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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-14

sion in short time. Mr.. Potter will
return to Barre, where he has engaged
house on South Main street.
The tools used in making the break at
the postoffice on Monday morning were
taken from the blacksmith shop of Har.
ley T. Martin. These included a sledge
hammer, chisel, two punches, screw
driver, and buttress, as well as heavy
piece of steel about two feet long. These
tools we're all left in the Office.
NJ Clyde Hutchinson, letter carrier in
Burlington, Is at home with his parents
for few days vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Downs made
an auto trip to Bakersfield last Sunday,
where Mrs Downs and daughter, Ber-
nice, will stay for few days.
The Rural Good Luck club viii hold
an antiquarian meeting with Mrs Leslie
Il. Williams on Saturday, June II.
The Congregational church was well
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TALK OF THE TOWN

Cleanup for all kid feathers at Fits
Special sale middies Wednesday at
Fits.
Have that tire repaired at Hastings
vulcanizing shop, North Main street-ad.
Auto supplies at reasonable prices at
Hastings vulcanizing shop, North Main
street.--ady.
To reduce our stock, we are selling
green slabs, mixed hard and soft wood,
for 81 so load, cash. Calder & Richard
son, phone $50.
All the children in the cooking and can
ming class are requested to meet at the
Congregational vestry Thursday morning
at 8 o'clock for enrolment.
Mrs. =. f. Laviolette's millinery parlor
will be closed after Saturday, June H.
Hats sold at less than half price and spe-
cal on all orders for graduation.-a
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TRADING THE SUPREME COURT

TRADING THE SUPREME COURT.
The Democratic party will be grievous.
ly misguided if it attempts to attack
Hughes on the ground that it is improper
to raid the supreme court" to get can
didate. 1t would prove to be very
cheap argument and likely to be a boom
erang. There is no more fitting place
than the courts from which to select a
candidate for president of the United
States. Even the Democrats themselves
realized that when they went to the New
York court of appeals to get Alton b.
Parker as their standard bearer in 1904.
The New York court OF appeals did not
suffer in reputation or prestige by reason
of that "raid" nor will the United States
supreme court lose any OF its dignity or
prestige by reason of the selection OF
Hughes by the Republicans. Indeed the
United States supreme court will be far
less likely to suffer because the conduct
of Hughes during the entire pre- conven-
tion campaign, when he was still mem
Der OF the bench, was above reproaeh and
entirely free from political entangle
ments. Hughes refused absolutely to-
enter into the discussion of his candi
dacy, or of any political matter, so long
as he remained a member of the supreme
court; but when the viii of the conven-
ton became known to him and he learned
that the honor had come to him unsought
he promptly resigned from the bench
and then gave utterance to his first po-
litical statement BY no stretch of the
Imagination could Hughes attitude be
called faulty. On the other hand Alton |
B. Parker did not resign his position on
the court of appeals until long after he
had been nominated by the Democratic
national convention in 1904 and he even
engaged in the chickering's of that conyen-
ton while he was a member of the court
of appeals.
Whe the Democrats object to the "raid
on the supreme court" to get Hughes,
they overlook their own act in "raidng"
that other high court.
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filled last Sunday evening on the occa-
sion of the baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class of the high school. Five
classes attended in body, led by their
presidents and with their class banners
These were the classes of 'l6 and II OF
the high school and those of 'l6, II and
is of the grammar school. With the pas
tor of the church in the pulpit were Rev.
George w. Keeling Of the Methodist
church and Rev. Alven M. Smith Of the
Universalist church. The sermon was
from the text, What is Your Life?" and
was listened to with close attention. Two
selections were sung by the male quartet
and there was congregational singing Of
familiar hymns.
Ardyn L. Hayward, now employed in a
creamery in South Peacham, spent last
Sunday at home with his people on
south hill, Mr., and Mrs Charles L. Hay
ward.
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Vermont deIepates RETURNING from b

Vermont delegates returning from the
Republican convention in Chicago remark
on the absence Of the usual boss" from
the convention deliberations. IL was a
case of rule by the rank and file Of the
Republican party and they did their
work pretty we'll despite the fact that
they were not led around by the party
manipulators.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-14
GRANITEVIILE
Boy Who Ran PAIRING Knife Into Eye
Will Probably Recover Sight.

