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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

After saving on almost everything else,
the Germans have begun to save words
in their business communications, ac-
cording to the following dispatch from
Ambassador Gerard:-
Certain German firms attach slips to
their letters to aid in a movement now
popular in German business circles to
suppress all unnecessary terms of polite.
ness in correspondence, such as Sir,
Gentlemen Yours truly and the like
The slip, translated, reads: Following
the example of other firms, also omit
from my business letters the unnecessary
terms of politness, as we'll as assurances
OF self-evident esteem. | request that you
reciprocate in your correspondence with
me -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
MORRISVILLE

A son, born last Sunday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Bates on Randolph street,
died when but few hours old.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Raymond of e.
more street are the happy parents of a
daughter, Gladys Viola, born last Friday
night.
Geo. Leland and wife and daughters,
Ruth and Marion. of Stamford, Conn,
were visitors last week at the home OF
Will Warren.
Mr. and Mrs. F. r. Child, with Mr. and
Mrs. r. w. Hulburd of Hyde Park as
their guests, made an auto trip to Bur-
lington today.
Mrs. w. Herbert Terrill has returned
from Princess Point, Yarmouth. Me F,
where she spent a week., the guest of
Miss Bertha Terrill.
Miss Isabel Harris has been ill since re.
turning from the west with her mother
last week. She was ill most of the time
during their absence.
Mrs. c. W. Sawyer of White River
Junction. who has visited her mother.
Mrs. Jane Graves, for several days, re-
turned home Friday.
Mrs. J. c. Thompson of New York
City, who has been at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E. S. Edison for several weeks,
left for Burlington last Friday.
Mrs. Alice Westover and daughter,
Miss Helen Westover, of Worcester,
Mass, came last Thursday evening to
visit the formers mother, Mrs. M. n
Richardson, and brother, Horato S.
Mrs. Belle Robinson of Stanstead, P.
O., visited relatives here part of last
week. Miss Robinson is a daughter of
thelate Editor Robinson of the Stanstead
Journal and cousin of Edward and
Arthur Robinson of this place.
Hiram Dodge, who has been instructor
in animal husbandry and agriculture at
Canton, N. Y, for three years, has been
engaged for the coming year as instruc.
tor at the Theodore Vail State Agricul-
tural School at Lyndon Center. Mr..
Dodge has arrived home from Canton to
pass short time with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Dodge, before assuming
,harge Of his new work
This office acknowledges receipt of the
2exall Riot, a breezy publication sold
only on the Rexall Flyer, enroute to
San Francisco. 1t is real, live publica-
i N and from the tone of the several
we infer that the Rexall- |
ties are lively bunch" There were
representatives from ninety-four Rexall
stores in the United States, Mr.. and |
Mrs. A. l.. Cheney of Morrisville being
among those present.
Mrs. George w. Foss received a tel
gram last week Tuesday stating that !
Ter daughter, Mrs. F. J. Hurd, of White
lall. Ca, had been taken to a hospit al |
1T Baltimore, Md. The family are
pending the summer at their Elmore |
Mountain cottage and Mrs. Foss left on
Tuesday night for the South. A
etter received the first of the week stated
hat the condition of Mrs. Hurd was
lightly better, although the hospital
physicians were not fully agreed upon
diagnosis of the case, peritonitis or ap.
'endicitis being feared.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

The State Board of Educate has ap-
pointed Mason S. Stone, long time Su-
perintendent of Education, to the posi-
ton of Commissioner of Education, an
office which under the new law takes
the place of Superintendent. This ap-
pointment is said to be temporary" un-
til the Board chooses another. We still
adhere to our previous assertion, that
the new man should be a Vermonter-
one acquainted with the educational af-
fairs of the State and so be better pre-
pared to carry out the work that may be
mapped out by Mr. Stone and the Board.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
Belvidere

Services were held at the church Sun
day.
Miss Blanche Coburn is visiting her
sister, Miss Dora Coburn, at Enosburg
Falls.
Wilma and Gladys Shattuck of Fairfield
are visiting their grandmother, Mrs. A.
M. Sbattuck.
Evangeistic services are being held by
Rev. Mr.. Blayney OF Canada. The meet
ings are being held in tent on Mr..
Curby's land.
Mrs. Guard and children and Mr.. and
Mrs. Sinclair and son, Edmond, took an
auto trip to Lake Eden recently, with
Lonnie Davis.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

