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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
Chelsea Home News.
II. o. BIXBY, Local Editor.

II. y. BIXBY, Local Editor.
i. H. Williams of West Corinth was in
..a Tuesday.
daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
-4h Menard Nov. 6.
L. speare of West Corinth was in
ID on business Monday.
<av. Z. daughter was born to Mr..
Mrs. Harry II. Lyford.
~.u was born Tuesday morning TO
and Mrs. Charles H. Baraw.
o.. Il. Kennedy finished making cider
rIav, having made about 700 bbIs.
..rrocr Assistant Judge c. H. Bigelow
euHdcId was in town Monday night.
". Speare is working at c. I.
g.. farm repairing the inside of the
.on Gage has been in East BrookfieId
..ang chimneys for j. F. Edwards the
.-# week.
g.. \. Lucas and family visited Mrs.
e- mother, Mrs. A. N. Camp, at
9th Randolph last Sunday.
sr-. Laura A. Berry went to Barnet
l.aaav to spend the week with her
later. Mrs. Leslie Gilbert.
. - ". lewis has been working at EIra
-aeUs in Tunbridge the past two
e- repairing his buildings.
80 repairs on the Chelsea Mills will be
..'ated this week so grinding will be
,'' -'io '''''S ,iioi 'iil 3
Vi .~7 I'rence spear has finished work
:t ,am,iy OF b. ii. Adams, Jr., and
rs 'Si'a Anger mas returned there.
Yrs. VI. II. Corwin returned home
. "-ay night from Nashua, n. H.,
F." ~he mas oeeh VISITING the past few
MS.
-. r.. III. Godfrey, ii. y. Madison and
ley &. W Hsoh went TO Montpelier
n.y. W mere 'H9y LOOK the hhlght lem
..E. ana Mrs. George L. Lake, Mr.. and
Pc. K. T. Codirey' Mrs. W. +. Town
.5"hd Mrs Charles BlNby were in
I'N Monday.
L'- Eliza = Carr went to Orange
H8v to- spend the week with her
later. Miss Emma Carr, who closes a
"i school there Friday.
-.. Chelsea Brass band is to have a
1nsde concert in the Town hall
"~~SNng eYenlng-one of the old
- ."uel NInd tor old and young.
-. Hahbiu shop is shut down until .
stock of lumber can be procured
..a. foreman, Waiter NJ. Dewey. has
g.. hi, home in South Royalton.
s-.a.. +. George went today to Lisbon.
H.. where he has Job in Parker &
a-,- mill. He got the place last
h while at Lisbon visiting his aunt.
..- ..l Mr.. Holm p Atwood cIosod
....,.s today and WENT 70 ToIrtor-
Mass where they ore 70 s,ond tba
r5av were acco,,,7,o,;o5 b,, NJ
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14

Trial catarrh treatments are being
mailed out free on request. by DR.. Shoop,
Racine, Wis. These tests are proving to
the people-withOIt penny's cost-the
great value of this scientific prescription
known to druggists everywhere as DR..
Shops Catarrh Remedy. Sold by Victor
4. Grant
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
a Chanee for soys % Make q Dole

We want all the bones we can get. Can
use heads. hoof-. horns-anything IN the
line 81 bones, II only dry. We pay Coo
per hundred pounds for thoroughly dry
bones-we can pay even more IL strictly
clean, hard. fresh, dry, boiled butchers
bones-and pay freights from your sta
tion II shipped in lots Of 200 pounds or
more. May be shipped in barrels or
cheap sacks.
{. :. PAGE. Hyde Park. VI.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
EAST ROXBURY

Thomas Knowles has gone to Lebanon,
n. H., for a short stay.
Mrs. Rosetta Cole from Barre is visiting
her brother, AlphOnsO Ladd.
Drew FOss and daughter went Monday
to their home in Rochester, n. IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Wescott from North
field visited friends in this place Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Foss were guests
at c.. HI. Holden's in Brookfeld Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. 2. Mcclure have
closed their house here and gone to Bos-
ton for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. WheatIey from East
Brookfield are spending a few weeks with
their DAUGHTER. Mrs. F. Z. Allen.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
EAST BROOkFIELD

Mrs. Temples Telegram, 300 nights in
New York, 100 nights in Chicago. the
laughing hit of two continents, at Chand-
Ter Music hall, Randolph, Tuesday even
Jag, Nov. 10.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
EAST BRAINTREE

