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Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
CALLS MEETING
OF WAR SAVINGS
WORKERS AUG. q

A meeting of the Wan Savings
workers OF Caledonia, Essex ard Or
leans Co.'S will be held in this place
on Thursday, August q. Those in
vitcd are the county and town chair
men, presidents of the wOmen'a clubs
in the towns which will be represent
ed, and State heads of the women's
organizations in Vermont, including
all fraternal and other societies.
Luncheon will be served.
Mrs. ID. c. Jones of Waterbury,
State manager of War Savings for
Vermont, will be present, and the
principal speaker will be Mrs. Myra
n. Lord OF Boston, field secretary
oi women'a organization for the
First Federal Reserve district, which
includes all the New England states.
Mrs. Lord is an inspiring speaker
whom many of the War Saving wor-
kers have already had the privilege
of hearing.
With the prediction by high Off
Gals in Washington that before the
high cost of living becomes lower in
this country the people must cease
spending their money for Injuries,
Mrs. Francis l.. Higginson of Bos-
ton, director of savings for the first
Federal Reserve district, in state
ment just made public, urges the
people of New England to be more
thrifty and invest their savings in
safe securities such as Thrift Stamps,
War Savings Stamps, Treasury Saw
ing Certificates and other govern
mcnt securities.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
MISSIONARY
IN INDIA FOR
SIXTY YEARS

Mrs. Lois S. Parker, wife of the
late Bishop E. w. Parker of India,
is rc-visiting her native town after
IN absence of II years and being
most cordially greeted by her friends.
Mrs. Parker is 85 years young, active
and energetic and plans to return to
her missionary field again IN Novem-
Der.
Mrs. Parker was born on what was
afterwards the Judge Hovcy farm be-
tween this village and East st. Johns
bury, educated at St. Johnsbury aca-
denny, and after her marriage to Rev.
Z. W. Parker, who was also native
of st. Johnsbury, decided to join him
in missionary work in the Orient.
They We're the pioneer missionaries
OF the Methodist church in India and
went there just after the terrible
Scpoy rebellion. They were located
in Bijnor and were the only mission
aries among 100000 natives who
looked upon them with suspicion and
innocently asked them how much
they got head from the English
government for making them Christ
ians. Illustrative of the changed at
titudc of the natives Mrs. Parker re-
turned to .Bijnor short time ago to
do some emergency work and the
people lined the streets to welcome
her and at one of the religious ser
vices there were 1000 native christ
ians in the audience.
DR.. and Mrs. Parker were located
for 80 years at Maradabad and later
at Lucknow. For the past few years
Mrs. Parker has been living at Har-
dol to which place she expects to
turn.
During the war the native tribes
were very loyal to the English and
furnished many troops for the Brit
ish army. Some of the native prime -
contributed literally to the war fund.-
and one of them has since been made
peer. This says Mrs. Parker, ha9
greatly helped in cementing the
friendship between the natives and
their rulers, and it is also the policy
of the British government to place
as many possible Of the natives ir
office as means of developing a sort
of home-rule policy.
Mrs. Parker is the only one of the
eight women now living that founded
the Women's Foreign Missionary Soc
iety so years ago and she will be ono
of the speakers at the jubilee cele-
bration in Boston in October. She
was one of the speakers at the cen
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
HONOR MR.. ELY
Resolutions Adopted at the Meeting
of the Directors of the American
Fork & Hoe Company

The following resolutions wer'
adopted at the annual meeting of tn
American Fork and Hoe Compan!
recently held in Cleveland, Ohio.
The directors of The American
Fork and Hoe Company being
duly assembled after learning of
the decease of their honorcd as
sociate, Mr.. Henry G. Ely, de-
sire to express their sympathy
and highest respect to his rela-
tives and friends.
Therefore, be it resolved,
That it is with deep regret that
we learn of the death of our
friend and associate, Mr.. Henry
G. Ely. He will be missed, but
ever remembered for his kind
ness, cheerfulness and thought
full good will. He was held in
our highest esteem and vcncra-
ton for his integrity ana candor
in business and his purity of
thought and purpose in all his
social relations. We esteem it a
privilege to have been so long
associated with him
Be it further resolved,
That these resolutions be re-
corded in the records of this
meeting and a copy of them sent
to his family.
w. H. COWDREY, President
G.. B. DURELL, Treasurer
f. d. LOWELL, Secretary
August twelfth,
Nineteen hundred, nineteen.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
BE PREPARED FOR VACATION
ILLS

