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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
EAST MIpDLEBuRY.

w. II. Eldridge of Proctor was with his
people over Sunday.
Mrs. Hattie Piper and Miss Georgia Watson
were home from Brandon for few days this
week.
Sheridan Newton has moved his family
from Ripton and will occupy the English
tenement.
Rev. c. w. s. Becker delivered his farewell
sermon at the NJ. +. church on Sunday morn
ing April o.
Almon Woodcock and son Harrison of Adj
olson were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. II. w
Dewey for few days this week.
There will be dime supper at Good Temp
lars Hall Tuesday evening, April IS. Supper
will be served from to s o'clock.
There were no services at St. Barnabas's
chapel Sunday afternoon, April Q. because of
the indispostion of the rector, Rev. w. T.
Forsythe.
Mrs. y. II. Sumner entertained the children
of St. Barnabass Sunday school at her home
Saturday afternoon, April 5. All report a
very pleasant occasion.
w. w. Turner has leased of Austin Peel,
his sash and bind shop. Mr.. Turner is an
experienced workman and patronage which he
may receive will have careful and prompt
attention.
The funeral services OF Daniel Reed, Young
est son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Reed, was held
at St. Barnabas's chapel Friday afternoon,
April 4, at T. o'clock, Rev. w. +. Forsythe Of
fciating. The bearers were Fred Watson,
Fred Curtin, Joseph Roberts, Jr., and Harold
Rogers. The interment was in the family lot
in the village cemetery.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
WEYBRIDGE.

Chas. Champine's youngest child is sick.
II. b. Hayes has phone in his residence.
Miss Griswold of Cornwall is sick at G. E.
Child's.
Rev. X. w. Thompson is at Saratoga at
tending conference this week.
Mrs. J. a. Cole and children are visiting at
w. \. Kelleys in Middlebury.
Our listers are through with the spring job.
Everybody quite thin, as usual.
Raymond Sturtevant visited Burlington on
Tuesday in the interest OF his business.
Walter Sturdevant has engaged his services
to Mr. Houston and will reside at the old
home still.
Miss Laura Bullard, who has been i'll so
long, is still quite low, but some hopes are
entertained of her recovery.
Monument Pulp Mill and Village schools
commence the spring term next Monday,
April Il; the Stone school one week later.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
STARK BORO.

Edmond Hannah is very sick.
Clinton Pierce is staying awhile with his
aunt, Mrs. Susie Stokes.
Rev. G. W. Russell intends to move to
Iinesburgh soon to stay awhile at his cottage
at the pond.
The larger part of the members of the NJ
f. church very much regret having to lose
their pastor. lie is vey popular.
The f. b. church people are talking Of hav-
ing Mr.. Thurston preach to them this year
lie is pastor of the Huntington F. b. church
at the present time.
Rev. +. b. Harris delivered his farewell adj.
dress last Sabbath. He has gone to St. Adams
to attend the Vermont conference. He is
going to try to get into that conference.
Mrs, John Garlin is very sick with pneu-
monia. The doctors say she has no fever
now but they cannot rally her. They think
if they can keep her along a few days there
will be more hope Of her recovery. Oscar
Baldwin is not so well. Mrs. Susie Stokes
holds about the same
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
NEW HAVEN.

F. L. Shackett has purchased driving
horse.
Charles Allen of Middlebury college was
in town over Sunday.
Arthur Hinman is recovering from an
attack OF appendicitis.
NJ. j. Landon is repairing his tenement
house on South street.
Miss Blanche Newton Of Middlebury is
the guest Of Miss Belle Sherman.
VIII Stowe has moved into the house with
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Langdon.
Charles +. Squer has gone to Florence,
where he has entered the store of the Florence
Marble Co.
Mrs. Ed Clay and Mrs. Arson Carr of
Middlebury were the recent guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. ID. \. Roleau.
Col. n. +. Dunshee of Bristol has sold the
Wheeler farm in the north part of the town
to Ceylon Jackson of Derby.
Mrs. Ida Winans, who died recently al
the Winans homestead at Basin IIarbor, was
a sister of Mrs. Harvey Iinman of this town.
The I7-year-old son Of Mr.. Marsh, who
lives on the Wicker farm on Town Hill
died at the hospital on Tuesday from the
effects of an operation for appendicitis.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
BRIDPORT.

