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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
For Supervisor of Census.

Lynn NJ. Hays of Essex Junction is
an active candidate for census super
visor of Vermont Hays was formerly
editor of the Burlington Clipper, is the
moving spirit in the Hays Advertising
Agency, a member of the firm which
are special representatives of the YER
mont Weekly Newspaper Association,
one of the Lake Champlain tercentenary
commissioners, and in various other
ways has come prominently before the
public. Lynn is an active, business
like sort of chap and it has always been
noticed that anything which he goes
after with both feet eventually lands
in his basket; and he is after this job
with both feet. The job has good
salary attached so there is no wonder
he wants it. Here's hoping he gets it.
The Morrisville Messenger has this to
say of the matter:
Among the applicants for appoint
ment as supervisor of the next census
enumeration in Vermont, Lynn M. Hays
of Essex junction possesses qualifica
tons second to none. The appointment
of census supervisors in the various
states will be made by President Taft
subject to the approval of the Senate
under a new law, and Washington gossip
has it that the appointments will be
made with reference to fitness rather
that as matter of political reward or
influence. Mr., Hays close connection
with the Champlain Tercentenary and
his efficient service in the most eXacting
Office of that enterprise should commend
his appointment to the President re-
CARELESS of the political service that he
has rendered equally we'll Besides his
personal qualifications, in his Burling-
ton Office Mr.. Hays has complete equip
ment and competent clerical force to
carry out the work promptly and eff
fectively. This paper not only hopes
to see his appointment but urges it as
one logical and acceptable from every
standpoint.
The Montpelier Evening Argus says:
What's the matter with the man from
Essex Junction, the greatest publicity
promoter that Vermont has known in
years.
Hays has whole lot of friends among
the newspaper brethren who hope he
will land the job.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
A current news article saws:

1.-The announcement that K. w.
Morse of Barre, on a wager swan
across Berlin pond from which Montpe-
Her receives its water supply, and that
bathing in the pond is becoming common
by Sunday visitors and others has STIR
red the Montpelier authorities to strict
ly enforce the rule prohibiting bathing
in that body of water The matter has
been placed in the hands of the states
attorney and it is expected prosecutions
will follow"
That cleanliness is next to Goodness
is an old saying and has not been sue
cesefully controverted up to date but if
the pond from which any city or town
derives its water supply is being used
as a swimming tank it is about time
that the states attorney looked into
the matter and put stop to the prac-
tee. p. S. There is no bathing in Mid
dlebury water until it has been drawn
from the faucets. incidentally it
might be remarked again that we have
about the best water in the state or
any other state.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
The Gentleman from East Blue
berry"

A new book on Vermont affairs en-
titled 1.-The Gentleman from East Blue
berry" and State VS.. Burton, by Ber-
nard Marshall is just off the press.
Several very live questions of the day,
such as town representation, direct pri-
maries, and popular election of senators,
are dealt with in a way that will GER
tainly provoke discussion. 1.-The Cen
tleman from East Burberry" is a far
cial sketch of the last session of the
Vermont Legislature. The ideas there
presented in the form of satire will not
be concurred in by everyone, but are
certainly interesting and worthy of con-
sideration by everyone IL Vermont who
is in the least interested in public af-
fairs. The book is of 1913 pages and
retails for SOC. c. F. Buswen of Mont
pelier is placing it on the market.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
Dillingham; Pleased With Law.

The Barre Times of Saturday says:
Senator w. P Dillingham; arrived in
Montpelier from Washington on the
early train this morning for few days
rest before leaving on his western trip
to Honolulu, on immigration matters.
Senator Dillingham; was seen by re-
porter and asked his view on the new
tariff law. The senator seemed to be
pleased with it. He said it had a ten
dency to raise duties on Injuries and
to lower them on everyday commodities.
He predicted period of industrial pros
perity throughout the country following
the enactment of the law. He also said
the statement issued by President Taft
voiced his views with the single eXcep-
ton of the presidents statement as to
the corporation tax. The tax is really
the lesser of two evils. If Congress
hadn't passed this it would have passed
an income tax law. The corporation tax
is per cent. on incomes of $4,000 and
over.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
Attack Telephone
Telegraph, and Electric
light Poles.

