davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
BOOKS OF SCHOOL
BOARD IN MIDDLE
Impossible To Audit Them. City Ac
cOuntant Tells Council--Recom-
mends Accounting System.

Chief Accountant Nicholas Grieser
rendered a report TO the council Tues
day night ON the bookkeeping methods
OF the board of education in which
he severely scores the way things are
handled there. One of his most inn
portant suggestions is that the moneys
OF the teachers retirement fund be
transferred from the care OF the sec
rotary OF the board OF education TO
that of the city treasurer. The report
in part follows
We essayed to audit the books or
the stock and supply room. but on ac-
count OF the desultory method OF keep
ing their accounts. and in the absence
of an inventory from which TO base
an examination We we're compelled TO
abandon Il; to continue would have
been a mere waste OF time Moreover.
the records that they have are linn
( tied 10 a disbursement and charging
OF supplies 10 the various schools. and
these accounts are now in arrears
In the supervisors department or
! buildings and repairs there are no ar
counts kept of the receipts and dis.
1 bursements OF materials. The only
evidence We had was notation or
+ the Nptthtlo lidl mater oiS "'i' w
+ livered to the shop or other points un-
der their jurisdiction.
This likewise applies 10 the manual
training department The expenci-
lures for school. ianitor, engineers.
manual training supplies and mater
/ ials for general repairs for the hscai
wear OF 1908 was approximately SlOl,-
$50. and with the city growing al the
rate il has in the past and the CON
seuuent erection OF new schools, these
expenditures will increase rapidly. 50
/ that i'm my Judgment comprehensive
system OF accounting ought 10 be IN
stalled at once. by which at all unes
the various supplies and materials
would be accounted for. as would the
amounts, If In cash. which they VIZ
tually represent. system responsive
To u central authority.
..Thts would have a double advah-
taee OF keeping a thorough checK upon
eli supplies. etc. and also FURNISH
comparison OF expenditures or the az
ferent schools. and by an examination
of these comparative statements any
aytrayagance would be easily de-
tected,
In Justice to these departments,
de,ire 10 say that the clerical iorce
thev now have is Inadequate To carry
ont these proposed accounting me'h'
DDS.
I'VE recommend that the store ana
+ stock room keeper and other EN-
moves connected herewith iurhish
+ suitable bonds"
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
PURP GETS REVENGE.
Chews Checks or Trunks and Causes
Great Confusion.

KANSAS CITY March "A little
doc no larger than a skein OF yarn
PLAYED all kinds of mischief in a bag
gage car alter he became sulky at the
way ne had TO travel. \ ST Paul Young
woman brought him here. and the
rules made him travel In the baggage
car This didn't suit the purp at all,
and he showed his displeasure by try
Ing to scrap with a bird dog that was
chained mp near him. As rebuke the
baggageman tied the small dog al the
Other end OF the car Back behind a
pile OF Trunks TOwser thought IL over
but was SO silent that no further atten-
Ion was paid to him: When the tram
reached Kansas Cit>. however. ii was
found there was method in his moodi-
ness lie had Chewed the checks of
a half dozen truuks. aud II took Two
GAYS TO straiehten ont the miXup thar
resulted.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
GODS LIGHT TO
CURE PRISONERS
Remarkable Experiment Is Started
IN New Kind of Workhouse in
Warrensville, Ohio

