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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15

Without question the largest deal in
IN the State of Vermont was put through
yesterday afternoon when John Walker
of the Vermont Milk Chocolate company,
acting for the local company and it's ally
the Massac husetts Chocolate company OF
Boston. completed arrangements with
Lieut.. j. Leroux a representative of the
Belgian wholesale confectionery firm of
Leroux Brothers, whereby both the YER
mon and Massachusetts companies turned
over every pound of chocolatea and cocoa on
hand in their immense storehouses for i'm
mediate shipment to Belgium and agreed
to run their respective plants night and
day until further notice to supply Belgium
concern with the amount of confectionery
1t wants. The new contract means mil
lions of dollars to Burlington and Boston
companies.
Several hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of chocolate and cocoa were
stored in the new warehouse of the local
concern. and all last night a regiment
of employees worked at full blast loading
in the boxes of chocolate and the barrels
of cocoa into freight cars to be sent to
New York to-day. There will be several
cars and they will go by special train in
order to make connections with a boat
which is to sail on the Goth of this month.
The new agreement will stimulate the
production of the chocolate products, es-
pecially cake chocolate of all varieties for
eating purposes, at the local concern as
never before and will mean that consid-
cradle number of added employees Will be
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE SALVATION ARMY
WANTS 100000
Amount to Be Raised in Next
Weeks Campaign Already APP
pOrtioned for Work in the Com
munities Where 1t Will Come
from
from

In connection with the Salvation Army
campaign to raise 100000 during the
week of May 1925. Burlington being
asked to contribute $4,000 of the sum, it
may be Of interest to fe4syn how this
amount was determined upon as the goal
toward which the Salvation Army would
strive in its drive.
It Is stated that the total amount called
for from the nation represents the sum
all the budgets throughout the country.
For purposes of administration, the Uni
ted States is divided into provinces, each
under the command of a provincial officer,
who reports directly to the national head
quarters of the Salvation Army In New
York. Each province, which may contain
one or several States, Is subdvided into
divisions, with divisional officers report
Ing to provincial officers. The divisions in
turn, are composed of corps, which
are the actual local branches oil the
Salvation Army under corps commando
ers.
Each corps, guided by its knowledge OF
local conditions, has determined tho
amount necessary to carry on the WORK
In, that, community. The amount so desi6-
mated has been scrutinized on the one
hand nv the superior officers at divisional
and DTOt1nClal nehuIuui eSi'' ''''N 80 '+'o
other by citizens of the community not IL
part Of the Salvation Army, but knowing
the army and the community.
Adding TO the amount in each commun-
ity the necessary items which represent
the local community in maintaining ma
tional headquarters and certain phases of
work which are not purely local. the
amount TO BE asked for has been deter
mined. In this way, the funds raised in
each communtyare actually to be expend-
ed in that community for local service to
the people there, except the small percent
age which goes to the national work. The
very citizens who make the gifts will be
in a position to watch the wisdom of the
expenditures.
Thus It will be seen that local needs, de-
termined locally, have been the govern
ing factor in determining the amount TO
be raised for the Salvation Army work.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15

put on the payroll TO speed up the output,
This will also be true of the Massachue
sets Chocolate company's plant at Bos-
ton.
John Walker Of the Vermont Mix Choc-
olate company left Burlington last night
for Boston, where he VIII be in conference
with officials of the Massachusetts Choc-
olate company prior to sailing for Franco
and Belgium on the 24th of this month.
While in the latter country Mr.. Walker
Brothers concern and will draw UP a con-
tract covering their wants.
President Walker expects to transact
considerable business in France relative
to chocolate and cocoa contracts, and
possibly may venture into Italy on the
same mission. He expects to be gone sew
eral months and will be accompanied by
William Cox of the Cox Confectionery
company of Boston. another one of the
battery of five allies engaged in the same
business.
Announcement was made public yester-
day by Mr.. Walker of the coming to
Burlington of the Miller Confectionery
company, another one of the allies of tho
Vermont Milk Chocolate company. This
concern will employ about 800 hands and
will be located about September 1 in tho
new addition which is being built on the
present plant of the Vermont Milk Choco-
late company. The concern will be oper-
ated on a separate basis, as are all the
allied concerns. even if it is in the same
building. George Miller of Boston will re-
move to Burlington to head the company
as president and general manager.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
MONDAY IN PROBATE COURT

