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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
TELEPHONE EMPLOYE DEAD.
Miss Lucy A. TraynOr of Rutland Ex-
pires From HemOrrhage Of the


Rutland, VT, Dec. 12.-Miss Lucy
A. Traynor of West Rutland for the
last three years employed in the
bookkeeping department of the New
England telephone and telegraph COM
pany here, died Saturday at the home
of her sister, Mrs. John j. Kissane,
in this city, of hemorrhage of the
brain.
She underwent a difficult surgical
operation for a complication of dis
eases three weeks ago, and until last
Sunday it was believed she would re-
cover. Miss Traynor was a native of
Fair Haven and had lived there and
in West Rutland and this city most
of her life. She was member of the
sodality of the Children of Mary of
st. Bridget's church, West Rutland.
She is survived by her mother, four
sisters and a brother.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
Introduced by Foster.

The following bills have been in
troduced into the National House of
Representatives by Congressman d.
j. Foster, of Vermont; bills grant
ing increase in pension to Mary M.
Strong, to B. Colby Orion, Mary j..
Harwood, Matthew Hussey, Marcus
G. Gibbs, Edward p Nash, Richard
Manning, Ransom H. Linsley, Beno-
jah Phelps, Richard Mackenzie;
also bills granting pensions to Cler-
inc j. Riley, Elroy L. Kemp, Eliza
]. Seeby.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
New Summer Hotel in Morgan.

1t is understood that Lake Sey-
mour, in Morgan, is to have a sum-
mer hotel 1t is to be located on the
north side of the lake on promon-
tory of land, known locally as Point
Hartwell The site is owned by New
York people and the hotel is to be
built by them. The contract for the
lumber is already let to a local lum-
herman, and is to be on the ground
ready for the builders to commence
operations in early spring.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
DAVID II. IRISH DEAD.
Prominent Shelburne Resident Passes
Away After Short Illness.

Shelburne, Dec 12-David r.
Irish died at his home here today af-
ter a short illness, death being due to
pneumonia. He was rs years old He
was the general agent of several ex-
press companies in Montreal for
many years. He was prominent
and forceful character The burial
will take place Wednesday at Char
lotte his native town. The deceased
leaves a widow and two daughters
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

the house of it's friends. Petty
gambling is going on in Rutland to
larger extent than any one realizes.
1t is too bad to encourage it by
gambling in the name of philan-
thropy."
Mr.. Spence states that he will ad-
wise the women of his congregation
to refuse to assist at the county fair
next fall unless all games of chance
are eliminated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
Barton Needs More Tenements.

Good tenements are scarce now
and with ten or fifteen more families
expecting to move into Barton by
warm weather the urgent need of
more tenements is seen, says the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Among the military appointments
recently sent to the Senate by the
President was that of Edward Arthur
Tobin, of Vermont, to be First Lieu
tenant.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Captain Charles E. Merrill, for the
past thirty years a clerk in the Bos-
ton postoffice, died at his home in
Medford Monday. He was born in
Derby, in 1S41, and served in the
navy from 1862 to 1863 and then serv-
ed in the Eleventh Vermont Heavies
to the end of the war. He had been a
resident of Medford for twenty-three
years, was one of the founders of the
South Medford Republican Club and
for two years it's president. He was
a member of the Newport Vt) lodge
of Masons; Post &C. G. A. R., Medford;
Massachusetts Republican Club, the
ex-Prisoners of War, Grand Army
Club and other organizations He is
survived by a widow and two sons,
one a resident of Somerville, and
the other of Mountain, Ont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Col. H. E. Tutherly, U. S. A., re-
tired, is now on active duty in con-
nection with the national guard of
New Hampshire, with headquarters
at Concord. Colonel Tutherly was
professor of military science and tao
tics at the University of Vermont at
two different times, from 1881 to
1885, and from 1898 to 1897, and has
a host of friends in the cKy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Clement Dryer, of Proctor, aged a
years, died at his home Tuesday eve
ming from injuries received Monday.
He was eating candy which is at
as pure gambling and travesty in
to the house he fell, causing the
stick TO be pushed through his
throat
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Miss Bessie Lewis, who fc: the pas.
year and I half has been principal
of the Royalton Academy, has resign
ed her position there to take up spec
ial work as teacher in large school
at Concord, Mass, her teaching at the
latter place being confined to class
of Twenty-Five the members of which
will enter the freshman class of the
school proper as soon as Miss Lewis
has them prepared.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

The report of the National None
tary Commission shows that the total
banking resources of Vermont per
capita amounts to $2S3.14.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest Cleaned From All
Parts of Green Mountain
State.

