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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
VERMONT NEWS S.

Frank e. Howe, editor of the
Bennington Banner has been to
the Samaritan hospital in Troy, n
Y, where he was operated upon by
Dr.. Harvie for hernia.
The Valley Fair association has
announced the appointment of Os-
car F. Benson as secretary to sue
coed Dennis E. Tasker, resigned.
Mr. Benson is 35 years old, a son
of Mrs. Ann Benson, and has liveo
in Bra, ttleboro since his boyhood.e
A. P. Hunton of Bethel, the old
est member of the Vermont bar, has
just passed his 93rd birthday with
his mental and physical faculties
preserved to a wonderful degree.
He is seen almost daily On the
streets and takes a lively intere st in
matters of common concern He
began to practice law in 1898 and
has ever since resided there 1sAz
Dana D. Dickinson, aged Sc
years, a prominent citizen of Will
Evansville, died Sunday night. He
represented Newfane in the legisla-
ture of 1870 and 1872, and bad held
al the prominent ffices in that
town, in which Williamsville is a
village. Formerly he owned wood
working mills in Williamsville. He
was native of Dummerston. He
leaves son and daughter.
John McGreen, who has been
living with his grandfather, Comfort
Wyman, in Westminster, is being
cared for at the Brattleboro retreat,
having been rescued by the town
officers of Westminster after being
shanlefully neglected and abused.
The lad will be nine years old in June.
He is partial imbecile, SO is unable
to give lucid account of his abuses,
but when rescued 9TH his feet were
frozen, and it was for the purpose
of giving him the necessary medical
that he was taken to the
BrattlebUlo institution. When the
Westmins Ell authorities found the
boy he was in cold house, without
proper clothing und without the
bare comforts of life. He wore WON
ems shoes, which pin, he his 80
feet and caused much pain. He said
had had no breakfast, and that he
slept on two chairs the previous
night.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
AN INJUNCTION Ar VARIATION,
After a While the Dog Understood
the Game and Played.

the Game and Played.
Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland II
his fight against a street railway tore
UP some OF the railways tracks AT
Injunction was served against. hin
and then he In his turn secured an.
other Injunction. says the Washing
ton Star
I'VE are like the old lady and the
dog. with our in1unctions and man.
da muses. and what not" said Mr.
johnson the other day. There was
You know. an old lady who rented Q
furnished villa for the summer. and
with the Villa large dog also went
In the sitting room of the villa there
YVES comfortable arm chair The
old lady liked this chair better than
any other In the house. She always
made for II the first thing.
But. alas. she nearly always
fond the chair occupied by the
large dog. Being afraid of the dog
she never dared bid 1t harshly to get
out o. the chair. as she feared that
1t m ght bite her: but instead she
would go to the window and call
Cats
Then the dog would rush to the
window and bark and the old lady
would slip into the vacant chair
quietly.
''One day the dog entered thu
room and found the old lady in pos
session OF the chair. He strollei
over to the window, and. looking
out. appeared much excited and set
up a tremendous barking.
''Thc old lady arose and FASTENED
to the window to see what was the
matter and the dog quietly climbed
into the chni-"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
TOWN MEETING RESULTS.
License Towns A Few Less Than Last
Year. Rockingham and Vernon the
Only Ones in Windham County.

The strong sentiment against
liquor selling which has been a
marked feature of the March cleo
tons i'll Vermont ever since the
prohibitory law, was again mani
fest this year, a small percentage of
towns voting in favor of license. In
the elections held month after the
repeal of the law i'll 1908, 92 cities
and towns voted in favor Of license.
In 1904 the number was reduced to
49, i'll 1905 to SO, in 1906 to Fl,
and according to returns received
only two cities and % towns were
recorded yesterday morning as ia
voring the sale of liquor during the
coming year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
BRATTLE BORO.

Erattleboro had one of the storm
lest town meetings held i'll THE his
tory Of Windham county and on
Gre mar was elt cted and that w
L. Wa ktr to the Office of select
IL all. Tie ne eting opened at nine
o'c'ock i'll the mo. ming and adj
jour ed at ten i'll the evering. The
Aust allan balle system was used
The loard Of civil authority after
working on the ballot from two tc
ten o'clocl; announced all adj ,urn-
merit with a disagreement o.: the. Sc
Lection Of candidates. Tie ceurt
will have to he. verified ard tht
beard of civil tLority will con
.ve,ie again next Men 'ay mo nine
at Zine O'clock.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Saved Her Son's Life.