Fred st. John has been worse again.
Mrs. Edith Stage is visiting her parents.
Wesley Sherbino of Addison was in town
Sunday.
Mrs. Horace Lapham and son recently
visited at j. E. Wrghts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heminway have moved to
their new home in Middlebury.
Floyd a. Myrick has entered the employ of
Mr.. Herrick of Nergennes as clerk.
The family of Adelbert Spaulding of North
Sherburne are guests of w. d. Spauldng.
Mrs. Sally Austin is on the gain. d. E.
Grosvenor is about the same. Miss Stella
Kingsland is improving slowly.
An excursion to Albany will be given by
Morning sun lodge, No. I42, +. and \. NJ, of
Port Henry on April 20. a special train will
be run, with very low rates, leaving Westport
at 80 a. M; Addison Junction at $500. The
train returns the same day, but those desiring
so to do may stay over night by paying 81 extra.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
BRISTOL,

John MCGEE is attending school at Barre
this spring.
John Gaines has moved to his place on
Bristol Flats.
5. O. Chaplin is making extensive repairs to
his house on West street.
Henry Welsh Of Montpelier was in town on
Saturday visiting friends.
There is to be special town meeting on
April FL at 10 o'clock a. m.
Mrs A. a. Dean, who has been very sick
the past week, is much better.
C. Gordon and family have moved to the
Leonard building on East street.
Col n. F. Dunshee has sold his New Haven
farm to Ceylon Jackson of Derby.
Nelson Purinton and wife are visiting their
daughters at Mechanicswlle and Windsor.
Fred Nahum has rented the Needham place
on East street and will move there al once
NJ. +. Allen of Ferrisburg was in town on
Monday, the guest of Col. y. +. Dunshee.
Ralph Ridley of the Vermont academy at
SaNtons River is spending his vacation with
his mother.
VIM Daggett of Proctor was in town on
business Wednesday. He returned to his
home Thursday morning
There will be Episcopal services at bikes
hall on Sunday evening, conducted by Rev.
NJ. /. Woolsey of Nergennes.
Chauncey Stewart and wife, who have spent
the winter at Mrs. X. ID. Stewards, have re-
turned to their home at Charlotte.
!. w. Page goes to Nergennes this Thurs
day morning. From there he expects to go to
Cambridge, to be gone several days.
f. w. Smith returned on Wednesday from
trip to Cincinnati, O., and New Orleans, La.
He has been absent about six weeks.
Mrs. John Pierce of Vergennes was in town
last week to attend the funeral Of w. w,
Needham. She returned to her home on
Monday
\. f. Nahum, who has been in Florida for
the past two months arrived home last week
Thursday He was very much pleased with
his trip.
II. +. IIasseltine and Claude Sneden are
home from Baltimore, NId where they arc
students at a medical college. They expect tc
return in the fall
There will be no preaching at the Metho
dist church next Sunday, the pastor, Rev. l.
L. Kelton, having gone to Saratoga to attend
the Troy conference.
VIM. Iafountan has rented his blacksmith
shop on East street to Thomas Dupont, Mr.
Dupont buying the tools. He took possession
on Wednesday, April 9.
Rev. H. L. Keton assisted in meetings al
Champlain, \. V, last week. He attended a
meeting of the Vermont Holiness association
at St. Adams on Tuesday of this week.
Fred E. Nahum has been appointed mail
carrier on X. +. d. No. 3, which lies in the
north part of Lincoln and south part OF
Starksboro. lie commences his labors on
May I.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
CORNWALL.

Schools in town commenced on Monday
last
Vivian Douglas is home from her school,
sick.
Farmers are preparing their ground for
sowing.
Miss katherine Griswold is in Weybridge
dangerously i'll.
Barlow Rowe is making quite extensive re-
pairs upon his house.
The Cornwall Telephone company are max
ing preparations to extend their line from
South Cornwall to Salisbury. They have now
seventy-thrce phones in Cornwall-twenty
new ones since Jan. l; fifty-four new one.
since Nov. l, 1901, and I52 total ON their line
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
ORW ELL.

