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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
NORTHFIELD
Nelson Alexander, Who Died Sunday
Was Almost 100 Years Old.


The funeral OF Nelson Alexander,
whose death occurred at the town farm
sunday. was held from John Meteor
mick's undertaking rooms Tuesday ait
ernoon, Rev. James b. Sargent otiiciat-
ing. Interment was in Mount Hope
cemetery The deceased was almost ioo
years OF age and is survived by no rel
atiyes. He had been cared for at the
town farm for the past few years, but
less than year ago was able to walk
to the village, a distance OF two ana
one half miles.
Mrs. Chauncey Denny, who has been
spending the winter at Winter Park'
Fla, has returned and opened her home
on Highland avenue. Mrs. Homer
Denny. who has been spending the
winter, has also returned and opened
her home on Slate avenue.
The baccalaureate sermon for the
graduating class Of the Northfeld high
school will be delivered by Rev. 6. l..
Paddock, pastor of the Universaiist
church. The services will be held IN
the Savoy theatre.
Mrs. H. |. Cutting, who has been
spending the winter with her daughter.
Mrs. Laura Wells, in Keene, N. H., has
returned to Mortified and opened her
home on Highland avenue.
Mrs. Emma King has gone to Stowe
for few days.
A. Il. Austin is quite i'll at his home
on the Union Brook road, pneumonia
being feared.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Newcomb OF
Newark, N. j., visited at the home OF
her brother, Hiram Morrill,, recently
Mrs. Newcomb is pleasantly remem-
bered in Mortified as Miss Mae Nor
rill and Mr. Newcomb was graduated
from n. L. in the class of 1911.
Mrs James Love has been visiting
her sisters in Swampscott and Worces-
ter, Mass. She has returned to her
home in town.
Mrs Rose Gennette, who has been
visiting at the home of Peter Macy on
Pleasant street, has gone to Fall River,
Mass, and will later go to Charleston,
Mich Mrs. Gsnnette is sister of MIR.
Macy, who is seriously i'll.
Friends of Mrs. f. NJ Smith of
South Royalton will be sorry to hear
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
Old Sores, Ulcers
and Eczema Vanish
Good, Old, Reliable Peterson's 0int-
ment a Favorite Remedy.

Had 81 ulcers on my legs. Doctors
wanted to cut off leg. Peterson's Ointment
cured me."-Wm. j. Nichols, 402 Wilder
Street, Rochester, N. Y
Get large box for only IS cents at any
druggist, says Peterson. of Buffalo, and
money back If it isn't the best you ever
used Always keep Peterson Ointment in
the house Fine for burns. scalds, bruises,
sunburn, chatting and the surest remedy for
itching eczema and piles the world has ever
known.
"Peterson's Ointment is the best for
bleeding and itching piles have ever
found Major Charles e. Whitney, Vine
yard Haven, Mass.
"Peterson's Ointment has given great
satisfaction for Salt Rheum. Mrs. j.
Weiss, CuylerNrille, N. Y.
All druggists sell it. recommend it. Mail
orders filled by Peterson 0intmst Co., Inc,
Buffalo N Y-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26

