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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
LEAVING NO TRACE
MAY You All Avoid the Tin Fishes,
Says Secretary Mckee

London, Sept. 16-(Correspond-
ence of The Associated Press)-
Good luck to you and may you all
evade the tin fishes" is the charac-
teristic way in which Secretary G. w
Mckee of the Hull Seamen's Union
concludes his annual report. "Since
my last report" he says, cover fifteer
thousand seamen have paid the price
besides many hundreds of passengers
and service men"
"The enemy is not content with
sinking ships and crews, but they
wreckage in the hope of killing the
survivors and leaving no trace Of
their fiendisf work No punishment
could be too bad or too-ehard for &
nation who know nothing of sympa
thy, pity, kindness or affection, but
who excel in ruthlessness, rapine
murder, robbery and every kind Of
brutality which baseness and say
agery can suggest. The creature:
who ask for them not to be punished
OIL z WOISS C1lclil G1LS IL Ollo
and should be packed off to thei1
friends in their spiritual home.
"The seamen have won distinction
during the war and we don't wan
them linked with the won't works
and down toolers' and the shirkers.
In urging special benefits from thu
unions for sailors that have to risl
submarine perils, the report says:
"Does anyone really believe tina
ten pounds from the government will
compensate a man for being torpe
doed? If he does, let him pack VI
his comfortable job ashore and go tt
sea and face the torpedoes. I war
rant he will soon change the tune O.
his story"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
FINDS WIFE DEAD
Burlington Travelling Man Returns
20 a Sad Home

Burlington, Sept. 18-When De-
Witt c. Kring, travelling man, liv-
ing at IA Beach street, returned from
a trip yesterday afternoon, it was to
find his wife of year and nine
months lying dead on the floor of the
kitchen. Tie room was flooded with
gas from a range, and it was evident
that the accidental leaving of a gas
jet partially turned on had been the
cause of death.
Mrs. Kring had been dead for only
short time as her body was discov-
cred about three o'clock and she had
done up the work following the noon
day meal. In another room, with
the door shut between, was the three
months old baby which had evidently
not been LETT alone long.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

There ought to be no question
about exempting the property of the
c. S. Skinner Lumber Company from
taxation at the special town and vii
lage meetings tonight. The proposed
factory will be owned and managed
by one of the most substantial bust
ness men in northeastern Vermont.
There is also a prospect of ST..
Johnsbury securing an industry that
will develop into one of the largest
of its kind in this section.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Germ.Proof Money.

To a bank in Spokane, Wash, be-
longs the distinction of circulating the
first antiseptic germ-proof national
bank notes. The United States treas
ury is still experimenting with devices
to 1aunder dirty bank notes to bright,
crisp ones, but the Spokane bank has
the first sanitary money on record.
Fifty thousand dollars in bills, put out
by the bank, were signed with an ink
said to consist largely of carbolic acid.
The result is the bills are saturated
with an agency which means death to
the most vigorous germ who'd live
there,
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

The Liberty Loan committee have
adopted the suggestion of Thomas
Edison that every letter written in
the United States during the next
five weeks should close with the word
"Yours for the Fourth Liberty Loan. 4"
The post Office department estimates
that if this suggestion is adopted
this slogan will be written more than
4G,G00,000 times every "a hours.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
FOURTEEN ARRESTS
Officers Make Big Raid on Moonshine
Fall River

Fall River, Mass, Sept. 18-Four-
teen men, all Portuguese, were arrest
ed here last evening by federal off
GERS directed by United States Mar
shall John H. Backus of Boston as
sisted by Captain Heavy and Inspec-
tor Henry of the local police, in what
is declared to have been one of the
biggest raids on illicit whiskey stills
ever made in this country. Fifteen
stills were seized.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
WHY the HVon"

"Von" before name in German de-
notes a privilege title, either inherited
or bestowed by a monarch upon his
subject for meritoriOus services. While
formally this prefix was found in mill
tary or feudal families only, many
commoners. captains Of industry. sci
entists, financiers and artists were so
honored by their monarchs. The title
is either hereditary or ceases with the
death of the distinguished person.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
HAS TEN SONS IN SERVICE
Oklahoma Woman Claims to Be the
Honor Mother of the
State.

