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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03

We shall have TO look to New Jersey
to find grange cooperation in purchas-
Ing farm supplies most generally prac-
ticed. Here are a few figures showing
the value of such purchases for twelve
months in several oranges: Nineland,
$4,000; friesburg 5000; Somerset,
$4,000; Medford, $1,000 or $1,000;
Hope, $500; Morristown. $4,000;
Riverside, $14335; Columbus. $1,000;
Mullica Hill, $1,000; Pioneer $500;
Mercer, $4,000. While financial bene-
fits accruing from grange membership
are perfectly legitimate. yet it is not
grange practice to emphasize these
benefits or hold them out as induce
ments to prospective members.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
An Artificial World.

The mingled feelings of admiration
and skepticism with which we gazed
upon the stuffed animals in the toy
shops Of our youth we still experience
in the society Of many OF the human
animals we meet later in life The
more we admire the more do we mis-
trust. while there is nothing OF which
we are more convinced than that ev-
erything is unreal from the complex
ion of our friends to the genius of a
great writer-LondOn Ladies' Field.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
Warning For Special
Town Meeting.

The inhabitants Of the town Of Wey-
bridge. who are legal voters in town
meeting are hereby notified and warned
to meet at the Town Hall, in said town,
on Saturday, the fourth day of May,
A. d. 1907, at two o'clock in the after
noon. to transact the following business 4:
l. To see what action the town will
take in regard to the repairing or the re-
building of the Parkhill bridge.
,. TO do any other business thought
necessary when met.
Dated at Wrybrdge this Goth day of
April, a. d 1907.
A. w. STURTEVANT,
A II. HAMILTON, Seectmen
f. f. COWLES.
17t2
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
An Experienced View

Bride (prettily)-I wonder why they
call a wife's allowance pin money?
Matron (savagely)-Because money to
buy enough pins to hold her old clothes
together is about all that the average
man thinks woman needs. - Balti-
more American.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
TO KEEP YOUNG.
Lessen Your Food Continually as You
Grow older.


What man or woman, growing old.
would not cr, FORTUNE for the re
newal of youth: WITH q little care
they might h1-, kcr' il for ten or Il
dozen years lpns't. hu, its value was
not realized uH'i too late. says DR. CO.
hen, the not.i London specialist
Up to the az of tWeuty-three or
twenty-five in the cas-. OF men and
eighteen or twenty in women. the
framework of the body is being form
ed. and the diet should be generous
After the thirticth year has been pass
ed it is no longer necessary to eat to
make more tissues, but only to pre-
serve equilibrium of weight and
strength. Yet at that time eating is IL
pleasure highly appreciated. Therefore
most men and women eat too much
and this is the time of life when in
discretions in diet produce disease with
especial frequency.
Do not eat heavy suppers.
Drink little or no alcohol
Avoid rich meats and pastry.
Do not grow fat by eating too much.
Fat people seldom reach a good old
age. The youthful old man is lean.
Lessen your food continually as you
grow older.
Overeatng produces ell the diseases
that make one old.
Underfeeding shortens life.
Just enough and a trifle over Is the
IDEAL
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03

