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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
The Difference.

What is the difference between an open
saloon and an open state store?-Ver-
gennes Enterprise.
The first sells all it can of cheap liquors
at the largest profit it dares to charge so
that it may make all the money possible
for its owner. 1t is human nature.
The latter sells as little as possible of
guaranteed pure liquors, at 10 per cent.
above wholesale cost price and all the
profits are returned to the people.
That is just the difference.
This is no guess work. 1t is demon
strated fact as proven by actual results
In several countries In Europe, and in
several states in America.
Which do you prefer Mr.. Voter?
The system of private gain and poor
liquors or the system of state control,
pure liquors, low prices and all profits
returned to the people.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
Mol N oil N oil

Are they (the people Of Vermont) pre-
pared to exchange a bad prohibitory law
for bad dispensary law? Do they real
ize the kind of company they are keep
ing?-Vergennes Enterprise.
No, thousand times No! Never will
the people of Vermont vote to exchange
prohibition, bad as the present law is,
for bad system Of state control any
more than they would knowingly for a
bad license law, and the fresh young
man who edits the Enterprise knows
it.
Did the men who framed the license
act try to make bad measure or to copy
bad features from the license laws of
other states? No, they tried to frame
the best license law.
Just so the men who will frame bill
for state control in the next legislature
will embody in 1t all the tried and good
features of such systems in Europe and
America, and the fresh young editor
knows IL.
The trouble with the license act, that
will be accepted or rejected next Tues
day, is that it retains some of the proven
bad features of the laws of other states,
notably the open saloon, that even such
strong license paper rs the st. Adams
Messenger says it is not needed in Yer
mont.
The license act as it stands is bad be-
cause it was not revised by first class
lawyers before it was finally adopted
by the Legislature and is not in harmony
with itself, and the supreme court has
already had to interpret certain sections,
and will have to act upon sections 2 and 8
if the people approve the act next Tues
day.
This is because the act is confused
mass of clippings, sections, paragraphs,
etc., from four or more bills, that were
likewise made up from sections taken
from the license laws of other states, and
never revised, harmonized or unified by
competent legal counsel.
The act as it stands to be voted upon
is bad act and should be rejected, or it
will cause endless litigation, confusion
and trouble to the state, the fresh young
editor to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

ENOSBURG FALLS, Jan. PA lower
price for all grades Of butter is noted
this week. Boston quotations show a
decline of ! to , cents per pound; %
cents for best boxes and prints was the
ruling price in the local market, with
tubs at 20 to "a cents per pound. Eggs
have also declined several cents per dozen
from the high point of few weeks ago,
and p to "a cents per dozen is the going
price to day. Potatoes, so cents per
bushel; beans, $3.50 to S2.75; good hard
block wood, lG inches, 81 per cord.
BRISTOL, Jan. 26.-Saturday, market
day, prices ruled as follows: Dairy
butter, 20 to "a cents pound eggs, %
cents a dozen; hides, 6 cents pound !;
calf skins, 80 to IS cents each; live
poultry, s cents a pound; ginseng, S. a
pound.
BARNARD, Jan. 2G.-Hay, $40 per ton
at the barn; corn, Zoe. per bushel; oats,
soc; wool, Doc; potatoes. 75c.; apples,
Soc; onions, Sl00; wood. l6-inch, So per
cord, fourfoot, 81; eggs, Doc; strawber-
ries, none in town.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
LOOKING Ahead.

1t is fact that great majority of the
people demand change in the laws regu-
lating the sale of Intoxicating liquors.
The license speakers and papers say
you must vote for the License Act, bad
as it is; fatally defective as it is; or you
will not get change for years to come.
This is absolutely false.
Adopt the License Act and then try and
change it two years hence and you will
hear: "Give the new law fair trial."
"Don't condemn it till it has time to
show what it can do" "Give the new
law fair play"
You all know how effective this kind
of an Argument is in politics.
You could not change the license law
once it is approved and put into operation
for a generation. But on the other
hand the feeling against present condi-
tons is irresistible.
We are going to have change. The
only question is whether it shall be
for the worse or better; for the open
saloon, or a carefully guarded and
properly drafted system Of state contol
Vote no.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
office of Land Sale.