Among the Tufts College Glee Club
dates are December 81, South Royal
ton, January /, Barre and January 5,
Burlington.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

thousands Of small red pimples formed.
On becoming dry, these caused intense
itching. I was advised 10 90 to the
hospital for diseases of the skin. / did
so and was an .out-patient for month
or more, the chief surgeon saying: Il
never saw such bad case Of eczema
But i got little or no relief. Then I
tried many so-called remedies, but be-
came so bad that | almost gave up in
despair. On coming to this county /
heard so many accounts of cures by Cuti-
cura Remedies that l resolved, as a
last resource, to give them trial. This
was after suffering agonies for twelve
months, and right glad am that l did
so, for | was relieved of the almost I'm
bearable itching after two or three
applications CT Cuticura Ointment. /
continued its use combined with a
liberal use Of Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura Resclvent Pills and am mere than
thankful to say that after using three
sets Of the Remedies, / was completely
cured. can only add that, should any
one be suffering as l did, hope that
they will do as ! did, and / am sure Of
the results. Henry Searle, 2022 Cross
ST., Little Rock, Ark. Oct. S and 10, 'O7."
Complete External and Internal Treatment for
sists OF Cptcura soap (25c;l % Cleanse the SKIN.
cura Hesolyent (5Oc). (or In the form Of Chocolate
Coated Pills. csc. per vial OF Coz 10 Purify the Blood
Corp, Sole Props Boston. Mass:
50 Mailed Free. Cuticufa Book on Skin Diseases.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers rely on DR.. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil. Takes the sting out of cuts,
burns or bruises at once. Pain can
not stay where 1t is used.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16

ury security skin
on my ankles and
feet. The same,
in a few days,
was the case with
my. ar m S a n d
scalp. i C o u ] d
hardly keep from
scratching, which,
! need h ar d ! y
say, m a d e 4 I
W o rse. Then
large red patches
appeared, W / I h
j n I a m m alton
and s oren e s o.
Altar fan dave
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-16
CURE FOLLOWED
YEAR Of AGONY
Intense Itching Eczema Drove Him
Nearly to Despair ChiefSurgeon
Of a London Hospital Called 1t
Worst Case He Had Ever Seem
Got Little or No Relief Until
CUTICURA STOPPED HIS
UNBEATABLE TORTURE

about four years ago, in London, I
was troubled by severe itching and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13

journey, and who said that the route
for the remaining third. as shown by
them, was as described TO him by his
son after his return with DIR. Cook.
Notes Taken by several.
Notes OF iaeir statements were TAX.
Ell BY several of rs, and no one of US
has any doubt that they tcld the truth
Their testimony Was unShalen b.
Observation-Disclosures was corrobaratc !
by other men in the tribe. ard was
ELECTED neither b threats nor prom
lses. the two boys and their father
talking of their journey and their c,;
periences in the same way that they
would talk OF any hunting trip.
To so moro into details: One of the
boys was called in, and. with Il chart
on the table before him. was asked
- how where he had gone with DR.
Cook. This he did. pointing ont with
his urger on the map. but not MAX.
ing any marks upon it.
AS he went out. the othor boy came
I'm and Was asked to show whore ha
had gone with Or. Cook This he did.
also without making any marks. and
indicated the same route and the same
details as did the first boy.
when he was through, Panikpah,
the father Of I-tOok-a-shoo. n very ia.
teliiFcnt man. who was in the party
of EskimCs that came back from Dr.
Cook from the northern end of Nan
. sens Strait. who is familiar as a hunt
er with tie Jones Sound region, and
who has been in Commander Peary's
various expeditions for some fifteen
years. came in and indicated the same
localities and details as the two boys.
Then the first boy was brought in
again, and with a pencil he traced on
the map their route, members of or
party writing upon the chart where,
according To the boys statement, they
had Killed deer. bear. some of their
dogs, seal. w1lrus and musk-oxen.
The second boy was then called in
and the two went over the chart to-
gether, the second bay suggesting
some changes as noted hereafter.
Finally, PanilIpah, the father, was
again called in to verify details of the
portions of the route with which he
was personally familiar
The bulk of the boys testimony was
not taken by Commander Peary, nor
in his presence, a fact that obviates
any possible claim that they were
awed by him.
Certain questions on independent
lines from the direct narrative of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13

