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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-06
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CorsIcana, Texas, March b.--The funeral
OF Miss Mary Elliott, tho young lady who.
on Wednesday. committed suicide by
drowning, took place this evening from
the First Baptist church. A large num-
Der OF citizens attended.
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THE STATE CAPITAL.
MAT FORD jury DISCHARGED.

MNI TONP VVF'
Austin. Texas. March 5.--Iiaying failed
to agree after having been locked up for|
ono week. the Jury In the Mat Ford caAs|
from San Saba county was discharged toll
day. Tho Jury stood eleven for conyIctionI
and one for arauittal. This case has al
ready cost the State $4,000.
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For ladies'. the best and purest tonic L
Angostura Ditters. II effectuaily curea
dyspepsia and tones up the System. Dr..
J. o. d. sisgsrt & SONG Manufacturers.
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Observations taken by the United Ste tee
weather bureau at s y. m, 75ih meridian
time
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-11-03

damages in Lamoille County.
He is kindly and old-fashioned,
an Abe Lincoln type on a smaller
pattern. He has always been a
strong temperance man in theory
and practice.
THE MOVES HOMESTEAD.
In this transition age it is en-
couraging to find family whose
successive generations have APP
preciated and enjoyed the solid
advantages of a permanent
home. More than a century ago
Oliver Noyes, the great-grand-
father of the present generation,
settled as one of the earliest
pioneers on this fertile slope; his
son, Breed, opened a store and
was the first, and for many years
the only merchant in town; and
this was the trade centre until it
was changed by the location of
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the county buildings, in SO, at the
Street.
Edgar Noyes, the son of Breed,
one of stalwart and long-hved
family of eight children, was
born in 1918, and lived his 70
years here in the great ancestral
mansion, now occupied by his
widow, nee Jane Cook, and their
three children, Arvilla J., Charles
D., and Carrie E. Noyes.
A thousand hallowed assOcia-
tons cluster around this spa
cious dwelling, fronted by males
tic, ancestral elms and naples.
Prior to, and during the anti
Masonic times it was the rendez-
vous of the Lodge, and the par
aphernalia were here found on
it's reorganization. The house
has been somewhat modernized,
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details of his business. He Jobs
the skidding and hauls the logs
with his own teams. He saws
the logs during the spring, dress
es the lumber during the early
summer, and hauls it to Hyde
Park with his own team during
the summer and fall, a distance
of 512 miles.
Mr.. Scofeld has a farm on
which he employs his mill help in
July in cutting the hay which
supplies his teams, and his land
is in fine condition from top
dressing. He employs about a
dozen men in and about the mills
during the busy season, mostly
single men and Americans, and
usually boards them at the
boarding house, making the
place lively. He has purchased
timber land from time to time as
occasion offered, until he owns
1900 acres. His business is well
systematized and is financially
successful.
Mr.. Scofeld married Mrs.
Nora A. Prior, daughter of 7. O.
Andrus of Albany, in 1885 and
has two children. He is a men,
Der of Sterling Lodge. In 1894
he was the nominee of the Re-
publican party for Representa-
tive.
JOHN II. GRAY
is a native of Bakersfield, VT. At
the age of 81 he married Della
McNaney, came to Hyde Park
and settled on a small farm near
Centreville. In 1889 he bought
his fine valley farm of 156 acres,
about two miles from Hyde Park
and since then has nearly doubled
it's productions. Good manage
ment, hard work, and the silo,
are the factors which have
wrought this desirable result.
His silos have a capacity of $50
tons. The farm is entirely car
ried on by machinery, and as Mr.
Gray is an energetic and indus.
trious man, he is able with the
aid of his sons, Earl N. and Del
bert b., to do it without hired
help. The farm contains a sugar
place of 400 trees, a nice young
orchard, and supports a stock Of
80 cattle besides the farm team
His % cows are high grade Jer.
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daughter ofHon. Joshua Sawyer.