Hartshorne, Okla.-This city now
claims the "hon6r mother" of the
state. Mrs. Mollie Easley has ten sons
in the army, the youngest having en-
listed few days ago.
Besides her sons, she has two broth
ers and two nephews in the service.
They are all in army camps in the
United States, but expect soon to be
"over there"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Ought to Save Money.

A Lowell man works at the Law
renee street plant of the United States
Cartridge company and his wife works
on Market street. He works nights
and she works days. When he gets
home in the morning she's gone and
when she comes home at night he's
gone. But they see each other on Sat
urday long enough to go to the bank
together and tuck nice little roll
away after the bills are paid.-Boston
Globe. J.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
WAR TRAINING
Enlistments May be Made in the S.
T. A. G. at Amherst

Amherst, Mass, Sept. 49,
In order to provide for young men
who wish to become members of the
Students Army Training Corps and
who are not able to meet the regu-
lar requirements for admission to
Amherst, the Faculty has voted to
receive as special students graduates
of a standard four-year preparatory
school course, Or those having equi.
valent educational qualifications.
This action has been taken in re-
Spouse to recent ruling of the
Committee on Education and Special
Training of the War Department.
Special students will be assigned to
the College at the beginning Of each
quarter. Applications for the first
quarter will be considered up to Oct.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
FOXY NEWSDEALER
How Neutrality Was Satisfied il
Dutch City

Amsterdam, Sept. 20-An American
newspaper correspondent here Just
beat a German colleague by head in
race to reach the motherly dame
who vends newspapers at the corner
of the royal palace here. She was
waving her papers about excitedly,
with the cry: Murder of the Gar of
Russia! All the horrible detailsw
"Wish it had been the Kaiser, SIR
she smiled at her American customer
Cor the King of England" she add
ed as the German put out his hand
for the paper.
Neutrality was satisfied.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
THE DOORS OF DOVER
David Morton in Everybody's Maya
zine)

David Morton in Everybody's Maya
zine)
News dispatch: The sound of the
guns could be heard all night il
Dover.)
The little doors of Dover
All night are never still;
All night they start and tremble
And shake against their will.
And little streets in Dover
Are grown a sudden chill.
The doors and streets of Dover
Are used to hear the pound
Of seas that charge and batter
The cliffs for miles around,
But no sea sound in Dover
Was ever as this sound.
And there be some in Dover
Aye, listening street and door,
That waited long returnings
Of feet they knew before
Something they heard in Dover
They wait not any more.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
SummcrvilIe Section

62-Corner River street and Marion
avenue.
63-Corner Portland and Caledonia
streets.
64-Harrison avenue.
65-Corner Portland street and Con-
cord avenue.
67-Corner Portland and State
streets.
I6s-Corner Concord avenue and Lib
erty street.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Railroad Street Section

41-Granite Square, across railroad
tracks from Swift Company.
42-Corner Eastern avenue and
Cherry street.
43-Railroad street, head of Port
land street.
45-Pillsbury and Baldwin.
46-Corner Cross and Railroad
streets.
47-Railroad street, front Citizens
Bank entrance.
48-Corner Maple and Pearl streets.
Mary street.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Canned cnuatter:

In a suburb of Kansas City squat
ter has Built home composed entire
ly of tin cans, un5Gldered aDs rolled
out fiat. If he had more ingenuity he
might have constructed an automobile.
st Louis Globe-Democrat.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Converted Blacksmith.

Knoxville, Tenn.-Celebrating the
thirtieth anniversary of his conversion
Rev. J. T. Sexton, formerly a black
smith and one Of the best-known men
has since converted 1900 persons in
16 states. J. ~ saAsk
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
PRESS COMMENT
Primaries Here to Stay

A vote of over 10000 in the YER
mont primary Tuesday is evidence
that some Of the people take an in
terest in selecting candidates for
state office. This marks a new era
for Vermont politically, and although
there are many who long for the
good old convention days, the pri-
maries have come to stay.-Island
Pond Herald.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Bellows Falls will try to sub
scribe its quota of $325,000 worth of
fourth Liberty Bonds in a single day,
Oct. 5.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Cheerful Observer.

