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Note

Mr.. D. G. Pfeifer has been
identified with the piano trade in
Washington for more than rs
years, conducting piano store of
his own until the formation of the
Frederick Piano Company, when
he Joined with Mr.. Frederick in
the organization of that large con-
Germ. He has been its vice presl-
dent since the incorporation and
manager of the Washington
branch.
When the opportunity present
ed itself for him to acquire this
end of the Frederick business he
made haste to seize it and has,
by quick stroke of finance, taken
over the whole business here, in
GLIDING building full of the
choicest makes of pianos and
player-pianos.
The lump sum agreed upon and
accepted by the Frederick Com
pany has been apportioned over
the various instruments in stock,
bringing each of them down to a
mere fraction of its real worth.
In this way-and only in this
wav-could it be possible to buy
these standard pianos so far be-
low value.
Following this sale of the Fred
erick stock, the new corporation
of D. c.. Pfeiffer Piano Company
will be announced. Mr.. Pfeiffer
having completed this and asso-
ciated with himself one of the
most distinguished factories of
Pianos and Player-Pianos in
America, with very large capital.
AS the new company will consti-
tute branch of that, factory, it
is imperative that all the Pianos
and Players of the Frederick stock
be sold off Immediately. to make
way for the new line of instru-
ments to be handled hereafter.
1t needs no further argument
to convince the public that the
present stock OF. Pianos MUST
BE SOLD regardless of what
they will bring. There is no
"catch-penny" about this. Mr..
Pfeiffer bought the goods to ac-
quire control. Now that he has
the control he has no further use
: for the pianos and will sell them
for whatever they will bring.
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Mai, Pullman Returns to District.

Mai. Raymond W. Pullman. superip-
tendent Of police. is expected home from
his vacation today. He has been in sew
eral Of the larger eastern cities famil-
jarizing himself with their various po-
lice methods. and. it is stated, probably
paid considerable attention to traffic con-
ditions and laws governing the move
ments of vehicles 1t is said that Maj
Pullman hopes to make the traffic regu-
lations in this city as nearly model as 1t
is possible for them to be.
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Chief Features of Interest to
the Marksmen at Jackson
vile Shoot.
CONTESTS AUTHORIZED
BY ACT OF CONGRESS
District Of Columbia Has Team in
Glass A for Priced National
Trophy.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STATE CAMP, Jacksonville, Fla, Oc-
tober 16.-While the rifiemen here from
nearly every state in the Union, from
Hawaii. from the infantry and cavalry
branches of the United States Army,
from the Marine Corps, and from some
of the educational institutions are par
ticipating in the individual and team
matches being conducted by the Ma
tt nal Rifle Association of America,
chief interest naturally centers in the
national matches. These are the pre-
mier events in the rifle shooting world.
They are authorized by Congress, and
will open Monday morning. The brig
ade team of the National Guard of the
District of Columbia is determined to
make the best showing possible, and
with that end in view the members
have been devoting every available mo-
ment to practice. This means partic-
ipating in all matches now in progress
which are open to them.
The national matches are held under
the direction of the national board for
the promotion of rifle practice, organ
lied by act of Congress approved July
80, 1904. 1t is charged with the duty
of recommending measures for the pro-
motion of rifle practice and rules to
govern the national rifle and pistol
competitions.
To Arouse General Interest.
The plan Of holding national matches,
the executive officer here explains, is
designed to awaken a general interest
throughout the country in rifle shoot
ing, as well as to promote special in
terest in that branch of training, re-
garded as most important, throughout
the military and naval services and
the National Guard. The program and
rules for the national matches to be
a resolution adopted by the board at a
meeting held in Washington last jan
uary, and subsequently approved by the
Secretary Of War.
AS now constituted. the national
board for the promotion of rifle prac-
tice consists of the following: The as
sistant secretary of war, president;
Capt Roy C. Smith, Z. S. N. Washing
ton, D. c.; Capt. Thomas Holcombe, Jr,
U. S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.
c.. Capt S. ]. B. Schindel, general staff,
U. S. A, Washington. d. c., recorder;
Lieut.. Col William Libbey, New Jer-
sey, president of the National Rifle AS
ISOLATION of America; Maj. Gen. J. Cliff
ford r. Foster. Florida; Brig. Gen.
James A. Brain, Washington, D. c.;
Brig. Gen. Bird w. Spencer, New Jer-
sey; Lieut. Col. S. w. Brookhart, Iowa.
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court ASKED To DISMISS
new HAVEN INDICTMENT
Ten Reasons Set Forth. by Counsel
for Directors of Railroad in
Support of Motion.

