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To-day instead of buying farm pro- ducts of me or my neighbors, these peo- pie are selling in competition with us, Two of these farms are occupied by foreigners, and as they live economlcal- ly and all men, women and children work, they can undersen me. rms may be an advantage to citizens or Connecticut who buy farm products, but l fail to see where my profit comes in. The other two farms were bought by men who have money to burn. They are both as yet customers of ours, and I doubt whether they will ever be able with profit to themselves to sell farm products at less than l can. It the taxable value of the property is in creased, the state is benefited, but as taxpayers our share is minute In com parison with what we lose by the com petition, as producers, of the industri- ous, frugal class of occupants of desert ed farms. When deserted farms are taken by gentlemen to whom farming is fad and who look upon the farm as an amusement like yacht or stable of trotting or running horses we can all get some benefit They are quite sure to spend money and benefit the labor ing people in the neighborhood, and equally as sure to make experiments that observing neighbors can derive benefit from without expense to them selves. This class of purchasers of abandoned farms should be welcomed and encouraged by everybody, Money spent in increasing the value of Con- necticut real estate is, in my opinion much better spent than in yacht build ing or horse racing.
 AS patriotic citizens we may advo- cate measures for the retaining ot abandoned land by frugal industriou; people, but as farmers. looking to oul own interests, we should instead adVo- cate the starting of every mill vince and the building up of industries that will give us 8 market for what we pro | 5Inor
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AN ELK FARM IN COLORADO.

I own an elk farm. As far as I know there is not another such farm in the world. There may possibly be men who hold elk in captivity, and who keep them for breeding purposes to a certain extent; but to have a regular farm, where there is nothing but elk, where they are looked after, kept in condition, and treated just the same as any cattle-that is a thing which I do not believe any one has done before ne.
 My farm is in one of the most pictur- esque parts of Colorado, in a valley six teen miles east of Meeker It is one hundred and sixty7three acres in ex- tent, and through the length of it runs a splendid trout stream, we'll known throughout the surrounding states un- der the name of the Big Beaver My farm is in the very heart of the White River country, a tract which is not ex- Celled in the United States for the var- ety of it's big game. Indeed, it is often called the Paradise of the Sportsman.
 Some idea of the extent to which I work my farm may be gained from the fact that each year I raise for my elk alone enough hay to bale up one hun dred and fifty tons, and garner from three to five hundred bushels of grain. On this farm which is sixty-five hun dred feet above the level of the sea. the elk roam through the timber land and across the rolling meadows just as though they were not captive. But they are safe enough, nevertheless, for I have them fenced in with a five strand barb-wire fence
 In my time I have followed many lines of work, and farmed in different parts of the country, but I have never had any such experience as I am now passing through. The elk is such a strange animal but in time they get to be just as gentle as milch cows.
 It has been four years now since I first took the notion of tanning the elk | and raising them just as other people raise cattle. It took me year to get | the farm in order, to capture the six | animals with which I started. and to | place them in the enclosed ranch. Up | to that time I did not know whether the idea was feasible; I was afraid that I should have a great deal of trouble in | domesticating them.
 | In their native tracts the elk of all
 sizes and ages seem to be perfectly able | to take care of themselves and their | horns. But when once they get on a | farm they seem to forget all this. The
 young steers, especially, get into no
 end of trouble, and break their horns
 in the most distressing manner. As these broken horns and badly spread l ing prOngs injure the general appear
 ance of the herd, I have contrived a means of regulating and controlling the | horns growth. This is done by means | of a box-like wooden frame. light and easily carried by the elk. The horns
 are guided in their growth by this frame, and it also keeps the animal l from getting in to bad places in the
 timber belt. Then, too, when the horns
 are still in the milk they are very soft
 and easily damaged. They have to be l watched with the greatest caution, and
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MIR. HERBERT SPENCER ON SO-
 CIALISM.