stretched away unbrokenly to the sky
line. There was not n cabin in sight.
"Well, cant ye do something's said
Clodah. Her ankle was paining her,
and the sun was very warm.
But jim was better at repartee than
at meeting emergencies. ana with his
head on one side he considered the
situation.
I'm thinking We'll have to foot It,"
he said gloomily.
There was a sob in Clodah voice.
"My ankles wrenched, and It's not
step further I'll CO." she avowed
"You sit here thin and I'll go for
help" said Jim, his face Frightening.
Eyes, and it's fair time and the coun-
try full o vagabonds, That's a grand
idea, Mr.. Jim Hagan. to leave me alone
entirely by MYSELF"
Jim wilted.
"What'll we do, thln?" he demanded.
"We'll sit here till some one comes"
said Clodah.
So they sat Birds sang in the long
meadow grass \ hare fitted by like
q shadow. Nothing else stirred. The
road stretched away white and desert
ed. Tim moodily scanned the horizon
and Clodah wondered If the sunlight
would fade her ribbons. She wished
devoutly that she had never come
Who could have supposed that her
pleasure jaunt would end like this?
She cast quick glance Mt Jim. The
great. unfolding umathaum. Never
once had he asked her how she felt or
If her fall had shaken her, All. Terry
was the lad. Terry always knew what
to do And she had lost him-lost
him through her own folly! Well,
there was no good in thinking Of that
now, and she bhnked hard to keep
back the tears. 1t was near noon.
Her throat was parched, and the pangs
OF hunger we're astir. The sullen ST
lence of Jim wore on her.
"Why don't We say something" she
burst out, "instead O. sitting there star
ing like bump on a Logo"
whist, Clodah, here's some one
coming at last"
Through a cloud of dust appeared a
rickcty little cart drawn by gray
donkey. Terry was on the front seat
The pig rode stolidly behind At sight
Of their plight Terry halted. Clodah
hung her head and could not raise her
eyes. 1t was Jim who spoke first
Were in a fine ness said he The
wheels broke, and Clodahs hurt her
ankle"
HAS she now?" cried Terry, note
Of anxiety in his voice.
"'Tis not so painful whin l sit still"
said Clodah, "but it's like the curse of
all the crows whin try to walk"
"Tll5tell We the best way out" said
Terry. "Tli take Clodah with me to
the fair and thin I'll send some one to
help We with your iaunting car. How
will that be Suiting ye?'
There seemed no other way. and Jim
muttered that it would suit him very
we'll
And YOU, Clodah?"
"If-if We will take me-" she said
humbly.
Heres piece O. bread for We. jim"
said Terry. land bit o. goats cheese.
Belize it will shtay your hunger till
help arrives. Don't ate it too fast" he
called back after he had helped Clodah
up on to the seat beside him-"don't
ate it too fast for It's rich and likely
to give We the dyspepsia"
For awhile Clodah and Terry rode In
silence. Then, "Clodah, girl" said
Terry tenderly, "'tis churl l am at
times, but meant nothing by 1t. Will
ye forgive me for what | said last
night?"
Forgive ye," cried Clodah-"forgive
ye! Oh, Terry. I'd rather ride with you
and fifty pigs than with Jim Hagan
and coach and four.'
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03

Some persons believe that, in addi-
ton to ejecting venom through their
fangs, rattlesnakes have the power to
throw off poisonous dust. Some per-
sons, 1t Is claimed, are able even to
smell a snake some distance away.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
Told on HerseIf

"Mr. Tanfeigh is a smooth faced
young man. isn't he, Matilda?"
"Why, thought 1t felt-I mean
"Matildaw-Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
Addition.

"a bigamist should be an arithmeti-
clan"
"WhyY
"IIe adds one and has two to carry"
Washington Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03

Poverty OF thought is worse than
poverty of pocket-Bohemian.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
WANTED.

Saleslady or man to handle Womans
Unlined Shoe on commission. Exclu-
sive territory given. For particulars
write to HOMESTEAD SHOE COM
PANY, Burlington, VT. l7t4
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
400 BARRELS
Ceresota Flour


*o<o> o>o> o%o>o~ 900 100000
AT wholesale prices. Special prices
on all goods for month of May. Best
Patent Flour S4.S5.
Sugar SC, Coffee, zoe, Tea zoe,
Rlce sc, Acme Soap SIC, Kerosene
Oil rec. Hams, Bacon and Lard at
special prices.
Big reduction on Shoes for May
All kinds ground feed on hand, corn
and oats, horse feed Sis. Grass
seed at cost.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-03
They Tell Their Own Story
When You See Them.
e. n. THOMAS,
The Carriage Dealer.
Farms For Sale.

