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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-09-04
Cottage Dresses
S1.98

Practical Dresses for
home wear; made of white
beach cloth with plaid pat
terms, in green, cerise, tan
and blue. Straight = line
pleated style, with collars,
cuffs and pocket flaps of
white pique. Sizes SO to
AZ.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-09-04

proof and the safest kind to wear with
wash dresses. Made of good firm pique.
fitted style, with embroidered scalops at
the bottom.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
TOWN LOCALS

R. M. Rand of st. Johnsbury was
in town Tuesday.
Mrs. T. C. Carr was a visitor in
Sherbrooke, Que. Manday.
Mrs. Frank Danforth is ill and
Mrs. Peavey is caring for her.
The basket ball game.Friday night
between the Island Pond H. S. and
the Gorham H. S. was won by the
home team by score of 81 to 9.
All members of Erastus Buck
Relief Corps, No. 80, are earnestly
requested to attend installation Of
officers on Saturday, Jan. IL, 2::30 p.
M, sharp, after which lunch will be
served by the ladies. All members
of the G. A. R. are invited to attend.
Miss Ella Moye was i'll several days
this week.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
Mrs. Eliza Lowell

Mrs. Eliza Lowell, who died Friday
Dec. 21st, after an illness of but a
few weeks, was born in Greensboro
in 1858 and was the youngest daugh-
ter of Samuel and Eliza Bailey of
that place.
The family came to Burke in 1871
and later she married Harrison
Lowell. They lived in East Burke
and Kirby and one son Howard, was
born to them. The home was
broken up after a while and Mrs.
Lowell came to this village, where
she had been successful dressmaker
for many years. She was member
of the Methodist church and will be
sadly missed in the community where
she had lived so long.
Besides her son, Howard, she
leaves two sisters, Miss Nancy Bailey
and Mrs. l.. D. Bugbee, both of
West Burke. The funeral was held
at the church Monday p. M, Rev.
W. c. Arnold officiating and the
burial was in Hillside cemetery.
The sorrowing family have the deep
sympathy of the whole community.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
Chas.aH.yFOgg

Chas. H. Fogg former resident
of West Burke passed away at his
home at St. Johnsbury, where he
moved about a month ago, Sunday
Dec. 23rd.
He was born at Sutton "a years
ago and had always made his home
in this vivinity with the exception of
ten years at Springfield. where he
had worked at his trade as meat
cutter.
He married Mrs. Francis Durkee
Stebbins and to them was born one
son, Claude, who now resides at
Bellows Falls. After Mrs. sFogg's
death he later married Miss Luella
Anger, who survives.
The funeral was held at his late
home Wednesday and burial was in
the North Ridge cemetery, Sutton,
with prayer at the grave by Rev. w.
G. Arnold of West Burke.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
PROBATE NOTICE

Regular sessions of the Probate
Court for the district of Essex will
be held at GuidhaIl on the first
Wednesday of each month, in the
forenoon.
At Island Pond, the first Wednes-
day of January, April, July and
October, in the afternoon.
At Lunenburg, the second Wednes-
day of January, April, July and Octo-
ber, in the forenoon.
At Concord in the afternoon of the
same days.
Special sessions will be held by
arrangement.
Communications should be sent to
Edwin o. CARL, Judge, Canaan, or
to George A. Hubbard, Register,
Guildhall
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
44O GIG

With reference to Concord it should
be said that this town has already eX-
ceeded its quota by large number and in
addition the canvassers were delayed and
hindered by various causes including
illness and the failure to reach its quota
is not to be attributed to lack Of interest
or want Of patriotism, for the local branch
has done nobly in the work Of making
clothing and nccessaries for the soldiers,
Much credit is due not only to the local
town chairmen but also to the several
eanvassers who assisted materially in
bringing about the splendid results
obtained.
Essex county has never been back
Ward in any good or patriotic work and
the result of this drive indicates, as Judge
Brown stated in his first letter TO the
town chairmen THAT Essex will do
her part and when necessary will go
over the top.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
WINS AND LOSES ARGUMENT
Persistent Irishman Dragging of
Lighting Pipe With Last Match,
Puts 1t Out With Oratory.

