Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-10-29
SOME CLIPPINGS.


the wise-or otherwise Legislature.
SOME CLIPPINGS.
What the State Newspapers are
Saying on Topics of Interest.
Constant Reader. Yes Peary's at
tack on Cook might be properly called
the "White Plague" and the long suf-
fering public will say, plague on both
your houses. "-Swanton Courier.
An Indian apiarist believes that the
bee is not living up to its reputation
and in order to compel his honey makers
to improve more shining hours sends
them South in the Winter. The general
public has not yet determined whether
this is commendable enterprise or a
mean trick on the bees. Montpelier
Journal.
GILPIN, THE TRUTHFUL.
The editor believes this talk about the
slaughter of deer is mostly bosh- at
least first hand experience of the past
few years has taught him to think so,
and if you should happen into his
! sanctum next week, you would not find
him-nor his gun. Barton Monitor
THE DEMAND BFORsMEAD.
At the close of very plain spoken
editorial against the candidacy of Lieu.
Gov. John A. Mead of Rutland for gov
ernor of Vermont, the Mortified News
declares: THERE'S actually no demand
for DR.. Mead's candidacy" The con-
temporary is wrong; there is well de-
| fined demand for DIR. Mead's candidacy
and it has its location in the mind of the
aforesaid gentleman. Otherwise, the
contemporary is quite right. Barre
Times.
Who says Vermont is not corn state
The canning factory at Essex Junction
has just finished business for the sea
son after putting up about 1853, 600 cans.
! The factory at Brattleboro reports
about 100, 900 cans. Why don't the
farmers plant more corn and stop kick
ing about the price of feed?-St. Johns
bury Republican.
:. Twelve thousand dollars a year for
managing a baseball club Think of it,
Consider well the foolish disproportion-
ate in it. when so many, many, of the
countrys noble useful men have studied
and toled so hard and so long on the
merest pittance eked out sometimes by
pitiful self denial.s Twas ever thus, to
be sure, but that reflection does not dis
pose of the moral issue involved in it. -
st. Adams Messenger.
Referring to a news item to the effect
that somebody in Seattle, Wash, has
succeeded in producing the first rose
ever grown without a thorn, the Ben
nington Banner vouches for the state
ment that:
There are growing in the city of
Montpelier, this state, number of rose
bushes which are without thorns. These
bushes flower profusely every year, but
the variety is not of a particularly strik
ing kind. Whether these bushes are a
freak or a distinct variety we do not
know.
While this is not generally known the
information is not surprising. 1t is
difficult to grow thorns in Washington
| county anyhow. Mortified News.
The editor returned last Saturday
from a ten days visit to Gotham, where
he witnessed the big HudsonFulton
celebration. He saw about everything
that was going-parades, naval and
military, as well as civic and allegorical
all of the greatest and grandest ever
given in this or any other country. -
Morrisvile News and Citizen.
Confdentially, neighbor, did you really
see anything on the trip as gorgeous as
a Vermont governor S staff in full dress?
Mortified News.
Probably not; or anything more use
less.
We dislike to see the substitutes for
lard and butter which are being put on
the market, and especially those which
are brought into rural community and
offered for sale. To be sure, they are
legal commodities for mercantile houses
to handle, if they are properly labeled.
However, they tend to belittle the hon
orable efforts of farmer. Nothing is
better and no article lust as good" as
pure lard and choice dairy butter. We
have not reached the point where a sub
stitute is needed. Waterbury Record.
In these days when records for speed
for strength and size are Haunted in
nearly every newspaper that one picks
up, it is well to stop for moment and
give recognition to a record which does
not appear on the sporting calendar or
the newspapers year book-a record
for fidelity and length of service which
probably cannot be equalled among all
the millions of industrial workers in
this country. Francis Walker, called by
courtesy colonel in his home community,
has been employed GA years without a
break in the Fairbanks scale factory in
ST. Johnbury, and for.59 years has been
at the head of the foundry department
of that concern. Col. Walker will be
"a years old, Oct. 81, but despite his age
he is found this post each day efficiently
directing the work of 100 men. Col.
Walker was the representative from St.
Johnsbury in the legislature in 1890. -
Brattleboro Phoenix.