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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-02
SUMTER COTTON MARKET.
Corrected Daily by Ernest Field
Cotton Buyer.

Sumter, Sept. 1.
Good Middling ~.
st. Middling l rs.
Middling II "a.
st. Low Middling IL 3-8.
Low Middling 10 "a.
No sale for gin cut and nappy cot
ton.
Staple cotton nominal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-02
Marriage License Record.

A license to marry has been issued
to Mr.. Ernest l.. Youmans and Mss
Rosa G. Wood of Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-02
Real Estate Transfer.

L. l.. Tisdale to Florence Ware
Morgan, lot on Liberty Street, $2,75O.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-02

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Normal School Notes

The Misses Mary Hubbell, Coral Rich
ardson and Clara Davis began work at the
Normal this week.
Miss Gladys Lincoln spent Sunday in
st. Johnsbury.
The Valentine Bazaar was great sue
cess. There was fun and noise every
where and for everybody. John Saleeby
claims he enjoyed himself more than at
any time for several years and those who
saw him will readily believe him. One
of the unique features was voting con-
test for the Queen of Hearts. After n
contest of two hours, Miss Addie Foss
was chosen queen. A short coronation
service followed, beautiful in the ex-
treme, after which the guests departed
for their homes. Those who attended
the museum carried away vivid images
of Jn-Jo, LaSoyella and Kerosina. The
gross earnings for the evening were $2S. Is
for which the management is truly CRATE
full to the people of johnson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18

them and giving warning. Shortly
afterward an unusually sharp Look
out" and we dropped to the ground
at about the same instant a large
bomb struck the ground and burst in
our midst into hundreds of diamond
shaped pieces, which filled the sides
of the trench about waist-high, COW
ering us with dirt and filling the
trench with sitting sulphurous fumes.
We were pretty we'll stunned but as
soon as we could pull ourselves to-
gether and shake the dirt off we found
none hurt. and all resumed their at
tention to "Towser."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
No Faith in Rain Makers.

One reason for Sir Robert Balls
ridiculing of the idea that the moons
phases affected the weather was the
stupendous eruption of Krakatoa in
1SS3-to which he devoted a large
amount of consideration. That unpar-
alleled explosion, in August, 1883, scat
tered the greater part of the island to
the winds and cost $4,000 lives. 1t
shot into the upper levels of the at
mosphere cubic miles of finest dust of
pumise, such as all volcanoes in erup-
ton vomit forth. This dust was car
ried by atmospheric currents round
the globe, not once or twice, but five
or six times, producing over a large
part of the world wondrous sunsets for
several months; but marvellous as was
the outburst, it caused no great rain
fall.-London Telegraph.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Girls Do the Counting.

Burton Holmes says that the ma
tives believe in certain forms of wom-
ems rights in the Philippines, espe-
cially when it comes to choosing hus-
band. For instance, the Bontoc Igo-
rotes leave all the counting to the girls.
While the worldly goods of the pro-
posed father-in-law have some bearing
upon the ardor Of the young lady's
wooing, still there are certain require
ments which must be lived up to by
the young man, namely, he must eth
er have secured the head of an enemy
or he must be in the employ Of an
American; in other words, he must
either be brave man-according to
Igorote standards-or he must be in
fair way to attain good living.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
WOLCOTT

DR.. A. V. Cooper has been nursing an
liberated tooth.
George Davis was home from Crafts
bury over Sunday.
Herbert johnson of Greensboro is
working on the dam.
Glenn and Eli Fisk transacted business
in Hardwick Monday.
Rev. Eugene Barnard of Albany is Wis
iting at G. c. Fishers.
L. N. Billings recently lost valuable
horse and cow by illness.
Mrs. Mabel Udall visited friends in
Hardwick the past week.
George Houghton of Hardwck was in
town the first of the week.
Mrs. Hattie Hubbel was the guest of
her parents in Morrisville Friday.
Archie Fisher and Archie Richardson
were in Hardwick Monday evening.
Clyde Littel and wife of Walden passed
Sunday at The home of John Kelley.
M. L. Wheeler and family spent sever
al days recently with relatives in Hyde
Park.
Ellis Harris visited his wife at the
Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington
Saturday.
Charles Horner, D. D. G. NJ, of Cam
bridge visited Mineral Lodge last Tues
day evening.
from Greensboro, where she has been
employed in the hotel.
brought here Monday from the l. o. o. F,
home in Ludlow for intermeDt.
Cedric, Ruth and Merle Davis visited
at the home of their sister, Mrs. George
Richardson, in Stowe the past woek.
j. e. Wheeler will again take the Road
Commissioners job-if the people want
him. He is in the hands of his friends.
Thomas Mccall was in Burlington Sat
urday, returning with his little son, who
has been in the hospital for treatment.
The child is no better.
The Girl of the Street" which was to
appear at the town hall Monday evening,
kept far, lar away from the maddening
crowd which was anxious to see this be-
witching young lady--Lo news of her yet,
as the company failed to appear.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
AT SPANISH FORT, ALABAMA
Exciting Incidents Attending Capture
of "Towser," Confederate Gun
That Did Much Damage.

