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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
BOSTON & MAINE IN
BAD CONDITION
President Elliott of New Haven
Speaks Before Dry Goods
Association.

Boston-Chairman Howard Elliott
of the New Haven board OF directors
told the members of the New Eng
land Dry Goods Association at their
monthly meeting and banquet that the
affairs of the Boston and Maine rail-
road are in very distressing condi-
ton, and urged that the proposed in
crease in freight rates be allowed as
the only means outside of borrowing
money of rehabilitating the railroad.
Chairman. Elliott devoted his entire
time to the affairs of the Boston and
Maine. He said: You gentlemen
have to watch very closely how you
pay out every dollar you take in so
that there will be something left as
a reward for your services. 1t is the
same with a railroad.
Unless the railroad has something
left after paying it's operating expen-
ses it is a failure. l am sorry to say
that such is the condition of the Bos-
ton and Maine.
"The year ending June 30, 1913,
wasn't bad year, yet the Boston and
Maine, after paying its operating ex-
penses, taxes and other obligations,
had but $49,700 left for S649 stock
holders. The net revenues of the road
for the four months ending Oct. 80 OF
this year showed a decrease of ST.
2o1;829, compared with the revenues
of the corresponding period of the
year before.
"a railroad like the Boston and
Maine should spend from $1O,OOO,OOO
to SIS, 100000 every year for improve
ments if it is to be made what you
and all Northern New England want
it to be.
There is one way in which the peo-
pie can help and that is by realizing
that there are no more cents in a
railroads dollar than there are in
any other dollar. Of course you want
good service and in consequence
money has to be obtained somewhere.
The railroad cant keep on borrowing
money indefinitely. Last year the
Boston and Maine and Maine Central
railroads hauled 38,O00,O00 tons of
freight. If the companies had receiv-
ed only 10 cents more ton it would
have meant an increase in revenues
of $3,S00,000, which would have been
quite a help in sustaining the rail-
roads credit.
eff the company cannot produce the
kind of service you want at the pres
ent unit price, isn't it to your interest
that there should be some increase?
Some say that the road is over.
capitalized, You couldn't produce the
Boston and Maine today at the par
value of it's capitalization, or, in fact,
any of the great trunk lines that run
into New York"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
ADDS TO HOLDINGS.
Thomas II. VanDyke of Hereford,
Que, Buys $4,000 Acres.

Colebrook, N. H.-Thomas H. Van
Dyke of Hereford, Que, has bought
$4,000 acres of timber land across the
border in the Province of Quebec.
By this purchase it is estimated
that the aggregate land holding of
Mr.. VanDyke are now more than 600,-
900 acres in the United States and
Canada. He owns more territory
than any other individual in New
England or the vast Canadian Prov
ince just over the line.
His possessions will yield at least
100000 cords of pulpwood, which
will operate out" at $3.50 per cord
net stumpage.
A branch of the Grand Trunk Pa
cific will shortly pierce the wilder
ness which Mr.. VanDykes lumber
jacks are now preparing to invade,
and a conservative estimate places
the probable yield of his latest our-
chase at 100000 cords of pulpwood.
Mr. VanDyke was born in Hereford
CT years ago, but his business inter
ests have connected him closely TO
Colebrook. He is president of the
Colebrook National Bank, and is
deeply concerned, financially and 9th,
erwise, in the commercial welfare of
this town.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
CAPE COD CANAL OPEN ON
JULY q.
Date Officially Set by Superintendent
Miller.

Date Officially Set by Superintendent
Miller.
Onset.-The date of the official OPP
ening of the Cape Cod Canal has been
set for July 4, 1914.
The announcement was contained
in letter from Supt. ]. w. Miller of
the canal company to the directors of
the Cape Cod Board of Trade.
The directors of the Board of
Trade, which includes commercial
and social organizations from Ware
ham to the end of the Cape, decided
at meeting that pageant should
be the chief feature of celebrating
the opening of the ditch
Beginning at the head of Buzzards
Bay, the canal cuts Cape Cod through
to Massachusetts Bay at Sandwich,
making it possible for coastwise ship
ping to avoid the dangerous shoals of
the present route past the Cape.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Telephone Memorandum.