Mrs. Robert Ryan is improving.
Mrs. J. Ward went home TO live on Monday
last.
Col. w. X. Wright was in Burlington on the
4th inst.
The sale of Wednesday last resulted in the
dsposing of five horses.
Mrs. ID. w. Clark was in Burlington on
Friday last to see Mrs. Z. NJ. Bottum.
Hon. II. d. Branch has recovered so he is
able to drive about and attend to business
Some early potatoes and peas will be planted
this week. The ground is in fine condition.
II. T. Cults went to Nliddlebury on Monday
to take charge Of the farms of Joseph Battell.
Our schools all commenced Monday of this
week, with the same teachers as the past
winter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

Bert Carkins, who has been in the employ
of the Bristol Manufacturing company the
past year, has severed his connection and gone
to Malone, n. V, where he has been appoint
ed station agent.
DR.. G. f. Edmunds had THE misfortune to
be thrown from his buggy on Wednesday,
about a mile north of the village, breaking
both bones of his left leg just above the
ankle. He is doing as well as could be eX-
pected.
w. II. Ridley and wife with John Lefferts
and wife of Brooklyn, \. V, went to Atlantic
City on Wednesday of last week. On Thurs
day morning, about 10 O'Clock, fire destroyed
Hotel Luray, at which they were stopping
together with eleven other hotels. They
saved all of their personal effects.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
OIL fsg" the
Children.

Give them oil-cod-liver oil.
It's curious to see the result.
Give it to the pccvish, fret
full child, and he laughs. Give
it to the pale, anemic child
and his face becomes rosy and
full of health. Take a flat
chested child, or a child that
has stopped growing, give him
the oil, and he will grow big
and strong like the rest.
This is not a new scheme
1t has been done for years
OF course you must use the
right oil. SCOTS Emulsion
is the one.
SCOTS Emulsion neither
looks nor tastes like oil because
we are so careful in making i
pleasant to take.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, 400 Pearl ST., N. Y
soc and 800; al druggists.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
FERRISBURG.

ii. Booth is now conyalcscont.
Ferrisburg is soon to have another store.
Mrs. Jewel Larrow is very low at the present
writing.
There are between f.rty and fly cases #
measles in town.
Mrs H. Gibbs Of Proctor IS visiting her
sister, Mrs ]. Danyaw.
p \. Larow has five children that are
quite sick with meas,ls.
Mr.. and Mrs.'F. Wilmer are the happy
parents Of a daughter born April A.
The schools did not open April s as in
tended, on accom-, Of measles. They will
commence the 18th.
Several from ibis and adjoining towns
attended the auction of Widow Bali at North
Ferrsburg, held April i.
Guy Field has resolved the appointment of
mail carrier on ih- route recently laid out.
Now the citizens must hustle and get up their
u. 5. mail boxes, ior Gu, also is hustler
HANCOCK.
Harold Spencer IS visiting relatives in
Barre.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
County Ueps.
ADDISON.

Mrs. NJ. A. Smith is improving slowly.
NJ A. Smith visited the Queen City on
Tuesday of this week.
d. Van Akin spent Sunday in town with
his family at the home of James Lacey
Miss Anna Harding of st. Adams is the
guest of Mrs. +. A. Gorton for a few days.
Weston Spencer and r. X. O'Bryan went
to Bristol on Friday last to attend the funeral
of brother Mason, William Needham.
DR.. White went to Middlebury on We'd
nesday last, where he will make his future
home. Since coming here DR.. White has
made many warm friends and all regret his
going away.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

Miss Emma Dwire entertained some thirty
seven of her young friends on Friday evening,
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Dwire. Refreshments were served,
good music furnished for dancing, and the
young hostess ably assisted by her parents,
made the evening a most enjoyable one for
all present
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
BREAD LOAF.

The roads in Hancock are very bad.
The carpenters are working on the new
cottages.
Mrs. X. J. Beeman and children are at Mrs.
Loren Richards this week
School commences next Monday, with Mrs.
Stanley McQuvey as teacher.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

Both schools in town are to commence
Monday, April II.
Pearl Durham has been engaged to teach
school in Stockbridge.
Robert Cla1in has moved to his farm,
recently purchased of r. \. Durham
Miss Lena Rhodes went to New Hamp-
shire last Thursday; she has position there
as teacher.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
A CARD.

Come to my store and get twenty
five or fifty cent bottle of Greene's War
ranted Syrup of Tar and | will pay you
back your money if it does not cure your
cough or cold.
w II. SHELDON,
DIR ID. A. BISBEE,
ISAAC STERNs. Middlebury,
DAY BROTHERS, f. Middlebury
c. \. NORTH, Shoreham,
ID IL. BENNETT, Bridport,
j II. FLETCHER, Bridport,
+. II. DEAN, Monkton,
1iw2G AVERY & PRESTON, Ferrisburg
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
HANCOCK.

Harold Spencer IS visiting relatives in
Barre.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-31
Prohibition in Maine.

