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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-27

n fair Notes.
.te,sst s.t Is :, little story that would
m .,p,t the children in connection
h bo'on Elton 2:3j class Wednesday,
s.an ,,V,se That is now making his first
irSi,@ mil a.q has been in only four races,
1 taus.hl tlfee, and coming in second in
b I'm I'm where he took one heat in
{ ba-sa raAe Martin has had the care of
d lSa ever ever since it was a weanling
l. tb.. n affection between the two is
Ike ~' b.o, ol lhe story books. In fact
{ eo't GiGAe I ms thigh by fall with
hos ~ y ms arms when earring il
biz na lF street. Elton is a-nicely
o,bs,: ps'ef Of Linden, blood on his
sggs :, slde and is owned by VIM.
kggs al Springfield. Mass. Mr..
vic,orriisso riso ma. mad another good PAGER in
/ sts,,a5 70 3 ! Of the 2:2s class that
|ag ) = - : times this season. win.
|ais D! a[si and one second She
Eosse-'a,l-i . - marx week before LAST
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The l0th annual Valley Fair We'd
nesj.v and Thurs,l9y was again a
grand success. foni.s ti:ateyc5 vnry
point. II was evident ~ lis rppu'a-
tion has been growing from year to
year that the attendance would with
good weather be something enormous.
But the habit people have of waiting
until the second day, surprising it to
be the best which is not the fact
with the heavy thunder storm in the
morning and the threatening skies the
first half OF the forenoon eat into thc
crowds badly. At krenc POO people
who had got al ready Ia start turned
back, and there was a noticeable alb
sencc of faces of people that drive IN.
II is likely that loo on thc average
from each town we're kept away.
And vet in spite Of II ail th., attend
ancc,Was 6. 900 the first day aud 5000
tho second, the latter nearly up 10 last
wear auG the .agEregatr uui. - few
hundreds short. WIKI good weather
there would have been rlest Ia 2amN
people. The railroads operated 80 cx-
ira ears and had aH they could do Ia
handle the crowd. On the special
from Bellows Falls and byvr 1870
came. anu lttHl ON tiT s>tl.. .NEntlu
train.
Though il rained all round us the
weather here cleared np in the after
noon SO as to make a charmin. day
and keen IN the Valley Fairs record
in this respect. The total receipts, be.
cause OF the enlargement of H., c nd
stand were a little ahead OF last wear.
OF the fair itself only the full and
detailed account in the following col
umpe can give anv ADEQUATE idea,
As whole il was ahead Of last
wears. which was conrededly the preat
est and complctest in the country.
There were few departments in which
the previous mark was missed. The
features we're carried ont better than
ever before The races had rlnsn and
exciting finishes. and the running
contests were most interesting The
eorse show was excellent. and thar in
Gentlemen Driving class uneouaIled
in the mast There we're nine dist;nrt
herds of registered cattle. hesidets ali
the local show of our farmers The
working oxen though less in number
were better in quality. In the dairy test
both the herd and individual records |
were the best ever made. The Agri |
cultural Hall exhibit WAS simply |
beyond description for Its wonders. !
and there is nothing anywhere TO com !
pare with it. The poultry show was
the best We ever had and equal To any |
anywhere. The swine exhibit was
far and away beyond any previous /
year. The manufacturing department /
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NUMBER 9.

| who stole away from tLc bunch in III
fourth heat and GOT second Mace tmina
The drivers Of 7.Dollv 0rinnn and
"Marlboro', we're both fined a. n;aca
for cominp ahead If tba noIo borsp u p'ee'
CLAss-Pursc, 500. aCo 100. 60 60 90
cananius, q 6 Elwell, rroY
aence, ~ l;;,..';.'i.;,....... -, .. i.;i
Gloster ii, br 5. NJ j Daiv, IHl Boto6.
Conn.,. .."::....:......... } 1
i'oly rn 1rihn, y m' VIM Morris,Au'
Tamerlane. n' bli b :, Lester fi.b Rut. -
land. ........... ...... 3 4 9
Marlboro. 2, VI Gilis, South
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nin.y Eov ~" =, ,e,i1M, wht,, !, ras
''P'S 10y, ", y !, Whitaker,
vIc,oria n % ",'' IT, : "i
s,,in',ra,, III y paeg7'
1i,P . ~ i'.i!, :, - NJ NJ uis
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Inc :fu class Drought out i've
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ABOUT THE HOsRE STALLS.

