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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
BERLIN

Rain and cold failed to dampen the
ardor of those who presented the pre-
Memorial program at the Berlin town
hall on Friday evening. Although the
audience was somewhat smaller than it
would have been had the weather been
more favorable, yet the attendance re-
paid the trouble and time that had been
spent by the teachers, scholars and friends
who took part in preparing the patriotic
selections that were rendered. Those of
the scholars included such titles as:
"Old Glory" Here's to Our Heroes"
Memorial Flowers "Mama's Little Sol.
der Boy" His Willing Substitute"
would You Like to Know the Pref.
test Flag3" "The Blue and the Grey"
"When Grandpa Wears His Uniform"
and short play, entitled, "Grandpa's
Memorial" Those by other members of
the community were, musically, duet,
America" ladies' trio, "Speed Our
Republic;" male quartet, Soldiers
FAREWELL" piano solo and several read
ings and Rotations. Altogether, the en-
tertainment was the means of providing
an enjoyable evening, at the same time
promoting the patriotism of the com
munity. The teachers, Miss c. Powell
and Miss Sullivan, deserve much credit
for their efforts.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
M1RSHFIELD

Mrs. Francena Robinson of Andover
Mass, was the guest of Mrs. G. l.. Dwi
nell few days last week.
Mrs. c. Bert Lamberton returned from
the Pittsford sanitarium Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll st. John are
working for Mr.. and Mrs. 5. II. Packer
this season.
II. l.. Gilman of Cascades, n. H., has
purchased Samuel Meader's farm. His
father, Charles Gilman of lower Cabot
is carrying it on at present.
Miss Elsie Welch went to Barre Fri
day to attend an entertainment at the
seminary.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Halves and son,
Forrest, visited relatives in Walden re-
Gently.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Sicily last Tuesday, May %.
Mrs. Mark Mears visited in Barre and
Montpelier a couple days last week.
The pre- Memorial exercises by the
school children will be given at p. m.
Tuesday at the Congregational church.
The old soldiers are especially invited to
be present.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28

Mr.. Philbrook is treasurer, and that his
devotion to the cause has won warm
appreciation in Boston and throughout
New England; and that State Forester
Hirst, representing the New Hampshire
committee on public safety, has desk
in Chairman Storrow's office and is put
ting much of his excellent energy into
the work of organizing the logging and
camp equipment.
These men are demonstrating the New
England spirit, and it is evident from
Mr.. Storrow's letter that the spirit and
its demonstration are appreciated out
side the state. 1t Is the ssfrit that re-
spends with alacrity to the call for a
service which is a speciality in New
Hampshire sawmil service May it
ever be found as readily responsive to
any and every call for patriotic service
as it always has been. 1t is an obligation
of every one of us to see to it that the
glorious traditions of our state are fully
maintained. Manchester Union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
CURRENT COMMENT
Saw-Mills.

| 1t is somewhat remarkable that what
some good foresters have tened "the
curse of Vermont" to wit, the portable
saw mill, should constitute one of Yer,
mont's contributions to the war
In. the ruthless stripping of Vermont
hillsides for their timber and pulp, the
portable saw-mill played an inglorious
part, but the fault was not with the
saw mill, but with the r,en who sold
and stripped the woodlands
The mill which may be sent to Eu-
rope would naturally have the mobile
qualities which would enable it to be
transported rapidly and set up quick
ly and efficiently, so that timbers for
trenchmaking, bridges or building could
be gotten out quickly.
The portable saw mill 10 mostly an
eastern institution, as the huge trees
of the western forests do not lend
themselves to quick and haphazard field
milling. The donkey engine, the logging
road, the convenient watercourse, the
timber raft and the fairly well organ
lied, standard -guage, steam railroads
are more practical, and they merely
bring the timber down to the big per-
manent mills where it is worked up.
For this reason, transportation rea-
sons and manufacturing reasons, our
allies turn to New England for port
able saw-mills, and they won find
any man more competent TO pick one
out than Martin A. Brown of Whining
ton.-Rutland Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
RANDOLPH

