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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05

among others, stood on the intent of a
certain clause in the opera house, where
by free rental was to be granted only
when all proceeds were to he devoted TO
"A worthy cause The famous opera house
| lease was dragged into the limelight and
examined at. length.
| The Odd Ladies entered freely into the
discussion. Alderman Alexander moved
that they be granted the free Use Of the
theatre for last Friday Ii was suggest
ed that the original motion, refusing the
request, be reconsidered first. The may
or put the question and the four who
voted were at stand-oil He called for
an oral vote, and the result was as fol-
lows Yes, Aldermen Elealy, Loranger
and Alexander; no, Aldermen Milne,
Reynolds and Rossi. Mayor Glysson
broke the tie by voting for the Odd La
dies. He called for Alderman AleAan-
der's next motion, for on the face OF the
returns it looked as though reconsidera-
tion had carried, but Alderman Reynolds
put in timely protest to the effect that
il required a two-thirds vote to recon
slider. The mayor acquiesced and the
motion was declared lost After the
furry Alderman Healy said that it would
have been common justice to grant the
Odd Ladies their request Alderman
Reynolds dissented to this statement
and suggested that common politics"
would serve the purpose better.
A request from the New England Lib
erty loan committee suggested the wis
dom of reading an address at the city
meeting to-day, and a communication
from Governor Graham urged the advis-
ability of devoting a half hour to-day
to patriotic meeting. The fact that
Barre voters do not assemble IN one hall
was regarded as barrier to any at
tempt to carry out the suggestion, and
il was decided to call special city meet
ing at an early date.
Monthly statements of water depart
ment finances in December and January
were read and accepted. The report of
the building inspector stated that no
permits were issued in January and
only two in February. 1t, too, was ac
copied Overseer William Mcdonald |
asked and received $1,000 to pay Feb |
ruary bills in the charity department. |
Alderman Reynolds of the library com
mittee reported on his conference with |
The trustees of the Aldrich public library
City Atty. William Wishart read ex-
tracts from Leonard f. Aldrch's will
and it was generally agreed that mem
oers of the city council could not expect
officially to be represented on self
board
The following warrants were approved
or payment: Street department payroll,
'l69.S2, surface sewer, walks, bridges and
advert accounts: engineering payroll,
1881; water department payroll,
1885, fire department payroll, Sis;
police, Sl39.4l, police and health ac-
G. A. Bemis, $40, services as
anitor; Clinton OIL Co, $1,000, oil; A. j.
Granger, S45, services as alderman; Il. l..
smith, $43.23, water rebate on bill paid
lnder protest in 1915.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
ACCUSED R0SSI
OF KEEN ATTACK
Mayor Glysson's Statement
Emphatically Denied By
the Alderman
SOME BITTER TALK
AT FINAL SESSION
Barre City Council Did Not
Wave the Olive Branch
in Farewell

on the eve of its retirement from thu
stage of municipal activities as sep
arate and distinct administration, Tho
city council vented some of its pent.uI
feelings on minor matters last night, anc
almost for the first time since its in
auguraton year ago, the persifiage that
customarily fills in the vacant spaces IN
a council session took turn in which
the determinations were somewhat bitter
Ii began when someone charged Alder
man Rossi with fathering an attack on
the administration, an attack which APP
peared in Yesterdays Times. 1t was
continued when the council split on the
question of reconsidering motion
whereby the Odd Ladies, after filing a
request for the free use OF the opera
house for minstrel show, were refused
last week on the ground that onehalf of
the proceeds was TO be devoted to their
own uses.
II was an occasion when council that
has been unusual in its capacity to swap
small talk without show of peevishness
seemed ready to look at the serious side
of everything that turned up. When
someone lightly handed the accusation
to Alderman Rossi, he replied with some
force that whoever wrote the criticism
had told the truth. He got rise from
the expected quarter, for Mayor Glysson
promptly resented the implied charge of
maladministration and expressed himself
plainly Alderman Rossi proceeded to
account for the mayors show OF ire by
saving that the truth had cut him. As
for himself, he said, he should continue
TO stand by his claim that the letter in
rLo taiI
could convince him otherwise. Just be-
fore calling the meeting to order, Mayor
Glysson stated that arguing with Alder
man Rossi was too much like talking to
the wind
With the appearance of the Odd Ladies
the mayor, perhaps unwittingly, precipi-
tated another warm discussion by sug-
costing that the lodge represented by
the delegates should not be charged for
the use of the opera house, inssmuch as
the half which they proposed to divert
TO their own use would be used in max
ing good fund already depleted for pa
triotic purposes. This statement was !
corroborated by the Odd Ladies present, |
who asserted that while half of the |
proceeds would 60 to the Red Cross, the |
other half was to be used for the good of |
the order, as it was phrased; that much |
sl35 all told, had been expended
for war funds, and that the work began |
before America entered the conflict. Al |
derman Alexander said the Odd Ladies |
had accomplished more war relief work |
since the war began than any other or
der. Everyone seemed willing, so far as
the Odd Ladies were concerned to save !
them as much expense as possible, but |
majority of them were opposed to estab- |
fishing a precedent. That was the stand |
taken by Alderman Loranger, although |
he afterward voted to reconsider the first |
and Aldermen Milne and Rossi.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
BACK TO NORMAL.
Early Closing Regulations in Massachu-
sets to Be Withdrawn.