The condition of James MeRae. the
three. year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nal.
colin McRae, who ran pairing knife into
his left eyeball about week ago, is
somewhat improved. At first it was
thought that the sight of the eve was
gone, but as the eyeball heals the vision
is clearing, and now the doctors think
he may be able TO see as well as ever in
short while.
Miss Edna suitor has completed her
duties at the Nourse 4 Wilson millinery
shop.
Moses Murphy, who is employed by
the Sullivan Machinery Co.. Garemont,
n H., has been spending few days at
his home here
Mrs. William Mcleod and son have
gone u Spring Hill, P. O., for a visit.
William Mckee commenced work yes
terdsy morning at Ross barber shop in
Barre.
Fred Forbes has returned from New
Haven. Conn. where he has been en-
ployed for the past year.
W Roswell Miles. Peter Murphy, Miss
Teresa Miles and Mrs. w. H. McCaskill
motored to Castleton this morning to at
tend commencement exercises at the nor
NAL school
Norman Campbell, who is employed in
Hartford, Conn, is visiting his parents.
Angus Maelver, Herbert Mcleod and
Jeremiah Carr went TO Boston Monday.
Miss Eveleyn Mclean is keeping house
in Websterville for her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Daniel Mcfarland, during their
absence in Quebec.
A bazaar. to be held by st. Sylvester's
Catholic church, will begin Thursday.
June Is in the basement Of the church
The object Of the bazaar is to raise
money enough 10 purchase a cemetery in
the town
A petition signed by a large number
Of Graniteville voters, has been present
ed the selectmen. asking that signs linn
iting the speed Of automobiles to ten
miles an hour Be placed at either end Of
the main thoroughfare Of the village.
John McIveT. a stonccutter Of Barre /
who has been employed BY the Boutwell, /
Milne & Narnum Co. completed his du. /
ties yesterday.
Nur3o Campbell and sou. aiurdo (
Campbell. r., have gone 90 Milan, P. Q. /
for 4 visit
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ADD 10 CENTS
TO TAX LEVY
Continued from first page.

wrong with the Barre & Chelsea railroad
crossings on the main thoroughfare, Hill
street or Ayers street. Copious extracts
from s. HOLSTER Jackson's speech at city
meeting last week were quoted and fig
ures submitted some years ago by En-
gineer Sinclair OF Burlington were used,
but utmost unanimity OF expression pre-
vailed and in the end aldermen and rail
road officials seemed practically agreed
that the South Main street crossing IS
one OF the safest places in the city.
Questions concerning the grade were
answered by Mr.. Watson and information
was given by City Engineer F. 0. Lee,
1t seemed quite improbable that the rail
road would submit to paying 100000,
the estimated cost of grade crossing elm
nations, as noted from Mr.. Sinclair's re-
port. Mr.. Stebbins said the company
had never received any complaints con
corning the condition of the main cross
| ing and so far as he knew fatal accidents
were unknown at that point. He had
never heard. he said that any public
service commission of Vermont had pro-
nouneed IL to be the most dangerous
crossing in the state. Asked as to what
he considered the best remedy after grade
crossing elimination, the superintendent
said there was not any such thing as a
next" as the element of danger scarcely
entered into the scheme of railroading at
that point He did not recognize the ne
cessity of gates.
Other Matters Attended TO.
When the time came for hearing on
the petition Of Lords alley residents for
change in the name of that thorough
fare, John c. Wyllie was the only one to
lift his voice Mr., Wyllie, as one Of the
petitioners, lifted in favor of changing the
cognomen to Mount Vernon and on the
motion of Alderman Bruce it was voted |
to make the change. The brothers To
mast, Anthony and John, brought in |
detail map of the changes which the lat
ter proposes to make to his Cottage |
street property. The matter was left in |
the hands Of the committee Of the whole.
Routine business was minor factor in /
the evenings deliberations. A resolution
appropriating SO 100 to the street account
was passed to second reading On the
favorable report of the wiring Inspector,
permits were granted as follows n. ID.
Phelps Co., to wire for a motor In the
Gordon block A. w. MgcNeil, to install
fixtures at l6s Hill street; z. Modica, TO
install lights in his North Main street
barber shop. Permits we're granted in
the following cases to persons applying
10 the building Inspector: Comolli 4 Co.,
10 reshingle Office roof; Carlo Merlo. to
-eshingle at 81 Granite street; Edwin
.Ane, to reshingle at the corner OF Gran
tie and Foster streets; X. A. Lane. to
,uild piazzas al the corner OF Washing
on street and Highland avenue and at
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FREE-500 Package Premiums
to be given away
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Special forLadies

500 pairs Ladies' Shoes, value
So, $3.50, S4, to close at
$1.39, S1.49, Sligo
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WILLIAMSTOWN
Commencement Program of w, H. S.
Banquet and Graduating Exercises.

