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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-09-13

at Middlebury in the State of Vermont. at the
close Of business on August 81, 1913.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts, includ-
ing rediscounts S3l2,lbo
Overdrafts unsecured oI6
U. S. Bonds deposited to secure
circulation, (par value) 100000 90
U. S. Bonds and certificates
Of indebtedness owned
/, and unpledged 10000 % 22O,COO w
Lug ia per cent unpedged 1890 90
Securities other than u. $.
bonds mot including ~.
stocks owned unpledged 2l3565 62
Stock OF Federal Reserve Bank
I so per cent Of subscription 7sOO 90
Value of banking house 10000 90
Furniture and fixtures 5OOO w
Real estate owned other
than banking house 5000 90
Lawful reserve with Federal
Reserve Bank 3O,OI9 30
Cash in vault and net amounts
due from national banks 77,2i6 81
Checks on banks located outside
of city or town of report
ing bank and other .
cash items 4,6O8 AZ
Redemption fund with
u. S. Treasurer and due from .
US. Treasurer 10000 OO
Total. 956.24l 81
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in, 100000 90
Surplus fund. $4,000 90
Undivided Profits. 68.48S 20
Less current expenses in
terest. and taxes paid $3.50 80 4.7O7 ~
Circulating notes outstanding l93,eOO w
Individual deposits subject to check 3l2.S63 80
Certificates of deposit due in
for money borroweD 5l1 So
Certified checks 100 90
Cashiers Checks Outstanding 1l.429 76
Dividends unpaid 276 90
Other time deposits l22,553 ~
Total. 956,241 81
STATE OF VERMONT,
County of Addison, IS.
I, ROBERT F. PINNEY, CASHIER
of the above named bank, do soemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
ROBERT F. PINNEY. CASHIER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day Of September. 1918.
ROBERT D. HOPE,
Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
JOHN A. FLETCHER,
C. f. PINNEY,
CHARLES |. BUTTON.
Directors.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-09-13
.LYNOID ROOFING

Roofs covered with LYNoID
over ID years ago are all in
good condition,
lfyou're buying roofing, buy
the best, it's cheapest.
\ Low PRICED ROOFING
means a Low GRADE ROOFING
which will prove many times
more costly i'll the end.
Buy roofing that has all es-
tablished reputation, having
proven by years Of test that it
is a good material.
Weigh well what the roofing
man tells you. Remember he's
out to sell goods, and his ell
thusiasm is apt to lead him
into careless statements.
Make him Moa0 documents IL
byo0e hoa0 IoRg tie yoQfHg he is oE
Jtri1g haS Teen on tie mar%eL
STRONG HARDWARE co.
BURLINGTON, VT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-09-13
FARM FOR SALE
LOCATED IN THE
South Part of Cornwall
known as the
ETastus Wooster Farm

containing 20 acres suitably divided in
meadow, pasture and 7 acre woodlot'
about acres of heavy loan suitable
for any crop, Two story house with
slate roof, cement cellar and cistern,
Large horse barn in good condition, also
a large storage building, Good COW
barn and new slo, hen house, hog house
and grainary and large hay barn Run
ming water to house and barn, A guam
tity Of fruit trees, and 200 naples, a
nice sugar orchard also an outside lot
Of 40 acres with barn and never failing
water VIII put in ten cows with the
farm II desired
Reason for Selling - More Land
Than We Can Carry on
Calvin Brothers
49,. Whiting, VT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-09-13
Deport Of the condition OF the
~ National Bank of Middleburi

at Middebury in the State of Vermont at the
close Of business on August 81. 1913.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
LOYALTY LEAGUE
WILL WAGE WAR
NO ROOM IN MISSOURI FOR ANY
ANY BUT 100 PER CENT AMERl-
CAN STOCK.
NEW SENATOR is INTERESTED
League Will Maintain Secret Service
and Every Member Must Be
An Active and Jealous
Patriot.

Washingtun.-Col r. p. DiCkerson,
of Springfield, Mo, founder of the Ma
tional Loyalty League, has arrived in
the capital with his party seeking to
obtain official endorsement Of this
movement.
Senator Whitley expressed himself
as much interested in the plan 9th
er statesmen who met Col. Dickerson
promised their aid in making the body
a big national institution.
Mrs. Nat Brown of ST. Louis. the
founder Of the Children of America
National Loyalty League is also in
Washington, seeking to secure the al
filiation of the children's body with
that of the adults.
The purpose of the league is the
suppression of pro-German propaganda
and the exposal of disloyal persons
The league operates Il secret serv-
ice bureau. After evidence is obtained
it will be turned over to the Federal
agents.
Members of the league must 100 per
cent American and must be buyers
Liberty subscribers to the Red
Cross, Thrift Stamps, Y. NJ. c. \. and
zealously engaged in some war ac-
tivity.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
FOREIGN.