Miss Agnes Durgan OF Niagara Falis,
N. Y, and Charles McCuen OF Spring
field have been called here by the death
of f. w. McCuen.
Mrs. c. Fl. A. Stafford and Miss
Eloise Stafford of Morrisville are in
Stowe this week while repairs are be-
| ing made on their summer home.
A delightful entertainment was the
operetta, maids and Middies." given
Tuesday evening at abe Akeley Me
| mortal building by the pupils of Stowe
high school, under the direction OF Mrs
C. L. Hayward The parts in the oper.
| eta were well taken and all were well
carried out, doing much credit TO Mrs
| HAYWARD, as well as to the actors
| The principal parts were taken by
Donald Douglass as Billy, Carl Shep-
ard as Dawson. and Floyd Sears the
count: Clifton Stafford, Fritz; Walter
Gibbs, Evans; Edwin Peterson, Cap
tain Dasher; Allison Pike, Bounder'
Forbes Adams, Stimson; Lyle Spauld.
ing, attendant; Beatrice Kaiser, Valer'
lie Vane; Floy Collins, Mrs. Gaily; Ma
bel Sleeper, Alice; Lois Riley, Maud
and Bea Strong, Phyllis. The cast
was assisted by strong chorus, maids
middies and children of the snow
There was charming dance by six
little girls and the liberty battalion
by boy scouts. Theodore Wells assist
ed in the solo work and Dorothy Bar
rows accompanied on the piano. Mrs
| HAYWARD was assisted in the produc
tion by her daughter, Mrs. james
Brownlee of Montpelier and the Misses
Southland, johnson and McDonough
who had charge of the snowflakes
dance. There was a large attendance
The proceeds will be used to pay foI
music for the use of the school.
Miss Charlotte C. Pierpont, home
demonstration agent of the extension
staff, was here Tuesday afternoon dem.
onstrating the making of inexpensive
dress irons. The home economics class
of the high school and several ladies
were present and much interest wa:
shown in the work.
Manager C. A. Riley, who came dowr
from Mt. Mansfield Monday, returned
Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs. Ri
lev, who is to be the housekeeper al
the hotel. Mrs Mary Smalley is en-
gagged as cook and Mrs. Dora Barnes Of
Waterbury Center and Mrs. Joe Boyc'
are others on the working staff.
Roderic Riley has returned to East
Hardwick, after visiting at his home
here.
Mrs. Edwna Harris has received
news that her son, Harry f. Harlow
of Bertha, Mimi, has been on crutches
with rheumatism for seven weeks.
Mrs. Harlow, formerly Annie Meal
lister of Stowe, has lost an older sis
ter and her sister younger is very ii
with smallpox at Wadena, MINI.
where she is attending school. All were
formerly of Stowe.
Mrs. Emma Pike King of Mortified
has visited her cousin, Miss Nellie
| Sargent. this week. While here she at
tended to placing markers in the Pike
family lot in the West Branch GENE
terry.
Miss Hattie E. Douglass, county Red
Cross nurse, made her regular visit
here Tuesday
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
How You Can Remove
Every Trace of Hair
Toilet Talks

E A stiff paste made with some pow
Gered delatone and water aud spread on
q hairy surface about 2 minutes will,
when removed, take every trace of hair
with it. The skin should then be washed
TO free it from the remaining delatone
No harm can result from this treat
ment, but be sure it is delatone you
get and you will not be disappointed
Mix fresh as wanted.--Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
Church Notes.

Memorial sermon on May 20 by Rev.
Stead Thornton of Groton, at p. m.
Let us be present one and all The
address will be given at East Corinth
shortly after the noon hour.
Rev Ralston of Pennsylvania ex-
poets to begin services at the U. T..
church at an early date in June.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
Card of Thanks.

| wish to thank my friends and the
Kings Daughters circle who in any
way helped to fill the sunshine box that
received during my convalescence
from my recent injury.
Mrs, Ellen Lyford.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
Up on Dinner Etiquette.

Mrs. Willis Whispering to her hus.
band at fashionable dinner )-"That
one there is the fish fork, John"
Mr.. Willis-"Don't / know it? I've
fished it out of the gravy three times
already" Houston Post.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
VEST TOPSHAM

Dance, village hall, West Topsham,
Friday, May 27; music, three pieces.
Bill, soc couple, including war tax.
lee cream served.--adv
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-26
EAST CORINTH
Wind Tipped Over B. C. AbbOtt's Old
Barn Sunday.

Wind Tipped Over B. c. Abbotts Old
Barn Sunday.
The wind Sunday played some pranks
around here. The most peculiar thing
reported, so far, was at +. VI. Bowen's
house, where large pane of glass was
taken out of window and carried
some distance out on the lawn, literal
ly sucked out. The old barn belonging
to B. C Abbott, known as the Sabin
barn, was raised from its foundation
and tipped on its side. Many shade
trees were badly broken and in the
woods trees turned up by the roots and
blown down. Albert Richardson said
he counted Is in his sugar place. The
roads were blocked by falling trees and
the telephone service was a good deal
interfered with.
The baseball game Saturday between
the home team AND Piermont, \. H.,
resulted in a very close game. The
result stood to in favor of East
Corinth.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Erwin and three
children of Keene, n. H., were visit
ors at C. S. Peck's Saturday and Sun
day.
Miss Della Martin spent several days
with her nephews, the Worthley broth
ers. the last Of last week.
Mr.. Beckley and Mr.. James Of South
Ryegate were here buying cows Tues
day.
Mrs. c. W. Jewell. IT,. Of Piermont,
y. H.. with Eola and Ruth were here
for the bali game, returning Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Drury Of Williams
town were at y. A. AbbOtt's Sunday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
WORK FOR STATE POLICE

