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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
For Improved Highways.

The bill calling for an appropria-
ton by the Legislature of 100000
for state highways, and which has
been faVorably reported by the COM
mittee, is undoubtedly most practi-
cal measure, and its passage would
probably better meet the approval
of the taxpayers as a whole than al
most any other new proposition,
calling for any considerable appro-
priation, now before the general as
sembly.
AS The News understands it, the
bill does not change the present plan
of helping every town that want such
help, but simply raises the limit for
state aid from $500 to $1,000. The
towns can vote whatever appropria-
ton they please up to $1,000, and of
course need not vote more than they
are doing now, unless they wish to
do so. Many towns probably would
not devote more money than at
present to permanent highways,
while other towns would avail them
selves of the limit of $1,000; enough
quite likely to make a decided in
crease in tie mileage of permanent
roads in the next two years.
If there is a surplus remaining in
this proposed 100000 appropria-
ton after the towns have voted to
money as they are willing to
put up themselves, it can
be used on the highways where
the greatest number of people will
be the most benefited, under any
! agreement which the state highway
commissioner may deem advisable to
make with the town where the
money is expended.
| The terms ofthe measure will also
| give the state highway commissioner
| an opportunity to employ expert ser
vice in expending the surplus, and
! thus furnish an object lesson in COM
| plete state supervision of road build
! ing, feature that will be worth a
/ good deal in the future considera-
! ton of permanent road construction.
It would also probably insure the
/ building of roads on the trunk lines
| of the state in small towns which are
now and always will be financially
] unable to do the work In all this,
| the rights and advantages of state
| aid for highways is retained as at
present for every town in the state
which wishes to take advantage of
| it.
Altogether, The News is convinced
| that no scheme can be devised that
will have such practical and far
reaching results, ana keep the ex-
| penditure within the means of the
state, than will this plan. It is to be
hoped that the legislature will act
fayorably upon this appropriation
bill and if necessary-an it will be
necessary-let other new measures
calling for large appropriations go
| over for two years.
Nothing will do as much for Yer
mont's growth and progress at this
| time as good roads, Mortified
News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
WEST RuRKE

Mrs. Mamie Brown of Newport is
visiting her niece, Mrs. H. G. Colby.
/. Mrs. Estella Nelson and Mrs.
Frank Sherman of Newport we're in
town the past. week on business and
called on Harrison CIRCUITS and Ira
Humphreys people.
Miss Jessie Dearborn spent Sun
day at her home in Newport.
Misses Laila and Glenn Roundy
and Glenn Rowland were home for
Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Brown and
son Harry spent their Thanksgiving
with Mr.. and Mrs. George Spencer at
East Haven.
School commences Dec. 5 with
Mrs. Eff1e Solomon in the higher
room and Miss Mabel Dewing in the
lower.
Harley Powers is gaining and
with his wife walked to Mrs. Ways
to eat turkey Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Coburn
were in Boston last week.
Marion Walter is working in the
New England telephone office during
the absence of Mrs. Coburn.
Burns Wilson of Evansville was
the guest of his brother, Curtis Stod-
dard, the past week.
Mrs Charles Cheney returned
home Saturday from a weeks visit
to her sister at Bradford.
Perry Porter and family and F. F.
Porter and family celebrated Thanks
giving with David Porter's family at
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30

leader. Following the literary exer-
cises Mrs. Harvey, on behalf of the
Club, presented Mrs. Pelton a hand
some hand-paintedd dish as souvenir
of her birthday. Delicious refresh
ments were served. The last meeting
of the Club was held with Mrs Frank
A. Manuel, Nov. FL. Topic for dis
cussion: Eminent Dutch in Ameri-
ca-Dutch Colonial Possessions. !"
Leader, Mrs. L. III. Smith.
The opening meeting of the season
of the Ladies Village Improvement
Society Glover Club of Enosburg
Falls was held at the home of Mrs
Emmett McFeeters. The committee
of ladies, consisting of Mrs. E. ".
Perkins, Mrs F. FL. Brown and Miss
Edith Pratt, who did the entertain
ing on that night, arranged for a
sHallowe'e High links party. All
guests were requested to come dress
ed in sheets and pillow cases, carry
ing broom-stick.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
One Cost of Greedy Folly.