Reading the account of the curious
behavior of wild SHE'LL" by H. H.
Cole, brought to mind quite wildly the
experience that l and a squad of my
comrades had before Spanish Fort,
Ala, April 8, 1865, during the bonn
bardment toward the close of that
day.
In the beginning of the investment
the confederate gunners had decid-
ed advantage over ours, having heavy
ordnance and an accurate range of
all available places suitable for plant
ing battery. Consequently when one
of our little "popgun" batteries went
into position and started to do bust
ness the fort would turn loose and
knock off the top of the hill, together
with that battery, writes A. E. CLAN
vile of Poe, Kan, in the National Tri-
bune. Finally we got a supply of heavy
siege guns, after which we could do
a little laughing, too.
There was one gun in particular in
the fort we called "Towser," which
threw a projectile some six inches in
diameter by 16 long. 1t was located
in front of our brigade (McMillan's)
and bothered us considerably. But
its position we failed to discover I'M
til the eve of the day we took the
fort. 1t was during the height of the
bombardment that my regiment filed
into the last parallel to relieve those
that had preceded them, while under
the fierce concentrated fire of 100 or
more guns of all caliber Their deaf
ening roar, together with the de-
moniac shrek of the passing shells,
gave one a shock that expanded ones
internal fixings and nearly jerked
ones ribs loose every second. Just
where the sap entered the parallel
greater width of dirt had been re-
moved for greater convenience and to
avoid congestion. Shortly after the
boys had got down to business in
passing that spot ny attention was
called by one of them to his discov-
cry of "Towsers" eubrasure. 1t was
equipped with a shield. or port stop
per, and during the haze of a fusillade |
of small arms the gun was run out
and fired, the recoil closing the en-
brasure. On reporting the matter to |
Col. Jennison l was directed to take |
a squad and post them in its front |
and deliver our fire into that embras- |
ure when it would do the most good. |
am not able to state the full effect |
of our fire, but the proiectiles from |
'Towser' went away over our heads 1
into the back country after that.
During the siege the enemy kept
pelting us with hand gTenades, fired !
at first from small petards, but later, !
when we got close up to their works,
they could be thrown by hand. They
did but little damage. and if one we're
on the lookout they could be easily
lodged.
On this occasion they were drop
ping them pretty lively in the trench,
and as our attention was fully oecu-
pied with "Towser" one of our SQUAD
was given the job of watchin.s .-T
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Hard Fighting a Century AGO.

One hundred years ago a force Of
British and Indians attacked and cap
tured Fort Niagara, on the Canadian
frontier. The American garrison was
surprised before daybreak, the SEN
tries oyerpowered and the fortifica-
tons stormed. Three hundred pris-
oners, 5000 stands of arms and an i'm
mense quantity of stores were cap
tured. In retaliation for the burning
of the Canadian village of Newark by
the Americans the victorious British,
after capturing Fort Niagara, began to
ravage the American frontier and
gave to the flames the thriving towns
of Youngstown, Lewistown, Manches-
ter (now Niagara Falls) and the Tus-
corora Indian village in Niagara
county.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Eden Mills

Joseph Scott has purchased 10 acres
of land from H. H. Adams.
A daughter was born Feb. IL to Mr..
and Mrs. Clayton Whittemore.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Ingalls, are the
happy parents of daughter, born Feb.
IA.
Miss Brown, a trained nurse from
Burlington, is caring for Mrs. Ellen
Whittemore, who is slightly improved
in health.
Leonard Sanville and Maude Mason
were married in Johnson Feb 4th. After
visiting friends in Orleans county for
week they will be at home to their
friends at Fred Sanville's.
William O'Biien, who came from Wor.
cester. Mass, to spend the winter with
his sister, Mrs. o. d Whittemore, died
of tuberculosis, Wednesday, Feb. IL.
The remains were taken to Worcester
for burial Saturday.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
The Lesser Evil,

