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The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31
NOT THE FUGITIVE B0oDLER.
Charles Kratz Promoted at City
WaterWorks Station

Water Commissioner Ben. C. Adkins
was bored almost to desperation yester-.
day by questioners who desired to learn
the identity OF his latest appointee.
Charles Kratz.
On the books in the City Registers Of
flee the name of Kratz appears, he hay-
of a first fireman at tho Chain of Rocks.
Mr.. Adkins explained that his KratZ
had been working at the Waterworks for
some time as a second-class fireman and
that he was merely being promoted. OF
course he is not the fugitive boodler.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31

''Scrupulous Conscience" is not coufn-
ing his donations To st. Louis, according
10 a dispatch from Omaha to- the local
agent Of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany. According to the dispatch the
treasurer of the Union Pacific at Omaha
received $40 from the mysterious st. Louis
person, while the company's local agent
received a like amount
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31
" %%%%n>~>%>H>>%>AE
q . = %~~%~A%\H%~e~ .

tiers have borne special delivery stamps,
while others have borne the regular To-
cent stamp.
The phraseology in all the letters is
practically the same and, with the ex
ception OF the two styles of handwriting.
the letters all indicate that they were
written by the same person.
The Post-Office Department is unable TO
tell what station the letters are mailed
from. except that they are posted in 81.
Louis.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31

Mrs. Robert W. Colglazier was slightly
burned abolt the face and hands by the
explosion of gasoline which she was US
ing to wash clothing at her home, No.
3iS5 Shenandoah avenue, yesterday noon.
The furniture was damaged to the extent
OF sic.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31
Merer BROS. Ranuuet.

The Meyer Bros. Coffee and Spice
Company gave It's third annual banquet
to its statesmen at Priester's restaurant
last night. Robert Meyer. the president OF
the firm. was toastmaster. The members
of the firm and twenty-nine statesmen at
tended.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31
"SCRUPUL GUS CONSCIENCE SENDS REMITTANCES
TO HENRY ZIEGENHEIN AND COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER.

Theories Identity of the Mysterious Sender of More Than
sO0 Currency Suggest Insanity Religious Fanacsm and
Real Remorse of ConscienceSome of the Letters Ev
IDENTIFY Disguised Hand Follow the General Style All Cases
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31
DRIVERS RETURN TO WORK
TO HELP BURY THE DEAD.

Strikers Declare Truce Ten Days Order to Mitigate the
Horrors Attendant Upon the Fire DisaserMen instructor
to Report to Their Employers and Work Without Regard to
Wages.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31

The handwriting corresponds with
business. houses.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31

F. L. Leavitt, the ticket taker at the
theater. was at the main entrance and,
realizing the gravity of the situation at
glance, he burst open the three double
doors and then ran to turn in the alarm.
sI heard the cry and saw the mob
rushing for the door," said he. II could
net see the fire from where i stood and
! thought It was not so bad at 1t was.
When the first of the frenEied audience
rushed 10 the side door. tried to calm
thena ard in less than a minute / saw
Z that Il was no use and Immediately burst
open the doors. Then / ran for the fire
alarm box
Coming back. assisted in the rescue
ss<:s much as l could. but was overTul
sFiti the terrified crowd that pushed and
showed each other out of the doorway
and was caught in the mass of strug-
cling humanity and carried out to the
y street,
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-31

1 clothes over for some name or mark of
iddentifcation. None could they find.
I'm certain she lslthe same little GIRL"
said the man. "shc was u great one to
! scampe-."
I'm the most grateful man in Chicago"
| said ]. r. Thompson, who owns the res
| taurant My sister was IN the theater
with my two childrep-John. aged 9, and
| Ruth, aged Z. Sister got almost TO the
/ door with both of them. Then Ruthfe dis
| appeared She told me she knew the child
| must be safe but was like maniac. 1t
| was an hour before We found her. How it
| happened didn't know, but she ran back
into the theater and out under the stage,
out through the stage entrance"
Where is the little girl now?" I asked
him.
I 'I sent her home to her mother" he
said Only ten feet away lay the chestnut
haired girl who was a great one to scam
per- As the night closed in more doctors
! and nurses came 10 help, until at the last
nearly all the people working were doc
tors
1 "A priest went about from one to another
to find if In any case his holy offices were
4 needed. Between times he looked at the
dead to- see IL he knew them. Under a
table he passed. The shape that lay on
the floor could not be recognized, so mutt
lated was it. But the priest knew the
gown the girl wore and her jewelry.
"Its Miss Norton of Evanston" he said.
''She was here with her chaDerone and
Il her sister, i must find them"
ssrhe tale might be told endlessly. Yet
What. would be the use. The horror Is
lAhere upon us--a horror such as had been
seldom known.
Blame is useless. Will J.. Davis and
HAIRY Towers are completely prostrated
| by the shock The theater Was tf1eil
| pride They called it the most beautiful
| and safest theater in the United States
Yet in ten minutes all this horror was
really? JEAN COWGlLi-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
EAST CAMBRIDGE.