The nonresident proprietors of the town of
Granville, in the County of Addison and State
of Vermont, are hereby notified that the taxes
assessed by said town within three years pre-
ceding this date remain either in whole or in
part unpaid on the following described land in
said town to wit:
Lot No. 80, third division, drawn to the
original right of Sheldon Graham, taxes set to
George S. Smith, amounting to S5.o5, Part of
Lot No. 81 in that part of Granville formerly
Avery's Gore, (Which was annexed to Kings
ton, now Granville, Nov 9th, A. d. 1889
taxes set to Charles II. Martin, amounting
to SI.79, Part of Lots No. SO and 81 in that
part of Granville formerly Avery's Gore, (Which
was annexed to Kingston, now Granville,
Nov. 9th, A. d. 1880 taxes set to a. w.
Stetsons estate, amounting to S3.65. And so
much of said lands will be sold at public
auction at the store of III. c. Hubbard in
said town of Granville, on the 2Sth day of
February, A. ID. 1903, at O'Clock in the
afternoon, as shall be requisite to discharge
said taxes with costs, unless previously paid.
+. n. HEMENWAY,
Collector of Town Taxes.
Dated at Granville, VT, this 18th day of
January, a. d. 1903. 3w
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

Sec. 81 of the License Act is alone
enough to condemn it and should cause
the rejection of the Act if there were no
other fatal defects in it. Any law that
takes away from the majority of the
the state, the right to regulate the liquor
business and places that power in the
hands of 8 per cent of the voters and
one more than one-half of the physicians
of a town should not become a law.
Even the prohibitory law does not do
that as the majority can say when a
town agency shall be opened and when
it shall be abolished. Vote No next
Tuesday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
a Word to Catholics.

There is not man or woman in the
state, be he Catholic or Protestant,
who knows Rt. Rev. John 5. Michaud.
Bishop of Burlington, but who respects
and honors him as a man who always
has the highest and best interests of his
people at heart. In letter to Bur
lington paper, on the present crisis, he
says:
81 do not believe that 1t will be for the
best interests of Vermont to license the
open bar for the sale of distilled liquors
as beverage. Many of my friends of
New York and Massachusetts have adj
vised me to KEEP THE SALOON OUT
OF VERMONT AS LONG AS YOU
CAM
Catholic voters will not vote wrong if
they follow his advice. Vote No next
Tuesday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
Vermont Produce Market.

MIDDLEBURY, Jan. 2S.-There was Just
fair Offering of butter at the two mark
cts this week. o. ii. Cushman, at Beck
with's store, paid Is to % cents for but
ter, the latter being the top notch price
for gilt edge article. He paid % cents
per dozen for eggs. Myron Bristol, of
Vergennes, who buys butter and eggs at
Sheldon's drug store, paid an average
price of % cents for butter and % cents
per dozen for eggs, which was five cents
less per dozen than the previous week,
owing to the heavy receipts In the city
markets. Wood, So 80 to $3.50 per solid
cord; potatoes, so cents per bushel,
beans, $3.50.
ST. ALBANs, Jan. 81.
Creamery butter sold at......... &c
Dairy separator, fancy boxes and
prints observation-disclosures. 25@26c
Dairy separator, fancy boxes solid
packed '.....'...... ........ .22(024c
Dairy selections, winter make. lS@20c
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

The great campaign on the License
Act is closed and not single license
orator and only two license papers have
made any attempt to defend that fatally
defective section 81. The two papers
that attempted it used the same old argu-
ments in favor of town agency. All
acknowledge that Section 81 is fatal to
the success of the Act, and even license
leaders say it will kill the Act next
Tuesday. 1t should do it. Think of
taking away from majority of the
people Of three-fourths of the towns in
the state, the right to forbid the sale of
liquor in those towns and then delegate
that power to the physicians and per
cent. of the voters regardless of the
rights and wishes of the other 50 per
cent. That is just what this Act does.
Vote it down next Tuesday. Vote
No!
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

Those who think that license law
will be any better enforced than the
present law, or that the licensees will
obey the law, should read w. w. Sweeny's
letter. He is an Addison county man
and his word is as good as his bond. He
shows that the enforcement of the license
law in Troy is farce of the
worst kind. The reason is that the
saloon controls politics and elects the
officers and judges. Do we want that
system here? Do not take leap In the
dark? Walt till you can vote for a
broad gauge, common sense law. Kill
the License Act next Tuesday. Vote
No.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