AT the battle of Cedar Creek" said
the veteran captain of a company in
one of Virginia's bravest regiments,
my company, which generally wasn't
afraid of the archfiend himself, grew
demoralized and panic-stricken. De-
spite all my efforts, they broke and
started pell-mell for the rear.
AS one fellow, whom knew was as
fearless as a lion. dashed by me, I
drew my revolver, and cried:
"'Halt and return to your place! II
you don't, will shoot
"'Shoot and be hanged he replied,
never Stacking his pace. What's one
bullet to basketful? "-Youths Com
panion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Written While You Wait.

AS far as Imagination goes, e. Phil
lips Oppenheim is probably one of our
most accomplished authors. He admits
that his novels are not constructed
with any effort-they grow. "All l
have to do" says he, lis to think up
the barest outline of a plot, find some
congenial place to settle for a while,
get stenographer who is good at TAX
Ing rapid-fire dictation, and let 'er
go!" The imaginative Mr.. Oppenheim
got the idea for his latest lat the time
of going to press story, THE Double
Life of Alfred Burton" while eating a
mutton chop in Strand restaurant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
North WOICOtt

Miss Beatrice Denton has been i'll.
There was a dance at Alvia Brill's don
day night.
ArthGr Bailey has been i'll from whoop-
ing cough.
B. j. Denton's children are sick from
hard colds.
Little Esther Udall is very i'll from
pneumonia.
c. W. Moulton is out again, after lis
recent illness.
E. A. Hastings children have the
whooping cough.
W. j. Scribner spent Sunday with his
children at d. w. Flanders.
George Russ has gone to the General
Hospital, Boston, for treatment.
The donation at Glen Bailey's was
success in every way. About $40 was
taken.
Miss Blanche Andrews was unable to
return to her work in Craftsbury last
week on account of illness.
There will be an oyster supper at
Davii Flanders Friday evening, Feb. 20.
Everyone invited: proceeds for the pas
tor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
LeQend of Aconite.

Aconite is classed by homeopathic
authorities as the patriarch of drugs,
as far as literature is concerned. 1t
is told how Hercules went down to
the lower regions and carried the
three-headed hound Cerberus to the
upper world. That ferocious beast was
raging at this treatment, and the froth
that fell to the ground was the origin
of aconite, for it grew up from the
froth as from seeds. 1t was on a
bleak, windswept hill or mountain, and
it is in such regions that the plant
grows today. This hill, in Pontica, was
known in olden days as 'Aconitos."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Fucker Street

w. L. Wright was a visitor in this
place over Sunday.
Fred Harris was a business visitor in
Morrisyille last week.
Mrs. Manuel Bailey was in Morrsville
one day the past week.
Miss Lilah Styles visited her parents
in Garfield last Saturday.
The Fucker Street school closed last
Friday for a nine weeks vacation.
Mrs. Belle Styles and Maude Wright
visited at Mark Shaw's last Friday.
Mrs. Cora Mclean of Morristown was
a visitor in this place one day last week.
Mrs. W. L. Wright and Miss Lilah G.
Stygles we're visitors at Abe Burnetts on
Sunset Hill last Wednesday.
Miss Grace Russ has closed a successful
term of school on West Hill and is nov
STAYING with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
E. Russ at present.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Garfield Road

Miss Lila Styles of Stowe visited her
parents here Saturday.
c. w. Jones and wife were visitors at
A. E. Jones over Sunday.
Mrs. c. E. Brigham visited relatives in
Morrisvile the last OF the week.
Miss Grace Leclair has finished work
at Arthur Stowell's and returned home.
Charles Tatro of Hardwick is quite i'll
at David Trayon's, where>he is visiting.
Geo. W. Orvis of Bristol was a business
visitor at o. W. Styles few days the
past week.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Cady's Falls

Penn Ballou is on the sick list.
Miss Mildred Seaver is in with the
mumps.
Charles Miner is somewhat better
from his recent sickness.
P. c. Brigham was in Johnson on
business Friday Of last week.
Miss Florence Smith of HYDE Park
visited A. H. Cslkins over Sunday
The people Of this place have been kent
busy the last few days thawiug water
pipes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Death'of Rev. III. M. DOUGLASS