A little combination pad and tele-
phone list that may be attached di.
rectly to the instrument is a new and
handy contrivance. A thick pad COW
cred with leather has a spring holder
at the top which slips around the re-
ceiver and holds the pad firmly in
place. Attached to brass rings on the
pad is a set of ruled cards with q
thumb index arranged alphabetically
for the list of telephone numbers,
and on top of these, mounted on a
silk-covered board, is a little memo
randum pad containing about 100
sheets with a lead pencil in a little
holder at the top. The memorandum
sheets can be renewed, as the piece of
cardboard at the back fits into a slit
in he silk covering.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Guides Six Safely Over Dam.

Observation-Disclosures S. Burke OF
Shawmut is receiving congratula.
tons on his GOODNESS and skill in
handling a disabled motor boat when
it went over the Kennebec river
dam at Shawmut the other day, and
dropped 26 feet without the loss of
any of his party of five, including
his three sons. Guy Ames, aged 8,
jumped as the boat went over the
dam and was pulled out of the cur.
rent, uninjured, by Mr.. Burke. When
the engine refused to work Mr.
Burke ripped out a seat and used it
in guiding the craft
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
EDITOR ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
StumbIes and Falls With Gun, Which
Explodes.

POrtland.-Herman Daniel Umb-
Staetter of 1870 Huntington avenue,
Boston. widely known literary man
and formerly editor of the Black Cat
Magazine, died at the summer cottage
of Mr. Wahe at Kezar Lake, Lowell
Center, as the result of a wound re-
ceived while hunting.
Mr. Umbstaetter, with Howard
Palmer Of Lowell, was cunning on the
shore of Kezar lake. In crossing a
stone wall he stumbled and fell. The
gun he carried was discharged and
sent a bullet through the left side
of his body beneath the heart, graz.
ing his left lung.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
MAINE PULP INDUSTRY GROWS
II Absorbs Half Of the Spruce Log
Cut and Employs Over 1890
Persons.

BaDgor.-State Labor Commissioner
John F. Connolly Of Bangor says in
his annual report that there are en-
ployed on an average in the pulp and
paper,making industries of Maine H..
2S2 persons, including a small num-
Der of women and girls. These fig
ures do not include the men en-
ployed in cutting plup stock in the
woods, who number thousands.
No other industry in Maine has
made such rapid progress in the last
twenty years as that of pulp and
paper manufacture, which now alb
serbs one-half or more of all the
spruce logs in the State, beside large
quantities of poplar.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Hittinq Two Birds.

$50 my former henchman refuses
to obey mel" exclaimed the boss.
Bring me my trusty whitewash
brush!".
Surely you are not going to give
him the benefit of it,"
mo. I'll let the whitewash splash
my way while l use the reverse end
as a club. Washington Star.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
GIRL HAS STRANGE AILMENT
Young Child Victim Of Rare Disease
In Which Skin Hardens All
Over the Body.

Pikesville, Ky-Little Ruth Ward,
four, Is apparently victim of the
little known disease called schro'
derma, or "hide-bound,' rs appears
from the diagnosis of four different
physicians. The skin all over the
child's body is tightening and 1t has
become perfectly hard. But the little
girl does not appear TO be suffering
any inconvenience or i'll effects from
'he ailment. and goes to play just as
formerly. No attempt will be made to
treat her here, but she will be taken
to a Louisville hospital, where her
case will be studied by physicians In
their work for research.
1t is commonly regarded as an in
durable disease, and but few cases
have been met with in the United
States.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
SUIT AGAINST SUICIDE.
Lowell School Teacher Sues Estate of
Finance.

1owell-School circles are stirred
by the news that Miss Jennie L. Car
ter of Wakefield and a former teach
er in the Boston public school has
brought suit against the estate of
Frank B. Sherburne of Lowell, her
suicide fiance. Miss Carter, in her
allegations, virtually charges that by
killing himself Sherburne, who was
assistant principal of the Lowell High
school, broke his promise to marry
her. She sues for $4,000
The case is the most unusual OF the
kind ever brought in Massachusetts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
ColdWeIl Gets Year.