The choice of Principal Charles H.
Morrill,, of Bakersfield, as successor to
the late Edward Conant as principal of
the State Normal School at Randolph
Center, is most eminently wise. Prof.
Morrill, is one of the most successful
teachers of the state. 1t is largely due
to his executive ability that Bakersfield
academy has been able to maintain its
high standing among the leading educa-
tional institutions of Vermont while
other secondary schools have been dis
continued. His appointment is dis
tinct gain to the state, though great
loss to Bakersfield.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
BRISTOL.

Mrs. Joseph Odett is i'll with pneu-
monia.
w. A. Lawrence had carload Of u
horses come Monday.
II. c. Brown is at home from Burling-
ton for two weeks stay.
Services were held at st. Ambrose
church Sunday morning.
Roy Jacobs has entered the employ of
B. A. Atkins IN his drug store.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. K. Grow visited in
Hinesburgh and Richmond over Sunday.
The Rev. Father d. C. Coffey is at
home from Boston, where he has been
visiting his sister.
F. III. Palmer has been appointed health
officer for this town In the place of K. w.
Varney, resigned.
The Bristol railroad has been burning
wood in their engines the past week, be-
ing unable to get coal.
The Rev. w. A. Kinzie went to Sax
tons River Thursday, where he spoke
before the students of the academy.
G.. ID. Mathewson expects to start next
Monday for a three months trip TO Eur
ope. He will visit Egypt, Palestine,
Turkey and elsewhere.
Shelburne Farms has 80 entries at the
Addison county poultry show in Holley
hall. There are oyer 100 entries from
birmingham and other points in Massa-
chusetts, in all over 800 entries.
The next meeting of the Outlook club
will be held with Mrs. Kilbourn February
6. Subject: Women Philanthropists d,
Elizabeth Fry, Mrs. Allen; Frances Will
lard Mrs Earr. ElOrpnpa Niuhtinualp
Mrs. Kinzie; Helen Gould, Mrs. Dun
shee; Social Settlements, Mrs. Eaton I;
rOll-call; women's work in the late war.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

The Age believes in the passage Of the
local option law which gives each town
the right to handle the liquor business in
the way best suited to it.-Woodstock
Age.
The Age knows that Section 81 takes
from all but sure license towns the very
right it believes in and places it In the
hands of per cent. of the voters, and a
majority of the physicians. This is not
local option. 1t is fraud. The people
ter for themselves. but they cannot do ii
under this License act, therefore 1t
should be defeated. Note No next Tues
day.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

The Brandon Union editor has discov-
cred that town liquor agent is not
obliged to sell liquor on physicians
order, yet he is sure that license local
option law would be better for Vermont
than the present law.-Exchange.
1t was tried and found to work so
badly that the rule was abolished, yet a
licensed druggist is obliged to sell to
any one who has a physicians prescrip-
ton.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

Why is it that the old story of that
poor weak minded James Carrigan is be-
ing revived and printed in every license
paper in the state? He was a spotter
employed by Rev. G. w. Morrow to visit
st. Adams in 1899 and he got drunk,
was arrested, lodged in jail and his fine
paid by license men in st. Adams, to
whom he gave the story then printed in
the st. Adams Messenger and now re-
printed by all the license papers. These
are the simple facts in the case.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

In requesting change OF address, subscrib.
ars must invariably give their old address as
well as the new. Otherwise names cannot be
coated in our lists
ADVERTISING rate-card will be sent on APP
plication. Copy must be in the hands OF the
printers not later than wednesday noon to
insure insertion in that weeks issue.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING in every variety,
at the lowest prices consistent with good
work and quality of stock. For information
in regard to Job work, apply to N. A. Sey-
mour, second floor Register Ofice.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30