Roumanlds new treaty provides for
the AustrIans and Tor the Germans
but Ior tne natives only husks.
Inc Prusslan diet mas rejected the
MANHOOD suInage DllI, hoping 10 keep
tne DaliOl IL t..v uauus uI lue I4.....
erS.
- HeILan submarine landed d man
On Luv COost Vi LIeIauL a1u ne mas
captured ana Is awaiting Ir4al III TIE
Tower OIL London,
word comes from Germany that
HinueADuIs ana LudenuOrI are quar-
reiine OFer pans lor Iurthe" a ulleu.
siVe.
Gen. Crowder is desirous that draft
age MINIMUM De raised To Az, as many
soou men are escaping the duty.
The peace treaty between Rumania
and the Central powers was signed
in Bucharest last week, and viii be
published shortly.
h. ], Purcell, American engineer.
captured by Chinese bandits, was
hauled through the rural districts and
exhibited in cage,
During the month of April Norway
lost ten big ships through the ruth
less U-boat war.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
PERSONAL.

Misses Genevieve and Lucille Ba.
kcr, twins, Of Brooklyn, tried to enlist,
were rejected and since have had 14S
proposals of marriage.
Mrs. Z. ]. Cowles was elected presi-
dent of the General Federation of
of Womens Clubs at the session just
held at Hot Springs, Ark
Horace Robinson. captured by the
Germans, three years ago. and since
that time held in a prison camp, made
his escape after three failures and is
home at Stratford Ont.
Cowboy" Jim Dahlman for IA years
mayor of Omaha, was defeated for re
election last week.
Walter II. Larsen, of Minneapolis,
was baptized in France just back of
the trenches and received into the
Presbyterian church.
Miss Johanna Pirscher, a native of
Germany, has been dismissed as a
teacher from the university, Ottawa,
Kan.
General Leroy Lyon has been ap-
pointed commander of the National
army at Camp Wheeler, Ga, succeed.
ing General French.
By some certain method the pro.
vince OF Ulster in ireland is to have
the power to veto acts of the Irish par.
Lament insofar a sthey apply to VI.
ster.
w. S. Hart, movie bad man." is en-
gagged to marry Miss Margaret Grams,
daughter OF a Butte, Mont, million.
aire.
Henry Ford is being industriously
groomed by certain Republicans to
make the race for senator from Mich
igan, and if successful, run for Presi-
dent in 1920.
Anna Held, the patriotic French
| actress, ill in New York, is in such
condition that her life is dispaired of.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
Big Tax From Celia Estate.

State Treasurer George Middlekamp
estimated the state would receive ap-
proXimately $2,O0O,OOO in inheritance
tax from the estate of the late Louis
Celia of St Louis, promoter. The
estimate was made on a reckoning of
the worth as $12,OOO,OOO and free
from inCumbrance.
Middlekamp estimated that the state
would receive approximately 1868, 900
in taxes on one-half Of the estate
which Celia left to four brothers and
a sister. 1t is estimated that the
brothers and sister will receive ST, ,OOO,-
600, divided equally.
The first $4,000 OF their inheritance
is taxed per cent, the second 6 per
cent. and until the maximum is
reached at 100000. All inheritances
to brother, sister or indirect heir
are subject to the maximum taxation
Of IS per cent. Only the first $500 of
their Inheritance is exempt.
1t is estimated that the tax on Mrs.
Cella's half share of the estate will
amount to approximately $343,450
Middlekamp said the state would
take no steps to collect the inheri.
tance tax until after the estates of
Celia and his widow had been ap-
praised by someone appointed by Pro
bate Judge Sam d. Hodgdon of St
Louis county. The state usually waits
six months TO take action in collecting
the inheritance tax.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
GEN ERAL.

Costa Ricau congress has passed a
United States for her attitude toward
that country.
In order to meet the immense
sums for higher wages for rail work
ers, a general raise in railroad rates
is contemplated.
minister in Chicago has an.
nounced his belief that all the allied
soldiers killed IN the war are saved
souls, as tney gave their lves TO save
mankind.
Every miner that works in the nit
at Eugmont, i'll, must salute the col.
ors before he goes TO work.
The name OF the biggest, best and
nrsl concrete snip IN me world, Is
attn, and Sne mas met all the build
ers' hopes Tor speed.
The new Norm sea mine field GOV.
ers an area u I-l,Io2 square miles, ex-
-enulng IIom Scotlanu 70 Norway.
Commerce between the United
states ana the Dulcu East Indies Is
to De resumeu at an earIy date.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
NEWS OF WEEK
Told Herewith in Tabloid
Form
Condensed Items of Interest
for Every Member Of
the Household
MISCELLANEOUS.