Fitchburg-Joseph M. CoIdwell OF
Worcester, convicted recently OF IN
citing riot during the strike at the
Draper Company's plant at Hopedale,
has been sentenced to one year in the
house of correction by Judge Ray
mond in the superior court here. Cold
well, at the beginning of the strike,
appeared as an organizer for the In
dustrial Workers of the World, but
later was repudiated by that organi-
cation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Eliot Praises Bow Scouts

Boston-"The Boy Scout movement
is setting an example that our public
school system ought to follow" de
clared Charles w, Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard, in a lecture in
Lorimer Hall.
This was the first public expression
by Mr. Eliot of his views on the move
ment He explained that in trainine
the faculty of observation the scout
system accomplishes something that
is hardly attempted in the public
schools.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
NEW RAILROAD FOR MAINE
The 81. John & Gusoec as Wet .srn
Extension Of Aroostook Valley
Road.

PresQue Isle.-Surveys have just
been completed for the 81. John q
Quebec Railroad. the western exten.
sion of the Aroostook Valley Rail.
road. and construction will be com.
menced in the early spring. The
road will connect with the ST. John
VALLEY and with other Canadian
roads, forming a link in a transcon.
tinental route. II will open up a rich
section Of country containing many
acres Of wonderfully fertile potato
land and virgin forest untouched by
the lumberman's axe.
The recently opened branch of the
AroOstook Valley Road between
Presque Isle and Caribou is develop
ing an Unexpectedly large amount OF
traffic. in both passenger and freight
departments.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Will. Be WaIsh's Secretary

Worcester-Governor-elect David l.
Walsh has selected as his private sec.
rotary John F. Meaney, formerly sen.
ato' and now representative, and an
associate justice of the second Dis.
trict Court of Southern Worcester
Judge Meaney has accepted the ap.
pointment
Mr.. Meaney was sent to the General
Court from strongly Republican dis.
tricts, and was regarded as the ablest
Democrat in both branches of the
Legislature.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
CONDEMNS NINE TONS OF TUR.
KEY.

Boston.-The Boston Board of
Health has condemned in Boston nine
tons of turkey since the Thanksgiv-
ing sales began. This is the largest
number of birds confiscated by the
health officials in its history. The
bulk of the condemned turkey came
from the West, principally from Mis-
souri,.
The condemned turkey was sent to
rendering establishments to be con-
verified into fertilizer. The main
cause of the rotting was faulty pack
ing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Frame for Largest Telescope.

Quincy-The Fore River shipyards
are to build the frame and machinery
for he largest telescope in the world,
to be set up on Mt. Wilson, near Pas.
adena, Cal.
The shipyards will have nothing to
do with the construction OF the mir.
ror, which will measure 100 inches in
diameter The contract calls for
about 100000. The Mt Wilson OBJ.
servatory is under the direction of the
Carnegie Institute.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Military Orders.

st. Albans.-By order Of Adjutant
General Lee S. Tillotson of the Yer,
mont military department, the Com
pany A signal corps at Norwich Uni
versity, Mortified, disbanded after
December l and the officers and men
transferred to the first cavalry and
the cadet corps will be recognized as
a complete squadron of cavalry
Troops A, B, c and D.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Labels That Won't Come Off.

To label a bottle so that the label Is
waterproof and cannot fall off, the lol'
lowing plan is recommended in cam
era Craft" A strip of black passe'
partout binding tape long enough 10
reach round the bottle and to over
lap little is used, and the writing Is
done with white ink or paint. A HUE
hot paraffin wax poured over 1t makes
1t waterproof. The white letters Oh
a background can be read in very
feeble light.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Not Just What She Meant.

One of our best-known novelists, the
most sentively courteous of men, ar
irving very late at dinner party, was
overcome with confusion-'I am truly
sorry to be so shochngly late" The
genial hostess, only meaning to assure
him that he was not the last, emphat-
ically replied, 20, Mr. -, you
can't come too late"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
URGE PROUTY FOR VERMONT
SENATOR.
Vermont Progressives Hold Meeting
in Boston.

