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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
STANNARD

Thomas J. Goethe, a former resi-
dent, but now residing in Greensboro
passed away at his fathers home,
Wednesday, at 1 O'clock p. m. He
had been sick about two weeks with
Spanish Influenza and seemed so weak
and down-spirited that he was re-
moved Sunday from his room at Mr..
Gray's where he had been working
for some time, but not till pneumo-
MIA had set in, and the end came
easily and quickly. He was 20 years
old and one of our finest young men.
He leaves a father and mother, MI.
and Mrs. William and Sarah Brown
Goethe Of Greensboro and two BROTH
ers, Lee. and Ted The interment will
be at Lower Stannard.
Miss Mildred Fuller, daughter of
Fred and Matte Drew Fuller, passed
into the great beyond, Wednesday,
October. 9, at Walter Kings in
Greensboro. Her mother was able
to be with her to the end She leav-
es father and mother, two brothers
and two sisters, grandfather and
grandmother, Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram
Drew, also uncle and aunts and a
host of friends to mourn her loss. She
will be buried at Lower Stannard.
Mr. Ransome, an aged resident,
passed quietly away Wednesday at
his home in upper STANDARD. Inter
ment was in Stannard.
LID. Leavitt and entire family are
sick with the prevailing Influenza
Mrs. Lucfndy Dow and Aggie Me-
Lellan are caring for the sick.
Mrs. Myrtle Gray's sister and hus-
band and three little children have
come to care for Mr.. and Mrs. Gray
as the entire family are sick with
the Spanish Influenza. Also her Sis
ter's daughter, Emma, and sons, Guy
and Harold, were taken sick with
the influenza at Mr.. Gray's the next
day after arriving from st. Johns
| bury for a short visit.
| Mrs. Fossie Leavitt Smith is Sc
riously sick at her fathers, L. d
/ Lcavitt's.
Miss Ruth and Kate Bartlett arc
able to be out after having the Span
| ish influenza.
! rl,~f a.. .s,- a.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
Decimatind.

Originally, defamation was q mill
tary punishment of the Romans, who
dealt with large bodies of rebels, pris-
oners or mutinous soldiers by execut-
ing one man in ten. In popular use
Today, defamation means the destruc-
ton of a large proportion of anything
as, ''the epidemic has decimated the
population" or "the Prussian guards
were decimated at Yerdun.''
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
WOULD SELL CHILDREN
German Morality q, a Low Ebb

Amsterdam, Oct. 10-To what ex-
tremes the morality of the Germans
has descended is shown in this adj
vertisement in the Magdeburger
Zeitung: "Single man desires to dis
pose of his FIVE children. girls ages
5, 4, 10, IL and 10; what offers?2--
C, R., Iii, office of. this paper"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
LOST AND FOUND.
Ancient ThessaIonika.

British soldiers out at Salonika have
little love to spare for the place. '"They
say out there" remarked Welsh war
rior home on leave, "that it dropped
out of Gods pocket" Yet IS centu-
ries ago it had Christian church so
Important that st. Paul devoted to it.
two Of his immortal epistles.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
Cannon Balls Are Roun6.

Artist-There's one good feature
about this war: there won't be any
cannon balls TO stack up In ugly piles
in our parks. These old cannon balls
are absolutely inappropriate for our
public squares.
Cholly-Stiil, you know, you can't
get square cannon balls. can your
Cartoons Magazine.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
Ribbons Substituted for Iron Crosses

tsto0VNo SNoosts0eSA W. h'Sff - SSsSSs
In Germany iron is so scarce that
enough cannot be spared to make all
the Iron Crosses needed to carry out
the governments policy of wholesale
distribution of war honors. At least
such a condition is strongly indicated
by souvenir from battlefield that
has been received in this country. 1t
is a black and white ribbon which the
sender, medical officer. asserts is one
of many that have been awarded in
lieu of crosses. The ribbon was found
on the body of dead enemy-Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
To Skin Beets.

