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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
The Governor Question

The Governorship question has broken
out in two or three newspapers the past
week and no doubt from now on there
will be more or less agitation of this inn
portant question. The st. Johnsbury
CALIFORNIAN in an article which we publish
elsewhere comes out srather trongly tor
Guy w. Bailey, the present efficient Secre-
tary of State.
The Boston Herald of last Sunday, in
an article undoubtedly written from YER
mont, takes up the question and very
kindly, yet gently and firmly, disposes OF
c. w. Gates, G. w. Bailey and Lieuten-
ant-Gov. Howe, and then speaks very
strongly for Hon. c. P. Smith of Burliug-
ton. saying that "the field now'appears
to be open to him, and perhaps better
than any other man, he can meet the de-
mands the party will make on it candi-
date" adding "the field appears to be
open to Mr.. Smith and it is expected that
within short time he will be placed be-
fore the people as a candidate and con-
Guiding with this bit of information: "As
in addition to his personal qualifications,
he is directly or indirectly the principal
owner of the leading Republican paper in
the state, the Burlington Free Press, he
seems to be in an excellent condition for
the campaign
The st. Adams Messenger of Monday
last in somewhat lengthy editorial on
the question winds up by giving Mr..
Smith a strong endorsement
There is no doubt thai Mr.. Smith
would be a splendid Governor were he
called to that position. Nevertheless the
same can be said of several Others, not &
few of whom have borne the brunt OF the
battle in the previous campaigns. 1t is
healthy sign and very good thing
that qualifications of the various aspi-
rants be discussed squarely and frankly,
not forgetting that the best man possible
should be selected,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

Aquilla Darling and wife are visiting
friends IN Bolton.
Geo. Randall is reported as being very
low, with no hopes of recovery.
Mrs. Geo. Ives is now prepared to do
plain sewing at reasonable prices.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Davis visited rea-
tives in Orleans and st. Johnsbury last
week.
George Ives was a recent guest of his
daughter, Mrs. Herbert Williams in
johnson.
Mrs. Gladys Bailey closed very sue
cessful term of school at Garfield last
Tuesday.
Mrs Ernest Butterfeld of st. Johns
bury was recent visitor at the home of
her parents, Edw. Davis and wife.
We understand the chicken thieves are
busy again. one man in this vicinity hav-
ing lost large number on recent night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Fairfield have re-
Gently moved from Hyde Park Plains to
the house at Garfield vacated by Joe
Ives and family, who have moved to
johnson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Another Precedent Broken

Since Woodrow Wilson has been Presi
dent he has ignored many presidents and
violated many so-called traditions of the
Capital The mossbacks were much per-
turbed when Mr.. Wilson revived the Gus
tom of personally reading his message to
Congress and trembled lest the very
foundations of the republic should be
shaken by this impious innovation But
the nation survived the shock and the
government at Washington still lives.
Even the critics of the President now ad.
nit that the return to the custom of the
early days of the republic is sensible. 1t
gives the President an opportunity to
present his messages in the way he wants
them presented, and moreover it makes
for brevity. In former times it was the
custom for the President to dump on
Congress voluminous discourses on tri-
fling affairs which were perfunct orily
read in Congress by clerk before empty
seats. Now Congress listens to the mes
sages, and the people read them because
they are concise ard deal only with i'm
portant subjects.
Last week the President announced
he violation OF another cuStom-the
abandonment of the annual New Years
reception, which for more than hundred
years has been forced on the Chief Execu-
tive. Tradition de handed that the Pres.
dent should shake hands with all corners,
and on several occasions the Presidential
right hand has been famed for days by
the contnu rus pressure of enthusiastic
patriots Aside from this discomfort is
the always ominous danger which ac-
companies this indiscriminate handshak-
ing. One has but to recall the tragedy
of President Mckinley at Buffalo to be
convinced of the peril to the President
which is likely to Turk in an enormous
crowd.
The Presidents decision doubtless ends
the yearly handshaking frolc which can
we'll be o,aitte Other Presidents would
have been glad to abandon it, but proba-
bly, lacked the courage to ignore prece-
dent which to the fetish to which soci al
Washington bows as official Washing ton
worships at the shrine of red tape
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
No Such Simplicity.

