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THE EVENING CALEDONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1918
PAGE FIVE
Si THE STATE'S WORK
SEPTEMBER REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS
Quarterly Financial Summary of the
r i State's Business
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TABLE OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDINd JUNE 30,
"AND AMOUNTS EXPENDED DURING FIRST QUARTER ENDING OC
TOBER 1, 1918.
.Note: In addition to the Appropriation) listed in column one certain ad
ditional revenues pledged to particular purposes will be arailable in the cas
of the starred items.
-Appropriation for ATailable
for year
Administration . of Justice .............385,000.00
Agriculture and Forestry 45,000.00
Auditor of Accounts 10,000.00
Brattleboro Retreat 61,000.00
Board of Conrol 2,500.00
Board of Health 42,000.00
Bounties 2,000.00
Board of Pharmacy 750.00
Claims under No. 27 Acts 191.S ,. ... 1,000.00
Charities and Probation ........ 10,000.00
Commission or Uniform State Laws 700.00
Commissioner of Industries 10,000.00
: Commissioner' tf Taxes ; 10,000.00
Diseases of Plants 25,000.00
Deceased Veterans and Widows 8,000.00
Delegates ,...y .2,000.00
Director of Slate Institutions 4,500.00
Deserted Families 500.00
Experiment Station 4,150.00
Engineer 8,000.00
Executive Department 8,600.00
Education ' ...I... 220,000.00
Free Public Library Commission 7,500.00
Geologist and Curator J... 2,500.00
Hospital 155,000.00
House of Correction 33.000.00
Historical Society ' 1.000.00
Highways Bridge Fund '..'.. ... 25,001.00
Highways , 2C0.0oo.00
Industrial Scnool 60,000.00
Indigent Vetcrana 12,000.00
Investigation Water Resources . . 1,200.00
Interest 50,000.00
Insurance Commissioner 7,000.00
Liquor Licence Commissioners 5,000.00
Live Stock Commissioner 65.000.00
Legislative Reference Bureau : 3,500.00
Legislative Expenses 125.000.00
Middlebury College 28,800.00
Military 60,000.00
Military Special (Amt. available July 1) .. .. .411,968.49
Norwich University 20.000.0ft
Public Service Commission 12,000.00
Public Printing 30,000i)
Purchasing Agent 5,500.00
Pensions .. ' 320.00
Remodeling State House (Amt. available July 1) .. 25.S03.22
Supervision of Insane 2.000.00
Soldiers'' Home '. 18.000.00
State Prison 53.0OO.00
fctate School of-Agriculture 15,000.00
,-School for Feeble-minded 40,000.00
.'gTjjt Verm out vs. New Hampshire 10.O0n.0O
6jtte Fair i 5,000.00
State Library- - 13.000.00
'Sergeant at Arms 15.000.00
..Secretary of State 10,000.00
Secretary of Stat Publicity 10,000.00
fetatB Treasurer . . . .r. . . . .,-10,000,00
State Treasurer Weights and Measures 8,000.00
"Sta!te''BuildiDg (Amt. available July 1). 4.0B2.55
Tuberculoma . Patients 20.000.00
University of Vermont 58.800.00
Vail School aud Farms 22.500.00
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER.
..Maintenance: The expenditure ef
the 1236 and 97100 miles of road
being cared for under patrol was
$14,145.53 and S7.60 was paid for
machinery.
Federal aid: Work on Project No.
2 in the town or Moretown has been
approved by the Federal Inspector,
and. account filed with the Govern
ment. Special appropriations: Work on
the "Sunderland Hollow" road has
been completed for the year, but
claim lias not been filed. Work has
been continued during the month on
the "Smugglers' Notch" road.
Bridges: (a) Engineering serv
ices have been requested on seven
bridges, four are being taken care of
by the district highway commission
ers, 'and three are In charge of the
state engineer.
. CbKr Applications for state aid
have been requested on twelve bridg
es,", the. estimated cost of which is
IS',955.00. , , '.:
BOARD OF HEALTH.,
. The principal work of the month
has : been directed toward the at
tempted control ' of the epidemic of
Spanish Influenza. It is evident that
the . epidemic in Vermont developed
considerably later than that in Mas
sachusetts and apparently most of
our foci of infection can be traced
directly-to Massachusetts and partic
ularly to Camp Devens. Where the
vses.se first started in this state is
Snknown, but by the middle of the
Aflnth, reports began doming in from
various parts of the state, mostly on
the east side, showing that the dis
ease had obtained a foothold. St.
