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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-11-24
High School Notes

| Rev. Arthur Hewitt Of Planteld, men,
Der OF the State Board OF Education, WAS
visitor at the school last Wednesday.
The annual prize speaking contest of
the school will be held at the opera
house ON Jan. 16, 1916. The eleven en-
Boyce, IS; Hill, IS; Miss v. Collins. rs;
Miss MacFarland' II; Miss Nye, IT.
The Thanksgiving recess began Tues
day night and will last until next Tues
day morning.
Eden has eight students attending j.
Iii. S., more than any other town outside
Johnson. Evidently the people of Eden
know a good thing when they see it.
The Sophomore class in Expression
are at work on the farce, "A Pan OF
Fudge" 1t will probably be presented
before one of the school socials. A scene
dramatized from Dickens "Cbristmas
Carop' will be produced.
Beginning with the winter term, the
following changes in scedule will be
made: Commercial Arithmetic classes
will be held at 8 a. M, instead of 2 p. M.
course in Physiology will be put in the
place of PLY siography for the remaining
two terms; Ancient History will meet at
3:15 p. M, and an elective course in Adj
vanced Chemistry is offered.
The question for the interclass debate
has at last been agreed upon. The Sopho-
more team Tuesday morning chose to
uphold the affirmative in the question:
"Resoved-T the jury system in crimi-
nal cases should be abolished" and the
Freshmen agreed to take the negative.
The Pathfndefs gave the Blazed Trail
Girls social M onday evening. The event
was featured by the comforting of the de-
gree of master Pathfinder on six candi-
dates. The mountains have played big
part in tho traditions of johnson, and
will continue to do so.
Principal Davis announced on Monday
worning the addition of a new teacher to
the High School faculty. Mise Susan
Collins, for the remainder of the year,
will have charge of classes in Freshmen
English, Commercial Arithmetic, SPELL
ing and Penmanship. Miss Collins is a
graduate of Johnson High School, and
since graduation from Normal School,
has had five years of successful teaching
in the public schools of Barre.
Mr.. Davis also announced at the same
time that Charles Hayford, Chairman of
the School Board, had offered several
prizes for excellent work in mathematics
to be awarded at the end of the year.
Alumni and friends of the school are
urged to send in their subscriptions for
"The Johnsonian'' as soon as possible.
A subscription list of 200 is desired be-
fore the first issue of the magazine in
January.
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East Johnson

School closed Friday for week.
Mrs. Carpenter is with Mrs. Fl. F.
Boyce.
Mrs. G. Whitcomb is spending week
in Hyde Park.
j. Fred Robbins and Willard Robbins
have been visiting j. L. Stearns.
Mr.. and Mrs. Churchill of Bakersfield
have been visiting W. Fl. Stearns.
j. L. Stearns and Chas. Hayford have
returned from Eden, where they spent
several days in camp.
Austin Richards and son Herschel have
returned from Eden. Herschel shot a
deer, which he brought home.
Mrs. II. V. Stearns, ]. L. Sweet and
William Patch, attended the S. of V. and
Auxiliary meeting at Morrisville Thurs
day night.
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Congregational Church

Rev. VIM. R. Hamlin of Hyde Park
preached Sunday morning in exchange
with the pastor. He took for his subject
1.-The Militant Church." A large con-
gregation enjoyed the musical praise ser.
vice in the evening.
A union Thanksgiving service will be
held Thursday evening at 1880.
Stereopticon slides of Alaska will be
shown at the G. E. meeting next Sunday
evening. An offering will be taken to
meet the cost of the slides.
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WOLCOTT

