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THE BARRE DAILY TIMES, BARRE, VT., MONDAY, JULY 29, ,1918.
BETHEL
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Wilmot Were
Married 50 Years Ago To-day.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace Wil
mot to-day reached the fiftieth anniver
sary of their marriage. Several of their
children were at the home yenterday to
congratulate them and to present them
$50 in gold. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot came
here eight years ago and bought the
Wing farm now ownpd by Mr. and Mrs.
E. M. Carpenter; the Wilmots still living
in the original farm house. Mr. Wilmot
was burn 76 years ago in St. John, N. B.
Mis. Wilmot, whose maiden name was
Emma Yannah, was born 65 years ago
in Wardshoro, Me. They were married
July 2!), 18(18, at Coaticook, Que. The
greater part of their married life was
spent at Island Pond, where Mr. Wilmot
was engaged in lumbering. About 15
years ago injuries to his hand and eye
resulted in his changing his occupation
to farming. The Wilmots are members
of the local Methodist parish. They
have eight children living, as follows:
Mrs. J. H.Cadcs of New York City, Mrs.
Ernest M. Carpenter and Miss Winifred
Wilmot of Bethel, William E. Wilmot of
White River Junction, Charles R. Wil
mot and Mrs. William V. Lawless of
8pringflcld, Mass., Bernard L, Wilmot of
Co. C, 504 engineer service battalion,
American expeditionary forces, and Dur
ward C. Wilmot of Barre. There are
three grandchildren, Miss Hazel Cades of
New York, assistant to the fashion edi
tor of the Woman's Home Companion,
Miss Winifred Lawless of Springfield,
Mass., and Master Roger Wilmot of
Barre. This happy couple, enjoying good
health and the esteem of their neighbors
and secure in the affection and loyalty
of their large family, after 50 years' ex
perience can testify that marriage is not
a failure.
Harry J. Graham has been called to
the U. S. navy radio school at Newport,
R. I., for which he enlisted some time
ago, and he went Friday.
Horseahoers Arthur R. Newell and
Archie B. Williams, former near neigh
bors in the Christian hill neighborhood,
are members of the 101st ammunition
train and are working in the same bliyk
smith shop in France.
First Class Private Bernard L. Wilmot
writes that recently he met and shook
hands in France with Sergeant Mason W.
lluse, former principal of Whitcomb high
school. They were neighbors at White
River Junction.
Miss Josephine Galli of Northfield is a
guest of Miss Frances Southworth.
E. P. Fisher, who works in a store at
White River Junction, comes home every
Sunday, riding with K. M. Carpenter,
who is partner in a store at Claremont,
N. II.
E. K. Shrpard led the Young People's
Christian league last evening. A com
mittee from the league met later in the
evening and took action as to the addi
tion of several stars to the service flag,
which will be rededicated some time next
month when the proper additions have
been made to the flag and the corre
sponding roll of honor.
Mrs. Emma Burnham of Woodsville,
N. H., is here to accompany home her
daughter, Miss Ruth Burnham, who has
been a. guest two weeks at Robert Wyl
lie'g. Claude B. Williamson has received his
call to the U. S. navy paymasters' school
at Philadelphia, for which he enlisted re
cently, and will go in two or three days.
Archibald C. Porteous of Montreal is
here for a month's vacation.
ROCHESTER
A sad accident occurred in the family
of Jerome Fuller Tuesday. The young
son of the family, about 12 or 14 years
old, went "out in search of a fox seen
about the premises. Mrs. Fuller also
went in quest of him, unbeknown to th'i
boy, who, hearing a ruBtling among the
bushes, flred and killed his mother in
stantly. Mrs, Fuller leaves a husband and
twin girls about two years old.
Miss Esther Richardson of Randolph
is a guest of Miss Evelyn Harvey for a
few day.
Mrs. C. N. Whitmarsh and daughter
are visiting relatives in Newbury.
Mrs. Whitmore of Ripton is visiting
her son, Fred Whitmore.
Mrs. Bcrnice Swinyer underwent an
operation for appendicitis and gall stones
at the Randolph sanatorium Tuesday
and is quite comfortable.