Considerable damage is being done to
telephone, telegraph and electric light
poles by members of the woodpecker
family. These birds originally built
their homes in the dead or dying trunks
or limbs of trees but for some reason
best known to themselves, have come
to the conclusion that the peeled pole
offers better conditions for home.
They have become so raveuous of late
that their depredations are attracting
considerable attention among those who
are compelled to use quantities of wood
On poles Their activities spread over
a wide portion of the United States,
notably in the South, Southwest and
Central West. Cedar poles seem to be
the ones most frequently attacked.
The birds bore into them at any height
from the ground, and the holes which
they make are often two or three inches
in diameter and four or five inches deep.
Such an amount Of wood drilled from a
stick Of timber which is carrying load
of wires naturally weakens the strength
of the line.
1t would, of course not be difficult
matter to exterminate these bids.
However. this is not desirable as they
are among the most beneficial forms of
bird life native to this country, because
they destroy large numbers of insects
which seriously damage forest and food
crops. 1t seems, therefore. that meth
DDS should be undertaken to compel the
birds to revert to their former habit of
boring rather than to.eXterminate them.
Frequent inquiries have been made by
the Forest Service in this connection,
but the only information to date which
the government has been able to obtain
is that on a casual inspection of treated
and untreated pole lines in Louisiana
In that region ii was found that poles
which had been impregnated with creo-
sote oil were not attacked by the birds,
whereas untreated poles under the same
conditions were very severly injured.
Whether or not creosOte will prevent
such an attack is not definitely known,
but the Service is investigating this
problem, and should this oil prove a
preventative, it will fulfill two-fold
purpose: 1t will protect the poles from
decay and destruction from animal life
In southern Indiana, some members of
a traction company thought that they
could prevent further destruction of their
poles by filling the holes in the wood
with stones. The birds, however, sim
ply drilled around the stones and made
the conditions much worse. This APP
parently does not seem to be means
of preventing their depredations.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
Conference of Forest Schools to
be Held in December,

The heads of universities, colleges,
and schools in which technical forestry
is taught have been invited by Clifford
Pinchot, United States Forester, to at
tend or send representative to the
Conference on Education in Forestry
which will be held in Washington in
December In his letter of invitation,
the Forester says:
81 believe that conference of rep
resentatives of all forest schools and
estry is taught might be made of great
value to the general progress of forestry
in the United States, as well as to the
institutions which teach forestry, and
to the Forest Service, which employs so
many of their graduates, and which is
vitality interested in the best training of
foresters. Such a conference might
well consider the object and meth
DDS of forest instruction, the CO.
ordination of the work of different in
stitutions, and the needs of the Forest
Service and other employers of forest
graduates.
Il hope you will find it possible to be
present or to send delegate to a con-
ference of this kind, which, with the
concurrence of the institutions concern
ed, will be held in Washington Deem
Der 80 and 81, 1909.
From all over the country the plar
has met with enthuastc support, letters
of acceptance having been received
from nearly every institution to which
the invitation has been sent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
Wood Waste Increasing.

The waste wood heap continues to di-
minish and pass away.
A Massachusetts manufacturer of
brushes recently made a discovery in
Maine which supplied him with material
exactly suited to his purpose. He went
to the Pine Tree State to buy wood for
the backs of hair brushes and the han
dies of shaving brushes, and CHANGED to
visit the yards of spool maker who
was using white birch. The spool man
took the white part of the wood only.
and was throwing away the red hearts.
Thousands of cords had been burned or
dumped in the lake to be rid of it.
The red hearts were exactly what the
brush maker wanted, and at little more
than the expense of freight he supplied
his factory,
This is typical of the trend of manu-
featuring. Waste of wood is still great.
but it is decreasing. What one factory
can not use, another turns to profit.
Formerly mills threw away half the
forest-tops left in the woods, sawdust
dumped in streams to pollute them and
destroy fish, slabs burned in perpetual
bonfires, and defective logs and low
grade lumber abandoned as not worth
moving.
This policy does not generally prevail
now. Some mills have put in ma
chinery to work up their own by-pro-
ducts, others sell their waste to
manufacturers who can use it. as in
the case cited in Maine The properties
and uses of woods are now subjects OF
careful investigation, and the problem
of turning to account the odds and ends
and the by-products is brought more to
the front now than formerly.
The United States Forest Service has
taken up this study in comprehensive
and systematic way. Investigations OF
the woods of particular states are being
conducted, usually in cooperation with
the states concerned. The plan when
fully carried out, will include every
commercial wood in the United States,
not fewer than 200 species. The pro-
perties of each will be- investigated. its
hardness toughness. elasticity, duabiH-
ty, weight, food value size of tree,
regions where grown. the common
names by which it is known in diff
ferent localities, and other matters Of
this kind. a history Of the woods uses
in tho pact ,a-ill L., ,ri,-..,, ,,,l ,,, ....,,.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
RICYCLIST FINED.

