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The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-08
JAPANESE ARE LISTLESS-HOT
 TRADE GIVEN

TOXIC, April 6. = Much attention is being paid by the press to changed conditions in America. The Kokumin today publishes long interview with Marquis Okuma, the late Prime Min ister and head of the Liberal Party, under the title, "A Wide-Awake Ma ton and a Sleepy Nation"
 In brief, Marquis Okuma observes that foreign and domestic policies of the United States since she joined the war show that the whole strength of the country is directed towards anify- ing the nation and making it strong CT after the war. In conclusion he turned his attention toward Japan where he finds the people are listless and like fishermen sleepily sitting on the river bank and waiting for som- thing to bite instead of being alert to meet the needs and opportunities of the country after the war.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-08
WAR PREVENTS
 STRIKES FROM
 BREAKING OUT

LONDON, April s. - There are now fewer strikes in Great Britain than at any period since the war be- gan, says an official report to Parlia- ment on the labor situation. The re- port says in part:
 "The SoundnesS of the labor situa- tion in this country is really remark able, considering the large issues in- volved and the millions of men affect ed. After three and a half years of war the great body of laboring men are still working with steady deVo- tion never known before in this coun- try"
 Winston Churchill, in statement supplementing this report, said that the labor situation was so good that rhe Secret Service Department in the Ministry of Munitions had been abol- ished and the Ministry now has no secret agents of any kind. "The wide spread and unswerving loyalty and resolution with which the production of munitions is being maintained is shown by the fact that time lost in all branches of our work during the past six months has been less tan one-foulth of one per cent" he added.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-08
WATER POWER IS GOING ID
 BE UTILIZED

LYONS, France, April s. - The vast project for the utilization of the Upper Rhone for water power, for nav, ation and for irrigation was dis cusscd here today by commission re- presenting the cities and regions in- tereSted and a resolution was adopted recommending that the concessions for these enter prises be given to the municipalities and departments con cened in preference tc private com pan,aS.
 If the conclusions of the commission are adopted by the government, Paris LyorS, Marse'nes and the departm. Dor ie in. nn tie 2htne fr m Switaer-
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-08

land to the Mediterranean will parti- cipate in the work of building and ex- plotting the water way, irugating canals and water power plants. Paris alone will utilize 100000 horse pow CT from the projected plant at Genis- siat, in the department of the Ain, where a dam 70 yards high will be built.
 Switzerland, as we'll as France is interested in the waterway to the Mediterranean, since it will thus have an outlet by water to the sea at the south as we'll as at the north. ............
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-08
A Strina of Beads.

"Savages will trade vast tracts of land for string of beads"
 "Well,% replied Miss Cayenne, q know man who wears evening clothes and carries a cane and he did the same thing. He went broke trying to pay for a pearl necklace"
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-08

WASHINGTON, April s. - King Albert, of Belgium, has personally decorated Maj. Gen. Pershing with the grand cross of the Order of Leopold, and the Belgian war cross. Colonel Boyd, military attache, has also been given a cross of the Order of Leopold.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-08

WASHINGTON, April 8. - Touch ed by picture of unmarked graves of Tuscania victims buried on the Scotch coast, President Wilson cabled Am bassador Page at London to buy suit able floral tribute and have it placed the graves.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
FINLAND DUPLICATING
 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

