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ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1916 PAGE 3 Consider Every Day An Opening Day Now is the time to buy : your newjfall orwinte: hath? Business is rush- Jing so come early and et first choice. ' A full line iiupche-minute " Millinery to select from IaTmTvercoes Opposite Pot Office VgaSg BARTON - VERMONT W ITH the large quantity of grain now being harvested it is time to think of your thrashing machine. We have the very best, the Gray Thrashing Machine. We wouldf be very much pleased totalk with you and ive you the best prices and terms. Let us sell vou a Gasoline En gine. It is the very thin you need to make your work easier and save your time. Don't forget to buy your binder twine of us. The time to spread your ma nure is with the fall rains and the spreader to use is the famous WORCESTER KEMP SOLD BY F. S. WHITCHER BARTON, VT. ffl5Z5ZSZSZ5iSZ5ZSE5E5ZSZ525Z5ZS a The Idyl of Twin Fires WALTER PRICHARD EATON 1D2S2SH5E5E5ESH5ZSH5H5SSSSESESE Copyright by Doubleday. Paao & Co. SYNOPSIS. Commissioners' Notice Estate of Martha E. Knapp The undersigned, having been appointed by the Honorable Probate Court for the District of Orleans, Commissioners, to re ceive, examine and adjust the claims and demands of all persons against the estate of Martha E. Knapp, late of Irasburg in saidDistrict, deceased, and all claims exhib ited in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet for the purpose afore said, at the office of the Town Clerk ui the town of Irasburg in said District, on the 7th day of October and 23d day of February next, from 10 o'clock a.m., until 3 o'clock p. m. on each of said days and that six months from the 24th day of August A. D. 1916, is the time limited by said Court for said credi tors to present their claims to us for exami nation and allowance. Dated at Irasburg, Vt., this 15th day of September. A. D. 1916. GEO. W. RUSSELL., D. A. BRAHANA, i 28-40 Commissioners Commissioners' Notice Estate of Martha A. Seaver THE UNDERSIGNED, having been ap pointed by the Honorable Probate Court for the District of Orleans, COMMISSION ERS, to receive, examine, and adjust the claims and demands of all persons against the estate of Martha A. Seaver late of Barton, in said District, deceased and all claims exhibited in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet for the pur pose aforesaid, at the store of H. T. Seaver in the village of Barton in said District, on the 6th day of October, 1916 and 15th day of February 1917, from one o'clock p. m., until four o'clock p. m., on each of said days and that six months from the 25th day of August A. D. 1916, is the time limited by said court for said creditors to present their claims to us for examination and allowance. Dated at Barton this 15th day of September A. D. 1916. H. A. CLEVELAND, O. A. WHITE, 38-40 Commissioners CHAPTER II grow tired of my WOtfc as a college instructor and buy a Mew England farm on sight. CHAPTER II I Inspect my farm and go to board at Bert Temple's. Bert helps me to hire a carpenter and a farmer. CHAPTER in Hard Cider, the car penter, estimates the repairs and changes necessary on the house. Mfl commences plowing. I Btatt to prune the orchard trees. CHAPTER IV Hard Cider builds book cases around the twin fireplaces. Mrs. Temple hires Mrs. PUlis for me as a housekeeper. CHAPTER V Stella Goodwin, a New York girl, comes as a boarder to the Tem ples. I try to avoid her, but meet her In the nines at twilieht and together we listen to the singing of the hermit thrush. l show her the twin n replaces. CHAPTER VI Stella helps me with tne flower garden around the house. We build a Roman arch for a rose trellis. CHAPTER VII We pick the paint for me rooms in tne house, out bteiia De comes angTy at me when I leave her alone to select part of it. I build a sun dial on the lawn. CHAPTER VIII We arrange my books in the cases and build twin fires in the fireplaces. At evening we go to the pines and hear the hermit thrush again. CHAPTER IX On Memorial day we build a bird bath. I come upon Stella wading in the brook. We listen for the thrush again, but he does not sing. CHAPTER X Mrs. Pilllfe, Peter and Buster, the pup, arrive. I eat my first meal in my home at Twin Fires. CHAPTER XI Standing among the pines, and with the thrush singing to us, I kiss Stella. I keep a resolution but feel like a fool. Stella goes back to New York. CHAPTER XII Stella sends a letter to Buster in answer to one from me. She spurs me to writing again. I market some of my farm products. I go to New York where I meet Stella, who promises to be come