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Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09
GROTON

Mi. and Mrs. George French spent
last week with relatives and friends in
Manchester and Concord, N. H. They
came home Saturday.
Mrs. Timothy WEIGH had the mis-
fortune to fall and break her wrist
while visiting her son in Mortified re-
Gently.
Miss Minnie Lang spent the last
part of the week in Montpelier.
MI. and Mrs. John Rouden of
Manchester, N. H., visited Mrs. Rou-
denis sister, Mrs. Nelson Whitchill
and other relatives here few days
last week. They made the trip with
their auto.
Roger Eastman has moved his fam
lily from Topsham to the Fred Kicker
house.
Miss Alma Lund has gone to Pet
crsboro, N. H., to visit in the home Of
her uncle, II. A. Lund.
Clara Wood cut her toe quite badly
by stepping on glass.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hutchins is
visiting at George Welch's.
Second Lieut.. Frederick Donald of
Quantico, Va, is visiting his mother,
Mrs. John Donald
A large number from here went to
Barre the Fourth and was very much
disappointed by not seeing the flying
machine.
Miss Nellie Tillotson and friend,
Miss Kennedy from Williamstown
visited at L. S. Blanchard's several
days last week.
Mrs. Sadie Stimson who has been
working in Hazardville, Conn.,, is at
the home of her parents, MI. and
Mrs. Ed. Emery.
cleric Stevens of Topsham visited
at Noah Emcry's Tuesday and We'd
ncsday.
The Boy Scouts and their Scout
master, Rev. Stead Thornton, went to
Groton pond and camped until Thurs
day.
Henry Page came home Wednesday
from Massachusetts where he has
been at work in a submarine factory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carol Kicker and
son, Edmund, spent Saturday and
Sunday with Mr.. Ricker's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Kicker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Darling of
Davenport, Iowa, are here visiting
relatives. They are the guests of their
brother, ]. T Daring.
Mr.. and Mrs Heary Martin and
four daughters from Kecnc, ". H.,
are visiting Mr.. Martin ; sister, Mrs.
H. r. Kicker and rac1ily.
Rev. F w. Lewis OF st. Adams was
in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Walbridge came
home Monday after spending the
Fourth at their home in Marahe!I.
I. N. H. Darling, about 80 years
of age, died Friday night at the home
of his son, John H. Da '!;c,. lie was
the oldest person in tJ%n. He has
been very feeble for tho last year. He
has always lived in town. Mr.. Darling
leaves three sons, John H.. ard
George, of this town. ard William of
Barnet and one dauyhter, Eta Mrs
Willis Brown. The funeral was held
Monday afternoon at the home of
John H. Darling.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09
PUTS IN ELECTRICS
George Cary Runs Lights Over Four
ard Half Miles of Road and
Farmers Benefit

George Carey, owner of the big
ranch and sugar plant on Stannard
mountain has ordered electric lights
strung from the main road to his
place, a distance of over four and q
half miles. Farmers who live on
this road will get the benefit of this
big Improvement. Mr.. Cary is as
suming all the expense Of the work.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09

Miss Sigrid Eckloff, George S. Rice
and daughter, all of st. Johnsbury.
B. +. Jacobs and party of Lancas-
ter, leaving Miss Dorothy Jacobs for
the season at the camp, Mrs. Alfred
G. Lewis, son and friend of Geneva,
N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Burgoyne
of Pittsburg, Pa, w. E. Price and
party of Lisbon, N. H, 4
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09
Billions of Lead Pencils.

Tho worlds product of lead pencils
probably amounts to nearly two thou-
sand millions Il year, half of which ara
made from American-grown cedar The
United States makes about 750,000O00
year. or more than eight pencils for
each of its inhabitants,
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09
Roads Must Be Kent in Repair.

