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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
EXEMPTION RULES
PUBLISHED SOON

Washington, June 23.-Rigid adherence
to the policy laid down in the national
army selective draft law. Of placing the
question of exemptions In the hands OF
local boards. is expected to characterize
the exemptions regulations to be made
public by the war department in few
days.
1t Is understood that the regulations Will
map out only the general procedure Of the
boards, the personnel of which already has
been announced. 1t is regarded as certain
that no specific class exemptions will be
provided for, and that each man will be
appraised on his Individual occupation
and physical capacity when his name Is
called and he Is summoned before the local
boards.
As matter of course, no man with seri-
Gus physical defects will be called upon
for military service Crippled or defective
persons among those who were registered
were noted at the time and 1t Is possible
they already have been dropped from the
rolls. The judgment Of the civilian doc
tors who are attached to local exemption
boards as to the ability of any individual
to bear the hardship of a soldiers life will
be a determining factor.
Married men will not be exempted as
. class. In each case the object OF the
board will be to determine whether the
dependency Of wife, children or other
relatives upon any man is SO complete
as to warrant his rejection as a soldier.
Probably the boards will be furnish
ed with suggestions as to occupational
exemption. The government can out
line generally the professions or trades
which must be maintained at full
strength behind the fighting lines. The
importance of the individual in that
profession or trade, however. can only
be determined by the local board.
No inkling has been given as to the
part to be assigned to those who are ia
be granted partial exemption because
OF religious belief. They are to be
freed OF the necessity of firing upon
enemy soldiers and therefore from reg
ular military service. but the act con.
templates that they can serve in some
non-combatant capacity behind the
lines and holds them liable for such
service. In such cases the question OF
physical qualifications is wholly differ.
ent and there are many fine points
that will have to be decided in that
connection as the facts present them.
selves.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
EXEMPTION BOARDS
ARE DESIGNATED

Montpelier, June 2.-Vermonters be-
tween u and 80, who are drafted for mill
tary service under the federal law and
who have claims for exemption. will have
the privilege Of laying their claims be-
fore county exemption boards, which
boards will pass on the merits Of the
claims advanced and make decisions.
These boards have been designated In all
but Rutland county.
The following notice from Secretary Of
War Baker was sent out from Governor
Grahams Office to-day.
BY virtue of the authority vested In
him by section 4 of an Act of Congress
to authorize the President to increase
temporarily the military establishment
of the United States, approved May
Is, 1917. the President hereby creates
and establishes local boards for the
following sub divisions Of the State
Of Vermont, and appoints as members
Of the local boards for such sub-divi-
sions the persons whose names appear
below under the designation of each
such sub division.
NEWTON D. BAKER.
Secretary of War.
Addison county: Calhoun. Allan T..
postmaster. Middlebury; Dean, Charles
H., surgeon, Salisbury; Wainwright.
Rufus, county clerk. Middlebury.
Bennington county: Orvis, Albert c..
postmaster, Manchester; Goodall. H. s.,
surgeon, Bennington; Stakeholder. ia
cob. county clerk, Bennington.
Caledonia county: Hooper. r. s..
Hardwick: Rose. L. H., surgeon, St
Johnsbury; Nichols, Albro F., county
clerk, st. Johnsbury.
Chittenden county: OSullivan, D. E.,
winooski; Allen. Lyman, surgeon. Bur-
lngton; Russell, G. j., county clerk,
Burlington.
Essex county: Thurston. John W..
Island Pond; Sargent, II. E.. surgeon,
st. Adams; Hubbard, George A., county
clerk, Guildhall.
Franklin county: Brigham, H. F.,
Bakersfield: Davidson, Alan, surgeon
st. Adams: Stevens, George c., county
clerk. st. Adams.
Grand Isle county: Wright. ]. j.,
South Hero; Branch, George H., sur
geon, Grand Isle; Tudhope, Charles H.
! county clerk, North Hero.
Lamoille county: Strong, Walter d.
Hyde Park; Bates. Charles w., surgeon
| Morrisville; Waite, Smith b., county
clerk, Hyde Park.
| Orange county: Knight, NJ. c., town
clerk. Newbury; Rumrill, c. j.. surgeon
Randolph: Darling, Hale X, county
| clerk, Chelsea.
Orleans county: Miller, Oscar, New.
port: Blanchard, j. F., surgeon, New.
port; Cushman, Henry B., county clerk
Newport.
| Washington county: Tilden, George
N. Barre; Woodruff. ]. H.. surgeon
Barre; Moody, Lewis c., county clerk
Montpelier.
Windham county: Leonard. Eugene 8.
Bellows Falls; Anderson, George r.
surgeon, Brattleboro: Stowe, F. ID. L.
county clerk. Brattleboro
| Windsor county: Pollard, Park H.
Cavendish: Stanley. M. r.. surgeon
White River Junction: Pember, Kari A.
county clerk, Woodstock.
Rutland county is to have two board.
and these have not yet been selected.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET.

