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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-10
At KINDS OF ROAD TO MILE.
Extensive Experiment to be Tried
on Dryden Road.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND
CORNELL UNIVERSITY TO DO WORK
TO GET ROAD-MAKING DATA
TOP DRESSINGS OF L DE-
SCRIPTIONS WILL BE
USED.
An Albany dispatch saws:

All AlbdIll NlspdlCI says
Forty-seven different sorts of road TO
the mile seems a pretty large order,
but that is the sort OF construction that
the road office of the Department of
Agriculture is undertaking in New
York State this month. 1t is a large
piece of work and promises TO give some
of the most valuable comparative data
on road making that has ever been accu-
INFLATED in this country.
The work is to be done in conjunction
with Cornell University, and will be a
stretch of well-traveled Dryden road.
The materials for the construction are
all being accumulated now and work
will 500 be commenced. The road will
be divided into sections of 100 yards
each, and Zach OF these will be built of
different material and in a different
manner. The road Office already has
made plans for the construction of tel
ford and macadam sections, and these
will be given a top dressing of almost
every conceivable sort of road binder.
The roads will be coated with asphalt,
different sorts of tar, light and heavy
oils, and such binders as have been
brought to the attention of the depart
ment from various sections of the
world.
There will be roads constructed of
Stag, granite and various sorts of rock
and these will be combined with differ
ent sorts of top dressings tending to
form a good chemical combination for
preserving the surface from wear.
1t is expected that the road will be
finished before the coming of colo
weather, and the first report on its
wearing qualities will be made early
next spring. From that time or there
will be periodical inspectors and reports,
so that the department will know just
how and the various sections will be
kept in as perfect repair as is possible,
and a record will be made of the cos O,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-10
iNONkTON.

Schools opened in town Tuesday with
Miss Sears of Panton as teacher at the
Boro and Miss Taber of Vergennes at the
Ridge.
Miss Mable Eddy has returned to New
York.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Buritt and daugh-
ter Lillian spent Saturday and Sunday at
Long Point.
Miss May Eva Miles has returned frcu
a week visit at Burlington.
II. Goodroe and son Pearl of Hines
burg visited friends in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stevens have returned
from a weeks trip in the east part of the
state.
Frank \. Miles is putting up a silo.
Miss Jessie Cox, Lee Russell and Phil
Eddy of MOnkton Ridge school passed
successful examinations and have enter
ed high school at Bristol.
Misses Gala and Carrie Miles aud
Hugh Eddy have returned to Bristol
high school.
DR.. G. A. Russell was in town Satur-
day.
W. f. Donahue was in Burlington auG
Essex Junction Wednesday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-10
FIVE AUTOlSTS KILLED.
Car Struck by a olive
and Wrecksge Carried Quar-
ter of a Mile.

St. Louis, Aug. 90. Five persons,
four of them closely related, were kill
ed today, when an automobile in which
they were riding was struck by a fast
passenger train of the Chicago. Rock
Island & Pacific railway west of Vigus
station, st. Louis county.
All were residents of St. Louis.
The dead:
Theodore f. White.
Theodore White, Jr., aged 8 years.
Mrs. Carl Klinge.
Miss Halcyone Campbell.
Frederick o. White.
The two men were brothers and of
fcials of the White Hardware company.
Mrs. Klinge was their sister-in-law.
The party were speeding homeward
from Creve Occur lake when killed.
Theodore White was driving the ma
chine with his brother beside him.
The locomotive struck the automobile
squarely. Mr.. White and his brother
were tossed 40 feet away. The boys
body dropped from the front of the
train IN eighth of a mile down the track
and the women, caught in the tonneau,
We're crushed almost beyond recognition
in the %wreckage which was carried a
quarter of a mile beyond the scene of
the accident and was still on the engine
nilnf mho,N Al, +-.;,o e+arn,I
Theodore Witte died in a hospital al
st. Louis without regaining conscious
ness.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-10
Bridport Couple Injured.

While driving home from the fair
Aug. 27, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Deleeuw
of Bridport met the automobile of Dep
uty Sheriff N. j. Sanford on College
street. Their horse was frightened and
both were thrown out. Mr.. Deleeuw
was badly bruised about the head and
his wife suffered minor injuries. The
wagon was demolished. After their
wounds were dressed, they we're able to
proceed to their home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-10
The Parish Of Ripton.