The following business was transacted
in probate court Monday.
The will of Rodney B. Mears. late Of
Milton, was presented for proof.
Howard T. Fargo of Richmond was ap-
pointed administrator of the estate of
John ]. Fargo, late of Huntington, with
Bert p. Morrill, and Howard A. Alger.
both of Huntington, commissioners and
appraisers Of the estate.
The will of d. W. Smead, late Of Essex.
was proved. Luthera L. Sibley of Med
ford Mass. was appointed executrix Of
this will, and S. "A. Brownell and H. D..
Drury. both of Essex. were appointed COM
missioners and appraisers of the estate.
Enos B. Williams of Jericho was ap-
pointed executor of the last will and
testament of Ellen NJ. Percival, late of
that town. Chauncy H. Hayden and Jed
T. Varney. both of Jericho were ap-
pointed commissioners and appraisers of
the estate.
The will of william Montgomery, late
of Colchester, was allowed. Elizabeth NJ.
Montgomery of Colchester was appointed
eXecutrix of the will, while Arthur S.
Morgan of Colchester and Edwin S.
Sibley of Milton were appointed commits
sioners and appraisers Of the estate.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
FINAL FIGURES ARE
VERY pL|MENTARY
Both Burlington and Chittenden
County Go Considerably over
Their Quotas in Victory Lib.
erty~L Loan Campaign, City
Helping out Small Towns

Final figures obtained Monday from
County Chairman Warren r. Austin and
City Chairman H. l.. Winter I'm charge
of the Victory Liberty Loan drive. were
very complimentary and fattering to both
Chittenden county and Burlington, mas
much as the total amounts subscribed
were away over the quota.
The committees both county and city.
headed by the two able chairmen, deserve
great credit for the unceasing labors and
time which they threw into the cam
paign, and 1t was only through their
efforts and the cooperation of the public
OF the county and city that such large
neutrality-suspicious. were obtained.
County Chairman Warren r. Austin, in
announcing the finals for the county,
stated to the Free Press that the Bur-
lington Savings Bank credited their sur
plus subscriptions towards aiding the
county towns which had been hard
pressed and because of this generosity
many towns made their quotas.
Winooski headed the towns with a
total subscription of s160,750 and had
500 individual subscribers.
The total amount subscribed by Burling-
ton was sl,39S,20O, according to figures
supplied by city Chairman II. l.. Winter
city was S1,2l4,0o0 and therefore Rurling-
ton over-subscribed it's quota by s174,2OO.
The twelve helmets from many thou
sands which the United States army cap
tured from the German army-they being
especially prepaSed for the Huns to wear
on their contemplated triumphant entry
into Paris-and which were to be given
to the persons obtaining the largest num-
Der of subscriptions in the personal can
vass, were given to Superintendent Merritt
d. Chittenden of the school department
by Chairman Winter yesterday to be
placed in the eleven schoolhouses as an
exhibit of historic value. Because no per-
sonal canvass was made the helmets
could not be disposed of according to the
original plan. Superintendent Chittenden
stated that the school department was
very grateful to the local committee for
the helmets and that each school would
have its helmet this week.
list of the towns, with the final
amount that each raised, follows:
Bolton, 81 $50
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
Figures for New England States from
Field Agents Office

