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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
MIODLEBURY LOCALS

Mrs. NJ. A. Munroe has gone to Bos-
ton for short visit.
Philip H. LaFleur, student at Col
gate college, Hamilton, N. Y, is spend
ing the Easter recess with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ira LaFleur of North
Pleasant street.
Mrs Gideon Abbey, who has been
spcn ling the winter in the south with
her sister. has returned much improved
in health.
Miss Dorothy Bentley is spending a
few days with her sister, Mrs Frederick
s. Rogers in Brandon.
Robert Mills was business visitor in
town this week.
Miss Ruth Ferguson has returned
from weeks stay in Vergennes.
Misses Lucy Bordeau, Eleanor Fer
guson and Elizabeth Baldwin were
guest of Miss Sara Bordeau of Yer
gennes Sunday.
W. A. Lawrence of Bristol, who has
been the guest of friends, has returned
to his home.
Walter ST. Peter of Vergennes, who
has been the guest of friends here, re-
turned to his home in Vergennes.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Monroe have
moved from the Battell block to Lin
coin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
CARELESS AUTO DRIVERS.
o the Editor of the Free Press:

To the Editor of the Free Press:
During the past six months or more,
there conld be seen from the city hall
immense volumes of smoke from some
half dozen chimneys from the burning of
soft coal, filling many of our streets
with this poisonous matter, much to
the discomfort of our citizens and guests.
Outside of street talk, nothing has been
done to enforce the law which prohibits
the burning of soft coal in the district
named. The violators should thank
our police department, if they have
not already done so. AS for the rest of
us, we can serve our time out with
catarrh, bronchitis, and pneumonia.
We might expect relief upon the APP
proach of warmer weather, but for an
other nuisance, the smoking automobile
which will soon be seen speeding through
our streets, at rate of fifty miles an
hour, with muffier wide open, emitting
smoke the entire length of our streets.
i We are denied the use of our streets.
If we desire to cross one at any point
we are warned by hideous squak that
can be heard mile to get out of the
way, the automobile going on with in
creased speed, without interference.
! These conditions are not overdrawn,
they are brought up at this time, that
an honest effort be made to stop these
unsanitary and dangerous practices, that
are in strict violation of law. Indica-
tons for the coming season are such,
that it willrequire great caution upon
the part of the common people to avoid
being run down by thoughtless automo-
bile drivers. A little snap in our police
department, as in the day of Jerome
Dumas, is all that is required to give US
relief.
ONE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
Compulsory School Abundance

Although six States in the union are
still without compulsory school attend
ance laws and four others have laws that
apply only partially, definite progress
during the past decade is reported in a
bulletin just issued by the United States
bureau of education. Since 1905 eight
States previously without compulsory
laws have adopted them, and it is
though to be matter CT only a few
years when compulsory school attend
ance will be in effect in every State and
territory of the United States. The six
States still without compulsory school
laws are: South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas. The four local-option States,
where the law is in effect in certain
counties only, are Maryland, Virginia,
Arkansas and Louisiana.
The States vary widelyin number of
years and amount of attendance re-
quired each year. The period OF com
pulsory attendance is from eight to
twelve in North Carolina and Virginia.
In most States it is eight to fourteen or
fifteen. The present tendency is to raise
the upper limit of compulsion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
F FATAL AUTO PLUNGE.
Girl Crushed to Death and Owner
of Car NAV Die

New York, April "A midnight
lark on the part of two men with
prominent connections in this city came
to tragic end early this morning when
a 3O-horsepower runabout belonging to
Otto H. Schneider, and driven by him.
plunged off the temporary wooden
bridge over the Long Island railroad
tracks at Woodside, L. l., on the
greensboro boulevard, crashed through
the heavy wooden fence and stone flag
glng at the side of the road, and hurled
down 30-toot embankment. In going
down the embankment the machine
struck tree and was upset
Catherine Mccormick, a handsome
l9-year-old cloak model. was found lie
less beneath the automobile half an
hour later Schneider, who is % years
old, student at Stevens Institute of
Technology, and brother of Mrs. Joseph
Edward Ridder, was rushed to st.
Johns hospital, Long Island City,
where it was later found that his back
was broken. Little hope is held for his
recovey.
Charles Richter, % We RS old, son of
George Richter, superintendent of a
piano company, was the least injured.
AT the hospital it was found that he had
suffered conclusion of the brain,
abrasions of the left side and face and
decorations of the scalp. 1t is believed
he will live.
Miss Mccormick came to New York
from East Pepperell, Mass, about four
years ago. The body will be sent
here for burial.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
BUMPER WHEAT CROP.

