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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-05

No. "a. Five room house on Grove
street, good repair, city water with
yae-half acre land. one extra building
iot. This Is certainly money maker
and easily worth $500. Price only
$3.50.
A Wonderful Bargain
No. 1855 48 acre farm, IA acres level
meadow, % acre pasture, wood land,
100 sugar trees. Will keep four COWS,
span Of horses, 20 sheep, cuts IA tons
of hay. Nine room house, barn
24x30. wagon house 1924, sheep and
COW shed 14x32. corn house 12x16, hen
house 10xl2. Farm well watered.
With this farm is included pair
OF horses, double and single harness,
double wide tired wagon, spring WAGON
and buggy. 1 $4,000 COW, 81 sheep,
200 ID. hog, "a hens and chickens, IL
tons OF hay In barn, l acre corn, / acre
potatoes. buck eye moving machine.
horse rake, spring tooth harrow, new
sap house with new evaporator. tank
TIN sap buckets and spiles for 100 trees,
2 plows, spring tooth harrow. shovel
pillow and cultivator, pair sleighs,. long
wood sled, shovels. forks, hoes. rakes.
sythes, hammers. iron bars ana all
small tools on farm together with the
house furniture. All for the unheard
of price Of $4,000.
No. 1870. One hundred seventy six
acre farm, large tract of timber includ-
Ing oak, ash. birch. and maple. $1,000
worth OF standing timber. two large
sugar orchards. Keeps 10 cows, three
horses and few sheep, cuts 40 tons
OF hay. Two story house, IL rooms
In good condition, two large barns, one
silo, sugar house. hen house, grain
house and wagon house. Battenkill
river runs through farm, three miles
from railroad station. Price $500.
No. 179. One hundred ten acre
farm; sugar orchard Of 200 trees,
keeps 16 head cattle, cuts 30 tons hay,
~ story house 40x36, barn 2Sx40,
new barn 26x5S, also corn house, hen
house and new horse barn, one and
one.fourth miles from railroad station.
Price 100000.
Five Minutes Walk from EIectrics
No. 100. Eight acre farm, four mead
ow, four pasture, two and one-fourth
miles from Bennington postofIice.
Eight room house, barn 26x30 with un
foreground stable, ice house 12x16, hen
house 16x20, corn house 16x20, barns
all clapboarded and painted, house
painted white, all other buildings in
the finest repair and kept up in excel
lent taste, kitchen to house all ceiled
up with Georgia pine, natural finish,
40 apple trees, pear, plum and 6
cherry trees, 100 raspberry and 20
currant bushes. 10 grape vines. All
for $4,000.
No. 154. One hundred seventy acre
farm, go acres meadow, 20 acres pas
ture, 40 acres woodlot, wooded with
hemlock, rock maple, spruce, oak, bass
wood, beach and birch, $50 sugar trees
Will cut so tons hay. House has eight
large rooms in good repair. Barn 40x
go with underground stable for IA
cows, horse barn 26x34 with five stalls
hog house, 14xl4, corn house 16x20.
sap house and evaporation 273 buckets
and spiles. viii throw in three head
of cattle. Price s2150.
10 per. cent Investment
No. 81. Two story s room house
slated, natural wood finish, city water.
sewer and toilet, good location, rents
Tor Sl5 per month. Price only $500.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-05

No. 1913. SS acre, A meadow, A
pasture. Plenty of fire wood to keep
family. ~ story six room house, BOX
40 barn with underground cellar. corn
house, l4xi6, wood house 12xl4, shed,
l6x22. 30 apple trees. Only $500.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-05
Justifiable.
The cat had eaten the CANARY

The cat had eaten the canary.
Il haven't any computations about
1t, either she said, picking her teeth
with her claws. Il couldn't eat the
pianola on the first floor or the graph.
.ophone on the third, but | could make
a meal of the musician on the second
door, and I've done it."
With a satisfied grin on her face
she curled up on the floor behind the
Eas range and went to sleep.-Chi.
cago Tribune.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-05

Trial catarrh treatments are being
mailed out free, on request by Dr.
Shoop, Racine. Wis. These tests are
proving to the people-without a pen.
nys cost-the great value of this sci
entific prescription known to drug.
gists everywhere as DR.. Shops Cat
arrh Remedy. Sold by all dealers.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

Easum Bros. have for sale stock Of
the best Portland cement ever brought
into the country.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Committee Doing Good Ser
viCe--SuCCess Assured.
Why Not Boost for Something We
Can Get and Enjoy?-A Little
Effort Necessary.