Won Hertlins, German chancellor,
will resign following the failure to
pass of the manhood suffrage bill.
Mexican harIhg r1uv y ,ed IN
tire English family q. Muzqui2, that
country and escaped.
Lieutenant Fairbarn Dudley of Hi
nos was killed on the French front
when his airplane fell.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa, introduced
a bill in congress to cancel all the
French Indebtedness to the United
States with the interest thereon.
Japan has offered to act as medi-
ator in the factional quarrel between
north and south China.
No figures are given on recent
U-boat sinkings, but the British ad-
miralty assures the United States that
they are growing less weekly.
Clarence w. Alvord, professor of
history al the University of Illinois,
recently won a prize of $1,000 for the
best essay upon current topics.
J. w. McNabb, accused of disloyalty,
was handcuffed to a post on prom
inent street in Birmingham, Ala, and
jeered at for three hours.
Secretary McAdoo is to issue a call
for Mississippi Valley people to util-
ize the inland waterways for trans
portation purposes.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago society
leader, is dead at her winter home at
Sarasota, Fla.
a measure is under consideration in
England to kill all the dogs in the
kingdom, as they consume too much
food.
Prisoners in the intenment camp.
near Atlanta, were discovered in an
attempt to escape and are more
closely confined
Allied aviators blew up 25 canal
boats in Belgium, laden with supplies
for the German army.
British losses since the great often.
sive was launched on March Il, are
placed at 250,OOO
The Germans have violated their
agreement with Holland by sending a
ship into forbidden waters and com
ing out again.
A Dutch banker has arrived in Lon
don and he is said to be peace EN-.
issary of the kaiser.
Mrs. Roger Newman. Roger Case,
ments sister, has invested her last
dollar in the Third Liberty loan.
America is to send missionaries to
Ireland to make a tour in the interest
Of the conscription plan.
Fair play., 1918-05-18

The third Liberty Loan drive in
Pettis county passed the million-dollar
mark. 1t was announced that Sc
dallas total is $61O,SOO, while the
county by townships is a little in ex-
cess Of 100000. The result by town
ships follow:
Bowling Green, $2O,65O; Blackwater,
s22 800; Cedar, $1,000; Dresden, S14-
$50; Elk Fork, $177OO; Flat Creek,
S2O,300; Green Ridge, $3O,SOO; Heaths
Creek, S26,75O; Houstonia, $24,35O;
Hughesville S22 ,15O; Lake Creek, $1O,-
15O; Lamonte, $4O,S5O; Longwood,
500 Prairie, S19.9OO Sedalia, $685.
700; Smithton, S41,SO0; Washington,
$4,000.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
DOME ESTIC.

a bill is in congress granting citi-
zenshlp to all aliens who become
members OF the army
In speech Senator Lewis of ILL.
nois, warns critics OF the governmuuL
that Bolo Pashas rate awaits tue
too-zealous.
The food administration is out in
an appeal for closer threshing of the
grain crops and estimates a saving
of three per cent.
The secret code with which Bern.
storff carried on his deviltry with
Berlin is in the hands OF the State
Department.
No more plays in Pittsburgh where
the German tongue is spO6en until
after the war.
The present high price Of silver has
Justified the reopenlng OF many aban,
doned mines in the west.
Kansas agricultural college probes.
sor is urging all men to wear soft col
lars 10 save the corn used IN starching
the conventional ones.
Massachusetts legislature is con.
sidering d bill which would permit the
working OF prisoners on farms
One more reason for rejoicing Is
that the United States will have 1000.
600 men on the line by July 4.
Attorney General Gregory says that
Germany is likely TO try methods OF
reprisal in the case OF the death of
Otto Prayer
Rail officials are to meet at Bloom.
ington. Ill, for the purpose of adopt.
ing plans TO consolidate terminals
throughout the state.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
AlR41cW Ie42Ee Z4uu cAaaNq AUE0M 70 me DaE1G;AZ:s

