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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
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1t isn't often hat we have faith
enough in the medicines put up by other
people to be willing to offer to refund
the money if it does not cure. said drug
gist H. B. Dutton Co. to one of their
many customers. but we ale glad to sell
DIR. Towards specific for the cure of
constipation and dyspepsia OF that plan.
THE DIR. Howard Co. in order to get
a quick Introductory sale authorized us
to sell the regular fifty cent bottle of
their specific for half price, 25 cents, and
although we have sold a lot of it, and
guaranteed every package, not one has
been brought back as unsatisfactory"
There are sixty doses in a vial that can
be carried in the vest pocket or purse,
and every one has more medicinal power
than a big pill or tablet or a tumbler of
mineral water.
Any person who is subject to consti-
patton, sick headache, dizziness, liver
trouble, indigestion or a general played
out condition, ought to take advantage
of this opportunity.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14

solving. Punishments seem to have no
terror for him and the prison authorities
are at their wits end to knowf how to
control him. His latest outbreak has
been to spend most of the nights cream
ing and bowling, keeping the whole
wing where he is confined in a stir most
of the night. This he has kept up for
months. All sorts of means of break
ing this up have been tried but with
only temporary success" His expla-
nation to Chaplain Ford of his scream
ing is, 'She turns the hose on me. She
keeps t%elephoning me who she is"
For several weeks Kent was placed in
the cell of a life man, a burly English
man, who has as one of his treasured
possessions the long horn of a Texas
steer. This he applied so persuasively
to Kent that he kept quiet while he was
with the Englishman. AS soon as he
was removed to his own cell the scream
ing was resumed. Now a solid iron
door is being fitted to his cell with the
hope that as soon as he finds his antics
are not annoying anyone he will quit.
Chaplain Ford thinks the place for
Kent is IN Waterbury. Warden Lowell
does not venture an opinion as to Kent's
sanity but contents himself with saying
that he is without question the meanest
mar he ever dealt with.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
MINNEsoTA's FOREST FIRES.

A frightful forest fire took place Sun
day in Minnesota, wiping out several
towns, with 500 settlers dead, and 5000
homeless. What a pigimy nan is!
Ordinarily man thinks he fills a big
niche in the universe. He directs with
a twist of his hand the vast freight en-
CINE that can pull so heavy cars W a
mountain grade, thus defying the force
of gravitation that holds stars together.
He made the steel of the engine in
foundries of his own building, he devils
ed the labyrinth of levers and pipes
that transform inert black Goa into al
most irresistible energy. What can he
not do?
In such a forest fire mans littleness
appears. The solemn s~ilences of the
forests seem an impregnable retreat
from the noise, the heat, the distract
ions of our garish civilization. Under
these grand trees, 1.-THE sun shall not
smite thee by day, nor the moon by
night" And yet in an hour some pas
sing spark settles in a tuft of dried
leaves. For five or ten minutes a pail
of water in the hands of a child would
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14

Few industries waste more wood, in
proportion to the quantity used, than
spool making. Heartwood knots and
all other defects, frequently amounting
to more than one-half Of the tree, are
rejected. From one-half to three
fourths of the remainder may go to the
refuse heap in saving the bars and
turning the spools. Despite this waste
the paper birch does not appear to be
threatened with extinction. 1t is a fire
tree-that is, it spreads rapidly over
spaces left vacant by forest fires. The
most extensive paper birch forests of
Maine and New Hampshire occupy
tracts which were laid bare by the
great forest fires which swept the re-
gion from 1926 to 1887.
The tree is short lived. At an age
when the white cedar, for example, is
just beginning to lay on useful wood,
the paper birch has passed its prime
and is ready for decay. 1t is placed a.
still further disadvantage by being un'
able to compete with other trees fol
light and soil. 1t prospers when grow
ing alone, but it gives up the fight aftel
stronger trees begin to crowd it
Nevertheless, it is believed that NOR,
paper birch is growing in the United
States today than two hundred year.
Ago..
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14