An easy way to skin a beet without
bleeding it and causing it to lose color
is to put it in cold water as soon as it
is cooked. Then draw the hand gently
down the beet and the skin will drop
off without trouble.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
CONCORD
Death of Herbert H. Hodge

0ES8lf1 VI l.. f1OQRG
Herbert Hayden Hodge, whose
funeral was held from the Universal
ist church, Wednesday,, Oct. 2, died
Monday, Sept. 80, from double pneu-
monia following Influenza, at Han
over, N. H. Mr.. Hodge was % years
old and only son of Charles K. and
Isabel Hodge. He was called into
service from Franconia, N. H., where
he has been employed for the past
three years. He was connected with
the Training Department at Dart
mouth. His mother died when he was
seven years of age. He is survived
by his father and step mother, one
sister, Vivian Lesta Stone, of SPRING
field, Mass, one half brother, Will
liam P. Hodge of Franconia, a half
sister, Ern1ina, of Portland Me. The
interment was at Lancaster, N. H.
A lieutenant escorted his remains to
their resting place. Fred Woods and
Charles Mcpherson, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Hodge of Franconia, Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace Houghton and
daughter, Ruth, of Lyndon were cal
led here for the funeral
r. J. Bennett was in St. Johnsbury
Tuesday to attend the funeral of his
nephew, Robert Bennett.
Mrs. K. F. Richards, Earl and Wal
ter Douglas are improving after an
o44oal, ae ;,,A,,oY7a Us q u
Cyrus Sims and Mansel Jewell are
i'll.
Rev. and Mrs. P j. MacInnis have
moved from rooms in Mrs. Luette
Lewis house to F. E. Hastings
house. ~
Several from here attended the
burial of Pvt. Arthur Burt at Grove
Cemetery, East st. Johnsbury, We'd
nesday afternoon. The l. O. O. F
of ST. Johnsbury of which he was
a member performed their service a
the grave. Mr.. Burt was the only
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Burt Of
this place and had many friends il
this vicinity, besides his parents hi
is survived by wife to whom mucl
sympathy is extended.
A. NJ. Rood was called to Boston
Tuesday night to report as enginee1
for naval duty.
w. H. True received Telegram
Wednesday announcing the death o.
his brother-in-law, Roswell Powers
in Arizona.
Frank Reed of St. Johnsbury wa
! in town Wednesday,.
Mrs. O. w. Baker is i'll from in
fiuenza at the home of her mother
Mrs. S. S. Thompson, Potter Place
N. H. Mr. Baker and little son, Her
bert, returned from there Wednes
day.
Madam Sarah Gray has re'turne'
from a visit in Montpelier.
Rev. and Mrs. w. J. Bradford ar
i'll from Influenza.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11

James Franck and his wife, an
aged pair living a rather secluded life
near Edwardsville, Pa, have refused
to turn their clocks ahead, according
to the national decree and practice.
They have read what the other peo-
pie have done toward saving daylight
but they declare they are too old in
life TO start any new practices.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
Iron Rust.

Few stains are SO obstinate as iron
rust is. They may, however, be re-
moved from delicate fabrics by cover
Ing the spot thickIy with cream tartar,
then twisting the cloth to keep the tar
tar on the spot itself. Put that part
into a pan of cold water. bring gradu-
ally to boiling point. and afterwards
rinse in the usual Way.-Exchange
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
Nest WallfIowers Penperx.

The mustard family contains more
than two thousand species and in
cludes cabbage, cauliflower, turnip,
radish, hcrseradish and, in ornameR
tails, the stocks, sweet alyssum and the
wallf1ower.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11

For literally shooting trees to
death a pistol has been invented by
an Englishman thatfres steel bolts
into their limbs to tear out the liv-
ing cores.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11
147 Acre Farm $500 With
Pair Horses, 3 Cows and

Wagons, buggy, moving machine.
harrow, pillow, cultivator, hay rake,
all hay, corn, oats, potatoes, crops
on place; on good road, short walk
school, 2 miles town, stores, churches,
mills, creamery, etc. so acres ma
chine-worked fields, meadows cutting
so tons hay, 1s-cow brook-watered
pasture, estimated 800 cords wood
timber, fruit. .10-room house, base
ment barn, running water house
barn, other buildings. Everything
goes only $500, easy terms. Details
page Is Strout's new Fall Farm Cat
alogue of this and other unequalled
bargains, many with stock, tools
crops; copy free. e. A. STROUT
FARM AGENCY. DEPT. 1892. los
Main street, Burlington, Vt.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
$4,000, 900, 1000 Bond
Bill Passes Senate