Dozen Good Stal1ions- Especially
Good show of Gentlemen's Drivers
and Brood Mares aud Colts-Greaf Ex-
hibi: OF Linden stock
The show of stock horses was not so
large as last year. and several of the
leading animals like Linden and
- A lamboula" were the same. but
there were II stations and nearly all
of them of high quality in that com
petition. there was a fine array of
sucking colts. nearly 20 of Linden's"
get alone, the Gentlemen's Driving
Glass was very full and of superior
order, Bellows Falls. Saxtons River
and that section being especially well
and there were number
of strings of good horses from various
parts of the county On the whole IT
can be seen that our farmers are max
ing progress. despite the discourage
ments of electric roads and bicycles.
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Lewis Putnam for more than )
wears an esteemed citizen and in his
Younger days one of the most active
and prominent of our business men
died Sunday at the age of - after 9
weeks of illness with liver trouble.
Mr.. Putnam was native Of Gull
ford where he was born April 1916
he son of Samuel and Tabatha Put
nam. He came here in early life. liy-
ing withPatty Fessenden sister of Gov.
Holbrook. who conduced the old Brat
tleboro Reporter for long time. be
ing one of the two Brattleboro's wo-
men of the old times who made famous
editors Mr.. Putnam began his
business life as dealer in lead pipe
and plumber and was very success
full. Afterwards he went into the
livery business first on Clark street
then on Canal where Doolittle's new
block has just gone up and then in
the sixties on Prosper street where
he put up one of the first 3 or
houses. He also engaged for time
with Winslow Ward in the shoddy
manufacture g and there lost his
money. He was bailitf for number
of years. trustee of the cemetery asso-
citation and a lieutenant in the old mil
itia. He was man of a good deal
of intellectual power eloquent. of
very liberal views thoroughly good
neighbor and citizen. kindly and
accommodating
He was twice married first in 1910,
Miss Fannie Streeter in 1910, who died
in 1S47 They had one child George.
who died quite young. For his second
wife he married Lydia Ward in 1910.
Two children survive. Mary at home.
and Wallace W. now a prosperous or
gan manufacturer at Staunton. Va.
His second wife died in 1856 The fu-
neral was held at the house Tuesday
at 3. 30 p. m., Rev. +. S. Morse officiat
ing. His son Wallace returned toI
StauntOn Yesterday,
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BRATTLEBORO SOCIETY.

Lorenzo Harris and BRIDE lett TINS
forenoon for west Pawlet on their
wedding trip.
me ladies' of the Episcopal cilurch
VIII hold their annual fair and festival
IN Grange hall next Thursday evening"
october 3rd. -,
Inc Ever faithful circle VIII hoiu a
meeting IN the Congregatlonal chapel
SUNDAY afternoon at 90 clock III IS
hoped that good number VIII be pres
ent as the election OF officers Is to be
ne neid ana the iall work commenced
Inc sublect VIII olncerlty:
Mrs. =: -. Coane entertained large
parry OF friends at her 1enterViiie nome
SATURDAY afternoon win lawn party.
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September Skips.

Miss Belle Emerson has returned
from her two weeks visit in New York
City. Mrs G.. A. Hines is visiting
her daughter Mrs. W. S. McKenney
in No. Adams. Mass. Mrs. 4. j. IIor-
ton has been spending several days
with her daughter Mrs. l.. S. Maynard
of Springfield, Mass. Chas. Miner re-
turned Monday from three weeks
trip in the west Mrs. John Tucker
and daughter Beulah are on a several
weeks visit in Philadelphia and
Clarkstown, n. y. accompanying G. 4.
Dinsmore and'wife to the former place.
Mrs. T. \. Murphy is visiting her
sister in Franklin Falls. n II. Ben
Williamson Jr. returned to his school
duties at Sing Sing \. Y. where he
is attending Mt Pleasant Academy.
Mrs. II. b. Larkin and daughter re
turned Monday from visit of three
weeks with friends in New York state
and a trip down the Hudson. Misses
Nellie Sullivan and Margaret Brosna
han returned Tuesday from their
weeks soiourn in Springfield, Mass.
George l.. Dunham returned Saturday
from Boston Mass. Harry Currier re-
turned Saturday from his stay in Ian
caster, n. H., and McIndoes Falls and
vicinity. George Thompson spent
Sunday with relatives in Shelburne
Falls, returning here Monday to re-
main until after the fais, Misses
Kate and Mary Leahy returned We'd
nesday from their several days visit in
Ashuelot, n H.. Mrs. b. Manning
returned Tuesday from few days
stay in .Ashueot. y. II. She was a.
by her sister, Mrs. Mary
Roachc. Mrs W. H. Webb returned
Friday from her several weeks visit in
Plattsburg, n. Y, and Burlington.
\. Pettee has returned home from his
trip through the state.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-27

