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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15
STATE oFvERMoNT, BY the Probate Court

- MARLBORO. s. for said District.
To all persons interested in the estate Of
EMILY d. NORRIS, late of BTattleboTo, de-
ceased GREETING.
WHEREAS. Alma r. Fisher has presented to
this Court an instrument purporting TO he the
last will Of said deceased. for prohates-NOu are
hereby notified that this Court will decide upon
the probate Of said Instrument at the session
thereof b be held al the Probate Office In Brat
tleboro in said district, on the 10Th day of Jan
uary A ID. 1904. when and where you may ar
pear and contest the same IL YOU see cause
S-1 AT. SCHMENK, Register.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

Five new cases of small pox have re-
Gently been reported in Lincoln. Three
Of the patients are very sick.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

Myron j. Horton, prominent citizen
If Poultney, died Thursday, aged 81,
He was prominent in state Masonic
circles.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

of a hotel more than two stories HIGH
or of a public hall or place of amuse-
ment more than one story high, shall
provide suitable ladders, or other safe
fire escapes from each and every story
above the first; such ladders or fire es-
capes shall be accessible from each
room of such buildings above the first
story.
Sec. 4702 The owner or lessee of a
building, factory, mill or workshop
more than two stories high, in which
persons are employed above the second
story, shall provide suitable ladders or
other safe fire escapes, for the safety
of patrons and occupants of such build
ings
Sec 4703 If the owner, keeper or
lessee of any of the places mentioned
in the two preceding sections neglects
to comply with the provision thereof,
he shall be fined not more than four
hundred dollars and not less than
twenty-five dollars
Sec. 4704. In prosecution, under the
preceding section, justices shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with the county
court, to the extent of filming the re-
spondent twenty-five dollars.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

DR.. George Stephens, V. s., of White
River Junction, whose term of service
al a member of the state board of cat
tie commissioners expired Dec. 81, 1908,
has been reappointed by Governor
Mccullough to serve three years.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

A. NJ. Burke of Morrisville is dead
lged so years. He was town clerk and
treasurer for 25 years.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

George NJ Rowell of Burlington, who
is charged with having sold fraudulent
insurance policies, has been released on
BAH furnished by his father-in- law, IL.
w. Spafford of Rutland.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

The meeting of the state board of
trustees of the Vermont Anti Saloon
league will be held at the W. c. T. U.
temple in Burlington January 20. There
have been added to help in the cam
paign for no license in the various
towns in the state several strong
workers. among them being the Rev.
John F. Brant, D. D., and NJ. J. Fan
ming Of Boston. H. II. SpOoner Of Con-
necticut and Rev. J. S. Brown Of
Manchester Center. 1t is expected that
several Catholic speakers viii also be
engaged 1t is announced that the
principle Of license viii not enter into
the present campaign. but that it viii
be saloon OF no saloon in local towns.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

The United States court of appeals
has rendered an important decision
in the case of William G. Freddy &
Son VS.. F. d. Giddings and Henry Will
son. The last named is the Bennina-
ton county sheriff who attached the
belt of Freedleys mill at East Dorset.
Freddy claimed that the belt was real
estate and could not be attached. The
court affirms the decision. in favor of
Freddy.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

A tramp giving name of John McVi-
car was arrested at Williston Thursday
charged with setting fire to one of the
large barns on the farm of Marvin w.
Clark of Williston. When the barn
was discovered on fire a stranger was
seen walking away from the building
toward the railroad track. The man
was followed and arrested The barn
and 80 tons of hay were destroyed. Nc
Vicar admitted setting fire to the build
ing but said he was careless about
smoking and did not mean to do it.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

In Bennington county court last week
the jury in the case against Charles F.
Morse charged with running a slot
machine, returned verdict of guilty.
The court fined him $50 and costs. An
appeal to the supreme court was taken.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

