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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
BUY GOVERNMENT THRIFT STAMPS
NOW

A good many of us have been asking
ourselves during the past eight months
ii there was not something else that we
could do to help win the war, to uphold
the honor and integrity of our country,
to help preserve the liberties of peaceful,
law-abiding people from the vicious as
saults of the military autocracy. We
have seen our boys, our fathers, our
brothers, our acquaintances, our fellow
citizens marching off TO war. Barred by
come reason from going ourselves, we
have been looking about for chances to
show that We are with the BOYS in spirit
snd that we wish to do something To put
our shoulders back OF Uncle sam and
boost, boost, boost.
Many of US have been successful in our
quest; we have found some methods hv
which we can help. We have bought
Liberty bonds; We have contributed to
Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A, knights Of Co
lumbus or some other fund for the relief
Of our soldiers and sailors: We have. per
tsps, kept the needles clicking OF the
fingers otherwise busy fsshioning articles
for soldier wearing apparel: We have
5oHe other things, the purpose Of which
b the furthering OF the var aims Of the
United States and cur allies An 81 Il
Iss been splendid. r. has helped quite
materially Bot stiil ws haven't done al
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
F. II. Rogers q
Company

that we would like to do TO stand back
of the government and the men who are
to fight our battles for us.
To enable us to do that additional
service. the government has devised a
plan which should at once commend It
self as practicable and as OF great poten.
tial value. That plan is for the people
to loan money in small sums to the gov.
| eminent 1t goes under the name of the
national war savings fund. Under its
provisions we can loan as little a sum as
Is cents or we can extend that loan as
high as one thousand dollars. Every
cent we put into the loan will come back
to us, because the resources Of the United
States are back Of the government guar
antee: and If we loan enough to acquire
a five-dollar war saving stamp we not
only get the principal back but the in
terest money as well, For instance. ii
we loan four dollars and IL cents this
month we shall receive five dollars on
January /, 1928, which will be equivalent
to 4 per cent interest compounded quar-
terly. Could there be better and sim
pier way for each and every one of Us,
young and old, to show our patriotism
to the United States? Is there a better
investment in the world to-day--an in
vestment whose interest will be world
freed from the thralldom of military des-
potism and. at the same time, comfort
able financial return to each individual
investing? There could not be at the
present time.
If you feel the same about it--and we
think you will after studying
the matter-and if you wish to do some
thing now to help win the war go to the
postoffice and invest % cents or more in
thrift stamps, get a thrift card free, affix |
the stamps to the card and thus begin to !
back up the boys we are sending across |
the ocean. Then, having continued to |
buy thrift stamps until you have ac-
Iuired l6, add the few cents required |
md get war saving stamp and, along
With 1t, war saving certificate Then
you become the possessor of a baby
,ond,' drawing 4 per cent interest. com
pounded quarterly, and redeemabe by
he government in 1928. or sooner if for
my reason you feel it necessary to turn
Your property into cash.
Don't delay. Go To the postofiice to-
lay. Begin at once to help your govern
nent.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
Call for Vermont Volunteers.

| Editor Barre Times:
1t is said that the regulation in regard
TO voluntary induction into military
service is not fully understood so | will
ask for space in which to briefly explain
how any man of draft age may still
volunteer.
Any man of draft age may 20 ia his
local board and ask to be immediately
indicted into the service. He will there
upon be given q physical examination.
If he passes and selects the infantry
branch of the service and indicates he
wishes to join the First Vermont. he
will be sent to Camp Greene, n. c.
Transportation will be furnished by the
local board. At Camp Greene, he can re-
port to the commanding officer OF the
First Vermont for his final examination
and assignment.
Any man Of draft age, that is between
the ages of Is and 81, and 81 and 40
may still enlist for the First Vermont
in the regular way and be sent to Camp
Greene.
Within short time, some one will
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