They have daughter, Myra, a
fine amateur artist, and a son,
Nelson B., student in class of
'9S of u. V. M. 1t seems pecul-
iarly appropriate that this ele-
giant hostelry should be managed
by the representatives of those
notable old families of HYDE
Park-Keeler and Sawyer. Mr..
Keller has joined both the Free
Masons and Odd Fellows. He
is a member of Swanton lodge,
Haswell Chapter and Burlington
Commentary, and is a Shriner.
ALFRED H. KELLER
does a thriving business in the
tin and hardware line. He was
born in Prescott, Ontario, in
1870, and after serving a three
years apprenticeship at the tin
mans trade, he worked one year
in Ottawa. After two years ex-
perience in the business, first at
Franklin Center, Vt, and then at
East Fairfield with N. c. Dixon
& Co., he formed a partnership
with the latter, and the firm soon
after engaged in business at
Hyde Park in November, 1892,
which subsisted until Mr.. Dixon S
death in August, 1895. He then
bought Mr.. Dixon's interest, and
has since conducted the business
alone.
Mr.. Keller carries a varied
stock, including tin and hard
ware, stoves, pocket cutlery, fire
arms, and ammunition, paints,
oils, brushes, glass, &c, also
plumbing, steam and hot water
heating fixtures. His shop is
headquarters for bicycles and
bicycle sundries and he also runs
a first-class bicycle repair shop.
The ladies will find nice as
sortment of flower pots. He has
supplies for tin, slate, and iron
roofing, and is able to lay them
for a price that is right, and
guarantees satisfaction. He is
the agent for the new light Wal
ter A. Wood tubular mowers and
reapers, rakes, tedders, &c. He
is agent for the galvanized iron
buckets, that have proved so
satisfactory, and arches and
pans for sugaring-off, the latter
being made speciality. He car
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years at Montpelier. He was a
farmer until 1884, when he
bought his present shop of H. J.
Lilley. He thoroughly repaired
and renovated the premises,
hired a skilled workman and be-
ing naturally ingenious, in a few
months was playing blacksmith
himself as deity as though he
had been born with a hammar
in his hand. He has found the
calling for which he is adapted
and is doing an increasing and
prosperous business. He is a
prodigious worker and has stay,
ing qualities.
Mr.. DEMO runs a whee1right
and repair shop, but his speciality
has been the manufacture of sleds
provided with a patent self-act-
ing brake, invented by himself.
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CHARLES IL. CRANE.

Charles Crane, the father of
the subject of this sketch, was for
40 years a respected merchant in
HYDE Park. Charles Herbert
Crane was born here in 1868,
and here passed his boyhood,
attending the Lamoille Central
Academy. In 1882 he went to
Conway Springs, Kansas, as
clerk and foreman in a dry goods
store, the first started in that
growing town, and his services
were so acceptable that he was
retained seven years in that re-
sponsible position. Returning
to Vermont, within one year he
was bereft of both parents and
an only brother. He decided to
settle in business in his native
village. Taking his father stock
and store, he has added new tea-
lures from time to time, and he
now conducts a general country
store, the leading features being
dry goods, groceries, boots and
shoes. He handles fruits in their
season. Mr.. Crane has a good
physique, evidently enjoys good
digestion and a clear conscience,
and is an agreeable companion.
He possesses decided musical
tastes and is a member of 10th
the band and orchestra. He is
also a member of Sterling Lodge,
No. A, |. O. o. F.
F. N. KELLER.
Frederick N. was a son of Mel
son and Jane Andrews Keller, a
farm bred boy, and his education
was obtained in the schools OF
Hyde Park and Morristown
Soon after attaining his majority
he entered the employ of the P. &
O. r. r. as an expressman, and
was in that capacity ten years,
his run being from Swanton to
Fabyan's. He then went on the
road as a commercial traveller,
selling boots and shoes for Lord
Haskell & Co., Portland.
