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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
Mortified Girl Author.

A dramatic second reader is to be is
sued soon by Little, Brown & Co.,
whose author is Miss Margaret Doheny,
a teacher in the Barre City schools, a
native of Mortified. For more than a
year and half Miss Doheny has been
working on the reader and educators to
whom she has submitted the proofs for
criticism are unanimous in their opinion
that the book will fill long-felt want.
The book is to be composed of dramatic
versions of favorite folklore tales and is
to be profusely illustrated in colors.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.

Many of the early inhabitants had
emigrated from places where they
enjoyed the ordinances of the gospel:
and hence were not long contented
to be deprived of them.
A Congregational church was or
gained January 7th, 1907, consisting
of seventeen members, over which
the Rev. Samuel Goddard was or
dained pastor September 7th, 1909.
The ordination services were held in
the open air, near the residence of
Hon. Samuel Wetherbee, at the
Corner; and were attended by very
large number of people from this
and the adjoining towns, aid by
most of the Congregational preach
ers in neighboring towns. The or
dination sermon was preached by the
Rev. Joseph Lee, of Royalston, Mass.
from Jer. iii. Is.
A house of worship was erected
for the church in 1916, at cost of
some $4,000, it being a very large
and-for the times-costly edifice.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
Freight Train Strikes Auto, injuring
Two.

An automobile containing Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Wiener and two children
was struck by freight train on the
Portland street at st. Johnshury Sun
day morning and three of the occupants
were injured. Mr.. Wiener suffered a
sprained ankle and multiple bruises
while his wife and three-year-old daugh-
ter were badly bruised and Mrs.
Wiener-was picked up in a semi-con-
scious state. Their year old baby
escaped without a'scratch. Mr.. Wiener
evidently saw the train which was NOV
very slowly and thought he had time to
cross in front of it. When about forty
feet from the crossing he changed his
mind and applied the brake but the car
slid to the track directly in front of the
engine. The train was brought to a
standstill in less than the length of the
engine but not in time to prevent the
accident. The automobile was practi-
cally demolished.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09

side her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Foy, who live on Marble ave-, she is
survived by three brothers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09

land and then went on to Burlington on
freight, leaving this city about mid
night. At Burlington he in fell with a
trio of tramps who offered to pawn the
stolen jewelry. They succeeded in
getting the valuables but they never
turned up with the money. Deputy
Sheriff Purdy thinks he has track of
some of the jewelry in the Queen City.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
Kicked in the Head and May not Live

Ralph Rushford, aged ID years, of
Montgomery, the only son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Rushford of Hill West, is
in critical condition at hospital in
Montreal where he was taken for treat
ment for injuries sustained when he
was kicked in the head by horse which
the youth was trying to catch. The
boys skull was so badly fractured that
the brain protruded. He was taken to
the Montreal hospital by his parents
and DIR. G. S. Clark, and the last re-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09

port from there said he had not regain
ed consciousness and was bleeding at
the nose and ears.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
Iodine Dose Almost Fatal.

Mrs. Frank Martin, of Rutland, drank
the greater part of an ounce of iodope
and but for the prompt action of neigh
bors and physician the result might
have been fatal.
According to Mr.. Martin, his wife,
who is about 30 years old, has been hav-
ing trouble with her teeth. In the dark
she went to cupboard containing sew
eral bottles of medicine and supposed
she reached for small bottle of Sloan's
liniment and this she tipped to her
mouth, expecting to rub some of the
fluid on her gums. He says Mrs. Mar
tin swallowed some of the poison by
mistake.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
Thrown From Wagon and Injured.

Levi Pratt, of Wells, over 60 years
old, suffered fractured collar bone, a
deep scalp wound, and severe bruises
when he was thrown from wagon
near Lake st. Catherine, his horses be-
coming frightened at passing auto
mobile. Doctor Tenney, of Granville,
N. Y, who was summoned, says Mr..
Pratt will recover though he was badly
bruised and shaken in addition to his
other injuries.
Mr.. Pratt was about to dump a load
of gravel in narrow place in the high
way, upon which he was at work, when
an automobile in passing the wagon
startled the horses and the animals
jumped, throwing the driver on to some
rocks.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
Walls About Taxation.