CLEVELAND. March There Is che
attest word ia the treatment OF crime
LIGHT Here is The newest weapon
Tor reforming mon who break the law
God : wonderiu light
"a Wa.1ensvlle o. a suburb 81
eyelan3. they are just opening up
t4t new 'letelanG Torkhouse, great
weeping building H. the white, Span
I-u mission style With four dominating
lowers al the Coiugts
The towers are studded with win
COWS
me binding ombodies the ideas OF
ma, leader IA p, nology, Or Harris
COOLEY OF Cleveland. and IL Was his
lea thai the prison dungeons be
situated In the tower
This has beer Zone. The dun.
seons' are Hooded Nith light the day
long The broad windows look out
D. ION miles OF smiling country 40
miles out over Tine blue Lake Erie ~
u, north 80 miles over glorious
valley 20 the south
IN there i'm the dungeon The Sky IS
gi about and vet the spot seems held
arm against the bosom OF earth--lI
tll, building WEI, indeed Spanish
mission the dungeon might lac tue
loom picked by some deyout Francis
can for his close walks with God.
When one OF me Morkhouse prison
rts has seriuus' offended the discl
ne he Is sent TO tpp lightiilled dun
-rou" for punishment And ,h-
punishment" there routs the e,h
spirit out OF his mind much more eff
f-ctiyely Than any water cure on knou
90 prison cruelty eyer devised.
The oUtcast looks ont upon the
friendly stars by night and the IN
ssiring land by day. and if II Is spring
e.. summer H. secs the ground starred
With flowers
Al the Notkh0us, they do not cal
she tower rooms dungeons hut thinr'
ing rooms And there is no word IN
use that mas The local color OF the
;risou The workhouse is known SIM
ply as The Farm. The prisoner ;
are men. not numbers they go oy
their names.
The Hsht cure is only one 80
0uley r ideas. There are 40 guarcs
ci bars or walls al Che Farm. lhe."
isn't gun on The place. The men
might est ape any time IL they chOae
They don choose.
They 40 not pull the hemp unth
their huscrs an, torn and bleedlns.
tbout the building lies maeniiic"h.
municipal farm 81 1000 acres. Salar-
ira. scientific iarm, r. are IN charge
aud the worhhouse men are the hands,
he farmers know most ot the men
their first names.
And You see me- stripes or cropped
heads The mems pain clothing bears
Tue honest stain aDd smell OF clay
Tho farm isn't punishment for CleNe-
lJuGs uuforumales " it, "a school TO
cam them 10 better beings.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09

10 keep him from making an cutlery,
the hog hunters sneak up 10 the sty
and slip an apple through the fence
loaded with dose OF rhloral The
hog eats it, finds himself gradually
swooning and presently is stupeied.
In this condition he is carried away.
only 10 wake up next morning IN
strange and sinister surroundings In
vain he asks, Where am To- lie il
where his pteous screams are mocke 4
by deserted echoes. lie is a gone
hog
This much was learned through the
confession OF one OF the accused con-
spiTatOrs.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
LITTLE CHURCH AROUND
THE CORNER" 60 YEARS OLD
Nc Special Services Held Because the
Rector, Or. George Houghton.
Is ~ in the South.

NEW YORK. March g. The siXtieth
anniversary OF me Church OF the
Z .anstguratiOn anectionatelv known
u.s. The Little ChIrch Around the CO.,
ntr." called out large congregation.
Including many actors, TO the quaint
edliice i'm East Twcnty-ninth-st jus,
east OF Ffihuvc. There were no spe.
cial exercises, and but for the few
chance illusions To the event I'm his
sermon bg the Rev Dean Robbins. no
one not acquainted with the fact wOulI
have known tina an anniversary was
being observed. TIE Rev Dr George
&C. Houghton. the rector who succeed.
e. his fa.ner. Is now i'll in the sou,A.
Rev Dr. James g. Lewis, assisted
b. Key W W Rutherford. the two
curates. conducted the services. which
did not depart nom the usual Episco-
palian manual Rev Dean Robbins
p.eaC he'd the serLon Ills topic was
Spiritual Freedom. based OH the
gospel Of TN, nay from one OF the
cpistles oi -. Paul During the course
81 mis- remarks. 10 said
This * the siXueth anniversary )f
The FIRST services held in this church,
and il is (. landmark ia the history OF
the parish II j. go years since these
doors were hrst opened, and Tor 60
years II has been a school Of freedom
. school When ihen women and Chl.-
dren havs learned that freedom IL
alone found in the city OF God Cath.
Ole doctrine has been preached here
Tor 60 lon. years, anC that is what en-
franchises and frees. because IL cua-
sists FOR us OF those elements throu,h
.hich We may contemplate divine
Things without danger 20 our Spiritu'l
beng Horcsy means stepping over
I'm, bounds OF Catholic doctrine. TINS
has heen splc1did school OF freedom
n'r the poor and ignorant, the rich aud
poor Here for so long years Catho.lc
discipline has eeL practiced
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
Double Fold, Black and White
Shepherd Check Dress Goods at 1870

YOU buv tTi- dnaItl foT eS tTan ~ o ~ -
double fold three different sic check, thursday 500
viii 1870 won't last all day Tor Just nN
Black White Shepherd Check Dress Goods are all 'Ne rage
Nccond toor
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
LAWYER Heir to Clients Estate.

