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Newbury.

Norman Parsons Clement of Buffalo,
N. Y, and Miss Margaret Hale,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
S. Hale of this city.
The wedding ceremony took place
on the broad piazza of the summer
home, which had been appropriately
trimmed and arranged for the occa-
sion, and was performed in the pres
ence of the immediate families of
the bride and groom only. The Off
ciating clergyman was the Rev.
George H. Buck of st. James
church, Derby, Conn, who was
assisted by the Rev. John S. Littell,
rector of St. James Episcopal church
of this city. The maid of honor was
Miss Josephine Hale, sister of the
bride, and the groomsman, Mr..
Stephen Merrill Clement, brother
of the groom.
A reception and spread followed
the ceremony. Later Mr.. and Mrs.
Clement, with one or two friends,
took an automobile for Keene,
where they boarded the 2:25 train
for New York. Teey sailed Tuesday
Tor European trip of about two
after which they will re-
side in Buffalo, N. Y, where the
groom is engaged in business as a
banker. -Keene Sentinel, June Sd.
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NEWBURY,
Rev. Mr.. Pollock officiating. Inter-
ment in Groton cemetery.
WELLS RIVER.

Geo. Bailey and Geo. Learned
are home from Middlebury College
for vacation of ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Foss returned
from Lake Morey last Saturday.
Mrs. Frank George returned Mon
day from Irasburg, having spent
several days there with her brother
and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Chamberlin.
Ned Hutchins is home from Bos-
ton making his mother, Mrs. S. j.
Hutchins a visit.
Charles Osgood came Tuesday
from Tarrytown, N. Y, and will be
at Pine Lodge, Miss Farwells camp
at Halls Pond, this summer. Miss
Farwell and Miss Mason sailed this
week for Europe.
Mrs. H. H. Lee was home from
Lake Morey over Sunday, returning
there Monday, accompanied by her
daughter, Mary Elizabeth.
Invitations have been issued by
the Senior class w. r. H. S., for
Commencement exercises which be-
gin Sunday evening with Bacca-
laureate sermon in Congregational
church by the Rev. j. A. Belanger.
Miss Peck of Morrisville has been
the guest of Mrs. Sheldon, since
Monday.
An opening concert and ball
Tuesday evening, June 16, will be
given in Village Hall, under the
of the Village I'm
provement Society. Music by
Never's Marine Band of Concord,
n. H. Refreshments will be on sale
during the evening in the dining
room of the hall.
The W. r. c. District Convention
which was to have been held with
Col. Preston Corps, is postponed
till September or October.
Mr.. John Bailey and Mr.. Albert
Bailey are spending the week fish
ing in Lewistown.
Mrs. Sam Hutchins and infant
SON came home from Cottage hospi-
tai, last week.
Mrs. W. II. Buck has been con-
lined to the house several DAYS by !
4 severe attack of grip, and Mrs.
Hiram Smith has been i'll for two
weeks.
Mrs. Laura Welton of Bradford
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JACK" HARRIS WASHINGTON LETTER.

roll was begun and the end had
come. Nothing whatever can inter-
fere with a roIl-call.
! The ringing of one bell, the signal
, that vote was on, was heard by
LaFollette In his committee room,
and in a few seconds he dashed
wildly into the chamber, almost in
sane with rage. He had supposed
that Stone was in his seat, ready
to relieve Gore, but the fatal
hiatus had killed the flibuster and
brought congress to an end. Also, it
had enacted a financial bill, by a
hair-the intervening of ten sec
onds between the flibustering ora
tors. In desperation LaFollette
tried every possible tactic to get out
from under the load, but it was use
less. The mischief was done, and
he was out of job. The vote on
the adoption of the report was
strict party one, with the exception
that four young republicans from
the turbulent and rebellious west
voted with the democrats.
The vote came late in the after
noon of Saturday, and the remain
ing business of the session was soon
cleared up. After several inter
missions to enable the engrossing
clerks to catch up with their job
and to give the president time to
come to his room at the capitol to
sign up the latest bills the first
session of the sixtieth congress died
for the second time at II :55 p. m.
This time the remains were not left
until they were solidly and per-
manently boxed, and planted to
stay. No chances were taken of
their breaking loose again, and
filling a nation with apprehension
and forebodings of more misery.
At the end, the same epitaph was
erected over the defunct as graced
the tombstone of the western edi-
tor; 1--WE are here to stay"
A direct and most beneficial re-
suit of the LaFollette rebellion was
the resurrection of two rules by the
senate, the application of which in
the future will have the effect of
vastly expediting business. The
first is that the vice-president can
count a quorum, regardless of
whether the roll-call discloses the
presence of one or not. Hereafter
the refusal of senators to vote, if |
in the chamber, will not serve to
prevent a quorum. Secondly, the
rule that a roll call on the sugges-
ton of the absence of a quorum
cannot be demanded twice in sue
cession unless new business inter-
venes, will keep flibustering speak
ers continually on their feet without
a moment of rest until they are
compelled to give up from exhaus-
ton. For the re-establishing of
these two rules, the senate and the
country owe the pestiferous little
Wisconsin Senator great debt of
gratitude.
j. Z. HARRIS.
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POST MILLS.

