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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
JOHNSON

DR.. and Mrs. H. A. Folsom have re
turned from visit 10 st. Johnsbury.
Miss Flossie Demert's school al Easl
johnson closed Saturday for weeks va
cation.
The village Is having electric light day
service until the days lengthen. Ira Jones
runs the dynamo days.
Karl Kneeland, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Homer Kneeand has returned home
from Thompson's Island, Mass, VIII re
he has been employed for three years,
He has finished there and may remain at
home for several weeks rest.
Miss Glenna Libby, a Normal student,
who has been i'll at the dormitory. went
Saturday to the hospital in St. Adams
for an operation for appendicitis. Her
home ie in s.. Adams and her mother,
Mrs Leon Libby, who was with her, ac-
companed her.
Mrs. John Greer has traded her farm
with Albert Lambert for his residence on
Main street, at one time known as the
Bedding house, below the opera house.
Mr.. Lambert has moved to the farm and
Mrs. Greer has routed the lower part of
the house to Horton Dotv, who has taken
possession. The second floor is occupied
by Rolin Sargent,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
STOWE
Winford Heath went to his home in
johnson last Friday for Thanksgiving


Winford Heath went to his home in
johnson last Friday for Thanksgiving
week.
Miss Wright of the West Branch school
went Friday to her home in Colchester
for weeks visit.
The high and graded schools closed
last Friday afternoon for Thanksgiving
week. The teachers went to their sever
homes Saturday.
Donald Mcmahon went Friday to Bos-
ton for few days visit, joining his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. G. l.. Mcmahon, at
the Adams house.
Mrs. Ernest 4. Wright, who has passed
several weeks in Fairfax, where Mr..
Wright is employed, has returned to
Stowe and is with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. r. Straw.
The subject last Sunday morning at
the Congregational Church was 1.-The
Personality of Goo." The Junior choir
furnished music Sunday night. A union
Thanksgiving service was held in the
Methodist Episcopal Church at O'Clock.
At meeting of teachers and parents
at the Stowe High school building We'd
nesday evening Prin. W. J. English gave
an address, urging the cooperation of
parents with the teachers, especially by
visiting the schools and consulting with
the teachers in regard to school work
and problems. Mr.. English has recently
spent two days visiting other schools.
finding advantages and disadvantages in
each that the Stowe High School does
not have. Mr.. English deprecated the
sweeping change from classical to yoca-
tional education, which has been made in
the school here. Following Mr.. English's
address. Agricultural Instructor r. L.
Chaffee gave an interesting lecture upon
"Acid Soils" which was illustrated by
set of lantern slides furnished by the az
ricultural department at Washington.
Mr.. Chaffee announced that be is making
arrangements with the University of Yer
mont extension department for farmers
school of five days. A registry of fifty
names must be obtained with guaran-
teed attendance of 80. The probable date |
is the first week in February.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
TURKEY BECOMING EXTINCT.
Well Have to Find Another Center

Well Have to Find Another Center
piece For Thanksgiving Dinners.
1t Is sad fact to state. but if the
truth must be told it looks very much
as if the great American turkey. the
center of our Thanksgiving festivities,
will after not many years become as ex-
tinct as the aux. says the Washington
Star. According to the census in 1890,
the number of turkeys that year was
12,000,000 The population at that time
was at least dozen million less than
it is now. But the last census returns
place the turkeys at only 3.6SS. 70S
their valuation being $G605.S1S
Hence it is easily seen that. while
the turkey eating population is increas-
ing by the hundreds of thousands. the
fowls themselves are decreasing at an
even greater rate. We have a nation
of 90,000000 people and only 100000
turkeys.
Turkeys are very delicate birds. and
in spite of their huge size they cannot
stand the hardships that chickens can
easily endure. BY nature wild, they
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
TELL ME THAT l AM WELCOME.