this new task will be eheerfully and
faithfully discharged.
\ Yours sincerely,
/ WOODROW WILSON
The boy scouts of America, number
ing nearly 100000, have responded to the
Irequest of the president with hearty un-
animity and will undertake, as their first
despatch bearing service, distribution
of copies of the presidents flag day ad-
dress, published by the committee on
lpublic information in pamphlet form on
September Is, 1917, and regarded as the
most comprehensive statement that has
been issued by the government in regard
TO the fundamental issues OF the war.
j II is the desire OF the administration
| that this pamphlet have careful study
by the people of the country and the
boy scouts, acting as despatch bearers
directly under command of the president.
will place the document in the hands of
five million citizens of every city, town
and hamlet OF the country. with specific
instructions that its contents be care
fully considered and that the reader then
make il his personal responsibility to
see that at least one other citizen of the
community also reads the copy. BY
these means a minimum of ten millions
of thoughtful citizens will have had this
important message impressed upon their
minds or will have been refreshed in
memory as 10 the principles Of the war
as expressed by the president on Septem
Der L.
The pamphlets will be sent through
the mails TO the individual scouts and
in each package there win be manual
for the guidance Of these young govern
ment messengers Acting under the To-
cal instructions of the seoutmasters the
despatch bearers viii deliver such print |
ed matter as may be issued from time |
TO time the committee on public in |
formation TO citizens, carefully avoid |
ing duplication They will accept signed |
receipts from the persons visited and al t
so their personal assurance that they |
will comply with the requests made, par
To aid distribution by passing /
the documents to others.
Each boy scout is provided with an
card, bearing his name,
troop number, city and state, and declar
ing his appointment as an aide to the
committee on public information to serve
as despatch bearer for the government
during the period covered by his regis
tration, under the direction Of the Ma
tional Council, Boy Scouts Of America.
President Wilson's letter requesting the
service is reproduced in facsimile on the
reverse side OF the identification card,
Each scout despatch bearer win have
access to franked postal cards, return
ahe to the committee on public informa
ion. by means of which any citizen may
rider mailed to him any of the various
var pamphlets which the committee on
public information has published during
he war.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

The appointment of William r. Wilcox
rs a member of federal war board is
The recognition of Republican by the
Democratic administration, and the ad-
ministration is to be congratulated on
this evidence of desire to enlist the
services of good men in the opposing
party. 1t need not take Roosevelt If it
doesn't care to, because there are plenty
Of other good Republicans who could give
satisfactory service in the national crisis.
Mr.. Wilcox lays down the chairmanship
cf the Republican national committee in
order to accept the new federal work.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

visit each county in the state to explain
! Just how to volunteer for the service
and TO encourage all men subject to
early call to do now what they must
do in short time. BY coming in now,
they will be entitled to the state pay,
and viii have the satisfaction OF being
volunteer
Let us fill up Nermonts quota for the
new draft by volunteer entry into the
service. That would be fine act of
patriotism and complete answer TO the
Islander OF the state spread throughout
the nation by misinformed writers.
We can fill up our quota if we make
a united effort. Let us do it and show
the world that Vermont can again lead
the nation.
r. w. GIBSON,
Captain. LIST Vermont Infantry, \. g.,
Camp Greene, Charlotte, \. e., Jan. Is,
1918.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

AFTER ALL is done
AND SAID-When your
DAILY CT 0 T H E S
you've shed
WHEN Blu SIN ESS
thoughts
HAVE FLED--is there
ANYTHING more
ENJOYABLE - t h IN
just
READING IN bed?
Pajamas to add to
that great and glorious
feeling; smooth, silky
materials that induce
soothing slumber; cut
full and large. Good
heavy weight Quit in G
flannel, S1.5O and $500.
Don't wait too long if
you want to get one of
these overcoats or suits
for about one-half the
price you'll have to pay
next fall.
We've only a few left
and they are priced at a
REAL GENUINE re-
duction.
Look in our window.
Clothing fixtures for
sale.
f. II. Rogers q
Company
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