Philosophy may be wonderful
thing for the classroom, but there's an
Irish foreman on the subway work
who will tell you in emphatic subway
vernacular that it Is wasted In con-
structlon work, muses. New York cor
respondent. 1t was after the din
ner pail period when the foreman
crammed his little old Joy box full of
terbaccy and reached in his pocket for
a match. There was none there. A
canvass Of his crew revealed one box
Of matches-the kind that occasional
ly light. There were just seven
matches In the box, and the foreman
knew that he must get light or do
without his dessert. Carefully he
shielded the first match with his coat
IS he struck. 1t f1zzled. The second
failed to give a spark. The third and
fourth were equally futile, and the
fifth and sixth sputtered only long
enough to wiring forth prOfane protests
from the foreman. With excessive
care he drew the seventh from the
Dox. To his delight 1t blazed up strong
and, with gratitied grunt, he lighted
his pipe.
Il was afraid wasn't going to get
the light at ALL" he told his men.
'That all goes to show that persist
ance is the thing, boys; stick to 1t is
my motto. You see, if had got mad'
(and he gestured with his pipe to show
what he meant), II wouldn't have
been smoking now from the best little
pipe In the world. Take 1t from me,
boys, you'll always win out If yer fol-
low me-" And then, while the crew
sniggered meanly, he put his pipe back
In his mouth to discover that 1t was
out.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
WEST BURKE

Mrs. o. L. Worthen is entertaining
her sister, Miss Fish.
Miss Draper, a former teacher
here, was in town recently visiting
friends.
Ernest Smith of Randolph visited
his father, Marshall Smith and other
relatives the past week.
Ms. Eugene Gentley and children
spent Xmas with her father, Oliver
Counter, at Lyndonville.
Mrs. c. C. Ramsay entertained her
nephew, Rev. Claude Gilbert of
Kingston, Ontario, the past week.
Paul Hatch of Montpelier has
been a guest at S. Leach's this week.
Carl Way was home from Island
Pond this week for a visit.
Clyde Smith and Miss Hancock of
White River, spent Xmas at Sidney
Brigham's.
G. A. Jameson and family visited
relatives at Hardwick the past week.
Mrs. Nettie Mccoy of Woodsville,
N. H., Miss Angie Davis of Mont
Clair, N. j., Miss Celia Spencer of
Waltham, Mass, and Miss Laila
Roundy of Springfield are all home
for the holidays
Mrs. C. C. Ramsay spent Xmas
with her sister at Sherbrooke, Que.
Mrs. Sophia Gentley returned
home Tuesday after spending a week
with her granddaughter, Mrs. Arth-
ur Bishop, at Burlington.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
TO REGISTRANTS
Where You Can Get Help in
Filling Out YOurQuestiOnnaire

Assistance in filling out the ques-
tionnaires may be obtained at all
times at the municipal court room.
During the day Messrs. Powell,
Cameron, Amey and Dyer are at
your service. In the evening a reg
ular schedule of periods from 7 to 9
p. m. is observed as follows:
Monday, Dyer.
Tuesday, Saunders.
Wednesday, Bagley.
Thursday, Jones.
Friday, Paquette.
Saturday, Sadlier.
Bear in mind that this service is
free, therefore as soon as your ques-
tionnaire arrives collect all necessary
information and go to the municipal
court room in the opera house block.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
Fresh Cut Meat and Bone as an
Egg Producer.

Fresh Cut Meat and Bone has been
called the Ideal Food for laying hens be-
cause it contains in highly concentrated
but easily assimilated from all the ma
trials which are contained in. the egg.
If your hens are not laying you had
better send IS 90 to G. S, Page, Hyde
Park, VT, for 2OO-pound barrel of this
Food. At this price he will pay the
freight your railroad station. When
writing him mention this paper.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
Special Notice

Until further notice, all services,
etc., of Christ (EpiscopaD Church,
will be held in the basement of the
Church in order TO assist in the con
servation of fuel.
Services will be held at the usual
hours, (as per announcement each
week in this paper) to which every
body is cordially welcomed.
H. Montgomery Simpson, Rector.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
"JOan The Woman"

