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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Meeting Vermont Problems.

Vermont has its problems the same as
other states and in few days its legis-
lature will convene for the purpose of
dealing with them. History shows us
that the lawmakers of past sessions have
been influenced q great deal by the ef-
forts of neighboring states to solve their
problems. The trunk lines Of highway in
New Hampshire and the macadam roads
Of Massachusetts and New York have
always been held up to the lawmakers as
examples for Vermont to follow Often
when bills on other topics are introduced
the learned ones turn to the statute
books of Massachusetts, TO see what that
state has done in the matter. Many
times we are declared TO be unprogres-
sive because we have not enacted some
law that one of our neighboring states
has.
1t is perfectly proper and often profit
able to look To our neighbors for an ex-
ample but we should always remember
the difference in conditions between the
two states when making such compari-
sons. In Massachusetts manufacturing
towns and cities predominant. In New
Hampshire summer hotels are a leading
product In New York the great metrop-
oils predominates. Each of these states
have large agricultural interests but they
do not predominant as they do in the
state of Vermont. This difference in con-
dition must always be borne in mind
when we are deciding on policies and
undertakings for our state.
Agriculture is the leading industry in
this state and should continue to be-
Vermont win never possess the impor.
lance as a summer resort that it ought
to hold as an agricultural state and we
should not be misled into sacrificing our
strongest industry for a weaker one sim
ply because a neighboring state has it,
In the matter of highways Vermont
should bear in mind that it must serve
not only the transient who motors
through the state with only a stop for
dinner and possibly one nights stay but
the all-the. year-around resident who is
producing food for himself and his neigh
bors in the cities. Improved highways
from the farms to the market centers
would benefit more Vermonters than any
other variety and would aid in the sou-
ton of a real Vermont problem We
trust the law giyers of the coming session
of the legislature will look upon Vermont
problems from the standpoint of Yer
monters and endeavOr to serve the people
of Vermont rather than any other states
which have TO legislate for entirely dif-
ferent conditions Brattleboro Reformer
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
County Agents Efforts Save Cattle.

Through the cooperative efforts of
the county agents in the southern and
southwestern states this year hundreds
of thousands of valuable cattle were
saved The great cattle ranges in west
ern Texas suffered a severe drought in
1917. In 1918 the drought continued
with increasing intensity. Two success
sive years with limited amount of rain
fall left the range practically barren, and
the cattle roamed about them in starry
ing condition. But in the southeastern
states conditions were different. There
was abundance of food and pasture and
few cattle to utilize it. Through CO.
operation of the bureau of animal indus
try and the bureau OF markets of the
United States department of agriculture.
county agents in Texas began to get in
touch with the county agents in the
southeastern states where feed was plen-
tiful and assisted farmers in regions of
heavy crop production to obtain cattle
from the drought regions of
Texas. During the past year about 300
600 head were transported, largely
through the efforts of the county agents.
This service not only saved the Texas
cattlemen from financial loss and assist
ed in developing a profitable and much.
needed branch of agriculture in the
southeastern states, but helped material.
ly in conserving the nations meat sup
ply at a critical time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
The German Endeayor.

Germany" says Count Won BernstoriT
will keep to the presidents program,
which grants each people Of an ethical
group the right TO dispose of itself" Ut
terances like this reveal the German pol
lev as it will undoubtedly be maintained
BY all the leaders, of whatever counec-
ton. That policy will be to keep Ger
many together; to add German Austria
to it at once; to work hard, by dividing
the councils of the allies and assisting
bolshevism in Poland, for the retention
by Germany of Posen, Dantzig, and all
Polish Prussia and to obtain, in an
abatement Of the indemnity, the fullest
possible Offset for the cession Of Alsace-
Lorraine and the German colonies
The German problem just now is to
keep the country together and avert POI
litical and social chaos. The leaders,
whether Of the cid regime or the parlia-
mentary Socialists who have had expe-
rienee in government, are chiefly bent
upon that task, and they are willing to
sign anything "a the way of a peace
which guarantees the continuance of in
dustrial conditions and the addition Of
German Austria to the public domain
They will play for all it is worth, with
the allies in the peace conference, the
claim that they must be leniently, even
indulgently, dealt with in order as ma
tion to be able to pay their debts. Leave
us free and whole" they say, "or we
shall never be able to pay you anything"
Bound at last by treaty, they might
indeed be inclined to treat their pledge
regarding indemnity as scrap of paper,
but fortunately the allied occupation of
the Rhine country will compel respect
for the agreement that may be signed
Meanwhile, the adjustment of the bal
ance which must be presented between
German obligation and German economic
competence will rest wholly with the
victorious powers. 1t is they who will
decide what Germany can pay without
bankruptcy and ruin; and after the point
is decided the Yacht am Rhein will con
tinue until the full amount is paid. "To
the limit of capacity" remains the watch
word.-Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
STUDENT GIVEN PRISON TERM.
Morris Geshilder Stole $500 Worth of
Microscopic Lenses.

