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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
DISCOVER OLD PIKE.
One of the Weapons Used by Ala.
bamans In Civil War.

pamanS In civil war.
Mobile. Ala Made in Mobile, 1861 -
could appropriately be placed on proba-
bly, the only pike now in existence
which was devised for use in the war
between the states. The pike has been
presented to the Charles Mohr society
for the Mobile museum and is on exhi-
bition in shop window.
The blade of the pike was devised
by Percy Walker in Mobile in 1861.
The wooden handles were poles six
feet long. the butt end fitted into Il
strap attached to a saddle. and the
pike was used in repelling attacks
The specimen was presented by Leroy
Walter McRae of Calvert. who was Il
member of the Mobile dragons and
later first lieutenant in the Fifty-s sixth
regiment of Alabama cavalry.
The pike was made by W. A. Alex
ander, who lives on Catherine street
now and who was identified with the
making of rifles and the building of
ironclad warships for the army. The
company which used the pixies was
sometimes called the Mobile Pikers.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
GOLD IN CHICKS GIzzARD.
PuIIet Promptly Pays For Itself When
Cut to Fry.

Pullet Promptly Pays For Itself When
Cut to Fry.
GOldfleld, Nev.-This place continues
to produce freak hens, the latest being
pullet with gold bearing gizZard.
1t was owned by Mrs. R. L. Morgan,
and when it reached the right size for
frying Mrs. Morgan very promptly had
her husband cut off the fowls head.
When she sliced the chickens giz-
card open Mrs. Morgan was astonished
to see piece of yellow material,
which on closer inspection turned out
to be a gold nugget the size of a
bean and worth $3.50.
A short time ago a Goldfield hen laid
an egg the shell of which was in
crusted with gold, and following this
two of the largest eggs ever produced
by hen were presented to their own
ers by two Goldfield fowls.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
PIows Up 500 Nugget.

Guinda. Cal.-Excitement has been
aroused here by the discovery Of a
gold nugget valued at 500 In the lawn
Of Lee Wood. He had his lot plow-
ed in the spring and while leveling it
off few days ago turned up the piece
of metal which he took to jeweler
for assay. 1t was about four inches
long. an inch and half wide and
weighed five ounces.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
Hog and DOG Are Chums.

Gu1ifTd. Mo.-At Sunnyshire farm,
near here, is the largest hog in Mis-
souri,. 1t is of the Poland China breed
ana weighs 100 pounds and is seven
feet five inches long and three feet
'our inches high. The smallest part
OF It's leg is eleven inches in circum-
ference.
The hog. which answers to the name
OF A Wonders Equal" is gentle. His
friend Is tiny dog, which visits the
lot every day, where he leaps upon the
oack OF the hog and rides around the
lot
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
CONDEMNED TO DIE,
CONDUCTS BUSINESS
Remarkable Fortitude Of Frank,
Awaiting Death.

Atlanta, Ga.-Leo NJ. Frank, SEN
fenced to be hanged Oct. 10 for the
murder of Mary Phagan. continues to
manage in jail the affairs of the Ma
tional Pencil company, of which he
was superintendent and at whose
plant the girl was killed. However.
he will not be hanged Oct. 10 because
the motion for a new trial will be
heard, and if the decision is adverse
the case will be carried to the supreme
court. 1t may be year before his
fate is definitely determined
His wife has visited him daily since
the end of the trial and has assisted
him in going over the mass of testi-
mony. When at the trial Solicitor
Dorsey declared she had never gone to
the police station to see him and cited
the fact to the jury as an indication
leaned forward in an excited protest.
but under the law she could not tes-
tify. She is determined in the event
of a new trial-and she is confident one
is coming-to in some way show that
she never for a moment doubted her
husbands innocence.
Mrs Rea Frank. his mother, Joined
in the Jail conferences for awhile. but
finally she was obliged to return to
Brooklyn. where her aged husband is
critically i'll. She expects to return
when argument is made for a new trial
before Judge Roam.
Solicitor Dorsey is directing the work
of detectives who are trying to find
new evidence to strengthen the case of
the state should new trial be ordered
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10