After killing the deer they then
travelled south along the east side of
Ringnes Land to the point indicated
on the chart, where they killed an
other deer
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gustav
Sea to the south end of Heiberg Land,
then down through Norwegian Bay,
where they secured some bears, but
not until after they had killed some
Of their dogs, to the east side of Ora
ham Island, then eastward to the little
bay marked "Eid's Fiord" on Sven
drup's chart, then southwest to Helrs
Gate and Simmons Peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already not.
ed off Cape Thomas II. Hubbard, they
encountered open water. On this point
the boys were clear, emphatic, and
unshakable. They spent good deal
of time in this region, and finally
abandoned their dogs and one sIedge,
took to their boat, crossed Helrs Gate
to North Kent, up into the Norfolk
Inlet, then back along the north coast
of Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape
Vera, where they obtained fresh elder
duck eggs. Here they cut the remain
ing sledge off, that is shortened it, as
it was awkward to transport with the
boat, and near here they killed wal
rus.
The statement in regard to the
fresh. elder duck eggs permits the APP
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13

CONTINUED on Page Nine.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13
INTRODUCTION eY PEARY.

Some of my reasons fer saying that
DIR. Cook did not go to the North Pole
will be understood by these who real
the following statements of the tive
Eskimo boys who went with him, ana
who told me and others of my party
where he did go. Several Eskimos
who started with DR. Cook from An
oratok in February, 1908. were al
fstah when 1 arrived there in August
1905 They told me that DR.. CoOk
had with him, after they left, two Es'
kimo boys or young men, two sledges
and some twenty dogs. The boys
were I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah.
had known them from childhood. One
was about eighteen and the other
nineteen years of age.
On my return from Cape Sheridan
and at the very first settlement
touched (Ncrke, near Cape Chalon) in
reaching Etah, the Eskimos told me
in general way, WHO'RE DR.. Cook had
been; that he had wfntered in Jones
Sound and that he had told the white
men at Etah that he had been a long
way north, but that the boys who were
with him, I-toOlI a-ShOO and Ah-pe-lah.
said that this was not SO. The Eslli
mos laughed at DR.. Cooks story. o.
reaching Etah, / talked with the Eski
mos there and with the two boys and
asked them to describe DR. Cooks
journey to members of my party and
myself. This they did in the manner
stated below.
(Signed) r. L. PEARY.
SIGNED STATEMENT OF PEARY
BARTLETT, MCMILLAN. BROTF.
AND HENSON, IN REGARD To
TESTIMONY OF COOKS two
ESKIMO BOYS.
Fhe two Eskimo boys. I-took-a-shoa
and Ah-pe-lah, who accompanied Dr
Cook while he was away from Anora
tok in 1908 and 1909. were questioned
separately and Independently, aud
were corroborated by Panikpah. the
father of one of them U-took- ;-shool,
who was personally familiar with the
first third and the last third of their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13
IN new QUARTERS
Modern Equipment for Manual
Training Glasses at Lin
coin School.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR "a
Expenditures of $e4O for Benches
and IooIs--PostpoRe Meeting
Board of Education.