Investment of money in new roads
does not become real economy until
provision is made for keeping these
new roads in condition after they are
built. If now road is built and then
allowed to fall into disrcpair, much Of
the original Investment is simply
wo ctCi
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09
Motor Stops When Lieut. Torney Was Do
ing Loop and Tail Dives 5000
Feet In The Air
ENGINE TROUBLE PREVENTED
LANDING ON FAIRGROUNDS
Magnificent Tribute to the War Heroes at Towns
Greatest Fourth of July
Celebration
A Magnificent

sailors at St. Johnsbly yesterday stands out the
greatest day in the history of the county, 1t was mag
nifcent tribute to the returned heroes
Today Caledonia County soldiers and sailors 60 back
into civil life feeling that their sacrifices and hardshps
we're appreciated by the people at home. And the home
folks feel that in small measure-the greatest that
united effort and loving and work could accomplish
they have shown their heroes how deeply indebted to
them they are and always will be-
1t day of rejoicing, of sadness the famil-
les of those who did not returnof thrills Of sports and
entertainment could have been planned. And the com
pete of the entire days program marvel Of
eff and nlanninu
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09
Found Road to Hardness.

have been q great deal happier
since I have given up thinking about
discontinued because coulI not have
my own will.--Gcorgc Eliot.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09

National Progress.
National progress is the sum. o0f
national industry, energy and upright
ness.-Samuel Smiles.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-07-09
ST. JOHNSBURY CENTER

The W. c. r. U. meeting will
be held with Mrs. Ellen Granger, July
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
How Much Would You Give for
100000 Years of Daylight?
We Shouldn't Throw Away What We Cannot Buy.

There things you neither buy nor earn-Happi-
-HeaIth-Opportunity -Time-Dayight,
Yet you can save everyone of these.
There is an iconsidered movement to abolish the Day
light Saving law by attaching repeal amendment to the
Agricultural bill
It shouldn't be done.
Let's talk in figures for minute.
According to the National War Garden Commission
there were last year in this country 5S5OOO food producing
home garden plots The planting and OF these gardens
depended very largely the extra hour Of outdoor working
time afforded by the Daylight Saving law.
With twenty-six working days In each OF the seven
months covered by the law you have 1S2 extra hours of
sunlight only one gardener worked this extra hour in
each plot there were gained 961S7OOOO hours 1o98O3
years of healthfu, productive, outdoor occupation.
IF time were purchasable how much would you give
for a hundred thousand years of daylight?
That is only the garden phase Of daylight saving.
Properly spent the extra hour contributes to health
to happiness opportunity for doing things in the
light that darkness forbids.
There is no good argument for repeating the law ex
cept the argument of the suggard and of him the wise
Solomon said eco the ant consider her ways and be
wise" And the ant believes in saving daylight.
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
To the Democratic National
Committee
By EARL GOODWIN.
You Overlooked Something In the Last Platform.
Next and Live Up TO 1t.

Every ardent Democrat who was here in 1918, espe-
ciay those who belonged to Democratic organizations
in Washington, will remember the famous Jackson Day
dinner of that year when the local Democracy tried all
the possible candidates for the Presidency
One of the features of that dinner l recall the
pledge the part of practically all Presidential possb
ties present that they believed in local and
that in Washington, d. C-the VOTELESS Capital of
Amerca-a appontees to local office should be residents
of the District of Columbia.
The 1908 and 1912 platforms of the Democratic parry
contained this plank:
eve demand for the people of Alaska the full en-
oyment of the rights of territorial form of government
and believe that the officials appointed to administer
the government of all Territories and the District of
Columbia should be qualified by previous bona ide resi-
dence''
This plank not in the 1916 platform
Surely if the people of the District of Columbia can't
VOTE they surely ought to have the guarantee that their
officials will at least be felow-townsmen
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
FOLLOWING "THE CROWD"
A Little Brains, Boys

You will no doubt admit that all
this tends to make a girl less in
teresting. But you may protest
that it shouldn't be taken too Sc
riously, that it's d mere passing
folly of a period of life when, after
all, folly is privileged.
So III press my point further.
The initiative tendency ISN'T a
purely harmless one.
For one thing it leads young
girls who aren't under pretty close
parental control into unwise hab-
its Of dress. You have seen it hap
pen. One girl wears skirts that
are too short and too highland
fifty do the same. One girl curls
her hair until il is tangle OF I'M
tidyness, and a small multitude
follows her example One girl
adopts lace blouses for winter or
fur neckpieces for summer and
she becomes the pattern for an ad-
miring horde.
Worse stiIl-Ihere' the matter
OF powder and paint. Haven't you
seen groups of young girls fall
into the way. first of delicately
busting their noses at intervals.
then OF rubbing powder into their
faces every half hour because
they've acquired powdering con-
trivances thst they can carry in
their pockets?
Then il is discovered that pow
der, at least part Of it, ultimately
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
TODAY

