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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-07
COIORED

Easter SERVICES at simpSon IT. p.
church April S. Rev. Joseph II. Jenkins
nasirr Sutcial music in morning and
ET.nlnr sermon b. pastor subject:
s;Eni!s it Was Yet Dark: Sunday spec
inl services al 2:3O p, m. 5:i5 sermon
and SPECIAL music. Al are welcome.
Wayrnau A. n. Z. church. Roy; T.
French Hurley, d. D. P-s:or-lo:@o n
m preaching By tho pastor, subject:
WHY We Bnptize Infants: ESQ p. m.
Easter Jubilee" b. the Sunday school.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-07
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.

S;. LuN"'S rli"rch. Jacob i';:u ing
ham. l.. T.. r"";"r--EaSt"r services a:
Holy communion. ~" =. IL. >"fNic''.
holy commurl"u and address. !h:"o Il.
- evening prayer and aGIrcS,'. -" u.
~ : Sunday school festival. 80 =. m:
iart:$,n vii. follow :nn."diat"l" after
,his service" Sp",ial Taste; mws!" ~
all the services. Ev.rEh6tJ welcome.
s. Matthew's Episcopal church. cor
!c. ChLplne and Fifteenth streets. tn"
Rev. l.. T.. l.. StTidcr. rcctor-Th" ser
vices durin. the week Will be rs fol
lows: Eastc~ day. Sunday. April Sih.
T.0p Il M. holy comnuHi0n; ~" 4. ~,
mems and women's Rihir classes: lG:&y
IL III. morning PRAYER. molly ""u:nuu!"u
and address; 1870 y. M. evening prayer
anl s"rrnn: 2:nn p. ma. chriidr"n's S"r-
lic" Wednesday. evening prayer a'I
Rthl" study. i.3O y. III.
s.; Andrews church. Thjrtr->"y""'h
and En'f streets. ! Logan Fish, l"rtur---
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-07
LUTHERAN

Zion Lutheran church. Els Market
tre"t, Rev. 4. l.. BENG. raat"r--l:a$i';
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-07

North Stree; u. Z: church. Err. Roy
McCuskey. pastnrt-5:3r a. m. sunrise
praise service: l".%" 4. n. r SteT pro-
gram. The Living Christ sor Latin
America" b. tn" SUNDAY school: l. Il.
M. reception o; nr'Inncrs into tic
church; G:ss p. 20. t:9worth league de-
Notionai meeting. topic. what easter
Means 10 Me- !"at!,.r. Mr.. Ralph I.
Ross: 90 =. ~. >r:;U"n' by IN" pastor.
THE SicuiIIy;;u"" IT tUrist'S keS"rrec-
ton ard Ascension.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-07

Easter ,noruj;l@ w":..,a ~ H. Fourth
Street N"t:;"dl-- ii.is'";;u rE|rrh-i0
O'Clock. c':r:t'.tt,i >":vtc. " church aiiI
sunday -r..u"..
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
BETHEL

At meeting of the seectmen held
last Saturday afternoon orders were
drawn in favor of Otis Abbott, F, O.
Brown, {. E. Noble, Fred J. Omsted and
{. c. Washburn to cover damages to
sheep by dogs.
The Methodist church choir of 20
voices is rehearsing Christmas cantata.
assisted by Mrs. n NJ. Gay as conductor
and Jesse Moody as organist.
About eight inches of snow fell Satur
day evening. The wind blew it into
drifts ON some of the roads. The snow
was needed to replenish the supply on
the Royalton road, where the sleiehing
was becoming poor.
Mrs. VI. j. French is visiting in Bos
ton and will pass the winter in the
South.
Frank Guerra has enlisted i'm the army
and Is stationed at Fort Slocum. n. Y.
Henry Tucker and Clayton Tucker are
visiting I'm Claremont. y. II.
Miss Harriet Gaudet is kept from her
work at the Brooks & Washburn store
by illness.
Thomas ]. Lavere has sold his pair Of
work horses, with sleds and harnesses. TO
Harry G. LaBar, who will Use them on
the Fifield place in Granville. which he
bought lately
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10