Burlington, Jan. |. $780, After pleading
guilty to the charge of burglary and lar
ceny, Morris Geshilder of New York, a
third-year medical student, was SEN
fenced in Chittenden county court yes
terday by Judge Slack to spend not less
than two and half years nor more
than five years at hard labor at the Yer
mont state prison at Windsor.
Geshilder was accused of stealing mi
croscopic lenses to the value of $500
from the laboratory at the medical col
lege.
The theft was discovered by the head
ianitor, Mr. Tulley, and the thief was
spprehended through slim clues by Sher-
iff James H. Allen of this city.
Geshilder made full confession of the
crime and also admitted that he stole a
lot more lenses from the same place last
August and sold them.
The light sentence in the case was due
in part to the fact that the big haul
made by the man was recovered before
he had time to ship them away. This
was also due to large degree to the
prompt work of the sheriff, who got his
man within a short time after having
been called into the case by the univer-
sity authorities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
FELT
SHE VAS ROBBED
That Was the Principal Reason for Her
Rupture with Germlny-The Dis
pute Was Over the Dobrudia.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 81 correspond
ence OF the Associated Pressl. One of
the principal causes which contributed
towards the rupture of Bulgaria with
Germany was the treatment by the lat
ter of the Dobrudja question, which
robbed Bulgaria of the prospect of at
tanning her national aspirations, and the
tendency of Germany to favor Turkeys
claim to the restoration Of the strip of
territory in Thrace, which the Turks UNI
der German pressure had ceded to Bull
garia in September, 1915, as the price
of Bulgaria's cooperation in the war.
When German diplomacy, early in Sep
TENDER of this year, realized that Bulga-
ria was bent on withdrawing from the
war, serious attempt was made TO
conciliate the Bulgarian government by
the abandonment of the condominium
established in the northern Dobrudja
and a protocol to this effect was signed
in Berlin between the central allies. II
was then hoped that this concession
would induce Bulgaria to continue the
war, but it proved to be without success.
The feeling produced both in Berlin
and Vienna by this development can be
readily imagined. The former Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister, Baron Blu
rian, in conversation with NJ. Focheff,
the Bulgarian minister in Vienna, was
moved to wrathful indignation and de-
scribed M. Mahnoff the Bulgarian pre-
mier, as traitor.
There is much irritation in Bulgaria
over the Dobrudja question. The Bulga-
rian government, which, in its several
conversations with the German Austrian
ministers at Sofia. declared itself content
to reserve the question Of the Dobrudia
settlement by the peace congress, main
tains the same attitude to-day The
government hopes that the fact that Bull
garia was the first state to withdraw
from the war, and thus hasten the con.
clusion Of general peace, will not be
overlooked.
The scarcity of foodstuffs in Bulgaria
constitutes a serious problem for the
government, and if supplies are not soon
Forthcoming, there is great danger Of
famine. One cause of this dearth Of sup
plies was the wholesale and systematic
draining Of the comtry's resources by
the Germans, who, instead of reinforc.
ing the Macedonian front, garrisoned the
interior Of Bulgaria with the sole object
of collecting the produce Of the country
for dispatch to Germany. When the
present government put an end to this
expectation, the Germans resorted to the
ruse Of posting parcels through their
own field post, and thus practically ey.
cry German soldier became an exporter.
The Bulgarian government was power
less to prevent the practice.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Idaho Declares War on Rodents.

The farm bureaus of 10 counties in
Idaho, in cooperation with the biological
survey of the United States department
of agriculture, this year treated 266,O6S
acres Of land with poisoned bait to kill
ground squirrels. According to the esti-
mates of the farmers benefited, 81 1885,
074 worth of crops were saved, at a cost
of 10000. In Bear Lake county, follow
ing the squirrel liberalization campaign,
the local bounty Office recorded the re-
ceipts of 10000 squirrel tails, In Bing-
ham county one member Of the farm bu-
reau reported he had received 1914
bounty on the presentation of 2,487
squirrel tails. These were killed by the
use of only $l.70 worth of strychnine
and saecharine. He saved his crops be-
sides. In Blaine county the farmers
report a saving of $50 for every dollar
expended, and the county commissioners
have increased their appropriation for
this work of poisoning squirrels from
$500 for 1918 to $4,000 for 1919.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Exciting Basketball Game
Played at Spaulding
Gymnasium
MUCH ENTHUSIASM
WAS MANIFESTED
Spaulding School Team Has
Only One Veteran
Player

The first basketball game of the season
was played at the Spaulding gymnasium
last evening between Spaulding high
school and the alumni of that institution,
the latter winning 81 to II. The game
was divided into two Commute periods,
starting at 1850 and lasting until S:35.
Student supporters of the favorite winter
indoor sport came out with their usual
volume Of enthusiasm for their team.
OF the five players who composed the
championship team of 1918, only Carpen-
ter remains, leaving an entirely new
lineup to fight for the state cup this
year. Nevertheless, Coach Stuart has
much confidence in his men and believes
they can duplicate the record of last
year.
1t was close game and at one time,
near the end Of the first period, the score
was tied. The first period ended with
the alumni in the lead by five points, the
score being l3 to s. Sibley Young opened
the second period by caging the ball on a
jump with one OF his opponents.
McHardy was the highest scorer of
both teams, having a total of six baskets
to his credit. Captain Carpenter played
a hard defensive game but because of an
injury to his finger was replaced by II.
Reid during the second period, For the
alumni, Lyons and Mann each sent the
ball through the ring three times, while
Morse retained his reputation as fast
guard. The lineup was as follows:
Alumni. Spaulding.
T. Morse, re- .lg, C, Carpenter, II. Reid
S. Young, lg rig, w Brown, G. Douglas
j. Rogers, c................c, J. Young
A. Lyons, RI .rf, r. Murphy, G. Rivers
F. Mann, lf..,......,,...lf, J. McHardy
Score, alumni q, Spaulding II; referee,
James Carroll; timekeeper, Alex Rennie;
baskets, MeHardy Q, Lyon 3, Mann 3,
Morse 2, s, Young, Carpenter, Rivers;
fouls, Lyon ?, Mann, McHardy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
WRECK NEAR ESSEX JUNCTION.
Passenger and Freight Collided, When
Air Brakes Failed to Work.

Essex Junction, Jan. Passengers on
a Central Vermont railway train from
Essex Junction were badly shaken up
and many of them were slightly injured
Monday morning at 5;l5, when the train
collided head-on with a freight train at
the station in Winooski Arthur G.. Ia
Dor, passenger conductor, was cut about
the head with flying glass, and a soldier
named Cassidy, just returning from
France to his home in Burlington, was
thrown half the length of the coach and
was badly shaken up. One arm had been
shot up in France and his nerves were
shattered.
The cause of the accident was the fail.
ure Of the air brakes on the passenger
train to respond on the down grade. Con
ductor Notemeyer of the freight was also
in charge of one of the trains at the tun
mel wreck in Essex junction June 5 and
was badly injured then.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01

known in this city for at least quarter
of a century" Since the time when this
confident hope was asserted, influenza has
shown itself again in all too serious
prevalence, and if Boston is to be spared
its occurrence once more in really epidem-
ic proportions, it is seen that the most
careful hygienic conduct must be OBJ
served by all Bostonians.
With the recurrence of the trouble
there has been a recurrence Of that need
of the helpful service Of doctors and
nurses which, as the Associated Charities
remarks, seemed at first the only impor,
tant need in the trying times Of the early
autumn. Fortunately, however, the sup
ply of that need now stands far better
organized and prepared than it was in
october But there is one task, surviving
from the first outbreak, which is not yet
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Develops New Hybrid Cowpeas.