On the battlehelds the pigeons are
cared for in mobile coops. These re-
semble somewhat the ordinary moving
van and are set about Il mile apart
from five to twenty miles in the rear
or the first line trenches. In them are
nesting boxes, observation traps, stor-
age room for feed and other acCes-
Sories and accommodations for one or
TWO men, who are constantly on duty.
Ring a Bell on Entering.
The pigeons enter through a door
obStructed by bob wires. These hang
loosely and will swing in but not out
When bird enters the movement of
the wires sets Off an electric bell and
the attendant catches the pigeon and
takes the message from an aluminium
cup-shaped receptacle attached to one
Of its legs.
Major Griffin, at the annual meeting
of the American Racing Pigeon union,
said that of the messages that have
been forwarded by homing pigeons
from the trenches Mt the front, through
barrage fire, In attacks going over the
top, In cavalry charges and in infan-
try charges, 81 per cent had safely
reached headquarters. He urged the
members to start their birds breeding
at once, This was in December; they
usually do not start until the middle
Of February. The pigeon men acted
on the suggestion and are now pre-
pared TO keep up steady supply Of
birds for government use.
The hOming pigeon is n swift as well
MS a sure messenger. When travelling
with the wind 1t will fly at the rate
Of more than sixty miles an hour, and
against the wind, at from thirty to
thirty-hve miles an hour.
When liberated, the homer pigeon
usually circles around the spot, grad
ually rising until it recognizes some
landmark, and once 1t has scented the
direction, is of in Il direct line to its
home. The intelligence of these birds
has been shown In the trenches. where
they have learned that to circle adds
danger to their lives. II Is never any
too safe at these places of liberation.
and the trained homer does not rise
any higher than is necessary to get
Its bearing, usually flying directly 10
the rear, without ascending more than
a few feet above the ground.
This Is not the general procedure
Of homing pigeons, the tendency Of the
birds when released in races ut home
being to circle, sometimes for an hour
over the spot where liberated.
NeuJs 70 Germ, apv Nv pirI
The United States is not behind IN
pigeon racing. 1t has something Ike
1000 homing pigeon fauCicrs. In Bel
gium pigeon racing was long the ma
tional sport, 1t has hceu reported
that as many as 10000 pigeons have
been released ut one time in the grand
national races. In England race
Fair play., 1918-05-18
Denounces Socialists.


Gov Gardner, in a speech before
the state medical association, de-
nounced as dsloyal the resolution
adopted by Socialists of Illinois in
state convention at Chicago, in which
they demanded the recall of Gen.
Pershings army from France and the
recognition of the Russian Bolsheyiki
government.
The governor said. in part:
81 was astounded and grieved to
note that the Socialist party, in con
vention assembled in Chicago last Sat
urday, adopted resolutions demanding
the recall of Pershings liberty army
The adoption of such a resolution can
mean but one thing, and one thing
only and that is that we surrender to
the enemy. Pershing's army today is
the hope of the lberty-loving people
of the world. 1t is the hope of France.
it is the hope of England, it is the
hope of Italy and 1t is our hope.
Can the men who adopted this res
olution call themselves loyal citizens
think not They have not even the
faintest conception of the spirit of this
country and this nation Far from
recalling Pershing's army, what we
want to do is to mobilize the ingenu-
ity, the initiative and the resourceeul-
ness of our people, that We may equip
and transport 100000 recruits for
his army and then place behind them
the wealth, the genius and the united
sentiment of the nation and keep them
there until they win this war"
Fair play., 1918-05-18
viii Drop German.

To encourage the use OF English In
the schools and churches Of Missouri.
the state council Of defense has es.
tablished an honor roll, upon which
the names of churches and schools
appear which have voluntarily given
up instruction in German
State superintendent of Public
Schools Uel w. Lamkin, outlining the
position Of the state educational de-
partment, said:
81. No foreign language should be
taught in any elementary school OF
the state.
"2 The state superintendent will Co.
operate with school authorities in
dropping German from high school
courses. He will give proper credit
for work already done in the subject.
While higher institpHons require two
units Of a language for admission
when any language is presented for
entrance, yet Missouri's higher insti-
tutions require but Is units of second.
ary work for admission, so the discon-
tinuance Of German at the close OF
the present year will work no disad-
vantage to such as have had but one
years work.
% No books which are antagonistic
to the principles of our government,
or to the ideals of democracy, or
which glorify the principles of autoc-
racy, should be permitted to be used
as textbooks in any schoolroom.
a. No person should be allowed TO
teach regularly in any grade Of any
school in this country unless such per
son is a loyal citizen, native-born or
naturalized, Of the United States OF
America"
The council at the same time an
nounced that large number of
schools and churches in every section
of the state already had declared for
elimination of the tongue. The names
of these schools and churches will be
the first on the honor roll.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
WAR pREVITIE9

