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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-08-27

ter Ruby from Coaticook are staying at
E. c. Burroughs
MRS. Lila Bemis and little daughter,
MILDRED from Woodsville are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Evans.
PARTIES from this place attended the
sunday school convention at West Charles
TON last week and report a very pleasant
time.
NEWPORT.
Mrs. L. c. Hilton and daughter have re-
turned from Bolton Springs.
Mrs. p. a. Robbins and children are Wis
ting friends in Bellows Falls, and Keene,
Nh.
The shops OF the Frost Veneer Co. have
peen painted recently, which brightens up
the appearance of the plant considera bly,.
MRS. Z. P. Knox and daughters of Ep-
ping, n. H., and Mrs. E. B. Wellman of
Lowell visited relatives In town last week
telegram from Dorothy Richards, who
is missionary in Conception, Chilli, states
That she Is safe from the great earthquake.
Hon. q. s. Stanton and +. g. Fleetwood
have been registered at the Newport House
40 oSfoAoA oays. Wull0 Campaigning IN
surrounding towns.
Fred Cattanach is at home for a few
weeks vacation from McGill college. He
is at present assisting at the Boston &
Maine freight Office during the temporary
absence of Mr.. Ellis.
During the thunder storm of Monday,
Aug. 20, the clock tower on the court
house was struck by lightning. Little
damage was done however, the clock con-
tinuing to perform its duty.
The week ending Thursday, Aug. %,
was the hottest experienced in this section
for many years. On Saturday, Aug. is, B.
r. Moore & Co. were obliged to stop work
in their factory on account OF the heat.
The troops OF the 9th Massachusetts, N.
G, passed through Newport Thursday.
They came from Ottawa, over the Canadian
Pacific railroad, three special trains of
| seven cars each being required to trans
port them.
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT
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John P. Seayer's Will.

STATE OF VERMONT} In Probate Court
said District, OF the 10th day of July,
A. D. 1906.
An instrument purporting to be the last Will
bury. in said District deceased being present.
ed to the Court by Minnie w. Seaver,
custodian thereof, executrix therein
named, for Pr b a e; 1t is order d
by said Court that all persons concerned
therein be notified to appear at session of
said Court, to be he'd at F. W. Baidwin's
office at Barton, in said District, on
the Ia tn day of SeptemberA.D., 1906, a = show
cause, if any they may have, against the Pro-
bate of said Will; for which purpose, it is
further ordered that a copy OF this record of
this order be published three weeks success
sively in the Orleans County Monitor, a news
paper printed at said Barton, previous to said
time appointed for hearing.
By the Court. Attest:
35-s7 F. E. ALFRED, Judge.
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WEST CLOVER

H.A.Barber and family visited at Green's
boro Bend last week.
West Glover is having new iron bridge
to grsce the stream on her business street.
Clyde Thompson has spread a coat OF
gravel on the sidewalk for the Improve.
ment Society.
Ellis Prescott Is working for the New
England Telephone Company, his first lob
Is near New York City in the western part
OF Connecticut.
Luther p. Lane of Pueblo, Col. formerly
OF st. Johnsbury, died Sunday Aug. 10Th.
at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Hermon
Prescott, OF heart disease. Services were
held at the house, interment at st. Johns
bury, conducted by the. Loo. Cres-
cent Lodge of Barton took charge OF the
remains here and the Lyndonyilie Lodge.
of which the deceased was member. laid
the body to rest. Mr.. Lane was thirty
years old and leaves father, mother and
two sisters at Pueblo, also many other rel
atives in the East to mourn his loss. He
waa tenderly cared for by his aunt, uncle
and cousin, Mr.. and Mrs. Hermon Prescott
and Ellis Pres colt.
A CARD.-We wish to thank our neigh
bors and friends who kindly assisted us In
the last sad duties.
Mr.. and Mrs. HERMoN PRESCOTT,
ELLIS PRESCOTT.
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Estate Of Lydia A. Seaver oil
Glover.


STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate Court,
DISTRICT OF ORLEANS, IS. held at Newport in
said district on the 10th day of Aug D. 1906
Geo. L. Young, Administrator of the estate
Of Lydia A. Seaver, late of Glover, in said
District. deceased, pre- sents his administration
account for examination and allowance, and
makes application for decree of distribution
and partition of the estate of said de eased.
:, Whereupon it is ordered by said Court
that said account and said application be
referred to session thereof, to be held at
FW Baldwin's Office in saia Barton, VT, in said
district onlthe 14th day of Septembe "A. D.. 1906
at nine O'Clock in the foTenoonfor hearing and
decision thereon. And, it is further ordered
til at notice hereof be given to all persons inter-
ested, by publication of the same three weeks
successfully in the ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR,
newspaper published at said Barton, pre-
v1ous to said time appointed for hearing,
that they may appear at said time and place,
and show cause, if any they may have why
said account should not be allowed, and such
decree made.
By the Court. Attest,
1851 F. E. ALFRED, Judge.
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L @ S T

Lost Strayed, or Stolen from John CorIey's
pasture on Virgins hill sometime since
no white marks
Any information conce og her will be
suitably rewarded.
3o-% j. PLUNKETT, Barton.
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Ihose l owe I will pay, but will ray
no debts of any one else contracting after
th1s GATE. JAMES DOW
August ~, 1906. IS 81
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LIBERATION NOTICE.

Th1s is to notify all persons that on and
after this date give my SON, Willie Sanville,
ms Time during the rest of his minority, and
claim any of his wages after this date
August 81, 1906 s5-s7
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death OF Stewart Kelley last Friday 81
Newoury as he was returning from Mon
tana with carload OF horses. The train
was sidetrac Sed at Nswbury for FIVE min
otes and he took the opportunity to see
that the horses were all right. The train
started before he reached the caboose and
In trying 10 enter the front end OF It he
was drawn under and both legs were
severed from his body. As quickly IS
possible he was taken 10 Hanover but
lived only a short time after reaching
There. He was ayoung man we'll known
and respected by all. The funeral was
attended by about three hundred sorrow
Ing friends and relatives at the home OF
his father, Levi Kelley, Sunday afternoon.
Comforting words were spoken by Rev. j.
Ellery Reed, a former pastor when the
family resided in Holland, from a text in
Psalms 50: AZ. A profusion OF beautiful
flowers was a silent token Of the love and
respect ia which he was held. The sym
patty OF the community goes out to the
father, mother, and four brothers In this
nrst break in their family circle.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02
IMPLICIT PENALTY ON DEuNQuEMTs
Corporations Which Failed to Annual,
License Fee Will Be Charged
With Penalty.

Corporations which failed to pay
their 1906 annual license fee Saturday
night will have to pay a penalty of
$3.50. Secretary of State Sam H.
Nichols said today that no excuses will
be accepted. There has been abundant
notice given. So far about 1000 cor
porations have paid the fee of $40
each. Some of these came in last
month, and all this month the force at
the, office has been working late into
the night opening the letters, issuing
receipts and checking up the payments
So far this month the secretary Of
state has receipted and banked $31, 264,
and today there is between $4,000 and
$4,000 cash and checks on hand being
entered up.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02

Members of the union labor organi-
cations of this city are free-born Amer
lean citizens and they will not allow
any man or set of men to dictate to
them whom they shall support for mu-
nicipal Offices Each union man is fully
capable of judging for himself whom
he should favor for the various off,
ces to be filled at next Mondays cleo
ton and few union men will fail to
resent the attempt of committee to
tell them just how and for whom they
should vote. Any man who imagines
that union workmen can be driven to
the polls in blocks of five" or other
wise to vote for any set of candidates
selected for them by a steering COM
mittee. will find that he is dealing with
the most independent and self-relfant
class of American citizens
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02