Farmers will hail with relief and joy
the news from Washington that the
government has finally succeeded in
stamping out hog cholera. The bureau
of animal industry set about its work in
a scientific way to obtain the tests re-
quisite.
A purchase of thirty pigs was made
by the union stock yards at Omaha
from a farm that had been free from
cholera for several years.
Then these animals were brought to
the stock yards and four of them were
injected with the blood of hogs sick
with hog cholera; these pigs were iso-
lated and became sick within five days;
then Is pigs were given the serum
while the remaining eight were not
treated in any way.
The next step in the test was placing
the Is treated pigs and the eight I'M
treated animals in the same pen with
the four that had been made sick by
incubation.
The results were sufficiently signifi-
cant to establish the virtue of the SER
UNI used as a preventative. The foul
pigs originally given hog cholera all
died and the eight untreated pigs haC
contracted the disease from them; the
Is pigs which were given the SERUM re-
NAMED perfectly well although confined
with the four original sick hogs and
the sick untreated pigs.
This valuable serum will not be dis
ributed to farmers by the Department
of Agriculture, but steps will be taker
to secure the intervention of the stocl
raising interest, which in turn will
start out to obtain state funds fol
the manufacture and distribution of the
serum. - Rutland Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14

Of the fourteen counties, Rutland leads
with a population of 4S, 139; Chittenden
is second with 4 2,447, and Washington
third with Al, 702, while the smallest is
Grand Isle with a population of 1851.
Nevertheless Washington county is the
banner county for gain and Montpelier
the city for percentage of increase, the
county having gained 5,095 in the ten
year period, Rutland gaining 5000 and
Chittenden, 2,S47.
OF cites, Burlington leads with a popu.
lation of &c Gags; Rutland follows, 10, $40;
Barre, 10, 1874; Montpelier, 1856; st.
Adams, 6,3S1: V%ergennes. 1,4S3.
OF towns, cities, and villages, ETC., Of
which the returns were made from 307,
including, cores, townships, etc, 167
lost in numbers, some by one or two,
others by twenty and fifty, or more.
The remainder made gains on a sliding
scale from one to several hundred.
Lynn Hays, supervisor of the census
in Vermont says that while Vermont
mas maze no great gam III mas nad a
solid, healthy, and substantial growth.
There is under way, he said, a movement
to bring Vermont further to the front
industrlally and commercially, and the
result cannot fail to make the states
showing in the census that will be taken
"A decade hence even more gratifying in
the matter of growth thar is the present
one.
Statistics OF Vermont's agricultural
and manufacturing industries, Mr.. Hays
explained, will be sem out from time to
time AS they are worked out.
The following are the figures showing
the population of the towns including
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14

save the forest and the human lives
that shelter there. Then the flame
rises in its wrath and man is nought.
The life of man is possible on this
planet only on terms of the most rigid
OBJ edience to law. There will be much
weeping and lamenting of the property
loss and the breaking up of families
caused by this disaster. But in a week
there will be few people outside the
flame swept district who will remem-
Der this tragedy. There will be few
who will have ceased those infractions
of the worlds laws that may bring on
other such catastrophies.
Campers and hunters will keep or
emptying pipes and throwing away
lighted cigars and matches into dry
rubbish. They will continue to leave
fires without thoroughly drenching then
with water. Rutland News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
Supply of Paper Birch not De-
creasing.

The U. S. Department of Agriculture
is authority for the statement that the
paper birch, often called also white
birch, or canoe birch is one of the few
timber trees in this country which seem
to be holding their own against AK and
fire. The average citizen, however,
probably takes no particular interest in
the paper birch. Yet it is doubtful if
any other kind of wood on the face of
the earth is found in so many house
holds; for paper birch furnishes most of
the spools made in the United States.
Maine is the chief center of spool
manufacture. Its factories turn out
800 million spools yearly, chiefly birch.
Few woods as hard as this can be
worked with as little dulling of the
tools; it's principal recommendation lies
in that fact. 1t is handsome in color,
and, after the wood becomes seasoned,
it shrinks and warps very little. That
is an important consideration, because
the delicate machinery that winds the
thread would fail to work if the spool
changed its shape to a p%erceptible de-
gree.
The birch wood for spools must be
selected and handled with care. The
trees red disk heartwood is objection
able because it will not turn smooth in
the lathe, and the color is not desired.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14