London, Jan. S1-Finland is going through a social revolution similar in aims to the November revolution in Petrograd, says the Petrograd corre- spondent of the Daily News. The forces opposed to each other in Finland how ever, are very equally balanced, he adds, and a comparatively painless revolution, like that pushed through by the Russian Bolsheviki is unlikely.
 The latest advices from Petrograd report continued fighting and disor- ders in Finland, but the destruction of telegraph and telephone lines is ! preventing much news from coming through. The railroad telegraph sys- item is still in operation, but at many places these wire facilities are in the hands of tho Red guard. It is be- 1ieved that the expelled members of the Rumanian legation, who started for Stockholm got no farther on their way through Finland than Terijoki, about 30 miles from Petrograd.
 Many of the wealthier residents of Petrograd fled to Finland to escape the revolutionary troubles in the Rus tsaan capital, thinking to find safe retreat Some of this class took their entire fortunes with them- The break iug out of the revolution now makes it appear that they escaped from one evil only to encounter another equally 0s great,
 The members of the Finnish senate are said to have taken refuge in Vasa.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
TROOPS
 RAID AMERICAN
 TRENCH POSITION
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(Cont1nued from Page 1.) o'clock three untitled reports sounded through the fog. TI.ere were three whistles, followed quickly by three shell bursts. The projectiles explod- ed on three sides of an American listening post just outside the wire entanglement, within 45 feet of an enemy listening post.
 "Then Hell broke loose" said one of the men there For Is minutes the enemy broke hundreds of high ex- plosive mines around the post and the surrounding ground, cutting off the men there. Two of them were killed in the first few minutes.
 Another man who was at the post told the correspondent later, as he was lying on a cot in a field hospital, that he saw four Germans approach ing out of the fog as the barrage lift ed. He brought his automatic rifle into play and saw two of the Ger mans fall. He kept on firing untn shell splinters hit him in the head and arm.
 "The last remember, in the time before I reached the hospital" said another wounded man, lis seeing something moving through the fog. determined to get some Germans and put my rifle to my shoulder, but never pulled the trigger. There was a deafening explosion behind me. Frozen earth, ice, stone and shell splinters came my way.'' Inspection of the scene of the raid showed that the ground was plowed 1 up by the explosion of shells. One of the men wounded was hit by a sniper's bullet. He fell in a trench filled with water and almost drowned before he was rescued by his captain. Several of the wounded had been listed as accidental woundings. These were mostly wounds on the hands.
 It is certain that the enemy casual ties from the American cannon and machine gun fire has been as great or greater than ours.
 The casualties given out in Wash ington recently occurred over cer- tain recent period. The dead were buried within the sound and range of the guns One man was blown to pieces by a shell in a regimental headquarter town as he was follow ing his colonel into a dugout.
 Three men were killed by one shell that fell in a trench and another died of wounds in a hospital. Quite few of the men sent to hospitals were wounded in the upper part of the body or on the head by shrapnel. For military reasons it has been advisable not to send earlier or othel , | details,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
NEW HAVEN GETS
 EXAMINERS FOR
 FLYING RECRUITS

New Haven, Jan. 31-In order to en- courage enlistment in the aviation sec ton of the signal corps of the regular army the government has established an examining board in New Haven, the second of it's kind in New Eng land, it is announced today. Lieut.. J. F. Baker has been appointed head of the examining board and will be as sisted by Lieut.. Honey of the Yale medical school Applicants may take examinations and if successful will be recommended for commissions after eight weeks of ground work at a reg uIar training school. Applications have already been received from Trin- ity and Wesleyan men and some from Yale, it is said.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
MOBS IN BERLIN
 CRASHING WITH KAISER'S TROOPS
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CContinued from Page 1-) Munich is said to have failed after @ storTny meeting, but the movement spread to Nuremberg and Furth, the largest manufacturing towns in Ba- vaTia-
 According to some reports the strike involves many munition factor ies and so1ne submarine wharves, but up to this time the railroad and trans portaticn services have not been in vofved.
 The cessation of work in Hamburg now is virtually complete, according to q Daily Telegraph dispatch from Rot terdam. The strike has extended from the Vulcan ship yards in Ham burg to the works of Blohm & Voss, another large ship building concern.
 At a meeting of the Berlin strikers on Wednesday a resolution was pass : ed declaring the strikers would oppose { to the utmost of their power any re- prisaIs against their leaders or rep reSentRtives. The German Union of Labor has issued an anti-strike leafet, declaring England and America only await the moment when Germany is weakened by internal strife to fall on Germany and ruin her trade, and eumash German competition. The ap- peal says:
 s-N--r $We want no hunger. peace.'
 Therefore down with mass
 strikes Our future is at stake"
 Among the views expressed in dis patches from Holland in regard to the German strike is one that the Ger man government is exploiting what hardly amounts to more than peace time demonstration with the object if possible, of producing a more ser ious movement in Allied countries where it apparently believes the gov ernments are less able to control suct movements
 A correspondent gathers from the German press that the German gov ernment intends to make the strili' movement a pretext for breaking of the Brest-1itovsk negotiations and i ascribing it to the machinations o the Bolshevid with whom, therefore / it would be impossible to hol' further conferences.
 The semi-official Norddeutsche All Eemeine Zeitung, commenting cn tn political aims of the strike commit fee, warns the strikers that they vii achieve nothing by their action i reference to, the negotiations i Brest- -Litovsk Instead of furtherin the peace movement, it says, th strikes will prejudice the negotiation and encourage her enemies to resis Germany's just claims The news paper adds that the government eS poets the strikers as a result of calT consideration to realize the foolish ness of their attitude and resum work
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31