Ward Bean has been called to Wind
sor for physical examination by the local
board.
Word has been received that Volney
Fassett is in a Red Cross hospital at
Camp Devens for an operation for her
nia. Mrs. Margaret Garland has traded the
Hanks farm for a house in Randolph.
. HANCOCK
Walter Pierce of Boston has been a
recent guest of his uncle, Ransom Dun
ham. S. II. Feceuden joined Mrs. Fecnden
at W. W. Jones' last week.
Pearl Bradford of Newburyport, Mass.,
visited at George Farr's reeently.
Mrs. George Taylor was in Bethel Gi
lead last week to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Horace Cole.
Frederick McNeill of Burlington visit
ed his daughter, Mrs. Ross Goodyear,
and family recently.' '
Eugene Perry, who was so badly
burned recently by the engine of th
gasoline tank exploding, is doing as well
m could be expected, but his arms are
badly burned.
W. J. Riley of Springfield was a guest
of his sister, Mrs. Dana Marsh, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Russell of Worces
ter, Mass., are visiting at Walter Carnes.'
Mrs. Will Stewart and son Roy, his
friend, James Cobtirn, and Miss Harriet
Lampher of New York City arc stopping
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dana Marsh.
Miss Frances Andrews is working for
Mrs. Wdrth Shampeney.
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RANDOLPH
The parents of Miss Barbara Cura
mings, whose death occurred by drown
ing Friday, arrived here on Saturday
night, and Sunday they left for their
home in Newark, N. J., taking the re
mains home for burial. It is understood
that another sister survives.
Rev; R. II. Moore, pastor of the Meth
odist church, received a telegram on Sun
day morning announcing the death of
his sister's son, a boy about 14 years
of age, whose death was caused by
drowning. The family lived in Paw
tucket, R. I, and Mr. Moore left here in
the night for that city.
Mrs. Emeline Noyes, after a week
passed here with Mr., and Mrs. A. H.
Powers, has gone to Essex Junction for
a few days' stay and will return here
following her stay there for a longer
visit with Mrs. Powers.
Mrs. Charles Martin, who had her fin
ger injured in. a machine while at work
in the toy manufacturing shop of Mr.
Batchelder in Braintree, was in town on
Saturday for a short stay.
Miss Marion Batchelder, who has been
at the Church farm for a few days, left
Saturday for Boston. In the fall 'she
will enter Simmons college for her senior
year. ,
Miss Nina Flint, a teacher in this
vicinity, went to Sharon on Saturday to
visit friends with whom she formerly
boarded when there.
Mrs. M. M. Wilson was in Burling
ton on Friday to attend a meeting of the
committee on national defense. It was
decided at this time to make an attempt
to enlist 195 nurses for Red Cross work,
and it is expected that a recruiting office
will be opened here later.
Harry Chase made his family here a
short visit on Friday, leaving for several
points in the state of New Hampshire,
where he is to have work for the pres
ent. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Adams and Miss
Ruth Adams left by automobile Sun
day for White River Junction, where
they expected to meet Miss Mary Adams,
another daughter, who came from North
Andover, Mass., where she has library
work for the summer. Miss Adams has
taught there , for several years. They
went from there to Lake Fairlee, where
Mrs. Adams and Miss Mary Adams will
pass the next two weeks, Mr. Adams
and Miss Ruth returning home.
Miss Gerrude Slack went to Mont
pclier on Saturday for a stay with rela
tives and friends for a couple of weeks,
after which she will return and assist
in the store during the vacation of Mrs.
Wight.
Mrs. Ruth Williams has come from
Lebanon, N. H., for a several weeks'
stay with Mrs. Alice Bruce.
Mrs. Nellie Hutchinson left Friday
night for Worcester, Mass., where she
went to visit her father, Fred Terry, for
a time. She has rented her furnished
apartment to Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, the
former having come from Canada to work
in the creamery here. Miss Helen Hutch
inson is in Warren to remain till the
opening of the school here.