Miss Clara Davis has purchased new
piano.
Mrs. III. A. Parker is the possessor of
new piano.
Frank Doying is moving his family
back to Worcester.
j. E. Wheeler, Jr., was in Hard vic h
Saturday on business.
Frank Whipple has moved into one Of
Haskell's tenements.
George Tillotson of Morrsville was a
visitor in town Monday.
Charles Parsons left Friday for bis
home in Pawtucket, r. L.
Chester Clark and wife are the parents
of girl, born last Friday.
Mrs. Sarah Jones returned home from
the Hardwick hospital Thursday.
W. E. Barter and o. w. Styles have
been recent business visitors in Burling-
| ton.
Cedric Davis goes the first of December
to Morristown to work for George Rich
ardson.
Mrs. Adj Brown and Sumner Leavitt of
Stannard were guests at Henry Browns
Sunday.
L. E. Taylor begins work Dec. 1, hand
ling the mail from Newport to Spring
field, Mass.
G. w. Humphrey, Norman Porter and
A. w. Powers are home from Concord
for the week.
Archie Boardman has concluded his
engagement at V. M. Darling's and
moved to Pottersville.
Mrs. Ell. E. Whitcomb of Somervile,
Mass, has been a recent guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. R. NJ. Hubbell.
Vernon Williams of Burlington is the
guest of his sister, Mrs. Cooper, and in
cidentally hunting deer.
Fay Smith, the five-years. old son of
Charlie Smith, was taken to the hospital
in Burlington Thursday for an operation
for appendicitis.
Mrs. George Richardson and son, Earl.
who. have been spending several days
here at W. o. Davis, returned to their
home in Morristown Saturday.
Don't forget to settle YOUR Thanksgiv-
ing dinner by attending the musical mum
Der of the Lecture Course at town hall
Thursday evening, Nov. 25. The Otter
bein Male Quartet and Bell Ringers will
certainly please you.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-11-24

by &. A. Burnham is on exhibition at the
Miles, McMahon 81 Son store. There are
twelve varieties, all of them winning
first or second prizes at the exhibit, and
Including Wealthy, Fallswater, Lin Der
Twig. Golden Russell, Tolman Sweet,
Northwestern Greening, Scotrs Winter,
Canada Red, Macintosh Red, Putnam's
Sweet. Belflower and Mann. Similar
exhibits of Stowe gremn fruits would be
an incentive to farmers here to improve
their crop and to show what has al
ready been done.
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Estate of Leonard S. Collins
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District OF
Lamoile, Commissioners, 10 receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands of all per-
sons against the estate of Leonard 5. Collins,
late OF johnson, in said district deceased, and all
claims exhibited IN offset thereto, HEREBY give
notice that we win meet for the purposes afOre-
said at the residence of Frank Dodge, in the
Town Of johnson, in said district, on che
18th day OF December and the 18th day of May
ne {, from 10 o'clock a. N. until O'Clock p. M,
on each OF said days, and that SIX months from
the 18th day OF November A. ID. 1915, is the time
limited by sal Court for said creditors TO pre-.
sent their claims to us for examination and
allowance.
Dated at johnson, this Doth day of November,
a. ID. 1915. l.. DODGE,
ARTHUR DAVIS,
commissioners.
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Estate of James o Brien
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District Of
LamOille, Commissioners, To receive, examine,
and adjust the claims and demands of all per-
sons against the estate of James o. Brien, late
OF Eden, in said District deceased, and all claims
exhibited in Offset thereto. hereby give notice
that we will meet for the purposes aforesaid at
the residence of o. ID. WhttemoTe, In the town
Of Eden, in said District on the 18th day Of
December and Goth day of May next, from ten
O'Clock a. m. until o'clock ., m on each OF said
days. and that six months from the 2Otn DAY oi
November A. d. 1915, is the time limited by said
Court Ior said creditors to present their claims
to us Tor examination and allowance.
Dated al den this p 4 day Of November A. D.,
1915. r. z. COLLINS,
URBAN FLETCHER,
Commissioners
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Estate of Lemuel G. Pierce
coNNIssIoNFRs' NOTICE.