Mrs. Florence Hamblin, who has bee
IN serious condition for several months
was taken to the sanatorium in an am
bulance on Saturday and will remain
there jor 'simcnt for a time at least
Her condition is considered critical.
The regular Memorial day sermon wa
given at cne st. Johns Episcopal churcl
on Sunday morning by Rev j. w. Trip
and the members of the u. &. Grant > !,
and the 'Voman's Relief corps attended
in boz v. The service at this time wa,
at the uoual hour of morning worship,
e j. Rockwell is now assisting in The
store OF lewksbury a Ray mond, in the
absence of Mr.. Tewksbury, whose serious
illness developed one week ago. Mr.
TowSsbnry, the senior member of the
firm, remains in about Ike same Goa a..
| lion and Is still unconscious and appar.
emily helpless.
! Mrs. Luna Fairbanks has sold hc-
house on the Highlands 20 Robert Mites
ell, who win occupy me same for a
residence ana will ma'e there from the
Roweli house on Randolt1 avenue about
TIE 2tth OF June, when he is to take pos
session Mrs. Fairbanks and her motne.
will not leave town for the present, but
will rent house in more central locaii
ty.
Mrs. Eugene Ellison, i'll for weeks, is
not vt able to be up, and her daughter,
Mrs. Edmund Weston of Derry, N. H.,
is yet with her.
Mrs. i. A. Hutchins left on Saturday
for Worcester, Mass, where she went
to visit her daughter, Miss Mildred
Hutchins, who has position as dietitian
in a hospital in the city.
Mrs. Arthur Fisher and her child, who
last Thursday, left on Saturday for st.
Adams, where she went to visit rela-
tives before returning to her home in
Portsmouth n. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. s. Booth and daugh-
ter, Mollie, went by automobile to New
port, N, H., to take William Booth, Clar-
ence Booths father, to his home after
visiting here for several days, on Satlr
day. Mr.. Booth, senior, was former resi-
dent here and is well known.
F. A. Salisbury has the foundation for
a new house on the Rowell Addition now
nearly completed and expects to build
a house this season thereon.
Miss Adah Lewis who has been for the
last three months with Mrs. j. F. French,
has finished her work there and gone to
her home in Brookfeld for short rest, |
after which she will return to work for /
other parties in town for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fairbanks and the
two children arrived here on Saturday |
night from Hyde Park, Mass, for
ew days stay with Mr.. Fairbanks moth
er, Mrs. Edna Fairbanks.
Miss Gladys Chadwick, who went to
the Waterbury hospital to resume her
work, was not able to stay and is now at
her home in St. Adams, where she is
not yet able to work, not having fully
from the effects of typhoid
ever, which she had several months ago.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
Flagless Russia.

A correspondent at Petrograd re.
marks that Russia has now no symbol
of her new estate; no national flag, no
national anthem. She has torn down
the eagles of autocracy and the red flag
rose in its place to mark the revolution
But revolution is not a situation in
which a people, can settle down to ma
tional life. The whirlwind of over
throw spreads the folds OF the red ban
ner, but it is no ensign of stability, Sc
curity or progress. Its significance passed
with the passing of the time OF turbu-
lence.
Now that Russia's business is to es-
tablish herself as new democracy,
young and strong and determined to en-
dure, she is casting about Tor nation
al emblem. But tho whole situation is
so new, the caldron bubbles so violently
that the minds of those who would see
the new Russia uplifting like a watch
tower among the people OF Europe turn
instinctiyely to the magic word Peace"
and this idea precious estate of
peaee~-seems the only thing worth
thinking of IL is suggested that the
present national inertia may be due
to the lack of some national symbol OF
positive cause TO serve. because, after
generations of alternating oppression
and upheaval, the absence OF war and
the negation of horror, brutality and
death, must be the only conceivable de-
sire Of every Russian.
All this is readily understood, but
Russia, her new thinkers, her radical
advisers, her unframed administrators
and the great masses of the people-all
have the lesson yet to learn, apparently,
that national peace-undoubtedly the
most desirable circumstance in the world
cannot be enjoyed by a nation which
win not fight for its freedom, for peace
is the flower upon the tree of political
freedom. and the aggregate sacrifice of
all the individuals is the price which |
must always be paid All this they must
realize, will realize, in Russia, At pres
ent Russia is sadly in need Of a flag and .
a constitution.-New York Evening sun. /
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
The Farmer Not Quite a Fool.

