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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-05-12
WINTER WHEAT SHORTAGE
E. V. JONES PREDICTS THAT
THE WINTER WHEAT CROP
WILL BE 60,O0o,Oo0 BUSHELS
SHORT THIS YEAR.

Minneapolis Journal:"It seems that
now eight winter wheat states will
produce about 60,0O0,O0 bushels Of
wheat less than last year which is a
very important shortage in that it
diminishes the wheat supply of the
United States millers, and will
handicap them for next years work."
says II. V. Jones, interviewed in
New York by the Wall Street
Journal.
"Last fall winter wheat was sown
late, owing to unfavorable weather
conditions, which did not give the
plant its usual start before winter set
in. In the Ohio valley, especially,
much of it was winter killed,
and the cold spring prevented the
plant making any growth before May
lst.
Western Texas, which includes
the Panhandle. and western Okla
homa have been without rain for
nearly a year. Eastern Ohio and
central Texas have a very good pros
pect at the moment, but the plant
is more or less affected on account of
the lack of a normal amount of
moisture.
"Kansas was the banner wheat
state last year. raising above ninety
million bushels, and this year
promises much better. With con-
tinuation of good rainfalls over this
territory, the state can produce a
fine crop of wheat this year as much
as seventy-fve million bushels. 1t
must undergo one risk, however,
besides lack of moisture and this is
an early summer. If hot weather
comes in Nav it may force the plant
tC early maturity. giving a short
straw and short head. This would
reduce the yield from these figures.
"In Nebraska and Missouri we
find conditions about at a level with
last year, Missouri being possibly
little better Kentucky and
Tennessee hold about even with last
year.
'ln the Ohio valley conditions are
the most unfa vorable for several
states. Indiana. Michigan and Ohio
being especially hurt as to the yield
of wheat. Farmers are blowing up
wheat lands and resolving to oats
and planting corn. The yield Of
wheat in the Ohio valley will prob
ably at the best. not exceed one
half that raised year ago. Pennsyl-
vania promis S a smaller yield than
last year. Maryland and the Vir-
ginias are holding their own much
better than the western states.
''The Pacific coast will show ap-
parently considerable increase in pro
duction OF wheat over last year, but,
Will this will figure in the total crop
for the country and help the COM
para i've show, it will not remedy the
shortage east of the Rockies Pacific
coast wheat goes entirely into coast
consumption and orient and Europe
an export. The Pacific yield last year
was short. This year promises to be
normal.
"Taking it on the whole. says Mr..
Jones, "the country's wheat yield
will be from twenty million to fifty
million bushels less chan last year
depending on weather conditions.
The spring wheat is just being sown
and is in favorable condition.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-05-12
DESTROYED TREES AT LAKE

Fish are biting at tn, lake AMI a
number were caught yesterday most
ly perch and pike. The La Brasche
boat house had few early visitors
and the launch made its first trip
around the lake. Mr.. Carl from San.
born killed number of big buffalo
fish this spring by spearing them as
they went through the narrows.
Some vandals cut down a number
of big trees on the north side of The
lake and Geo. Tucker the owner
was mad clear through when he saw
the devastation made in the grove.
1t is a moral certainty that some
one will get caught in the deStrNc-
tion and stealing of property at the
lake and severe a term in jail for it.
Several parties are now on the ragged
edge of prosecution.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-05-12

Edward A. Gott, well known De-
troit lawyer, formerly connected with
the Wabash legal staff, committed sui
eide in that city Monday.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-05-12
GEN. WASUBURN ENJOlNED.

When in Bismarck this week Gen.
Washburn was served with an injunc-
tion issued by Judge Winchester,
restra ining him from consumating
the sale of the Washburn Road to the
500 until the claim of Attorneys
Patterson and Philbrick for right of
way services was settled. H. n.
Stevens represents the plaintiffs in
the case.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18