OMAHA March S.-Thos. ID. Crane
an Omaha attorney. some years ago
secured divorce for man named
Bergstrom subsequently, Bergstrohl
made $4,000 in the Oklahoma OIL
fields. This money he invested in Ten.
ue<soe Land. much OF which is covered
with timber or underlaid with coal a
month ago Bergstrom died, and So II
* said left the whole of his property
10 Crane who has gone 10 Tennessee
40 look aftcl his possessions.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09

the hoof was the price recorded in
Chicago lately has become more a
form 81 abduction than larceny. In
deed. conspiracy is the charge against
a number OF accused men before JUS
tice Naupsdel
II seems ina; now. in order not 10
bruse the precious porker as we'll as
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09

Job PRINTING dome right. Times
printing 60, R. l'Nh lt~~i 'iti M''U
tHN. or tIt} $3.50
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
--
Agriculture Bill is Passed.

WASHINGTON, March 9.-The SEN
ate Yesterday passed the agriculture
appropriation carving SlS'ooo,voV,
An appropriation OF SlOooo was anoeu
10 the measure as 1t came from com
mittee providing for an lhVestisatlo'
Of the white fly which is destroying
orange and grape fruit groves III
Florida and California.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09

Job printing done right. Times
printing 60, o. John X -st can mann
llAN. OF 81. W.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09

u,.,..s.-,Ik. PRINTING. No fuss ana
90, c.ntLrrs The plain. neat kind tnal
looks right Times Printins a.. Ia
Iohn Il Main 1893 or tlly "'N''
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09

homeseekers. The Savoy district In
thar state was opened the first OF this
year. end there Ia already a large sci
t'ement there The Great RocRNlBoy
reservation. from which the INDIANS
have departed will be thrown open on
March u Homesteads OF 800 acres
each are awaiting settlers without lot
terry OF drawing for first choice but
ON assignment by the government
agents
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
HOG THIEVES USE
KNOCKOUT DROPS
Porker is Given Bunch Of Choral and
Later Finds Himself in Strange
Surroundings.

AURORA. III March IA new way
10 steal hogs has been introduced
here, great deal OF pains and pa
thence being employed In fact. hog
stealing since 10 cents pound on
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09
Mall.knoMn sanker DIS.

CHICAGO. March William ii.
Mitchell one OF tic founders Of the
chicago x Atton railroad. and a large
holder OF bank stock Ia Chicago. died
suddenly last night while preparations
we're making Tor ihe celebration today
.af his nnetythrG birthday Death
vas due 20 hea.t disease Mr.
Mitchell WAS born ON farm near
Mount Pleasant. teaio. and belonged
I'D the Odd school OF business men.
uc laid the foun alton OF his fortunes
before great con. Ainations wer" known
o Amerlra I'm NJ" Illinois Trust *
,ayiugs bank which che helped 10
finance. and of which his son John j.
mitchell is president his holdings ar
.,tunatcd a. $1,000 600
s.tl aa
The Detroit times., 1910-03-09

Remember that on March p spring
begins officially For safe margin,
fix your spring housekeeping for a
month later
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22

one at 20. Sixty-eight of the num-
ber were married, 83 single. one
widowed and three divorced SO
were temperate and 90 Incorporate.
Two had high school education,
l27 had common school education
and 26 none Determinate sentences
included 20 for life, three for safe
keeping, one for capital punishment,
and the table Of crimes committed
included everything from horse
stealing to murder; records "a bur-
glaries, l8 murders in second degree.
IL rape. 12l larceny, IL adultery,
five murder in first degree"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22
a SAFE SAVINGS BANK.

There is every reason to believe
that the Savings Banks of Vermont
are all safe, sound and strong. That
the public 30 believe is evidenced by
the recent report of the Inspector of
Banks showing almost Unprecedented
gains in deposits during the past
year. If the confidence in the safety
of Vermont Savings Banks, however,
is to be measured by the growth of
deposits, then unquestionably the
Hyde Park Savings Bank holds the
first place, for its percentage of in
crease in deposits during thethree
fiscal years ending July /, 1910,
barring of course some recently
established banks upon which of
course percentage basis of increase
could not be computed, is more than
that of any other bank in the state.
Stated in terms that can be under
stood by all, the deposits in the Hyde
Park Savings Bank during the last
three years have exceeded the with
drawals by more than $1,000 for
each business day during the entire
three years. We know of no parallel
anywhere except in some of the large
City Banks.
The Hyde Park Bank pays 4 per
cent. interest, compounded semi
annually, and deposits made before
November 18th will draw interest
from October lst. 1t pays the taxes
on all deposits up to $4,000 and the
Lamoille County National Bank Of
Hyde Park, under the same manage
ment, will accept. upon the same
terms. any sums in excess of this
$4,000
AS evidencing the safety of making
deposits by mail, it may be stated
that in the more than twenty one
years of it's existence, not dollar of
remittances to the Hyde Park Saw
ings Bank, by mail, has ever bee n
lost, 1t is entirely safe to make
deposits either by personal check.
bank draft, postal money order,
express order or cash in registered
, letter. This bank respectfully solicits
your deposits.
If any further information is de-
sired, send your post office address
on a postal to either Carroll S Page,
President, or F. M Culver, Treas
urer, Hyde Park, Vermont, and a
prompt reply will be forthcoming. -
News and Citizen.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22
Vermont Sculptor Dead.

