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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
PAYS TO RAISE WEEDS.
These "PIants Out of Place" Have a
Fixed Market Value.

Money in weeds? To be sure. The
national department of agriculture has
been for many years telling the farm
ers of the large money value going to
waste each year in this country in the
shape of pernicious weeds and has
been issuing bulletins with directions
for collecting, curing and selling the
weeds. A quarter of century ago
DR.. George B. Loring, the commission
er of agriculture called attention to
the fact that in Germany many of the
commonest and most pernicious weeds
that the American farmer has to con
tend with were successfully and prof
itably cultivated. Burdock, dandelion,
witch grass, foxglove, MULLEN, bore
hound, jimson, mustard and water
hemlock are among our commonest
weeds and grow in great profusion al
most everywhere in the United States.
Ordinarily they are regarded merely
as troublesome weeds. The trouble, of
course, is in the lazy habit of attempt
ing to grow weeds and cultivated crops
on the same land at the same time.
So it often happens that the witch
grass between the potato rows is more
valuable than the tubers in the hills.
When you raise weeds you must make
a business of it. Land that will raise
nothing else will raise weeds. The
jimson grows in rank profusion about
the feed lot, the front yard is yellow
with dandelion flowers, and the flow
ers of the mullen bedeck the pastures.
The burdock grows in the roadside
fence corners, and the waste lot pro-
duces an abundance of witch grass and
comfrey, yet majority of the drug
weeds used in medicine in this coun-
try are still imported and paid for at a
high rate.
Without counting wormwood, tansy
and rhubarb, all Of which are weeds In
favored places, and without including
catnip or pennyroyal or any of the
minis, the American people are pay
ing out more than 100000 a year in
hard earned money for imported
weeds which are growing wild in near
ly every part of the country. The i'm
ports for the year 1908 were as fol
lows.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21

Mrs. JIG. Warren and son Harold and
Mrs. Henry Graham spent Saturday in
St. Johnsbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Valley have four
children i'll with measles
Mrs. Stella Folsom and son Henry,
Miss Grace Waite and H. R. Pratt of St.
Johnsbury are spending this week at
their new cottage at Miles Pond
George Grant has returned home from
Eden. Me-, where he has spent the past
five months.
Mrs. Edward Higgins and son Floyd
of Concord spent part of last week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. King.
The Sunday schoolcontest between the
blues and yellows has closed, the blues
having the largest attendance. They
were treated to bountiful repast of
cake and ice cream by the defeated party.
The school at Four Corners recently
taught by Miss Katie Fisher proved to
be successful and unusually pleasant.
Those perfect in attendance were May
and John Dodge, May, Ray and Myrtle
Young, Hazel and John Little and Flor
ence Perkins. Fay Perkins and Lester
Woodbury. were absent one week due to
sickness.
No one can afford to miss the great
semi-annual "A off sale of Mems Clothing
at Steele, Taplin & Cos, St. Johnsbury,
July 22-Aug. ID. See their ad on page 5.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
Pounds Price