Newport - Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Charles r. Prouty of
this town, was urged to become the
Progressive candidate for United
States senator from the Green Noun.
tain state at meeting of prominent
Progressives from this state at
Young's Hotel, Boston. Mr.. Prouty
said he would give definite answer
within three weeks.
The Progressive delegation con-
sisted of Charles H. Thompson of
Montpelier, chairman of the state
committee; DR.. H. Nelson Jackson of
Burlington, w. H. Nichols of Ben.
nington, D. e. Martin of Rutland,
and Judge E. w. Gibson of Brattle.
boro.
The term of Senator w. P. Dilling-
ham expires next year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Eats Squirrel, Dies of Chestnut
Blight.

Hartford, Conn.-Another death al
tributed to the chestnut blight, the
fifth in the state this fall from that
cause, occurred at Glastonbury, when
Everett o. Hale, 30, died at his home
there.
He was taken i'll after eating OF
gray squirrel and the ATTENDING
physician gave the cause of death
as ptomaine poisoning due to the
squirrel having eaten chestnuts al
fected with the blight before 1t was
killed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Deer Hunt Costs Ten Lives.

Bangor-Ten killed, 100 wounded,
3 hunters arrested for shooting men
in mistake for deer-that is the toll
in the Maine deer hunting season.
The law provides prison sentences
not exceeding 10 years for hunters
convicted of killing men through
CarelesSness.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Believes Hunters Stray Bullet Killed
Farmer,

Brattleboro-A stray bullet from
a hunters rife probably killed John
Wait, farmer and lumberman,
whose body was found in the woods
in Peru, As miles from here. That
was the conclusion to which State
Attorney w. ]. Meagher and Deputy
Sheriff Fred Godfrey came after an
investigation.
Wait had gone to the woods after
a load of lumber. and when his
horses returned home without him.
his father, Ira Wait, started a search
and found him lying dead beside a
wood pile in which he had been
working. A bullet had pierced his
brain.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Ask Aid In Conservation of States
Water Supply.

Boston-In order to make its inves-
tigation as complete as possible, the
special commission authorized last
June to recommend plans for conser-
walton of the water supply and utili-
cation and equalization of the flow,
now invites suggestions from residents
of various sections eff the state Ger
tain studies have already been made
and during this month public meet
ings will be held in Pittsfield, Green
field, Springfield and Boston,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

Mrs. Charles Anspaugh, r. R !.
kimmell, Noble Co., Indiana, writes:
"Peruna has been a godsend to me.
l can feel safe in saying that it saved
my life, as | was all run down and was
Just miserable when l commenced TAX
Ing your Peruna, but am on the road
to recovery now. cannot thank you
too much"
Those who object to liquid medl-
elnes can now procure Peruna Tab
lets.
Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna
Lucky Day Almanac for 1914.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
25,74e Women in State Labor ,,,io,

Boston-Two hundred and thirtv-siv
thousand, seven hundred and sixty.
eight men and women hold member.
ship in the trade unions of Massachu
sets, 1888 of whom are connected
with Boston unions, according to the
latest report of the State Bureau OF
Statistics. This is a gain of 45.73t
over the last report of the bureau and
includes 25,749 women. 1t is tbe
greatest showing made by trad,
unionists the State over in many
years.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Post-Mortem.

II suppose" said the sympathetic
neighbor, that you will erect hand
some monument to your husbands
memory" ITO his memory?" echoed
the fearful widow. why, poor John
hadn't any, was sorting over some
of his clothes today, and found a
pocketful of letters had given him to
post"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Has 104th Birthday.

