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WELLS RIVER
Child Drowned in the Connecticut
Sunday- Locals
The little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ledwith was drowned in the Con- j
was the guest of Mrs. George Bab-
cock. last week.
Harry Sweet has moved from.
Mrs. Moulton's house into rooms in
Oscar Wallace's house.
John Nolan has sold his pasture
. . . . I l- a X. i VvmA I ucid
necticut river xigm and tillage land to B. K. Graves.
Sunday noon, tie was on me logs Dr. and Mrs Sidney McCurdy of
which had lodged on the snore and Ynn
slipped off into the water, though no few weeks at the home Qf Mrg Han
one saw mm xaii, oui nan je. Dr. McCurdy is in poor
scream. By the time neip rwuicu h altn d . hnnn? the
l j. rioht i-y. i .
thfi nlace he was out of sight. The
bodv has not yet been recovered.
Memorial day exercises were held
in the village Hall Friday afternoon
the Rev. Mr. French of Newbury
giving the address. Dinner was serv
ed at noon by the W. R. C.
Mrs. D. D. Davis of Burlington
was in town Monday to visit her
mother, Mrs. Foss.
Mrs. J. A. George went to North
field, Mass., Saturday to attend com
mencement exercises at the Moody
Seminary where her daughter, Mist
Ella George is a pupil.
George Adams of Waltham,
Mass., was in town last week set
tling up his mother's estate. The
house has been sold to Scott Fel
lows whi will soon take possession.
Misses Seavey and Moore of St.
Johnsbury were guests of Mrs
Addie Carpenter the last of the
week and over Sunday.
George Bailey is home from Wor
cester, Mass., for two weeks.
Mrs. Marcy and infant son return
ed Sunday from Cottage hospital
Miss C. A. Gale has been quite
ill but is better at this writing.
The school teachers were enter
tained at tea at the parsonage Mon
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers of
Haverhill made their brother and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Marcy a short
visit Monday.
David Wilkie who has spent the
winter in the South is again home
at Hale's Tavern.
change and rest might aid in his re-
I covery.
LYSTER GOT TROPHY
Made Best Record in the Mt. Silsby
Gun Club's Shoot
The Mt. Silsby Gun club enjoyed
a very sporty shoot Friday. A strong
north wind was blowing which
made the targets act like live birds
making it very difficult to break
them. Many flew as far as 70
yards, (50 yards being the maxi
mum distance to go.) M. D. Lyster
carried away tho trophy for the day.
He succeeded in gathering 18 tar
gets out of a possible 25.
The scores for the day were:
EAST CONCORD
Harry McDonald who has spent
the past few days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McDonald, re
turned to Windsor Tuesday where
he has a good position in a machine
shop
Mrs. Archie Weir ha3 closed her
house and Ts now in St. Johnsbury
stopping with her daughter, Mrs.
Herbert Jackman for a few weeks.
Mr. Weir is boarding at George Mor
rill's.
Eugene Moulton is in Maidstone
farming for Lawyer Howe.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whipple and
two daughters, Lynda and Katie
and Alfonse Laveture spent Sunday
in Liittleton, N. H., guests of Mr.
and Mrs. E. Laveture.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. "McDonald ac
companied an automobile party
from St.
Mountain last Sunday
Harry McDonald and Ross Fol
som recently spent a day fishing and
caught ten pounds of handsome
trout.
Mrs. Willie King who has been
a patient in the St. Johnsbury hos
pital is not as well at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis King are re-
lst Squad
Clark, P. S.
Pratt, A. B.
Pontbriand, C. L.
Nash, J. F.
Graham, S.
2nd Squad
Lyster, M. D.
Remick, C.
Lyster, C. T.
Daniel, C. A.
McFarland, Alden
3rd Squad
North JounS. Fr,ed
Mixjpsun, j-i. xi.
Daniels, Benj.
chamberlain, G. F.
Howe, Charles
4th Squad
Trombley, Ed.
Smith, Dr.
