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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Candidates for the Republican Con
gressional nomination are coming thick
and fast" over in the second district.
Porter N. Dale of Island Pond is the latest
announcement. Then there is Alex Den
nett of St. .ohnsbury, who, although not
announcing himself as candidate, is
mentioned f" by his friends Elk Mayor
Gordon of Barre is very much alive
candidate and has lot of supporters.
But when you "get down to brass tacks,"
Horace F. Graham is a strong favorite
and could Lamoille county have say,
he would be a winner, hands down, and
he may anyhow, if he will say he will
take the nomination. Keep an eye on
"Hodo 4@hr
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
Riverside

George Allen was in this place recently
James Roddy had the misfortune to
lose good COW Monday.
Mrs. George Cutter is pending a few
days with friends in Wocott.
Miss Cowan from the village is spending
a few days with Mrs. James Roddy.
Nelson Styles from Stowe was bust .
ness visitor in this place Wednesday.
John Griswo old from Mass. was in this
place, calling on his friends last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Boyes were in John
son to see their new grandson last Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Ruggles aud child
rem were visitors at the Manley home last
sunday.
Ray Bessy has gone to St. Adams,
wher he has employment in the laundry
with his brother-iu-.aw, Mr.. Whitcomb.
Mrs. Louise Newcomb from Burling-
ton and Mrs. Lambert from johnson,
visited their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Hicks, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Firkey and granddaugh-
ter, Miss Stanley. and Gardner Lucas,
spent few days with friends 10 Mont
pelier lrst week.
The marriage of Neil Crowell and Miss
Bessie Brown took place at the BRIDES
home in Alburg March II. They took
the evening tram for Montreal, where
they will spend their honey moon. On
their return they will visit the groom's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Crowell.
The best wishes of all goes out for the
prosperity and happiness of the young
couple.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
Words Without RhYnnes.

There are many words in English
that have no rhyme. AS given in
"The Ryhmers' Lexicon" by Andrew
Lang, they are as follows: Aitch, alb,
amongst, avenge, bilge, bourn,
breadth, brusk, bulb, Golf, conch, culm,
cusp, depth. doth. eighth, fifth, film.
forge, forth, fugue. gulf, hemp, lounge.
mauve, month, morgue, mourned,
ninth, oblige, of, pearl. pint, porch,
pork, poulp, prestige, puss, recumh,
sauce, scare, scarf, sixth, spoilt, swoln,
sylph, tenth, torsk, twelfth, UNI
plagued, volt, warmth wasp, wharves,
width, with, wolf, wolves.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
McKinStry Hill

Mrs. Col. Wheeler is suffering with
rheumatism.
Harold Bedell is working for Mr.. j.
Miller few days.
Mrs. Alice Simmons has finished work
for Mrs. Ariel Wilson.
Mr.. Ariel Wilson long time resident
of this town died Wednesday at Morris
vile at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Newton Graves, with whom he had been
staying the past winter. Deceased is
survived by his wife, one son James of
this place and a daughter, Mrs. Newton
Graves of Morrisville. The bereaved
fnmily have sympathy of all in their sad
affection.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
Eden

Luch
George Lanpher was a business visitor
in johnson Saturday.
Harold Parkhurst is visiting in John
son at his grandparents.
Eddie Dolan and wife of Lowell visited
at the home of Bert Parkhurst Sunday.
K. w. Smith is at home from the Val
Institute at Lyndonville Vt. for the
spring vacation.
Rev. VIM. Hamlin of Hyde Park was
in town Monday to officiate at the funeral
of Mrs. Hill, who was the oldest person
in town, being 81 years old. The two sons,
Sidney and Charles Hill. have the SYM
pathy of the entire community. An obit
uary will appear next week.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Harlow Wires spent Saturday in Essex
Center.
Miss Frances Hobart of Vergennes has
been visiting her mother here.
Mis-. F. A. Huse was called to Boston
Friday night by the illness of her sister
in-law.
Mrs. E. c. Wells and two daughters are
spending several days in Montpelier and
Plainfield.
Robert and Richard Luce of Waterbury
are spending the week with their grand
mother, Mrs. Mary Ellinwood.
d. M. Dickinson died Wednesday even
ing at the home of Fred Stinson after be-
ing in failing health for two years. The
funeral was held at the Stinson home
Saturday afternoon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
Test of Greatness,

There is no man who has never sac
rihced his selfish desire for the sake
Of some other person, who has never
felt a pleasure in undergoing some
loss or trouble because it pleased
somebody else. 1t is truth that man
is not detached being, that he has a
universal aspect; and when he recog-
nizes this. he becomes great.-From
"Sadhana-The Realization of Life"
by Rabindranath Tagore.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

They had "whirlwind' campaign last
week down Barre way and in a short
time $4,000 was raised to meet $40
900 gift towards the construction of a
hospital building. Well. done, Barre !;
again you show your enterprise and
pluck The granite city knows how to
do good thing and do it well. To be
sure, it took hard work and lots of it,
but its enterprising citizens show that
when good thing is to be done the best
time is to "do it now
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
ErenchWoman,s Cold Cure.