Percy and Reba Demerritt have been very
sick the past week.
Lee Carpenter of Johnson was at F. H.
Fullington's Sunday.
party of gypsies passed through this
neighborhood Saturday.
Vera Hemminway visited Miss Emma Lara
bee in Morrisville recently.
Eddie Woodruff OF Underhill visited at
Nelson Jaynes' the past week.
Several from this place attended the cir
Gus at Burlington Wednesday.
Miss Stella Fullington has been spending
week visiting relatives in Glover.
Mr.. and Mrs Nelson Jaynes and daughter,
Ila visited in Watervile recently.
Mrs. Myrtle Shattuck, of Fairfield was at
her fathers Monday and Tuesday.
Emerson Flanders of North Cam bridge
has been at l.. U. Flanders the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ Kneeland of East Fletch.
er visited at FL. Z. Fullington's Wednesday.
Miss Ethel Caswell of Fairfax visited Miss
Hazel Moiles last Wednesday and Thurs day.
Harry Maxfield and wife, of Johnson, call
ed on Mr., and Mrs. B. F. Nye little while
Sunday.
Rain prevails and farmers are getting dis
couraged as there snot much haying done in
this place yet.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Green visited their
daughter, Mrs. M. G. Shattuck in Fairfield,
the past week.
Many from this place attended the s. 8
picnic at Jacksonville Friday. All report an
excellent time.
John Sheldon, who has been spending a
week at his fathers, G. e. Sheldons, has re-
turned to his work at W. a. Nye's in John
son.
n. G. Fullington has been suffering the
past week from painful wound on the hand,
caused by coming too closely in contact with
barbed wire. 1t was feared it would result in
blood poison.
Miss Nellie Weston who will be remem bered
as formerly of this place, was married the
21st of this month at the home of her
brother, Henry Weston, in Hanover, N. H.,
to Mr.. Arthur Alden Bassett of Maine
They have gone to Maine on trip and will
return to make their future home in Man.
chester, N. Il.
About forty of the friends of Perle Green
gave him a very pleasant surprise party last
Monday evening Sandwiches, cake, ice cream,
punch and lemonade were served. Mr.. Green
entertained the company with music from
his gramophone and with singing and games
very pleasant evening was spent. Perlie
returned to his work in Hanover, N. H.,
Thursday morning.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
Two West Burke Girls EIope.

This peaceful village is stirred up
over the sudden marriage of two OF
it's we'll known ladies to Ned Woodley
and Lew Strong, both formerly of the
Harris Meyer Dramatic Co., of New
York, saysa West Burke correspond
ent. The young men have been here
about four weeks directing an enter
tainment given by the band July Is.
Rehearsals were held nightly, and
Annie Colby and Annie Silsby had
leading parts. Those young la lies
fell in love with the city actors and
the affair eliminated Thursday after
noon when Miss Colby called for Miss
Silsby and the two went off together,
leaving word for Mrs. Silsby that they
had gone to make call. They then
hid in the bushes until they we're
Joined by the young men, who came
along in double team, and the elop.
ing pairs drove to Lyndonville, about
eight miles. Meanwhile, Mrs. Silsby
had gone to her daughters room,
wh4re she found a letter saying that
Annie had gone away to get married.
Mr.. Silsby and Mr.. Colby started
after them toward Lyndonville, tele.
phoning deputy sheriff in Lyndon
vile to stop the marriage. But fif.
teen minutes before the deputy sher-
II arrived at the parsonage the knot
was tied by the Rev. j. C. Bodwell,
the Congl pastor at Lyndonvllle.
The young men had obtained mar
riage licenses the night before, of the
town clerk of Burke, from which 1t
appears that WOodlty was % years
old and Strong 81. Both girls were
about 10 Years old, Miss Colby being
a recent academy graduate and Miss
Sibiey IA school teacher. The married
couples returned to West Burke,
where they were met by enraged par
ents and crowd OF Indignant towns
people. Mr.. Silsbv knocked Mr..
Strong down and took his dsughter,
now Mrs. Strong, home with him.
Mrs. Woody was at first undecided
to return to her old home, but was
finally persuaded to go. Later a
large crowd gathered around the
place where the young men were stay
ing and threatened to lynch them if
they did not leave town, The actors
decided to leave, and went as far as
Lyndonville, but returned the next
day to West Burke to await develop
ments, though they are not living
with their newly made brides.
Later both men left West Burke
for parts unknown, to avoid public
indignation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
The Grand Army encampment.

