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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
NORTH F1YSTON

Mr., aud Mrs. Hugh Henry have re-
ceiyed the following letters from their
WV Dee 5, 1917.
Dear Mother and All ! will write
YOU few lines To let yen know that ]
! am well and happy, and hope that you
are all the same. | haven't heard from
YOU for 40 long that | don't know as !
could read letter II | should receive
one. The boys here are all looking for
letter and once in while some Of
them get one and il makes them feel
good Some of them have received some
boxes and they think the world OF them
And don't blame them. would myself,
for we don't have much time to buy
anything.
Well, mother, what are all the people
doing out there | suppose you have lots
of snow over there and there are lots
OF teams drawing lumber and logs. What
is father doingy Is he well this winter
Have YOU had sleigh ride yeti Well,
what did you have for Thanksgiving We
had fine dinner and il tasted good and
] hope you had the same. Last year
was al home and went hunting with the
boys and had good time, and this year
wonder what they were doing. ! sup
pose they had good time deer hunting.
Tell the boys | would like TO have been
with them.
Well, mother, | think this is all for
this time, for | can't think of any more
to write. This is had place for anyone
to write much. | will try and write oft
EN- and all | can ! will say good bye
for this time and love to all from
Ralph Henry.
France, Dec. @, 1917.
Dear Mother: | will now write you
a few lines to let you know how we are. |
We are well and having good time, lots
so we are fine aud dandy. Hope these
few lines will find you all the same.
Ii is Dec. q and | haven't heard a word I
from you yet and | wrote in October
| would ike to send something home for
Christmas, but we haven't had any mon
ey since we left Mantle, Conn. Have
been broke for one month-some while
for me to be broke.
Well, we have had some cold weather
mere for few days. You must have one
loot of snow by this time What is
lad doing this winter and have you got
ny little horse yet?
Bianchi got a letter from Waterbury
md it said Lena had left the " S. A.
md gone home.
Well, | don't think of much to write
until / hear from you. Hope you will
ell me how many deer were shot this
all.
| am going to drive four mules and
IN right at home then, believe me, and+
guess Ralph is going to drive two. We
ave got twelve now and we are doing
omething with them. get lots of auto
ruck rides all over France. / have been
ihng most all day to-day.
Well, don't think of any more to write
his time, so will close, with love to ALL
Harold
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
VEST BERLIN

George Hill is still quite ill.,
Mrs. Sarah Davis visited Miss A. r.
Emerson one day last week.
Mrs. Charles Leonard spent Saturday
in Mortified.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. Cove were in North.
field last week.
Mrs. Florence Hewitt was a guest of
Miss Emerson and Mrs. Patterson two
days last week
Mrs. Sarah Davis is now stopping with
her daughter, Mrs. H. W. Crockett.
Miss Catherine Clark, who has been
spending some time with her mother in
Montpelier, has returned to her aunt's.
Mrs. NJ. E. Glines.
Miss Nellie Thrift spent several DAYS
with friends in Putnamsville last week
Quite extensive repairs are soon to be
made on the covered bridge in this place
Miss Nellie Tillotson returned from
her home in Williamstown Saturday,
after the holiday vacation. to resume her
work in her school in this village
Mrs. c. II. Robinson spent day in
Mortified last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ f. Glines were in
Montpelier a short time last week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
CHELSEA