The commencement program Of the W
H., ;. will be held at the grange hall Fri
day evening at s o'clock. Everybody il
invited TO attend. The following il TIL,
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12

that year. The Democratic county
commissioners turned Mr.. Bursum
down when he sought under the act
to have the expenditures on the
Mogollon road funded. Later n Of
the commissioners went east and Bur
sum took advantage of his absence to
persuade, the remaining two to issue
the bonds, but the time to issue the
bonds had expired. The two county
commissioners were warned that if
they attempted to violate. the law
they would be prosecuted. AS a re-
suit Bursum did not get his bonds
until after a Republican board went
into office at the next election. AS
soon as they took office they voted
to Issue $4s1O0 in bonds to fund the al
legged floating indebtedness of expen-
ditures on the Mogollon road. AL
though Illegally issued these bonds
are still outstanding.
AT that time a board Of viewers, it
Is said, went out in a wagon: drove
for some distance IN the wagon with
difficulty; we're forced to abandon
the wagon and went ahead horse
back: and finally had to finish the
trip on foot, so they reported. Their
report was later expunged from the
files, it is said, and a less harsh one
substituted.
To HubbeIF and otero Ranches
There are no towns on the proposed
route of the road between M~agdalena
and Mog0lIon, but it passes through
the "Y" ranch Of Frank A. Hubbell,
Republican candidate for U. S. sena-
tor, and the 'N-Bar9 ranch of I'd
Otero. one of Bnrsum's most enthu-
siastic supporters.
Mr.. Bursum's methods of road
building nave not changed in the past
20 years.
He Is the same Old Bursum.
He is still promising roads,
Do You want to put the highway
administration of New Mexico in the
hands of a man who win build roads
TO supply Jobs for Bursum's polite
ians, and business for Bursum's store?
I1HL..
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12

GOING 70 BE U~NFRIENDLY ON r fsETE or ELEG-
TI0Ng'
Mr. Bursum falsely says the money spent on the road is
being used to promote and advance Democratic chances Of
DOES NIB. BURSUM WANT FORTY PERCENT OF
1T SPENT FOR SUPPLIES AT MR.. BURSUMSf STORES
Is mfr Bursun sore because none of il il going to- Il. H
Sweet, or Leandro Baca, on Jose s, Baca, or WsD. Crabtree,
or large numbers Of good Republican laborers Of Socorro
countyg
sIs Mr. Bursum sore because none of it is being transfer
red to the wild animal bounty fund to pay MI. Bursumis Pre-
ferred Claims for Wild Animal Bountiesf
We ddvise Nh Bursuns that he IS on a dangerous subject
aqken he ~'atinpates that public funds, 0hether or not their
present ownership is disputed, and aobether or not they are
earning interest are being used through ''frSendEy banks,' to-
adpo"oe the chances of success of ag political parity
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12

being in sums of less than $40 except
in case of a few faithful, Republicans
from Escondido, a village near So
zorro.
Road Practically Abandoned
1t appears that the Socorro5Mp-
COLON road has been practically aban-
doned for the present. The super
visor in his report to the county com
missioners for the quarter ending De-
cember 81, 1915. says that because OF
the severe winter work had to be
abandoned December /, and would
not be resumed until April Of May OF
1916.
It has not been resumed. Not a
pick has been struck in the ground
since December l., nor a spadeful OF
dirt moved. Meanwhile Sweet has
been drawing his pay and the Bursum
store has received checks for sup
plies.
Nearly $2so,ooo to Finish
THE balance remaining in the
fund created for the road is a trifle
over $500, enough to pay Sweets sal
airy for another three months. The
total spent on the nearly completed
seven miles is $27,145.24, Oh at the
rate Of $S,877.S9 per mile. At this
rate to finish the remaining s. miles.
of heavy construction it viii cost
S244S07. Towards this amount the
tax levy for 1916 will raise about $25,-
COO, but $4,000 Of this has already.
been borrowed and spent.
impossible -Four Months.
After it is finished it is estimated
the road will be impossible for four
months in the year. At the M ranch
the snow Is so deep in winter that
wagons cannot get through The.
mountains west OF this ranch are
higher and the s~nowideeper in winter.
The same Old Hursum
Old timers in Socorro county say
Bursum displayed the same road
building genius back i'm the nineties.
At that time Sheriff H, o. Bursum
conceived the idea OF a road 70
MogoIlon from San Antonio, then his
own precinct. He got $3.50 from the
commissioners, it is. said, declaring he
could ret additional outside help.
He took some laborerB out just before
election and had them scratch the
ground west of the m" ranch. They
then went back to vote. At the next
election he repeated the performance
When the Bateman act was passed
early III 1897. 1t provided that county
commissioners could fund any out.
standing indebtedness by authorizing
an issue Of bonds before August 2 Of
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12
Details Of Bursum Road BulIdIne