The following interesting letter has
been handed in by a correspondent:
Conn. Historical Soc,
Hartford, Aug. 81, 1909.
Dear Madam:
The parish of Ripton in Stratford,
now the town of Huntington, vas es-
tablished by the General Assembly in
Oct, 1717. The name is said to have
been chosen because it was the name OF
the place in England from which DanieI
Shelton, one of the early settlers of the
locality anne
Yours truly,
ALBERT c. BATES,
Librarian.
Mrs. Isabel Dorland.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-10
THREE KILLED
Detroit Business Man and Two
Women Victims Another
Fatally Hurt.

Detroit, Sept. 5.-A. A. Robinson,
owner of the Commercial Supply Com
pany of this city, his wife and Mrs. H.
f. Tremaine, of Bay City, We're in
stantly killed in Bay City this after
noon when an automobile in which they
were riding was struck by a fast Michi-
gan Central train.
A daughter of Mrs. Tremaine is ia
tally injured.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-10

Itching piles provoke profanity. but
profanity won't cure them. Doan's
Ointment cures itching. bleeding or pro-
truding piles after years of suffering.
At any drug store.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06
THE SPOKANE RATE DECISION

The Inte state Commerce com
mission, after two long years OF
delay. during which millions OF
dollars worth of irreparable injury
has been done the inter-mountain re-
gion, has decised that the railroads
shall not charge more for a short
haul than for a long hail. Today, and
for years past and an indefinite
time to come. if a person in an in
land town received a shipment from
Chicago or other eastern point, he
must pay the freight rate to a coast
terminal, and also the local rate
back from the coast to the inland
t wn. That is, say a merchant II
this city bought a case of shoes IN
Chicago. He must pay the freight
rate from Chicago to Portland, alC
also the rate from Portland to In
terprlse. although the case OF
shoes never goes farther west than
La Grande.
This rate the commission says is
lnherantly unreasonable.
However no one need expect the
DID rates will be changed soon. This
is only the be rim hing. The railroads
delayed it two years before the
commi 3sion, and it hasn't started In
The courts yet! How the railroads
laugh at the prospect. Our chill
| iren's children will not see the end
)f that case for there is no lending
in the courts for clients with plenty
Of money. Law-trained Legislators
have seel to that.
So while the deci sion is of no prac
dcal benefit, yet it is some salts
| faction to have the right stated in
plain terms. We can submit to pay
ing the just rates better when thF
other fellow knows we know he i
taking what doe mt belong to him.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06

comes ~Een sudden dry period fol-
lows a few weeks of excessive rain
fail. The abundance of moisture dur
Ing the early part of the season has
kept the plants from sending their
roots down very deep. When dry
weather does come, the soil bakes and
cracks and evaporation goes ON very
rapidly. This, together with the de-
mands made by the plants, lowers the
water table so rapidly that root growth
cannot Keep pace with it. AS a result
the capillary moisture within reach of
the roots is not replaced as fast as 1t
is used. and the growth of the plants
Is seriously checked.
Fields with a clay subsoil withstand
dry weather much better than those
with a subsoil of sand or gravel. The
latter, because Of their looser texture
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06

