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ORL BAN OUNTY :' 6 No. 46 BARTON, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1917 Single Copies 5 Cents. MONITOR CLASSIFIED AUtMfciKG A rtisciiMM'ts will In"' ivo (!', ts per .v i !S ' ! f !) t 1 H 'I" V , ' PI 1 f f-: ! (Illy O ' '.' .i i ericil .' ' ' ion ' . i jisii - ( -rtit-e- t 1; -! re FOR ALE Shoats. C. F. o.t ler, '.-.v.. 4Gtf FT 71 r- 1 y -.T! My residence in Glov E. F. Dunn, Barton. 45tf er - .... ' Pair of chestnut hors--. -:ro or 2500 lbs. O. E. n'hby. 44-4G C v-y,lr-t3 Chester Pigs, r, Hi- "eld. lwo .i rev gaiions of i in: Mario Sy::ir at SI. 50 each Ka"o;?, i-'j.rto i. lw FOR SATiE Nearly new Free sewh g machine. Inquire of Mon'tor Office. 4G-47p FOR S ALE Maple sugar va'?" at the oM price of 25c. per haif-poun-' box. J-jr.t the thing to send to t-v beys "across" or in canm. P.. 0 Stile::, Barton. Both 'phones. 46-47p FOR .SALE Good farm ho-sc, 12 yean old, weighs 1200. Will work anywhere, single or double. Afraid of nothing. Harry Manlev, Jrv-irg. 4G-4Sp " FOR SALE One S-II. P. gas en gine, one 3-II. P. grain separator, 11 cows, 7 yearling heifers, several calves, one 9-year-old mare weighing 1300, one 2-year-old colt and one yearling colt. W. J. Gray, Barton, on George Robinson farm. 43tf FOR SALE Sugar rig. Monarch evaporator and arch, 1100 metal buck ets and covers, wood drawing tub, two sap sleds, 500-pail galvanized storage tank, wood storage tank, all in good condition. V. O. Miles Iras burg, Telephone, Orleans 171-4. 46tf FOR SALE Two-chair barber shop, two pool table room in connec tion, carrying cigars and tobaccos, everything new, good location, pay ing $35 a week income. Forced to sell on account of sickness. Price, $600. A. A. Chamnoux, 103 Railroad St., St. Johnsbury, Vt. 46-47 FARM FOR SALE Who wants one of the best small farms in Or leans county with or without stock ? ! Land in highest state of cultivation. N. 1 buildings, electric lights and good water. Inquire of W. E. Han son, Earton, or G. S. Dodge, Orleans. 41tf FOR SALE The best equipped ! laundry in northern Vermont located 1 at Hardwick. No other laundry in a radius of 15 miles. Laundry has built j up a profitable business in surround- ing towns. Summer business has overtaxed present capacity. For full ! details address letter to Box 96, Hard- j wick, Vermont. 44-46 ! SHINGLES FOR SALE We have about one carload of No. 1. grade shingles. These are sound knots and are very good shingle and in order to move them we are maKing the price $2.25 per M, F. O. B. Irasburg mill while they last. The E. I. Chandler Co., Orleans. 45tf WANTED WANTED Live poultry. Elrick, Barton. 18tf WANTED Sound, clean sacks. R. P. Webster, Barton 38tf WANTED Live poultry. Strawn, , Orleans. Bell phone 142-12. tf WANTED AT ONCE 50 turkeys. Bell 'phone 142-12. Strawn, Orleans. lw WANTED Housekeeper in small family on farm. Joseph Meunier, Willoughby. 46-47p WANTED Yourbatteries to store for the winter. O. B. Lafont, Bar ton. 45-46 WANTED To buy carload new milch and springer cows. W. E. Han son, Barton. 36tf WANTED A licensed chauffeur to drive our lumber truck, one who can go to work at once. The E. L. Chandler Co., Orleans. 45tf WANTED Operators on nice, clean and steady work, also girls to learn. Board very reasonable here. Nicholas Mfg. Co., Richford," 34tf MISCKr LANEOU4 NOTICE 0. I. C. boar for service. W. II. Greves, North Craftsbury. lwp Will pay ten cents in cash for a copy of April 12, 1916, issue of Moni tor. Monitor Office. 45tf Our car winter annles has arrived. We are now unloading. Bring your : barrels and get them filled at $3.75 i for 132 lbs. The E. W. Barron Co. lw 1 0 KENT TO RENT Two tenements. C. A. Nute, Barton. 46tf TO RENT Tenement. G. A. Ka ten, Barton. 45tf TO RENT Tenement, H. T. Seav ert Barton. 42tf Kinsey-Whitcher. Fred C. Kinsey of West Hartford, Conn., and Miss Geneva E. Whitcher of this place, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Whitcher, were married last evening. Only a few friends were present. Rev. W. A. Warner performed the ceremony, and the young people left immediately after the ceremony for a short trip, and win mae tneir nome m west Mart- ford, where Mr. Kinsey has a fine po- n J1" 1 TXT J TT . sition. Both young people are grad - uates of Barton academy and are nigmy thought oi by a large circle oi friends whose very best wishes go with them. Bartcn Clubs Entertain Orleans La dies. The Woman's Literary club met ... with the Afternoon Study club at their regular meeting on the after noon of Nov. 8th and entertained the Book and Thimble club of Orleans. There were nearly 00 ladies present. After the meeting was called to or- ler, the Lord's Prayer was repeated rary club, gave the address of wel come, and the following program was iven: Seng, "The Sunshine of Your Smile," and "When," Mrs. Mabel read 'our short poems entitled, "The Olive inch," "Naming the Baby," ."A Pe- :c:on lor Guaraian, d om( .j.ome, oy wall's hius rsaicer and '.Vencloll Philip Stafford. Pia"o duets, r T t 1 T-TTT-l -T 1 1 - . 