| her forefathers, and none but the old
est inhabitants could recall the times
when the family consisted of Judge
Joel Semple. his wife Elizabeth and
their children, Richard. Penelope and
Martha. The son was IA bitter disap
| pointment to the judge. because he re
| fused to study law and succeed his
! father in that honorable profession
| Nature had endowed him with a talent
| for reproducing her beauties and he
| worshiped before the shrine of Apollo
| in preference to that of the wise Ath.
| enc. AS a result he quarreled with the
| judge and departed for Europe. Fol
several years he communicated with
Penelope but finally his letters ceased
to arrive.
The gentle mother succumbed to ar
attack of pneumonia and was followed
year later by her younger daughter
Shortly afterward the judge was dis
covered dead in his Office. victim oil
apoplexy. and Penelope was left to face
life alone in the large white house. She
exerted every effort to locate her
DiothNi. Ouiy " CAPOiiChNS
In the days when there were many
branches to the family tree it was the
custom for the Samples to assemble at
the home of the Judge for Thanksgiv.
ing. Since the death of her parents
Miss Penelope continued to throw open
the hospitable doors of the white house
for Thanksgiving celebration.
For ha tu,optiofh tir,a ha xx-a tod IN,
happy anticipation the arrival Of the
advance guest. Her eyes swept with
an appreciative glance the candlesticks
and old family plate shining with new
ly acquired brightness. the cut glass
decanters and the dustless mahogany
furniture ready for the morrow's feast
The knocker summoned her to the
door, and. throwing it open. Penelope
greeted her cousin and his wife. From
that time on until late evening the
Semples continued to gather about the
hearthstone of the white house. The
evening was happily spent, the younger |
generation dancing. while their elders |
exchanged "reminiscences, and at mid |
night they retired to await the dawn |
Of Thanksgiving day.
Dinner time came in due season next |
day, Miss Penelope seated her guests. |
and the radiant circle was complete.
Then the various dishes were placed
upon the board-roasts. broiled fish. 4
vegetables. pastries and sweetmeats.
and each Wed with the other in quality
and toothsomeness. They crunched the
celery. reveled in the Drowned sweet
potatoes and nodded approval at the
pies. There stole over every
one a sense of peace and contentment.
which comes when love and kindness
permeate the atmosphere.
Then DIR. William SempIe rose from
his chair and holding aloft a slender
glass filed with wine of rare vintage.
said IN a voice of unusual richness: My
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
Thanksgiving In cromweIps Day.

That Thanksgiving day was 20(
| years ago popularity and generally OBJ
served in England is well shown by
the following passage:
For Hudibras who thought he lad won
The field as certain as a gun
And, having routed the whole troop.
With victory was hoop.
Thinking he 'ad done enough to purchase
Thanksgiving day among the churches.
Thus wrote Butler in 1861. during
Oliver Cromwell's tenure of power, and
it clearly proves that at time when
the observance of the day was but
just beginning to be regularly kept in
this country. the English recognized
The day very generally as one of joy
and feasting.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25

pine and die in confinement. yet if left
to wander too young are killed by wet
grass and vermin. They do not like to
roost in house like chickens. but pre-
fer to sit in rows on the boughs of tall
trees Even in storms and billiards
they sit calmly as druids perched high
on the swaying limbs and seemingly
needless of rain or cold. But put them
in warm house or in cramped yard
and they do not thrive So the diff
Guilty of raising them has been large
factor in the high price of their meat
and their growing scarcity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
Victims of Wild Beasts.

China sees every year a thousand
of her people fall victims to the fe'
rocity of wolves, bears and tigers.
Even little Korea has failed to totally
exterminate the long-haired tiger-the
largest and most ferocious of its kind
which infests the mountain regions.
These formidable man-eaters slaugh-
ter yearly an average of 1000 peas
ants and hunters.-Wide World Maya
zine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
ovdtime NeedIework,