Having been without a cold for 81
years, French lady, who holds this
fortunate record, attributes it to the
following process. Each morning aft
er taking warm bath, she immediate
ly sponges her throat, her face, and
the back of her neck and ears with
the very coolest water she can get for
about two minutes. In cold weather
one may feel inclined to shirk, she
says, but the result Of steady applica-
ton she has found a plentiful re-
ward.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Spring began Officially" last Friday,
the 20th, so the almanac informs us ; but
one did not suspect it when glancing at
the thermometer, found it about ten be-
low zero. The weather man, didn't dare
to make any explanation of this extra
ordinary Democratic weather for fear
of embarrassing the administration. He
hopes that the mercury will not slide
down any further now that we have
reached the time for "etherel mildness.',
Nevertheless be half promises good
weather, but is not very enthusiastic
about it, the woodchuck having So inn
paired his meteorological judgment that
he distrusts himself and his scientific signs
and portents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

"The aggregate of our appropriations
is appalling and is increasing by leaps
and bounds" and the tendency of the
Senate is to go the Republican party
one better in expanding public funds" de.
clared Senator Thomas of Colorado in
recent debate. Senator Smoot added
that the total appropriation for the year
would be $1OO,OOO,OOO greater than
that of any other year in our history.
And the Democratic party, before election
savagely denounced the Republican party
for reckless waste of public funds and
solomnly pledged itself to program of
strictest economy All the same it takes
money to run this government, whichever
party is at its head. But it is wei!
enough to remind our Democratic friends
of their pledges.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Whatever may be ones opinion of the
main.cencIusions of the Carnage Educa-
ton commission, some points in the
Commissions report challenge the atten.
ton of every town in Vermont. Read
the report concerning sanitary conditions
in and about the rural schools, and think
whether either the physical or the moral
health of pupils is being properly safe
guarded in this state.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Reduced to common English, the sup
port of Editors Reynolds, Johnson,
Thayer, Belknap, Gilpin. Walters, Chase
Hildreth and Stone about one-fourth of
the editors of the state) is claimed for
Mr.. Prouty. We do not wish to belittle
the support those editors can give to any
man but felt We should publicly acknowl.
edge Colby Stoddard's, the writer of the
above, ability to represent his side of the
case. man with such words and such
ideas should be permanently retained by
the University of Vermont 10 confer hon
orary degrees on Vermont politicians -
ST. Johnsbury Caledonian.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Woman suffrage received set back in
the Senate last week by a vote of 35 to
"a. AS a two-thirds majority is neces-
sary the movement is failure for awhile
at least. The two Vermont Senators
were against.the movement, as was also
all the New England Senators, except
Hollis, Democrat, of New Hampshire.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

1t is said that the reason for the resig-
nation of A. F. Stone as editor of the
Advance, the organ of the Progressives,
was because his pay was not forth
coming. For the same reason Business
Manager Townsend, has looked up
another job. 1t would seem from this
that it takes cold cash to run a progIes
sive newspaper just the same as it does
an ordinary newspaper. Queer this may
seem, but tits true all the same.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

The "taffy" handed out by tne press
agent of the Prouty boom to those news
paper men who have ventured to say
word in behalf of that able and distin-
guished Vermonter's candidacy, despite
his announced reluctance to enter the
race, is really so warm as to be sticky.
The Bennington Banner refers to it as
"red-hot literature" and that's about
the size of it. This volunteer" move
ment appears TO be very energetic. and
grows decidedly nteresting.-L ludlow
Tribune
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

We asked the young lady across the
way if she thought satisfactory subsi-
tute for wood pulp in the manufacture of
paper would ever be discovered and she
aaid she had seen a good deal lately a.
bout str aw votes that seemed to give
pertty good Observation-Disclosures derald
Those who are disposed to like that
sort of thing find it just the sort of thing
they are likely to like
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Waterbury, that enterprising and pros
porous village, has a live board of trade.
an organization that has done things
and is doing things for the good OF the
place. 1t intends evidently to do more
and better work having just elected that
hustling progressive newspaper man. H.
c. Whitehill, president of the organiza-
ton. He is a live wire in any place.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