Washington, April IA record
breaking winter wheat crop is in pros,
pect this year, the department of agri-
culture estimating on a conservative
basis that the yield may exceed SOL, 900,
600 bushels. The condition of the crop
April l was 95.6 per cent. of a normal
or l1.5 per cent better than the average
April condition for the past ten
years.
The area planted last autumn was &c.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
COLD WAVE FROM ALASKA

Washington, April San ice chilled
wave direct from the frozen fields of
Alaska is bearing down upon the south
ern and eastern States tonight, bring
ing what promises to be record break
ing fall in temperatures. Weather bu-
reau experts were inclined to think furs
and overcoats would be exceeding popu-
lar in Easter parades Sunday.
From the lower Mississippi valley
States east to the Atlantic and as far
north AS the Ohio valley the tempera-
ture records reported tonight ranged
from 20 to 80 degrees At Pensacola,
Fla, the thermometer registered so de-
grees and was expected to drop to the
40 point by morning. BY tomorrow
night, the reports said, the northern
portion of Florida would be in the grip
Of heavy frosts.
The course Of the cold wave is due
north frJm the southern Atlantic States
and by tomorrow the eastern States are
expected to feel a decided difference in
temperatures
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
DEMAND FOR VERMONT CATTLE

Fred l.. Davis of White River juno
ton, State cattle commissioner, was in
Burlington Wednesday and in the
course of a conversation with a re-
porter said that Vermont cattle were
gaining greater reputation for quality
than ever before. Breeders and dairy
owners are taking more interest in
their herds. The State is now interested
in the inspection for tuberculosis of
herds that heve never been tested be-
fore. Herd owners must after the first
test pay for subsequent tests.
There is great demand for Vermont
dairy cattle outside the State, and hun
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
Terms Strictly In Advance.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1914.
HOW ANIMALS SLEEP.

Sleep, indeed, is a "gentle thing"
1t is the supremest form of rest. Our
notions of rest during sleep, however,
are likely to be a little upset when
we come to survey the different pos
lures assumed by various animals dur
ing sleep.
To begin with the human race. The
majority of mankind, probably, sleep
lying upon the right or left side of the
body and with the knees drawn up to-
ward the chin. But certain African
tribes, for example, lie upon the back
with the head, or rather the back of
the neck, resting on bar of wood sup
ported on two short pillars.
The elephant, apparently invariably,
and the horse commonly, sleep stand
ing. This is really astonishing. Aside
from the apparent difficulty of main
tanning the balance of the body dur
ing these long periods of unconscious
ness, one would have supposed that
recumbent position in the case of both
these animals was imperative. Cattle
and their kind commonly sleep lying
down, and during many hours of the
day they lie down, as when chewing the
cud.
More curious still, there are Great
ures which invariably sleep hanging
head downward, suspended by their
hind feet. The bats afford a case in
point Among the birds we meet with
the same strange habit in the little
hanging parrots of India and the Ma
layan region. In this they differ from
all other birds, which invariably sleep
with the head turned tailward over the
back and the heak thrust in among the
feathers between the wing and the body,
not under the wing, as is commonly be-
leVed. No exp anaton has ever been
offered to account for this strange habit.
1t is followed even by the penguins,
wherein the feathers are so short as to
fail completely to cover even the beak
Owls are, perhaps, the only exception to
the rule.
And, by the way. the only other ami
mails which thus turn the head back
ward after this fashion during sleep
are certain peculiar tortoises known as
sde-necked" tortoises. Certain birds
sleep while resting on one leg. This Gu
rious pose is we'll seen in long legged
birds, like storks and guls. Ducks GEN
orally sleep on open water, and to avoid
drifting shoreward, and therefore into
the danger zone, they keep constantly
padding with one foot, so that the body
always is circling round the chosen
sleeping area.
The sloths sleep suspended by their
feet, and the head tucked in between
the forelegs. The no less remarkable
African pottos, or slow lemurs, assume
a similar pose, but they attach them
selves to vertical instead of horizon
tai Dough, so that the body rests with
the head upward. No animal, save man,
sleeps upon his back.
Some animals are said never to sleep.
and this because the eyes are never
closed. The hares, snakes and fishes
are commonly supposed to enjoy this
unenviabe distinction. The notion is
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
Domestic Science Course.