Mrs. Matt. Carney, a former resident
here, but later of South Bend, Ind., has
come for a short stay in town, to at
tend to the storing of her .household
goods for the present.
WAITSFlbLD
Mrs. Wriiliam Mills was in White River
Junction Tuesday to meet the Pender
gast children from New Y'ork, who are
to remain the rest of the summer.
Lyle Kingsbury of Derry, N. II., is
spending his vacation in town.
Word has been received of the death
of Alpha A. Davis, in Delaware. Mr.
Davis was formerly well known in town
and was the son of Benjamin and Lydia
Turner Davis. He is survived by bis
wife and a brother, Marvin Davis.
D. H. Skinner and daughters, Miss
Vone Skinner and Mrs. P. B. Joslyn,
were hi Waterbury Friday.
Lewis Senesky is home from Camp
Greene, N. C.
B. J. Eno, state cow tester, has been
testing the Jersey herd of John Graves
and there were found three cows con
demned for tuberculosis out of a herd
of 39.
Miss Margaret Tabor is visiting her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Judson Ta
bor, in Granville.
Miss Edith Croleus of Philadelphia is
spending her vacation at E. A. Fiske's.
Harold Hayes, Miss Julia Niell, Miss
Anna Belle Martin and Mrs. W. G. Mar
tin went down on the midnight train
Friday to see Roy Niell at Camp Devens.
Word has been received that Carlton
Tabor has been taken prisoner by the
Germans and has had his head and face
badly burned in the battle.
Alfred Bover and wife were week-end
guests of their daughter, Mrs. Will
Graves.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bedore are the
parents of a son born Friday, July 28.
Martin Harbs and William Beers made
a trip from Bridgeport, Conn., their
motorcycle arriving in town Wednesday
day evening. The young men are spend
ing a week touring the New England
states.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reynolds of
Bridgeport, Oonn., were guests of Dan
Moriarty on the . brook road, the past
week.
HELPING HOMESICK BOYS.
Week-End Visits Mean a Lot to Those
in Camps.
Patriotism, though impelling a man to
offer his life for his country, is no spe
cific for homesickness.
Were you ever sick for a sight of
home? If not, you know nothing of the
horror of nostalgia!
Many of the boys in the camps here
awaiting orders to cross the ocean are
from far-distant homes. Thousands of
boys from the states bordering on the
Mississippi, statps boasting the Rockies,
and the elate with the Golden Gate, each
and all send their boys here. It is im
possible for them to go to their homes
on the short leave of absence that is ac
corded them.
Where do they go?
Well, some of thorn just don't go;
they stay right there. Some of the boys
who live where they can reach home take
boys, one or more, home with them.
Here is where you can do your bit.
You can ask your boy to bring home
a messmate; or you can write the com
manding officer to send a homesick boy
to you if such a one cannot go to a
home of his own.
"I had a beautiful letter from a moth
er in Virginia," a woman tells us, who
"mothers" her own boy's mates. '"She
says, "Nothing will be too good for you
if you will come to visit me or my
friends.' " But she didn't need this as
a reward. She had had her satisfaction
in the delight of the young guest of her
son.
These boys are giving so much. Can't
you give a home for a week-end to &
couple of iouie-sick lads? Bridgeport
Tost.
MONDAY
You can make Monday a
day of more leisure and less
labor by laundering with
MULE TEAM
BORAX SOAP CHIPS
The pure powdered Borax in the
Chip, soften the
water andlooseni the
ditt so that it Is easily
rinsed and shaken
out. Saves ball the
time and labor. .
"It's the Borax with
the Soap that does
the work."
AtAUDelera
WILLJAMSTOWN
Special piefeting of Summit lodge, No.
104, F. & A. M., on Thursday evening
next, Aug. 1. Work.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Lougee of West
Chazy, N. Y., have been in town for a
brief visit to relatives, arriving last
Saturday and returning to-day.
. Mrs. Harry ,M. Lasell and children are
spending the week with Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Dillingham at Northfield.
Miss Edna Waldo is to teach in More
town this year and is now in Sharon,
where she will spend a few days with a
Bchool friends.