New Jerseys new state police force was sworn
in at Sea Girt last Saturday. The men were
divided into two groups. They have been re-
ceiving instructions and training for a month or
more and are now about ready to go on duty.
There is a great deal of work for this state
constabularly. If the troopers maintain the high
standard that has been attained in other states
they will be a credit to New Jersey and will
prove a valuable addition to the law-enforcing
bodies of the commonwealth.
When these state policemen begin their patrol
duty one of their jobs will be to afford better
protection on the highways of the state. The
need of better regulation is readily apparent,
especially on the congested routes.
It is to be hoped that one of the matters that
the department will take seriously in hand is
the use of the glazing headlights on automobiles
at night, In spite of all the laws that have been
passed regulating the use of headlights ~autoists
persist in using these binding lights that render
the driver coming in the opposite direction abso-
lutely helpless as far as steering is concerned.
There are lots of other things, no doubt, for the
state police to do, but this matter of headlights
is one demanding most serious attention.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
ONE NEGLECTED FACTOR IN DAYLIGHT
SAVING

Disagreement over daylight saving Is more
than a conflict between town and country, De-
tween the amateur gardener and the profession
al farmer. The geographical factor, as between
North and South, enters. Proponents of daylight
saving and he who drafted the Alderman bill,
which is to be presented before congress wsth
the view to making daylight saving operative
throughout the entire Eastern zone, apparently
ignore the movement of the sun from north TO
south, and the fact that owing to the conformity
Of the earth the twilight hours lengthen as one
travels southwark. For a given latitude the
hours of daylight suffer no variation from east TO
west, save for the hourly divisions of the stand
ard time meridians.
tween the North and the South-not that which
historians have recognized, but that which the
advocates of daylight saving have failed to rec
ognize. The South has enough daylight-too
much diurnal heat already. And as one goes
southwark in the United States one encounters
more and more opposition to the prlnclple OF
saving daylight. Naturally, Inhabitants or the
South resent any ruling-as they did during the
postpones the cool or evening. onuer
the national law they were forced to defer theiI
evening meal until 8 or 0 o'clock II they would
dine in comfort. The heat of day was at Its
height at dinner time, instead of an hour before
az IL had been. while those who had been &C
customed to work in the fields after dinner or
10 play away the evening hours found their rme
shortened by darkness.
Not until daylight saving is applied accoroins
10 isosolar lines rather than according to nerd
ians of varying time will it be accepted as the
boon IL undoubtedly is in the more northerly
sections of the country.-New York Evening
Post.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
THE KNICKERBoCKER GIRLS

Now what is to be done? Having been scored
for their fimsy waists, silken hose, silly little
skirts and ultra feminine attire, the girls are
yeering in quite the other direction and adopting
knickerbockers for general wear. With the
mannish garment so sport waist, hat and Shoes
heavy. ribbed hose and short tailored coat or
sweater. These costumes will be worn for school,
athletics, business. and, according to one young
authority, for home wear, to teas, dances ana
the theatre.
New York, Cleveland, Chicago and even stalo
old Boston boast their knickerbocker CLUBS
pledged to popularize the style and doubtless all
the cities and towns have their individual al
herents to the cause.
The practically of the costume for many oc-
cupations cannot be doubted, nor its attractive
ness in individual instances. 1t may become the
accepted style OF feminine dress. Stranger
things have happened. But to the ordinary
plain he man to think of pretty woman oeret'
of all her soft and vari-colored garments ana
clothed in the unimaginative habiliments OF the
male. is Just as saddening as to think or How
ers shorn of their petals and robbed OF then
charm,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Editorial Comment From Other Newspapers
AN INDECENT PERFORMANCE
can destro.