EAST BRAINTREE
Mrs. Temples Telegram, 300 nights in
New York, 100 nights in Chicago. the
laughing hit of two continents, at Chand-
Ter Music hall, Randolph, Tuesday even
ing, Nov. 10.
Clark Abel spent Sunday at West Hart
ford.
E. I. Clafin is in Boston this week on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keyes of Moretown have
been visiting at Gibson Grains.
Rev. j. T. Urban of Fairfield. former
pastor here, visited friends here last
week.
Miss Grace Abel of Bethel has been
spending few days with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Abel.
Mrs. Emery Cram of Roxbury has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Eusebia Simonds,
at w. L. Peavey's the past week.
Mrs. Wilbur Norman's father and
mother, grandfather and aunt of Brook
held visited at her home Sunday.
Mr.. Merrill of st. Johnsbury, secretary
OF the Vermont State Missionary society.
spoke at the church here last Sunday.
Several from this place attended the
moving picture show at Randolph last
Friday evening and pronounce it good.
Miss Jessie Blanchard came home last
week i'll with tonsilitis. H. Guy Fletcher
has also been having if Roth are better
NJ I'D r9t,,
Mass, have been visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Flagg, and 9th
er friends here.
Mrs. H. A. Fletcher Of Rrookfe,d uras
at J. w. Blanchard,s Friday to SOC har
son. Guv. and wife He re+,rned bo,,,o
with her and remained fiji Snndor Nc
wife went Saturday NIGHT and returned
home with him
Cot,,o, :: D;,..>-
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VI PuP'I3 lor Ierih ~
- Us VI luIl al
E-,r,I- Gei., ~ t ina NS Treu anu
c,,,sr,,, ~ - a. "ii,' ~ oeI'
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Nttt7, NY Sl'P were Elsie
49,, anu ri@l ION mayer Au-
49,; III pIn %Ilu H"" III DidnchaFu'
- AM i'''i u was '9"oLeI'
Inc harvest supper and sale held here
last week Wednesday afternoon and even
ing by the Sewing and Mite society was
well attended IN spite of the inclemency
or the weather Articles left over from
the afternoon sale were put up at auction
in the evening and everything sold.
Nearly $50 were added to the treasury of
the society. The entertainment by the
was well given and much en-
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South Royalton Notes.
NJ. J. SARGENT, Local Editor,

Thanksgiving ball Nov. %, Dubois &
Gays hall. Music hall orchestra, 9
pieces.
Mrs. Temples Telegram, 300 nights in
New York, 100 nights in Chicago, the
laughing hit of two continents, at Chand-
Ter Music hall, Randolph, Tuesday even
ing, Nov 10.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
BROOkFlElD

Thanksgiving ball Nov. 81, Dubois &
Gays hall. Music hall orchestra, 9
pieces.
Mrs. Temples Telegram, 300 nights in
New York, 100 nights in Chicago, the
laughing hit of two continents, at Chand-
Ter Music hall, Randolph, Tuesday even
ing, Nov. 10.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14

=. :. PAGE, Hyde Park, VI.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

to secure A representative convention
is more difficult. Unless there is a
deep seated discomfort on the part of
the people no action is likely.
1t would be interesting to know
whether there is any general alarm
among the people about the alleged in
vasion of state rights. 1t is certain
that there are few traces of the old
fashioned feeling on the subject, says
the Chicago Tribune. II is probable
that the great mass of conn aratlVcly
recent INN grants care nothing about
ii. It is certain that many Americans
are quite contented with the idea of
great nation eXertins its power TN
der a tsrongly centralized authority.
1t is undoubtedly true that there are
Others who are Indifferent about the
subject. That leaves those who seek
political issue that will aid them to
fight the party in power, those who
have personal reason for discrediting
the administration, and those who
honestly feel that there is danger to
the republic. How large the last group
is is problematical
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
JUNGLE TOM" COMING.

StetsOn's Uncle Toms Cabin com.
pany. with two Topsies, two Marks
and everything up-to date. without de
strOying the venerable earmarks OF
this wonderfully attractive dramatic
alton of Harriet Beecher Stoves
great work, will be presented on
Thursday, March :, at the Keylor
Grand.
Grandfathers who saw this play
years ago will be among the auditors
n company with their grandchildren
perhaps. and there will be no differ
ence in the heartiness of their ap
plause than in years gone by. The
same old procession, TOpSes, Marks
Uncle Tom, Little Eva, will be there,
but it is a procession that will march
right into the heart despite its tramp
Of half century. The Stetson com
pany, it's scenery, specialties and ac-
cessories will be found to be the best
and the largest numerically, in Ameri
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
ADJUSTMENTS
PRESENTED HERE SATURDAY.

