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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
Big Fire Loss In Somerset

FIRE caused a loss of many thousands
OF dollars in Somerset Wednesday when
TWO buildings, large storehouse and a
machine shop of the New England Pow
er construction company We're burned
with quantity of valuable machinery
MIC whicn was to have been installed soon.
The fire is supposed to have started from,
a spark from a smokestack. The ma
chinery which was damaged beyond re-
pair was mostly generators, dynamos.
etc. The work of rebuilding will take
place as soon as possible.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
Knit Goods

Ladies Sweaters made in heavy Shaker
weave. All pure wool, maroon, green,
white, gray. Sale Price $4.9S
Ladies All Wool Sweaters in plain or fan
cy weave, all colors. Sale Price $2.9S
Children's and Misses Sweaters in all the
small and medium sizes, all colors.
Price CSC up to $2.9S
Children's Toques and Skating Caps in an
endless assortment. Every style and all
colors Very choice values 25c, SOC
Automobile Hoods, childrens and ladies',
all colors. Price SOC and CSC
Children's Drawer Leggins for cold wealth
er, at SOC, 75C. CSC
Sweaters and Leggins to match in red,
brown and white, at 75c and CSC
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
my Cinderella GrI' Tomorrow. Matinee
and Evening.

MY Cinderella Girl which will no
mere tomorrow, matinee and night. is a
ulstinct departure in musical farce. as
the plot and situations are screamineIv
iunny apart from the IA solid song hits
IN the production. One waltz, Spring
Time is expected to equal in vogue the
famous Merry Widow strain. One of
the leading roles is played by Maud
MLiIams, former prima donna with the
Henry w. Savage Opera comnanv ana
VINO created the leading soprano roles
IN The Sultan of Sulu", and "King
Dodo.' Miss Williams was leading So.
prano with Raymond Hitchcock.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
UNION SERVICE YESTERDAY.
The Promised Land" the Theme Of DR..
Cows Thanksgiving Sermon In the
First Baptist Church.

Union Thanksgiving services were held
In the First Baptist church yesterday
morning at 1890 o'clock and about rs
persons attended. The choir sang and
Rev. Roy M. Houghton, pastor of the
Congregational church. read the Govern
ors Thanksgiving proclamation. Rev. D..
r. Trout. pastor of the Universalist
church. read scripture and Rev. Henry
S. Weeks, pastor Of the Advent church,
offered prayer. Rev. DIR. John r. Cow de-
livered an impressive sermon on THE
promised land" His text was Hebrews
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
New Ribbons for
Fancy Work

Dresden Ribbons in a large
line of attractive patterns.
Price 15c up to SOC
New Taffeta Ribbons with
satin borders. Every color.
Price 25c
New Plaided Ribbons, two
designs in all colors.
Price 25c
New Double Faced Ribbons
in special fine quality, all
widths, l, ~, 2, 3, 5, Z, 8,
at 2c up to 100
Satin and Taffeta Ribbons in
new heavy qualities, at very
special values.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29

For the lands sake-use Bowker's Fer
tilizers
They enrich the earth and those who tin
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29

The forests of the Alaskan coast yield
about 100000 board feet of lumber a
year.
One department store on Broadway
New York, pays $4,000 a year rent, or
500 a square foot
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
Pretty w aists at
Quick-Selling
Prices

Here's a rare chance to add
several pretty and stylish
waists to your wardrobe at a
trifling cost.
Tailored and Lingerie Waists
at SOC. All the mussed or
slightly soiled waists are in
cluded in this lot. None
were less than $1.00 and
many sold at $1.25.
$3.50 and $500 Tailored
Waists CSC. Many are per-
fectly fresh, but some are
slightly soiled. All are
choice bargains at CSC
$500 Silk and Chiffon Waists
in nearly all colors and.sizes.
Sale Price sos
WRAPPER BLANKETS.
An endless variety of beauti-
full full-sized wrapper blank
cts, made in every conceiv-
able color combination,
nothing more appropriate
for Christmas gift.
Sale Price $1.9S
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
Leather Goods