Many persons suffer distress and
annoyances from disordered stomach
when travelling. Change of food and
water sometimes causes Indigestion
taht leads to sick headaches, bilious
ness, bloating, sour stomach, gas, bad
breath and coated tongue. Foley's
Cathartic Tablets should be in every
travellers grip. They act without
PAM, gripping or nausea. They have
no costive after effects and do not
encourage the pill habit. They are a
fine, wholesome. physic-nothing else.
SOLD EVERYWHERE.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
DON E. STILES
TELLS OF LONDON
NIGHT LIFE

a fairly good but intensely inter-
csted audience greeted Don {. Stiles
at Grace Methodist church Tuesday
niyht and heard him describe his ulh-
que work of patrolling the streets of
London TIN ough six months OF the
war as u Y. M. c. 4. worker. Mr..
Stiles was introduced by Fred Il. Cliff
ford, and began by saying that he
should tell his audience of no Won
dcrlul and horrible impressions Of
the war IL; they only came to him
secondhand lie said he was only 4
small part OF great mass; a little
cog in big wheel.
As soon rs he reached London, Mr..
Stiles said, to his great disappoint-
mcnt, he was not allowed to proceed
to France, but was detained in Lon
don. lii Il few days he had originated
work which afterwards made him
famous and which he successfully
continued for over six months. This
Wa; pat?ollinw the London streets al
ter midnight and rescuing the SOL
dicrs and sailors from the female den>
liens Of the street. During tie war
the street; were in absolute darkness,
the police force had been decreased
| so per cent and there were ut all
times from 10000 to 10000 soldiers
in the big city.
Tho forces OF evil were rampant
and Mr.. Stills rcscribed in detail how
he saved thousands of soldiers and
sailors from evil companions, and
how at the last the authorities were
so anxious about his safety that with
out his knowledge two officers in plain
clothes Swallowed him every night.
This kind of life was not without its
episodes and one night he had the
livcliest kind of fist fight with drum
ken Amaze, who afterwards became
his warmest friend and helped him
clean up the city. The black hand
letters continued to come to him, but
he said he enjoyed the novelty Of re-
cciving them and never took their
threats seriously. He said that 50
per cent of the girls that walked the
London streets were not criminals,
but fascinated with the uniform and
khaki crazy.
The closing part of his address was
devoted to a tribute to the English
nation, which he said, had suffered
more than any nation in the war.
Millions of their people suffered with
the cold in every winter and rarely
complained. Fifty-three per cent OF
every available citizen between 1S
and as years old was drafted and AZ
per cent of them were either killed
or wounded. In the percentage of sac
rifice England stands at the head.
Germany was not licked, but
shofn that her chontes of win
ming the war were nil and that she
had better give it up. The Americans
went over to save America from the
Huns and incidentally to help the Al
lies win the war. The booze prob
lem is England's greatest today and
it will not be settled as long as the
House of Lords has such large in
tcrcst in the liquor business. We
have reached prohibition first, but still
have our problems. Let us march on
ward, not glorying in our strength,
but with true humility give every man
and every nation a chance and a
square deal"
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
PEACHAM
GOODRICH-ABBOTT

