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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
ANOTHER IMPORTANT RURAL
SERVICE.

The telephone and the rural free de-
livery have served to effect a marked
transformation IN rural conditions
Tho farmer remote from the city Or
village is no longer cut off from the
outside world. but is in touch with all
sources of supply as we'll as informa
ton. Up TO tho present time residents
of rural communities have been able
to give orders by telephone and often
save long trips. thus realizing the
truth of tho adage that time Is money,
still been necessitatcd owing 20 inabil-
ity to secure the delivery of goods Or
articles wanted.
The latest move on the part of the
Taft administration looks to the re
lreving of this situation through the
establishing of a parcels post. In
connection with the order for an in
crease in the pay OF the 10000 rural
free delivery carriers on standard
routes, II is stated tnat tnlS Is
preparatory to anticipated favor
able action by Congress. 1t will be
season for the expenditure of this ex-
ira $4,0O0,00o, but left it to the dis
erection of the Postmaster-Ge General as
to how much of it should be used. Mr..
Hitchcock decided to spend the full
amount. His desire to compensate the
carriers for any additional burden
which may I've placed on them if the
parcels post system he has recommend
ed for rural routes is approved by Con-
gress, was the important considerA-
ton, he said to-day. which led him to
make the authorization
Nov that the men are to receive
such generous increases in pay" he
said Il feel that Congress should lose
no time in authorizing the carrying of
parcels on rural routes. A parcels post
system on rural routes can be conduct
cd without any extra expense to the
government other than the s4,OooO00
salary increase, which, in my judg-
ment, would be more than offset by
tho parcels post revenue"
This year the rural service will cost
the government s40.Oo0,000, the esti
mated loss being about $4,000, 600. The
Postmaster General declared the par
cells post system, under proper manage
mert, would insure the maintenance
and proper extension of the rural FIRE"
delivery servrce as a self-supportinG
branch of the postoflice.
In this connection it is interesting
to recall the fact that the rural deliv-
cry system was started fifteen years
ago with SO carriers who received only
5000 year each, whereas on July
there were Al 800 carriers, their agErc-
gate nay being s35,793, 900. This serv-
ice has become of tremendous I'M
p1rtance, as we have already indicated,
and when it is supplemented by the
parcels post. which the express com
panies have SO bitterly opposed, 1t viii
worI, q complete transformation in
many rural conditions.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
TRIBUTE TO vERMONT's NOUN
TAINS.

The Springfield Republican. a jour
nal of keen and conscientious discrim
nation, whose compliments are to be
priced all the more on that account,
ciated tribute to Mount Mansfield and
Cancels Hump:
The burlington Free Press Is ready
to say that no view in the White noun
talns Is to be compared with that from
Mansfield or Cancels Hump, looking
down upon tho beautiful Champlain
stretching almost as far as the eve can
reach in either direction"--and that
newspaper IS to be justified in the
contention. The addition of water to
a panorama OF nature lends the con-
snmmating element of beauty.
This much granted. can any human
being explain why Vermont's mountains
should remain neglected by the tour
ist world? We believe that 1t is ne
ccssary simply to provide means OF
reaching Vermont's mountain peaks
with comparative comfort and case and
to provide hotel accommodations for
visitors, once on the ground, to assure
the Green mountains the throng OF
visitors and admirers which is right
fully theirs.
How to bring about this consumma-
ton is the chief problem confronting
10 .,f ate
Mecca.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY.

(From the Chicago Record IIeraldD
william Lorimcr was not undergo
ing a senatorial investigation.
Nat Goodwin had not cut a single
divorce notch in his walEing-stick
The Detroit baseball team did not
win game.
No Americans We're paving large
sums OF money for the privilege Of
witnessing a coronation procession.
Nobody was afraid this country
would be ruined by a reduction Of the
tariff on Canadian wool,
John w. Gates was not betting a
million on anything
Justice Harlan did not bring in a
dissenting opinion,
Nobody was run over by taXicab
Darius Green held the aviation rec
ord
No society leaders were looking for
apartments in Reno.
Nobody was writing on waldorf As
toria paper to his friends at home
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per copy, 30 cents for six months, sloo
per year. postage paid.
Advertisements and subscriptions re-
ceived at the office. 1S9 College street.
Full advertising rates sent on applica-
ton.
Accounts cannot be opened for subscrip-
tons. Subscribers will please remit with
order. Names arc not entered until pay
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ped ut the end of the time lad for.
Remittance Mt tho risk of the subscriber
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The date whom tho subscription expires
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No other receipt is sent unless requested.
The receipt of the paper is sufficient
receipt for the first subscription.
When q change OF address Is desired,
both the old and new addresses should
be given.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
RABY-BNE REVISED

