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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
Life Sketch of Hon. R. S. Vessey.
Born on q Farm in Wisconsin,
Ho Worked for Years in tho
Lumber Woods, Came to
Jerauld Co. in 1883.

Vermillion Republican: Mr.. r. S.
Vessey, of Jerauld County, candidate
for Governor on the Republican tic
ket, was born on a farm in the town.
ship of Algoma, Winnebago county,
Wisconsin, May 16, 1858. about four
miles from the city of Oshkosh.
He received his education in the
common schools in the same locality,
afterwards taking a business course
in the w. W. Daggett Commercial
School at Oshkosh.
He remained on the farm until his
majority, working in the pineries
during the winters from the time he
was sixteen years of age.
Mr.. Vessey was married to daugh-
ter of Mr.. Albert, lumberman for
whom he was working in the lumber
woods, in August Of the year 1882.
He returned to the piner.es the fol-
lowing October in charge of a crew of
men in northern Wisconsin, where he
spent his last winter in Wisconsin,
coming to South Dakota from the
pineries in the spring of 1888.
He located with his brother, J. Fl.
Vessey, on land six miles west of
washington Springs, and went into
the sheep business the fall of 1888
Left the farm in the fall of 1884 on
account of the failing health Of his
wife, and entered the mercantile bus
mess under the firm name of Vessey
Bros, Ransom g. Co., later under the
name of Albert & Vessey, and again
under the name of Vessey Bros,
having been in business continuously
for the past twenty-four years.
Mr.. Vessey started in life with the
earnings he had saved while working
by the month.
In the winter of 1889, his mercan-
tile stock and building were de-
stroyed by fire, causing severe loss.
During the series of years known as
the "hard times' in South Dakota,
his firm did an extensive credit busi-
ness, greatly assisting the entire COM
munity during these years.
He has always been friend to the
honest, industrious working men and
appreciates their condition from the
fact that he has been personally
through all those trying conditions in
life. He knows them by experience
and can easily put himself in the un-
fortunate mans position. He is
ll1,n {o%. /, l.
strong faith in the outcome of this
state. If he has any personal troubles
or financial difficulties, he has never
been known to trouble his friends
with them, but is always willing to
listen to the troubles of others, and
to do what is il his power to alleviate
them.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
School Board Meets.

Minutes of Special meeting Board
of Education Canton City School Dis
trict he'd September 4th, 1908.
Members present: Evans, Hansen,
Smith and Skartvedt.
Motion, Evans, second Smith: That
Miss Maude Lewis be employed as
assistant teacher of mathematics In
High School for the ensuing year at a
salary of $500 per month-she to
teach during the forenoon Of each
day. Roll call, all mem bers voting in
the Affirmative, motion was carried.
No further business appearing,
Boad on motion adjourned.
Minutes regular meeting board OF
Education Canton City School Dis
trict held September 25th, 1908.
Members present: Skartvedt. Smith,
Evans, Hervig and Hanson.
Minutes of last regular and special
meeting read and on motion ap-
proved.
Finance Committee audited the fol-
lowing bills and they were on motion
and roll call allowed and president
and secretary authorized to issue war
rants In payment thereof.
Chfaft g. Hanson Co., mdse S17 81
I M Helmey g. Co., mdse IS IS
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P A Overseth, Treas, cash ad-

P A Overseth, Treas, cash ad-
vanced Q AZ
Fl H Mallory, Filling and Var
nishing 2 SO
| Claude Robinson, drayage IS
Columbia School Sup Co., mdse 4 25
Fl H Mallory, kalsomining SO
0 A Gilbertson, labor 800
Treat Hdw. Co., mdse 8 65
A N Palmer Co., copy books 26
Anna Jacobson, cash advanced 80
Otto Hervig, labor 10 90
Lincoln County, II gal. oil 4 20
Edna Sandven, Organ 10 90
Motion Hansen, second Evans:
That board purchase organ Of Miss
Sandven at $40.
Motion Hansen, second Hervig:
That Board instruct the Superinten-
dent to transfer such children as live
nearest to the East school from the
West School to the East school with
view to equalizing the number of
pupils in the second grade.
Motion Smith, second Hervig: That
the tax levy for the ensuing year be
levied as follows:
Teachers and Janitors fund 500
Interest & Sinking Fund l 500
General Fund 2 600
Total levy S12 600
HARRISON J. BROWN,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
The Agricultural Standpatter

