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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26
RED CROSS WORK
Make Arrangements 10 Attend the
Meeting Next Saturday

A meeting will be held nj the Opera
House, Manchester Center, Saturday,
April 2Sth, at 3 p. m, TO perfect the
organization of the Manchester Branch
of the Vermont Chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross. Addresses will be
made and an account given Of the
State meeting held in Burlington last
week. II is hoped there may be .
large attendance; il Is work that
should appeal to every man, woman
and child, one in which every personal
prejudice and belief should be buried,
the one cry be "pro patria" in the time
of war, that il is an organization "of
the people, by the people, for the
people" There is work for everyone,
money from those who can give IL.
service from all. Glasses of instruc-
tion will be formed for those who
wish to take up some special branch
of work, there will be sewing, knit
ting, etc, for all. Surely every
woman in our town can give some
time, if only one hour week, to this
work. On Feb. 3rd, the day diplo-
matte relations we're broken with
Germany, Mr.. Eliot Wadsworth, act
ing chairman of the Red Cross, ut
Washington sent mobilizing telc-
gram to every chapter in the United
States. Burlington answered, "Ver-
mont is organized and always ready to
do her share in a national crisis" We
are Vermonters. Let US heed the call.
"For the rights of mankind are now at
stake!
To America comes the call, "Awakew
Awake 0 Land of Washington!
The last great battle is now begun
And Freedom now in the balance lies,
Freedom for all beneath the world
skies!
Lo! Now has come in the fullness
of time
The need for courage and deeds sub
lime"
We have the names Of 60 women.
Won't 60 men join them? And many
more, men and women? The dues for
membership in the national society are
one dollar. Anyone who will join as
member, or worker, no dues-if un-
able to attend the meeting on Satur-
day may give their names to a men,
Der of the local committees who will
have the blanks and will fill them.
Village Committees - Manchester,
Mrs. Robbins, Miss Garfield, Mrs.
Towslcy; Manchester Center, Mrs.
Shaw, Mrs. Wyman, Mrs. Campbell;
Manchester Depot, Mrs. Fullerton,
Mrs. King, Mrs. A. Cherbonneau;
Richville, Mrs. Claude Rich, Mrs.
Schlieder, Mrs. Andrews.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26
GOV. GRAHAM'S MESSAGE
TO VERMONT FARMERS

Montpelier, Apr. 22-Thc governors
of many States have issued proclama-
tons relating to the war and the food
supply. | feel that there is a need in
Vermont for plain statement to our
citizens, and especially to our farmers.
We can not forscc the needs and
duties of the future, nor the time for
conditions of peace. The fear of over
production should cause no hesitancy
about planting the maximum that can
be cared for. The United States no
longer has on hand its usual surplus
of food. New England raises less
than one-ffth of the food required to
feed her own population. 1t is true
that some of the western States can
produce enormous quantities of food
stuffs at greater economic advantage,
but our own citizens must consider the
difficulties of transportation at time
when the railroads will be ovcr-bur-
denei with the shipment Of the muni-
tions of war and Of the food which
VIC will send to our allies.
The greatest problem facing our
farmers is where and how to obtain
sufficient help to care for their crops.
Our schoolboys have made a hearty
response to the call of the soil. Men
who were rejected for military service
can demonstrate no greater patriotism
than by devoting their labor to the
production of food. When the labor
supply is so limited, l would advise
farmers to plant sufficient variety to
prevent the burdens of care and of
harvest coming all at one time. Every
bit that is raised in a food garden will
allow just so much more food to be
shipped to our armies and to our
allies. Our country is at war, and we
must realize now, if we have not al
ready done so, that the cause of the
allies is our cause.
HORACE F. GRAHAM,
Governor,
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26
HOW TO RAISE POTATOES
Here's a Man Who Says He Got 40
Bushels From a Pen Six by Eight