We do not see anything great in find
ing fault with Gov. Fletcher in his max
ing trips throughout the state with State
Sup't. OF Education Stone, in the interest
Of educational matters. The people
want to see their Governor and also to
hear his suggestions about matters in
which he is interested and he shows that
he is interested by giving attention to
the important subject of education in
Vermont.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Allegro was hanged by mob in Ala
bama Saturday night. A crime had been
committed and the mob had to kill
somebody. Dispatches do not indicate
whether they got the right man, but that
is question of secondary Importance in
Alabama; the main thing is to get some.
one who is black. Meanwhile the elo-
quence of Mr.. Richmond Pearson Hob
son, Representative in Congress from
that state, is devoted to setting forth the
danger Of a war between this country
and Japan.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Over in Paris The wife of cabinet min
ster goes out witha gun and kills an ed
itor who has written disrespectful things
about her husband. The French news
papers, however, will doubtless still con-
tinue to express their horror for lawless
and barbarous America.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

The British militant knocked down bv
the official whom she assaulted with a
whip, cannot complain that she was not
treated like man.-Boston Herald
This reminds us of the Anti.Sufrage
Toast-"Women; once our Superiors :;
now our Equals !"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

The sympathy of all Americans will be
with Colonel Roosevelt in the loss with
which he and his party have met in the
destruction OF their outfit in the rapids of
a Brazilian river. Those of us who have
no use for some of the Ex-President's
theories or willingness to support his po-
litical ambitions, have the highest regard
for the qualities manifested in this expe-
dition and wish him all success in it and
a safe return to his vn country.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Torreon. the city now beseiged by VIII
la, is only about thirty years old. 1t is
getting experience enough, it would seem,
to be sufficient ior long lifetime.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
Wise One.

Crawford-"The man who can look
nappy "nen he isn't makes a good
companion Crabshaw-"But you'd
petter not sit in poker game with
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
Overlooked.

A bridegroom is person who
spends lot of money buying himself
wedding-snit that nobody notices.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
The Dear rhinns.

Miss Elderly-"They say that mar
riages are made in heaven" Miss
Young-"Ah, then you have one
chance more"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
No Trouble TO Please.

Knicker-'Is that car an easy rup.
ner?" EnthUsiast-Fine; Just lie
down and let me run over you"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Was General Winfield Scott ever a
candidate for president of the United
States?
He was the candidate of the old
Wing party in 1852 and was beaten by
Franklin Pierce. who had been his in
ferior in rank in the Mexican war.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

80.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

What 10 the area or extent of the
Panama canal zone owned or controlled
by the United States?
Under the treaty with Panama it be-
gins at point ON the Atlantic side
three miles at sea from the shore, ex-
tends across the isthmus at width Of
ten miles. or five miles in both direc-
lions, measuring from the center of the.
canal. and extends three miles to sea
on the Pacific side. the same as on the
Atlantic side. Thus defined, the canal
zone contains 448 square miles. The
cities of Colon and Panama are gov
erned by the republic of Panama.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Please tell something about Howard
Chandler Christy.
He was born in Morgan county, o.,
on Jan. 10. 1878, and was educated
there and at Duncan Falls. o. lie
went east in 1898 and since has been
employed on the leading illustrated pc
riodicals. He served in the Cuban war
as a correspondent and is at present
in charge of the art class of the Cooper
institute, New York, where inquiries
can be addressed to him for any fur
Their information desired.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25
Kindly give the exact date when the
civil war ended.

Which was the older, John Wesley,
the founder of Methodism, or his broth
err Charles?
John Wesley was the older. being the
fifteenth child of Samuel and Susanna
Wesley. born June II, 1903. and
Charles Wesley. their eighteenth child.
born Dec. %. 170S
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

Will you kindly publish q list of the
Greek letter college fraternities now in
operation, showing the college where
organized and date of organization?
The following list embraces the prin-
cipal ones: Kappa Alpha, founded at
Union college. 1925: Delta Phi. Union,
1927: Sigma Phi, Union, 1927; Alpha
Delta Phi. Hamilton. 1892: Psi Epsilon.
Union. 1898: Delta Epsilon. Williams,
1894: Beta Theta Pi. Miami. 1899:
Chi Psi. Union. 1871: Delta. Kappa
Epsilon, Yale 1914; Zeta Psi. New
York university. 1916: Delta Psi. Co
lumbia. 1S47; Theta Delta Chi. Union,
1877: Phi Delta Theta. Miami. 1S4S:
Phi Gamma Delta. jefferson. 1s4S;
Phi Kappa Sigma. University of Penn
sylvania. 1850: Phi Kappa Psi. Jeffer-
son. 1852: Chi Phi. Princeton. 1854;
Sigma Chi. Miami. 1875: Sigma Alpha
Epsilon. Alabama. 1856; Delta Tau
Delta. Bethany. 1850: Alpha Tau One
ga. Virginia Military institute. 1865;
Kappa Alpha South. Washington and
Lee 1867; Kappa Sigma. Virginia.
1867; Sigma M. Virginia Military in
stitute. 1869.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-03-25

When was Labor day established or
first observed as a holiday
1t was first observed in Colorado in
1887.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03
QUEEN ENA OF SPAIN is GROWING OLD RAPIDLY