Baby-bye,
Here's an insect Of The tribe Dptera,
specific name Musca domestica,-
We will watch him,
You and |,
There he goes
on his curtously appondaged eXtremities,
leaving a trail of microbes
ever haby's nose.
See him crawl
with his six legs, each having five -jointed
tarsuSes, his three sectioncd anten-
nae with the marvellous tactile tips
waving before him
Up the wall,
Seeking food with his spongy-lipped pro-
boscis, hanging downSide-up on the
ceiling; yet, on account of hts claw
like feet and appendaged soles.
He will never fall.
By-and-by,
When we have finished our scientific OBJ
servations and made a few hygienic
suggestions.
Little fly,
Formerly considered harmless, but now
classed by scientists and physicians
as a disease breeding pest to be ex-
terminated
You must die! Puck,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
GTNPTION ON THE FARM.
(From the Farm Journal)


The man who is governed by a good
wife is we'll and wisely ruled.
Soapsuds will kill plant lice. So will
Whale-oi soap.
Steel tools put in barrel OF air slaked
lime will never rust. l have always kept
my spades and such tools in lime.
Now get in the rutabagas They'll come
in nice for stock feed next winter. A
turned under timothy sod will do for
them.
Keep the cultivator going in the corn
until out in tassel. Shallow-please.
About two inches deep Is right Muzzle
the horses and they'll work better
Secrets of successful turnip growing:
Have the seed-bed very fine, then roll it;
SOW the seed soon after a rain, and cover
the seed by lightly rolling the ground.
The nick Of time in spraying potatoes
for blight Is before the blight strik es
them. 1t Is dscouraging to look out and
see nice field all turned black. We
hope that will not be the way with yours.
1t beats all how soon pota to-bugs Will
tim up a patch if YOU get to thinking of
50 mcthing else and forget them Better
keep your thinking cap on, and hustle
those bugs out so quickly that heir heads
viii swim.
Alfalfa Is the great farm enricher.
Those who are learning how TO grow 1t
successfully connect 1t in their mino,, witt.
lime, and with incubation of the field
where it Is sown. The field can be inoc-
lIlated by spreading over it 200 pounds
or more per acre of soil from a good al
falfa field, and narrowing it and the seed
In together at once. DR., L. II. Jenkins OF
the Connecticut experiment station states
that soil from good sweet-clover field is
equally able to provide the bacteria which
lives In the nodules Of tine alfalfa roots,
and which enables this plant to take the
nitrogen from the air
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13

rien for her own service besides con-
tributing literally to New Hampshire and
nearly every other State Of the Union,
and Cb) that the population of the State
has not been largely increased by immi-
grafton from other states. However, in
very recent years large number of peo-
rle from sister States, chiefly from the
Middle West. have been coming In and
taking up valuable farm land in Vermont.
Perhaps New Hampshire residents will
awaken to the same possibilities sooner
or later Vermont welcomes them all. 80
Barre Times,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
THE PRESIDENTS FLAG.
(From Leslle's.)

Not one person in a thousand knows
the Presidents flag As President of the
[ nited States he has none, but as COM
mander-n-chief OF the army and navy
his presence is noticed by distinct stand
ards. The army flag Is red and bears in
the center the official coat of arms of IN !,
United States, Bearing the same coat OF
arms and somewhat similar, save its
color. blue, is the navy flag. The navy
flag Is displayed whenever the President
is aboard a naval vessel at a navy yard
or under the navy's escort.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
BOTANICAL AND BIRD CLUBS.