When Hotel Phoenix was built
in 1891, Mr.. Keller was selected
as manager. He has conducted
the hotel since that time. F. N
Keller married Ellen, a daughter
of Col. E. B. Sawyer, and grand
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to Baltimore, Md. Here he re-
manned three years, completing
his theological course; at the
end of which on December 10,
1896, he was ordained to the
holy priesthood in the Cathedra.
of Burlington by Rt. Rev. John
S. Michaud, D. D. 1t is also
worthy of note that FIR. Rand
has many relatives here.
P. T. DEMO.
Mr.. P. T. DEMO is a good type
of the village blacksmith, realiz-
ing the poets ideal of manly
strength and vigor. He was
born in Cambridge in 1850, a
son of Geo. w. DEMO, and his
early life was spent in this and
neighboring towns of Lamoille
county. He has made Hyde
Park his home for the last 81
years, with the exception of four
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measure conducive to the pros
perity of the town as he under
stood it. At the time the p. &
o. railroad, so called, was built,
he was chairman of a committee
of one from each of the towns of
Wolcott, Morristown, Hyde
Park, Johnson and Cambridge,
to inspect and appraise land
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a clerical institution and one of
the largest in the world, where
he made a course of two years
philosophy and one year theolo-
gy. Owing topoor health and the
severity of the winters there, he
was compelled to seek a warmer
climate to complete his studies
in, and for that purpose he went
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Mr.. Geo. H. Campbell makes
the following statement: 81 have
used the P. T. DEMO brake in the
lumber woods with most salts
factory results; was enabled to
handle loads on rough and billy
roads with much less exertion
and damage to the road than
with anything have ever used
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a commodious and handsome
barn erected, and this 200 acre
farm, pleasantly located one mile
from the Street, is one of the
most desirable in town. For
merly many sheep were kept, but
it is now a dairy farm with
about % cows, and the young
stock and team.
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ries all of the leading brands of
spoutS, and makes evaporators
and sugar makers supplies. He
is agent for the Winchester hot
water heater and an improved
washing machine. In general,
Keller is prepared to rig you out
with anything in the line of tin
or iron. Give him call and save
money.
w. I. KELLER.
Walter [. Keller has had four
years experience in engraving
and watch and clock repairing,
and is prepared to do anything
in this line with neatness and
dispatch. Satisfaction guaran-
teed in all lines of work. He
occupies a room in the Kelley
block, and is ready for business
six days in the week.
JOHN S. SCOFIELD
has risen from most humble cir
cumstances and small beginnings,
to the control and ownership OF
a large business and may Justly
be considered a self-made man.
He was born in Elmore in 1859,
a son of John G. Scofeld and a
grandson of Pelig Scofield, a
pioneer of that town. At the
early age of Is, when most boys
are in school, he commenced log.
ging and cutting ties on their
farm, being compelled by the il
health of his father to assume
the responsibility of the support
of the family. He continued the
business of teaming and lumber.
ing in Elmore until 1888, wher
he bought several lots of timber
land in the vicinity of the mill he
now owns, in northeastern Hyde
Park, and in 1884 bought the
old mill. This mill proving mad
equate, in 1890 he built his pres
ent mill, which is well supplied
with machinery from the Lane
Manufacturing Co., has a heac
of 80 feet, and will cut 1900 feet
an hour. Mr.. Scofeld averages
to manufacture about a million
feet per annum, which is sold by
the Hyde Park Lumber Co.
thereby enabling him to give his
entire attention to the practical
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03
CHAPTER 17o-H. F. NO. 500.