DR.. Douglas and wife of Groton
Conn, and Miss Alice Douglas,
from Lowell, arrived at the home
of their mother, Mrs. S. NJ. Douglas;
last Friday.
Miss Cynthia Wilcox of North
Thetford is visiting friends in the
village this week.
We are glad to see the road
machine and help in this vicinity
this week. Hope we shall see quite
an improvement in the highways
as they need repairing badly.
A new cottage is being built on
Redwood point by Mr.. Emerson of
Corinth.
Children's Day will be observed
next Sunday morning in the church.
The collection to be taken is to pur-
chase new singing books for the
Sunday schools. Let every one at
tend and be prepared to contribute
literally for the benefit of the chill
dren.
Miss Helen Rogers of West Fair
lee is engaged to work at the Lake
House for the summer season.
Mr.. Harry Davidson found his
mare dead i'll the pasture Saturday
evening. She had a colt about
month old by her side. No cause
for the death of the horse could be
discovered.
Harry Higgins met with quite a
loss one night last week. His sugar
house and contents and blacksmith
shop and contents were burnt,
nothing saved. Cause of fire un-
known.
Examinations for free tuition in
and admission to secondary schools |
will be held in the Eastern Orange
District at Post Mills,
Thetford Hill, and South Strafford
on Thursday and Friday, June 25
and 26, 1908. On Thursday appli-
cants will be examined in Arith-
metic, Grammar, Physiology, Hy-
giene, and Geography. The exami-
nations in u. S. History, Civil
and Spelling will be
given on Friday. An average of o.
per cent must be attained by each
applicant in order to secure a free
tuition certificate.
LINwooD TAFT, Dist. Supt.
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DEAR Folks

DEAR FOLKS
/ left you last week in the midst
of a seemingly endless speech by
Senator LaFollette, with congress
and all legislation in the air out of
sight. Little remains to be told of
the wind-up, except as to just how
it came about. LaFollette began
speaking at noon of Friday, and
kept on his feet until 7 o'clock the
next morning. Very little of this
time was actually consumed in
speaking, reading from various his
torica documents and works of
fiction answering the purpose of
killing time just as well as speech
which required thought. Probably
half the time was also occupied in
roll-calls, thirty-six of which were
demanded by him during the first
ten hours of the time.
This compelled an attendance of
at least forty-eight senators all the
time, and also enabled the alleged
speaker to withdraw frequently for
hasty refreshments. Under all
these conditions it will be seen that
the nineteen hour "speech" was
not such a tremendously marvellous
effort, after all.
When LaFollette retired at 7 in
the morning his place was taken
by Stone of Missouri, who managed
to keep on his feet with the aid of
desks and chairs for five hours
longer. Several hours previously,
however, a rule had been dug up
by the senate leaders which pro-
hibited roll-call twice i'll succession
unless new business had interviewed.
This had the effect of keeping the
speakers steadily on their feet,
without a moments intermission,
and fastened their retirement.
Stone was succeeded by Gore of
Oklahoma, the blind senator, who
held the boards about three hours.
1t was arranged that Stone should
resume as soon as he concluded,
and he sat down supposing that
Stone was in his seat and ready to
go on. Not being able to see, how
ever, he resumed his seat as Stone
was entering the chamber, and be-
fore the latter had time to get into
action.
Previous to this, sometime dur
ing the night, one of the republican
leaders had moved that when the
vote was finally taken on the adop-
ton of the report it be by yea and
nay vote. This was seconded and
carried, and nothing remained to be
lone but to begin the calling of the
roll. This was a bit of parliamentary
sharp practice which in time of
great emergency has never been
eXcelled in congress. In effect it
gave the majority this advantage |
,ver the filibusters, that the second
ceased speaking the call
If the roll could be begun on the
inal passage of the measured The
Instant Gore sat down and before
Stone could start in, the call of the
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came last Saturday to the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Clark.
Rev. ]. A. 'Belanger was in Bur-
lington the first of the week, at
tending Grand Lodge f. and A. NJ.
As Flag Day, June 18th, comes
on Sunday, the citizens of this
place are asked to recognize the
day Saturday, by displaying flags
from their homes and places of
business.
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SOUTH RYEGATE.


Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Robin were
in Barre a part of last week with
Mr.. Robins parents.
Miss +. Maude Harding, one of
our teachers, was called to st. Johns
bury, last week, by the illness of a
friend.
Mrs. Bagley Abbott of East
Corinth was in town a part of last
week, a guest of Mrs. Emma Starr,
her sister.
Mrs. William Fraser of Montpe-
lier spent Memorial day at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Fraser.
John f. Whitehill has moved to
the Taisy farm on the road leading
from South Ryegate to Groton and
in the town of Groton.
l.. +. Whitehill, who has been
sick the past month with rheumatic
fever has so far recovered as to be
able to be out on the streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shackford of
East Ryegate were in town the last
of the week, calling on friends.
J. ID. McAllister and b. l.. Terry
we're in St. Johnsbury, attending
court last week.
Mrs. ]. ID. McAllister and Hannah
Randall were in Groton on Monday.
Mrs. Aldrich of Philadelphia,
niece of Mrs. A. A. Favor is spending
a few weeks with her.
Mrs. Margaret Knox, who has
been sick with tuberculosis the past
year died at her mothers last Sat
urday morning. Funeral services
were held Sunday in the afternoon,
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THETFORD CENTER.

II II VIM NIJ4N IJIOs
Mrs. Orville Sanborn has her
brother visiting her for a short
time.
H. B. Richardson and mother
were in Lebanon, the first of the
week.
Mrs. Babcock from Cleveland,
Ohio, is occupying N. H. Porter's
tenement for few weeks.
Mrs. James Cummings has her
father visiting her.
Mrs. Carrie Quimby is working
for Mrs. Frank Hatch.
A number of the boys went to
STAFFORD, Saturday to play base
ball.
The entertainment given i'll the
Town Hall was well attended and a
good sum of money was realized.
Mrs. Chas. Bowker was in Clare
mont a few DAYS recently.
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HAVERHILL.

Rev. Mr.. Duncklee preached a
good sermon last Sunday evening
to the Senior class, and a large
audience, from the text, Esther Al
last clause.
Hope Morse is now a real estate
owner, having bought the Blair
place, adjoining her fathers.
Tyler Westgate spent few days
last week at his cottage at Aiming
ton Pond and is out there for a few
days while Elmer Blake is repairing,
etc.
Miss Clara Haselton was in Fair
lee with her sister, over Sunday.
Miss Pratt, one of our former
teachers, is a guest at the Crawford
house for a few days.
The neighbors say that Hattie
Rodgers has improved her place by
taking down the front yard fence.
Perry Burbeck arrived at home
last week, for a vacation.
Mrs. NJ. d. Carbee with her
nephew, John Locke, are in their
summer home.
Last Saturday, Madam Talbert
almost 90, enjoyed a ride with her
daughter, Mrs. c. j. Pike to the
East Haverhill Cemetery and
walked around.
Last Wednesday, Mrs. Harry
Stevens and Miss Bacon of Bradford
spent the day with Mrs. Phoebe
Bailey. On Friday, Mrs. Clark of
the same place was a guest, while
during the week Mrs. Bailey enjoyed
a visit from her cousin, John II.
Roberts of Nebraska.
Cards have been received an
nouncing the wedding that will
take place at "Tyngs Plantation,
Tyngsborough, Mass, the sisters
Mrs. H. Moves, of Adelaide Florence
Pike to Mr.. Hartman Cleveland
Dodd, on the evening of June 25th.
At home the first day of October
at Tarrytown on the Hudson, n. Y.
Rev. Mr.. Duncklee and wife en-
joyed a trip to Moosilauke on We'd
nesday.
Rev. Mr.. Clapp of Lisbon, n. H
was a guest of Rev. Mr.. Duncklee
last Thursday night.
The Board of Health of the town |
of Haverhill have organized with |
the following officers: Mr.. Ezra B.
Willoughby, pres; DR.. George w.
Sec; Mr.. Pardon w.
Allen, treas. They have notified |
the Supt. of Schools, that all schol-
ars must bring a certificate of vac
cination at the beginning of schools
in the fall, to entitle them to atten-
dance.
Grafton Lodge F. d A. NJ. to-
gether with the Lodge of Eastern
Star have been invited to attend
at the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Haverhill on st. Johns
June 2lst at 2:30 p. m.
The pastor will be assisted in the
service by Rev. c. Z. Eaton of
North Haverhill. All Masons are
invited to be present. The
general public will be welcome to
he capacity of the church.
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A SAFE INVESTMENT