The manual training classes of the
Lincoln school building began work in
their new room with their new equip
ment this morning for the first time.
The new benches authorized at a
: meeting of the board of education sew
eral months ago have finally arrived
and been installed in the room set
aside for Them at the building There
are a dozen OF the new benches aud
81 they will accommodate "a pupils at
: each class. An outlay of $40 was
made to fit up the room with improved
benches and tools, and Supervisor y.
5 G.. Hill is satisfied that the money
& was well spent.
The Few benches are of the very
latest model built by the Grand
Rapids Handscrew company, Grand
Rapids, Mich. They contain a novelty
in vises which is an Improvement even
over those used in the benches at the
high school manual training room.
They are a combination of rapid act
ing and slow acting wise and they work
perfectly.
Replace Homemade Benches.
The benches which the present new
fairs which were of very little practi-
cal use. They were built by the
pupils themselves while Supervisor
Gibson was in charge. az at that time
the board did not feel able to go TO
the expense of buying new up-to-da.e
benches for the grade schools. 1t de-
velops, however that the old make
shift benches cost very nearly as
much as the new ones and the board
is sorry now that it did not buy them
in the first place. The room in VIII;
the manual training work was done
formerly is on the west side OF ja2
bnilding in the part set aside for the
girls. The new benches have been IN
stalled in a room on the east side
where the light is just as good and
where the boys will not interfere with
the girls. The new arrangements arc
very nice.
Board Meeting Postponed.
The board of education was 70 have
held it's regular monthly meeting last
evening at the high school. but on &C
count of the absence of President F.
c. Denkmann, who is out OF the city
on business. the meeting for this
month will be held next Tuesday, and
at that time the regular routine bust
ness will be taken care of. There IS
nothing of especial Importance 10
come up before the board at the meet
ing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13

Esi:imo boys were suggested by Com
mander Fcary TO some Of US. ana were
put by us 70 the Eskimo boys.
Still later Commander Pcary asked
the Eskimo boys twosor three casual
questions on minor points that had
occurred to him.
During the taking Of this testimony,
it developed that Or. Cook had told
these boys, as he told AIR. Whitney
and Billy Pritchard, the cabin boy
that they must not tell Commander
Peary or any of us anything about
their journey, and the boys stated
Dr. Cook had thrSltened them il they
should tell anything.
The narraslvo CT these Eshimos is
as follows:
They, with Or. Cook, Francke AMI
nine other Eskim-s. left Anoratok
crossed Smiths Sound to Cape Sa-
hine. slept III Commander Pcary's old
house in Payer Harbor. then went
through RICE Strait to Buchanan Bay
After few marches Francke and
three Es}imos returned to AnCratok
Dr. Cook, with the others, then pro
ceeded UP Fiagler Bay. branch of
Buchanan Bay, and crossed Ellesmere
Land through the valley pass at the
head OF E:aElcg Pay, indicated by
Commander FeaFy in 1898. ami util-
lied by Sycrdrup in 1899. to the head
of Sverdrups "Eay Ford on the west
side of Ellesmerc Land.
Their route then lay out through
this ford. thence north through Sver-
drup's "Icuerka Sound and Manson
Strait
On their way they killed musk oxen
and bear. and made caches, arriving
eventually at a point on the west side
of hansen Strait (shore of Axel Hell
berg Land Of Sverdrup), south of Cape
Thomas Hubbard.
cache was formed here and the
four EskimCs aid not go beyCnd this
point. Two others, KoOlootingwah
and Tnughito. went on one more march
with DR.. Cook and the two boys. help
I'd to build the snow iglco, then re-
turned without sleeping
(These two Eskimos brought back
a letter from DR. Cool; to Francke, dat
I'd the 18th of March. The two men
IeJoiHSu Jbe OINer lOOr men VINO ndu
been left behind, and the six returned
to Anoratok, arriving Mby 9TH. This
was obtained not from the
two Eskimo boys, but from the six
men who returned and from Francke !
and was known TO us in the |
of 1903, when the Roosevelt |
first arrived at Etah. The information !
is inserted here as supplementary to |
the narrative of the two boys.)
Encountered Open Mater.
After sleeping at the camp where |
the last two Eskimos turned back. DR..
Cook and the two boys went in q
northerly or northwesterly direction
with two sledges and twenty odd dogs, |
one more march, when they encoun-
tered rough ice and lead CT open wa
ter. They did net enter this rough ice
nor crccs the load. but turned west.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13
PEARY PRESENTS EVIL
DENCE THAT COOK DID
NOT REACH POLE
CONTINUED from Page oneJ

10 Baffin bay. over the ice of
which they proceeded back to
Anoratok.
Commander Peary's statement is as
follows:
0cntered according to Act of Congress
in the year 1909. by the Peary Arctic Club
in the office of tie Librarian OF Congress
at Washington, ID. c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13
Pointers.

