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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
ARBITRATION DECIDED ON
To Settle Dispute in Montreal Water
Works Strike.

Montreal. Feb. > Settlement Of the
strike OF employees of the municipal
water works. which has been in effect
since Jan. |, was announced to-day.
The men are to return at once and the
dispute as to wages and hours is to be
referred TO a board OF arbitration.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
NEW CHANNEL PROPOSED
From Mamoroneck Harbor to New
York Harbor at the Battery.

Washington. ID. G., Feb. 2.-Construc-
ton of I0-foot channel to connect
Mamoroneck harbor with New York
harbor at the Battery, at cost of
sl03 OO0. and expenditure of $4,000 to
widen ulonga channel. Pawtucket river.
near Pawtucket, r. l.. were recon-
mended to Congress today by govern
mcnt engineers. Proposals for new
entrance 20 Boston harbor and for
deepening the Illinois river from Otta-
wa to Utica were disapproved.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
WASHED UP BODIES
WERE FROM TUGS
Four of, the Five Were Identified at
Savannah To-day-Came Ashore
with Wreckage.

Savannah. Ga. Feb ?, -Four Of the
five bodies washed upon Jekyl island
near here Yesterday. with wreckage
from an unidentified craft, were iden.
titled to- day as members Of the crew
of tug believed to have been the
ocean going tug Fortune. She carried
a crew of from Ia to 20 men.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
1NrERMENr AT NoRrHFIELD.
Funeral Of Dennis Donahue Was Held
at ST. Monica's.

The funeral OF Dennis Donahuc. son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. +. Donahue Of south
Barre. who died Thursday night of
pneumonia. was held at o'clock this
morning from ST Monica's church. Rev.
Fir. McKenna officiating. The body was
taken to Mortified by team for inter
ment in the family lot. Three cousins
Of the deceased from Mortified. James,
VIII and Jerry Donshue. and FritS Hol-
lenback Of South Barre acted as bear
ers
Others from out Of town to attend
the funeral we're an aunt Mrs. Julia
Sployd, and an uncle, Dennis Donahue-
both of Northheid.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
AMERICAN SUPPLIES
TO STRICKEN CITIES
Products Valued at sss5,ooo Left Paris
To-day for Vienna and
Budapest.

Paris. Feb. .. Two trains OF Ameri-
can Red Cross supplies, valued at $3.50.
GOO. left Paris to-day for Vienna and
Budapest. The supplies included cloth
ing. surgical dressings, drugs, condensed
milk, flour and other foodstuffs.
In the shipment we're 10000 needles
suitable for making repairs To clothing
and 25.O00 smaller needles. with 10000
spools of thread, sent to supply lack
which has been preventing proper re-
pairs to clothing Of the poor in the
two cities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
FLU" IN BAY
STATE ON WANE
Further Falling-Of in the
Daily Reports Was Not
ed To-day
THIRD OF NEW CASES
WERE IN BOSTON
The Total New Cases Re-
ported To-day Were
86l

Boston, Feb. "A further falling off
in the number of new cases of indu-
enza developing in the state was shown
by the STATE department Of health fig
ures to-day. The total of cases re-
ported for the past 4s hours, Sol, was
less by nearly 200 than the total for "A
hours announced on Saturday. OF the
new cases pa were in Boston and GA
elsewhere in the state.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
FUNERAL AT wEBsTERvILLE.
OF Mrs. Robert LAYERS Of Waterville,
P. O., Visitor There

The funeral Of Mrs Robert LAYERS q
Waterville. p. O.. whose death occurred
at the home Of Charles LampheFe u
lower Websterville last Friday. was
held from the LAmphere home ycster-
dav afternoon al O'Clock. Rev. Chris-
tiau Petersen officiating. Mr. LAYERS
came from Waterville, but did not ar
rive until after his uifrs death. Tie
returned home last night. he body
was pIaced in the vault and viii be TAX
en- lsfer e. Quebec. Thc bearers were
Iobn Douad. Pred Donald. Charles
Iampbere aud a. T. Wheeler
Mr. LAYERS came o. attend he fu-
neral of her si-tcr-in leN- M Ian.
pherc. ard uss plan-ia1 o. take ssafN
s. .ih her ttlJ % thr l-annhcre ehii4 s1.l-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
WHISKEY CONCEALED
IN CAR OF POTATOES