Here's a man VINO says lie UOt Az
Bushels From Pen Six by Eight
Feet.
A Manchester, Conn.,, man sends
to The Times the following letter
printed in the Kansas City, Mo-, Star
on how to raise 40 bushels Of potatoes
in a small pen.
To the Star: How TO grow a crop
of potatoes on a small plot of ground.
Build pen either with 2x4s, fence
posts, old rails or anything about
eight feet high. The pen should be
about 6xS feet inside. Fill in earth
about six inches and plant potatoes
about a foot apart each way; then
about two inches of rotten earth or
manure and again six inches of earth,
then more potatoes, manure, and con-
tinue as high as you like. This size
pen will give 70 hills Of potatoes to
each foot in height. To keep dirt
from falling out, fill in the cracks with
old straw or anything while you are
building up the pen. 1t should be
watered from the top about twice a
week. have built pens like this and
have raised 40 bushels Of potatoes in
one pen 6x8xS. The tops Of each po-
tato will come TO the outside of the
pen, and at digging time simply pull
down the pen and rake up the pota-
toes. The potatoes are as fine as are
grown anywhere.
If anyone wishes to call upon me |
will be glad TO tell them more about
it. believe it will be help to many.
As am crippled and at home all the
time, | can explain to anyone who
may call.
r. f. HENDRICKS.
256 Elmwood Avenue.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26
EAST DORSET
,56 Elmwood Avenue.

w. H. Brock and daughter, Helen,
spent Saturday in Manchester.
Miss Lena Benson went 10 Rutland
Hospital Monday for an operation.
Mrs. Lila Sinsabaugh Of Rutland,
visited relatives in town Tuesday.
Regular meeting Of the Grange on
Saturday, the 2Sth. Lucius Z. Wilson
viii give lecture, Mrs. VIM. Griffith
will sing a solo, and there will be a
selection by chorus. The literary
program win be open to the public.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26
GREENE FOR CONSCRIPTION
Congressman Says Volunteer System
Puts Premium on Slackers

Puts Premium on Slackers
The New York Sun publishes the
following statement by Congressman
Frank l.. Greene, member Of the
military affairs committee and who
voted against compromising the Pres
ident's selective draft in favor Of the
volunteer system. Congressman
Greene was captain Of Co. B. 1st v. N.
G., in the Spanish-American war:
81 believe in the so-called conscrip-
tion system of raising armies for war
because it is the only truly democratic
way, in that it distributes the burden
of national defense more nearly equal
ly among the people. The status Of
citizen in this country is that OF .
party to a bi-lateral contract. II he
receives protection Of his individual
liberties in time Of peace he is under
obligation to support the government
that protects him when his country is
in peril. He cannot claim the benefits
of this protection and escape the OBJ
legation to maintain the very force
that protects him.
"The volunteer system simply calls
out for national defense the men that
are willing TO acknowledge the obliga-
ton of their own accord and offer
their lives TO make it good, while the
men equally obligated are not COM
PEELED TO bear their share Of the obli-
cation, too. This simlpy offers
premium TO shirkers and slackers 10
permit other men TO do their fighting
for them.
"Th argument that the man willing
to make this sacrifice on his own ac-
cord will feel humiliated and afront-
ed in his patriotic intention if instead
he is made part Of conscript army
does not do his patriotic intention jus
tice, it seems 10 me. If he Is such a
good patriot that he is willing 10 die
for his country, which is, as Lincoln
said, the last full measure Of devo-
tion,' he is a good enough patriot 10
serve his country before he is killed
in the army where his country thinks
he can render the best service"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26

Morrisyiile milk dealers have an
nouncod that beginning Monday, APP
ril %, the price Of milk will be nine
cents quart.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-26

Seventy-fiye Brandon men have
signed a paper to become members OF
a home guard.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS- COMMITTEE