The play that has won all hearts
1.-The Bonnie Briar Bush," will be pre-
scented here on Saturday, March 2, al
the Keylor Grand theatre. This de-
lightful story of Aud Scotland" is one
that is familiar to and appeals to
everybody in it's simplicity and charm
ing naturalness.
The story of the play, briefly told
is as follows:
Flora Campbell, daughter of a shep-
herd, is married to an earls son ac-
cording to the Scottish rite-that is,
the scion has declared her his wife
and placed the ring upon her finger
The union is legal if the declaration is
made in the presence of a witness
Flora keeps her wedding a secret and
is cast from her home by her father,
Lachlan Campbell, because he believes
she has brought shame upon his name.
The couple are separated by hardened
fathers and the wretched girl fears
she has been deserted. Then her father
learns of the marriage, which was
witnessed by the tipping "post-car-
rier" of DrumtOchty from behind a
hayrick. The young lovers are brought
together Flora CampbelPs name,
which her father had blOtted from the
family Bible, is reentered and all ends
happily.
The original Kirke La Shelle produc-
ton will be seen here and a company
which is a very large one. A carload
of scenery is used. A pleasing feature
of the performance is a quartette of
male voices, and the rendition of LOch
Lomond. Mary of Argyle, Annie Lau-
RE, Ye Banks and BraeS ebe is always
Il signal for a burst of enthusiasm
from the audience.
Another feature which adds local
color to the always delightful perform
ance is the appearance of d Scotch
bagpiper, Robert Ireland, late piper
major if the 4Sth Highlanders of To-
ronto, who appears at every perform
ance of the play.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
HYPNOTIZED BY FIRE,
Many in Iroquois Theatre Sat Staring
at Flames and Persisted.

CHICAGO. March 1-Assistant State
Attorney Barbour has collected a dozer
deposition of survivors of the Iriuuois
Theatre fire and will submit them as
corroborative evidence at the trial OF
Will j. Davis in Danville next month
All the defendants except Davis have
succeeded in escaping the law. He
was indicted for manslaughter and took
a change of venue.
All the witnesses testified that the
theatre was OvercrOwded and that at
least $50 persons were standing in the
aisles when the fire started. 1t was
the general testimony also that the
iron exit doors We're fastened so that
the ushers could not open them.
The strange effect of the fire on
many of the audience was described
by Mrs. E. S. Michel, who said that
after she reached the fireescape she
turned and looked back into the thea
tire and saw many persons sitting bolt
upright in their seats-all probably
dead-while the air about them was
blue with smoke
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
STATE CONTROL OR NATIONAL?

The proposition introduced before the
New York assembly to have a conven-
ton of the states at Saratoga to con-
slider the rights of the state as they
stand related to the cenral government
reflects the growing unrest in some
quarters over the activity of the ma
tional administration concerning pres
ent day public questions
The Albany measure proposes that
each of the states send three deie-
be discussed such topics as marriage
divorce. life and fire insurance, labor
and public utilities to secure uniform
and effective legislation on these sub
jects The National Bar association
has been striving for some years to
bring about uniform legislation on a
number of questions. marriage and di-
vorce included. One manifest cause Of
the alleged invasion of the field Of
action of the states by the national
government is the inactivity of the
states themselves in matters of vital
interest to the whole country The AL
bany proposition seems to recognize
this, and to plan for a solid founda-
ton for a declaration in favor of the
maintenance of the rights of the states
by showing that it is practicable to
get along without the Intervention of
the federal authority. But a conven-
ton of the states is difficult thing
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
Totals.
RIVAL OF STANDARD?
Gould Interests Incorporate the Mex
can Petroleum Company.

|. WILMINGTON, Del, March 1.-The
Mexican Petroleum company Qimited)
of Delaware, in which the Goulds and
their kindred interests are represented
was incorporated at Dover yesterday
with capitalization of 100000
1t was reported today that the con-
Germ will be a rival of the STANDARD
Oil company in developing the oil
fields of the southwest. The incorpo-
rators are Horace S Gould, of New
York; Samuel B. Howard, of Mill
brook, N. Y, and Harry w Davis, of
Wilmington.
The incorporation fee was $500.
The company is authorized to buy
sell and otherwise dispose of oil lands
and to explore and prospect for the
same. 1t can also build and establish
real and personal property thereon;
build railroads, establish manufactures
construct and maintain and operate
telegraph and telephone lines. 1t can
also engage in a general brokerage
business.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
WHERE TO GET THE NEWS.