The undersigned. having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District OF
Lamoille, Commissioners, TO receive, examine
and adjust all claims and dem ands of all per-
sons against the Estate of Lemuel G. Pierce. late
OF waterville, in said District deceased, and
ali claims exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby give
notice that we viii meet for the purpose afore said
AT the home OF Clyde Boar in the Town of Water
vii in said district on the 18th day OF december
and 18th day OF May next from ten O'Clock a.
m until four O'Clock D. m. on each Of said day :,
and that six months iron the 18th Gay of Nov,
a. d. 1915 is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors 10 present their claims to US for
examination AMI = lOwance
Dated at Wateryille. this 22nd DAY OF Nov, A.
d. 1915 r. n. LEACH,
CLYDE B. CARR.
Commissioners.
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IL You Want a Piano

You cannot afford to lose the opportun-
ity we are offering you, a large size EN-
erson piano 1926. McKannon Bros large
size, new $247, ALWAYS sold for $3.50. one
Kirk johnson 5000, one Lock wood,
slightly used, SIP. one McKannon Bros
slightly used, $500 one in walnut case,
looks like new, $l65. Send for catalogue
at once showing any of these pianos.
Terms, $40 down and 50 per month. Adj
dress, Geo. ID. Jarvis d Sos, The jarvis
Palace Garage Building, Burlington,
Vermont. Advt.
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North Wolcott

Pearle Greves visited at E. E. Udan' S
recently.
School closed here Friday. Harry Girls
void, teacher.
Wilbur Russ gathered his buckets Sat-
urday, Nov. 20.
Mrs. A. B. Sanborn returned home
from johnson last week.
Foster Andrews of Morrisville visited
his parents here Sunday.
Ernest and Alton Stoddard returned
home from the north west last week.
Roy Stoddard, who is working in Hard
wick, visited in the place Sunday.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-11-24
ELIAKIM BTGEL0W DEAD
Well Known and Respected Citizen Dies,
Q1sc Aged "a r

Eiakim Blgelow prominent residen
of this village, died Sunday morning a
about O'Clock at the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington, where he under
went an operation week ago Monday
The remains were brought homo Mon
day, accompanied by his daughters
Mary and Susie, who were with theil
father at the hospital, and nephew
Arthur Bigelow, of Middlesex.
He was 81 years of age last June IS.
He was one of the 10 children of Jon
athan D. and Relief Newhall Bigelow
and was born in Conway, Mass. He
came to Stowe in his early boyhood and
with the exception of four years spent in
California and other parts of the West
his home has always been here. He was
twice married, his first wife, Jane Hen
dee, dying in 1864. He is survived by his
second wife, Louise Barrows, daughter
OF the late Capt. Eben Barrows. They
celebrated their golden wedding April
IL. He leaves also four daughters,
Mary Bigelow of Danvers, Mass; Addie
Bigelow of Franklin, N. H., and the
Misses Annie l.. and Susan L. Bigelow of
Stowe. A SOP, Edwin P. Bigelow, of
Wolcott, died in 1905, and a daughter,
Sarah, died many years ago. He leaves
a sister, Mrs. Martha Peterson, who is SO
years of age. and three brothers. Edwin
r. Bigelow of Stowe, Walter J. Bigelow
and Alvah II. Bigelow of Salem, Mass.
There were seven boys in the family
four of whom are deceased. Until few
years ago, Mr.. Bigelow engaged in farm
ing and lived on farm above Stowe
Branch for many years. -.
He represented Stowe in the Legisla-
ture of 1894. He was a member of the
Mansfield Mountain Grange and for years
secretary of the West Branch Meeting
House association. He retained his facul-
ties and keen interest in public affairs to
the last.
Mr.. Bigelow was citizen of sterling
worth, and was well-known and highly
respected. He was man of quiet unas-
Stunning manner, but bis sturdy character
and answering principle made his life in
the community count strong for good citi-
zenship. The family has the deepest
sympathy of the community in their be-
The funeral was held from the West
Branch church Tuesday afternoon at one
o'clock. Rev. Lemuel Davis officiated
and burial was in Riverbank cemetery.
The bearers were Arthur Bigelow of
Herbert E. Straw of stowe,
z. G. Barrows of Morrisville and Ray
Barrows of johnson. There was pro-
fusion of flowers, including large piece
from Mansfield Mountain Grange a set
piece of pink roses from the teachers in
the village school.
Those from out of town were Mr.. and
Mrs. A. P. Bigelow of Middlesex. Mr..
and Mrs. J. Frank Hodge of Waterbury
Center, w. K. Bigelow of Salem, Mass,
R. E. Barrows, Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Bar
rows and Mrs. F. w. Mould of Norris
Vile, and Charles and Ray Barrows of
johnson.
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Methodist Church

