
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
Washington

The State Department announced
that in revealing Sweden's treachery
its purpose was not to punish the
neutral government, but to add further
proof of the German Kaisers plotting
against the world.
The War Tax bill, the largest single
taxation measure in American history,
was passed by the Senate. 1t provides
for levy of $2,4OOO00,000.
Speaker Clark championed the Sol
diers Insurance bill as the best war
measure presented to Congress since
the break with Germany.
Mr. Hoover, in an effort to OBJ
tain a lower price for bread, tried
moral suasion with the master
bakers.
Sweden as an aide to German in.
trigue was exposed by the State De.
partment. Documents in possession
of the United States Government
show that the scandinavian country
has violated American neutrality and
has had transactions with Germany
that official Washington expects to
lead to a declaration of war against
Germany by the Argentine Republic.
The Post Office Department and the
DepartL ent of Justice took steps to
close the mails to the Peoples Council
and other pacifist organizations.
Secretary Lansing and Viscount Ishil
In a formal conference at Washington
considered means of national co-opera.
ton.
Secretary Daiels Of the navy asked
Congress for $225,OOO,OOO to start the
destroyer building program.
The bitter fight over war profit taxes
ended in a rout fer the radical group
when the Senate adopted the Finance
Committees compromise, levying 6
total of $1,2S6, 100000.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
V E r NJ N T
STATE NEWS
VERMONT GRAND LIST
TOTAL $3.50, 5000
Exceeds That of Last Year by $37, 900
-Wlndham County Stands
Fifth In Line.

Montpelier-The commissioner of
taxes has completed and transmitted
to the secretary of state and state
treasurer the grand list of the state,
which, under the statute must be pre-
pared from the abstract on file in his
office on or before the first day of
OCTOBER
The grand list of the several coun-
ties, unorganized towns and cores has
also been completed and transmitted
to the several county treasurers.
The grand list of the state totals
$3.50, S60.40, the largest in the his
'~''-' re the state, an increase of $37,-
600, in round numbers, over that of
.v-O, demonstrating the fact that
the deduction on account of debts
owing for the year 1917 exceeded
the deduction on account Of debts
owing for the year 1916, by $3.50, 900
In round numbers. 1t Is also to be
noted that there are 10000 polls in
1917. as against $4,000 for 1915
The valuation of personal property
for 1917 shows an increase Of $780,,
900, in round numbers, over that for
1916, and the appraised valuation of
real estate In 1917 shows an increase
Of around 100000 for 1915. The
grand list shows s253,Oo000O worth
Of real and personal property subject
to local taxation. The grand list for
1917 after deductins s3,2O3,626 worth
Of offsets exceeds by $4,000 that
for 1915, amounting to $2,514,490, in
which year no offsets were allowed.
The grand list Of the state by
counties, Is as follows:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
LOWER EXPENSE OF HAULING
Trucks Are Being Used to Move
Freight in Antofagasta-cost of
Mule Feed Is High.

The question of the use of trucks
for hauling freight to and from docks,
stations, and warehouses in Antofa-
gasta is now being studied much more
than ever before. One truck has been
In use for the last few months, FIVE
more have just arrived, and others
have been ordered. The high rates
of freight charged by the coasting
steamers make the cost Of hay and
grain for mules very expensive, so
that there is great interest in the
truck as means Of reducing the cost
of haulage.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
Horticultural!
0NG(.IW " S
IMPORTANCE OF SPRAY PUMP
Some Form of Apparatus, With Suit
able MOBILES, Is Absolutely Es-
sential for Orchard.