Needlework is so rapidly becoming
a lost art that 1t is in the nature of
a fairy tale to explain that something
like half century ago little girls,
not especially precocious, either,
learned the fundamental principles OF
threading a needle and pushing 1t
through the fabric at the age Of two
and one-half years, and by the time
they we're three, pegged away at
squares Of patchwork, ultimately COM
pleting quilts" for future use.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
THE STATE PRISON
Printing Office, Additional Chapel Room, Stage
and More Storage Space

| The Vermont State prison at Windsor
was installed) has inaugurated more than
one innovation that will make it easier
for the inmates and increase their eff
iency.
| Since September there has been IA lot
| of construction work going on that makes
I, for more light and makes more room for
the holding of chapel services and enter
| tainments.
| There has been an enlargement of the
| dining room.
PRINT PRISON NEWSPAPER
place tor printing office has been
| also provided and as the years come and
| 60, there is little donbt htt there will be
some productions OF the Prison Monitor
that will be excellent exa~ plies OF the
arr of printing, as well as of rhetoric, for
it has cen said that seclusion brings
forth the latent talent in all human be-
ings when once the mind becomes inter
ested in any particular object.
The visitor at the prison will notice
that an addition has been pur upen the
south end of the chapel, ex ending fifty
feet with three stories. He will be tolo
that this building has made the floor
space of the old chapel much larger and
that the dining room is thus made long
er, while in the basement there has been
made additional room for the laundry,
MORE ROOM AND STAGE PROVIDED
The shower baths, too, will be better
appointed. There will be more room for
storing groceries and the little printing
office will be in the basement, with ce-
ment floor under the press and plenty of
light to work by.
In the chapel there are several inmates
now employed building a stage, which
will be used for the production of prison
theatricals. The chapel will look well
when the enameled ceiling and the orna-
mental wood work are finished.
Down in the kitchen new sinks have
been installed and Supt. Ralph o. Wal
ker says that he is going to have the
new chefs there dressed in white within
a short time.
More changes are to be made in the
State shop later.
THE PRISON COLONY
There are now 223 conyicts in this in
stitution, of whom II are women. One
woman is in for life and 20 men are there
for the same length of time. With the
exception of a time in April this year,
there are now more people detained |
there than at any period of its history.
Each of the cells has one occupant, while |
two of the men inmates are sleeping on !
cots in the corridor.
An appreciate part of the repairs is J
work that has boon done on the east |
wing. Up to September the windows in
the main wall were of the old fashioned |
dungeon style, but they are now on the
evel with those of the west wing and |
he corridors are flooded with the light
Of the great wide world.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25

81 took your Lom.
pound and have a fine,
strong b a by. " Mrs.
JOHN MITCHELL, Mas
sena, N. Y.
" Lydia Z. Finkham's
Vegetable Compound is a
wonderful medicine for
expectant mothers. -
Mrs. A. M. MYERS, Cor
donville, Mo.
Fl highly recommend
Lydia z. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound before
child birth, it has done SO
for me. Mrs. E.
M. DoERR, r. R. l, Con-
shohocken, Pa.
81 took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Com
pound to build up my
system and h ave the
dearest baby girl in the
W orld. - Mrs. NOSE
BLAKELEY, Imperial, Pa.
81 praise the Com
pound whenever l have
D chance. 1t did so much
for me before my little
girl was born. - = Mrs.
Q. w. SANDERS, Rowles-
ourg, w. Va.
"I to ok your Com
pound before baby was
lorn and feel I owe my
ife to it. Mrs. WINNIE
r1LL1s, Winter Haven,
Florida.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
VERMONT STATE GRANGE