Nermont's commissioner of agriculture,
i. 5. Brigham, is trying to bulldose the
farmers of that state into raising the
feed for their cows instead of buying it.
1T seems that in one recent year the
farmers of Vermont paid feed bill of
over S,72S,703, all Of which was grain in
some form brought into the state from
outside. II certainly seems uneconomi-
cal for the Vermont farmer, with the
highly neritorious though occasionally
acclivitous soil for which his state is
celebrated, to buy smillions of dollars
worth of grain from outside. Why
doesn't he raise it himself?
The question is easy to ask, and for
a long time it has also been easy enough
to answer. II has been cheaper for the
farmer to buy the grain than to raise
it, Moreover, the Vermont farmer, gen
orally speaking, cannot get enough help
to enable him to milk and care for
number of cows and also to produce the
grain that is necessary to feed them.
Grain production takes good deal OF
labor. The farmers economic existence
centers itself in the mileh COW, and in
order TO make the COW pay, she must be
fed high. Her appetite for proteins OF
energy and for units of potential butter
fat is enormous. The farmers existence
is spent in putting into her mouth the
exact maximum ration requisite to pro-
duee high return in milk, and in ex
tracing and marketing in the form of
milk, cream or butter, the products. He
has about enough time, or can procure
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
Stacker Service Somewhere.

The smallpox epidemic which ha:
gained Roadway in certain Vermont
towns is definitely traced by health Off
GERS to Mrs. Gertrude Hine of Belvidere
who exposed hundreds of people while
| travelling to her home from New Lon
don, Conn.
1t seems incredible that sane WON
an should not know that she was seri-
ously i'll, with the tell-tale eruption of
smallpox on her face, and it is still more
singular that she should not have had
competent medical attendance and that
she should have escaped the observation
of local health officers.
Apparently it remained for an ordi-
nary railway conductor to detect the
symptoms and have her removed from
the train.
The chances are that the woman her
self is TO blame. The bland and utter
disregard of some people for the most
ordinary considerations of public safety
in the matter of infectious disease is
one of the most astounding things in
the administration OF laws governing
public health.
People tear down warning placards,
attempt TO assault health officers and de-
liberately violate quarantine in the com
moner cases, so that health officer who
really undertakes to enforce the law
needs to have stiff backbone and a
steadfast resolution never to run for
public office.
In some of the back" towns Of the
state. cases are by no means rare where
apparently intelligent people, misled by
some wiseacre. have undertaken to re-
sist quarantine, because it hurt the
town"
Perhaps Mrs. Hine did not know she
was sick of smallpox, but she must needs
have an accommodating conscience If she
can contemplate the cases Of smallpox
which she has spread about Vermont and
Justify herself in the eyes Of the state
and her own community.-Rutland Her
AID
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
WATERBURY