COndctOr-Beg pardon, aam for dropping the nickel;
I'll get it for you right away. Those gloves make
my hands SO clumsy, but if didn't wear them my
hands would be dirty my linen. What with
handling money, and the pushing and showing my
things get dirty my wife doesn like to wash EN-"
Anty Drtdge-'Wel, that's sad state of affairs. Get
her to try Fes-Naptha and she shall complain
about washing your clothes. No backaches
from Fes-Naptha, or hard work either Your wife
do a days washing before if she it.''
When Fcls-Naptha soap is used the
hanging out is the hardest part of the wash
ing
No boiling, either winter or summer.
No fire to keep red hot; no firing and
tedious rub-a-dub on the washboard.
Fcls-Naptha itself docs the hardest part
of the washday work-loosening the dirt:
All the human aid necessary is few
rubs, a quick rinsing and the clothes are
ready for wringing.
Out they 90 on the line, sweeter and
whittier than if a whole day were spent
trying TO grind out the dirt on washboard.
For further information read the inside
of the red and green wrapper,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-13
Northwest. On this island they camp

Northwest. OH llIS lSiH-iU o4S9 S"'iip
ed for one sleep.
The size and position of this island,
as drawn by the first boy, was criti-
cised by the second boy as being too
large and too far to the west, the sec
ond boy calling the attention Of the
first to the fact that the position Of
the island was more nearly in line
with the point where they had left
Heiberg Land CCape Northwest and
the channel between Amund Ringne5
Land and Ellef Ringnes Land
Tbis criticism and correction was
accented by the first boy, who started
to change the position Of the island
but was stopped, as Commander Peary
had given instructions that no changes
or treasures we're to be made in the
route as drawn by the Eskimos on the
chart
From this island they could see two
lands beyond (Sverdrup's ElIef Ring
mes and Amund Ringnes Land. }
From the island they journeyed to-
ward the left hand one Of these two
lands (Amund Ringnes LanD, passing
a small island which they did not visit
Arriving at the shore of Amund
Ringnes Land, the Eskimos killed
deer, as Indicated on the chart.
Covers Date sOf Alleged Dash.
The above italicized portion of the
statement Of the Eskimo boys covera
the period # time in which DR.. Cook
claims to have gone 10 the Pole and
back, and the entire fine during
which he could possibly have made
----------
any attempts 10 go 70 Il.
------------
sThe answers of the Eskimo boys TO
Commander Peary's series Of indie
pendent questions, showing that Trey
killed no Gamo, made no caches, lost
no dogs, AMI returned to the land with
loaded slccges, makes ;neir attain
ment of the Pole on the trip North OF
Cape Thomas Hubbard phy5ical ana
mathematical impossibility, as it
would demand the subsistence of
three men and over twenty dogs dur
ing a journey Of ten hundred and forty
geographical miles on less than two
sledge loads OF supplies
If it is suggested that perhaps DR..
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the Pole, or thought he did, between
The dime Of leaving The northwest
coast Of Hc!berg Land at Cape North
west and his arrival at Ringnes Land,
where they killed the deer, we must
then add 10 the date of DR., Cooks
letter of March 18th, at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the Subsequent four
or five sleeps at that point, and the
number of DAYS required to march
from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
Northwest "a distance of some sixty
nautical miIes1, which would advance
his date of departure from the land
to at least the 18th OF March, and be
prepared to accept the claim that DIR.
Cook went from Cape Northwest
(about latitude eight and half de
grees North) to the Pole, a distance
of five hundred and seventy geograph-
icaI miles, in twenty-seven days.
Turn Back South.
After killing the deer they then
travelled south along the east side of
Ringnes Land to the point indicated
on the chart, where they killed an
other deer.
They then went east across the |
south part of Crown Prince Gustav |
Sea To the south end of Heihnrcr and |
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-29
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell
and completely derange the whole system when
articles should never be used except on prescrip-
tons from reputable physicians. as the damage
they will do is ten fold to the good you can posi-
bly, derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, msnu-
featured by F.. Cheney & Co.. Toleda, D. contains
mercury. and is taken internally. acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the ystem,
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken isssrnaly and made in Toledo
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney ! Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c. per bottle
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation,