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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15
READY FOR 1. w. VS..
Authorities, Armed, Await Invasion
at Ceatraha, Washington

at Ce1traha, washington
nCentralia, Wash, Nov. ia
report from Spokane last night said
that more than 1000 l. w. VS.
had threatened an invasion of the
town. Former service men were
being armed to meet the agitators
if they appeared.
The machinery Of law and orde,
has been set in motion throughout
the Northwest to suppress the /.
W. w. agirators and radicals who
were held responsible for the STAY
ing of four former service men dur
ing the armistice day celebration
here.
Civil authorities and officers of
the law are mobilizing their forces
for a drive against enemies of the
government.
Reports were received from
score of towns that /. W.. w.
headquarters had been raided and
literature seized. Hundreds of ar
rests have been made in cities and
towns through the Northwest since
the outrage here.
Ten /. w. VS. arrested follow
ing the assassinations here Tuesday
were formally charged with muir
der in the first degree today. All
but one, it was said, are in custody
The man being sought is Bert Bland
1t is believed he has fled the State
and his description was sent broad
cast throughout the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

FOR SALE-Army overcoat, seven
dollars, size 80. Apply at GOT
Oronoco street. 273-1p
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

WANTED-Shops from two to five
ounce stem work. We also want
spare blowers. Will advance
transportation. Communicate with
us Immediately. American Glass
Works. Richmond, Va. 272-3p
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

WANTED-second hand clothes,
VIII pay good price. Call or
write Wolfson, the tailor, 3O7
KING Street. 2G7-26t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

MARRY If LONELY-For results,
try me; best and most successful
"Home Maker" hundreds rich wish
marriage soon; strictly confidential;
most reliable; years of experience;
descriptions free. "The Successful
Club" Mrs. Ball, Box 556 Oakland,
Calf. Sat. 2w.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

FOR RENT-Handsomely furnished
housekeeping apartments, hot wa
ter heat, gas ranges, hot and cold
water in kitchen, large yard. Best
references required. Immediate
possession. Rents, $40 to SIG
weekly, 80 South Pitt Street.
272-2p.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

FOR SALE-One 1915 Ford touring
car, electric starter and lights.
Bumper, speedometer and other
accessories Quick sale. See r.
l.. Garrett, sos North Washing
ton street. 2I3-tt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

WANTED-Two first class carpen-
tiers. Apply S. D. DeVaughan,
200 North Royal Street. 271-3c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

FOR RENTAL APO Wolfe street,
corner. Pitt furnished rooms,
single or ensuit, with every conven-
fence for home comforts, double
beds, kept spotlessly clean, six
baths, an abundance of hot water.
Those looking Tor home comforts
plcasc call. 255-26t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15

FOR SALE-New Del Ray hunga-
low, five rooms and bath, steam
heat. garage. electric fixtures, all
modern improvements. Lot 80 by
125. Near school and car. Take
Alexandria car and get eff at
Del Ray, walk one block east.
Price $4,750 90. Charles Schrimpf,
owner and builder. 272-2p.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-15
Walter K.
Handy Co.
Real Estate, Loans
and Insurance
Phone 1901

For Sale-NeW six room
bungalow with bath and all
modern conveniences, Del
Ray.
For Sale-Frane dwell
ing, seven rooms and bath,
electric lights, garage.
Queen street.
For Sale-Dwelling, six
rooms and bath, electric
lights. A good investment.
Queen street.
! For Sale = New. frame
dwelling, nine rooms and
bath, electric lights. Queen
street.
For Sale ling, five
rooms, sewer connections,
electric lights. North Pat
rick street.
For Sale-Blick dwelling,
six rooms and bath, newly
papered and painted. Easy
.erms. North Pitt Street.
For Sale = That home
you've been looking for, in
Alexandria, Rosemont or
Del Ray.
WALTER K. HANDY co.
Real Estate, Loans and lns.
Cor. Royal and Prince SITS.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
REDS ANXIOUS
FOR THEIR CITIES
Are Said to Have Proposed
Armistice to Admiral
Kolchak
NO CONFIRMATION OF
REPORT, HOWEVER
Gate of Petrograd and Mos
cow Said to Arouse
Lenine

London, May 25.--While there is no
confirmation from other sources that
Nikolai Lenine, the bolshevik premier of
Russia, has proposed an armistice to Adj
miral kolchak, head of the all Russian
government at 0msk, there are indica.
tions that the bosheviki are anxious
over the fate Of Petrograd and Moscow,
A wireless Russian dispatch states
that the defense committee of Moscow is
appealing for women volunteers for mil
tary service in towns and admits that
non bolshevill troops are fighting in the
outskirts of Riga on the left bank Of
the Dyina.
According TO q dispatch from the Reut-
er correspondent with the allied forces in
the Murmansk region, which reflects
military views, no doubt is entertained
that Petrograd can be taken, but he
says its capture would be useless, owing
TO the allies inability to feed the popu-
lation, as the British line of communica-
tions is now 500 miles long, with single
line of railways. The correspondent adds
that Admiral Kolchak's troops should be
in Viataka in six weeks and soon after
wards should be in touch with the Arch
angel front. He says that once supplies
from Siberia are assured, the capture of
Moscow and Petrograd will be a matter
of only short time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
TUNNELS UNDER WATER.
Construction Much Less Hazardous Than
Formerly.

Twenty years ago the construction of
soft ground tunnel under river
ranked among the most formidable and
hazardous tasks Of engineering construc-
tion. Interruptions, delays and fatalities
were normal accomplishments of such
enterprises. The art has advanced great
ly within the past generation. Difficulty
and hazard has been so reduced that to-
| day subaqueous tunnel is hardly
much more serious undertaking than any
| open excavation contract.
With the completion Of the fourth
pair OF rapid transit tunnels under the
East river at New York--a fifth pair is
nearing completion-and the opening to
traffic of the second pair, the progress of
the art has recently received significant
emphasis. Three pairs of these tunnels
have been begun and completed within
the past five years, substantially with
out incident; high rates of progress have
been attained, the finished structures are
of excellent character and precise in
grade and alignment, and the casualty
list has been kept remarkably low Yet
the East river subsoil, comprising rock,
sand gravel and mud, presents all the
classic complications of the most diff.
cult problems of tunneling. Compared
with the tunnels built dozen years
earlier from the Battery to Joralemon
street, the four new pairs, at South
ferry, Old slip, Fourteenth street and
Sixtieth street have history of remark
ably greater success. Their completion
marks the end of a long development pc
riod of cast-iron-lined shield tunnel con
struction.
Reinements in the application of we'll
known methods, rather than the intro
duction of new methods, are to be cred
tied for this result. The shield and.
compressed air method has been known
for many decades past, and the shields in
use to-day differ only in minor construc
tional features from those of prior tun
neling operations. Cast iron tunnel lin
ing and the methods of putting it in
place and making it secure also contain
nothing new Nor is the practices of
dumping a temporary fill into the water
everything the tunnel in any respect new
But rigid control of the work, and sys.
tematie care and vigilance throughout,
in the regulation of exposure of men TO
the compressed air, as well as in the
guarding of the face and in the grouting,
have permitted the utilization of these
elements with increased efficiency.
Thus, it is now recognized that the
bIanketing of the river bottom with clay
has such an important bearing on sue.
cess as to justify large expenditure for
this item, Formerly, tunnel builders
were inclined to economic in the first
blanketing, and they usually had to re-
inforce and repair the blanket subse-
quently, when heavy leaks or blowouts
showed it TO be weak The view taken
to- day is that it is cheaper TO prevent
blowout than to plug it. To adequate
blanketing alone may be given much Of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
MISSOURI A RICE STATE.
One Butler County Man Raised 81 900
Bushels in 1918.