In its plaut-breeding work with cow
peas, which involves several hundred
hybrids and selections, the United States
department of agriculture during the
past year has developed several new
sorts which give such promise that they
are now being grown in quantity for
distribution. These varieties are Poto-
mac, Arlington, Columbia, White Hybrid
and Early Buff. Extensive field work is
being conducted by the department with
hybrids, especially in the wilt and nema-
tode lands of the southern states. Two
hybrids selections, unnamed as yet, have
been found highly resistant to both
nematodes and wilt and are superior to
other sorts for the production of seed
and forage. These two selections are be.
ing grown in quantity for more extensive
field tests next year.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
III PUTS THE "PEP"
Into Peptiron--The Combination Of Pep
sin, Nux, Iron, Celery.

This is what makes Peptiron of won
derful therapeutic value, and so success
tul after influenza, the grip and in blood
and nerve troubles, anemia, paleness,
nervous weakness and the exhausting
worry and anxiety over the world war.
1t is a real iron blood and nerve tonic,
especially beneficial in the weakness fol-
lowing the influenza and grip, to worn
out, brain-fagged men, delicate women,
school-tired girls and to fast-growing
boys, inyalids and convalescents, the
aged and infrm. 1t actually puts iron, a
natural strengthened, into the blood, and
restores the wasted red corpuscles Your
druggist knows its great merit.-Adv
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01

accomplished we are being called
upon, !" the Associated Charities says, "tG
plan for the future with fathers left will.
five or six or even eleven motherless chill
dren; to take parents ard children tc
hospitals for special advice on conditions
caused by influenza; to furnish bedding,
food and clothing and special vacations
to those whom death has left desolatC.s
In the adoption of all desirable means to
prevent new ravages by influenza, let
cure of the ills which the disease has
already left in its wake be not forgotten.
The support Of the Associated Charities
at this Christmas season, both by offers
of volunteer service and by contributions
of money, should be the greater in direct
proportion to the seriousness of the new
emergencies with which it has been given
to deal.-Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Wounded Severely.
SeIky V. Boyle.

Selky VI Bogie of East Ryegate, named
as wounded in the casualty list, went to
Camp Green last February after the
drive made by Capt Il. w. Gibson and
was assigned to the headquarters com
pany of the 5sth infantry, with which he
went to France in July.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
After Influenza.

A week or two ago when the Associat.
cd Charities was preparing the brief but
effective annual report which it has just
published it was able to write, Boston
is emerging from the worst epidemic
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
IN BOSTON MARKETS.
Jobbing Quotations on Butter, Cheese and
Eggs.

Eggs.
Boston, Jan Local jobbing prices of
butter, cheese and eggs follow:
Buffers Fancy northern creamery, in
tubs 69h@7Oc, boxes 70h@7l1ac, prints,
tubs 70h@72e, western creamery $50
a69c, good TO choice creamery 67@6sc,
fair to good 65a66c, renovated butter 55
a55hc
Cheese-New York twins, fancy 3l@
35c, fair to good 29@33c, Young America
34M40c.
Eggs Fancy nearby hennery SEQ SIC,
eastern choice s4@S5c. western extras
S2@ s3c, prime frsts 72@73c, frsts 700
lie, storage extras 54@55c, firsts 52q53c.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
colds Gauss Headaches and Pains

Feverish Headaches and Body Pains
caused from cold are soon relieved by
taking LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets. There's only one "Bromo Quin-
inc" f. w GROVES signature on the
box. 30c.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
RIcKER's MARKET REPORTS.

Calves in Good Supply-Milch Cows Are
Scarce.
st, Johnsbury, Jan. Receipts at w.
A. Ricker's market for the week ending
Dec. 81 included;
Poultry-500 MS, 22a25c.
Lambs-25, l0@l2c.
Hogs-350, l4@l5c.
Cattle-575, 4@l2e.
Calves, 225, 4@l4c.
Mich cows-40, $60@SI35.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Piles Cured in 8 to a DAYS