For the second time the Grand
Army of the Republic will holdits an
nual encampment in this city.
Doubtless, also, it will be the last
time. Seventeen years ago the en-
campment met here, and that body
is not likely to revisit any city at
shorter intervals. Almost the entire
membership of this distinguished and
honorable society live in what we
here call Eastern states. 1t is not a
continuing body. Into its ranks no
man can enter who did not serve his
country in the Army or Navy during
the years from 1861 to 1865.
That such a host of survivors re-
main of a conflict which ended nearly
forty years ago is solemn evidence of
the desperate nature of the struggle
which demanded the personal services
OF representatives from almost every
American family 4isting at that time
1t accounts, also, for the supreme in
terest which the people always take
in the annual reunions of these ve1k
Grams, with some of whom we are tY
most of us connected by ties of fang
lily kinship. -
Those who founded the society and
still survive have become venerable
men, whose whiteningloc bear wit
ness to their approaching end.
Seventeen years hence there will
doubtless remain some struggling
remnants of that mighty host, who
withfeeble steps, will wend their way
to the appointed rendezvous once
more to meet their old comrades in
arms and renew their VOWS of frater-
nifty, charity and loyalty. But they
will not be here.
The fatigue of so long a journey
will be impossible at their age.
Whatever honor San Francisco ever
intends to pay the survivors of the
great struggle for the Union its peo-
pie must prepare to pay now.
When the coming encampment, which
is to meet here in August, breaks up,
we shall part with that body of vet
Grams forever.-San Francisco Chron-
icIe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
Summer Hotel at Stowe.

The following will not only interest
the people of Stowe, but Lamoille
County generally which is alwaysin-
terested in Stoves prosperity =
The people of Stowe are becoming
interested in the building of new
summer hotel, and renewal of the
days when that to- n had 800 room
summer house and was one of the
principal summer resorts of Vermont.
During Old Home week when MANY
former Stowe people will be in town
this subject will be discussed more
fully. Architect F. A. Walker, of
this city has prepared water color
painting of a hotel of which he has
ground plans, which will be placed on
exhibition at Stowe during Old Home
week. Itrepresents large airy hotel
Of Old English design with long
building and two wings at the ends,
a veranda around the court, with an
open garden in the center. The
rooms are all outside rooms and the
hotel is planned to accommodate
100 to 125 guests. 1t isfron two to
two and one halfstories high with
high gable roofs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
LamolIIe Probate Court.
E G WHITE, JUDGE.


The following business was trans
acted at the Probate Office during the
three weeks ending July 25th:
Estate of Joseph A. Souther, Morris
town. Commissioners make report and
Administrator settles his account.
Estate of John Humphrey, Wolcott-
Will approved; Eliza J. Humphrey ap.
pointed Executrix, c. W. Moulton an
]: A. Poor, Appraisers and Commits
sioners,
Estate of Amos G. Hayford, Johnson.
Administrator settles his account.
III Estate of Mary Houston, Stowe. Lii
cense granted to sell real estate.
Estate of Eva Belle Amsden, Minor,
Gilmore. Guardian settles his account
and name changed to Eva Belle Allen.
Estate of Salman Stebbins, Johnson.
Order of Notice-license.
Estate of Joseph w. Spaulding, Nor
ristown. Order of notice-will.
Estate of Elizabeth M. Raymond,
Johnson. Executor settles his account
and decree made to legatee.
Estate of Emerson Wheelock, Water.
vile. Commissioners make report.
Estate of Matilda McDaniels, Morris
town. Fannie M. Rand appointed Ad-
ministratrix de bonis non.
Estate of Norman Camp, Elmore.
Executrix returns inventory.
Estate of Geo. w. Dixie, Morristown,
Order of notice-settlement.
Estate of Libby R. Lewis, Hardwick.
Guardian settles his account.
Estate of John Codding, Cambridge.
Appraisers return inventory.
Estate of Lucy B. Slayton, Morris
town. Administrator settles his account.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
LOWELL.