A domestic science course in con-
nection with the Girls club of Middle
bury is to be conducted by Miss Wells
of the college. This course will be
given in the college laboratory and will
consist of ten lessons on Wednesday
afternoons from A until 6 o'clock. Any
girls of the town who wish to join this
class will please notify Mrs. Burrage.
Glasses will begin Wednesday, April o.
Had dyspepsia or indigestion for
years. No appetite, and what did eat
distressed me terribly. Burdock Blood
Bitters reached the cause. H. Walk
er, Sudbury, Ohio.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10

The month of February was the most
disastrous in point of damage by fire.
A total loss of $187, 524. OF resulted from
l54 fires. There were 227 fires in July
but the property loss amounted to but
$50, Ill. 10.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10

DlICs, lowers ana gardening, with the
additions made since the list was pub
lished before.
Baird, History of North American
Birds
Burroughs Birds and Bees
Chapman. Camp Cruises of an Orni-
biologist
Chapman, Handbook OF Birds Eastern
North America
Doubleday, Bird Neighbors
Herrick, Home Life of Wild Birds
Forbush, Useful Birds and Their Pro-
lection
Homaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life
Job, How to Study Birds
Marks, Holiday with the Birds
Mathews, Familiar Features of the
Roadside
Mathews, Field Book of Wild Birds
Miller, First Book of Birds
Miller, Second Book of Birds
Merriam, Birds of Village and Field.
Reed, Bird Guide, Land Birds. Water
Birds
Scott, Story of Bird Lover
Seton, Bird Portraits
Seton, In his Book of Woodcraft
TORY, Birds in Bush
Torrey, Everyday Birds
Stearns, New England Bird Life
FLOWERS AND GARDENING.
Albee, Hardy Plants for Cottage Gar
dens
Bailey, Talks Afeld About Plants.
Beecroft, Who's Who Among the Wild
Flowers
Campbell, Evolution of Plants
Dana, How to Know the Wild Flowers
Dana, How to Know the Ferns
Duncan, When Mother Lets Us Garden
Ely, Practical Flower Garden
Eli, Woman's Hardy Garden
Fighter, Vegetable World
Gibson, Eye Spy
Hale, Flowerless Plants
Hibberd, Fern Garden
Mann, Flower People
Mathews, Familiar Features of the
Roadside
Mathews, Familiar Flowers of Field
and Garden
Mathews, Field of American Wild
Flowers
Meier, School and Flower Gardens
Newhall, Shrubs of Northeastern
America
ReXford, Flowers and How to Grow
Them
Stack, Wild Flowers Every Child Should
Know
Vincent, Plant World
Warner Gardening by Myself
Waters, Ferns
Wright, Flowers and Ferns.
TREES.
Fernow, Care of Trees
Hough, Handbook of Trees
Huntington, Study of Trees in Winter
Keller, Our Native Trees
Mcfarland, Getting Acquainted with
the Trees
Mathew, Familiar Trees and Their
Leaves
Pinchot, Fight for Conservation
Stokes, Ten Common Trees
Miss Genevieve Elmer, a teacher in
the johnson High school, is visiting
har paranta Mr. and Mra Horace
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
Five-Year-old Boy Killed Street

Rumford, Me-, April Dumping off
a grocery team today, Lucien Sutton,
aged five years, alghted in front of an
approaching automobile, and was
killed
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10

Miss Genevieve Elmer, a teacher in
the Johnson High school, is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Elmer, in the east part of the town.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-10

By request the librarian has prepared
again the list of books relating to
Birds, Flowers and Gardening, with the
additions made since the list was pub
lished before.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03

will result in breaking the tie that has existed for months and has prevented the election of . principal of the high school in tue town. The election may be the means oS bringing about a set clement of the vexing question.
 New Pastor at WoodstoeIe. Rev. F. B. Harrison has been elected pastor of the First Congregations church at Woodstock for a period oi six months and Is to begin his duties next Sunday, the hour of service being changed from 10.45 to I0.30, Scouts Active. The annual meeting of the Boy Scouts in this city is called for Oct IS The Scout organization is alive lhere and an increase in membership Is look ed for during the coming season. Oct 12 the Scouts will take part in the Co., lumbus day parade, acting as a guard of honor for the companies of the fire department, which are to be out for inspection.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03
DANELSoN
Humane Agent Has Old Horse Killed --New Banking Rooms 10 Be Open to Pubiie-Death of Miss Margaret opnfieid-only 18 Local Men ia 17o Arrested