Boston. June ~.
rLoUR-Nominai; spring patents s12.25
018.60; spring clears in sacks A11.25@12;
special short patents sis. so q 1915 Jobbine
at SIS; winter patents S1s@1s.75; winter
rssh Ksn,s. wn,r .ss isssS
coRNMEAL AND oArMpAI-cornmeai.
:sss;s sacked ss S' sSrn $685. ssos SO % "s
rye hour in SACKS sia. q 1850; rye meal
In ssShs s.r on S N yao%
low iisSSisSH; No. yellow $3.50
oATs-spot. car lots. No. 1 clipped white.
77hc; No. 2 clipped white 78hc; No. 8 clip.
ped white 75hc; for shipment, fancy 40
s a'ss g ss sSSK IS r s ae g ss
Hay AND srRAw-Hay. No. 1 grade.
stock hay ,isSi4; rye ss straw s .iSS
MILL TnED-MIn shipment. spring bran.
dnss Isl. so . 1850 mixed d fsed sio @s5
red dog 362.!6: cottonseed meal s49@51;
iinsesd meal 90; gluten feed s447a; hom-
lny feed 1910; stock feed $50. 90; oat hulls
$3.50: alfalfa meal. new crop. scs@s4.
PORK PRODUCTs-Heavy backs and
short cuts S46.25; medium $42.75 944.25;
long cuts $40; raw leaf lard 23hc: rem
dered leaf 2s%c; pure lard 22Nc; dressed
FRESH MEATS-Beef extra sides 1914
| @1oHc; heavy kinds 1s@1shc; heavy
| fores 14h 015c: cows 15D18c: genuine
spring lambs os@s soc; regular lambs 26V
use; mutton 1S@1ec; yesriinss 1s@1ec;
| POULTRY-Turkeys, western, frozen,
| 500 38c: northern fowl 27@2sc; medium "a
| @26c; western fowl. large, "a 025c; medium
22@ 2Sc: native broilers 3O932c; western
| broflers 20@28c; western roasters, large,
ESQ zoe: medium 2O@23c: native green
ducks "a @ 26c: western 200 22c; native green
geese % D24c; western $50 19c: squad 81 80
| $3.50 doz.: pigeons $2@2.5O doz.
| LIVE POULTRY--Fowl 24625c; ROSTERS
| 15@17c; broiiers 25@28c.
| EGGS-Fancy hennery and nearby $40
37hc; eastern extras 380aehc: western
| extras 35h @ 36c; western prime frsts 800
33hc; western nrsts 32@32hc.
| BEANS-Car lots choice pea beans so %
! @0.60: California small white $925@o.5O:
yellow eye 1928 q $50; red kidney $50 8 so:
Canada peas $495; green peas s7.5Oas;
lima beans 1871 a Ice lb.; 5obbing prices
| lO@15c Blu. above car lots.
| FRUIT-Oranges. California, 1905 box;
| grapefruit $2.6004.5O: pineappies $500
276 crt.: strawberries 15Q25c black
berries 12018c; blueberries 100 zoe; water
melons 20@50c each; Georgia peaches $3@4
per 0-bskt. carrier; cantaloupes. California,
gia es@8.50.
REFINED suoARs-The American quotes
graduated and fine as basis at 7.5O cents
| for 100-barrel lots and 7.8O cents for 20
| barrel lots. Wholesale grocers quote $500
per 100 pounds in bulk.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
RED CROSS TOTAL WILL
EXCEED 10000
Towns in West and Middle West Are
just Waking I'm.

Washington. June 27.-New reports OF
small cities and towns just starting cam.
paigns to swell the Red Cross fund above
its present estimated total of SIZE, 00O, COX
reached headquarters here to-day, and
encouraged officials to hope that the tota
may be increased by many millions.
From the West and Middle West came
a number Of messages telling of towns
stirred to activity on behalf of the Red
Cross for the first time as the forma
mercy fund campaign period was closing
A committee at Warren. Ohio, tele.
graphed:
"At our initial dinner last night were
secured pledges for about fifteen Thousand
dollars. Teams started work this morn.
ing"
In a day and half this week Middle
town. Ohio, has raised more than $780, 900.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

