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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
CABOT

Little Miss Geraldine Hatch, who was
taken 80 seriously and suddenly i'll at
the home of Mrs Flora Lance, where
she had gone to board. is reported as
slowly improving. after a weeks illness
with light attack Of pneumonia
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Walbridge started
for California last Wednesday. They
were accompanied by Elwyn Earring
ton, youngest son OF Mr.. and Mrs. L. A.
harrington. who went several weeks
ago TO the same place.
The young people of the Pro Bona
society met at Mrs. Abbie Hoyt's Tues
dav evening. with a good attendance.
After the business meeting. social
time was INDUCED in. consisting Of
games and music Refreshments Of
sandwiches. cake and cocoa were served.
Ernest Withsm il detained from
clerking in $ C. Noodry's store by ill.,
ness.
Howard Lance Of Springfield. Mass.
spent a few days at the home Of his
father. l.. C. Lance. recently
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
CENTENARY CANNING.
Industry Devised by a French Confec-
toner Now Great Source OF
Comfort to World.

Early in She 10Th century the mod
ern method of canning food was dis
covered by NJ. Appert, a Partisan con,
fectioner. knowledge of the discovery
crossed the Atlantic, and small com
mercial beginning was made in a crude
way in New York in 1919 with the can
ming of fish.
The National Gamers association
celebrated the centenary Of that event
in New York by declaring to the coun
try, on the authority of DR., NJ. J. Rose
nau and group of distinguished col
lege scientists, that there is no such
thing as 'ptomaine poisoning in food.
For three years DR. Rosenau. who is
head of the department of preventive
medicine and hygiene at Harvard. as.
sisted by nearly. score of bacteriolo-
gists in such institutions as Harvard,
Yale, Johns Hopkins. University Of
Chicago and University of Michigan,
has been making careful and extern
siye investigation of the subject.
The first thing that struck the doc
tors, said DR.. Rosenau, was the rea
tive scarcity of cases of illness which
could really be attributed TO food
When the work was begun the impres
sion prevailed that 'ptomane poison
ing was one Of the commonest all
ments. Many cases we're studied, but
most of them proved to be due to some
other cause than food poisoning.
practically all the cases that came
were traced either to fresh food or
home packed products, Fresh foods, es.
pecially when prepared as salads. sau
sages, hash and other mixtures, that
are fingered and fused over and often
kept for some hours before being eat
en- are apt to become infected with bac-
terra from human sources. That is
why outbreaks are prone to occur after
church socials, fraternity banquets and
picnic luncheons, Canned goods are
entirely free from the danger Of con
veying the infections in question on
account of the processing necessary
TO preserve the contents of the can in
good condition. SO far as
'ptomaine poisoning Is concerned We
are now prepared to state that there
il no such thing. Our chemists looked
in vain for ptomaines, that is, for pois-
onous decomposition products of pro
tein putrefaction, and think it is now
generally accepted that there is no
such thing as 'ptomsine poisoning as
that term was once understood.
DR.. Rosenau challenged another ECU
rious superstition that the entire con-
tents of can should be empied at
once after opening. This. he declared
is not true, for food keeps just as well
in the can as it does in glass jar.
Canned food after opening should be
kept clean, cold and covered, but that
precaution applies as well to fresh
food
While il is true that the investiga
ton was supported by grant to Har-
ward university from the National
Gamers ASSOCIATION, the emiuencc of
the scientists who conducted it pre-
cludes though. of improper influence on
their Judgment. The conclusion that
canned foods are the safest of all foods
will 20 far to allay a disturbing fear
in the minds of millions OF consumers.
fear often causing the keenest men
tai neutrality-suspicious. Spokesman Re-
view.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
Our Fallen Idol.

4 barrier Of mountain ranges this
side of the Hudson river, pierced here
and there by railway gatevaysr and an
extra fall Of snow have reduced New
England to coal situation which IN
comfortably resembles that OF the last
winter of wartime.
II emphasizes the highly artificial or
ganization of our industrial life, espe-
ciallv in the New England states. The
coal to keep us warm, to turn our fac
tory wheels and to run our railroads
has to be carted to us from outside cur
borders; in part by land and in large
part by sea. Lacking it, we go into q
paralysis. and possibly also freeze.
The snow can lay an embargo on our
rails. and the ice, together with furious
gales, can lay an embargo on our wa
ter borne coal.
But this taunt which an unusually
severe winter has flung in our faces
goes deeper,
Our lives are geared to dependence
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
RANDOLPH
George H. Greene Died Of Pneumonia at
Age of SO Years.

