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her home by illness for the past week.
H. C. LINDLoFF of the Bennington
Knitting Company, is at Hot Springs
Ark.
If the East road to Pownal was Grifted
before the storms of last week, what
must they be now?
CHARLES S. KEHoE has purchased a
building lot on Grand View street, and
will erect a residence the coming season.
THE Fortnightly meets on Saturday,
February 10th. The meeting will be in
charge of the committee on Social
Science" Mrs. Merrill chairman. Sub
ject: Libraries"
THE following is a statement of the
Fitchburg Railroad company for the
quarter ended December 31st: Gross
earnings from operation, S1,S79,69 OPP
Grating expenses, $1,2S7 ,S74; net earn
ings from operation, $591,S1S; other in
come, S53,557 gross income, $645,376;
fixed charges, 1886, 743; net income,
S258,633; cash on hand, $4S4, 421.
ACCORDING to the last census Vermont
stands second in the amount and value
of the production of slate. There are in
its borders 81 Quarries, producing SS42,
013 worth, and 1888 persons are en-
ployed. The expense of production is
| $616, 113, and the capital invested
amounts to $l,299451. The percentage
of profit on the capital is 1913. -.
A YOUNG man employed as plumbers
apprentice in Mount Vernon has been
arrested for stealing S24 worth of choice
old wines from the cellar of one of the
most active workers in the local Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union. The
case has occasioned considerable surprise
among the other members of The union.
The accused young man ought to be al.
lowed to go free, for has he not removed
a great temptation from the path of this
temperance woman?
A NEWSPAPER publishers space is his
stock in trade, truthfully says an ex-
change. If he cannot sell it or dispose
of it to advantage and at fair prices, his
business is a failure. He can no more
afford to give it away than the merchant
the goods upon his shelves, the farmer
the wheat in his bin, or the butcher the
meat in his shop. Yet people fail to
realize this, and hardly week passes
that the average country publisher is not
called upon to donate space lust to
help the thing along"
DON'T ask us to suppress important
items of news about which the whole
town is talking, just because for per-
sOnal interests you would prefer to have
it kept out of print. In these days, the
city papers and the Associated Press gets
hold of everything of note no matter
where it happens, and it gets published
far and near anyway, and so far as giving
it publicity is concerned, the suppression
of it in the village paper can't make
much difference to you, but it does to
the papers, as the readers have a right to
expect the news and kick if they don't
get it.
THIS is the latest swindle practiced on
farmers. Stopping at farm house that
is insured, the swindlers represent that
they are special agents around inspecting
risks, and so get the names of the COM
pany who have insured the house. Later
they return with a type written paper to
the effect that the company has failed |
and that they are empowered with au.
thority to transfer the policy to another.
The farmer is prevailed upon to sign |
what he supposes to be transfer, but |.
which proves to be promissory note for |
a sum ranging from so to 500. The |
swindlers are reaping rich harvest and |
rarely fail to work the game.
ONE of our Vermont exchanges deYotes |
nearly column every week to what it |
calls the liars symponium." In the |
last edition appears the following: They |
have liars of all sorts and conditions in |
Kansas, but the story of Mamie Waite |
was the work of a past master in the art |
of pervarication. One reason why the |
houses in Kansas succumb so easily to
cyclones is that they are built with such |
light frames. This popularity some
times gives rise to peculiar accidents. As
Mamie Waite, of Yarmouth, was clean
ing her last winters blue silk with ben
zine, the inhammable stuff took fire. In
a moment the room was filled with heat
ed air, which expelled the cooler and
heavier atmosphere, and then the entire
house shot upward like Montgolfer
balloon. There was little wind, and it
could presently be seen at the height of
two miles, burning so furiously that not
a piece of it except the kitchen stove
ever reached the ground. 1t is reported
that Miss Waite is dead.
G. w. BUCK, of HoOsick Falls, n. Y,
has war relic in his possession which
probably can be duplicated in this vicin
ity. 1t consists of a Revolutionary war
pension allowance to Mr.. Bucks grand.
father. The face of the document reads
as follows: Revolutionary claim-I