The knowledge that there is money
In the very common and much de.
spised weeds is spreading every year,
and very considerable industry in
medicinal weeds has arisen, but it is
far short of what it should be. The
average farmer cannot bring himself
to regard as other than a heresy the
declaration that a weed is simply a
useful plant out of place
The price paid by big jobbing drug
houses for leaves, flowers or roots of
the commoner weeds which afflict the
farmer with their presence when he
let's them get out of place are as fol-
lows: Dandelion roots, dried; jimson
weed. leaves and seeds, poison hem
lock, freshly plucked, and dried flow
erS and leaves and dried and cleaned
seed Of black and white mustard, &
cents pound; burdock root, sliced and
dried, Z cents pound; dried leaves
and blossoms Of horehound and wild
foxglove, to cents a pound; dried
blossoms Of the tall pasture mullen,
60 cents pound If sealed in tight
jars. In addition to the above stand
ard drugs the dried leaves of poke
weed and trillium, gold thread and
jack-in-the-pulpit are marketed, as well
as the leaves and flowers of tansy,
lobelia, boneset, catnip and a dozen
other very common plants, all of
which are in demand at the market
prices.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
EAST CONCORD.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Strong drove
over from Littleton last Saturday, and
returned home Monday. They were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Folsom
while here.
Miss Mabel Wood spent Sunday at
home.
Mrs. Curt Goodall is gaining.
A very enjoyable week was passed at
the home of Lemuel Nichols, where his
mother, Mrs. Lizzie Nichols, entertained
her three sisters, Mrs Nellie Clifford of
New York city and Mrs. Lena Pratt and
Mrs. Warren Temple of St. Johnsbury.
Archie Weir was given pleasant sur
prise last Saturday, when % OF his
friends arrived at his home to help him
celebrate his birthday. Cake and coffee
were served and a happy evening was
passed by all present.
Mrs. Joseph Vance, who was quite Ill
last week, is convalescent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Smith have
pitched their tent and moved on to the
farm during the haying season.
Mr.. Whitcher of Lisbon, N. H., was
entertained at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
H. A. Smith last week.
Rev. A. S. Gilbert of Passumpsic will
be here next Sunday and give talk IN
behalf of the Anti-Saloon League. lie
was expected here last Sunday, but there
was a mistake in the date. Do not tail
to be present as his address is sure to be
interesting.
Mrs. Archie Weir, Mrs. Herbert Jack
man and little daughter Madeline were
in St. Johnsbury last week.
Mrs. Kathleen Elgerson is in Burliug-
ton visiting her sister Mrs. Wyman
Cody is caring for little Charlie Elger-
son in the absence of his parents.
J.C. Warren spent Sunday at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Russell enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Smith of
Lunenburg, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Grant, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark Steere entertained their sister.
Mrs. Alice Kenney, and son George OF
Manchester, N. H., last week
w. H. Webb, who was taken suddenly
III last Thursday is improving.
"a 80 --------ur-S-- ---I..----x-~w1 $50
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
NOTICE.

We desire to call your attention to the
fact that the American Liver Tablets
are perfect laxative. They are purely
vegetable and act as tonic to the
stomach and bowels as we'll as a mild
stimulant to the liver, The habit of
constipation is one of the chief causes of
ill health Drinking plenty of cold water,
eating coarse food, physical exercise,
regularity in habit, will cure a large
percentage of the cases. Yet many
require a laxative at times and every
home should contain The American
Liver Tablets as part of the home equip
ment. The dose is one or two at night;
children one-half tablet. They are sugar
coated. They never cause gripping or
any bad effect. The American Liver
Tablets can be bought at any drug
store or will be sent, postpaid, upon
receipt of price. Two sizes, 10 and 25
cents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
NORTH WALDEN.

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Rollins of Orleans
have been visiting their mother and
other relatives in this vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith were in
Barton Saturday.
Mrs. George Chamberin and children
of st. Johnsbury visited her sister Mrs.
A. L. Beals recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frye of Warren, N. H.,
are at her brothers, H. F. Kittredge for
few weeks before starting for Califor-
MIA.
Mrs. Esther Rollins of Hardwick is
stopping for a time with an invalid
daughters family, Mrs. John Taylor.
Harry Barnett, from this town now of
Springfield, Mass, has been quite i'll.
Harry Balch visited friends in St.
Johnsbury recently.
Mrs. Hardy Paronto returned from
Montgomery last week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
STANNARD.

Mrs. Lydia Smith is a guest of her son,
F. S. Smith.
Mrs. Ruth Johnson of East Hardwick
was recent guest of Mrs. M. F. Aver.
Mrs. Clarence Bates of Springfield,
Mass, was recent visitor here.
M. F. Aver returned last week from
few days visit with his son and family at
Alburgh.
Austin Magoon is at work for George
Jackson at Cabot.
Mrs. c. H. Brown visited friends at
Hardwick last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Woodland of George
vile, Canada, were recent guests of Mrs.
Matte Shepard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
Handy Bread Outfit.