The arrest and fining of a local BIZ
cycle rider this week for riding on the
sidewalks of Swanton should serve as a
warning to others to keep off the walks
with bicycles. AS we stated some time
ago the objection is against fast and
careless riding and it is this dangerous
feature that has compelled action on the
part of the authorities. Everybody
should be treated fairly and alike in the
matter, however, and in our opinion
notices shonld be posted in various parts
of the village if this ordinance is to be
enforced. -Swanton Courier.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
OUR SENTIMENTS EXACTLY.

Who can estimate how much need
less expense the worse than useless life
of the unspeakable Thaw has cost the
people of the state of New York?
Who can estimate how much good the
same great sum could have accom-
plished for society there turned in other
directions? Who can estimate the
amount of mischief that has been spread
right and left through impressionabe
minds all over the land by the wide
spread publication of the nauseous de-
tails of this mess? Would we like to
have future generation select this
case out of our early twentieth century
annals and dwell upon the Importance it
has appeared to attain as typical, both
of our administration of justice and of
our social standards?-St Adams Mes
senger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
Changes in Teachers Examina-
tons

Among the acts passed by the ,egis-
lature of 1908 is one which will effect
many teachers. The county examiner
no longer holds teachers examinations
nor issues permits or certificates to
teach. The union superintendent viii
hereafter conduct the teachers exami-
nations in their respective unions on the
same date throughout the state. The
papers written by the candidates will be
forwarded to the state superintendent
for review, and all certificates or per-
mits will be issued by him. Teachers
living in towns not included in any
union will need to 90 to some place
where the examinations are being held.
They will be held in the High school at
Bristol, Aug. 10, 20, 1909; and teachers
in surrounding towns may take them
there. No examination will be held at
Middlebury or Vergennes as heretofore
since they are not in any union.
A. w. EDDY.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
NOW FOR BUSINESS.

After five months session of Con-
gress, we have new tariff law, differ
ent from the one it replaces by a few
additions to the free list, the most not
able one being hides, some reductions
and some increases. Because Congress
has completed its labors, everyone is
thankful, That there is the same feel
ing of thankfulness over results obtained
we have grave doubts. The public had
been led by party professions and
preachings to expect general reduc-
ton in duties on such articles as enter
into the daily living of all, and this they
have not secured. But in spite of these
facts, and the possible further discussion
of the tariff question, further changes
can hardly be expected for some years
to come and in the meantime we seem
bound to have a revival of business all
over the country which promises to ex-
coed that of any previous period. - Barre
Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

luxury as palace for bunch of make
believe law makers. It's fine and dandy
to have a grand state house, but what $
the use if you haven't anyone to occupy
it."
Our legislators do come in for some
knocking for sins of both commission
and omission, and it is probably a fact
that many of those sent to Montpelier
know positively nothing about the
gentle art of making laws, but this can
not apply to the whole bunch, for some
are as able men as the state produces
They are not all incompetents.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
VIII of Eunice Chapman.

STATE OF VERMONT, Ia
oDIsrRICT OF ADDISON, SIS. rrooaie court
Be il remembered, that at a session of the
Probate Court, holden at Middlebury, within
and for the District of Addison, on the 9d day
OF August, A. ID. 1909.
PRESENT WM. III. BLISS, Judge.
whereas, a certain instrument of writing
under seal, purporting TO be the last will and
testament OF Eunlce Chapman, late OF Sails.
bury in said District, deceased, having been
this day presented TO said Court for Probate,
ana duly filed in the Registers ONCE: There.
fore, II Is ordered. that all persons interested
In the estate of said deceased be notified TO
appear before said Court. at the Probate or
nee in Middlebury, in said District, on the
Esd day of August, A. ID. 1903, by publication
of this order, three weeks successfully pre-
vious thereto, in the Middlebury Register, a
newspaper printed at Middlebury, VT, 10
show cause, II any they may have, why said
instrument IN writing should not be proved
and allowed, ss the last will and testament
OF the said deceased.
true record,
81 WI. II. BLISS. Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
NOT AS RAD AS TINT.