A union Thanksgiving service will be
held in the Congregational church Thurs
day at 1880 p. m.
Mrs. Hebb's and Miss Demeritt's SUM-
day School classes had an enjoyable time
at their joint social Monday evening.
A meeting of the Baracca class was
held Tuesday evening.
Members and friends of the church are
asked to contribute articles of all kinds,
both ornamental and useful, for the fair
to be held in the Baptist vestry next
week Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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Eden

Mrs. Fannie Brown is entertaining a
niece, Mrs cWhittemore, from Elmore.
The first week of the hunting season
yielded about 90 fine specimens in this
town.
Mrs. Ella Lackey Button of st. AL
bans was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Smith last Thursday and Friday.
Several teams are engaged hauling
Xmas trees to Hyde Park, from where
they are shipped to the southern cities,
where fir trees do not grow.
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day night.
West Hill

Harry Brown of Stowe was a guest of
his mother, Mrs. Lutherea Brown over
Sunday.
Herman Eaton and family were guests
of friends at Jacksonville from Wednes-
day until Saturday.
Galley Godfrey has gone to Stowe to
work in the Harry Brown lumber camp.
John Tevaw is working in the same
camp.
Hugh Mudgett of Underhill and VIM.
Walker Of Burlington visited at the home
of the formers parents several days the
past week while hunting deer.
Henry Morse, who lost two fingers by
the accidental discharge of his rife last
week, returned on Saturday from the
Fanny Allen hospital. His hand is doing
as well as could be:expected.
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STOWE

c. H. Angel of Gardner. Mass, was in
town Saturday.
M. W. Rowland is spending few days
in Wells River.
The High and Graded Schools are al
closed for the week.
w. G. Shaw of Bethel was a business
visitor here Tuesday.
C. F. Eddy was a visitor in Swanton
the first of the week.
Two hundred tickets have been sold
for the lecture course.
Mrs. Luella Robinson of st. Adams has
been guest at DR.. j. Q. Morgan's.
Torrance Shepard is moving to s. c..
Spaulding's tenement on Main street.
Paul Raymond of Albany. N. Y, is Wis
iting his mother, Mrs. Alice Raymond.
Mrs. T. C. Wright and Miss Martha
Wright visited relatives in Waterbury
Sunday.
Gale Shaw, who is attending business
college in Lowell. Mass, is spending the
week at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Seaver, who were
married at Somerville, Mass, last week,
are stopping with his parents here.
Principal English of the High School
attended the organization meeting of the
Basket Ball League at Montpelier Satur-
day. s..
A neighborhood dancing party at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Raymo
Friday evening was attended by about
forty.
About IS deer have been shot up to
this time. Two-thirds of those killed
have been does and weights range all the
way from 40 to 300 pounds.
w. K. Bigelow of Salem, Mass. and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Bigelow of Middle
sex were in town Tuesday to attend the
funeral of Eiakim Bigelow.
Town Clerk Mrs. Alice A. Raymond
has issued 800 hunters licenses, Is fish
ing licenses and 90 combination licenses.
Up to Saturday noon, Game Warden f.
Z. Stafford had received reports of As
deer and Warden N. B. Chaplin Is.
Corps Inspector Mrs. Beach of Bur-
lington attended the midmonth meeting
of the II. II. Smith Post, Women's Re-
lief Corps, Thursday. Mrs. Beach COM
mended the ritual work carried out by
the members of the corps. Dinner was
served. The annual meeting of the Post
and Corps will be held December 4.
Edwin Douglass secured buck weigh
ing 200 pounds Friday and S. G. Adams
a doe of the same weight. Other sue
cessful hunters are Ralph Harlow, who
gave up his claim on one which he and
Dewey Sallies shot together, and after
ward shot doe, Earl Morrill,, Sherman
Stickney, Maurice Harris, Clinton Lyon.
Mrs. Loretta Parsons has completed
her real estate transactions here and
went last week to her home in Burling-
ton. Mrs. Parsons has been put to much |
DELAY and inconvenience in the matter by |
The disappearance of the agent of the
Strout Real Estate agency of New York.
Mr.. Frost of the company has been here
and settled the business satisfactorily.
Cards have been received by friends in
Stowe from Mrs. Sarah S. Bailey an
the marriage on Nov. of her
laughter, Kate Sprague Bailey, to Geo.
9. Prikett at Los Angeles, Calf. Mrs.
Prikett is the sister of DR.. E. c. Bailey
Of Stowe and was formerly resident,
her father, the late William P. Bailey.
beirg formerly proprietor of the old Mt.
Mansfield Hotel, and also of the present
hotel and that on Mt. Mansfield.
STOWE FRUIT WINS
A collection of apples brought from
the horticultural meeting in Morrisyille
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Harmony Pomona GRANGE