Some very startling statements
regarding the extent to which the
American people are. humbugged
were made by Postmaster General
Hitchcock following the raid made
last week on the institutions of
Burr Brothers and director of the
Continental Wireless Telegraph and
Telephone Company in New York
City. The first named firm is said to
have sold between $4O,00O,000 and
$50,00O,O00 worth of mining and
oil stocks worth little or nothing and
the second has disposed of $1,000
600 worth of its stock that has
brought no return to the investors.
These sales We're made to people who
wished to make money faster than
they could by legitimate methods.
people who believed they could send
their money away from home and
make more than they could by in
yesting it in solid home enterprises.
The postmaster general says he be-
lieves the public has been heeced
out of 100000 by get-rich-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
Both Speedy and Effective.

This indicates the action of Foley
Kidney Pills as S. Parsons, Battle
Creek, Mich, illustrates: 81 have
been afflicted with severe of kid
ney and bladder trouble for which
I found no relief until l used Foley
Kidney Pills. These cured me en-
tirely of all my ailments. I was
troubled with backaches and severe
shooting pains with annoying urinary
irregularities. The steady use of
Foley Kidney Pills rid me entirely
of all my former troubles. They
have my highest recommendation"
G.. c.. Bingham.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30

quick concerns in the past five
years. He expects to continue his
crusade and arrest many more Of
tenders.
This money was invested by peo-
pie who knew nothing of the bust
ness in which they were putting
their money and in a company that
was managed entirely Independent
of them. Yet the picture of immense
gains was painted so alluringly that
they took their little savings and sent
them away. never to see them again.
To any one experienced in such
things the fraud was evident and
they would not invest their money
in them but the unwary thought
they had found man at last who
wanted to make money for them and
were fooled.
These vast sums that are sent
away on such errands yearly if
wisely invested in their home com
munity might have aided in the per-
manent development and growth of
such places but these people thought
that there were greater things at a
distance. The solemn fact is that it
pays just as we'll in the long run to
stand by your community as it does
to attempt draw fabulous wealth
from "over there. .
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
PRESS COMMENT.
Best Grades Most Proitable.


Payment of SIS barrel was made
for frsts and $3.50 and $1.75 for
seconds" reads a state news item
describing big shipment of apples
recently sent to New York from the
town of Shelburne. Here is a point
er for the Vermont farmer This
consignment of fruit, there were
10000 barrels in the lot, all came
from the same section but some of it
was worth more than three times the
price paid for the poorer grades. The
Vermont dairyman has only con-
tempt for the man who maintains a
herd of f'runt" cattle, but we have
been raising "runt" apples for a
century in this state and receiving
''runt' prices for the fruit. Any
product of the land that ranges in
price from $3.50 to SIS according to
quality has possibilities and there
is evidence that the owners of the
Vermont hillsides are beginning to
realize 1T Bennington Banner.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
For Sale by all Dealers

st. Jehnsbury.
Mrs. Grace Cole and children of
East Burke spent Thanksgiving with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman
Walter.
Julia Walter was in East Burke
last week visiting her sister.
Mrs. Murray and Lefie King spent
Sunday with Luther Murray at Will
loughby.
DR.. and Mrs. Burke were in Der
by Thanksgiving, and Miss Florence
Coleman and Miss Grace Bryant of
Stanstead are the guests of DR.. and
Mrs. Burke.
Arthur Berry, wife and son, Mrs.
Fairbrother, Miss Lillian Fair
brother, and Miss Bertha Hall, and
Mr.. Powers and wife were the guests
of Mrs. Emma Way for Thanks
giving.
Mrs. shorey of Barton is visiting
her friend, Mrs. Angie Burns.
Mr.. Fletcher's daughter, Mrs
Howe, and a gentleman friend from
Biddeford, Me-, are visiting there.
William Allard and family visited
at Avery Bigelow's at Lyndonville,
recently.
The remains of Frank Lavely,
who died in McIndoes, were brought
here and the funeral was held at
Burke. He leaves wife and two
sons.
Mrs Densmore Gorham of East
Burke is visiting Miss Florence Car
rick.
Mrs. Fife Solomon has returned
home from two weeks visit to her
people in Hartford, Conn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
A Chance for Farmers.