or and he will not find it easy to re-
sist the demand of his creators and
hackers.
Each of the thirteen taking part in
the conference that brought out KEEL
Tough for mayor will have some private
end to serve and will call upon the
MAYOR to help him grind his ak. So
numerous and insistent will be the i'm
nortunities of the thirteen for favors
that the new mayor will be harasseo
almost to death and he will curse the
day that he ever listened to the voice
of the Boxer siren and consented TO
become a candidate for office.
Following is a list Of the thirteen
men who will act as advisers of Mayor
Kellough and who will be found con-
stantly at his heel, sittin about his
desk or stove, flooding his spittoons,
filing his store with tobacco smoke or
standing as suit models in front of his
place of business: Miles c. Moore, &.
G.. Gose. Otto Rupp, Thomas Mosgrove,
F. S. Dement,, John Kirkman, w. II.
Dunphy, John Kent, Oscar Cain, ]. G..
Bridges, w. H. Upton, ]. A. Durham,
Eugene LortOn.
In the list are the names of several
very estimable but misguided gentle
men. who will perhaps some day get
the scales from their eyes and join In
the effort to eradicate factionalism In
this city, and to unite all good citizens
for the upbuilding of the town.
Three of the unlucky thirteen are
non-residents, who can not be pre-
vented from talking twenty-four hours
a day on street corners for their can
didate, but who on election day will
have no vote. All they will be able to
do on that day will be to continue their
talk while they see large majority
of the voters of the city marching to
the polls to cast their ballots for the
reelection of Mayor Hunt, the best
mayor Walla Walla ever had.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02
A DEGENERATE SON.

Whether there is warrant for the as
sumption that Harry Thaw is legally
insane and was so when he shot his
victim, there is plenty of evidence in
his career that he never had much in
struction in the difference between
right and wrong and hence very little
conception of that difference. Descend
ed from a father who betrayed in his
age the same characteristics which the
son has blown upon the world in his
youth, brought up by doting mother
who humored his every whim whether
it was to tease cat or smoke a cigar
cite, is it any wonder he grew up to be
at 33 an irresponsible, moral idiot?
Though this unfortunate young man
cannot say with the great of the ages,
"All that l am 1 owe to my mother"
he can say that he owes at least a
portion of his bad eminence to the
weakness which characterized his early
training.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02
WOULD BE KELLOUGHS CABINET

If George Kellough should be elected
mayor, and that now seems most i'm
probable, his worst handicap would be
the gang of thirteen Boxers who
placed him in nomination. They would
let no opportunity pass to remind him
that his election would not have been
possible without their aid and that
his sense of gratitude should impel him
to take their advice in all his official
actions. The thirteen would be his
cabinet his council of state, and some
or all of them would do his footsteps
from the time he arose in the morn
ing until he retired at night, and in
times of emergency one of them would
act as his guardian angel while he
slept for fear that some evil spirit
might steal in and win him away from
his CALLING allegiance to the Boxers.
The thirteen would be to him a pillar
of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by
night to guide him to the promised
land of milk and honey for the hungry
Boxers. They would demand of him
that new offices be created for the ac-
commodation of his supporters and that
the patronage of the city be used in
every way possible to build up a Boxer
machine with the manager of the lit
tie dOdger as its boss. He would be
called upon soon after his election to
effect a settlement of the suit brought
by the Dement, Milling company for a
permanent injunction against the city's
taking any water from Mill creek for
its new $500 water system The
company might be willing to settle out
Of court for about 100000. The fact
that George Kellough was chosen as
candidate for mayor at a meeting of
the immaculate thirteen in the Office
Of the attorneys for the milling COM
pany and that the company has spent
several thousand dollars in maintain
ing an organ to advocate his election
will be forcibly impressed upon the
mind of Kellouh. If he is elected may
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02

An expert in the good roads bureau
of the department of agriculture at
Washington. while experimenting re-
Gently with crushed rock, hit upon the
idea that finely pulveriZed granite
might have a fertilizing value. A
series of experiments proved this to
be the case. Tobacco treated with
powdered granite tlourished as we'll as
that treated with potash imported from
Germany. The German potash costs
500 a ton: two tons of pulverized
granite is said to contain practically
the same amount of potash and it costs
only SO a ton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02

Bear in mind. taxpayers, that Walla
Walla has had a Boxer council for the
last five years. and If the financial az
fairs of the city have not been man.
aged properly during that period, the
Boxer members of the council were
responsible 1t was within the power
of the Boxer majority to reject any Dill
that was presented, and If any bills not
warranted by law were allowed the
Boxer council, which acted as an au-
diting committee, must take the
blame Mayor Hunt has no power 10
take a cent from the treasury except
on warrant issued by the clerk after
the approval of bills by the council.
Therefore, the Boxer majority of the
council and not the mayor were to
blame if any improper bill was al
lowed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02
JACK RABBITS TO EARN A LIVING
Aberdeen Enthusiasts Plan for a Big
Coursing Meeting this Fall.