1 1 . Wnii; 'sextette trom r-ucia ana Ur Gal 'ant Defenders," Misses Florence Tood and Elizabeth Cuer; r,aner, "The Great War Won on the Battle field of Food," Mrs. Etta McLellan; song, "She is Far from the Land," and "Legacies," Mrs. R. P. Webster: reading of three short poems enti- j tied, "The Hero," "Love is a Pilgrim i Cloaked in Grey," and "Flag of Our Land, Mrs. Zuar Hanson. At the close of the meeting a social hour was enjoyed and refreshments were served. BARTON LOCAL NOTES William Colliston has been very ill. Mrs. Lovisa Ayer of North Troy is a guest at O. A. White's. Mrs. George Sylvester is spending a few days at her home in Coventry. Elijah Libby of Craftsbury was a guest at Harry Conner's last week. Mrs. Cora Wakeman has returned from a visit to her sister in Newport. . TT . A. 1 Underwood is m Newport, N. , H., on business for the Peerless com pany T,lf.v Pnn.i 't r. a 1.. Cal was a uest at O A Wlvto' ln-' WOOL" i . Mrs. Gerald Plunkett and daugh ter, Olive, are visiting friends in Ber lin, N. II. Mrs. Nellie Burns of Derby is vis - iting her sister, Mrs. A S Redfield for a short time. ' ' , r,. r . ureenwooa ot Jnosburg Falls vvcia d uusmess visitor in town tne i first of the week. ' Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shedd and daughter, Hala, were visitors in St. Johnsbury Sunday. Mrs. A. R. Robinson was unable to be in the store the first of the week on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Elliott are spending a few days in Boston, Hol yoke and Springfield. Remember the chicken pie supper and entertainment at the Congrega tional church tonight. Mrs. L. H. Wells of Lyndonville was the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. P. Underwood, Thursday. Mr. Bulley, who lives with his daughter on the Senecal farm, is vis iting a brother in Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Batchelder and Mrs. O. W. Caron spent Friday in St. Johnsbury. Orders taken for home cooking pie, cake, rolls, doughnuts, brown bread, etc. Normandy Cafe, Barton. adv. Judge and Mrs. W. W. Miles have returned to Montpelier where a ses sion of the supreme court is being held. C. J. Clogston has rented J. F. Batchelder's house on Cutler hill and will work in the J. W. Murkland foundry. There will be work in the F. C. de gree at the regular meeting of Or leans lodge No. 55 F. & A. M. Friday evening. Miss Greta Daniels and William Wills, both of Westmore, were mar ried at the parsonage Nov. 8 by Rev. Wilmond Warner. LOST LOST Between Barton and Shef field Heights, one fur mitten. Finder please notify Ora Willard, Earton. lw LOST Friday night in Barton vil lage ladies' gold watch and fob. Find- er please leave at Monitor Office, lwp LOST Between Congregational church and station in Barton on Nov. 8, ladies' gold watch and fob. Leave at Monitor office and receive reward. lw FOUND . FOUND Small sum of money be tween Willoughby and the Summit. Finder notify John LaClair, Sutton, Vt. lwp n unison ana one verse oi "ine cstar j United States, about whose continued jangled Banner" was sung. Miss j service on the faculty of the Univers 3ut!er, president of the Woman's Lit- htv of Vermont thn iw hop-, P hiV Rummage Sale. The Barton branch of the Red Cross will hold a rummage sale in the club rooms over Pierce's drug store Friday, Nov. 23, beginning at 9 o'clock and continuing through the ! dav. There will be on sale new and sec j ond-hand clothing consisting of coats, : suits, hats. cans, underwear, boots, . 1 i ii - - . . - shoes and rubbers. Furniture, canned ' fruit and vegetables and other things 1 too numerous to mention will be on sale AH those willing to contribute ! to the pale kindly have articles ready j . the first of the week and the commit- j tee will call for them, or they may be ! it'ii, vii:i mis. v. -ta.. uano.vs, eiiau a t man of the committee. The proceeds of the sale will be ' ?sed for the purchase of materials n' flirt IITW - - fIrt11-!