ConfereHcs-George Washington CnivHT-
sty students and prospective students in
teTested in enrolling for course in Russia n,
2023 O street northwest. $40 2. m.
heeting-Rhode Island Avenue Subur-
ban CiriSens' Association. Sherwood
Church. Twenty second street and Rhode
island avenue, northeast y. m.
DsuCs--W shingtOu General Assembly,
fourth degree. Knights Of Columbus, Ward
man Park Inn, p. m.
MsetIHg-OrGanIzation meeting OF Mass
sChusettH citizens residing in Washington.
1919 Massachusetts, avenue northwest. =
3.
LsctuFe-Iasut. Marcel JOUEse. 3. J., 4
Georgetown University faculty, auditorium
81 GOnZasa College. .. M Subject a:
"i;idelights on the Great War.
Addrsss-Dr. Francisco Tudels, Peruvian
minister, reunion Of Spanish American
AtheneUm, Washington Club, 1910 Seven
teenth street northwest. S:2O p. m
Lecture. o. Armstrong, overseas sec
Fatary with the American Red Cross, Scot
fish Rite Temple. Sixteenth and streets
northwest, p. m Subject: After Peacc
-Whst7"
Lscturs-Prot Mitchell ,,aFroII. director
OF Archaeological Institute Of America. Cen
trail Y. NJ. {. 4. 30 Sihi"0' 'Palss-
The Washington times., 1919-02-26

risk OF becoming unpopular, un-
dertoOk this task.
We are often amazed by the
strongly marked Municipalities
that children display. What be-
comes of these Municipalities?
How &c they happen TO disap-
pear?
For the present. | won't discuss
the case of boys. But we must
all have noticed that girls as soon
as they begin to herd together, to
form groups and "Sets" and
Crowds" devote a large share
Of their energy and resources to
following the fashions of this
group. 1t seems as if their every
thought were directed toward sup
pressing themselves and becoming
as exact a copy as possible Of
somebody else.
From the moment that this ten
dency manifests itself, a young
girl no longer has any ideas or
thought-proceSses Of her own. She
has no convictions, no preferences.
She accepts those of her Crowd
Borrowed Personalities.
Her way Of walking, her move
ments in general, are no longer
spontaneous. They are an exact
imitation of those OF other girls.
The phrases she Uses in speaking,
indeed her voice itself, are Dor
rowed in the same fashion.
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
Mhnt Is the Done Herr!

Coming north on Fourteenth street
from the Bureau of Engraving this
morning, on a Thirteenth and D
street car with conductor 1045 IN
charge, he refuses to issue a trans
fer to a party going either east or
west at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania
avenue, claiming that they only is
sued 2-cent transfers at this point,
and proceeded to show a stack OF
the old 2-cent transfers, which he
says are given to him when he starts
his runs just for this transfer point
What is the answer?
r. B. WILLHIDE
90 Eleventh street southwest.
The answer is that the conductor
is WRONG. Two-cent transfers are
a thing OF the past.
Answering inquiry as to who re-
members the old high-wheel bicycle
in front Of FRANK SHORES,
D. r. B. writes that ne recalls
thirty years or more ago, the
high front wheel bicycle and also
the low front wheel bicycle with
high wheel in tire rear. He also
recalls the first tricycle. which was
ridden abCuc tho streets of Wash
iacton nv tho LIT, B"lva 4. LOrk-
WN.rs
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
Fairfax Writes the Problems the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

rubs OF. So they apply q liquid
white mixture to their noses, and
it stays. Chins and foreheads are
subjected to the same treatment.
They see that the effect Of this
isn't wholly good, so they learn
how to relieve the pallor by an ap-
plication of liquid pink to their
cheeks and Of scarlet salve to
their lips.
Juvenile "Make.UP.-
So that after their eyelashes
and eyebrows are darkened. as
well as the region about their
eyes, there's really not a natural
square inch left in their poor little
faces. Beauty, freshness, youth,
are gone. They look at least five
years older and uglier and-yes,
we know it's true-wickeder
But it would be most unfair to
assume that they are what they
look. They're just initiative.
They're just followers of the silly
fashions of their time and group.
Don't misjudge them. But if you
do by any chance gain the con-
fidence of one of them try to con-
vince her, not too preachily, that
she is rapidly smothering a preci-
Gus self somewhere beneath those
layers of artifciality, and that
she'd better bring it to the surface
and let it breathe while there's
still some life in it.
l know that there are girls who,
if they were honest, would say,
Yes, we know the things you
speak of are foolish. But they
make US pleasing to boys. And
isn't that, after all, our main OBJ
ject?"
l hope that not all girls are
so eager to please boys as this
would imply. And l do not believe
they are. But even if every girl
regulated her every action with
this solely in view, she would be
greatly mistaken in supposing that
boys would like her better Tor be-
ing a button on a card.
It's the girl who's an individual,
a genuine person, the girl who has
originality. whose ideas and emo
tions are her own not simulated;
it's this kind of girl who attracts
boys as she attracts grown-ups
and the world at large.
It's the kind OF girl that I wish
all sixteen-year-olds would Ie:
themselves become
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
What is a Waiter-If He Isn't
A Necessary Workman?
a Polite Question for the War Board.