The Vermont botanical and Bird clubs
held their annual meetings at the Bran
don Inn in Brandon Thursday and Fri
day with % visiting members present.
The membership of the Botanical club
WAS @Wcled by nine and that of the Bird
club by eight new members at brief
business session Thursday night, during
which Il resolution of regret was passed
on the death of the late Cyrus q, Pringle
There We're remarks in mcmoriam by Dr.
Ezra Brainerd oG Middlebury, president Of
the botanical CLUB, DR.. q. =. Perkins Of
burlington, president of the Bird club
and Prof G. y, Burns OF Burlington
Thursday an excursion was made to Mt
Horrid in Rochester and the party found
snow deep in \ cove although the Their
mometer registered 100 degrees outside
Many interesting cliff plants were found
The trip Friday was to Silver Lake and
Llama Falls.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
THE STORY TELLER.
A NON RE5PONsIvE DIET

An old North State darby was sent to
hospital in Charlotte for treatment Up.
on his arrival he was placed IN the ward
and one Of the nurses 2u. . thcrm oincte,
IN his mouth TO take his temperature,
and when the doctor mads tho rounds he
said to him:
well, my man, how do you fsel?~
II feels right tol BILE, sab"
Have you had anything to eat?'
"Yassah."
What did you have?"
"A lady done gimme a piece of glass to
SUCK sab. "-National Monthly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
New York Sun.
ENPERr ADVICE.

The prison turnkey found the two cell.
mates deeply onsro~sed. one pored ovel
the market reports of a newspaper and
figured on the margin with a pencil, His
Ccllmate sat eXpectart
"Hill" said the mathematician at last
you could make S34 night stealth hogs
in Iowa, '--Success Magazine,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
WANTED.

When you want anything, advertise
IN the new special column OF this
paper. Some bargains arc offere
there this week which it will pay you
to read about. See page two. This
every week and one cent word will
reach them all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
OUR KALEIDOSCOPE.
W ST.

Mother travels for her health,
Doctors told her-sure
Spends pretty pile of wealth
Taking every cure.
Sister travels for beau,
Though she won't admit;
Mountains, seashore, to and fro
Always on the fit,
Brother travels for his boom
Up and down the land.
Thinks he sees an office loom
Tha. will just be grand.
Father travels for the firm,
North. south, east and vests
He's the uuconSidered worm
Paying for the rest,
New York. SIM
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
A FATAL OMISSION

Little Charlie and his playmate were
on the barn shed when Charlie remarked
IF goose can fly, l don't see why I
can't; and ] am going to try"
After Topping his arms few times
&c be sure to get off right, he juInped
from the shed to the ground After he
lad time to recover from the shock
lying on the ground, he looked UP at his
astonshed playmate and said:
II forgot to flop" Norman f. Mack,
National Monthly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
GOOD NEWS.

MY dear. our landlord SAYS he's coins
to raise our rent
Glad to hear he can do II, | can't,
--l'rom the Baltimore American
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
MlNlL Ml.[ED.

Fair first-Aider (of Ambulance Class
i say, what's the poison Tor which you
give an epidemic?
From Punch.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13

Tcrms-S1.O0 "a Year. In Advance.
DAILY by mnIl Sf.SO year in advance.
RATE IN CANADA.
DAILY. ...... $500 a year in advance.
NEEEIY... sC.CO n year in advance.
FREE Press ASSOCIATION.
Publishers. burlington, VI.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13

BURLINGTON. THURSDAY, JULY 10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25
MRS. MccARTER's NEW BOOK.
Writing One Contrasting City and
Country Life.

Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, author
of The Price of the Prairie, 'Cuddys
Baby and several other interesting
short stories is at work on a new book
to come out when the holiday season
opens next fall. She has only the plan
completed and only small part of the
book written. 1t will be a small book,
about the size of ''Cuddy's Baby or
In Old Quivera,' containing from 20
to 80 thousand words. Mrs. McCarter
does not believe in writing full grown
book. like THE Price of the Prairie"
every year. The publishers wanted her
to submit a book this year, however,
so she finally agreed to write little
one.
The new book, unnamed as yet will
be a contrast between city and country
life. The scene starts in New York
but jumps early to the solomon river
valley in Kansas where most of the
action takes place. Two old college
New York and becomes wealthy and
influential and the other goes west and
grows up with the country and also
becomes wealthy.
The New Yorker has a son who is
fast growing into a snob and he wants
to make real man out of his boy.
The boy has rheumatism and the old
man decides to send him to his college
chum's farm in Kansas. The young
fellow wants to go to Europe but Dad
won't let him and he comes west.
The boy gets out on the farm in
the Solomon river valley. where there
are big men and women and nature is
at her best and where everything is
done on a big scale and there the snob-
bishness of the young man is taken out
of him and he grows uD into real
man who tries to do things that are
really worth while.
OF course there is a fine girl in the
story. She is the daughter of a farm
er and she helps to bring the young
New Yorker out of the kinks and to
make him a man. When this is ac-
coGnplished he finds that he cannot get
along without this girl and they are
married.
Mrs McCarter has received word
that her book. 1.-The Price of the Prai-
RE" is now in it's ninth edition. The
sale in the east has been increasing.
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Published in The Topeka State Journa
March IS. 1911
First published in The Topeka State
Journal March IS, 191iI
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.
Topeka, Kansas Ms

NOIICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Education at Winchester, KAN
az go p. m. April 10th, 1911, for the cree
tlon OF brick school house, with heating
ana ventilation, and san. appliances, Sep
arate bids will be received for the heating
required to submit a certified check with
tneir bid, for per cent of the amount
OF the bid. drawn in favor of the treas
board in case the bidder to whom the
work may be awarded, shall not within
amount equal to one-half of his bid. and
sign the contract for the erection Of the
same Plans and Specifications will be
ready at the office of the architect L. NJ
WOOD, in Topeka. Kan. and at the office
or the clerk of said board of education
on March 14th. 1911. Signed
+. w COLEMAN, Clerk of Board
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Published in The Topeka State Journal
March Is, 1911
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the District Court of the United States
for the District of Kansas
In re Julius Snattinger Bankrupt
In BanlxrlIptcv. No 110a

In Bankruptcy. No 1909
The creditors of the above-named bank
1'upt OF Topeka, State and District afore-
said, are hereby notified that on the 23rd
day of March, 1911, he was duly adjudged
bankrupt; and that the first meeting of
said creditors will be held at the office
Of the referee, 701 Jackson street, in the
city of Topeka, Kansas, on the 18th day
OF April. 1911, at two O'Clock D. M, at
which time said creditors may attend.
prove their claims, appoint trustee, ex-
anime the bankrupt and transact such
fore said. meeting
The property of the bankrupt may be
sold at this meeting at public sale or by
sealed bids, and If not sold may then be
ordered sold at any time thereafter, at
public sale or private SALE free and clear
OF membranes, without notice to cred
1torS. J. G. SLONECKER
Referee in Bankruptcy
Topeka. Kansas, March IS, 1911
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25


Some things may be put on !
, until tomorrow, but the news
you must have today The /!
state jour nal publishes today's !
news today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

WANTED-Man to travel in Kansas.
Good pay and tailor made suit In 80
days: experience Unnecessary; reliable tlrnl
Write for particulars. ]. E. McBrady d
Co. Chicago.
MEN WANTED-Age 1885 for firemen
500 monthly, and brakemen $50, on near
by railroads. Experience unnecessary; no
strike. Positions guaranteed competent
men. Promotion. Railroad employing
headquarters. over 100 men sent to posi-
lions monthly. State age; send stamp.
Railway Association. care State Journal.
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FOR RENr-oFFICE ROOMS.

FOR RENT-Two convenient office rooms
with light, water, heat and vault room
on the second floor of the Aetna Building
& Loan building, West 18th street David
Bowie. Midcontinent Mills. Tel. 496.
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] WANT 80 LIVE. ENER-
CELTIC REAL ESIAT MEN
Gn 50 towns) to join in the pur-
chase and sale of some large
tracts of fine land in northwest
Louisiana. A fine opportunity
to make some money for your
self and your friends. Write me
for particulars.
w. Fl. KEMPER, TOPEKA.
KAN.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

S~--~-<-0~1>---~---0--~-~~
WANTED-Partner in real estate bust
ness. A. =. Tone Wilson, Jr.. sos K. A
Anyone with $4,000 to invest can buy a
fine business in which there is assured
patronage and monopoly as we'll as real
estate value. Smith Agency. 523 Kansas
ave.
DOTB LEyour money quick on investment
in Plains Town Lots. Prices $3.50 up.
Easy terms Free literature. John w.
Baughnlan, Plains, Kansas
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LEGAL.
Se-1;-----~-----~---~~-~
FIRST Published in The Topeka State
Journal March "a, 19l1.J
LEGAL.
>O~~~~

