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Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
LEGAL NOTICES

A T A PROBATE COURT holden at A sharon, within and for the District ofSharon, on the l4th day of December, A D. 1908.
 Present Lawrence Van Alstyne, Judge.
 In the matter of the estate of James Benedict, Frank A. Benedict and Emma Benedict, minors residing at Millerton in the town of Northeast, County of Duchess and State of New York, having personal estate situated in said District
 Upon tho application of Jennie Benedict of said Millorton, the Guardian of said minors praying that she may be duly appointed their guardian In this Court, and that an order may be granted by this Court directing the transfer of said per sonal estate to her by the person having the custody of the same, and that she may be duly authorized to remove the same to the place where said minors reside fin ac- cordance with the statute In such case made and provided as per application on nle more fully appears, 1t is
 ORDERED that said application be heard and determined at the Probate of flee in said sharon said district, on the 24th day of December 1908 at nine o'clock in the forenoon and that notice of tho pcndency of the said application and the time and place of hearing thereon, be given by publishing this order onco in the sharon News a public newspaper having circulation In said district, and hy post ing copy thereof upon the public sign post In said District, at least tlve days previous to the date of said hearing and return make to this Court. s Attest: LAWRENCE VANALsTyNE, Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
GOLD ES


 We ''see by the papers" that a New York hotel Is to have dinner service of .,RoAd, adequate for the-serving of a seven course meal to seventy-five persons. AS each course is served, a golden dish con- -taining gold to the value of $327 will be I.Eiaced as an insert in each of the plac. @Ques.
 Bnt will the food taste better on these dishes than on those of the ordinary a.sort, will it be as palatable as that which those Twin Lakes or Nudge Pond camp .tor, for instance, eats off broken china, with steel knives and forks or off wooden pAacques or plates when china IS scarce? :? Will the liquid portion of the meal taste any better when quaffed from those gold .acups than the steaming coffee or tea ',Gastes to the aforesaid camper, or any aother camper. who drinks it from tin cup? Not bit. And we'll bet it don t taste as we'll. We never made it much of a practice to take our rations from dishes of gold but we have eaten many a meal in the woods and we know that nowhere are "vittles'' more satisfying shan out in the aforesaid woods, served son the cracked china, on the wooden nlate and in the tin cup.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
RURAL FREE DELIVERY

But few people realize the extent of 15he system of rural free delivery in the
 United States. No less than IS, ,000, ,000 ! 7people,now receive their mail daily, ex- evcept Sunday, at the hands of the carriers u,on these routes. On this system -Nthc government spends at least $35, ,OOO,- H0O0 year and even this vast amount
 does not permit of payment which the carriers consider adequate. Each carrier
 must provide his own wagon and at least ttwo, horses. After he has paid his bills r1Or feed, and for keeping his outfit in re- pair. aalarge hole has been eaten into .Phis salary.
 But noone would favor the abandon tment of the rural delivery system athonRh it cost much more than at pres cent. At it's inception there was much opposition to it on the part of the farm .sers and the country store keepers. The farmer saw that his excuse for going -sdown to the corners for the mail' would no longer be good one and the <4storskeeper saw business decreasing be- ecause of the farmers absence from his &Atore. It didn't work out that way
 however. The people need the store l1eeper's goods fully as much now as -sthey did before the advent of the R. F. ID. and they are buying as frequently zand as literally now as before. Where sshere was prejudice aRairst these routes, it has disappeared and the residents of sathe rural communities do not be. 3Iisve they could get along without their sslaily mail.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
DOES ELEcTRocuTIoN KILL7

Of late there has been considerable discussion, particularly among the mem- Rers of the medical fraternity, as to
 whether the electric shock. as applied in
 numerous states in the electrocution of
 mnrderers. really produces death or simply suspended animation. Some
 doctors hold that the shocks kill while e others take the ground that death is really caused by the autopsy which is -lnxariably performed after the victim has been officially pronounced dead.
 The discussion of the question has be- ,aeoms so widespread that it was proposed ~sSo make an effort to revive a murderer
 after the electric current has been passed through his body the required
 number of times and after he has been e officially pronounced dead by the
 physicians. The experiment. was to have been tried in New Jersey this week Z butythe warden of the prison objected to sthe plan hence nothing along this line
 will be. done at present.
 1t would seem, however. that to have allowed the experiment. to proceed and to settle the matter once for all would have been the better course in view of zshe diversity of opinion relative to deterioration and the very pronounced
 ideas expressed by various. people of prominence.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
PULPIT AND PEW
Happenings Of Interest Tn canaans Religious Circles
 Methodist Church