New York City.-The Committee
on Banking and Finance Of the South
ern Commercial congress, under the
Craftsmanship of Mr. Frank A. Van
derlip, met at the general headguar-
ters Of the congress, at the Hotel
McAipin, and approved theplans Of
activities of the committee in prepar-
alton for and the holding of the Ninth
congress, October 1917 1917. Invita-
tions will be forwarded 10 all the
bankers in the sixteen states Of the
Southern congress, to the members of
the federal reserve board, and all Of
ficers Of federal reserve banks, to the
federal farm loan board, and all of
ficers Of federal loan banks, to the
secretary of the treasury, and the
heads of bureaus and divisions of the
treasury department, and to a select
ed list Of bankers in all parts of the
United States.
Mr. VIM. Peabody Malburn was APP
pointed chairman of a subcommittee
on reception and entertainment. His
committee will work in conjunction
with the general reception committee,
under the craftsmanship of Mr.. Fred
erick Fl. Allen.
The program on banking and
finance will have to do with the do
nestle operations and foreign rela-
tons Of the federal reserve act, also
the inauguration of the federal farm
loan act. Special themes will be dis
cussed by reports as to financing
Americas part of the war Of 1917,
financing the allies, and the effect Of
the liberty loan on American BUSH
ness.
The committee on banking and f.
nance is as follows: Frank A. Van
derlip, chairman; S. R. Burton, Theo-
dore &. Burton, Robert E. Ely, Allen
B. Forbes, A. ]. Hemphill, Arthur Iso-
lin, Otto H. Hahn, Arthur Kavanagh,
Darwin P. Kingsley, Adolph Lew
isohn, VIM Peabody Malburn, J. P.
Morgan, George w. Perkins, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Jr., L. S. Rowe, Isaac
H. Seligman, Frank V. Baldwin, Fred
/ Kent, M. N. Buckner, and Frank A.
Munsey.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
COAL ENoUGH ZOE EyERYBoDY
Official Figures for Past Six Months
Reassuring to Coal Users-PrOduc-
ton Last Year Greatest in History.


Not only food but fuel is a vital
need Of this country and of our allies
coal to run the ships and railroads,
to feed the iron furnaces and furnish
steam for all the manufacturing
plants, coal in greater quantities than
have ever before been mined in the
United States or in any part of the
wOrld-and this need is being met in
truly American fashion by the oper-
ators and owners of the mines and by
the diggers of coal. With these words,
Secretary Franklin K. Lane began his
statement regarding the coal situa-
ton as reported to him by the statis-
ticians Of his department.
The production of coal in the Unit
ed States last year, he continued, was
the greatest in the history of the
country. A new record, however, was
set for the first six months of this
year, fully 270,000,000 tons of btu
minous coal being produced since
January l, thus exceeding the output
of the first six months of last year by
about 100000 tons. Even better
news is that the limit has not yet been
reached, for as the railroads are able
to work out to better advantage the
problem Of car supply and give the
mines greater facilities for transport
ing their product to market the sup
ply Of coal that reaches the consumer
will be in steadily increasing guam
titles. In the early months of 1917,
because of the congestion of the rail-
roads and the difficulties of transport
alton, the production of bituminous
coal fell behind the high mark set in
January and February, a year ago. AS
result of the patriotic and earnest
endeavor of the railroad officials and
the coal operators and representatives
of mine workers who have volun-
teered their services to the federal
government in this emergency, pro-
duction has been speeded up within
the past few months and the output
of soft coal, which in May exceeded
al previous records, was surpassed
in June.
Despite the extra demand in this
country and the urgent needs Of our
allies, no one with the facts before
him can doubt that the coal industry,
under the careful guidance of those
now directing it's welfare, will be
able to supply all needs.
The difficulty of distribution now
so great will be intensified, however,
in the coming winter months. Just
as consumers of foodstuffs are being
urged to eliminate all waste and to
practice sensible economy, so the con-
sumers of coal must do their share in
working out the coal problem by UNI
unloading every coal car as fast as it
is received and in improving their
plants so as to utilize to the fullest
the heat value of the coal that reach
es their bins. In stopping the coal
panic and in expediting condition of
fuel sufficiency, every consumer can
do his bit.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
District No IL

TWenty-eight days with grader,
teams and three hands each day, at
500 per day, $500; 81 days with slips,
plows, teams and two hands each day,
at $500 per day, $136; rs days haul
ing and putting down culverts, teams
and two hands each day, at $500 per
day, 500; total, 756. Have used 1881
feet of lumber, at $500 per hundred,
at w. S. Mayes' mill; have used 228
pounds of nails, bought of Howard
Bros. & Winford, of Gift. | have re-
ceived 1896 compensation money only.
L. D. VANDERGRIFT,
Contractor.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR RALLY