A very pretty wedding took place
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. W. |.
Abbott last Wednesday, August o.
when their eldest daughter, lncz
Priscilla, was united in marriage to
Wcndall Ira Goodrich. The double
ring service was used and Rev. E. q.
French of Danville performed the
ceremony. Just before the ceremony
Mrs. e. G. French of Danville, rem
deere very appropriate vocal solo,
and Immediately after the bridal
party marched in, to the strains OF
Il. de Koven's wedding march, which
was played by the brides aunt, Mrs.
Arthur Read. The bride was attend
ed by her sister, Miss Hazel Abbott,
and Harold Dwinell of Calais was
best man. The room was exceeding
ly pretty, being decorated with rops
of evergreen and one corner being
banked with evergreen, maiden-hair
ferns and pond lilies. The bridal
party stood on a rug of evergreen,
beneath a white wedding bell during
the ceremony. The bride wore white
brocadcd crepe dc chenc trimmed
with white catin, and carried pond
lilies, her attendant wore pale blue
china silk.
There were 81 guests present
Those from out of town were; MIS-
La Cross and son Stanley of Spring
field, the groom's mother and brother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Aura Clarke of Bos-
ton. Mrs. Clarke is sister of the
groom. Mr.. and Mrs. d. B. Dwinell
and son, Ralph, of Calais, friends of
the groom. Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Bad
ger and Mr.. and Mrs. John Badger,
also Mrs. Marshall Lamson from
East Montpelier, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
Badger of Barre, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old Keller of Morrisville, Mrs. Ed
win Peaks of Orange, Miss Louise
Abbott of Plainfeld, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Libby of Hardwick all
relatives of the bride. Mr.. AID Mrs.
J. A. Hoadly and Mrs. Mae Ben
son of Brattleboro, friends of the
bride.
After the ceremony there was an
informal reception and ice cream and
cakes were served. Then the bride
cut the wedding cake which rested on
table cloth that was spun and wo-
ven by the brides great grandmother
Read, the flax being raised by her
great-grandfathe Read.
There were many gifts of gold, cut
glass, china, paintings, silver, cleo
trio toaster, chatting dish, aluminium
ware, serving tray, thermos bottle,
linen, rugs, and hand work.
Mrs. Goodrich is graduate from
Hardwick Academy and worked in
the Caledonia National bank until
last May. Mr.. Goodrich is gradu-
ate from the Vail school of agricul-
ture and during the wRr was in the
State of Washington with the Avi-
alton section signal corps. Since his
return he has worked for Fl. C. Davis.
They will be in their new home at
Mansonville, p. G., after September
first where they will both be in the
employment foMr. Davis.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
WEST WATERFORD

Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Beck and child
visited Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Hovey on
Sunday. Z iat.
+. o. Cushman and Eddie Cush-
man was in the Neighborhood Sun
day.
Inez Howe and Mary Wheeler were
at West Waterford to fet ferns and
MOSES for the Museum recently.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
Chlorine.

One of the most important CONNER
rial uses of chlorine is in the bleach
ing Of paper and various cloth fab
RIGS.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20

Woman Architects In Serbia.
Belgrade, the Serbian capital, was
the first municipality In the world to
omnlOv women architects.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
LOCAL NEWS

John Beck has resigned his position
ut the scale works after a faithful
service of 30 years and leaves at once
for Winchendon, Mass, where he ha;
a good position. Mrs. Beck will join
him there later
Mr. and Mrs. A. l.. Hardy and son,
Paul, who are at their summer home
on Caspian Lake, called on their
friends Thursday. Mr.. Hardy has the
proud record of having had all his
four sons in the service and one of
them, Lieut.. Donald Hardy, has re-
Gently been transferred from the
Army of Occupation in Coblenz to
Mr.. Hoover's administration and is
now stationed at Riga in Russia.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
NOT AN UNMIxED EVIL.

Magazine lovers need not regard the hiatus
In their favorite current reading an unmixed
evil There is great amount of fine matter
bound in books that is not read in these latter
days; and the habit Of magazine reading is part
ly responsible for the neglect by section OF the
intelligent reading public of much real litera-
ture and International writing Those who will
suffer most by the temporary suspension OF
periodicals due to printing firms disagreement
with employees are devotees of such magazines
as The Silly Set and The Moscomolipan and the
like; their mental inertia is aroused only by the
stuff contained within the covers of these sex
Question purverors and they would not be salts
fed, they are incapable, of approaching matter
of higher class. If only in the lapse between
numbers of our periodicals intelligent people
turn to the good books and great books, either
to know them for the first time or to renew ac-
5quaintance with them, something good might
come of the seeming inconvenience deriving
from publishers difficulties
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
AUTOS AND RAIL CROSSINGS.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
Monticello Express, taking a recent
Linn county case as its text, says:
The death toll in automobiles
on railway. crossings, mas come
to be an appalling one, nor is
there much hope for relief until
dangerous crossings are better
, protected, or drivers of motors
are compelled to stop and make
sure of clear track before pro-
ceeding. So long as we have
dangerous surface crossings and
careless drivers continue to take
the chances that they do, there
will be a repetition Of such acci-
dents, with the innocent passen-
gers reaping the deathy reward
of somebody's carelessness
Yes. the death toll at the CROSS
ings will continue. There are two
cnres for it, one is to make automo-
bile drivers stop before crossing
tracks, or the equivalent or a stop,
and the other is to make the rail
roads provide overhead or under
crossings for all their tracks. Which
one of the remedies would you
apply?
Iowa has 100000 miles Of roads,
besides many private farm roads, and
1T has about nine thousand miles OF
railroads. How many surface cross
ings there are in the state we do
not know, but there must be many
thousands. 1t costs good deal OF
money to make under or over cross
ings, and the railroads at the present
time can not pay all their section
hands without borrowing money to
do so. The costs of such crossings
would have to be borne by the people
in the form of higher rates at time
when rates are about as high as we
want them to be. Nor is the labor
even to be had to make these rail,
road changes. Clearly we cannot
safeguard all the crossings at once,
although we should be working TO-
ward such a solution.
We are therefore thrown on the
other thing, that is, to make all auto
mobile drivers stop, look and listen
before crossing tracks. But how can
YOU enforce such law If it were on
the statute books? One way might
be to make failure to stop pr1ma
facie and bona fde evidence that the
driver of the car is responsible for
the damages, IL he does not stop his
car. But to many drivers that sort
of a law would not be meaningful, for
most of them are dead after the accl-
dent and to collect damages from q
railroad means nothing to them
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE

I'M THE MooNL lGHT WOODS.
walled in the woods by moonlight where the wander
winds delayed 1865,
The wander WINS in moonlight that crept through
the haunted shade;
And the woods still the moonlight all but the
night harps tone
OF and fairylike music,
Wild weird wood music =.
at stirring the silence Ifwalked toetne WOODS
alone
How strange it is in the moonlight in bysthe leaves
grass,
When things 90 stalking the shadows land you think you
hear them pass. -,
and hedge
And my thoughts go up to the treetops
To the heavens above the treetops,
Minging through space the edge of the World-and
there edge.
space somewhere in must ead-but it can
end;
And my thoughts all bewilderd that cannot
comprehend,
FOR real the Lost Spaces come oack TO inc
moonlight here,
While through the woods but the moonlight
4 presence moves in the darkness,
One who walks in the shadows SO close that ao
fear.
It is good to walk in the moonlight the wonder woods
alone, -,
When the cares of the day vanished and worldly
thoughts flown,
the weight OF the STIFFNESS ana dI
sound that is made
And list the nightly music
And the sound CT the wind in the treetops, \
And sense in saying at is l. be not afraid
Claude Wei1ner. in Portland oregonian
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD

AS was to have been expected, speculations
and conjectures concerning the presidents
health by public men in Washington are de-
nounced in administration circles as 'sinvidious
But this is not true. The fact
is that the state of the president s health is held
by his physicians to preclude him from giving
attention to public affairs. Three senate reso
lutions asking information on foreign matters
had to be laid aside because of the chief execu-
tive's inability to give them attention, and it
was Senator Williams, of Mississippi, an ardent
supporter Of the administration, who raised the
question of disability, asserting that according
to white house bulletins the president was in no
condition to be bothered with such resolutions
IF there are conflicting rumors concerning the
nature of the illness, that is inevitable consider
ing the policy of mystifcation the white house
coterie in charge of the president has pursued
This policy is to be condemned The white
house physicians are public characters treating
a public character; there can be no privacy in
the case which is not mischieyous and it is their
duty to tell the truth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20

Wallace's Farmer: Much of the
recent advance in land values has
been entirely legitimate, but there
are reports in some localities OF
the rankest kind of manipulation.
Fake sales are made, and finally
the land is sold at top price to
real farmer
From eastern Iowa comes the
report of real estate dealer soil
citing farmers to list their farms
with him on a contract basis OF
21a per cent commission. These
farmers had no desire to sell, and
they listed their farms at a figure
which they considered high
enough so that there would be no
chance of selling. But the real
estate man succeeded in selling
several of the farms at outlandish
figures, but with a payment OF
only $1,000 down. This 1000 In
most cases was more than eaten
up by the commission, and in one
case the farmer had to pay over
81 900 in excess of the $1,000'which
he received, in order to give the
real estate man his 21a per cent.
commission. These farmers do not
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
FAKE LAND SALES

know whether or not they have
really sold their farms. They have
exercised poor business judgment,
and. 80 far as they can soc, the
only man who is certain to gain is
the real estate man.
There are many farmers who
are Just as shrewd dealers in land
as anyone, and they need no word
of caution about the necessity OF
carefully examined contracts. 1t
1t not enough to set high figure
ON the farm, but 1t is also wise to
take into consideration the COM
mission which a real estate man
may exact in relation to the cash
payment.
Above all, any man who intends
to stay by the farming game
should think very seriously before
he sells his farm. The chances are
that he will lose money In the pro-
cess of selling his own farm and
buying another. The thing for ac-
tual farmers to do in this land
boom is to "sit tight" refusing to
sell their farms unless they have
some very definite plans about
going elsewhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
ShERlEE,S SALE
State Of Iowa, Lee County, /