doubtless under orders from President
Roosevelt has within the past fortnight
to break the force of this
exhibit by issuing state
ment showing that the cost of food, at
retail prices, has increased Is per cent,
while wages in certain selected employ
ments, have increased 16 per cent.
The Vermont farmer should note well
the significance of this best showing the
Republican Policy can make for itself.
Food, generally speaking is what the
farmer sells, and when even at retail
irices, it has advanced only 10 per cent,
it means that the cost of what the
more than the 30 per cent which the
whole average shows.
As to the alleged increase in wages,
laboring men know better-the opera
tives at Fall River who are striking
against reduction that aggregated 20
per cent for the same period, the men in
Chicago who are striking against re-
duction to less than II ~ cents per
hour from the Beef Trust that has again
and again raised prices upon consumers,
while cutting them from cattle raisers.
1t may be, and doubtless is, true that
in particular industries, where the Labor
Unions have been able to control, there
has been the wage increase the Admin
istration claims, but for the labor of the
country at large it certainly is not true.
The simple truth is, from every pos
sible way of looking at it, that tho
Trusts are plundering the country, as it
was never plmdered before.
In future issues in this column we
shall show how there is complete and
sure cure for the Trust evil in a return
to simple Democratic principles.
And how the Republican cure-pre-
tending. after building them up by
wrongful stretches of Governmental
power. to knock them over by another
stretch of Governmental power-is pure
humbug, was never intended to be any
thing else, has amounted to nothing
as in the case of this very Beef Trust
against which the Roosevelt Administra-
ton got out an injunction a year ago
has anybody ever heard that this Trust
was hurt by it?-and under the laws of
business can never amount to anything
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
CANDIDATE PORTER'S RECORD

Eli II. Porter the Democratic nominee
for governor served in the legislature of
1892, 1900 and 1902, and in every
one OF them has been ranked by the
reporters at the press table as among
the ten leaders of the house. In
1892 he was on the committee that
framed and carried through the bill for
the town sytsem of schools, and was
recognized as one of the leaders in that
hard fight. He also led the fight that
resulted in the defeat of the scheme for
the removal of the county seat--a
scheme in support of which Mr.. Haskins
and the nearly solid Republican poiti-
clan phalanX of this county were
united. They were not thinking of Mr..
Porter as "little fellow" at that time.
Porter introduced at this session also the
bill, which passed, changing the hour for
opening the polls at state and national
elections. He and T. j. Boynton pre-
pared and drafted the license bill of that
year which Porter got Mr.. Clement, as
Republican, to introduce, and for which
the latter has always had the credit
When Porter reappeared in the house
in 1900 he was made a member of the
committee on rules and also of the com
mittee on banks. At this session he in
troduced his valued policy insurance bill
and carried it through the house, but
it was strangled in the senate. He was
the only speaker against the SALARY
grab" bill and the Buffalo exposition bill,
both of which were defeated
I In the 1902 session he was chairman
of the general committee. as well as of
the committee on final adjournment and
the committees on rules and on banks.
Mr.. Porter's record at this session is too
recent TO need rehearsing; how he in
troduced the bill to increase state
revenue by additional taxes on corpora
tons to the amount of $l08,076.l5-
how by the aggressive fight made the
Republicans were driven to forego the
imposition of any direct state tax, for
the first time in history-how he vigor.
ously supported the Bundy bill for re.
duction of state expenses by $500, 900
two measures that if they had passed
would have made a difference of from
81 to SIS to each Vermont family-how
he opposed the scheme of the bar associ
alton and pretty much all the lawyers
to boost the salaries of the supreme court
Judges up to $4,000 year, and with a
telling speech defeated the bill-how hs
re-introduced and made gallant fgh,
for his valued policy bill-how hs
was a member of the Democratic caucus
committee that framed and presented
the local option measure, which, except
ing for defects that were forced into II
by its opponents, is the present law
and how he has always been on the friul
line.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
FAYSTON.

The Republican caucus to nominate
a candidate for town Representative
and five justices of the peace will be
held in the Center school, house on
Saturday, Aug. 30, at one O'Clock
p. m.
Miss Ina Joslyn of Montpelier, a
former teacher in this town, visited
at A. d and f. A. Bragg's last week.
Rev. Henry Parker Of Woburn,
Mass. is spending his vacation at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Bragg.
Julius Joslin and Henry Dana are
building belfry on the new school
house. The bell will be in place and
ready to ring 40, 600 majority for Bell
and Stearns. Sept. g.
Mrs Tacey Elliott of Huntington,
is spending a few weeks with her sis
ter, Mrs. Kate Pierce.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
WHAT 1T MEANS FOR EACH
FAMILY
What 1t Pays and How for the Luxury
of Big Republican Majority and Gross
ly 0ne-Sided Partisan Misrule