NEW YORK, October 16.-Ten rea-
sons why the Indictment against the
ELEVEN directors of the New York. New
Haven and Hartford railroad, on trial
charged with monopolizing the trans
portation traffic Of New England,
should be dismissed, are contained in
the motion filed yesterday with Judge
Hunt by the attorneys for the defend
ants. after the over-Sunday adjourn
ment of the trial. but not made known
until today.
Judge Hunt, it was learned, remark
cd, upon receiving the document from
Thomas D. Thacher, one of the attor-
neys, that it was rather late in the
proceedings to make a motion of this
kind, but that he would, nevertheless,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17
THOMAS GRANT WEBS.
Secretary Of Chamber of Commerce
Makes Mrs. she M Graves Bride

Friends of Mrs. Sue NJ Graves and
Thomas Grant, secretary of the Cham
Der of Commerce, were surprised yes
terday when they learned that the
couple had slipped over to Baltimore
and had been married there at noon.
The first news of the wedding came
through a formal announcement by
Mrs. William Daynham Matthews,
mother of the bride. Mr.. and Mrs.
Grant will be at home at 1873 Irving
street northwest after December 1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17

November, and that each and every
act committed was a part Of the con-
spiracy.
Charles S. Mellen, former president
Of the New Haven and upon whom the
government will rely chiefly in pre-
senting its case, will be one of the first
witnesses called, and may take the
stand Wednesday,
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Will Celebrate German Day."

The United German Societies are to
celebrate German day" at 8 o'clock to-
morrow evening. in Saengerbund Hall,
314 street northwest. The program
will include Rotations. songs. choruses
and addresses. the singers of the Saeng-
erbund and the Germania Maennerchor
participating in the choruses There will
be no admission fee and the celebration
is open to members and the women Of
their families.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17

tween the United States government
and the government and people Of the
District of Columbia. Many of the
views are of colonial Washington and
civil war Washington, others including
the pictures recently published in The
Star which were gotten up by the
commission of fine arts for display at
the Panama exposition.
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Sufragists on Way Here.

PUEBLO. Col. October 16-Four
women representing the Women's Vote
League of America, who are motoring
across the continent to present to Con-
gress huge petition asking aNnational
equal suffrage law. left here today for
Kansas City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17
MARRIED.

JErT-C0LIIER. On Thursday. February IL,
1915, by the Rev. ]. W. Duffey of Alexandria,
Va, BEULAH L. COLLIER and JESSE
JET, both OF Washington. ID. C..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17
Card of Thanks.

LYNCH. The family of Mrs. p. ]. LYNCH
wish to express their gratitude TO their
friends and relatives in their bereavement.
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and Lieut. Albert S. Jones, Washington
D. c., assistant recorder
Individual Match First.

Preceded by two days preliminary
practice, the national competitions will
begin Monday with the national indi-
vidual match. which will occupy two
days. Next Wednesday and Thursday
are allotted for the national team
match and Friday for the national pis-
toll match
In the national individual match tie
distances and order of fire are: Rapid
fire, 200 and 800 yards; slow fire, 800
Soo and 1000 yards. Each competitor
nres ten shots at each distance, rapid
nre, and fifteen shots at each distance
slow fire. The possible score is 325. To
each OF the twelve competitors making
the highest aggregate scores will be
awarded a gold medal and a cash prize
ranging from $50 to SIS. in order of
merit. To each of the twelve COMPETE
Tors MAKING aesg the highest aggregate
scores after the gold medal scores will
be awarded a silver medal and $40.
Each Of the twelve competitors maxi
ing the highest aggregate scores after
the silver medal scores will receive a
prone media! and a cash prize Of S..
A gold medal and a cash prize of $40
VIII! go to the competitor making the
nlgnest aggregate score in slow fire;
ssIm1lar reward to the individual max
ing the highest aggregate score in
rapid fire. and a cash prize OF SIS to
each or those winning the sixty-four
places next after the bronze medal win
nels. me large number of prizes is
lnducement for mammoth entry list
In the national team march ea CHI
team member fires the same number of
s s and at the same distances as do
r Hle councillors in the national indl-
'iduai match There are three classes
"A. b and Gin the national team
matcn. the competitors being assigned
IN :.ecerdance with the order in which
time it was shot. in 1918. The District
OF CoiumD1a is in class A, and, there
lore, is eligible for the national trophy,
me most sought-for prize in the rifle
trophy, first prize consists Of $3.50 in
cash and medals for the team mem
t psrs; second prize is $3.50 and medals:
.n!ra pr1ze, $500 and medals. and fourth
prize, s25o and medals. Medals will be
awarded to each of the other teams in
1nls class. In class first prize is the
6llton trophy, $3.50 and medals, and in
CLASS eaas Z the bronze Soldier of Marathon,
$500 and medals
Three Contests in One.
The national team match. in rea,itv
is three competitions in one. owing to
the three classes. The score a team in
class 3 or in class makes this year
Will decide its assignment to a class
Tor the next national competition. In
other words, team in class c this year
may be in class A next year
An important feature is that at least
six of the shooting members of each
team shall be men who have never
heretofore shot as members of team
In national team match nor in a ma
tional divisional team match Not less
than so per cent of the team must be
enlisted men, and the selection of the
team must have been by competition
open to the entire organization each
represents. All this is done to give
with the possibility of creating shoot
ing trusts" of experts.
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DIED.