fee which is involved in the field of | battle itself, where t--e object always looms greater than the individual. | And yet the government will help and help in every way that it is possible. The impression which prevails in some quarters that while the government has sought to fix the prices of food stuffs, it has not sought to fix other prices which determine the expenses of the farmer, is mistaken one. As a matter of fact, the government has actively and successfully regulated the prices of many fundamental materials underlying all the industries of the country and has regulated them not only for the purchases of the govern ment, but also for the purchases of the general public, and l have every reason to believe congress will extend the powers of the government in this important and even essential matter, so that the tendency to profteering which is showing itself in too many quarters may be effectively checked.
 In fixing the prices of foodstuffs the government sincerely has tried to keep the interests of the farmer as much in mind as the interests of the com munities which are to be served, but it is serving mankind as well as the farmer and everything in these times of war takes on the rigid aspect of duty.
 T will not appeal to you to con- tinue and renew and increase your ef- forts. I do not believe it is necessary to do so, believe you will do it with out any word or appeal from me, be- cause you understand as well as do the needs and opportunities of this great hour, when the fortunes of man
 kind everywhere seem about to be
 determined and when America has the
 greatest opportunity she has ever had
 to make good her own freedom and in
 making it good, to lend a helping hand
 to men struggling for their freedom l everywhere. You remember that 1t 1 was farmers from whom came the first shots at Lexington, that set 1 aflame the revolution that made
 America free. hope and believe that 1 the farmers of America will willingly
 and conspicuously stand by to win
 this war also. The toll, the intelligence the energy, the foresight, the self sac rifice and devotion of the farmers of
 America will I believe, bring to tri-
 umphant conclusion this great last
 war for the emancipation of men from
 the control of arbitrary government
 and the selfishness of class legislation
 and control and then, when the end
 has come, we may look each other in
 the. face and be glad that We are
 Americans and have had the privi- 2lege to play such part.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
IUU dI lIICoC PIICCS' Regular model With all improvements
 $45.

Frankly these not today prices Since bought these machines there But shall while lasts.
 machines That Rowland club 
 any And ability any weeks weeks. Members of the club will pay the price of the chosen machine in small monthly amounts. Any nAA may join whose promise Is to be depended upon The GI first payment to be made when machine chosen @
 That first payment will be-
 We open the membership roll of the club now. Only the first 12O women to enroll will be sure of securing machine.
 Better be prompt tO inspect and test machine Then you'll decide and the quicker the better!
 THE ROWLAND DRY GOODS GO.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
MILL OPERATIVES AGREED ON 121a
 PER CENT. RAISE

Fall River, Mass. Jan. 31.-An ad- vance in wages of 12A per cent. to 35, 900 mill operatives by textile man. ufacturers of this city is a fair offer, Charles w. Ellis, federal arbitrator, sent here to settle the wage contro- versy, declared in a report filed today.
 The findings were reported official ly to manufacturers and representa- tivs of the unions. both sides having agreed to accept them as final. The increase will be effective for six months.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
INTENT TO KILL CHARGE AGAINST :.
 PRISONER, HERE