The annual school for Vermont Ma
tional guard officers will be held at
Burlington Feb. 8.
Plans and specifications for new pub
lie buildings at Burlington We're for
warded by the supervising architect
Monday. Bids will be open Feb. %.
Eggs are very scarce and high in
state markets. The supply has not been
so limited for years. Prices range from
80 to 35c per dozen, wholesale, and
from 35 to 40c. retail. Eggs in large
quantities can not be secured at any
price.
The Bennington battle monument as
ISOLATION received $40 from visitors to
the grounds last year After paying
expenses, about $500 is now in COM
mittee's hands. The society has about
$500 in the state treasurer's hands
The old board of officers was reelected
at the annual meeting Wednesday,
The annual meeting of the Woman's
auxiliary to the Vermont Dairymen's
association was held at Burlington
Thursday. officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows: President,
Mrs. Eta LaPage of Barre; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. NJ L. Aseltine of Fairfax;
secretary, Mrs. w. B. Beach of Char
lotte.
The record of births, deaths and
marriages for 1908 shows the mortality
of Burlington to have been very low.
During the year there We're 1874 deaths
and 446 births. which is an increase of
So over the number of deaths, and
gives % births for every 1000 inhabi-
tants. During the year 1856 marriage
licenses were issued.
The executive board of Norwich uni
versity has accepted the resignation of
President Allan D. Brown, to take eff
feet Jan. /, 1904. His retirement is
much regretted. Mr.. Brown was elect
ed president of the university in No
vember, 1896, and under his admins
tration the college has grown and pros
pered. No movement so far as known
has yet been made to secure a success
sor to Mr.. Brown.
After one of the most exciting cam
paigns in the history of the city the
republicans at Rutland Tuesday night
elected a city committee to serve for
two years largely composed of men
opposed to the political interests of p.
w. Clement and placing the Proctor
wing of the party in control of the Or
ganization. It was the first test of the
strength of the two factions since the
campaign .of 1902 and each side made
strenuous efforts to score victory.
With hands frozen, exhausted in an
open boat, drifting on Lake Champlain
for eight hours. William Anderson OF
Burlington was rescued near Shell
burne harbor Saturday by skaters on
Shelburne bay. Anderson went duck
hunting at Appletree Point Saturday
morning He shot a bird which fell in
the water some distance from the
shore. He took an old boat, with
barrel stave for an oar trying TO get
the bird He was caught in the cur
rent, lost the stave and drifted away.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

Capt. Lawrence S. Miller, artillery
corps, U. S. A. who has been detailed
as military instructor in the university
of Vermont, Burlington, arrived in Bur-
lington Friday from the Philippines
and reported for duty to President M.
II. Buckham.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

The carriage and harness establish
ment of Joy & Hulett at Salisbury
was entirely destroyed by fire Thurs
day night Many sleighs had just been
received which added to their other
stock, made the loss quite heavy as
nothing was saved. The building was
large one. Frank Dyer had much
grain stored in the building, which
also burned.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

The annual school for Vermont Ma
tional guard officers will be held at
Burlington Feb. 9.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

The Bennington battle monument as
ISOLATION received s110 from visitors to
the grounds last year. After paying
expenses, about $40O is now in COM
mittees hands. The society has about
$500 in the state treasurer's hands.
The old board of officers was reelected
at the annual meeting Wednesday.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

Eggs are very scarce and high in
state markets. The supply has not been
so limited for years. Prices range from
80 to Csc. per dozen. wholesale, and
from 35 to 40c. retail Eggs in large
quantities can not be secured at any
price.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15

Plans and specifications for new pub
lie buildings at Burlington We're for
warded by the supervising architect
Monday Bids will be open Feb. 20.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-28
THE CONVENTION HABIT.
Whenever a Few of Our People Get
Together They Organize for
Business.

1t is said to be a trait of the Anglo
Saxons that whenever a few of them
come together they elect a chairman and
proceed to business. A modern humor-
list had this tendency in mind, says
Youths Companion, when he proposed
the organization of a League for Letting
Things Alone.
During the vacation season just closed,
when men and women have had time to
crafty their taste for talk. the papers
have been full of the reports of the meet
ings of congresses of all sorts. The
delegates have gathered from various
parts of the land, have snapped" ex-
periences. have elected officers for the
ensuing year, and then have gone home.
Their pleasure in attending the con-
v~entions has been mingled with a modi-
cum of profit. Pleasure and profit, adj
vantageously blended, are none too
common in this scrambling world; and
he would be a mean-spirited philosopher
who would grudge them to the purchas-
ers of special convention tickets" on
the railroads, or to the patient audiences
of those who indulge themselves in the
~satisfactions of public discourse.
The convention-goers, in the heat of
debate, are still aware that many things
are likely to occur even in their W
field of effort, without their constant aid.
They know that the forces of nature will
continue to join with the energies of
man, in agriculture, commerce and men
tai endeavor. to bring to fruition the
seed which has been planted.
Although the Anglo-Saxon knows
this, he will continue to organize, to talk
and to listen-to the good of his soul and
of his body. But it is well for him to re-.
member that Emerson nee reported ma
ture as looking upon the man who has
Just rushed from a place of discussion
into the fields and woods, and asking
him: $50 hot, my little sir?"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-28
EVERYBODY is INTERESTED
Good Roads Movement Is Now Prac-
tically Approved by All Pro-
gressive Citizens.