Boston, March 5Early closing 7egu.
lations in this state, put into effect sew
eral weeks ago as fuel conservation
measure, will be withdrawn Wednesday
March +, under an order issued yester-
day by James j. Storrow, fuel admin
istrator. Fuel committees in cities and
towns were notified that business estab-
lishments, the theatres and saloons
would be permitted to return to their
former schedules on that day.
Restrictions on the use of window dis
play lights in stores were lifted on all
nights except Thursdays and Sundays
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
ARTFUL DODGER
HAS NO CHANCE
Put a few drops on that old
touchy corn then lift it
out without pain

Ouch ~! This kind of rough
talk will be heard less here in town if
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati au-
thority, who claims that a few drops Of
drug called freezone when applied to a
tender, aching corn stops soreness at
once, and soon the corn dries up and lifts
right out without pain. A delightful sur
prise awaits all who try this.
He says freezone is sticky substance
which dries Immediately and never in
flames or even initiates the surrounding
tissues or skin. A quarter Of an ounce of
freezone, which will cost very little at
any drug store, is said to be sufficient to
remove every hard or soft corn or cal
lous from ones feet, Millions of Amer.
can women will welcome this announce
ment since the Inauguration of the high
heels.--Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
U.BOATS IMPLICIT HEAVY
LOSSES on NORW4Y SHIPS
Nineteen Seamen Killed-Twelve Vessels
Valued at 100000, Sunk Dur
ing February.

Washington. March Norway con
tinues to suffer heavily from German
submarine operations. Twelve vessels,
aggregating 1925 gross tons and valued
at about S3000000, we're sunk during
February and 10 seamen lost their lives,
while 90 men are missing, according to a
cabegram to the Norwegian legation
Since the war began Norway
has lost between 700 and 500 ships, az
considerably exceeding 1000
900 tons About 900 lives have been
lost
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
THE OLD RELIABLE
BLOOD BUILDER

still retains It's supremacy, People stlll
take Hoods Sarsaparilla because IL Is an
old family friend, has proved its merit to
three generations purified blood, eN.
PEELED humors, restored appetite, relieved
banished tired feelings
1t long ago became recognized as the
standard blood purifier and general tonic.
II originated in a Boston physicians sue
ccssful prescription, and comprises me
dicinal roots, herbs, barks aud berries
such as are often prescribed Tor ailments
Of the blood, stomach, liver and Kidneys
Buy il in the same style package your
mother bought il insane line appear
,nce, same pleasant taste, same certain
ty of good results,-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05

Ralph Pearsons was in Montpelier
Tuesday of last week.
Mrs. Alice Hamblett, who has been
visiting relatives in town, has returned
to her home in Plainfield.
Webster Cate of North Calais was a
visitor in town Saturday.
Dan Levanway is stopping with his
daughter, Mrs. Guard Noble, for the
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Warren of North.
field Falls have moved to Calais, where
Mr.. Warren will work for Van Burn
ham.
George Templeton was in Montpelier
recently.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
NO TRIALS FOR 90 nv
OHIO ELECTION CASES
Federal Courts Have No Jurisdiction
Over Bribery at General Elections
for Federal Officers,

Washington, March 5.--Federal courts
have no jurisdiction over bribery at gen
eral elections for the selection of federal
officers, the supreme court decided yes
terday in unfolding DEGREES sustaining
demurrers to indictments in the Ciucn-
natl election fraud case. Ninety persons.
charged with fraud at the 1916 general
election in the first Ohio congressional
district, as a result OF the decision will
not be compelled to stand trial.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
PLAN FIGHT FOR MOONEY.
Friends Abandon the Idea Of Asking for
ReheaTing.