And yet there was never such a
hing as "Jeffersonian simplicity" Mr..
Jefferson was not a man Of simple life,
but of full and expensive life. He
was an aristocrat in all his personal
tastes and INDUCED himself lie had
Travelled in Europe and observed how
The trick was turned there. And both
as secretary of state and as president
be lived at the top of bis time.-Wash-
lngton Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
North HYDE Park

All ready for the Thanksgiving Ball?
The village school will begin Monday,
Dec. list.
Judge and Mrs. White we're visitors
here last Sunday.
The first snow that could be counted
as such fell Monday evening of this week.
E. A. Wedge visited his wife. who is in
the Fanny Allen Hospital, last Thursday.
The service at the Cong'l church next
Sunday will be appropriate to Thanks
giving season. ~
Remember the Thanksgiving ball at
Valley Hall. The Valley Hall Orchestra
will be assisted by Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Foss of Hyde Park.
Mrs. Eta X. Martin of Burlington in
specr9d the w. r. G. Nov. 18th. Several
of the officers were absent, but the corps
work was we'll carried out. Dec. 18th is
the date for election of officers and it is
hoped all members will be present.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
THANKSGIVING:
THE YEAR ROUND

n WOMAN who has an almost old
"a fashioned faith in Providence
"A keeps what she calls her
thank offering box Into
this goes through the year. from one
Thanksgiving to the middle Of the fol
lowing November, sum Of money for
every accident escaped. calamity avert
ed or special joy.
These offerings are not confined to
her own escapes. but each time some
member of her family hobs up from
some threatened woe into the box goes
the money offering of thanks.
Not the same amount is given each
time, and rarely large sums. for the
woman is not rich. but nice little sum
is realized,
This is devoted to giving some one a
happy Thanksgiving day. 1t does not
always go into the regular channels.
AS the woman says, the poor and hos
pitfalls are usually well cared for in
holiday seasons.
Sometimes a homeSick girl in a
strange city is given car fare home for
the Thanksgiving gathering she would
otherwise miss Once music lover
was given a season ticket to the SYM
phony concerts. Again doctors bill
that had worried a young stenogra-
pher who had her. mother to support
was quietly paid.
In speaking of her pretty custom the
owner of the thank offering box said,
Never have | known what thankful
ness really meant until | started my
box and saw the joy my thankfulness
brings to others"
Such box. besides cultivating ones
bump of gratitude and making others
equally grateful. cannot but afford
great pleasure and interest in the
spending. 1t is gracious thought one
more woman could profitably put into
practice
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Thanksuivinu.

Thanksgiving day is the day when
every one says he is thankful, and
wants to eat turkey to prove it. If you
haven't anything else to be thankful
for, you can be thankful you are not a
turkey.
Thanksgiving day was first observed
by the Pilgrims, who were thankful
that they had five grains of corn
apiece. In these eXtravagant times a
man wouldn't be thankful if he had ten
grains of corn-which shows conclu-
sively that we are prosperous. The
trusts are doing a noble work in rem
edying this evil condition.
People have various unreasonable
reasons for being thankful on Thanks
giving day. Some men are thankful
they took a wife, and some are thank
full they didn't take two. Bachelor
maids are thankful they are not "hor-
rid bachelors" and married woman
is always thankful that her husband
has a good wife. 1t is easy to be
thankful if you go about it right.
But the thing people are most thank
full for is their money-even though
they came by it honestly. The more a
man has, the more thankful he is that
it isn't less, and the less a man has
the less likely he is to be thankful
because it isn't more. Be thankful.
therefore, that you haven't too much
to be thankful for. Turkey tastes all
the better for coming but once year.
-Lippincotts.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Vic ence in Vermont