Mrs. Katharine Lente Stevenson,
president of Massachusetts, w. c. r.
u, has just completed trip of near
ly two weeks in the state of Maine,
and says she is prepared to speak
with greater authority than ever be-
fore on the subject of prohibition on
its native heath. While she unques-
tionably found towns where the law
was violated she also found towns
where it was as perfectly enforced as
any other law upon the statute book.
In one place the president of the
union said to her: "If we were to
see man staggering upon our
streets we should be much more like
ly to think he was sick than that he
was intoxicated. 1t is a sight we
never see" In another place the min
lister said: eve do not need the law
here in this village; it enforGes it.
self; there would be no liquor selling
and no drunkenness in the commun-
ity if there were no law. The years
have done their work and a prohibi-
ton community is the result"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-31
CAN DO WITHOUT SALOONS.
Santa Monica, Cal, Tries Experiment.
with Success Beyond Ex-
pectntiOn.

Santa Monica, Cal, nearly a year
ago decreed the closing of the sa-
looms. To do so was predicted would
ruin the city. How the city had been
ruined, read what the California
Voice says:
First, very notable increase in
the number and character of the pop
ulation and visitors to the beach.
Second, business men~say that since
closing the saloons in May there is
a decided improvement in business,
some going SO Ear as to say that their
business has almost doubled. The
merchants say that they are now get
ting more cash in hand for goods
than ever before, and that what for
merly went to saloons now goes into
the legitimate channels of trade. An
example or two will show the trend
of business under prohibition.
The bank deposits in the Santa
Monica bank for the three months of
June, July and August. 1900, under
prohibition, were $4,000 more than
they were for the corresponding
hiohthS VI iCJJ Will oDtu Sd1OOnS.
Moody's delicacy store for the month
of June, July and August, 1900, I'M
der prohibition. took in actual cash
for June, $232.50; for July, $5S4.S3;
for August, S427.23, in excess of the
cash receipts for the three CORE
spending months of 1899, when they
had saloons.
In May, 1899, there were IA ar
rests for drunkenness; in May, 1900,
only four, and all other cases trace
able to saloons have fallen of CORE
spondingly. So that summing it all
up, Santa Monica can very well afford
to do without saloons. and the good
people of Santa Monica say that they
can never again afford to have an
other saloon in their little city by the
sea.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-31

test from Towser, and this notwith-
standing the fact that he is the pet
and pride of almost every one of the
pretty girls whom he would thus Sc
quester from masculine admiration.
The plumber, the electric light man,
and workmen of similar ilk must be
smuggled into the premises the back
way if they would penetrate beyond
the lower front hallway of the big
building, and it would be IL bold caller,
indeed, who would dare defy Towser's
excited challenge, small and insigniti-
cant as the devoted dog appears.
Most of his 300 fair charges Towser
knows personally, and by most of
them he is held in atfectionate regard,
despite his extreme attitude in regard
to 'beauX or gallants, and few, if any,
of them would admit him to be dog
of ordinary abilities or qualifications.
Toward children of the kindergarten,
including Miss Chandler, a kinder
garten teacher who resides at the as
ISOLATION home, Towser shows strong
affections, although the pretty girls
of the home proper come first in his
regard.
That Towser's peculiar censorship
Is entirely self-taugf1t and self-consti-
tuted, the residents and authorities OF
the association home are unanimous
ly agreed. No slightest shade or de-
gree of suggestion or training taught
the odd fellow to keep men at a dis
lance from the young lady inmates Of
his chosen home. But the dog evident
ly realizes that with pretty girls to
look after it behooves him to be ex-
traordinarily particular and watchful.
To this duty, as he sees it, Towser de.
votes himself with an admirable
faithfulness, devotion, and singleness
of heart.
Towser, says the Chicago Tribune, is
also remarkable because of his re-
ligious and social inclinations. He
attends the. services in the Home
chapel almost every Sunday, and
never an entertainment takes place
within the home precincts but Towser
insists upon taking at least silent
part in the exercises of the occasion.
When, as sometimes occurs, he is
elected from the platform. his grief is
extreme and unremitting in its express
sion, but if allowed to remain his be.
havior, according to many of his
feminine charges, is dignited and ex-
emplary almost beyond belief.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-31
A BAD BARGAIN.
How One Man Was Brought to Sec
the Folly of Beer
Drinking.