AN ACT to legalize certain corporations
of villages under chapter one hundred
and forty-five 045) of the general laws
Of eighteen hundred and eighty-five
ISS5) and the several acts amendatory
thereof.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That in all cases where there
has been an attempted incorporation of
village under the provisions of chapter
one hundred and forty-five Q45) of the
general laws of eighteen hundred and
eighty-five 1SS5) and the several acts
amendatory thereof, in which the petition
has been presented to the county commits
Eioner of the proper county prior to March
first. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
GS9O, and such petition, copy of notice
of election and certificate of inspectors Of
election have been filed, or may hereafter
be filed, within the time allowed by law,
in the Office of the register of deeds Of the
proper county, such attempted lncorpora-
ton, under the name assumed, in each
and every case, is hereby legaliZed and
declared valid and effectual incorpora-
ton of such village for all purposes,
under the name assumed, from and after
the time of the actual filing as aforesaid
of such petition, copy of notice of cleo
ton and certificate of inspectors of cleo
lion notwithstanding the non-eXistence
lack or omission of any matter or thing
by law prescribed as prerequisite to, or
necessary to be done or observed in, the
incorporation of such village, and notwith-
standing any defect in such petition,
nOtlce Oh elecllOIl OF CeElllClle OIL IN
spectors of election.
Provided, nothing herein shall affect
any action or proceeding now pending or
determined which calls in question the
validity of the incorporation of any vii
lage.
Provided, further, that nothing in this
act shall be construed to legalize or vail
date the attempted Incorporation of any
Village which embraced, or attempted to
embrace within it's territory any tract or
tracts of land not lying so near or in such
-fr,.i+ l1cf fnd <NP
said village as to be suburban in char
acter and to have some unity Of interest
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CHAPTER 17ZH r NO ono
CHAPTER 176-S. f. NO. 515.

Il ",
AN ACT legalizing past foreclosures of
mortgages heretofore made as against
objections that such mortgages or as
s1gnments thereof were not duly sealed
or witnessed and limiting the effect of
such act to lands in possession of par
ties claiming through such foreclosures
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section. l. Every foreclosure sale here
tofore made under a power of sale in the
usual form contained in any mortgage
heretofore executed, either under the laws
of the Territory of Minnesota or under
the laws of the State of Minnesota and
previously actually recorded in the Lffice
OF the proper register of deeds, of real
property within the limits Of this state is
together with such record thereof Ie-
gal1zed and made valid and effectual to
all 1ntents and purposes as against the
following objections, namely:
F1rSt-That the mortgage or any as
signment thereof had no witness or but
one witness.
Second-That the mortgage or any as
signment thereof was not duly sealed: .
provided, however, that such mortgage
acknowledged and recorded. and such
foreclosure was in other respects regular
and conducted according to law; and pro-
vided, further, that this act shall apply
only to such lands as are in the actual
possession Of persons claiming through
or by virtue Of such foreclosure, and that
this act shall not affect or apply to anv
action now pending.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved April 81, 1897.
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CHAPTER 17S-H. F. NO 2ao

III al LIN lfS-t1. +. No, S6U,
AN ACT TO legalize the foreclosure OF
mortgages by foreign executors and ad-
illustrators in certain cases.
Re it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section I. In all cases where mortgages
have been foreclosed by foreign executors
or administrators, without having filed
for record in the office of the register of
deeds in the county where such fore
closure was had, an authenticated CODY of
ms appointment as such executor or ad-
m1nlstrator before the commencement of
such foreclosure. such foreclosure shall
not for that reason be invalid; provided
that before the commencing of such fore
closure a certificate showing the appoint
ment OF such executor or administrator
from the court making such appointment
was so filed for record; and, provided fur
Their, that since such foreclosure was COM
menced, such authenticated CODY or such
certificate has been so filed, showing that
such executor or administrator had been
duly appointed in some other state or
county before the commencement of such
foreclosure; provided that nothing herein
contained shall be held to apply to any
action commenced or now pending in any
of the courts of this state.
Sec. 2 This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.
, Approved April q, 1897.