State OF Iowa, Lee County, IS,
BY virtue of a Special Execution nj
me directed. issued by the Clerk h.|
District Court of said County In rayo,|
Of John w. Watson, Admr., of the N
tate Of Esther A. Watson, deceased
and against Logan b. Perry and Tres
sic nj. Perry, l, John c. Scott, Sheriff
will sell to the highest bidder, at III
front of the Court House, in Keokut
Lee County, Iowa, on the 18th day NJ
November A. D.. 1919, between thsI
hours of o'clock a. M, and 4 o'cloeiI
p. M, commencing at O'Clock D. N.
Of said day the following propertr
to-wit:
The Northwest forty-five (45) ies
of Lot Seven %, Also the rear twenty
five (25) feet Of the Southeast fiu
(5) feet of Lot Seven CD, also Ii,
rear twenty-five (25) feet of the Nortt
west ten (10) feet of lot eight ISL
And all in Block One Hundred and
Sixty-four (164) in the City of Keel
kuk, Lee County, Iowa.
And to be sold by order Of Court ii
satisfy said Writ of Execution.
JOHN c. SCOTT,
Sheriff of Lee County.
BY w. S. MONTGOMERY,
Deputy.
Keokuk, Oct. 10, 1919.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
ORIGINAL NOTICE

State of Iowa, Lee County. 50
In the District Court of said Co...
at Keokuk, to the November 1s,.
Term. "l
ELLA Wise. plaintiff. versus Josenh !
Wise, Northumberland Nov.
To the Above Named Defendant. 1--we
You are hereby notified that ! 49,
ton is now on file in the Clerl,.s IVY
flee Of the District Court afors,.was
at Keokuk In behalf of the 49,
named plaintiff, against You. nv
claiming divorce on the ground "
desertion, said petition particnla,a
setting out that you deserted n.
plaintiff on the twenty-seventb Nv
of October. 1912, and that you bs,.
not lived with her since that da..
or contributed to her support. a. y
fered to do so in any manner WIN.
soever. For more particulars -.
petition.
And unless you appear thereto an,
defend before noon of the second d,s
of the next regular November fern,
of said court, to be begun and holds.
at Keokuk on the seventeenth d.,
Of November, A. D. 1919, default VIII VI.
be entered against you and judgmsn.
rendered thereon as prayed for i,
said petition. y
O'HARRAS, WOOD & WALKER
Attorneys for Plaintiff
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-20
A COUNTRY Boys DISCOVERY.

Muscatine Journal: When friend
writes another. personal letter,
what it contains ought to be more or
less sacred and not revealed to the
public eye But when the writer Is
q newspaper man, and the recipient
is likewise so unfortunate, and in
that letter is a paragraph that makes
good reading and is calculated to
give the town smile-well, why
waste space on apologies?
Some months ago member OF the
Journal staff took his caution down
to the river and drowned 1t, put on
his spare necktie and HE'D him out
to make fame and fortune in tina.
goal of every ambitious young re-
porter, little old New York.
Anxiously the office has awaited
reports from the scene of action.
When at Jast they came, they were
glowing. Listen! Our pilgrim writes:
81 have made one rather striking
discovery. / thought the big guns
would be sort Of different from us
commonplace mortals, but / find 1t
isn't true. 1t took me about two
days to become as unabashed in talk
ing over stories with the district at
torney or Mayor Hylan or the police
commissioner, or the head Of $780,
100000 corporation like the Inter
borough Our hero was in the midst
OF things during New YorRs BRIEF
but strenuous tie-up), as I would be
in trying to exc out story from Sam
Bronner or Doc McrSutt. There's
just one difference. It's just about a
million times as easy to talk to
Mayor Hylan or District Attorney