Hand Bags, made of oak tanned cowhide,
heavy stock, good lock and catches, leather
lined, all sizes. Sale Price $4.9S
Oak Tanned Cowhide Bag, French edges,
hand-sewn corners, brass trimmings, leath-
er lined Sale Price $3.50
Suit Cases in all sizes and in all grades,
from the mating cases up to heavy cow
hide. Price CSC up to $3.50
Hand Bags-hundreds of new hand bags,
made in the best possible manner
ira Price SOC up to $4.9S
Purses and Pocket Books in an endless va
riety of well-selected patterns, at
1Oc up to $500
Card Cases and Bill Folds in every con-
ceivable style at 25c up to $3.50
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
Hunter Killed by Fall from a Preciploe

The body of Charles Somers "a who
had been missing since Saturday was
found Tuesday morning near Ravens
rock in Arlington, by Edward Scully,
VINO was one of party of 400 men and
boys who were searching for the miss
ing man. Somers left hunting camp
In Sandgate to return to his home i'm
Arlington. He evidently met death by
railing from precipice, as his neck was
broken and there were indications that
ne mad fallen The scene of the accident
was only short distance from Airing
ton village. The body was escorted to
the home of Somers mother, Mary SOM
ers, by $50 men who had been searching
on the mountainside. 1t was one of the
saddest and most striking professions
ever seen in Arlington.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29
Bath Robes and KimOnOs

Short kmonos, made of heavy flannelette handsome
patterns, very choice selections at SOC, 75c, CSC
Long Kmonos made of heavy flanneete in several pat
terms Regular price $19S, Sale Price $1.4S
Long Kmonos made of crepe and of flanneee silk or
satin trimmed. Regular price $3.50, Sale Price $1.9S
Bath Robes trimmed and finished with cord and tasse Reg
uiar price SS9S, Sale Price $1.9S
Heavy Bath Robes made of blanket materials
Special at $2.9S and So. SO
$500 and $500 Bath Robes in beautifully trimmed styles
Sale Price $4.9S
Chdrens Bath Robes all sizes and coors Regular price
S29o, Sale Price $3.50
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20

"How is that?" determined to bur-
row as deep as possible In this ante
bellum soil. which believed to be rich
from the wild and uncultivated growth
Of experience. Don't smart looking
men often come up this road7''
"Hardly ever but to foreclose some
poor devils mortgage" Here be be-
gan to laugh immoderately. and when
his risibles had subsidized sufficiently
to explain. for ! was somewhat sur
prised at his sudden burst of merri-
ment. he said:
'I'll bet you n pine knot all sawed
up against bushel of potatoes that at
half dozen stations bets are being
made right now that you have come up
to foreclose the mortgage on the Pines.
That's my place, you know. I'll have
d good laugh at their expense when l
20 down the road again."
Are all the plantations about heee
nortgaged?' asked.
Mostly" he said. Il know my plan
tation Is, and heavily, too. but most Of
the planters don't like to acknowledge
it. Old Bill Hollins- vowed bis wasn't
for ten years, and then one day fel-
low looking about like you came up
and closed him out. He was so asham.
ed at being caught in a lie that he
moved out of the county and has never
been back SINCE"
II sincerely hope, sir, that your
frankness In the matter may be re-
warded by an indefinite delay in the
foreclosure proceedings" said, Deep
" touched at the honest avowal Of the
old gentleman. who, l saw, felt much
deeper on the subject than he would
have liked me to think.
II don't know" he said; II can't
tell. Up to this time Bud has been
able to meet the interest regularly.
and as long as he does that suppose
We have little to fear"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20
Commencement at Harvard.

Special to The Tribune.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 90
Americas oldest educational institu-
ton, Harvard University, today clos
ed its 276th year, graduating a class
of more than 500 students. The COM
mencement was accompanied by all
the exercises and ceremonies that the
custom of years has establihed for
the occasion. The features of the
day included the gathering at old
Massachusetts Hall Of tie president
and fellows, overseers, faculty and
invited guests and alumni Of the uni
versity, the march to Sanders Thea
ter, where the graduating exercises
were held, and finally the meeting OF
the alumni association. As in former
years, tle exercises of the day and
professions - Sanders Theater and
Memorial Hall we've in charge of the
class that is celebrating the twenty
fifth anniversary OF its graduation this
year, the class Of 1887 having the
honor.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20

