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The Iola register., 1902-08-15
Test Oil IN SmeltInr.

Lead zinc News,
Beaumont, Tex, Aug 0-E. II.
Mower, representing the New Jersey
Zinc Company which is preparing to
build an immense zinc smel'ar here,
has returned, in company with r., Il
Rust of New York, and Joseph Keller,
of Joplin. Mr.. Rus, is to be treas
urer of this end of the concern, and
Keller is to be the superintendent.
One hundred men will be put to work
at once clearing the lO0.acre Site,
which has already been purchased for
$4,000, in the southern part Of this
city. It will take the men six weeks to
get the ground ready for the excaya
tors, after which time the large con.
tracts for construction of the enor-
The Iola register., 1902-08-15
The Best Prescription for Malaria

Chills and Fever is a bottle of
GROVES TAsTELEss CHILL TONIC,
II is simply iron and quinlno in II
tasteless form. No cure-no pay.
prirn hOc
Williams news., 1902-04-12
Council Proceedings.

A meeting of the common coun- cil of the town of Williams was held at Town hall on the 7th day of April, AID. 1902, at s pm.
 Present-Jos. Johnston, F. R. Nellis, B. F. Sweetwood, Geo. Whar- ton, and the mayor.
 The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
 The following bills were allowed and the clerk instructed to draw warrants on the treasury for same: E. s. Clark, services rendered.S .S26 co J. B. Grand, town engineer,
 services rendered - 10 co Grand Canyon Flee. Light
 and Power Co.,, lights 27 % John Martin, plumbing, city
 hall D 5O Delmonico restaurant, meals
 election board ..... 5 25 Williams News, publication,
 election stationery 76 20 Thos- Andrews, arrests ~ 2 co pr. A. Tyroler, T. H. O., sal
 ary quarter ending 3-31. p %
 It was moved and seconded that the judges and clerks of election H. F. Adams, Ed. D. Potter, A. R. Kilgore, F. M. Bentley, clerks; P. M. Shafer, M. J. Rounseville, Frank Gurule, judges, be allowed $5.30 each for services rendered, and John Baumgardner was allowed $2.65 for services rendered as election mar shal, and clerk was instructed to draw warrants on the treasury for same.
 The clerk was instructed to draw warrants on the treasury for the March salary of the clerk and marshal.
 On motion of MT. Johnston, sec onded by MT. Wharton, the report
Williams news., 1902-04-12

 Mutual Telephone months J. E.. Holbrook Kngman. Tel Williams necessary a
  hereby ordered county be made for the next general electon to be held Tuesday the clerk is directed publish notice of said egraon for four months the official Coconno Arizona The directed transfer all sinking fund School Dist. the school of School Dist No. The directed reduce the 1901 Lon Hill s125O of assessed cattle owned by him. The clerk directed notify the probate judge that the
  will be S10 each physician for each for 1901, s1,000, of widows exemption. for 1901, s1,0O0, of widows exemption. Light and Power Co., $ by fire.
 The of N G. schools, checked
  The James Johnson, sheriff. showing s71O gambling and saloon licenses collected with commission, checked, md approved The of Hibben, showing lected with proved
 Geo H. Perry granted lease 30, N, for a of in Geo.
  correct and approved
 Board adjourned.
 PHEIAN rma HIBBEN, lerk
Williams news., 1902-04-12

of the finance committee was re- ceived and placed on file, as fol- lows:
 Receipts to date .... $234S 9 Expenditures to date =. 2344 O2
 Balance on hand ..S 23 Outstanding warrants. 13S 95
 Meeting adjourned until Thurs day, April 10, at s pm.
Williams news., 1902-04-12