Bangor, Me, Feb. 2.-Lester A.
Colby and Leslie A. Lyna, Unit
ed States customs officers here,
seized 1889 quarts Of Canadian
whiskey at Northern Maine
junction Sunday. The whiskey
was being shipped from Van Bu-
rem in a car of potatoes and was
billed to Washington, Ohio. The
caretaker Of the car deserted his
post after wiring Van Buren for
instructions.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
ESTHONI4 AND SOVIETS
SIGN PEACE TERMS
Announcement Made from Moscow That
Peace Was Definitely
Concluded

London. Feb. 2.--Peaee was definite,
lv concluded this morning between Es-
thonia and the, Russian soviet govern
ment, it is announced in wireless dis
patch from Moscow received this after.
noon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
GERMANS ARRIVING.
Several Reached New York To-day on
Liner HeIlig Olav.

New York. Feb. ? Several Germans
were among the merchants who arrived
to-day on the scandinavian American
liner Hellig Oinv from Copenhagen The
shin encountered unusually severe
weather.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
Just for Tonight

oh. would that we're . boy again,
murmured the red-fsced Old gentleman,
If only long enough 10 get even With
that voung rascal who soaked me with
SNOWFALL. Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
Cot Him Worrying.

Tom-You don't really imagine that
girls actually propose sometimes, do
your
Dick Well. an ! know il that this i
leap wear and some girls are getting
married who never got married before.
Boston Transcript
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02

Maud Nov that yonve broken your
engagement with Jack ! suppose YOU j
b. nd of his presence
Madre-0h. no. indeed. ] shall keep
them all-Boston TransTipt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
NEW YORK LIFE MAN DEAD.
Frederick H. Shipmsn, Treasurer Of
Company, Died at Summit, N. ].

summit. \. J.. Feb. 2-Frederick H.
Shinmap. treasurer Of the New York
Life Insurance company, died a. he
home here to-day after short illness.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
TWO CITIES IN HANDS
OF THE BOLSHEVIKf
Tiflis and Kutais in Transcaucasia the
Scenes of Violent Up
risings

London. Feb. "A bolshevik rising
Is reported to have occurred at Tiflis
and Kutais, in Trans-Cancssia. Both
cities are declared TO be in the hands Of
the reds
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
On. Of the Frrinr Pan.

Has your present uife more even
temper than your first had
More evenf No. even more. -Bos-
ton Transcript
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
Naughty Ben.

Ninden Courier Benjamin Franklin
achieved immortality a. patriot, states
man and philosopher - Boston Tran
script.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02

-The Doctor was very particular
about knowing Whist We have % eat
-Wunasr Why Does D expect us g
invite Aim to dinner Ju4-c
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
SUPREME COURT RESTS.
II Took Recess Today Until March
First

Washington. u. C.. Feb. The IA.
preme court to-day recessed until
March l.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02

Saw II there was tax On brains
You Wouidut even hare 60 pay atien-
ton Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-02
POLAND AB4NDONS
HER MILITARY PLANS
Was Said to Be Making Preparations
for Attacking Russia in Stimuli
taneous Offensives,

London, Feb. 2.-The bolshevik dele
gates at Dorpat declare that Poland has
abandoned her military preparations
against Russia, which were to be toll
lowed by simultaneous attacks upon
Moscow and Petrograd, according to a
Central News dispatch from Reval, Es-
thonia, to-day. Poland has taken this
course, the delegates say, because L-
vonia "in accordance with the peace
treaty with the soviet" has withdrawn
her promise to place her army and the
harbor of Reval at Poland's disposal
Dispatches from Warsaw last week
announced the calling up OF some OF the
Polish army classes in mobilization
movement, and there have been other
indications that Poland was fortlfying
herself militarily against the bolshe-
wiki. So far as has developed, however,
no peace treaty has been signed be-
tween Lvonia Tor Letyia and the Mos
COW soviet government. Esthonia has
been on the verge for some time OF con
cluding peace with the bolsheviki, and
ii seems probable that it is the Estho-
nian peace treaty that j. referred TO
in the foregoing, especially as Reval IS
an Esthonian city--the seat, in fact, OF
the Esthonian government,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-28