The Gazette is glad to announce that
the prospects look bright for the estab-
lishment of the proposed public library
in Colfax. The committee having the
matter in hand, in only a partial can
vass Of the city, are meeting with great
success, and it is believed the amount
needed to purchase a site for the pro-
posed library building will be fOrthcOm
ing. The question simmered down,
means that we can have a library, with
all the favorable surroundings, with a
little effort and expense, an opportunity
that rarely comes to any community.
Many express preference for Y. M. G.
A. building, including with it a library,
swimming tanks, athletics, etc, but the
expense of erection and maintenance is
out of consideration at this time. We
can have the library, why not take what
we can getP There is an old prOverb
that half loaf Of bread ia better than
tuition is out OF the question we should
boost for the library and be happy and
cOntented.
The committee asks for $2500. This
will purchase the site for the building in
the heart of the city, convenient to all
interests. The present Rest Room,
maintained at public expense, can find
home in the library building, it being
planned to devote the basement to that
use The Rest Room would then be
rest room de facUo, where the farmers
cannot only rest the body but can also
improve the mind.
1t is up to our citizens. They can
have beautiful $4,000 building in the
heart OF the city to lodge the library by
simply furnishing the site and guaran-
teeing maintenance. What else have we
to offer strangers coming to Colfax?
Where do strangers resort to now? Let
us stop roofing long enough to boost
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
STATE AID FOR ROADS
AppOrtiOnment Gives Whitman
County Sum of $7253.58.
Only Three Counties in State Re-
ceive Larger Sum--County Must
Give Like Amount.

An Olympia dispatch tells us that
State Highway Commissioners J. NJ.
Snow has appOrtiODed among the coun-
ties the appropriation Of $135, 900 made
by the last legislature for state road aid.
Under this appOrtionment Whitman
county will receive $7253.5S. Only three
other counties in the state will receive
larger sum of this apportiOnment, name
ly, King, Spokane and Pierce, in which
the three cities of Seattle, Spokane and
Tacoma are situated. This speaks vol
umes of the wealth and greatness of
Whitman county, in which Cofax is the
largest town and where there are no
special commercial and manufacturing
advantages, but shows the greatness OF
our wheat lands and what may be ex-
pected from further development.
In order to secure. the benefit of this
appropriation the county commission
ers must make application to the state
highway board for the money thus ap-
pOrtiOned to their respective counties be-
fore September 1, 1907. Under the law
each county is required to appropriate
an amount equal to that given by the
state, the entire amount to be expended
on state roads for which the state made
the appropriation. The county com
missioners, no doubt, will take advant-
age of all this and see that we get the
the benefit OF the state apportionment,
which will mean an expenditure Of $14,-
5O716 on county roads. The Gazette
would suggest, in order to get substan-
tial as we'll as permanent results, that
this sum be expended in building ma
cadam roads. Of course, it will not
cover the county with such roads, but it
is better to confne expenditure to a
limited area with something that will
remain rather than scatter it broadcast
in manner so that results will be
ephemeral
In addition to the above appropria-
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

G. W. Larue & Co. have 100000 to
loan on Palouse farm lands on very easy
terms
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
PULL IN THEIR HORNS.
Great New York Labor Body Heads
Off Condemnation.