The Monitor notes fearful walls
from various parts of the state be-
cause of high tax rates. OF course
a high tax rate is not a thing to be
desired but, if the money raised is
for needed improvements and pub
lie benefits and not wasted, why
such an awful howl? A few addi-
tional cents in taxes amounts to but
little to the individual. If he be but
a poll tax payer it means but few
cents and to the landed Individual but
few dollars. Now undoubtedly both
these individuals are spending more
money for pleasure than ever before.
Automobiles, ice creams, sodas,
chewing gum, candy and other
things are considered more and
more necessities and they all cost
money, yet little extra in taxes
for public improvement and needs
meets with awful abuse. Public
funds need scrupulous care in ex-
penditure but as individuals we have
what we want and pay the bills.
Should we expect less of public af-
fairs. Compared with the taxes of
of other nations the citizen of the
United States has no conception of
taxes. = Barton Monitor.
Another BIundering Law.
Through the farseeing statesman
ship displayed in the Cummins
amendment, the public hereafter
will be put to some little trouble
and expense in checking baggage
from one state to another and into
Canada. This amendment seeks to
do away with the limited liability of
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-09
Those New Baggage Regulations.

Travellers, especially commercial
travellers who make interstate jour-
neys in pursuit of business, are very
much disturbed regarding the law,
passed by the last congress, regard
ing the carriage and insurance of
baggage. Under this new law, every
interstate trip where baggage is
checked, the owner thereof or his
agent, must make out valuation
slip, stating the value of the articles
in said piece of baggage, under Sc
we're penalties if he over or under
estimates its value. He is then re-
quired to pay 10c. per 500 insur-
ance and cannot collect over $500
in any case, even if he has $4,000
in the trunk. The jewelry statesmen
are the hardest hit, as they frequent
ly carry from $4,000 TO $4,000
worth of samples in a small trunk.
Fur statesmen will soon add their
howl of anguish to the general cho-
rus, as these knights of the road usu-
ally start out the last of this month.
We use the masculine he" as
the woman who travels alone after
she has read and inwardly digested
this new law, will not carry much
baggage.
Better post up on this new law
before you start on a journey and
bear in mind that the benevolent
government at Washington is pre-
pairing to make regulations telling
what you shall wear, where you shall
go, atc., when on an interstate jour-
ney
The only safe way is to stay at
home and not own too much of a
mansion or anything else either, or
the income tax collector will get
you, if you don't watch out. >
[Morrisvile Messenger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
BRITISH START INQUIRY
ON SINKING OF EVELYN

LONDON, Feb %.
England today joined the United states
in an investigation OF the sinking, of the
American steamship Evelyn off Borkum
Island. in the North Sea. The British
action was due to a dispatch from Berlin
sent to the United States by wireless and
transmitted here by cable. stating that
Captain Smith. Of the Evelyn, had de-
clared the loss of his ship was caused
because he followed the advice of a Brit
Ish boarding officer as to the route he
should use.
Admiralty officials believe that this in-
formation was given out In Berlin in order
to cause tension between the United
State and England. That this was the
opinion at the Foreign Office also was
shown by the fact that the English min
lister at The Hague and consular officials
In Holland we're requested to transmit at
once all details they could obtain as to
the loss of the Evelyn and its cause, both
direct and Indirect
lmpatience as to the Governments de-
lay In announcing definitely its reprisal
methods against Germany is growing
greater daily here The statement of
Premier Asquith yesterday in response to
inquiries in Parliament was asserted by
the London newspapers today to be a step
in the right direction, but they urged an
immediate avowal OF the Government s
purpose to place food and raw materials
on the list of absolute contraband.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
ITALY FACES FAMINE
AS TEUTONS GET FOOD
In Worse Condition Than Some
Nations at War = Bread
and Work" Cry Raised.
ROME, Feb. 23.