4 time we says one regiment o
lanks would so across an wipe up
Germny like Texas Steve useta
wipe up the Workin mems Exchange
when he got full O squirt booze.
When we heard bands playin' mar
:ual tunes we swole our chests out
an says or Glory was worth fight
IN for an dyjn' for, an we was for
all the great sacrifices what the
people o this free an easy land
was maxim in order to trample the
tyrant in the Dutch dust an guar
antee the freedom O seas, the lakes,
the rivers, an the creeks.
when we landed our frs bat
talon on foreign soil you an me
knew no bounds-we was like a
couple O. kids watchin' a dog fight.
AN when our lads kicked the
stufin' out o them heathens at
Shotto Theory-well. we couldn' a
been no prouder if we had done all
of it ourseli instead O the small but
vital parts we did play in the hist'ry
maxim cepock
"Well-we lived to see the war
over, an we may yet live TO see
peace declared. The gran day O
the arlnstice-Ill never forget it
becus drunk gimme a half, thinkin'
he was handn' me dime or some
thin'-we done our duty, didn' We!
Didn' we? We did. I'll say we did.
We got as pie eyed as anybody.
AN then comes the reconstruc
tion. o, what a kick in the STATS
that. turned out to be!
"The wheels begin turnin. They
begin whizzin.' An about the frs
thing they whizzed out was hootch.
Mex to the great flood we read about
IN Sund'y school this here pro'bition
was the toughest disaster what ever
overwhelms a people. The country
turns all wet, an me an the likes o
YOU an me is left low an dry, an
we got no ark. We got no nothin.
SIoons is razooed. That makes us
homeless Free lunches, warm
stoves, leftover suds is extermlnated
that makes us hopeless.
"An' then what? Money goes
cheap. Wages goes skyin' an
prices goes aereonautin'.
"That leaves US where?
THAT leaves us fiat, Dude.
"They's a dozen Jobs for ev'ry
man to take one, an besides they's
a thousan' guys strikin' again that
Job. Our headquarters destroyed by
pro 'bition, our means o livelihood
is rooned by industrial upheavals
becus what chancet is a panhandler
got when every sap knows work is
cryin' to be did? To blazes with
prosperity. Gimme panic. Say,
I'd rather be able to say, Mister, ]
been huntin' job-any kind O. hon.
rable work-all day, an my wife an
children is home starvin-an get
away with it than have only one
leg or some O them advantages what
some O the 'bos is got. \
"When ! try to touch pedestrian
these here days he's too busy dodgin
work himself to even listen to me.
an if l get his ear an tell him ]
can't get no work he laughs himself
silly. II amt enough seven guys in
one night told me / was liar, but
four more offers me work. JUS
becus I beg for a livin' ain no rea-
son | got to be insulted.
"An' the few what still shell out,
d'you think they come clean like
they should in these here days when
Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-28

an a half away, but so far from
town that / might as we'll be in the
wilds O. Heligoland for all O that.
An this farm is got an improve
ment over any | ever played before
its got Winnie.
Il took one squint at Winnie, an
seen more filligree than what I
seen in my p'fessional career. But
it was diff'rent kind. She was all
O H., an that makes a strappin'
girl out where butter is got cream in
it an the bread is baked instead O
winnie was pretty busy, but she
wasn't none too busy to look right
back at me- I amt exac'ly no Venus
but | been looked at before; 0, yes,
they ain no man SO plain but what
some women some time pick him
out an take shine to him. | been
flirted with right in my own ele-
vator, many's the time, an in the
boardin' house where ! useta live
well, that's nobody's business nei-
ther, but that girl wanted to give
up a job where she was draggin'
down more jack than what ! am
now, to take hers out O. mine. Any
ways
"I was talkin' about Winnie an
the way she looked back. She drops
her eyes then, an | like her for that,
but hated TO not be able TO see thenv
eyes again; she's got swell eyes, my
wife has. An as | was sayn'. we
liked each other right off the bat.
1.-TWO weeks is short time. but
you can do lot in it.
I'm couple O. days we was chum-
my; in week we was mushy.
~ told her what my business was
If you could call it business-an'
she thought / was manager of
grain elevator. That was the on'y
kind O elevator she knew about;
that was the on'y kind she ever seen.
~ heard her say that an my heart
stopped beatin', | think, choked
hard an before me swum hundred
thousan' faces O women I'd carried
up, down, and up an down. through
the years-hard faces, sneerin' faces,
some of 'em, mad faces, unfriendly
faces many of 'em, strange faces
most of 'em. Then looked back at
her face
winnie hadn' never stopped me
when I wanted to hold her hand, so
/ reached over AMI took it in mine. |
looks down in her eNs an I says,
Winnie, you mean ~ tell me you
never rode in an elevator in all your
life?' She looks back in mine an
she says, No, Steve, I never even
seen one | says, VIII you marry
me" She says, 'Uhu.'
Gee, there comes that gosh blasted
train. She's waitin' for that train
just as impatient as what am. I
hope you got somebody waitin' for
you, brother, like ! got awitin' for
me. I don know, I didn't asst you
your partic'lar trade, but if its any
thing like shown a lever in hy-
draulic pressure car, you need some
body like her waitin' for you.1
Copyright. 1920. ~ Jack Lait)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-28