Queen Ena of Spain, who is only
twenty-six, is aging rapidly under the
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03
VOICE GIVES Joy TO BLIND UNFORTUNATEs

Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
the president, sang to more than fifty
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03

Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall, wife Of
Vice-President Marshall, has set the
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03

posedly lucky mineral of her distin,
guished father.
Besides the distinction impaired to
the occasion by the presence of the
daughter of the president, Miss VIII
sons singing as such pleased the audi.
ence. With wealth Of feeling and a
well-trained technique. Miss Wilson
gave first some Morse, German and
French selections. and then some IA,
miiiar Scotch and Irish ballads.
Among these numbers were three
from Grieg, Strauss "Margen," Schu-
bert's ave Maria" Faure's "Des Ber
ceaux" and claire de Lune;" Where
the Bee Sucks" and Lovely Alice"
old English songs; MY Laddie, VIII
Ye Gang TO the Hollands" Loeb 10.
mond," and "The Low-backed Car"
Miss Wilson was accompanied home
TO the White House by Mrs. William
Hitz.
A number Of blind persons were IA,
ken to and from the concert In the
car OF Mrs. Emile Berliner. These
were residents OF the recently opened
Aid Association Blind Home.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03

she affords striking example Of the
identifying results OF fashionable
clothes. Always extremely pretty,
with wonderful blond coloring, lovely
hair and handsome eyes, Queen Ena's
figure had the serious defect of being
high-shouldered and short-necked.
This appearance has now been got rid
Of, and the grace and beauty of her
neck and shoulders are undeniable.
The prospect Of facing a regency in
Spain for some years, at any rate
while her eldest son is under age,
must have a wearing effect on Queen
Ena, and especially as 1t is SO freely
predicted that she could never sus-
tain the position successfully In the
face of the letting loose of not mere
ly Republican but revolutionary forces
expected to follow the death of the
present king.
However. Queen Ena will not fail
for want of brains, for 1t is said she
is well endowed with them, and If she
does fail it will be owing TO bad ad.
visers or her own defective tempera,
ment.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03

( settlement work. She Is familiar per
son on Boston common, where she Is
called the mother Of the bum row"
Il is on one of the seats reserved for
the occupancy of the buns" of Bos-
ton and other cities that Mrs. Camp
bell, when the weather permits, reads
her morning paper-always with an
observant eye to her fellows of the
row. when she thinks one of them Is
genuinely down and out she speaks to
him. and the heart Of many poor
chap has been cheered by the little
white.haired woman, whose kindly
eyes gave him sympathy and who com
prehensively listens to a tale Of for
tunes lost and ships wrecked.
MY love for the poor and hungry"
says Helen Campbell. began at the
age of nine years, when in the cold
of November day in New England
band of gypsies camped below my
grandfather's farm. l met one of the
little children wrapped in a tattered
red shawl and she told me how hun
CRY she was. She said her band had
been ordered out of the town. ran
back to my grandparents and an
nounced my Intention of having the
gypsies come up to the big house on
the hill. My grandparents we're
aghast at the proposition. Their re-
fusal to entertain the wanderers in
furiated me, and | shall never forget
the episode nor how, after the storms
and tears, basket of provisions was
finally sent down to the gypsies in the
hollow. That night the band was hur-
ried out of the town.
Mrs. Campbell is a firm believer in
the back to the land movement"
Through this great country" says
Helen Campbell, Il have travelled. In
the west have seen the wheat being
garnered; in the south / have seen
the cotton fields white, ready for the
harvest; in the north have seen the
great timber lands, and In the east
broad, fertile acres, and | tell pou
there is plenty for the masses, plenty
for the poor women and their little
children, losing childhood in toll. And
even while industrial unrest possesses
the hearts of the women and children
there is yet a great peace-when out
Of the turmoil they will come into
their own.
MY human creed is to do good
and love much. ] have tried to live 1t
all my life, says Helen Campbell.
mother Of the bum row.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03

District of Columbia. The number
represents the calls returned and
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-03
SETS PACE FOR DEALING OUT CALLING CARDS

which have been made upon her at
the Shoreham hotel since March 4.
The record is one never before made
by a vice-president's wife, cabinet
members" wives or any one else in
the official circle except Mrs. Henry
Kirk Porter of Pennsylvania, whose
husband was in the house from that
state few years ago. Mrs. Marshall
can now rest on her laurels. She has
closed her visiting list and covered up
everything until this winter. The long
session of congress made 1t possible
for her to accomplish this. The not
too sumptuous machine given to the
vice-president for use while he is in
Office, and accompanied by a chauf-
feur who knows the city, has been
seen in a dozen sections of the town
in the same afternoon-first before
the door Of some high official or a
fashionable woman of society, with a
caretaker to receive the card, and
then before the humble home of .
government clerk from Indiana.