 CIALISM.
 MT Herbert Spencer recently wrote the following letter to the Berliner Tageblatt:
 My attention has just been drawn to a passage in l.. Rothschild's "Taschen- ouch fur Kauheute" in which, to my disgust, find my name joined with the names of Robert Owen and the dema- gogue Hunt as representing English Socialism (Thirtieth edition, page 6D, My disgust is made the greater on learning that even ten years ago the work in question had circulated to the extent of two hundred thousand copies This ascription to me of Socialistic views is absolutely at variance with evidence repeated from time to time during nearly half a century. In my first work, Social Staics," published at the close of 1850, my antagonism to So- calism was shown. A more recent book, "The Man Versus the State" " | contains a chapter on "The Coming Slavery" displaying this antagonism | in an unmistakable way. Still more elaborately is it set forth in an essay l entitled From Freedom to Bondage V | which I wrote as an introduction to a composite volume called "A Plea for Liberty" and which has been transla- ted into German, And it has once more been exhibited at the close of the third volume of the ''Principles of Soci- ology," just published. I am the more prompted to repudiate this false char | acteriZation of my views, because on | the titlepage of an Italian book, re- gently translated into German, Dar- wins name and mine have been brack- | eted with the name of Marx, The de- | fence made for this association of names is that from the biological doc | trines held by MT. Darwin and myself | SocialiStiC doctrines may be deduced. But along with the assertion thus made it should in fairness have been said that MT. Darwin did not make or ad- init any such deduction from these bio- | logical doctrines, and that I have drawn from them deductions absolute ly the reverse of those which Socialists draw.
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GIVE YOUR BOY

a pair of rubber boots for Christmas. He loves to get out in the snow. Let him do what he likes. See that he is pro- tected from colds. Our rubber boots are guaranteed leak-proof. Whats more, they're reasonable in price,
 For older people. A ticket to our chiropodist goes with every purchase. Over one thousand customers of ours have had their corns painlessly treated free of charge.
 A. B. GREENWOOD,
 773 Chapel St.
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g'rauellers' Guide.
New York, New Haven and
 Hartford R. R.
HUI UHVAW AUS AU'
NONumber 29, 1896.

FOR NEW YORK-"4:O5. "45O, x6:oO. '7:SO. 'S:1O, S:3O. *935. x1O.SO am, +12:OO, 1f:05, '1:S0 (parlor car limited), *1:35. i;io, @2:2O, @2;56, BOO, %4:17, X4:20, "5;SO, 5;35, 6;3O, "7;1O, "S;1O (S:15 Bridge port accommodation, "9:1O, 9:15 p, m. Sundays-"4:O5, *4;5O, 500 a. m., x4:sO. x6:15, *7:1O, *S:10, S:15, %9:1O p. m.
 FOR WASHINGTON via Harlem River-"1:05, "11:50 p. m. (daily.)
 FOR BOSTON via Sprlngfield-"1: :1o, XlOIo *liO5 a. m., *12:46, "5:52 D. m. sundays-"1:1O (night), "5:Ss p. m.
 FOR BOSTON via New London and Provideuce-*210, *2:20, "11:35 (parlor car limited) a. m. '12:O5. s3:OO, "4:2o, '4b6' .6:55 p. m. Sundays-"21O. .2:2O, a. m, "4:55 E6:55 p. m.
 FOR MERIDEN, HARTFORD, SPRINGFIELD, Etc.-+1:1O (night), GAO S:OO, x1O:1O, "11;O5 a. m., %12:46, 100, S:l5, 5:OO, *5:52 (6;15 to Hartford), S:O5, lO:o6 D. m. Sundays-*1:10 (night), "5:52, BPS r. m.
 NEW LONDON DIVISION
 For New London, etc.-"2:10, (night). ~3;ZO tnlght), 1;55, 1000 (Guilford acc.). ll:oo, :35 (parlor car limited) a. m, ~l2;o5, *3:OO, S:05, "4:2O "4:55, 5:15, 6:15 (Guilford acc), *6:55, 11:2o (Guilford aeco D. m. Sundays-*2:1O (nighD, %2:2o (nighD m., %4:55, "6:55 D. m. AIR LINE DIVISION
 For Middletown, Willimantic, etc. I:43 a, m, l2:4S. *2:53, SOS p. m. Sum- days--*7:15 p. m. Connecting at Mid. dletown with Valley Division and at Wiliimar tic with the N. E. R. R. and N L. N. R. R.; at Turnerville with Col chester branch
 NORTHAMPTON DIVISION For Shelburne Falls. Turner's FaI,. Williamsburg. Holyoke, New Hart- ford and intermediate stations-7:45 a, m. and 400 p. m. For Westfield and intermediate stations, 5:55 D. m.
 For Pennington, New Hartford and points this side-7:45 a. m.. 12:O4, 400. 5:55 D. m
 BERKSHIRE DIVISION.
 For Derby Junction, Derby, Ansonia. etc.-7:O0, 9:95 a. m, 12;OO 2:39, 4:00, 6:35 7:5O, 11:2O D. m. Sundays-S:10 a. m., S:S0 p. m
 For Waterbury-7:oO, 9:35 a. m, 1900. 2:3S, 5:35. 7:50 P. m. Sundays-S:1O a. m, 6:l5 p. m. (via Naugatuck Junc- l tion.1
 For Winsted-7:Oo. s:s5 a. m. 2:s9. 5ss p. m. Sundays-S:1O a. m l For Shelton, Botsford, Newtown, Dan. ouly, IlltSllelu, oIdIe Alne-9.35 a. ms 400 D. m.
 For Albany, Buffalo, Detroit Cincin. nati, St. Louis. Chicago ard the West, VIZ otate Line-9:35 a. m., 4:0G p. m.
 nor Lltchfield and points on S.. L. q | N. RR (via Bridgeport)-6: a. rn., 400 D. m.
 Express Trains. xLocal Express. ?
 c. T HAMPSTEAD.
 General Passenger Agent.
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MET LAST EVENING.