Never seen Newton PITCH" said
he. But it goes as it lays"
"And you take thm up and take
them down, eh?"
With a twist O the wrist. A
guy bet me the other day couldn't
take him up IS stories from the
time l shut the gate on the main
floor up until | opened 'em on the
18th in 40 seconds. says, All right,
I'll take you up He says, Yes, but
will you take me up in 40 seconds?
| says, You made me bet an III
take you up He aim got 1pe yet
an he's ingineer an I'm on'y
lever shower"
l never did find out who won.
"Say, | wisht that train would
breeze along" he said. The wife
is up an waitin.' Hal call her the
wife like l was used to it. ! guess
I amt BLOWN no campaign secrets
when I jerry you that l on'y been a
husband for three weeks come Tues
d'y. I married a country girl. Them
is the incest kind, brother-cornfed
ones out O. the sticks. Mine is named
Winnie.
"Well, ! meet Winnie down on
farm place where | went to spend
my vacation. When l leave to spend
my vacation I amt got much O
nothin' TO spend excep' my vacation.
| got my two weeks pay, but | put
half that in the savings bank, which
is what | alwus done before | got
mafried-laid away half. Of course,
since they's two kissers to feed it
amt so easy, but I'll tell the world
an you If the high cost O Twin was
twicet as high I'd rather go double
like l am now with Winnie than the
way l useta float along before, with
them dead nights in the boardin' to
ease me often the dizzy days in that
grilled car o mine.
"You amt never run elevator,
have you? No? You're in luck. You
might not O ever give this no
thought. But if you run it over in
your noodle maybe il might strike
you as bein' likely'that runin' up an
Gown past about 1000 miles O.
perpendicular iron bars separated
by foorin's for 10 hours ev'ry day
exeep' Sund'ys gets on party's
nerves after while. When he's over
that for the day he needs rest
or jag or change; anyways, he
needs somethin' He needs somethin'
more than JUS the four walls OF
boardin' house back bedroom with
wallpaper on 'em that'd give a man
the jimjams even if he didn't have
bars, bars, bars runnin' up an down
in front of his peppers every time he
shuts 'em.
AN that amt half all what an
elevator chauffeur is got TO frazzle
him. I carry close to $500 people
every day. An in any gang Of that
size you'll find a few grouches, a
few nuts, a few fresh birds, few
tinhorns, a few wise crackin, kidders,
ar a lot O. selfish slobs, not to say
there amt lot O decent people like
me an you, at that
~ have my share O. the tribe what
crowd in with maybe Is or 80 others.
never gimme tumble or as much
as say Yes No or Go 10 blazes,'
an when I'm shootin' past the fourth
they say 'Three--I wanted three
an'say il like I oughta read their
palm or knew it by the brand O gum
they was munchin' or somethin.'
Mos people, no matter how measely
they may be, or how big a crowd
Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-28