Standpatsm, whether in politics
Religion, or agriculture, represent:
not so much a party or faction or doc
trine as certain mental and mora
type of character, type that is rea
sonably we'll satisfied with things as
they are and sees no very urgent rea
son for change. We leave the
preacher to deal with the standpattel
in religion, who stands out resolutely
against any change in creed, confes
sion, or mode of worship. We leave
the politician to deal with the stand.
patter In politics, who believes the
doctrines of his party or faction are
the "best ever' and can not be
changed or modified except at the i'm.
minent peril of the republic. In this
article we deal exclusively with the
|standpatter in agriculture, that is,
the farmer who is fairly we'll satisfied
with his conditions as they are, does
not desire change, and Is ready to
discourage if not actively oppose any
proposed change.
No standpatter Of any type, If he is
possessed of ordinary intelligence,
will claim that his party or his fac
tion or his church has an absolute
monopoly Of truth, moral, political, or
agricultural. The standpatter in pol
itics will admit, If closely pressed,
that the tariff schedules are not per-
feet. The standpatter in religion
will, if closely pressed, admit that
there may be good in other creeds
and confessions. The standpatter in
agriculture will, If closely pressed,
admit that possibly there might be
better way. But each of them will
affirm that there Is grave danger in
disturbing the present established or
der, and that it is not safe to under
take experiments as yet untried, with
the possibility of doing more harm
than good.
The standpatter in agriculture is
usually a man past middle age and
ordinarily we'll to do. He may pos
sibly have moved to town, or if not,
contemplates doing so whenever he
can see clearly that he can live COM
fortably on the rent of his farm. He
came west when land was cheap,
made living, laid up something for
the future, farmed as his father
farmed except that the scarcity of
labor forced him to buy improved ma
chinery. He has become we'll fixed
counted in dollars, by the advance in
the price of his land. He prides him
self on his financial success. He can
show that he is a Thousand dollars
to the good for every year he has
farmed, and wonders why his boys
can not do the same.
He looks askance at any sugges-
tions as to improved. methods in, farm
ing, whether in stock feeding or
breeding, improved varieties of corn
or other grain, improved methods of
selection or Of maintaining fertility.
He attends farmers Institutes when
convenient, but rather in the attitude
Of a critic, and is quick to expose any
mistakes made by an inexperienced
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
TAFT IN KANSAS.
Reference to Prices Under Cleve.
land and Under Mckinley
and Roosevelt.

At Dodge City there had been
placed on a grain elevator a large
sign which read: (
Wheat, 1908, 92 cents, republican
rule; wheat, 1896, 55 cents, democratic
rule.
Taking notice of the sign Mr.. Taft
said to his audience:
II have statistics a little more com.
plete than that. The average price OF
corn in Kansas in 1896 after four
years of democratic rule was Is cents
per bushel. Now it is more than "a
cents per bushel. This republican
price of A cents for corn in Kansas
gave to the farmers Of Kansas for
their corn crop of 1907 more than
S4O,OOO,O0O in excess of what they
would have received If they had sold
at the democratic price of 18 cents.
with respect to wheat, In which l
think this com munity is rather more
interested than in corn, the average
price Of wheat in Kansas for the four
democratic years was 40 cents per
bushel. At present it is over 80 cents
per bushel, and if your present wheat
crop had been sold at democratic
prices it would have left you $2l, ,O0O,-
900 less than you have today.
INCREASE ALLAROUND.
"For oats the democratic price was
Is cents; for barley, 2cents, and for
potatoes q cents, and for hay S2.70 a
ton. The republican prices gave to
the farmers of Kansas for the crop Of
oats, barley, potatoes and hay in 1907
over $4,000, 900 in excess Of what they
would have received If they had sold
those crops at the democratic prices
which prevailed all over Kansas in
1896 after~the democrats had run the
government for four years.
"You have increased the value of
your horses over what you had in 1896
from about SIG, 100000 to $4,000, 900,
five times in value what they we're in
those days. The present value Of
your mules is $13,OOO,OOO, FIVE times
what it was in 1896.
1.-The same is true of Kansas COWS,
oxen and other cattle, the present
value being s92, 200, 900 or nearly twice
what it was in 1896.
"With respect to sheep and hogs
the present value Is $4,000, 900, or
more than twice what it was In 1896.
Hogs today are worth something over
Sc, while in those days it was about
50.
"Of course the argument Is that
that was not due to democratic rule,
but as matter Of fact in Harrison's
you had no such
prices. You had them in Cleveland's
administration after the German
Wilson tariff bill, and just as soon as
the republicans came in again and
passed the Dingley bill the prices be-
gan to raise, you had a good market
and you have been prosperous ever
since.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
kB n n B D Y
COlU NJ N.