The happiest mother in the little town
of Ava, Mo, is Mrs. s. Rupee She
writes: "One year ago my son wa>
down with such serious lung trouble
that our physician was unable to help
him; when, by our druggists advice ]
began giving him DR.. Kings New Dis
coverv, and L son IL, ticed improve
ment. I kept this trea .nent up for 9
few weeks when lie was perfectly well
He has worked steadily since at carpen
ter work. DR.. Kings New Discovery
saved his life" Guaranteed best cough
and cold cure by g. @. Smith, Drug
gist. SOC and s1,O0. Trial bottle free.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

We the subscribers, being duly appoint
ed by the Hon. Probate Court for the
District of Westminster, Commissioners
to receive, examine and adjust all claims
and demands of all persons against the e.
tate of Seth Is. Kingsbury late of LIN
dnnderry in said District, d, ceased, and
also all Gains and demands exhibited in
Offset thereto; and six months from the
LIST day of March, being allowed by said
out fer that purpose, we d, therefore
hrr'.hy give NOTICE, that We will at
tend III busine of cur said appoint
mcnt. at The Office IF the Londonderry
1T + in Londonderry in said Dis
tricr, on the 23r day of March and the
23rd day of August Lext, from
o'cl ok unit o'clock. p. III, ON each of
s id days.
NJ Toskins, Commissioners
o. X. Ola, ton. '''''0'''''
March A. ID 1907.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
FREE TO FARMERS

To any Farmer who will write us,
mentioning this paper, we will send
free postpaid, several formulas TO,
making first class fertilizer at
home, together with the cost of the
ingredients, directions for mixing,
etc.
The Vermont Experiment Station
in its bulletin No. 116 has the fol-
lowing to say with reference to the
value OF home mixed fertilizers as
compared with the ordinary com
mercial brands: "On every account,
however, financial, educational, agri-
cultural, it is better to buy the crude
stock and home-mix if one uses a
ton or more
All up-to- date farmers should be
interested in the subject of home
mixed fertilizers and we are in Il po-
sition to help them. Address,
CARROLL S. PAGE, Hyde Park, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Practices Medicine at SO.

|
The oldest active professional
man in Vermont today is Dr.. E. 0.
Whipple of Dandy, who, although
in his 87th year, practices medicine
in the village where for nearly 90
consecutive years he has cared for
the sick.
Hale and hearty as man thirty
years his junior, he never refuses to
answer a midnight call He drives
scores of miles every day over rough
mountain roads, whether the wealth
Ell be mild or cold Since DR..
Whipple first put out his single he
has always had all the patients he
could minister to, notwithstanding
that he still adh2res to the old school
methods
DR.. Whipple's history is interest
ing. Born on farm, he had taste
of the life whi.h came to all the ear
ly Vermonters. Later he prepared
himself for his profession, acquiring
with his medical knowledge smat-
iering of dentistry, which he even
now turns to good account He is
a good mechanic, and during recrea-
ton hours repairs his neighbors'
cocks and watches He is an ex-
pert fisherman, and brings in many
Gre ell of trout from the mountain
stream near his home
DR.. Whipple was born in Athens
in 1920. At the age of 16 he set GU
TO learn dentistry, to help his father
pay a debt on the home farm Hav-
ing succeeded in this, he left hom"
with ten cents in his pocket, going
to Hyde Park, where he earned $40
by dentistry. Then he went TO Mil
waukee, lauding there with a CAPT
ial of six cents But here again he
brought his dental kit into use. TAX
ing it under his arm, he started for
Rock Island, pulling teeth as h+
went, and in month reached his
destination. He came East the
next spring with enough money to
study medicine, finally graduating
from the Castleton. (Vt J, Medical
College in 1S47. Settling in Dan
w, he has remained there most of
the time until now, except for a
>ho,t time during he sixties, when
he took course at Bellevue hospi-
raj.
DR. Whipple was manied in Yves:
Townshend, September 25, 1913, to
Miss Augusta Sawye4, who died in
1892, leaving one son, DIR Frank E
Whipple, graduate Of Middlebury
College and Bellevue hospital medi-
cal school, now practicing in San
Diego, Cal
Dir. Whlpple married April %,
1896, Mrs Katherine Pierce.
Dr. Whipple is strong Republi-
can, Mason, an Odd Fellow, AND
member of the Rutland Count,
Medical and Surgical society.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
A Puzzle.