The question is choice between state
prohibition and town regulation of the
liquor traflic.-Rutland Herald
This refers to the referendum next
Tuesday.
1t Is an absolute misstatement Of the
question to be voted upon.
We have now absolute town regula-
ton of the liquor traffic.
Amy town that so-votes can have a
town, not a state agency, where liquor
is sold.
2.-The liquor is purchased by town
officers.
3.-The agency is run by resident of
the town.
1.-THE town fixes the price at which
liquors are sold.
5.-The town has the profit up to 10
per cent; all above that goes to the
state.
6.-The town can abolish Its agency at
any duly called meeting,
Is not this town regulation pure and
simple?
The License Act takes away from the
great majority of towns all the rights
they now have.
1t simply gives each town the right to
vote yes or no at the March meeting.
If town votes yes it can elect select
men who will appoint three commission
ers who will grant licenses and look
after the enforcement of the license
law.
This means that if the rum element
can carry town for license 1t can elect
the men who will enforce the law. In
other words it makes the election of
selectmen rum issue regardless of the
fitness Of the men to manage the affairs
of the town. This means poor manage
ment and higher taxes.
If town votes no license a very small
fraction of its voters, those who want
rum q per cent. of the voters and a
majority of the physicians) are given the
power to demand license for a drug
store against the wishes and maybe the
votes of % per cent. of the voters, and
lhC sClCSlutI HtUSt loouC lbc ISCnSCs II
is mast, not may, in the Act.
Every right the town now has under
the present law is taken away by the
License Act. Be the drug store worse
than the most 'rotten town agency the
town cannot get rid of it no matter how
it votes
Town regulation-local option, The
License Act only gives it to the few
towns that vote to license the open
saloon.
The Herald knows this is true. 1t
says only few towns would probably
vote to have an open saloon, therefore
the great majority are deprived of the
control they now have of the liquor
traffic, and all in the name of local option
and town regulation.
This is the worst local option farce
that was ever attempted to be imposed
on the voters of the state.
Read Section 81 and then read the Re-
vised Statutes and you will see every
word of the above is true.
Don't vote to take from your town the
right to regulate the liquor business as it
pleases.
Note No next Tuesday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
How do You knoW2

The new law does not establish an
open saloon anywhere; 1t will in fact
lessen the number of drinking places,
the number In Burlington for instance
being variously estimated at from one
hundred to two hundred.-Spirit of
the Age.
How do you know Burlington has 100
rum holes or saloons?
How do you know it would lessen the
number?
If there is such a demand for intoxl-
eating liquor as to require 100 places to
supply the demand now would there be
less under license? No.
All this talk about license decreasing
the sale OF Intoxicating liquor is cheap
1t will Increase the sale. Any one
who will stop and think; who will use
common sense in thinking, will see 1t
will.
Why?
Because all who now drink will drink
under license.
Because many who will not sneak
around corner and go down into a
dive will drop into an attractive saloon
and take a drink with their friends.
Everyone knows this is true. Then be
honest and vote No next Tuesday.
When this crude, ill-iointed, poorly
constructed License Act is defeated we
can get broad gauge, sensible, practi-
cal law passed that WILL regulate the
traffic in Intoxicating liquors.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

Capt. Henry B. Meigs, native of
Franklin county, who has a beautiful
summer cottage at Highgate Springs,
is being mentioned as Republican candi-
date for mayor of Baltimore. He is
manager of the -Etna Life Insurance
Co., In that city, and one of the most
popular men in his adopted state. His
host of friends in Vermont hope he will
win the prize.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

The statement by ex-State Auditor
Barber that the expense of prosecutions
under the prohibitory law is more than
the revenue from it, is fatty denied by
ex-State Auditor Powell. For the ten
years ending with 1890 the average net
revenues was SIS, 032.-Exchange.
Any one who knows the two men
would take Mr.. Powell's word in prefer
ence to Mr.. Barbers.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

Why is 1t that in the closing days of
the campaign that ends next Tuesday at
the polls, the license papers and adj
vocates are dropping all argument and
appealing to class prejudice? 1t is either
because they cannot answer the argu-
ments against the approval of the license
act, or because they know it is already
hopelessly beaten and they have lost
their temper.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

she who causes two drinks of booze
to appear where there was but one is not
a public benefactor," says the Hard
wick Gazette, land should be conducted
to seat on the high stool in the rear
corner"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

The man certainly scored a bullseye
who said, in effect. that anything which
requires as many restrictions to keep it
from running the community in which it
is located as the open saloon, must be
bad.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
A CARD.