Reception Committee for '97 of the New
 Haven Y. P. S. c. E.-Other Interest
 ing Events.
 The reception committee for '97 of the New Haven Y. P. s. c. F. met in the parlors of the Y M. c. A., last evening and organized by the election of Miss May Pollard of the Trinity M F. so- ciety as chairman and Miss Ida M Ad- ans of the Plymouth society secretary The first reception given by the con- mittee will be held in the Y. M. c. A. rooms on Thursday evening, January 27, 1897, and the following were ap- pointed a committee of arrangements: Albert C. Gardner, Dwight Place chairman; Miss Ida M Adams, Ply mouth; Miss Bernice Platt, Calvary Baptist; Miss Ida Bright, United; Miss Jessie M. Holt, Grace M E.; Robert MacArthur Davenport; Ralph I. Nun son. Trinity M. F.
 The Dwight Place r. P. s. c. F. re- gently sent fifty hymn books to the Christian Endeavor society connected with the Congregational church in Greenwich. Mass. That the gift was appreciated Is shown by the fact that the Dwight Place society has received a barrel of evergreens, which will be used in decorating the Sunday school room
 President Thorpe of the New Haven Christian Endeavor union went to
 Hartford Tuesday afternoon to attend a meeting and conference of the off cers of the Connecticut C. F. union,
 which was held in the Y M. C, A.
 rooms. Short reports of the work in
 the different local unions of the state
 were given by the presidents of the
 various unions represented A discus
 sion on Lookout Committee Work in
 Local Unions" followed, the discussion
 being led by Henry R. Hovey of Hart ford. After supper Rev. R. o. Sher-
 wood of South Norwalk, president of the Norwalk local union, presented the claims of Norwalk for the state con vention of '97. It was officially voted to accept the invitation extended by the NorWalk union, and a committee was appointed to select the date for hold ing the convention and make any oth. CT arrangements which might be nee. 1 essary. James F. Williams of Bristol manager of the Connecticut excursion | to San Francisco in 1897, was present at the meeting and told what had al. ready been accomplished in the mat. l ter of rates, accommodations. etc, fol l the Connecticut Endeavorers who vii | go to the Golden Gate next July. A meeting of the Junior Christian | Endeavor union Of New Haven was 1 held in the First Baptist church las i Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, tn, 1 church being handsomely decorated with Christmas greens and flowers | Many of the societies marched in sing | ing Christian Endeavor hymns. Tn, | opening hymn by the Juniors wa
 Bringing in the Sheaves," which wa l sung with a will. The roll call anC l competition for the banner resulted il | the banner being awarded to the Ham 1 den M. F. society. At o'clock a shor | Junior Endeavorers might become bet | ter acquainted with each other. Afte 1 the recess Mrs. Walter R. Downs. pres | iden of the Junior union, gave an ex | cellent report Gf the recent New Lon l don convention. At the close of tn l scented with a Christmas gift from tn | Juniors-a beautiful picture of Hoff
 mans Christ in the Temple"
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STARiN'S NEW HAVEN TRANS
 FORMATION LINE.
DailY Excant Saturdays.