in the handling of it's aeroplanes and
in reconnaissance work. The army
must look to itself and to the men Of
the organized militia to supply a rea-
sonable number of officers for military
aviation in case of necessity. This
1t is not a question SO much of sup
plying aviators for great war as it
Is for supplying these military scouts
to accompany expeditionary forces or
any military movement that may be
undertaken. and also to provide rea-
sonable number for the defense from
aerial attack Of such vulnerable posi-
tons as Corregidor island in the Phil
ippines. and the Panama canal.
''The work performed by the signal
corps in aviation during the past few
years has been inconspicuOus. but it
has been very great Something has
been created from nothing since the
summer of 1909. when Orville Wright
succeeded in winning bonus of 5000
offered by the signal corps for fight
of five miles ont and FIVE miles back
from Fort Myer. Va. Much data has
been compiled on the strength of ma
terials. aerial forces. uses Of radio
telegraphy as applied to aeronautics.
but most Of all the knowledge Of en-
gines for aerOplanes and the proper
types of these machines have been
carefully worked out and valuable re-
suits have been obtained through the
efforts Of officers of the signal corps
and those associated with them. Every
thing is prepared now for rapid prog
ress and practical results If the en-
couragement asked from congress is
extended.
THE pilot of the aeroplane. for whom
we all have the highest respect, is the
fighting man Of the machine. He is
the man behind the gun, but from the
nature of things be must be young.
venturesome officer. generally without
the knowledge of administrative and
technical matters. which can only come
with years of experience and study,
and then only to men Of a certain type
of mentality"
In conclusion. the signal corps Off
Gals give the opinion that the work Of
aeronautics in the United States army
should be carried out along its present
lines of development and that the
work should receive every reasonable
aid and encouragement by congress.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
Former Cornell President Tells
of Experiences.
HEROIC AS ANCIENT MEN.
Professor Schurman impressed With
Bravery and VaIor Displayed In Most
Recent War-Country Has Doubled
In Area and Population-Progress
Due Largely to Excellent Soldiers.

New York.-Jacob Gould Schurman.
former president of Cornell university,
relates his experiences as minister to
Greece and Montenegro, which culmi-
mated in his catching the last train out
of Sofa when the Bulgarian capital
was shut off from the outside world.
He has just terminated his mission.
81 arrived at SaIoniki from Sofia" he
said. ION the evening Of the second
day of the first great battle between
the Greeks and Bulgarians. the battle
of the Kilikis All the trains from the
north were bringing in wounded SOL
diers, and every cab in the city was
impressed for transporting them to hos
pitfalls. / had to walk to- my hotel and
let porterS carry my trunks. Next day
| learned that $500 soldiers had been
brought in. and official reports after
the third day of the battle said that
10000 Greeks had been killed or wound
ed. while the loss to Bulgaria was still
heavier.
1.-THE fate of Bulgaria is tragic.
talked with the prime minister three
days before the fight began. Bulgaria
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
U. s. ARMY NEEDS
MANY Av|AT0RS
Training Necessary to Develop
the Service.
MUST FOSTER OWN SYSTEM

Head of Signal Corps Appeals For
Strengthening of That Branch of
Service-CiviIans Cannot Be De-
pended on to Develop the Science For
Military Uses.
Washington the office of
Brigadier General George S. Scriven.
U. S. A, chief signal officer of the
army, a statement has been issued on
aviation in the army in the course of
which it is stated that the flying situa-
ton in the United States. viewed
strictly from military standpoint. is
in a critical condition. The statement
is in way an appeal to congress. The
vulnerability of the Panama canal to
aerial attack is pointed out, and the
prophecy is made that aerial naviga-
ton is on the point of assuming enOr-
nous proportions.
"In regard to aviation it may be not
ed" the statement reads, that through
out the country the numDer or CIVIL
fans who have heretofore undertaken
to fly heavier than air machines for
their own pleasure for sport or for
money making is fast diminishing and
that 1t is doubtful whether in the event
Of war score Of men capable of max
ing fights useful to an army could be
obtained from civil life But aviation,
which may be considered sport by
the people of the country at large, Is
to the army vital necessity. The
tary science is at hand
'"The situation is critical. and the
army must, for its own protection,
train a sufficient number of its officers
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
MAY CUT LOW LIVING RATE.
Towanda (Pa.) Girl Will Try to Live
on Less Than so Cents Weekly,

Ithaca. N. Y.-The fifty cents a week
rate for food set last spring by Miss
Clara Loewus of TOwanda. Pa. is in
it by living for twenty weeks on $40
is going out to break it this fall, ac
eording to word received in the Ithaca
Conservatory of Music. in which she is
a student
She has written that she not only
last spring. but that she will try to cut
under it by few cents. Her expert
ments in dietetics will be watched by
the home economics department in
Cornell university.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
Run Over by Blind Steer.