Although Missouri is not generally rec
ognized as rice producing state, it
ranks ninth in the production of this
crop. Rice cultivation promises much
to farmers in this section of the state.
The largest rice producer in the state
is George Begley, jr., Of Poplar Bluff,
Mo. Begley is the owner of two large
rice farms in Butler county and he ex
presses the opinion that much of the
land in this county excels that Of Louis
lana and Texas, the two largest rice pro-
ducing states in the union. He estimates
that there are from $4,000 to $4,000 acres
of land in Missouri suitable to rice.
In 1918 Begley raised q 900 bushels
of rice, which cost him $4,000 to pro.
duce and which sold for $4,000 He is
making arrangements for the planting of
600 acres this year. In addition to the
rice crop he produces as high as 100
acres of broomcorn, 20 acres of sweet pc.
tatoes. 100 acres of cewpeas. Seven
tractors and so head of mules are used
by him in his agricultural enterprise.
Begley says the best soil for profitable
rice production is a clay loan with
water. holding subsoil The average
rainfall required to produce a c-sp Is
one-half inch a day for 90 days and the
growing season is from five to six
months. Rice must be planted early so
that the crop will not get frostbitten
before maturity.
From one to three bushels of rice are
required to plant an acre and it must
be drilled. The grain consumes only
about three -tenths of the total nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash contained in
the plant II the stubble is plowed I'M
der, or the land is subject to overflow
there is little soil depletion, therefore,
there is substantial saving in the fer
tility of the soil. The crop produced by
Begley in 1918 was almost one-haf of
that produced in the whole state that
year.-Kansas City Star.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
Eradication Of Poultry Lice.

Examinations Of many poultry aocks
in different parts Of Vermont have shown
fowls to be infested with four different
species of life. The most common one,
as well as the most harmful, is known
as the common body louise; it is found
running on the skin near the vent and
never upon the feathers. II lays its eggs
in masses on the base of the feathers
near the vent.
The head louise is found in some hocks,
and it is this louise that gives much
trouble to chicks Matched under hens.
The other two species are not as com
mon or as harmful as the body louise
and the head louise. All of these differ
ent lice can be completely eradicated by
one thorough application of sodium fiuor-
ide. This white powder stays in the
feathers long enough to kill all the lice
which hatch after the treatment.
If You haven't received copy Of
farmers bulletin No. SOL, dealing with
mites and lice on poultry, you can OBJ
tain copy from your county agent or
from the extension service of the Uniyer-
sity Of Vermont and State Agricultural
college.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
ALLIED ARMY GROWING.
New Units Are Being Shipped Each Week
from 0msk.

Omsk, Tuesday May 20 tBy the Asso
ciated Press The military situation is
regarded here as satisfactory, and each
week new units are being equipped and
moved toward the front.
The bolsheviki have massed forces in
the Samara sector in a desperate effort
to hold the grain growing section of the
country, without which, by their own
admission, the bolshevik regime is bound
to collapse. They won minor success
east of Samara, including the reoccupa-
tion of the town Of Bielebey. This has
been offset, however, by the gains made
by Siberian forces along the Viatka river
in the direction of Viatka.
Fighting is going on in the streets of
Orenburg. At Uralsk, 2l0 miles south
west of 0renburg, Cossack forces, which
have long been carrying on an isolated
defensive, have been joined by Siberian
troops and the governments position in
this region has been greatly strength
ened.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
OAK LEDGE CAMP.
Ideal Outing Place for Young Women on
Shore of Lake Champlain.

Oak Ledge camp on Lake Champlain,
the property of DIR. and Mrs. Seward
Webb, is again available this season for
a girls camp, and every effort has been
made to make this an ideal spot for a
happy, out.of doors summer. Older girls
and young women from all over the
state will be welcome, the preference be-
ing given to employed young women,
business women, teachers and high school
students, those who want summer
outing, but not high-priced camp.
There will be large garden for the
camp table, which will give an oppor-
tunity for girls so inclined to earn part
Of their board.
Plenty of simple, wholesome food will
be served, with vegetables and milk, all
kinds Of sports will be provided for, and
the fine, large housa, the spacious
grounds and beach can only make for a
delightful outing for those who spend
their vacation at Oak Ledge
Campers can be accommodated by the
week or for week-ends, from June ! to
Sept. Is. The rate is SIS a week, and 81
must accompany the application, which
win be deducted from board. Regular
campers are to bring their own bedding,
that is, two single Asheets Tor three for
more than a week., pillow and pillow
slips, blankets or comforter, towels. A
few campers can be accommodated with
out bringing their own bedding by pay
ing 81 a week extra. Week end campers,
so far as space permits, 80 cents per
night and Is cents for each meal. No
accommodations can be guaranteed un
less written for in advance.
For further information address Patri-
otto League Headquarters, l4s Church
street, Burlington, until June |. After
June /, Oak Ledge, Burlington.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26