One citizen of Caledonia county
makes a suggestion which we believe
should receive serious consideration
by the farmers of this county. He
suggests the formation of a farmers
organization for the purpose of
marketing the products of the mem
bers' farms in this section. This man
has just had some experiences with
the Boston commission houses which
convince him there is little profit
in marketing products through them.
Ae the same time the prices quoted
from Massachusetts markets indi-
cate there should be a profitable
market for farmers products there.
Without attempting to dictate any
plan of organization we would make
the following suggestions. First call
a meeting here in st. Johnsbury Of
attend and form a Caledonia County
organization. Then employ some
competent man to grade the goods
in compliance with the market re-
quirements and one able to success
fully conduct the sales end of the
business. Then establish a central
warehouse where the members of
the organization are to ship their
goods for grading, packing, and stor-
age and have them sent out in lots
large enough to secure favorable
rates to the markets. The organic
oh
their agent some time in the winter
and agree upon the kinds of produce
they will furnish and the acreage
they will have of the various kinds
so the organization can form an ap-
proximate idea of the amounts of
produce they will have to market.
Another advantage would be the pre-
vention of the growing of small
amounts of produce that could not
be proftably handled. These yearly
meetings would also allow the far
mers to decide which crops they
could most profitably produce and
also determine the amount of any
product that can be marketed to
good advantage.
1t is not impossible that the rail-
road would be willing to help such
an organization in the matter of a
storage plant and the collection of
the products as it would mean in
creased business for it.
This is not an untried experiment
as there are marketing associations
for farmers and fruit growers in the
South and West that are aiding the
farmers very materially. All that is
required here is a spirit of enter
prise and progress that can success
fully compete with such organiza-
tions in other places. 1t will re-
quire an honest, we'll informed and
capable man for an agent and the
farmers must and could afford to
pay him well for his services.
We have faith enough in such an
undertaking to ask any farmer who
would faver such an undertaking to
write the editor of the Caledonian
and if there seems to be enough in
terest to issue call for such meet
ing in st. Johnsbury in the near flu
ture. We extend an invitation to
every farmer in CALEDONIA county to
write US his opinion of such an
undertaking.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30

If that reduction in the price of
meat so loudly announced by the in
terests" serves to reduce the price of
the steers and hogs that are being
marketed in such large numbers at
this season and does not give any
lasting benefit to the consumers the
people may pray to be delivered from
any further benefactions from the
meat magnates.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30

Speaker Cannon returned to
Washington last Friday and his com
ment on, the recent overturn was, "a
majority has made mistake in Civ
ing our friends the democrats con-
troll of the 62d Congress" 1t is
quite possible he is right but it is
little use to tell the majority such a
thing at present.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30

rass men to come that were not re-
sponsible for it. The legislature is
not making laws just to suit its own
temper; it is making history. st.
Adams Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30

TERMS. OF THE CALIFORNIAN.
One year to any address, $50
Six months, rs
Three months, 90
Clergymen in Caledonia County, S1.00
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
Chiidren Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
G A 8 T . RIA
The Record Of ST Years

L. Since it began business in 1S43. The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York
Has paid to policyholders
s891, Az, 264.3s
Has accumulated for pol
icyholders 5000, 1O6.97
Total benefits to policy
holders aggregate 81 ,449, 432, 371.35
In 81 years it has received
from policyholders / ,3O4, PSI ,45S.55
The excess of benefits to
policy holders is $145, 1SO, 912. 80
2. That is to say, in the 81 years of
its existence The Mutual Life has paid to
policyholders, and has accumulated for
policyholders, more than $145, OOO,OO
in excess of all that it has received from
policyholders. The gain has, Of course,
accrued chiefly from earnings on invested
funds.
8. During its career its total payments
to policyholders have exceeded those of
any other company by over $195, OOO,-
900.
4. Since organization the Company
has paid in cash dividends to policyhold-
ers the sum of Sal, 877, 5OO.96. This is
greater than any other company has
paid in dividends by more than
$2O,OoO,OO0.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
n THE cAI.EnONIAN

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post office as
second-class m all matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
Commissioners Notice.