An Act to amend section twenty.
two hundred and ninety-one and sec
ton twenty-five hundred and ninety
seven of the Revised Statutes Of the
United staes relating to homesteads.
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That section twenty-five
hundred and ninety-one and section
twenty-five hundred and ninety'seven
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States be amended to read as fol-
lows:
"Sec. 1891. No certificate, how
ever, shall be given or patent issued
therefor until the expiration of three
years from the date of such entry;
and If at tue expiration of such time,
or at any time within two years there
after, the person making such entry,
or if he be dead ais widow, or In case
of her death his heirs or devisee, or In
case Of her death, proves by h'h:se!!
and two credible witnesses that ne,
she, or they have habitable house
upon the -and and have actually re-
sided upon and cultivated the same
for the term of three years succeed
ing the time of filing the affidavit and
makes affidavit that no part of suc1
land has been alienated, except as
provided in section twenty-five humid
red and Lightweight, and that he, she,
or they will bear true allegiance to
the Government of tie Unitel States
then in such case, he, she, or they,
if at that time citizens of the United
States shall be entitled to patent,
as in other cases provided by law:
Provided, That upon fling in the local
land Office notice of the beginning of
such absence, the entryman shall be
entitled to COL tinuous leave Of alb
sence from the land for a period not
five months in each year
after establishing residence, and upon
the termination of such absence the
entryman shall file a notice of such
in the local land Office,
but in case of communication the four
teen months actual residence as now
required by law must be shown, and
the person committing must be at the
time citizen of the United States:
Provided, That when the person max
ing entry dies before the offer of final
proof those succeeding to the entry |
must show that the entryman had
with the law in all respects
% the date of his death and that they |
lave since complied with the law in
Ill respects, as would nave been re-
luired of the entryman had he lived,
that they are relieved from
my requirement of residence upon
he land: Provided further, That the
sntryman shall, in order to comply |
with the requirements of cultivation
herein provided for, cultivate not less
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20
R. G. DUNNS WEEKLY TRADE REPORT
ing extended work for the locomotive,
car and machine shops. The markets

ing extended work for the locomotive,
car and machine shops. The markets
for general merchandise reflect sat-
isfactory current sales and shipments.
Clearance sales Of jobbers lines in the
dry goods district was successful.
Road and mail order indicate less hes
itancy in securing forward need, and
seasonable conditions prevail in the
textile, fancy dry goods millinery,
footwear, clothing, hardware, drugs
and food products. Mercantile collec-
tions show easier in the West than
month ago. Money remains quoted
at to per cent. with choice COM
mercial paper in request for both city
and country buyers. Sales of local
securities aggregated almost one
fourth volume less than year ago.
Realizing sales carried quotations low
er, and the ten active issues show an
average decline this week of 40 cents
per share. New building, $2,58O,O
in value, compares with $1,O38, 800 last
week and $1,042,97O year ago. Real
estate sales aggregated $3,953,116,
against $2,996,665 last week and ST.
$50 in 1911.
Total movement Of grain at this
port. 1894, $50 bushels compares with
6,705,56 bushels last week and 12,-
079,350 bushels year ago. Compar-
ed with 1911, decreases appear in re
ceipts 1873 per cent. and shipmenh
21.9 per cent. Flour receipts were
99,4S6 barrels against 1906 barrels
last week and 101, s4S barrels a year
ago. while shipments were 1862
barrels, against S9,264 barrels last
week and 103,374 barrels in 1911. Az
gregate receipts of cattle, hogs and
sheep, 263,916 head, compare with
227,611 head last week and 277, AT
head last year. Wool receipts were
1851, 100 lounds, against 1,700,800
pounds last week and 1,S54,600 pounds
in 1911. Hides received 2H23,100
pounds, compare with 2,134, 400 pounds
last week and 1891, ZOO pounds last
year. Lumber receipts rose to &c.
1874, 900 feet against 49,753,000 feet
last week and SO, I'll 900 feet in 1911.
Other receipts increased in rye, pork,
lard and hogs but decreased in wheat,
corn, oats, barley, seeds, broom corn,
dressed beef, cheese, butter and eggs.
Compared with the closings a week
ago, cash prices are unchanged in
flour and choice cattlesslower in corn,
IL cent bushel; wheat, cent; and
sheep, so cents hundredweight; and
higher in oats, 1 5S cents bushel;
hogs 8 cents a hundredweight; lard,
10 cents a fierce; ribs, IL IL cents
a hundredweight, and pork, 81 IL
cents q barrel.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20
war of the Revolution: The Pines, as