We, the undersigned do hereby agree to
refund the money on a 5o-cent bottle of
Greene's Warranted Syrup OF Tar if it fails to
cure your cough or cold. We also guarantee
a ACCENT bottle to prove satisfactory OF money
refunded.
W. ii. SHELDON !. II. FLETCHER
ISAAC STERNS +. II. DEAN
Nj. K. BURT AVLEY & PREToN
c. N. MOTH ID. II. BENNETT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

Unless you want to place the power to
say whether liquors shall be sold in your
town IN the hands of per cent. of the
voters, vote No next Tuesday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
BURLINGTON
SAVINGS =. BANN.
INCORPORATED Is47.

INCORPORATED Is47.
Deposits, Jan. /, 1908, SS,457,697.6O
Premium Account, 15,9S1.6S
surplus 4OO,O0O.OO
Total Assets, sS,933 ,619.39
TRUSTEES.
CHARLES p. SMITH, WILLARD CRANE,
j. l.. BARSTOw, HENRY GREENE.
+. W. WARD, A. q. PIERCE,
HENRY WELLS.
Deposits made on either of the first four
business days of any month draw interest
from the LIST. II made afterward interest
Will commence the first OF the following
month";
Interest will be credited to depositors jan
uary lst and July LIST, compouding twice q
year. There are no stockholders in this bank.
All earnings, less expenses, belong to de-
positors. The rate of interest depends on the
earnings but the law fixes the rate that any
savings bank in the state pay at not to
exceed three and one halt per cent per annum,
until its surplus reaches ten per cent of its
deposit, when special dividend is provided
for.
All taxes in this State are paid by the bank
on deposits OF $1,000 or less. Deposits are
received in sums from 81 to $4,000, and no in.
terest will be paid on any sum in excess OF
this amount, except on deposits by widows,
orphans administrators, executors, guar
dams, charitable or religious institutions or
on trust funds deposited by order of court
Funds may be sent by Dank check or draft
or postal money order and deposit book will
be returned by next mail.
Applications for loans or for information as
to standing OF the bank may be made to Rufus
wainwright, Middlebury, or K. G. Dixie,
Bristol.
CHARLES p. SMITH. President
FREDERICK w. WARD Treasurer.
e. S. ISHAM. Asst Treas.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
An Ancient Foe

To health and happiness is Scrofula-
as ugly as ever since time immemorial.
1t causes punches in the neck, dis
figures the skin, infames the mucous
membrane, wastes the muscles, weak
ems the bones, reduces the power of
resistance to disease and the capacity
for recovery, and develops into con-
sumption.
"a bunch appeared on the left side OF
my neck. 1t caused great pain, was lanced,
and became running sore | went into a
general decline. / was persuaded to try
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and when / had taken
six bottles my neck was healed, and have
never had any trouble OF the kind since"
Mrs. K. 7. SNYDER, Troy, Ohio.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30
Hoods Jarsapariiia
and Pills

will rid you of it, radically and per-
manently. as they have rid thousands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

been affixed to Senate concurrent resolution
No. 2, providing for the investigation of the
coal situation.
House bill No. 100. Representative Owens
amendment to the tax law, was made the
special order of business for Feb. 6, at II a.
m. House bill No. "a. by Representative
Muir, providing for the pensioning of In
dianapolis policemen, was passed to en-
grossment without objection.
Eleven bills were introduced, of
which only two or three are of special in
terest. Senator Dausman introduced a
measure to prevent the building of any
steam or electric railroad through the
grounds of a state institution. The bill is
designed to prevent the Plainfeld line from
running through the grounds Of the Plain
field Reformatory. Senator Gray introduced
a bill to appropriate the sum of $4,000 to
pay an old claim made by Vincennes Uni
verSity.
gavel made by the boys of the Plain
field Reformatory was presented to Pres
ident Gilbert at the opening of the session
by Senator Barlow. The Lieutenant Gov
ernor, ir accepting the gavel, praised the
manner in which the institutions Of the
State arc conducted and referred particu-
larly to the Plainfield Reformatory.
The Senate adjourned to meet this morn
ing at 10 o'clock.