CONDOR. On Thursday. October IA. 1915. at
2.30 pm, JOHN J.. husband OF Margaret
Condor tnee Shugruei and son of the late
Robert and Mary Condor aged thirty-seven
years.
Funeral from his late residence. 2.s37 Sherman
avenue northwest. Monday. October is. nj
$50 am. Requiem at the Church Of
the immaculate Conception at am. Rela-
ttves and friends invited. Interment at
Mount Olivet cemetery. IL
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08

Mrs. Julian A. Dimick, who is en-
ployed in connection with the state
agricultural extension work, and her
husband believe strongly in the back
to the Vermont farm movement, so
strongly that they went to Topsham
from New York and have since de-
'veloped the apple industry in that
Tsection of Vermont. Mr.. Dimick is
one of the several large growers OF
apples the like of which can not be
duplicated excepting in the Oregon
apple and there is doubt if even that
apple is as nice quality as is produced
on the Corinth and Topsham hills.
This was a bad year for the crop
for a hard wind and a hail storm
early in the season affected the first
grade fruit materially so that Mr..
Dimick did not have many box apples
to sell but he had large quantity of
barrel apples. He specializes in the
box apples which go direct to the con-
sumner in New York and other states.
Last year he shipped IA boxes to Ire
land. Even this year after supplying
his patrons with the barrel apples
which ran into the carloads he had
90 barrels and went to Barre hoping
to sell a part of this supply with the
result that the entire 80 barrels were
purchased by one merchant.
There are other families from New
York and New Jersey who have gone
to Corinth and Topsham to enter the
apple raising business. Mr.. Dimick
will branch out next year in small
fruit growing having found that the
climate and soil in that section of Yer
mont is right for the small fruit as
well as apples.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08
PASSuRSIO

| (Mrs. Harold Wood, Correspondent
Mrs. l.. H. Witty was in Lyndonville
Thursday to attend the Ladies auxil-
larry.
Mr.. and Mrs. All FuIford and Mrs
Charles Fulford spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Blake in ST. Johns
bury.
Plynn Douse has blood poisoning in
his hand.
Mrs. Emma Wells slipped and fell
down stairs last week and received
several bruises.
The Goodwill club met Monday
night at the vestry.
The V. 1. S. will hold their sale and
chicken pie supper Friday night with
promenade following.
B. u. Wells was in town Monday.
The Sunday school has voted to
have the Christmas exercises as usual
Alfred Symes was given a post card
shower Friday and received 90.
Ben Courmier has moved his family
to st. Johnsbury.
Misses Margaret and Helen Orion
of Sheffield are visiting at w. S. Will
lard's.
Mrs. Mary Ballou and Karlene
King are sick.
Mrs. Ada Bennett and granddaugh-
ter Marion and son Albert of East st
Johnsbury spent Saturday at George
Benefits.
Miss Margaret Chapman is visiting
friends in Lowell and Lynn.
Gardner Kenerson who has been
staying at John Rays went last week
to Woodstock. where he has purchased
small farm. Mrs. KenerSon went
Monday morning.
home in Greensboro after visiting her
sister, Mrs. F. G. McGill.
Rev. S. G. Reynolds preached in the
Morrill, district Sunday in the after
noon.
Mrs. J. L. Farnham is visiting a,
her son, John Farnham's.
Bertran Reynolds of New York is
visiting his brother, S. c. Reynolds.
Clayton Harrington and family
spent Friday with Mr.. and Mrs. D. c
Harrington.
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EAST HARDWICK