war Of the Revolution: The Pines, as
we call our home, was built just after
bis death, and his picture has the place
Of honor in it now. 1t is a sorry place
since the Yankees came through here
and used it as a stable, but we keep 1t
with the hope that some day the for.
tunes of the family may 60 out Of their
eclipse and that some worthy son will
arise to restore it to its former posi-.
ton Of importance in the common
wealth. But what there Is left you
will be welcomed to. my lad"
Before l could properly thank him
the whistle blew and our train pulled
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20

than one-sixteenth of the area of his
entry, beginning with the second year
of the entry, and nots1ess than one
eighth, beginning with the. taird year
of the entry, and until that proof, ex-
cept that in tae case of entries under
| section six of the enlarged-homestead
| law double the area of cultivation
but the Secretary of the Interior may,
upon satisfactory showing, under
rules and regulations prescribed by
him, reduce the required area of cult
walton: Provided, That the above
provision as to cultivation shall not
apply to entries under the act OF April
twenty-eighti, nineteen hundred and
four, commonly known as the Kin
kaid Act, or entries under the Act of
June seventeenth, nineteen hundred
and two, commonly know as the rec
lamation Act, and that the provisions
o. this section relative to tae home
stead period shall apply to all un.
perfected entries as we'll as entries
hereafter made upon which residence
is required: Provided, That the Sec
rotary of the Interior shall, within
sixty days after the passage of this
Act, send copy Of the same to each
homestead entryman of record who
may be affected thereby, by ordinary
mail to his last known address, and
any such entryman may, by giving
notice within one hundred and twenty
days after the passage of this Act, by
registered letter to the register and
receiver of the local land office, elect
to make proof upon his entry under
the law under which the same was
made without regard to the provis-
ions Of this Act" :.
"Sec. 2297. If, at any time after
the filing of the affidavit as required
in section twenty-five hundred and
ninety and before the expiration Of
the three years mentioned in section
twenty-five hundred and ninety-one,
it is proved, after due notice to the
settler to the satisfaction of the reg
lister of the land Office that the person
having fileu such affidavit has failed
to establish residence within six
months after the date of entry, or
abandoned the land for more than six !
months at any time, then and in that |
even the land so entered shall revert |
to the Government: Provided, That
the three years period of residence
herein fixed shall date from the time |
of establishing actual permanent resi-
dence upon the land: And provided
further, That where there may be
climatic reasons, sickness, or other
cause, the Commissioner
OF the General Land Office may, in his
discretion allow the settler twelve
months from the date of filing in
which to commence his residence on
said land under such rules and regu.
lations as ne may prescribe"
Approved, June 6, 1912.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20
CHAPTER n.
A Guest at the Pines.


T0RESENTLY | asked what &C.
III copmodations were to be had
Ill at og'ethorpe.
~ mighty poor. mighty poor,
sir-that is, If you stay in the town.
But If you are going to be long in the
vicinity you might get board In one Of
the farmhouses outside Of the town..
I thanked him and then explained
that l was a writer and that was
collecting material for story.
"A book:" be said. showing great in
terest at once and carefully scanning
my face through his spectacles.
eyes," l answered, which was the
truth at least, for I had suddenly con-
eeived the idea Of collecting data for
a novel. For where else. thought,
could there be better characters and
scenery than right here? My aged
companion looked thoughtful for a mo-
ment and then said:
May ask If you have any refer
ences or If you know anybody in these
parts?'
I mentioned several persons within
the state whom my father had known,
and these seemed to satisfy him, for
he continued:
III you are Of mind to accept my
hospitality we will be glad to put you
up and to share what we have with
you. l guess Bud would enjoy your
company, aud Ellen and Mary-Mary's
my wife, you know-would make you
welcome"
1T would be a great convenience to
me-" l said and thanked him. ''for !
know nothing Of this country, and you
seem to be very we'll acquainted"
II ought to be- he said. ''for my
family has been in these parts since
General Oglethorpe, that great philan
thropist and friend of the poor, first
came to Georgia. The last time he
came to this country he made my great
grandfather's house his headquarters
when on his way from Fort Augusta
to Savannah. Just before the Revolu-
ton he sent my grandfather a portrait
Of himself In token of the esteem in
which be held his father. He lived to
see the colony he had planted become
an Independent state. you know, sir.
and he seemed mighty proud Of the
record old Georgia made during the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20
MINNEAPOLIS, June 2O-Inquiry
at "a points in the spring wheat bet
of Minnesota and North Dakota has

