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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-03
pIAY MAKES BIG HIT.

Kate Hill Mission society girls OF
the United Presbyterian church put
on a play Engaging Janet at the
church last evening that made big
hit with the large audience attending.
The cast of characters was as follows:
Janet Clarke {who is looking for
a career ..... MissBessie Bryan
Miss Briggs tof the Amalgamated
Charitiesl %, Miss Gertrude Harms
Madame Maude with a line Of tot
LET requisites Miss Edna Buttner
Miss Bumpus of Boston ia literary
light ..........M Mrs. II, A. Ralston
Miss Spike representing Teachers
Training trustl ~ Mrs. Nj. Kerrison
Miss Higgins from the Woman's
Employment bureau .....,.-,,..
......... Miss Lillian Enman
Bridget ....... Miss Emma Buettner
Time-PreBent.
Scene-Coi!ege girls room.
Janet Clarke, the leading lady in the
play. tires of college life and with
, wealth and everything she desires, she
becomes dissatisfied and even refuses
10 marry Arthur Hemenway until she
has had career. She answers many
advertisements for female help, but
none of the positions is to her liking.
and she finally decides TO marry Ar
thur, who appears at the opportune
/ time
The play is full of comical situations
and created much merriment The cos
TUNES of the girls were especially
good Preceding the play Miss Gladys
Wilson PLAYED Minuette by Beethoven,
with Miss Notovena Steck at the piano.
After the performance refreshments
were served in the church basement,
candy was sold and a number OF fam
cy articles were disposed Of. the girls
realizing q nice sum. The play viii
be repeated at the Oak Grave chapel
probably next Friday evening al
though the exact time is not set
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-03
LuTHERAN LApIEs ENTERrAExEn.

The monthly business and social SEES
sion of the Ladies' Aid society of the
First Swedish Lutheran church was
held yesterday in the chapel OF the
church. Mrs. August Johnson and Mrs.
Emma Rocks acting as the hostesses.
There was large attendance of mem
hers and they enjoyed nice time to-
gether, their hostesses serving a lunch.
The next meeting in January will be
the annual one with Mrs Axel Swan
son and Mrs. Carl Person as the hos
tesses entertaining at the church.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-03
YOUNG PEOPLE SELECT OFFICERS

YOUNG PEOPLE SELECT OFFICERS,
The Young Peoples society Of the
First Swedish Lutheran church met in
annual business session last evening in
the annex. choosing the following OF
tieers 10 serve during the coming year;
President Frank Johnson
Vice President Elmer Swanson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-03

Miss Lillian Enman
Miss Emma Buettner
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01

port are materially less than he pays
his grocer there, has written us asking
to be put in touch with some farmer
who can supply his household needs by
parcel post delivery at about the home
prices, net. We have undertaken to
serve him, and incidentally, perhaps,
help Vermont egg producer to new
market, 1t has long seemed to us a
most practical thing for city customers
and country producers to get together
in this way, to their mutual advantage.
Of course certain considerations must
be observed. There must be the same
good faith on both sides as when tn =.
parties met across the counter. The
goods sold must be of quality repre-
sented and delivery must be regular and
dependa able On the other hand the
customer should not be supercritical
and settlements on the agreed basis
should be prompt and satisfactory.
There should be fair division of the
middle mans profits, the seller obtain
ing a portion for his extra service while
the buyer saves a portion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
FACING A LINE-U
Enosburg Standard.

At the last March election the total
no-license majority in Vermont was
TO- 65S, and while the Second District
furnished the larger portion of this
majority against the saloon, the State
as a whole is no-license by substantial
and increasing majority.
This being the case, the time is not
far distant when there is certain to be
lineup to determine whether the anti
saloon sentiment of Vermont voters is to
be represented in Congress, whether the
friends of temperance are to be able to
depend upon friendly voice and vote, as
opposed to the vote and arguments of
the powerful liquor interests.
If Vermont, or either district thereof,
is for license and against prohibition
there can be no objection to representa-
tives in Congress voicing those views.
On the other hand if the State is against
the saloon and in favor of prohibition
this sentiment should be expressed by
its accredited delegates in the legisla-
tive branch of the government.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
OPPORTUNITY FARMS.
Bennington Banner.