all around them at every turning. Why
not keep it just as it is to-day, a pile OF
glorious ruins, rs world museum of
German savagery? Why not leave it,
stricken, battered and MANNED in its ev-
lery structural limb, just as we saw it
this day three years after, for the admo-
milton, horror and instruction of a uni.
verse which has rushed to arms for the
overthrow of liberty's foe? There will
be vast libraries of documentary evil
dence of the Huns atrocities to educate
and terrify posterity. But what are
books and descriptions and documentary
proofs compared to such an ocular dem
onstration as threatened to loose the
tear-ducts of five prosaic American OBJ
servers to-day?
| was born and raised in an Indiana
town very much like dozens of French
towns which have been crushed beneath
the merciless heel of the German army.
There are Illinois and Iowa and Michigan
and Wisconsin towns just like them, too.
I thought of those towns this afternoon.
said to myself that if Essen's l7-inch
murder-guns could ever be planted with
in range of our own smiling western COM
munities, the kaiser and his Germans
would splinter them as gladly. as ruth
lessly, as completely, as they have de-
molished this beautiful town.
Pershng's men are here to help save
France But with every blow they strike
to that noble end they are striking 10
save our own Arrases, Bapaumes and
Peronnes from the fate which has over
taken Frances La Portes, Rockfords,
Kenoshas, Davenports and Battle Creeks.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
When to Hide Your Hearts Sorrow.

By Betty Tansey of The Vigilantes. J
When you tell your boy goodbye as he
entrains for cantonments, don't break
his heart with your grief
The other day party of hal<i-clad
soldiers boarded train on their way
back to business after furlough at
home.
Their mothers, their sisters and their
sweethearts accompanied them to the
train. And what did those women do
They wept bitterly and convulsively,
they chung to their boys necks, and as
the train pulled out, one gray haired
woman tainted.
That woman's son sat down by me.
He pulled his service hat over young
brows tortured by his mothers sorrow.
Pm ready to 90" said he, I'm not
lodging my duty to my country and I'm
willing to go over there and fight it out
with those Huns. But my mothers heart
is breaking and it's mighty hard to
bear"
Is that what you want your boy to
say as he leaves you TO do his duty? Is
the last sight of you to be misery to
him and a pain? Or is it TO be an in.
spiration, something wonderful and full
of hope, something which he will recall
with thrill of pride when he thinks
and he will think every day-of his
mother and his loved ones?
Am asking too much? You know in
your hearts that I'm not Boys have
gone out into the world day by day since
the world began. Their mothers grieved
to lose them, but what a grief to have
them so much less than men that they
would not go, that they would to-day |
hide in the home nest when their duty |
and their country calls them
When there was peace in the world, |
our boysI have one, fighting age-our
boys went out into the world, out of |
their homes to fight and to make their
own place. They kissed us goodbye, and
their eyes were set, not on our faces but
On their own future,
And now with the world in mourning,
With mothers ''over there" wearing their
sorrows like crown, remembering with
bride that they had son to give that
he world might live, what are we moth
RS over here thinking of that we tear
he courage and the young smile out of
,m boys eyes when they 90 out to fight
or the fagy
Shall they be less men than the Eng
ish boys and the Frenchi Than Russian
ads or Scottish, than Irish soldiers, or
he high hearted Italians who hold the
of the Alpss
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
ROCHESTER

Judge Edgerton is in Woodstock for
the December term of court
daughter, Helen was born to Mr.
and Mrs. f. s. French Nov 30.
Seventeen deer were killed in town
during the open season
Mr. and Mrs. II, II. Cushman were in
Montpelier last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mosher have
moved to Robinson for the winter Mr..
Mosher will work in the mill
Thursday evening, Dec. 10, the Roch-
ester graded schools will present an his
torical pageant in Pierce hall. Over 100
children will take part. Proceeds for the
benefit of the Red Cross.
A new lot of books for the library
has arrived.
Judge Edgerton has been appointed by
Gov Graham a member of the legal ad-
visory board of Windsor county, to work
on the new draft registration.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
What Weakness Really Is.