Four three year old feeding
steers for sale. Weight about
HOO each.
HOUSE TO RENT.
I have a good six room
house with eight acres of
land to rent in the City of
Canton. Good water; and
pasture can be made to run to
Beaver creek.
FARM TO RENT.
I have a farm of five hun
dred acres all fenced. One
hundred acres under cultiva-
tion, four hundred acres in
pasture, forty acres woven
wire fifty inches high and
plenty of wood for fuel. I
will stock this farm with
twenty-five milk cows, one
hundred head of young cattle
and one hundred head of
hogs and take share rent.
Good opportunity for man
that has a number of children
to help.
FARM FOR SALE
in Lincoln County, will con-
slider some trade on Canton
property.
c. B. KENNEDY, oAsgTos. ! B'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
lecturer and to ridicun aeie statements

lecturer and to ridicun lessse statement!
made by foolish one.
He smiles derisively when his boy
enters corn contest. Has he not
raised cosn for twenty, thirty. or forty
years? Has he not availed himself
of his fathers teaching and expert
ence; and has he not succeeded, as
everyone knows and admits, without
adopting any of the new-fangled
notions or latter-day methods?
He is rather suspicious of agricul
tural newspapers. They smell Of
book farming. They are filled with
advertisements of new-fangled imple'
ments and live stock and, he alleges
are written mainly by men who make
their living by telling farmers how tc
do things which they can not them
selves do as we'll as lie can. He has
however, no objection to accepting an
agricultural paper, so-called, as a
free gift from banker, lumberman
or creameryman; and the more so be.
cause it furnishes to his mind con.
elusive proof that agricultural news
papers are conducted not for the up
lifting of the community or for the
benefit of farmers, but the sake of
securing advertising, and are there
fore conducted purely for selfish pur-
poses.
Let us be just to this standpa
farmer. He does not actively oppose
all attempt at improvement in things
agricultural. He simply does not see
any real necessity for it. He got along
we'll enough in the way to which
he was accustomed. The soil, he
alleges, is the same; the sunshine and
the rainfall have not materially
changed; human wants and necess-
ties are the same. Why, therefore,
this agitation for improvement, So
called? Why not let we'll enough
alone? Why disturb the repose?
This new variety of corn might de-
mand better culture, and this would
require more labor, possibly improved
tools. An improved breed Of live
stock might require a new barn or
stable, better ventilation, more light,
better feed, and might involve the
necessity of both studying and pro-
viding balanced rations. Then sup
pose the so-called Improvement is not
really improvement after all. Sup
pose the improved corn is not adapted
to the climate and is caught by frost.
Suppose the improved breed of live
stock has been for show and not
for service. Suppose the new methods
are not adapted to the soil. Worse
than all, suppose the agricultural
newspaper is making money by advo-
eating the new doctrinis. just think
of it.!
How shall we improve the standpat
farmer? Certainly not by ridiculing
him. Let us put ourselves in his
place. Most successful men reach a
point in their lives when they are
willing to let well enough alone. They
have worked enough and worried
enough, have now all the essential
comforts Of life, and Why not take
things easy? Nor is there any use in
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
1870 HEAD OF STOCK

