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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-10

Peter Blair's little son is sick with
an attack of pneumonia.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-10

Mrs. q. Buskirk left for Black
Duck Saturday for visit with rela
tives ut that place.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-10

Mrs. Geo. Nichols left Monday for
her home in Seattle after visiting
with the family of j. A. Nichols for
some tima.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19
THE PATROL
FIRE EXTINGUISHER
St. Louis Company Will Establish
An Agency Here.

c. !. Pillow OF St. Louis, Mo-,
has been here for ten days Tor the
purpose of establishing an agency
for the Patrol Fire eXtinguisher.
The patent was gotten out by the
American La France Fire Engine
Co. and it is considered the lead
ing patent of the sort in the world.
Mr.. Pillow, the agent, who is es-
tablishing headquarters here made
a demonstration for the benefit OF
local purchasers here Monday
night. He fired a pile OF barrels
and boxes and when the blaze had
we'll developed put it out instantly
with his machine. The cost OF the
machine is very reasonable, being
only $500. One OF the main TEA
lures Of excellence Of this patent is
that it reaches places impossible
to get at by hose or bucket. The
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19
Wernermade S2.25 to So

FOX SALE-In Buchanan Ad-
dition one block west of Dawson
depot, Groom house, closets, bath
room, water tank and pressure tank
for hot and cold water, newly pa
pered and painted, wired through
out, on south front lot 5oXI42 feet
fenced, shed and out-houses. Price
SIo5o. $50 off, if parties don't
want bath and tank fixtures. Ad-
dress John WEIGH or phone a..
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19

Miss Kittie Jones will leave to-
morrow for an extended visit in the
White Mountains.
Joseph Israel received this week
one Of the finest and most up-to-
date French mirrors hat we have
seen in many a day.
lanes s. CrutCher of Richmond,
Kv., and son Master w. L.. Crutch-
err, IT,, are here tor a short visit
with father and grandfather w. l..
Crutcher, and James sisters, Mes
DANES Evans and Chenault.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19

John Mathews and wife visited
friends in Nara Visa Sunday.
w. l.. Crutcher has received
information that his only brother,
a twin, Rev. Crutcher of Pine
Bluff, Ark, is dangerously sick,
and will leave here in a day or two
to attend him.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19

Rev. DuBose informs the News
that his congregation will soon be-
gin the erection OF a stone church.
A lot has been purchased on the
corner Of Aber and Adams for this
purpose.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19

gasses penetrating every nook and
corner of a building. Pillow will
establish headquarters here and
work Northeast New Mexico from
this point. A number OF Tucum-
carl houses have already purchased
his machines.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19
Feed Yard For Sale.

Feed yard, ground 100 X $50
feet, sheds, camp house, etc. in
good new town, for sale tor $3.50.
No livery barn in town, a snap.
1t LANCE & SIsNEY.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-10-19
Fine Relinquishment Near Town

A fine REIMBURSEMENT, 4 miles
from town, level, no better place
in New Mexico. $500. if taken
soon. LANCE & SIsNEY. 1t
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
The Woodstock Improvement So
ciety.

woodstock front yard is looking
pretty well this summer, Strangers
notice and speak about the shrubs,
flowers and neatly trimmed turf, and
to the Village Improvement Society
is due the credit for the beauty and
cleanliness of the premises.
The Improvement Society began
its good work three years ago with
an effort to clear the principal streets
of paper, banana peels and other ac-
cumulating litter; refuse cans were
placed about the streets and these
receptacles have done great deal
toward keeping things in order.
This season a great deal has been
done at the street intersections and
at the head of the park, at the bridge
near by and in dozen places on well
kept triangles of turf shrubs and
flowers are growing and fourishing'
These very small gardens are well
cared for and thus exert an excellent
influence on the whole village. The
society has the cooperation o. the
village officers and the encourage
ment of the people in its work for the
beauty and health of the village.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
MARYLAND.