Clean buildings, clean grounds,
clean everything. was one prominent
visitors verdict.
Not an arrest either day or night
and no disorder of any kind. 1t
is because Brattleboro is such place
that people by the thousands like to
come here.
Church Notices.
Sar,,ces i'm St Nichaefs church ON sixteenth
Srnda, after Trinity and festival of II Michael
and All Angels: io:Soa M, morning PRAYER,
holy baptism. holy communion ana sermon; IL
ingsunday school and cateehising' ~, even
= prayer.
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DMrs. II. S. Caswell, secretary of thy
Woman's 81 National Home Missionars
Union. is about to undertake a serie.
of meetings. to continue through Ocs
tober, for the purpose of giving inspire
alton and information to the people of
Vermont upon the CRANE: :cause of Home
Missions. The first meeting will be
held at the Centre church, Brattlebnro.
on Tuesday, October, l. at = p. IN.
Field Secretaries Shelton (of New
England) and Wizard (of Chicago and
the west, will also be present. 4
cordial invitation is extended to each
and all of the churches in Windham
county. Exercises begin at 10 a. m,
and after devotional half hour there
will be an earnest and practical sermon
by Rev. George F. Chaplin. and spend
the rest of the morning in familiar fell
of PRAYER, praise. discussion OF
the sermon. and words of guidance and
cheer.
The Greenfield High School eleven
did not materialize Saturday. and con
the game between the Brat
tleboro Amateurs and that eleven did
got come off.
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Church Notices.

rNOR SALE OR RENr.-Mrs. Carpen,
Il ter's North Main street residence Is offered
,or sale or 10 rent furnished at reasonable
,ernss TbrogsA the agency of A. W. CHlLps
tefno. Srf
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TO RENT.

no rTST.-A pleasant tenement, with barn
Ill tftIcsired CARL lioLLANDER, is Western
g-W2N
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tCo EENT,-small tenement on Green street.
III ", K. GEppIs. 9tf
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,,o REST.-Whole house Oh Terrace street,
"1n.t dr-lrable location in town, Is rooms,
'-,f and hot and cold water up and down stairs.
lew ,'S iou,e, furnace heat throughout. Al mod
.i u, ,,,,,"ll.r.-ion can be given Immediately.
Gt ., CHAS. MINER.
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tUhHIHS TtUVts StFU1U Day.
LIE HEATS. BEST TWO IN TIIEEE-rt' RSE

Phoebus, Jas Doin, Hartford Ct....
Copyright, J { Carr. Jersey City, j.. |
The Drude, J Carr, Jersey City, y J. :;
Dhecommer, J Carr, Jersey City, \ 3 3
Susie speller Jas Dolin, Hartford, CT > )
Time. La ,. 40 "a. |. 81 b
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ron SALE.-Concord Bugges, from $50 up.
l Carriages and Surreys at bottom prices.
eNirnz promptly attended TO-.
|!rf +. ID. WILLIAMS.
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FOR SALE.