When the man above endeavors to
discredis you. be of good cheer, for it
is probable that you are getting near
enough to crowd him.-Dayton News,
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Charles Barnes of Brookline plead
ed guilty to having deer meat in his
possession Illegally and paid fine of
500.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Street
by
President Wallace H.
a.
in Months
Press is
the
motto the
herein is
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Paddock Village Section

2-Passumpsic street, near Hastings
Bridge.
53-Railroad street, north near ST
Johnsbury Garage.
54-Ramsey Park, near water tub.
56-Corner Emerson and Pleasant
streets.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

A resident of Sharon has hydran-
gea one blossom cluster of which
measures two feet and eight inches in
circumference.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
VERMONT NEWS

The First Baptist church of Yer
gennes this week celebrated the 50th
year of its organization.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
Main Street Section

31-Summer street, opposite Bright
look Hospital.
32-BrantvieY (private).
I34ZSouth Park, front Fl. N. Turner's.
35-Prospect street, near ST. Johns
bury Hospital.
36-Corner Eastern avenue and Main
street.
37-Corner Maple and Main streets.
38-Arnold Park, near A. +. Nichols.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Mrs. Charles Seymour of Burling
ton has received letter from her
husband, Pvt. Seymour, written from
hospital IN New York. He >has
Just returned from France, where he
lost one eye. He will come to Bur-
lin Oton soon
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Mrs. Melissa Hall of Westmore-
land, N. H., is critically i'll from tax
ing bichloride of mercury tablets in
mistake for headache tablets. She
is the mother of E. S. Hall and Mrs
Don Scoville of Brattleboro.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
West Side Section

21-South End Machine Shop, Fair
banks.
23-Front of Fairbanks Inn.
23-Front of Main Office, Fairbanks.
24-Corner Spring and Central
streets.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

I25-Underclyffe (private)
26-Corner Cliff and Winter streets.
|27-Corner Webster and Summer
streets.
l28-Corner Cliff and Mt. Pleasant
streets.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20
ST. ]. FIRE ALARM
Directions for Giving Alarm

Citizens are earnestly requested to
keep themselves informed as to the
location Ct Alarm boxes, so that
should fire occur in their vicinity
the alarm may be given promptly.
Keys to Fire Alarm Boxes are in
the Door. Break the glass, unlock
the door, pull the hook down once
and let go, and if possible remain at
box and direct the fremen to the
fire.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

"A yellow squash grown in the gar
den of l.. A. Weeks in Mendon meas
ures 48 inches in circumference and
weighs As pounds.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Mrs. Ann Leach of Binghamville,
aged 81, has knit for the Red Cross
five pairs Of wristers, three scarfs,
one helmet, is pairs of socks and 80
sweaters.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Lucien Howe of Boston has been
engaged as organist and choir mas
ter of the Baptist church in Brattle-
boro, beginning Oct. 6. Mr.. Howe,
who is a native of Brattleboro and
held the same position 20 years ago
to which he has been called again,
has been in musical work in Boston
for some years.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Location of Boxes in St. Johnsbury
Following is a list of fire alarm
boxes and their location:
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Andrew Walsh of Rutland was SEN
fenced to six months in the house of
correction for stealing suit case of
clothing from the stable of John
Coniff of Rutland, selling the grip
and hiding the clothing in barn.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Damages have been adjusted with
Mr.. Trombly of Goshen, where deer
destroyed his field of buckwheat and
oats. The heads of nearly every
spear were eaten off and what the
deer had not eaten they had trampled
down.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

Rev. Richard G. Woodbridge re-
signed last Sunday as pastor of the
Congregational church in Vergennes,
the message being read by Rev. Her
vey Gulick Of Bridport, who ex-
changed with the pastor.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-20

A severe electric storm in Burling-
ton Friday put the lighting system
out of order, lightning striking in
several places. In Addison, during the
same storm, lightning struck the
gable end OF the stock and hay barn
on the Brevoost farm, knocking the
whole south side out without setting
the hay on fire.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
insurgents"
To Name Full Ticket

Led by DR.. Arthur f. Heating, de-
posed leader of the Democratic organ
ization of Queens. insurgent Democrats
'here yesterday launched fight
against the powers now in control
headed by Borough President Maurice
E. Connolly. W
Ever since Mr.. Connolly was elected
py the votes of three of the five Alder
men OF Queens following the re-
imoval of Borough President Gresser
py Governor Dix a fight against Con
molly has been an annual political fixt-
ure.
The Heating forces will put full
ticket in the field against the organi-
cation. ticket. County Judge Burt ].
Humphrey will oppose Connolly for
the nomination for justice Of the
Supreme Court in the Second Judicial
distrlct. Stanley Fowler will oppose
representative Charles Pope Caldwell
tor the nomination for member of Con-
gress in the Second District. State
senator August Farrenkopr will strive
to defeat Alderman Edward w. Cox
tor the nomination for County Clerk.
pr. keating himself is the choice of
the lnsurgent element for Sheriff.
Former Assemblyman George Pol
hemus has been designated for the
office of State Senator in the Second
District and DR. Thomas Nj. Quinn in
the Third District
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
New Draft Law Nav
End All VOLUNTEERING @
Senate Discusses Revision and
Signs Resolution to Disband
German-American Alliance

WASHINGTON, July 29.-Changes
in the selective service act were dis
cussed briefly at to-day's semi-weeklv
meeting of the Senate, but the House
held only a five minute routine session.
The presiding officers of the Senate
and House signed and sent to the Pres
ident the resolution repeating the Fed
eral charter of the National German
American Alliance, whose members
have been charged with pro- German
activities.
A resolution introduced by Senator
Sterling, of South Dakota, and referred
to the Senate Military Committee,
asking the Secretary of War whether
men who tried to volunteer fer the
army but were rejected for physical
dlsaolllty and have since been drafted
may be transferred to volunteer or
| carnations, was the vehicle of Senate
debate. Senator Sterling said it was
UNJUST to have men rejected as volun-
teers and then forced into draft or
ganlzauons after change in the phys
ical standard.
Senator johnson, of California. said
| that in the new law being considered
to extend the draft ages, which would
be before Congress within thirty DAYS,
the question of prohibiting all volun,
teering is being discussed.
Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, said
the action of local draft boards rather
than the draft law had been responsi-
Bile for discrimination and sometimes
favoritism. Senator Nelson, in dis
cussing extension of the draft ages.
called attention to the praise by Secre
tary Daniels of the marines between
eighteen and twenty-one who have
been in the recent fighting in France,
and declared youths of these ages
make the best soldiers.
Opposing reduction of the minimum
age, Senator Kirby said he believed the
draft age should and will be extended
not because the country's man power
within the draft ages is insufficient,
but because men above thirty-one with
out dependents should be made to
serve.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Priest Completes
10th Year Among
New York Negroes

A service flag with thirty stars, one
gold, flaps in the breeze outside the
Colored Catholic Church of ST. Bene-
dict the Moor, in West Fifty-third
Street. 1t represents the boys Of the
parish who went away with the first
colored regiment, the famous 18th In
fantry, now fighting in France. 1t rep
resents, also, part of the life work of
Monsignor John E. Burke, white priest,
who will celebrate on August 4 the
fortleth anniversary of his priesthood,
during which time he has been the
father" of all Catholics negroes in the
city.
1t was Father Burke who made the
flag possible by building the church
where it hangs and gathering there a
congregation. 1t was he who baptized
almost every one of the boys for whom
a star is standing on the white ground
of the banner.
"He was my altar boy, once. poor lit
tie fellow" the priest said, sadly point
ing to the gold star, which is for Har-
old Streadrck, of the 18th Infantry,
who was killed in action in France.
All except five of Father Burke s
forty years as a priest have been spent
among the colored people. He chose
this field of endeavor voluntarily He
has worked with them on the streets,
built them churches, shepherded them
in and out of church. and been their
adviser for years until now there are
few of Manhattan's colored popula-
tion who do not know him by name.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Draft Boards Close
Enlistment Door to
Men in Class IA
Boys Under FL Expected to
Keep Ranks Filled by .
Enrolments

Draft registrants in Glass Al can
no longer obtain releases to enlist in
the navy, marine corp and emergency
f1eet service as a result of an order
issued yesterday by Martin Conboy,
director Of the draft here, to the 189
local boards Of this city.
ohicers in charge Of the local re-
crultlng stations predict downward
sweep OF the enlistment totals, which
gradually have been climbing to un-
precedented heights. In the navy re-
cruiting the blow was lightened slight
~ by notice received by Commander
W. T. Conn, raising the maximum age
limit from thirtyfve to forty years.
Othcers now base their recruiting
hopes largely on the young men be-
tween the ages of eighteen and twenty
one, who have been focking to the
colors in ever increasing numbers.
Mr.. Conboy's order followed the re-
ceipt of telegram of instruction from
Provost Marshal General Crowder. The
new regulations are issued, the mes
sage states, "in order to insure that
a local board shall always have avail
able a sufficient number of men to fill
calls made upon it,"
1918 registration, shall be released to
enlist in the navy or marine corps or
be placed on the emergency fleet classi-
fication list who has been finally classi-
tied in Class l or been found physically
fit for general military SERVICE" the
order states, cor who has not been
finally classified or whose reclassifca-
tion into or out of Glass / is still
pending either before the local or dis
trict board or on appeal to the Presi-
dent or who, having been finally classi-
tied in Class 1, has not had his phys
ical examination completed This pro-
hibition applies even though there is a
surplus of Class 1 men over and above
the number necessary to fill July and
August calls"
who we're granted permission to enlist
in other service before July "a, and
who have not yet been called, will not
have their status changed.
Since Commander Conn took charge,
May %, 5,541 New Workers have donned
the navy blue. Of this number 1885
have been under twenty-one.
Lieutenant Kneller, in charge of
marine recruiting, estimated that about
80 per cent Of the marine recruits
taken here are under twenty one. Of
the six hundred enrolled last week
about 30 per cent will attain their
majority while in khaki.
1t is not expected that draft regis
trants in deferred classes will offer
themselves in any great numbers, re-
cruiting officers say. The practice of
draft boards has been to regard the re-
quest of registrant in class 2, 3,
or to enlist in the navy or marine
corps as an automatic surrender of all
deferred classification privileges. The
applicants have been placed in Glass
l and released only if the current
quota is assured.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
Becker Announces
His Candidacy for
Attorney General

Deputy Attorney General Alfred L.
Becker yesterday, at the Murray Hill
Hotel, announced that he would be a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for Attorney General on the Lewis
ticket.
Mr.. Becker has had charge of the in
vestigations conducted by the State
into enemy alien plots, and his work
has attracted wide attention. He came
into prominent notice in the investiga-
tion of Bolo Pach, the French traitor
and German spy, shot by the French
government after Bolo's return to Paris
from New York, where he had been as
sociated closely with German sympa-
thizers. Mr. Becker inquired into the
appropriation by the State for fort
site, the work to be done by the Rock
away Pacific Corporation. He was the
special Deputy Attorney General who
conducted the Baff murder investiga-
ton. Asked yesterday about his plans
for the summer and fall, he said:
81 shall not have much time for poll
itics. am going to stick on the job
of Deputy Attorney General and keep
chasing the Germans and those with
whom they have been mixed up. The
French government has asked the State
to do lot of investigating. 1t will
keep the Office busy some time. l hope
that l shall be able to help Attorney
General Lewis in his canvass"