the mistress of Twin Fires. CHAPTER XIII A magazine accepts my story. I marry Stella and we go home to Twin Fires. CHAPTER XIV We build a dam and make a pool and water garden in the brook. CHAPTER XV Stella decides that sunken gardens are so called because so much money Is sunk in them. CHAPTER XVT Some of our rich neighbors call on us and are entertained. We decide never to be rich. (Continued from last week) CHAPTER XVI!. Estate of James M. Wyman STATE OF VERMONT District of Orleans, ss. The Honorable Probate Court for the Dis trict of Orleans To all persons interested in the estate of James M. Wyman late of Brownington, in said District deceased, GREETING: At a Probate Court, holden at Newport, within and for said District on the 2Gth day of September 1916, an instrument purporting to be the last Will and Testament of James M. Wyman, late of Brownington in said District deceased, was presented to the Court afore said, for Probate. And it is ordered by said Court that the 14th day of October, 1916, at the Probate Office in said Newport, at 2 o'clock p. m., be assigned for proving said instrument ; and that notice thereof be given to all persons concerned, by publishing this order three weeks successively in the Or leans County Monitor, a newspaper circu lating in that vicinity, In said District, previous to the time appointed. THEREFORE, you are hereby notified to appear before said Court, at the time and place aforesaid, and contest the probate of said will, if you have cause. Given under my hand at Newport, in said District, this 26th dav of September, 1916. 39-41 RUFUSW. SPEAR. Judge. 125 HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS AT AUCTION SSfrrSg" lings, bull and heifer calves, from herds of leading breeders will be sold at BRATTLE BORO, VERMONT, Friday and Saturday OCTOBER 20 & 21. These cattle are of splendid breeding from high yielding lines of Advanced Registry blood. Healthy and free from defects. All tuberculin tested by State Veterinarians. A splendid opportunity to ac quire foundation breeding stock of the most profitable of dairy breeds. Send for Descriptive Catalogue The PnreMLiye Stock" Sales Company of Brattleboro, Vermont. Inc. Room American bLdo. Autumn In the Garden. I spent considerably more money in July and August Some of the items would be regarded as necessities even by our rural standards; some my fann ing neighbors would deem a luxury. If not downright folly. I was a green farmer then; I am a green farmer still; but as I began to get about the region a little more that first summer, espe cially at haying time, I was struck with the absurd waste of machinery brought about by insufficient care and lack of dry housing, and I began to do some figuring. All my rural neighbors, even Bert, left their plows, harrows, hay rakes, mowers, and even their carts, out of doors in rain and sun all summer, and many of them all winter. A soaking rain followed by a scorch ing sun seemed to me, in my igno rance, a mcst effective way of ruining a wagon, of shrinking and splitting hubs, of loosening the fastenings of shafts even In iron machinery. Nei ther do rusted bearings wear Bo long as those properly protected. I began to understand why our farmers are so poor, and I sent for Hard Cider. Just behind the barn he built me a lean-to shed, about seventy-five feet long, open toward the east, and shin gled rainproof. It cost me $5D0, but every night every piece of farm ma chinery and every farm wagon went under it, and the mowing machine was further covered with a tarpaulin. For more than a year my shed was the only one of the kind in Bentford, and that next winter I used to see machin ery standing behind barns, half burled in snow and ice, going to pieces for want of care. I verily believe that the New England farmer of today is the most shiftless mortal north of the Ma son and Dixon line and he hasn't hookworm for an excuse. My next expenditure was for a ce ment root cellar, which scarcely needs defense, as I had no silo on the barn, and it would not pay to install one for only two cows. But the third item filled Mike with scorn. I had been making him milk the cows out of doors for some weeks, taking a tip from one of the big estates, and keeping an eye on him to see that he washed his hands properly and put on one of the white milking coats I had purchased. His utter contempt for that white rig was comical, but when I told him that was going to have a cork and asphalt brick floor laid in the cow shed he was speechless. He had endured the white apron, and the spectacle of the tuberculin test (the latter because the law made him), but