ESTATE OF JOSEPH N. SARGENT.
The undersigned. having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the dis
trict OF Caledonia, commissioners to receive.
examine and adjust the claims and demands
OF all persons against the estate of Joseph
n. Sargent, late of Peacharn, in said district
deceased, and all claims exhibited in Offset
thereto hereby give notice that we will meet
Tor the purpose aforesaid. at the
residence OF E. NJ. Lyford in the town of
Peachan1 IN said district, on the Gath day of
December, 1910, and the Goth day of April,
1911, next, from 10 O'Clock a. M until 3
O'Clock p. m, on each of said days and that
six months from the 18th day OF November
A. ID. 1910 is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Peacham, this 25th day of Novera-
Der, A. d. 1910.
A. J. MACKAY
E. w, LYFORD,
Commissioners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30

This paper is entitled to a place on the
Printers Ink Roll of Honor.
THE CALIFORNIAN CO...
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AnvERTIsING RATEs.

Local notices. wants, for sale, etc, 2 cents
per word first insertion. Legal notices 10
cents a line, three insertions. Probate notices
81. 90 each for three insertions. Dissolution,
liberation and similar notices 81 so each for
shree insertions Card of thanks, 10 cents.
obituary poetry, 1 0 cents line.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-30
.uBLIsHRD WEEKLY BY

76 Eastern Avenue, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12

organized an outdoor school and for
several months has been teaching rag
men, hawkers and street men how to
cry their wares.
Miss Wenzell selected an alleyway
through which many peddlers pass
daily and waited. AS fast as the ped
dlers appeared she stopped them. Each
was asked his nationality. how long
he had been in the country, whether
he was married or not and how much
English he knew.
Gradually getting their confidence by
arguing that If they spoke better Eng
lish and cried their wares more plainly
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12
PAGER Dan Patch Retired.

Dan Patch has been permanently re-
tired from the racing and speed exhi-
bition stage. M. W. Savage, his owner,
is authority for the statement that
Dan Patch will never again be asked
to start in attempts to lower the
worlds records. He says that this
greatest of all horses has done his
share of work and that his life from
this time on will be spent in enjoying
well earned rest, in watching other
harness horses struggle to lower his
record and in perpetuating his great
ness through his get. While the cham
pion will not be called upon to make
any of the mighty efforts that have
made him famous, he will still do
some travelling and during the summer
months and fall will be an attraction
at large number of fairs all over the
United States.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12

TWO new recruits, ana these she takes
In hand at once.
The instruction itself is very simple.
Miss Wenzell first finds out what the
man is selling and suggests what ex-
preston he use to call out his wares
She then tells him how to pronounce
the words. The third and last instruc-
ton is that when calling out on the
street he must. hollow the roof Of his
mouth as much as possible, keeping
the tongue as fiat as possible-in other
words, the usual instructions Of sing
ing teacher for the production Of
good ringing head tone"
New York harbor and incidentally
avoiding also possible rough water in
the lower bay.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12
"sealins" Uncle SANS Money.