Though this is Thanksgiving season it
would be well to consider the extent TO
which crimes of violence have been perpe
trated during the past year in Vermont
Windham county has sent two men to
states prison, ole for killing another
and one for assault with intent to kill :;
and in the same county double murder
has been followed by the suicide of the
murderer.
Within few days Addison county has
been spared an incident OF a similar ma
ture to that last mentioned above only
by the fact that the murderer crossed
the lake into New York before the COM
mission of his crime.
In Windsor county one man is now in
prison having confessed to the cowardly
shooting and killing of a young mad
from Ohio who had been working in
Vermont during the summer. Other men
are under arrest in the same county for
the alleged murder of companion.
These counties mentioned are lust as
good as any Others in the State. There
are about the same conditions in all /;
the same kind of people and the same
possibilities of good or evil What do
we think about it?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
East Cambridge

Miss Cadde Mead is visiting in Bur-
lngton.
Miss Sarah Nye spent Saturday in Bur-
lington.
c. L. Demerritt spent Sunday at his
home in Burlington.
Mary Nye of Johnson is spending the
week at her uncle's, n. j. Nye.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Flanders of johnson
spent Sunday at Robert Flanders.
Mrs. Aurelia Wheelock of Waterville
is visiting her brother, Henry Manchester.
Mrs. Frank Marshall is spending the
week with her brothe: c. E. Graves in
Wolcott.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Tillotson of Nor
risville spent Sunday with the latter's
father. G. Flanders.
Mr.. and Mrs. Plummer Fletcher and
daughter of Waterville visited Mr.. and
Mrs. E. A. Fill, Sunday.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
HYDE Park Center

Mrs. Geo. Cook who has been ill is bet
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hodges have an
other little boy, born Wednesday 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Rock of Morris
town Corners visited at A. NJ. Whitcomb'S
the last of the week.
Jude Spear of Richmo nd who has be- n
visiting his sister. Mrs. J. Nj. Miller aud
family, returned to Richmond Monday.
Alton Jones of Warren Mass. who has
been visiting bis parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ A. Jones, has returned to Warren
Mass. accompanied by his sister, Miss
Augusta Jones.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

Hon. w. w. Miles is to be the presiding
judge at the December term of county
court which convenes next week. Judge
Miles is well known in this county, hav-
ing had long experience in practice at the
bar and has frequently appeared in court
here. He has also presided at previous
terms of our county court and by his
courteous treatment of all who have APP
peared before him, whether as attorneys,
or jurymen, or witnesses, or clients-in
fact in whatever capacity any have ap-
peared before him, all have nought but
the highest reg ard for the worthy Judge.
While there are those who would have
been pleased to have seen him promoted
to position on the supreme bench, many
are glad that he is retained in his
preent position, because it brings him in
close touch with the people of the state.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Time to Danish Depression.

You, perhaps, have had trials of the
severest kind, rebuffs, bitter disap-
pointments, trouble that has clouded
life's sky, but there is compensation
in your life. The fine balance that ma
ture shows in her great scheme does
not stop with the natural world. 1t is
continued on through evolutionary
lines and finds compelling, convincing
expression in our lives!
Trouble is sometimes another name
for a character builder; disappoint-
ment frequently acts as fine balance
wheel. The story can be carried on in
all directions IF experience.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
McKinStry Hill

Weldie Stewart is enjoying few days
vacation from the L. G. A.
Miss Isadore Hurlbut, who has been
w.rking for Mrs. Allen, is now at home.
10 er Bedell, who has been helping
Mr.. Jewetts people, returned home Sur
day.
school closed Friday; Mr.. Crosby was
pl resent and gave few selections on b is
violin which we're greatly enjoyed by all.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Jones, who have bee n
visiting their daughter Mrs. Marvin
Wheeler in Wolcott the past week, re-
turned home Sunday.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
No One Too Poor to Give.

Something that rich, poor, weak,
strong, young, old can give-thanks.
Did you ever think of that?
Just as long as you have a heart
and may it be always-you can appre-
ciate something and be grateful. Poor
indeed is that man or woman who in
this life can find nothing for which
thanks can be given.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Honukonn,s Tobacco Trade.

The import tobacco trade into Hong
kong consists almost entirely of Sec
ond-rate to waste tobacco. chiefly Of
filler from the Philippines which has
been discarded for the fine trade by
the great Philippine factories, and Of
wrapper from Sumatra discarded by
the high-grade trade, and various to-
baccos from Java, India and the Malay
states which are not suitable for the
fine trade anywhere.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
SAYINGS OF SAGES.