The so called Riley Hull Farm. situated one
mile northeast OF Brandon village. Said
farm contains about l65 acres OF land-about
40 acres OF mowlng-the rest being wood ana
pasture. Estimated 10 be a thousand cords
OF wood standing on the farm. Running
water to both house and barns. Buildings in
fair condition. Owing 10 location and pro-
ductiveness. it is very desirable piece of
property.
Also the Ellis Farm, situated on the high.
way leading past Albert Summers. contain
ing about 80 acres OF good land. About IL
acres of wood land, well covered the rest
being meadow and pasture. Running water
TO barn. Well at house. Large two story
white house in good repair. slated roof.
Large barn well covered with slate and
shingles. Not an acre of waste land on the
farm. About two miles northeast OF Bran.
don village. Good neighborhood. Every
thing desirable for pleasant home. At a
low price. The ABOVE property belongs to
the estate OF the late Dr. r. A. Smith and
must be sold. Possession given April LIST.
ROLLIN c. SMITH,
GEO III. YOUNG, Executors.
q. FRANK HEN DEE,
Brandon. VT. Jan. %, 1907.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14

boards of trade and cfIan6erg of com merce throughout the country are en- ploying experienced neMSpaper men as secretaries, and In Ind1Ys cases the wisdom of this course had been shown. Publicity counts every time; and with trained newspaper man In the har- ness many sleepy Board. of trade might be reused from ,ifB lethargy."
 The local paper itsalEje one of the best publicity bureausAtQwn can have, and when it is supplemeded by an off clal bureau of publicity In which the editor is working factor its value Is enhanced. The local paper, carrying advertisements of the home Merchants and other business men, is constant advocate of home trade as opposed to the spending of money. outside of the town. Reporting, aSs1t does, all town Improvements from time to time and pointing out opportunities for investment and development, the home paper is free information bureau which is not always appreciated prop efly in it's own community. But any town may greatly increase it's valuable publicity by organizing a bureau to CO operate with the newspapers in boom ing the place.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
CLEAN UP PLAN.
Boys Paid 25 Gents Hundred For Tin
 Cans In Trenton, Mo,

X novel enterprise for the promotion ot sentiment for civic improvement was recently fostcred by the Trenton {Mo.) Clean City club. local organiza- tion backed by clubwomen in Trenton. says the Kansas City Star. Partly to get rid of the rubbish that adorned ul- ieys and streets and more to attract at tention to the clean city movement the club offered Trenton boys 25 cents q hundred for all old tin cans delivered to committee on the day appointed.
 The cans were received at the most prominent point in the towns business section, ana for hours the streets were jammed with boys, cans and specta- tors. One hundred and thirty boys brought in more than 7S0OO cans and received nearly $20O in payment.
 The club expects the tin can day to be the pioneer event of a general move ment in smaller cities. Clubs in sev- eral other towns have already shown disposition to try the scheme, whics wss aa unqualified success.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
An Advertisinq Hint.

General movements toward a certain purpose on the part of disconnected re- tail stores dealing in q certain line of wares are difficult to undertake. Yet the trade papers of the country are inaugurating many of them with some signs of success. The general mer- chant in small town finds his most dangerous competition in the great mall order stores of the big cities, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. These mer, chants are now being urged to acquire stock in the local newspapers to in- crease their home advertising and SO prevail upon the home newspaper te refuse to advertise the mail order es- tablishments. In many places this anti mail order crusade has been united with the town boosting propaganda, and the people are being urged te spend their money with the home stores. If this movement should cop- tinue to grow, it may have decided effect upon the destiny of the retail mercantile business.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
TO THOSE WHO WILL HELP,