(Fleda ". Hassam. Correspondent
Word was received Sunday night
that Mrs. H. c. Stevens, who went to
Barre to stay with her daughter. Mrs.
Earl Talbert had fallen and they
feared she had broken her hip.
Mrs. G. HI. Stevens went to Boston
Saturday to accompany Mr.. Stevens
mother home.
J. A. Stafford is visiting his son,
Bert Stafford, in Barre.
Mrs. Henry Eldredge started for
Florida Monday morning. She will
visit at Westfield, Mass, and at Phil
Tadelphia on the way.
Three new officers were elected in
the Grange last week to take the
places of those that resigned. The
new officers are secretary, Mrs. J
o. Jeffords; lecturer, Mrs. Clarence
RUSSELL; assistant steward, Glenn Kit
tredge.
Fay Marvin of Worcester, Mass, is
visiting friends in town.
Perley Shattuck of Hardwick was
at George Lawrence's over Sunday.
Wheaton Livingston has closed his
house and gone to Danville for the
winter.
Frank Hodgden is quite i'll with a
hard cold and pneumonia is feared.
Again there seems to be a prospect
of having electric lights in this vii
lage. This time the line comes from
lHardwick and it is said the lights will
reach here before January 1st. We
hope the coming year will be brighter
for their coming.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08
Basket Ball League.

The recently formed basket bal
league, which will include eight teams
representing as many schools located
in the northern part of the State has
adopted a schedule for the 1916 sea-
son. The team which finishes with
the best percentage of victories will be
considered the champion and to be
awarded silver cup a team must win
the championship three times.
The games for st. j. A. are as fol-
lows: VS.. burlington March at Bur-
lington, March 9 at ST. Johnsbury;
Peoples Academy January Z, at Nor.
risville, February II at st. Johnsbury
Stowe January 8 at Stowe, January 81
at st. Johnsbury; M. H. S. February
23 at st. Johnsbury, February rs a,
Montpelier; Montpelier Seminary Jan
uary 2S at Montpelier, February Is al
st. Johnsbury; Spaulding January 2g
at Barre, February at ST. Johnsbury;
Hardwick January 10 at Hardwick.
February &c at st. Johnsbury.
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Sheriff's Sale

Taken by virtue of an execution the per-
sonal property hereinafter mentioned and
will be sold at public auction on December
10, 1915 as follows:
The boards, barn frame and other mater
ial from barn torn down on The DIR. Weeks
farm in Walden, now lying on land owned
by Archie Michaud OF Walden and near
where it formerly stood. This property will
be sold at public auction December 10,
1915, at 10 O'Clock a. m in the public high
way opposite of where 1t now lies.
Certain timber, logs and poles cut by Is.
E Ainsworth and now lying on side of road
between Eli ,insworth's building and build
ing occupied by B z. Ainsworth in Walden.
Estimated to contain three thousand feet of
lumber in logs and four hundred poles. This
property viii be sold at public auction Dec
ember 10, 1915, at II O'Clock a. m in the
public highway opposite of where they now
lie in said Walden.
Certain poplar and other soft and hard
wood logs and poles lying in the doorya
of Eli Ainsworth and on the opposite side of
road from Eli Ainsworths house In Walden,
estin ated to contain thirty-five hundred feet
of lumber and one hundred poles This pro-
pertv will be sold at public auction in the
public hiRhwayin front of the dwelling house
of Eli Ainsworth in Walden, at IL noon,
December 10, 1918
c. w. THURBBR, Deputy Sheriff
Walden VT.
Nov, "a, 1918.
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WEST DANVDLE

(Mrs. E. F. Aver Correspondent
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Harrington
spent Thursday at Passumpsic with
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Far
rington.
Austin Goss came home from Provi.
dence. r. l.. last Tuesday where he
has been working.
Mrs. Nancy Hunt is at st. Johns
bury caring for Mrs. John Conley
Mrs. Mary Aver and Mrs. Leroy
Aver of Passumpsic have been visiting
at E. r. Ayers.
Wallace Ainsworth has moved to
Danville and William Brooks has
moved to his farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Woods have
gone to keeping house on his farm.
Sam Morrill, came home Saturday.
John Grimes has been visiting his
wife at Sam MorriIPs.
Mrs. Fred Daniel is keeping house
for Orrie Bolton.
The funeral of Henry Swasey was
held at the home of E. F. Aver last
Tuesday. Rev. Mr.. Sharples officiating
The interment was in the family lot
! at East St. Johnsbury There were
-many beautiful flowers from relatives
land friends. Miss Elizabeth Joslyn
| and George Joslyn of West Concord
were here to attend the funeral.
The successful deer hunters here
were Grover Perkins, A. J. Goss, Gil
bert Hastings and Sam Hatch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Berry, who have
| been hunting in Walden the past week
returned home Sunday
Fred Daniel has a new housekeeper.
A. A. Osgood, a veteran of past
81 years, met with bad accident,
Dec. 1, when he fell on the stairs and
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PROBATE OF Will
ESTATE OF HOWARD ]. LEE.

