The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-15
WATERBURY,
Rev. W. L. Boicourt Writes of His Work
in France.

in France.
The following facts regarding the worl
OF Rev. William l.. Boicourt have bdeI
received:
Foyer Du Soldat. ! Quai Jules Cour
mont, Lyon, France.
Since the first of January | have been
working in the best French foyer ia
Lyon close TO the address above, which
il the Office headquarters for all the
foyers and Y. NJ. G. AS in the region
and to which my mail should now be
sent | find the work very interesting
and stimulating Soldiers from every
section of France are here. many OF
them wounded men staying in the hos
pitfalls for rest and treatment and the fit
ting of artificial legs, arms eyes or noses
Among them are many professional men,
teachers, etc ! get the very best of in
structions now every hour of the day
and, since | can converse a little on gen
eral topics, ! am naturally learning more
rapidly.
The man who is director in charge is
a pastor, also very charming and help
full mana Swiss. During the summer
of 1914 he left the church of which he
was pastor in Lens and went with his
wife into Switzerland for a brief vaca-
tion. They have never returned. In
their absence came the Germans, and
everything was lost. Her people live
here, so they came to Lyon, where he,
MS | have said, is masterful director
of foyer and where she is head nurse
in one of the Red Cross hospitals. Both
of them speak English as well as French
and German.
In the Foyer du Soldat we have cor
respondence room, social room, can
teen, where two women serve chocolate,
coffee, syrups, "limonade," etc, and the
Office. We require a deposit of 10 cen
times for pens and the newspapers and
give this back when the men return the
things. The fellows come by the hun
dreds and are full of grateful apprecia-
ton. Two or three times a week there
are concerts or entertainments for the
soldiers and Mr., Favre, the director, has !
an employment agency for the men Tho |
are able to work little and q & A.
plishes much good in that manner
| was glad to receive the presidents |
Thanksgiving proclamation. He is easily |
the one man in the world big enough to
express the thoughts and feelings not |
only of America but of all the world
that is right minded. Many in Germany, /
even, must surely be in accord with him.
And, it is impossible to overestimate
the Importance people here attach to
his recent utterance on the purposes of
the war Germany will not now accept
the conditions, but she will be forced to
do SO for the worlds good and ultimate
ly for her own. w. l.. Boicourt.
Mrs. Frank Hodge has been pleased
to report to her niece in New York City
that they are comfortable in their home
with plenty of wood to burn. This was
because of the anxiety of Miss Wood
ward in the city, who was having such
a time with the heating proposition and
felt that if conditions were so bad in
New York that they must be good
deal worse in the country. The fuel sit
uation here has been much better, al
though the bad roads Of the past few
days are keeping wood back on the
farms which would otherwise be deliv-
cred.
The explosion in the American Rubber
plant at East Cambridge comes near to ,
Waterbury people, as the superintendent,
George Woodward, is a Waterbury boy
and had left the building only 10 min .
utes before the explosion.
Officers of n f. NJ. p. A. are: Presi-
dent, Mark II. Moody; vice-president, !
lanes Greene; secretary and treasurer,
F. Hill; delegate to the county meet {
ng, Herbert Pike.
The town of Duxbury has proven that |
! town can more than keep even in this
year of war expenses. Her auditors re-
bort win show about $1,000 gain over
asst year. The amount paid by the
treasurer on road commissioner orders v
vas $3,6l7.7S school orders, $4,2O2.O7; t.
'verseer orders, $434.25; while select r.
mems orders given for bills which in
luded interest, state and county taxes "
vas S3,lS7.23. The special state tax for Ia
var purposes was raised by special tax h
which has been paid since Oct H. The d.
ffcials of the town will recommend Ii
AK this year which they expect will r
meet all necessary expenses, including a.
he 20-cent state tax and pay as much,
possible, as this past year on the debt W
by the outcome of the past pl
ear most of the voters seem interested ii
0 do their share in this matter. The W
varning for the town meeting does not la
ontain any special articles except as to ds
neither this town shall or shall not pur- e,
base snow rollers. Duxbury's grand list de
his past year was $4,560l6 A
Roy Chapman, who has been on DR.. ht