Field Agents ONCE
New Englands hay acreage is about
the same as last year but somewhat
less than usual because of insufficient
time since the armistice to get the
increased acreage in tillage back into
meadows. Maine, New Hampshire. and
Rhode Island have the same area as
least year; while Vermont. Massachu-
sets and Connecticut, have 10 more.
Meadows wintered pretty well, but
the April frosts choked growth some
what. Condition figures are: Maine,
96; New Hampshire "a; Vermont 95;
Massachusetts, SO; Rhode Island, 80; Con-
necticut, SO. Stocks of hay are reported
generally low.
Pastures wintered we'll generally;
but spring growth has been a little
slow on account of too much frosty,
gloomy April weather. Condition fig
ures are: Maine SO; New Hampshire, 81:
Vermont, 92; Massachusetts, 50; Rhode
Island, SO; Connecticut, 90
Season advance is about average: but
the open winter and spring allowed
farmers to get more than the usual
amount of blowing done by May /. OF
the total area to be sown and planted
these percentages had been plowed
May /: Maine, 4S; New Hampshire, So;
Vermont, Sc; Massachusetts, 40: Rhode
| Island, As; Connecticut, AZ.
Amount of planting done by May l
s. about average. the cold April retarded
planting OF tender crops.
Losses of livestock from disease and
| exposure during the past year ran con
siderably less than usual except in Rhode
| Island where they ran about average
with some outbreaks of cholera carrying
off more than the usual number of swine
Tho marked. increases in sheep the pas
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15

year OF Two have brought them on to
some new FARMS where adequate shelter
and care were not afforded: and losses
OF lamos during the cold, gloomy April
are fully up to average. Stomach worms
and nodular disease are prevalent in
many Hooks. Otherwise and except that
neat cattle are little thinner in sec
lions, stock are generally in good health
and condition.
United States: The winter wheat crop
promises to be the biggest on record
9oomoco bushels being the present pros
pect on n condition of 1OO5 with rec
ord acreage and minimum abandonment.
The hay crop promises 11i,930,OCO tons
against S9'S33Ooo last year and 9s. 900 in
1917. Condition of meadows is 94.3 com
pared with 1915 last year and a 1o-year
average of ss. Stocks of hay are put at
S'4o3Vo tons against 11,476,00O last year
and n,so3cco the flve-year average.
V. A. SANDERS. Field Agent.
Wakefield, Mass, May 10.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE MELTING-POT

Detroit Methodists plan erection of a
100000 apartment house in which no fam
il without children will be allowed to
reside.
The Rhode Island Senate has passed a
bill providing that all beverages contain
ing four per cent. of alcohol or less shall
be deemed Notwithstanding.
Captains and mates in the New Eng
land fishing industry recently demanded
salaries ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 or
double the wages of a year ago.
Our stocks of wheat in March. 1919 were
three times as large as year ago.
Farmers are holding back their wheat
to get the government price of s. 26 per
bushel.
The government has contracted to sell
to leading airplane corporation 1905
motors and 2.716 planes without motors,
for $3.72oOOO. The original cost was over
$4,000 coo.
Premier Clemenceau of France has re-
ceved a resolution signed by 5mH,O1
American women demanding the punish
ment of all Huns who perpetrated crimes
against women or girls in any allied coun-
Try.
Great Britains national debt is now
over $4,000 GOO, COO This sum equals the
cost of $50 Panama canals, If in gold il
would I'LL 500 j0-ton railroad cars. The
gold beaten out would make a sheet OF
$500 square miles. enough to cover all
Massachusetts,.
The geophone, a unique listening device
invented by the French during the war
to detect enemy tunneling operations
and to locate enemy artillery, is now be-
ing used in the American mining indus
try, especially in locating miners en-
tombed after a disaster.
a ST. Paul woman who composed the
music for the song. MY Minnesota" sue
ceedod i'm getting an act through the
state Senate making ii the State an
them. She sang her song on the ros-
trum, Tho members joined in the Choir.
us, and then passed the bill.
The cost of war TO the United States
from April G. 1917. TO June 30, 1919. will
be $50, 9o5 COO, compared with Englsnd's
war expenditure since August |. 1914, Of
sio,6i0O00 600 Frances 500 100, 900 OnO. Italy's
Sl6,n00,0 600 and Canada's $2.000o0o 1000,
Papal sanction is being withheld from
the proposed Pau-Christian Congress N
Rome, the feeling at the Vatican being
that all other Christian denominations
seeded from the Roman Church, and.
therefore, Rome can not go to them, but
they must return to her
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
COMES TO THE U. v. M.
New England School Of Religious Edu-
cation Here in August