The new editor of the Advance is GER
tainly doing a good thing in travelling
about the state and getting acquainted
with Vermont her people. The last issue
of that paper has very interesting ac-
count of trip to Montpelier and Barre,
and I; fine write-up of the latter city's
new hotel. Keep on travelling, brother,
you'll find lots and lots of interesting
places and evidences of industry all
through the Green Mountain state and
nowhere better than up here in Lamoille
county. Come up!
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
Gihon Valley Grange

Program of Ghon Valley Grange, for
July 17.-Song by the Choir; Drill by the
Young Americans; Recitation, Freddie
Holbrook ;Song, Bert and Dwight Stearns
Short Readings; Recitation, Ellis Parker,
Dorothea and Norbet ,1illen; Question
What is the best way of spending yorr,
vacation; Farce by the ladies of the
Grange; Song by the Choir.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
Our Standing Army

The total enrolment of pupils in pub
lie elementary and high schools of this
country is about nineteen millions. The
total expenditures for each child a year
for all school purposes is about $50.
This is Americas splendid standing
army; an army armed not with rifles,
but with books.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
"Cyclone" Taylor Leaves State

The following appeared in the Mon
DAVIS issue of the Rutland Herald
'-State's Attorney G. V. Poulin Satur-
day morning received letter from 'Cy-
clone Taylor, the evangelist who COM
planned of the treatment accorded him by
the residents of Forestdale. He was
practically stoned out of the village, but
on investigation the authorities feel the
citizens were warranted In refusing to
allow the man to continue the vile utter
ances he insisted on making. He has
left the State.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

The Georgia Legislature has ruled that
no member shall be admitted while in
toxicated. In a western state recently
church established a regulation that wor-
shippers must leave their shooting.irons
at the door, Such evidences of the adj
vance of civilization and culture in this
happy republic arc gratifying
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

right sort of spirit for Vermont's pros.
perity. After the saleof the Robin Hood
Works at Swanton to the Remington
Company he proceeded to organize the
International Explosives Company with
headquarters in the same town. "Ver-
mont FIRST, last and all the time" is the
Elk Governors slogan.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

The Montpelier Argus and the Swanton
Courier have each had new heads put on
them, not by any disgruntled fellow, but
by their own managers and great i'm.
provements they are to those otherwise
excellent papers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

"Hobson demands that the President
practice total abstinence and Danish all
liquor from the White House. This is
impertinance."
1t is. because Mr.. Wilson is a temperate
man; far more temperate man than
Hobson-in the matter of speech, any,
hnuy
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

At the home of A. j. Stearns in Hart
land is a large red rose-bush which was
his mothers and which has been bearing
roses for over seventy years to his know
ledge. 1t had this year over ninety full
blown and partly opened buds at the
same time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

F.E Simpson of West Glover recently
sold three calves from his herd of dairy
sborthorns for $500. The last nine calves
sold from this herd brought sl065, an
average of Sis each.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
9 9ssrgI "a ~
Reply; NAs
Department