Aaron Tillotson still continues very i'll, and
no hopes are entertained for his recovery.
Mrs. F. P. Knox and daughter Kathrine
returned to their home in Epping, n. H., Fri
day.
Frank Mhill has moved from the brick
store into the tenement vacated by Frank
Kinney.
Mrs. r F. Wine hester has been quite i'll for
several days, the result of hard cold. She
is now improving.
Daniel Kinsey of Worcester, Mass and ia
son Kinsley from Iowa are visiting their
brother, Rufus Kinsley.
Mrs Burt Skinner of Ottawa is visiting at
Mrs. Ellen SINNERS. Bert is expected here
before long for short vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Delaney, who have been
at Mrs Ellen Skinner for time returned to
their home in Lyndon Thursday.
D. E Curtis and family are visiting Mr..
Curtis parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Don B. Curtis
They will remain here about two weeks.
j. a. Silsby has put in shingle machine at
his mill, This will interest many who have
been obliged to go out of town for shingle.
J. Il. Silsby is repairing the barn on his
Metcaf property. Should occasion arise he
has a good chance for several tenements
ere.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
EDEN

A daughter was born to Geo. Sandville
and wife July "a.
Miss Alice Cochran from Jericho is
visiting at N B. Mowers.
7. King, from Montgomery, spent
Saturday and Sunday with friends in
town.
John T. Emery, with his wife and
daughters, Sadie and Grace, are visiting
in Wolcott.
It is planned for large attendance
from here to the c. E. county conven-
ton at Waterville Aug. 6.
The infant son of Leslie Minor and
wife died at an early hour Sunday morn
ing, after very brief illness. Burial
Tuesday at No. Hyde Park.
The attendance at morning service
and Sunday school last Sunday was very
good. The Christian Endeavor service
was also largely attended. The interest
is good.
Several members of the Christian En-
deavor Society went to No. Hyde Park
last Thursday evening to attend the c.
E. service there. They report an inter-
esting meeting.
Miss N. ]. Dustin started for her home
Hast Friday. Wednesday evening a very
pleasant reception was given her and
also gifts more tangible, among them a
study lamp and 81 so in cash. She leaves
many friends who will not forget her in
terest in them.
OLD HOME DAY.
The matter of selecting day from Old
Home Week, to be spent as general
picnic-a day to especially invite our
brothers and sisters home again, and do
the best we can to make the day one not
soon to be forgotten by us or them-has
been under consideration the past week.
Thursday, the goth of August, has been
selected as apparently to accommodate
the largest number. The excursion of
the Vt. Association leaves Boston on
the morning of Aug. II. This gives our
friends who are coming with that party
opportunity to enjoy the day at New
port and another day to reach us. Many
of us have friends who have laft our
narrow boundaries for broader fields
and more lucrative positions. They love
to come back and we love to have them.
So general good time may be expected.
A short program will be arranged. The
events will occur at the same place as
last year-on the shores of Lake Eden.
The day was SO much enjoyed by our
people last year we feel more than ever
determined to have day set apart each
year for greeting day..
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
The Bounty Law Theory.

And when it comes to a point of
argument, why should bounties be
paid upon any obnoxious animal !?
Why is it necessary? When these
animals trouble farmer, let him kill
them off as he would potato bugs or
other insects that modest him. A
boy with steel trap could clean a
whole farm of a thousand acres of
woodchucks, hedgehogs and other
obnoxious animals in one season.
and would be tickled to death to do
it if only his father would furnish
the traps. Paying bounty upon ami
mails has always seemed to us like
robbing the state Of so much money
that might be put to better uses
Newport Express.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
MAPLEVlLLE.