Addison county is infested with grass
hoppers to such an extent that crops are
seriously damaged. Which reminds one
Of the Frenchman who left Canada and
went west, where he purchased farm,
mortgaging it for share of the pur-
chase price After three years he re-
turned to the province and on the train
was met by an old friend, who inquired
where he was going. He received this
reply: Tree year ago go to Kansas;
get me farm; the first year we get no
rain. my crop all die; the next year
had good crop, we get flood, everything
ruin; last year the damn grasshoppers
eat everything but the mortgage; now
go back to Canadaw. '-Poultney Jour
nal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

Vermont's representatives in Wash
ington must stand in with the Speaker,
judging from the committee appoint
ments which they received. Represen-
tative Foster is made ranking member
of the committee on foreign affairs,
remains chairman of the committee of
expenditures in the department of com
merce and labor, and is also member
of the committee on reform in the civil
service. representative Plumley was
assigned to the committee on agricul-
ture, committee on war claims and COM
mittee on railways and canals. Need
less to say both these gentlemen will
fill the places to which they are as
signed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

Those who 90 into the woods during
the dry time of summer should be eX
tremely careful in regard to fires which
he may make 1t is simple matter to
eXtingush the blaze of the camp fire
to the last ember, but if this is neg
lected the consequences are frequently
disastrous. An exchange remarks:
The smoke of forest fires is in the air
again and the time is at hand when the
careless camper can be the means of
destroying more valuable property in
one shiftless moment than his whole
lifetime of industry could replace. And
the worst Of it is that the combined
energy of the whole race of mankind
cannot replace it in a generation.
either These are words of wisdom
and should be Needed by everyone who
goes into the forests The habit of
building fires when on days outing
afield is strong on the average man,
especially the younger ones. Think
twice - perhaps three times - before
starting fire when it is not necessary
for we never know what the conse-
quences will be-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

The attractions at the Addison County
Fair this year include some of the best
vaudeville shows to be had. Col. Ilsley,
who has done so much in recent years
to make the fair a success, looks after
this part of the program personally
and everyone who attends the BEST
Ever :" will acknowledge that his judg-
ment is good. We devote considerable
space this week to the attractions at
the fair this year, and it is worth read
ing; better look it over, at least look at
the pictures. Charles |. Button, who
is doing excellent work as secretary of
the association, furnishes the matter
and Button knows what he is talking
about.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

The hundreds of people that We're
drawn to Lake Bomoseen Sunday by
the lake breezes and the excellent
music of the city band demonstrate the
fact anew that outdoor air, and har
mony are things, which, taken together,
are always popular. And who shall
say that the park visitors violated the
verandas, consuming Indifferent litera-
ture, Sunday paper slush, tobacco or
sweetmeats, through hot and sitting
afternoon. - Rutland Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

The Morrisville News and Citizen
tells us that some of the employees of
Senator Page of Hyde Park have been
in his employ for a matter of twenty
seven years or so, which is a good
record and speaks well for Senator
Page and the employees as well, but, as
usual, Middlebury goes him one better.
Elank Stone, who is known far and
WIDE as the genial and accommodating
porter of the Addison House, has stuck
to the same job in the same place for
forty years, and judging from the way
he carries Saratoga trunk up to the
fourth floor he looks to be good for
another forty years. The calf skin
factory has the next move.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

Those who are so solicitous that the
moral welfare of Rutland will suffer if
baseball games and band concerts are
PERMITTED on Sunday would better first
take look at the bill boards about
town. They are just now covered with
flaming posters picturing crime and dis
soluteness that to the youthful and plas-
tic mind are tenfold more harmful and
corrupting than a baseball game in
every vacant lot and a band concert i'm
every park. Gentlemen, clergy and
laiety alike. let US be consistent The
inconsistent minister and the inconsist-
ent official has no particular influence
in this world nor should he have. Rut-
land News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13

What cruel things the horrid news
papers say. For instance here is the
Rutland Herald remarking that Eve
Ign Thaw says that her reasons for seek
ing a divorce from Stanford White ;
slayer are purely financial In that re
spect they are exactly similar to her
reasons for marrying him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
A Chance for Boys TO Make a Dol

We want all the bones we can get.
Can use heads, hoofs, horns-anything
in the line of bones-if only dry. We
will pay 60c 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 station il shipped in lots OF
300 pounds or more. Ship in barrels or
cheap sacks.
c. s. PAsH, Hyde Park, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
THANK YOU.
The Messenger says:

The stranger in St. Adams who
lodged streets full of yelping dogs for
the first time would fancy himself in an
Indian village
Careful, or you will be classed by the
Middlebury Register as dog hater -"
Nevertheless, what proves more concu-
sively the degeneration and utter shift
lessness of Vermont or any other com
munity than "a street full of yelping
dogs ?'' No worse advertisement could
possibly be put out Hardwick Gazette
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
SOME CLIPPINGS.
What the State Newspapers are
Saying on Topics of Interest.
A TOUGH PROPOSITION.

OF course, the Democrats are trying
to make the tariff out a failure, the
Republicans are trying to make it out
a pledge redeemed, and the poor hope
less consumer cannot make it out at all.
st. Adams Messenger