-TT KJX. CllO VVUliV Ul tilt? SULlt iy VERMONT NOTES Prof. Anton H. Appelmann, a Ger man suD.iect although having taken ! out first citizpnshin papers" in the protest during the past year and a half, or since Ira alleged anti-American attitude was investigated, has re signed, til 3 resi rnat;on to take effect c'lair 01 , fh rwr-nn rofoT.v-h? n ii the in'- versity, h; ing been oi: to German, haT-- tod a safe con bict by the state de he hones to srtmet, an;!, as he st wor'.: in the detent'on Germany keens her camns whf priso:-!?-"?. aUhough thero is a possi bility that he may be drafted for mil itary service. Mrs. Irene Nye and Miss Clara Dwinell of Orleans were visitors at Mrs. P. L. Webster's and Gardner Gorham's last week. Miss Edna Vancour of Glover and Clarence Waterman of Barton were married at the parsonage Nov. 7 by Rev. Wilmond Warner. The following letters remain un lonowing xeiters remain un- called ior at. tne postomce. -iease j say advertised when calling fori these leuters. iuiss r. lviuum, riaKe imock. Although the open deer season be- , fiofnvv firv ronnrta nf gan baturday lew reports oi deer killed have been received. No local hunters are reported to have been successful as yet. Frank- Smith, who is employed in the J. W. MurkTand foundry has had ms goods snipnea irom Haverhill, Mass., and is moving into the O. A. i 1" i i ii -WW- i i White tenement. t, x , , . T . "lc ! ' w Y -" , 1 , iweeK. uie talent is a singing or-! i jchestra oi six men called the "Musi- j j cal Guardsmen. ( Mrs. L. C. Brown of Lyndonville !ancl vs- W. C. Atkins, formerly of ' EanviHe, have been guests at C. E. i j Sisco's the past week. Don Sisco re- ; 1 turned to Lyndonville with Mrs. 1 Brown for a time. j TT . . , T , T Homer Rushford, R. L. French, W. P. Barrows and K. F. Mason are m Norton after the elusive deer. Clyde Heath and Edward Lee are in Wen- lock and other local men have been at i different spots for a short hunting trip. Homer Leland, who has been work ing for W. E. Hanson for several months, and living in the C. H. Blood house on Elm street, has bought the lrescott farm near Evansville and will take possession the first of the ' month. The W. C. T. U. met with Mrs. P. L. Webster Tuesday afternoon. The ! meeting opened with the reading of ' scripture by the president. Prayer was offered by Mrs. C. F. Cutler. Af ter roll call interesting readings were j given by Mrs. A. R. Cowles on "A war tor nnaren; "iseer s strangle hold on Britain," and "The Slacker" by Mrs. P. L. Webster; "What States Have the Prohibition Law," Mrs. F. E. Nelson. Ten members were pres ent. - Miss Lucretia I. Allen, 75 years of age, died in Burlington recently and the body was brought here for burial in the North cemetery. She was the daughter of Homer and Mary Allen and formerly lived on the farm now occupied by Harry Merrill. The fu neral was Friday with prayer at the grave by Rev. W. A. Warner. Local arrangements were made by J. A. Pearson. A brother, Clark Allen, and a brother-in-law, Zuar Allen, of Burlington, accompanied the body here. BROWNINGTON Mrs. Going of Barton visited at G. A. Going's last week. Miss Christie Bates has come to spend the winter at William Davies'. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Davignon of Orleans visited at Leon Marsh's Sun day. Mrs. A. P. Bean .and Mrs. Clark i of Glover visited Mrs. F. V. Swanson i recently. Mr. and Mrs G. A. Going were in St. Johnsbury last week to visit their i j brother's family. Raymond Waterman has moved in to Emma Joslyn's tenement house, and will work for Mrs. Joslyn. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Sanborn have moved to Burlington where they will board with their son and family. The Grange worked the third and fourth degrees at their regular meet ing Tuesday night. Refreshments were served. FINAL PLEDGE CARD FIGURES. County Ranks High. Variety of Ex cuses by Non-Signers. The final figures Saturday night show 4625 food pledge cards signed in Orleans county, or a little more than 140 per cent of the county's i i minimum nuota which allows srvpti 1 l-i 4- U . r.