In 1882 Vermont State
expenses amounted, for each
average family of 49-l0
persons, to $3.76 l-2
In 1903 Vermont State ex-
penses had become TO the
same average family $l0.52 2-3
Difference that each aver
age family pays $3.50 Id
And let no family, and no voter to
whom the appeal is made to help anoth-
err and bigger Republican majority this
year, imagine for a moment, that he es-
capes paying it; for it is the nature OF
t.Xes to inevitably distribute themselves
in rents and prices, so that there is nc
man, however poor, but shares the bur.
den in his living expenses.
And let him not imagine that he is
getting anything in return for thi:
$S.76 l-6 extra he is paying annually
for neither he nor any human being car
point out anything that the state gets
in return for it all but waste, eXtrava
gance, useless multiplication of offices
and commissions and abandonment o.
Home Rule methods.
If he likes it and wants more of it
he can surely get it by continuing tC
help roll up Republican majorities.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
ESTATE OF HARRY A. YOUNG.
STATE OF VERMONT,

DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, IS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in and ioI
said District. on the 18th day OF August, A. d..
1904
Edward Baker, Administrator Of the estate OF
HARRY A. YOUNG, late of Montpelier, In
said District, deceased, presents his admins
tration account for examination and allowance
and makes application for decree OF redistribution
and partition OF the estate OF said deceased.
WhereupoD, Il Is ordered by said Court that said
account and said application be referred 70 session
pelier, the Bird day OF September, A D. 1904, for
hearing and decision thereon; and, l. Ii further
dered that notice hereof be given to all persons inter-
ested, by publication Of the same three weeks sue
cessively In the VERMONT WATCHMAN AND STATE
this State previous to said time appointed for hear
ing that they may appear at said time and place. and
show cause II any they may have, why said account
should not be allowed, and such decree made.
BY the Court.-Atteet
HIRAM CARLETON. JUDox.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
ESTATE OF MARY A. E.MI

ESTATE OF MARY A. L. WATSON.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Hon. Probate Court for the District OF Washington,
Commissioners, TO receive, examine, and adjust al
OF MARY A. e. WATSON, late Of Berlin, in said
District, deceased;' and all claims exhibited In
offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
will meet for the purposes Aforesaid, at the
residence Of T.. A. Glines, In the town Of Berlin.
In said District, ON the Ord day OF September.
and Esd day OF January next, from O'Clock
+ n. until I o'eloch r n; ss Of said said
A. D., 1904, Is the time limited by said Court
for said creditors 20 present their claims TO us for
Dated al Berlin, this 18th day OF August,
ARTHUR L. HEWITT Commits
33-A HIRAM b. AYERS, sioners.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
SOUTH WALDEN.

B. O. Jennings and wife of Hard
wick spent Sunday in town.
Harry Edwards has gone to, New
Hampshire on a visit.
B. T. and Frank Taylor are spend
ing the week in Boston.
There will be an ice-cream supper
at the vestry Friday evening, Aug
10.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Beals are going
to Westfield this week on visit
Mrs. Charles Thurston and children
have been visiting at Rev. John
Thurston's few days.
Rev. II. Atkinson's nephew from
Boston is visiting him.
Some of the people Of this place
are thinking Of attending camp meet
ing at Lyndonville.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
NORTH RANDOLPH.

Mr.. and Mrs Fl. II. Sherman and
Howard and Helena of Middletown,
Conn.,, came Tuesday to spend O week
at f. o. Cones.
ID. d. Moulton and l.. B. Kibbee
were in Barre, Thursday.
Miss Jennie Robinson of Randolph
Center has been the guest of her aunt,
Mrs. W M. Hamilton, the past week.
John @. Sprague of Manchester, N.
H., was at g. o. Stanley's on Wednes-
day.
ID. e. Sargent and Miss May and
W. j. Gone started on Saturday for the
st. Louis Exposition.
Miss Mary Sargent was in South
Royslton Wednesday.
h. S. Thresher of Boston, Mass, is
stopping at L. B. Kibbee's.
Mr. Abbott of Barre spent several
days last week at f. l.. Blodgett's.
Mrs. Harold Burt and four children
returned to their home in Philadel-
phia on Thursday.
Mrs. J. B. Durkee and daughters,
Misses Lois and Myrtle, and Mrs. q.
Fl. Taft spent few days in Washing
ton last week with Mrs. H. W. Down.
ing.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
SODOM.
Joe Bushey is moving to Pekin.