Italy is hungry. The fact is indisput-
able From the narrow streets of her
cities, from the densely populated villages
of her provinces comes the cry: Bread
and work. No longer Bread and
games," as of the old Roman mob, pam;
pered and feared by the despotic Emper-
ors OF her decline, but sane, reasonable
desire to live by work and by the bread
it should bring.
And this hunger will not pass notwith-
standing all the wise measures of Pre-
mier Salandras Government, for the
trouble lies deeper than the laws of Italy
reach and extend beyond the influence of
local measures. Whether Italy goes to
war or continues to look out of the po-
litical window, there will be keen, unsatis-
fed appetites until the next harvest, at
least.
The price of wheat has gone up in those
very countries from which the Govern
ment hopes to buy; Italys last harvest
was the worst she has had in years. CIV
ing her 100000 quintals short of the
average; because wheat Is likely to go
under State control in neutral countries
The very wheat brought into Italy for
the peoples consumption finds its way to
Germany, Austria and Hungary; because
the country where patriotism kills specu-
lation Is yet to be born. and speculation
has as much to do with Italy's wheat
leakage as any of other causes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
100000 WILL SUSTAINED
Magnesia Manufacturer Cut Widow
Off From Estate.

A second will made by the late Thomas
]. Husband, Jr., wealthy magnesia man.
ufacturer, cutting his widow off from an
estate of 100000 bequeathed to her in a
former document. today was sustained as
genuine by jury before President Judge
Bregy In Common Pleas Court No l.
The jury reached its conclusion Friday,
but returned a sealed verdict. which was
not announced until the opening of court
this morning,
The verdict, in addition to setting aside
Mrs. Husband and favoring three sisters,
a brother-in-law and their children, vim
dlcated c. d. d. Balbirne and his brother,
druggists of West Philadelphia and Ger
mantown, whom the manufacturers
widow charged with attempting to CO.
eree her into sharing a part of the estate
with them,
Handwriting experts failed to establish
the Widows claim that the second testa-
ment was a forgery. The beneflciarles
under the ruling of the jury are Joseph
II, Seaman. Carrie Reed Mary Seaman
Sadie Saltus. Anna Husband and Marga-
ret Comfy. Mrs. Husband was repre-
scented by Attorney General Wescott, of
New Jersey; Alexander M. DeHaven and
NJ. T, McManus.
The verdict ends a bitter legal contest
which has been waged since 1913. when
Mr.. Husband died.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
Going to the Expositions? Don't
Miss Colorado Scenery

No one can be indifferent to the
beauty and grandeur of the colofaop
Rocky Mountain scenery, and yisiloss
to the California expositions shouia
make a point of seeing it. Also Den
yer, Colorado Springs, Pueblo Hs
ROYAL Gorge, and Salt Lake City. !,
Now there's no extra charge for al
this If you go via Burlington Route
&C., B. & e., because 1t so happens
that the through service OF that ias
has been planned so that you pass a,' a,'
Of these points by daylight aho ~
can view from the train panoial IN. n u
mountain scenery that Is as eelepfass1
as any in the world. ,,.s
surely on your way, you VIII hVi s,i.a n''ea n
this opportunity and would iss ~ n
send YOU, free, some pictures napSS S,eia. ~
printed matter, not only OF the Sess 5asE
rado wonders, but also or Glacier fasii
or Yellowstone Park, when, ~ n,s
means. you should visit on the fstuss -
trim. Please make use or msUies me, =, s,s A.
help plan the trip for you Can oH =
WIN VIM. Austin. General Agent Passs.ass. e.
Chestnut Che St.. Philadelphia Phone wal'
nut 1855.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
HOVERTER TO WAIVE HEARING
ON BANK LOOTING CHARGE
Believed to Have Admitted His Part
in Schaefferstown Failure.

LEBANON, Pa, Feb. 23.-United States
Commissioner Harry j. Schools, of this
city, this morning was officially informed
by Special United States Agent Huston,
of Washington, that Arthur j. Hoverter,
the young Lebanon life insurance agent,
In jail here on a charge of wilfully aid
ing and abetting in the looting of the
First National Bank of Schaefferstown
to the amount of s1S,5S221, would waive
the hearing scheduled for this afternoon
before the commissioner Hoverter, how
ever, will be formally arraigned before
Commissioner Schools, and he is expected,
under the instruction of counsel, to enter
. a plea of not guilty, which may be subse-
quently changed to guilty. He will then
be rcmanded to prison to await trial at
the March sessions of the United States
Court for the Middle District at Scran-
ton during the week beginning March s.
This move on the part of Hoverter is
looked upon as complete confirmation of
the announcement that he has furnished
the Government with a complete state
1nent of his financial transactions, which
figured so largely in the failure of the
Schaefferstown bank. There were no in
timations this morning of any additional
arrests being made today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
GERMANS ROLL BACK SLAVS
In NORTH, BERLIN ASSERTS
Defenders of Novo Georgievsk Retire
Under Pressure.