Ter SALE.--A new Iron Safe, two feet, six. .
CROWN a MORSE. S-W2
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COR RSiLE.-Desirahle lots in Christ's Church
| cemetery az East Guilford. Address }. T..
ALE Guturd, Vt. 43yl
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grow to height of twelve and fifteen
feet: SO tall and dense are these sugar
cane forests that men on horseback are
lost to view while inspecting the field
work. One acre of seed cane will plant
three acres. Ont IF each crop cer-
tain percentage is buried for seed, and
thus the producer has always fresh
seed. as the old seed is merged into the
new crop, and the reverse. About FIVE
tons of seed cane are planted to The
hcre. The sugar cane IS almost per-
ennial plant, and the same roots or
cuttings viii grow forty or fifty years.
So seed cane never runs out.
Within the past few years, since the
government bounty has SO stimulated
the production of the sweet article.
there has been great Improvement in
the manufacture Of machinery, and
there has also been n very large ~
creased expenditure by the planters for
this improved machinery. In the earlier
days. when sugar-ma ,zing.syas an IN
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Int tlndustry, the machinery W. -.
primitive, something on the style of the
old boilers used by the California Span.
iards in making wine. The process for
extracting juice from the cane was
something like a cider press, fed by =
bov, with mule for the motive power.
while strong man with club regu-
lated the poor mule. The first neat inn
provement was by an octoroon from tho
Vest Indies, who was promptly swim
died out of his invention. Now there
are large and powerful crushers, SO
heavy that very little of the juice of the
cane is left after it has gone through
the squeezing process. Wagon loads OF
cane are driven to a platform. from
which dummy runs to the crusher.
The cane is thrown upon the dummy,
which is shot through to these large
iron crushe-s, having pressure
of from sixty TO seventy pounds to the
square inch. From seventy to eighty
five or ninety per cent. of the weight OF
the cane, or rather the juice, is extract
ed. dependent mainly upon the efficien-
CIV of the crushers. This gives from
one hundred and fifty to one hundred
and seventy pounds, or nearly half
barrel of sugar from one ton of cane.
When the canes come out of the
crusher they are literally chewed into
fragments. In some instances the
cane passes through two or three crush
ers. What remains of the cane is called
bdgasse or refuse, which is fed to the
furnace, by the scores of negro children
why are glad to work in the mill, so as
to get their I'LL of sugar and molasses.
The juice of the cane is received in
rubber aprons, and thence carried to
mill. thence through trough to a
strainer where negro women fish out
the cane shreds. These shreds are
again put through the mill. The Juice
is now pumped into an iron cylinder,
W hich has been heated to about 100
de grees. It is then run into clarifying
watts, and all impurities are brought to
the surface by adding Stacked quick
limel The impurities are skinned off
and the juice is again heated by means
Of long pipes through the watts. Then
comes a novel spectacle; the women
with long paddles whip the heated
fluid until the surface is covered with
ripples bubbles and Thitecapped waves.
This makes the juice form into grains.
After the whipping, the juice is allowed
to settle" for about an hour, when it
IS run off into large iron tank, into
which there is an element of animal
:bone-blaclf, which gives it local color
ing" 1t ealkes several days for tho juice
to filter through into large oval boiler,
where it IS boiled in vacuum by ex-
haust steam. After this it goes through
another iltering and boiling process, at
a temperature of $50.
At this stage granulating begins,
andwith the boiling the little grains
of sugar become large and larger, like
drops of rain in an approaching storm.
Finally air is admitted, and the grains
are run into receiver in which is a
wire-screen basket, making abont 1000
revolutions a minute. This action
throws the molasses against the screen,
leaving the sugar; and when the screen
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together that may be timely"