An Addison county farm has just
been sold for 100000. OF course it
was no abandoned farm. By the way,
we don't hear much about abandoned
farms these days. There may be idle
factories, but the soil keeps right on
booming. st. Johnsbury Republican.
The Banner hereby offers a reward
of a peck of pink potatoes for a good
serviceable and expressive word to
use in place of abandoned. We all
know that there are thousands of farms
in Vermont available for future growth
but at present not working. Practically
none of them are run out or even run
down, but are simply waiting for thrifty
Industrious owners to make them pro.
ductive and wealth creating. We like
to think of them as a part of the
wealth of Vermont that is temporarily
not utilized Some few of them are
abandoned farms-for cause-but most
of them are available farms, low in
price and offering comfort, indie
pendence and modest competence to
families who are fitted to take advan.
tage of the opportunities presented.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
FREE HIGH SCHOOLS FOR ALL.
Randolph Herald.

From almost every high school in the
State comes this year the report,
Largest attendance ever" Many of
the school buildings are crowded and
not few taxed beyond their capacity.
This is most gratifying. For years
educators have lamented the large fall
ing off that takes place when the gap is
reached that separates elementary and
secondary grades. Radical measures
have been proposed calculated to make
high school instruction more attractive.
In some places new courses specially
adapted to the demands of the COM
munity have been introduced.
These have doubtless had good effect,
but cannot alone account for the unpre-
cedented growth that has come to the
high schools-not this year, only, but
noticeable for several years past. The
principal cause, we believe, is the free
instruction given advanced pupils by all
the towns of the State under the gen.
eral law which requires it to be fur
nished. This law, enacted in 1906, has
been allowed to stand undisturbed and
is now getting in its full work. Wheth-
er a pupil lives in town that has a
high school of its own or is without one,
the pupil is entitled to high school
education just the same, tuition free to
him, if he is qualified for it.
So it happens that bright young boys
and girls from our hill towns, often
with splendid capacity, come trooping
to the centers favored with high schools
for what the latter can give them.
These young people make the very best
class of students. They come because
they want to; not because they are
compelled to. They are after some
thing that is valuable and they apply
themselves to their work rather better,
as a rule, than the village boy or girl
to whom schooling is often irksome.
Not only do they swell the attendance
but they improve the quality and the
morals. They even quicken the slug
gish element among the students. In
return these rural pupils generally re-
ceive a broadened view and measure
of sophistication that serves them we'll.
Many, probably most of them go back
after graduation better fitted in every
way for citizenship, while others, hav-
ing their ambition stirred pass into
wider fields than they would have at
tanned otherwise.
Vermont has been very liberal, in
very many ways, to the cause of public
education. In providing for general
secondary education at public expense
she has equalized opportunities for the
young as few other States have done.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
MRS. EDWIN A. JENNINGS.
AN APPRECIATION.

Herod Newell and Angelina Foote,
his wife, both of Shoreham, belonged
to that sturdy middle class of Ameri-
can people. They were the parents of
eight children, the oldest of whom was
Mary Emily, born August II, 1882.
Only two of the family survive, Mrs.
Lucy Farnham of Shoreham and Mrs.
Hila Horton of Sudbury.
Emily attended the district school un-
til she completed the subjects which
were taught there. Her parents then
sent her to Canton, N. Y, where she
completed her education and where she
also taught for some time. On January
"a, 1866, she was married to Edwin A.
Jennings. They Immediately went to
the Jennings farm on Goose Hill. where
her whole married life was spent. Her
greatest ambition was to make home
happy and in this she succeeded we'll.
Mr.. Jennings was widower, with two
children, son, Martin, and daugh-
ter, Ella. MIR. and Mrs. Jennings had
born to them one daughter, who died in
infancy.
After his death Mrs. Jennings man
aged the farm with superior judgment
united with untiring energy and was
award ed with more than usual success
Richard Bearor, who went to Goose
Hill to live when only boy in his
teens, has remained there since. Mrs.
Jennings was a deep lover of nature
and felt deeply her mysterious moods.
Goodness of heart, freedom of spirit,
friendliness of disposition, together
with fondness for brisk argument,
made her always the center of interest
in any gathering. All who have been
in her home know of her hospitality.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
SCHOOLS IN DANGER.
The Advance.


