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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
FEWER SCHOOLS IN STATE.

The number of schools in the State
shows decrease of 10 in the year.
At the end of the fiscal year there were
1868 legal schools in the State. Of
these Rutland county had the largest
number, 2S4, while Washington ranks
second with 253 and Windham a close
third with $50. AS would be expected,
GrandlIsle has the least, with but 25, a
decrease of 5.
In some counties there has been an
increase while in others it has been on
the decline, but in no case has there
been a change of over II which occurs
in Orleans county, while in Bennington
there was a decrease of one school,
Washington county has increased two
schools, as has Windsor, while Rutland
increased four and Orleans decreased
II. The table of comparison follows:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Victim vanishes After Collision

Detectives of Patterson, N. j., and
county officials were searching for the
body of Frank Kasper, of 1876 Atlantic
street, that city, whom it is thought
was run down by an automobile in
Hamburg turnpike and killed 1t is
most mysterious accident, for while
James Secor of Bushman avenue, Hale
don, N. j., Kasper's companion, sought
assistance after the accident, the body
disappeared and there were no traces of
it beyond stains in the road
About ten O'Clock at night Kasper
and Secor were each riding bicycles on
the turnpike. AS they were passing
through Treakness, N. j., three miles
from Paterson, they were astonished to
see a large automobile coming in their
rear. Secor attempted to run his BIZ
cycle into ditch on the right side of
the road, while Kasper tried to make
the excavation on the other side. They
were too late.
The mudguard struck Secor's bicycle
and hurled him several feet to the side
of the road Kasper, he says, was less
fortunate. The speeding vehicle knocke ed
him down and ran over him. There
were four persons in the automobile and
they did not stop.
Secor dragged himself to his com
panion and attempted to lift the latter
from the wreckage of his bicycle He
says Kasper was terribly wounded and
dead. DR.. Armstrong arrived in his
automobile twenty-five minutes later
and with Secor went to the scene of the
accident. To their surprise Kasper was
not there. Every vestige of the wreck
ed bicycle had vanished.
There were stains on the ground and
the dust was disturbed proving that
there had been an accident. The city
and county officers arrived soon after
and began a vain search for Kasper,
and the occupants of the automobile
The only solution of the mystery sug-
gested was that the automobilists re-
turned and took Kasper to ahospital
However, no hospital in the vicinity
had such patient. Kasper had wife
and four children. New York Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Great Waste of Eqqs.

The annual American egg crop is es-
timated TO be worth $500000,00O; but
according to the egg specialists of the
department of agriculture, the value of
cur eggs should be S7O0,000,000, Be
tween the hen and the consumer there
is a waste of $2O0,0O0O00 annually.
OF this waste S5O,OOO,OOO is due to
needless breakage of eggs in transit
from the nest to the retailer. The bal
ance, S15O,0OO,O0O, represents unneces-
sary adding. spelling and deteriora-
ton of good eggs due to bad handling.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Nine Wedding Guests Hurt in COL
lision.

Philadelphia, Pa, Saturday. -Cele-
brating the marriage of one of their
number, nine persons, including the
bride and bridegroom, were injured to-
night when an automobile in which they
were touring West Philadelphia crashed
into a heavy motor truck. The light
machine in which the wedding party
was riding struck the motor truck with
such force that all its occupants were
thrown to the street. The automobile
turned completely over, narrowly miss
ing pinning the men and women be-
meath it,
The injured were taken to the West
Philadelphia Homeopathic Hospital.
Alphonso Daddi, twenty-five years old,
sustained severe decorations and contu-
sions, several broken ribs and internal
injury. His condition is critical The
others who were injured are Vladimir
De Marine, Leonard Narcissi, Dominick
Balarochi, Giuseppe Collartaro, Clo-
colino Vimariano, Nicholas Delona,
John Disimore and Catharine Colartaro.
The accident occurred about four
o'clock, an hour after Colartaro had
been married to the young woman,
who only arrived in this city today from
her home in Italy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
CARDINALS ENTER CONCLAVE
HALL TO ELECT POPE.