..GIE.A Str. JOHN H. SrARIN, Captain sR11iisE McAlister, leaves New Haven from Starin's Pier. foot.of Brown street, at lO:l5 p. m. Sundays, Tuesdays and Thurs days. Str. ERASTUS CORNING, Captain Spoor,. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. The STARIN leaves New York from Pier IS. and Fridays. The Corning, Sundays, Tues days and Thursdays.
 Fare, ,7jc; excursion tickets, Sl.25. State- rooms, S1 0O. N
 Tickets and staterooms for sale at E. E. Norton's, S5l Chapel street; Peck < Bishop, T02 Chapel street; Tontine Hotel, and A. Goodman Go.
 Free stage leaves the depot on arrival of Hartford train, and from corner of Church and Chapel streets every half hour, commence ing at 8:30 pm. Through freight rates given anC bills of lading issued ta points west, south and southwest c. H. FISHER, Agent.
 Order your freight via Starin Line.
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DURING PROM" WEEK.

During the Prom" week this season an official souvenir book will be on sale It will be thoroughly illustrated with over fifty photograveurs of Yale views and will contain a complete list of social events of Yale life. In addi- ton to this there will be a historic sketch of the Prom. The book will be in the form of chap book" bound in light leather. and will be printed on artificial parchment paper.
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EXCELSIOR CHAPTER,

Excelsior chapter, No. 3, Order of Eastern Star, will hold a super and sale to-day at Elks' chapel S62 Chapel street, from ? to [. Supper will be served from to '. It will also be their regular meeting and election of officers.
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HIS FIRST MASS,

Mir. David O'Donnell, whose Ordina- ton takes place Friday morning in Boston, will celebrate his first mass at St. Johns R. c. church of this city on Christmas day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-18
THE PEOUOTS,

The Pequot Dancing club are to have an entertainment New Years night. What form the affair will take has not vet been decided.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-18
New Haven Steamboat Go.
 FALL ARRANGEMENT

Steamers Daily Sundays Excepted. Steamers from New Haven leave Belle Dock, old Line Pier, CONTINENTAL 1O:3U q. m., and RICHARD PECK at 12:3O mid night.
 Steamers from New York leave week days Piers p and 26, East River, RICHARD PECK 3 D. m. and CONTINENTAL 12:01 midnight
 Fare S1.00. Excursion tickets, good for 15 days S1.50.
 Staterooms and tickets for sale at Peck Ss Bishops, TOE Chapel street, and at MiX's drug store, cor. Chapel and Church sts.
 FAST FREIGHT.
 Through rates given and bills of ladin9 issued to points West. South and South west CHAS. I. FRENCH, Agent
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NEW HAVEN COGNFY NATIONAL
 RANK