- r1 rl m on . of the maximum quota, which allows i only four persons to a household The canvass shows that the aver age i?i this county is five persons to a fireside which would have called for 4G73 pledges had every housewife signed. The difference between these last named figures and the actual number of signed pledge cards repre sent very nearly the number of re fusals. The various towns returned the following number of pledges Towns Albany Barton 'Orleans Jrovviiington est Charleston Last Charleston oventry rai'tsbury Pledges 177 739 172 230 117 170 344 455) 284) 133) 92) eru; Center jine no) O'i oro Tolland 117 -! r : J- ' 63 200 103 113 ; 325 101 65 4625 .'.) ; o and New c'ty, 236) Sj) ; North Troy Lotli r. roy j -.Vet field ! T1 for county p The reasons, given by the compar atively few, for refusing to sign the pledge card would make an interest ing story and furnish excellent ma- terial for Newton Newkirk or some other humorist. j One good woman said it was "a scheme to save the wheat to make whiskey." She must have had some y exclusive information. Two or .i, fupv wnnldn't sifrn "until tobacco fields were turned into rais inir useful crops." Question, how much aid would this give our boys in France or our Allies the coming win ter? Another said she would "have some flour to thicken her gravy." "I am iust as saving as I can be now," in- sisted several others. One said she could get along but thought her hus- 1 1 11 J 2. I .-J. U.-unj-J Dana wouia not go wiuiuui uieau. Another refused because she was eointr to move away. One said she couldn't live up to the home card, j i while ano while another said "It l don't sign anv pledge 1 won't break any." , u nf it hut n r o i roiiKP itJ ;j ish ine-v iiiii m j t j s0 RO doubt and some because they could not understand the English language and were timid , about signing. More than tor any ( other single cause refusals arose from a fear that the government might seize the whole or a part of the supplies on hand. On the whole, it was a great suc cess in this county and the labor per formed by the committees is evidence i OI tne spirit OI ueLermiiiauuii which is moving the entire country in these days of great stress. In the final count Orleans county ranks fourth among the counties of the state in percentage attained. Not a very large crowd attended Pomona Grange Thursday. M. M. T?Vin a.ve an address on the work of the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. C. E. Hause and Mrs. J. E. Young will serve a Hoover supper at ine nan rmay evening a meatless and wheatless supper. Come and see what it is like. BROWNINGTON CENTER Esther Stone was home from Or leans over Sunday. Carl Wells of Ryegate visited Har ry Alexander Tuesday. Mrs. Vietta Wells of East Ryegate visited at Thomas Smith's Nov. 6th. Harry Clough and Ira Gray and son are in Westmore looking for deer. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Burroughs of Barton were callers in town Sunday. E. E. Dutton and son, Ralph, spent the week-end in Albany visiting rela tives. Mrs. Dana Clark of Glover is spending a few days with her son, E. D. Clark. H. J. Converse of Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., was home Sunday on a short furlough. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lee of Orleans visited their daughter at A. R. Drown's Sunday. Miss Cartwright visited the schools in Orleans and Newport Friday and spent the week-end with friends in North Troy. Rev. O. B. Scounter gave a very in teresting sermon Sunday from the Tle ?rat T3?,"' 16:15. Next Sunday he will use the same text but will give an entirely different line of thought. Every per- son in the community is invited to be present. Peculiarity of Plants. By experiment with sugar beets, it has been proved that plants growing close to the ground thrive better when planted in rows running from east to west rather than from north to south. While the per cent of gain Is not large, especially in a temperate climate, It costs the, farmer nothing to reap this aXaht bmoflt SUBSCRIPTION RUSH. The closing days of the "last chance" offer of the Monitor on magazine and newspaper sub scriptions, was a grand rush. The office handled more sub scriptions Friday and Saturday than it ever handled before in two days. One clerk could not handle the business alone and the amount of magazine dollars handled would be counted by the hundreds. It is estimated that $100 was saved Monitor sub scribers over the regular pub lishers' prices for their reading matter. A new price list will be out in a short time which will offer the best prices obtainable now on all periodicals. Those v'ho have hot attended to their reading matter