Nashville. Tenn" Uncle Billy Hun
ter. mate on the steamboat Henry Har-
ley and one of the oldest men in active
service on the Cumberland river, met
with serious accident
Some cattle were being loaded at
Cedar Bluff. and there was a blind
steer in the lot Not knowing that tn.
steer was blind, Mr.. Hunter stood in
front of the gate to the cattle pen
when it was opened, and the blind ami
NAL ran over and trampled on him
bruising and injuring him badly.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
BECOMES FATHER AT SO.

Mountaineer's Son, Sixty one, Finds a
Young Brother When He Calls.
Spartanburg. S. CO. P. Grant. who
lives in the mountains north Of here,
has become a father at the age Of
eighty eight
When his son. L. NJ. Grant. sixty-one
years old. called at the family home
he found his father sitting on the front
porch coddling tiny baby. Aged Mr..
Grant proudly introduced the infant as
his youngest son.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
PACIFIC DRYDOcK.
work to Be Resumed Shortly lie opin-
ion In Washington.

WV !" ~ DC NeSume0 shortly liz ODin.
ion In Washington.
"ashington.-Work upon the giant
drydock at Pearl Harbor, the site of
the great naval base the United States
is establishing in the Pacific, probably
VIII be resumed in the near future
Secretary of the Navy Daniels an
nounced that Alfred Noble of New
York. the engineering specialist retain
cd to render an opinion as to the ad
visibility of going ahead with the con-
struction of the dock. has reported that
the project is quite feasible.
The Pearl Harbor drydock is to cost
several million dollars. according to es
Inmates. Work on the dock was well
advanced when the coral foundation
or the dock yielded to water pressure
from below and caused an upheaval of
the floor and walls. practically running
al! that had been done
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
$4,000 MILES TO BIBLE.
Woman Travels From California to
Koosy, Russia,

Los Angeles. Cal-To look once more
upon the face of her mother and to
touch with reverence book which the
wealth of the car of all the Russias
has failed to purchase are the reasons
why Mrs. Tartan Michael Daniels of
Los Angeles will journey $4,000 miles
to the village of Koosy. on the banks
of Lake Urumiah, in the Kurdish
mountains.
The book is the Peshitta testament,
one of the few books on the Scriptures
that survived the Mohammedan per-
secution. and has been viewed by hun
dreds of historians, who have offered
great sums for it. 1t was written in
800 A. D.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
Want Argentine Corn.

TOreka. Kan.-Kansas farmers an0
the drought upon the corn crop. will
ask the removal of the tariff duty on
Argentine corn so it may be imported
and fed to Kansas stock. 1t is esti-
mated that Argentine grain can be de-
livered to the Kansas farmers mt about
10 cents bushel less than the present
price of corn in the state.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
POLL OF FARMERS WIVES.
cretary of Agriculture Sends Letters
~ IN nm rs Tbnno

Secretary of Agriculture Sends Letters
to $4,000 of Them.
Washington. David f. Houston,
secretary of agriculture. wants the
women on American farms to tell him
what the department of agriculture
can do to best serve their needs. Ac-
cordingly he has prepared letter
which will be sent to the women of
10000 farm households. requesting
them to make suggestions.
Copies of the letter will go to about
twenty farms in each Of the $500 coun-
ties in the United States. Secretary
Houston expects that the replies re-
ceived will represent the views and
opinions Of more than 100000 farm
women.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
Must Learn Psalm In Jail.

Pueblo. Colo.-Municipal Judge Cross
man has issued number of unusual
sentences. but he established a record
for odd decisions when he sentenced
T. w. Nichols, labor agent to re-
main in Jail until he had committed to
memory the Twenty-third Psalm.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
FRIENDS PLANT CROPS.
Two Hundred Horses Plow 230 Acres
For Sick Couple.

TWO Hundred Horses Flow 23U Acres
For Sick Couple.
Larned. Kan.-Because Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy. Command had been sick for sew
eral weeks and could not plant fall
crops forty of their neighbOrs went to
their farm home near here and plowed
1870 acres of wheat land and cut 100
acres Of sod About 200 horses were
used in the work. which was COM
pleted in day.
ground and planting the crop was
carried out like clockwork. the work
ers being divided into companies with
captains.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
$15,0OO,OOO IN SALMON.
Coast Fishermen Making $500 a
Week Apiece.