Wouldn't you like to buy some
kindling wood, mister?" asked an I'M
kempt and npleasant-looking man.
It's the only way have to make a
living, and the price is not high
Happening to need what he had to
sell, l engaged a load. When he came
in for his money he said, APOLOGIZE
ca!ly:
Il am q poor man, and l have a
pretty hard time to get along. Iwould
like to attend your religious meetings
and go to church with my wife and
children, but we are too poor. But I
mean to come around anyway"
The next day l met the man on the
street. He had on ragged clothes,
a once white, but now very yellow
shirt with no collar or cuffs, and a
torn, dirty SLOUGH hat. l engaged him
in conversation. | asked him why he
did not ''straighten up and be man"
the pitiful story he told before, but
this time smelled the fumes of beer
on his breath!
Excuse me, my FRIEND" said l, 81
do not care to intrude upon your pri-
vate affairs, but you are a drinking
man"
"Oh, no, I'm not" he said, cutting me
off short.
But your breath smells of liquor"
l insisted. you've been drinking to-
day"
well, yes, just had glass of beer.
but I'm not regular drinker."
had heard such men talk before. so
I ventured to press the matter home.
Let me see" said l, ''do you suppose
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A small quantity of washing soda
dissolved in hard water softens it by
precipitating the chalk.
New York pays her supreme court
judges $17,50O per annum, which is
higher salary than any other state
gives.
The scale of the human voice, from
lowest bass to highest soprano, is
four octaves. The average voice has
only II notes.
The state of Utah has more sheep
than any other similar area of land;
her total is 100000. New Mexico
has about 100000.
There are only seven tenement
houses in the Second ward of New
York. There are Lac in the Tenth
ward. The area of the Second is rs
acres and of the Tenth 100 acres.
BOmbast once signified the cotton
that was employed to stuff garments,
particularly the enormous trunk hose
worn in the fourteenth and fifteenth
| centuries.
The Rocky mountain locust, or
grasshopper, in 1874 destroyed $780,
100000 of the crops of Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska and Iowa, and the
indirect loss was probably as much
more.
The bands of elk that wintered in
jackson Hole country, Wyoming, four
years ago, were estimated to number
10000. They now number less than
10000, according to the estimate of
the ranchers.
College authorities at Milwaukee
expressed an old sentiment in new
words on the sign, please walk on
the sidewalk" The words were nice
ly arranged in two lines. \ vandal
came along with Ratchet, and when
he left, the sign read thus: please
walk on" which cordial invitation is
being generally accepted.
If called upon in a hurry the ma
tional house of representatives could
get up very good vaudeville show.
There are story tellers galore, Con-
gresham Hamilton is capital sing
er of topical songs and others having
simple music and Kahn, of California,
formerly an actor of note, has some
ludicrous parodies of Shakespeare.
dancers and altogether an excellent
show could be furnished on short no.
| tice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-31
T0WSER HATES MEN.
Considers Himself Official Watchdog
of 800 Girls.
No Man Can Ascend Front steps of
Young WOman's Home at Chi
cagO without His Most En-
phntic Protest.

There is at least one dog in Chicago
that may be said to thoroughly under
stand his business. This is Towser,
the pride and joy of the inmates of the
Young Woman's Christian association
home, at 2SS Michigan avenue.
A tramp dog" originally, of doubt
full family and still more doubtful
doors of the home and not only insist
ed upon hospitality; but actually de-
manded adoption. He was gaunt, hun
CRY, wretched, miserable. with ragged
coat, unhappy expression, and every
sign of detection and misery. Finding
his new quarters pleasant, he abso-
lutely refused to leave them. So the
home authorities, finding it practical
ly impossible to get rid of him, capitu-
lated, and Towser was informally
adopted. Now, fat and in the pink of
condition. Towser proves daily that he
not only knows a grateful spirit, but
that he has also a fine sense of loyalty,
courage and discrimination.
More than 300 marriageable Young
women, most of them pretty and at
tractive, reside at the association
home. Masculine visitors, while heart
lily welcomed at proper times and with
in due restrictions, are allowed only i'll
the hall, parlors and reception-room
of the big hosiery, and upon the front
steps. Towser was not long in becom-
ing acquainted with the rules and
regulations in regard to these matters,
and he carries his care and supervision
of the 300 fair damsels, to whom he
has constituted himself official watch
dog in all literalness, to lengths of
which even the most conventional and
careful of chaperons would scarcely
dream.
No man so much as ascends the
front steps without an emphatic pro