Rome, Aug. 3l.-At 1880 o'clock this
evening Cardinal Della Volpe, the papal
chamberlain, closed the inside door to
the conclave hall in which the college
of cardinals is gathered to elect a sue
cessor to the late Pope Plus.
Not until new pope has been chosen
by ballot will the doors be opened or
any intimation of the procedure inside
be known.
Tomorrow morning at II O'Clock
great crowds will gather in the square
outside St. Peters. Every eye will be
focused upon the chimney of the Sis
tine chapel. If smoke should arise from
it, it will indicate that no pope has been
elected. The smoke will be from the
burning ballots with which has been
mixed little straw.
Should pontff be elected workmen
will Immediately break in the doors
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
the THRICE A-WEEK EDITION
OF THE
NEW YORK WORLD

This is a time of great events and you
will want the news accurately and
promptly. The Democrats, for the
first time in sixteen years, will have the
Presidency and they will also control
both branches of Congress. The politi.
cal news is sure to be of the most alb
sorbing interest.
There is great war in the Old World,
and you may read of the extinction of
the vast Turkish Empire in Europe, just
as few years ago you read how Spain
lost her last foot of soil in America, after
having ruled the empire of half the
New World
The World long since established
record for impartiality, and any body can
afford its ThIice-a-Week edition, which
comes every other day in the week, ex-
cept Sunday. 1t will be of particular
value to you now. The Thrice a-Week
World also abounds in other strong fea-
lures, serial stories, humor, markets, car.
toons; in fact, everything that is to be
found in a first class daily.
THE THRICE-A WEEK WORLDS
regular subscription price is only 81 100
per year, and this pays for 1855 papers.
We offer this unequalled newspaper and
The Middlebury Register together for
one year for Sl,6j anywhere in Vermont,
The regular subscription price of the
two papers is $500.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
MARRIED THREE DECADES.

Mr.. and Mrs Julius A. Eaton of Bel
lows Fall quietly observed their Goth
wedding anniversary Thursday. 1t was
a very modest affair, purposely refrain
ing from ostentation and quietly enter
tanning their children and few friends.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Eaton are native
Vermonters and have spent most of
their lives in Granville, Rochester, and
Bellows Falls. Mr.. Eaton was born in
Rochester, Vt, December 3, 1888, "a
son of Amasa and Julia Ann (Chaffee)
Eaton. He moved with his parents to
Granville when he was eight years old
and was educated in the high school of
Rochester. Mrs. Eaton, who was Ann
M. Allbee, was born IN Rockingham,
October l6, 1885. She is a daughter of
Elijah w. and Ruth (Adams) Allbee,
who moved from Rockingham to Gran
vile in March, 1850, when Mrs. Eaton
was in her 18th year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius A. Eaton were
married in Granville August 27, 1854.
They moved in April, 1859, to Rochester,
where Mr. Eaton conducted a stove, tin
and hardware store until the spring of
1880. In November of that year the
Eatons removed to Bellows Falls, where
they have since resided.
Here, for long years, Mr.. Eaton was
a partner in the stove, tin and plumbing
firm of Miller, Eaton & Allbee In 1891
Mr.. Eaton and his son, William j.,
purchased the M. D. Jackson jewelry
store, and conducted it under the firm
name of w. j. Eaton & Co., jewellers
and opticians, until three years hence.
julius A. Eaton is member of King
Solomon's Lodge, F. & A. NJ He is
is a direct descendant of John and
Abigail (Damon) Eaton of Dover, Eng.
who came in the elizabeth and Ann"
to America in 1885. His Eatons date
back 10 generations in Great Britain and
20 generations in the United States.
Mr.. Eaton has been a deacon in the
Universalst church of Bellows Falls
for more than a quarter of century
and Mrs. Eaton has been a member of
the church for an equal length of time.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
RURAL CREDIT IN THE WEST.
Experiences That Some Farmers Had
In Securing Loans at Local Banks,