Details Of 6ursum Road-5uiIdlne
The supervisor of Mr.. Bursum's
5ocorro5Mogollon road is Jose S.
Baca, chairman of Mr.. Bursum's
board Of county commissioners.
The foreman of construction is E.
IL Sweet, who as county clerk of So
zorro county was investigated by AS
sistant Travelling Auditor T. J.. Gull
foil, who charged irregularities.
Sweet escaped trial through a tech
nicality of the statutes.
Warrants paid out by Supervisor
Baca show Sweet has been drawing
800 per month and expenses. Sweet
has drawn $1,6O9.S0, of which amount
s632,50' was paid him since January |,
1916, as his salary and expenses for
the first six months, although during
that time not a cent was spent for
labor, no work was done and he had
no one to be foreman over. Sweet has
received 1880 as salary, the re-
mainder for expenses. He was thus
employed for Is months; and started
drawing his pay when he was appoint
gu III ApAAt 1910 tHb law ap
passed lacked, the emergency clause
and did not take effect until June 6,
1915. No work was done unta July,
but Sweet received his salary just the
same. 81
Supervisor Baca paid himself for
expenses $3.50. some of which was for
q trip to Santa Fe in July 1915.
Beandro Baea, another .Bursum
county commissioner. removed as
sheriff Of Soeorfo county in 1906 oy
Governor Hagerman for alleged ir.
~reeuIarities, received $3z606 III
monthly lump sums Of $50 as a bene,
fjeIary Of che Ddrsum road building
law.
A firm called Gonzales & Baca'
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12

licensed as retail liquor dealers, in
Magdalena, and Victor Gonzales OF
the firm received warrants amount
ing to $SS0.35.
j. J. Torres, a brother of J.. r.
Torres, editor of Mr.. Bursum's Span
ish paper .El Heraldo," cashed a war
rant for $3.50.
wv. D. Crabtree, OF Socorro, reeeiV-
ed the benefit of orders amounting to
$S64.87. The report of Mr.. Guilfoil in
1919 showed that Mr.. CraDtree receiv-
ed pay for a carload Of cement sold
the county, but the cement was never
received by the. county at the place it
was to have been delivered.
What 6ursum's Store Got
by far the greatest benefit from Mr..
iBursum's road building went to Mr..
Bnrsum's store. Nearly $1,000 help
edcto keep that emporium going dur
ing the year ending August 1. Two
OF the warrants, amounting to 81
were endorsed PAY to Gross
Kelly company, The Rio GFande Sup
ply company, by H. O. Bursum, presi-
dent"
The expenditure of this large sum,
nearly half the total cost at the Bur-
sum store was hardly in the interest
OF economy. The goods, it is reason
able to- suppose, could have been
bought cheaper in Magadlena, 81
miles nearer the road camps, where
there are numerous big supply
houses. eliminating the extra haul.
Eterybody Had a Job
Supervisor Baca's report showed
1920. 30, or about one-third the total
expenditure. spent for labor. This
fails to indicate the value Of the
labor. Warrants show a remarkable
number OF constantly changing labor
ers were employed, the pay checks all
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12
ThePe0ple Have Been Patient
Long Enough With BuFsuIm;
n, Plays Baby ActAgain