| Privates Irish Ferris and Atkins were
at the home of Walter Irish Saturday
on their way to their homes in More.
town. They returned to Fort Ethan
Allen early this morning.
Miss Lena Carpenter, who is grad.
uate nurse, has signed as a Red Cross
nurse and expects soon to be called. She
expects to make a visit home before en-.
tering upon the work.
Lieut.. Campbell has written to his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. +. Il. Campbell, that
he is stationed at Paris Isle, about three
miles from Port Royal. The tents are
well equipped with electricity and mod
ern conveniences. There are 80 officers
in charge, all college men.
Saturday afternoon found 300 members
for the local Red Cross society, with
many more to join.
Timothy Blodgett, who left Vermont
40 years ago, has returned and last week
visited his birthplace. where Arthur
Graves now lives. He is the son of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Blodgett, there
being large family of children. He is
plumber and painter by trade and
will remain in town for the present.
News of the death of John O'Brien of
Bolton was received in town with deep
sorrow Saturday. He was a brother of
Robert 0'Brien and James O'Brien of this
town, also Jeremiah OBrien of Montpe.
lier. He was prosperous farmer, promi-
nent in the official life in the town, serv.
ing as seectman and health officer Mr..
O'Brien was attending to his duties as
health officer, quarantining in the west
part of the town when he was stricken.
He was accompanied to his home and
passed away at o'clock Saturday morn
ing The deceased was born in Hinesburg
in 1874. He married Mary Keefe, who
survives him. He leaves also nine chill
dren, William and James 0'Brien of
Springfield, Mass, Timothy O'Brien of
Northampton, Mass. George O'Brien and
Frank 0'Brien at home, John O'Brien
and Edward 0'Brien in the West and
Misses Nellie and Mary O'Brien in Bur
Alfred 0'Brien and Edward OBrien in
the West and Misses Nellie and Mary
O'Brien in Burlington. The funeral will
be held from the Catholic church in Rich
nond Tuesday morning. A son. Edward,
IS on the way east from Washington.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
New Hampshire Spirit.

| IT is fine tribute which Chairman
James j. Storrow of the Massachusetts
committee on public safety pays to New
Keyes. acknowledging receipt OF the
check for $4,000 to pay FOR the sawmill
unit to be sent by this state for service
in England. Not only is the check you
handed me too day the first cash pay
ment actually received from any New
England state" writes Chairman Stor.
row, "but New Hampshire is taking the
lead in every respect" 4 significant fact
in connection with this latter is that
it was written at the suggestion of the
executive committee of the important
body of which Mr.. Storrow is chairman,
ito express their warm appreciation of
the public spirit displayed by New
Hampshire in this matter; and that II
is entirely voluntary and beside the Off
cial receipt for the $4,000 check, which
comes from the treasurer of the sub
committee that is assembling the porta
BILE sawmills, men and other requisites
for the New England expedition-Treas-
urer Philbrook himself being, by the.
way, New Hampshire man.
Every word of appreciation, OF COM
mendation and OF encouragement helps.
Just as there is no individual among
us who does not relish personal praise,
so the state, which is, after all, but a
collection OF individuals, gains inspira-
ton accordingly from appreSiative reeog-
milton of its efforts. There is real en-
enlargement for the rest of us in the
that W. Robinson Brown
Of the Berlin Mills company at Berlin is
performing splendidly efficient service as
chairman Of the subcommittee OF which
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
Vermont Fish Hogs.

Fish hog is the term applied to the
man who will catch to the legal limit
every time he has chance, and who is
willing TO strip brook of the trout
of legal length if he finds conditions
favorable. But there is another species
of fish hog-the man who can get out
any old day, and who probably does
whip the streams during week days, but
who in addition makes a regular prac-
tice of fishing on Sunday, the only day
when other men who are closely con-
fined by their work have the spare
time in which to indulge in their favorite
pastime. "-Brattleboro Reformer
Then, too, there's the fish hog that
season after season takes out fish but
never does thing TO restore the waters.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
HANCOCK

Pearl Eaton is recovering from his re.
cent illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Eaton were in
White River Junction last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Church of Roches.
ter have moved into a part of Mrs
Maggie Fiske's house.
John Andrus, jr., had the misfor.
tune TO break his arm recently, while
crsnking the automsbile.
Miss Leda Smifh of Gaysville, who
teaches school in GrRvlle. was a week
end guest of her ans tlrs. Lucy Perry.
W. W. Jones was called TO East Brain
tree last week by the death OF his moth
er, Mrs. Melissa Jones.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
ROCHESTER,