A business man says in the December
American Magazine:
II was brought up in a pious family
had to go to church as a kid. | can
remember sitting there Sunday after
Sunday by my fathers side and hearing
the preacher read out of the Good Book.
At home l had the same experience
heard the Bible read aloud thousands of
times, literally thousands of times, be-
cause we had it every day. Some of it
made a curious impression on me. Take
this one TO him that hath shall be Civ
en-, and to him that hath not shall be
taken away even that which he hath
Why, | used to sit there when ten years
old and say to myself when they'd read
that-'Well, that one is a lie-nothing
but lie. Who ever heard anything so
foolish!' But, oh, how / have had to eat
my words on it. OF course | know now
that it is the last word on the subject
the truth stated so markedly that it is
almost cruel. 1t is one of those laws OF
life so deep that it takes a man half
lifetime even to grasp it. There was
another one that used to amuse me
The meek shall inherit the earth When
they'd read that | almost laughed in my
sleeve at the nonsense of it. Who ever
heard anything so ridiculous as the idea
that the meek would ever get anywhere!
Say, do you know that / was full
grown man earning $1,000 year before
to the fact that there was some
thing in it, OF course, | know now that
there is everything in it, You bet the
meek inherit the earth--if they have
ability. Meekness is holding your tenn
per, sticking to a course, refusing to be
swerved from the main line of action.
Oh | understand the meaning of that
world wide wisdom now | have seen it
work out / have seen some of the meek
win out-and have seen some of the
olusterers lose out. No, you don't have
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
RANDOLPH

Col Israeli Converse chapter of Daugh-
tiers of American Revolution. held a
special meeting at the home of Mrs. G. +.
Scott on Saturday afternoon, with an
attendance of about forty-fve members
and guests. Prof Peach of Norwich uni
versity gave an address, taking for his
topic, vermont in Literature" The ad
dress gave Vermont writers fine com
pliment in many instances, and the quo
tations from them were selected with
care and were very interesting. At the
close of the address, the entire company
united in singing America" after which
a social hour followed in which all
could meet and greet the speaker. Re-
freshments were served.
Ernest Austin, who enlisted last sum-
mer as clerk in the quartermasters' re-
serve corps, was summoned Thursday
night to Fort Williams, near Portland,
Me, and left the same night.
Mrs. Ernest Mcintosh who has been in
Waterbury Center since last Tuesday
with her mother, Mrs Nellie Morse, re.
turned home Saturday.
Mrs. F. c. Bennett, the guest of her
daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Miner, left on Saturday for her
home in Rochester
Mrs. J. H. Moulton and her daughter.
Miss Mary Moulton, left Saturday for
Mount Vernon, N. Y, where they will
pass the winter with Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Lane, Mrs. Lane being a daughter
of Mrs. Moulton
DR.. c. j. Rumrill has been i'll for sew.
Ieral days with an attack similar to one
he had three years ago, and it is feared
he may be obliged to resort to an opera |
Ition.
Dr. f. A. Edmumds, who has been in |
the sanatorium for medical treatment /
for the last two weeks, left for his home |
IN Bethel on Saturday, somewhat i'm
proved in health. His sister, Mrs. Nc |
Intyre, is improving, but another sister,
Mrs. Newell, remains about the same.
Rev. +. 5. Tolman and his family ar
rived here on Saturday and will at once
take up their residence in the house of
Mrs. Alma Horner on Emerson terrace.
Mr.. Tolman preached the first sermon
OF his pastorate here on Dec. /. but re-
turned to st. Johnsbury for his family
and household goods.
Mrs. Versa Cassidy Sayton of st.
Johnsbury arrived here on Saturday to
visit her father, d. B. Cassidy, and wife.
Robert NJ. Briggs of Hartford, grand.
son of Mrs. Ann Mouton, appointed last
August for training as aerial observer in
the aviation section of the United States
army, has received a commission as first
lieutenant, and has been detailed to re-
main at Fort Sill, Okla, as instructor
in aerial affairs.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
Uncle Sam to Use Movies to Increase
Food Production.