SAAisLANI GU Aoe
Russian forces defending the fortress
of Novo Georgievsk from the west are
being steadily rolled back by Ger
man army advancing along the right
bank of the Vistula, 1t was announce
in official dispatches today
The German advance on the Russian
stronghold of Novo Georgievsk is proceed
ing along road east of Plock and just
north of the Vistula. The remnants Of
the Russian army that marched against
the Prussian fortress of Thorn is opposing
the progress of the Kaiser's forces, who
are moving toward the Russian positions
opposite the confluence of the Bzura and
Vistula.
The opposing armies are in close contact
near Przasnysz, where German forces are
being concentrated for southwark drive
on Novo Georgievsk. Furious hghtlng
was reported in this region, as well as
around the Russian fortress of osso-
witz and in the region north of Lomza
The Russian army that attempted a
weak offensive against the Germans
northwest of Lomza Is falling back On
that city after barely escaping annihila-
tior, the report adds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
GERMANY ASSURED
OF FOOD SUPPLY
Prussian Diet Told Moderate
Prices Will Prevail - Su-
premely Confident of Victory
BERLIN. Feb. %

DELNLlLN, Il eD ID.
Clemens Delbruecl1, Imperial Minister
of the Interior, assured the Prussian
Diet, at its opening session yesterday
that the Empire has a sufficient supply Of
food at moderate prices.
THE method by which Great Britain Is
striving to wage war of starvation
against Germany" Herr Delbrueck con-
tinued, imposes on every man the obli-
cation to subordinate every other con-
sideration to that of serving his coun-
try. What will inhict the most injury
on our enemy and contribute the most for
victory for the Fatherand must be the
principles by which we are governed
hereafter in carrying on the conflict.
Then we cannot lose, even If the whole
world should be in arms against u.s.
The Diet unanimously accepted a bill
appropriating 1OO,OO0,OOO marks ($25, COX, ,OON
as a subsidy to be used in alleviating the
sufferings of persons affected by the war.
A special dispatch to the zeltung am
Mittag from Koenigsberg says that EN-
peror William on his recent visit to Loet-
zen. East Prussia, spoke of the neces-
sity of dealing sparingly with food sup
pies. He said he expected of every Ger
man that he would restrict the con-
sumption of food as much as possible,
particularly potatoes, which the EN-
peror said under no circumstances should
be used al food for horses.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
GENERAL FRENCH ADMITS
GERMAN ADVANCE AT YPRES
Kaiser's Troops Blow Up Trenches
and English Retaliate.

LONDCN' req. 20.
The Germans are increasing their activi-
ties around Ypres. General French cabled
in an official report today,
BY mining and destroying a British
trench early Sunday, the Kaiser's troops
have advanced their lines, the British
commander admitted.
This German gain near Ypres was off,
set by a British victory in the severe
fighting around La Bassee The British
successfully mined a German trench in
the rear OF Givenchy. The trench was
destroyed and the enemy forced to re-
tire along the canal bank, after his
troops had made an unsuccessful dash to-
ward the British lines over the gap left
by the explosion
South of the River Lye the artillery and
rifle fire is daily increasing in volume,
General French repor sd, In Government
circles this was taken to mean that both
sides are tuning up" preparatory to the
opening Of the spring campaign.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
GERMANS ROLL BACK
RUSSIAN DEFENDERS
OF NOVO GEORGIEVSl
First Line Forts Guardipo
Warsaw 0bjectives +
Drives-Slavs Claim
Capture of Prussia Fron !
tier Towns.