adjournment H. C.. Hbben clerk.
 of Jan 6, nd April read and approved
 following against county approved Geo Hxworth claim certificates paid cancelled 2e OxwOrt certificates paid and cancelled 65 4o Gosney, money co Arizona l. T. Co., money advanced as Verde wagon road 125 % Arizona Cent bank advanded Verde 125 % Poub A RGy T 1901 iGaS r0aG s PulIiam Vail, order A w. Kinsey 1901 % H Hbten making list assessabe 50 % Geo C Hon%erth salary as Treasurer $75 $5 % %
 Phean salary supervisor and expense Prescott 1s6 so Robinson l%a ean%ation SSf of insane i 1S % A. Tyroer bounty on mountain i lyon H'e' ',o 20 % Arizona Central bank order A C. ROuneve account Will
 L. I'HS Gi1sdt4' E eGqs Typewriter pst. judge. 50 50 90 60 Compton, pipes .e............ % Wyckof, & B., repairs 50 H Leipsne supplies R H js%s! Ras laI Publishing ,.. :sl. 9ss 1ss $ $ Dr E. S Miller prof service, jail and hospital 26 % NJ Funston clerk court fees 100 20 Ranney of F. Williams Al 20 J. A. Johnson N G. Layton, letter press and book 10 % NJ salzman spiOOns Stacy Hibben clerk co F Reid, justice 50 Geo C. Morse bounty wild % H. McNei county record books blanks etc . 1o5 5S
 Jones I salary district attorney ss2 30 60 Andrews conatabIe's fees Williams 90 TyrOler, medicine, pest Florence Dukes reporter cOrOner inquest 10 % Dr. Dr. C. oa!tan F. Manning examination insane 15 90 chas CanalI Long Distance Telephone " " " Is 50 Arizona Tel and Tel Co., Long Distance Telephone 25 w S Robinson care small cases Canyon Diabo 136 20 S Button burial indigent, Williams 22 co
Williams news., 1902-04-12
BUSINESS TRANSACTED
 BY THE SUPERVISORS

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona April s, 1902.  Phelan chairman Puliam, c. Hbben, clerk of Jan. 24 April read approved. following against county approved
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31

Morgan Reese, boy about thirteen
years of age, who is employed with
his father in mining coal at Williams
burg, has developed the power of sue
cessfully locating oil wells. He has
already made several locations for the
United Oil Company, and in every
instance where he has driven stake,
locating well, and where a hole
was drilled a good flow of petroleum
was found. He has thus enhanced
the value of the williamsburg field.
So says newspaper dispatch from
Florence, Colorado. The boy is an
animated divining rod and is making
money out of his gift of divination.
Here a suggestion to parents to sub
stitute the witch hazel for the time
honored birch as an instrument of
discipline, and while promoting the
boys moral reform endow him. also,
with the possibility of securing great
riches.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31

Conrgessman-e Van Duzer of
Nevada has reached the goal of his
ambition after long and hard strug-
gle. Years ago he was a Washington
lawyer with a good practice, but sud-
denly conceived the idea that he
would like seat in Congress. Cast
ing about for a constituency he hit
upon Nevada and III the course of his
campaign has made the personal ac-
quaintance of every one of the 10, 600
voters in that State. Such industry
deserves reward.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
TEMPERANCE PEOPLE
OF Washington County Sum-
mOned to. Council.

To the citizens of Washington Coun-
ty For the first time in a half CEN
fury the people of Vermont are
brought face to face with the open,
legalized saloon. For many years the
friends of license have asserted their
numerical majority and have demand
ed the popular vote. This demand
was too constant, too insistcnt, too
large to be wisely ignored or denied,
and it has been granted. The issue
is made and must be met If the
vote is in the affirmative, there will be
brought upon our beloved State If
reparable suffering, sorrow and shame.
If met with a strong and resolute NO
from the hearts and the hearthstones
of Vermont, it will be long years be-
fore it's deadly menace will again con-
front us.
To properly prepare for the coming
contest there must be thoroughly or
ganized effort. 10 that end, as the
Washington county member of the
State committee of fifteen, l heartily
invite and earnestly urge full rep
resentation of the opponents of the
open, legalized saloon from each town
in the county to be present at the YES
try of the Churcn of the Messiah, in
the city of Montpelier, on Saturday,
January 3, 1903, at eleven O'Clock, a.
M
Frank Plumley.
December 30, 1902.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31