The State of Vermont is in danger.
1t totters on the brink. On the life
and health of one man rests the educa-
toe of it's children.
Here is the story and our deductions.
A prominent attorney called to see US.
Said he: Your criticism of Mason
Stone, Superintendent of Education, is
very fair but untimely, Mr.. Stone is a
politician, and has some radical ideas
about abolishing the Normal schools.
Yet, you must remember that Mr..
Stone has had much experience with
the schools of Vermont that no other
man has had. A new man would have
to spend year at least in learning the
routine, another year in familiarizine
himself with conditions; and third
year in learning about the textbooks
we use. So that you had best accept
Mr.. Stone in the position without three
years study"
If what this attorney says is true
Vermont is in danger, because Mr.
Stone might die, then we would have to
close every school in the State.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01

Dear Friend:-
! joined the army, went to the
Philippine Islands, and was finally
transferred here with my outfit. We
arrived in the latter part of 1913. At
first liked the life very much, and do
now with the exception of being so far
from home. The discipline and routine
are splendid for young man, and if
taken in the right spirit they are bound
to form a firm foundation in his life.
1t is good deal as the old saying goes,
that 1.-THE army will either make or
break a man" l haven't seen any
signs of breaking" in my case vet,
and l am in hopes l will go out with
little of the making" in me.
Most of my time has been spent hand
ling army paper work." and the ex-
perience have gained l deem invalu-
able. For the greater part of the year
| have been working in Post Head
quarters under Generals Edwards and
Wiser. General Edwards left the first
of the year to take command of the
Canal Zone. | have had my share of
promotion.
This is beautiful country-for
tourists. l suppose if l should come
here for three months visit, that no
place in the world would be able to
compare with it. As you probably know.
it is of volcanic formation. The
mountains are of type found in
Arizona and New Mexico; rugged,
barren, and of peculiar azure color.
Up here around Schofeld Ieilehua is
the Hawaiian name) there is sort of a
great plateau, settled between the
mountains. To glance over it it looks
like great unbroken plain, but the
landscape is very deceiving, for that
plain is cut in number of places by
gulches one hundred and one hundred
fifty feet deep. These are supposed to
have been caused by great fields of
lava flowing down the mountain sides
| to the sea. The volcanoes have been
extinct for hundreds of years, though,
and no trace of their contents is now
visible. Around Honolulu some of the
most beautiful scenery in the world is
to be found. Many gardens and parks
have been laid out, and with the aid of
tropical foliage and tropical sun, they
have been Incompatible.
One of the most characteristic
features of the country is the climate.
1t seldom varies over fifteen degrees
in temperature the year round Showers
are more or less frequent, and there is
always cool breeze from the ocean.
The island is only ninety miles around
so no part is altogether without ar
ocean breeze.
However, this is not like home anc
never will be. Furthermore, it is al
together too far from home to suit me
Up here at Scofield Barracks there is
no pastime outside of the moving
picture shows and time hangs heavy or
ones hands. Three years is going tc
be great plenty for me and once
get back to old Vermont, six mule
teams can't drag me away.
Sincerely yours.
EVANS F. CARLSON.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01

In October. 1914, she became i'll. In
the same spirit that she faced the prob
lem of life, she endured the protracted
weakness which could scarcely be call
ed illness. Her reward has come. She
departed this life August 80, having
lived SO years and 10 days. The funeral
services were held on Goose Hill Sep
TENDER l, Rev. Samuel Rose of Coz n
wall officiating. The pail bearers were
Richard Bearor, Charles belong and
Will and Arthur Farnham. Interment
was in the family lot in Cornwall beside
her late husband.
ALICE JENNINGS FISKE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
WHAT COUNTS IN LIFE.