Happenings Of Interest Tn Canaan's
 Religious Circles
 Methodist Church.
 The following were elected officers of the Epworth League for the next six months: President. Mrs. O. B Show; secretary, Mrs. Myra Lawten; treasurer, Miss A. s. Bradford; vice presidents in charge of departments, Miss o. H. Ror- aback, Mrs. w. E. Ridgeway, Mrs. F. Coons, Mrs. A. J. WIgglesworth.
 The Christmas exercises of the Sun day school will be held Tuesday evening December 22d at o'clock, the program includes songs and recitations by the members of the school and a tree to be filled with gifts from the school for the children of the DePeyster Home. Con- tributions are also solicited from friends of the school.
 Miss Florencs Nahin, a deaooness, who is Superintendent of the DePeyster Home for invalid children will speak to the Sunday school next Sunday and also at the evening service at 2 80.
 Pilgrim Church.
 There will be no service at the church this evening.
 There will be special Christmas music at the service next Sunday morning. The choir will sing Schnecker's Christ mas cantata. "The Hope of the World, [" and Mrs. Bullock will sing Gounod's s "Nazarsth."
 The Sunday School Christmas service will be held on Wednesday evening De- cember 23rd at seven o'clock. It will be somewhat unusual in character this year. There will bs music by the school and the choir. especially the sing ing of the favorits old carols. Prof. Evans of Lakevills will give Christmas readings and there will be a Christmas tree.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
MORE CHICKENS STOLEN
GoodseII Pleads Not Guilty and Then
 Changes Plea


 Changes Plea
 George Goodsell of Great Harrington was arrested Sunday by constable Rhoades on a warrant charging him with the theft of ten fowls from Horatio Adams (who resides between Canaan and Clayton) on Friday night, December 4th. Goodsell was at the home of his brother Clarence in Canaan when ar- rested. On Monday he was taken be- fore justice George W. Ford of Canaan where he entered plea of not guilty. An hour later he changed the plea to guilty and was bound over to the Feb ruary term of the Superior Court.
 We are informed that other parties residing in MT. Adams neighborhood have lost poultry in a like manner but the above is the only charge thus far preferred.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17

vived, beside her husband, by her father Horace B. Stevens, and brother, F. F. Stevers. THE NEWS joins with the very large circle of friends in expressing to them heartfelt sympathy in the loss of this most estimable woman.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
CARD OF THANKS

We take this means of expressing our heartfelt thanks to all who so kindly rendered their sympathy and assistance during the long illness of Mrs. French, and, also, after her death and at the time of the funeral. We also. extend thanks for the beautiful floral offerings.
 CHARLES L. FRENCH
 HORACE B. STEVENS
 MR. and MRS. F. k. STEVENS Canaan, Conn. Dec. l6, 1908.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
MURDER IN TWISTED.

Result of a Stabbing Affray-vlctim
 Died in Hospital.
 AS result of tho stabbing affray be- tween Italians in Winsted on Sunday night. Eugenio Demasi, aged 21, is dead, and Eugenio Depropero is seriously in- jured. Demasi expired at the Winsted hospital. Rioci has been arrested on the charge of murder, it being alleged that he did the stabbing which proved fatal to Demasl.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
MIXED-UP MEN

Sunday Post, is thought by his Canaan friends to be the best thing he has pro- duced in this line.
 The operation of cutting out a mans tongue. to prevent death from cancer. was successfully performed by Dr. D. +. Sullivan last week. The patient is alive and will fully recover. Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be
 proud When there may be not one single man
 in crowd Who has every member with winch he
 was born Or may not lose by night what he boasted
 at 'mornl Proud surgical science IS getting so
 smart It can take the complex human frame
 all apart And oil it, repair it, and polish it clean, And put the whole business ltogether
 again. Twill make certain parts interchange
 able, too,- Make one set of pipes do what two ought
 to do. The tongueless man will not forever be
 dumb, Doc will make him converse and sing
 songs with his thumb, AS the man without hands has no
 trouble to eat, Who, when meals are prepared, feeds
 himself with his feet. These doctors perform some astonish.
 ing tricks, Making healthy men out of some mighty
 poor sticks. In the light of the wonders they've al.
 ready done, We may yet see them make two whole
 men out of one. There's the man with a cork leg, glass
 eye and false teeth, With a wig on his head and trepanning
 beneath; The man with bright silver tube in
 his throat. Who whistles for breath in a musical
 note. There's the man they patched up after
 Gettysburg's fights, With celluloid kidneys and vulcanized
 lights, Whose lungs arc of imported papier
 mache, And his gizzard cut out, so his heart
 may have play. There's the man without tonsils, the
 man without gall This man has two plucks, this one has
 none at all; This man has a concrete veneer in hls
 skull. And one mans hide grows on another
 mans hull; One man may appear to- be perfectly
 whole, Yet be without conscience and be with
 out soul. There's the man with his thorax cut out
 with a saw; The man with an addition built on his
 jaw; The man whose esophagus rests in a jar. And who don't know where his other
 internals are. It's really confusing-this surgical
 science Which for every affiiction has ready ap-
 pliance; For this adding, dividing and subtract
 ing game Makes a man what he first was, and yet not the same. And with mixing of innards, bones,
 tissues and belts, One man may be one-half of somebody
 else; And while thus his identity's under 8
 cloud, Oh. why should the spirit of mortal be
 proud
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17

