The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-04-12


% bic plses.
The excessive hssilae Of hssvy Loads
nssA. cor roaas very rs1gh.
-Yrs1cs nefevli has gore 10 Kasisnd
to issrn the mschlEiss', trsss,
Peter Rshtp hs, mos'd from the ssi
Iva, place 70 r hfDtv'us hill place
Ms. ElsaCcr bosses has rerehasse the
ssliivsr yisos near Der farm ard ~iIl move
there soou.
--rbsrs I, psis 81 ruulln the gasrriss
Eight and d.v Ia order 70 Try AID Gu orders
o. time.
"A smasnap on The u. D. A @. Las, Bat
9rdAy caasec = siopp.xe Of ths trains and
teams brought ny The Passengers.
John d. Folsy, late elsik II The Cody
store, has moved 10 Far Haven. Jehu ID.
10 travelling salesman fer Yostop arm.
james nsiose has purchased The farm
of The lat. Jane. AcDayIt Of Mrs.. Anna
Is. hcDssi,, and sbs will e 70 Rutland 10
live.
The 4. 4. MAI insps ctors Of X. y. ID
and poet filees have been hs,e and lock- d
over Uncls sans officials. Toey we're iusi
- impoftsb, aud ,fficioas ~ ever.
Has = boy right to court girl with
out lhe consent Of his grandfather 10 ihe
question nov agitaiipx The freight house
club. A ACCESSION slu he reached before
planting.
The result OF the caucus law will BE-
the arisirg VI loI ~ Independents In the
d.ld lhis iAli ~hi.h uAy n.xks trouble Al
Montpelier for the old parties, provided
NOS 70 even 10 Verno4t
WIN. @. Beebe, the marble man At Man.
chester, hss luieLs..d twenty .quAts OF
mo Tar roofing for his blacksmith shop
This makes about 400 squares that Bowen
mas soia mostly through sd,ertitiox IN the
JOURNAL. who says that advertising Id
he JOURNAL don't pay II certainly
reaches the people.
"AND liz SAID LEI THERE he LIsHT AND
THERE WAS LIGHT"
We all kpo. that spaa VI fifty or sixty
years is snort time compared with tht
age OF the world, yet within sixty years
we have advanced more IL Invention, dis-
covery, arts aud scieIces thas do. men good
than Ia tic 5000 years before. Tas tsl.-
graph, telephone. phonog ray a, slectrlcity In
All its forms, sewing machines, mowers ana
reapers, gasolene engines and hundreds OF
ether new and strange things apheArd OF
and unthought OF before. thst has wholly
changed our rDsde Of life and oil this with.
10 Ia. life time vi 'nsny VI Us. But per-
hsps the greatest VI ali these WAS the dis
covery OF kerosene, or coal oil ~ II was and
Is called. | remember years ago An old
herb and oil doctor stopping at fathers and
he had q new oil called rock oil, cure all,
and il smelled bad for IL was kerosene oil
distilled 10 Pittsburg by s. N. Kier, who
tirst discovered kerosene and used IL - \
light and remedy. Now before this drug
glst found the nov universal light, which
was fret drilled for In 1859 ard did not b, 4.
come of general use until The tixtits, and
then only when Ulcle Sam plAc d = high
revenue tax on alcohol Of which burning
fluid was made, we only had whale oil
lamps, poor smokey things at best, candles
and other grease burning devices. The
candle was the best and this gave but y
weak light and required sIuiiing every ten
minutes and the result was that people
went to bed a. rule, soon after dark and
were up and moving as soon ~ II became
light. Their health was good, their morals
excellent, for crime loves darkness, and by
being awake all day thsy put In ~ much
living time 40 we do now who tar around
half the night and sleep Until noon. But
this 10 not to the point, the fact 10 kerosene
mas given Us good, and cheap light.
bright, soft, yellow light, easy TO eyes,
easy to the brain and the best all around
light the world ever saw. Electric light is
so sharp 1t destroys the eyes and 10 causing
thrse-fourths Of the people 10 wear glasses
and will, II not stopped. produce blind
race within 100 years rs the doctors will
tell you. But petroleum not only furnish
es us . gsod, soft light, 1t also produces
gasoline. benzine, .vssoltne, white wax,
cole tar and hundreds Of colors and ex.-
tracts for perfume. cooking ETC.. ETC., In
fact IL 10 the greatest discovery OF the age.
When OH City, OIL Creek, PIT Hole, Titus
vile, etc, were at their height In the
Pesnsy lvsnia oil fields, when oil ran In
rivers and hoated in boxes on the rivers,
when you ate, drank and slept In oil. when
fortunes we're made or lost 10 single day |
and when every BODY WAS oil crazy. Money |
was cheap and free, the roads we're one big |
mud streak. the slimey, smokey, greasey |
CRIME WAS over all. Great wells were on
fire, great tssks holding Thousands Of
barrels Of crude oil leaked, burst, we're |
struck BY lightning and blazsd up. A
square meal, well creased, was worth ~
and one-hAlf . bed ~ In oil valleys and
hard to get 1t that. Kerosene sold for
u so a gallon, then dropped to u and ! re-
mem Der adv,r Using IL In The JOURNAL for
60 cents gallon 10 1866 ~ . big drive, yet
In 1879 II sold fer 5 cents gallon. The
OIL Co got into line, pipe lines
pumped the crude oil to the ocean from
Penns ylvapis, Ohio and Indiana and new
line runs from Kansas wells to Hunters
Point. New York city, pumping crude oil
two thousand miles under rivers and over
mountains and the ocean tank ships carry
il to all climes and where ever II gees 1t
carries with II the germs Of civ lIzstios.
Il Is The light that has caused the millions
Of psws papers. mag, . lee, books OF
science and fiction TO be read, II has helped
The scientist tady, the Inventor plan ana