George II. Greene, who had been at
the sanatorirlm for the last 10 days
with pneumonia, died at that place
on Friday night. From the first Mr..
Greene had been very i'll and his case
had given great anxiety. Mrs. Greene,
who, with her family, was in Plymouth,
n. H., was called and other friends.
Mr.. Greene had recently come to Brain
tree and built u mill, into which he
was getting logs and manufacturing
lumber. Since his illness his brother
inlaw, Mr., Bronson of Rochester. mas
been attending to the business there.
Deceased was IS years of age and Is
survived by his wife, who was Grace
Bronson of Rochester, and one daugh.
ter, l3 years of age, and another ehlld
two years OF age Two sons, between
the two living children, have died. Mrs.
Greene her mother, Mrs. Bronson OF
Rochester. and her brother left on Sat
urdav afternoon for the home. they
were Joined at Bethel by Mr.. Bronson,
who went on with the funeral party.
Mrs. Walter Wood. living on the
John Midget farm in Braintree, died
on Saturday, after o brief illness.
Miss Carolyn Wright, who is ill with
iaundice and scarlet fever, is doing as
well MS could be expected, and no fur
Their cases have developed from the eH-
posture. The quarantine will be re-
moved about the middle of this week
from the other parties.
Misses Mary and Doris Stockwell,
70 l. Ia
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
SEIZE MIsBRAEDED BEANS.
Food Inspectors Find Gamers Selling
Low-Priced Beans Under Name of
High Priced Ones.

Washington, d, C., Feb l6.--Seizure
of a large shipment Of canned beans,
labeled as RED Kidney Beans" but
which were long cranberry beans, was
made recently in Chicago on informa-
ton furnished by federal food inspec-
tors. Officials Of the bureau Of chemis-
try, United States department Of agri-
culture, who are charged with the en-
fureement Of the federal food and drugs
act, have received information that
large quantities Of the Iow-prced long
cranberry bean have been put up under
the label Of the high priced red kidney
bean and are being sold to consumers
at the higher price. Inspectors have
been instructed to report for seizure
all shipments so misbranded coming
within the jurisdiction OF the federal
food and drugs act.
The long cranberry bean costs the
Gamer only about half as much as does
the red kidney bean, yet investigation
has shown that when the long cram
berry bean is sold under the label of
the red kidney bean the price to the
consumer is ~ much as that of the gen
uine red kidney bean,
The Gamer is able to sell the mis-
branded red kidney beans to the trade
at lower price than the genuine red
kidney beans command and still make
a large profit, since he pays only about
half as much for the long cranberry
bean. The honest Gamer who packs
the genuine red kidney bean is forced
to meet the unfair competition OF the
lower priced product incorporating un-
der the same name as the higher priced
one The cut in price which the can.
ner makes to the trade is of no benefit
to the consumer, since investigation has
shown that the retailer charges the
consumer as much for the misbranded
article as for the genuine.
The long cranberry bean, which is i'm
ported in large quantities from Japan,
il an excellent article of food, and there
il no objection to its sale and use un.
der a truthful label, say the officials.
The bean looks and tastes very much
like the genuine red kidney bean. and
if sold under its own name could soon
establish a market on its own merit,
but because its cost is so, much less
than the red kidney bean, its sale under
the name of the higher priced bean is
demoralizing to the trade and unfair so
the consumer The officials have in.
augurated a campaign TO seize all in.
terstate shipments of beans which in
this particular violate the food and
drugs act.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
PLAINFIELD
Junior High School Notes.

About 80 children Of the Plainfield
Junior high school attended the valen-
tine party, given by the seventh grade,
at the schoolhouse Friday evening from
1880 to 10. Games were enjoyed by
all. after which refreshments OF sand
wiches and cocoa were served by the
freshmen girls in the home economic
laboratory.
Hot lunches are being served daily to
about so children, who bring their cold
lunches, Expenses are met by the chill
dren If money is not paid, vegetables,
meat, milk or some other food Is
brought Soups, stews, cocoa, scalloped
dishes and baked beans are some of the
dishes served The girls prepare the
lunches in connection with their home
economics work Any donations from
outsiders would be thankfully accepted.
Think of the day when you tried to
eat your cold, half.frozen dinners, and
shave a heart"
Mr.. Hutchinson, supervisor OF the
junior high schools, and Miss Hurd,
supervisor of home economics, visited
the school last week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
EAST CALAIS ,

Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Bullock OF Barre
are in town assisting in the care OF
Herman Bullock, who is quite sick.
Schools in the village are closed for
few days because of sickness.
W. G.. Eastman was visitor IN
Marshfield recently.
Violet and Victor Berry are among
the sick in town.
Mrs. Edison York and D. d. Lamb
have the pneumonia
d. B. Dwinell was business visitor
in Plainficld Friday.
George and Robert Sanders, B. II.
Bancroft, Marion Remission, Blanche
Baker Mary Lamphere, Fred Coffin,
Mer. Gray, Guy George and {. D. Bal
entine are among the sick in town.
Richard Lamb of New Haven, Conn.
is in town, called here by the serious
Illness of his father.
Carroll Clines is at Barre hospital
for treatment.
Mabel Clough has finished work on
HOLSTER hill and is at her home here
Carl Morehouse of Barre is working
for Mr.. Clines.
News HIS bftii ltNttNtu hNiF VI tAN
marriage of Mrs. Lillian Holton, for
merly Of this place, and Charles Mar
tin in Charlestown. n. H., Jan. 20.
The village was saddened when the
news of the death of Mrs Lucy Ban
croft reached here. Mrs. Bancroft was
resident of Calais for a great many
wears, a woman loved and honored by
all who knew her She will be great
iy missed in Calais. She was a will
ing worker in all good causes and a
friend to all in need. Much sympathy
is extended to the family.
CLYDE Gilman has been driving team
for j. b. Dwinell the past week, Ray
Abbott being off duty because of sick
ness.
O. w. Guernsey and Alfred Hatch are
both reported as much better.
The hardware store of George San
ders has been closed the pas, week be-
cause of the sickness of Mr.. Sanders.
A. L. Persons Of North Montpelier
visited at Edison York's the first of the
week
Arthur Clark visited friends in Mont
pelier the first Of the week
Carl Bancroft drove the freight team
for Roy Jaekman last week.
C. j. Lamb was in Plainield on Fri
day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Rudy Cheeks-SparklingEyes
Most Women Can Have
Says DR.. Edwards, a Well-Known
Ohio Physician

Dr.F.M.Etfwards for II years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel all
ments. During these years he gave to
his patients prescription made OF a
few well-known vegetable ingredients
mixed with olive oil, naming them
DR. Edwards Olive Tablets. You will
know them by their olive color
These tablets are wonder-workers on
the liver and bowels, which cause a
normal action, carrying off the waste
and poisonous matter in ones system.
If you have a pale face, sallow look,
dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue. head
aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out
of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one
of DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly
for time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women and men take
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the sue
cessful substitute for calomel-now and
then Just to keep them fit l0c and 25c.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16

on an elaborate organization of ma
ehinery: railroads, factories, street car
lines, motor cars and so on. We as
sumo that this machinery is omnipo-
tent; that we can depend on it under
all circumstances short of some great
natural cataclysm We repose implicit
confidence in these machines of ours,
There will be train at midnight which
guarantees to deposit MS in New York
City in the morning. There is motor
car that can annihilate distance over
the highways and 90 growing even
into lonely by-rosds, bringing remote
farmhousrs within easy committing dis
tance of the city. We make our ar
rangements accordingly. Our whole
lives are ordered on the assumption
that this machinery will continue to
function smoothly.
Suddenly nature lets f8ll II or "a
inches more of snow than usual. and
we wake to realize that this machinery
has gone back on us in an embarrass-
ing degree. Ii is not omnipotent at ALL
1t is ludicrously, even pitifully, power
less. 1t leaves us in the lurch.
In his monumental chapter on the
battle OF Waterloo, in les Miserables, :
Victor Hugo says that Napoleon had
planned the battle to be won and fin
ished by 4 o'clock, long before Butcher
could arrive with reinforeements for
Wellington, and that the rain in the
early morning made the fatal delay.
He concludes. "A few drops of water,
more or less, were sufficient to defeat
Napoleon"
A few flakes Of snow, more or less,
have been sufficient to show us how
relatively weak our powerful mschin-
cry is.-Boston Globe
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
Flu and Colds
HowT'hey Can
Be Prevented
Sleep Well--Eat Wisely-Exercise Reg
ularly--Avoid Persons Having Colds
Don't Worry.
KEEP AIR PASSAGES CLEAR
Inhamed Air Passages Make Ideal
Breeding Grounds for Flu
Germs.
Flu This Year Is Milder.