as pant lOOu Ills Is
only one of it's minor uses,
however. In addition to the water
which is dec0mposed by the plant and
used in making starch and other prod
ucts, many times as much is used for
other purposes. One of the principal
of these is dissolvipg plant food and
carrying 1t upward to the leaves. Aft
er reaching the leaves most of the wa
ter is evaporated leaving in the leaf
cells the materials which 1t brought
up.
The cells of which the leaves are
made are very delicate and depend for
.helr stiffness on the water which they
contain. Without this water they
would collapse in the same way n BIZ
cycle tire does when the air Is let out
This is the very thing that happens
| when the leaves wilt. The rise Of
water from the roots has been checked
In some way. and as evaporation still
continues the leaf cells become partly
emptied and shrink up.
The leaves are not entirely helpless
at such time, however. On each side
Of the tiny pores on the underside of
the leaf is cell known as a guard
cell. When the supply of moisture
begins to fail, these guard cells shrink
up and in doing so close the openings,
thus checking evaporation. In some
plants, like corn, the leaves curl up at
such time thus still further lessen
| inc tho ra ta of ayonoia tipp Of oo,rca
when leaf is wilted in this manner
the work of building up plant tissues
Is seriously checked. This often hap
pens during the dry weather Of July
and August, when the soil becomes so
dry that the roots have difficulty in
obtaining the needed moisture. The
checking Of development which results
often reduces the yield of corn as
much as twenty to thirty bushels per
acre and that Of other crops In pro-
portion. For every pound Of dry
matter In mature plant from 300 to
500 pounds of water have been brought
up by the roots and evaporated from
the leaves. One of the most impor-
tant factors in the production of a
maximum crop Is the maintenance Of
a plentiful water supply within easy
reach of the roots.
There are three classes of water in
the soil. The first is known as ground
water and Is that water which col
lects in a hole dug in wet soil or
runs off through the tile in drained
land The second is the capillary
water and is that which is left be-
tween the soil particles after the
ground water has been drawn off.
The ground water Is affected by grav-
= itation, while the capillary water is
: not
If sample of soil that looks per-
fectly dry is placed in an oven and
heated for some time 1t will be found
that is has lost considerably in weight,
owing to moisture being driven off.
This is the third class, or microscopic
moisture. This, of course, Is Of no
value to the plant, since the roots
cannot extract moisture from an air
dry soil. Neither can they use the
} ground water. This is really dam
4 age in the upper two or three feet OF
: SOIL since 1t so fills the spaces that
/, the roots cannot get enough air.
= During rain the ground water
T.. passing through the soil draws con
siderable air with It, AS soon as the
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06
An Ideal Cough Medicine.

"As an ideal cough medicine | re
gard Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
in class by itse f. says DR.. r. A.
Wiltshire, of Gwynneville, Ind. 81
take great pleasure in testifying tc
the resu IS of Chamberlain's Cough
Medicine. In fact, know of no 9th
er prepara ion that meets so fully
expectations of the most exacting II
cases of Group and coughs Of chill
dren. AS 1t contains no opium, chic
roform or morphine it certainly
makes a most safe, pleasant and ef
ficacous remedy for the ills 1t l;
intended" For sale by Burnaugh q
Mayfield.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06
Home Course I'm
Modern Agriculture
W.-Water In Its Relation to Plant Growth
By c. v. GREGORY,
a Agricultural DiViSfon, CoUe6e
by Ame Prss.A A..ociatan
copyriaht. 1909. by American

RWYE have already learned some
~ thing Of the value Of water
w as plant food. This is
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06
GOOD AND BAD.

The late legs ature has quite a
long list of good laws to its credit,
That is. the intent and purpose as
stated in their titles are good, and
!, /; to Ue 20. ell tne laws live up
to heir titles.
First in importance is the law to
enable the state to build a railroad
through Central Oregon. This IS
referred to the people and will be
voted on in November, 1910. 1t Is
not Likely the road will be built by
the state; it will not be necessary.
Private capital, spurred by this pos
sibility of state Intervention, will
build the roads it sholld have com
pleted 20 years ago. If the law ac'
complishes that, it will have per
formed great service.
i he revision or rather the crea
tion of a water code Is a step IN
the right direction. 1t is stated on
good authority that half the power
of Oregon streams that have been
appropriated, aye held by water hogs
who do not use and won't let anyone
else use It. The appropriation o
water is a privilege and special favor
granted by the people at large tc
private capi al for supposed public
benefit. AS long as such specia
favors are given, those receiving
them should be made to use then
or lose them.
The six months school law, the
law giving each school district $lO'
instead of $50 from the count.
funds, the one proviling for a ref
erendum on county measures, tn
law requiring railroads to connec
with each other and with prlvat
switches, the one providing TO
treatment of tuberculosis poor, an
the law requiring viewers to la
out roads on the best grades a
seem necessary and proper. unde
the same head are two or thre
laws that caused some ridicule b
would-be funny paragraphers, Dt
though treating of matters
seemingly small moment, are jus
and neces sary, such as the laws r.
quiring hotels and lodging houses
have fire esca.es and to provid
nine-foot bedsheets, and the law r
quiring doors of public buildings
swing outwards.
The worst sin of the legislature
our OplnlOH WIS It's SoWd'Uy o''
tude on the normal schools.
should have taken the bull by tn
horns and provided for the school {
Weston and one west of the Ca
cades. 1t should not only have pr
vided for them, but 1t should hay
improved them, giving to the two
much money as the four formerl
had.
The economical lawmakers had II
money at all for normals to trai
teachers for our little district school
but 1t had $4,000 to make an aut
mobile road for rich men from Me-
ford to Crater Lake, and to civ
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06