One of the latest additions to the al
ready large number of combination
household utensils Is the combined
bread cabinet and cutting knife. This
consists Of an ordinary wooden box,
or storage compartment, in which the
loaves are kept, with two drawers be-
meath it. These drawers are pivotally
mounted to swing to an open position
beyond the sides. On the side of the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21

box is curved cutting knife, operat-
Ing in a rotary fashion by means Of
handle. A loaf of bread is placed at
the edge of the box. and a turn of the
knife cuts off slice, which drops into
the drawer beneath. When a sufficient
number Of slices are cut the drawer
can be swung shut One merit Of
this device is that the knife, operating
as 1t does, cannot swerve to one side
or the other, and the slices of bread
are all Of uniform thickness, a result
not always achieved by using the old
fashioned bread knife by hand.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
GEO. III. JONES.
Republican Block.
Presentation of Account.

j
STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate Court, held at the Probate Office in
st. Johnsbury,in said district. on the 3rd day
of July, A. d. 1909, Martha Mason, Special
Administrative upon the estate of Jane
Mason late of Waterford. in said District,
deceased, presents her administration account
for examination and allowance.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said court,
that said account and said application be
referred to session thereof to be held at
the probate Office in said St. Johnsbury,
on the 23rd day of July A. D., 1909,
for hearing, and decision thereon And it is
further ordered that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested by publication of
the same three weeks successfully in the
St. Johnsbury previous to said time
appointed for hearing, that they may
appear at said time and place, and show
cause, if any they may have, why said
account should not be allowed.
By the Court, Attest,
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21

shown in the accompanying illustra-
ton. The nest is made of wire and is
supported in a suitable housing, both
of which can be removed from the
chicken house when cleaning is neces
sary. When thus removed they can be
conveniently placed in a suitable re-
eeptacle containing boiling water and
thoroughly cleansed of all impurities
and undesirable insects.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
Sanitary Poultry Nest,

The present day tendency to employ
sanitary measures in the dairy, the
stable, the dog house, etc, has at last
extended to the poultry yard. The in
dustrious hen is to be provided with
sanitary nest which can be readily
washed and scrubbed, as occasion de,
mands. This recent development Is
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
Money In Honev.

Three hundred billion bees made
enough honey last year to fill a train
of cars long enough to reach from
New York to Buffalo. At the low
wholesale rate Of 10 cents a pound 1t
was worth $25,000,0OO.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
At the Old
Stand.

All kinds of Furniture. Stoves
CrOCkery. Glassware and every
thing for the household.
Also three good Driving Hdr-
ness. pair Work Harness. WhiffIe-
trees. Neck YOkeS. etc.
Am still cleaning and laying
carpets and give the same prompt
attention.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21

ne June Vermonter has an excellent
S OF Judge Charles Rogers from the
zen OF Miss Josephine M. Woods of the
~ H. Johnsbury Republican staff. A hne
nneiless OF this veteran surveyor accom-
panes the article.
NO one can afford to miss the great
oIA I'll ll'annual "a off sale of Mems Clothing
at at, Steele, Taplin & Co.'S, St. Johnsbury,
J0'y 22-Aug. IA. See their ad on page o.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
Business Directory.
PHYSICIANS.
n, n, MILTIMORE,M

r. n. MILTIMORE, NJ. D.
Physician and Surgeon. Office and residence
80 Main Street.
Office Hours: 80
~ 3O-2
IS
N. E. Phone 1912. Cit. Phone M-S7
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
cHARL oTTE FAIRBANKS, M, D.

Office "a Main st. Residence "a Western Ave.
Office Hours: 10 to IL a. m, 100 to 3. 80
p. m. Monday and Thursday to p. m
and by appointment.
N E. Telephone
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-21
t0LEYSKIDNEYCURE

makes Kidneys and Bladder Right
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-25
: DIAMOND MINING IN ARKANSAS
10 bFGIN ON A LARGE SCALE
Observation-Disclosures ssssssssssssssssssss3