In ite effort TO secure a larger cir
cuIatiop the Union is attempting to
give the impression that it Is really
a local newspaper To read its blat-
ant advertising lingo one would mag
inc all of the newspaper talent in the
state of Washington was busily en-
gagged in making it a genuinely local
newspaper.
"A a matter of fact, so far as local
happenings are concerned, the Union
is at the bottom of the list of dailles.
Although boasting a larger local staff
and more space for publication OF i've
news. it really has less than the
Evening Bunc'-and not one half OF
what is published in The Statesman.
This is not an advertising statement
it is the truth as any one who COM
pares the two. or three, newspapers
may readily ascertain.
The Union would try to convince
newspaper readers it is more valuable
than the afternoon papers because it
gets out at o'clock in the morning
and is delivered in the residence dis
tricts anywhere after 1880 O'Clock.
AS a matter of fact it is NV ELVE
HOURS LATE WITH THE LOCAL
NEWS. In The Statesman you get
today's news today. In the Union you
must wait until you go home to lunch,
or to dinner, to get yesterdays news,
unless YOU happen to take the morning
paper at your store Or office.
The Union advertises subscription
rate of 65 cents per month with pa
per delivered seven days in the week
and points to The Statesman's price
of so cents a month and six days a
week service Well, you've read the
Union Sundays, have you not? Do you
think, with the good local service. the
well written, we'll handled stories in
The Statesman, that the Sunday Union
is worth fifteen cents more month,
just because it happens to come to
your house Sunday morning with local
news published in The Statesman the
night before?
Sit down, M. Reader, and figure out
day it happens for fifty cents a month,
Or poorly written, illjudged portion
of the news twelve hours later
Then renew your subscription to The
Statesman and keep posted on what is
going on in Walla Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
MURDERER WILLS GIRL COIN
Insane Crimina' Leaves $4,000 To
Young MiiIner VIII oCan't Be
Found.

| LEWISTOWN, Maine. March l.
| Inquiry is being made for Miss Viola
| Atkins. Maine young woman, ben
eficiary to the extent OF $4,000 under
/ the VIII Of Charles A. Prescott. now
| confined in the Matteswan IN. W Asy-
! lum for the Criminal Insane for the
murder of Patrick Whalen, in Brook
Ign, in June, 1903.
! ]. F. Scott, a New York attorney,
! and detectives are now in Maine in
quest of Miss Atkins.
| Mr. Scott explains his connection
with the case as follows:
! I'm June, 1903, an odd-looking
young man came into my Office and
told me he desired to make his will
He took from sachel stock certi-
fcates to the value of $4,000. | drew
up, his will in favor of Miss Viola
Atkins. He showed me a photograph
of a very handsome woman of 20,
and said she was a Maine girl, but
was living in Boston.
THE incident passed from my mind
until the next June, when my attention
was attracted by a newspaper account
of the murder of aPtrick Whalen in
Brooklyn by one Charles A. Prescott
Upon investigation l found that Pres
colt was my strange client and l Wis
tied him and became his counsel.
Il have found out that Miss Atkins
was a milliner in Boston, and her land
lady told me that she left suddenly
one day. saying she was going to
Maine. l have talked with Prescott's
father, who is dealer in Maine real
estate and has an Office in Boston. He
says Charles became acquainted with
Miss Atkins in Maine. He left home
after he had received $500 left him
by relative and became a waiter in
New York restaurant. His hobby
was stocks and his only friend was
broker who knew some of his people
IN Massachusetts. His investments
proved successful
1T is a question whether in the case
OF the death of Prescott Miss Atkins
would legally come into possession of
the $4,000 willed her by him. If she
will communicate with me it will be
well worth her WHILE
IN Prescott's fiat in Brooklyn after
his arrest was found the picture of
a girl who, he said had been his sweet
neart in Boston. He said he was Jaw
FULLY fond" of her, but some time after
ne left Boston she ceased writing and
ne thought she had got frightened, be-
ieving him to have become q crook.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
CheckmateS Noted Gambler

ROME, Marcn 1.-The Italian DO
lice authorities have intimated to tie
Belgian Marquet, who was recently
expelled from French territory at the
order of Premier Clemenceau because
he was the owner of a notorious gam.
bling resort in Paris, that he will not
be allowed to open similar institu-
ton at San Reno on the Riviera. It
seems that he has recently obtained
from the municipality a long lease of
the local Casino, and intended to open
gambling establishment to compete
with similar resorts located across
the French frontier.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
TOM SHAW IS VILLAGE MYSTERY
Strange Habits of Taciturn Old Maine
Man Who Has Never Been Known
To Speak to Anybody.