New Haven, Dee. 11th, 1896. The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this bank, for the election of Directors to serve the ensuing year. will be held at their banking house on Tuesday. January F, 1897.
 Polls open from II to 12 o'clock ID. l1o fill in11 u Lt l. EINLI EI .l IlShinr
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While vast amount of the aban- doned land of Connecticut can, without doubt. profitably remain abandoned, there is much that the frugal, industri- ous man can reclaim. Farms that the owners have left because they had ob- tained more profitable employment or because they were not fitted for farm CTS or farm life, although they may look somewhat untidy owing to dilapi- dated buildings and fences and the growth of brush and weeds are, be- lieve, if they can be bought al their value, safer as investments than much of the new western land. While there are mortgaged farms in Connecticut and farmers in debt, failures are rare in comparison of those of persons en- gagged in other industries. Connecticut farmers are not, as a class, asking for a fifty-cent dollar to pay their indebted ness with, and they are not asking for laws to hamper the collection of honest debts. While 1 have known of a few cases in Connecticut where farms have been taken by foreclosure. it has al ways been under conditions that would have produced like result whatever business the owner was engaged in.
 While the state would surely be richer if frugal. industrious people bought and reclaimed our abandoned farms. this is not a matter that should specially interest us as farmers.
 FARMERS SUFFER COMPETITION.
 When dull times came on few years ago four abandoned farms with fin two miles of me were occupied by purchasers CT by tenants who had been thrown out of profitable employment
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-18

iron-rust must be mixed with their food, as it has a strengthening quality. Captain Marcus Coon in Topeka Cap ital.
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wEHS'HAR BALSAM.
The Combined Skill

Tpray gradually restores tha nair to original nat~ pral color elegant tonic dressing. 50c, slu Drug sists or prepaid by express on receipt or prlcss 2. $. WELLS, Jersey City, N-J
, 1896-04-15
A MOLE RANcHER


Calisse.iAn who Mako Mccoy ~ Hh
Studies - . Naturalist.
"No. boys. it amt money that makes
my pockets bulge out that way. but it
10 the equivalent" remarked . gray
haired. gray bearded -ancher from Men
docino as he took in the slack Of . hay
rope that did service for . belt.
ITO tell the truth. my breeches peck
ets and my coat pockets, too. are pretty
we'll lined with moleskins. Within the
last year l have developed into a mole
hunter, and it pays. Ihave several acres
in rawberries ut Ukiah. and they need
considerable water. I used to put in q
lot OF time digging little trenches and
turning water this way and that, but 1t
was disappointing to go out the next
day and find that I had been irrigating
a mole hole. i set a watch on the little
pests, and / soon learned their habits.
Since then It is no trouble at all to get
them.
I'm the first place, I found that a
mole never comes straight up to the top
Of .he ground. but always on a slant,
and you will see the ground agitated for
some time before he throws up his hill.
II you step within 20 feet Of him when
he comes to the top, he will instantly
stop work and run. It's no use to try
to catch him then.
but a mole Is the victim Of habit.
II he is disturbed at his work at Q
o'clock today, he will not come back till
exactly Q o'clock tomorrow. You can
set a watch by him and depend on its
being right. Well, I watch around in
my berry patch and take the time when
ever I disturb Mr.. Mole. The next day,
when it il time for him to come back, ]
take my station near the hole. As soon
as he throws up his little mound Iplant
my foot behind him and close up the
hole. Then all I have to do is to scoop
him ont of the dirt and drop him into
my pocket, kicking and scratching like q
good fellow. I kill him, stretch his skin
ON a shingle. and a man here in the city
pays me 81 apiece for them to make
purses Of. "-San Francisco Post.
, 1896-04-15

. There are over a thousand men in
NV York and Brooklyn, according to
~ Atest returns. who are worth be-
tween 100000 and $500, 900 each,
ard tAe most Of chem are entirely un>
kDuNn to the general public. Only two
coo0ooS Of New York-John D. Rookie,
roller end ". W. Astor-are supposed
% b worth more than 800. 900, 900
Apsses; but there are nine who are each
woeth eso.ooo.0oo and over. as we'll as
two estates Of like amount. The total
number Of nillionatres in these two
cit1oe 10 greater than In all the rest OF
til country,
, 1896-04-15
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION.