Among the townspeople who attended
the Clan Gordon picnic at Barre Satur
day were Mr. and Mrs. John Riddle and
daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pirie
and son. The scribe went for the first
time and enjoyed the occasion very
much.
Carl Sawyer left town to-day for Bos
ton, where he has a position , as sales
man with the Carpenter-Morton com
pany. During his stay here he has been
employed at work on the roads.
Carpenter work on the addition to the
village echoolhoufe is to begin to-morrow,
July 30.
Chauncey Ixugee, Mr. and Mrs. F. B.
Lougee of West Chazy, N. Y., and Mrs.
Will Lougee, with Lee A. French a
chauffeur, took a motor trip through
Chelsea to Tunbridge last Sunday, where
they visited a farm that was owned by
Chauncev Lougee more than fifty years
ago. The return trip was made via
South Royalton and the gulf road.
The selectmen will meet at the office of
the town clerk next Friday forenoon at
0 o'clock.
SHARON
Rev. Ray A. Chapman, who will be re
membered by many people in Sharon,
where he was ordained to the Christian
ministry about five years ago, has ac
cepted a call to the' chaplaincy of the
Asheville school, Ashcville, N. C., to be
gin in September. Rev. Mr. Chapman
preached ni farewell sermon before a
union congregation of churches in Hyde
Park, Mass., yesterday and will spend a
brief vacation in Vermont and New
Hampshire before proceeding south.
After being ordained in Sharon, he at
tended Dartmouth college, graduating
with commencement honors in 1010, and
received the degree of bachelor of sacred
theology from Andover Theological sem
inary in 1017. Since that time he has
been assistant pastor of the Hyde Park
Congregational church.
MARSIIFIELD
"Bought and Paid For" is one of the
biggest successes of recent years. The
Nellie Gill Tlavers, with Miss Curtis in
the leading rofe, will present this won
derful drama in Marshlield to-morrow-night.
Dancing after the play.---adv.
What Those at Home Must Do.
In an article by David Grayson about
the war in the May American Magazine,
he says:
"What, after all, are our 00 boys being
sent out to do
"In the words of our leader, 'To make
the world safe for democracy,'
"What, then, is left for the 5,410 of u
who remain behind to do?
"It occurred to me suddenly that we
have the still greater and harder prob
lem, we who are left behind, of making
dent cracy safe for the world.
"It was our home job to show that de
mocracy was both safe and strong in this
vast crisis (and afterward), safer and
stronger than autocracy, more patient
and efficient than aristocracy, braver than
plutocracy. Is the kind of democracy
now in power in Russia, I asked myself,
safe for the world? Is our kind of de
mocracy in America really safe for the
world?
"Can we win this most terrible of wars
and run our railroads, for example, as
carelessly and wastefully as we have
been doing? Is our loose, easy-going
method of digging and distributing our
coal, making our steel, cultivating our
farms, building our ships, safe either for
us or for the world in this great strug
gle? Can we think of reconstructing the
world after the war arid continue to gov
ern our cities (New York, for, example 1,
or our states, or our nation, as we do? Is
it safe? la our method of treating our
poor people in factories, mills and tene
ments safe for us if we are to win the
war and make over the world?"
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A massage with Parisian Sage k a real de
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CURRENT COMMENT
"They Shall Not Pass."
The Spartan slogan of the French at
Verdun is the animating shibboleth all
along the allied line in front of the pres
ent German drive. Whatever may be said
to the contrary, it is still too early to as
sume that the enemy has failed in his
long-heralded offensive. He devoted un
usual time and care to its preparation,
and it is reasonable to suppose that he
has or had plans of operation which
have not as yet 'manifested themselves.
Present indications are that he will find
those plans, whatever they may be, an
ticipated by the allied commanders, to
whom his studied delay has afforded op
portunity for considerable preparation on
their own part; but those commanders
would be the last men on earth to in
dulge in over-confidence at this stage of
the operation, and it behooves us, like
wise, to be 'mentally prepared for a peri
od of vacillating fortunes ere the effec
tiveness or non-effectiveness of the drive
can be finally judged; always remember
ing that true conservation of man-power
forms no part of German military tac
tics, and that German assaults are
launched with scant reference to the cost
in German lives save those of the roy
alty. Due allowance having been made for
these considerations, the developments at
the opening stages of the drive are dis
tinctly encouraging to the allied people
The reaction of his initial blow must
have been a painful as it certainly was
a costly surprise to the enemy. His ob
vious design was to cripple the American
sector at the outset. His effort in that
direction was a boomerang. If he 'had
tale .'ii seriously the vaporings of German
military critics who write lor the Berlin
prejs, and had counted on finding the
'raw, untrained, poorly commanded troops
depicted by those critic' in their imagi
nary descriptions of Americans, he is
now disillusioned. He now knows that
the American soldiery is worthy of the
brave allies whose steel he had tasted
previously. The French and the Italians
fully sustained their brilliant record,
and, altogether, the German losses in the
first day's fighting must have been tre
mendous. The enemy has strong reserves
northeast of Kheima, and undoubtedly
these will be hurled into the attack. If
General Foch has need of reserves, they
will be forthcoming. As we stated yes
terday, it is likely to be a test of endur
ance, and in that quality there it good
reason for belief that the allies have the
advantage.
Experience has shown that the Ameri
cans co-operate well with any and all of
our allied fighters. For a minor action,
their recent achievement in company
with the Australians furnished apt illus
tration of this; and in this present drive
they have been shoulder-to-shoulder with
the French in meeting the brunt of the
onslaught. American traditions are safe
in their keeping. A few hours more, or
a day or two at the outside, should make
possible something like a definite esti
mate of the operation which the Ger
mans have launched. Inidcations now
are that General Foch had anticipated
both the time and the place of the at
tack, and that the drive will be effec
tively checked. Manchester Union.
Agaiaat the Mob Spirit
President Wilson's indignation over
the Pracger affair in Illinois does him
credit, though its ineffectiveness at this
late date still satirir.es the long leniency
toward spies, informers, propagandists,
backfire lighters, and general assistants
of the enemy some of them born and
un-Americanined Germans, some German-Americans
more German than
American, some just plain traitors out
for whatever tainted enemy money they
can pick up. Robert Praeter wa the
victim, at Collinsville, Ill.j of reprehen
nihlc mob spirit. What made the mob
spirit? Largely the conviction on the
part of simple country people in a re
gion where there had been a great deal
of German talk and propaganda, that the
government was doing nothing to put
down this kind of work against the
country and that it invohvd a great pub
lic danger. Praeger was lynched. Tried
for the lynching, certain citizens of Col
linsville had the sympathies of their
townsmen to such a degrce'that although
the court instructed positively against
them, the jury almost instantly ac
quitted them. A failure of justice but
one of those failures which indicate tbat
there was something the matter with
the prior enforcement of the law.
The "mob spirit" is a mttr of con
cern wherever it crops out. It should
be headed off by so firm an enforcement
of the law that it will never have a
nliance to grow up. But there are great
incitements to it in the law's delays in
connection with the enforcement of war
precaution. It was the agents of the
ihipping board, and not the authorities
of the department of justice, who lately,
in the nick of time, stopped from going
to Scandinavian ports plans and speci
fications which described minutely 'the
American shipbuilding plans, our ves
sels under construction, the yard where
they are built, the way, the plants,
the mine-sweepers, and much eke the
knowledge of which must have been of
enormous value to the enemy in his sub
marine campaign against out sea-help to
our allies and our support of our sol
diers abroad. All these plans were seized
in New York, where nobody minds.
What if such a revelation of official in
competence or delay had come to a head
in an excitable small American communi
ty, and had focussed itself on a single
personality? It is time for indignation
against such encouragement to the "mob
spirit" as lanity of this kind engenders.
It is in New York, too, that a Ger
man subject is now, at last, arrested,
who is accused of "working constantly
as a German agent for months," in va
rious places, stirring up opposition to
the war among the colored people. He
went about tolling tho'c people that
the soldiers abroad, if captured by the
Germans, would be put to death with
torture, but that if they remained in
this country and refused to go to the
war the kaiser would create a negro
kingdom in this country "after ha had
won the war." It sepms that this Ger
man's propaganda made little headway.
The colored people were too intelligent
and too patriotic to listen to it. Their
work on French battlefields proves their
loyalty. But fhe man went on with his
poisonous work just the same. What
would have happened to him, too, if his
final apprehension had been In one of
those excitable American communities
instead of in New York City?
Let us have the mob spirit reprobated
and discouraged by a somewhat more
vigilant and stern repression jof the work
of spies, informers and propagandists,
and then the president need not worry
aieut it so much. Boston. TrJiciyU.
Emnmiii i bmbwp
FLOUNDERING 1
By F. LANCASTER.
(Copyright, Ills, Western Newspaper Union.)
A silence bad fallen upon the chat
tering group. The Incessant talker
was furtively watching Miss Lou out
of the corner of his eye. lie fancied
that In repose her face was beginning"
to have a wistful look and the fancy
pleased him. But In an Instant that
subtle something which rings through
our inmost life bad flung out Its danger
signals. Miss Lou started into con
sclousness. "J understand that the mullet were
so thick last night It was Impossible to
flounder In the gulf?" she said, catch
ing mental outposts.
"Who wants to flounder la that
gulf?" said the man from up the coun
try, springing to a seat on the veranda
and facing Miss Lou with a surprised
expression.
"Why anyone who wishes to go
lounderlng," replied Miss Lou, politely.
"So, I should have Imagined," he re
sponded dryly. "They could not find a
much better place to flounder In un
less It was a 'Slough of Despond.' Do
many Indulge?"
"Oh, a lot of people."
"What for?"
"For pleasure or profit ; sometimes
both."
"Oh, you mean bathing!"
"I suppose a good deal of bathing la
done incidentally."
"Incidentally?"
"Why, yes. You are obliged to get
more or less wet If you go floundering
In the gulf."
"That appears probable, especially
II the gulf happened to have water la
It"
A surge of suppressed merriment
swept over the group upon the gallery.
Miss Lou adjusted her gold-rimmed
glasses and looked with ominous quie
tude at the perplexed Individual who
had been asking questions.
"Don't you know what a flounder
Is?" she asked severely.
"Certainly. It'a an awkward effort
made to escape from an uncomfortable
situation."
"That may be true of the Interior.
On the coast, a flounder is a thin, flat
fish that swims broadsides through the
water apd has both of Its eyes on the
same side. The method of capturing
it by means of a spear is called 'floun
dering. "
"Oh 1 And is It good sport?"
"It is about bs bard work as dancing
and as big a bore as a theater."
"If it is no worse than that I should
like to try it How is It done?"
"Ton dress yourself in clothes that
you expect never to use again, take a
spear and a basket, wade in with the
crowd and follow the torch bearer.
Whenever you see a flounder's bed
stick your spear into it Tou will gen
erally find that the flounder is not
there when your spear is, but that
doesn't matter. If you do not slip up
and strangle yourself with salt water
or get stung by a stlngaree you may
declare that you have had a "perfectly
lovely time.' Sometimes within the
next two weeks you will begin to get
over It"
"Rather more graphic than encour
aging. I should like to try It"
' At this there was a heartv chorus:
"Let's have a floundering party to
night!" Miss Lou looked aghast "The Idea,"
she ejaculated.
"Oh, yes ; Just this once. Bliss Lou I"
By the time the details were decided
the Incessant talker had dropped off
the gallery and disappeared.
"Hello, Hall!" cried the tall clergy
man, looking up from his writing.
"Come In glad to see you."
"You should be. I'm a bearer of
good tidings."
"Ah?"
"Invttatlon to a floundering party."
"My dear boy, I never"
"No, of course not But you ara
going this time, and so is Miss Lou."
"Miss Lou !"
"Yes. It's a chance in ten thousand.
Don't neglect it."
The floundering party was in full
swing. The Iron baskets filled with
heaps of burning pine swayed on the
ends of their long poles and threw fan
tastic effects over the drowsy waters.
Behind the line of lights came the
crescent of flounderers, the bolder spir
its thigh-deep in water, the timid ones
hugging the shore. Laughter, repar
tee and' song made the night gay in
deed. An occasional shrill scream or
heavy splash only tended to heighten
the merriment. Well in the rear came
Miss Lou using her spear as a staff
and her basket as ballast She paused
frequently to adjust her glasses. The
whole situation was distinctly dis
tasteful to her.
"If ever I get " a frightened floun
der shot from beneath Miss Lou's san
daled feet, her spear flew out ; her bas
ket flew up, and the glasses, leaping
from ber nose, swung widely at the
end of their chain. Miss Lou set her
teeth hard on a scream and floundered
valiantly, and her downfall would have
been Inevitable had not a strong arm
caught and steadied her.
Ten miles away the red-eyed light
house on Cat Island winked lazily at
his brother In Ship Island harbor. The
strong arm was still about her shoul
ders and somewhere in the night above
her she could feel a pair of gray eyes
upon her.
"This is a floundering party," sho
said.
"Well am I not floundering miser
ably? Give me something to steady
me, dear. Some hope to hold by. I'm
tired of floundering."
"So am I," softly.
We still have a few bargains in paints,
varnishes and wall papers. A. V. Beckley.
ELL-ANS
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. Druggists
refund money i! it fails. 25c
STATE'S ACTIVITIES
' ARE SUMMARIZED
Cash Balance on Hand June 29, 1918,
Was $f, 133,723.29 Many Prosecu
tions By Fish and Game De
partment FINANCIAL NUMMARY.
Cash balance June 1, 1918 I995.804.8fl
Receipts for June 863,398.19
11,339,200.65
Auditor's orders paid In
June $226,477.28
Cash balanc June 29, 1918 1,133,723.29
$1,359,800.68
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.
The work of checking up and audit-,
lng the annual financial statements
of the insurance companies doing
business in the state has been con
tinued during the-month and prepara
tion for publication of the annual re
port has been nearly completed.
Three of the mutual Are insurance
companies doing business la the state
were examined.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Recent publications of the office of
the secretary of state include "Lakes
of Western Vermont" and "A Direc
tory of Hotels and Boarding Houses"
Issued by the publicity bureau and an
index to the surveyor general's pa
pers. The first two volumes are for
free distribution and the latter is
for sale by the state librarian, i
FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER.
Prosecutions were made by the war
dent of the department during June in
Addison and Windsor counties from
which four convictions resulted, the
fines totalling $130, costs, $34.30.
There were 89,000 brook trout dis
tributed during the month. Particu
lar attention has been given to re
stocking the waters of Silver Lake at
Barnard. The receipts of the fish and
game eommlssloner during the current
year.wbloh vers at the close of the
month forwarded to the state treas
urer were as follows:
Deer hides, carcasses, etc.,., $733.37
Trout. .. 1283.00
Set Line Licenses . 161.03
Cisco Netting Permits ...... 175.00
Miscellaneous - 80.85
$3483.25
COMMISSIONER OF INDUSTRIES.
Nonfatal accidents reported, 818.
Fata! acoldents reported, 10.
Cases in which compensation has
bean allowed, 107.
Cases in which final settlement re
ceipts have been delivered, 68.
Total number of cases disposed of
and closed, 418.
Formal and informal hearings held,
68.
Inspections of factories and quarries
made, 59.
Special investigations In compensa
tion cases made, 13.
Employment permits Issued to mi
nora, 77.
COMMISSIONER OF WEIGHTS
A NO MEASURES.
In the report of the commissioner
of weights and measures for June a
summary of the work for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1918, Is Included
It appears that there have been made
S?,810 inspections during the year
The total cost of the department for
the year was $8,007.82 as comparer"
with a cost for the year endin?
June 20' 1818, of $8,898.85. The aver
sge cost per store visited was $1.0?
for the past year as compared with
$153 for the . year ending June 80,
1918.
OARD OF CHARITIES AND FRO
BATION. Number of probation eases June 1st
S75
Number of probation cases termina
ted, in June $8
Number of new probation cases in
Juns 49
Number of cases July 1st 591
COMMISSIONER OF TAXES.