While we know very little more
about the flu now than we did last year
the germ itself has never been posi-
lively identifed-still most authorities
agree that the flu germs are breathed
in. II the system is in good shape and
the membrane or lining of the air pas
sages is in healthy condition these
germs are thrown off.
A good plan is TO melt little Wick )
VapoRub in a spoon night and morning,
and inhale the vapors, also apply a
little up the nOstrils several times a
day. especially just before being ex-
posed TO crowds.
Treat All Colds Promptly.
Above all. keep free from colds, as
colds irritate the lining Of the air pas
sages and make them real breeding
grounds for germs. Prompt use Of
Vick's VapoRub aids in preventing
colds For head colds. sore throat or
hoarseness. rub Vick's well over the
throat and chest and cover with warm
flannel cloth For deep chest colds,
severe sore throat or bronchitis, hot
wet towels should first be applied 10
the throat. chest and back between the
shoulder blades TO open the pores. Then
Nicks should be rubbed in over the
parts until the skin is red-spread on
thicklv and covered with two thick
uesses Of hot flannel cloths. Leave the
clothing loose around the neck. 50 the
vapors. released by the body heat, may
be freely inhaled.
These vapors. inhaled with each
breath. carry the medication directly
to the lungs and air passages. At the
same time Vick's is absorbed through
and stimulates the skin. thus aiding TO
relieve the congestion within.
Use of External Treatment for Colds
Increasing.
Vick's VapoRub il the discovery OF a
North Carolina druggist who found how
to combine in salve form, the standard
time-tested remedies. Camphor Men
Eucalyptus Thyme. etc.-so that
when tho sslve is applied to the body
heat. these ingredients are liberated in
tho form Of vapors.
Nick's i particularly recommended
for children's Group or colds. since Il Is
externally applied snd therefore ran be
used freely aud often without the
slightest harmful effects
The best cvidrnrr ~ the value 81
Vick-s is the steadily increasing number
81 people who have been converted TO
the uss Il this outside" trcai ment.
beginning With the customers Of a
small retail drug store. the use II Nieks
has grown wear l,y wear state BY
state until nov more than u n9lm0
lars are used annually And this u
spite # the fsrt that Nick's , 9 new
form ~ treatment 90 many folks in
the North and West Nicks can he
had a. all druggists in three sizes 5oc
CO. or ~ 20 Adv
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
BREAKS A COLD
IN A FEW HOURS
"Pape's Cold Compound" Instantly Re-
lieves STIFFNESS and
Distress.

Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowing
and snuifling A dose of "Pspe's Cold
Compound" taken every two hours un-
til three doses are taken usually breaks
up a severe cold and ends all grippe
misery.
The very first dose opens your
clogged up nostrls and the air passages
of the head; stops nose runring re-
lieyes the headache. dizziness, feyerish-
ness. sneezing. soreness and stiffness.
"pape's Cold Compound is the quick
est, surest relief know and costs only
a few cents at drug stores. 1t acts
without assistance, tastes nice, con
tains no quinine Insist upon Pape'
ADV.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
The Living Lincoln.