er employee, in any department Of
activity. Employer and employee are
alike interested in the decision of the
question that will be submitted to
them in March. Both classes must in
evitably be among the "No' voters.
And chief among these voters
must be the heads of families with
children. No father wants his son to
acquire the drink habit every such
parent abhors the thought of his son
becoming a drunkard.
There is ample material, If it is right
ly and wisely Informed, and mar
shalled with energy that does not
sleep, for a laundering majority of
"Noes' on February 3.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31

high license agreed that four saloons
would be enough to supply that city
of eight thousand inhabitants; but
with the advent of the four the tide
of drink set in upon the city so
strongly that four bartenders at each
saloon were soon unable to supply the
rapidly increasing demand, and two
more saloons we're added within few
months, making six for the first
year,
Some said that the first year under
high license would witness the heavi-
est drinking" while the new was
on, y but this, like every other theory
of the high license advocates was ex-
actly contrary to the facts, for at the
end of three years experience with
high license its missionary power has
been so great in converting hitherto
sober men and boys into drunkards
that forty-two licensed saloons, each
paying "a fee of 800, besides two
wholesale liquor stores, one brewery,
many speak easies' and gambling
dens, and fearful numbers of houses
of ill fame, principally connected
with the saloons, constitute the awful
burdens that rest, like hideous night
mare, upon that city, at first deluded
and then debauched-by high Ii
cense"
All with whom l talked agreed
that what liquors were consumed
there under prohibition amounted to
but small fractional part of what
is now consumed under high license.
And what | found to be true of that
city l found to be essentially true of
all the other cities and towns | visited
that are under the blighting sting of
high license.
Shall the homes, the prosperity, the
hope, the happiness and hitherto good
name of Vermont be blighted by the
horrible curse of legalized saloons
Shall Vermont ignore or deny the pro-
gress she has made during the last
/ fifty years along the lines of sobriety,
chastity and higher civilization,
and step back into the darker expert.
ences of a barbarous past noted for
rum drinking, scantily furnished
homes and ragged children?
May God help the voters of Yer
mont to say NO!
L. F. Fortney,
| Plaintield, VT, Dec. 81, 1902.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
A WEDDING DAY.

The following lines, recent wedding anuver-
sary day in Calais, by aged farmer, seldom
excelled in merit by the practiced versiher.
They stood together, hand in hand
Amid the happy wedding cheer,
Upon the border of a land
Whose rare, enchanted atmosphere
They had not breathed yet; not blur
OF doubt her perfect faith could dim
He was the man of men for her
She the one woman made for him.
They stood exchanging troth and plight,
Ten years ago tonight.
beyond
Held nights wherein the purple play
OF Loves full sunshine fair and fond,
Was never..seen to hide away,
They knew that there were CULTS to
cross,
And many a tangled path to tread;
But whether strewn with flints or
moss,
What need they care, since overhead
The lambent honeymoon shone bright
Ten years ago tonight.
Twas not to be a setting moon,
Like earthly ones, but heavenly clear,
To pour it's beams steadfast boon
OF blessing thro the circling, year
And now into each others eyes
They look and say, "Ours came true
But could it, dear, be otherwise
With you to love me so-with you
To pledge me all this strange delight
Ten years ago tonight"
No cross has come too hard to bear,
No care that hid too keen smart,
txun tlaaI nd 10 hi To cIor
With two to lift it from the heart.
They had not dared to ask so much
OF bliss that should not know alloy,
Or hope that time would lay q touch
So gentle on their perfect joy,
AS flashed the future on their sight
Ten years ago tonight.
The heights that stretch before their
gaze
Like Beulah's their rapt vision fill
The tender sheen of spousal days
Is softly lingering round them still.
Her foot has only felt the moss,
And his has spurned the flint aside,
And there has been no gulf to cross
And she to him is still the bride
To whom he vowed the marriage plight
Ten years ago tonight.
Oh, happier, richer, gladder far,
Their cherub holding by the hand,
Than on that bridal eve they are,
AS here. all dreams fulfilled, they
stand
God grant that when their years shall
reach
Another decade they may say,
With radiant faces, each to each,
"Why tbs another wedding day
Just like our first, so sweet, so bright.
Twenty years ago tonight. F"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE.