Two Vermont youths who walked 70
miles to return to Middlebury college
this year furnish a sharp contrast to
two western youths who started to
motor to Yale university in a high
powered racing car and tipped over,
one being killed and the other perhaps
fatally injured. The race for education
surely is not always to the swift.
Barre Times.
The Middlebury students will sue
coed in life, regardless of their rank
in the classroom, because they are
possessed of commonsense and an am
bitlon to get the best out of life. One
of the most brilliant clergymen that
ever graduated from the University of
Vermont once told the writer that he
couldn't afford to hire team to take
his trunk from the Burlington depot to
the college dormtory but borrowed a
wheelbarrow and carried it through the
streets of Burlington himself. And
when he preached his first sermon as
he walked up the aisle he heard lady
(?) remark upon the shiny condition of
his suit. He was too big a man even
then to be influenced by such an unkind
remark and when he died years after he
was pastor of one of the largest city
churches in the United States and a
tower of strength in great denomina-
/
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
VALUE OF SPANISH.
Springfield Reporter.

Springfield Reporter.
Middlebury college will have a
course in Spanish the coming year and
it ought to be well patronized. Our
trade with South America is in its in
fancy and the men who are equipped
with the language of that country will
be the ones who will succeed in getting
their trade. A few years ago a letter
was received in one of the largest
manufacturing communities in Yer
mont from a prospective South Ameri-
can customer, written in Spanish. The
manufacturer spent nearly day in
trying to find resident of the place
that could translate it and finally the
only man in town that could translate
it was located and an order fol-
machinery landed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
SPANISH, COMMERCIAL
LANGUAGE.
Rutland Herald.

Rutland Herald.
When the relations between the
United States and Cuba became in
innate in a political way, the two
countries became intimate in business
way and American firms began to
make a drive for Cuban business.
There is no better business in the
world for firms which know the field,
the credits and the shipping require
ments, but thousands of good Cuban
orders were lost for lack of Spanish.
When the European war and its
blockades engaged the principal sue
cesstul traders of Europe, America s
opportunity in Central and South
America was generally recognized, but
again hundreds of American firms
went wrong by not knowing Spanish or
having statesmen so equipped, so that
even with the principal competitors re-
moved, our trade in our own hemisphere
has moved exceedingly slow.
This makes the announcement that
Middlebury college will have a course
in Spanish the coming year of special,
timely interest. In Vermont itself
there are a number of firms, perhaps a
score or more, equipped to extend their
trade into Latin America, yet how
many of them have young man or
woman in their offices competent to
carry on correspondence in Spanish, to
say nothing of translating catalogues
and other necessary printed matter?
The New York Globe said recently
Principals and graduating class
teachers in elementary schools in par
ticular and city educators in general,
will be interested to know of the steady
growth in the high schools of the in
terest in the study of Spanish, as shown
by the increase in the number of
students taking up the language from
choice
Where opportunity offers, teachers
might do well to inform members of
the graduating classes in elementary
schools that in many of the city high
scoool 1T is now possible to begin
Spanish in the first term, instead of
waiting until they have completed a
year of some foreign language.
The same article notedits popularity
m evening schools and all commercial
schools. President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia university says
at will not be possible for the peo-
pie of the United States to enter into
close relation with the peoples of the
other American republics until the
Spanish language is more generally
spoken and written.
When it is added that Spanish is one
of the most easily learned European
languages, with no silent letters and
practically self pronouncing, it seems
fair to assume that schools capable OF
shaking off the tradition of the classics
and equipping themselves to teach
Spanish will be likely to lead in popular
estimation.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
SOLDIER LIFE IN HAWAII

Mrs. Luther A. Roscoe has received
an interesting letter from Evans, son of
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas A. Carlson.
Mr.. Carlson will be remembered as
pastor of the Congregational church at
Weybridge and graduate of Middle
bury college, class of 1895. The son,
Evans is now member of Battery B.,
First Field Artillery, U. S. A.,
stationed at Schofeld Barrack, Hawaii
Islands. The letter is in part as
follows. Editor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
COMMUNICATIONS.
VERMONT STATE FAIR.