1t will be strange indeed II some OF
the spirit of peace does not enter the
minds of Teuton troops through all the
fraternizing with Russians on the eastern
war front Moreover, the very cessation
bf warfare will have tendency to make
them unwilling to return TO bloody
scenes Hence the report OF mutny of
$4,000 German troops who rebelled
against being transferred from the peace
full scenes of the eastern front to the in
ferno of combat on the western front
may be more accurate than most of us
pre- inclined to believe from the frag-
mentary rumors that are coming from
that clouded section of Europe. By or
hering his troops to fraternize with Rus
tian soldiers in order to demoralize the
enemy, the kaiser may unwittingly have
placed milestone about his own neck.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
BOY SCOUTS AS MESSENGERS.
They Will Act As Government Despatch
Bearers.

President Wilson has sent the follow.
ing letter to Mr.. Colin II. Livingstone,
president, National Council, Boy Scouts
of America
my Dear Mr. Livingstone:
Il desire to entrust the boy scouts
of America with a new and important
commission, to make them the govern
ment despatch bearers in carrying to the
homes Of their community the pamphlets
on the war, prepared by the commit
tee on public information. The excel
lent services performed by the boy scouts
in the past encourages me to believe that
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
Record Strength

The outstanding tendency of things financial economic
toward liberalization
Banks railroads and other necessary financial and economic
machinery must be unified to give needed efficiency.
An appreciation of the abundant strength of the federal bank
ing system may be gathered from the following:
1.-THE total of the 1866 National Banks Nov
1917 These by than
S500000 the total combined of all banks
doing commercial busness all private banks and all
companies the United States of June l97-the
date for which bank have been compiled
posits national banks Nov 90 1917
high water mark"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

Two Vermonters have been appointed
to the national board for promotion OF
rifle practice, they being Lieut.. Col. Ira
D.. Reeves, recently president of Norwich
university, and Brig. Gen. Lee s. Tillot.
son, recently adjutant general Of the
Vermont military department. These APP
pointments speak well for the little
Green Mountain state.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

Garfield declares that his order is nc
more drastic than war. which it is de
signed to meet; but the prospects are
that the people of the United States will
find that the mere closing down Of bust.
ness for short period is nothing as com,
pared with the effects of the actual blows
TO be felt in the war
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

The statement by President Wilson in
which he upheld the Garfield closing or
der was about as direct English as VIII.
Son ever used. And it was decidedly
pleasing, as well as forceful Straight
talk from the shoulder is what is needed
Rt the present juncture.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
Work as Well as Pray.

Pray fer what you want, but don't
wear ont de knees of yo' britehes at
1t. Ef you don't git quick answer
rise up an 20 to work befo' you git too
weak ter rise.-Atianta Constitution.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
"CASCARETS" SET
YOUR LIVER AND
BOWELS RIGHT
They're Finel Don't Remain Bilious,
Sick, Headachy and Con-
stipated
Best for Colds, Bad Breath, Sour Stom
sch-Children Love
Them


Get l0-cent box now.
Re cheerful! Clean up inside tonight
and feel fine. Take Cascarets to hren
your liver and Clean the bowels aud stop
headaches. bad cold. biliousness. often
siye breath. coated tongue. sallowness.
sour stomach and gases. Tonight take
Cascarets and enjoy the incest. gentlsst
liver and bowel cleansing you ever sxpc-
rienced. Wake up feeling grsnd-EveTv-
hodv's doing IT. Cs-csrets isest laxative
for children slso.-Ads.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

Major Augustus p. Gardner left one
million dollars to go to war; and no
doubt large part of his money was
fighting Germany at the same time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

Next Sunday (Jan. % will not be gen
orally observed as day of gladness in
the United States. 1t is the kaiser's
birthday. He will be SO years foolish at
That time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
The Alternative.