]
The 43d annual session Of the Vermont
state grange will be held in city hall,
Montpelier, Tuesday, "Wednesday and
Thursday, December s, 8 and 10, The
program is as follows:-
Monday evening: Illustrated lecture on
cold storage for the benefit OF the farmer
by II. j. Campbell of New York.
TUESDAY DECEMBER s
Tuesday, December 8: Opening grange
IN fifth degree, appointment of standing
committee, report of the executive com
mittee, reports of deputies not TO exceed
two minutes.
Afternoon session, 80 O'Clock: A.
nual address of worthy master, reports OF
officers, Introduction of resolutions with
oirt debate, reports of deputies.
Evening session. O'Clock: banquet
will be held. The program is not com
plete. Hon. 0. L. Martin will act as
joastmaster. Governor-elect Gates and
other prominent speakers are expected.
WEDNESDAY,, DECEMBER
Morpiog ,es.,.n 9 O'Clock: Report of
committee on Credentials, report of com
Mite on division of labor and masters
address; 10 O'Clock election OF fficeis
and two members of the executive COM
mittee.
Afternoon session, 1870 O'Clock: Elk
emplfication Of the third and fourth de-
grees by the Cobble Hill grange, No.
453, Barre
Evening session, s O'clock: Grange
opened in the sixth degree and comforting
the same. Grange opened in the fourth
degree. Reports of committee on mile
age.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER IL
Morning session, O'Clock: Reports of
committees on finance, education, reso-
buttons, good of the order, cooperation,
transportation, publication, agriculture,
amendments and bylaws, claims and
grievances, dormant oranges, trials and
appeals.
Afternoon session. 80 O'Clock: install
lation of officers, unfinished business.
The voting members of the state grange
are the masters of Pomona and subordi-
nate oranges, and if the master has a
wife or hus band who is fourth degree
in good standing, he or she be-
comes the second representative from /
said grange. In case neither master nor
wife nor husband are able to attend the |
state grange from sickness or other suf-
ficient cause, the grange may elect a !
delegate, who becomes the representative |
Of said grange, and if said delegate has a |
wife or husband who is fourth degree
member in good standing, he or she be
comes the second representative of said
grange, as in the case of the master.
Delegates other than masters, or wives
" husbands of masters, must present
from the secretary of their
range that they have been elected as
UGH. A grange can have but one legal
representative when the master or dele
rate is unmarried, or attends alone, or
when the wife or husband of the master
# delegate attends alone.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
Lion Always Zoe Of Man

The lion is an implacable foe of
man and has been as far back as his
tory records. Born in captivity, never
having known freedom, trained for
years by one man and apparently
either fearing or admiring his trainer,
lion may turn on his trainer at any,
time and kin him as cruelty as hel
does in the jungle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
A Thsnkso;vino Wish.

We wish everybody good cheer. a
finely whetted appetite, vigorous diges-
ton and pleasant reunion of the scat
tered members of the family. From
the lettering grandfather to the totter-
ing baby. a pleasant Thanksgiving to
xl1f
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
THANKSGIVING a Dual Holiday.

Thanksgiving is the one holiday that
combines religion and patriotism. We
should try to impress on the child each
Thanksgiving both feeling of thank.
fitness for his own blessings and
feeling of high patriotic pride
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
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OF
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have YOU
A Child I?

Many women long for children, but because Of
some durable physical arrangement are deprived
OF this greatest of all happiness.
The women whose names follow were restored
TO normal health by Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegeta,
Bile Compound. Write and ask them about Il.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25

of an honored 'and loved family mum
bered among the first settlers of Con.
cord. For some twenty years she had
dwelt-- with Anne Barnes, her maid. q
descendant of those who had served
the original Sempes-n the house OF
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-25
Miss Peaelope's
Thanksgiving
ey JEAN DOUGLAS.

A T the end of Maple street stood q
WA lovely white house with green
IA. shutters. This was the home of
Miss PenelODp SpmDlp the last
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
CAN COPE WITH SITUATION
Edison. Shows How American In. ventive Talent Must Be Used
 In Prevailing Crisis.

An example of how American manufacturers will have to adapt themselves to the situation caused by the loss of important materials hitherto bought in Europe is given bv Thomas \. Edison. When war was declared the British government laid an embargo on shipments Q
 arboIic acid, because il k used il
 he manufacture of high explosives Garbolic acid is not found to an. extent in American coal tar, hrnc, we are dcpeul.n upon EngIanI anj Germany for our supplies Mr. Edl- son, who employs carboIic acid to form the disk of his disk phono- graph. and claims to he the largest user of # in this country, was brought into an embarrassing posi- non. He tell. how he got out of it: aBv a hflle rapd mobilization | have constructed a work. which is now in operation, producing carboIic acid synthctcalIy of benzoiI a sup ply of which America can produce in any quantity" Ne cannot all be Edisons, comments the Springfield Republican, and most of Us must trust to such stirring of the Amer lean inventive talent as IS sure to come
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
PUNCH REMAINS ON THE JOB
London's Humorous Publication Re fuses to Be Depressed by the
 Conflict of Nations.