Official moving pictures bringing home
the vital Importance of increased food
production will be shown by the United
States department of agriculture in hun
dreds of regular motion picture theatres
throughout the United States. The first
releases, which are to he handled un.
der an agreement with the Universal
Film Manufacturing company through
its exchanges. viii be made early in De
eember The first film will show activi-
ties in the national forests, which are
important sources of timber and water
supply and also afford grazing for large
number of cattle and sheep.
The second release. which will follow
in about two weeks, will show what
children through the pig clubs are doing
to increase the supply Of pork. Other
selections from the departments 10000
feet OF official subjects will make clear
various features of food production. the
raising of meat animals and horses. and
will deal with home activities such a.
poultry raising and the canning and
drying OF perishable products.
The department laboratories are at
work on a number Of other popular films
specially designed to make clear TO CITY
a. well as rural populations. problems
Of food production and To show them
WAYS in which they can cooperate effec-
lively to feed the nation and the allies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
ORANGE

Mrs. Martha Hammond has returned
to her home in Washington after visit
ing friends here.
Herbert Clark and sister visited rela
tives in Williamstown over Sunday.
Orange grange elected the following
officers Friday night; Master, T. A
Lord: overseer, Ernest Flanders lectur.
er. Minnie Lord; steward, Arthur Car
penter: assistant steward, Dana Elan
ders; chaplain, Lillian Richardson; treas
urer, Lillian Carpenter; secretary, Frank
Haynes; gatekeeper, Clyde Whitcomb;
Ceres, Edna Beard; Pomona, Florence
Cutler: Flora, Josephine Albisetti; lady
assistant steward, lila Nelson.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
GRANITEVILLE
Passenger Train Had Hard Work Making
Ascent Saturday Night.

The train due here at $3.50 Saturday
night did not arrive until IL 80, though
it left Barre on schedule time The de
lay was due partly to the storm and, il
is thought, leaky fues. Great difficulty
was experienced in making the grades
especially that leading to the tank; the
train having to back down the hill sew
eral times to get a fresh start.
Regular meeting of division No. 3, A.
0. H., will be held Dec | | in Miles hall
at 1880 o'clock. Business of Importance
and election of officers All members
are requested to be present. Per order
of president, Peter Murphy.
Miss Kathleen Letourneau has com
pleted her training at the Fanny Allen
hospital and is spending few days with
relatives here. She was accompanied by
Miss Yyonne Norm, who is visiting her
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse Allaire re-
turned last Tuesday from Port Henry
N. r., where they have been visiting
while on their wedding trip. Mr.. Allaire
expects to enter the service soon.
Mrs. Anna Carey has gone to Isle La.
Motto on case.
Mrs. Gordon Smith of West Topsham
is in town, called here by the death of
Mrs. Edwin Evans.
Miss Theresa Miles is spending few
weeks in Montpelier with her sister. Mrs
w. II. McCaskill
: Word has been received here of the
serious illness OF NJ. A. Corbett, long
time resident of this place Mr.. Corbett
was operated on last week at hospital
in Boston.
Thomas Clark left Friday morning for
his home in Boston, having been called
mere by the death of relative He was
accompanied by Philip Clark, who has
secured a position in that city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
Always Have PERUNA
Mrs. L. A. Patterson, 1899 Kentucky