Lancaster-Richard K Powers, who
remembers the original Mary OF
MARY Had Little Lamb" fame, Gel
ebrated his 1O4th birthday the other
day ct the home of his daughter-in.
law. Mrs. George K Powers, here.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

Boston. Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Charles A. Prouty
characterizes as premature" state,
ments to the effect that he might be.
come a candidate for United States
Senator from Vermont to succeed
Senator w. P. Dillingham;.
81 have never announced | was a
candidate for the Senate although |
have been asked to take the posi-.
tion," said Mr. Prouty. IF I do
become a candidate it will be as Re.
publican"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

Barre,-Mark Daniels. "a, is dead
from injuries caused by falling on a
circular saw. He was mill hand,
and while at work lost his footing
and fell backward, the saw half sew
ering his body.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
MANY Children are Sickly,

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
Break up Colds in "a hours, relieve Feverish-
ness, Headache, Stomach Troub les, Teething
Disorders move and regulate the bowels, and
Destroy Worms. They are so pleasant to take
children like them. Used by mothers for24 years.
At oil druggists, Csc. Sample mailed FREE.
Add. ess, A S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y. Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Haskell New Trustee.

Augusta, Me-, Nov. 25.-Gov. Haines
today nominated Edwin Haskell of
Westbrook as a member of the board
of trustees of the University of Maine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
Expensive Tributes.

people who once threw bouquets at
that man now throw eggs"
with eggs at SO cents dozens"
exclaimed young Mrs. Torkins. my!
They must think lot of him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

A married woman says the way to
be happy with a husband is to learn
to be happy without him most of the
time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

There are but two kinds of men,
one talks while the other acts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

DR.. Peery's Vermifuge "Dead Shot" kills
and expels Worms in very few hours.
Adv,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

PNEUMATICA STOPS YOUR PAIN
or breaks up your cold in one hour It's marvelous.
Used externally All druggists, rs cents. Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

The man who can laugh at trouble
will be kept pretty busy laughing
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12

Be busy bee. It's always better to
sting than to get stung.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-12-12
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
NEED MORE ROOM.
1t Is Positive Necessity for Topeka
High School.

The board of education will take
steps in the next few months in the
direction of providing more high
school class rooms. There is now an
enrolment in the high school of 1912
as compared with 1850, the forme err
high mark. The classes of the school
are top heavy and unless additional
room is provided before the opening
of school next September the offices
will have to be turned into class rooms.
main high school building will be
necessary. In fact, some time since
a local architect did some figuring on
such an addition Immediately west
of the building is one hundred foot
place. The architect in question fig
ured that an addition could be erected
to cover this space at a cost of $4,000.
The assembly room of the high
school has a seating capacity of but
eight hundred, and as there are over
twelve hundred students in the school,
it is not possible to bring the entire
student body together at one time. 1t
was formerly the custom to bring
noted speakers here occasionally to
talk to the students, but the chapel
hour is now almost an unheardof
thing.
The addition would make possible
an adequate assembly room, and pro-
vision would probably be made for
boys gymnasium. This addition would
have been built before now had there
been additional funds. 1t is possible
that it will be another year or so be-
fore the improvement is authorized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

of the West Central committee of the
national board, is to be in Topeka from
February to 10. An interesting meet
ing, presided over by Miss Kinney, will
be held Monday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. T. c. Carver, us Harrison
street Miss Dice will discuss local
work at that time. The report fol-
lows:
Under the efficient direction of
Miss BIoodgood, an average of % young
women a month have found u perma-
nent room in the association and near
this past year. There is always
waiting list of those wishing to come
in and frequently transients are turned
away on account of lack of room.
THE recent gift of a player piano by
Miss Alice ]. Davies, of Los Angeles,
has made the parlor most popular. The
reading room has on its table the most
recent magazines and papers. The
library received a large addition from
a book party held at Christmas time
and is now being catalogued. An aver
age of 123 daily have been served at
noon and 4S in the evening in the large,
attractively furnished cafeteria. Miss
Jessie Alspach of this city has charge
of the lunch room and is constantly
called upon to serve teas, suppers and
banquets, etc.
"A popular department is the gymna-
SUM under the dire ton of Miss Flora
McPheters Gordon, 351 were enrolled
last year in gymnasium classes. In the
summer, PAT took advantage of the
swimming pool regularly. A large and