McFarland, Albert
Willey, Charles
Lawrence, Joe
Shot at Broke
40 29
40 26
40 30
40 26
40 17
25 18
25 5
25 10
25 11
25 7
25 6
25 5
25 S
25 9
25 6
25 , 7
25 14
25 6
25 6
25 2
The Ruling Passion. I Illuminating Gas.
It is 'an evident fact that the body In 1702 a mauuniacturer of Redruth.
when it has long been a slave to evil In Cornwall, named Murdoch made gas
passion finds it next to impossible to to light bis home and factory. Pall
break its chains. The mind may pas-1 Mail, in London. 1807, was the first
siouately desire righteous living, butlBtreet to ! lighted by gas. Philadel-
the abused nervous system, fallen into phla Introduced it in 1815. Boston in
iron habits, refuses the soul's behest. 1S22 and .w York in 1825. Gas is
Canon Gore wrote that he was once I obtained frotn coal, which is heated in
present at the deathbed of a pick
pocket, a man who professed himself
to be sincerely penitent and who be
lieved in the forgiveness of sins.
large retorts. The heavy gas drawn
off passes by a pipe, called the hydrau
lic main, through a number of curved
pipes called condensers, in which proc-
He had said good by to this world, ess coal tar and ammonlacal liquor
and the clergyman sat by his side
waiting for his-last moment to come
Suddenly the sinking man exclaimed
In a hoarse and painful whisper:
"Look out for your watch."
They were his last words. He had
died in their utterance, and the clergy
man's watch was found in his lifeless
hand. He had not been able to resist
the nearness of an article that could
be stolen. His enfeebled will could not
condense and fall into a well. The
gas passes to purifiers over slaked
lime, which takes np sulphureted hy
drogen and carbonic acid. It is then
headed downward to the gas holder, a
large tank baring Its base resting on
water and from which the gas is dis
tributed to the consumers. Certain by
products are obtained in the course of
manufacture which are more valuable
than the gas itself. These include
prevent the muscles from falling Into coke, ammonia, aniline, phenol or car-
their old habits, but his mind (his souL.
shall we say?) protested to the last. .
London Standard. 1
bolic acid: naphthalene dyes, various
artificial drugs and basic perfumes.
Christian Herald.
It Happened n China.
An American commercial traveler
who whs Id China mood after the down
fall of the empire was approached one
day by a ChiDaman. who told him. in
fairly good English, that be bad a
brick of pure sliver, weighing thirty
pound, which bad been looted from
ine of the government subtreasuries
during a riot. The Chinaman explain
ed that to only an American would be
trust the secret and said that he would
sell the silver for a sum which amount
ed to $. in our money.
Not lxlug one who would look such a
gift horse Id the mouth, the American
promptly paid the $5 and took posses
sion of the silver bar.
Soon after, being In Hongkong and
wishing to tent the value of his pur
chase, the American ' took the silver
bar to a Chinese aasayer and asked for
its weight.
The plgtailed savant of the scales
carefully tested the metal, weighed It
and then remarked laconically, "lie
weigh lead." Chicago Record-Herald.
"oo Slow.
A rather diffident .oung man met a
pretty girl last winter in Bermuda.
He danced with her. he wheeled with
her to a hotel for strawberries and
cream, and he bathed with her in the
Ths Actor's Triumph.
In 1S45 the Bouievarde du Temple
was the heart of the theatrical world
of Paris. In the ten theaters that lin
ed that comparatively short thorough
fare so much blood was shed on the
GRANBY
The Gallups Mills school joined
the Granby school in memorial ex
ercises at the Granby sc.hoolhouse
Thursday afternoon.
Misses Cora and Mina Smith were
at home Saturday and Sunday
Mrs. O. M. Hodgdon visited in
Lyndonville last week
Miss Abbie Hodgdon who fias
been visiting her brother, O.
M. Hodgdon, and niece, Mrs. L. C.
Chappell, returned to her home at
Milan, N. H.
Mrs. W. L." Carpenter was in St.