uo.dcu.r+aru State Com.
r,,.ta.
Ch.v.,n. wvo rah 90 1909
n. ~. p.m,h,,,.n E,.c,or, =, We
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=, .o.,~,.. ,,,., Established ,....
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~. ~ ,,.,o. 4. h.r.hv o,v.r
th.t ~. .tote conven+,on
viii ho hsld ~ sher,d.n wvom,n~ nm
rhrr.d.v NOV "a 1soe ~ n o,cao,l
/. m ,or the nurr.o.a ~ .e,ecttn1 ~.
d-.,.oata. and a., alternate d~a,e,.t.. tn
~. ran,,h,..r r-.t,o,a, convention tn
~. ,.,d ~ .. ro,,,. No IN T,,..d.v
1rro 1e 1909 n ror,.n.ta 4
~ nr.s,d.n. 80 v,c. nrs.,dsn, =, ~.
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, 1896-04-15
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL is, 1895.

O0aal figures show that Paris con-
sumes daily for food an average Of SO
hoFsef and one donkey. and n mule
every 10 days. There is a growing de-
sand fr hores meat in Europe, and
tha& . coosderable quantity is secretly
mnskstsd In the United States is a fact
pget*y we'll established.
, 1896-04-15

Tue imports of shoddy into the Unit
Cd States increased from 4,17O,s 41
pounds in 1894 to 20. 49, Os pounds in
1895. just where this sham and often
0fthy stun has gone is not disclosed,
but the American people are using It
= Some shape, and paying for 1t a
gxsa& deal moro than It is worth.
, 1896-04-15

Pure blood means good health. Do.
Wits sarvaparilla puriaes the blood.
cures eruptions, eczema. scrofula, and
all diseases arising from impure blood.
Chas. N. Settele.
, 1896-04-15

It's all thu. same-sYffght cold, con-
-sested lunu or sever cough. One
Minute Cough Cure banishes them.
Chas. N. Sstbsle.
, 1896-04-15

mnhAsA< Aossskssptng rooms for
~ 0ayee AanGsa, III III strsst.
, 1896-04-15

when the First Elevated Rosds Were Built.
' Extension in the use of iron and steel
also made elevated railways possible.
A project in this direction dates from
1868. Exactly ten years later two sec
tions Of railway were open in New York.
The first elevated road in BrooklyI
began operation in 1885. These speed
ways at once became popular. In 1884
no fewer than $50 engines and 800 cars
were in use by the New York lines, car
rying over 800, 900 passengers daily. or
about 1903. 900. 900 for the year. Chics
60 followed with the Alley L line. SC
called from the lanes to which it 10 rele.
gated. Boston prefers and ia preparing
provision for rapid transit by means Of
an underground railway SYSTEM like
London'a-Scribner'a
, 1896-04-15
EGAL -
BLANKS!

Trust ossa,
Quit talm Deed
oss. II Il. s...,
Assignment
Reseaes ef Teusa Deoa,
eoS0ooo ~ oeo4eRoGo,
pewss ~ Atsssnsy
-" : 4 :s':; =,
shining ose..n Lssaass.
sr.ss = Iss.-
, 1896-04-15

A little Ill. then = little Fill. The
Ill has gone the pill has won. DsWitt's
Little Early Risers, the little pills that
cure great ills. Chas. N. Settele.
, 1896-04-15

B. M. AMSTERDAM.
Secretary.
, 1896-04-15
On. Nam. For Everybody.

On the slopes Of Mount Terrible, not
far from Delsberg, in the Basler Jura,
lies q small village called M%ontavon.
The Sunday before last was the day Of
the communal elections. a list Of the
successful candidates is given in Der
Birsthaler and LIE Pays. the journals
respectively Of the German Speaking and
French speaking inhabitants of the val
lay Of the Birs. The names stand as fol
lows:
President (maire or burger
Vice president. .......... Viktor MontavoE
Peter MontavCn
Councillors or aldermen. q. Julius Montavon
Ernst Montavon
Communal steward. ........ George Montavol
IN clerk. Joseph Hontavon
Communal sergeant. ........ Karl Montavon
, 1896-04-15

water-ri9ht blanks At this ONCE.
, 1896-04-15

4 Fair Question.
He-Why do they call women the
fair SER
she-To distinguish them from the
unfair sex NO doubt.-Roxbury Gazette.