Col. Wheeler is working for H. F.
Hurlburt through haying.
Clyde and Harold Jewett visited re1a-
tives in Montpelier recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Hurlburt visited
at Alph Jus Wescomb's recently.
Mrs. F, M. Baker and Mrs Francis
Gillien visited at H. F. Hurlburt's last
week.
Belle McGinnis is visiting her sister,
Mrs. F. M. Baker and other friends in
Eden.
Lester Foster of johnson spent Sat
urday and Sunday with his friend, Fred
McGinnis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Jones of Hard
wick are visiting at A. M, Whitcomb's
at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Whitcomb of
Morrisville were recent visitors at A. M.
Whitcomb's.
Mr.. Calvin Foss and Mrs. Olive Buck.
lin were recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Jewett.
The many friends of A. M. Whitcomb
will be pleased to hear he is still on the
gain. All hope he will soon berestored
to health.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
We Have Met Him.

Says the Waterbury Record: "Don't
be mule and kick if some one else is
prospering." No doubt. But there are
so many men in every community that
will do just that thing; they will sit
right back and refuse a chance to make
a dollar for fear the man with the "prop-
ositi IN twill make dollar twenty five.
It's queer phase of human nature, but
you have all seen it.-Hardwick Gazette.
Have we met him? Well, haven't
we! Every day and sometimes twice
a day. You can locate him in any
Vermont city, village, town, out in
the extremely rural places on, the
highway, in the fay feld-eyery-
where. He is a genus who stands
out like mammoth upheaval. on
clear day-an obstruction you would
avoid by driving miles around. He
is worse than the appendicitis. He
kicks at everything that promises
good to anybody and knocks at cv-
erything in which he is not leader.
Most of these human warts believe
themselves to be a necessary part of
creation, and there's where they trip
themselves. They are a problem to
be rid of, the same as the vexed negro
question. Sometime somebody will
advocate a way of riding progress of
these drags. That will be when civ
liza ton is convinced of the benefits
of determination. This generation
will haveto grin and bear the knocker,
but there's satisfaction in knowing
that in future generations he will be
sent over to the country beyond the
great divide Huntington Clipper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
CENTERVllLE.

Miss Grace Blake spent few days at
Will Kellogg's last week.
Mrs. Nathan Cobleigh and daughter
from Cambridge visited here last week.
a RS. Maud Mudgett left Monday for
Richford, where she will visit with her
aunt and brother.
Mrs. S. K. Weeks and her niece, Miss
Delta Collins from Stowe, were visitors
at Breezy Hill short time last week.
Mrs. Albert Bachum and her grand
son Winfield started this evening for
visit with her sons at Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Mrs. A. c. Collins and Mrs. D. R. Sher-
win returned today from New Hamp-
shire, where they have been visiting a
number of weeks.
Rev. F. L. Smith will preach in the
school-house next sunday afternoon at
O'Clock, in the absence of Rev. Mr..
Johnson. All invited.
Rev. Mr.. Manning preached here lasl
Sunday and was greeted with large
audience, it being necessary to carry in
extra seats. His discourse was very in
teresting.
NORTH CENTERvILLE.
Chas. j ones now occupies the Eastman place.
Lonnie Jones visited his brother Melvin re-
GENTLY.
j. M. Wood reports good visit in New
Hampshire.
M. R. Sulham and wife are employed by Ned
Cowen during haying.
Ed. Moore and wife have finished work at
Stowe and are here again.
Bernard Maxfeld made short stop with
friends in this place last week.
We are pleased to note the Improvement
in JAS McNalley's child, who has been i'll.
Alma Jones is In the employ of Mrs. Man
ming, and Golde Hurlburt at Mrs. Meacham's'
We learn that Andrew Cowan's wife is in
very poor health, suffering from heart failure.
Don't find fault with your neighhors be-
cause they pick your raspberriest Life is too
short for quarrels.
Mrs. Governs friends are pleased to note her
fast recovery, after the removal of five can
GERS from her breast.
We understand that Wyatt Hurburt is ne.
gotiating with Fred Smalley for pair OF
$500 horses. No old plugs for Wyatt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-07-29
MORRlSTOWN.

Mr.. aud Mrs. Chas. Foster have a new girl.
Harold and Hazel Keller have new bicycle.
Harrison Gregg was at B. ], Flanders the
first of the week.
Miss Kate Carleton of Jonesvile is spending
her vacation at home.
Miss Loretta Foster visited at the home OF
M. B. Shippy the first of the week.
Miss Emma Banister and sister visited her
grandmother, Mrs. Burdick, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Keller were guests at
Herbert Keeer's from Friday until Saturday
afternoon.
The Corners is, as usual. up-to-date. IL has
been rumored that the number OF watchmen
has lately been increased, thus making the
maximum number not less than four. Some
times they act in unison and sometimes sep
arately.