For the proper application of sprays
some form of spray pump with suit
able nOzzles is absolutely essential.
Most spray outfits are supplied with
spray rods permitting the operator to
direct the spray as desired. The hose
should be Of sufficient length to permit
convenient spraying.
Spray outfits vary In size from small
bucket pumps to gasoline power out
fits for large-scale operations. Bucket
pumps answer well for small home or
chards where but few trees are to be
sprayed. Where the orchard interest
is larger, and especially where older
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21

trees are to be treated, barrel pump
is essential. A barrel pump may be
purchased for 500 to $25, depending on
the equipment. In spraying, the outfit
can be mounted upon sled or placed
in cart or wagon. An outfit for opera
lions on still larger scale consists of
100 or 200 gallon tank mounted upon
a truck, having a strong double-acting
handpump mounted upon it. For large
commercial operations. gasoline power
outfits are largely used.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
Vermont Party of for France.

Burlington.-Guy Potter Benton
and Byron N. Clark Of this city and
several other Vermont men who have
been engaged by the War Work
Council to 60 to France left New
York city on Saturday for the front
Or. Benton's address will be read
by proxy before the students at the
opening of the University of October.
The party includes B. e. Merriam,
superintendent Of public schools al
Bellows Falls, Rev. J. W. Barnet OF
Barre who was assigned to go on
September s, will not sail until Oc-
tober.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
FIRE BLIGHT IN PEAR TREES
Large Main Limbs Carrying csnkers
Ought TO Be Cut Out-Clean
and Disinfect Wound.

Pear trees In which the blight has
run down into the body are practical
ly worthless and should be re-
moved. Large main limbs carrying
large blight cankers which usually de-
stroy the limbs ought to be cut out.
Where small blight pockets occur on
the main limbs or trunk, the blight
cankered area should be cut back to
a rim of healthy tissue, the wound
scraped clean, dislnfected with mer-
curic chloride and painted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21

All of the Vermont National Guard
have now left for Fort Ethan Allen.
The last Of the. Vermont troops, in
GLIDING about 80 members OF Com
pany l of Brattleboro. are at Camp
Bartlett, Westneld. Mass, among
them being Maj. Walter o. Cooley
and Capt. Ernest w. Gibson.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21
Excludes Children from Ethan Allen

Burlington.-Colonel W. C. Rivers,
commanding officer at Fort Ethan AL
len. has issued an order that no child
from Burlington, winooski, Essex or
vicinity. under 16 years Of age, will
be allowed on the reservation and
that no child Of the same age resid-
Ing at the Post will be allowed to
leave the camp grounds.
These measures were decided upon
by the authorities at Fort Ethan AL
len, after the discovery Of case of
poliomyelitis in this city.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21

A bed of castor oil plants in the
garden of e. @. McClallen in Rutland
Is a good illustration of the great de-
velopment Of vegetation which Is
possible in the short summer of Yer
mont. The plant which produces
the bean from which Ii obtained the
medicine SO popular with physicians
mot children) IL Of .subtropical ma
ture and cannot be planted with safe
ty in this latitude until all danger Of
frost Is past.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-09-21

William Green. "a, formerly Of
Proctor. and well known in Rutland,
who was a member OF the aviation
corps at Fort Sam Houston. San An
tonic, Texas, Is dead.
Smyrna times., 1917-09-12

During this and the past week"
pertinently says the Centreville (Md)
Record. "25, 900. 600 boys and girls
throughout the nation went romping
off to school. Do you ever pause to
get the significance of the movements
of this mighty throng of young
Americans present? Close the schools
ten years, and half century would
scarcely repair the damage to society.
Close all the schools for twenty years
and the entire nation would be turned
back toward hesthenism. Perhaps
the worst blow which Europe will
suffer from the great war-if we look
far enough ahead actually to measure
resuIts-will prove to be the break
ing down Of her public school system.
With all able bodied men and women
engaged in fighting or in making the
Smyrna times., 1917-09-12
Store Will be
CLOSED
Monday and
Tuesday
Sept. l7--l8

MOOre's poems, Cuvier's "Animal King
dom," Goldsmith's works and some
others not quite so light. The fright
thinking citizen" wanted to read some
thing that would last. But the young
fry, who did not know what literature
was and were quite devoid of culture,
sat down and frittered away the gold
en- hours by reading 'IvanhOe" and
"The Spy" and David COpperfeld."
And we fancy that as the years went
on these lowbrow fry haunted the AS
tor library waiting for a chance at "a
Tale of Two Cities" "Our Mutual
Friend" and the other poor books"
which Dickens kept on turning out.
Some of these are still observed ON
the shelves from which Frontinus'
"Asiatic Researches" are unaccount-
ably missing.
Smyrna times., 1917-09-12
NAMES OF BRITISH POLICE
They Are Numerous but Cooper"
"PeeIer" and "6obby" Those Most
Frequently Used.