at "a points in the spring wheat bet
of Minnesota and North Dakota has
resulted in Fl reports of first class
condition in every way and three are
fair to good. Continued favorable
weather conditions have brought forth
very much better feeling on the part
of Northwestern merchants, and in
all lines a steady improvement is re-
ported. Collections are very good
and nothing detrimental to contin-
ued improvement appears. Building
operations are on good scale and
supplies of all kinds are active. Lum-
Der shipments for the past week were
2,52S,000 feet against 2,384,O0O a year
ago.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 20.-Build-
ing materials, hardware, drugs,
distributors and jobbers to be moving
in good volume. 1t is an in.between.
season in clothing, footwear, dry
goods, hats, caps and other wearing
apparel, with business mainly con-
fined to sizing up and mail orders. In
these lines spring and summer ship
ed to exceed those Of the correspond
ing period year ago. The canvass
of orders for fall merchandise in
these respective lines is about CON-
pleted and shipments will start in Ju-
ly. Interior merchants have shown
a disposition to be conservative in
the placement Of orders, but they are
in excess of those booked at this time
in 1911. 1t is yet too early to predict
harvest results, but early favorable
reports stimulate business confidence,
anG a feeling of optimism prevails in
commercial and financial circles. Col
lections are esasonably good.
CHICAGO, Illinois, June 90
The Republican Convention, annu-
al trade assemblies and largely increas-
ed attendance of visiting buyers, add
ed to the normal activities and were
specially beneficial to the hotels and
leading retail lines, seasonable wea.
Their favored the industries and trans
portations. The evidences are more
distinct of broadened production and
distribution and new enterprises find
more encouragement the bettered
disposition of capital. Manufactur.
ing indicates increasing outputs and
widening demand for future deliveries
of finished products. The govern
ment report, while fully estimating
losses in winter wheat, created an en-
couraging effect upon business gener-
ally with the gain or over 2S0Ss5, 900
bushels in other prospective grain
crops, and the continued high prices
assure additional wealth, which ulti-
mately must, strengthen trade. Crop
marketings improved and freight
movements show heavy tonnages by
both rail and lake. The market for
raw materials in factory conversion
remain quite active, the general buy
ing being well distributed and prices
quite firm. New demands in iron and
steel sustain the recent improvement
and activity in expanding in railway
equipment, rolling stock for western
roads beng in good request and assur-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-20

If ! know'd ysr had sists I'd sure have
brought the eoaeIn"
into Oglethorpe. The colonel advanc.
ed and. calling out to an old negro.
whom he addressed as Jefferson, or
dered him to bring the wagon nearer,
as there was trunk to get.
If l know'd yer had gtsts. Mars
Ge'oge. I'd sure have brought the
COACH" said the old darky, looking
alphabetically at the wagon be was on.
The colonel told him that was going
to stay some time and that be reckon.
ed'' would know all they had soon
and 90 he would not begin by offering
excuses.
by the way, SIR" be said AZ we
stepped OF the platform. u have not
the pleasure of moving your name.
though you have heard mine often
though this morning." had, indeed,
overlooked that detail or else felt IN
different to it. but | handed him ny
card, which be read carefully and then
asked:
Il reckon you amt any relation 30
the Palmers of Kentucky. l roomed
with two men from that state of your
name years ago when I was at Prince
ton"
told the colonel that was not
from Kentucky, but thought there was
some kinship. I had intended telling
him that the families had never met
and that in all probability the Ken
lucky Palmers would not know Of me,
but I did not finish my explanation, for
a. soon as mentioned kinship be
grasped my hand warmly and said:
Then, sir, you can make yourself
at home in my house as long AZ you
care to, for there were never two finer
fellows than those Palmer boys, even
If they did join the Yankee army dur
ing the war. tell you, SIR, am
proud and happy to entertain one Of
their blood at the Pines. And now,
JEFFERSON. drive fast, for We must let
Miss Ellen know we have q guest"
The Pines was a distance Of some
i've miles from the town limits. Il
was appropriately named, for a;ter 10
entered the grounds we passed into q
primeval forest Of tall and stately
pine trees. The long needles waved in