What is known as the good roads
movement has reached the stage where
practically everybody approves Of it.
The most difficult work in this propa-
ganda has been to convince those who
would be benefited most by good roads,
that 1t was to their advantage to have
them. That much accomplished, those
directly concerned gave their approval,
provided somebody else paid the bill.
There is nothing apparently for which
the average American farmer has been
far more reluctant to pay than to bury
a lot of stone in a public highway and
then dress it with more care than the
ordinary person would dress himself,
and all for thousands beside himself to
drive over. Now the farmer has
reached the stage where he not only ap-
proves of the scheme, but is willing to
pay his share. This means that the fight
has been won. Good roads are coming
and coming rapidly.
The agitation for this boom is no
longer confined to wheelmen and auto
mobile owners. The man who wants it
most is the man who has farm produce
to sell and wishes to get it to a railroad
station at the lowest possible cost.
Among those who are agitating the mat
ter of improved highways are governors,
federal and state legislators, railroad Of
ficials, manufacturers, suburban resi-
dents. wheelmen, drivers and riders.
The federal government has established
a public roads inquiries bureau in the
department of agriculture, where a vast
amount of information regarding the
methods of road making, the soils of
various states and the conditions at
tending upon the construction of high
ways has been gathered and placed at
public disposal.
While there seems to be unanimous
approval of the government, few per-
sons realize exactly what good roads
are, or grasp the full meaning of their
benefits. A good road really means a
much travelled highway in the country,
covered with stone, bound solidly, and
laid so deep that frosts will not affect
1t or storms cause it to break up. An
other more concise definition, and n
thai will appeal to everyone, is that a
good road should be one that . has a
water-tight roof OF it and a dry cellar
under it. To build such a road in the
north requires a stone foundation from
is inches to three feet deep. In the
south, where there is little or no frost,
gravel, clay or sand may be used, the
chief object there being to get a road
that will shed water. To build an idea.
road not only requires skill, but an ap-
plication of scientific methods.-Frank-
lin Mathews, in Outing.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-28

adult.
Larvae or borer proper.
S-Section of stem showing work of borer
and how the adult energies.
These larvae grow slowly Il are but
partly grown when cold weather comes
on, when they prepare for winter by
retiring to the most protected part Of
their tunnels and surrounding them
selves by chewed-up fibers and other
waste material. In this way they pass
the winter in safety and with the first
warm days of spring they begin active
operations again and Don reach their
full size.
The full grown larva then prepares
to pupate and first eats a hole through
the cane, from which the adult moth
may escape. 1t hen changes to a pupa,
and towards the end of May or in June
changes to the adult form, which lays
more eggs, and thus starts again the life
cycle.
A great many ways have been suggest
ed for combating this insect. Some of
them are of no value and none of them
is entirely satisfactory. Perhaps the
most effective one is to prune away the
affected canes. From what has been
said of the life history of the borer it
will be seen that before the first of June
all OK the insects are in the canes,e either
in the larva or pupa stage. At this time
OF the year, too, these canes show the
results OF the borer's work, S that with
a little experience it is possible to cut
out all of the canes infested with borers.
Hence it will be seen that by cutting
out the canes at this time of the year
the carnage may be prevented for the
next season.
1t must not be forgotten, however,
that cutting out the canes does not
kill n larvae and that the canes must
be removed and burned; otherwise
the pupa will change to an adult and
the trouble will be in no way benefit
ed. Therefore, the remedy consists in
cutting away and burning all affected
canes in the spring before the last OF
May, when the adult moths emerge
M. L. Merritt, in Prairie Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-28
VEST HAD SOME DOUBTS.
Thought the Legislature Might Re
peal All the Smart Young
Man Knew.

Senator Cockrell tells of the case of :
young man who once appeared before the
commission appointed in Missouri to exam
inc applicants for admission to the bar Of
that state. 1t appears, says the New York
Herald, that this youthful applicant, who
had failed miserably in all that pertained
to jurisprudence, civil law, case law,
sumptuary law and due process of law, was
finally asked by Mr.. Vest, for a long time
senator from Missouri, whether there re
manned any questions which the young man
would like to have put to him:
II regret to say remarked Mr. Vest,
that you nave failed to come up to the
mark in the branches of law upon which
we have examined you. But" added Mr..
Vest, in a most kindly spirit, eve will ques-
tion your further, if you so desire"
"Well, sir" responded the applicant, IL
would suggest, if you please, that l be ques-
toned on the statutes"
At this Mr.. Vest smiled sadly. "My dear
young man." added he, 81 do not doubt
that you're up on the statutes; but | do
doubt that you will succeed in the law.
Suppose you should have the utmost ia
miliarity with the statutes, what's to pre-
vent the legislature from repeating all you
know"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-28
FRUIT AND GARDEN NOTES.