Tony Agostino, of Ill North Wash ington avenue, was arrested today and locked up at the Fourth precinct at the request of the New Haven police who want him for assault with intent to kill. He is said to have been in a fight in that city, and his victim is in a dangerous condition.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
DIED.

fMcLOUGHIIN-In this city, Jan. 31, 1918, Thomas F. Mclaughlin of TIA Catherine St.
 Notice of funeral hereafter. a" VAN BARBER-In Stratford. Jan. 2S, 1918, Lizzie, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Van Barber, aged IS years, s months,> 25 days.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of the parents, 264 Jackson Ave-, Strat- ford, on Thursday, Jan. 31 at S:30 a. m., and from St. James church at g a. m.
 Interment St. MichaeTs cemetery. Automobile cortege. A 29 b"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
WHOLE CARLOAD |. OF POTATOES AT NEW HAVEN BURNS

New Haven, Jan. 31-Three thou sand bushels of potatoes, a carload bound from Maine for New York, were burned today on the tracks near the iocal station of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the cold. E.. W. GROVES signature on each box. BOG.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20
TALK OF THE TOWN

Thirty-two inch madras gingham 2et
at Abbotts.
Good auto for hire. Prices reasonable
Call 100. Cutters livery.
Louis LABEL of Hardwiek, who has
lately been employed in Boston, arrived
in the city yesterday to be employed at
the Jones s. Nye livery in Depot square
Mr.. LABEL will be Joined by his family
later in the month.
H. Budd Warren of Stowe, formerly a
clerk in the Walk-over store, is passing
few days with friends in the city, Mr..
Warren mas applied for enlistment in the
mechanical contingent to be sent to Bur.
lington in the near future.
Auction sale at Farnham's at Mont
pelier morrow; % fresh horses, com
mission or second hand horses, wagons,
harnesses, robes, whips, halters and other
porperty; last sale before haying, good
sale to attend. c. +. Smith, auctioneer.
Francis A. Grady, who has been EN-
ployed in Springfield arrived in the city
last evening to make a visit with his
mother, Mrs. Rose Grady of Merchant
street. Mr.. Grady has received orders to
report in Hartford, Conn, Saturday for
service In the national army,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20
WILLIAMSTOWN

There is desire among the Civil wa
veterans of Williamstown to make theil
number go "over the top" strong in tn,
war savings stamp drive. As one old vet
eran said, II can't fight for Old Glory
again, but | can and will give of the lit
tie money that have" and he pledged
S4l7-for $500 stamp. Who will be
the next?
There will be no meeting at the Red
Cross rooms on Friday afternoon, on &C.
count of supplies not being received.
The school directors will meet at the
village sehoolhouse Saturday, June %
at a. m, to pay bills.
The war savings committee is meeting
with very gratifying response to the
pledging campaign that is being held in
this town. Ten subscriptions of S4l7
each have been taken, besides a number
of smaller ones. This committee wants
50 more people to pledge s4l7. Those
who viii, please let the chairman know
as soon as possible. The S4l7 invested
with the government brings back $500 in
1928. 1t can be withdrawn at any time
if the money should be needed, and the
interest at per cent viii be added to it.
The stamps are bought at the Williams
town postoffice.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20
EAST BARRE

Miss Ellen McAllister ia at the hom,
Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Nc
Allister, for a two weeks vacation.
AT the last regular meeting of Winons
council, No, s, D, of p, it was voted tt
give IS toward the ambulance fund of the
Red Men, also to suspend meetings dur
ing the summer months. Members please
take notice.
Douglas Dobbs and William Jameson
have gone to Quincy, Mass, where they
have employment.
All those having books from the Ii
brary please return the same this week
Saturday evening, as the library will be
closed during the summer,
Victor Bixby and George Roark were
members of the graduating class in the
commercial department of Goddard sem
mary last Tuesday evening.
The w. c. 7. Z. are planning to take
up Red Cross work soon All ladies in.
terested are urged to attend the meet
ings. Watch for announcements of the
time and place.
Mrs. M. j. Whitcomb and children,
Leone and Harold, are spending
the week with relatives in MorrisvilIe,
DR. Roscoe f. Avery is home from the
Mary Fletcher hospital for few days
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20
CURRENT COMMENT
Plenty of Timber.