Larkin 6. Mead, the American
sculptor, died in Florence, Italy,
Saturday. Although born in Ches-
tertield, N. H., in 1885, Vermont
claims him, as it was in Brattleboio
his great gifts were first recognized
and he was educated in the Brattle-
boro schools. AT fifteen he was a
hardware clerk, but developed artis-
tic tendencies and produced several
noteworthy works, then going to
Italy, where he was attached to the
United States consulate at Venice,
his brother-in-law, William Dean
Howells, the novelist, being consul.
During the Civil War he was six
months in camp as artist Tor Har-
per's Weekly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22
WOODSTOCK NOTES

There has been some blasting this
week in @. Il. Atwood's Hewitt pas
ture, where a gang of men and an
electric air drill are getting out rock
for the stone crusher, three shots
having been fired last week as a
beginning In one shot nine holes
were fired, in another 20 and in the
third 20. In the latter one there
we're 55 charges. using up about a
case of dynamite. and the rock was
pretty we'll shattered, though in some
of it the seams were laid open as if
cut to measure, making first-class
building material of it. The top of
big rock juttinR into the road has
been blown off and a kink in the
highway can now be Strengthened
out In spite of the force of the
explosion the people in the village
have hardly been made aware of any
shooting. as Mr.. Clement, who set up
the drill, seems to know how to
handle the thunder making stuff.
He left Friday and the work will
now be in charge of the local men.
W. A. Perkins, of the Bridgewater
exchange of the Peoples telephone
company. was in White River juno
ton Tuesday on business connected
with the line between here and the
Junction. The company has lately
extended its line to Plymouth Notch,
putting in fourteen telephones, and
it will soon reach Plymouth Union.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22

Thursday evening under the auspices
of circle e of the LOYAL club, leader,
Mrs. N. p. Wheeler. a club devoted
to all lines of village improvement
work and the maintenance of "a public
library.
Miss O. Mae Wheeler, daughter of
N P. Wheeler of the Junction House,
had the entire direction of the enter
tainment. She designed the cos
tunes to be worn, arranged the
staging, and drilled the so or more
young people participating in the
dances and choruses. The local
talent was assisted by Miss Hazel
Purmort of Lebanon, N H., young
cantralto soloist, who recently spent
period of study abroad. Miss
Wheeler is graduate of college of
elocution in Boston.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22

long ago, it still boasts colonies
twenty times as extensive as itself.
Lorenzo Marquee is the port of
eastern South Africa. Goa and
Macao, Portuguese Guinea and the
beautiful sea islands are we'll placed
Tor trade.
Misgovernment has loaded upon a
little nation the size of Indiana a
debt almost as large as Japan's.
With foreign trade one-quarter
Canada's, Portugal's debt is more
than three times as great. Only one
million Of heriive million people can
read and write. Political corruption
has been unabashed, assassination
and repression have served for argu-
ment and rejoinder, cruel Dictator
ships and harsh prescriptions have
embittered the people. No wonder
the bells are ringing with JOY over
the new regime!
Portugal has long lost hope in
kings. Carlos assasinated in Febru-
airy, 1908, was merely Europe's
fattest monarch. Manuel, though
not yet III, has alienated by his
private life the religious element,
which is his natural ally. A feeling
of disgust and despair has long pre-
vailed in the capital.
But the aspiration for freedom has
a wonderful vivifying effect. The
Portuguese may soon show them
selves worthy of their strong ances-
tors, who furnished great poets,
explorers and administrators, and
left their traces over half the world.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22
podoino q Family Bore.