London isn't permitting the war io interfere with its solemn good humor. as expressed in Punch. Here are d few clippings: The London museum k open again The curator, We understand. would be glad to add to his collection of euriosities any Londoner who Is still in favor of small navy An eclipse of the sun took place on Friday last. IL Js supposed to have been an attempt on the part of the sun to prevent the Germans finding place in 1t. :. Thousands of young men without ties.' complains writer in the Ex- press. "remain indifferent to the call If their country" We are afraid hat this is true not only of those without ties. but also of some who wear expensive crayats. A gentleman writes to the Observer to mention that an American sur econ. on bidding him farewell the other day. remarked Blood IS thicker than water" This statement
 oming from a medical man, who ought to know. is extremely valuable
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
GOOD REASONING.

\ certain young mans friends thought he was dead, but he was only in a state of coma Whcn in ample tune to avoid being buried he showed -igns of life, he was asked how 1t ,eemcd 10 be dcad
 "Doad :" he exclaimed. T wasn't dead. l knew aII#the time what was going on And | knew l wasn't dead. too. because my feet were cold and l was hungry
 But how did that fact make you think you were still alNa:' asked ono of the curious
 "Wcll, this way knew that if were in heaven l wouldn't be hun gry. And if 1 was in the other place my feet wouldn't he cold. - Tit-Bits.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
"OLD CODGER" IN HARD LUCK
Like the Most of Us, He Is Being Rendered Uncomfortable
 by the War.

"Well, squire. how does the war look to you now - inquired a fore most member of the village board of strategy
 ',To tell the truth, Lester, replied he Old Codgcr, II am a good deal discouraged over the outlook at times. and then l remember that l .omc of long line of hardy anccs- ors and on that account the chances
 ire pretty fair for my surviving it. You see. my nephew is home from
 he stale university with tue latest
 urlycuc- and contortions in the pro- nunciation- of foreign names and places. and as my education was of the poor-but-honest variety We seI- dom see any important word in the war news from the same viewpoint. am too old to learn learning and he Is too young to learn manners. and consequently We are divided up mto hostile bands nearly the whole tjme. He seems 10 flourish under 1t, but I'll confess that jt is wearing on me to be continually defeated and put in the wrong. Kansas City Star.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
WAS TT FOR HIM '

Blithcrs and SmitherS were neigh bors. They were friends before thcy became neighbors. The cnmity start cd by BIithers' boy pushing Smith CTS kid off a high picket fence and nearly breaking his young neck. Then Smithcrs killed four of Blith- CTS chickens. After that they glared al each other like a couple of horse thieves.
 Blthers hired colorcd man to mow hi, lawn Easus threw the grass over rho fence into Smjthcrs' ward.
 ~TIcv, you" yelled Smitbcrs. .Hhat m thunder are you dong2"
 Ra,lus bImhcd
 "Dash fob 1o' mool, mister" he smiled.
 "Nule' roarcd ~miDhers. q amt got no mule.
 "Ain'tchas" he gaspcd, Then he scratched his head "Das funny" he added. "De gcmman what lib here say de grass foh de jackass nex doh .'- Judge
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
THEN THEY SLEW HIM.

No wonder,' said the Cheerful Idiot, that the Germans are hard 10 force back.'
 Why the no wonder:'' asked inc other boarder.
 Well as the Germans are not given to treating, why should they ake kindly 10 re"
 But We draw a veil.
 There Is too much bloodshed in the papers now anyway.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
WEALTH HAS ITS USES.

Well, our ambassadors have helped out stranded tourists hand- >omely."
 "l eS, and il makes me ashamed of myself.
 "Why?"
 "l always kicked whenever a rich man was appointed 10 a post abroad :"
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
LOGICAL w RATH.

"Why was lobbius so mad with his wife for playing bridgc:'
 Because he loses all the family o2chequcr can afford at poker.'
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
AS TO FRIENDS.

"Old friends are best" declared Van Punkwood.
 Safer to play poker with, al any rate,' commented Skiner Skaggs.
The Nevada County picayune., 1914-11-13
A MILD CORRECTION.

This is the train am going to take to New York. '
 "Now. if | were you, I'd let the engineer attend to it"