Here is mathematical puzzle:
Take the number of your living
brothers, double the amount, add to
it three, multiply by five, add to it
the number of your living sisters,
multiply the result by ten, add the
number of deaths of brothers and
subtract $50 from the result. The
right figure will be the number of
deaths, the middle will be the num-
Der of living sisters and the left will
be the number of living brothers.
It may be well to explain that it
is not necessary to have any brothers
or sisters, or to have any deaths in
the family, in order to work out this
problem. It has been found to work
in very successful and docile way
when hypothetical family of broth
ers and sisters is employ ed, and an
orphan with no near relatives can
get the right answer as readily as
anyone else. It even works as cor
rectly when a mother-in-law is used
in place of dead brother. It is a
PAL ticularly perplexing puzzle, for
there seems to be no logical nSsthe-
matical reason for the figures behav-
ing The way they do.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
The WOr'd's Rutter Record

In ixtyday test in Fond du
Lac, Wis, a Holstein- Friesan COW
owned by W. J. Gillet, has broke u
the worlds butter record by forty
pounds. The official test shows
5326.7 pounds of milk and 26O. S
pounds of butter. The COW gave
birth to calf December 10 and the
test was commenced on the fifth day
of her period of lactation The test
was continued during sixty-four
days during which period every
milking was watched, the quantity
of milk weighed and samples taken
and tested
The phenomenal yield was such
that two separate tests were ordered
the first of twenty -four hours and
the second orty-eight hours dur
ing which time additional represen-
tatives were sent from the expert
| ment station. The cow was under
constant supervision day and night.
The best day in milk was 100 pounds.
The best day in butter 574 pounds.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
How IL Balanced.

Mrs. Ada Dean. the woman Joke
OF Grafton, Mass. said the other Ga !,
of snobbishness'
''The greatest preventive of snob-
b;shness Is charity, unselfishness
sympathy.
Il know little boy. vel
dressed. wealthy boy, who was pla.
ing one afternoon with some dirt =
urchins IN rags.
JOHNNY cried the little boy s
mother in tones Of horror, com :
here at once.'
And when he came she added:
Don't YOU know those are ba
boys for YOU to play WITH
Yes. mother he replied. but
then | am a good boy for them tt
play with. "
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
TRY CUR.x.zEMA TODAY,

If you have Eczema har. dry skin,
Itching Piles, or any disease of the
skin and want positive cure, try
CUR-X-ZEMA. 1t immediately
stops that awful itching and permanent.
ly cures all skin diseases. Don't let the
children suffer, try this wonderful rem.
edy- No bandages needed. CUR-X-
Y f M A gives instant relief to
Chapped Hands, cold or fever sores.
burns. etc. Endorsed by physicians
At all druggists or by mail SOC. Sam.
pie sent FREE. Address, Chr X-Zems
Co., Watervleit, n. Y.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Senator Spooner Resigns.

Sena or John G Spooner has
written letter to Gov. Davidson
of Wisconsin, rendering his resigna-
ton as a senator of the United
States, to take effect May l next.
The letter was dated Saturday, but
the fact that such letter had been
written or that Mr.. Spooner con
templated resigning did not become
known in the Senate ill lac Sunday,
when it created great surprise, and
the Wisconsin senator at once found
himself the subject of muny anxious
inquiries. To all he replied that his
mind was fully made up. He had
found, he said, that to continue in
his prerent position would require a
sacrifice on his part that he could
not Justify himself in making. Ii
reply to questions he said he would
resume the practice of law, but de-
.clined to say whether or not he
would be located in Wisconsin. He
did say, however, that he would con-
inLe to be citizen of that state as
long as he lives.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Slightly Mistaken.