Judge Stow was in Randolph two
| days last week
Miss Blanche Abbott and Reginald Hill
have returned to Burlington to resume
their studies at the University Of Yer
mont
! Mrs. Sarah Skinner. who has been Wis
| iting friends in Claremont, \. H., has
returned to her brothers, George Med
calf, where she is engaged as house
keeper during the winter.
Fred Goodwin and Milo Sanborn were
business visitors in Barre last Saturday,
Our selectman, Albert G. Bradshaw, is
wearing an unusually smiling face these
days; it is girl.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
De Ameida ON the west hill Sunday,
Dec. 81.
L. H. Kennedy, who has been visiting
his brother, II. r. Kennedy, of Bridge
port, Conn, has returned home.
Fred Parkhurst went to South Royal
ton last week to play as leader in Dew
ey's orchestra.
Bert Edward Flanders and Lora C,
Hood were united iii marriage Thursday
night, Jan. 3, by Rev. j. A. Lawrence.
Harold Berry, who has been working
for Harrison Smith on the west hill the
past five months, has returned home.
Ira Welch, who worked for Oliver
Walker the past year, has moved into
the Harold Berry house.
Ola Hood has returned to Springfield,
Mass, where she is teaching school.
Neva Bohonon has been spending
few days with friends in Randolph and
When she returned home
Gladys Mccormick came with her for a
few days stay.
Ernest James Dickev of Washington
and S. Brinton Shumaker from STAFFORD !
were before the local exemption board |
Wednesday, Jan. ?, and passed their |
physical examinations for voluntary in |
duction into the United States service. (
the former leaving for Camp Greene at |
Charlotte, n. c., on the following. day, |
where he will be assigned to the First |
Vermont infantry. Mr.. Shumaker, who |
will 20 into the aviation section of the |
service, is waiting orders for mobiliza-
ton.
Vinton Corwin returned to Dartmouth
,ollege Monday.
Judge Stanley c. Wilson returned to
st. Johnsbury Sunday night, where he
5 presiding over the December term of
caledonia county court.
Jasper f. Taylor left for Massachu-
,etts last week, where he is to take
hort course in Amherst college.
Russell q. Corwin has returned to his
studies at the Vermont school of agri-
culture at Randolph Center.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
SOUTH BARRE

The South Barre grange will hold its
next meeting at the hall Thursday night,
Jan. TO-
A son was born Dec. % TO Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Owen.
Charles Lewis of Plattsburg, n. Y, is
visiting his brother, NJ. l.. Lewis.
Mrs. Alice Burns and daughter, Ruth,
who have been visiting in Rutland, have
returned home.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
RANDOLPH
Funeral of Dr. c. J. Rumrill to Be Held
Thursday Afternoon.

Dr. G. J. Rumrill, who died at mid
might Sunday, the result of an ulcer in
the stomach and complications, was born
in Springfield, Vt, Jan. Z, 1871, one of
eight children born to Edwin j. and SUI
san (Newton) Rumrill. His early life
was passed in that place and later he
came with his parents TO Royalton to re-
side, During his stay there he prepared
for Yale college at st. Johnsbury aead
envy. and then entered Yale college In
| 1894 he went to Greenland with an ex
| petition under Dr. Cook. In 1856, he
was fifteen months in Hayti in the West
Indies, engaged in assistant surgical
work. On his return he entered Dart
mouth medical college, graduating from
that institution in 1900. Soon after re-
ceiying his degree in 1900 he located in
Randolph, and one year later married
Miss Marion Belle Emerson. daughter OF
the late T. f. Emerson of Randolph One
child was born to them, a daughter,
Arene f.. who is now young lady of
fifteen years. During the past seven
teen years, the doctor built up wide
and successful practice, and established
a reputation as physician and surgeon
of more than ordinary ability In many
over the death of kind and sympathiz-
ing physician and devoted friend as well.
Dr. Rumrill made his patients his friends,
because of the genial manner which he
carried to the bedside of the i'll, and
which outside won for him a large circle
of friends in this vicinity. His life was
by the spirit of open heart
ed good fellowship, that won for him a
host of friends, who will sincerely mourn
his early departure. He was an ardent
lover of the rod and gun and all that
pertained to outdoor sports. His death
is real loss in Randolph, and the sin
cere sympathy of all is extended to the |
family. He is survived by one brother,
who resides in Boston, besides his imme
date family. His funeral will be held
at Bethany church on Thursday after
noon at | o'clock
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
PUT CREAM I'M NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged Nos
trils and End Head Colds.

You feel fine in a few moments. Your
cold in head or eatarrh viii be gone.
Your clogged nostrils viii open. The air
passages OF yom head viii clear and YOU
can breathe freely. No more dullness.
headache; no hawking, snuffling. mucous
discharges or dryness; no struggling for
breath at night
Tel your druggist You want a small
bottle Of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a
little Of this fragrant. antiseptic cream
in your nostrils, let it penetrate through
every arr passage Of the head: sooihe
and heal the swollen. infsmed mucous
membrane. and relief comes instantly
II : just what every cold and catarrh
sufferer needs. Don't stay stuiIcd-up and
miseTable.-Ady.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08