Johnsbury, Tuesday
Fred Cushman of Concord bought
several cows in town Wednesday
He also bought a horse of O. M.
nuuguou
. LYNDON
Mrs. S. S. Mattocks and her son,
Will S. Mattocks of Schenectady,
N. Y.. arrived at their old home in
this village last Friday. Mrs. Cor
nelia Trull is with them at present.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Farnum, Mr.
joicing over the birth of a son born Pedley and his little son and Mr.
May Zb. and Mrs. Will Hastie spent Friday
Kyron Morrill has not been as at Peacham
wen tor ine past lew aays. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hall have a
Mrs. Jane Vance recently enter
tained her son, Bert "Vance and fam
ily of Littleton, N. H., and daugh
ter, Mrs. Bertha Smith of Lancas
ter, N. H.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Smith of
Windsor who recently spent several
days with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. M. Smith, have returned to
their home.
Mrs. Frank Crawford still re
mains very ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Blood and son
and Mrs. Isabel Carr and son, Eu
gene, of St. Johnsbury spent Mem-
fine little boy, born Friday
Daniel Paris received a wound
upon his hand at the mill last Thurs
day by a stick which flew from the
saw.
Abbott Lawrence, a school boy,
while at play in the wood shed of
the schoolhouse last Thursday fell
from a beam striking his head on
the wood and cutting a gash suffici
ent to require three stitches in
dressing it.
Mrs. Will Hastie visited relatives
at Barnet last week
Prof, and Mrs. Michaud expect to
orial day here and were guests of be able to occupy their new home in
Mr. ana Mrs. j. u. warren. about two weeks,
if red cushman ana son, Kusseu The first quarterly conference of
or Ji.ast bt. jonnsDury were in tne the Methodist church meets at the
place last n riday and Saturday and vestry Wednesday evening.
Dougm a car ioaa oi cows.
Mrs. Susie Jordan of Twin Moun-
tain visited her grandparents, Mr. CAUGHT TWO BURGLARS
and . Mrs. Kyron Morrill last week, chief Finley Arrested Men Wanted
a Daitea oean social win De neia
at the church dining room this i
Wednesday evening.
Miss Mabel Wilson of Lisbon, N.
H., spent a part of last week a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Smith.
in Connecticut
In answer to a letter from W. J
Rawlings, chief of police of New
Britain, Conn., Chief Finley of the
local force started out one day re
cently to hunt down Patsey Marine,
who was wantfid nn the rimihln
Here s a cneer ror tne pieage charge of burglary and escaping
signing campaign of the Vermont from an officer in the Connecticut
Antl-balOOn league. lO get PeO- f1tv Aim net the. firct nerenn Vo mat
pie to sign pieages or aDSimence; to looked ro like the nhntneranh fur-
teach the school youth the effects of nished that he began asking, ques-
me use oi aicouoiics; to roroia emr tions of the suspect. Being satisfied
piuyes tiraimueu ami omers; using tnat he had the rIght man he head.
alcoholics; to make personal ab
stinence a condition of membership
in some bodies; to keep liquor off
tables at "functions" and other
wise; to do all or any one of these
is good work and helps forward the
day of triumph over the evils of
the use of strong drink.
The rescue work of Salvationists
and others is of very great value
All the above works are very great away -with them
ed him for the station and also in
vited the man's companion to come
along. That he acted wisely in tak
ing both men developed later when
it was learned that Marine's com
panion wa3 Napoleon Larusha, who
was wanted for breaking out of
Lyman school of Westboro. Officers
from the different places came here
last week and took the two culprits
William Pocock was brought be
fore Judge Porter in Municipal
court last Wednesday charged with
a breach of the peace. He was sen
tenced to serve not less than 25
days nor more than 30 days at hard
in their preventive and curative
value as to individuals and so to
the public in general.