At the 1915 Vermont State Fair held
at White River junction September
14-17 the exhibition of all classes of
live stock was of a high order-every
one seemed determined to show little
better stock in their class than the
other w-consequently the result
was very pleasing to all lovers of high
bred stock of all kinds.
would speak more particularly of
Vermont's most famous breed-the
Morgan horse-of which we may all be
proud Probably at no other place in
the world can this most elegant animal
be seen in such large numbers and to
such great advantage as at this time.
There were in all 1873 horses of this
breed on exhibition. Among the promi-
nent breeders who exhibited Morgans
were E. A. Darling of East Burke, VT. 4,
C. c. Stillman of Cornwall on-the-
Hudson, H. R. c. Watson of Brandon,
VT, C. A. Stone of Plymouth, Mass,
j. r. Steers, H. S. Warner and William
Tod of New York city, and Miss Sue
Evarts and A. T. Phillips of Windsor,
Vt.
In class No. /, stations years old or
over, there were 20 horses shown
every one a great beauty. In class
No. IL, mare and two of her produce,
there were II. Glass No. 49, brood
mare and foal, there were 27.
We felt sorry for the judge, Mr..
Harry Lawrence of Bratteboro, as
these large classes were let into the
ring but he went at them with a bold
front and his decisions nearly always
pleased the public
It's not an easy task to judge a
bunch of 20 stations where nearly every
one deserves a blue ribbon for GER
tainly no one ever saw 20 better
Morgan stations led into the ring.
There were large number of
matched and single drivers shown, Mr..
A. F. Phillips showing three pairs OF
matched drivers. One man who has
followed the fairs and show rings for a
good many years remarked that he
never saw a better exhibition of these
two classes in his life. The saddle
classes were also well filled, nearly al
the large breeders exhibiting. In the
open-to-all, any breed, the competition
was very sharp.
This exhibition was given down or
the big ring and attracted great dea
of attention. 1t was finally won by
Mr.. E. A. Daring's Kentucky thorough
bred Boots, ridden by your cores
pendent. The second was given tC
Miss Sue Evarts; third to C. A. Stone
Miss Evarts is daughter of the late
Maxwell Evarts. She rides and drive.
her own horses and is one of the expert
horse-women of New England.
Much regret was expressed by the
management that the Government
horses from the U. S. Morgan farm
were not on exhibition.
If, as President Weeks of the Addison
County Fair puts it-"Their youl
horses and mine" Why should not the
people have an opportunity to see then
at the State and county fairs is
question asked by many.
That the west side of the State il
not better represented with thei
beautiful stock is also to be regretted
Surely no part of this State or an,
other State can outclass Addison, Rut
land and Chittenden counties with theiI
fine horses, cattle and sheep.
Let us hope that in the coming year,
these counties will be better repre-
sented. EBEN C.. RYDER
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
A clogged System Needs Attention

Are you bilious, dizzy and listless? DR..
Kings New Life Pills taken at once
seizes upon constipation and starts the
bowels moving naturally and easily.
Moreover it acts without gripping. Neg
lect of clogged system often leads TO
most serious complications. If you wish
to wake up o.morrow,mornirg happy in
mind and entirely satisfied, start your
treatment tonight. 20 cents a bottle.
adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
PARCELS POST MARKETING.
Randolph Herald.

A reader of this paper living in Bos-
ton suburban locality. and doubtless
noticing that the quotations for fresh
eggs given in our weekly market re-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
CHESTER TOWN HALL DAMAGED.

Fire and water caused an estimated
damage of $1,000 in the Chester town
hall early Monday morning. The fire is
thought to have originated from de-
feet in the chimney in the basement.
The alarm was sounded by the engineer
and fireman of the southbound sleeping
train about o'clock. In the building
are the postoffice, the offices of the
town clerk and treasurer, r. A. Hus-
sey's cafe and other rooms. The post
office, the clerks room and the main
stairway were badly damaged. The
property is well insured. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hussey were asleep in their apartments
in the building at the time the alarm
was sounded.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01
VERMONT OPINION
RAISE ALFALFA.

Rutland Herald.
One notes by crop reports in Addison
county that alfalfa, to the extent of
900 acres. is an important fodder factor
in that county. Every farm with a
decent subsoil should grow alfalfa.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-01

Itching piles provoke profanity but
profanity won't remove them. Doan's
Ointment is recommended for itching,
bleeding or protruding piles. soc at any
Eiua otUiI,-auN.