Talking with the solid fellows politi
cally one finds that Hon. Frederick H
Babbitt OF Bellows Falls, is prominently
mentioned for lieutenant governor
There are a good many who would like
to see his business energy and experience
in state affairs ON tap at the State
House. He has all the qualities to 60
with this very important branch of the
state government. As far as we know
he has given no indication of any desire
to get into the game this year. Perhaps
this may be the very reason why the
boys who are talking want him. North
field News.
The east side is not without strong
timber for the office of lieutenant gov
ernor. Along with Mr.. Bahbitt the name
of James Hartness of Springfield has
been mentioned. Either Mr.. Babbitt or
Mr., Hartness would beyond question fill
the bill. The Springfield man is one of
the very strongest from the standpoint
of ability in the state, and there is no
position to which he might be called by
the voters of the commonwealth that
would be beyond his capacity.-st. Al
bans Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20
A Food Campaign.

An important series of conferences is
planned throughout Vermont this week
Beginning at Newport to-day meet
ings will follow each day at st. Johns
bury, Montpelier, Morrisville, Burling-
ton and st. Adams in that order.
The object being to carry out more
effectively the policies of the United
States and designed especially to bring
together for common purpose the mem
bers of the conservation organization,
the grocers, the hotel men, the news
paper men and the ministers, these meet
ings should have far reaching results.
Any misconception which may exist
as to the meaning or the extent of any
of the requests, any problem which
arises because of local conditions will
be removed or solved and an increase
in the morale of the forces which are
fighting the kaiser at home as the sol
diers abroad are fighting in the trenches
may be expected.
The speakers will be able to deal au-
thoritatively with the subjects and the
group conferences to follow will bring
the problems home as a practical mat
ter.
Vermont must retain its leadership in
this as in other movements and the way
to do it is to make these meetings a big
success.-Burlington News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20
GROWING IN THRIFTrNEss.

The plan adopted by the United States
TO elicit loans of money from the people
by means of the United States thrift
and war savings stamps has undoubtedly
been one of the finest agencies in en-.
couraging the habits of thrift and in dis
couraging needless waste. Millions of
people throughout the nation are putting
money into these government securities,
and hundreds of thousands of that mum.
Der probably would not have saved cent
of the amount had ii not been for the
government offered. They are finding
that the placing of 25.cent piece or
four dollars and some cents in these gov
eminent stamps is bringing them unusual
resources which they can call upon Mt
some future day if the necessity arises
for taking it out of continued invest.
ment
Moreover, they are developing habits
of systematic saving which are bound to
stdHu lHtui III Soou stedu III olHtI luhl'
tiers than mere money. They are com
ing to realization that the American
people as whole have been wantonly
wasteful, not only of money, but of food,
clothing, even time, and of countless
other things. The United States was
going the pace prior to the war This
thrift stamp and war savings stamp hab.
it has been showing them that they have
been wasteful and unpatriotie, and as
such it is doing splendid service far
beyond the immediate detectives of the
movement.
To get more people into the habit is
one purpose which is back of this state.
wide intensive campaign in Vermont
next week. Thousands of people in Yer
mont have not been saving when they
should. IL is expected that the matter
Of waste will be brought more forcibly
home to them by means of this canvass.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20

Gardeners who suffered by reason of
the frost last night were unfortunate in
deed in these times when the cost of liv-
ing is high; but the situation is not hope
less, for there is yet time to replant
most of the garden stuff and have it
available only short time after the
usual season for those products. A little
further extension of energy will serve to
make up for the devastation of very
unreasonable frost last night, and it
seems to be virtually certain that there
will be no further frosts before the prod
ucts are ripened.