Johnsbury seemed to be the most
seriously '.affected at first, but it soon
developed that Montpelier and Barre
were in worse condition than any
other, places in. the state.
The communicable diseases report
ed during the month are as follows:
; , Measles 83 .
Typhoid fever 38
Scarlet fever 28
'Diphtheria- . 38 -
"Whooping cough 48
, ' German measles ,1
i '( Chicken pox 42
Mumps . . .38
''Spanish Influent . 455
i-Tuberculosis , . 15
: Syphilis 11
Gonorrhea . SI
' Laboratory of Hygiene. '
The examinations made during the
month of September were as follows;
lows:
4H'd:phtheria cultures
11S, blood examinations - for typhoid
.'fever.
' 1 blood examination ' for malarial
fever. - . .-
18 sputum examinations for tuber
culosis. If' bleed examinations for syphilis.
Expended
for quarter
83,312.28
8,242.9e
2,825.45
23,044.38
761.32
7.504.79
242.10
769.82
70.00
1,604.67
252.05
3,531.33
3.334.9G
2,000.00
035.00
377.83
) 1,030.43
C3.20
4,150.00
1,453.69
1,934.94
44.394.09
1,104.70
97.10
7079.90
14,653.23
800.00
2,346.60
4i.705.04
23.369.04
3,439.82
289.56
5,305.00
1,907.35
1,759.01
11.028.04
783.13
1,567.47
14.400.00
?5.225.15
1H.633.17
10.000.00
3.211.24
3.048.75
2,528.17
80.00
12,499.23
528.13
6.272.34
21.063.58
6.04(5.38
5.739.90
1.S73.60
823.85
2,411.81
5.057.3C
3.7.1 9. 3P
3.391.35
. - - 1 ,9 85.51
1 .394.1 r
3,472.05
2.493.14
29.400.00
.12.877.89
33 pus examinations for gonorrhea.
1 sputum examinations for pneu-
monia type!
46 sanitary water examinations.
103 milk examinations.
39 food examinations.
: 5 liquor examinations.
1 medico-legal autopsy.
1 autopsy io complete death re
turns. 6 .miscellaneous examinations for
the courts.
119 miscellaneaus examinations.
1022 total.
Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture: Cattle judging dem
onstrations were given at four fairs.
Eight farmers' meetings were held.
Marketing; Arrangements were
made with the United States Bureau
Of Markets, oston, to wire polato
market' reports three days a week.
These reports are sent to'daily papers
by mall or by wlr. Market agent
gave addresses at four farmers' meet
ings in regard to better marketing
methods. Also " investigated condi
tions in Boston and other New Eng
land markets.
Dairy ; Manufacturing: Investiga
tions were made to . determine the
amount of contamination of milk re
sulting from unclean cans furnished
farmers by purchasers of milk. A
number of cans ready for distribution
to' dairymen were rinsed with sterile
water and a bacterial count made of
the rinsings. The result ' snowed
from 3.500,000 to 5.000,000 bacteria
per cubic centimeter. This would
Indicate "that'inc.lean cans now being
furnished by milk dealers is one of
the ' reat , sources of high bacterial
count in milk shipped from Vermont.
Cow testing association: A demon
stration of cow testing .association
work VaV' given' at the Rutland county
fair. Nine testers were visited ' and
two new testers engaged and started
In work.
.Creamery Inspection: 30 "cream
eries and shipping stations and 449
farms were Inspected. 70S samples
of milk tested for sediment and 895
samples of cream tested for acidfty
and VutterfatJ
Forestry: Six timber tracts .were
examined ,and recommendations made
fots their proper treatment. ' The
timber inventory of the State, a' piece
of war work requested by the gov
ernment, has .been carried . forward
since fay and is nearlng completion.
It" has entailed the handling of sev
eral thousand letters. . . . ;
The'study of the value of 'the high
mountain, peaks for. fire lookout pur
poses has been continued and will
eventually net , results . which will
effect a saving in fire protective ad
ministration, as well as increasing
the services rendered by the lookout
men. No forest fires were reported
in the month of September.