The following pupils IN the higher
department of the village school
were neither absent nor tardy dur
ing the past term: Nina Martin,
Winnie Davis, Ruth Allen, Arthur
Chase, Harold Marcy, Deane Nc
Arthur. Rena Jenne's side won in
the flower contest. This side brought
81 of the 100 varieties of wild flow
ers brought in during the term.
Eight pupils from this school took
the state examination for entrance
to the high school. Laura Nelson,
teacher.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Sturtevant
have returned from a visit with rel
atives in Titusville, Pa, and Hart
ford, Conn, accompanied by their
daughter, Miss Florence H. Sturte-
want, instructor of music in the pub
lie schools in Titusville.
Report for the Primary school,
Hartland village: Pupils not alb
sent during the term Wilma Irene
Allen, Marion Reed, Ruth Near
thur, Gladys Mower, Mildred Howe,
Elva Hadley, Mabel Wood, Clar-
eN,e Wood, Frederick Lobdell, Ken
meth Merrill. Absent one-hali day,
Henry Barstow Ketchum, Jr. Dora
T. Penniman, teacher.
Report for the Center school term
ending Friday, June 20; Number
of pupils enrolled IL, average at
tendance 10 o-Io. Perfect in attend
ance: Ruby Chase, Ruth Dickin-
son, Christine Barbour, Julian, Oil
yer and Riley Murphey; absent one
day, Archie Case. Homer Chase.
MADEIRA Case; absent I Ia days,
Lloyd Wood. Rev. E. w. Sturte-
want, teacher.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
STATE PRESS.

After being found guilty of seri-
Gus charge man who has figured in
several cases previously in Orange
county court was asked by Judge
Powers at the session which closed
this week if he had anything to say
for himself. Much to the surprise
of the court and those attending the
sessions the man arose and said: 81
am the golden hen which lays the
golden egg for the officers of Orange
county. Whenever they are short of
money just before the Fourth or some
other holiday they arrest me and here
l am as usual" The room smiled
and the court began to twitch around
the mouth. "Two years." said the
court, and TIE general opinion was
that the sentence was not heightened
by the Grafton on fees.-Montpelier
Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13

A well known Norfolk squire was
lamenting the increase of poaching
to his keeper, who mentioned one
Richards as the most notorious
poacher of the neighborhood. Soon
after the squire happened to meet
this Richards, who asserted that he
could get game whenever he want
ed it, keepers or no keepers. This
annoyed the squire, who said:
"Well, if you bring me a hare
tomorrow off my own estate, I'll
give you a guinea for it,"
"What! An you j. PIP
ooh, that'll be all rightp
"Well, then, done, sir"
Next day the grinning poacher
arrived and was shown into the
study.
"Well, have you got himp"
For answer he opened the sack,
out of which jumped a fine hare,
which rushed wildly around the
room, seeking to escape.
"Why, haven't you killed it?"
yelled the indignant squire.
"No, sir" said the poacher with
a grin. 81 have no license" Lon
don Graphic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
WHERE HE LIVED.
The Roundabout Way a Visitor to
Paris Found His Hotel,

A young fellow from the north of
England, the unfortunate possessor
# rather treacherous memory,
rent to spend a holiday in Paris,
uys the London Taller. With a
Title difficulty he sought out a no
ii, and anxious to make the best of
is time he sailed forth the next
aorning to have look at the boule-
Yards. Having spent a few hours
there he would return to his quar-
tcrs. But to get to the boulevards
and then get back to the hotel he
soon found were very different
things, for to his great annoyance
he had utterly forgotten the name
of the place where he had taken up
his abode.
Further, a mere smattering of
French was all he knew, and as
every one he encountered appeared
to have no knowledge of English the
difficulty of explaining himself
seemed insurmountable. At last to
his great joy he stumbled across a
fellow countryman, who after a lit
tie conversation suggested an in
genious escape from his dilemma.
'By the way" said he, "did you
send to your people in England any
intimation of your safe arrival last
evening""
"Of course 1 did," was the ready
reply. 81 wrote to my folks at once,
as l promised my father / would"
"Then don't you think" remark
ed the quick witted Englishman,
"that it would be good idoc ~ -'-'---
home and ask them if they have re-
ceived your letter to let you know
your address in Paris ?"
Absurd though it seemed at first,
it was the only thing to be done, and
luckily his letter had been written
on hotel paper. He waited patient
ly in the telegraph Office until he
received the welcome intelligence
which sent him on his way rejoic-
ing.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
ESTATE OF AUSTIN ABBOTT.