Mrs. L. A. Patterson, 1899 Kentucky
St., Memphis, Tennessee, writes:
II have been friend Of Peruna
for many years. ! have used it OF
and on for catarrhal complaints and
found 1t very excellent remedy.
have small family OF children
Times are hard with us, but can
scarcely afford to do without Peru
ma, especially during the season Of
the year when coughs and colds
are prevalent. We always recon.
mend Peruna to our neighbors, for
the benefit 1t has been to u.s."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
DOCTOR SAYS
VINOL IS THE
BEST TONIC
Honest Opinion Doctor Gave
His Patient

Bedford. Ohio.-"I was in pitiful
condition. weak. nervous and run down
so ] could not do-my homework. I had
doctored for years and tried everything
under the sun. \ friend told me about
Ninol. | asked my doctor about it, and
he replied 1t certainly Is the best
medicine that can be had to-day.
couldn't give you any better / took it.
and to-day am a. wei and strong as
any woman could wish to be. and it was
Ninol that saved me.--Mrs. Frank a.
Horkey, Ash street. Bedford, Ohio.
We guarantee this famous cod liver
and iron tonic for all such conditions
Red Gross Pharmacy, Floyd g. Russell.
Prop. and at the best drug store in ev-
cry town and city in the countrY.-Ady.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10

to sell me the Bible as a book Of practi-
cal wisdom. | am an unbeliever, have no
religious faith, but | know that | un-
use the Bible in my business
all the time. j don't think / half realize
how much | owe to that experience of
getting 1t drummed into me as boy
against it-and then finding out
as the years passed that ! wasn't SO
smart as ! had thought / was"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
PLdINFIELD

The ladies' aid have invited themselves
to an all-day meeting at the parsonage
Wednesday, Dec. II. Those desiring to
help paper or sew are asked to go in the
forenoon and carry lunch and stay to
the regular business meeting in the aft
ernoon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10

The death of Howard Thurston at the
Center Friday night removes another of
our popular young men. Born on the
Thurston farm "a years ago, much Of his
life had been spent in his native town
He was the son of James and Martha
! nyon) Thurston, was educated in the
public schools and at Green Mountain
seminary at the Center. For the past ID
years he has been much of the time in
the machine shops of Windsor and Con-
necticut, meeting in Windsor Lodge,
Conn, his wife, who was Miss ldella
Sizer, whom he married Sept. 3, 1914
Two years ago they came back this way
he being employed for some time at the
Lane Manufacturing Co., Montpelier.
Since last June he had been able TO do
but little and had been at the home of
his parents at the Center, his trouble be-
ing tuberculosis of the kidneys. He was
a social member of the Nj. w. of A. and
member of the Center grange. He is
survived by his wife, his parents and one
brother, Henry Thurston at the Center.
The funeral was held from the home of
his parents at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Rev. w. F. Hill of the Methodist church
at the Center officiating.
Mrs. AIDA Anderson of the Center has
received word from her son, Floyd An
derson, that he has enlisted as an cleo
trician in the quartermaster' corps for
immediate service in France Mr. An
derson graduated last year from the
Rennsaeler Polytechnic institute in Troy,
N. Y, and since then has been working
for the Toledo Railway & Light Co., one
of the largest companies i'll the United
States. He leaves for Fort Meigs, Wash
ington. Although he enlisted in Toledo, |
he registered at home, so counts as an
other Waterbury boy
Mr. and Mrs. II. I. Whitehill have re
turned from Boston.
This past months output from the
Red Cross rooms, sent to headquarters
last week. consists of $3.50 surgical |
dressings, IL pairs socks, Is muifiers, 81
pairs wristlets, Is sweaters, 20 long
bandages, % mits, 10 eye bandages,
afghan and l25 Christmas bags.
Another heavy snowstorm came hurry
ng upon what had already fallen and
luite a blizzard ragged good share of
night and yesterday. Scarcity |,
If fuel was also felt by some families.
ire handicapped by the storms.
Miss Lena Carpenter, daughter of
franklin Carpenter of this place, expects
he call may soon come for active service
With the Red Cross unit. She has been
lursing right along in Rochester, n. Y, (
ince her return from here.
Grant Russell is suffering severely 4
With blood poisoning in his hand. L
Miss Mary Morrisey remains quite II
oorly. IS
The basketball game Friday night be &
ween the Waterbury high school team {
nd that from Mortified high was very t
lose and at the start looked quite un- ]
avorable for the home team. They t
ONE in for their innings. however, so I
hat at the close of the game Waterbury ~
1as the winner by a score of p to 20 f
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
II an People Annreciatsd

