The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

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Time 81, 3s, 40.
Starter--Chilsolm Judges-Lillie, Be
dell, Griggs.
Races will occur next Tuesday; after
that, on Mondays.
Many very humorous problems were
placed before the fuel administrator Fri
day and Saturday, as result OF the fuel
order and probably .he best one along
this line was whether COW is a manu-
featuring plant. Executive Secretary Ma
son S. Stone turned the query aside with
ease by advising the party calling that
John Gushing had charge of the food
manufacturing plants and that flour and
feed problems would be decided through
his department. II appears that one OF
the men in nearby town who handles
-four and feed called the fuel administra
tors office as to whether he could sell
feed as well as -four Considerable CON
versation occurred and then Mr., Stone
referred the problem to Mr. Cushing's de-
partment.
Col II. 7. johnson has received notice
that Capt. Chester +. Waller, NJ. d., regu
lar army, has been assigned to Vermont
and will come to the state this week for
the purpose of instructing the members
ofsfhe medical advisory board as to their
duties and examining them as to their
qualifications To handle the work. Capt. |
Waller will be in Rutland Jan. %, Bur |
lington Jan. %, st. Johnsbury Jan. "a, |
and White River Junction jan 25. Col. |
johnson is collecting the data concern
ing the number of men that have enlisted |
from Vermont. lie hopes to secure all |
of this in few weeks OF course, he has
the names of those who enlisted in the
state, but those who enlisted in other
states he has been unable to secure. Sat
urday he received list of 462 from the
Albany, n. Y, recruiting office. When
he expects to find that the
state has done even better than it has
yet been credited with doing
The efficiency with which the work was
handled in the fuel administrator office
was in part due to the telephone opera
tors who handled the connections from
all parts of the state to the fuel office in
the State House Most Of Thursday aft
arnoon, evening, and Friday and Satur-
lime to the service. The line was watched
with the efficiency which w. c.. hamburg
lrged the operators to give, with the
result that many calls were handled in a
fery short time. Perhaps the best exam
Die of this was on Friday evening, when
,af dozen calls were handled from
Newport without any break in the circuit
Except to connect the party in Newport !
20 rapidly were the calls handled that q
Mr.. Stone was unable to get on the line q
o place a call out of his office. Many
tch instances occurred during the last c
hree days of the week.
Arrangements were partly completed .
saturday to send out the shortest proc
amation ever issued in Vermont and +
in the history of this country, .
nut later Gov. Graham concluded differ y
ntly relative to the matter, with the ;
esult that he did not make the procla h
nation, his reason for the change being !,
hat the people of the state for the last
ew DAYS had had enough on the conser-
alton proposition, so that to him it APP i
cared best to wait for tine at least =
efore he issued two-word procama- !,
ion to "cut wood" Had this proclama Q
ion gone from his office, it is questioned q
there could have been a shorter one :,
sued than the above. ~
Miss Lucille Ruth Sterling daughter 81
Mr. and Mrs. John Sterling, who has So
we'd all her life in this city, died early
unday morning at her home on East a:
tate street. She was born here May ?, Il
300. She was junior in Montpelier &C
gh school, where she was bright stu hi
ent. She was also member of the b
umpire girls. She is survived by her st
lrents and one sister. Edith, as well as vC
4 uncle Walter Sterling of this city, re
nd two aunts in New York and her
red grandmother, Mrs. Ira Jennison of sa
eacham. The funeral arrangements are as
It completed. nc
Gov II. F. Graham was in Burlington Il
Inday evening and spoke at a meeting
the Strong theatre in the Knights of ga
,lumbus campaign. At
William II. Jeffrey, secretary of the tn
ard of charities and probation, left mi
is afternoon for Burlington, where he tn
S a conference over probation matters. III,
lesday afternoon he speaks in Pitts
I'd before the womans club, and the
me evening he attends the January br'
Getting of the board in Rutland. On
ednesday afternoon he speaks before er