Mr.. and Mrs. F. a. kezer of Rochester
and Frank Kezer. their son, who were
here on Saturday night to attend the
Goth wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. A. b. Fish, left for their home in
Rochester on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. w Tewksbury left
on Monday morning for Beverly, Mass,
being called there by the death of Mrs.
Tewksbury's mother, who has been in
frail health for a long time.
Robert Hatch. after passing his vaca-
tion in town with his parents, left on
Monday for Dartmouth college, where
he is student.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Lamson closed their
house on South Main street on Monday
and went TO Wellesley, Mass. where they
will pass several weeks with Mrs. Lam
sons sister, Mrs. Flora French.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
CABOT
Mabel Katherine Smith and +. Carroll
Houghton Married at Brides Home.

quiet wedding took place az the
home of Mr.. and Mrs Bert Smith last
Thursday evening at o'clock, when
their daughter. Mabel Katherine, was
united in marriage with 4, Carroll
Houghton, the ceremony being performed
by Rev. NJ. W. Hale, pastor OF the Con
gregational church, of which Mrs. Hough-
ton is member. The single ring serv.
See was used. There were present two
grandmother of the bride aud grand.
father of the groom, and few immedi.
ate family relatives. The wedding march,
played by Mrs G. II, Houghton, ushered
in the worthy couple, who took their
places beneath bower of green and
white. The bride was gowned ia white.
Both parties have always resided in town
and are well known The best wishes OF
friends are extended. After short wed.
ding trip, Mr. and Mrs lioughton will be
at home at the residence of the brides
parents.
The installation of officers of the Cab.
ot grange will be held Wednesday even.
ing, Jan. ., by District Deputy Russell
Collins. A Hooverized banquet will be
served at the close. A resolution is UNI
der consideration, TO meet but once n
month for the present. A full attend
ance is desired at this installation.
Mrs Ella kittredge was in Hardwick
several days last week.
Prin. Ralph Mayo has returned from
n two weeks stay with his parents in
Lyme, n. II.
/ The installation of officers of the w.
R. G. will take place Friday evening,
Jan. Is.
Miss Dorothy Gearwar has returned
from a few days stay with friends in
Boston.
Mrs. Kate Morehouse has returned to
her home in Cambridge, Mass, after
spending several weeks with her daugh- |
ter. Mrs. Il. c. Gould,
The remains of Asa Preston, former |
resident of this town, were brought here |
from Marshiield last week and placed in
the vault to await burial in the spring
Mrs. Palmer has finished caring for
Mrs Cordela Mack and returned home.
Burt Lyford has returned from Boston
and is nursing a felon on his finger.
Miss Ethel Warden of Albany Bust
ness college was guest at Orson Blod
gett's last week.
Miss Luna Morehouse of Cambridge,
Mass, spent the holidays at the home of
her sister, Mrs. L. c. Gould.
The remains of Dudley Burnham were
brought here from Walden last week and
placed in the vault.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
PL.1INFIELD