ABERDEEN, S. D., July 2.-The old
Aberdeen Couring club is to be re-
organized and steps taken to hold a
meet this fall This decision was made
by the old officials of the club, who
met last night and decided to revive
this sport in this section of the coun-
try.
The Aberdeen cup, valued at $500
and acknowledged to be one of the
handsomest trophies ever offered in the
west, will be brought here. 1t is now
at Faribault, Mimi. in the possession
of Sam Handy, member of the Ameri-
can Coursing association, who has held
it for some years at the request Of the
Aberdeen club until a meeting can be
arranged here. Last fall large purse
was raised in this city, but owing to
the scarcity of rabbits the meeting was
declared off.
This year, however, every effort will
be made to protect the rabbits, and the
gun club of this city has lent it's aid.
Notices have been sent to all the sur
rounding country to spare the rabbits,
and the response has encouraged local
sporting men to get busy and arrange
a meet this year that will eclipse any,
thing yet held in the west or north
west.
Owners of kennels in Denver, Butte,
San Francisco, Oklahoma, Dallas, st.
Louis, Chicago and New York have
promised to come here if a meet can
be arranged, and replies have been sent
to all. =. - D
Besides the cup, purse of $1,000
can be easily raised in this city, and
this, with the entrance money, will
make an attractive prize to the dog
owners. A meeting will be held this
week, when the old club will reorgan-
ize and begin the work of preparing a
card that will insure a successful
meeting.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02
VOTERS WILL INDORSE McKEAN

During his four years service as
member of the council from the Sec
ond ward, w. P. Mexican has proven
himself to be a faithful, conscientious
and philosophical official. and much
of the success of Mayor Hunts admin
istration has been partly due to the
noble work of Councilman Mexican as
chairman of the finance committee. He
has devoted a great deal of his time
to the city's financial affairs and has
entered into the details as scrupulous-
ly as though they were his private
business affairs Councilman Mexican is
the right man in the right place and
the voters of the second ward will
show their appreciation of his services
by re-electing him next Monday by a
big majority.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02
BASEBALL IN ENGLAND.

Baseball is declared to have at last
a firm foothold in England. The game
was introduced there in 1874, when the
Philadelphia Athletics and the BOstons
made a tour of Great Britain. Fifteen
years later interest was revived by the
world tour of the All-American teams.
1t is not surprising that a people which
has endured cricket as a national pas
time for two centuries has taken q
generation to realize the possibilities
of baseball.
Cricket is a serial game. One attends
today's installment down to the "to-be-
continued line, goes again tomorrow,
if he has British patience, and perhaps
catches the conclusion the day after.
Baseball is a short story with snap to
it, We congratulate the Britons who
are to get more Of it.
In 1889 a game of baseball was play
ed on historic Remington Oval. The
English fog, and the enthusiasm of the
occasion was lost in the mist. There
have been games since. Buffalo Bills
cowboys played a little while after the
Remington game. Later the National
Baseball association was started, also
the formally incorporated London
Baseball association. Along in the
COS five clubs We're playing regularly
in and about London.
In the present tanning Of British
baseball interests American Rhodes
scholars at Oxford have had a hand.
Two weeks ago a match game was
played in London in which all the
players were English except the catch
ers. The man behind the bat has yet
to be fully developed in Britain. So
has an understanding of the slang of
the game. The crowd at the London
contest missed many fine points in fall
ing to appreciate the professional re-
marks of the American catchers.
1t is prophesied that before the sum-
mer is over at least 20 league clubs
will be playing in England. Interna-
tional championships may be expected
in early years. And a mutual interest
in the score should be no mean factor
in the relations between the two Eng
iSh-speaking nations.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-02
DIED AT HIS POST.
Death of Operator in an Iowa Town
Clicked Traffic On a Division.