Miss Sadie ingalls, of Lakeport, N.
H., and Miss Nettie Richard of Mont
pelier are visiting at J. " Bailey's.
Tim Blake, wife and three children
of Haverhill, N. H., were in the place
on Saturday and took a trip to Stowe.
Clarence Martin and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Merrill Dawson, r. l.. Wood
and family and George Withsm at
tended the Witham reunion at Curtis
pond Saturday.
DR.. p l.. Templeton of Montpelier,
was called twice last week to see G.
A. Newton, who had severe attack
of rheumatism.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alick Robinson are
rejoicing over son, born Saturday
morning, Aug. ID.
Mrs. Lucy Sloan is quite i'll at the
home of her daughter, Mrs, Will Rick
ard.
Among those from this place to go
to Boston this week are, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry McLoud, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Patch, Mr.. and Mrs Clarence White,
Mr.. and MIS-. Rob Lowery, and Mr..
I'd Mrs. Alonzo Holt.
CALAIS.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Morse and Mr.
and Mrs. W. ssW. Noyes went to
Boston Saturday.
Rome vanOrman and sister, Belle
Olmstead, returned from Burlington
last Friday.
There was good attendance at the
Saturday, Aug. ID.
Jennie Mcknight of East Mont
pelier, is visiting at H. A. Kent's.
Murray Kent and wife, Dorman
Kent and wife of Montpelier were in
town Sunday.
The Republicans of Calais will hold
their caucus Saturday, Aug, 20, at 2
=. In. sharp, to nominate candidate
for town Representative.
Miss Georgia Hawkins was in Wor-
cester and Middlesex last week.
KICKER MILLS.
Hiram Daniels recently caught a
pickerel which weighed two pounds
End eleven ounces.
A post office has been established at
Groton pond. R. J. Miller has been
appointed postmaster
Mr.. Gordon of Concord, N. H., re-
Gently spent few days with his fam
lily, who are stopping at Hiram Dan
iels.
Mrs. G. E. Wyman of Hillsboro
Bridge, N. H., who was stopping at
Wells River for few days recently,
spent the day at Harry M. Rioker's.
A great many people have been here
during the blueberry season. Quanti-
ties of berries have been picked and
carried away by the people from the
shores and in the vicinity of the
ponds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Brown, who
have been stopping at ]. @. Harvey's,
have gone to Bridgewater, N. H., foI
few weeks.
SOUTH BARRE.
Mrs d. l. Huse has returned from
Corinth accompanied by her grandson,
Ernest Huse, who is visiting his un.
Gle, Carl.
Miss Winnifred Mann, who has
been visiting at Mis-. Carl Huse's, has
returned to her home in Randolph.
} Ed. Ward is setting his telephone
poles for the Peoples line,
Charles Persons has bought of Will
Jackson his milk route.
, Mrs. Liberty Hall is visiting rela.
tives in Brandon.
Miss Amy Sanders is visiting in ST.
, Johnsbury for few days.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
LOCAL OPTION
The Significant Change in the Republi-
can State Platform This Year-The
Warning it Contains in View of the
Experience Of Two Years Ago