President VIM. H. Taft has the
best wishes of every true American
for successful administration. May
he have backbone enough to run
hings as he thinks they ought to De
run, and so retire from the chair
with the respect of the people as
Roosevelt has done. If he keeps the
path up to the White House as
horny and hard to travel for AL
drich, Cannon and their ilk, as Roose
welt did, he is bo md to earn the re
spect of decent pc ople, whether they
endorse the rest of his policies OF
nOt
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06

FIG. vIII-How TILE DRAINS AFFECT THE
WATER TABLE.
is, surface OF the ground: w, water ia
BILE; @. ground water; T, tile drainsl
soil becomes saturated, however, so
that the water is no longer moving,
the air soon becomes used up, and the
crop will turn yellow and cease to
grow. The remedy. of course, is to
provide drains to remove the ground
water quickly.
The only kind of water which the
roots can use is the capillary water.
When this Is present in the right
amount. It fills about half Of the
spaces between the soil particles. The
the rest are filled with air. The water
easily dissolves plant food from the
soil grains which II surrounds. Thus
the two essentials for rapid root de-
yelopment, air and plant food. are
present In the proper amounts and In
readily available form. AS fast as
the water is taken up by the roots
more is brought up by capillarity from
the supply In the subsoil in the man.
ner noted In article No. 2.
The place where the capillary water
Joins the ground water Is called the
water table. II this water table Is
too high, the feeding ground Of the
roots is greatly restricted. since they
cannot go below II. If, on the other
hand, the water table is too deep,
capillarity cannot bring the water up
as fast as It is used by the roots.
In dry weather the water table low.
ers rapidly, but the roots are also
growing downward at the same time
The greatest damage from drought
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.


U. S. Land Office at La Grande Ore
gon, February Is, 1909.
Notice is he eby given that Ezekiel
F. Sergeant, of Enterprise, oregon, who
on October 2 tn 1908, made Homestead
Entry No. 1892 Serial, No. O3269, for
the Northeast quarter of Section 81,
Township l N, Range 46, East, VIII. Me-
ridian has fl ell notice of intention to
make final five year proof, to establish
calm to the land above described, before
D. w. Sheahan, U. S. Commissioner, al
his Office in Enterprise, Oregon, on the
9Th day of April, 1909.
Claimant names as witnesses: Harry
n. Vaughan, Elmer ]. Jewell, Delmai
Sergeant and Lora E. Allen, all OF
Enterprise, oregon.
F. C. Bramwell, Register.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06

s55, 900 for the state fair, that should
be self-supporting and $1,000 for each
of the favored Willamette county
fairs-all pure graft or unnecessary.
Half the sums wasted on those things
would have provided handsomely for
two training schools for teachers.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06
For Diseases of the Skin.

Nearly all diseases of the skin such
as eczema, tetter, salt rheum and bar
bers' itch, are characterized by an in
tense itching and smarting, which
often makes life a burden and dis
turbs eep and rest. Quick relief
may be had by applying Chamber
lain's Salve. 1t al ays the itching
and smarting almost instantly. Many
cases have been cured by it's use. For
sale by Burnaugh G Mayfield.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
De apartment of the Interior.
U. S. Land Ohice at La Grande, Ore
gon. Febrr ary Is, 19O9.
Notice is hereby given that Charles B.
Horner, of Lightning, Oregon, who, on
July 81, 1904, made Homestead Entry
No. 13723-Serial, No. 0l200, for Lots 1
ard ?, SWA NEA, NWA SEA, Sec
ion 5, Township North, Range 49
East willamette Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make Final five
year Proof, to establish claim to the
land abo!e described, before d. w.
h ahan, L. s. Commissioner, at En-
terprise, Oreson on the 5th day of
April, 1909.
Claimant names as witnesses: Charles
G. Holmes, Colonel F. Graves, Guy c
Horner William P. Rankin, all of Light
ming, Oregon.
F. c.. Bramwell, Register.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06