will still have an oppor tunity to save money by order ing them through this office. Congressman Dale at Front. The delegation of United States congressmen including Congressman Bale of this district, who went to Europe for the purpose of studying the war, have just come from a four days' tour of the British front. In a cabled news dispatch Congressman Dale is reported as saying: "I have been impressed by the vari ety and magnitude of modern war op erations and by the skill and courage required to conduct them, but, more than all else, by the evidences of the enduring sacrifice and inherent valor of the soldiers of Great Britain and her colonial possessions along this pathetic and inspiring way to vic tory." COVENTRY Mrs. Robert Tice is very low. Mrs. A. D. Thurber spent Friday in St. Johnsbury. Mrs. H. H. Hancock has returned from her visit in Massachusetts. Miss Mona Bickford has been en tertaining a friend from Orleans. Mrs. Cushman Gilbert of Newport was brought here for burial Monday. Mrs. Fletcher Griffin, who has been ill with pneumonia at Frank Orne's, is better. Mrs. A. J. Hancock has gone to Newport to spend a week with her sister, Mrs. Emily Allen. Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Labell attended the funeral of her brother, Mr. Be saw, in Irasburg last week. The Red Cross will meet in the M. E. vestry Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Let all plan to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Fairbrother have started by auto to Providence, R. I., where they will spend the win ter. Mrs. C. D. Wilder and daughter, Joyce, and Mrs. W. R. Thurber, and daughter, Ruth, spent Friday in Or leans. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Greenwood of Enosburg Falls were guests at H. C. Cleveland's Sunday, returning home Monday. The ladies of the Needle-book club will hold their fair in the town hall Tuesday afternoon and evening and Wednesday evening. Rev. H. B. Rankin of Newport gave a very interesting talk on the work of the Y. M. C. A. in the soldier camps at home and "Somewhere in France." Mr. Ellinwood, who has been in this work in the camps at Ayer and West field, spoke for a few minutes. Pledg es were then taken for the work. Boston's Historic Hill. Copps hill was the most northerly of the three hills which were the distin guishing feature of Boston at the time of its settlement. At one time it was known as Windmill hill, from the fact that at one time a big mill stood on the summit. Later it was known as Snow hill. The name Copps hill is supposed to have come from William Copp, a cobbler, who lived on his own home stead near the hill. Copps hill was the second burying ground which was es tablished in the town on the summit of the hill where the old mill had stood. It was first used for interments in 1660, and for a long time was known as the "Old North burying ground." The old est inscription it contains, dated Au gust 15, 1662, purporting to commemor ate the deaths of John Thwing in 1620 and Grace Berry, in 1G25, both some years before the founding of the col ony, are thought to have been altered by some mischievous boy with his knife. It is related that the British sol diers, while occupying the burying ground as a military station, used the gravestones for targets and marks of the bullets were visible for years after the revolution. Kingdom of Israel. The kingdom of Israel lasted several hundred years, during which there were more than twenty kings, begin ning with Saul, who reigned from 1095 B. C. to 1055 B. C. ; followed in succes sion by David, Solomon and others to Zedekiah, who became king 597 B. C. Saul, the first of the line, was chosen and anointed as king by the prophet Samuel, who also designated David as Saul's successor. The office was not strictly hereditary, but was supposed to spring from divine authority. All of the kings are mentioned by name In lb Slbncftl book of King. Orleans County in the Preachers' Aid Fund. The campaign now on in the Ver mont conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to secure an endow ment fund of $150,000, the income only of which is to be used to care for the aged preachers and their wid ows, is meeting with very gratifying results, the people generally seeing the justice of the appeal and respond ing liberally. The apportionment to the churches of Orleans county is as follows: Albany $1,050 2,200 Barton Coventry Craftsbury Derby Evansville Center Glover 