The number of bearing apple trees
in the United States now exceed 2Oo,-
900, 200.
Fruit will ripen more rapidly off
than on the tree, says a prominent
grower of apples.
Pears should be stored as soon as
picked. and any delay in this matter
will cause rotting.
The bulk of u apples are produced
in about 16 states, which grow over
LAT, 000, 900 bushels.
Loading peaches into cars before
they have been cooled will bring
them to market in a very bad condi-
ton. The fruit should be thoroughly
cooled before being put into the cars.
According to experiment station
work, 100 pounds of fresh apples fed
to farm animals was equivalent to 81
pounds Of wheat straw, or 20 pounds
of alfalfa hay, or nine pounds of cot
tenseed meal.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-28
Plant a Few Shade Trees

Mistakes are often made by not set
ting out shade trees in early life.
Fifty years ago the writer set out
some sugar naples in front of the
dwelling-house. They are now ten
feet higher than the two-story house.
and in the summer it is a great pleas
ure to sit in their shade. They also
make the house cooler in hot weather.
and serve as a windbreak. Many put
off this duty until old age overtakes
them. When one plants trees of any
kind and reaps the benefit thereof it
seems natural that he should enjoy
it more than if it were some others
planting. / also did not neglect plant
ing fruit trees of different kinds, and
now M children and grandchildren
enjoy the benefits thereof. Dear read
ers, don't put off this duty until old
age comes creeping ono. w. KEEL
logg, in Ohio Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-28
RAISING STREET BLOCKADE
One Stubborn Horse Was No Match
for a 1900 HORSEPOWER
Trolley Car.

It is a familiar sight now, the start
ing up of a stalled truck by 2 trolley car
pushing it; but 1t seems to interest
people just as much as it did when it
was new, says the New York Sun.
Here, for instance, was a two-horse
truck with a heavy load halted on the
slope in Fulton street. between Church
street and West Broadway. Good team,
and able to haul the load, but the nigh
horse had got tired half way up tAe
slope and decided to take a rest; and, of
course, that tied up the whole business.
In a bad place, too, on that hill.
The man with the driver got down
and touched up the stubborn nigh horse
with the whip, but that only made him
more stubborn, and incidentally made
him kick out sideways in an obviously
earnest endeavor to injure the man with
the whip.
Outfit still stalled; and a driver with
a big two-horse express wagon comes
up behind and sets his pole against the
load on the truck and starts his horses
and tries to help in that way, but
neither horse of the stalled team will
pull. The off horse is not hanging back
stubbornly like the nigh horse, but is
standing still and resting, taking ad-
vantage of the situation created by his
more p%ugnacious team mate.
So there's nothing doing with the
help of the express team, and pretty
soon the express driver sheers off and
drives around the stalled truck and
passes on. But then something hap
pens.
Just as the big express wagon sheered
off, a big Eighth avenue car swung
around the corner from West Broadway
into Fulton street, on its way to South
Ferry and quickly closed up on the
stalled truck, which was halted square
on the track. The motorman didn't
waste any time, nor did he make any
fuss over it.; he just set his brake when
he was about six feet away and then
strapped up his fender against the
dashboard of his car and mounted the
platform again and nursed the car up
to the tail of the truck.
1t was nicely done. You couldn't
hear it when they came together, with
the iron-bound end of the truck resting
against the heavy end guard of the car,
with the turned-up fender between.
And then the motOrman turned on
the power, gently, very gently, but IT.
resistibly. 1t was 1900 horse power,
more or less. against n stubborn
horse; and before the truck had been
pushed a foot that stubborn nigh horse
settled into h%isatraces and began to pull.
Apparently he had had similar expe-
riences before and knew there was
nothing to do but pull, or have the truck
pushed all over him; and the off horse,
who had been enjoying a rest without
any effort on his part, settled down, too,
and the team walked away with the load
without trouble.
And with the team walked on a bunch
of sidewalk spectators who, apparent
ly, had found in this illustration of the
effectiveness of the trolley car as a
street blockade raiser as much enjoy
ment as they did in the first one they
ever saw.