Trustees, Guardians, Widows and
Others who have funds to invest and
who are looking for a safe depository
for their money and one which will
yield a fair return, should write to
the Hyde Park Savings Bank. This
Bank pays 4 per cent. interest, COM
pounded semi-annually, and pays
taxes. For information on any
point, address c. S. PAGE, President
or +. NJ. CULVER, Treasurer.
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SOUTH NEWBURY.
CIEMENT-HALE.

A quiet but very attractive we'd
ding took place at high noon Mon
day in Marlboro, at the well known
and beautiful Frost homestead on
the high hill bearing the same name,
one of the most slightly and at
tractive summer residences in the
county.
The contracting parties were Mr..
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YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS.

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any
case of kidney or bladder trouble that is
not beyond the reach of medicine. No
medicine can do more. J. NJ. Taylor,
Bradford, and b. W. Abbott, Fairlee,
Agents
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CONSERVATIVES MADE COM
EORTARI L

Foley's Honey and Tar has cured many
cases of incipient consumption and even
in the advanced stages affords comfort
and relief. Refuse any but the genuine
Foley's Honey and Tar. ]. NJ. TAYLOR.
Bradford. and b. w. Abbott, Fairlee,
Agents.
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WHEN HER BACK ACHES.
A WOMAN FINDS ALL HER ENERGY

AND AMBITION SLIPPING AWAY.
Vermont women know how the
aches and pains that come when
the kidneys fail make life a burden.
Backache, hip pains, headaches,
dizzy spells, distressing urinary
troubles, all tell of sick kidneys and
warn you of the stealthy approach
of diabetes, dropsy and Bright's
disease. Doan's Kidney Pills per-
manently cure all these disorders.
Here's proof of it in a Vermont
woman's words:
Mrs. J. Perkins of 1S2 West St.,
Rutland, VT, says: For three
years l suffered from a deranged
condition of my kidneys. l had
good, deal of backache, suffered
from spells of dizziness and could
hardly turn over in bed on account
of the pains through my loins. A
kidney weakness set in and the Sc
cretions were of a dark red color
and contained deposits of sediment.
| doctored a great deal, but did not
receive any permanent relief. One
day a friend gave me a box of
Doan's Kidney Pills, began taking
them and | soon found that they
we're the best remedy / ever used. /
The pain in my back was quickly
essened and the trouble with the
kidney secretions corrected. "
For sale by all dealers. Price 80 |
,ents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
md take no other.
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This is to certify that the partnership
Of Renfrew Bros has this day been dis
solved by mutual consent. A. c. Renfrew
assuming all debts and responsibilities Of
the former Company. Signed,
A. c. RENFREw,
J. c. RENFREw.
This LIST day Of June, 1905 35-S7
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-04
Nl0I DOigGIiN1rS TnInE Of NGLGGnSe NOW.
Dodgeve Went Dry Year Ago. Inquiries Addressed To
Some Of It's Leading Business Men Elected The
Following Responses
Dodgeville, Wis, Mar. 18th, 1908.