Everybody is invited to attend the
Christian Endeavor rally at Bethel
church July s. Services will begin
promptly at o'clock.
The Juniors of Bethel will give a
brief program. Little Miss Louise
Hurdlow, 8 years old, of Memphis,
will make a talk and sing. Miss
Olive Matthews, district superintend-
emit of junior and intermediate work,
will make talk on this work. Herbert
Ramsey, Is years old, will talk on C.
E. work for high school boys and
girls.
j. E. White, district president, will
be there and make talk on mission
airy and personal work. He will also
conduct G. E. conference. We are
also expecting Mr.. 0. G. Lomax, pres
ident Of Memphis local union, Miss
Mary Hampson and Miss Alice Hail.
All will take some part in the exer-
cises. All the Endeavorers Of Bethel
viii take part in regular G. e. meet
ing. CARRIE BILLINGS,
County Secretary.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
A SIMPLE REMEDY FOR
FIGHTING BOIL WEEVIL

| A simple remedy for the bollweevil,
which practical and thoroughly relia-
BILE cotton growers of infested areas
of Mississippi state has proven effica-
cious, is being advocated by certain
Memphis cotton dealers.
H. G. Nall, of H. G. Nall & Co., local
cotton buyers, says that he has two
brothers-in-law who have tried the
plan for several years and have found
that it works splendidly, especially
when the weather does not continue
too wet to pillow. He says he also
knows others who have used the meth
cd successfully.
The plan is simple and maybe easily
tried by anyone. 1t provides for the
fastening of flexible piece of wood,
something like the smooth branch of a
tree, about the thickness of a mans
thumb, across the beam of a sweep or
pillow, up near the singletree. Adjust
the height of this switch so it will
just scrape the tops of the cotton
plants. This will jar the plants as
the plow moves and shake the weevil
off.
AS soon as he strikes the ground,
the weevil will sulk, and the plow,
coming along, will cover him up. 1t is
claimed that the heat Of the earth not
only kills the weevil but also any eggs
which may be shaken off with him.
Men who have tried the above meth
Cd claim that if the cotton is gore
over once every week or ten days in
the manner described good crop will
be grown, despite the weevil. When
the cotton grows too high for the
plow beam, the switch may be fasten-
ed ito the names on the mule and adj
jdsted to strike the tops Of the cotton.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
DIR. TROY BEATTY HoNoRED

DR.. Troy Beatty, rector Of Grace
Episcopal church, in Memphis, was re-
Gently honored with the degree Of doc
tor Of divinity at the commencement
exercises Of the University Of Georgia.
The degree was conferred in reeog-
milton of his many years of useful
work in that state. DIR. Beatty was
rector of one Of the largest parishes
in Georgia for several years prior to
removing to Memphis, and was con-
sidered one of the broad-minded and
publc-spirited men of the state -
Memphis Scimitar.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
WY YOU ARE NERVOUS

llienervous system is the alarm system
ot the human body.
iii perfect health we hardly realize that
we have a network of nerves, but when
health is ebbing, when strength is declin-
ing, the same nervous system gives the
alarm in headaches, tircdncss, dreamftil
sleep, irritability and unless corrected,
leads straight to a breakdown.
TO correct nervousness, SCOTS Enu1-
sion Is exactly what you should take; its
rich nutriment gets into the blood and
rich blood feeds the tiny nerve-cells while
the whole system responds to its refresh
ing tonic force. It is free from alcohol.
Scott & Bovine. Bloomfield. Nj
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
District No. 10

Seven and one-half days grading
with large grader, at $40 per day,
$3.50; II days grading with small
grader, at SIS per day, S165; team
and labor repairing road, SAP; total
amount for grading and labor, $727;
collection, $3.50; mileage collected,
$312.50; grand total, S762.50; Is to 40
per cent held back until work COM
pleted in fall. G. L. SHOAF,
Contractor.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
CONTRACTORS, REPORTS

The following are the reports from
the various road contractors through
out the county, as submitted to the
county road commission:
District No. 2
Patch work IA days, using two men
and a team; roads dragged 2 days;
grader work, 2215 days with mules
and 3 men; drawn from district funds,
$l42.50; collected road tax, $204.
G. l.. DICKEY, Contractor.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
District No. 9