Two brood mares and 5 years old
High grade Percheron.
One work horse 7 years old.
One work mare l3 years old.
One mare colt years old.
Two yeariing horse colts.
One sucking colt.
One brown driving mare.
Seven COWS, S giving milk, other
fresh soon.
Six yearlings, steers, heifer.
Five spring calves.
Four fall calves.
One Short-Horn Bull.
SHEEP-H0GS
Thirteen sheep, 2 buck lambs, 10
ewes, wether.
Eight tried Duroc brood sows
One old DurOc boar.
Three young Duroc boars.
Seventy-tive shoats.
MACHINERY
One lumber wagon.
One single buggy.
One Mccormack corn binder.
Two pulveriZers, one with'seeder
One Fuller g. Johnson corn planter.
One surrey.
One manure spreader, new.
Ono nooriru prni in hinder
One Sterling seeder.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
TUESDAY,, OCTOBER 18TH, 1908
SALE WILL COMMENCE AT 10 A. NJ. SHARP. FREE
LUNCH FOR ALL AT NOON.

One sulky plow.
One 4-section flexible harrow.
One 3-section iron lever harrow.
Two cultivatorS.
One Mccormack mower.
One harrow cart.
One DeLaval cream separator.
Two rolls of slat crib.
One weeder.
One hay rake.
One portable grain elevator.
One bob sled.
One hay rack.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Two stands of bees.
Forty tons of hay, part tame and
part prairie.
Two straw stacks.
Seventy acres Of corn.
A lot of Plymouth Rock hens.
One Tank heater.
One Grind Stone.
Ladders and other small articles
too numerous to mention.
TERMS OF SALE: All sums of
$1,000 and under cash. On sums over
$1,000 years time will be given on
notes with approved security at per
cent. interest.
EUGENE COLBY, Prop.
REPP & STEVENSON, AuctiOneerS.
J. V. CONKLIN, Clerk.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-09
AUCTION SALE

Having Sold My Farm | will Offer for Sale at
Public Auction at the old Orlando Alexan-
der Farm 4 Miles West and Z z Miles
South of Anold's Livery Barn in Canton,
the Following Described Property to-wit: on
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at Mrs R. w. Deans.

at Mrs R. W. Deans.
 Mrs F. 8. Wood of New Rochelle is making her usual summer visit with her mother and sister, Mrs Miller and Mrs Memmott.
 Mrs Abbe spent several days, last week at her home in Falls Villager.
 G. Herbert Hallett left, Saturday last for two weeks visit with his sis ter, Mrs H. G. Stevens, at New Pres, ton.
 Edward Cole of Bridgeport recently visited his uple. James H. Cole.
 MT and Mrs Frederick Northrop and small daughter are spending few weeks at George H. Beck's.
 Charles Hallock of Bethel is staying with his uncle, Myron A. Hallock, at "Plainview,." :" M. P. Rogers left, Monday. for Yer mont where he intends purchasing a car load of cattle in the interests of J. A. Cochrane & Son.
 MT and Mrs David L. Smith drove to Ellsworth on Friday of last week, spending the day with relatives.
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Railroad Street. Golden Br0S, rs" Conn.,.

BPS, 5.15. Ill m. Sunday 1O.55 m.
 South, 5.55. 7.25, S.05. S.l5, 1910. 1150 ID. 416 6.3S S.55 D m, Sunday 7.55 m, 6OO 7.39 D m. Bethel-NOrth, 2.04z, 713. s1036 1OH n, 24 7.04 S.O7. p m. Sunday 10.04 lO.47 m. $40 D m. South. 601, 7.3l. S.292. 1O16. l1.T m. 423, 6 A. 9.02 D m, Sunday, SOP m, 6.07 pm. Redding-N 1.5Sz, 7.06. 10.3O a m, POS, 6.57, S.0l m, Sunday, 9.5S a m, S3l pm.
 South, 607 737, BPS, 1908 m, 6.49. sos p n; Sunday. sos m, 613 D m. Topstone- North. 7.O1 1925 m, 2.04, 6.53, 7.57 D m. Sunday, 9.4 m, S.25 5pm.
 South. Gil, f7.41, S.23, 12.O7 m, 9.13 m, Sum- day. SIP m, 6.l7 pm. ..5 Branchville-North, 1.4S, 6,55, 1918, 1O.31 a m, 1,5S 3.O6s. 5.46 6.45, 7.5l, m; Sunday, 9.4S 1921, m, S.17 D m.
 South, 6.16 TAT, s27, S.3S, 1O.31 m, 1918, 437. 6.5S. 9.l9 D m: Sunday, SIS a m, 6.23. 7.59 p m Georgetown-North, I45z 6.49, 1913 a m. 1.54. 64l. TAT. D m; Sunday. 9.4 m. SH1 D m. South, 62O S,4l m, l2.16, 9.23 D m; Sunday, S.21 a m, 6.26 pm.
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Bridgewater.
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Mrs Hessie Kyle Curtis is visiting her sister, Mrs H. w. Trowbridge, at Bellows Falls, Vt.
 Morris Higgins of New Haven spent Sunday with his family at Mrs Sarah Kyle's.
 Dr and Mrs B. E. Bostwick of New Milford were in town on Saturday.
 Mir and Mrs Eugene Hateman and Miss Hateman, of Kato, N. Y, are visiting MT and Mrs R. M. Warner.
 Mir and Mrs Daniel Garfield of New Milford were in town on Sunday calling at the home of MT and Mrs Frank Basky.
 Mir and Mrs A. A. Warren and MT and Mrs Bert Warren and son and Mrs Brown of Bridgeport were through this village on Sunday in Maxwell touring car, enroute for Still River.
 Dr and Mrs Morgan and Miss Dor othy Morgan of Albany, N. Y, are among the guests at Shadyside.
 Mrs Ophelia Gold Smith has re- turned to her home in Bridgeport on Thursday of this week.
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LITCHFIELD BRANCH.