Experience of Two Years Ago
The Republican platform, as drafted
by Hon. q. M. Barber, square and
Straightforward man and an earnest be-
lever in local option, read as follows re-
garding the subject;
ave therefore recommend to the general as
sembly that, having been so amended as to give
force and efficiency to the fundamental princi-
pies upon which the law itself rests, THE
SAME BIZ FURTHER CONTINUED IN
FORCE"
In these words it was given out to the
press and so printed in the Montpelier
Daily Journal on the day of the Repub-
lican state convention with the evident
understanding that that was what the
committee on resolutions had agreed
upon. By some process, whereof we
know naught, by the time the platform
was presented to the convention it read
as follows:
ave therefore recommend to the general as
sembly that this law be amended so as to give
force and efficacy to its fundamental princi.
pies"
That is, the promise that "the same
be further continued in force" was
deliberately and purposely struck
out.
For what earthly purpose-can any
one tell or concieve-except that the
Republican party does not propose to
continue the law, but to leave itself in
shape where the unthinking can so sup
pose until after election that it has prom
ised, but where it can claim, after cleo
ton, that it is free to resort to tricks like
those of the last legislature, with the
Battell bill, the referendum that it
planned to result in a kick into the
empty air, the secret caucuses to lay am
bushes, and the series of amendments
designed to secure its rejection by the
people.
In future issues of this column we will
show by official proof how, but for the
Democrats and Clement men in the last
legislature, no local option law would
have passed at all, but if it had been left
to the Republicans alone, it would
have been killed by vote of two OF
three to one at different stages of its
progress.
Then the intelligent freemen of Yer
mont may decide whether a party that
so generally and 30 shamelessly violated
its solemn platform promise on this same
subject two years ago, is again TO be
trusted with promise that is no prom
Use, but on its face is proven to be q
tricky substitute for one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-18

to his dwelling house. Albert Me-
huron is DOING the work.
j. II. Mccullough is confined to the
house as the result of fall from
cart on account of the oxen running
away
MIDDLESEX.
Mrs. f. d. Maynard of Sidney, N.
Y, and Miss Maud Edgerly from
/ Barre, are stopping for a few days
with their father, P. D. Edgerly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl H. Dudley of
Montpelier, visited at H. W. Com
stocks on Sunday.
W. A. Chaplin of Chicago, is at his
old home visiting his father, Hon.
William Chaplin, for few days.
The board of civil authority will
meet in Holden's hall, Aug, 20, at one
O'Clock p. IN. to revise che check list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira johnson and Mr..
and Mrs. A, b. Smalley have g one on
the excursion to Boston.
Nineteen tickets were sold at the
station up to Monday night, for the
excursion to Boston.
There will be Republican caucus
at the Middlesex Center school house
at two O'Clock, Aug 10, to nominate
a town Representative, also FIVE JUS
tices of the peace.
The services to be conducted by the
Rev. j, e. Wright in the Putnamville
school house next Sunday will be held
in the morning at eleven O'Clock.
WEST OORINTE.
Frank Whitney Of Putnamville,
was here last week and again this
week in the interets of his lum Der.
Last week he brought with him Frank
Cameron, who is running the engine
in the saw mill.
Charles Virgins returned here from
Concord, N. H., last week. His wife
and little son, Otis, has been with
her parents here for several weeks.
Rev. f. 1. Sargent's two daughters,
Mabel and Lena, recently called on
friends here.
Willie Dickinson of Chelsea. was
here short time ago to deliver q
gravestone for Mr.. Soper of Royalton.
Born in West Corinth, August IA,
a son to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wig.
gins, and died the same day.
Mrs. Day has so far recovered from
her recent illness as to be about the
house and does some work Mrs
Kezer is helping her.
| O. F. Blake has finished work il
Bradford.'
SOUTH WOODBURY..
Mrs. Myrtle Lance is visiting il
Boston and Lawrence, Mass, for few
weeks.
Grace Burnham and Lucinda Farms
worth left for Boston last Saturday
and will be gone one week.
The Story family, who have beef
giving entertainments in Morris hal
for the past week, left this place las
Monday and will stop at Woodbury.
Center for a week.
Cora Evelyn Benjamin won tn,
prize given at the Story family's en-
tertainments last week.
The Sunday school picnic will b,
held at Frank Batchelder's, Wednes
day, Aug. "a.
Mrs. Elsie Laird was confined t,
her bed last week but is better now.
Lewis Strong, wife and daughter
Blanche. and r. M. Pray and wifi
spent few days at Caspian LAX,
last week with Erwin Wilbur and ia
mily.
3 Maynard Kirg is having seriou
q time with his foot, erysipelas bein,
, the trouble.
< Mrs. Hiram Putnam of Cabot ha
been stopping a few days with Mrs
, Della Jewell.
l Roland Bruce and wife of Cabo
were at E. e. Balls one day las
week.
Q Mrs. Maud Pierce of Hardwick ha