 Charles E. Aver of Dayville will be a. candidate fer nomination as repre- sentative by the republicans of Kill ling1y.
 John Alden of New Bedford was a visitor with friends in Danielson Fri day.
 Lester Craig of Brown university is
 ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Craig. Earl
 F. Wood of Brown is with his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Wood.
 Mrs. Esther Jacobs has returned
 from a visit at East Orange. N. J. E Mrs. M. N. Brown. who has been
 visiting hers, has returned to Valley Falls.
 Frank B. Ledoux of Riverpoint is spending few days with friends in panielson.
 Providence on business trip Friday.
 Brockton. where he has been attend
 ing the fair.
 Mrs. c. H. Kingsbury has returned from a visit in Boston. Will Return to Bank. Mrs. Jennie Reddy, who has been in Providence. will return here to enter the employ of the Windham County National bank. Foreman Peters of the New Haven 1O1o ? 4SNdi SEStiOA S<1Sa6 9ApC4NASCo 1G- pairs at the Main street crossing Fri
 day; :. Springfield have been recent visitors
 with friends here. Had Old Horse Killed. B. o. Wood. acting as an agent of the state humane society, caused an old and decrepit horse in use by 8 peddier at Dayvilie to be done away l with.
 l A candidate on the prohibition tick ct from this, the Twenty eighth sena- | torfa1 district, is to be named at the
 prohibition party convention here 1 Wednesday, next. The republican town caucus to nom,
 tives and ten jnstices of the peace fol 1 the ensuing ten years Is scheduled fol l next Friday. Bank to Bs Open so Public, Hundreds Of invitations have beer
 sent out for the formal opening ana
 inspection of the fine new banking Il rooms of the Windham County Nation.
 al bank this (Saturday9 afternoon. Ths
 bank is being highly praised by al who have visited it.
 II Teiephone Poles Burned. II In a fire that destroyed several hun. dreds Of thousands of feet of lumber in the Westford section of the count. H feW days ago string Of telephone poles were also consumed, Employel
 of the telephone company have beer
 busy replacing them this week, Vale Professor to Preach.
 At the Congregational church i, Dayvule next Thursday evening vii occur the ordination of John Wesle, Wright. who has been pastor ther, for some time. Professor TweedIe O
 Yale university. where MT. Wright hal
 been a student. will preach the ordina tion sermon.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03

of the discussion that has not been publicly considered.
 There are very few citizens of this town who are classed by record or inclination with the TO who have been in the towns court for intoxication during the past II months. The per- centage of travelling drunks arrested here during periods of no-license is nearly as great as under license. How to be rid of this class is something of a problem and one that needs the attention of all citizens, whether aligned with the license or no-license forces.
 Eotes,
 Honors at the weekly meeting of the Bijou Whist club were won by Mrs. Howard Withey, Mrs. N. Lariviere and Mrs. B. Meunier.
 Miss Lena St. Onge has returned to her home in Fall River after being the guest of MT. and Mrs. l.. B. Kennedy here.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03
PUTNAM
Postal Savings DePesitors Have $ao,eoo RaIanee-Address by pr. George E. WiIeox-D. A.sR. Pilsrimase-Ayres- Collins Marriage.