-,~,-o-L LEGAL.
First Published in The Topeka State
journal March "a, 1911
Topeka. Kansas March "A, 1911
16 0TIice OF Commissioner of Elections
NoilCE OF CHANGE 81 OF VOTING
Inc IirSt precinct of the Third ward
On odnlan Il from No. 81 Kansas ave- to No.
~ Kansas ave, being the south room of
the former Copeland hotel.
Ihe fourth precinct of the Third ward
changed from 1854 Lincoln st. to No. 1131
NOTICE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
Primary election on Monday, March 18th.
Polls open from O'Clock a. m. to o'clock
If the women will vote between the
hours of and II o'clock a. m. and and
%, % CLOCK p m, as far practicable, it
Boards, and contribute to the convenience
OF the women voters.
[Seal.] c. H TITUS.
Published in The Topeka State Journal
March Is. 1911
NOTICE To CREDITORS.
In the District Court of the United States
For the District of Kansas
In re S. B. Stone, Bankrupt.
In Bankruptcy. No. 1905
me cred1tors of the above named bank
rupt OF Topeka, State and District afore-
said, are hereby notified that on the 9th
gay OF March, 1911, he was duly adiudged
bankrupt and that the first meeting of
of the referee, in the City of Topeka. Kan
sas, on the Sth day of April 1911, All 10
Q CLOCK a. m, at which time said creditors
may attend, prove their claims appoint
a trustee. examine the bankrupt and
transact such other business as may prop
erly come before said meeting
J. G. SLONECKER
Referee in Bankruptcy
Iopeka, kan, March "A, 1911
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Young MAN. 20 years old; good stenoS-
rapher, experience shorthand and type
writing desires a position; salary not the
chief object but wants steady position.
Telephone Ind. 2123 White.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

THE PROPER thing to do is to send
your clothes to a PROPER cleaner and
nave them done PROPERLY; where they
have the PROPER facilities for doing the
work and the PROPER experience. When
you ind out you have been barnumised
by gasoline cleaners or washing machine
work and bare iron pressing send your
duds to Chivers, the old reliable Topeka
Steam Dye Works. los East Sth in the
Majestic theater building. Bell phone 1881
one door west of Cranes Publishing
House.
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS

A. c. McCRAY, contractor and builder.
Estimates furnished. Bring me your
plans for houses, barns, stores, etc. 1 will
furnish all materials and build you mod
erH, high class buildings at reasonable
prices. Ind. phone 2145 White. Residence
1120 Throop st.
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"-->-~-~@--.--~------~~
Long time lease, low rent, desirable
offices, N. w. corner 9Th and Kansas ave.
Trade for land or sell cheap. Lee Mum
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PERSONAL,

-
CANCER HOSPITAL, 1870 Wells St, Chi
cago, accommodates cases which can not
be properly cured for at home. Serum
treatment employed.
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$50 monthly and expenses, either sex;
put out catalogues and advertise large
mail order house. S. Scheffer, treasurer,
r 50. Chicago.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

A. NJ. Weightman to NJ. w. Macfer-
ran, lot 2S8 and pit. and Fillmore -,
J. @ Seymour and wife to w F.
Mohrrneyer, lots 635 and Z Fillmore
st, blk 2. NJ. & D. sub ...-.....-;:.
s. F. Morris and wife to p. Merritt
si nH Wiz si5 Io's io-i'-io-i' i'm. SOC
w. r. Mclaughlin and wife to E. G.
Mclaughlin, pit. lot 49 Madison ST.
Cranes add. ---..-..--.-- .-.s--...t,
7. +. Lillis to J. Ward. See record: ]
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good draft horse or would employ man
with team for delivering. Cope & co. Call
] or d. IN.
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wANTED-SIALE HELP.

WANTED-25 farm hands. farm couples.
shop helpers and laborers; hotel heip,
cooks, house girls, dining room girls
housekeepers laundry help; maids, etc
Capital Employment Agency, 81 Kan. aV.
Experienced egg packers. Cope
& Co. md and Kansas ave.
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LOST AND FOUND.

JOST-White hand embroidered baby car
rage robe, about ten days ago. He"aru'
Ind phone 743.