The January number of Scribners
Magazine, which marks the beginning
of its Sd volunme, contains two not
able features of the coming year. 1t
is seldom that the opportunity is Of
fered to present the brilliant letters of
woman who has filled the highest
social and official positions at the
Courts of Europe. The letters of Ms
dame Washington, wife of the emil
nent French Ambassador, Nj. William
Waddington, begin in this number
with entertaining and witty accounts
of the English court in the Eighties
Madame Washington observations
have the greater value TO American
readers because she is an American,
the daughter of n President of Column
bia College and the granddaughter of
Rufus King who was American min
lister to England. These letters were
written to her relatives in this coun-
try at the very time in which the
events described were fresh in her
memory, They are therefore spontan.
eous, natural, and unconvenrionally
bright. The illustrations are from
portraits and other pictures in Madame
Waddington own collection.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
CIGARETTES AND CASTRO'S
ARMY.

A gentleman connected with the
British Guiana Rubber Company, who
had travelled extensively in Venezuela
and who was at Caracas when the
present trouble commenced, tells all in
teresting story concerning the army
which President Castro, has assembled
to oppose the allied forces of half of
Europe. He says;
1.-THE soldiers at Castro's command
are the most wretched- looking Great
ures it is possible to see anywhere.
They are nearly all cigarette fiends of
the most virulent type, and many of
them would not hesitate t0commit
murder in return for package of
cigarettes or AMP of bad whiskey.
AS Venezuela is a free country, no
one need join the army, but the crafty
Castro, who thoroughly understands
the little weaknesses of his people, has
ways of his own in persuading them
to take up arms. He recently issued
an order that his troops be provided
each day with cigarettes free of cost,
III addition, of course, to the meagre
rations they get. The new order was
posted up at every street corner and
in the public buildings in Caracas
shortly beforeII left that city, and it
worked like charm. Hundreds of
the unemployed and regular loafing
element rushed to.tbe recruiting station
in large numbers to become soldiers.
The cigarette order is responsible in a
great measure for the large number OF
mere boys who are joining the army. y
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
JEWEL FOR THF POPE.

New York, Dec. 30. Catholics in
every part of the world are preparing
to show their devotion and fidelity to
Pode Leo XIII. at the end of the cele-
bration of his silver jubilee, next
April, by presenting to him an almost
priceless jewel.
This is topaz weighing nearly four
pounds, the largest in the world. 1t
is now in the hands OF skilled work
men in Rome, where it is being richly
carved 1t will contain when finished
a representation of Papal arms and o:
Christ breaking bread. Notices on
this subject will be- displayed in all
Roman Catholic churches in the coun-
try
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
ROOSEvELT'S VICTORY.