Democratic delegations from towns in the 2Sth district are to gather here this (Saturday) afternoon to name Q
 candidate for senator.
 The Bar Harbor expresses will make their last run of the season Sunday evening, but the State of Maine ex- presses will continue running through Putnam.
 At the postal savings department of the local postofflce there was a balance to the credit of depositors on Sept. 30
 of S30,000. During the past month IS new accounts have been opened. Sev-
 s2, ,S6s.
 Endorses TourteIIette H. s. Inspector Gregory of the high schools in Connecticut has pronounced the
 Tourtellotte Memorial High school at
 North Grosvenordale, which for the
 present is without a principal, as giv- ing a satisfactory course of study. It is expected that Dr. Omer Larue of this city will be nominated without op-
 position by the democrats today when they gather here to name their candi- date for state senator from this dis trict.
 "Onlooker," over in Ponfret, calls
 attention to the fact that the debt of that town, which has progressive administration at this time. has in creased Dy So,UUU lnlS year, "HSLSdS
 under the administration of 1913 there
 was a reduction in the debt by $4,- 642.94.
 Address by Dr. Wilcox. Dr George B. Wilcox of Willimantic gave an address before members of
 the Putnam Business Mems associa-
 tion in Odd Fellows hall Friday even- ing upon the revaluation of taxable property, a discussion of making such a revaluation in Putnam may be ex- pected at the annual town meeting next Monday.
 The annual meeting of St. Philips church. adjourned from last May, is | to be held next Monday evening. Retires from Savings Bank. Arthur c. Stetson has concluded his services with the Putnam Savings bank and has retired for a well earned rest.
 MT. Stetson has been with the institu- | tion for Il years, during which he has been teller and served as a member of | the board of trustees. Before beconin s
 connected with the bank Mir. Stteson
 was engaged. in business in Putnam. | A clause in the warning for the an- | nual town meeting is to see if the vot-
 CTS will authorize the appropriation of | a. sufficient sum of money to meet the cost of employing expert appraisers to | make a revaluation of taxable property | in the town of Putnam, if the town
 votes for such a revaluation, as is now | thought probable.
 | At Thompson's annual town meeting
 next Monday the balloting may result in bringing about changes in the
 makeup of the school committee that
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03

Chile will raise s1o.21s,s5o this year for improvements on state railways and ss2,e21,s15 for betterments will be raised in the next five years.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03
AT THE THEATRE. Large Audience Pleased With Girl of
 My Dreans,

Catchy music and the enthusiasm of
 the company pleased the large audi
 enee that greeted the Girl of My
 Dreams at the Bradley theatre Friday
 evening. when the first big offering of
 the season was made by Manager Sells Goldman. Several of the songs, for
 which the music was written by Karl
 Hochna, the popular composer, who died last winter, have much quality
 and proved very popular. Among these
 are Dr. Tinkle Thinker, Quaker Talk.
 The Girl Who Wouldn't Spoon, Story
 of the Marionette and Girl of My
 Dreams
 Miss Viola Cain has the leading part,
 that of Lucy Medders, a Quaker giri. She is possessed of demure winsome-
 ing her songs time and again. her re- sponse to encores being liberal. Bert Gardner, the leading man, gets
 much out of his part. that Is sugges- tive of George .Cohan's style of doing
 things on the stage Jessy Sideny and comedians-one Venezuelan revolu- tionist, the other a German count. Adele Boulias, Marie Granter. John Berkson, Bud Murray, Harry Humph- reys and Roberta Taylor have sec
 ondary parts. but play them we'll. The
 chorus was large. active, and worked
 hard
 Automobiles to Get Voters to Polls. Automobiles will play an important part in getting Putnam voters to the polls for the annual town election Monday. The big contest is coming on the hcenee issue, as there is little to contest for on the town tickets All
 of the nominees for selectmen are as-
 surcd of election. and if there are any contests of importance, there being no sign of any at present excepting for places on the town school committee, they will be for minor offices. Most all the voters will be given the oppor- tunity for a ride to the polls, which are to be opened fin the municipal building at 6.30 a. m.
 Success of D. A. R. Pilgrimage. The pilgrimage of members of Eliza beth Porter Putnam chapter. D. A. R., and their friends to historical places in Woodstock Friday afternoon proved to be a decidedly popular event. The day was ideal, aftording the members of the party an opportunity to visit the places under very favorable condi- tions-
 Social and Personal. Mr. and Mrs. S.. M. Wheelock have been In Worcester recently.
 Mrs. E. Mark has returned to her home in Brooklyn. N- r.. after visiting her sister, Mrs. H. c. Meinken. of Fremont street
 H. C. Meinken has returned from a
 brief visit with relatives tn Brooklyn,
 N. r.
 Miss Florence Sargent has returned to Bryn Mawr. Pa. after spending the
 summer with her parents.
 Mrs. A. H. Lord Of Fremont Streat