an expensive -floor in the barn was too much. He gave me one pitying look, and walked away. The floor was laid, however, and when it was completed, and the drain age adjusted, Hard Cider trimmed up the supports of the barn cellar door And. the two cellar wlndowjE frames be hind, and built in substantial screens. Then I showed them to him, and told him he was to keep them closed under penalty of his Job, and he was further to sprinkle chloride of lime on the ma nure once a week. "Well, I -never seen screens on a barn before," said he, "and I guess nobody else lver did. Shure, it's to be spendin your money azy ye are. Are yez goln to put in a bathroom for the horse?" Bert was almost as scornful of the screens as Mike, though he understood the cork-asphalt floor, having, in fact, unconsciously persuaded me to install It by telling me how the cows of a dairyman in the next town had been injured by slipping on a concrete floor. My floor had the advantage of con crete, but gave the cows a footing. There had never been screens on a barn In Bentford before, however, nor any chloride of lime used. This was too much for Bert. But Mrs. Bert was interested. After our screens had been on ten days and the barn cellar had been limed, Mrs. Pilllg pointed out that the number of flies caught on the fly paper on the kitchen door had de creased at least 400 per cent "And I think whafs there now come down from your place," she added to Mrs. Bert The next thing we knew, Bert was talking of screening his stable. Truth compels me to admit however, that he never got beyond the talking stage. In the face of these expenditures onr garden expenses were a mere song, yet we had begun to plant and plan for the following year as soon as the pool was done. We knew we were green, and we did not scorn the advice of books and still more of our best practical friend the head gardener of one of the large estates, who knew the exactions of our climate and the con ditions of our soil. "Plant your perennial seeds in as rich and cool a place as you can," he told us, "and expect to lose at least three-fourths of your larkspur. When your foxglove plants are large enough to transplant, make long trenches in the vegetable garden, with manure at the bottom and four inches of soil on top, and set in the plants. Do it early in September if you can, so that they can make roots before our early frosts. Then you'll have fine plants for bed ding in spring. If you buy any plants. get 'em from a nursery farther narth if possible. They have to be very hardy here." We went through the seed catalogues as one wanders amid manifold tempta tions, but we kept to our purpose of planting only the simpler, more old- fashioned blooms at present. In addi tion to the bulbs, which came later, we resolved to sow pansies, sweet Wil liam, larkspur, Canterbury bells, fox glove, peach bells, oriental poppies, platycodon, veronica, mallow (for back ing to the pool especially), hollyhocks, phlox (both the early variety, the di varicata, blooming in May, and, of course, the standard decussata. The May phlox we secured in plants). All these seeds were carefully planted In the new beds between the pool and the orchard, where we could water them plentifully, and Stella, with the in stincts of the true gardener, babied CALEDONIA COUNTY. Dr. T. R. Stiles, who recently moved his family from St Johnsbury to St Johnsbury Center has opened an office for the practice of medicine in the Merchant's bank building. Dr. Stiles has rented his house on Cross street, St. Johnsbury. to Dr. R. H. Burke of West Burke, who will locate there about October 1. T. F. Marshall, of St Johnsbury, who has been experimenting with a new variety of bean, planted one bean of a new kind, from which he has harvested 175 beans. His daughter, Mrs. Frank Marshall, of St. Johnsbury Center, has also been having similar luck in gar dening, having grown a cucumber that measures 19 inches long and ten inches around. 3., OH ""George A. Whipple of Lyndonville, recently lost six good cows from poi soning. After spraying trees last summer be stored the remainder of the poison in a barrel in his sugar house. On going there he discovered that his sugar house had been riddled with shots, also the barrel i aside, and the poison had leaked oat and down into the pasture where the cows ate it and were poisoned. Boys out with their guns are responsible for the trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard Hoyt of Lyn don recently visited their daughter, Mrs. A. J. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Coburn and daughter, Clara, are spending the week at H. A. and C. E. Coburn's. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Coburn and Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bennett attended the funeral of Mrs. Charles Leach at East Burke Sunday. Are you Watched ? $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, there by destroying the foundation of the dis ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative pow ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address: P. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. Sold by all DruggJstB. 76c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Infantile paralysis made its appear ance in St. Johnsbury last week. The sufferer, Elmer Gravlin, four-year-old son of Fred Gravlin, living on Railroad street, first showed symptoms of the disease Tuesday, but when a paralysis of the lower limbs developed Wednes day Dr. Walsh, who attended the case, notfied the local health authorities. At the same time a sister, six years of age has shown signs of the same dis ease, but there has Deen no paralysis of the limbs and the case is taking a mild form. Every precaution has been taken against the spread of the dis ease m town, lne crnicren anected are thought to have been exposed about ten days ago while visiting with their parents in Flmore. at the borne of Mr. Gravlin's brother. At that time there was no case in Elmore, but since thpn a casp has developed in the heme of a neighbor next door to the Gravlin home. Although no direct cont?ct has been accounted for, it is thought that the children may have played together, and the disease may have been transmitted in that way. CUSTOM WOOL CARDING Hand Spun Knitting Yarns $1.16 per pounds Parcel Post extra, woolen rolls, wool left at O. W. Seaver 's, North Troy: F. "W. Oarr's store, Newport ; B. D. Ruggles' store, West Burke, before Sept. 20, carded and returned at 10c per bundle extra. Season closes at mill, Nov. 15. H. O. GAY. Barton, Vt. We mean by this, do you carry a good watch? One that will keep time for you as long as you live, then be handed down to another to perform a like service. This is not a dream, we repair many watches that the father used during his lifetime, that the son carries now, and is willing to bank on its reliability. Such watches we have for sale to-day, such as the Waltham, Elgin, Hamilton and others at moderate prices, can be handed down from one generation to another. We take pride in recommending and pleasure in showing them to you to-day, any time. TWICE-TOLD TESTIMONY. j "Well, I Never Seen Screens on a Barn Before." and tended those seedlings almost as if they were human. Without her care, probably, they would never have pulled through the dry, hot weeks which followed. We used to walk down to see them every morning after breakfast, when Stella watered them, dipping the water from the pool and sending Antony and Cleopatra scurrying. Antony and Cleopatra were the goldfish which the Eckstroms, true to their promise, had sent us. The poor things were un named when they arrived, but their aspect the one dark and sinuous, the other pompously golden betrayed their identity. Stella called a few days af ter'their arrival to convey our thanks carefully waiting till she saw the Eckstroms driving out In .their car! Their curiosity having been satisfied regarding us, and our thanks having been rendered to them, further inter course lapsed. We have never tried to maintain relations with those of our neighbors who bore us, or with whom we have nothing in common. Life is too short. Not only did Stella water the seedlings religiously, but she kept the soil mulched and the weeds out, working with her gloved hands in the earth. All the seeds came up weil save the phlox, with which we had CONTINUED FROM PAGE SIX WEST BURKE Mrs. Eggleston appears to be failing. Mrs. Mary Packer of St. Johnsbury visited friends in town last week. Mr. and Mrs. Hollister of Rutland visited at H. I. Foster's last week. About $20 was cleared at the O. E. S. chicken pie supper Friday evening. Mrs. E. E. Mcinnis of St. Johnsbury was the guest of Mrs. May Coe, last week. Rev. G. W. Douglass went to New port Center Friday evening to give a reading. Dorothy Chase is boarding at L. G. Roundy's and attending school here in the village. Mrs. Lorinda Marshall, who has been improving for the past few weeks, is not as well. Mrs. Drown and Mrs. Booth of Rich mond, P. Q.t have been visiting rela tives in town. Mrs. H. W. Cobleigh and Mrs. EH Duval and daughter took a trip to Bos ton last week. Several members of the W. R. C, attended the district meeting in Con cord Tuesday of last week. Sunday school rally day