Rev. Henry M. Douglass, pastor of the
Baptist church at Bernardston, Mass.
died suddenly Wednesday evening, Feb.
IL. Mr.. Douglass was attending supper
held in his church, when he was seized
with an attack of heart failure and died
few minutes later at the table where
he sat. Mr.. Douglass was well known in
Baptist circles and was a graduate of
Colgate University. In order that be
might render himself more useful to the
people he acquired conversational use
of the French, German, Italian, Spanish
and Swedish languages. The rapidity
with which he mastered a foreign Ian
guage was phenomenal. Mr.. Douglass
went to BeTnardston four years ago from
West Haven, Vt. He is survived by two
daughters, Miss Florence Douglass. who
was an efficient teacher in our High
School for five years, and Mrs. William
Field of Bernardston. The burial was at
West Haven, where his wife died eight
years and where he was beloved pastor
for fourteen years. The sympathy of a
large circle of friends is extended to his
daughters in their bereavement.
.N4T. r.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
ODER Hill

Cast lots to buy grain.
Somebody lost their pipe.
Jerre Lamelle has sold his horses and
is retired lumberman.
Ernest Japan has finished drawing logs
aud gone to his home in johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Smith spent Sunday
with the formers mother, Mrs. Fred Nun
son, in North Hyde Park.
brother Adelbert, at the home of r. A.
Richardson and family, the past week.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Almost the Riaht Word.

az see where a western city plans to
have a reservoir that will furnish an
unlimited water supply" remarked Mr..
Judkin.
"Oh-ah-really?" yawned Miss Cad
ders. i've been tod that irritation in
the west has worked wonders"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
Judoed by Its Fruit.

81 want to show you my family tree
sometime"
"Tree?"
Certainly. Are you surprised that
1 should have family tree?"
81 certainly am surprised"
"And why, may / ask, should you be
surprised at my having family tree?"
81 always thought prunes grew on q
vine"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18
The Only Crop.

"Apropos Of this little garden move
ment. are your neigh Dor and his wife
raising anything in their back yard?"
Nothing tnat T n see but a dis
turbahce."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-02-18

Read Little Problems of Married
Lie" on page of this paper.
, 1914-12-12
lCensorel All .Innninnl

London, Deer. 9th-It is oticiauv an
noaNeed that the King, while in France
decorated Generals Jolfre AMI Foch cr4nt3
ing Them knights Grand Cross Of the Bath
VINE seven others were created kn}gbts
Nfand Cross OF St. Michael and st. C}eoroa
The Frouch War Office does not issue
lists Of losses, but inquiry IN various ann
,efs estimates the French dead, TO Noirm-
Der tenth, At under 100000, and the wounded
ana sick soldiers III the French b~ospitoIs -
NoVember 18Th, at about 100000 WhIIa
'ae o"lS1 Government Bureau for fine ey-
'n'hSe OF PRISONERS Of war has She names nf
~ ~ French prisoners in Germany.
Austria Is pouring thousands Of men into
me territory along the Italian border 300
wv AuStflans being now on The border and
loo'ooo ut Poia. The anli-ItuIim sentiment
Is growing among the Austrians. and Tt,lj,n
have been insulted and moltro,taJ
Adylces from Rome state that eiobt Lof.
lailonS OF Italian troops have been orla,e,l
70 dahyn, to be ready for any aggression
Inc British steamship "Yedra, from Port
feXas, with a cargo Of gasoline, want
, 1914-12-12
Censored at Jamaica.l

London Dee. 9th "A PARIS official com
,nupllue states: "A violent German attack
,n''e on Steloy, south Of Ypres, has been re-
I'"aTs :. me struggle at all tunes is very
'''e'S ~ me forest and east Of Arsonne.9
= befIln official statement snys TINT the
N1ise[ IS suffering from a feyerisb bronchial
J''"f1n amt IS Obliged to postpone for some
Guy MS return to the front. which was ar
'"liSe" Tor to-day, but despite hls indjsno-
Si''on ne is able to give attention to rend,ts
General Staff. y 'ne
, 1914-12-12