Experiences That Some Farmers Had
In Securing Loans at Local Banks.
The rural credit system is of use to
those who need it. 1t is because so
many farmers in the east do not feel
the need of such a system that they
are 50 apathetic about it, In some sec
tons of the west, although not every
and the following instances will prove
the assertion.
When the Bathrick rural credits bill
was read and considered in IA grange
IN Wyoming some interesting and sug-
gestive experiences were revealed. One
farmer related that he needed $2j and
went to the local bank to borrow it.
In order to do this he had to mortgage
a team worth $3.50 and also had to Sc
cure the signature Of d friend as sure
ty. He had the money seven months
and paid 81 for the use of it,
Another man needed 5000 to com
plete payment on some dairy cattle
and asked another man to 90 on his
note. The buyer was willing to give
a mortgage on the cattle he was pur-
chasing and also on seven others, but
the bank would not lend 5000 on this
security without another signer When
the man who was to 90 as surety came
to the bank he was asked if he had
5000 on deposit in the bank. He said
he had not and added, IF / had 1
would lend it to my neighbor instead
of letting you make the loan and
charge 10 per cent interest on it"
Another young man wanted to secure
an education and could use $3.50 He
offered real estate to the value of 81
600 as security for the loan, but the
money could not be obtained on any
terms
Still another farmer had an oppor-
tunity to buy a farm at a low price.
He was willing to give a mortgage on
the land and on other property to a
value of $4,000, but he couldn't Dor
row $4,000 on such security.
1t is such conditions as these that
the rural credit legislation is TO benefit,
and there isn't much doubt but that
II is pretty badly needed In many
states. When a farmer has to pay 10
per cent for his money he isn't going
to get rich at farming.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Four Hurt in Auto Crash.

Merrick, L. l., Sept. 2-Two men are
in the Nassau Hospital, Mineola, badly
injured. and two others are at their
homes in Seaford cut and badly bruised,
as the result of another automobile ac-
cident in this place last evening.
The most seriously injured autoists
are William O'Connell, well known
hotel man from Westbury, and Charles
Rollins, also of that village. The other
two are John Albin, and George Buch-
AMMAN, partners in the fish business at
Seaford.
O'Connell is suffering from Internal
injuries, broken right leg and decorations
of the face and body, while Rollins had
his left leg broken and was considerably
bruised Abin was cut slightly on the
face. Buchanan escaped with a severe
shaking up.
The O'Connell party was westbound,
while the other two men were east
bound. The two machines crashed on
Merrick road, near Merrick avenue,
and the occupants of both cars were
thrown out.
Dr. William Runcie of Freeport was
Immediately called and attended the
injured until they started for the hos
pital.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Races with Train Killed.

Riverhead, L. l., Saturday. Because
he wanted to get to the station in time
to meet the train, Frederick Lehmkuhl
of this village made the fatal mistake
of attempting to drive his automobile
across the Long Island railroad in front
of an approaching westbound train at
three O'Clock today.
The locomotive struck the fast run
ming automobile at the Mable street
crossing with terrific impact, throw
ing Mr.. Lehmkuhl seventy-five feet and
pieces of the automobile two hundred
feet A train bound for Jamaica was
stopped and Mr.. Lehmkuhl was taken
on it to st. Mary's Hospital, but he was
dead when he arrived there.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Bill One KilIedin Auto Accident.

Glens Falls, N Y, Sept. 1.-George
E. Moeschen of Hudson Falls was almost
instantly killed and his companion
Charles Harrington, of the same place,
was seriously injured when the auto
mobile in which they were riding turned
turtle in Fort Edward about II 80
o'clock last night. The accident occur
red when Moeschen who was driving
the car, attempted to pass a wagon on
the road, and as the machine was travel
ing at fast rate of speed it skidded
and was overturned. Moeschen was
pinned underneath the car and Harring-
ton was thrown for 80 feet, going over
fence about five feet in height and
landing in a yard.
Both the wagon and the automobile
were headed towards the north, and as
the machine ATTEMPTED to pass it skidded
and struck against the Hudson Valley
railroad tracks on the side of the road.
The contact of the wheels against the
rails threw the car over, causing it to
strike the wagon a glancng blow, de-
molishing it. Fortunately Edward Sui
Ivan of Fort Edward who was driving
the wagon, was uninjured, although he
was thrown from the vehicle.
A man who was on the street nearby
saw the accident and Immediately went
to the rescue. He found Moeschen
pinned underneath. the car and after
vainly trying to extricate him he went
for help. In short time he succeed
ed in procuring assistance and took
Moeschen from under the car, only to
find that he was dead. They then turn
ed their attention to Harrington and
thinking that he was seriously injured
took him to nearby physician, where
it was found that he had only sustained
painful bruises. $saSsy
Mr.. Moeschen was an expert designer
and was connected with the Standard
Paper company of Hudson Falls. He
is survived by wife and five children,
who at the time of the accident were
spending their vacation in New York.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04