was observed here Sunday and the interesting ex ercises were very well attended. Mrs. Florence Pinkham and Miss Kittie Carland of Lawrence, Mass., have been spending a few days at Har rison Orcutt's. The Garden Class fair at the school house Saturday afternoon was a real success. The children brought veget ables, canned goods, sewing, poultry, etc., and the display was a good one or the first attempt. Six dollars and a half were given in prizes, and the youngsters went home feeling happy and encouraged. SHEFFIELD Mrs. Z. J. Blake and family have re urned to Boston. Alice Davis has been visiting in Lan caster the past week. J. S. Chesley has sold his farm to Will Hanson of Barton. Abraham Gray from Charleston visited at O. H. Jenness's last week. S. A. Jones and family attended the ! funeral of Mrs. Leach at East Burke Sunday. Alden Eastman has returned from Newport, where be has been visiting ! friends for a few weeks. G. H Roberts has purchased the building and contents of the store at Wheelock and will move soon. Much sympathy is felt here by the friends of Dr. and Mrs. Root of East Burke but fromerly of this place in the death of their daughter, Lottie Leach. Rev. M. W. Farman will give a lec ture at the next Grange meetinsr. Mr. Farman is totally blind. He is a very in teresting speaker and everyone should take advantage of this opportunity to hear him. The following'officers were elected at j the last social for the F. B. Ladies' Aid society: President, Mrs. A. O. Gray; first vice president, Mrs. Minnie Shel don : second vice president, Mrs. Ada Sheldon ; secretary, Mrs. Alice Davis ; collector, Mrs. Flora Barber; treasurer, Mrs. Edna Quimby ; assistant collector, Mrs. Ada Sheldon. Barton People are Doing all They can for Fellow Sufferer. Barton testimony has been pub lished to prove the merit of Doan's Kidney Pills to others in Barton who suffer from bad backs and kidney ills. Lest any sufferer doubt this evidence of merit, we produce confirmed proof statements from Barton people who again endorse Doan's Kidney Pills confirm their former testimony. Here's a Barton case: F. F. Sawyer, Main street, Barton, says: "I wish as many suffering men and women as I can reach through this statement to know the merit of Doan's Kidney Pills. I was greatly benefited by this medicine, and I also know of several other people who have been cured of bad attacks of kidney complaint by its use. Doan's Kidney Pills rid me of pains in my back and other distressing symptoms nr ciiartfriar-ari triri nova 7 PROVED BY TIME. AFTER A LAPSE OF MORE THAN TWO YEARS, Mr. Sawyer said: "I haven't had occasion to use any kidney medicine since I used Doan's Kidney Pills. I am pleased to again recommend this medicine." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Sawyer has twice publicly rec ommended. Foster - Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. C. L. & E. L. HUTCHINS Near Passenger Station, BARTON, VT. Millinery Opening Saturday and Monday, October 7 and 9 I shall have for your inspection a complete line of Up-to- Date Millinery. All the new novelties in gold and silver lace and fur trimming, in fact everything pertaining to millinery. Will also have a nice line of Fall Skirts in Serges, Poplins and the new novelty Wool Skirt. You are mTitod to come in and see the NEW things. M C. DAVIS BLOCK, L. HUTCHINS BARTON, VT. Dont B e a Dead One-Advertise in the Monitor. SUTTON H. A. Blake is having his house painted. Mrs. P. J. Mitchell is visiting her son, Guy Clark m Enneld, N. H. Mrs. Addie Chesley of Lyndonville has been visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jones of Cam bridge have been visiting at C. E. Co burn's. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Gallup of Under bill visited his sister, Mrs. C. E. Co buin, last week. HI E IL IL (OH Now is the time to PLACE YOUR ORDER for tele phone service and GET YOUR NAME in the NEW DIRECTORY, which goes to press NOVEMBER 1 st. The Passumpsic Telephone Co. over an has added 350 new stations since January 1 st, now has 5800 stations in Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties, through its connection with the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company offers service with over 600,000 telephone stations in New England. Why not INSTALL A TELEPHONE OF YOUR OWN instead of bothering your neighbor by using hers every time you want something. The price of your own independ ence is small, only about five cents a day. For further information call on or address PASSUMPSIC TELEPHONE CO. t. A. Brown, General Manager Newport, Vermont C. E. Merrill, Manager St Johnsbury, Vt.