When a city has mayor who plafn- ly shows his willingness and deter. imitation to use his power towards tho betterment of said city, and a promnff. tude in the execution of ordinances en- acted by the City Fathers for the i'm provement of streets, alleys and side. walks, it is on the high-road to a real. fzation of it's dreams of health, wealth and prosperity.
 With such Mayor and City Council Pine Bluff is certainly blessed Wbo+ next? When her citizens look out upon the busy work of srading and paving ot streets. the laying of beau- tiful, smooth concrete sidewalks in all parts of the city, is it right that they should calmly and complacenfrv sit by with folded hands and watch the good work go on?
 A paved street and a good sidewalk are only the beginning in the making Of a City Beautiful" After this is done there is still. much work and re- sponsibility left to the individual citi. zen.
 If grass and weeds are left to grow at will along the sidewalks and in the yards the effect of the good work thaf has been done will be lost, and we will still have a ragged. unkempt town to present to the view of strangers and home people alike.
 We are waking up, it is true. hut inc sleep has been long and the awakeninu is slow.
 Ihere are too many weeds in evil dence along the borders and aTound the corners of our beautiful shaded streets.
 block or two of well kept pave ment serves to show in greater con- trast the next block left to lie neglect ed With struggling, dusty weeds, ac- cumulation of leaves, papers, and What-not in corners and fence edges
 Civic pride should stimulate every individual towards doing his or her share towards the general effect, and towards the consummation of that not impossible ideal, a real City Beauti- full"
 Then, when We as individuals show to our city officials an interest and q desire to aid by personal effort in the good work of civic improvement (for every personal effort towards beauti- lying the home adds telling stroke to the picture We are all so anxious to see completed We will feel embolden- ed to ask for other needed improve
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
LOCAL PAPERS VALUE
No Modern Town Can Get AIonu
 Without the Press.
REFLECTIONS OF A VETERAN.
Old Newspaper Man Hears of Tows Without Paper-He Calls the Local Weekly the Pioneer of Progress-lts Value to the Public.

"I have just read little item,' re- marked the veteran newspaper man, ito the effect that certain town ill Texas is now without a newspaper. The publisher of the local paper has moved his plant to another town and started a paper there. We'll, I'm sorry for the town that he left
 "Oh, reckon it can get along very well without newspaper said the cynical listener. Rome lasted several centuries without any newspapers and grew to be q sizable city"
 "Very true,' replied the veteran. "very true. But you must not forget that Athens and other rival towns like wise were without local papers. You are talking of ancient times. am dis cussing the present Just suppose that the Greek metropolis, for instance, had possessed a thriving and progressive newspaper-the only one on earth. I'm decidedly Of the opinion that little old Rome would have sat on one hill in stead of seven, and Athens would have spread out until the ancient rapid transit problem would have been the biggest public question ill Greece"
 "But what has all this got to do with the little town i'll T"Sas:'
 "Well, just this. We are living now in a newspaper age. The local newspa- per is the great town booster. Ancient Rome could grow without newspapers but any modern city would shriyel up and leave only d dry spot on the map if all it's newspapers should shut up shop and move to rival cities. The To- cal paper is the pioneer of progress No other agency has been so powerful in the building up and development of America. The great west and south west and northwest have been built largely by newspapers. Carpenters and bricklayers and plasterers and plumb CTS do their part. but the newspaper does more.
 "A hundred years ago the United States consisted of q fringe of POpula tion along tie i iti~ntic coast and d few pioneers ill tEe willcrneSscs farther in- land. About that ti.?e the newspaper began to make d sheWins. From year to year 1t has been coming IaCra and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
Good Roads and Prosperity.

Nothing stimulates home trade like good roads. In many parts of the country the farmers are practically shut of fro.a the town during the wet season. The wives and daughters of the farmer find it inconvcnient 10 make frequent tri)s to town during these months. so they naturally resort to the mail orier catalogue for part O. their shopping The result is that hone merchants lose trade which they might get if the roads were better.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
THE CITY BEAUTIFUI

ments.
 We will begin to see glimpses of q lutnre for Pine Bluff, wherein those Pa'ea streets will be systematically cleaned, and kept free from all un- s1shtllness; when street-sprinklers. maintained by the city, will twice daily move along our broad streets and ave- macs, and there will be no more dust to strangle and to choke, and to rouse the ire Of ambitious house and home keepers.
 May the day be not far distant when these dreams will be realized. Tn the meantime, the crying need is for CO., operation.
 Our Mayor and our City Council can not do it all.
 We want that Civic Improvement League in active, live existence.
 We all have faith in the future of Pine Bluff, but faith without works is dead
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14