Joan the Woman" is production
that will take the conceit out of the
male mind. What wonderful con-
trast there is between the brave, coura-
geous Joan and the spiritless King
Charles VII, of France!
So much for the story and it's effect
npon the humans who see it and who
cannot help but be benefited by its
glorious lesson. Looking at the produc-
ton from its other side, namely, the
acting, the photography and the direc-
ton. There is only one other photo
drama in existence that may equal it
for perfection. In arrangement and
artistic beauty it stands alone. The
man who cut this film and fitted it to its
various scenes is an artist. The credit
for this, as we'll as for the wonderful
direction, must be given to Cecil B.
DeMile, who ranks among the greatest
of our producers and who, by this picture
has proved my contention to be correct.
The average director finds it difficult
to stage even an ordinary battle scene
correctly. These battle scenes are
anything but ordinary. The least slip
or mistake could easily have changed
their atmosphere into one OF comedy
instead OF dramatic. The bow and arrow
soldiers are so far back in the distant
past that in these days of sixteen-inch
guns it is hard to grasp the fact that
their winged shafts were as deadly and
almost as accurate as bullets. The
heavy and unwieldly swords would seem
sadly out of date were it not for the
excellent direction OF this picture brings
forth their real deadliness in true form.
The character portrayals are wonder
fully carried out 1t is by far the great
est piece of acting that Geraldine Farrar
has ever done upon the screen. No one
could have filled the place in photo
drama of Joan of Arc as this wonderful
actress has done. Her every emotion
is displayed with startling vividness
and her self sacrificing spirit is shown
through it all. In costume as we'll as
manner she lives up to all our ideals
built around the historical character.
In her love scenes she is sublime. Where
she abandons love to duty, she shows,
without OVERRIDING the part, Just how
greatly she is torn by conflicting emo
tons. And when she dies in the fire
one can almost hear the cracking of
the fagots as the flames leap up about
her.
Wallace Ried deserves lot of credit
for his Characterization of the reckless
Englishman who is finally brought to
the feet of the girl he laughed at. The
work of Theodore Robert and Hobert
BOSWorth Is par excellent.
One of the many wonderful things
OF this production is the coloring which
is nothing short of marvellous. The
effects used in the fire that consumes
Joan of Arc make the flames to reallsted
that it is hard to believe that they are
only photographs.
As a work Of art alone this picture
should be seen by everybody, but its
worth as an instrument for uplift and
patriotism is incalculable.
Joan The Woman" will be presented
at the Opera House next Wednesday
Jan. 9th, positively guaranteed attrac-
tion and biggest thing in the line OF
photo-play made since Birth Of Nation
Dance after the show. All Reserved seats.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
Had the Grip Three Wee ks

With January comes lagrippe, Lin
gering colds seem to settle in the
system, causing one to ache all over,
feel feverish and chilly. tired, he avy
and dropping. Mrs. Lizzie Tyles,
Henderson, Ky, writes: my daught-
er had lagrippe for three weeks. |
gave her Foley's Honey and Tar and
now she is alright. John w. Thurs
ton. Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
INCOME TAX man
VIII be Here to Help YOu-Bet-
ter Get That Income all Fig
ured Out.

1t will require small army Of men to
ske the income tax returns of spersons
rbject to the new law.
Collector of gInternal Revenue Seth w.
Jones has announced that over 80
officers will start from his headquarters
on January 1st and on January 2nd every
one of them will be on the job in the
county assigned him, to meet the people
and help them make out their income
tax returns. The dates when officers
will be found in your locality follow:
County Town Dates
Essex, Island Pond Feb 2 to Feb. 6
Essex, Concord Jan. II only
Caledonia, St. Johnsburp Jan 2 to
Jan. II
Orleans Newport Jan. IA to Jan. 26,
1T will be well for every unmarried
person whose net income sfor 1917 is
S1,0GG or over, and every married person
living with wife or husband whose net
income for 1917 is $1,000 or over, to
call On the income tax man and learn
whether or not they have any tax to
pay, Collector Jonss said to-day. The
person subject to tax who does MT make
returns in the time prescribed is going to
regret it. The Government will get
after all income tax slackers.
There's hardly a business man,
merchant or professional who won't have
to make return Of income. Farmers, as
a class, will have to pay the tax. The
safe thing to do is for every person who
had total income of $1,000 or $1,000
as the case may be, and who is not sure
about what deductions the law allows
him, to play it safe by calling on the
income tax man.
THE man in the field will have forms
for everybody and persons who expect
to call on him need not trouble them
selves to write to my office for forms
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04