A letter from home every week, a Ghristmas present in 52 miscellaneous, something the distant friend will appre- bciate-a years su bscription to THE NEWS Is all of these.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17

In 6 day or two Gt always comes at Hing the children there is no Santa @Claus. But don't you believe word of 1t, little folks.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
Killed Wildcat George Hart of Canaan Valley killed a wildcat Saturday.
The Piecss in a Quilt

Mrs. A. E. Benton of Canaan Valley has just finished silk bedquilt contain ing nearly 2000 pieces.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17

"A good resolution for just now is not 1so write it "Xmas."
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17

How many of you read every word O a1tne Presidents message? Hands up.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17

FRENCH-In Canaan December l2, Mrs. Charles l.. French aged 5l years.
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
MISCELLANEOUS

A. R. Patten. optieian of Torrington, Conn. will be at "The Capneld" hotel the first Mon. day and Tuesday afternoons of each month. If unable to call send postal Consultation free,
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
Bullock & Felten.

Come 10 "Toyville." Bullock X Felten. DIR GEORGE BEEBE Pittsfeld will be at
 The Canneld" every Thursday from to IA. =--=- CHAIR SEATING---I am prepared to do cane
 seating. Drop postal and I'll call
Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17

FOR CHRIsTMAs.-.send your friend a copy of Souvenir Views Of Canaan. They cost 25c including envelope, postage %.
 The Canaan Printing Company,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-24
RR0THINGHAM IN LEAD
Strongest in the Massachusetts Prin,-
nricS for Ltcuteunnt-GOvcrnO
Draper for Governor.

Boston. Sept. 22-The features Of the
republican primaries In this state to-day
was the spirited contest for the lieu
tenant governorship between J n. Cole
of Andover. speaker OF the House OF
Representatives, former Speaker Louis A.
Frothingham of Boston. and Reprcsen-
tative Robert Luce Of Somerville There
way no opposition to the nomination of
Licut-Gov. Eben s. Draper OF lIopedale
for governor.
While nearly all the cities and
towns held their caucuses in the even
ing, the attitude of 739 delegates on
the contest for lieutenant governor
had been learned at II y. IN. and show =
ed $40 in favor of Frothingham, 1T
for Cole and l76 for Luce and 70 un-
pledged or In doubt. The State con-
vention which Will be held in this city
on October 3rd Is entitled to 1850 de-
legates.
In number of cities and towns
tho sO-called Joint caucus act was In
force so that democratic caucuses
were also held and these with the re-
publioans voting were sufficient to de
tcrmine that all OF the present repre-
sentatives TO Congress- four of whom
had been opposed were favored by
the two parties for another election.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-24
JERICHO CENTER.