SEBAGO LAKE, Me-, March l.
With the shades of night Tom Shaw
of this village, hangs up his saw and
puts away his ak. that the frost and
snow may not rust it, and goes into
his warm kitchen, where he throws
big stick on his fire and prepares
his supper. Tom is an old man now.
and to the knowledge of the VILLAGE
known to talk to any person in the
village except the clerk at the general
store at the Lake
Along toward halfpast 10 in the
evening Tom lays down his paper.
Tor he is a well-read man, being a
subscriber to many dallies and cur,
rent magazines, goes out to the barn.
where he harnesses his horse and
drives slowly to the village store. for
he times his trip to arrive just as the
clerk is putting up the last shutter.
well knowing that the lOungers about
the old stove have snapped" the last
yarn for the night and have gone to
their homes.
After buying his tea, flour. tobacco
or feed for his horse, as the needs
may be if the night be fair, he will
take a chair near the stove and he
and the clerk will sit and talk of the
events of the day until lney find them
selves yawning. Then they quit and
seek their abOdes.
He knows the village gossip as soon
as the "gOssipiest" of the women
folks, though it is a mystery to all
how he learns it, as he is never Wis
IDLE to people in daylight, or dark,
for that matter, as all his trips into
the village are made after the good
townspeople are at home.
He owns his farm, which is one of
the best in the county, and has COM
Portable house, built with it's back
to the road, in which he lives alone,
doing his own work, cooking, mend
ing and darning as well as woman
could do it. He is a bachelor whose
past life is sealed book.
About twice a year he goes to Port
land. presumably to bank MS money.
for he has and makes lot of it, When
he goes he walks miles to White
Rock the next town, and takes the
train from there returning the same
way.
According to the clerk. OF all the
customers who visit the store Tom
Shaw is the most interesting in con
verSatiOn.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
THE FOLLY OF MURDER.

Assuming for the sake of argument
he had justification for his act, the
Thaw case is mainly valuable as point
ing out the folly Of violence in an
age of law. To legally Justify himself
he is compelled to drag his mother
through the mire of a lasting humilia-
ton. rip his ancestors from the tomb
and expose the hideous grinning skele-
tons of family Weaknesses to a callous
unfeeling public, and plunge the wO-
man he married, who. whatever she
may have been, has set an example of
unflinching devotion to his fortunes
into a vortex of disgusting publicity.
a sort of shrieking confessional of her
frailties and mistakes. And all for
what? That it may be proved that
Harry K. Thaw was irresponsible when
he shot down Stanford White.
Two acts of cowardice do not make
one of courage. Thaw was a coward
when he shot White from behind. He
is a coward now when he takes refuge
behind the supposed mental incapaci-
ties of his ancestors. If anything is
learned from this disgusting court
spectacle it must be that Thaw was
not justified in wronging the living
and the dead to right his own wrongs,
whatever they were. Living in an age
of civilization and law. ne forfeited
consideration when he took the law in
his own hands. He forfeits even the
pity of mankind in making a defense
which fills every right-thinking person
with loathing.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

The spectacle of a lot of crazy Sena-
tors killing off proposed laws-not be-
cause the state doesn't need them
but because some other senator who
doesn't stand in with the gang intro
duced them, is a disgraceful comment
airy upon the loyalty and patriotism of
those men who stumped their districts
during the campaign shouting for pure
legislation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

The insiStence with which the
Union declares Walla Walla is not
really in debt is deplorable. 1t is call
ing the attention Of Frank Reese and
his friends to place where more
money may be had for the asking
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

According to those Texas legisla-
tors Senator Joe" Bailey is several
kinds Of liar. a fugitive from Misss-
sippi justice, and Il man oiled from
head to heels with Il liquid not drunk
in the Lone Star state
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

The Chicago Daily Socialist announc-
es: We must have $4,000 before the
end of next week" This shows that
those deep human longings find place
in the breasts of socialists as we'll as
in those of other people.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

That those senators known as incur
gents are not honest reformers was
demonstrated when they obeyed the
orders of the timber barOns to kill the
state medical associations bill. pre-
venting the pollution of streams used
for municipal water supply on the