San Francisco, March 5.-Attornevs
defending Thomas J. Mooney. whose
life sentence for the preparedness pa
rade dynsmiting was recently confirmed
by the supreme court. will await official
confirmation Of Moneys sentence by the
courts and then appear before Gov.
Stephens for q pardon, they announced
yesterday.
This decision followed their announce
meut that they would not ask = rehear-
ing IN the supreme court The supreme
court viii not ne q rpmitiur making The
decision for al least % DAYS.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
AGREEMENT EXPECTED
Between Telephone Company and oper
! ators in Nineteen Cities.

Boston, March 5.-An agreement be.
tween the New England Telephone and
Telegraph company and committee of
telephone operators in 10 cities in Mas
sachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire
was expected at a meeting between the
committee and the officials of the com.
pany.
The result of a strike vote unofficial.
ly reported to have been 2,l00 to So,
was made known to the company.
The operators demand an increase in
wages to equal those paid in the Bos
ton exchanges, where the maximum is
SIG a week Word was received that
G. NJ. Bugniazet, vice president of the
international Brotherhood of Electric
Workers, would arrive to-day to take
charge of the situation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
WIRELESS PLANT
ON BROADWAY
Apparatus Sufficiently Pow
erful to Communicate
With Germany
1T WAS SEIZED
BY GOVERNMENT
Plant Was Disconnected
But Could Have Been
Easily Set Up

New York, March Wireless appar
atus sufficiently powerful to cofnmuni-
cate with Germany which was in the
possession of Richard Pfund, one.time
manager of the German Teefunken
plants at Sayville and Tuckerton, was
seized Sunday by the federal authorities,
it became known yesterday. The outfit
was found in the tower of a room of
Broadway Office building. While it
was disconnected, il could have been set
mp in half an hour, experts declared
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
CAPTURE BELGIANS ON USER.
Germans Also Take AZ Prisoners in Re-
pulsing Minor Raids.

Berlin, March 5. british Admiralty,
per Wireless Press On the Western
front a number of Belgians were cap
tured yesterday in the lines on the User.
In minor raids in the sectors defended
by Duke Albrecht twenty seven prison
ers were taken by the Germans
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
ALLENBY MAKES NEW ADVANCE.
British, Operating North of Jerusalem,
Push Forward Over Twelve-Mile Front.

London, March 5.-British troops OPP
Grating north of Jerusalem, in Palestine.
have made an advance along a front of
twelve miles to a maximum depth of
5000 yards astride and west of tho
Jerusalem Nabulus road, the war office
announces to-day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-05
ouinine That Does Not Ascot Head.

Because of its tonic and laxative effect,
LAXATIVE BR0MO QUININE Tab
letsl can be taken by anyone without
causing nervousness or ringing in the
head. There is only one "Bromo Quinine."
f. w, GROVES signature is on box. 30c.
Adv
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10
Over tie Toh
c~ Pe~~a.

Henry Gaspell" says a newspaper
just over the border in Ohio, ''has
bought cow and is now supplying
his neighbors with butter and fresh
eggs Henry, you bring on that in
teligent cow to this neighborhood.
Farmers throughout the northern
tier are carrying grain and other
food into the woods to feed the birds
and game which are freezing and
starving in large'numbers during the
long continued cold spell Their
natural supply of food is shut off
by deep mows.
NIa0 women were on a jury hear
ing . criminal trial recently in Los
Angeles, and now the news comes
from England that the people want
to see a woman in the British cab
met.
No longer will they write that drool
About the shrinking dame
So cute and cunning when a mouse
Across her pathway came;
The poets, Al and bush league,
Will have to change their dope
Fair woman's now a citizen
With anything to cope.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10
Getting Record Straight