Whenever you would ruin a
person or government you
must begin by spreading calum-
MES to defame it.-Busenbaum.
There are calumnies against
which even innocence loses cour-
age. Napoleon.
According to her cloth she cut
her Dryden.
Encouragement seiZes us only
when we no longer can count on
chance.-George Sand.
Do not think that years leave
us and find us the same Mere
dith.
Young men soon give and soon
forget affrOntS. Old age is slow
in BOTH Addison.
Every one of us. whatever our
speculative opinions. knows bet
ter than he practices and rec
ognizes Il better law than he
obeys. -FrOude
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
To the Disconnected.

Let's be thankful, though care
May be sent US to bear,
For only the foolish may never know
That trouble still breeds
Wherever hope leads
That the flowers of joy are watered
By the cleansing tears of woe.
Let's be thankful, though still
There is many an i'll
That we long to have strength to cleal
away,
For contentnent is shown
BY the foolish alone,
By the weak who are merely waiting
To return to their mother clay.
S. E. KISER.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

Abont 1900 deer were killed in Massa-
chusetts last week. The law was taken
off in the whole State for the first time
in many years, Last year it was taken
off lin certain of the more thinly popula-
ted counties. Shooting with long range
weapons was forbidden this year as last,
and as a result there were few accidents
to hunters or other citizens.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Bees stoDDed Railway Traffic.

Bees held up railway traffic on the
Iondon and North Western mail Inc
near shan Summit for several hours
recently. The bees swarmed IN sis-
nal lamp. No relief was for hoonlAs
until an omsiai from PenrilA disiods-
- ske--
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Profit In Ostrich Raising.

That an District farm is OF more
value than a good cattle ranch Is
shown by an authority who puts the
value of a beef animal at $40 at nve
years of age, while an ostrich Oh the
same age is worth 1000
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Cady's Falls

Oduy rams
C. B. TerrlI Irft last Thursday for a
few days hunting trip.
Mrs. Della Jones has gone to Johnson
to spend Thauksgi
Mrs. Gilbert Broadwell was visitor at
Everett Calkins' over Sunday.
Eli Burnham of Cambridge visited in
this place the first of the week.
Oscar Sherwin and wife visited at David
Douglass lin Stowe last Sunday.
Miss Lois Peake has finished her school
at Hardwick and is stopping at Charles
Miners.
A. II. Calkins and wife spent last Sun
day at the home of Mrs. Mary Town on
on Morristown Plains.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Belvidere Corners

A son was born to Nh. and Mrs. Simon
Burns recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. M. Holbrook visited in
Hyde Park recently.
Earl Welch of Hardwick was in this
place last week, running lines.
Patrick Hayes from Enosburg Falls
visited his sister, Mrs. e. S. Campbell,
last week.
There was a small deer found in A. P.
Browns pasture that had been shot by
some hunter.
The party that is camping near here
from Richford killed large buck that
weighed about 300 lbs. and had - points.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
Daily Thounht.

There is no life so humble that If it
be true and genuinely human and
obedient to God, it may not hope to
shed some of his light-Phillips
Brooks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

Amable Auntie Emmeline Pankhurst,
who has made tour of this country, is
about to depart to her home with large
bundle of good American dollars. Her
lectures here have been very successful,
she says and the proceeds other homilies
on equal suffrage, the white slave traffic
and similar delicate subjects on which
her mind seems to run, will reach SOC, 900
the American people who have handed
over this large sum CT money to Mrs.
Pankhurst to devote to window smash
ing, arson and other desplcab BILE practices,
are a good many who complain of the
high price of eggs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

The mention of the name of Jasper o.
Thomas of Belvidere in a recent issue of
this paper in connection with the county
Senatorship brings out other names for
this position. Morristown has several
good men whose friends would like to
see them sent to the upper house; among
them we NOTE c. F. Smith, and G. w.
Clark, both of whom have done good
work for the state and county in the
lower house. 1t is early, and other names
will undoubtedly "come to the surface"
when the proper time arrives.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
ACCOUNTING for IL.