more into evidence, with improvements in machinery, in paper manufacture. in type casting and the like. Now the To- cal paper is public necessity. No town can get along without at least one paper There are very few towns now that are without their home week ly. Take the map of any state and look it over closely Get d newspaper directory and study it along with the map. You'll find that any town big enough to be on the map has it's local paper, with very few exceptions.
 "As I say, the town paper is the pio- neer. In many cases the paper has ar rived even before the town. This ap plies particularly to Kansas Oklaho- ma, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Texas. I have had experience in some of those were in what you might call the pio- neer stage. and know what Pm talk ing about. now see telegraph news items from towns In Kansas. for in stance. which knew twenty years ago as mere spots on the prairies. laid out in town lots and waiting for popula- ton. In several of these towns the room was occupied by a small printing plant. and local paper was pul,- lished. News? Why. plenty of it While the town may have had only half dozen people. it had bright pros poets. great possibilities, and the cai tor was continually writing about those possibilities and prospects,. New citizens were conlin~ in. outsiders were buying lots, and that little newspaper grew up with the town. being itself the chief instrument of the towns growth It circulated outside and let the outsiders know the prospects anA possibilities. Now those towns which started in that way have daily papers. most of them, and q home circulation that is not to be despised.
 'I'm sorry for that Texas town be cause it/doesn't seem to be living in this day and generation-in the news paper age. 1t apparently didn't have enterprise enough to keep the local editor there. He has moved, no doubt, to town which knows q good thing when it sees it and is disposed to help push it along. When I call this the newspaper age mean that it is the age of advertising, of publicity. Print CTS ink publicity is the kind that counts. Every newspaper is big free advertisement for it's community. It talks. It blows the towns horn when otherwise the horn would not be blown, 1t makes the town where it is publish ed the center of the eaT..l for the peo- ple who live there and for others whom 1t may induce to locate there. In these days town without gumption enough to appreciate the pubic value of a local paper is not worth map space and it won't incumber the ground very long,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
ID SEND OUT PAPERS
Nashville Will Use the Local Press
 to Advertise the City.
BIG PUBLICITY MOVEMENT.
Maa,y Boards of Trade Are Employing Newspaper Men as Secretaries-How to Boom Your Town by Go operation With the Newspaper Man.

With the Newspaper Man.
 Town booming by publicity bureau methods is becoming more and more popular because it pays. No town is too small or, for that matter, too large to be benefited by organized pub licity. A town that keeps its light under bushel is not going to be seen from afar. One way to make it's light shine brightly is to rub the burners every day with fresh advertising oil.
 The city of Nashville, Tenn, is one of the latest in the increasing list of lively places that intend to get livelier still and are taking the best method to bring about that consumption. The Nashville board of trade has ap- propriated $5O,0O0 to advertise the city. This is how the money will be spent:
 First.-A compilation of directory of the names of every northern manu facturer whose goods are sold to Nash vile retailers. jobbers or consumers.
 Second-The opening of correspond ence with each of these firms, the num- Der of which is estimated at zoo, with view to securing either the removal of the main plant to Nashville or the establishment of branch factory southern warehouse or southern sales office in Nashville.
 Third-The sending daily of from 800 to 600 copies of each of the daily pa pers to every reading room, library hotel and other public reading place in the northeastern states, with View to familiariZing the regular and chance visitors to these places with the city of Nashville and creating favorable impressions regarding the city, it's ad- vantages and business possibilities
 Fourth. The extensive advertising of the city in daily newspapers in the northeast and New England states, in the magazines of general and special circulation and in the weekly papers with view to attracting the attention of the capitalist and the industrial man to the advantages offered by Nashville as the location for factory or other business
 In commenting on the course of Nash vile and on town advertising ill gcncr- al the Editor and Publisher, q New York weekly. says editorially: Many
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-14
Trapped lva Picture,

A Hungarian burglar, who was once painter of considerable repute, was fansacking d house when he came across the portrait of very beautiful young woman which had been left un- finished by the artist He began to add the finishing touches to the picture and was discovered ltar.! at work by the tor the I,';.i,:.