Mr.. B.-Do you think you'n be able
to keep up with your neighborsg Mrs.
B.-If we can't. my dear. Wen move
Pittsburgh Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

!, Form a committee on fuel conserva
tion in your own cellar. BE honest with
Yourself and sift those ashes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

Watch your plumbing urges the
Boston Herald. We have; we've stared
Ht out of countenance already.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

/ $50 on or go under" was very happy
phrasing by Lloyd George. 1t will be
come famous in this war.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

There is a little bit of sunshine in the
prediction that gasoline will be fairly
plentiful next summer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

West of the Mississippi river they
must be wondering what it's all about
over here.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

II disheartened by the weather, re-
member that winter is on the toboggan
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED rnEsa
The Associated Press IL exclusively enutied
10 the use for republication Of all news 40
Ispatches credited 10 II not otherwise cred
tied in this paper. and also the local news
published therein.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-13
Notice of Receivers Sale of Drug
Store.

Pursuant and subject to the fol-
lowing order made by the Superior
Court for Litchfeld County, State of
Connecticut, viz:
ORDERED that the receiver adj
Ivertise for sale, in the manner here
matter specified, said assets, except
the accounts, notes and bills receiv-
able, in the Connecticut Western
News, newspaper printed in Ca
naan, in the town of North Canaan in
said county, and in such other news
papers and in such other manner as
said receiver may deem for the best
interest to secure the highest bid and
price therefor, and that he will re-
ceive written sealed bids for the
same until the 9th day of June,
1918, inclusive, and that all bids re-
ceived by said receiver shall be SUBJ
mitted to the court on the 18th day
of June 1918, to be opened by said
court, who will determine and decide
to whom said property shall be trans
ferred, the court retaining the right
to reject any or all bids so sub
mitted".
The undersigned receiver will re-
ceive sealed bids for the property re-
ferred to in said order at his office in
Canaan, Conn.,, until June 27, 1918,
inclusive, which property consists in
part of the following:
The Drug store including all of the
stock in trade, soda fountain, show
cases and the equipment used by R.
T. Farnum & Co. in Camps Drug
Store on the south side of Main
Street in the Village of Canaan,
Conn.
This drug store has been conduct
ed by R. T. Farnum & Co. for the
asst six years and has proven to be
prosperous and successful enterprise
and this sale is necessitated by the
dissolution of the partnership, and
this business ought to appeal to any
one desiring to purchase a successful
and good paying drug business.
Dated at North Canaan, Conn,
this 18th day of June, A. D. 1918.
William ]. Reel,
Receiver.
Postoffice address, Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-13
A PROCLAMATION
By His Excellancy, Marcus II. Hoi-
comb, Governor of Connecticut

l hereby designate Friday, the
fourteenth day of June next as Flag
Day upon which day suitable exer-
cises in commemoration of the adop-
ton, on June 18th, 1777, of the Stars
and Stripes as our National flag shall
be had in all of our public schools.
The children should be taught the
principles and ideals represented by
our flag; that each of it's forty-eight
stars represents a SOVEREIGN state
and that combined they represent the
greatest republic of the world. They
should be taught that this Republic
was established with the sacrifice of
lives and suffering. They should be
taught the significance of the service
stars which we see all about us, and
that the owner of each gold star ap-
pearing in increasing numbers has
paid the supreme sacrifice in this war
which is to determine whether liber-
ty shall be preserved to humanity.
They should be impressed with the
fact that sacrifice is the price of lib
erty, and that the responsibility rests
upon them in their day and genera
ton to preserve the liberty they in
herit for the generations which shall
succeed them. Every day should be
flag day with all of US, and we should
pray to our God to give US an endur-
ing peace founded upon righteous
ness.
Given under my hand and seal of
the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this twenty-ninth day of May, in the
year Of our Lord one thousand, nine
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-13

hundred and eighteen, and of the in
dependence of the United States the
one hundred and forty-second.
M. H. Holcomb.
By His Excellency's Command:
Frederick L. Perry, Secretary.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-13
DespIse the Savoyards.

Dven to the present day the Cen
evese hate and &espise the Savoyards'
ghsar hereditary enemies, calling the
contemptuous attention Of the stranger
DO the fact that these neighbors or
theirs are unthrifty and still make
their women work in the 6sads, as they
did in former days. Fifteen minutes
ride In q motorcar win carry one from
0sneva into Troy. ..-.--..
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-13
If You Are Patriotic

You should read the New York
Herald Daily and Sunday. It's
Loyalty has never been questioned.
adv.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-06-13
Coio~a That Falie

coio~s That 49,
Anfline coaors often e 10 entirely
different coaors while vegetable dyes
usually fade to tones of their own par
ucular colorA The finest Oriental
rugs owe their sort. wonderful colors
entirely to vegetable lyes-ln fact, the
Persian govs~nraent has for years pro-
hibited the Importation of an:line dye@A
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-15
fiEN IN SERVICE
MAY HOLD THEIR
WAR INSURANCE

WASHINGTON, Nov. lS.-Prepara-
lions by the government for reinsuring
the lives of soldiers and sailors on their
return have been FASTENED by the sign
ing of the armistice. Although regu-
lations have not yet been fully drafted,
il is certain that each of the 1850. 900
men in the military or naval service.
row holding voluntary government in
SUr1nce. will be permitted within five
years after peace is declared. to convert
Z without further medical examination,
into ordinary life, tventy-year pay life,
endowment maturing at the age of six
ty--two, or other prescribed forms of In
surance.
This insurance will be arranged by
the government, not by private compa-
MES. and the cost is expected to be ut
least one-fouTth less than similar forms
offered by private agencies.
The government win arrange to col
lect premiums monthly. II men wish to
paw that way. or for longer periods IN
advance. This may be done through
pOstotfices. The minimum amount of
Insurance 70 be issued probably will he
$1,000. and the maximum $4,000. with
any amount between those sums in
multipleS of $500. There will he pro-
vision for payments in case or disabili-
" as well as death. according 10 the
tentative plan.
The insurance NAV &c purchased by
any soldier. sailor or maTine-Ctticer or
enlisted man-and by women members
Of the army or navy nurse corps. pro-
viding they already hold government
voluntary life insurance
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-15
OUESTIONNAIRES
ARE TO BE SENT
BACK UNSIGNED

WASHINGTON. Nov. ia new rul-
ing by the provost marshal general TO-
day. sent to local selective service
boards throughout the country, provided
that all registered men who have re-
ceived their questionnaires, shall return
them to the local board, though hey
need not be filled out.
The order yesterday was that all
questionnaires now in the hands of men
who had not passed their seth birth lay,
on September u, last. should be filled
out and returned and all others ignored.
To clear up any confusion &c neral
Crowder today ordered that all ques-
tionnaires received be returned to the
board unsigned.
Plans for returning demOblized sol
diers into industries through the local
draft boards were being worked out by
Provost Marshal General CIowder to-
day. Under General Crowder's plan,
which is tentative and still witheu:
formal approval of the war department,
soldiers will be discharged only as fas-
as their local boards could find jobs fo-
them to step into.
Each local board would act as a SOL
dierS' employment agency until demob-
iiization of the whole national army was
complete.
The system would return the sol
diers to civil life by exactly the same
course as they were taken into the army.
Rough details as worked out at General
Crowder's Office follow:
Each board has a record of the obs
the soldiers left when they Joined the
army so the first step would be to ask
the former employer if he wished to
reemploy the man.
All employers would be asked to list
their labor needs with the local boarcs
and the kind of work the soldiers wanted
aScertainGd.
If the local boards inform the COM
mander of a decentralization camp that 1T
could place fifty machinists, that mum
Der of men coming under the jurisdic-
ton of the board making the request
could at once ne discharged from the
army directly Into civil joo3.
Congressman who w5re acquainted
with Crowder's plan today indorSsd 1t,
declaring it was the only possible way
so far suggested for demobilizing an
army of millions of men without a sud
den quitting of the labor markets and
consequent disturbances in every CON-
munity in the country.