Druggists refund money if PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure, Itching, Blind Bleed
ing or Protruding Piles, Stops Irritation;
Soothes and Heals. You can get restful
sleep after the first application. Price
60c.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
EAST. RYEGAEE
.: i: 4: MAN WOUNDED
49,. .'....
.::.. 800.
Pvt .Selky V. Bogie. One: Of
Three .Vermontera. Men
=. ...tignsa. 9e:d4y :
- 1880.
TOTAL CASUALTIES
REPORTED 1868
Pvts. E. G. YATES, N. Ben
nington, and James Muir,
S. Burlington, Wounded

Washington, D. c., JAN l.-To-day's
casualty list contained 36s names, diyid-
ed as follows Killed in action, died Of
wounds, 3; died of disease, q wounded
severely, 252; missing in action, l07
The Vermont and New Hampshire men
included were as follows
Wounded Severely.
Pvt. Selky Valentine Bogie, E. Ryegate,
Vt.
Pvt. Forest G. Boutwell,, Meadows, N. H.
Pvt, Erwin w. Gates, N. Bennington, vt.
Pvt, James Muir, S. Burlington, Vt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-16
AMERICAN SCIENCE ,. GIVEN CREDIT FOR
 ORDNANCE WORK
General Williams Pays Great Tribute to Civilians Who Entered Army
 Service
By Associated Press

Washington, March 15.-To American industry and engineering and American science, hot to the ordnance corps of the regular army, belongs the credit or having evolved and made possible an ordnance programme for the American army that made victory 8 certainty. Maj. Gen. Clarence C. Williams, chief of ordnance, declares in a letter to the officers of his department retiring to civil life made public tonight.
 Tt was American industry and sci ence that were on trial" says the let ter. "The s7 officers of the ordnance department of the old regular army and the Il government arsenals they administered could never have dom mated, have won the success or caused the failure of the 5000 officers from civilian life and the 5000 private in- dustrial plants which were incorporated in the organization for the period of the war. The enlistment in industry, equally with the draft of man power, was a success And for that I thank you, the administrative directors and the engineering advisers of American industry who came into the service of the ordnance department during the war"
 No other part of the American war programme carried it's responsibilities and effort as to design and invention, or production, into so many channels, the letter says, or projected them upon SO vast a scale.
 When your problem is the produc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-16
NORTH SEA BARRAGE
 BUILT IN A HURRY
American Navy Played Important Part in Laying Mines for
 U-BOats
By Associated Preas

London. February 1S.-Speed was one of the essentials in the laying or the great North sea mine barrage which was almost completed when the arms tice was signed. In doing 80 per cent of the work the United States 1orces maintained their rsnptation for doing things in a hurry.
 The general average for the American ships was 1130 mines every hour, put record of 1440 mines an hour was made when United States vessels dropped and anchored 552O of the death h-dealing devices in three hours and 51 minutes. The ships travelled 56 miles in doing it..
 The American ships laid all told 56,- 447 mines and the 23 carriers, 10 plant ers and two tugs were ready to go out again fully loaded when held up be- cause of the certainty that the armls- flee was to be signed. The total cost was $4S.275,000.
 The effect of the barrage on the war has not been fully determined, but naval report just issued here indicates that it's benefits were more moral than actual. It is known from German sources that submarine crews hesitated to accept the North sea FISK after the barrage was started.
 It is definitely known that SIX suD- marines were seriously damaged while attempting to cross the barrage ana cit is possible several submarines may haye.6een sunk" says the report. The real effect of the barrage will not be known until further evidence is ob- tained from German sources.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-16

Look at the tongue, mother. IT coated, it is sure sign that your lit- tie ones stomach, liver and bowels need gentle. thorough cleansing at once.
 When peevish, cross, listless, pale. doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act natu- rally, or is feverish, stomach sour, breath bad, has stomach-ache. sore throat diarrhoea, full of cold. give a teaspoonful of california Syrup of Figs" and in few hours all the foul constipated waste, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of the lit tic bowels without griping, and you have well, playful child again
 You needn't coax sick children to take this harmless fruit laxative. they love it's delicious taste, and 1t al- ways makes them feel splendid.
 Ask your druggist for bottle of california Syrup of Figs" which has directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle.s Beware of commercials sold here. To be sure you get the genuine ask to see that it is made by Cali fornia Fig Syrup CompanyN Refuse any other kind with contempt.-Adv.