New York, April %. = The central
federated union today, instead of unan
mously condemning President Roose-
velt for his action in the Meyer Hay
wood matter, as had been predicted,
stood about evenly divided on the ques-
tiOn which has stirred labor unions all
over the country. The discussion, which
lasted for more than three hours. was
the most bitter one ever heard at a cen
tral federation union meeting. The re-
suit was that the meeting, representing
more than hundred thousand workers
in Manhattan, ordered that the commit,
tee of three appointed at last Sundays
meeting do what it was instructed to do
go to Washington and have heart
tO-heart talk with President Roosevelt
regarding his criticism of Meyer and
Haywood.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

Princess Talcum, nicely perfumed fire
powder. A large bottle SOC, at Stuart's
Drug Store.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

ton Tor state aid the legislature appro
prlated the sum Of $22O,OOO for state
roads. which will be expended without
calling for the various counties to give
similar amount. More than 1000 miles
OF state roads are now projected under a
sort of continuous contract system. The
average cost mile il estimated at
$1,000. This will provide funds for the
completion of $50 miles of road during
the next two years, the next legislature
being depended upon to make provision
Tor continuous work through additional
appropriations. Some Of this money
will undoubtedly reach Whitman county,
consummation most devoutly to be
wished
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
GREATNESS OF PAL0USE
Colfax's Beautiful and Thrifty
NeighbOring City.
Citizenship imbued With Local Pa
triotism-- Country Surrounding
Is UnduIatins and Rich.

Palouse, only 16 miles in direct line
east OF COlfax, is town of substantial
growth with future before it. 1t has
at least 1000 inhabitants, and boasts OF
as fine schools as can be found in the
country, with churches and homes that
compare with the best in the land. Its
industrial and manufacturing activity
is noticeable. The Potlatch Lumber Co.
has splendid saw-mill plant located In
the lower end of town, cutting 10000
feet OF lumber daily and giving employ
ment to 800 men in the mill, box factory
and planning department. Two larl e
-four mills are seen in the heart of town,
one run by water, the other by electricity.
The former is owned by the POtlatch
Lumber Co. and has capacity of 100
barrels per day; the other is owned by
Smith & Risley, with daily capacity of
$50 barrels. There are other industries,
but these are the principal ones encoun-
tered.
There is at this time great activity in
railroad construction. The Spokane (
Inland, now building, enters the town
through deep cut, and at the end Of
this cut an immense retaining wall Of
rock and cement has been built, on the
top of which the passenger depot will
rest. The track then passes over Main
street on trestle, crossing the North Pa
louise river, where extensive work is 60
The road will be continued to Moscow,
Idaho. What electric lines have done
for Coeur d'Alene and other towns this
line will certainly do for Palouse. The
Palouse branch OF the Northern Pacific,
running from Spokane to Lewiston,
finds this one of it's most profitable
stopping places, and the Washington,
Idaho & Montana railroad, owned by
the Weyerhaeuser interests, tapping the
great timber belts in Idaho and Mon
tana, forms a third railway system, max
ing Palouse the terminus Of their road.
1t will thus be seen that the town has
direct connection with all parts of the
country, which, with its various indus
tries and surrounding wheat farms and
orchards, makes it point OF interest to
write and tell about.
No city in the Inland Empire has a
more picturesque location. 1t nestles in
a valley, through which runs the North
Palouse river, carrying with it not only
power but sparkling beauty as we'll. On
each side the gently sloping hills to their
tops are covered with many comfortable
homes, and here may be seen two fine
brick school houses and several church
edifces. Main street is the principal
thoroughfare. 1t is 100 feet wide clear
OF sidewalks, capable of handling the
business OF large city.
Aside from all it's beautiful surround
ings and natural advantages, which of
themselves are not proof against decay,
Palouse has progressive citizenship.
people who work in harmony and are
fully imbued with local patriotism. 1t
does not take the outside world long to
learn of these things. PalOuse has long
been spoken of as a progressive town,
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

A Snap -one New Iowa Cream Sepa
rator. 500 machine for $50. See G.
ri Moore
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