what it useta be TO have presiden-
tial contest9 One 'bo got more So
lictous attention then than what .
couple o bankers an a chief clerk
put t'gether.
Them was the days when the
precin't captains started Countin'
noses: an the color O the noses
didn' much matter--a nose was a
nose.
They WASH no fresh harness
cops givin' Us the buns rush aroun'
election day. They was mighty con-
ciliatory, sayin', Don't go way,
boys; stick aroun' here for the big
show; we need ev'ry mah 70 do his
dooty on the tourt' O November.
which i'll them days was a hull LOT
bigger holiday than the Fourt' o
July Now the wet candidates is
frantically tryin' TO convince the
drys that both boys is members o
! their club an is vyin' with each an
other 10 see which one is most in
favor o women's votes.
III they was one thing left that
was needed to push the nation on
the fritz it's TO let women vote.
That's all! Can you imagine a
gang O hens troopin' TO the sacred
huntin groun's where you an l
was accustomed 10 exercisin' our
unalienable rights O. indicatin' with
X the peoples choices?
"A woman with a pencil in her
hand is JUS about as safe as
healthy boy with shotgun what
he thinks amt loaded.
IT'S enough to make Jefferson
squirm in his grave an the inspired
trainers O the glorious constitution
sigh ghostly an CHASTITY.
Our value as voters useta lay
prime 'pally in the fact that we could
be delivered-delivered in punches,
wholesale, ell masse. Can you see
anybody guaranteein' a shipment O
skirts. oncet they get in booth.
alone with lead pencil an their
conscience?
"They SAY business requires sta
bility. Well, they ain no more i'm
portant business in the nation than
what votin' is, is there? Votin',
then, if anything, calls for stability
An how you gonna get amy with
few million DANES let loose to
mark ballots right an left. right an
wrong, as they sees fit? What good
is voters if you don't know how
they're gonna vote? They ain no
other trade in the world run like
that. Merchants knows what goods
they're gonna get in an what goods
they're gonna shove out, sometimes
.kears ahead. But vital matter like
pickin' a husband-O, no; nobody
knows. If that's a businesslike way
to run a businesslike republic I'm
Christopher Columbus.
"The fate O. the u. S. is in the
hands of a lot O amachoor voters
an blondes an farmers an reform
ers. Luck be with it, says it'll
need it.
Taxes IS up in the clouds, an our
children an their children's children
is got to liquidate 'em. We amt
got no children. but If we had!
"For what you buy a hamburger
steak-pardon me, liberty steak
today we usta take home COW.
Money dom buy nothin' no more.
an what's the diff'rence-they ain
nothin' with no kick it could buy
even if it could buy anything.
"The bullshevickers is buzzin'
around under the surfaces O. the
Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-28
Omaha Slim, Ace Of
Tramps, Soliloquizes On
the Perplexities Of a
Topsy-Turvy World.

This here unprecedented an I'm.
principled prosperity said Omaha
Slim, the ace of tramps, has all bu,
eliminated the hobo p'fession
Here we are, a couple o buns in
the midst o excess wages an excess
profits. seein' everybody drag in
important jack, whilst we not only
haven't moved upwards an on
wards with the times, but haven't
even stayed clost enough TO the We
hicle O progress to get Whit o
the exhaust"
Gust another O them horrors O
the war;" repined Luke the Dude,
As he polished the top of his left
shoe on the frayed right leg of his
trousers. "The world is gone
nutty.'
"Nutty is mild description" said
Slim. values has been turned on
their ear. Nach'ral laws such as the
principle O supply an demand has
been thrun in the sewer, while men
is beasts, rootin' an snarlin' an
fghtin' for the fruits o sweet lib
erty as guaranteed by the treaty O
Versaye.'
\ Ver-whaty?'
"Versaye. Youse low dregs O the
cutters calls it Versails. But any,
way you calls it, it runs for the end
book with me.
"What did this here war and that
there victry that they made such a
hullaballoo over do for the common
people? If there is any people
what's common, Dude, it's people
like you an me.
like couple o splendid citi-
zens that we were-an' I claim TO be
a few splendid citizens myself,
havin' always heretofore voted
sev'ral times at each election-we
viewed gravely the start O the great
embryolio in Eurrup. Like humani-
tarians, we, Immediately took sides
again the kaiser, and damned him
up an down Whisky row as far as
our voices could reach often the
beer keg i'll front O the barl house.
"We was hoarsely yellin' for the
u. S. to cut in on the shindy long
before them Wash'n'ton statesguys
got around TO declarin' a state O
hospitality. An when the boys be-
gin 70 Mobile-ize was they any two
patriots what set tighter an cheered
louder than what you an I done,
Dude? Was they?"
Luke shook his head and trimmed
his thumb nail on his broken tooth,
"When we seen what fine fighters
our lads was turnin' out to be many