No sooner was the report sent broadcast all
over the country and printed that Woodrow vii
son was leading or backing a fight on the pend
ing peace treaties than it was denied flatly and
emphaticaly by everyone in a position to know
anything about it.
1t is now regarded as a coup of Republican
senate leaders to rally wavering Republican sup
port for the pacts. That might we'll have been
suspected by any reader. For the story on its
face was utterly unreasonable and at variance
with the whole course of Mr.. Wilson since re-
firing from the White House, which has been
not to do anything whatever to embarrass his
successor in the handling of the problems with
which he had to deal.
The former President was too much hampered
by political blatherskites r%esorting to sabotage
in every form for the sake of satisfying envious
grudges or making partisan capital not to feel
keen sympathy with another man in the same
trying position and to set a fine example for his
followers of hands Off"
Evidently, however, some of the jackals OF the
Capitol are SO destitute of decency as not to re-
spect the patriotic and and digni-
fled attitude of Mr.. Wilson and try to use his
name to whip some of their own party members
into line. Words are inadequate to describe the
miserable pettiness of that. Still it is no more
than might have been expected of them.-New-
ark Ledger. -. a.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
Learn One New Thing Every Day

Bulletins By
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

the naturally light-hearted natives
the American sailors contributed to
the creation of a gay Pacific resort,
a sort of forerunner of San Fran
cisco's Barbary Coast of later de-
cades
I'm 1887 the United States OBJ
tanned a concession for the use of
| Pearl Harbor for a coaling station.
| When Queen Liliuokalani attempt
ed to abolish the constitution in
1898, the constitutional party. led by
American settlers, brought about a
revolution and dethroned her. One
of the first acts of the provisional
government was to apply for an
nexation to the United States. Ger
many was Selling islands right and
left in the Pacific, and the Hawaii
ans wished to get under a shelter
ing wing. Politics in the United
States delayed action and in the
was organized. Then in 1898, dur
ing the Spanish-American war, Con-
gress suddenly voted to make Ha-
wall American territory.
60 Per Cent of Population Asiatics
Though the Hawaiian Islands
are knows as the halfway house
of the Pacific in reality the dis
lance from San Francisco to Hon
| olulu is only about half that from
Honolulu to Australia. the Philip
pines or Japan. All the islands are
of volcanic origin, but coral has
| grown on the shores of many of
, them. The disintegrated lava has
| formed a rich soil which responds
literally to irrigation. Only Cuba
and Java produce greater total
crops of sugar., and the per acre
yield of Hawaii is the greatest in
the world-four tons without irriga-
ton and six tons with. The sugar
! crop for the year June 80, 1920, was
worth s7S.500,o0o. The pineapple
crop, second in Importance, was val
ued at SIS, 500, 900.
"One of the most interesting feat
ures in regard to Hawaii is the ra-
cial makeup of its population. The
country had an all-Hawaiian popu-
lation believed to number several
thousands when it first became we'll
known to Americans. The diseases
of civilization. including measles,
killed off a large part of them in the
f, years following and in 1920 there
were only $4,000 full blooded Ha-
waiians in the islands and about
10000 of mixed blood. The two
groups constitute less than fifteen
per cent of the 255,912 people living
in the islands in 1920. The Amer
leans and northern Europeans made
up about ten per cent, the Portu-
guese approximately nine and one
half per cent and the Porto Ricans
and Spaniards about two and one
half per cent. The total Caucasian
population was thus little more than
twenty per cent or only about one
fifth of the entire population. The
| Japanese population was ~forty-four
ger cent and the japanese, Chinese
and Filipino population together,
over sixty per cent,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
THE EXCUSE FOR ROYALTY