WASHINGTON. July 5.-The Admin
istration bill authorizing issuance of
$4,000, 100000 additional in Liberty
bonds and providing an additional
$500, 100000 for loans to the Allies,
passed recently by the House, was
passed late to-day by the Senate with
out amendment or 1ollcal. 1t now
goes to President Wilson,
The bill, which was recommended by
the Treasury Department in anticipa-
ton of the fourth Liberty Loan in
October, increases to $22 900 900 900
the authorizations for bond issues
made since the war began. The new
bonds would bear interest at not more
than AZ per cent.
There was no opposition to the bill
and comparatively brief debate. Sem
ator Simmons. of North Carolina.
chairman of the Finance Committee'
In explaining the measure said the
governments requirements this fiscal
year are estimated at $4,000 900 O00.
but that this might have to be in
creased.
Senator Smoot, of Utah. and Nc
Cumber, of North Dakota. said the
measure should authorize $4,000 900.
900 additional bonds. while Senator
Smoot declared that the country's pro
duction capacity is not large enough
TO cause actual expenditure this year
of $4,000, 100000.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Four Arrests Made
In Bond Theft Case
Three Men Held Here and
One in New
Haven

With three men under arrest here, a
fourth in New HaFen and others
watched closely, the .police last night
expected to solve the mysterious theft
OF $4,000 in negotiable bonds and s16,-
600 in cash from ar Adams Express
Company's pouch while Ell route from
New York to New Haven on June 81.
One CT The men under arrest is David
Nussenblatt, twenty-t two, of 83O9 Nine
teenth Street, Brooklyn. He is charged
with receiving stolen property. He was
arrested when he called at local bro
ker's office to collec9 for the sale Of
some of the missing bonds. Through
the arrest of Nussenblatt, according to
the police, $4,000 worth Of the bonds
have been recovered
1t is said two other arrests were
made, both men being taken in gam
bling house in The Bronx. The police
believe they eventually will recover all
bonds and most Of che cash.
Under arrest in New Haven is Russo,
startzell, twenty-one. who says he lives
IN New York City. He is held in Sc. 900
bail on charge OF idleness.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Deferred Draftees
Must Prove They
Are I'm War Jobs

Martin Conboy, Director of the Draft
for New York City, announced yester-
day that a thorough investigation of
every case of registrant now enjoy
ing deferred classification as q neces-
sary employe in an essential industry
will begin Immediately.
Within ten days every man of this
group must furnish his local board with
further proof of the nature Of the en-
terprise with which he is connected
and of the character and necessity of
his services.
A comprehensive QUESTIONABLE has
been evolved calculated to bring out
whether his particular industry is es-
sential to either the military establish
ment or the maintenance of the ma
tional interest during the emergency.
All registrants continued in the de-
ferred classification for industrial rea-
sons must file a statement with their
boards between the first and the fifth
day of each month setting forth
whether or not they are in an industry
warranting their temporary exemption.
If this report is not submitted each
month, beginning September l, the
registrant automatically will be re-
classified into Class IA.
MI. ConbOy announced tnaC an Op-
portunity for special induction into the
service is being offered to $50 New
York City registrants who have cleri-
cal experience. They must be certified
for this service before July 10, as they
entrain for Camp Johnston, Jackson
vile, Fla, on July IS.
No rcgistrant can enlist in the army.
navy or Marine Corps unless the Pro-
vost Marshal directs his local board to
permit such enlistment, it was an
nounced to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Three Negro Soldiers
Hanged for Assault

CAMP DODGE, Iowa, July 5.-Three
negro soldiers, convicted by courtmar-
tial of "assaulting and outraging" a
seventeen-year-cld white girl on the
cantonmcnt grounds the night Of May
"a, were hanged here to-day with vir-
tually the entire division witnessing
the executions.
The three traps were sprung stimuli
tancously at 9:09 A. NJ, and death was
almost instantaneous. The negroes
marched onto the scahFolds singing
"God Have Mercy on My Soul"
The negroes were Nelson Johnson, of
Tuscumbia, Ala; Stanley Tramble, Of
Stroud, Ala, and Fred Allen, of Geor-
giana, Ala, all selectivc service men.
Johnson aud Tramblc We're declared
BY military police officials to have con-
fessed their guilt but Allen, while ad-
mittirg his presence, maintained he
had not outraged the girl
Three negro soldiers among the spec
tators tainted when the men dropped
to their death and another ran amuck
He started on run directly toward
the scaffoid. but guards overpowered
him. A white soldier also tainted.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Congress Agrees on
II Billion Army Bill;
Alters Draft Basis
Quotas Are To Be Figured
on Glass IA Instead of
State Populations

WASHINGTON, July b.-Senate and
House conferrees reached an agreement
to-day on the $12,000 100000 army ap-
preparation bill
Most Of the Senate amendments, in
cluding that for organization Of vol
sunteer Slavic legion and to base army
draft quotas on the number Of men in
Glass l instead Of state populations,
were retained, as was the House pro-
vision giving the President unlimited
authority to increase the army by calls
under the draft law.
The Senate amendment authorizing
the President to appoint two majo
generals Eat large" designed for Gen
eral Crozier, chief of ordnance, and
Quartermaster General Sharpe, was ac-
copied by the House conferrees.
committee compromise on the SEN
ate amendment increasing the number
Of officers in the medical corps provides
for two major generals and two briga-
dier generals to the regular staff Of the
corps and one major general and two
brigadiers for the National Army over
seas.
The bill as revised carries appropria-
tions Of $12,0S5, ,0OO,0 900, an increase of
$44,000,000 over the aggregate author
lied by the House. The principal ap-
propriatons, all left unchanged, in
clude: Ordnance and ammunition,
$4,000, 100000; clothing, $1,230,000, 900;
machine guns $575,0OO,0O0; armorad
motor cars, s3A7,ooo,ooo; transporta-
tion, $1,532, 100000. and aviation,
88400O,O0O.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
American, Metal Co.
Denies CHARGES
OF Profteerin4

Denying that it is profiteer and
explaining it's proHt-sharing methods,
the American Metal Company. Ltd,
one of the concerns named by the Fed
eral Trade Commission in its report a
few days ago as having profited heavily
since the war, has written to the com
mission setting forth it's defence.
Copies of the letter, signed by c. NJ.
Loeb, resident of the company, were
forwarded to the newspapers at the
same time.
In his letter Mr.. Loeb asserts that
the profitsharing system in vogue in
the company was il. existence in 1887.
and has been ever since. BY it, Mr..
Loeb insisted. the government received
more money from the individuals
taxes than 1t would if the entire profits
were held by the company and it was
called on TO pay tax accordingly.
Moreover Mr.. Loeb added in his
statement, the shares of profit paid to
the officers of the concern are not in
cluded in the items going to make up
the cost of production. Instead Of the
company earning excessive profits,
MIR. Loeb declared them to be exceed
ingly moderate, and in conclusion he
insisted it was entirely unjustiiied to
charge the company with profiteering
in any form.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
New York Men Win
Army Commissions
Especial Dispatch to Tie Trib,en


WASHINGTON. July 5.-Commis-
slons in the National Army were is
sued to-day by the War Department
to the following New York residents:
Ulysses G. Lyons, 81 Chsmbea Street
lieutenant colonel; Frank +. Healey. 5Ss
Bedford Avenue Brooklyn. major; Everett
Jacobs, 542 Fifth Avenue: Ernest Johnston
Preston s3S West End Avenue; Roscoe l..
HRm1sh R,a,shs ha as Wism Street CAPTAINS Albert
Samuel Gordon. S63 Myrtle Avenue, Brook
llyn; Charles Benedict Duffy, 2l9 West
E4ixht,eth Eixhtn Street; Herbert J. Lucas. Sl3
an s''a as7 Ffs r5enk Michael
Noel Jones. Charles f. Corcoran. John p
Wood and Alfred w. rorter. Camp Dix.
second heutenants, Quartermaster Corps.
arthur Robert seligman. % Broad Street.
second lieutenant, Corps of Interpreters.
Marvin Orvile Sansbury, 1910 Palmetto
street. Brooklyn: Israel Joshua Sarasohn.
~ West Sixty fourth Street, chaplains with
RANK OF first leutenants
Alexander w. Beatty, II Macomb'a Place
John r. 5. White. 1872 Rose Street. Freeport,
Long Island Robert Staley, 405 East 204th
Street, first lieutenants Herman Froeb. 67I
Ga5aystSe 0 TS1sr Apysnue p1ssu ss Brookyn John e OTIS
William G. Sutton. 1861 Southern Boulevard.
second heutenants. Sanitary Corps.
fhe following New Workers were commits
Sicned reserve officers:
:, Charles v. Bacon. 8 Park Row. captain,
Engineers.
Lawrence T. Durant 4S East Sixty-frst
street, captain. Ordnance Corps
Eugene Shaw Sullivan, ST. Luke's Hos
pltal. first lieutenant. Medical Corps
Having completed courses in fying at
Southern aviation field. the following have
been commissioned second ieutenants in the
Division OF Military Aeronautics Philp
Randolph Meyer. SIS West l3lst Street ::
Cyril Boyce. 3l4 Barclay Street, Flushing 4:
William Alger Selts, 13l Fort Greene Place.
Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06

city, or the country. to my kno~l-
edge" said Mr.. folks. mas any city
administration pernitted It's license
bureau to invade the field Of religious
activities as in the case Of the Church
Of the Strangers.
"A highly reputable church, estab-
lished more than twenty-five years ago,
with q membership of over 4G0, of
which the Rev. Paul M. Spencer Is the
pastor, is the first victim Of the mon
ster of official censorship, as applied
to religious activities in a great re-
public. While amusements have been
censored, no one has ever believed that
the religious activities Of church
must pass the scrutiny Of an official
license censor. 1t would appear that
religious activities are still subject to
the laws of the Middle Ages.
"The late Mayor Gaynor vetoed a
censorship ordinance for motion pct-
ures during his administration in a
most emphatic message on the ground
that official censors are not needed in
a democracy. He did not believe fn
arbitrary interference with the amuse.
ments Of the people. City interference
with religious activities with him
would have been beyond comprehen-
sion"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Sailors Battle
With Policemen
At Coney Island
Storm Station House to
Free Jackie Who Was
Then in Hospital

One thousand sailors from the New.
York Navy Yard stormed the Coney
Island police station in West Eighth
Street, near Surf Avenue, shortly after
midnight to liberate jackie they sup
posed was in cell there. They were
driven back after half an hours work
by the police reserves on foot and
horseback. The police were forced to
swing their clubs to overawe the crowd.
Marines from the navy yard later drove
the sailors from the island.
The sailor sought by his mates was
undergoing treatment at the Coney
Island Hospital. With him was Patrol
man Mulligan, with whom he had bat
tied. Both were suffering from lacera-
tions and bruises.
Sailor Fighter
Patrolman Mulligan was standing at
the Bowery and Kensington Walk when
he said he saw sailor annoying pass
ersby. Mulligan said he tried to make
the sailor go home. The jackie started
to do SO, then turned, and, with right
swing that Jess Willard would have
envied, laid Mulligan low.
Muligan WAS PROSTATE and the re-
cipiont of many blows from his night
stick in the hands of the sailor when
Patrolman Stillman appeared. He
quickly ended the fight, with the result
that the sailor, as we'll as Mullipan.
was eligible for the hospital Dr.
Wolfe, of Coney Island Hospital. after
first aid treatment, took the sailor and
Mulligan to the institution. Stillman,
without calling up the police station,
went with them.
Then the news that q sailor had been
beaten by the police spread over the
island. Hundreds of sailors, with their
women friends, came running to the
scene OF the battle. Led by a square,
jawed youngster, they marched two by
two, down Surf Avenue to the station.
Into the surprised presence Of Lieuten-
ant Thurston they walked.
We want that sailor that the police
beat up tonight" said one OF them.
1t took some time for them to en-
plain to Lieutenant Thurston just what
had happened. And, ss they talked,
Thurston. sensing the danger from the
lnfuriated crowd, that, outside the sta
ton, numbered thousands, sent for the
reserves and mounted police, and. at
the same time called for help from
Bath Beach and Sheepshead Bay.
Crowd Driven Back
The AConey Island reserves and
mounted men. the former thirty-hve
and the latter totalling fourteen, were
soon on the job and cleared the sta
tion. But it took half an hour to
drive the crowd back to Surf Avenue.
~ swinging their clubs and charging
into the crowd with their horses. the
police finally cleared the front of the
station.
Police Captain Sackett, of the Coney
Island station, sent in a riot call to
the New York Navy Yard. He notife,.
the commandant that there was grave
danger in the mood of the crowd. He
was told that a detachment of ma
rlnes would soon be on the scene in
autos and the sailors would be
rounded up,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Senate Asked to Make
u. S. Dry in 6 Months

WASHINGTON, July b.-Prohibition
advocates in the Senate planned to-
day to seek changes in the pending
Norris amendment to the emergency
agricultural bill so as to prohibit the
sale of whiskey. beer or wine after
six months.
AS reported to the Senate, the Nor
rs amendment prohibits the sale or
withdrawal from bond of distilled
spirits and the manufacture of wine
except for export after June 80, 1919.
1t would forbid the manufacture of
beer three months after approval of
the bill by the President.
Senator Norris, of Nebraska; Sen
ator Hendricks. of Wyoming, and other
prohibition leaders now want to make
the period six months for all intoxi-
cants.
Senator Gore. chairman of the SEN
ate Agriculture Committee, announced
that unless Congress recessed in the
meantime he would call the commit
tee together Monday to consider the
proposed changes in the amendment
A majority of the committee members
were said to favor the changes.