Nellie Towne Hendrick Of Nashua,
n. H.. dean of the Northern New Eng
land School of Religious Education, the
fifth annual session of which will be held
at the University of Vermont from
August to 10. inclusive, was in the city
yesterday in conference with Professor
J. f. Messenger of the university, direc-
tor of the summer school, in regard to
plans for the coming session. This is the
first time that this school of religious
education has been held at the University
of Vermont. Dartmouth has been the
home of the greater part of the ses-
sions. and the organization was formerly
called the Twin State School of New
Hampshire and Vermont.
Among the prominent professors and
instructors who will make up the faculty
of this school are: Professor Charles
Foster Kent, professor of Biblical litera-
ture. Yale University, and Professor
William II. Wood, professor of Biblical
literature at Dartmouth College. both of
whom will give courses on the Bible; the
Rev. Milton s. Littlefield. ID. D., secre-
tary of the Congregational Publishing
society of New York city and writer of
the intermediate grade lessons. will give
course in psychology, young peoples
work and pastors and superintendent s
forum; Professor ]. f. Messenger will
give course In pedagogy, Laura Ella
Cragin, instructor at Boston University,
will conduct the older girls conferences
and the beginners work; Katherine
Ainsworth Pollard of Bellows Falls will
have the primary work; Mamie Lee
Frayser of the Kentucky Sunday School
association. psychology. junior work.
story telling; Mary Shcrburne Warren of
the Vermont Sunday School association,
rural problems: Wallace I. Woodin, gen.
eral secretary of the Connecticut Sunday
School association, association officers
conference and adult work; Professor H.
Augustine Smith, professor of the minis
try of music, Boston University. music,
pageantry, and community singing.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
WON'T WORK ON FARMS
Returned Soldiers Shy at Employment
of That Kind
(From the Brooklyn Eagle)

The United States Employment Serv-
i've, organized for the relief of the labor
market by providing employment for re-
turning soldiers and others, reports sue
cess in all phases of it's work except sup
plying men to work on farms Reports
from 50 cities show that the number Of
men without work decreased during the
the past week and the number of men
registered as looking for jobs in So of
those cities was reduced from 123,O0o to
$1,000 Many considerable sections of the
country report the labor market as TAX
ing care of itself, but the only place in
which men are wanted but cannot be
found is on the farms.
Work on the farms suffers many of
the disadvantages which make domestic
service unattractive and the farmers are
meeting with practically the same diff
cultles as housewives in cities. In the
old DAYS the hired man" was part of
the family He shared practically all of
the privileges of the farmers sons and
if there were long hours Or especially
strenuous work he shared these with his
employer or his employers sons. There
was no such thing as an eight-hou or
1O-hour, or even n 12-hour day, hut labor
for boss and hand alike was regulated by
the power of endurance and the mitiga
tons and alterations were shared by all
alike. 1t was a hard life but it was free
from determinations; a farm job was the
best one in sight for most hired men and
it was in the main a contented life.
Access 10 the cities and to shops with
short hours has changed all that, The
character of farm work makes longer
hours necessary than are required in
shops and the work involves something
of the loss Of social caste which sends
girls by the thousands into shops when
they might be better paid and better fed
in kitchens. The late Colonel Roosevelt
was at one time very much interested
in "A campaign for improving the social
conditions of life among farmers, with
the idea of keeping on the farms the
bows and girls who are born there. The
need now is much greater than when he
advocated the plan, The demand 70" tco1
increased greatly during the war and the
need for labor was met in part by camps
of high school boys and of farmer
cites" OF course. that artificial supply
cannot be maintained indefinitely. Ma
chinery can cut down the need for farm
labor a good deal, but some way must
be found to make living on the farm at
tractive for the men who are needed to
run the machines and to supplement
them,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
IA RECORD PRODUCTION
Earmont Boys and Girls Grow 1902,
SO5.5S Worth of Crops in 1918