County mining
ing engineer that has investigated the field
a of Engineering Mining
1t Fuller that $40 diamonds
yellow
soil
quality African Three
and have yielded beautiful which
the junction of that with Prairie
diamond
when the including
by the State Geologist that scientifically
The diamond
technically
dixie filled solid extending
the
not contained in soft clay soil ground that difficulty wash
and popularity
ground this originating in the color Of
Mr. Fuller
and Of South Africa
In certain writes
ply of and timber mining
that mining should
unattainable
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-25
OLD MAN IS MURDERED.
Robert Scott, Well known Minocqua
Resident, Shot Down by Unknown
Person in His Home

MINOCQUA, Wis, Feb 19.-[Spe-
cial. Robert Scott, an old resident of
this village, was shot and instantly
killed at his home here by some un-
known person. SCOTS wife had attend
ed a dance in the evening, leaving her
husband and two daughters at home.
Late in the evening Scott went to his
room, saying that someone was outside
the house. He took his rifle and re-
turned to the lower floor. Shortly after
ward his daughters heard two shots in
rapid succession. Rushing from their
room they found the dead body of their
father on the floor near the door with a
bullet hole in his head just behind the
ear.
Beside his body was found his rifle.
1t was thought ut first that it was Il
case of suicide, but the bullet that had
entered SCOTS brain was from n 3S-
caliber gun, while his own rifle was Il
44-caliber one. The authorities were
not notified until the next day, when
Sheriff Jillson and Deputy Vaughan be
gan search for the murderer. No trace
of him has been found.
Neighbors of Scott say that he had
had considerable trouble with Indians
In the neighborhood and that on fire.
quent occasions threats against his life
had been made Scott, it is said, had
Indian blood in his veins.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-25
EASTERN STAR ELECTS
SESSIONS BROUGHT TO CLOSE WITH
CHOICE OF OFFICERS.
New Constitution and Bylaws Adopted
Home Association Names
Its Leaders.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Feb. 10, 1909
Following the election of Mrs Rachel
Gardner. Grand Rapids, as grand mat
ron, grand chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star, Thursday afternoon, and that OF
T.. Il. Hayhurst, Waterloo, as grand
patron, the following officers were elect
ed and appointed and the grand chapter
came to close late in the afternoon:
Associate grand matron. Mrs Rose Mead
Plymouth; associate grand patron, DR.. Ray
mond Williams, Appleton; grand secretary
Mrs. Helen NJ. Latin, Milwaukee; CRANE
treasurer, Mrs. Lucille w. Parker, M.lwau
kee; grand conductor Mrs. Jennie Dover
Edith Beard, Beloit grand Adah, Mrs Cors
Cushman, Rewey; grand Ruth. Miss Alice
Whitney Green Bay; grand Esther, Mrs
Lain Humnell, Spooner; grand Martha. Mrs
Kate Mountford, Poynette; grand Electa
Mrs. Jessie Palmer, Mansion; grand chap
lain,. Mrs. Frances King, Merrill; CRANE
warden, Mrs. Lounegan, Grantsburg; CRANE
marshal, Miss Jane Spaulding, Black River
Falls; grand sentinel, John b. Cromwell
Milwaukee; grand organist, Miss Ethel Har
rlson, Milwaukee; trustee for three years
Mrs. Minor b. Glasier, Bloomington.
The new constitution and bylaws, re.
ported at this session, was adopted. The
attendance at the sessions numbered
more than 400, being one of the largest
Eastern Star gatherings i'll the history
of the body.
The following officers We're elected at
the annual meeting of the Eastern Stat
lone association:
President, Mrs Nellie NJ Towner, yiro
qua; vice president, William A. Iinsey
Milwaukee,; secretary, Mrs Helen NJ, Latin
Milwaukee; treasurer. Max w. Heck, RIA
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-25