A claims that 10000 soldiers were
actually killed on both sides in the bat
tie of Gettysburg. claim that no moro
than 10000 or $4,000 were actually kill
| ed, though more than this were wound
ed or captured. Which is correct?
Even your own estimate is far too
high. The total number killed at Get
tysburg was approximately 1904. The
losses Of the two armies were as fol-
lows. Federal Official report, killed,
3,072; wounded, 14,497; captured or
missing, 5,434. Confederate (estimat-
ed, killed, 1892; wounded, 1900; cap
tured or missing, $3.50.
CD When did St. Petersburg, now
Petrograd, become the capital of Rus
STA? (2) What was the capital when
the first Napoleon invaded that coun-
try in 1912?
O Moscow was the ancient capital
from the thirteenth century to 1712,
when the capital was transferred to.
st. Petersburg.
~ Napo1eon's objective point was
Moscow, and he entered that city Sept.
Is, 1872, and held it about month. A
Baltimore paper of Dec. 10, 1912, said:
ave have a series of French bulletins
to the Goth of September. The EN-
peror Napoleon entered Moscow on the
18th at midday and took up his quar-
ters in the Kremlin. On the 10th the
Russians set fire to the city in 500 diff
ferent places. They had previously re-
moved or destroyed the fire engines,
and the houses being chiefly of wood,
1t became an ocean Of flames.
"The whole city, the Kremlin except
ed, was reduced to ashes and naked
walls"
Will you kindly give me information
on the following objects:
(D Did George Washington take
part in any other war except the
French and Indian and the Revolution
ary7
f2) Did he ever attend a military
school?
(3) Had he ever been to Ensland7
O No. e. No. 81 No.
Is Mrs. Tom Thumb still living? WIZ
you kindly give me a little sketch Of
her Iife7
Mrs. Tom Thumb is still living, and
her home is in Middleboro Mass. She
was seventythree years old ON Oct. 3.
Mrs. Tom Thumb is now the Countess.
Magri. She was christened Lavinia
Warren and was born in Middleboro.
Her parents were of ordinary stature.
She married Tom Thumb on Feb. 10,
1863, in Grace church, New York city.
They made a tour of the world and
were presented before the various
courts of every country. General Tom
Thumb died in Milwaukee in 1888, and
after two years of widowhood Mrs.
Tom Thumb married Count Magri, a
native of Bologna, Italy. She is very
wealthy woman, but modest and unas-
,uming.
How many ships were engaged in the
,attle of Manila Bay? What were the
osses on both sides?
The United States squadron under
command of Commodore Dewey at Ma
lila Bay consisted of the flagship
olympia, the cruisers Baltimore, Ra-
eigh, Boston. Concord and Petrol and
he revenue cutter McCulloch as dis
'atch boat. The Spanish fleet consist
d of eleven ships protected by the
ire of land forts. Every one Of the
spanish ships was destroyed or dis
bled and none of our ShiDS was Seri-
usly damaged. On our side not a
nan was killed, and only eight were
and those slightly. The
spanish loss was over 600.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14

Take care OF the teeth of your children,
for there lies the foundation of morals. -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
THE PIPING PAN.

My goats are at play in the pas
ture,
They are cropping their 1ow-
cry food.
And Pan is a-piping-I hear him
Deep down in the shade of the
wood
1 can see him through briars
and branches.
Perched up on the ledge Of a
rock,
Where he pipeth a ditty diviner
Than shepherd e'er sang to bis
flock.
Go. my goats, where the grass
is the greenest
And the rose running over
with dew;
Take the tenderest tips of the
blossoms
While Pan is a-piping for you
Jane Minot Sedgwick.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-14
OUR LOCAL SAVINGS BANKS

The following is the July 1st state.
ments OF the two Lamoille County saw
ings institutions. Both show very
healthy financial condition.
MOrrisville Savings Bank
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
KEEP POULTRY FREE
FROM ALL VERMIN
One of Best and Most Common
Methods Is to Apply Insect
PoWder-Good Formula.

(By H.. l.. KEMPSTER, Missouri Agri.
cultural College Experiment Station.)
The offspring from a single pair OF
lice will in six weeks be approximately
1876 200. This fact emphasizes the i'm.
portance Of keeping the poultry free
from them.
Lice live upon the bodies of the poul-
try. They deposit their eggs in the
plumage, generally near the vent, and
live upon the scurf, dead skin and
feathers. To get rid Of them remedies
must be applied to the bird. Spraying
the roosts with lice-killing remedies is
Of little value. One of the best and
most common methods of getting rid
Of lice is to apply insect powder.
which should be we'll busted into the
feathers. A second application ten
days after the first will catch the sec.
ond brood of lice and make a thor.
ough Job of 1t. Otherwise II these
live the first application is Of little
value.
A good. cheap and effective louise
powder is made by adding a mixture
of n part Of crude carbolic acid and
three parts Of gasoline to plaster of
paris, all that the powder will blot up.
When the plaster Is dry pulverize 1t
and store In tight cans Another eff.
fective remedy is to rub a piece Of blue
ointment the size of a pea we'll into
the skin just beneath the vent.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
DOES CUTTING CORN
FODDER ROB SOIL?
Few Ways Of More Quickly Killing
Soil Than to Grow and Re-
move All of Crop.