the credit for reducing the tunneling haz-
ard as well as for making possible high
rates of advance. Consistent care in
handling the face work, however, and
conscientious survey checking and CON
trel of shield movements, are other fac
tors fully as important, influencing the
safety and expedition of the work as
well as its exactncss
There is particular satisfaction in
contemplating the approximate sperfec-
tion of tunneling exhibited in the East
river work, because it affords a sound
basis for the development of future pos
sibilities lying beyond the range of past
experience. Ii is not to be expected that
subsequent tunnel construction will for
ever be cireumscribed by present limits
of size and depth. Indeed, the project
for a road tunnel under the Hudson riv
er may carry the art quite beyond these
limits within very few months. if the
project for tube Of 42-foot diameter,
which Gen. Goethals recommended a
year ago, is adopted for execution But
ordinary progress is not made by such
great leaps into the unknown; it builds
up step by step on foundation of well
worked out experience, constantly ven
turing ahead but remaining always with
in reach Of the accomplished. In prog
ress of this kind the East river work,
together with the pioneer engineering
done in the present Hudson tube tunnels
and the Pennsylvania tunnels, will con
stitute the solid ground of departure.
A record of what was done and learned
in the rapid.trsnsit tunneling still re.
mains to be written In the rush of
building, the engineers have not found
time to note down their experiences for
the use Of posterity As the work APP
proaches its final stages, however, we
may hope that the record viii be written,
and made available, in printed form, to
all engineers Engineering News Record.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
Tight Skirts Cause Accidents.

An increase in accident cases, due to
the new fashion of tight skirts is being
awaited by the claim departments of the
various surface railway companies in
New York City. The psychology OF
has been deeply and earnestly studied by
the street railway companies. Therefore
when they noticed with real regret that
the long, tight skirt found favor in fem
mime fancy, they sighed, but prepared
for action.
OF course, all women have not as yet
adopted the extreme tight skirt. But
as long as one of 'em has, they all will
soon" mourned the heads of the claim
departments.
The New York Railways company is
quite exercised about the situation.
"Why should women wear these narrow
skirts which endanger their safety and
are not nearly as comfortable or good
looking as the short, wide skirts they
have been wearing?" argued its afore-
mentioned claim department official. He
doesn't want his name given. He's afraid
of what the women will say TO him. He
acknowledged it quite frankly.
The new type of car with the folding
step has greatly lessened the possibility
of accident due to fashions whims, he
says. The New York Railways company
handles only about 100 boarding and
alighting accident cases month now, in
comparison with three or four hundred
previously. People can't get on or leave
the new type cars until they have
a&n ID h. -
them until the door is closed. In Brook
Ign, however, the low step car is not in
such general use, says the claim agent,
who lives there, and consequently the
tight skirt adherents are having q diff
cult and embarrassing time.
But the real menace to women's safety
on street cars is the high heel he be-
lieves. Many cases of injury can be
traced to them, claim agents declare.
"Some of 'em are three inches high
and only about a half-inch in width, "
affirms John Yenson of the Third avenue
railway claim department. "If WON
ans trihe, er-large, it's mystery
to me how she maintains her equilib-
riuml"
The edge of the heel, he says, catches
very easily on the cage OF the ear step,
or on the skirt, the woman falls-and
blames it on the car company.
If women want to be really free and
"emancipated, Mr.. Yenson believes, they
ought to pass laws setting forth the re-
quirements Of the perfect heel-which
ought to be as wide as the foot and not
more than half an inch high.
Notwithstanding the impossible heel
and the restraining skirt there are fewer
accidents to women than to men, the
companies find. Dorothy Dexter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26

1t. Mrs. MARGARET NESS, 1886 e.
Hazard ST.. Philadelphia, Pa.
Women who suffer from displace>
ments, irregularities, Inflammation,
liberation, backache, sideache, head
aches or "the blues" should not rest
until they have given this famous root
and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham' s
Vegetable Compound, trial. If
complications exist, write Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for
special suggestions. The result of its
long experience is at your service.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
BOLSHEVIKI LOST
IN SURPRISE ATTACK
Esthonian Forces Broke Through Their
Positions on the Whole Pskov Front
and Captured 1000 Prisoners
and Much Equipment.