New York. June 81.
wHEAT-Spot easy. No. 9 hard s235
{. o. b. to arrive.
CORN-Spot Arm. No. yellow &l.s4k
C. l. {. New York.
OATS-Spot Arm. Standard 74G74ac.
PORK-Firmer Mess s42G 1880.
LARD-Easier. Middle West $20.709
1850.
Others unchanged.
POTATOES-Weak Bermuda, No I,
bbl.. $7.bO0s.5O: No 2 $5d8.6O southern,
No. I. $4G7; sweets, Jersey, basket, $500
8.12.
CABBAGES-Quiet and unchanged.
RAW SUGAR-Firm. Centrifugal 614c;
moiasses 5.26c; refined Arm, unchanged to
% points higher, fine graduated 1909
7.75c.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
RECORD TRIP MADE
BY DESTROYER SHAW

Washington. June N.-The destroyer
Shaw has completed a record trip from a
Pacific coast port to an Atlantic port
approximately 5.S5S miles-in IA days, ten
hours and 20 minutes.
The Shaw is new destroyer whose
keel was laid down in February. 1915.
Besides making a record run tho vessel
also broke all records in passing through
the Panama canal, requiring only fve
hours and IS minutes. as compared with
previous best records Of six hours and
two minutes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
AMERICAN RED CROSS
TO KEEP IDENTITY

New York. June 27.-Proposed CONSOLE
dation of all entente allies war relief
organizations with the American Red
Cross met with disfavor at a gathering
in this city to-day Of representatives of
60 societies engaged in the work. More
than 300 members OF various organiza-
tions attended the meeting. The over
whelming sentiment was that each organ
ization should retain its identity ''for the
efficient work of relief
Absorption was favored only II the
Red Cross could "show u good reason
for the absorption"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
A SERIOUS HOAX.

Chicago. June ia hoax of serious
nature was discovered here to-day when
Mayor Thompson received a telegram
from Secretary Of State Lansing accept
ing an invitation to the Belgian mission
to visit Chicago. In the midst OF excite
ment over the school board row. neither
the mayor nor the city council extended
such an invitation. investigation is said to
have disclosed.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
POTATO PRICES DROP.

New York. June N.-Potato prices
dropped to-day to as low as 400 bar
rel here. as compared with $12 a barrel
some time ago. The break was caused
by the dumping OF thousands of bushels
into the market by rail and steamship
lines from the eastern coast of Virginia
and other southern points. There has
bsen drop of so cents q day on the
barrel for tho past week. according to
wholesalers.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
EMMA GOLDMAN TO ACT
AS HER OWN COUNSEL
With Alexander Berkman VIII Defend
In Case for Conspiracy.

New York. June 2.-Alexander Berk-
man. who. with Emma Goldman, another
anarchist, is on trial in the United States
district court here for conspiracy to OBJ
struct the operation of the selective draft
law. was warned repeatedly to-day by
Judge Julius M. Mayer that in examin-
ing talesmen for the jury he must con-
fine himself to questions having to do
with the case. Earlier In the day Berk-
man and Miss Goldman had dismissed
their attorney and announced they
would conduct their own defense.
Berkman asked talesmen whether they
believed In patriotism. whether they were
Christians and what their social inter-
ests were. Objections by the prosecution
to the question concerning patriotism was
on the ground that It was Insulting" and
Judge Mayer In sustaining the objection
characterized ID as a most extraordinary
question"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
Five Take Dental Exams.

Montpelier. June 2.-The State board of
dental examiners completed their meet
ing this afternoon. five candidates having
taken the examinations at the State
House. The members of the board pres
ent were Doctors II. f. Hamilton of New
port. j. ID. Bachand of st. Johnsbury.
George o. Mitchell of st. Adams and
William X. Pond of Rutland.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.

Chicago. June ~.
wHEAT-July $2O7; Sept. Sl.s3.
CORN-Juiy $l56h; Sept. STATS; Dec.
el.08k
oATs-July e3Sc; Sept ssc; Dec. s4sc.
Provisions:
LARD-Juiy &21.22.
RIBS-July 321.6O.
Cash quotations:
PORK-$S0 so.
LARD-$2l. 20G 2l.35.
RIBS-&2l IS o 2l9b.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28

Calgary, Alta. June 27-The strike
of 5000 coal miners In western Canada
which has been In progress since April
!. ended to-day when Commissioner w
H. Armstrong. appointed by the gov
eminent to investigate and take any
action deemed necessary ordered imme-
diate resumption Of operations In all
mines affected.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
NEW YORK LIVESTOCK.