At the meeting of Harmony Pomona
Grange in Morrisville Wednesday, Dec.
1, the fifth degree will be worked, fol-
lowing the business meeting in the fore
noon. Dinner will be served by the ladies
of the M. E. church at the church vestry.
In the afternoon the fourth degree will
be exempliied. the work being under the
deputy. Following this will come the
program which has been prepared by the
lecturer
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JOHNSON
How's your Subscription 4?

Hon. l. L. Pearl was in Burlington
Monday.
H. E. Kpeeland passed Thursday il
Cambridge.
Harry Griswold is at home from his
school in Wolcott.
Miss Helen Hunt is home from hel
school in Newport.
Tie rural schools closed last Friday for
a vacation o f one week.
Mrs. Ella Tracy, who has been i'll with
heart trouble, is improving.
Miss Aurah Richards spent Thursday
with friends in Waterville.
Miss George Bailey, who teaches in
Cambridge, is home for che week.
Mrs. Lottie Mcfarland of Morrisville
is visiting her son, O. A. Mcfarland.
The regular meeting of the Eastern
Star will be held Friday evening, Nov. rs
Miss Roxie Cristy has gone to Bakers
field to visit her aunt, Mrs. G. S. Blod-
getJ.
Winnifred Heath is home from Stowe
High school for the Thanksgiving vaca-
ton.
Mrs. A. E. Davis and Mrs. Eunice
Holmes visited relatives in Bakersfield
recently.
Misses Helen Collins and Lillian Sar-
gent are at home from their schools in
Waitsfield.
Twenty-Five deer had been killed in
town as reported to the game warden
Monday morning.
The topic for the G. E. meeting Nov.
2S is "Home mission work to be done in
our community"
George Courser has gone to Barre to
spend Thanksgiving with his daughter,
Mrs. Harry Broadwell.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Sherwin left Tues
day for visit with relatives in Boston
and in New Hampshire.
Mrs. Myrtle Cunningham, who teaches
in Morristown, is passing the week with
her sister, Mrs. Stella Partlow.
Mrs. John Alden, formerly Miss Beu-
lah Sturtevant of johnson, now of New
tonville, Mass, is visiting in town.
The postoffice will be closed tomorrow
from 1890 a. m. to p. m. and the rural
carriers will not make their trips.
Miss. Muriel Peck, who teaches in
Waitsfield, is passing her vacation in
North Hero with her sister, Mrs. J. AL
len Dodds.
w. Fl. Nye returned Tuesday from a
business trip to Boston. Ralph Nye of
Cambridge assisted in the store during
his absence.
Miss Jennie Sherbert has returned
home from her school in Wolcott and
will enter the Normal after the Thanks
giving recess.
Miss Madeline McCuln is home from
her school at North Troy, Miss Cleo En-
cry from Cambridge and Miss Sybil Davis
from Stowe.
Reports from Mrs. Bennett are to the
effect that the condition of her little
daughter, who is at the hospital, is very
unfavorable.
Mrs. Mabelle Putnam and little sop,
Harold, of Cambridge and Mr.. and Mrs. |
Glenn Curtiss of Fletcher were recent
guests at II. E. Kneeand's.
Harlow Collins has been appointed adj
of the estate of his father,
Leonard Collins, and Arthur Davis and |
F. L Dodge are the appraisers.
The S. of V. and Auxiliary of Morris
vile gave banquet Thursday night IN
honor of Veterans Night and invited the |
organization here to attend. There was
a large response and all enjoyed royal
good time.
Miss Mildred Boyce went Monday to
the Fanny Allen hospital for an oper-
attention appendicitis. Her father. Lewis
Boyce, of Saranac, N. Y, came Saturday
to 60 with her, and her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Boyce, of Saranac,
met them at Burlington.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-11-24