London, May 26.-By surprise at
tack on Friday night, Esthonian forces
broke through the bolsheyik positions
along the whole Pskov front, captured
Izborsk and advanced to within six miles
of Pskov, capturing 1000 prisoners and
many cannon and machine guns, ac-
cording to an official statement issued at
Esthonian staff headquarters.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
Sixty Sandwiches Gave Her a Start.

Five years ago Mrs. Helen r. Mascher
happened into a big drug store in the
business district in New York. 1t was
noon hour and groups of girls stood
around the soda fountain without which
a New York drug store is not drug
store) drinking hot chocolate and munich
ing crackers. Now quick lunch is New
Yorl's middle name, says the Springfield
Republican, and these girls were typical
New Workers. Perhaps they wished to
do little shopping before hurrying back
to the Office,
While waiting to be attended to Mrs.
Mascher started wondering if these girls
wouldn't enjoy more substantial sand
wieh or two instead of the none too fill
ing crackers. Now Mrs Mascher could
make sandwiches. Her many friends had
commented on her ability in this line.
So why not try it out, thought Mrs.
Mascher. Her sandwiches on sale at the
soda fountain might find ready buyers.
She spoke to the proprietor about it and
he agreed to try out the idea.
Mrs Mascher's first order was for 60
sandwiches of various kinds. These she
made in her little kitchen at home One
days trial was enough to prove the idea
success ard her business has expanded
steadily since.
Fresh and daintily wrapped in wax
paper, Mrs. Maseher's sandwiches may
be found on sale at many first-cass soda
fountains throughout New York City.
Her annual business amounts to many
thousands of dollars year and her daily
orders are for thousands of sandwiches
instead of the first days order of 60.
Twenty-Five women are employed in
Mrs. Mascher's sanitary factory filling
the orders and the sandwiches are of the
same high standard that Mrs. Mascher
personally made in her own kitchen five
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26

irregularities a n d
pain. / had one
physician after an
other but they did
me no good. | read
a b out Lyd.d E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
gave tia trial and in
a short time | felt
benefited and a m
now feeling fine,
and without weak
ness orpain. Many
of my friends have
also taken Lydia L.
Pinkham's v G e.
table ComPou n d
and haan heIned bv
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
Heard on the Train.

as this Mr.. Rileyf'
'Eh- whati" said the deaf old chap.
'1s this Mr.. Riley?"
Riley Oh, yes"
II knew your father"
mo bother"
q say knew your father
what"
knew your father"
"oh, did We? So did Boston Tran
script
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26

Berne, May 26--Germany should re-
fuse to sign the military and economic
terms of the peace treaty, which are not
acceptable, according to q statement
made by General Count Max Montgelas,
one of the German delegates at Yer
sailles, to the correspondent of the
Neueste Nachrichten of Berlin, and
quoted in a Munich dispatch received
here.
He says that the military terms do
not allow Germany sufficient number
of troops to maintain order, the recent
events in Berlin and Munich being cited
as proof of this statement. General
Montgelas also says that professional
army is grave danger from democratic
viewpoint He adds that the accept
ance of the economic clauses would "con-
denim German workingmen to slavery
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
No Doubt of 1t.

'Do you think Miss Chatters is an
entertaining tslkerH"
my, yes; she can entertain herself
for hours at time Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-26
German Counter : Proposal
Would Cut Army to
100000 Men
AT THE CONCLUSION
OF YEAR OF PEACE
Within Two Months She
Proposed to Reduce
to $4,000

Berlin, Sunday, May 25 by the Asso-
ciated Press Information has been re-
ceived from an unimpeachable source
that the contemporaries TO be made
BY German to the peace conference will
declare in favor of military disarmament,
saying that Germany is ready to reduce
her forces to 100000 within two months
after the conclusion of peace, and by
the expiration of another year to cut
the army down to 100000 men.
1t will be declared that in spite of in
ternal disorders and the necessity for
defending her frontiers, Germany thus
agrees to disarm ahead Of all other pow
ers. 1t is pointed out that this gives
adequate proof of Germany's determine
ton to renounce all militaristic and i'm
perialistic tendencies.