Table showing revenues eolleoted by the commissioner of taxes during two
past fiscal years:
Increase or
Tear ending Tear ending decrease over
June 80, 1918. June 30, 1917. previous year.
Annual license tax $32,944.46 $33,199.22 $ 855.46 (d)
Charter tax i 342.50 295.00 62.80 (d)
Bar, Bks. ft Trust Companies , 776,980.58 733,392.06 43,598.53
National Banks 84,955.86 79,759.85 8,195.61
Telephone Companies ,, 48,522.51 44,281.92 2,240.69
Railroads , 648,786.38 549,880.08 8.898.75 (d)
Insurance Companies 186,010.97 18C.025.29 114.82 (d)
Express, Telegraph Trans
portation Companies 24,735.27 35,678.21 843 01 (d)
Collateral Inheritance Taies . , 188,828.61 88,221.19 45,007.43
Direot Inheritance Taxes 2.702.97 2,702.97
$1,834,109.61 $1,741,133.54 82,975.87
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TUESDAY ETHEL CLAYTON IN "THE WITCH WOMAN"
WEDNESDAY MARY PICKFORD IN " THE LITTLE PRINCESS"
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature
Warrants for probationers issued
during month of June S
Probationers recommitted to Houso
of Correction 2
Probationers recommitted to Indus
trial School 1
Poorhouses Inspected
Children placed in temporary or per
manent homes 7
8 families investigated involving 15
children
Feeble-minded eases committed to
the Feeble-minded School at Bran
don . 1
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICUL
TURE, Two bulletins entitled "Mills
Houses for Vermont Dairy Farms"
and "Suggestions for Improvement of
Vermont Dairy Stables" were issqed
during the month and will be distrib
uted to creamery inspectors and to
all persons who request copies. The
dairy manufacturing expert of the
department visited during the month
of June 82 plants and assisted with
dally cream tests, moisture control,
utilisation of skim, milk in form of
cottage cheese, Overrun, efficient op
eration of boiler, arrangement of ma
chinery, remodelling and construc
tion, sanitation, etc. The government
accounting system has been installed
in three creameries. During the
month the organization of three oow
testing associations has been com
pleted. Two new testers have been
started In charge of association work;
and 14 testers have been called pa
and assisted with their work by the
assistant In charge of cow testing t
sociation work. In the work of cream
ery inspection, 49 creameries Bd ?62
farms were inspected, (45 samples of
milk and oream were tested and the
results communicated to patrons.
The forester has begun a compila
tion of statistics relating to the total
amount of available standing timber
for the y&ited States Forest Service,
Only eight forest fires were reported
in June none of which caused ih
fire wardens of (he stats any trouble,
the total cost of extinguishing them
being $19.88.
In the work of the eradication of
the white pine blister rust disease,
four crews, of from five to eight men
each, worked the greater part of the
month on the Thetford demonstration
area. Work was also done on the
area about Sharon. The eradication
work undertaken will be completed
about the seoond week in July. Con
siderable soouting work was done in
different parts of the state to asoen
tain the distribution and intensity of1
the disease. As a result of inspec
tions, it is believed that blister rust
is scattered throughout the pine
growing regions of the state, al
though it has undoubtedly gained a
stronger foothold in some towns than
in others. Some Infections have the
appearance of being several years
old.
STATE INSTITUTION.
The number ft inmates of lbs rrt
ous state Institutions at the end of
June was 1858, distributed as fdl
lows:
Male Femae
State Prison 185 J
House of Correction 0 21, "
Industrial School 184 Tl .
State Hospital $68 864
chool for Feeble-minded
children " M '.
-REE PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMIS
SION. During the month the office of the
library commission was moved to
the new building. There were It
.traveling libraries sent out during
the month, books shipped to three
state Institutions, and the current
number of the bulletin mailed. The
total number of books so far repor
ted as collected In the stats for the
soldiers' and sailors' camp libraries
is 23,832 of which 16,039 have already
been shipped.
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