The culling of the pullets that are
rapidly forging ahead should not he
omitted, for there will be in any flock
Of young birds those that can he dis
tinguished by this time that will not
develop into profitable layers. The
cost of keeping culls will before long
equal what they will bring when they
are sent to the market. II has been
well said that if pullet does not pay
profit the first year over and above
her maintenance "she will never catch
up with what she owes for her board ="
Furthermore. it is not good policy to
coddle weaklings. although one may
wish TO make the flock as large as pos
sible, for they will not make good
breeders and will prove bill OF ex-
pense.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
VERMONT SAVING MONEY.

According to Horace F. Graham,
State auditor, a very considerable saw
ing has been effected in the purchase of
State supplies by the establishment of
purchasing agent.
Mr.. Graham has given out the fol-
lowing statement
while in State like Vermont the
results obtained must be small, vet
they are large when compared with
our expense. The purchasing agent
plan has been adopted and found to
be great benefit by many large cor
porations, firms, cities, and NUM-
cipalities throughout the country. But
a few days ago Mayor Mitchell, of New
York, took this matter up with the
board of estimates and apportionment
and strongly recommended that the
purchasing agent plan be adopted in
stead of the present system of individ-
ual purchasing.
The question is how much benefit
has the office of purchasing agent been
to the State?
From a comparison of the expenses
that would come under this department
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1912,
the last full year under the old system
when all the purchases were made by
the superintendent of the several State
Institutions and the State officers and
members of boards and commissions,
estimate the saving for the year
ending June 80, 1914, to be approx
mately $25, 600.
THE purchase of the miscellaneous
printing stationary and office supplies
and pamphlets for the institutions, Off
GERS and boards has been brought to-
gether and systematized, and, by being
able to give out larger contracts GER
tainly saving from So, 600 to $40, 600
has been affected.
in the report of the State officers,
boards and commissions, certain super
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04

fuous matter has been eliminated and
the actual requirements of each insti-
tuition, officer, board or commission has
been more closely ascertained, and the
number of copies of any report re-
quired figured down to actual needs
and a saving of over $1,000 made from
what the expense would have been had
the old plan been followed where each
institution, officer, board, or commits
sion ordered on their own initiative.
"ln the staple articles such as coal,
flour, meats, fish, beans, sugar, butter,
potatoes, clothing and tobacco, COM
parison of their figures mentioned show
saving of from $4,000 to $40, 600.
The quantities of these different staple
articles that are used in the State in
situations, one has but little idea of
unless he has spent months in checking
and auditing these expenses.
The State uses annually over 700
barrels of sugar, from 1880 to 1000
barrels of flour, about five tons of cof-
fee, from 1000 to $4,000 bushels of
beans, from 10, 600 to II, 600 bushels of
potatoes, from five to six tons of to-
bacco, from 1,500 to 500 pairs of
shoes, from Is, 600 to 20, 600 tons of coal.
AT present the State has on hand sugar
sufficient to carry the institutions to
the first of June at So. So 100 flour to
March ! at $4 so a barrel; beans at
81. IS bushe to March l; salt salmon
at 81. 10 a barrel that will last until
February"
In the purchase of coal tests have
been made to ascertain the type of coal
best suited to the several institutions.
and following out these tests the pur-
chases were made at a substantial saw
ing to the State.
The State now has on hand some over
100 head of beef cattle and on tests Of
this method of purchasing beef at
different times it has been found more
advantageous to buy the beef on the
hoof rather than dressed and especially
so at the State hospital and industrial
school where the State has pasturage
and feed. This plan had to some ex-
tent been followed in the last few years
at the industrial school.
This comparison might be gone into
down to the smallest articles required
to maintain the different institutions
but in order to judge of the efficiency
of this system of purchasing one must
come into the auditors Office and com
pare, year with year, having in mind at
the same time the variations in prices
which are found from time to time in
the markets.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1914.
WANT HISTORIC BIBLE FOR
MACDONOUGH CELEBRATE