The delusion that the western
states determined the result of the
last American election still persists.
1t isn't of the slightest consequence,
of course, being of interest now
only as a political curiosity but
when a Canadian newspaper draws
a lesson from the recent voting in
the Dominion that the West has
come into control of both sides of
the boundary a gentle remonstrauce
in the cause of precision is called
for
The western states did not deter
mine the result of the last Amer
ican election. That belief arose out
of the peculiar position California
CHANGED to hold in the time of the
returns, but it was wrong. If the
returns from all the states had come
in together, Ohio, not California,
would have been the district upon
which peoples thoughts would have
focused, and people would have
been inquiring what on earth hap
pened to the Buckeye state, not
what the Golden state was doing
Ohio's twenty-four electoral votes
went Democratic for the first time
in 1915, and they, with New Hamp-
shire's four electoral votes, swung
the balance of power. Had they
been with the East, the West would
not have been on the winning side
Put their breaking away from the
direction of their environing states
decided the result.-Detroit Free
Press
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10
A SCRAP OF PAPER

Germany is beginning to learn
what it means to earn a reputation
for breaking it's word. Reichstag
leaders have been criticising the for
eign secretary for his duplicity in
telling the Russians one day that
Germany wanted no territory, and
the next day insisting on virtual re-
tention of all Russian territory oc-
Cupied by German troops. Sucn
dealings, they told him, justified the
Entente statesmen in refusing to put
confidence in the word of Ger
many's leaders.
The difficulty goes further back
than Brest-Litovsk. A famous docu-
ment, often quoted three years ago,
deserves to be recalled at this time.
1t is the note of the British am
bassador to Berlin, dated August 8,
1914, describing his call on Chan
Cellor Won Bethmann-H Hollweg, after
the declaration of war. He wrote:
His eXcellency at once began a
harangue, which lasted for about
twenty minutes. He said that the
step taken by his majesty's govern
ment was terrible to a degree; just
for a word-"neutrality a word
which in war time had so often been
disregarded-just for scrap of
paper Great Britain was going to
make war on kindred nation who
desired nothing better than to be
friends with her. l protested strong
ly against that statement, and said
that, in the same way that he and
Herr Won Jagow wished me to un-
derstand that for strategical reasons
it was a matter of life and death to
Germany to advance through Bel
GUM and violate the latter's neutral
ity, so | would wish him to under
stand that it was, so to speak, a
matter of life and death for the
honor of Great Britain that she
should keep her solemn engagement
to do her utmost to defend Bel
GUMS neutrality if attacked. That
solemn compact simply had to be
kept, or what confidence could any,
one have in engagements given by
Great Britain in the future? The
chancellor said, But at what price
will that compact have been kept,
Has the British government thought
of that? / limited to his eXcellency
as plainly as 1 could that fear of
consequences could hardly be re-
garded as an excuse for breaking
solemn engagements, but his excel
lency was so excited, so evidently
overcome by the news of our action,
and so little disposed to hear rea-
son that l refrained from adding
fuel to the flame by further argu-
ment."
The scrap of paper" is a phrase
that will live in history. 1t sum-
married a policy of INSCRIPTIONS
ness that has convinced the world
of the mpossibility of dealing with
the present rulers of Germany
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10

no time for quibbling. We have but
cne task before us, as a nation, and
that is the winning of the war. Be-
fore any other consideration that
must be kept constantly in view.
We know that prompt and thorough
railroad control is necessary and the
sooner we get down to it the better.
The Presidents legislation is essen
tial to this and, therefore, should go
through Congress as quickly as is
possible.
After the war is over will be time
enough to think about the larger
problems of railroad ownership and
the differences that are bound to
arise, as time goes on, between the
railroads and the government. Just
now all we want is efficiency of
transportation and unification OF ef-
forts. We are out to win the war
and the governments control of
the railroads being a prime essential
to this, nothing must stand in the
way. There have been too many
delays, and since every day means
the loss of American lives in France
and the expenditure of millions in
money, nothing must be permitted
to stand in the way of the Presi-
dents plans for the railroads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10
BAIIADE