1,160 2,000 1,650 and Brownington 1,320 1,900 Greensboro Bend and Stannard 1,200 Holland and Morgan 1,072 1,850 Irasburg Lowell Newport Newport Center Orleans South Albany Total i'?on 3,120 1,700 2,300 $24,182 Methodist Episcopal Church Notes Sunday, November 18, 1917 Morning worship at 10.45. Sunday school, 12.00 Junior League at 4 o'clock. Senior League at 6 o'clock. Sub ject, "This is the Day of All Days," II Cor. 5:20 to 6:3, 17, 18. Leader, Mar garet Scott. Evening service at 7 p. m. Congregational Church Notes. Rev. W. A. Warner, Pastor. Sunday, Nov. 18th All Sunday services of the church except the C. E. meeting in the eve ning will be omitted Sunday because of the absence of the pastor. The C. E. society meeting will be held in the church parlor and Mrs. Barron will lead, the subject being missions. The Fidelity class of the Congre gational church met with Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Buck Tuesday evening. A pleasant social hourwas enjoyed with a goodly number present. WESTFIELD Harvey Hendrix is working in the woods for M. J. Blair of North Troy. The creamery opened Monday morning after having been closed for several months. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Max M. Miller of Yonkers, N. Y., will be pleased to hear that a son was born to them Friday. i Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Reed expect ! to move this week into the house with Mrs. Fanny Reed. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Clark and son, Raymond, were called to Hyde Park, Sunday by the death of his brother's wife, Mrs. Almon Clark. Peter Ducharme of this town and Miss Savaria of Troy were married last week. They will live on the West Hill, where Mr. Ducharme owns a farm. Carl Miller, who has been working for H. E. Gray, of Waterbury, came Friday and remained until Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Miller. Carroll M. Hitchcock and sister, Mrs. Alice Clifford, of Albany, were Sunday visitors at the home of their uncles, E. H. Hitchcock, and S. L, Hendrix. Ninety-seven food pledge cards were signed in the campaign made recently by W. B. Gilpin, Harvey Martin, Mrs. Albert Ryder and Mrs. Albro Hunt. Mrs. Ralph Larabee of Hyde Park called on some of her friends in town Friday. From here she went to North Troy to visit at the home of Mr. Lar abee's father, A. S. Larabee. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Richards of St. Albans are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Curtis. Mr. Curtis and Mr. Richards are in camp on Belvidere mountain during the deer season. M. M. Taplin of Orleans, county chairman of the Y. M. C. A. work among the soldiers, met the men here Thursday evening in the interests of the campaign to be made this week. Mr. Doyle, who has been cared for by Mrs. Homer Foster for some time, was taken to Clyde Morey's last week, where he will stay until a per manent place is found for him. Mr. Doyle is nearly 100 years of age. News came Saturday evening of the death of Mrs. Almon Clark of Hyde Park. Her sudden death was due to indigestion. Both Mr. and Mrs. Clark spent their childhood days in town and are well known here. Mrs. Clark leaves a daughter only four weeks old. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Clark and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Jaques. Batchelder, C. E. Hamblet, C. A. Bar rows or W. E. Hanson. F. D. Pierce and Wallace H. Gilpin are publicity committee for the boys' work and C. L. Erwin general director. The boys promise to outdo the adults in this work. WATCH THE BOYS GET THE KAISER AT THE DRUG STORE. Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN GOING STRONG. Orleans County Living Up to Best Tradition in Giving for Worthy Work. Barton Pledges over $600 Already. At the rooms of the Improvement club on Monday evening 15 of the men met, divided the town into six sections, chose canvassing teams of two and three in each group, pledged $150 for the work themselves and are turning in splendid results of the canvass. To the time of going to press the amount turned in in cash and pledges to Wallace H. Gilpin, who is acting as chairman of the Barton committee is $629.45. There is little doubt about the de sired $800 to $1000 being reached in Barton, if those who are now out of town and who have not yet been able ' t Pdge, do as well as those already seen. Any outside the village wno have not been seen and desire to add