Mr.. and Mrs. Hermon Kent of East
Braintree visited at Seymour Kent's re.
Gently.
Frank Kennedy of Chicago is visit.
ing at the home of his uncle, F. O.
Kennedy. ...
r. S. Morgan was in Boston last week
Kyles Stockwell is with his mother
for few days.
r. H. Upper of Montpelier has been
q recent guest of Mr.. and Mrs. II. H.
Cushman.
Miss Stickney was in town last week
in the interest OF the Kurn Hattin
Homes.
Clayton Jones of Utica, n. Y, is visit
ing his father, Dennis Jones, who is
ILL.,
The Rochester Band association will
repeat the play, Caste" at Pierce hall
the evening of June |.
DIR. and Mrs. II. V. Hubbard and two
daughters of Plaindeld, n. j., are guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hubbard.
Mrs. Mary Newton, who has been i'll
with bronchitis, is improving.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
PARTISAN SAGE
Helps to Put Hair on Your Head and
Keep 1t There-Fine for Dandruff

Here's good news for men and women
whose hair is falling, who are getting
bald and whose scalps are covered with
dandruff that nothing seems TO keep
away and whose heads itch like mad.
The Red Cross Pharmacy has secured the
agency for Partisan Sage, simple hair
invigorator that is so certain in its tonic
action and so sure OF giving the limit OF
satisfaction, that they sell it with offer
OF money refunded ii it does not abolish
dandruii, stop itching head, and not only
check excessive loss of hair, but stimu-
late a new growth.
Partisan Sage is delicately perfumed
antiseptie liquid, which when massaged
into the scalp goes right down TO the
hair roots and furnishes them with the
nourishment that is lacking to make the
hair grow and show more life and vital
ity. Partisan Sage not only stimulates
hair growth, but beauties it so that it
is fsvorite dressing of women who take
pride in beautiful hair that appears much
heavier than il really is. A large bottle
is inexpensiye.--Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28

This is the most swinsh type of fisher
man, for he never gives thought to
the supply. He expects to 60 out day
after day and hook 'em out, apparently
thinking that the fish come from the
waters or the air or the bottom of the
lake and that the supply is inexhausti-
ble--and then he will find fault if he
doesn't fill his creel. 1t is fortunate for
this kind of fish hog, fortunate for the
fishing resources of the state, that some
men every year devote their efforts rath-
err to stocking streams and lakes than
to depicting them. The real discipline
of Isaak Walton plants as well as har-
vests. Fish are like other crops; they
must be planted if they are harvested
Rutland News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
EAST BARRE.

Breezy Point" a three-act comedy,
will be given in opera hall Friday even
ing, June /, benefit of Sunday school
adv.
The pupils of the school will give an
excellent entertainment Tuesday even
ing in opera hall. Everybody come.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-28
WASHINGTON.

A consignment of new goods is expect
ed to-day at Mrs. Warmers millinery
psrlors, Wsshington.-sdv.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-11
NO DEMONSTRATION
TO Be GIVEN TODAY
Food Conservation Committee without
Demonstration T.:i5 Woek-Wiu
Ea-e Another Soon

Owing To thc inability Of MISS N"ss'
who has hacn giving Expert dcmonslra-
ti0nS in food conservation for the r""o
Conservation C"lnrrittce OF tho state
Council of Defense. |" he present III
time Intiuy's demonstration ut h"Hdluar-
tors 40. 1a"l rhAriiac street. Will Ehfo
To- lie, omitted. Miss Ross. VINO mas
hcnn rendering such vnlrahlc services %
tho conr!!lt"r in these. demonstrators
has resumed her duties in III" high
school, However, the committee en-
meets t. HAY" another expert d'm"nSira-
tor Ivy rrA! Tuesday. or the following
Tuesday 1T most;
The food conservation headquarters
which were closed last week while tic
exhibit was hrinE shown nj tho state
fair. were rrrprnnl yesterday. Anyone
Interested can iiud useful inf"rnat!"i: ~
any line # fnnd conservation nj Tho
hcaduunrt"rs nf the local Cnmmittc" nj
ANY lii'r. and headquarters are. open
cach t!av from two 10 five o'clock.
Tho committee IS now planning Ia
take M the ten special lessons in GOOD
conservation. prepared especially for the
benefit Of such organizations nnd their
ratrnuS hv IT-"''rt Huover the federal
'"nd administrator. 1gIaslsA