Twenty nations are now at war with
Germany, the latest one being Mica.
ragua.
Arthur C. Troyer, corporal in the
Rainbow Division, has been woundeC
Is times by shrapnel
During a recent barrage fire on the
western front, American batteries
dropped 10000 shells into the German
trenches.
F'0-' come source Germany's new
ne m has leaked out in Eng.
lana, ANA meets with no approval.
Be- claims that 1O,279,OOO tons Of
shippH have been sunk since the
taking up of the .uthiess warfare.
Total casualties to the American
forces in France had reached 1851 on
May 3.
The missing collier, Cyclops, lately
given up, was probably sunk by a
bomb in her bunkers, placed there by
German sympathizers.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
NUMBER. 4.

containing from 5000 to 10000 was
considered a common occurrence,
The English government discovered
shortly after the war began that in
formation was being carried to the en-
eny by method which it could not
detect for a long time. Finally it was
learned that German subjects had es-
tablished lofts in England where birds
were kept for the express purpose OF
carrying messages to Germany. The
authorities thereupon ordered all pig
cons liberated, and put under govern
ment control all that returned to their
lofts.
The supervision over homing pigeons.
in England now is so severe that an
owner cannot take even one bird into
the street or transfer 1t to another
person without police permit
Some of the war performances Of
homing pigeons, as recorded in recent
Issues of English pigeon papers, are
interesting. During December patrol
smack released q pigeon as 1t was
torpedoed by n German submarine. The
crew was foundering in the water and
clinging to wreCkage.
The Germans saw the bird and
wounded 1t with a rife shot. 1t was
not brought down, however, and
twelve miles away landed on the deck
OF another patrol smack, with five
flight feathers missing and nearly ex-
hausted The bird knew it could not
reach land and sought this place OF
safety.
The message the pigeon bore gave the
location Of the wrecked patrol boat.
and the captain Of the vessel on which
1t landed succeeded in reaching the
spot in time to save every man.
Another story IS that the pilot Of
a seaplane doing special work I'm the
Flanders section encountered n mum,
ber of enemy planes. He released one
pigeon stating his location and asking
help. \ minute later another pigeon
arrived at headquarters telling thar
his tank had been destroyed and ask.
ing that fighters be sent quickly to his
aid.
Eighteen minutes later another bird
arrived from another patrol seapIane,
announcing that it had been shot down
and that the pilots companion had
been killed, and that he thought his
machine would float for some time.
That was the end Of the messages.
Two seaplnnes We're quickly de-
spatched TO the location given. and
several small boats put out. This in
formation could not have been con-
veycd by any other means. It was
learned later that German destroyers
aud appeared on the scene and that
they had probably rescued the pilot
who had been cllnging TO his disabled
plane, as when relief arrived the ma
. chine was found and the German de-
struyers were seen speeding away.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
No More Cherokee Chiefs.

1t is along the line Of progress that
the chieftaincy is to be dropped by
the Cherokee Indian nation. The
Seminoles have already dispensed
with this relic of tribal government.
Thus two Of the five civilized Indian
nations will soon have abandoned II
tradition that has served only TO bind
them TO past which had better be
forgotten. 1t has long been the con-
viction OF the students of the Indian
problem and friends OF the Indian
people. like Commissioner Cato Sells,
Fair play., 1918-05-18
ACCIDENTS.

An explosion of nitroglyCerine at
Grey Bull. Wyo., demolished a mu-
nitions plant and killed two men.
Two people We're instantly killed,
and two seriously injured when an
auto in which they were riding went
into the ditch at Pana, III.
An army balloon exploded at Omaha
and two soldiers were killed and Is
injured.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
LABOR.

California labor commission has
adopted a minimum wage for women
of SO per week, effective July 2.
American delegates to an interna-
tional labor congress at Paris, refused
TO sit or confer with German dele
gates, in spite OF French Socialists
protests.
brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
have invested 100000 in the last LID.
erty loan.
Fair play., 1918-05-18
Held for Desertion, Kills Self.

Elmer V. Cox, son Of r. L. Cox of
Fulton, Galloway county, a homesick
soldier, "a years old, killed himself in
the Cole county Jail. Cox was called
to the colors about seven months ago
with other Galloway county boys Of
draft age. He was apprehended here
and was locked up. He was in uni
form, but had left his company with
out permission while en- route from
Fort Riley to st. Louis. Cox shot him
self-with a revolver.