'I like family dinner" said the
woman, "but Pm afraid to accept
invitations much, afraid Of the old
family story, not the story of the
family-that might be interesting
if told truthfully-but the old story
that has been in the family SO long
it's like the furniture, only worse.
They must trot it out. There's
nothing else for it. And if they'd
only tell it and have done with it,
but no.
@eYou tell it, mother says Mary.
"No,' says mother; you tell it,
Mary. You know it better than I
do As if anybody could know it
better than she does, for no sooner
has Mary got going than she inter-
rupts her and tells part of it her
self; then father breaks in and tells
another part, only to be interrupted
by Jane and Sally and the hired
girl and the hired man and
"0h, mol Much as / dislike pay
ing for my own dinner, / prefer it
to assisting at the trotting out OF
the old family story."-New York
Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22
SOUTH POMFRET.
AnpoTT LIpRARY NOTES.


Recently friend of ours in rum
maging through the graveyard of an
old attic, came suddenly upon a
mysterious package that on opening
proved to be some sacredly cherished
coffin plates dating back nearly a
century. These were Immediately
forwarded to us. Since then other
similar relics have come to the sur
face in town.
Any old-time resident travelling
through the state, and not having
time to visit the cemeteries. can see
our collection of articles that ought
to be there, and have brief history
of the owners thrown in, without
cost with the exception of one, "a.
L. N 49," which we shall be unable
to trace, unless our local historian,
Mr.. Walter e. Perkins, can throw
some light on the subject.
An old snuff box that came to us
lately has been traced back to the
original owner, who was direct
descendant of the DIR. LeBaron who
figured so conspicuously in one OF
of Jane G.. Austen's novels.
ABBA DoToN CHAMBERLIN,
LIBRARIAN.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22
Automobile. Laws.

Certain amendments to the present
Vermont law affecting automobiles
are looked for at this session, but it is
extremely unlikely that the changes
will be so far reaching for example,
as those enacted in New York in the
spring, says the Rutland Herald,
which thinks that some notifications
of the New York law might be adopt
ed in this state. The new projects
for state road building in New York
involve the present construction of
5000 miles of highways at an
approximate cost of $50,000,000.
There is field for some salutary
work in Vermont, and the present
Legislature will have the thanks of
the people if it can curb the motors
little without seeming to be
unreasonable.
The Herald says:
"rhe system whereby the owners of
automobiles are made to pay license
fees to the secretary of state in pro-
portion to the power of the machines,
is one that brings annually to the
use of the road builders. nearly
$3.50, 0,000--a goodly sum for road
purposes.
The maximum speed limit is fixed
at 80 miles an hour and all chauffeurs
must submit to rigid examination
as to their fitness and competency.
That this provision of law is wise
one is shown by the fact that of
10000 who have presented them
selves for examination about 1000
have failed.
The law declares any violator of
the rules of the road guilty of mis-
demeanor and the driver is deprived
OF his license
Hereafter there will be fewer
attempts on the part of chauffenrs to
escape unknown after an accident
occasioned by reckless driving, for
the law makes any such attempt, or
refusal to render assistance or a
failure to report an accident caused
by his car, felony punishable by a
fine of $500 or imprisonment for
two years or both
A conviction upon second offense
carries with it a prison sentence of
five years.
These provisions of law are seem
ingly severe, but they are adapted to
the conditions found in the Empire
state"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22
Brakeman Killed at Bethel.

W P. Maple, brakeman on the
Central Vermont railway, was almost
instantly killed in the railroad yards
at Bethel Friday of last week. He
was standing ON top of a car that
was being pushed by the freight
depot, the caves of which project
over the track. He evidently did
not see the projection and struck the
caves and was thrown to the ground.
fracturing the skull.
DR. G.. r. Davis was called but the
man did not regain consciousness
and died in less than half an hour.
His home was in Burlington, where
he leaves wife.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-22

the famous general. wrote to the COM
mandant inquiring how the son was
progressing.
"'You need not worry the COM
mandant wrote back. Your son Is
getting better marks In everything
than ever you had In anything"
The chairman was not quite SO self
satisfied when General Grant rose to
respond.
''That is a perfectly true story" he
said smilingly. II remember the fnci-
dent perfectly. but there is a mistake
of one generation. l. and not my ia
nous father, am the general who
wrote to the commandant. and my son
is the one whose father had such poor
marks. But never mind. Mr.. Chair
man, it's all In the family."-Chris-
tian Herald. ~.