Dodgeville, Wis, Mar 18th, 1908.
Dear Friend: Replying to your in
quiry of March 10th, in regard to our ex-
as far as it affects business under
would say our experience
proves to us as far as sales and cash re-
ceipts and general results are concerned,
that it is a financial success. We have
just figured up our cash receipts for the
last eight months under no-license, and
compared them with the same months
under license, 1906 and 1907, and we find
our cash receipts are a little over p per
cent increase oven the license period, or an
increase of nearly $55O.OO per month for
each of the last eight months, which we
consider a complete answer to the argu-
ment that no-license hurts business; ana
we believe that other merchants here are
doing better business, and more cash
than under license.
We do not notice that any of our Gus
toners are going to liquor towns to trade;
we have "rum soaked" Mineral Point
only eight miles from us, and Ridgeway
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-04
A CITY WITHOUT SALOONS
Extracts From An Article Written Re
Gently By w. B. Williams, Mayor
of Mt Vernon. Illinois, q City
of 10000 Population

Is a city better financially, morally and
industrially without saloons?
Most certainly it is; it is the highest folly
to say that it is a business proposition to
send $4,000 out Of the city to get to keep
$4,000! Such talk is frenzied finance.
Why not keep it all?
The most prosperous times ia the history
of Mt Vernon were during the past two
years without saloons The population
inscreaed 1000; twenty-three new add
tons, consisting Of 500 lots, were laid out
5OOof which were sold to working men for
homes. There was no reason for such vast
developments than no-saloons.
We, the undersigned business men Of
Mt. Vernon, III. think that the best inter
ests Of the city are served without saloons.
Our city is in a very prosperous condition,
and we are not likely to have saloons again
soon. We think the general business Of
the city has increased under no-icense
system.
"Signed by sixty business men Of Mt.
Vernon, H., Oct. 3, 1907"
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Voters. RG0d This P0gG. Don't Miss An IIGIIl
n statement
The Question of License No-License is Again
Before Us. In The Present Condition of Public Sen
tment it is Inevitable That This Question
Should Come Up For Settlement
Again And Again

In calling this election and conducting
this campaign the friends Of temperance
make no personal attack upon those who
areEnow engaged in the saloon business.
Wessimply present the issue on its merits
and ask honest, open-minded considera-
ton of the arguments in favor of no license
and a decision according to the facts and
the voters own honest conviction Of right.
WHAT IT MEANS
A vote for license means more than a
mere consent that things continue as they
are. It means that you are willing that
the dissipation, sorrow, poverty, lawless-
ness and corruption that are sure TO come
from the use Of liquor should be part of
Lancaster's constant experience.
Tt means that you are willing that boys
be tempted to become drunkards; that
wives and children suffer; that men 90 on
until the shame Of the black list becomes
necessary in order to protect society from
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THE ARK DID ROT

While In conversation with citizen of
Lancaster recently the writer was in
formed that it was foolish to try to put the
liquor business out of Lancaster, because
ii was proved thirty-four years ago that it
couldn't be done At that time the village
voted dry, but in spite of that fact sue
ceeded in keeping very moist. One hotel
ran very busy bar down cellar; some of
the merchants sold liquor on the side;
while one fellow sold it from the shoulder,
on which he carried key Of beer with a
faucet and tin cup attached. The in
ference was that those things would occur
again.
Now, please remember, that Noahs ark
did finally rot and many other things have
passed away since. The world moves and
times change. Whether or not prohibi-
ton can be made to prohibit depends on
just two things: The existing laws and
public sentiment.
We all know that thirty -four years ago it
was next to impossible to prove anything
against liquor seller But it is different
today. Nearly two years ago five of the
local saloon-keepers were arrested and
fined for selling after hours, and it was no
trouble at all to anyone but themselves
One of them is said to have put in
"kick" on the ground that they had gotten
word from headquarters that they might
sell. But even that didn't save them.
The laws would have carried the matter
still farther. If within eleven months
after the arrests any local voter had made
application to the district attorney, the
city council would have been compelled
to take away those five licenses Sup
posing that this had been done, every
one of those licenses would have been re-
issued without doubt. That would have
put $500 extra into our city treasury.
Oh, what an oversight! How did our
economists miss such a chance?
All this goes to show that the commun-
ity is no longer at the mercy Of the saloon
law breaker.
The next legislature is almost certain
to pass the County option" law which is
now in force in many states. It is gen
orally conceded that within two years after
the passage of this law every county in the
state, except Milwaukee county alone,
will be as dry as q hounds tooth.
Has public sentiment made any progress
in the last 81 years? We rather think it
has When the town votes cry not mer-
chant or hotel-keeper will risk his business
interests by handling liquor on the sly. If
one does his days will be short and his in
comes few in Lancaster and every business
man knows it.
If any one thinks that what once was a
necessity still is, he is mistaken. Go to
the saloons and hear their unhappy keep
ers signing for the good old times.