Congressman Frank L. Greene is doing
some timely and efficient talk for national
preparedness, but the friends of Senator
Carroll S. Page insist that he is prepared
for anything!-Rutland Herald
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HUNTERS
AND TRAPPERS

will quote prices that can pay for
Raw Furs each week as announced in
this paper. Furs to be classed as No.
/ must be full furred, prime in pelt
and properly stretched. Skunk and
muskrat should be cased flesh side out
and remain so. Blue pelts will be as
sorted as to value These prices will
be subject to change without notice,
according to market conditions.
Mink, No. l, 81 90, 90, 200, soc
Coon, So co. 90, 100, soc
Skunk, S3 90, 2 90, 100, 50c
Fox, ST. 90 40, $50, l 80
Weasel $50 80 cents
Muskrat, Fail, 10 ard Boz, Kits Sc
paw all express or postage on furs.
CARROLL F. MUDGETT,
Cadys Falls, Vermont.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-06-22
BRUNSWICK WINS
FIRST HALF Of
FLAG. SEASON
REYNOLDS AND HIS PILOTS WIN.
NERS OF THE FIRST HALF OF
THE OLD GEORGIA STATE
LEAGUE

Brunswick is the winner of the
first half of the Florida, Alabama.
Georgia league, formerly the Georgia
State. The last game of the first
half will be played today, but regard
less of the outcome Brunswick is the
winner Dothan is runner-up and a
close second to the Pilots.
The clubs finish the first half in
the following order: Brunswick
Dothan, Waycross, Thomasville,
Gainesville and Valdosta.
The second half opens Wednesday
with Waycross in Brunswick; Dothan
in Gainesville, and Thomasvillle in
Valdosta.
The schedule of the second half has
been cut ten games and several minor
changes made that will mean the saw
ing of several thousand dollars to the
clubs and will enable the six now in
the circuit to stick till the close of
the season.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-06-22
LIEUTENANT BECKER
WANTS GOVERNOR OF
n. !. To COMMUTE
(By Associated Press.)

NEW YORK, June 22.-The first
Move in the final attempt to save
Lieutenant Chas. Becker from the
electric chair at Sing Sing, was made
today when Martin Manton, Becker's
chief counsel, left for Albany to dis
cuss the matter with Governor Whit
man. 1t is understood lawyers for
the convicted man will insist that the
lieutenant governor of the state be
lieutenant governor be allowed to ACT
on the case, as Gov. Whitman was
prosecuting attorney at the trial al
which Backer was convicted TO having
hand in the murder of Herman Ros.
enthal, the New York gambler.