Through Mr. Ludwig Andersen. tho
active and Jealous Chairman q t@o
Society for the Prevention Of C,naI4..
20 Animals in St Thomas, we learn tb,r
the Home Society, winch has 'Iways
t''netd deep interest in ours here. Las sent
y humber Of emb!ems in 1he shane Of pirs
1"[ distribution among the bows md dirI4
neIohS'ng 10 the juvenile brarcb Of fbe
society IN this island. On the emblem are
me letters +. i. Is. (bcing tho initials il,
DANISH Of The Society's name). under The
letter" a horses head and the word $
! l'i"as. 1t is intende d to be given to
nose young folk who have shown interest
Al me society good work.-Utd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-13
Shoot Opens Attack

Senator Shoot. opening the republican attack on the tax bill, declared no ad- ditional levy would have been necessary II the protective tariff law had remained Ill force. He said the plea that the Euro pean war made the tax necessary was a shameful pretext."
 It would be better" he said. "to issue temporary certificates on indebtedness than to impose taxes with the present condition of the country and with the enormous increase in taxation already imposed upon the people. The adminis- tration fears naturally that money could not be borrowed at a creditable rate of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-13
SELMA

Selma, October 12-(Special. )-Potentate W. l.. Douglas, Chiefe Rabban Charles Johnson, Assistant Rabban J. H. Mc- Cormick and Recorder Myron T. sprague Of Abba temple, Mystic Order of Shrine. of Mobile, reached here Saturday and that night formally installed the Selma Shrine club. With the installation of the club it was given the privilege of conferring the initiation upon candidates and the first ceremonial will be held here on Saturday night, November 2S.
 The officials of the Selma Shrine club were selected as follows: H. l. Shelley, president; s. F. Hobbs. first vice pres ident; B. J. Schuster. second vice pres ident; w. II. Trimby. secretary. and F. M Milhous, treasurer. The members ap- pointed as acting officials of Abba tenn pie are as follows: K. w. Pettus. acting potentate II. F. Reese, Jr., acting chief rabban; L. M. Snider. acting assistant chief rabban; J. A. Fuller. acting high priest and prophet; William Wilby, act ing oriental guide; Ike Cadden. acting first ceremonial master; Hogan Ware. acting second ceremonial master; Harry Marks. acting captain of patrol; Louis Benish musician.
 The first regular meeting of the new city council of Selma will be held at the city hall Monday night at 8 o'clock. The session will be a most important one. and it is expected will be attneded by each of the new members of the body. During the course of the meeting will come up the election of officers for the filling of various city positions during the new administration. With probably one or two exceptions it Is expected that all of the old city officers will be re- elected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-13

Finei" said the stage manager and Whispered to the photographer They act almost like human beings
 Followed the second scene, as the chaplain offered prayer, with the sena- torial crania bowed in devotion. just as though they actually were in the habit of listening to the prayer each day. Then the reading clerk read the minutes and a message from the Presi- dent was announced. And all this time Senator Kern was blinking at the white lights, like some gentleman from Indiana who had just struck Broadway. At times he bethought himself of his role and scratched vigorously with a dry pen on a piece of virgin paper, but in the main he was hypnotized by the high lights and gazed at them like Q scholarly owl.
 Arose Senator Luke Lea and intro duced a bill, and Senator Chamberlain did likewise. Pages were sent on im- aginary errands, and more activity was shown in the chamber In 10 minutes than is usual in 10 days
 Finer said the stage manager again. Now, we will do it all over"
 And they did-not only once more but twice There the performance stopped, albeit the actors apparently were ready to continue indefinitely.
 But, the end was not yet, for next uay d scrap developed when Senator Overman, who had not appeared in the cast, took the vice president-the star Of the performance-to task for per- hitting such dissertation of the cham Der and such shattering of senatorial precedent The committee on rules. of which he is chairman, had not been con suited. said Overman, and he said other things also. To which the vice presi- dent retorted with some heat, relations between these two statesmen not be- ing ultra cordial Nor did their debate cease there, but was resumed later in Marshalfs private room, to which he had Overman summoned
 Meantime, on the outside the dove of peace perched on a tree and watched an outdoor performance, the principal act being set piece In which the most diminutive page of the Senate was posed shaking hands with Senator James. the bulkiest statesman of the nation.
 Altogether. it was an edifying spec tacle and 100,000.0o0 patrons of the movies" are expected to applaud the appearance of the new "actors' in that line of thespian endeavor