Slav defenders of the Novo :,
gievsk stronghold have been rol,od ~
by German army advancing ~
the right bank of the vistuia .9 sk
ing to an official announcemar, ~ - I
this afternoon in Berlin. The rs,,,a.s. 'ss'
of the Russian army engaged T. y y
movement on Thorn is opposlbs -
advance Of the Kaiser's forces ~
Warsaw Is menaced bv a 49,,
stroke by way of the grea, nro,ao,s's
fortress of Novo Georgievsk. To,s.s
this stronghold the Germans FROM, Z.
Prussia are developing drives n ~
control of Ossowetz, Lomza ana pn,.ss' ~
all flrst-class forts.
Petrograd asserts baking the ~
endeavor to reach Warsaw from K
northeast. The slavs are reportoa !.
have made gains on the Narew p,,..s
to have thrust the enemy bact
Lomza and to have begun an adyans.
toward the East Prussia frontier
Austria is massing troops in ths a
rection of Lemberg, in calicia. .c.,s.
are reported at Bakliczyn and nov.
ment is under way to control tho s,,s,
Valley.
Petrograd chronicles complete IL.
session of the Dulsla, Laborcz a.
UszulS Passes in the Carpathians. Can
ture Of heights southeast of Dukl.
Pass, after. a desperate struggle q.
reported
The Rheims Cathedral was agaiu
badly damaged when the German.
shelled the city, killing 20 civilians and
destroying many homes.
The capture of the town OF SAITH.
Kopf, in the Vosges, by storm Il r..
ported in today's official announcemeut
from Berlin. Success for the German
troops in the Meuse Valley near Apre.
mont, and also in the Champagne re-
gion, is also reported, in both sections
French attacks being repulsed.
General French, in his official report
to the British Government, admits the
loss Of line of trenches near Ypres,
which the Germans blew UP.
The Russian War Office reports that
the Turkish army that had attempted
to renew the advance in the Caucasus
has been driven back with heavy loss,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
EVELYN'S CAPTAIN DISOBEYED
ORDERS, PRESIDENT is TOLD

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.
President Wilson said today he had
been informed that the captain of the
steamship Evelyn. blown up by mine
off Berkum Island IN the North Sea, had
disobeyed instructions and was out of
the course he had been advised to take.
The President indicated he did not view
the Evelyn incident with alarm. He had
not determined upon a course of action in
the case.
The practice of nations. the President
pointed out, has been not only to furnish
pilots to guide neutral ships safely
through mine fields. but also to furnish
charts showing approximately the dan
gerous regions.
No decision has been reached, tho
President said, regarding replies to the
German and British war zone notes
There has been development recently to
alter the original position of the United
States on this question, and the problem
in the Presidents mind is whether 1t is
necessary to re-state our attitude.
The executive is waiting full report of
investigation by the Navy Department
before acting upon the German and Aus
trian protest against the building of sub
marines in the United States for the
Allies.
Proof of disobedience of orders by the
captain of the Evelyn, the American
ship destroyed in the North Sea last Fri
day, will be virtually the only obstacle
to the payment by the Government war
risk bureau of insurance claims Of S4O100
on the vessels hull and cargo, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Peters said
today. The cargo was insured for 1901 900.
and the hull for 100000.
The loss will almost bankrupt the war
risk bureau If the claim is paid. Ac-
crued premiums to date total about
half million dollars. The first loss
promises to wipe out exceeding 80 per
cent. of this
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
BERLIN ANNOUNCES CAPTURE
OF VOSGES TOWN BY STORM
Report Repulse of French in Cham
pagne and Meuse Valleys.

BERLIN. Feb. 2s.-The capture OF sattle
Kopf, IN the Yosges Mountains, by Ger
man troops, vas officially announced here
today. The Germans stormed and took
the French position there after hard fight-
ing.
Todays 0nieial report from the German
General Stan also tells Of unsuccessful
attacks made hY the French troops north
Of fefthes. IN the Champagne region, and
also At ally and Apremont. IN the Meuse
Valley, south of ST hfIhlel It states
that German aelafors bomoarded Calais
sunday night from shelr assoplaase
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23
BRITISH LOSS ELATEs BERLIN
English Flag Swept OFF North Sea-
German Papers Say.

BERLIN. Feb. 2S.-The Ell lish flag has
disappeared from the North Sea. In five
days Won Tirpitz's new submarine policy
has achieved a wonderful Victory,
Britains naval power has been humbled
before the eyes OF the entire world,
This declaration, voiced by a Berlin
paper today. was typical of the attitude
of the German press on the success of
Germany's new submarine warfare on
British merchantmen With one voice the
German papers expressed the belief that,
in addition to those losses the British
admit they have suffered, several other
British merchantmen have been sunk by
German torpedoes since last Thursday.
Great things are expected from the sub
marines operating in the English Channel
The very fact that they have eluded the
net OF British patrol ships and already
have succeeded In tOrpedoing enemy yes
sells has aroused great enthusiasm here