Death Of Operator in an Iowa Town
Clicked Traffic On a Division.
DES MONIES, Iowa, July with
Station Agent ]. Sloan of Leighton
dead at his post, trains on the Keokuk
and Des Moines division of the Rock
Island road We're tied up for time yes
terday. While the dispatcher tried
time and again to get the operator, the
latter lay cold in death not 20 feet
from the ticker.
A 10-year-old boy was the only per-
son who saw Sloan drop. The agent
was wheeling some freight in a truck
on the platform when he threw up his
hands and fell dead. The boy ran to
him, and when he did not make answer,
gave the alarm.
The Rock Island officials meanwhile
were in desperation. The dispatchers
hesitated to send trains ahead unless
orders could be communicated to the
Leighton agent. No response came to
repeated calls on the wire, and at
length the passenger train bound
through Leighton was ordered to pro-
coed slowly. AS the train pulled into
Leighton the body of the operator was
being carried away. There was not
another man in the town who was
able to operate a telegraph instrument.
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gust 5, 1902, Mayor Hunt said:

gust 5, 1902, Mayor Hunt said:
Spend Funds ConservativeIy.
"The city is growing faster than
most of us realize and it is necessary
to make large OUTLAWS for the opening
Of streets and for other improvements,
but the citys money should be wisely
and Conservatory expended, and for
there should be full value received in
permanent improvements.
Water Supply.
"The obtaining of an abundant
supply of water should claim your
early attention. First satisfy yourselves
that you have a sufficient supply at the
Thomas Springs Or some other point
together with a clear title, both ripa-
rian and otherwise. and then build a
large reservoir capable of supplying a
city of at least $4,000 inhabitants
Have the plans and specifications
drawn by some competent engineer
who is thoroughly versed in this kind
of work. Have every item specified in
detail, prepare an estimate of the
cost of bringing water to the city in
pipes of sufficient size and strength
to give us an up-to-date system then
place the matter before the taxpayers
for their consideration
when this is done and the plans
meet with their approval, arrange for
the issuance of bonds and bring the
water to the city at the earliest pos
sible date. This water system need
not necessarily be a burden to the
people. The revenue received from it
should be sufficient to pay the inter-
est and provide a sinking fund for the
gradual retirement of the bonds.
1T is to be hoped that the expendi-
lures in the extension of the water
service for domestic purposes will be
made on lines that will encourage
house connections in locations now
dependent on other sources for their
supply. thereby materially increasing
the revenues Of the city.
Always a City Of Homes.
"This will always be the city of
homes, and we all, the city council and
citizens alike, should have one object
in view, that is to improve the city
and beautify our homes. so that we
shall continue to have the most attrac-
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DOCTORS SAY HE'S INSANE.
Physician Of Thaw Family So Declares
Regarding Murderer.

PITTSBURG, Pa, July 2.-T am
not surprised. 1t is nothing more than
1 expected to happen some time
certainly believe that Mr.. Thaw is in
sane'
This statement from DR.. ]. H. Nc
Clelland, an associate and physician of
the Thaw family, sums up in brief the
opinion of people in Pittsburg who
have been familiar with Harry Kendall
Thaw and his actions since babyhood
Not strong physically, his every
whim granted by a doting mother,
with money in unlimited quantities at
his command, Harry Thaw grew from
a boy who was strong neither in body
nor in mind into a degenerate. From
his school days he has been a source
of constant trouble and worry to his
mother, who was necessarily called to
get him out of trouble.
Insanity in Family.
In the summer of 1904 the news
papers of the country printed a story
of the finding of Harriet. Thaw in a
cellar in Philadelphia living in the
direst poverty and insane. She was an
aunt of Harry Kendall Thaw, and soon
after her discovery she died, raving
maniac. So far as is known, she is
the only member of the Thaw family
who has been mentally affected.
Cigarettes to Blame.
If Harry Thaw's mind is proved un-
balanced, his friends declare that the
excessive use of cigarettes will be
shown to have been one Of the lead
ing causes of his affliction. Thaw has
smoked cigarettes since he was in
knickerbockers, and while a student
at Wooster university, Ohio, he ran
away to Europe in search of new
brand of cigarettes and some new to-
bacco. He came back with trunks fill
ed with them and practically democrat
lied the college with his lavish hand.
1t was in 1887 and 1888 that he attend
ed Wooster university, then patronized
largely by Mrs William Thaw. Young
Thaw was known as 'the cigarette
fiend."