This first governmental issue OF
stamped envelopes, stamped letter pa
per and adhesive labels or stamps In
England was in 1910. Three years be-
fore, In 1887, stamped wrappers under
the name of "go-frees'' had been used
experimentally and had been recon-
mended to the chancellor Of the ex-
chequer for adoption by the govern
ment In Dundee, a printer named
James Chalmers printed stamps from
F., ordinary type, washing their backs with
gum. He showed them to his neigh
| bors, but made no public mention of
them until November, 1887, nine months
after Sir Rowland Hill had drawn the
attention of the commissioners of the
postofllce to the possibilities Of using
such adhesive stamps when people
bought unstamped envelopes to the
| postoffice.
The postal system derives its very
name from the posts placed along Ro-
man roads to mark points where courl-
ers took dispatches. But the modern
postal system with its prepaid postage,
with its system Of levying postal trib-
ute on the basis Of weight and not dis
lance, its letter boxes, its delivery OF
parcels and newspapers and money or
ders, dates from Sir Rowland Hill.
The earliest official notice OF postal
service in the American colonies Is
found in the records Of the general
court Of Massachusetts In 1889 The
house Of Richard Fairbanks in Boston
was under the ruling Of the court desig-
mated as the place for all letters
brought from across the seas or to be
sent thlther. He was allowed a penny
for every letter which he received or
sent In Virginia, every planter was
required to provide messenger to car
ry letters as they arrived at his plan
tation to the next one. He forfeited
a hogshead Of tobacco should he fail
to do so. In 1872, the government Of
New York established monthly post
between New York and Boston. In 1892
the office of postmaster general for
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-25

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb 10
While playing with lighted candle,
a 15-months' odd baby. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Eilers, 712 Eighteenth
avenue, set fire to her clothing Thursday
afternoon, and died in an hour. The
mother left home in the afternoon to
visit her mother-in-law and the baby was
alone with a 3-year-old sister
The older daughter had placed a
lighted candle on the floor for the baby
to see. Reaching for the candle, the
baby upset it, setting fire to its clothes,
and then to the house.
Mrs. Louise w. Dreyfus. S73 Mus
keSo avenue, was on a nearby corner
at that time and saw smoke pouring
from the window Of the Eilers home.
The woman FASTENED to the fire and
was Mortified to see 3-year-old Laura
vainly trying to raise the window in a
room all ablaze. Mrs. Dreyfus smashed
i'll the window pane with her umbrella
and rescued the little girl from the burn
inS building, but not until each had
been burned seriously about the face and
hands
Almost frantic with excitement, the
rescued girl told of the fate of her baby
sister, who still remained in the house
Mrs. Dreyfus summoned Thomas Jury
zinski, who lives nearby who entered
the burning building, by this time so
filled with smoke that he had to crawl
about on his hands and knees feeling for
the baby.
The mother arrived home just in time
to witness the death of her child,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-25

| shortcomings of theatrical people be-
! cause of the publicity of their lives
/ Moreover their moral tone has been
! steadily improving since ShakeSpeare'S
| time, when no actor could be received
in decent society. There are today many
actors and actresses of irrevrOachable
private life.
Why Not a Children's Theater?
| Th greatest lack of the theater Of lo-
day is adequate provision for the amuse-
ment of the children. Even if we can
not have children's theater, why do
not theatrical managers produce plays
for children at the Saturday matiuees:
They could produce something like the
Christmas pantommcs that are So pOpu-
lar with children in England. and in
fact are an inScpGrahle feature OF the
! Christmas festival. II would certainly
be good financial investment to put
| II on no higher grounds. As il Is most
children are driven to the moving pic
ture shows for their sole form Of amuse-
ment; and there they ruin their eyes,
without getting really Il high form of
amusement. Or they are attracted by
| the title of 4 musical comedy, which
sounds as if il were meant for chill
drcn but was not really intended for
them at all Why can We not have more
plays like Peter Pam We remember
how the children tlockcd To- that
one of the most pathetic illustrations
of the need for a children's thcatcr is
afforded by what happened few years
ago in one of the larger towns up state.
lhseu's DOLLS House was advertised
extensively for production during the
| Christmas holidays. The fame Of lhSen
not having penetrated sufficiently to that
community. the nature of the play as
being a study of the problem OF mod
crn marriage was little known. When
the hour arrived for the matinee, the
thcater was packed to the roof with
children. The poor little things were
ance, and kept crying out for the dolls
! house tn be brought onto the stage.
Could there he Il better proof of the
need for children'S theutcrf- Seldeu L.
| nelany, in milwaukee, Evening Wise