A. r. Davis of Marshfed was bust
ness visitor in town Monday.
Mrs. u. j. Colby and Miss Ethel Colby
recently visited Mr.. aud Mrs. Burnham
Colby Of North Troy.
Mrs. Doris Strahan returned to Phil.
adelphia Monday
A special meeting of Ivy grange will
be held Saturday evening. Jan. II, for in
stallaton of officers. All the members
are requested to be present.
A daughter was born Friday, Jan. 4,
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Lafayette.
Mrs, Iona Pitkin and Miss Bessie Pit.
in town last week.
Maurice Townsend and Carl Martin
were in Montpelier Wednesday
Mrs. Fred Cree and daughter, Freda,
Misses Alice and Madella Shorey and
Mrs Lee Lane were in Montpelier on
Wednesday.
Miss Alice Hudson has returned from
Boston, where she has been visiting
friends.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Minott of Montpelier died Tuesday. The
body was brought here for burial on
Wednesday.
Miss Mabel Comstock and Mrs. Busa
Bushey are at work in the local New
England telephone exchange.
Norma, the little daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. o. w. Hodgdon, was operated upon
at Heaton hospital Wednesday for the
removal of tonsils and adenoids.
Miss Mary Shorey of Montpelier visit
ed relatives in town last week.
Mrs. c. ID. Perry spent Thursday and
Friday in Montpelier with relatives.
Miss Margaret Kiser returned from
Burlington Saturday, where she visited
her aunt, Mrs. William Letter.
Rev. A. w. Hewitt was in Montpelier
Mrs. Nat Batchelder and daughter and
Mrs, George Vincent returned from Bur
ington Wednesday, where the little child
has been for treatment.
Mrs. Arthur Ladd and daughter of
Orange visited Mr.. and Mrs. George
Brown last week.
Mrs. Laura Golden was visitor in
Montpelier Thursday.
Miss Lenora Batchelder is i'll with ton
'ilitis
Robert Boynton of Lisbon, n. H.. is
'isiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Hol-
lister.
John Story of Middlesex recently Wis
ted Arnold Story, who is at work for
George King.
Hugh Cole Of Barre recently visited at
he home of II. F. Partridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Benjamin of Hard
wick Were called To town by the death of u
Ter brother, Fred Dwinell.
Miss Amy Cameron Of Marshfeld spent I
he week end with Miss Vivian Can a
eld. !
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Martin spent Fri I
ay in Barre i
Erwin Smith has finished work for c
'arl Lilley and is visiting at the home \
f Arthur Lamberton.
Clyde Perry of Barre was business
isitor in town Saturday. ;
Mrs, Ruth Dwinell lis spending a few $
avs with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. f. +
r. Pitkin of North Montpelier. C
A check of S4620 has been received /
rom the Red Cross headquarters to be h
sed by the local Red Cross workers 5
fifty dollars worth of yarn was received D
ist week to be knitted into articles for i
ne boys in the service.
The Village Improvement society will /
eet with Mrs. Winnie Wheeler Tues 4
av evening, Jan. s. Subject, "Ambu -"
nee Work" Mrs Flora Stoddard and
Trs. Bertha Kellogg. =
Octavus st. Cyr was i'll part of last =
eek
Tenement to rent in Batchelder block; t.
a month.-adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-08
WEBSTERvILLE.

There will be an entertainment at the
Baptist church Wednesday evening. Come
and hear Rev. B. j. Lehigh's readings.
Zoe and ljc. Refreshments.
adv
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-26
i. S. GunnerS are
Busy on Front

! WASHINGTON May 25.-America
/ big guns are now in action-the bigges
/ guns on the western front
/ They were built by the navy, arc
mounted on railway cars, and are OPP
Grated by marines in khaki.
There are the t6-inch guns of Uncle
Sans biggest battleships, adapted te
/ land operations.
Each gun throws a shell weighing
1000 pounds, and throws it further
than any gun the Germans possess
except the seige-gun that is lombard
; ing Paris.
That gun, Big Emma as the French
call it, is built on a fixed emplace-
ment and is practically immovable.
Our big guns fly flitheF and thither
quickly. They are laid, from one Sec
tor to another as the demand calls
for them. The Germans may spot them
where they were yesterday; they are
somewhere else today. They'll be YET
elsewhere tomorrow.
Presence of these great American
guns in France accounts for the re-
Gently cabled accounts of great ghost
like disappearing and fitting guns
behind the American lines.
Just how many of these guns there
are is military, secret +
Each gun is a complete unit, having
in addition to the car on which it is
mounted, an ammunition car, a shop
and repair car, a provision and kitchen
car. with a couple of cars for quarters
for officers and men. And of course
there is locomotive. With this equip
ment the gun unit is independent of
any other branch of the service for
support in the way of ammunition or
provisions. ~
The value of the big gun is two
fold. The long range makes il posi-
BILE to reach vital points behind the
German line where ammunition is
stored or concentration is going on. It
also makes possible boring into trench
projections which would be impervious
to small shells, but which the huge
i600-pound shell reaches and destroys
The fact that the navy Is operating
with the big artillery on land is sur
prising. Here is why:
When the war broke out General Gro
zier of the Army. Ordance Department
threw up his hands and admitted his
inability to deliver big guns by this
summer.
One of the men on the Naval Advis-
DRY Board was S. NJ Vauclain of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works. Vauclain
did not throw up his hands. but unuer-
use on land, to mount them on cars
for quick movement by rail, and to do
it within twelve months.
He was told by Secretary Daniels to-
go ahead. And he has made good
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-26
CULTURE OF BLACK
MINT ENCOURAG D
DIR. LIVINGSTONE.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The feas-
Utility of beginning the culture of
black mint in this country. for the
production of menthol crystals and
oil, is the subject of a special report
by Vice Consul E. r. Dickover, of
Kobe. Japan, as the result of in
quiries from the United States.
Several attempts 10 import black
mint plants have been frustrated by
the long journey across the Pacific.
during which the plants died. Once
an arrangement was made with a
steamer purser to care for the plants
and they arrived in good condition.
but We're killed by disinfection in en-
tering the country The consulate now
is attempting to obtain mint seeds, a
difficult task since the plant is culti-
waited almost entirely from slips
Two widely different climatic areas
are devoted to the cultivation of mint
in Japan cores ponding to the north
ern Pacific coast of the United States
and to Virginia and North Carolina.
About 90 per cent of the Japanese
mint is grown on the Hokkaido island.
where the average winter temperature
is % degrees and the summer tenn
perature go degrees. with rainfall of
50 lncHeS Inc remaining eight per
cent of the Japanese crop is grown on
Nippon. where the average tempera-
lures are SO and IS degrees and the
rainfall 42.5 inches.
The mint plant requires q light, well
drained soil. The roots are planted
at the end of November. The plants
attain full growth during the summer
months and are cut in late July, during
August and in early September, the
third cutting yielding the greatest per-
centage of oil and menthol crystals.
Steaming and pressing in barrels
prepares the leaves for the factories,
where the oil is extracted by a process
of freezing and pressing
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-26
DARWIN's "oRIGIN OF
SPECIES DRAMATIZED

LONDON, May ga theatrical
journal announces that a dramatized
version OF Darwin's Origin Of Spe-
cies" Is to- be produced in London
this summer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-26
TO PROVIDE FOR :.
THE BOND ISSUE

The county commissioners yesterday
morning passed resolutions for COM
pleting the necessary legal require
ments for the issue of the $4,000 spec
ial road and bridge fund including the
form of the bond. This is for the paved
road at Bayou Grande.
The board will meet Thursday May
30 to take up the plans and specifica-
tions for, the open drawbridge and the
basquile OF life bridge.
At the same time the board will
probably instruct the clerk to call for
bids from contractors on the two de-
signs and 1t will also probably author
lie new advertisements for bids on the
paved road between the two bayous.
The members will prepare and send
out ballot boxes to the various pre-
cincts In the city and county for the
election to be held June next.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-26

defined in statement issued by Jay
Cooke, Bird. local food administrator.
Eat less candy this summer" says
Mr.. Cooke in his heart to heart talk
with women. The less sugar you eat
the more slender and graceful you
will become. Besides. you are con-
serving food elements for our Allies
and fighting the Hun while you stay
at home.
There are hundreds of thousands
of children and young people. of both
sexes, in Philadelphia, who can dis
play their patriotism only by acts OF
self denial. suggest to these young
people that they display their patriot
ism by cutting down their allowance
of candy, chocolate sundaes, bon bons
and the various luxuries manufactured
almost entirely from sugar"
The new sugar rulings, according to
Mr.. Cooke. have been designed solely
to give the housewife and the cannot
an opportunity to put up a large
quantity of fruits this summer.
THE fact is said Mr.. Cooke. that
the sugar situation is not at all en-
couraging. and I anticipate that some
stringent rules may be promulgated
after the canning season is over"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-26
EVERY ENEMY IN
COMPANY KILLED

LIVERPOOL, May 25.-How every
man of a German company lost his
life in an attack on the Armentieres
front is told in a letter from a Liv-
erpool officer to his local newspaper.
THE fiercest fight we had" he
writes. was when the enemy massed
troops with the object of widening the
gap he had made. The attempt was
made in open country, where we were
able to mass a number of battalions
against him, and the fighting was very
fierce.
Our Liverpool battalion had the
post of honor. When the Germans
started to throw their troops against
us we poured into their ranks a very
heavy fire and did terrific execution.
Immediately in front of us, a Ger
man company got caught between our
fire and that of another English regi-
ment, with the result that they could
neither advance nor go back. They
kept on trying to reach our square,
but were shot down one by one until
only six of them remained. These six
threw down their rifles and signified
that they wished to surrender. But
they We're seen by a German officer
near by. who gave an order to his
men, and the six were shot down by
their own comrades before they could
reach u.s."