Week Apiece.
Tacoma.-Five hundred dollars a
week for one fisherman is the average
earned by salmon fishers who have be-
gun to return from the banks to Ia
coma with shipload after shipload of
their catches and their faces wreathed
in smiles over what they declared was
the most successful season in history
Jack Anich. one of the dozen of the
salmon fishers of Tacoma. said that
during the comparatively short period.
four weeks. during which they are al
lowed to fish. no less than 100000
cases of salmon had been caught in
Puget sound and British Columbia wa
tiers, valued at $15,0O000O.
Tacoma and Gig harbor fishermen
are bringing $75O,O0O worth of salmon
to Old Town alone.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
Properly a Proud Father.

Winsted. COnn.-The six-months-old
infant of Thomas Finn Of Lake street
weighs thirty-five pounds and already
has seven teeth. The proud father,
who stands over six feet in his stock
ings, thinks the baby will be giant.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
RABBIT MUSCLE FOR HER.
Surgeon Will Graft II on the Leg of
Miss Tovar.

Miss ToVar.
Kansas City, Mo.-Miss Hermita To-
var, fifteen, daughter of wealthy
merchant of Lima, Peru, is in critical
condition at st. Joseph's hospital from
injuries received in an accident on a
roller coaster at Electric park. Her
brother, Daniel Tovar, twenty, is in
an adjoining room suffering from Sc
we're bruises about the head and shout
ders.
The muscles from the foot of a rab
bit will be grated into the girls leg
to take the place of those torn of In
the accident.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
GRASSHOPPERS EAT ROPE.
1t Breaks, and Workman Falls From
Scaffold.

It Breaks, and Workman Falls From
Scaffold.
Warrensburg, Mo.-A swarm of
grasshoppers that alighted on a rope
supporting scaffold and cut through
the strands nearly caused the death of
a workman.
Daniel Laughman, a carpenter, sew
enty, was working on the scaffold
thirty feet from the ground while
building a silo on the farm Of Jesse
Mohler. After the grasshoppers had
Toasted on the corn near the silo they
gradually collected on the rope sup
porting the scaffold, and suddenly one
end lurched downward, and Laughman
was severely bruised by his fall.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-10-10
A Glarino Ope

Teacher-In the sentence. 1.-The sick
boy loves his medicine" what part of
speech is "love?" Johnny-lt's q fb.
mum. London Tit, Bits.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
Isn't this great weather ?

Isn't his great weather
Alban Parker is at home from Middle
bury College to spend the Christmas va
cation.
Mrs. A. H. Smith of Fitchburg, Mass
is guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. Gould.
Miss Puma Darling is seriously il
from pneumonia at the home OF her sis
ter, Mrs. U. A. Woodbury., in Burlington
Mrs. D. ], Thomas and two children
are visiting relatives and friends in this
vicinity before going to Turner's Falls
Mass, to join Mr.. Thomas and where
the family expects to reside.
The grafanola concert given at the
Campbell jewelry store last Friday even.
ing was certainly novel idea and proved
a very rare treat to the audience, which
completely filled the store as well as the
side walk in front. Sixteen selections OF
up-to-date music were rendered.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
BUSINESS NOTICES.

For RENT Two desirable Tenenents
H. WAITE & Son, Morrisville
HATi-Baled Hay for sale. Will make low
price. {. 5. PAGE, HYDE Park.
FoR SERVICE IL have a fine White Chester
Boar Hog. DAVID TRUDo, Hyde Park.
HORSES FOR SALRl-Two Double Teams suit-
able for farm work or numbering.
E. G. Foss, Morrisville.
WANTED Dl-Manufacturer's representatives 70
introduce product Small capital necessary-sso.
Choice Of limited territory. Address
NJ. Horc HKIss, Fairfax. VT.
FoR SALE i-Eleven-year-old Bay Horse ten
yenrs old, chestnut Mare, both good drivers. kind
and safe. Mare splendid saddle ANNA. ASso
some extra good cows.
L. II. NoYEs, Hyde Park.
For SALE - Two good secondhand Cook
Stoves, besides few new ones and a lot Of oood
Parlor Stoves. Also Horse Blankets. Robes and
Lap Robes We have a nice assortment Of Christ
mas Goods, consisting Of Toys and useful articles
all at reasonable prices. Call in and see.
E. E. BADGER, Hyde Park.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
HYDE PARK, VERMONT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER H. 1918.
Benson has money for you-$4 to $40