Vermont has not decreased in popu-
lation during the last decade; that much
is certain. Those papers which evil
IDENTIFY took such keen delight at the
first idle rumor of %ridiculing "~decadent
Vermont may now offer the amende
honorable. The Green Mountain state
has actually increased its population by
over II, 900. While the state has not
kept the pace of the western common
wealth, into which the tides of emigra-
ton have been flowing as a river for a
decade, nobody expected it to do so.
The growth has been permanent, sub
s~tantial and valuable. Rutland Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
SPECTACLES

We are license by the State. We can
fit you with the right glasses at a price
that will please you. Let us try. Bring
your watch to us and have it cleaned and
regulated.
The Optitcian
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
TO SAVE KENT'S LIFE.
legislature Will Be Asked to
Commute His Sentence.

Elroy Kent, under sentence of death
in the States prison at Windsor, is
pretty certain to have his case come be-
fore the Legislature in an endeavor to
have his sentence committed to life i'm
prisonment. This is said to be the in
tention of those who are opposed to
capital punishment, rather than of his
friends, as it is doubtful if he has any.
Kent, it is thought, if not actually in
sane, was mentally irresponsible for
his crime at the time he committed the
murder of Miss Della Congdon at her
home in East Wallingford.
Chaplain Ford of the House, who is
chaplain of States prison, is one of
those who believe Kent should not hang,
as he considers him an imbecile. Chap
lain Ford says Kent is certainly a moral
degenerate and that in tracing his
family history to his great grandfather
he has become convinced that if he is
not actually insane he is at least an inn
beetle.
"Kent is the only mar | ever had ex-
p~erience with, situated as he is in whom
| could not arous some interest in his
fate" said the chaplain. "He appear
ed utterly Indifferent to every appeal
made to him and contents himself
with saying if they are going to hang
him he wishes they would be about it.
He takes no interest in his work anc
his whole purpose seems to be to make
himself as obnoxious as possible to
everyone. He is a problem that prison
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14

IOtAI EI,JI2 70 UIU
Part of Monkton annexed to Starks-
boro m 1908.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
Addison Railroad Company.

Rutland, VT. October 4th, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that the An
nual Meeting of the Stockholders Of the
Addison Railroad company, for the cleo
tion of directors and the transaction of
such other business as may be brought
before the meeting, will be held at the
on Tuesday, the 18th day of October,
1910. at II o'clock a. m.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. q. CLARK,
40t2 Clerk.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
GROWTH OF
Census Report Shows Population
20 be 355,956.

According to the figures received by
Secretary of State q. w. Bailey from
the census bureau in Washington. the
population of Vermont in 1910 is 355, 956,
a gain of 1876 over the census Of 1900.
This gain amounts to $40 per cent
Following is the population by coun-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to those of our friends and neigh
bors who 80 kindly assisted us during
the recent sickness and death of our
father.
WILL NJ. STOWE.
Miss NELLIE GRANT STOWE.
Mrs. j. G. ELLEs.
Mrs T. F. DEWEY.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
VERMONT IN THE FALL SEASON.

Various newspapers are commenting
on the attractions of Vermont to the
lover of the beautiful in nature at this
season of the year. Certainly the sum-
mer visitor, who sees the Green Noun
tain state only in verdant dress, owes
it to himself to tarry with US long
enough to behold great nature, when
she puts on her ascension robes of beau
ty and glory. When the dead year is
laid out in state, the winds of autumn
signing their requiem about her cata-
falque, nothing can be more solemnly
spectacular than our mountain scenery.
He who has not seen Vermont at this
season has never seen the real Vermont
and has failed of beholding a sight that
it is scarcely possible to match in any
part of the country. The splendor of
our sunsets at this season on u trans
figured hills ravishes the soul of the ar
fist and is a never-ending delight to the
ordinary observer. 1t is easy to eXtol
the attractiveness of the green hills af-
ter the sharp arrows of frost have begun
to fly through the tree branches, but the
half has not been told, nor can it be.
1t must be seer to be appreciated. For
~tunately situated are those of our peo-
pie to whom this panorama is a daily
unfolding at their very doors. Rutland
Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
SOME CLIPPINGS.
What the State Newspapers arr
SAVING on Topjcs of Interest.