There is much said now about the
value Of corn fodder by those who
advocate the use of the silo. 1t is true
that the corn plant at maturity, ex-
elusive of the ear, contains much valu.
able feed II properly harvested and
stored, says Kansas Journal.
Yet experienced ones say that there
are few ways of more quickly killing
the soil than to grow corn and re-
move all the crop by cutting the fod-
der.
1t is good farm practice to cut up
the corn and feed 1t on the place,
provided that land from which 1t is
cut Is Immediately MANFRED to re-
store the plant-food elements taken
from it by the crop.
When no equivalent is returned the
soil is left sadly depleted of its bal
anced chemical store Of life-producing
elements.
The ear Of corn, being largely starch
and composed of water and carbon
dioxide, free compounds of the atmos-
phere, does not remove much fer
tility from the soil. But the entire
corn plant contains nitrogen, potas-
SUM and phosphorus which the soil
can i'll spare.
These cornstalks should be allowed
to remain in the field and be plowed
under the following season to return
these vital elements and form soil
humus.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
ROAD
CONWCTS AS ROAD BUILDERS
Need for Cooperation Between State
Highway and State Prison De-
partments Is Outlined.

The state highway department
should hire convicts from the state
prison department in exactly the same
way as 1t would hire free laborers,
and at the anne price per day. Dur
ing the hours Of work the men should
not be thought of as convicts, but sim.
ply as employees of the highway de-
partment. No payment should be made
for a single hour not worked and a
man discharged should be removed at
once and permanently, while the high
way department should have no re-
sponsibility for nor authority over the
convicts at any time nor in any man
e except to conduct their work or
to discharge them"
This need for cooperation between
the state highway and state prison
departments is strongly urged in q
report made to the New York state
highway department by David ]. Shor.
er, who was in charge of the convict
road work in Green county, New York,
during the summer of 1914.
Mr.. Shorer's practical experience
has demonstrated the importance of
the recommendation for cooperation
between the highway and prison de-
partments in conducting convict road
work, which the national committee
On prisons and prison labor has ad-
vocated for a number of years and has
been instrumental in embodying into
the laws Of the state of West Vir-
ginia.
The work in Green county, New
York, was carried on under most diff
ficult conditions. The men arrived at
the camp before the organization and
equipment were completed. They
were sent there without regard to
their suitability for the work and al
most one-fourth were totally unfit and
had to be returned to the prison. Ar
rangements for feeding the men were
unsatisfactory, while winter made eff
cient work impossible fully two weeks
before they were removed from the
camp.
In spite of these difficulties Mr..
Shorer reports that, taking the 60 con.
victs who were retained at the camp,
and comparing them with 81 civilians
also working at the camp, the con-
victs averaged better than the civil
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
HORSES IN UNITED STATES
According to Estimate of Department
of Agriculture There Were 21,-
$4,000 on January I.

The United States department of ag-
riculture estimates the number of
horses in the United States on Janu-
airy LIST Of each year, except 1910, when
the April censu figures are used, as
follows: 1910, 1888, 900; 1911, 90
277,000; 1912, 20, sos, 900; 1918, 20,567,.
900; 1914, 2O,962, 900; 1915, 21,195, 900.
In spite of automobiles and every
thing else it can be seen that the
horse is gradually gaining in numbers.
In spite of the heavy expectation OF
horses on account of the war, the to-
tai amount available Is so great that
the exports are not materially reduc.
ing the supply. 1t is doubtful also If
the war will affect American horse
raising very greatly. In the western
fighting everything appears to be
trench warfare, where cavalry is of
little use and the slaughter of artil.
lery horses must be moderate, while
on the eastern front Russia has mil
lions of horses and would not need to
call on America, eve If shipments
would be possible. One of the ways
America is hardest hit is in the sup
ply of imported draft stations.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
VENTILATION FOR THE BARN
All Stables Should Be Fairly Lofty,
Because Horses Need Abundance
of Good Fresh Air.

The horse is very susceptible to
cold; and the horses that are stabbed
when not being worked or exercised
feel the changes Of weather quite as
readily as do those enjoying a more
free life.
All stables should be fairly lofty, be-
cause horses need plenty Of fresh
air, and this "a only be properly
given during intense cold when venti-
lstion can be given above the heads
Of the animals so far as elevation
is concerned, the position Of the ven
tilators mattering little so long as they
are at a good height and placed with
judgment.
The stable should feel coy upon
going in, but not stuffy, otherwise
the horses will feel chilly upon com.
ing out.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
(By i. NJ. RISLEY.)