Benson has money for you-$4 to $10
at lick.
Creamery patrons will find elsewhere
a notice from II. w. Belden regarding
payments for cream.
Miss Edna Slayton leaves Saturday for
Providence, r. l., where she will spend a
week at the home of her uncle. Frank
Slayton:
Brownies store is full of good things
suitable for holiday trade-both useful
and ornamental. Read the adv't on
page and make note of what he says.
Miss Gwendolen Smith. a student at
the Leland Powers School OF Expression
IN Boston, arrived home last evening to
spend the holiday vacation at her home.
I The stores will be open every evening
from now until Christmas to accommo-
date Christmas shoppers, and with an
extra force of clerks will handle the trade
with there usual promptness.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
Banquet

Arrangements are being made for the
fifth annual Pan-Hellenic Banquet. Those
eligible to attend this banquet are the
Greek letter fraternity men and this year
the invitations will be extended to their
ladies, to all those who have attended
college and the senior classes of P A.
L. c. A., and Stowe and Johnson High
Schools. Further announcement will be
made next week
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
Early Christmas Buying

Do your Christmas shopping early
and pick out your gifts while the stock is
large aud fresh. An easy way to solve
the Christmas shopping problem is to
carefully study the advertisements of our
local merchants which appear in this
paper These Christmas advertisements
contain valuable hints for the holiday
buyer, and by making the list of articles
and the stores at which they may be OBJ
tained, Christmas shopping becomes not
hardship but pleasure. Try this meth
cd and save time, money and trouble.
Fifteen members of Lamoille Comman-
derry attended the annual meeting of Mt.
Sinai Temple at Montpelier last Friday
evening and had the great pleasure OF
seeing their fellow member, Earl Jordan
of Hardwick cross "the hot sands" in
the latest and most approved style. He
stood the ordeal wonderfully and is now
a full-fledged Shriner of the latest and
most approved pattern.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
VOL. XXXIII. NO, 1.
The EARLE Store

The following gingle from the pen OF Walt
Mason seems to especifly appropriate at
this time of the year and for this reason we are
using it in place of our regular advertisement
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17

80 WISH all kinds of Christmas Joys all the bunch
OF = girls and boys, whaeer their age may be-
= kids know eight ten, and ascient
90 danes and men, aud all good to 1t is
80 time, the merchant said, when every who
isn't dead should a cheerful smie if Christ.
doesn't thaw heart and make all icinss depart
your breast ful of guile The Christmas trade is always
good but neghbor be it understood the merchants great
est gee taking in the scads ts giving girls and
lads chunks of ecsacv I'd rather sell five doll
that puts happy smile DER all little maidens face
than sell ten dollars worth of old crouch who
snars and and glooms around the place. like my
patrons to believe that wout break heart and geve if
they don't spend pile; want them all around and
help raise joyful sound and swap Christmas SMILE
Ah people surely have been sung by if they don't feel
young when Christmas time arrives odds how corpuent
their rolls they have the dry their souls their
darkened lives At Christmas should romp and play in
festive style the veong day, like children fresh from school,
though have lived five hundred years. ought gam.
boil like bay when sound the bells of Yule ought
to keep cheerful mind and be gracious and kind
know how be- the moral profits then will swell the profits
from the things we SELL and fill our souls with glee.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
FOR THE MAN AND BOY:

MEMS SLIPPERS-Kid and Felt, SOC to 81 so
FANCY SHIRTS-5Oc to Sc. 90.
NECKWEAR-Ve1vet and Silk Cravats from 25c
to $3.50, put up in holiday boxes.
NECKTIE and HOSE SETS in Silk and Lisle.
Every wanted color. SOC to $3.50.
SILK and Isle HOSIERY
A full line of colors.
CROCHET SCARFS IN SILK-all colors.
From FL 90 to 200
SUSPENDERS put up in holiday boxes.
25c to S 100
KID GLOVES of every description from $1.0O
to $50. Also Wool and Fur-lined Gloves
and Mittens. Big assortment. Wool
Gloves 25c to 81 90. Other Gloves 81 90
to 500.