New York. June 81.
BEEvES-Receipts 1880. Steady. Steers
e11.lOVl8.80; bulls t7@1125 extras $ll.75
Oh 90: cows 44.bO@9.50.
CALVES-Receipts 1888. Firm. veals
el2b0@16; culls $1l913: skim milk calves
31050G11.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts 4.07O.
Steady. Sheep $1,000 1880; culls $500;
lambs $l661S.
HoGs-ReceIpts 1850. Sassy. at $4,000
1890; roughs $14.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
ORIENTAL LINERS SUNK.

Bombay. India. June 27.-The Peninsular
and Oriental liner Mongolia struck mine
and sonk on Bombay no June g. The pas
senger and crew have arrived at Bombay.
~ -'ails are believed to have been lost.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28

Opportunities to save money on your
purchases are just as great now. when
the tendency toward higher price levels
Ia general. as In times when money is
less abundant and prices less subject to
,apctuation.- Read the ads
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
SPOT COTTON AND FUTURES.

New York. June ~.
Spot cotton quiet. Middling upands
e27.40
Cotton futures closed: July $3.50 %;
Oct. see So o 90; Dec. &26.70674; Jan. $26.7S
@76; March 420.83 @e5
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
BOSTON BUTTER MARKET.

Furnished by the Associated Press.)
Boston. June 81.
BUTTER-Northern 88h @4Oc: western
8Sk 80hc.
CHEHsE-New York twins. choice gao
2%hc; good % q 23c.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
QUOTATIONS ON BUTTER
Boston. June 81.

Boston, June 81.
To-day's Chamber OF Commerce quota.
tions. the price OF commission merchants
to Dealers follow:
BCTTBR-Creamery extras 8Shc; cream
S6kc; dairy butter S4GS7c ladies SSc;
renovated butter SIC.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28

FREE PRESS WANT ADS. PAY BEST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-01
CHALLENGE HAYS!
EmpOria NOrmaIs Claim Kan
sas Conference Championship.
They Are Willing, However, To
Play Speer's Tigers.

Emporia, Kan, Dec. 1.-The Kan
sas State Normal school, by defeating
the College of Emporia. claims the
lead in the count for the state cham
pionship. The Fort Hays Normal has
an equal percentage standing, both
schools having a conference standing
of 1000 per cent.
The State Normal believes, however.
that its schedule will swing the deci-
sion in its favor in spite of the per-
centage count. Next in the confer
ence standing is the College of EN-
poria, then Southwestern. The Hays
Normal has not met either the col
lege or the State Normal Hence her
claim to the state title comes from a
successful season in which the strong
est team played, Southwestern, ranks
fourth in the conference standing. A
tied game between the State Normal
and Washburn is the only kink in the
record of the Teachers.
The State Normal believes she has
the strongest team in the conference
and will not be satisfied with any
thing less than an undisputed title
tied conference standing is partic-
ularly Objectionable to the Emporians
The State Normal is eager to see the
Hargiss machine matched against the
Hays Normal in a post season game.
The Teachers are eager to uphold
their claims for state honors in grid
iron combat rather than around a
conference table. They are eagerly
waiting for Hays to accept Coach Har-
giss's challenge for a post season
game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-01

rants and cafes have to lop off the
best two hours of their business by
early closing, and are forbidden to
serve warm meals before nine in the
morning.
If coal were Switzerland's only
shortage, she would face the winter
with some degree of equanimity. But
she is running short of food all along
the line. OF flour and breadstuffs she
has just enough, on the ESQ grams a
day for person basis now in force. to
last until late in the winter. Unless
America permits the export of wheat
in some measure Switzerland will soon
have to drop to 100 grams a day.
Wheat, Fats and Wood Scarce.
The economic department of the
government has Just issued a circular
calling attention to the fact that, in
addition to a shortage of coal and
wheat, there is all too little cooking
fats and oils on hand. In some dis
tricts they have disappeared alto
gether. Foreign potatoes are to be
had only in two cantons. Berne and
Basel, and even wood is scarcer than
it ever has been.
So Switzerland is trimming its eco
nomic sails as rapidly and as drasti-
task in the world, and is the harder
because there is political opposition to
every move made by the government.
President Schulthess had one of the
full days of his political career recent
ly when he tried to explain to refrac-
tory deputies in parlia ment why il was
impossible to lower prices when food
stuffs and kindred things continued TO
become scarcer and scarce-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-01
1T Was NO FAKE
Jack VeiOck Says O'DOwd Hon
estIy Won Title.
Al Mccoy Was Not In on AL
legged Frameup.
BY JACK YEIOCK.