CHAPTER 179-H F. NO. 639
AN ACT authorizing villages in the State
OF Minnesota to issue bonds to pay ex-
listing judgments.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section /. That the village council Of
any village in this state against which
any judgment has heretofore been taken
and docketed shall have power and it is
hereby authorized for the purpose Of rails
ing money to pay any such Judgment to
issue the bonds of such village therefor
said bonds shall bear interest at the rate
not exceeding six CO. per cent per annunl,
payable senii-annually and said bonds
shall BE- of denomination not exceeding
five hundred dollars (S5OO) each, and shall
mature at any time within the ten OW
years next after the date of the issue
thereof all at the discretion of said coun-
Gil; and said bonds may have interest
coupons attached and interest and prin-
cipal may be made payable at such place
as said council may designate.
Sec. 2. Said bonds shall be issued fter
said village council shall, by ordinance, SO
determine, ard said bonds shall not be
sold for less than par and accrued inter-
est, and if the holder of any such judg-
ment shall consent to receive same, said
bonds may be issued to the holder of such
judgment in satisfaction thereof but at a
price not less than par and accrued inter-
est.
Sec. B. Before any such bonds shall be
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amendment shall make a cross mark thus
CX) in the space so left opposite the word
NO" and no ballot shall be counted on
said amendment except those having SAG
cross mark (X) opposite one only OF SAID
words yes or mo.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and De
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April 81, 1897.
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CHAPTER 175lH. F. NO. 6ee


AN ACT proposing an amendment to sec
ton eight (S) of article seven % of the
constitution of the State of Minnesota,
which relates to the elective franchise
of VIC en- upon measures pertaining to
schools and libraries and making women
eligible to hold offices relating thereto
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota
a part Of article seven 60 of the constitu-
ticn of the State of Minnesota is hereby
proposed to the people Of said state for
say change section eight 81 of article
seven CD of said constitution so that said
section eight (s) shall read as follows:
Sec. 8. Women may vote for school Of
shall be eligible to hold any Office pertain
ing to the management of schools or Ii
brarieS.
(2D years and upward and possessing the
qualifications requisite to a male voter
may vote at any election held for the pur
pose of choosing any officers of schools
upon any measure relating to schools or
libraries, and shall be eligible to hold any
office pertaining to the management of
schools or libraries.
Sec. 2. This proposed amendment shall
be submitted to the people of said state
for their approval or rejection at the next
hundred and ninety-eght GS9S, and each
of the legal voters of said state may at
said election vote by ballot for or against
said amendment, and the returns thereof
shall be made and certified, and such
votes and the result thereof declared in
the manner provided by law for return
ing, certifying and canvassing votes at
general elections for the state officers,
and declaring the results thereof and if
it shall appear therefrom that a majority
of the voters present and voting upon
of the voters present and voting at
Yes and NO have voted in
favor of the same, within ten
days after the results shall have been as
certained the governor shall make procla-
nation thereof, and said amendment shall
thereupon take effect and be in full force
as part of the constitution of the State of
Minnesota.
Sec. 3. The ballots used at said election
on said amendment shall have printed
thereon Amendment to section eight 81
of the constitution of the State of Mime
sofa, which relates to the elective fran
chiSe of women as to schools or libra
ries Yes No" And each elector voting
on said amendment shall make cross
thus CX), in one of the two spaces left for
the purpose upon the margin of the ballot
used at said election, as provided in sec
ton % of chapter four az of the general
laws of one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three 1888. The elector desiring
to vote for said amendment shall make
cross mark thus (X) in the space so
left opposite the word "Yes,'' and the
elector desiring to vote against said
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CHAPTER 172-H. F. NO. 1858.
AN ACT to make members of the town
board of supervisors ineligible to the
office of road overseer.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota
Section 1. In no case shall any member
of the town board of supervisors hold the
office of road overseer
Sec. 2 Any willful violation OF this act
shall be declared a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be punish
able by a fine not exceeding fifty (oO dol
lars.
Sec. s. This act shall take effect and be
in force from end after January LIST, 1898
Approved April 81, 1897.
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with such plated portion thereof in the
maintenance of the village government
in force from and after it's passage
Approved April p, 1897.