Hawleyville-North. 11,12 m, 3.4Ss 6.17, $40 pm; Sunday, 9.23 m. South, 7.52, 9.4S a m, $50 ip m; Sunday. 7.12 D m. Shepaug-North. fl1.26 a m. 4O3. f6.56 p m; Sunday, t9.4 a m.
 South, f9.33 m. f3.37 D m; Sunday. f6.5S D m. Roxbury Falls-North, f11.A m, f41O f7.O4 m: Sunday. f942 m. South, 1925 m, f3.3O pm; Sunday. f6.5O p m. Roxbury-North, 11.43 m. 42l, 6.45. 7.12p m; Sunday, $50 m. South, 7.27, 9l6 a m, 3.21 m; Sunday. 6.41 pm. Washington North. 1900 m, 44O 7.O2, 7.29 pm. Sunday. l007 m.
 South, IF, S.5S m. 3.O3 p m; Sunday. 6.23 D m.
 Sunday, l0.1l m. South. 7.O9. S4 m. 2.59 nj; Sunday, 6.19 D. m.
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The Travellers Guide.
BERKSHIRE DIVISION.

Stevenson--N North. 1O.0S m. 2,34s. 439 5.40x D m. Sunday S.4l a m, 637 D m.
 South S,l9, lO.46 a m, 7.03 D m. Sunday 9.53 m, S.05 pm.
 Monroe-North, flo 13 a m. 2.4Osf. f4.44. SAG m. Sunday S46 a m, 6.42 m.
 South. S.14, fl0.40 a m. f6.56 m. Sunday, 9.47 a m, 159 pm. Botsford- North, 7.32.. 1O33. m; s46s, 5.O9,5.5a Ill m; Sunday S.52. 9O4 m. GAS D m; South S.10, 10,35 m; 6.51 m. Sunday 9.R a m. 7.54p m. Newtown-North, TAO. 10.44 m. 2.53s. 5.11. 6.OO 7.21p m. Sunday, 900, 9.12 a m: 6,56 D m. South. 6.57. SOP. 10.14 m. 4.l9, 6,R D m. Sun day 9.34 m, 7.31. "A pm. bHawleyville- 75O, 1056 m, 300, 5.2O 6.OS. 7.3O D m. Sunday. 9.22 m.
 South, 6.49, 755, 1906 m. 40. 6.33 D m. Sun day 925 m. 7.222, 7.36 D m. Brookfeld Junction GIT, sos. HOS 11.l3 am. 3.l4s. 5.3O, 5.35. 7.39p m. Sunday 9.3O HOS a m.
 South, $40. 9.5s a m. 400. 6s6 6p m. Sunday Brookfeld-North, 6.22, s.Os 1.1sa m, 54( "A D m. Sunday 9.35 m.
 South, 6.35, TOT. 941 a m. 500, sos D m. Sun day t709 pm.
 New Niilford-North. S22 11.a2 m. 399 545 5.55.p m; Sunday 9.49 l1.23 a. m,
 South 62O, 655. 9.29, 9.43 m 4S7. 3.39, 545 6.10pm, Sunday 6.51. 7l0, S.0l pm
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South Britain
DEATH OF MRS SWANSON.