It would be interesting to have list
of the names by which the British po-
lice are known. Copper" ''peeler"
and ''bobby" are probably the most
prevalent, and they carry their deriva-
tions with them. An officer who "cops"
people is a copper; and the name of
the founder of the force, Sir Robert
Peel, explains the other two styles. In
many parts a policeman is called a
''slOp," a corruption of "ecilop" ("pO-
lice" spelt backward). In Dundee a
policeman is a "shout," the name hav-
ing originally been got from the
fact that he wore a helmet with bold
peak fore and aft. Hotten's Slang Die
tionary, published in 1864, makes no
mention of 'rozzers' or "slops." But
how many would recognize the police
man under the name of "cosSack, !"
'crusher," "frog," raw lobster" an.
p" (member Of the police), nam"
(prebably backslang for ''man"), or
"PhilistineT' A ''beak" is only a mag.
istrate now, but Hotten gives police
men as an alternative meaning. "Blue-
bottle" for a policeman is now extinct,
but no vehicles are called policemen
now, as the earlier flies or "bluebot-
ties" sometimes were.
Smyrna times., 1917-09-12

What has become of the System
attic" numbering of houses and the
placing of street name signs Smyrna
Town Council was going to do along
with the recent installation Of free
house to house delivery of mail. The
Postofice Department which was
pledged the support of the town in
this matter, have kept faith with
their part of the program by putting
two postmen on the routes. Towr
Council was not ready at the time the
delivery service was STATED and still
is not ready. The numbering ot
houses and placing Of street name
signs. is as important a part of the
service as the service itself and il
the delivery is to have any semblanc'
of ''real delivery" Town Council
should see to it that its pledge with
the Postoffice Department is kept
Lets have the thing right or no
at all.
Smyrna times., 1917-09-12
WHEN DICKENS WAS "TRASH"
What the Youngsters Of New York
City Had to Read in the
Year 1854.

A book reviewer, telling of the use
full work of John Cotton Dana of the
Newark free public library, called at
tentiOn to the list of authors whose
books were most frequently called for
IN the public Libraries a dozen years
ago. The list was headed by Marion
Crawford, Rosa Nouchette Carey and
Alexander Dumas.
An Illuminating parallel is found
in the first installment Of "a History
Of the New York Public Library" pub
lished in that nbrary's July bulletin,
remarks a writer In the New York Sun.
Joseph Green Cogswell, the New Eng
land schOolteacher who became the
mentor of John Jacob Astor in the mat
ter of libraries, was almost as curious
as Mr.. Dana to learn what the public
was reading. The AstOr library in
Lafayette place was opened January
8, 1854, with about 10000 volumes, and
Cogswell watched the public with keen
eye.
Everything goes on very smoothly,
he wrote to George Ticknor after his
library had been open six weeks. 1.-THE
readers average from one to two hun
dred daily, and they read excellent
books, except the young fry, who en-
ploy all the hours they are out Of
school in reading the trashy, as Scott
Cooper, Dickens, Punch and the Illus
trated News. Even this is better thar
| SninninQ street warns and as lOng as
they continue perfectly orderly ant
quiet, as they now are, shall not OBJ
ject to their amusing themselves witt
poor books"
Poor bOoksl Then what did libra
rian of that day consider good books
Well, the books asked for at the AstOl
library were Woodhouse's "AstrOno
n.y." Frontinus' "Asiatic Researches,
Abernathy on diseases Of the stomach