Mrs. o. L. Worthen is entertaining
her sister, Miss Fish.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
Extremely Cold

One of the most severe cold waves
recorded has held this section in an
ice bound grip for the past week
with very little variation in the tenn
perature. The lowest recorded was
58 degrees.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
RED CROSS MEMBERS
Results of "Red Cross Christmas
Drive" i'm Essex County.

The following figures are given as the
results Of the big drive for new members
for the Red Cross in Essex County also
the quota for each town asked for by
Judge Kyle T. Brown County Chairman
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04
In MenOriam

In loving Memory of my dear
husband, Ernest R. Wilder, died
December "a, 1916.
| think of him in silence,
No eye can see me weep,
Yet ever in my aching heart
His memory | will keep.
Wife.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-13

said Sergt. Boyle. 1--WE were startled
by meon falling In our midst. 1t
was q German out on patrol We
nabbed him and took him back to
headquarters. He proved to be 3
feed and asked him when the relief
was coming in and other questions
He'd Bring EN- All Over.
ffHe gave answers very readily.
So impressed was he with the recep
lion he had received he said:
If Won let me go back and tsu
the others how you have treated me
I'll bring the whole battalion
over. BE said the Prussisn Of
6cers had told the men it was GER
tain death to be taken by the
British. If he hadn't been ac-
quaInted with our positions we
would have taken q chance on him.
The kits worn by the Scots have
been much in discussion in this war.
At one time the British government
seriously considered asking the
H~ighlanders TO discard their plai6s-
the government would Fever order
it-because of their cthspicuousness.
8NtA though ne IEaILc0 Ills EDUlu
decrease the number Of casualties,
the Scot turned down the suggestion
fatty, but consented to wear a khaki
colored shield over the plaids-
Coolies tbody hce) have been
the bane OF the Scotch. "Cooties''
are not very discriminating but they
have a special affection for kiltie&
They climb up under the kits and
take refuge under the waist band.
II is no uncommon sight 70 see a
highlander IN the midst Of battle
drop his rifle and begin a hunt for =
voracious cootie,'' machine gun
bullets singing and shells bursting
around his head the while.
Baseball Takes With Scotch.
American influence is playing
havoc with Scotch pastimes behind
the lines. The Scotch are rapidly
becoming accomplished in baseball
and a short time ago when a High
land nine defeated an American
can the London papers proclaimed
the fact all over one page.
1t is a cinch that after the wal
the crack of the bat will be heard
in many a village in the land OF
thistles and heathez.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-13

The bonny land of Harry Lauder
and Gen. Haig has contributed TO
the cause since the outbreak of war
100000 hardy Scots and Canada has
given up some 100000 who once
s~auntered through Highland wales
and dells. It can be said with safety
that there ism t an able bodied Scot
of fighting age left in the cities and
villages of their native land. And
it can also be said that there are
thousands of little white crosses in
France that mark the graves of de-
parted Clocks"
Even greater have been the deeds
of the Black Watch, the Seaforth
Highlanders, the Kings Own Scot
fish and the Argyle and Sutherland
Highlanders in this war than in the
days when Napoleon saw their In
broken fronts at Waterloo and the
Russians their tapping kits on the
Crimea. Time and again these regi-
ments have been reformed; and
never once have they emerged from
conflict with anything but victory
and laurels.
Americans Now With Scotch.
American soldiers are fighting
shoulder to shoulder with these lads
now and it is only well that Ameri-
can fathers and mothers whose boys
are brigaded with these valiant war
riors should have a glimpse of the
chaps whom Fritz has so respect
fully dubbed, "The Ladies OF He'll"
From no better source could this in
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-13
Bayonets Win Where Gunfre Fails.