STATE OF VERMONT At a Probate
Woodstock, in said District, ON the 18th
day of June, A. d. 1907.
Present, L. 0. Seaver, Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of Austin
Abbott, late of Woodstock, in said District,
deceased intestate.
Whereas. f. Thomas Kidder, administra-
tor of said estate. proposes rendering an
account of his administration of said estate
and presenting his account against the same
for examination and allowance, at q session
of said Court to be held at the Probate
Office in said Woodstock, on the 9th day of
July, A. D. 1907, at O'Clock in the fore
noon.
And whereas said Court has assigned and
ordered said time and place for the settle
ment of said account, and for issuing de-
cree of the residue of said estate to the per-
sons entitled to the same; and has ordered
that public notice thereof be given to all
persons interested in said estate by publish
ing copy Of the record of this order three
weeks successfully in the Spirit of the Age,
a newspaper published at Woodstock, in
said District, the last of said publications
to be previous TO said 18th day of July, A.
d. 1907.
Therefore, all persons concerned in said
estate are notified to appear at said Probate
Office on the day assigned as aforesaid, then
and there to contest the allowance of said
account, if they see cause, and to establish
their rights as lawful claimants of said
residue.
A true record, attest
T. o. SEAVER, Judge.
A true copy of record, attest
I. o. SEAVER, Judge.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Woodstock, VT, July 10, 1907

Attorney General G. G. Fits of
Brattleboro has begun campaign
for the enforcement of the guide post
law which is to extend all over the
state, having received complaints that
the selectmen of some towns are not
complying with the statutes relative
to the maintenance of signs to guide
the traveller on his way, The cross
roads and intersections of highways
in Woodstock are said to be prop
erly labelled, even if some of the
guide boards are shaky and weather
beaten, but the matter will be taken
before the grand jury in the case Of
offending towns.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Damage by Lightning in BrattIe-
boro.

Considerable damage was done in
heavy thunder storm which visited
Brattleboro about 6 o'clock Monday
afternoon, lightning striking in sew
eral places. The house of O. M.
Mack, on Williston street, was one
of the spots touched and in a neigh
boring house a woman was knocked
down. The blacksmith shop OF
Hooker & Manchester on the Thayer
place in Esteyville was set on fire
and all the loose iron in the shop was
widely scattered. The fire was ex-
tinguished by bucket brigade Of
neighbors.
A tree was shattered in Prospect
Hill cemetery twenty yards from the
Fiske monument.
A maple tree in West Brattleboro
was burned.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
PLYMOUTH UNION.

School closed last week Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Philinda Green and Miss Fan
ME Boyd of Ludlow are at Charles
Halls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Higgins are at
home.
Thomas Moore retnrnAd from
Woodstock Tuesday, having finished
court business.
Miss Ellen Sawyer is in Ludlow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Wilder and
Mrs. Boynton went to Ludlow Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. O. Weeks of Lei
cester, Mass, and Mrs. Nellie Merrill
of Tyson visited Mrs. Crawford on
Monday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
WILLING TO Try.

The discouraged housewife could
not keep her mind and her conr"rsa-
ton long away from the ser, ant
problem. at is really the burning
question of the day, you know" she
said. "They expect SO much money,
and they know SO little-that is,
many of them. I had a girl last
winter who thought the finger bowls
were a kind of wineglass and an
other who laid out the butter knife
for me to carve the steak with, but
my latest recruit l am sure reached
the limit. She came to me well
recommended-by the way, the very
worst ones seem able to get good
reterences-and l agreed to pay her
$40 month. The second day she
was with me l asked her if she could
make tea biscuit.
We'll, ma'am,' she said, hesitat-
ing, as if not quite sure of her
ground, 4 never did put tea leaves
in the dough, but s'pose 1 could
New York Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
SAVED A SCALPINe.
A Peculiar Experience In an Indian
Uprising.