Forty pounds of poisoned wheat for
$5 at Stuart's Drug Store.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
STREET SPRINKLlNG PLANT.
Provisions of New Telephone Fran
chise Ordinance.

chise Ordinance.
The city council met Monday night,
transacting but little business. The
street committee was instructed to in
stall an independent street sprinkling
plant, which will probably change the
present conditions in regard to drinking
water. At the present time the drink
ing water and the sprinkling water is
mixed-a sort OF 'alf and 'alf as our
English cousins would express it-which
goes down very smooth as beverage.
but concocted as we have it probably
carries too many germs.
Another matter of Importance came
before the council, namely, the telephone
franchise ordinance. The ordinance
passed the first and second readings. 1t
provides that the telephone company
shall pay the city $1,000 year for the
franchise; after six months the wires
shall be laid under ground between
Island and Canyon streets; franchise
shall continue for five years, and the
city reserves the right to control the
rates within the corporate limits of the
city the telephone company shall at all
times cooperate with the fire depart
ment in cases of alarms and things of
that nature. Under city regulation the
service should be placed at high water
mark for efficiency, as we'll as providing
a reasonable revenue to the Golfers of
the municipality.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
lnterscholastic Meet.

The Tri-State Interscholastic Meet
which met at Walla Walla yesterday
and today was attended by quite a
number from Colfax. Among the num-
ber were Eugene Person, professor OF
history and athletics at the Colfax High
school, Arthur Stapleton, George
Meaney, Thurston Morley, Bert Har
grave, Joe Harter, Burch Thompson and
Arnold Jamison. These young men will
take part in the athletic competitions.
Miss Elsie Mackenzie 10 also in attend
ance to take part in the declamatory
contest. This meet promises to be large
ly attended from all parts of the Inland
Empire.
Gazette Clubbing Rates save you money
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

progressive people. Any city or cOmmu-
nlty can rise to greatness if it has the
right citizenship, or it can rot if the peo-
pie 80 will it. Palouse has never antag-
onzed its home Industries, but rather
has lent the glad hand, hence industry
and thrift prevail. Other towns in the
Palouse country might profit BY this
example. At this writing it is a hard
matter to get house for rent. Land
values are high compared to those of a
few years ago, but will undoubtedly get
higher before the food tide is reached.
TO appreciate the beauties in nature
and the grandeur OF all the surroundings
one should go to Greenwood Cemetery,
on the highest hill overlooking the town,
where an unobstructed view of great ex-
tent is presented. The cemetery itself il
probably the best kept Of any in the
county. 1t is arranged into streets and
alleys, and flowers and grass are cared
for, which greet the eye with bloom and
wait their fragrance on the wings of the
breezes. SteptOe Butte, from base to
summit, looms up 18 miles away to the
north, while kamiac Butte, not more
than four miles distant southeast, forms
background that cuts the sky like
silhouette. kamiac, in the true sense, is
not butte. 1t is an elongated ridge
rising above the surrounding hills 800
1tln fppf If 10 hoc
ever, OF striking notice and can be seen
from almost every elevated point in
whitman county. From this view point
the hills float away in undulating waves,
sinking into valleys and dales and dells
OF great beauty, with green fields and
fringe OF trees here and there until lost in
the western sky. And as we turn to the
east the Occur d'Alene mountains in
Idaho rise to the upper deep, their higher
peaks snow-capped, with peak overlap
ping peak, dome beyond dome.
The Palouse country has many dis,
tinctive features. Around the town Of
Palouse it is undulating. 1t is a sue
cession of hills and elongated ridges
filled with valleys that attract the eye,
wales that enchant the senses, dells that
charm the mind. At each ascent we
dive into something new, something IN
expected. 1t may be q farm house, a
field Of grain, an orchard, sleek kline,
blOoded stock. But the predOminance
of fine homes to be found in this favored
spot is 80 marked as to cause comment.
The evidences OF pioneer life are nearly
all gone. Everything is modern and up
tO-date-comfortabl houses to live in,
substantial outbuildings, fences well
kept, stock sleek and fat. The poets
who immortalized the homes OF England
might have sung equally as sweet had
they lived in this favored country and in
our day and generation. Nor in all this
broad land can there be found section
so we'll endowed by nature with springs
and running streams as in this part of
the PalOuse. Springs seem to rise every
where, streams to flow as by the wand
OF magic power. They fill every valley
and dell, flow from every hillside. This,
with soil and climate, is what makes
Whitman county great, and of all Whit
man county no part fills a more import
ant place than the city of Palouse and
the country connecting it with Colfax.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
a Sprinq Snowstorn1