Miss Alice Barnum and Miss Blanche
Bostwck went to Middlebury Wedncs-
day To enter Mddlebury College.-Mrs.
John Aging and daughter, Miss Nellie
Aging, were visitors at +. b. Jordan's.
over Sunday Mrs. ]. W. Hart went to
Westmore Monday to visit the Rev. Ed
win Rose and family a former pastor
at this village Miss $. NJ Landon, of
Washington, d. C.. Is visitor at Miss
Anna Warner s.-Rev. Mr.. Barnum lost
his horse this week.-Mrs.. Mutchins of
Waterbury has been visiting her son, DR..
Hopkins. the past few days.-Guy Muir
dock has accepted a position on farm
in Dudley, Mass. and expects to move
his family and goods next Week.-Mrs.
Nellie Ishpm Of Wiluston was guest OF
Mrs. y. T. Isham over Sunday.
The marriage of Miss Eva NJ. Lowry,
only daughter of Mrs. Evelyn g. Lowry.
to Arthur Castle Brown, eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs Burke G. Brown, was
solemnized at tho First Congregational
Church IN this village. Wednesday after
noon at three o'clock, the Rev. Mr..
I3arnum, pastor of the church, being
the Officiating clergyman. The church
was very prottily trimmed with flowers
ferns, etc. the ceremony being per-
formed under an arch suspendins a we'd
ding bell, as maid Miss Sybil Brown
sister of the groom, The usbers were
Frank Brown brother Of the groom
and Wright Fay Little Miss Florence
GIN Of MONTPELIER was flower girl, and
Miss Mary Lynch of Montpelier, pre-
sided at the organ. After short we'd
ding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Brown will take
up their residence in Jericho.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-24

II. Lyman and Loren Phelps are home
from Loon lake. where they have spent
the summer.-Miss Geneva Patterson
Is visiting In Chicago and 1owa.-Mrs.
{. r. Rogers is making over her MOTEL
property into serious Of flats.--Miss
Margaret Demo Of Burlington and
Aiken s. Demo of Boston are visiting
their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Demo.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Kennedy spent
Sunday In St. Albans.-Aprs Hattie d.
Wood and Sarah Hill of Montreal who
nave been spending several weeks at
Kennebunkport. Maine, spent Monday
and Tuesday at n. s. Woods's on their
way home. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Petty Of
South Hero are spending a few days with
Miss Della Harris. Mrs. J. l.. Wash
burn and children. who have been visit
ing In town, have returned to their home
In Ticonderoga.-Mr and Mrs. o. G..
Phelps spent Sunday at DR.. S. II. Phelps's
In Fairfax.--Dr. and Mrs. l.. G. Holcombe
and two sons are passing the week In
New York city. They expect to return
Monday evening, September 2s.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-24
FOELKER FOR CONGRESS
Brooklyn Republicans Nominate the
Man who Made Hughes'n Anti
Betting Law Possible.

New York, Sept. 22.-Interest that
may be said to be of a national char
acter will center in \ nomination for
Congress made In Orookyn tonight
and In the fight for and against the
nominees election. The aspirant for
congressional honors in Otto q. Foe,-
ker. member of the present Stats
Senate. whose spectacular Journey from
n sick bed to Albany. where he cast
the decisive vote that resulted in the
passage of the anti-betting law In the
State Senate. attracted widespread at
tention.
Foelker was nominated by the repub-
licans of the third New York congress
sional district tonight to succeed Con-
gressman Charles T. Dr,nwen. The dis
trict Is strongly republican, Dunwell
having served three successive terms.
Practically all OF New York's race
| tracks are in Brooklyn or Its outskirts
and resentment against Gov. Hughes
and others who were prominent In OBJ
tanning tho Liquidation which did away
with race track betting has been strong
Race track men have said that they
| would make fight against Foeiker 4.
| no was named for Congress and, as II Is
almost certain they will keep their word
spectacular contest II looked for Gov.
ernor Hughes naturally Will be drawn
into the fight and win probably make
several speeches in the district.
Mr.. Foelkcr's name was tho only one
| presented at the congressional convention
tonight. and though the nomination wa.
voted him II was made evident, by the
attitude Of the delegates that the candi
| date was not TO their liking.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-24
JERICHO.