e Four or five years ago. when the British En-
pire was s~training every nerve and muscle In
military and naval endeavor, certain idealistic,
ill-advised politicians preached the familiar sub
jsct of an imperial republic. 1t was Jan SHUTS
who laid the troublesome ghost,
sWho.. said the one-time Boer leader, could
be elected president of the British Empire? Inc
kingship may seem to some Illogical, a relic from
q long dead past, but 1t is none the less the
greatest governmental convenience Of our age"
since then there has been very little talk of a
republic; probably there won't be, again for
some years to come.
Oddly enough, though the war has cost four
emperors-counting Ferdinand the Bugar who
called himself Tsar-their ancient or otherwise
thrones, the throne of England seems today more
firmly established than in generations the one
symbol at which diverse but converging loyaitles
sti1 ms LAS 9 political convenience for a great
empire of many races it is unsurpassed.
Nowadays the world notes with interest that
Lloyd George is not the only premier whose
advice carries weight at the Court OF ST. James
General SHUTS opinions command a hearing ana
r,snect. So do those of the Canadian Meighen
and the Australian Hughes. The kings opln-
TONS. too. must be considered, and these last
months have shown their influence. To him
10 s,oes credit for healing the wound to French
nride which was dealt by the excitable Welsh
rremier. and for dissipating the wrath OF Col
onel Harvey when Lloyd George spoke hastily
THE royal personality counts as IT did wheh Ii
seventh Edward lived.
The British empire is truly an unwleioy thihs'
and it is but natural that it should creak anu
groan and rumble as the wheels go round. Inc
kingship might. in automobile parlance, DC
termed its lubricating system. The King! Ii
would be lese majestic to carry the simile FUR
ther, for all that the monarch seems to make
q lubricant.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
RIPPING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
OLD AS YOU FEEL

III - ~
I know a lot of sprightly men
whose toll OF years is weighty, for
all have passed the three score and
ten, and Qme are nearly eighty.
They pass my cottage every day, OIL
divers errands spinning, and some
are bald and all are gray-old gents
who've had their inning. They've
settled down beside the sea, where
life is calm and easy, and here
they'll dwell until they flee this vale
50 vain and cheesey. But they don't
sit upon the sands and shrink and
sigh and shiver, and wait, and wait,
with folded hands, the call to cross
the river. They're UP and coming
all the time to give Old Age a trim
ming, and up the mountainside they
climb. and in the sea go swimming.
In olden times the patriarchs sat
waiting dissolution, and they were
prone to grim remarks concerning
retribution. When they'd achieved
three score and nine they felt their
graft "a ended, and each n then
took in his sign, and to the shadows
wendell. But now the old boy won't
say die, or grant that he's a fogy;
he'll ride and airplane to the sky,
and fool with Colonel Bogie; he'll
send his motor up the pike until
the speed cops nail him; this young
old mar 1 greatly like, and with
much ardor hail him.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
WHY A COMMISSION?

President Harding accepted the resignation OF
one good man from the craftsmanship OF the
Tariff Commission and appointed another good
man moro to his liking. Other good men had
resigned from the Tariff Commission before ON
the demonstration that we were not to have a
scientific tariff. Even il we are to have a par
tisan tariff, there would seem to be little room
for a Tariff Commission in addition to the COM
mittees of the senate and the house. Since 1883
they have never been known to accept the ad-
vice of any commission on any subject.
A bipartisan commission on a political subject
is a mockery of the preparation of a tariff on
economic principles SO compelling that congress
must accept them. Congress is more controlled
by politics than economics, with the result that
economies over-turns the political decisions or
congress after object-lessons of a more or less
painful sort. II an ideal commission could have
control of CONGRESSES vagaries it would be well.
Since that is impracticable, it seems timely to
ask why a commission, not only the Tariff Com
mission, but any of the commissions to when
congress delegates what is beyond it's powers,
and dismisses the subject until it is surprised by
the discovery that the commission has no powers
and would not be allowed to use them If it had
York Times.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
EUROPE

Italy is in worse shape than any other Europ'
can country. Imitation of prices. currency and
wages is tremendous and the people are spend.
ing all they make. says Arthur Reynolds, Chica-
go banker. just returned from abroad.
Reynolds says the Belgians are working hard
have fine crops, and are rebuilding rapidly. He
found French farmers frugal and Industrious
but French city and factory people spending ex-
travagantly and cot over-fond of labor.
Germany, says Reynolds, is working harder
than any of other nations, and her workmen are
demanding longer hours and more wages.
This looks as If Germany and Belgium will re-
cover first.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-09-29
HOME
cover first

A hermit named Romberg, at Dubuque, Iowa
had a lot of Gagged birds. State law against
caging song birds freed his pets. One, a Ken
lucky cardinal, refuses to leave its cage. Thai
cage is home. and nothing looks quite as good
to the cardinal.
The home instinct is as powerful among ami
NAL life, all through nature, as among humans
Every form of animal life reaches the highest
point of it's expression by establishing a home,
with ma looking after the kids and the house
work, and pa bringing home the bacon.
Don't worry, home is one institution nothing
can destroy.