ESTATE OF HOWARD ]. Ire.
STATE OF VERMONT, District of Caledonia, 80.
The Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Caledonia: To all persons interested
In the estate of Howard ]. Lee. late of St.
Johnsbury, in said District deceased, Greet
ing:
At Probate Court, holden at st. Johns
bury within and for said District on the 9th
day of November A. d. 1918. an instrument
purporting to be the last VIII and Tesla
ment and two Codicils of Howard ]. Lee
late of 81 Johnsbury. in said District. de-
ceased was presented to the Court afore-
said, for Probate.
And it is ordered by said Court that the
4th day of December A. d. 1915, at the
Probate Office in said st. Johnsbury, be as
signed for proving said instrument; and that
notice thereof be given to all persons con-
cerned, by publishing this order three weeks
successfully in the Caledoniau. a newspaper
circulating in that vicinity. In said District,
previous to the time appointed.
Therefore, you are hereby notified to ap-
pear before said Court, at the time and place
aforesaid. and contest the probate of said
will, if you have cause.
Given under my hand at st. Johnsbury, In
said District, this 10th day OF November,
A ID. 1915.
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
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December "North American Review.

december IN OFUn American h6V1oVV.
George Harvey, editor of The North
American Review, has gone to Europe
for the purpose of viewing war con-
ditions at close range, and the result
of his observations will appear in the
January issue of the Review. The
current issue, therefore, appears with
out the customary editorial leader
that Colonel Harvey has made so strik-
ing a feature of his magazine. But
while his readers will miss his trench
ant and forcible pages, there is other
wise no lack of interest and saliency
in this issue of the Review. Those
who are wondering what effect the
coming of peace assuming the GER
tainty of that remote event) will have
on this country, will find a rather dis
turbing answer in a striking article by
EX-Ambassador David Jayne Hill: IAN
Impending Danger to the Republic"
An article of equal frankness and au-
thority is Sydney Brooks paper, '"The
New England" Mr.. Brooks is a pa
triotic and unimpeachable English
man, but he is also clear-sighted, and
not all Englishmen will relish his
clinical statement of certain humiliat-
ing truths. But there are unpalatable
truths for America, too, in this issue.
Where is the money coming from to
pay the huge expenses that the United
States is going to incur in the near fu-
ture? Congressman Fitzgerald writes
of this question with knowledge and
candor. In Prohibition and Poll
tics" L. Ames Brown continues his
entirely dispassionate ANALYSIS of a
problem that is seldom discussed with
out heat, WAS Jesus a Non Resist
ant?'' 1t is not fashionable nowadays
to say that he was not, and to draft
the Savior into the ranks of the mill
tarists. The Reverend John Haynes
Holmes, pastor of New York's church
of the Messiah, has some informing
things to say on this subject. "Chi-
mas Vital Question" is the title of a
paper full of information and illumi-
nation by jeremiah w. jerks; Rear
Admiral F'iske resumes his clarifying
discussion of broad principles of naval
policy; Winthrop Talbot treats of I'll
literacy and Democracy; Alice 1
Perry Wood dissects the critical
methods of Oscar Wilde; and Louise
Collier Wilcox scrutinizes the achieve
ments of John Galsworthy as novelist
and playwright. In some memories
of lovable boy, Joseph S. Auerbach
makes a contribution to the literature
of childhood that will not soon be for
gotten by those who are fortunate
enough to read it. In his Book of
the Month";" Lawrence Gilman exhib-
it's that delectable butterfly of letters,
Mr.. Frank Harris, in one of his most
characteristic aspects. Mr.. Gilman
contributes also his customary Winter
reviews of plays and music. A war
poem of unusual nobility and passion
by Arthur Dawson Ffcke rounds out
this timely and important number.