The sympathy of the people of Yer
mont will be extended to the people of
the five stricken districts of Minnesota.
This disaster appears to afford an op-
portunity for Red Cross work. Mont
pelier Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
EDDYVILLE.

X ~%~%%%-~%<-e-~-%-~ !.
Eddyvile-Miss Bessie Funk has
gone to Sapulpa, OklahoE-L to visit her
sister.
Rev. Roper will deliver lecture to-
night at the Baptist church on the life
of Christ. His lecture will be illustrat-
ed with views. Preceding the lecture
he will give a vocal selection
Mrs. Laura Norwood has gone to
Lawton, Okla. to visit indefinitely
with her parents.
F. E. Waugaman who came to Ed
dyville from Pennsylvania about two
years ago moved his family this week
to Oklahoma
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith,
Jan. 10. a son.
Mrs. Peter Tharp and daughter Eva
are visiting Mrs. Hall.
Those on the sick list are Mrs.
Harve Albargh, Mrs. Barnett, Tom
Forsythe.
Geo. Dotts has gone to Kansas City,
Mo, to take a scientific course in the
university.
Mrs. Grant Dye of oskaloosa was
calling on friends in Eddyville Mon
day.
Harry Miller was in Kirkville Mon
day on business.
The League of the M. E. church
have elected the following officers for
the coming year:
President-Wm Hankins.
First vice-Mrs. Seeds
Third vice-Delpha Surber.
Fourth vice-Louisa Ward
Secretary-Jennie Shields.
Treasurer-Irvin Terrell.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
EvIvAl- is
OPENED in AGENCY
REV. E. J. SHOOK OF wlLLARE
ST, M. E. CHURCH IN CHARGE
OF SPECIAL MEETINGS.


Agency, Jan. 1.-(SpeciaD Much
interest is being manifested in this
vicinity in the special revival meet
ings which were opened last night al
the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev.
E. ]. Shook, pastor of the Willard
Street Methodist Episcopal church Of
Ottumwa is in charge of the meetings
The attendance last night was very
large for the opening meeting and II
is expected the church will be packed
every night as soon as the people in
Agency and the vicinity hear of Rev
Shocks great power of speech, The
song. serviceSlast night was excellent.
The Ottumwa pastor took for his sub
ject the text from Acts 1: 8 "Ye Shall
Receive Power He first asked who
would receive power and answered his
own question by saying the superinten-
dent, the class leaders and church Of
ficers. Who shall receive his power
was answered by the Ottumwa divine
by declaring all believers and all who
are going to be believers. The second
part of the subject was the question,
When shall you receive that power?
He answered in these words, when
l grow up to maturity"
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BUXTON.

VIM. Jones and family attended the
funeral of Mr.. Montgomery at Hook
ing last Tuesday.
Mrs. Clara Wilson and Miss ELLA
Williamson were over from White
City last week.
Del Snodgrass and family returned
from their stay with relatives at Lud-
low. Mo-, last Monday. Mr.. Snodgra IS
was able to go to work again after a
seige with the rheumatism
Mrs. VIM. Sherbine and Miss Anna
went to ST. Louis on last Monday for
an indefinite stay.
Miss Eva Pidgeon, having resign
ed her position here in the company
store. visited few days last week in
Ottumwa.
T. J. Reese prea ched at Gray's
Greek church on Sunday afternoon
Carl Anderson Is able to be out
again.
Mrs. Arts and daughter Ida of
Belle Plain, and who formerly lived
here, were visiting old friends last
week.
The Harrington young people re-
turned to their school work in Daven-
port Monday.
Miss Cora Smith, Deaconness. re-
turned to the work of assisting Rev.
Cox Tuesday after spending a month
with her parents at Climbing Hill.
Jas and Lucy Masters returned to
Red Oak Saturday to re-ente- school
after the vacation at home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
OBITUARY..
Edward p. Howard