, Work of seed potato inspection for
certiScatfon was completed early In
the month.
WHEN NOYON WAS EVACUATED
Despairing Villagers Could Not at
Once Believe That Savage Huns
Were Really Gone.
Noyon was before the war just one
of the many sleepy old French pro
vincial towns, with an hotel do ville.
and a cathedral, and little gray streets
twisting out into a rich, green agri
cultural plain; now, writes Elizabeth
Shepley Sergeant, in the Century, It
will always be remembered as the
town nearest to Paris only 65 miles
awny where the enemy stayed for
two and a half years. It had been used
during the occupation as a sort of con
centration center from the actual fir
ing line. Before the retreat, however,
virtually all the useful members of the
community had been deported ; all the
men between sixteen and sixty there
were a good many of territorial age
cot mobilized during the first days of
the war, nnd therefore caught by the
German invasion and most of the
women between the same ages except
those who had dependent children. It
was, then, a community largely mode
up of old women and children and of
the very old, who, on a certain Thurs
day in March, were ordered to go into
their houses, close their shutters, and
not come out-for 48 hours. Promptly
a series of explosions began, very
alarming explosions, which made the
poor people inside tremble. What new
horror were they up to now? The
sounds went on for a day and a half,
gradually growing fewer on the sec
ond morning. By afternoon, strange
ly, nothing whatever could be heard;
not a voice, not a rumble. The bold
est spirits pushed open the shutters a
little and perceived that the streets
were absolutely deserted the gray
green soldiers were nowhere to be
seen. Slowly and cautiously, halting
at every step, they ventured out and
up into the center of the town, coming
back with the astonishing news, the
news nobody dared believe, that the
Germans were gone. They had blown
up the bridges, burned a few factories,
cut down trees along the roadsides,
and made off. Even then the French
inhabitants believed there must be
some trick about it; and when their
own soldiers, looking unfamiliar in
blue uniforms instead of the old rsd
and black, entered the town the next
morning, they tried, in the midst of
the tears and welcomes, to hold them
back. lest lhey get caught in an am
bush. It was true, though; the peo
ple of the Noyon region wTere again
free citizens of France.
Great Millennial Hope.
The horizon of the hopes of man is
never quite so clear that the exact
moment of sunrise or of sunset may
be marked. But a great millennial hope
is none the less to be treasured as.
the goal of all striving. Just when'
its object will be reached if that ob
ject be an enduring peace, and if the
means for securing it be that perpet
ual alliance of free nations which now
appears to embody the most promising
plan yet devised for its attainment
none may certainly declare. But what
ever methods may be pursued to this
end the hope behind it and the con
fidence that it is a reasonable and
righteous hope are the highest justi
fications for everything that every
body can do to achieve the victory of
the allies with whom our nation is
joined. There is no weapon in the
spiritual armor of the noncombatant
that needs more constantly to be kept
bright. M. A. De Wolfe Howe, in At
lantic. Napoleon Still Points Way.
In a tiny French village that Is
hardly a village any more, since shells
almost removed it from the earth, one
building has a tower standing un
touched. A platform tops this tower
and a miniature figure of Napoleon
stands there facing and pointing
toward the positions held by the Ger
mans. Thousands of shells have whizzed
and exploded by this tower, but none
has touched the tower or the figure
of Napoleon pointing northward.
Thousands of Americans, thousands of
trucks, quantities of guns and am
munition and supplies have rolled over
the main street by this figure point
ing the way to the boche during the
past few weeks.
Everyone has marveled that the
tower writh the miniature Napoleon
withstood all bombardment, and many
an American passing the. statue among
the ruins has remarked how appro
priate is this defiant figure pointing
the way.
Concrete Ship Not New.
That the much-talked-of new con
crete ship Edith, generally considered
a discovery in ship building that will
revolutionize the industry, was ante
dated by some 12 years In the Philip
pines is a fact not generally known,
even to Filipinos. The bureau of nav
igation of the islands constructed In
1905, however, -a floating re-enforced
concrete dock' for the use of boats in
the Paslg river, a dock which is in nse
to this day, and perhaps the first suc
cess achieved in the use of concrete
in shipbuilding.