When walters on strike asked the War Board to say
what wages and hours should be theirs they got
because the War Board said he waiter does not come
within the activities of production necessary for the eff
fective conduct of the war"
What rs waiter? Will the War Board answer?
There are three important things in the material
world-producon preparation by manufacture, and DIS
TRIBUTIoN.
In food the farmer producer; the cook, manufac-
turer, and the waiter is the distributor.
Take away any one of the three and you have two
legged stool not comfortable to sit
Is not the waiter much workman, necessary part
of the social machine driving the plow cooking
the beef distributing kilograms? This much is certain
The waiter has most ungrateful job and that
man need envy He must know his business deal
stantly and patiently with human ignorance when it is
hungry and in hurry. That is a sad life.
Wise Nathan Straus used to say to young men in
business: always do your buying before you have had
anything to You easy to please then Do
your selling AFTER you have had luncheon with your
customer that's the time sell He feels cheerful and
viii buy
The waiter is everlastingly dealing with dissatisfied
And whoever understands that understands
also the tipping system which the ignorant denounce
is absolutely necessary to make the walters life comfort
able and allow the public to have what it demands-pa
thence with its impotence.
If you think that the waiter is not WORKING man,
try standing your feet for about hours day, work
ing late and rreguary always expected to supply polite
and patience enough for yourself and your customer
This newspaper regrets walters strikes at present and
sold advise against them if advice were asked The
zffas vel know as do other workers. that this news
2apess their friend But this is the day for the
strike that can be avoided With three million in
uniform to be looking for jobs and millions of young
that have been taught how interesting is to
money looking for other jobs Also the wise will
STAY employed and think it before hurrying into
strike at this period of reconstruction.
Whatever the War Board may say, we say that the
waiter workman hard worker, necessary, useful and
if successful of ability. It may interest walters and
he public know that waiter who went out strike
got job in trust company and In few months became
the chief accountant In that
waiter is worker well entitled to his money given
by the customer It honest payment and not by any
tip present The waiter is well entitled to it
as the doctor to his fee
The who cannot afford tips cannot afford either
to take without paying, the service of worker He
should look up eating institutions where you be
waiter and dine in democratic fashion the Of
chair The walters fee is much fair charge the
price on the bill of fare.
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
Bin SmOot Is Back.

The last letter I wrote You Eas
about Dogs" I am very fond Of
''K-9's." q don't mean the subms-
rine variety, eitheP.) Nov I an
writing about Tea" Who remem-
bers the Boston tea party? Why
did the colonies declare war against
King George q don't remember his
nUmber)? Answer: Taxation with
out representation
Now, that is the same predieament
We D. C. inhabitants are IN. We pay
our taxes. We have contributed our
quota to the Liberty loan We buy
War Savings Stamps. Our blood has
been spilled on the battleields for
the sake Of democracy. England,
France, and Italy have decorated our
heroes. eve are proud OF them,
tool But what has our dear Uncle
Samuel done for Us to prove that his
democracy doctrine is sincere?
Now, am going back to Dogs"
We are not even allowed a voice IN
who should be dog-catcher for
d. c. Believe me-some democ-
racy. BILL" SMOOT,
OF Maddox Creek
P. 81 am going down 70 So
Brother Jones, and am going b
buy some Of those Suffrage Stick
ers-' I am going to stick them on
everything 1 run across, movable or
lmmovable, and when the supply Of
stickers becomes exhausted. Bill win
buy another stack.
The Washington times., 1919-02-26