Il see your friends have been do
ing some hard mountain climbing OF
late" yes; didn't you notice the
naakad look ahnnt them?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

Mrs. Sarah Haynes Graves of Hard wick
although SO years old, reads without
glasses, is in perfect health and helms
with the daily duties about the house.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26
What part will Gatun lake play in
the operation of the Panama canal?


What part will Gatun lake play in
the operation of the Panama canal?
A very important part. 1t provides
twenty three and one-half miles of the
canal channel, or nearly half the total
length of the canal, with width Of
1000 feet for sixteen miles, 800 feet
for four miles and 500 feet for the
remaining three and half miles. The
average width of the lake channel Is
about twice that of the rest of the
canal, and it's depth is also much
greater These dimensions will allow
vessels to go at much greater speed
through the lake than along the rest
Of the route. In addition to this, the
take furnishes a water supply and
power for some very important pur-
poses.
Is Francis Burton Harrison, the new
governor of the Philippines, related to
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the popular
novelist?
He is a son of hers. Mrs. Burton
Harrison's maiden name was Con-
stance Cary, of an old Virginia family.
Her husband, Burton Harrison, was
private secretary to Jefferson Davis of
the Confederacy, and since his death
she signs herself Constance Cary Har-
riSon.
Was Washington Irving ever in the
i la
States? Was John Hay, former secre-
tary of state, once minister to Spain?
Irving was secretary of the legation
at London from 1889 to 1871, part Of
The time charge d'afaires. and was
minister to Spain from 1912 to 1916.
Hay was secretary of the legation at
Paris, 1861; at Vienna. 1863; at
Madrid, 1S69-7O and at times charge
d'affaires, and was ambassador to
Great Britain, 1918.
Whatever became of Andrew Jack
sons home place near Nashville, Tenn,
once called the Hermitage?
1t became the property of the state
of Tennessee and was converted into
state home for ex-Confederate soldiers.
Will you kindly give some facts about
the career of Billy Sunday, the evan
geIst?
William A. Sunday, commonly called
Billy Sunday. was born at Ames, Ia,
Nov. 10, 1868, received high school
education. was a professional baseball
PLAYER from 1888 to 1890, assistant
secretary of the Chicago Y. NJ. {. A.
1915, began evangelical work in 1896
and was ordained as Presbyterian
preacher by the Chicago Dresbytery
April IL, 49,.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

Flow many persons have been en-
poyed in the construction of the Pana-
ma canal?
The number fiuctuates. On June
30, 1911, there were 1900; on Jan. 10,
1912, there were 3S,515; one June 30,
1912, 34,957. The greatest number at
work at any one time was in March,
1910, when there were 3S,616
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

The Kansas City Journal calls attention
to fact which has here tofore escaped
general public attention: Equal suffrage
prevails in Mexico. The women are not
permitted to vote and the men are scared
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

New York State, it would seem, might
do we'll to remove its antequated state
prison at Sing Sing which according to
creditable reports is breeding place for
tuberculosis and other diseases. When
this is done the name 'Sing Sing" will be
a thing of the past, as the town name
was long ago changed to "Ossining,''
and in new location the prison would
have new name "a rose by any o Their
name would smell as sweet" but some
flowers are more acceptable by a new
name than by their old ones.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-26

n WOMAN who has an almost old
"a fashioned faith in Providence
IA keeps what she calls her
- - ,tfbank nffaripp hoy - Intn
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1913-10-06
A TENDER THOUGHT FOR HIS
GUEST.

1t was n the hotel of Western
mining town that the New England
guests, registering in the office
heard succession OF loud yells.
What in the world IS that 4
murder going on upsta rs" he de.
manded
No, said the clerk. as he siam
med the book and lounged toward
the stairs, its the spring bed UP
in No 5. That tenderfoot up there
mt get the hang of it, and every
few days he gets one O the SIP RAJ
springs screwed into him like a
shirt-stud. guess I'll have to 60
up. if there amt anything more !
can do for you, for a few minutes. "