However great and good these
lines of effort may be, a question
arises, viz.: how effective are they
. . . I AUfcswA. i. la.: i. v U U L t jail
It seems to me that as to that
matter they are just about as effect- Excursion on Lake Champlain. Sim
ive as would be the coming of the day. June 8th
Peacham and Stannard fire bucket Special train leaves St. Johnsbury
urisauea lowaxu aippmg ne jras- Y. UU a. m.: Danville 7.32 a. m
sumps'c river out oi existence: west Danville 7.41 a. m Walden.
j-'u uu iiiiiiM. me unns current v. 03 a. m.: lireensboro 8.1 0 a m
211 1 li . . 1 ' ' " "
win ever oe reany put out or exis- uue Turlington 11.00 a. m., the
tence by fishing some people out steamer leaves Burlington 11.15 a
of it and keeping some others from m., for a four hours sail. Returning
falling into it? The prohibition special train leaves Burlington 3 30
n 2 111 11 xa 0
vai u nuns at putting u out 01 ex- p. m. Low round trip fares, St.
isiente. Johnsbury $2.75; Danville $2.40;
-j juu ueueve mai wa or wouia west uanviiJe sz.30; Walden $2.15-
you preier Keeping it on the map Greensboro $1.95. See flyers for
cimaueiiiijr uy regulation; runner particulars.
u. j. Richardson.
Ainslee'a Mae-azlne n-nA rai
EAST ST. JOHNSBURY edonian one year for S3. This offer
Miss Rose Lucia and Miss Carrie good until Sept, 3 0 onlv.
uriswold were in town Sunday com
ing irom Montpeiier in their new
auto.
Miss Anna Douglass of Concord
mmiiibmrmss
foh Backachc Kidneys and Blaookh
pretty blue pool with its lining of azure stage every evening at the popular
tiles. plays that it was known as the Boule-
But he didn't propose. Was he too varde dn Crime.
bashful? The girl one afternoon in a The audience became so passionate-
tea garden offered to read his future, ly devoted to some of the characters
and, holding his big brown hand in her interpreted for their pleasure that they
slim white one. she murmured as her sometimes showed quite fierce hostility
finger moved delicately across his to the actors who had to take parts
palm:
"This line indicates that before yoti
lies happiness."
She paused, with downcast eyes. But
nothing followed. The young man sat
beside her. jrrinnins: sheepishly. Her
lip curled in disdain, and she added in
a clear, cold voice:
"But this line indicates that you'll
never overtake that future. You're too
slow." New York Tribune.
inimical to them. One night, for in
stance. Briand. who had represented
Hudson Lowe in a scene on the island
of St. Helena when Napoleon was im
prisoned there, was seized by some
roughs as he left the theater and flung
into the basin of the Chateau d'Eau.
This quite delighted him. and be gloat-1
ed over it as a triumph when he was I
telling the tragic-comic Incident the
next day. Bookman.
Nelson and Red Tape.
When Nelson returned to England
after he lost his eye he went to receive
ft year's pay as smart money, but could
not obtain payment because he had
neglected to bring a certificate from a
surgeon that the sight was actually de
stroyed. A little irritated that this
form should be Insisted on. because,
though the fact was not apparent, he
thought it was sufficiently notorious.
he procured a certificate at the same
time for the loss of his arm, saying
they might as well doubt one as the
other. On his return to the- offict
the clerk, finding it was only the an
nual pay of a captain, observed he
thought it had been more. "Oh." re
plied Nelson, "this is only for an eye.
In a few davs 1 shall come for an arm.
and in a little longer, God knows, most
probably for a leg."
Making an Army Sword.
Army swords are tempered in oil.
After the blade, pounded, rolled and
hammered to the right length, is ground
It is subjected to severe tests. The
point is caught under a staple, and the
blade is bent over a block of wood.
making the arc of circle about thirty-
five Inches in diameter. It is then bent
in the opposite direction. Afterward
the blade is struck on an oak block
and tested on 6ldes and edges. Final
ly it is dipped In oil and bent While
It is bent the oil is wiped off. If the
blade is cracked, even though the de
fects might be otherwise invisible to
the eye, the oil in the minute crevices
will be forced to the surface when the
blade is straightened, and the defects j
will Instantly be revealed by slight
streaks of oil little wider than a hair.
Letters of Introduction.