| This Is the last call Tor the
BETTY lehman FLAG. To
morrow it will be carried in the
parade, and will be the ONLY thing
concentrating the men from this
town who went to war-and did not
come back.
It will be a great white banner,
whose twenty thousand stitches have
all been sewed by BETTY LEH-
MANN, of the Federal Trade Com
mission, who may be called Wash
ington's Betsy Ross
In the center of the flag viii be a
golden star, and over the star the
words:
"The Boys We Left Behind"
GENERAL RICHARD DOUG
LAS SIMMS has given the nag a
! place Of honor in the parade. The
War Department has provided a
completely equipped gun eaisson
with horses and men to preeede the
banner.
[ The banner is being paid for by
subscriptions from Washington men
and women who want 70 eommemor-
ate some dear boy who died IN
France. After the parade the Betty
Lehman flag viii remain IN the
trophy room Of the War Department
forever along with the other flags
which have helped mark American
history.
Here are the latest subscribers:
Mrs. F. NJ. HOAGLAND, IN
memory of Charles TOwson, q ma
rine.
Another is from "A Little Mother
in Brookland, whose boy Will not
return"
And this letter, signed "A
Mother tells the readers Of this
column its own story:
at think Mr.. DARR Is a grand
man, and | appreciate his kindness
in thinking of my boy. !, too, am
sending 81 to help, and ] hope all
of our boys who gave their life for
their country are in Heaven. And
when that beautiful Gold Star IS
brought up Pennsylvania avenue,
thew can look down on 1t and know
that the boys that won't come back
are remembered by their dear
friends. A mOIdEh-
One inclosed for the gold star in
affectionate remembrance Of LIEUT..
LEROY MARROW, of Washington,
one of the boys who win never come
back T. M y.
LfeUfsaanf MurIO1C UdS a VdItIed
member of the PEPCO staff. Per
hans more of his friends there tUOgld
IKE to subscribe IN COMMUNICATION
of this fine man.
Meyers Military Shop gave Mrs.
Lehman a very substantial contrl-
button. So did WILLIAM F. GUIDE.
Enclosed is a check for 81 for the
RETTY LEHMANN FLAG FUND.
II is contributed in memory of
GRANT W. LORENZ, Of Excelsior,
Mimi, who died in France on
August 4.
(Miss) SUSAN MCLAUGHLIN.
Enclosed is my check given in
memory of my brother, JOHN NJ.
WINSLOW, who gave his life for
his country.
ETHELYN WINSLOW,
Apt. 2, The Berkshire.
Herewith, please find my check for
So. TO YOUR order, as my contribu-
ton to the "Gold Star Flag" In
memory of CAPT. WILLIAM 5.
HUDSON. Surgeon, U. s. A, in
command of the field hospital CORDS
of the District of Columbia, who
was killed on the firing line at
Chateau Thierry, August l, 1918.
GEO. W. EVANS.
chief Disbursing Officer,
Dept. Of the Interior.
John Il. STEWART, 1923
Eighth street northwest, sends S. in
memory Of the printers of the Dis
trict OF Columbia who died IL
France.
He makes the gooG suggestion that
we all salute the flag as Il goes by.
Ill
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
STEW TART

John Il. STEWART, 1923
EIGHTH street northwest, sends IS in
memory Of the printers of the Dis
trict OF Columbia who died IL
France.
He makes the GOOD suggestion that
we all salute the flag as Il goes BIZ.
r.iI'
The Washington times., 1919-02-26
What's Doing; Where; When

Bail-PeaCp ball BY ladies auxiliary OF
the Hebrew Mt Pleasant Congregation to-
night. Old Masonic Temple, D. IN.
Dinner-AnnuaI dinner Of Dartmouth
Alumni Association. University club, I 80
y.
MePting-Anthony League ar home ~
president, Mrs. Anna r Hendley. %0O7 CO.
lum5ia road, ; D. m.
Address-Charics ". DsrT on Recon
EtrUcJiOn' a. smoker a. Chapel Of Trans
hEurstion. Fourteenth and GaIlatln streets,
S 2.
COnfeTence-A grIcultural commission uI
American Bankers Association, aErIcUi-
tuTal and educational committees OF forty
two State bankers association and Of
ficIals Of Department Of AEricuIture. Blu
resu Of Edu"aJiOn, and Federal Farm Loan
Board, board room. District building. 90
Il