Rev. J. T. Buzzell of Colchester.
preached at the Baptist Church sun
day in exchange with Rev. Frederic
Emerson.-Mrs. Sarah Martin has re-
turned from Maine and Massachusetts
where she has been visiting her
daughters for several weeks.-Miss
Alma Montague. who has been spend
ing the summer In town, has return
ed to New York city, where she is TAX
ing a course in a normal school
Frank II. Delisle and friend. Mr..
Tobin. who have been visiting at the
home OF MT. Delisle's father. have
started on their return to San Fran
cisco. They Will visit In Greenfield.
Mass. New Haven, Conn. and in New
York city.-Mrs. Sarah Martin went
Saturday to st. Adams to remain over
Sunday with relatives. w. r..
Burton and daughter were in Bur
lington Saturday,-Miss Edna Has
kns of Boston Mass. is visiting at
the home of her aunt. Mrs. +. W.
Pease.-Fred Ross was in Burlington
Saturday to see his mother. Mrs. A.
Ross. who has been receiving medical
treatment. Mrs. Ross is improving
and expects to be able to return home
to-day.-Edgar Nay OF South Burlng
ton was In town Friday and saturday
Mrs. W. II. Macomber. who has been
seriously i'll for several weeks, is i'm
proving.-Elbrdge Nealy has sold his
farm to Fred McGinn!s. who has been
living upon It for the past six months -
Miss Belle Bolio Is in Montreal for a
week.-Mrs.. S. T.. Curtis. who has been
passing the summer at York Beach. Me
returned home Saturday evening greatly
improved in health.-Miss Alice r'lagg
who has been spending the summer with
her sister, Mrs. G. b. Hulburd. has gone
| to Memphis, Tenn, where she Is to be
preceptress of a large boarding school -
l.. +. Wilbur has his law office up and
boarded.-F w. Buxton of Cambridge
| was at the home OF G. w. Foster over
Sunday.--Mr. and Mrs. II, +. Montague
went on the excursion to New York this
week.-The b. Y. +. u. Will hold social
In the vestry OF the Baptist Church Fri
day evening,-Mrs. Bessie Cooper Austin
and two children OF Wocott are guests
of Mrs. w. L. Roberts.-Miss Maude Rood
! OF Burlington spent Sunday with her par
ents. Mr. and Mrs, ID. IL Rood.-The
Rev. and Mrs. ]. T. Buzzell ana Miss
Pansy Bu2zcll were guests over sunday
of his daughter. Mrs, C. C. Buxton.
The wedding OF Miss Eva Lowrey.
] foxmAxly of this town. but for the past
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-24
EAST CHARLOTTE

Mrs. Vienna Read Of Addison. who has
been visiting relatives IN town. has re-
turned home.-Mrs, Roxana Spear OF
Rutland Is the guest OF her cousin. Mrs.
w II Varney Mr.. and Mrs. r. c.
Beers arc visiting their daughter. Mrs.
f.. p. Kimball at Westford.-Mrs.
Emma TaRgart OF Fullerton. Nebraska,
is spending tho week with relatives here
b. w. Estey Of Meriden, Conn. has
been visiting relatives here during the
week past.-P. and w L. Stacy had
their herd Of A. cows tested for tuher-
culosis last Friday and "a were found
infected. The diseased cows were driven
to South Burlington to be slaughtered -
Emmons Dart has gone to Monkton to
work In creamery for two weeks dur
ing the absence Of the manager, David
Donohue.
Representatives. w l. Bradley
returned Wednesday evening from
Wallingford, where he was called
Tuesday 20 attend the funeral Of his
uncle, the late Charles Q. Stafford Of
that plaCe.-Rev. and Mrs Thomas
Dawson and son, Willie. ar. at Lud-
low this week attending tho Baptist
State convention.--The following on
Gers were elected AT tho missionary
meeting held at the Baptist parsonage
last Wednesday afternoon: President,
Mrs. Dawson; vice president. Mrs. f.
". Prindle: secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. ". +. Harris. At the close OF the
session Mrs. Dawson served ice
cream and cake,-Miss Evelyn Will
loughby returned Monday to her duties
AZ teacher in Clark School Eorthamp-
ton. Mass. after spending the summer
at her home here. Miss Elizabeth
Douglass. who has been Miss VIII
loughbys guest, left on Monday for
New York.--Mrs Carrie White left
Monday for Brunswick, Conn. to at
tend the funeral of her uncle.-Mrs.
Mary Davis Of Naugatuck. Conn. is
the guest OF her cousin. Mrs Lucy
Jackman.--F. s. Hazard and his moth
er. Mrs. Joseph Foss of North Hyde
Park, are the guests of relatives in
this place.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-24
WEsTFORD.

H. e. II. Ruggles has position as
principal of school in Westneld.-A1rs.
Maude Jenne is visiting friends in town.
Mrs. Porter IL tho guest OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Gleason. Evans kidder en-
ted Mddlobury College on September
% and Floyd q. Rice returned to the
University of Vermont on the same date,
The funeral of Seymour Morehouse was
held at the home of w. j. Prior on Sat
urday at 20 p. m. The body was taken
to tho cemetery Mt Brookside for burial.
Miss Annie Smith, who has been spend
ing her vacation with her brother, r. 3.
Smith. returned to Washington. D. c.,
Friday.--Mrs. Frances Macomber is visit
Ing her daughter, Mrs G. A. Rice H. w.
Belden paid slo2 per hundred for August
milk