Danish pimples, blotches and boils
by taking Levy's Oregon Grape Com
pound. Sold and guaranteed by Bur-
naugh G Mayfield, Enterprise, Ore.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-06

Elgin flour at w. ]. Funk & Cos.
Patent $1.5O a sack, straight grade
I'D a sack.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-09
SENATOR PRICES
SUCCESSOR IN TRENTON.
Sussex County Democrats Ex=
peCted to Nominate BunneII..

NEWTON, Aug. 9.-Jacob L. Bunnell,
editor of the New Jersey Herald. Is a
candidate for the State Senatorsbip by
reason of the expiration of the term of
senator Price, who. however, has an
nounced that he win run again. At
a caucus Of Democrats representing
every township in Sussex County, held
three years ago, it was tacitly under
stood that Mr.. Bunfell should have the
nomination in 1909.
The approach of primary election
tlnie, September q. is ~arousing public
interest in most of tie New Jersey
eounties-especially in the ranks of the
majority parties in the several counties.
Perhaps in this county, next TO the
Hunterdon Democratic Senatorial nomi-
nation, there is more interest in the
Sussex primary, in which a Senatorial
candidate Is also to be chosen.
There has been a pretty general
agreement for some years among the
Sussex Democratic leaders and
people, too. that Bunnell will be
chosen by common consent. because
of his able and unceasing service to
the party in county and State these
many years as editor of the old New
Jersey Herald n Sussex Democrat.
Besides Mr.. Bunnell and Senator
Price, o. C. Simpson, former county
clerk, is also a candidate for the office.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-09
WOMEN NEAR DEATH
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Party of Four Badly Hurt When
Their Machine Overturned.
One May Die.
Especial to the Newark start

HIGH BRIDGE. Aug. 9.-Four
women who were hurt when an auto
mobile owned and driven by Borough
Clerk @. w. Dorland turned turtle at
North Branch are under the care of
physicians. One, Miss Anne Struhle,
Is suffering from a badly sprained
back n her condition Is p~recarious.
The other women in the machine at
the time were Mrs. William c.. AL
paugh, Miss Estella Hoffman and Miss
Mamie Alpaugh. All were hurled to
the roadway n badly hurt.
Mrs. Alpaugh, wife of DR.. William
Alpaugh, was thrown violently against
a fence, sustaining cuts, bruises and
a broken arm. A doctor who was sum-
moned found Miss Alpaugh, her daugh-
ter, suffering from cuts. bruises and
Internal injuries. Miss Hoffman's nose
was broken and she was badly cut and
bruised. Mr.. Dorland was also badly
cut.
Pinned under the wrecked machine
Miss Struble and Miss Hoffman were
rescued with difficulty. All were taken
to their homes here.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-09
CAN'T GET BOOZE,
THREATENS SUIT
C~hurch-member "FIagged" by
Jag Committee Feels
Very Wroth.

GLOUCESTER CITY, Aug. at
doesn't make n difference to the
jag committee of Franklin township.
Gloucester county, whether Sheriff
Thomas L. Wilson, of Woodbury.. comes
down today or some later day and
serves papers on them in the $40. 900
damage suit that has been instituted
by James A Johnson. of Glassboro. be-
cause his name appeared among those
persons officially tagged at the town
ships three bars.
Let him u and keep right on SUI
ing" said William F. Marsh, of NAL
aga, N. j.. chairman of the commit
tee. Yesterday.
And all the rest of the j~ag-1agging
committee are equally as unruffied over
the matter. They declare they are
working under the Hillery law passed
by the last Legislature, and are pro-
tected.
N one can prosecute the committee
or the township or anyone else under
the provisions of the law" explained
Chairman Marsh, of the Malaga Gag
committee" when told that the prose-
Ieution had been started by Johnson.
Saloon men in the township view this
as a test case. They say it will estab-
lish whether or not the Hillery law is
constitutional.