1t is a distinct triumph of the Roose-
welt administration, this reference of
the Venezuelan claims of the European
powers to the arbitrament of The
Hague tribunal. The skill and di-
plomacy with which the allies have
been brought, first to an acceptance
of arbitration as means of settling
their difficulties with Venezuela, and
then to the acceptance of The Hague
tribunal as the arbitrator, constitute
a triumph for the President and his
secretary of State greater than the
settlement of the coal strike. The
Monroe Doctrine has been not only
maintained but strengthened Venez-
uela is about to be saved from further
hardship and will be insured a just
settlement of the claims against her,
and all possibility of friction between
the United States and either or all
of the interested powers has been
averted.
Once persuaded that arbitration WI
the proper course, the allies doubtless
largely inspired by personal admira-
ton for the President, insisted that
he must act as arbitrator, course to
which there were many objections.
At no time did Mr. Roosevelt posi-
lively refuse so to act, but he intrust-
ed to the skillful diplomacy of Secre
tary Hay the task of making the pow
ers see that the present situation
offered most advantageous oppor-
tunity Of demonstrating their conf
dence in the tribunal which they had
themselves sanctioned and that the
imposition of so onerous task on the
President was akin to taking advant-
age of good nature.
There was danger in the undertake
ing by President Roosevelt of the
task of adjusting the difficulties in
which Venezuela had become involved
with certain European powers. There is
no question that the work would have
been done with judicial impartiality
and rectitude. Very likely theEuropean
powers would have accepted, without
murmur, the Judgment of the Presi-
dent had it been, or seemed to be,
short of the full measure of justice to
their people; very likely, in similar
case, Venezuela would not have &C.
cepted the judgment with grace and
serenity, and an apparent leaning
toward the Europeans would have been
regarded as mark of the hostility of
| the United States not only to Venez-
uela but to the republics of South
America. all and singular, and would
have aroused spirit of unfriendliness
that would have been prejudicial to
the interests of the United States
throughout South and Central Ameri-
ca. The President is undoubtedly
| felicitating himself on his graceful
escape from an embarrassing situa-
ton. But it was high compliment,
from every point of view, the belliger-
ants paid Roosevelt.
With the prestige borne from the
late war with Spain, the development
in that contest of the capacity of this
country for the arts of war as we'll as
peace, there can be little danger in
the issue of the tribunals deliber-
ations to the interests of the
United States or to the Doctrine the
government maintains in respect of
European colonization in the Americas
to the south of the Rio Grande, as far
| as Cape Horn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31

St. Johnsbury, Dec. 30.-Passump-
sic Lodge, No. 81, f. and A. M, of
this place will celebrate the compile
ton of the first half century of its ex-
istence January 10. In the afternoon
the lodge will keep open house at its
rooms and in the evening there will
be public meeting at Music hal
with an address by Walter E. Ranger
of Montpelier, grand senior warden
of the grand lodge, Mr.. Ranger is a
member of Crescent Lodge of Lyndon
vile, but belongs to the chapter,
council, and commandery at this
place. Capt. p. d. Blodgett of Bur-
lington, the only living charter men,
Der of Passumpsic Lodge has been in
vited as the guest of honor, but ill
health may prevent him from attend
ing. This lodge is one of the two
largest blue lodges in Vermont the
last report showing 3lS members, and
the same number is credited to Gran
lite Lodge of Barre.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31

The Bennington Reformer makes the
following comment on the law supple
ments issued with Vermont papers last
week: 1.-THE Reformer this week fur
nishes its readers all the new laws of
public interest enacted by the Legisla-
ture at its recent session. These law
supplements were printed for the State
under contract by Burlington firm,
therefore the Reformer is not respon-
sible for their typographical appear
ance. -
Well it wasn't exactly an edition-de
luxe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
LIFE SENTENCE.

Washington, Dec. 29.-Hilario Pa
edo, the spy who, next to Gen. Fun
ston, is entitled to the credit of captur-
ing Aguinaldo, has been sentenced to
life imprisonment for murder, accord
ing to advices received by the war de.
partment. Details of the crime are
lacking.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES

Vienna, Dec. 80 --Tageblatte today
reports that Grown Princess Louise of
Saxony and her brother, Archduke
Leopold, have exhausted their ready
money and are in serious financial
difficulties. The Archduke, the paper
says, applied to Jew money lender
for $40, 600 which was refused.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-31
NOTICE

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the First National Bank of Montpelier,
for the election of directors and the trans
action of other legal business, will be held
at the Office of the bank, Al State Street,
Tuesday, January -, 1903, at two o'clock,
P. NJ.
A. G. EATON, Cashier.
Montpelier, VT, Dec. 20, 1902.