(By f. M. RIsLEY.)
There were two, one at the house,
the other at the barn, built on a side.
hill, a favorable location.
Roots are 80 per cent water, account.
ing for their s%hriveling when kept in
a warm, dry place; all moisture evap.
crates, therefore the roots lose most
Of their fine feeding value, but If ones
cellar is moist and warm, then rot
sets in.
Beet roots will stand a little frosty
spell without harm. We kept cab.
bages, carrots, ETC., in the house eel.
lar for convenience, being well sand
packed in large boxes, the windows
left open.
The air Is kept away, as GOODNESS
prevents rot, sprouting and shriveling.
We found them fresh, crispy and
tasty in the spring.
The other part Of the cellar was &C.
mented, of course, and we spread
some fruit on the floor, yet no earthly
taste was. noticeable.
Apples kept well packed in layers,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
LOSS CAUSED BY ROAD THIEF
Farmer Forced to Haul Small Loads
and Deprives Him Of Opportunity
to Sell Products.

The bad-road thief forces you to
haul small loads; drive slowly;
wrench and twist the life out of your
horse, harness and vehicle, often
breaking and damaging the latter I'M
til great and expensive delays are
occasioned. 1t also steals your oppor-
tunity to dispose of your farm when
you wish to sell, for no man will pay
as much for a farm bordered by q
poor road system as he will for one
with a well-kept highway, and some
will not buy a farm at all when the
road system is poor. The loss of
time and money, where the above
named conditions exist, makes 1t i'm.
perative that you open all the drain
bitches along the road, drag this 81.
lent, notorious thief to death wit. the
King road drag.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11
WELL.TIMED HINTS
ON SEED SELECTION
When Corn Is in Stiff Dough II
May Be Safely Taken-Keep
All Ears Separated.

Because Of unusual conditions this
year, many farmers will find 1t de.
sirable to practice early field selection
Of seed corn.
Seed corn may be safely selected in
the stiff dough stage, II properly
cured. The vitality Of corn selected
earlier than this is likely to be un-
certain.
Early picked seed corr must begin
drying rapidly at the earliest possible
moment. II left lying in a pile for
as much as a few hours the growth
Of mold Is likely to start.
In drying immature corn, 1t is i'm.
portant to keep the ears from close
contact.
While drying, rainproof buildings
which provide a free circulation Of
air and a temperature above freezing
are highly desirable.
Well.preserved seed corr a year old
Is very neutrality-suspicious. Col
lege Of Agriculture.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11

some distance apart and sand covered.
Those in boxes were elevated a trife
on bricks. One season we packed
apples in a barrel, with oats between
the layers and those proved a sue
cess also.
The roots for our stock were uni.
formly good, handy to feed.
Our barn-cellar was on a side-hill
excavation into the high bank. 1t had
a cement wall, several feet high, and
a nice driveway on the upper side.
The roots were very easily unloaded
by a chute through a convenient, re.
movable window, which furnished
light as well.
One season we kept a quantity of
roots and apples in a pit, in the side.
hill-about three feet deep. We spread
straw on the bottom, filed the pit to
the top and covered all with good
straw, with dirt heaped over that, and
then a board cover, to protect the
contents from water. In February and
March they opened out, with only a
few defective specimens.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-11

the sheep and be with them night and
day. Then the dog would become the
natural defender, of the flock against
all dangers and foes, stay with them
all of the time and possess their con-
f1dence. 1t was also stated that a
dog SO raised would bring in the flock
at a given hour, when accustomed to
be fed at that time.
Sheep know a strange dog instantly.
The dog to work among them must
not be strange to the sheep in any
way, must have their confidence and
command their respect and be able to
boss" them when that becomes neces.
sary. The collie is the dog for such
service. Sheep herding has been the
work of the breed for generations and
to tend sheep is a hereditary tendency
in the well.bred collie.
No dog bred and born otherwise is
worth raising for work among sheep
and it is waste Of time to train a
wrong dog for such work.-American
Sheep Breeder.