Mrs Swanson, an aged Swedish lady who lived with her son, August Swan. son, died Friday morning. Mrs Swan. son had been in poor health for some time and since she was struck by z carriage two weeks ago, had been con. fined to her bed. The funeral was held from the Parish house, Sunday after. noon, Rev Frederick Taylor officiating, Two hymns were sung by the choll of the Congregational church.
 William Sherman is connfied to his bed with pneumonia. He was just re. covering from a sun stroke when he was taken down with this.
 Mrs Louis Norton is spending few days with her mother, Mrs Baldwin.
 A large company of friends gave MI and Mrs Smith delightful surprise at their new camp, last Tuesday evening. They were just preparing to close up camp for the night when the company marched in to the tune of fish horns and tin pans. Refreshments were served during the evening.
 Mrs Munson has two young ladies boarding with her from Stratford.
 MT and Mrs Arthur Mitchell attended the dance in Newtown, Thursday night
 Evelyn and Roger Williams are visit. ing their aunt in New London.
 Master Edison Bennett of Little York. who is i'll at his parents home MT and Mrs William Bennett, at Little York, with typhoid fever, is getting along nicely. Dr Griswold of Rox- bury is attending him.
 Miss Gertrude Perkins of the Pur. chase was very badly burned. last week, by turning tea kettle of hot water on to herself, while she was taking Ii from the stove. Her injuries were carefully looked after and he is now getting along nicely.
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day last week calling on neighbors on Bradley street.
 Henry Wheeler had the misfortune to have his barn burn on Saturday while in Bridgeport.
 Master Maurice O'Connor of Dyker Heights. Brooklyn. is enjoying himself with a fox terrier catching wood- chucks.
 Mrs I. Thorpe is still in Bethel visit. ing her daughter, Mrs E. Treadwell.
 MT Moore is at Mir Quibbley's with his family during his wife's absence.
 Mir Pennell is going to paint G. Kel. logg's house and one for Mrs Johr Kellogg very soon.
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Mrs Joeph Cole has been entertain ing house full of relatives from New ark, N. J., for the past week, and on Monday of this week her mother ar rived from Torrington. accompanied by her granddaughter, Nellie Mo Cam.
 Harry Howard, the boy drummer of the Army of the Potomac, gave his concert at Masonic hall, last Saturday evening, and Monday tent show set up headquarters on the lot near the schoolhouse.
 George H. Beck has had an artesian we'll driven on his premises and now has at a depth of 40 feet 20 gallons a minute supply of water.
 Wilbur Kirkham, who recently visit ed G. Hrebert Hallett, has returned home.
 MT and Mrs F. Arlington Yutzler drove to New Preston, last Sunday, to spend the day with Dr and Mrs H. G. Stevens.
 Miss Mary Nickerson is spending a few weeks with her people, MT and Mrs M. s. Nickerson, in this village.
 Mrs Benjamin Hoag and son, liar old, spent part of last week at the home of her brother, Theodore Sturges.
 Miss Anna Lane of Madison. N. Y, has been visiting her aunt, Mrs C. E. Baldwin.
 Mrs V. Sanford is making her regular summer visit with her sisters, Mrs France and Miss Celia Gardner, at Newark, N. J. A. G. Mallinson of New Haven spent Sunday last at his home here.
 John A. Salewski has returned to Brookfeld, having spent the past 10 days at his home here.
 Mrs Everett of Cornwall Bridge spent the day, Friday of last week, with Mrs David L. Smith.
 Dr and Mrs Joseph Robinson are en- tertaining an auto party from Norwich, one of the guests being the doctors mother. ,.,
 Mrs R. w. Dean and children spent a few days, last week at Mrs Deans s old home in Kent. ,.,
 Miss Agnes Behrens' niece, little Alma Clark, returned to her home Tn Brooklyn, last Tuesday. She was ac- companied by Mrs R. F. Smith, Jr.
 Mrs Varney of State Line has been visiting her daughter, the postm'stress