In Rubinstein's reminiscences In
the Paris Annates we read bow the Il
lustrious pianist went from Berlin to
settle at Vienna, fortified by letters of
introduction to various celebrities giv
en to him by the Russian ambassador
at the 'Prussian court He presented
several of them without any beneficial
result, and it then occurred to him to
tear open those which remained and
read them. Tbey all ran. be says.
roughly speaking, as follows:
Dear Countess Our position as ambas
sador and ambassadress imposes upon us
the tiresome duty of patronizing and In
troducing all kinds of compatriots, who
are often most Importunate in their solic
itations. I therefore now venture to in
troduce to you a certain Rubinstein, the
bearer of this communication.
After that experience. Rubinstein
says, be threw all his letters or in
troduction into the fire and found that
be got on a great deal better without
them.
Easing Your Burden.
One hot summer day 1 was driving
along when I overtook a woman who
carried a heavy basket. She gladly ac
cepted my offer of a ride, but sat with
the heavy basket still on ber arm.
"My good woman." I said, "your bas
ket will ride Just as well In the bottom
of the carriage and you would be much
more comfortable."
"So it would, sir. thank you." said
she; "I never thought of that
"That Is wbat I do very often too."
I said.
The womaq looked up inquiringly.
"Yes. I do the same thing. The Lord
has taken me up in his chariot, and I
rejoice to ride in it But very often I
carry a burden of care on my back that
would ride just as well if I "put it
down. If the Lord Is willing to carry
me he is willing to carry my cares."
Mark Guy Pearse.
Preaching and Practice.
In Gladstone Lady Dorothy Neville i
found a conversationalist after her own j
heart She sang his praises many
times in her reminiscences, and once
she told this anecdote of his methods
of self protection at public gatherings:
"I remember his talking about the
safety of the times and how public
men could now go unguarded every
where, while be was sitting at a din
ner table with two detectives provided
by Scotland Yard in order to watch
.over him standing In the room, while
another was upstairs ready to mix with
the guests t the party which was aft
erward to ie given. The Grand Old
Man's two guardians at the dinnei
were dressed as footmen, one standing
immediately behind his chair, while
the other took up a position directly
opposite on the other side of the table."
A Good Word For the Salmon.
Salmon Jive and flourish only in the
purest waters of the seven seas and in
the clearest of the rivers that flow Into
them. They exercise the utmost care
in choosing the places where they
breed and feed. From the time of their
birth to the day they are caught they
live In surroundings that are as nearly
perfect from a sanitary point of view
as nature can make them, and frpm the
time they are caught and packed until
they are placed before human beings
as food they are kept beyond all dan
ger of contamination. Their meat baa
an attractive appearance, has a de
licious flavor, is readily digestible and
contains as much, if not more, of the
elements that are required by the hu
man system than other forms of meat.
Western Canner and Packer.
Enough Said.
The teacher in charge of one of the
grades in a grammar school wrote on
the board a number of words ending in
the syllable "tion." After explaining
the. meaning of each to the class she
told them to use the words in sen
tences. Her pupils wrote busily for a
few moments, and then one of them
astonished her with the following:
"Father's hair is a recollection, moth
er's is an acquisition, auntie's is a com-
pilation. sister's is an aggregation
brother's is a conflagration, while
baby's is a mere premonition." Maga
zine of Fun.
Mountain of the Sacred Footprint.
Adam's peak, or Mount Samanala. a
rugged mountain in the island of Cey
lon, is known throughout the orient as
the "Mountain of the Sacred Foot
print" In a flat, rocky basin at the
foot of this mountain in stone as bard
as blue granite there is the perfect im
print of a gigantic human foot, five
and one-half feet long by two and one-
half feet wide. The Ceylonese Brah-
mans have a legend to the effect that
the Imprint was made by Adam, our
first parent, but the Buddhists declare
that it could have been made by no one
but Buddha.
The Penalty of Politeness.
"I noticed, dear." said Mr. Markbam
to his wife, "you didn't say thank
you' te the man who gave you his seat
in the street car this evening."
"No." replied Mrs. Markham: "you
see. I once stopped to say thank you
and by the time 1 had done so I found
that another woman had the seat"
New York Post.