Twenty-six days grading at SIS per
day, $500; 81 days of team work at So
per day, $93; 5 days dragging at SO
per day, SIS; 81 days labor at 81, $57;
total amount, $3.50. Amount paid to
contractor up to June 10, 1917, was:
Mileage, $500; collected from hands,
$456; total, $756. Is to 40 per cent.
held back until work completed in fall.
j. S. PHILLIPS, Contractor.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

Stings or bites of insects that are
followed by swellings, pain or itching
should be treated promptly as they
are poisonous. Billiards. Snow Lini-
ment counteracts the poison. It is
both antiseptic and healing. Price 25c,
soc and $1.O0 per bottle. Sold by Al
exander Drug Co. adv.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

Mrs. Lawrence Cause and two child
rem, Of Leland, Miss, came up Mon
day night on a visit to Mrs. Causes
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Elan.
DR.. w. A. Grmmett and Messrs. Ed
Jackson, S. L. Delaney, J. N. M. Tay-
Tor and j. M. Latta were visitors here
from Mason Monday.
Esqs. John Craig, ]. L. Johnson and
w. A. Mcdaniel ad Mrs. S. E. Steph-
enson and Mrs. Sam Stephenson re-
turned Sunday from Dawson Springs,
Mrs. Sophia Shelton returned from
her visit to Dyersburg Sunday and
was accompanied by Mrs. W. E. Dalch
and children.
Mr.. viii Laxton and wife, E. M.
Morgan and E. M. Templeton, of the
9TH, and Otto Mott, Of the 5th district,
were among the many visitors here
Monday
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
District No. 7

Total number of days grading with
8 mules to grader, 48, at $50 per day,
total, $500; total amount paid out for
day labor, 1927; grand total, SLIT;
total amount collected from hands,
1920. No roads taken up and paid for
in full. rs to 40 per cent held back
until fall work and grading is done.
B. M. SIM0NT0N, Contractor,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
nistrict IN hi

Total amount for labor, $224;
days grading with large grader, at
$40 per day, $40; with small grader,
IL days at SIS per day, $3.50; total
amount paid out, S544: collected,
$3.50; mileage collected $310.85; total,
$460.85. rs to 40 per cent held back
until work completed in fall,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

The, city Of Venice is planning to
open a technical school of arts and
handicrafts for boys.
Oil fuel Is used to some extent on.
no fewer than forty railroads IN che
United States.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
District IN. s

Forty-one days with grader and
eight mules, $500; Al days with grad
er and crew, $164; days dragging,
SIS; IA days with team, $42; 30 days
labor, $50; total, $1,101; amount col
lected, 1924; collected from commits
sion, $3.50; total collection, $847.
R. R. JONES, Contractor.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

A pupil in a school near Chatham
square, New York City, thus defined
the word Spine: "a spine is a
long, Timber bone. Your head sets on
one end and you set on the other
Lippincott's Magazine.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

Patch work, "a days, using two men
and team; grader work, 251a days,
using six mules and men. Have not
drawn from district funds; collected
road tax, $500.
PICKARD BROS, Contractors.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
HIS AMBITION

81 wish / was a rock a-sittin' on a hill,
A-doin' nothin' all day long
But just a-sittin' still.
| wouldn't eat,
| wouldn't sleep,
| wouldn't even wash
I'd just sit there thousand years
And rest myself, by gosh!"
-McClary's Magazine.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
District No. 6

Twenty-six days with three hands
and teams; dragged roads three days
and one hand; grader worked % days
with seven mules and two hands;
drawn from district funds, 500; col
lected from road hands, S640.
SCOTT BROS, Contractors.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

Patch work % days, using two men
and team; roads dragged 4 days;
grader work, "a days with 8 mules
and 8 men; drawn from district funds,
$175; collected road tax, 5000.
j. E. MAXWELL, Contractor
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
District No. 5

Twenty days work with two hands
and team; six days dragging roads;
% days work with four mules and
two hands; collected from hands, $3.50;
drawn from district funds, $3.50.
MEADORS & PENNEL,
Contractors.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

Quebec has a municipal employment
bureau.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05
BIG SHOW

Friday night at o'clock at Mrs.
Will Lowenhaupt's, benefit of the Red
Cross. Admission, SC. jy5-1w*
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-05

France makes elementary instruc-
ton obligatory for all children be-
tween six and thirteen years.