This part Of the Palouse was treated
to genuine snowstOrm last Saturday
forenoon. The natives we're astonished
1t came down in big dry flakes like feath-
ers from above, allaying the dust but
little, and causing no damage whatever
and but temporary inconvenience. A
few farmers out in the fields pulled in with
their horses, but a great majority con
tinued at work until the noon hour.
The unusual spectacle seems to have
been quite general throughout the Pa
louise, extending north as far as Spo-
kane.
Squirrels will eat Elk Squirrel Poison,
and eating it, will die. Made and sold
at the Elk Drug Store, Colfax.
Forty pounds Of poisoned wheat for
IS at Stuart's Drug Store.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

George W. Clous, optician. will again
visit Colfax, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, May 8, 10 and IL, and may
be found at Stuart's Drug Store. He
will examine your eyes without charge
and fit them to your perfect satisfaction.
If you need glasses or new lenses in your
frames it will pay you to see him. All
work guaranteed.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03
for a library.

for library.
Next week we shall be able to publish
the list Of subscribers to date, and will
add to it from time to time until the re
quired sum has been subscribed.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-05-03

A. d. S. on a package of medicine,
toilet article or anything in the drug
line, is guarantee that it is the best
that science and skill can produce.
Stuart's Drug Store.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-03-13
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
TO learn that there Is at ieas; one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stsg-s. end hat IS Catsr,h. Hairs
Catarrh Cur. is the only positive cure now
known TO the medical fraternity. Catarrh
beng constitutional disease. reqnires a
constitutional treatment, Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, ac,ing directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. thereby DESTROYING. the foun-
dation Of the disease and giving the pa.
tient strength by building up the cous'i-
tntion and assisting nature in doing its
work. The PROJECTORS have 40 much
faith in it's curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure Send Ior list of oftestimonials.
Address F CHENFY & Co.. Toledo. y
Sold by all Druggist 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-03-13
Heroic Work Saved Teaehe:
from Flames.

Newberry, March 7.-Particulars of
the burning of the home of Mr.. j.
Luther Mayer, about four miles east
of Newberry, and the narrow escape
of the entire family, were received in
this city this morning. The fire oc-
Cured at 10 O'Clock, after the men,
bers of the household had retired, and
when awakened by one of the negro
tenants, the entire building was ablaze
and the family barely escaped with
their lives. Miss Carrie Hunter, a
school teacher, who boarded with the
family of Mr.. Mayer, was cut off from
the stairway by the flames, and had
it not been for the heroic work of Mr..
Mayer, she would have been burned
to death. He rushed to her room,
securing her body with rope, let her
down safely from the second floor,
after which he climbed down the rope
to the ground.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-03-13

St. Louis, March when he re-
turned from his Office tonight, Her
man w. Quernheim, president of the
Quernheim Hardware Co.. stumbled
over the lifeless form of his wife in
the front hall of his residence, 372C
Vesta avenue, one of the fashionable
residence streets.
Mrs. Quernheim's throat had been
cut, she had been shot once and her
body had been brutally torn and
bruised. Scattered about the floor
were numerous jewels and several
hundred dollars in currency. The
only thing that was missing was a
pair of diamond earrings which had
been torn from the dead woman's
ears. Nothing has been learned as to
the identity of Mrs. Quernheim's as
sailant. -