va MA@ #MANfF M#8MhFhNtN #N
III q. lBursum,F Republican candidatarfOu governor, sting
ingly r~epudiatedr by the voters Of New Mexico in the inst
IstateseIectiOn; GasnB5r
7. % sBgrsum, who is making aslast desperate effort to
ram his record down the throatsf Of the decent voters Of New
Mexico and get himself and his rotten Republican ring into
power in this state;
H. G. Bursums taxpayer wild animal bounty celebrity,
removed penteniary superintendent, ~stepfather Of the Hawt
kins bill, the builder Of the MogoIlon road, and for two decades
the handy man and tool Of the Republican organization, is now
following the example Of Frank Hubbell and playing the baby
act
Tits announced that Nh, Bnrsum will sue the Morning
Journal Of Albuquerque for $50,0O0sd damages for slibeEt
Now we have the twoileading Republican candidates fran.
ticaIy appealing to the Libel law to prevent the exposure Of
their records.
Isn't it a spectacle for the voters Of this state4
DO Fl VOTERS OF NEW MEXICO Want "A
SENATOR AND GOVERNOR WHOSE RECORDS ARE
LIBELOBS?
DO THEY WANT GOVERNOR AND a SENATOR
WHOSE ONLY HOPE OF ELECTION LIES IN THRoT-
THING THE PRESSg
m VI BEEN PATIENT LONG ENOUGH Mr..
Bursum is quoted as saying.
WE TELL MR.. BURSUM THAT THE TER OF
II I STATE HAVE BEEN PATIENT LONG ENOUGH
They have been patient long enough Will the attempts Of
Mr.. Bursum and his ilk to tighten their grasp on the govern
ment of this state. They have been patient long enough with
the dishonesty and rottenness of Republican legislatures; with
the incompeteney and crookedness Of gang Republican office
holders; have had enough of penitentiary superintendent and
county treasurers who have tosbe removed from office.
The voters Of New Mexico have been patient long enough
with Mr.. Bursum and his Hawkins bills. They have been
patient long enough with the lawlessness of Republican legis-
lahye majorries such as told the people to be damned at the
last session.
-Four years ago they kicked Mr.. Bursum and his record
into the discard. -Four years ago they spurned MI. Busm
and his corrupt political organization; four years ago they
told Mr.. Bursum what they thought Of him and his official
record, and his bossism and his lobbying.
Now this man has the unparalleled insolence to come
back and faunt himself and his record in the faces Of the
voters, who gave him his most humilating and ~scathing re-
pudation four years ago.
The people Of New Mexico have been patient long enough
MI. Bursum. They are going to finish up the job on
November z, despite all the libel suits that the Penitentiary
Superintendent and the Guardian Of the Sacred School fund
can bring in the effort to cover up their past careers.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12

Las Vegas. according to State School
superintendent Alvan N. White who
retnrnedgthis morning to this city. A
banquet and a dance, given by the
partol Of the order. were features Of
the evening entertainment at the
loastaneda hotel.
Several Santa Feans are in Las
Vegas attending the seth annual COM
munication OF the Most Worshipful
Lodge OF the "A. II. & A. M. of New
Mexico. Nh. Justice r. II. Hanna is
down for an address at the banquet
to be given at the Castaneda hotel to-
morrow night. Other s~peakers~are A.
~. Pratt, James H. Wfoth, Albnzo B.
McMillen and George H. Kinkel.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-10-12
Another One
That Doesn't
Necdthe Money
rs
~CLakewood Progress.

& ~(LakeWood P~rogress,) =
= Much has been written and S.
IS said, pro and con, concerning the g
y libelous matter sent out by the y
s Republican campaign committee =
s to the press Of the state asking s
81 that 1t be run at the regular adj s
~ vertising rate. Many of the pa %
= pers OF the state and, we are \
- actually ashamed to say it, some y
s papers right here in the Pecos >
s valley that claim TO be Demo s
Sc cratic, opponents Of the princi- =
s. pie of government of, for and =
s by the people, are running this s
n dope as we'll as other Of the s
VI Republican campaign falsifica- s.
s. ti0ns. Their plea is that it Is IS
s Legitimate advertising, and s.
81 that it does not show that they s
s are supporting the men or ticket =
Is in whose favor it is published. s
s. You may call it by that name If s
IS you wish, but we have n that s
S is better. IS
S The Progress is d Democratic IS
81 paper, and there is not enough 4
y money in the Republican sIush s
= fund, or any party fund for that =
s matter, to buy advertising space s
= in this paper if we do not believe =
IS that it is right. We may be =
IS starved out, but II such be the s
y case we will have a clear con- =
v science of having done what we s
n believe to be right. =
= The Santa Fe New Mexican, s
= to whom our hat is off, is receiv- s
= ing lots Of free advertising be- s
= cause it would not let the love s
n of money rule its advertising =
. columns. Read the explanation s
Of its stand and the view it takes y
y of political advertising. $
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