Eldon-Edwarde P. Howard was born
September /, 1882 at Brocton, Mass.
and died January 4, 1910 at / p. M
Moved to Pennington, Iowa, August
2, 1855. During the war. he being a
photographer, went south and did con-
siderable work in his profession He
moved to Keosauaua, Ia, and married
Miss Mary j. Dibble. August 1879 he
moved with his wife to Eldon and
erected a building and worked at his
business for many years. In the mean
time he helped organize the Railroad
Congregational church of which he re-
manned q member. He was elected u
life deacon and held the office when
death overlook him. He was for many
years secretary of the Eldon Building
association and during the same time
he with others projected the Hotel Ell
don.
Mr.. Howard was ever conscien-
cious man and tried to do for others
who were in want. but his confidence
in others gave him trouble in his bus
mess. His funeral was held at the
Congregational church Frida-- at 8 o.
m. and his remains inferred in the Ell
don emetery.-Contribute
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CHARLTON.


Mrs. P. E. Vail and daughter, Mar
Jorie, have returned from visit OF
several dn-s with friends in Chicago.
Geo. Taylor departed yesterday for
Valley Springs, Texas, wherJ he will
assist in the operation of a diamond
drill.
Mrs. w. w. Durham left Friday for
a few days visit with relatives and
friends in Corydon, where the family
formerly resided
Mrs. Myrtle Metcalf, of Hornick is
visiting in this city with her aunt
Mrs. r. D. Piper.
The Misses Selma and Anna Arvid-
son have returned to Des Moines after
a two weeks visit in Whitebreast
township with their parents Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Arvidson.
Mrs. Nettie Adams, of Crawford
Colo, who had been visiting in Char
iton with her cousin, Mrs. 1. Trammel
went to Russell Friday to visit her
sister Mrs. AFRO King.
Miss Bess Stanley visited friends in
Osceola Friday.
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will sell farms, horses, cows. chickens
you can think about. One-half cent d
word.
Miss Helen Van Arsdale of this city
and sister Mrs. May Hockey of Russell
returned Friday from a visit in Des
Moines with their sister Mrs. Chas
Post.
Miss Elizabeth Ogden, Geaconness
returned Friday from two weeks
visit with relatives in Council Bluffs.
The Misses Mildred and Florence
Clapp of Fairfield returned home Fri
day after brief visit with their uncle
w. L. Clapp and wife.
Miss Elsie Douglas, who is teaching
in the public schools at Tipto" left fol-
that place Friday to resume her
duties after spending a two weeks va
cation at her home here.
Miss Bernice Woods, of Ord, Nebr.
returned home Friday otter pleasant
vic;t at the home of her uncle, c. l.
Andrew.
Will Clark returned Friday from 4
business trip to Burlington. He expects
to open a new grocery at this place ir
the near future.
Arthur Finch, of Benkleman, Nebr.
who has been visiting in Pleasant
township at the home of his father, H
M. Finch, returned home Friday.
Miss Loretta Garvin. who had beer
making her home in Charlton the last
year with her sister Mrs. d. A. Lynch
left Friday for her home in ottumwa
She exp~-ts to leave the first of this
week for an extended visit with rela-
tives in Los Angeles. .alif.
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ALBA.

Permits to we'd were granted yester-
day by the county clerk to w. NJ.
Moore, 81 and Clara A. Harstead 1S,
Abba; to Alfred F. Vest, 81 and Mar
garet E. Judson, 20. Buxton; to Momer
D. Clark. 90, and Inez T. Stump, 81,
Abba.
On Christmas day Mr.. and Mrs.
Timothy Daily brought the remains of
their three year old son Lawless from
Crawford, Neb., to Melrose for burial.
While at Melrose the family consisting
of Mr.. and Mrs. Daily and their only
remaining child, little son aged Is
months. were quarantined for scarlet
fever. Last Friday, Jan Z, the baby
passed away. Mr.. Daily was cashier at
the Burlington freight depot at this
place for many years and 1t was here
that his two little ones were born and
lived all but about the last two months
of their short lives. Since l-ov. the
family have lived at Crawford, Neb.,
where Mr.. Daily holds a position with
the Burlington road.
Joseph Hinton Is gradually recover
ing from his recent injury, During the
recent reign of ice and snow he fell
and fractured three ribs. Since that
time he has been confined to his own
flreside.
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