"A fresh brigade was brought up to take
the position. 1t failed. Pretty soon the Sea
forth Highlanders appeared with fixed bayo-
nets. They were ordered to take the position
with cold STEEL They weren It to hold it
Others could do that; they were just to
take it.
"They took it-and just with their bayo.
nets.
"And I think of our own battalion" he
continued. cit was the 53rd, the Canadian
Scottish. Major Gordon commanded it. You
must know him in this ~country-Ralph Con
nor7 The man who wrote Black Rock and
those other s~tories7 AS brave a man as ever
lived One night five hundred of
US were sent over to take a strip Of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-13

If German invention has
coined anything beyond Kultur
or as we best know it
frightfulness-it is the one
phrase, 1.-The Ladies of He'll"
In polite society, busy with its
knitting needles, this awesome
and rather shocking sobriquet
invites a suggestion of Furies
and that is just what the Hun
sought to convey.
1.-The Ladies of HeH,'' as Fritz
calls them, are the gallant Scotch.
Kitchener referred to them as the
grandest soldiers in all the world
the backbone of the British army.
And Kitchener was an Irishman. Ex-
PLOTS of the "Ladies of He'll" have
been given little public notice in
this war because the British govern
ment is not given to open praise of
individual regiments or troops and
the pens of the poets are still too
busy with other things to draft odes
and epics to the lads of the heather
Given 6oo,oo to The Cause.
But German respect for these ira
ditionally noted fighters, conveyed
through the expression, "'The Ladies
of He'll" and tales brought back by
returned Canadians disclose with
shining vividness the incompatible
valor of these killed ladies from
the United KINGDOM
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-13
The Tale of The Wee Scots

Every time they entered q trench
the fire step had to be built up-also
the parapet. Likewise the relieving
battalion had to reconstruct the
whole works to suit their height.
AS fortune would have it the wee
lads were going into a position just
vacated by the Grenadier Guards
All the grenadiers are six feet tall.
They make up one of England s IN
perial regiments and are regarded as
one of the Kingdoms greatest and
oldest collection of fighters.
"where you goin' growied one
Of the grenadiers.
cup TO take the position the
Crenadiers couldn' Z take" piped a
little Scotchman.
And they did.
Fair play IS Legendary with the
Scot. Strange TO say it is something
The German doesr t Ike.
When q Scotchman attacks with q
bayonet he singles ont his adversary,
generally with, "Come on, Fritz,
let 5 90 TO ut; IL YOU or me-
If Fritz hasn't his gang he
usually cheats it.
The Germans Learn F. ASSSon-
Scotch troops are n type that
Germans VIII never maltreat.
One day Prussians captured a half
dozen ~Scotchmen, stripped them and
sent them across No Man S land to
their own lines. AS the men reached
the center of the death strip, the
Germans turned loose their machine
guns.
The H~ighlanders in the trenches,
without barrage OF as much as a
shot, went over with one bound with
their bayonets and cleaned out every
Prussian in the opposing trench.
The Scotch think well of the
Prussiaps-as fighters; pretty well
of the Bavarians and are filed with
compassion for the Saxons.
"Were it not for the fact the
Prussians mix their non-commis-
stoned officers in with the Saxons, -
said Sergt. Boyle, "they would do
little fighting. The Saxon hates the
Prussian and the Prussian has only
contempt for the Saxon
This led to a little story.
Zone night while in a bombing
station just in front of our lines
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-13
And They Took tho Trench.

"The boys reached the wire with the "Fritzies returned soldiers
neve speak of the Germans SAVE as Frtz-"rippng out IN awful
machine gun fire. Men were falling right and left. But do you think
any of those boys would go back7 Not FOR a moment They sat right
down in the wire and very deliberately cut their way through
'And they took the trench
There was a moments silence.
How many survived" someone asked at length.
"Fortyfve,' = replied the corporal.
Now there are big Scots and little Scots. They both have the in
dominatable will even though there be a difference in stature. Also a
dry wit that never loses its melowness in the most trying situations
One day when fighting was fercest around Fresnoy a battalion Of
these little Scotchmen were advancing to the attack For reasons best
known TO the soldiers the little Scotchmen we're more orlessin dlstavor