New York, Dec. Al McCoy's
ability to assimilate punishment
caused a good many of the wise ones
to get down on him when he met
er, in New York recently and lost his
claims to the middleweight title.
O'Dowd, up to that time, had not
established himself in the eyes of the
fistic public as a guy with mean
punch, although he was admittedly
rough citizen. Mccoy, on the other
nAitt, had snapped wallops with most
of the good ones, and among them
heavy hitters such as ,IRck Dillon was
at his best And Al always managed
through ten rounds of the toughest
kind of going without losing his sky
piece. So the wise birds got down
their dough that he would't be fab
bergasted by D'Dowd
Claimed Frame Up.
When O'DoWd won the title there
was a great wall from the spectators
who had backed Mccoy. Some of
them were gentlemen who have gen.
orally had the inside track on the
dope, and when they saw their per-
fectly good Liberty bond fodder slip
ping away they yelled: Fake! Frame
up!' and few other things that can
not be printed here.
They claimed it was all a cook-up
between the two boxers and their
managers to bid goodbye to the
FraWley law with a big killing, and
the fact that moving picture men
We're on hand was pointed to as a
sign that the movie men were tipped
off to what was going to happen.
There were about steen. thousand
different opinions expressed after the
Highland it was a fight, at that
but no one bobbed up with the real
low-down to prove that the bout was
stewed up in advance. The fact that
no one had looked for Freddie Welsh
to shoot-the-chutes when he met and
lost to Benny Leonard and that no
movies of that change of the light
weight title were taken, was proba-
bly, responsible for the fact that the
movie men were on hand when
O'Dowd met Mccoy. They didn't
want to take chances of the dope be-
ing spilled a second time with no
films to record the event.
Mccoy Loved Title.
And there is another argument
against the howlers which seems rea-
sonable enough.
Mccoy, though he has never been
very active as a ,middIeweight cham
i pion, loved that title like a mother
| loves her cheeild. He wouldn't have
parted with it for the entire gate
receipts, and we know that at the
| prices charged at the Clermont rink
| for that fight there wasn't enough
money in the house to pay any cham
pion to lay down. OF course, there
! have been cases where somebody
bankroll on the outside was brought
| into play, but in this case it doesn't
| look reasonable.
| O'Dowd will make, or should make
a popular middleweight champ. He
| is a rough and ready battier and he
is willing to mix it with any man
they dig up for him with the possible
| exception of Michael Gibbons, his
brother townsman, for whom he has
q. great and, awe-inspiring respect.
| O'Dowd used to be a sparring partner
of the Gibbons boys and he knows
just what Michael packs around in
\ his two mittssif
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-01
SWISS DUE TO SILVER
Over Confidence in Germany's Prom
ise Leaves Nation Shy on Coal.

Rerne. Dec 1-Switzerland has at
last attacked the problem of econo-
MIXING its meager coal supply. 1t has
begun none too soon and apparently
none too strenuously. for Germany's
initial delivery for September under
the new economic agreement has ran
en- many thousands of tons short or
the promised minimum of 100000. 1t
is scant satisfaction for Switzerland
that its loan to Germany is reduced
accordingly.
In anticipation of having to strug-
gle along with 200. 900 tons or less of
coal a month-the Swiss government
has cut to the bone the railroad traf-
fic. raised rates and made it so diff
cult and expensive to travel that only
necessity is apt to induce a Swiss to
move from one part of his tiny coun-
try to another. The government also
has issued drastic regulations govern
ing heating. The sale of certain types
of electric stoves was forbidden. while
electricians were forbidden to install
new switches and lines such as would
be necessary for utilizing stoves. Ho-
tells and pensions may heat only one
quarter of their rooms and must close
their cafes and restaurants at IL in
stead of / O'Clock. The hours of open
ing stores are reduced
Close Theaters IL Days a Month.
The movies, cabarets and variety
theaters must close at least twelve
days out of each month. The tenn
perature of theaters or of hotels must
not exceed a certain degree. Restau-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-01
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS

Solitude as needful for the imagination whole
for the character.-Lowel
Friendship is to be valued for what it, what
be gotten out of It'll G. Trumbull
Higher than fear and stronger than fate
Are love and faith that patiently wait Anon
Between great things that cannot do and the small
things do the danger that shall do nothing
Adolph Monod.
There greater sign of holiness than the rejoicing in an
others good-George Herbert.
Have you and today
Stood silent with Christ apart from
Joy fray
Of life His face:
To look if but a moment, His grace
And grow by brief companionship more true,
More nerved to lead, to dare to do
For Him at any cost? Anon.
To be everywhere everything sympathy and yet
tent and what you ares not this to know
wisdom and virtue and to dwell with happness?-R L.
Stevenson