The official in charge of the
grounds at Mount Vernon not long
ago came upon a woman kneeling
before a building not far from the
monument. She was bathed in tears.
Thinking that the lady was in trou-
Bile, the director gently inquired
whether he might be of service to
her.
mo, thank YOU" sobbed the wom-
an. Il am not IN trouble, but my pa
triottc feelings overcame me when |
first gazed upon the tomb of the
Father of His Country
Pardon me, madam" said the d.
rector with smile; but you have
made a slight mistake This is not
the tomb of Washington, but his ice
house"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
LANDGROVE

Mo- erato {. w. Towslea clerk
Henry w. A bot; easurer, Geo.
Thomson; sci, ctnlen, Geo. Harris
]. Z. Thomson, Frank Rush; lis
tiers, III. w. Abbott, O. ]. Hol.
den, w. II. Chadwick; constable
and collector, H. W. Rice; owe
seer, George w. Earris; auditors,
c. w. Towslee, H. w. Abbott, L..
F. Woodward; grand juror, S. H.
Abbott; town agent, c. w. Tows-
lie; tree warden, Geo. Harris;
trustee of public money, NJ. D.
Bates; license, 10 I9, yes IS. Tax
for current expenses $2.3o; to ap-
ply on old Indebtedness, 81 so.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Notice To Our Customers

We are pleased to announce that Fo-
'ev's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds
nd Jung troubles is not affected by the
Ma ional Pure Food and Drug law IS it
:, .Jsins no opiates or other harmful
drugs. and we recommend it as safe
remedy for children and adults.
Geo. G.. Smith
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
There Is no use Fighting Nature.

DR.. Kennedys Favorite Remedy does
nothing of that kind 1t acts tenderly
and i'll sympathy with what Nature is
trying to accomplish. Do you have
trouble with your digestion, your liver
or kidneys? Does rheumatism pain and
rack you Is your head thick and
heavy 1t will charm away these all
ments almost ere you are aware
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
What Others Say.

The democrats of the state of Yer
mont have met and organized. AL
most men enough for a grand jury
were present.-St. Adams Messen-
ger.
! The effort to secure better sys-
tenn of ventilation and heating for
rooms in the state house. in which
! the representative and senators
meet is made no too soon Any
person who has sat in either room
| for any considerable time will testi-
fy that they are breeders of disease
and death Burlington Clipper.
A man who has been confined in
| the Brattleboro Retreat for some
| time has been summoned to court in
Maine to show cause, if any there
be, why he should not be adiudged
insane and committed to an asylum
in that state. 1t looks as though
the chances were all against him for
when an insane man starts out to
elucidate in detail Why he is not in
sane he usually ends up on the arm
of an attendant Montpelier Jour
nal.
Threatened by Mr.. Delmas with
revealing tie names of certain
young men of high social standing"
in connection with the Thaw case,
Mr.. Jerome plucks up spirit to ex-
claim "Ycu can't scare me p and
Mr.. Delmas subsidies without men
tioning the names. Why should it
be deemed an awful thing to utter
the names of certain gilded black
guards and why should Mr. Del
mas, having once threatened to do
so, change his mind about it as if
under fear of punishment? Wha'
sort of pull have these choice ex-
tmplars of New York society got
with the counsel for both sides and
with the court Itself in this Thaw
trial ?-Chcago Chronicle.
Business is business, but did the
state really save $500 by having II e
revised statutes printed outside OF
the state? Thee is much talk n W
a-days OF fostering Vermont's in
dustries, of interesting new capita
to seek investment here and OF
booming Vermont. The newspa
pers of the state are looked upon as
one of the most important factors in
this work. Sometimes they get
thanked for what they do, mole Oft
en- not even that, SO it seems a
though when state newspaper con
Germ comes as near the lowest bid as
it did in this case the commissioners
would not have been subject to
much criticism if they had kept tn
work at home. Courier.
m a Pinch, use ALIENS FOGT-EASE
A powder for tired, aching, swollen
feet. We have over 30, 600 testimonials
All Druggists, 25c. Don't accept any
nj stitute. Trial package FREE by
mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Lee
Roy, N Y.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
WESTON.

Moderator, H. |. Walker; clerk
En- ma Peabody; treasurer, J. A.
Pa kLust; sel,ctmen, p. H. Fuller,
]. ". Carver, w. G.. Austin; ov,r-
seer of poor, W. +. Ieason; co !
stable, L p B'odt ct; listers, G.
I. Foster, Ed Pease, ". ]. Austen;
graz d juier, G. j.. Coburn; school
cir, ctcr, Trai / Iovejty; road coin
m;ssi,1 eI, G 7 Foster; audito s,
CT. Winsl.ip, A. L. Waite, J. W
Ia e; license, yes Fl, n 81; tax
SI.6I -
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Five Hundred Men Are out at
Hardwick.