The response of individuals in produce
ton work as encouraged by the Boys
and Girls Club Department Of the Agr1-
cultural Extension Service Of the Univer-
sity of Vermont and the Green Mountain
Guard Of the State Department Of Educa-
ton has been most satisfactory. as will
be noted from a summary report OF the
State production just issued.
Fourteen thousand nine hundred
ninety nine of those enrolled for work
have rendered a report of their seasons
production. The total value Of this pro-
duction is $392sSO5.6s giving an average of
over SIS for each producer.
The State report reveals some interest
ing facts Eight hundred twenty-one
acyes of land We're titled yielding crops
valued as follows: Garden $724S5.94
potatoes $43036.50 corn SIS 4l92O; sugar
I beets $500; miscellaneous crops s246914S.
The value Of other materials made,
grown or manufactured ia: Chickens
$28, $3.50; eggs S7,212.5o; pigs $40 65O.s7;
calves and cows S3S,902; lambs and sheep
50. 1888; maple products s14,4o7; canned pro-
ducts s19.s46.50; sewed articles s4s9.75;
baked materials $7.538; handtcraft articles
A,e88; general farm work wages $3.50, 553 "a
Not until recent years have boys and
uirls neceived the encouragement through
z the schools which they should have had to
keep them interested in their home sur
xptndings. During the pasttwoyears eveSy
boy and girl In Vermont has been encour-
eyed by his superintendent and teacher
to produce or DO other worth while
things. During the past year there were
sRxS s~ven towns in the entire State ir
which boys and girls did not enroll fol-
work throuQh the schools. In some OF
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
FARM BUREAU MEETING IN
W1LLISTON

A community farm bureau meeting will
be held at the Universalist hall at Willis
ton Friday, May 16, at eight o'clock in
the evening, under the cooperative extern
sion work of the College of Agriculture Of
the University of Vermont. the United
states department of agriculture and the
Chittenden County Farm Bureau. Cir
culars containing the following program
of this meeting were sent out yesterday
to farmers, in that vicinity: Making
House Work Easier" Miss Bertha Holden,
State home economics specialist; Boys
and Girls Garden Work" dllustrated),
f.. L. ingalls,. State club leader; "Legumes
and Lime" r. w. Peaslee, county agent.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
FINDS ONE BILL
Chittendcn County Grand Jury Conn
pletes Duties and Is Discharged


F. w. Pease of jericho. foreman of the
frand jury of Chittenden county court for
this term, reported for the jury Thurs
day afternoon about three o'clock and
the jury, having completed it's duties.
was discharged. The report found one
true bill, and reported the county Jail
in first class condition as regards cleanli-
ness. 1t was recommended that new twin
boilers be installed so that if one fails
there will be one left to use.
Although no statement has been given
out relative to the finding of one true
bill, it is understood that this is in con-
nection with the murder of Charles H.
Clifford at Essex Junction on the night
of April 25, and that an indictment has
been found against Daniel Farnham, the
boy who is said to have shot and killed
clifford.
The remainder of tho report of the
grand jury follows:
ITO the Honorable County Court
"Now in Session:
"We the Grand Jury, within and for
said county, duly empanelled and sworn,
respectfully report:
THAT we have examined the county
Jail, and find the same to be in first class
condition as to cleanliness and sanitation,
and in our opinion entirely adequate for
the confinement of persons committed
thereto; its condition reflects great credit
upon it's efficient keeper-Sheriff James
H. Allen. We recommend the installment
Of new twin boilers. so If one fails there
will be one to use.
Upon diligent enquiry we fail to find
in said county, the existence of any stock
gambling resorts. or bucket shODS.' so
called.
I'VE cannot find that any community in
said county has failed in respect to the
proper fencing of cemeteries and burial
grounds.
Respectfully submitted for the Grand
Jury"