Sealing" Uncle Sans Money.
Director Ralph of the bureau of en-
craving and printing has brand new
responsibility on his shoulders, but it
doesn't seem to bother him. The di-
rector is now intrusted with the plac-
ing of the government seal on all the
silver and gold certificates and treas
ury notes which are printed in his bu-
reau. 1t is the government seal which
makes the notes good. Without it they
are worthless sheets of paper.
Up to a few weeks ago the bureau
Of engraving and printing did all the
work on the gold and silver certificates
and treasury notes except the affixing
OF the seal. That was done on special
machines which were installed in the
treasury department. This policy had
been in force since 1884, before which
time the bureau turned out the fin
ished product
Recently Mr.. Ralph began expert
menting with various designs for
machine which would simplify the
work of cutting, numbering, sealing
anu tAO n AAtSA uOtSS' etAhNA AC
finally perfected one of the most in
genious machines used in printing.
Machine Saves Labor.
The machine was approved by the
secretary of the treasury, and fifteen
were ordered to be made. These ma
chimes are now being installed. and
their installation will eventually dis
place $50 employees, who will be TAX
en- care of elsewhere.
The new machine combines the work
formerly done by two machines and
several operatives. The notes are fed
into it in sheets Of four. The machine
first prints the serial Number on each
note, then prints the seal. then cuts
the sheet into four pieces and finally
drops the finished notes out in little
bundles of fifty. -
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12

MAP SHOWING SITE OF NEW YoRK's NEW
HARBoR AND PROXIMITY TO PRESENT ONE.
of any other place in which to spread
out, the metropolis of the world, for
by 1850 or sooner it is expected to
have at le9st 100000 inhabitants.
Some of the more enthusiastic prophets
make it 20,O00,00O.
At present there is not much to sug-
gest a great world harbor at Jamaica
bay. The bay itself is a shallow sheet
Of water covering an area of 1910
acres, or twenty-five and half square
miles, In which few oysters are
grown and few unsophisticated min
nows are caught by holiday fishermen.
Adjacent are $500 acres Of salt marsh,
the present home Of untold billions Of
mosquitoes. There are 1900 additional
acres of marsh land apart from the
main body, making the total area Of
bay and marshes 2S,970 acres, or forty
FIVE and a half square miles, double
the area of Manhattan Island.
Terminus of New Canal.
The new harbor is to be the tide
water terminus OF the thousand ton
barge canal now being built by the
state at cost of SOL, 100000 from
Lake Erie to the Hudson river, which
is expected to bring 100000 tons of
freight to New York annually.
Plans are already afoot to provide
short cut for the barges from the
Hudson by way Of the Harlem river to
Flushing bay and thence by a canal
eight miles long across the western
end Of Long Island 10 Jamaica bay,
thus xxeiding the cOngested waters Of
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12

sshortstop Owen Bush Of Detroit is
the sensation of the American league
this season. His fielding and timely
batting are helping the Tigers to win
many games. Bush Is only twenty-one
years of age and is the smartest man
on the Tigers. In 1907 he was secured
from the South Bend Qnd) team by
Detroit. In 1908 he helped Indianap-
oils to win the pennant, and that fall
he Joined Detroit in time to enable
the Tigers to win the championship.
His work in twenty games was big
factor in Detroit's success that year.
In 1909 Bush played in 157 champion
ship games and had a fielding average
of 1926. His record showed 308 put
outs, 567 assists and II errors, an aver
age of trif1e more than six chances
per game.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12

and n.usically their customers would
be doubled and trebied, Miss Wenzell
got their attention and then and there
gave her class -Four peddlers were
at the first lesson
Gradually the Size Of her class in
creased. Miss Wenzell goes to her
school three times week She arrives
about 10 o'clock in the morning, seats
herself on a box, and the men stand ia
front of her. There are always one or
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12
Bio Baseball War Brewing.

According to rumor, big baseball
war is brewing between the National
ard American leagues, and it is sched-
uled to break at the end of the present
season. 1t is said the National will
break away from the American next
fall and. instead of the two working
in harmony, there will be keen COM
petition between them.
If this should come to pass it might
furnish better and cheaper baseball,
but it would not last and eventually
would prove bad for the game. Wars
of such nature invariably fail, and
some master hand gathers in all the
profits.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-12
PEDDLERS' CRIES SWEET MUSIC
IN EARS OF BOSTON CULT URE

An outdoor school for instructing
musical fagmen, hawkers and street
vendors is the novel undertaking es-
tablished in Boston by Miss Caroline
E. Wenzell, Hub settlement worker
and college graduate.
Miss Wenzell believes that if the
voice of the ragman and the hawker
must be tolerated it should issue from
the threats in tones of harmony. 1t
should be operate. The reformer has