The granite cutters strike in
Hardwlck March 1 in which 500
cutters went out, is watched with
great interes: in Montpelier and
Barre, where the Barre bill of prices
has enc year longer to run. The
Barre scale is So per day of eight
hours for the average man.
The Hardwick cutters have de-
manded $500 minimum and have
refused 1912, offered by the manu-
facturers. who declare that is the
most tLey will give and say they are
ready to shut down for an indefinite
period
The Barre officers were in COM
munication today with the Hard
wick nployees. One large maui
facturrr sud he was ready to slut
down for ayear. He said Hardwick
manufacturers had few contracts On
hand. The Hardwick agreement
expite ed February %
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Editorial Column.

Another strike in Vermont
Too bad?
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin
has resigned his position because he
cannot financially afford to continue
That ought to help in raising the
salaries of congressman.
A handful of democrats met al
Montpelier Saturday to organize {
Vermont branch of the New Eng
land Democratic Progressive
League. Ii they can get their list
of members to be as long as the
name of the organization, some prog
less will have been made.
The Vermont Review, publ ~hed
at Springfield, was short-lived, hav-
ing existed less than four months
The Vermonter has taken over the
Review subscription list and articles
which have not been published, The
Review gave promise of developing
into a highly. creditable magazine;
but the field is hardly extensive
enough for two magazines devoted
exclusively to Vermont intert SITS to
be successful financially. May the
Vermonter receive an added Est I'y
the recent deal.
The last session of the 59th Con-
eress came to an end Monday no n,
Mar. 4. It has been recNd-
breaker for approp' lifting money.
During the 59th Congress- as a
whole S199,0O0, 900 was approp at
ed in excess of the total for IL 5Sth
Con ,ress. The appropriation dur
ing the present fiscal year are over
s57 100000 more than were made
at the first regular session Of the
55th Congress, hich covered sub
s'antially the entire expenses of the
war with Spain. Here is the entire
sum appropriated or authorized by
the last session alone of Congress
1894, IT'S, O2S-a tidy little sum.
Being uncertain as to whether -
not they come within the meaning
of No. 80 of the new state laws,
some of the stage drivers and II.
F. d. mail carriers in this vicinity
are refusing to take express pack
ages from the express offices TO de-
liver them along their routes They
do not purpose to pay eight dollars
per mile OF their routes for the priv
ilege of carrying these packages,
and no one can blame them for it.
No. 80 is an unusual law in that
it is retroactive-it requires the pen
atty if the carrying were done even
before the law was made. The &C,
applies from the beginning of July,
1906.
We understand that this statute
was not intended to affect the stage
drivers nor Il. F. D. mail carriers
but whether it does or not is ques-
ton. 1t was intended to hit ex-
press carriers who piled their oc-
cupation parallel to and in opposi-
ton to railroads, the latter already
being taxed for carrying express.
The disputed point is whether OF
not packages after leaving the ex
press Office nearest their destination
are still express matter, A point
undisputed is that the law is beyond
comprehension and breeds confu
sion. TT e legislature ought to have
had an express command TO express
itself more clearly on the express
business.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07

"A dose in time saves lives. DIR.
Woods Norway Pine Syrup. natures
remedy for coughs, coils, palm onary
diseases of every sort
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07

One enjoyable thing about not
having any money is the way you
can abuse those who have.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07

We want agents in every village
where our Poultry Food is not sold.
If it is not on sale in your village we
will send you, freight prepaid. a
125 pound sack for 81 90 or 60
ItuId zach for 200.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-03-07
Monumental Work

All work shipped direct from the
Ouarries TO the nearest station. No
middle profit to divide as 1 have no
hop rent to pay, nor old stock to
carry over, the interest on which
viii eat up big percentage. AS L
10 not have to transport across a
Dig mountain I can undersell, and
1T the same time erect better work
than any other dealer in this section.
Everything comes TO me with a
guarantee and will come to you the
same. A word to the wise is suffi-
.ient., Drop card to me and l
will be pleased to call and show you
Ill the latest designs both in Marble
and Granite.