Indian warfare has produced
many weird and unexpected situa-
tions, and the mind of the romancer
has created more. But the strangest
of them all will hardly surpass in
novelty an experience which befell
a citizen of Wyoming in the late
Ute uprising. The Indians were
sweeping across northern Wyoming
near the Montana line and were be-
ing gradually surrounded by troops
poured in from several quarters.
The whites were armed for their
own defense, and on several occa-
sions conflicts had been narrowly
averted.
One morning James J. Gala
han of Arvada went out at day
break with two COW punchers to
cross the range in order to look at
some stock. Suddenly out of the
sagebrush there rose up around
them dozen Indians, who had
them covered before any of them
could draw a weapon.
With their hands in the air, the
three white men faced a serious
situation. "Things looked mighty
blue" said Mr.. Callahan afterward.
owe had made up our minds that
we were likely to part with our
back hair"
AS they sat thus the leader of the
Utes approached and when he drew
near gave a warwhoop which to
Mr.. Callahan's ears had a certain
familiar and civilized twang to it,
IT. yarged on a oolleoa veil -,
"Yah, there, Jimmy Callahan
cried the warrior. "What are you
doing out here? I'm Billy Birds
eye, '95~
Billy Birdseye it was sure enough,
although hardly recognizable by his
old Dartsmouth comrade. Son Of
Chief Kannapap, leader of the Ute
uprising, Billy was actively directing
the operation of this party of his
fathers scouts and keeping well in
practice to take his fathers place in
case of need. He came running for
ward to shake hands with Mr.. Cal
lahan, while his followers lowered
their guns and exchanged wonder
ing remarks in their own tongue.
But the strangest part Of the ad-
venture was still to come. From a
pocket Billy Birdseye fshed out two
slips of pasteboard. They were tick
cts to the Observation-Disclosures
football game, to be played in New
York a week later.
'Here, Jimmy, take these" he
said. 81 was going east to see the
game myself, but this business has
come up to prevent. You may as
well go along and see the fun and
meet the boys again"
The tickets called for two choice
seats in the front row, center of the
field, and Mr.. Callahan, whose hair
had by this time settled firmly into
place, went east the next day to use
them.
Queer pictures must have been
conjured up in his mind as the
"rooters" for Princeton and for
Dartmouth shattered the air with
their college yells.-Youth's Com
panion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13

The child is the true phonetic
speller. Little Elsie had been stay
ing in quiet woodland place-the
cockney grille was convalescent
from a severe illness. Her letters
were full of the joys of country life
and reckless spelling. "The lanes
and meddoes (she wrote to a girl
friend in London) is crammed wiz
luvly fours. got bofe hands full.
Bootiful Star Annie Means, Prim
Roses, Daiseys and Butter Cups and
Jhon Quills-o my~ And the
adult into whose hands the artless
letter fell wondered if spelling were
not a vastly overrated accomplish
ment!-London Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
''Hunting."

In m article entitled, GA Word
from Lorinth," by {. L. Speare,
printed in the last number of The
Vermonter, the writer says:
81 wish, however, to call attention
to our deer. From my own home
nearly very day the past spring deer
A,azing or at play could be seen on
the sides of West Corinth valley,
close enough, many times, so that
with field glass their every motion
could be distinctly noted. The ac-
conpar ing snap shot shows the
reward of one family in this village
for few minutes hunting last deer
season. Early in the morning the
son Of ]. P. Wiggin shot the deer
pictured at the left of the garden, and
when ,,iurning from a days's work
in erl, evening, the father captured
the oLner fellow in neighbor's
orchard, bagging few apples"
~ few minutes hunting!" God
save the mark! When a deer has to
be dragged out Of a parlor and
dubbed to death with stick, it is
called "hunting." When a gentle
creature of the forest is so far en-
couraged in its confidence in man till
it will come fearlesslY into his yard,
and is there killed by lying in wait,
it is called hunting"
Once upon time in the history Of
our ancestry, deer hunting was royal
sport. But the deer used to be given
some chance for itself against its
pursuer. The Corinth mode is more
the fashion nowadays.-St. Adams
Messenger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
CHURCH SERVICES.

ChrIstian--Rev. c. A. MacDaniel
pastor. Morning service at 1890,
with sermon. Sunday school at re
o'clock. Junior e. E. at s o'clock,
and Y. P S, c. E. at 7 O'Clock.
Mid-week service Tuesday evening,
1880. Welco me to all
Congregational-Morning service
at 1890, Sunday school at 1850.
Tuesday evening prayer meeting at
100.
Univel salist- Rev. Ralph Hol-
brooke Cheever, pastor; morning
service at 1890, Sunday school at
II.45.
Methodist Episcopal-Rev. Joseph
Hamilton, pastor. Morning SER
vice at 1890; II.45 o'clock, Sunday
school; $50 p. M, Epworth League;
evening service, 7 p. M. Tuesday,
mid-week service 100 p. m.
Catholic-Rev. E. c. Drouhin,
pastor. Mass at II a M; evening
service at 7.3o.
Services will be held the fourth
Sunday of each month at Village
hall, Quechee, at 9 o'clock, and at
Barnard, at the town hall, on the
second Sunday of each month at 9
o'clock
st. James-First Sunday OF each
month Holy Communion and SER
mon at 1890. Evening Prayer and
address at 500. All other Sundays:
Holy communion at 80 a. M, morn
ing Prayer, Litany and sermon at
10 80, Evening Prayer and address
at &.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13

1t was the night of the glorious
Fourth. The entire town appeared
to be celebrating, but Mr.. Robinson,
the wealthiest citizen of all, had
more fireworks than all the other
townspeople together. Chinese Ian
terms illumined the millionaire's
lawn, red fire blazed before his gate
lawn, roman candles spouted from
his veranda. rockets Missed upward
from his back yard.
Little Virginia Smith, enviously
witnessing this pyrotechnical dis
play, suddenly observed another
brilliant object just above Mr.. Rob-
inson's roof.
"Will you look at thatw ex-
claimed Virginia with admiring
awe. "Those Robinsons have even
got the moonw-Youth's Compan-
ion
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
CITY'S LOST ISLANDS.
Illinois Has Three That Once Belonged
to ST. Louis.

Illinois Has Three That Once Belonged
to ST. Louis.
st. Louis has lost three islands,
though the names are as well re-
membered now as when the islands
themselves were actually in exist
ence. One is Bloody island, just
opposite the city. The old timers
used to go there to fight their duels,
and in those days the river channel
ran on the Illinois side of the is
land, and except in high water there
was only a slough between st. Louis
and the dueling ground. The gov
eminent and railroad works put
Bloody island on the Illinois side,
and now a good part Of East st.
Louis is built over the sand bar that
was once a thicket of willows.
Arsenal island, too, used to be on
the st. Louis side of the river, and
boys rolled up their trousers and
waded across the narrow slough
from a point little south Of the
workhouse. The boats went on the
other side Of the island, but the
channel began cutting into the Hi
nois farms at such rate that the
government threw up a dixie just
across from the arsenal, turned the
river to this side, the island was
Joined to the Illinois shore, was
finally purchased by the state Of
Illinois from the city of St. Louis,
and the former bed Of the river is
now covered by farms.
Duncan's island was q big sand
bar that began near the foot Of
Lami street and extended north to
Geyer avenue. 1t was purchased by
the Iron Mountain Railroad com
pany, which wanted to locate its
yards in that neighborhood and fill
ed up the site with earth from Pr
cots hill in Carondelet. The
names. still live, for the people Of
East st. Louis make difference be-
tween the "island" and the main
land, just as the farmers in the bot
tom still talk about Arsenal island
and the switchmen in the yards
south Of Chouteau avenue tell one
another that a certain car is down
on Duncan's island. - st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Ketchum's Expose"

People who are expecting great
revelations by Ketchum, either by
means of dramatic presentation or
otherwise, are most likely to suffer
disappointment. His book of four
or five years ago, in publication an
nouncement promised all sorts of
sensational disclosures, but in that
respect it was a bowling fake. Ifhe
did not make good when his Jail
term was young, what can be expect
ed of him now that it is over?-Mor-
risvillc Messenger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13

Rev. Brian Z. Roberts, who in
January, 1905, resigned the rector
ship of st. AIMS Episcopal church
in Barre to go to Dorchester, Mass,
has now resigned to accept call to
the rectorship of St. Marks church,
Augusta, Me. Mr.. Roberts will be-
gin his new duties at Augusta in
September.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
Ever Live in Buffalo ?

To the Editor viii you kindly
ask such of your readers as are form
err residents of Buffalo, N. Y, to send
their addresses to the Old Home
Week Committee in order to receive
souvenir invitations to Old Home
Week in Buffalo which will be from
September LIST to the 18th inclusive?
By so doing you will greatly oblige
the committee. Yours sincerely,
James W. Greene, chairman.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-07-13
END OF FAMOUS SUIT.
Execution in Case of Wilson Against
Clement Has Been Paid,

The circuit court of appeals in
New York has affirmed the judg-
ment Of the circuit court in Vermont
in the case Of S. D. Wilson VS.. P.
w. Clement, and the judgment and
costs, amounting to about $1,000,
have been paid by Mr.. Clement.
This case has been twice before
the circuit court of appeals, and
twice tried before the circuit court
in Vermont.