Written upon the reception of a
lordly quantity of anthracite, when
almost in articulo mortis. (To be
sung as an ode il you haven't paid
for it,
You ask me why no more with sui
len eye,
AS when l watched the prices
climb,
wiring my hands and heave the
heavy sigh,
And go bedight in rosemary and
thyme?
You ask with reason) why burst
into rhyme?
All, Joy hath come with us to stay
And sing 1 blithely as a wedding
chime:
I'VE got two tons of coal today"
With circumambient curses, such as
In college learned when in my
prime,
I exercised my tongue each time the
sly
Coal barons spake a lie sublime
Each tale of woe / branded as g
"lime'
Intended but to make the rabble pay;
In penitence and joy 1 sing this
time:
1--WE got two tons of coal today"
1 heard the gathered mob in wonder
cry:
How sweet t must be, this chilly
wintertime,
To be thus favored! oh, come tell
me why
Fate made me not an Earl of Coal
sublime?"
I'D gladly give twain hundred
times a dime"
Quoth one. and sadly wiped a tear
away,
mime;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10
COAL AND MILK

A YEAR ago we were quarreling
n about the price of coal. Sud
denly we have awakened to the
fact that It is not a q roStton of
pIce, but of getting coal at any
price. Last spring and sun.oer we
became hysterical over Il dollar =
ton increase and to-day We carry
our money to the dealer and cent
ges the fuel we need ever at a
premium over the marke. price.
Let us not make the same mis-
take about milk. It is hard to see
prices of household commodities
like coal and milk go up ane
up, and it is but natural that we
should see the immediate evil in
larger aspect than that which is lust
above the horizon. But we should
not be apprehensive of the passing
squall as to be needless of the ap-
proach of the little black cloud that
heralds the cyclone.
When DR.. Garfield took hold as
federal fuel administrator he fixed
the price of coal, which was all very
we'll, but he failed to insure an ade-
quate supply at that or any other
price, which was all wrong. When
Germany went to war the govern
ment fixed a maximum price for
milk, which was hailed with Ge-
light by the populRce, and some six
months later awoke to a milk famine
due to the fact that dairymen had
found it impossible to produce milk
at the given figure and had butch
cred thousands of their cows. We
have had our experience with coal,
let US see to it that we don't fall
into like error concerning milk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10

Mayor Babcock's veto of any re-
duction of the offices on account of
politics and not for economy will
be sustained by the Kerr strength.
Judge Mccormick, who cut
down the number of Elk county sa-
looms, is believed to have similar
ideas about Clinton county.
There may be something of in
terest to people in upstate politics
in the fact that Thomas A. Crichton,
cashier of the State Treasury and
former law partner of the late Rob
ert X. Young and Ex-senator Wal
ter Il. Merrick, has become a men,
Der of the firm of Watres & Marsh,
The latter are friends of Judge
Channel.
Richard w. Williamson, of
Huntingdon. is said to be develop
ing Congressional ambitions.
One of the oddities of the sit
uation as developed in the change of
government Monday was that
Democrats have smaller representa-
tion in city and county governments
generally than known for IL long
time. There are some places whore
the Democratic officials have been
reduced to the minority representa-
tion allowed by law.
Mayor Hoagland, of Williams
port, one of the Mayors elected
hands down, is demanding that his
city establish a permanent city plan,
while Mayor Heidenreich, of Halle
ton, says the same thing and also
urges that people obey the laws of
nature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10
War Economy HySteria

TIRGING to fullest extent the
maintenance of business along
normal lines" James j. Phelan,
Boston banker, decries the hysteria
OF war economy.
He says the only way for America
to carry her financial burden is to
keep her industries at top speed of
productivity.
I'VE are embarked on a campaign
to raise S2,0O0,000 900 by the sale of
thrift and war saving stamps" he
SAYS. II believe in this heartily, but
l do not believe that thrift should
be so urgent as to adversely affect
business and thus imperil the pros
poets of future big loan campaigns
when the government counts on busi-
ness to provide $4,000, 100000 or
0O0,O0O,0 900.
IF we are to raise these loans we
must have prosperous business. The
President last June remarked that
not only was this no time to allow
any slowing up of business but that
it was a time when every sensible
process of stipulation should be used
'I heartily agree with Secretary
McAdoo when he recently said that
the nation had borne the financial