together that may be timely"
'And you would suggest walking
around a table as good inspirational
exercise for women?"
''Why, yes; it seems to be good idea
exercise" and Depew smiled. But it
IL must be woven in so that the liSCen-
ers will not recognize that it is being
told until the laugh comes in. You
know women rarely are good story
tellers, and story told badly is worse
than none at all
Is the quick catching effect on the
audience of everything said or done
during the evening that is the great
secret of the successful after-dinner
speaker. And IN that respect women
fail hopelessly. Before they can attain
prominence in the field Of after-dinner
oratory they must acquire the ability
to leap into instantaneous touch with
their hearers"
/ Mr.. Depew acknowledges that he
hasn't heard all the regular feminine
italkers. bat he is sincere in his convic-
ton that those who have come under
his notice are failures. Nevertheless
he is willing to lend hand to the edu-
cation Of a queen of the after-dinner
speakers.
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mainly stimulated by the bounty, Of
.ich we read 50 much.
Sugar raising IS the chief industry OF
Louisiana. The sugar district COM
prises The lower portion of the state,
from Alexandria TO the Baige. These
lands are best adapted to sugar
growing, and nothing else is planted
on them, except orchards and gardens.
The sugar interest largely outweighs
the cotton and corn interests, hence
Louisiana is, strictly speaking, a sugar
state. Within the past several years
the government has paid about S4o, ,0o0,-
0G0 bounty to the producers, and this
season the six hundred sugar planters
in the state will average T. total claim
of about s18, 900, 900 bounty.
The visitor to New Orleans who sees
thousands of hogsheads of sugar in the
long sheds on thu ievee has little idea
of the plcturesqueness of this industry.
The crop is ''sown" by digging" it out
of the ground. When the crop has been
gathered early in the fall, before the
biting frost has nipped it, the cane is
hewn down just above the ground, and
covered over with gang plow sc that
the roots will keep until spring.
In this genial climate, necessary to
successful sugar-cane growing, the sea-
son begins early in March. The fur
rows are uncovered with gangs of plow-
men, and cane which has been imbedded
for the past winter is now thrown to
the surface, and Is known as ''seed
zane" something on the style of bury
Ing potatoes over winter for seed. Fol-
lowing in the footsteps of the ploddirg
piowman is the hoolzing-up brigade.
Each has a hoe-handle pole, with a
hook on the end, and he hooks or rakes
put the cane. Another gang follows the
hoolxers, with carts, into which the
ranes are thrown and hauled to another
portion of the field, where they are
planted. The planters or sewers Of
zane are mainly negro women, who
take from the carts arpnfuls of canes
snd plant them at intervals of about
half a foot along the burrows. The
negro men merely drive the wagons,
beat the mules and swear.
Another gang of women follow these
sno cilOP tHe c1nesJ uSiHk d "ioe clouo
knife. a cross between a bowie knife
and hatchet. It is claimed that cut
ting the cane strengthens its growth.
Just as it does the human hair, accord
Ing 10 BARRIERS philosophy. Plowmen
now cover the cane, and when they be-
gin to sprout the women with hoes re-
move the dirt from the sprouts. Tho
rows are about six feet apart. Cane
begins to sprout three or four weeks
after planting, and it requires constant
care until it arrives at maturity along
in the sweltering days of July. The
canes, on the most productive lands,
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Unhappily, many fair talker at the
highest pitch Of eloquence becomes .
standing comedy when her bonnet
slides around to the left-hand corner
of her uhesd. No woman could be
iqueenly under such circumstances. The
back hair Of another always comes un-
fastened to excite the anxiety Of her
listeners at the very climax of her effu-,
sion. Not even a Nine. Demosthenes
could keep every other woman from
feeling to ascertain if her own hair is in
the same unlovely shape. The New
Woman who wins the companion title
TO DR.. Depew's must be sure of reliable
bonnets and coiffures.
She must also learn not to begin:
Anime. President and ladies, this is a
pleasure which had not anticipated,
and am surprised that your presiding
officer should break the promise she
made not to call on me ON this occasion"
and then produce closely written
twenty-fve-page manuscript speech.
When asked if his Judgment was the
result Of experience, DR.. Depew said: /
Eyes, 1 have heard women talk at
Sorosis, at dinners political. charita BILE.
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FOB SALE-MISCEILssECUS.
Nrnder this head g per line per caY1
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Is stopped the sugar falls into re-
ceiver, where the colored shovelers
scoop it up into a tube, from which it
runs into barrel.
The moyasses is boiled over, clarified.
and shipped to market.
A second grade of sugar is made from
this molasSes, also third grade,
which is mainly sold to colored peo-
ple-just as several grades OF wine are
made from the same grapes.
Sugar cane was first introduced in
Louisiana in 175L Two ships, dis
patched with troops from France,
stopped at Hispanola. Some Jesuits
put aboard lot OF sugar canes, with
number of natives familiar with sugar
culture, consigned to brother Jesui:s
at New Orleans. The canes were
planted at spot near where the old
st. Charles hotel recently stood, but
they did not "come up" A few years
later second consignment was sent,
and cane-fields covered what is now
known as the American quarter of
New Orleans. Dubrenil, the richest
planter in the territory, built a mill,
but they did not understand the sci
ence of making the molaSses granu-
late, and for more than half a century
the canes were sold as a species Of
sugar in the public markets, and
eaten as candy. j. n. SCANLAND.
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FOR SALE OR RENT-sfy residence.
Ioi7 n. Topeka Ave. I'd O'Bryan-
dl05-tf
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Three Days In q Cave.

The sensations of man lost in q cave
are indescribable. Two young men in
Tennessee recently found cave in
lookout mountain and started to ex-
plore it. The cave was disappoint-
ment. nothing but narrow passages,
and after going some five miles they
started to return, when their candles
went ont, evidently on account of some
noxious gas. Then an anxious search
revealed the horrible fact that they had
used all their matches. They had
blazed their way from the entrance
with chalk-marks. but in the dark these
were useless as a guide. and there was
nothing to do but wait. in the hope
that they would be missed and searched
for. Three days and nights thev waited,
and when rescued they were in an al
most idiotic state of mind from cold,
hunger aud fear.
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that there must be no preaching nor
any spread eagle oratory or skyscrap-
ing flights. Modern audiences don't
want star dust or aurora lights e eshing
and streaming. Nor will they stand
much sentiment. a little of that goes a
long way.
"A woman must feel the temper and
moods of her listeners. It requires a
diversified audience to bring out the
best in speaker.
There should be people VIII" like
you, some who dislike you, those who
don't agree with you, and others who
do; those whom one part of a speech
will ca.cl, and others who viii respond
TO touch precisely the opposite"
(which makes the deeper impression.
story or epigram?"
"Epigrsm, should say. and use il
much more than the story now :
story must be mart o. the sTseecl
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WANTED-A widower would like 10
correspond with a good working, in
dustrious woman of p or %. M q. b."
Eagle Office dEs-St.G q