In a Different Light.
Watchful Mother It looked very
much as though young Mr. Ilugglns
was stealing a kiss when I saw yuur
heads so close toirether. Confiding
Daughter I wouldn't put it that way
He may have thoughtlessly embezzled
a few. but I m sure he II repent ana
have them with him the next time he
calls. Chicago News.
Presence of Mind.
Show Girl (bursting Into manager's
office) Quick: There's a fire behind
the scenes. The ganji are rushing about
like mad and 'screaming their heads
off. Looks like a panic. What will
we do? Manager Do? Ring up the
curtain, of course, and let the audience
think it is the opening chorus. Puck.
Cynical Foresight.
"That boy of yours may be president
of the United States some day."
'Maybe." assented Farmer Corntos-
sel. "But the chances are fhat he'll
be one of the fellows wbo think they
are lucky If they ret apfxjinted to be
postmaster." Washington Star.
Chopin's Superstition.
Chopin, unlike most musical geniuses.
was a late riser. He practiced so long
at the piano, with his back unsupport
ed, that his spine was permanently in
jured. He never composed except wben
seated at the piano, and be always bad
the lights turned out when he was Im
provising. A public audience unnerved
him to such an extent that be could
not properly interpret the music before
him. Seated in the midst of a small
select circle, he easily extemporized
and improvised. lie "talked" to his
piano whenever he was melancholy.
He thought more of his manservant
and his cat than he did of his intimate
friends. Chopin bad a superstitious
dread of the figure seven and would
not live In a house bearing that num
ber or start upon a journey on that
date.
Rinqs and Pledges.
There was an ancient Norse custom
according to which when an oath was
imposed the person by wborn it was
pledged passed his hand through a sil
ver ring, which was held sacred to the
ceremony, in Iceland tne Dnaegroom
when plighting his troth used to pass
bis four fingers and thumb through a
large ring and in this manner receive
the band of bis bride. And even as
lately as the end of the eighteenth cen
tury in Orkney a man and woman
pledged their faith at the standing
stones of Stennls by joining tbelr
bands through the perforated stone ot
Odin,
The Pillars of Success.
See the eminent author!
To wbat does be attribute bis suc
cess?
To the fact that be wrote a dozen
unsuccessful books and wasn't discour
aged
And there goes the multimillionaire.
How did be lay the foundation of his
great wealth?
On twenty failures. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
eat so
Noble Boy.
"You ate all your own cake and Ma
bel's, too. Tommie?" said the mother.
'Yes'm." replied Tornmle.
"You'll be sick, child!"
"Well. mother, you see if anybody
was going to be sick I didn't want it to
be Mabel." Yonkers Statesman.
Very Different
"Before I was marripd a twenty dol
lar bill looked like a two spot'
"And now?"
"Now. by Georsre. a one looks like a
miracle "Boston Transcript.
Good For Business.
Dr. Ooyle ! believe that bad cooks
supply us with half of our patients.
Dr. Boyle- Yes. and I believe that good
cooks supply 11s with the other half.
Woman's Home Companion.
Locating the Cause.
Helter After an Intimacy of years
Brown and Jones are estranged. Skel
terIs it n case of money loaned or
wives intriHlm-ed. New York Times.
Had Tried It
Old Gentleman Younsr man. hitch
your wagon to a star. Keggiw It n no
use. I did. and father cut off uiy al
lo wa nee. LI nri ncor t '
A Suspicious Man.
'Why does your husband
much horseradish?"
'He read an Item statin? that It Is
bo cheap that It Isn't worth while 10
adulterate it. My husband has but lit
tle confldenre In hi fellow man."
Kansas City Journal.
Not Superstitious.
He Are you siierstitlous about the
hnmler 13? She- I'm not a bit super-
ititions; only I don't like it because 1
think It brings bad luck. London Answers.
A Happy Couple.
The ancient believed that to make a
happy -ouple the husband must be
deaf and the wife blind. Florida
Times- Onion.
Property baa Ita duties as well as its
rights. Drummond. '
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