Remarkable Tactics.
In "ground flying' tactics the pilot
acts mainly on his own personal in
itiative, and he must be prepared to
attack the enemy wherever he may be
found, either with bombs, grenades,
darts or machine-gun fire. Thus Ger
man officers in charge of ammunition
dumps have every reason to fear the
approach of British "low fliers." The
fear of machine-gun fire is even great
er, and whole German regiments have
Ijeen decimated and demoralized by
British airplanes.
USING RECORDS
Nation-wide
Drive for Phonograph j
1 Discs ; i
New York, Oct. 28 Five- hundred!
cities and towns throughout the Unit
cd Stat.se started an intensive drive j
today, under the auspices of the ;
Phonograrhs-Rccords Recruiting
Corps, thii city, to round up a million j
or more phonograph records to he
sent to American soldiers and sailors
in cantonments here and in service
overseas.
- In New York hundreds of men and
women prominent in musical and pa
triotic work . are devoting their
time to make "canned music week" a
certain success. "
The 15.000 music dealers in . the
United States arc cooperating to get
the idle or "slacker records", out of
dusty cabmets and into the service of
the soldiers. 12 very music store is a
voluntary receiving station for idle re
cords md those sent to the dealers
will be promptly put into active ser
vice in. some camp, on a destroyer or
transport or at the front in France.
Metal plates to be clamped to, the
guard of an electric fan have been in
vented which , scatter its breezes as
well as would be done by an oscillat
ing fan,
HARRY W. WITTERS, ESQ.,
My dear Mr. Witters:
Answering yoiiF public letter to irie of
October 26th, requesting my PERSONAL
views as to the Sheppard Amendment, 1
would say to you and to the voters of St.
Johnsbury publicly thai I do not regard oiir
own views as important.
My idea is that a representative should
represent his constituents and not simply
himself. For that reason, if elected repre
sentative, and th6 Sheppard Amendment
comes up for consideration, I shall vote there
on as the people of St. Johnsbury may then in
a proper way indicate their wish to be, re
gardless of my personal opinion.
Unintentionally, without doubt, in quoting
from the amendment, you omitted the words
in if, limiting its application to liquor "FOR
BEVERAGE PURPOSES " only, leaving the use
of liquor for medicinal, sacramental and in
dustrial purposes exactly as at present.
As the nominee of the Republican party, I
believe in RepuMican principles and regard
war measures and an economical adminis
tration, with a view to keeping faxes as low
as possible, as matters of equal importance;
and, if elected representat ive, I shall bring to
the office the benefit of some years' business
experience and will give the town my best
services with a view to accomplishing these
ends.
Very ?raly yours,
Republican Candidate for Town Representative
October 28, 1918
WATER DOGS FOE TO
MOSOUITOES
That western newts or water
dogs may become an. important fac
tor in fighting mosquitoes is brought
out in a bulletin on "The Western
Newt or Water Dog, a Natural En
emy of. Mosquitoes," put out by the
Oregon Agricultural College Experi
ment Station.
"One or two water-dogs placed in
a water-trough at the beginning of
the mosquito breeding season would
be sufficient to eliminate the breeding
of mosquitoes in them. Watei-inj?
troughs are often the chief source of
mosquitoes in farm-houses and barns.
The water-dogs feed on the mos
quito larvae." .
To Skin Beets.
-An easy way to skin a beet without
bleeding It and causing it to lose color
Is'tq put it in cold water as soon as It
13 cooked. Then draw the hand gently
down the beet and the skin will drop
off without trouble. ,
' Spasmodic Sermon.
A man's character is determined by
what he does his reputation by what
be gets caught at.
DON'TDKINK SHIPS!
r
Are you shocked to eee the lady drinking ships? .
Tou drink ships every timo you use sugar unnecessarily in a
be vera?.
Seventy-five per cent, of the sugar used in this country has to ba
brought here in-ships. Every possible ship is needed for the trans
portation of troops and supplies to the other sid..
. Eliminate sugar as a luxury, and you release many ships or war
purposes.
Teach your appetite to remember this
DONT DRINK SHIPS. - '
USE OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMN
i
O. S. food Administration.

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