Abraham Lincolns name, character
and influence throughout the English
speaking world have grown immensely
as the result of the great war They
have acquired new vitality; Lincoln
lives on indeed. The reason is plain.
Lincoln was the type of the universal
Anglo Saxon. He vas self controlled
citizenship incarnated. He was civic
freedom, civic restraint and civic broth
erhood in one great soul and one big
body He was living embodiment OF
the aspirations of race, and as such
lives still. His plain words, breathing
the very soul of the language, have
passed into universal use because they
are so broadly representative OF the
ideas not only of Lincoln's immediate
countrymen, but of all who use the
tongue over which he had such simple
mastery. These words cannot die;
Lincoln's spirit and example cannot die.
This we may call the worlds thought
of Lincoln on this anniversary, the
lllth of his birth. We Americans may
have more special thought. When
Lincoln died, the desire for the return
of all the states. and of the southern
people, to their allegiance to the union,
and to brothers place in the reunited
country's affairs, was uppermost in his
mind. In his first inaugural address,
with secession stalking through the
land, Lincoln had proclaimed the union
of the states TO be perpetual, and had
announced as his ideal ''the restoration
of fraternal sympathies and affections
He did not wait for the end of the war
before proclaiming an amnesty That
amnesty he proclaimed in December,
1868. with certain exceptions then Off
cially necessary. to all who would ac-
cept the constitution and the Union.
IN that saddest, most tragical of all
public utterances. his second inaugural
address. he invoked the Bible which
both sides read, and the God to whom
both prayed, and spoke with malice
toward none, with charity for all. His
policy of reconstruction was known to
be one of actual construction according
to the platform of the restoration of
fraternal sympathes and affections"
with loyalty TO the constitution and
the Union, which he himself had laid
down.
Lincoln's work of national recon
structlon was wrecked ny the manu- OF
the assassin. But his example, his
known principle, remains to-day for our
emulation. 1t is the world, now, in
stead of single section of one country;
which must be reconstructed. Friend
and enemy seem involved in common
menace OF ruin. So vast. so universal
is the destruction that Nemesis seems
at times to have fallen equally upon
ALL And all the world surely needs to
live and act in the spirit which gov
erned Lincoln when he declared our ma
tional duty to be with firmness in the
right, AS God gives us TO see the right,
10 strive on TO finish the work we are
in; to bind mp the nations wounds; to
care for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow, and his or
phan-to do all which may achieve and
cherish Just and lasting peace among
ourselves, and with all nations" Let
ms call the living Lincoln TO our help
in the work Of world reconstruetion.-
Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
W4TTSFIELD
Town Clerk Harvey McAllister WEEDS
Mrs. Elizabeth McAllister.

Mrs. Elizabeth McAIlister and Har-
vev McAllister both of this town. were
quietly married in Montpelier Tuesday
evening, Feb. 10, by Rev. st. John
They will take short wedding trip,
including Burlington, after which they
will make their home in Waitsfield.
Mrs. McAllister clerked in c. j. Greene's
store several years and since the pur-
chase of that store by w. Il. Jones she
has still maintained the same position.
She is very efficient and the public have
always been well pleased. Mr. Meal.
lister has held many town offices and
is at present town clerk. a large cir
Gle of friends unite in. wishing them
much happiness.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
RAISING MUSK OXEN.
Canadian Government Showing Great
Interest in Stefansson's Scheme

lHltIGSA III OltlduSAOH oNutuANs
Impressed with the representations
of Nilhjalmur Stefansson, the famous
explorer. that the Arctic and sub Are
tie regions Of Canada can be utilized
on tremendous scale for the domes-
tieation Of the musk OK. thereby great.
~ adding TO the meat production of
I he dominion. the Canadian government
is awaiting with considerable interest
the report Of a committee which it has
appointed TO investigate the merits Of
the scheme.
The committee, which consists of J.,
G. Rutherford, former dominion live.
stock commissioner; J. S. Mclean,
manager Of the Harris Abattoir com.
pany. Toronto; J. b. Harkin, commits
sioncr OF dominion parks, and Mr.. Ste
fansson himself, was appointed some
time ago. but thus far has had no time
TO bring in report. the task requiring
considerable investigation.
The question OF developing the Arctic
regions OF the dominion as a grazing
country has been before the govern
ment for a considerable time. Il has
been represented that in these regions
there is an abundant growth of vegeta-
tion in the summer, which forms nutri.
tious food for grazing animals not only
then but in the winter. II is estimGt-
ed that there are at least million
square miles Of such grazing grounds
available The winter climate of these
areas is too severe for ordinary domes.
tie cattle. but musk OK and reindeer
can Craze there in the open the year
round
The dimensions Of the reindeer in
dustry in lspland and in Siberia and
the great development of the reindeer
herds IN Alaska suggest. in the opinion
If the government. that corresponding
development can reasonably be antici-
pated with respect 10 northern Canada
In this connection il J. pointed ou' that
herds Of barren land caribou aggregat-
ing. il is estimated 20.gO0000 or 20.
Oon00 animals frequent northern
Canada. and that biologically these
animals are practically identical with
reindeer New Nusk sun.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-16
BROOKFIELD

: Old and young folks colonial ball at
grange hall, Williamstown, Monday,
Feb. %, given by Bachelor Girls club.
CAROLS orchestra. Local musical EN-
tertanment to .. Dancing from 10
,. Admission, Sl.25 per couple, plus
war tax. Spectators, 25c.-adv.