their bit for the work may do so by sending or giving the same to Mr. Gilpin. A more complete and detailed report will be given next week. Under the dynamic force of M. M. Taplin of Orleans, chairman in charge of the Orleans county Y. M. C. A drive this week, the county has awakened to the urgent needs of the "Red Triangle" organization, as it is known in the army, and is making a winning drive toward our just share of the $35,000,000 needed immediate ly for the work here and in France. Mr. Taplin has spoken in some half dozen towns of the county in the in terest of this work, Rev. II. B. Ran kin of Newport has also been making addresses and Sunday was a great day for Newport, Orleans and Barton when C. Howard Ellinwood, a Y. M. C. A. secretary from the camps where our Vermont boys had been stationed the past summer, gave three straight-from-the-shoulder talks on the work to large audiences. In the morning he addressed a union Newport audience at the Con gregational church and following the address then and there, $1274 was pledged for the work. A can vass of the place will bring the fig ures to $2000 or more it is expected. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Ellinwood spoke to a union audience in Orleans and following his address committees made a canvass of the village before night, securing pledg es for a large amount. In the evening he addressed a large union audience at the Congregational church in Barton. He first made it plain that this work was entirely dis tinct from all local Y. M. C. A. work and the work was for our fighting: boys. lie told of the work in and about the cantonments in this coun try and carried the story of this great organization to the very front line trenches. By the very earnest ness of his words, the plainness and simplicity of his description of the wants and needs of the boys, hs made a deep impression upon his hearers. It is the morale of the troops which counts for so much in the war the "pep" in the language of the day. And this can only be secured and held by clean lives among the men. This the Y. M. C. A. tries to foster by erecting tents or temporary buildings within the very camp itself where wholesome amusements are provided and so far as possible a little of "home" brought to them. This work is sanctioned and recognized by the government itself and army officers aid in every possible way the work of the Red Triangle for they above all others know that good fighting men must have just the things the Y. M. C. A. provides but which the govern ment does not and cannot. Every person who heard Mr. Ellin wood was convinced of the need of the work he represented and a local organization was perfected which is asking our people to pledge money for the cause. The needs of the work in France were strikingly brought home on Monday morning when a letter was received from one of our boys across who wrote upon the stationery of the Y. M. C. A. and said, "Must apologi2e for writing with a pencil. The Y. M. C. A. is so crowded one can hardly get in and is lucky with a corner. It is the one place we have." The boys have a campaign mapped out for them and New England is asking for 100,000 boys who will pledge $10 each for the work before April 1. They are asked to earn, not beg the money. There is an organization in each town of the county and the work is being pushed vigorously everywhere, more particularly in the larger towns with high schools. In each of these teams have been organized and the captains are trying to land their teams in the front place. The results of each day's work are posted in the store windows and ingenious ways are used to attract attention. In some of the places, particularly Orleans, the girls bid fair to outdo the boys, while some lucky boy from a winning team of this section of the state will have a free trip to Boston to help car ry the news of Vermont's work to the New E ar land headquarters. The men in charge of this work in the larrrer towns are: Newport, Rev. H. B. Rankin; Orleans, A. D. Seaver; Barton, C. L. Erwin; North Troy, n. V. Wheelock; Derby, II. C. Taylor; Craftsbury, F. B. Root; Irasburg, Mr. Washer. In the first two hours of the Barton campaign 12 boys pledged them selves to this work. The cap tains are Walter Buckley, Leigh Comstock, Henry Cutler and Ralph McGorty. Any who have work for the boys to do in order that they may earn this money should notify J. E. Continued in left-hand column