DR.. John M. Thomas, president of
Middlebury college, has written the St.
Adams Messenger to procure if posi-
BILE, the presence Of a Bible owned by
H. H. Wooster of that city to be ex-
hibited during the Marlborough cele-
braton.
The letter is as follows:
From an article by Rev. A. w. Wild
in the Elizabethtown IN. " Post
and Gazette of March 20, 1895, it APP
pears that at that date Henry H.
Wooster, of St. Adams, had in his
possession large Bible presented to
his grandfather, Rev. Benjamin Woo
ster, of Fairfield, by Gov. Daniel Temp
kins, of New York, in recognition Of
Mr. Wooster's services at the battle
of Plattsburgh.
was pastor of the Congregational
church at Fairfield from 1905 to 1870
He had served in the American army
in the Revolution, and when Benjamin
Swift rode into Fairfield in September
1874, with the news that a British
army was advancing upon Plattsburg
the old martial spirit returned and he
adjourned preparatory lecture, to
which his people had been summoned
organized a company which included
two boys of his own family, was
elected captain, marched at their head
to Pattsburgh, where he witnessed the
celebrated victory of Marlborough, and
rendered services which won him
special mention in the report of Gen.
Strong, commanding the Vermont vol
unteers, and a highly commendatory
letter from the governor of New York
which accompanied the gift of the
Bible.
1t seems to me that Father Wooster S
Bible should be on exhibition at Platts-
burg at the celebration of the Tooth
anniversary of the battle, September
ell. 1t would be an object of great
interest and would serve to call atten-
ton to the honorable part played by
Vermont troops in that contest.
have no doubt Howard d. Hadley of
Plattsburg, assistant secretary of the
New York commission, would be
pleased to hear from the present pos
SCISSOR of the Bible and would be glad
to place it on public view in some safe
pla ce during the coming celebration.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Child Hit by Auto,

Josephine Klemes, years of age, of
81 North Eighth street, was struck by
the mudguard of an automobile at
Wythe avenue and North Eight street
Saturday afternoon. James Hartley of
II Ten Eyck street, the owner who
was operating the car, rushed the child
to the Williamsburg Hospital, where
DR.. Morse found she had sustained con-
tusicns on the right side of her head
and body. Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Dorchester Bov Killed by Auto at
Animation

North Abingdon. Aug. 3O.-Paui
Balloon, I years old, was fatally in
jured this afternoon when he was
struck by an automobile as he ran
across Bedford street from where his
father, Herman Balloon of 100 Gram
plan way, Dorchester, had stopped to
repair his own machine. He died in the
Brockton City Hospital from a fracture
of the skull. Eric Bergfors, an asses
sor, of 20 Pleasant street, Quincy, was
driving the automobile which struck
the Balloon boy. He was going down
grade. No arrest has been made.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Lineman's Narrow Escape.

C. o. Bashaw.of Rutland, a lineman
employed by the Rutland Railway Light
& Power company, narrowly escaped
death by electrocution Sunday night,
$500 volts of electricity passed through
his body. His hands and feet were bad
ly burned but aside from this he seemed
to suffer no i'll effects from the shock.
Mr.. Bashaw with Walter B. Carrigan,
foreman for the company. were investi
eating a complaint at the corner of
River and Grange streets about 1880
o'clock Mr.. Bashaw was shaking a
heavy wire cable which supports an arc
light and it is supposed that this came
in contact with heavily charged wires
which feed the lamp. Bashaw was
rendered speeches. and but for the
prompt action of Carrigan who grabbed
his fellow workman by the coat and
broke his contact with the wire. would
have probably been killed. He was
unconscious for half an hour but first
aid methods assisted by the efforts of
physicians who soon arrived brought
Bashaw back to his senses.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Hands Cove Chapter.

Hands Cove chapter, d. A. r., will
meet at the home of Miss Alice Ward
in Shoreham on September II at 2 p. m.
NELLIE PRATT PREBLE,
Historian.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
Church N ote S.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Rev. A. A. Lancaster. Pastor.
Morning Worship l0:45. Sermon by
the pastor. The September Communion
will be observed Sunday, September Is,
instead of the first Sunday of the
month Bible School at noon. Classes
for all. Evening Worship 1880 all are
invited.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-09-04
ST. STEPHEN S CHURCH.


Rev. John Evans Bold. Rector.
Rectory No. 119 Main street.
: 80 Holy Communion. end, 4th and
5th.l
l0;45, Morning Prayer-Holy Com
munion. (lst and 3rd
1000, Sunday School.