their value as demonstrated by their
earning capacity and would insure un
to the amount they could reasonably nav
for. few families would be left unpro-
tected and few men would live to be old
and poor. National Life ms Co. of Vt.
fMutuaL 5. ;. Ballard. general agent.
Rialto block. Montpelier. Vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
Constipation Makes
Baby Uncomfortable

When It's tender little organs are
bound up with a congestion of
stomach waste in the bowels. Baby
Is q mighty uncomfortable morsel
OF humanity. and reflects its dis
comfort In its disposition. If
Mother will just give 1t a tiny
dose of mild laxative, such as
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, the
congestion will quickly loosen and
be expelled, and her child be nor
NAL and happy once more.
DR.. Caldwcll's Syrup Pepsin Is
especially. desirable for children.
because 10 contains no opiate or
narcotic drug. being combination
of simple laxative herbs with pep
sin, mild and gentle in action,
positive In effect, and very palata-
Bile. Children like 1t and take 1t
readily. Druggists sell DR.. CaM-
wells Syrup Pepsin for fifty cents
a bottle; a. trial bottle, free of
charge, can be obtained by writing
to DR.. w. B. Caldwell, 456 WASH
ington St, Monticello, Illinois.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
WATERBURY,
Fund for Halifax Sufferers Was Started
Last Evening.

A mass meeting was held at the opera
house last night for the benefit of the
sufferers in Halifax. The house was well
filed, 1882 being received for the cause.
The devotional service was led by Rev.
Verne l.. Smith, two selections rendered
by the junior choir, Il vocal solo rendered
by Miss Mildred Breene, while illustrat'
ed hymns were sung from the screen.
Through the courtesy of Manager Dial
ton, part OF the pictures given Saturday
night from "A Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea-" were given.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-10
HANCOCK
Herschel Roberts, Transferred from Aver
Mass, to Atlanta, Ga. Writes Home.

The following letter was received from
Hcrschel Roberts by his parents, ana
gives some idea of the trip from camp
Devens, Aver, Mass, to Camp GORDON
Atlanta, Ga:
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov, %, 1917.
"My Dear Father and Mother: we
have left Camp Devens, as you VIII see
We had a nice trip and | was not sorry
to leave, as it, was getting cold, al
though we could be warm and comforta-
Bile in the Y. NJ c. A. quarters We
stopped in Raleigh, n. G., and marched
around the capitol. When we were IN
Philadelphia there were about 90 engl-
neers in the yard and they all blew their
whistles. l tell you it's some place. We
saw an aeroplane and it looked like a
big bird in the air. | mail this in Wash
ington, ID. c., where we stop awhile.
"Later: Well, we are here in Camp
Gordon now. | would not like to live
here. Two dollars day is the most
they get for days work. We may not
be here long. would like to go to Cuba.
It is nice and warm most of the time
but cool nights. Thank you so much for
the box. 1t does seem good to get some
thing from home. Little sister would
not know me if she saw me now. Don't
worry about me. ] am feeling good and
am coming home some day with one of
the kaiser's ears in my pocket. Ha Ha!
keep well and happy. Remember me
to all my friends and tell them to write.
"Herschel Roberts"